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[00:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[00:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:48] <exec> 08└─Drop Google but go with Apple? For what purpose?
[00:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah... He shoulda went with M$
[00:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:52] <exec> 08└─The great thing about being absorbed into the Googleplex (or Apple for that matter) is that your data, preferences, history, and such follow you to whatever device you use. In the days of desktop computers that wasn't an issue, but if you're moving between desktop, laptop, and phone, it's pretty muc...
[00:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:55] <exec> 08└─Apple Maps is really pretty.
[00:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:57] <exec> 08└─In the days of desktop computers that wasn't an issue, but if you're moving between desktop, laptop, and phone, it's pretty much essential.
[00:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:59] <exec> 08└─8 million IPs! I'm thinking about IPtables -- even if we're talking CIDR notation and not needing to enter every one, that's some work. Any easy suggestions? I'd like to block Google and Facebook.
[00:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:01] <exec> 08└─Especially my phone -- I consider my phone a poisoned device and do my very best to keep it completely isolated from my computers.
[00:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:04] <exec> 08└─Haven't went full boycott of Google IP space but moving in that direction. Been disabling Google apps on an Android phone and battery life is better now than when the phone was new. So far: Books.apk, ChromeWithBrowser.apk, Gallerybin.apk, Hangouts.apk, Magazines.apk, Music2.apk, PlusOne.apk, Velvet...
[00:34:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 144 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:27] <exec> 08└─Check youtube, instagram and facebook, and I'm sure you'll find the culprits. Stupidity rarely limits itself to only one part of the human mind.
[00:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:30] <exec> 08└─Call Bono: he'll find something to annoy people about.
[00:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:32] <exec> 08└─The vandalism certainly is regrettable. But the incessant need to connect it to the Narrative of "Orange Man Bad" is pathetic. Vandalism at the national parks happens all the time, even when the government is not shut down and everything is fully staffed by rangers. Pretending it doesn't defies expe...
[00:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's the thing. Takes a lot of gas, time, and money to take a 4-wheeler off-roading. It's one of those stupid expensive kinds of hobbies, like boating (stands for Break Out Another Thousand dollars) that only the wealthy and privileged can afford. Presumably the vehicles were not stolen, it...
[00:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows How LSD Alters Directed Connectivity Within Brain Pathways in Humans - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:10] <exec> 08└─the conservatives favorite part of the constitution either.
[00:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:50] <exec> 08└─The current energy market assumes one of three traditional categories: base load, load following, peaking. Currently energy demand function is essentially sinusoidal with period of one day with a bunch of noise. Solar and wind production functions do not match demand function.
[00:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Slow Earthquake South of Istanbul - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:03] <exec> 08└─Beat me to it. I was going to ask whether Fluffy was scheduled to perform in Istanbul.
[00:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Debvgger [545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:05] <exec> 08└─To be honest, Xena CGI was made on Commodore Amiga computers if I remember it right, and that always guarantees pumping blood there :-)
[00:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:06] <exec> 08└─So instead of look at the actual work you took all that time to write up your judgement of the person? A heuristic is supposed to be quick... I think you are elevating one to an importance it does not deserve.
[00:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:27] <exec> 08└─Guilty as charged. Knew I would be caught, just didn't think it would be c0lo that would do the catching. Seems better this way.
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[01:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:01] <exec> 08└─First thing I learned: Allow google.com. After that it's a grab bag of what you want to allow, what you want to block, and what you sometimes want to temporarily allow. Noscript is amazing, not so much in what it does (which is awesome), but in that it shows you how much you are being tracked online...
[01:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:03] <exec> 08└─That link takes you to a listing for ONE of Google's ASs (I am assuming if you know about CIDR notation you are familiar with the concept of AS), and it only lists 507 networks as being in that AS, though there is huge overlap in how that space is advertised, take the below example where they are ad...
[01:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:05] <exec> 08└─wrap it tightly in foil.
[01:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:07] <exec> 08└─Yes. Also, I do use my phone for 2fa so would really prefer not to log into any services from it.
[01:34:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 261 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:27] <exec> 08└─When the cops are away, the criminals and vandals play. Happened in Iraq when the US disdained the use of the established police forces, which led to rampant anarchy and looting. All the more ironic (and, yes, stupid) that this happened in the name of security.
[01:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:36] <exec> 08└─But the incessant need to connect it to the Narrative of "Orange Man Bad" is pathetic.
[01:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:38] <exec> 08└─California needs to put some provisions in place for when this happens again, because you *know* it'll happen again.
[01:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:40] <exec> 08└─Once we stop messing with it, nature quickly reclaims what is hers.
[01:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:43] <exec> 08└─When the cops are away, the criminals and vandals play. Happened in Iraq when the US disdained the use of the established police forces, which led to rampant anarchy and looting.
[01:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 1728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:45] <exec> 08└─I'm a Builder. The best Builder. And the most environmental, I've won many awards for environmental. So I know, the biggest headache for our Builders is burdensome regulations. On regulations, while I've reduced regulations terrifically. It would take, as an example, to build a highway -- it would t...
[01:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:47] <exec> 08└─You're falling off the edge faster every day.
[01:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:49] <exec> 08└─I guess you're not aware of how Arizona handles things. [eacourier.com], to which I alluded. While neither state *ordinarily* runs the National Parks, there doesn't appear to be anything to bar states from taking over when the Federal government abdicates its responsibilities. There is, AFAIK, nothi...
[01:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:52] <exec> 08└─there are the miscreants who destroyed a natural bridge at Arches National Park a few years back
[01:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:09] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I was meaning who pays for the global grid. Because that should be separate project(s), since it is large and non trivial capital project. General grid maintenance, yes of course it would come out of general connection fees.
[01:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:11] <exec> 08└─I was meaning who pays for the global grid. "Global grid" is just a bunch of local/national grids all connected together. Money isn't the real issue. Petty politics is. I suppose expecting that kind of cooperation is a difficult prospect. We'd rather build walls instead of bridges.
[01:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:36] <exec> 08└─I'll have you know that squirrel is actually quite tasty when properly prepared, and my cousin is rather cute.
[01:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:37] <exec> 08└─So you are your own worst enemy? Got it.
[01:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:48] <exec> 08└─It's sad, because having it in the hands of a non-profit was the right thing to do, but look how it turned out. You'd need to clear out the board of directors, the employees, and the location and start from scratch to see any hope there now. I'd like to see a decent fork but the chances seem low. Fa...
[01:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:49] <exec> 08└─Yes. Doing things like this incorrectly is worse than not doing them at all. It deceives people into taking actions that do not benefit them, and gives them a false sense of security which can lead to very bad things as well.
[01:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:52] <exec> 08└─No, they *were* a force for good, years ago. Now they're just another bunch of silicon valley lunatics scrambling for a way to stay 'relevant.'
[01:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:54] <exec> 08└─Tim Cook is a raving lunatic, a religious fanatic of the first order.
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[02:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Day Left to Opt Out of eHealth for Aussies - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:47] <exec> 08└─Ouch, I almost forgot to opt out. Thank you SN for reminding me...
[02:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06One Day Left to Opt Out of eHealth for Aussies - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:49] <exec> 08└─I've worked at a hospital, all I had to do to reset a log-in to get access is call the number printed on every mousepad and know the name of an employee.
[02:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:09] <exec> 08└─I do too, and I almost never allow google. Only if I specifically want something from them. Which, coincidentally is almost always maps, as mentioned in the fine article. It IS annoyingly pervasive, and the most annoying thing might be the way that, even with a forked gecko browser that claim(s/ed)...
[02:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:10] <exec> 08└─Using a mobile spy device for 2FA isn't a great idea. Yubikey or GTFO.
[02:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, first off, it's not essential, and secondly it would be a nice plus, but only if done sanely. Which means not through google. It's 2019. Why can't I just carry around a my ~/ on an encrypted flash drive and connect it to whatever I need to work on?!?!
[02:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:15] <exec> 08└─You're right to consider it a poisoned device. If you're connecting it to your computer through google, the computer is now a poisoned device as well. What is this magical thinking? "I don't want to hook the phone to the PC, because google owns the phone, so instead I'll run all the google junk on m...
[02:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:17] <exec> 08└─Lyft and Uber are the only reason why I own a mobile spy device. I have to use them a minimum of one day a week to get back and forth to work, and usually use them two days a week. I feel for the author there. But it beats the heck out of using... ugh... public transportation.
[02:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Space-Based Astronomy May Depend on Two Large Ground-Based Telescopes - 2899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:28] <exec> 08└─First off, given the time frame and planning involved. I say ditch F9/FH, and assume a working BFR (Starship Super Heavy). Bigger payloads, much larger payload fairing, cheaper launches (at least by $/kg, if not immediately cheaper than F9). https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews....
[02:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Space-Based Astronomy May Depend on Two Large Ground-Based Telescopes - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:30] <exec> 08└─Not disagreeing, but you're pushing back too far. BFR, 8m designs ... I'm talking about using the NRO frames, which exist and are proven, modifying them, which was evaluated a few years back and deemed a bit expensive by people protecting JWST, and fitting them in a known-good cheap launcher (which...
[02:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of Space-Based Astronomy May Depend on Two Large Ground-Based Telescopes - 1556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:33] <exec> 08└─Hubble has had health scares in the last few months, but it actually has a good amount of redundant components that can be switched to. It could last into the 2020s, or even the 2030s. Sierra Nevada Corporation is getting money for its Dream Chaser spacecraft [soylentnews.org]. There is a tentative...
[02:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:01] <exec> 08└─Tapayers?
[02:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 2369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:03] <exec> 08└─Istartedi says I started it. He calls me the Instigator. Meaning the guy that starts something. And I did start it, very proudly. I'm a tremendous negotiator -- the best. But it's almost impossible to negotiate with OBSTRUCTIONISTS. We need Wall, we need Border Security. But for so long we didn't ha...
[02:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:05] <exec> 08└─President Trump claimed responsibility for the shutdown. He really does not need your attempt to defend him (although his name is mentioned ZERO times in TFA).
[02:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:07] <exec> 08└─Annoying screen keyboard on very old ipad doesn't always register "c" or "x"
[02:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:09] <exec> 08└─Don't write off adults too quickly. There was a recent story about some jackass who encouraged boys under his leadership to topple rocks that were finely balanced since before Methuselah was a pup. Idiots don't magically stop being idiots at age xx. https://www.npr.org
[02:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:12] <exec> 08└─-1 tiresome
[02:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows How LSD Alters Directed Connectivity Within Brain Pathways in Humans - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:49] <exec> 08└─First of all, I meant to use the plural parts. You singled out the second amendment not me. I'll bite anyway. Statistically speaking I agree that Republicans are more likely to like guns. A ban on tampons affects men and women equally by your logic though.
[02:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:48] <exec> 08└─What are cosmologists supposed to do exactly?
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[03:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:46] <exec> 08└─USB flash drives fail into "read only" mode.
[03:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:47] <exec> 08└─Need more information --- are these new USB drives, or old ones? If they are old ones, maybe a flaw that only reveals itself after many years?
[03:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:49] <exec> 08└─Flash drives have gotten so cheap that they have to be sacrificing quality somewhere in the manufacturing process. Perhaps flash memory that didn't meet the standards for SSDs are being sold to flash drive makers. They may get to the point that they are like appliances are today. Appliances used to...
[03:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:52] <exec> 08└─Was a 128 MB SanDisk. The thing has been through the wringer and laundry (both washer and dryer). Recently rediscovered the thing and plugged it in - still good, though slow as you can imagine. It's not age, there's something wrong with the quality of flash you're buying.
[03:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:54] <exec> 08└─Could your computer have a problem that's hurting them? Maybe 5V too high? Maybe something's writing to them a LOT and you don't know it? (I know that's unlikely because most have an activity LED and you'd see activity, but I had to ask).
[03:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:56] <exec> 08└─I have a 2MB SDCard from an ancient digital camera. My son puts it in his camera and complains that it only fits one photos on it before running out of space. He knew it was small, since the rest of my cards are like 32GB cards. I'm surprised it even worked at all in a modern camera. He nearly shat...
[03:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:59] <exec> 08└─Technology has advanced so that more cells can be constructed out of the same-sized piece of silicon -- the feature sizes get smaller. (Think of how processors have shrunk their feature sizes down from microns (80286) to what's the best there days? 14nm? 12nm?) Fewer atoms are needed to represent a...
[03:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Day Left to Opt Out of eHealth for Aussies - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:09] <exec> 08└─Whew, same here. Thank you Soylent for the reminder!
[03:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06One Day Left to Opt Out of eHealth for Aussies - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:12] <exec> 08└─optout.gattaca.gov.au
[03:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Day Left to Opt Out of eHealth for Aussies - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:14] <exec> 08└─https://www.myhealthrecord.gov.au/for-you-your-family/opt-out-my-health-record [myhealthrecord.gov.au] For security reasons, hover over the link above before clicking it to sanity check that you're not being punk'd by some random evil dude on the internet.
[03:34:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:26] <exec> 08└─In the days of desktop computers that wasn't an issue, but if you're moving between desktop, laptop, and phone, it's pretty much essential.
[03:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:39] <exec> 08└─the most annoying thing might be the way that, even with a forked gecko browser that claim(s/ed) to care about such things, even with noscript, the moment I allow it in a single tab for a map every tab reloads and starts talking to skynet.
[03:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:40] <exec> 08└─Good news! You'll be able to integrate your spy device with Waymo soon! *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Seriously though, if they offered a significantly cheaper driverless taxi service in your area, you would probably switch to it instead of using Uber/Lyft.
[03:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:43] <exec> 08└─It is still way better than no 2fa at all.
[03:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:45] <exec> 08└─Just a note - You need not synch that phone to recieve a text message for 2FA. Don't need any apps, don't even need to sign into any Google account. In fact, I bought a burner phone which immediately connected to Google and asked you to sign into your Google account upon activation. I did NOT sign i...
[03:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:47] <exec> 08└─You can use lyft from your pc: https://blog.lyft.com [lyft.com]
[03:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:49] <exec> 08└─Interesting! Thank you. Now to see if my work has blocked the Lyft site or not so I can use it to get a ride home.
[03:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:52] <exec> 08└─You should look at ublock origin and umatrix. When you discover that you must allow some script to get the information you want/need, you can "CTRL-click to allow scripts on this page only". With NoScript, allowing the script on one tab also allows the script to run in all of the 157 other tabs you...
[03:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:54] <exec> 08└─Actually, no. You are adding a compromised link into the chain. That is not better by definition.
[03:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:56] <exec> 08└─That's what I've been doing too. It annoys me because pages that used to work fine without doing that, now require I allow google or switch browsers.
[03:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:58] <exec> 08└─I'll take a look at that. Mostly I've been opening them in a sanitized chrome with ad-nauseum installed.
[03:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:46] <exec> 08└─I was a trouble maker as a kid. Moved out of my parents' insane asylum at 16 and never did anything bad again.
[03:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:47] <exec> 08└─So, I'm guessing you are just a troll. you don't give a shit about anything, save your own dim-witted view of the world. I can understand why you have sympathy for Trump.
[03:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lowering Blood Pressure Reduces Risk of Cognitive Impairment - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:11] <exec> 08└─Some refs supporting that these are real concerns: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov]
[03:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Slow Earthquake South of Istanbul - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:24] <exec> 08└─Great name. It's not his name. It's his title. Don means the guy in charge. The head of the Family.
[03:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:28] <exec> 08└─Ask the Romans about the climate.
[03:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:29] <exec> 08└─A lot easier than making you admit that maybe there is a change happening
[03:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:32] <exec> 08└─Fine, GR-based models.
[03:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:58] <exec> 08└─A bleak future! Although I've done various programming / sw. engineering I'm not really up on all of this. My stomach started to hurt when javascript started. And it's not that I object to browser / client-side scripting, but I strongly object to what it can do to my computer ... through the browser...
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[04:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:00] <exec> 08└─I regularly use Linux to back up files to a USB flashdrive or to transfer files to another computer... without a single failure. But... when using the same flashdrive in a Win10 PC, Windows always says there's something wrong with the drive and asks if it should try to repair it. It repaired it even...
[04:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:02] <exec> 08└─There's a long standing bug [launchpad.net] in Mint Linux (and I assume elsewhere) that causes USB sticks to be formatted as read-only unless you're root. First filed in 2012, still waiting for a fix. First time I use an USB drive since I updated to 12.04 and I found a really annoying bug on Nautilu...
[04:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:48] <exec> 08└─The same threat needs to compromise both the pc and the phone rather than just one. How is that not more difficult?
[04:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:50] <exec> 08└─Mere hours into the first day of the Google block, my devices have tried to reach Google's servers more often than the 15,000 times they tried to ping Facebook's the entire week before. By the end of the week, my devices have tried to communicate with Google's servers over 100,000 times, comparable...
[04:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:40] <exec> 08└─The same mentality that you see by the far right who believe everything is theirs, and theirs alone. That they should be able to do whatever they please without regard for others. "If you believe in freedom, you must agree that it is my right to dump toxic waste in that river. And, the millions of p...
[04:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:41] <exec> 08└─BUILD A WALL & CRIME WILL FALL!
[04:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:44] <exec> 08└─yeah, you should watch the damage done by oil and mining companies on USA invaded countries
[04:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:46] <exec> 08└─Fair enough - some of us grow up. Hell, I did things as a kid that would be embarrassing, or even criminal, today, as an adult. We don't all grow up though.
[04:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 5G Protocol May Still Be Vulnerable to IMSI Catchers - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:57] <exec> 08└─There is no need... After all, if people want to hijack your location information in the real world, all they need to do is get you to install an app. Look how shiny it is...
[04:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:42] <exec> 08└─Already been done; it's called Youtube.
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[05:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Facebook Pays Minors for Complete Access to their Data - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:47] <exec> 08└─4th. Quarter earnings came out today. Great numbers for Facebook. And they were better than anyone thought possible. They have 2.7 billion folks on their platform. And they beat Chang Chi-yuan, we don't hear about him anymore. Great job! https://video.foxbusiness.com [foxbusiness.co...
[05:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Pays Minors for Complete Access to their Data - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:48] <exec> 08└─Seeking "complete access" to a minor's "data" could be a crime.
[05:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Pays Minors for Complete Access to their Data - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:50] <exec> 08└─Facebook obviously has no shame and ethics which are on par with most common criminals. Zuckerberg needs to be stopped.
[05:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Pays Minors for Complete Access to their Data - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:53] <exec> 08└─It's not a crime when you get the permission. Of the Mother -- or Father. Facebook always gets permission. And Roy Moore always gets permission. So sad what the Crooked Dems did to him!!
[05:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Pays Minors for Complete Access to their Data - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:55] <exec> 08└─sought teens 13-17 years old for a "paid social media research study." The sign-up page for the Facebook Research program administered by Applause doesn't mention Facebook, but seeks users "Age: 13-35 (parental consent required for ages 13-17)."
[05:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Pays Minors for Complete Access to their Data - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:57] <exec> 08└─For using the "enterprise distribution" option to install the app on the kids' iphones.
[05:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:12] <exec> 08└─Plus when you use fewer atoms to store the same amount of data, the atoms wear out faster and you end up with atom dust instead of storage media.
[05:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:01] <exec> 08└─the moment I allow it in a single tab for a map every tab reloads and starts talking to skynet.
[05:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:54] <exec> 08└─They should just pass a state law that all National Parks default to closure during shutdowns...
[05:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:56] <exec> 08└─**I** will blame him, as I just did in my recent post above -- because past policy has been to close the National Parks during shutdowns, but it got a lot of bad press last time in 2013 (closed gates of national parks were sort of the "face of the shutdown" in the media), so clearly Trump wanted to...
[05:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:19] <exec> 08└─People working at a company screw up so badly that over 80 people die and 18,000 buildings burn to the ground
[05:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:41] <exec> 08└─No, it's evidence of something. Declaring the value of something as fact without being able to prove it is where anyone with a favorite theory and rejecting others is at today. Dark matter is no more evidence-based than a theist explanation at this point. Personally, I prefer to think it's all a sim...
[05:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:54] <exec> 08└─Da fuck do I care if anyone missed me? I walked out not in protest but because the list of things more enjoyable than sitting through a shitty movie is exceedingly long and I don't feel obliged to sit through it just because I paid for it.
[05:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:56] <exec> 08└─Race-pandering in Luke Cage was happening in seventy-two when the book was first released. Learn your shit before you spout off.
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[06:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1 Terabyte Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:47] <exec> 08└─What's the bandwidth of a stationwagon full of these things?
[06:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Pays Minors for Complete Access to their Data - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:00] <exec> 08└─Facebook as a corporation shows strong psychomatic traits, like all corporations [siivola.org] by nature, because of the very definition of the corporate personhood. Unlike other corporations however, what's alarming and disturbing with the psychopatic Facebook persona is that it has such wide-rangi...
[06:34:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Appalbarry [66] 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 809 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:15] <exec> 08└─There's a long standing bug [launchpad.net] in Mint Linux (and I assume elsewhere) that causes USB sticks to be formatted as read-only unless you're root. First filed in 2012, still waiting for a fix. First time I use an USB drive since I updated to 12.04 and I found a really annoying bug on Nautilu...
[06:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:19] <exec> 08└─All the other flash drives (both usb and uSD) are optimized for block writes primarily in fat32/exfat formats. Using NTFS or Ext? on them degrade their performance horribly, and in my experience lead to premature failures on the order of days to hours depending on the filesystem features you have en...
[06:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:21] <exec> 08└─messymerry said they're readable, so I doubt wiggling the connector will make them writable. But it's generally a good suggestion; re-seating connectors is too often the cure to a problem. I've repaired many hard drives that developed tarnish on the contacts between the controller board and the disk...
[06:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:23] <exec> 08└─I've been for the shit and giggles running an OS off a flash drive for a few years already. It's a full blown regular debian install (with the noatime mount option, something I definitely use on regular hard disks as well to minimize I/O). Yes, it's slow as molasses but works fine. This USB has done...
[06:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:11] <exec> 08└─Don't start.
[06:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:07] <exec> 08└─If you read your link you'll see that while the particular videos cited were presumable fake, the damage was real.
[06:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sure, until you come down with Mad Squirrel Disease!! [popularmechanics.com] Coincidence? I think knot! As for what goes on with your cousin, read up on recessive genes. It's not pretty.
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[07:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:43] <exec> 08└─For those wondering how alcohol changes DNA, it doesn't. ... at least not in this case. ... or at least not in the traditional way that people think of when they think about DNA being changed. The change is in the methylation of DNA, a bit like giving DNA an armour upgrade, which is a well-establish...
[07:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1 Terabyte Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:51] <exec> 08└─Oh no! Samsung plonked MORE BLOATWARE onto the phone and the storage for the USER remains the SAME. Disclaimer: we have a Samsung phone where 7.5 of the 8GB is UNREMOVEABLE bloatware. Wishing a falling star would find Samsung's HQ.
[07:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1 Terabyte Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:53] <exec> 08└─https://www.tidbitsfortechs.com/2013/09/never-underestimate-the-bandwidth-of-a-station-wagon-filled-with-backup-tapes/ [tidbitsfortechs.com] I'll assume a vehicle has 75 cubic feet of usable space. I think the eUFS package is 1 mm thick, same as microSD. So that's a volume of 149.5 mm3 (they are sma...
[07:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1 Terabyte Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:55] <exec> 08└─11.5mm x 13.0mm
[07:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1 Terabyte Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:58] <exec> 08└─Bloatware does not grow proportionally with smartphone storage size. I would be surprised if there is much more than 10-20 GB used by default on these 1 TB phones. Samsung also sells this storage to other companies, so you can just get a phone from a different company.
[07:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1 Terabyte Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:00] <exec> 08└─It should be 1 mm thick. So 149.5 mm3.
[07:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1 Terabyte Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:02] <exec> 08└─It's the I/O at the trip endpoints that'll kill ya, though.
[07:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Pays Minors for Complete Access to their Data - 2080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:15] <exec> 08└─First off is the reporting leaves out an important piece of information. Just how big was this thing? Everybody does marketing surveys, this one was pretty damned invasive but if they disclosed they were doing it, and they sorta did, and it was limited to a pool just big enough to be statistically m...
[07:34:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 238 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:26] <exec> 08└─Could your computer have a problem that's hurting them? Maybe 5V too high? Maybe something's writing to them a LOT and you don't know it? (I know that's unlikely because most have an activity LED and you'd see activity, but I had to ask).
[07:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Day Left to Opt Out of eHealth for Aussies - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah but just one day. Patience young grasshoppa!
[07:36:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 481 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:20] <exec> 08└─**I** will blame him, as I just did in my recent post above -- because past policy has been to close the National Parks during shutdowns, but it got a lot of bad press last time in 2013 (closed gates of national parks were sort of the "face of the shutdown" in the media), so clearly Trump wanted to...
[07:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marvin [3019] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Shows How LSD Alters Directed Connectivity Within Brain Pathways in Humans - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:02] <exec> 08└─Wow! I don‘t have any knowledge in neuroscience or psychology, but this sounds damn cool!
[07:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows How LSD Alters Directed Connectivity Within Brain Pathways in Humans - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:04] <exec> 08└─Any gun restrictions that the Supreme Court agrees don't violate the 2nd amendment would be applied equally to all citizens.
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[08:33:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gringer [962] 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 727 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:43] <exec> 08└─For those wondering how alcohol changes DNA, it doesn't. ... at least not in this case. ... or at least not in the traditional way that people think of when they think about DNA being changed. The change is in the methylation of DNA, a bit like giving DNA an armour upgrade, which is a well-establish...
[08:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:45] <exec> 08└─So they didn't observe any "changing" after adopting drinking at all? They just measured methylation patterns in samples from people with a range of already established drinking habits?
[08:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:47] <exec> 08└─This seems like a real chicken and egg folly. They have found that binge drinkers cravings can be expressed and highlighted in DNA. With that info, they want to be able to look at DNA to see if you might be at risk for binge drinking. Seems to me you could just ask these same people if they want a...
[08:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:49] <exec> 08└─In other words, epigenetics. A case of diet producing adaptation of the genetic engine, making the organism able to live with the new diet and (for this case) ask for more. Not different from what I understand happens with the obese people: their organism adapted to higher food intake (or with the f...
[08:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:52] <exec> 08└─Right. They should go and grab (or entice) healthy people to "Come and make a wreck from your and your family life by becoming an alcoholic, AC demands to see changes in the genes for reals". Look, mate, you can still do astrophysics even if you aren't able to produce a neutron star on demand in you...
[08:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:54] <exec> 08└─Same kind of reverse logic. Does this guy offer any hypothesis for how his purported sinful gene came to be, other than "God did it"?
[08:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:40] <exec> 08└─Open-ended question -- how do QA groups at memory manufacturers identify the failure mode at the molecular/layer/cell level when it comes to flash memory?
[08:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:31] <exec> 08└─Not worse either. You can think 1fa as a particular case of 2fa in which one of the two factors is an 'allow all' / 'fully compromised'. It's worse only if the weak link is used alone in some contexts.
[08:35:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:58] <exec> 08└─At the rate it's being damaged, the entire Earth may take thousands of years to recover. At least JTNP won't look out of place.
[08:36:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:07] <exec> 08└─When the cops are away, the criminals and vandals play. Happened in Iraq when the US disdained the use of the established police forces, which led to rampant anarchy and looting.
[08:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:28] <exec> 08└─You mean the bit that says "[...] Arches National Park, where no formations have been reported to be destroyed"? There's general complaining about vandalism, but nothing that says the arches and hoodoos in the video were actually destroyed.
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[09:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:43] <exec> 08└─I've found that separating your words by (sorry about this) "finishing", "speaking", "one", "word", "before", "starting", "to", "speak", "the", "next", albeit incovenient and very stilted, improves comprehension when speaking to a non-native English speaker, or speech recognition software for that m...
[09:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:45] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_talk [wikipedia.org]
[09:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:47] <exec> 08└─Everyone realizes that this means that Noam Chomsy was right, about this and many other things.
[09:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:49] <exec> 08└─He certainly was. If you have some spare time and access to one of these platforms, I would suggest http://requiemfortheamericandream.com [requiemfortheamericandream.com]
[09:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:51] <exec> 08└─But not how to spell his name, apparently.
[09:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:04] <exec> 08└─This because I don't trust Firefox' Do Not Track. LOL: The 1080 A Star Is Born has 5126 Seeds. However, it's getting harder to find WiFi Spots that don't firewall BitTorrent. Get This: I was getting a meg up and down at Portland City Hall as I awaited my turn to speak before the city council during...
[09:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:52] <exec> 08└─https://www.transcend-info.com/Products/No-378 [transcend-info.com] https://www.transcend-info.com [transcend-info.com] No problems with ext3/4 on these; work as advertised. Kingston drives on the other hand proved to be shit. Just as described here: https://www.storagereview.com...
[09:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:40] <exec> 08└─Takspayers. There, fixed that (grin)
[09:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:41] <exec> 08└─Just give it to Mexico, it's cheaper.
[09:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:48] <exec> 08└─There was the legal spat between Microsoft and Sun over Java in the late 1990s, where Sun noticed that MS was up to its old EEE tricks again, and they slapped them down with a trademark infringement lawsuit. They basically said that sure, you can reimplement the Java API if you want, but you can't g...
[09:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:49] <exec> 08└─In an alternate universe where Windows provided the same freedoms and functionality as Linux now gives us, maybe Linux would have had never needed to exist. Same thing in an alternate universe where Unix System Labs v. Berkeley Software Design didn't happen. We might all be using BSD or Hurd today.
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[10:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:53] <exec> 08└─So I was giving my speech, beautiful speech about China. Very powerful. And we have the "oh, wah wah wah." That's right, some idiot had brought her baby. And I said, don’t worry about that baby, I love babies, I hear that baby crying, I like it. What a baby, what a beautiful baby. Don’t worry, t...
[10:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:55] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandhi [wikipedia.org]
[10:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:57] <exec> 08└─You are the reason I stopped logging into this website, and haven't subscribed in over a year. Enjoy it, faggot.
[10:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1 Terabyte Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:24] <exec> 08└─Imagine a Beowulf cluster of readers and cheap labour to swap the memory modules in and out...
[10:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, Windows does try to auto fix disks. However, usually it is nice enough to ask before blatting a drive.
[10:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:02] <exec> 08└─Unexplainable death of flash drives. I just thought the whole market was flush with crap quality components top to bottom
[10:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Day Left to Opt Out of eHealth for Aussies - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:15] <exec> 08└─People still calling to opt out. Apparently more than a million people have opted out so far. We'll have to watch the statistics. I wonder what the cost of this debacle has been?
[10:35:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:23] <exec> 08└─Drop Google but go with Apple? For what purpose?
[10:35:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 257 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, first off, it's not essential, and secondly it would be a nice plus, but only if done sanely. Which means not through google. It's 2019. Why can't I just carry around a my ~/ on an encrypted flash drive and connect it to whatever I need to work on?!?!
[10:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:53] <exec> 08└─eeedingly unoplimentary words go here
[10:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:55] <exec> 08└─If you look at the story -- or the video -- it wasn't the boy. It was his father. Doing a good deed -- protecting folks from that dangerous rock. Living his life the scouting way. Thank you Glenn! You should take great pride in the example you set for every citizen of our Country to follow.
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[11:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:46] <exec> 08└─It's not complicated, the successful ones are the ones that reproduce.
[11:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:01] <exec> 08└─I second that. It's getting as bad as the bullshit from /.
[11:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:03] <exec> 08└─It also helps when speaking in a large echoing hall/church/cave or using complete shite communications media like Whatsapp and Skype.
[11:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:18] <exec> 08└─I'll drink to that!
[11:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:20] <exec> 08└─Is this supposed to be sarcastic? 1) You think, if it is hard to do a study, they should just do something else and pretend they got the data they wanted. 2) Longitudinal studies are done all the time. It isn't actually difficult, eg take a blood sample when the cohort is out of high school and then...
[11:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:22] <exec> 08└─No, the people were exposed to some stressor which lead to an epigenetic change, which lead to a tendency to drink more.
[11:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1 Terabyte Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:37] <exec> 08└─- hello citizen - what - may i see your driver license and the vehicle registration - sure thing, officer - what are you carrying - new generation storage cards, each one of it carries one terabyte of data, cool huh - are those empty - uh, no - oh so i suppose there is no pirate mp3 or movies or por...
[11:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1 Terabyte Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:38] <exec> 08└─it is anathema to talk about personal external storage nowadays, but this tech, or even a previous gen one with much less density, in a PROPER drive size, would be nice to have. A full size sd card is already too small, easy to lose it or vacuuming it up without noticing. If you lose 32 gigabytes it...
[11:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Day Left to Opt Out of eHealth for Aussies - 1490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:31] <exec> 08└─The original idea for the system was pretty good. The system wouldn't store data or records, just references. So, you go to a doctor, and they write you a script. You get a physical copy if you want, or similar. The actual script instructions are stored in your online record as the doctor's ID hash,...
[11:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:12] <exec> 08└─You say "unstaffed." That's a horrible horrible lie. From the DUMB MEME that's going around on internet. Look at Summery -- "reduced ranger supervision." We kept a minimum staff. NOT ZERO!!!!!
[11:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:18] <exec> 08└─Dunno, judging from SN comments... MVLTOS INIMICOS HONOREM MVLTVM
[11:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:20] <exec> 08└─Greeks only colonized places where there was no autochthonous population. Magna Graecia would like to have a word with you, sir.
[11:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's How to See Black Panther for Free During Black History Month - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:22] <exec> 08└─Do not underestimate the power of hollywood to drill ideas into people. No, not with this kind of movies, which are kind of political and so hit the superliminal. The way is to take what you want people to believe and put it in a lot of different movies without having it challenged in any way. This...
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[12:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:46] <exec> 08└─Is it possible one of the time traveling Trump family members placed this rock so it would be found while Don is prez?
[12:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:54] <exec> 08└─Hey, shithead! FEED ME!!!
[12:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:12] <exec> 08└─You forgot your Password because of me. That's very special. Remembering Passwords is easy. It's called Post-It Notes!!
[12:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:13] <exec> 08└─Look! It's William Shatner!
[12:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:15] <exec> 08└─Some may. Surely, not everyone.
[12:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:18] <exec> 08└─What a k between friends?
[12:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:35] <exec> 08└─Is this supposed to be sarcastic?
[12:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:37] <exec> 08└─There is a direct quote in TFA: "We found that people who drink heavily may be changing their DNA in a way that makes them crave alcohol even more," said Distinguished Professor Dipak K. Sarkar, senior author of the study and director of the Endocrine Program in the Department of Animal Sciences at...
[12:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:27] <exec> 08└─ya know I can't tell whether a) the level of crap pulled by vandals during the shutdown was higher then usual (let along how much higher), or b) the level of media attention to crap pulled by vandals during the shutdown was higher then usual, or c) a combination of both of the above but given the pa...
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[13:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:43] <exec> 08└─Internet troll asks: Soooo, how much earth is in those 'moon' rock samples? (please refrain from citing proof of stuff put on the moon by man, what is disputed is whether men went on the moon, that is, why the Chinese in the 21st century cannot emulate a NASA mission in the 1960 and go with a man in...
[13:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:13] <exec> 08└─I love DJT posting so much I bought him a subscription. Guess it all works out even.
[13:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:14] <exec> 08└─"Why so serious?" Are you actually taking that seriously?
[13:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:34] <exec> 08└─I'm seeing lotsa May and not a single Shirley in the quoted text. Still hypothesis.
[13:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:36] <exec> 08└─They are forced to give lip service to "may" and "suggests" because it is standard practice to include those qualifiers. They don't act according to that belief. If they did you would see equal attention given to other reasons for the correlation.
[13:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Pays Minors for Complete Access to their Data - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:07] <exec> 08└─They also get access to personal information communicated to those minors by other minors. FB took my email addresses and phone numbers out of the phones of contacts who had my information, then started spamming each of those email addresses. Later I used a rooted phone with honey pot phone book ent...
[13:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Pays Minors for Complete Access to their Data - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:08] <exec> 08└─psychomatic is indeed a word, and may be what you meant. psychopatic is likely a typo, but I can't tell whether it is a typo for psychomatic or psychopathic. Please enlighten.
[13:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:33] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised no one's mentioned Write Exhaustion yet. If the drives are old, or you've used them "improperly", it's possible that you've just written them to death. It's hard to tell how many writes you can do on most USB Flash Drives, but probably not very many (maybe a single drive write per day?...
[13:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:28] <exec> 08└─Install Local GSM location and UnifiedNlp (no GAPPS) - both from F-droid - also download GSM locations database to offline phone storage = avoid Google tracking you whenever you use location. Additional benefit is that you can kill Google Play Services and other Google location related services apps...
[13:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fried Food Linked to Heightened Risk of Early Death Among Older US Women - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:42] <exec> 08└─I guess. But for instance my primary foods growing up were ramen noodles, macaroni and cheese, and cereal. And it was still cheaper than the dollar menu at a fast food place.
[13:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:43] <exec> 08└─The author of foo() and bar() is going to have a field day!
[13:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should an API be Copyrightable? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, hence me saying "you'd have to be careful over trademarks"
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[14:33:47] <exec> 08└─“Experts, trying to record and decode these patterns, see a future in which thoughts need not remain hidden inside the brain” So very darkly distopian different.
[14:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1 Terabyte Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:03] <exec> 08└─It's wonderful and terrible that 20GB of bloat on a phone is now considered reasonable.
[14:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1 Terabyte Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:04] <exec> 08└─Old phones with microSD card slot should still support those cards. So a way to upgrade an ancient smartphone with removable battery.
[14:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:46] <exec> 08└─sudo mount -o remount, rw  /dev/sdd1
[14:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:47] <exec> 08└─Isn't this just the OS mounting the drive in read only as a form of protection? I seem to recall that Linux defaults to read only unless you set specific flags...
[14:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:49] <exec> 08└─Over the past year or so, I have had an alarmingly high number of USB flash drives fail into "read only" mode. Something like six or more. These varied from cheap Chinese eBay stuff to name brands pretty much equally.
[14:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:52] <exec> 08└─Similar situation, though in my case, as I avoid like the plague the OS that is Win10, it's Win7 which mutters dark and terrible things about the USB drives, as I had nothing better to do one day I let it 'fix' the issues it alleged the 2TB portable drive had (full drive, nothing critical that wasn'...
[14:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:54] <exec> 08└─Windows tracks whether the drive was cleanly unmounted or not. If it wasn't manually unmounted (or the computer turned off) before removal, you get the "problems with this disk" message. It doesn't necessarily mean Windows has _actually_ found a problem. It means there _could_ be a problem. I wish y...
[14:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:48] <exec> 08└─But the foil makes sparks in the microwave.
[14:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:50] <exec> 08└─I am sure I have seen it in the options too in the past, but I just checked and it is no longer in version 10.2.1 on firefox.
[14:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 1626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:54] <exec> 08└─The Trump policy worked just fine in Yellowstone National Park. And it's not true that national parks always close during shutdowns (you're already complaining about an exception that proves you wrong!). It's depends on the situation and how much political advantage there is to shutting the parks do...
[14:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because every small business owner, every plant manager, every CEO, every shift manager in America who might want to dispose of some hazardous waste, is a Republican. Got it.
[14:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:58] <exec> 08└─As a former Scouter - that bit of ignorance just pisses me off. It would take an extreme moron to believe the story that the asshole was concerned about somebody's safety.
[14:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:45] <exec> 08└─Right! None of this spooky action at a distance either! Oh, wait...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement [wikipedia.org]
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[15:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:44] <exec> 08└─If you just leave us old white dudes out of your database, I don't think many of us will complain. We're not really into that diversity thing anyway.
[15:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03liberza [6137] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brain Signals Translated Directly Into Speech Using a vocoder - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:53] <exec> 08└─At last, we will be able to communicate like Trisolarans!
[15:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Signals Translated Directly Into Speech Using a vocoder - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:55] <exec> 08└─Are they translating these brain waves into Engineer-speak, or into English? I mean, it's all well and good that Grandma can talk to the engineers around her, after her stroke. But, she really wants to talk to the grand children, who only speak English!
[15:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Signals Translated Directly Into Speech Using a vocoder - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:57] <exec> 08└─The effect of making all auditory thoughts public will be something like this: "My god, Vanessa has a fabulous body. I'll bet she shags like a minx. How do I tell them that because of the unfreezing process I have no inner monologue? ... I hope I didn't say that out loud just now."
[15:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:07] <exec> 08└─Just think. Only a few thousand years ago, our ancestors communicated with primitive grunts.
[15:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:09] <exec> 08└─'Moon rock' given to Holland by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin is fake [telegraph.co.uk], this rock may really have come from the moon after all.
[15:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:19] <exec> 08└─More big macs.
[15:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:03] <exec> 08└─So if this is a protective mechanism of DNA against environmental effects, a likely outcome of 'treating' it is that the DNA would be less protected from said environmental effects?
[15:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1 Terabyte Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:23] <exec> 08└─There can be artificial limits on the storage allowed by the phone. Recent Samsung phones apparently had 256 GB and 512 GB microSD limits despite the SDXC standard supporting up to 2 TB.
[15:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1 Terabyte Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:24] <exec> 08└─I have never snapped a microSD in half. Maybe you should invest in some soft robotics. If the packaging is a problem, use a pair of scissorhands. You should not be losing them so easily either. Keep it in a storage case, SD/microSD adapter, or inside the device that is using it.
[15:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Pays Minors for Complete Access to their Data - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:42] <exec> 08└─Seeking "complete access" to a minor's "data" could be a crime.
[15:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:13] <exec> 08└─Seconded. I would suspect the commonality in the failures is something they've all been plugged into, and not a manufacturing defect. I've never had a USB flash drive fail, and I have dozens.
[15:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:11] <exec> 08└─That is the default behavior, you can change that so that it only reloads the current tab, in fact you can also disable the automatic reload if you please, it is on the general tab of the options.
[15:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:13] <exec> 08└─I use sandstorm.io for my personal cloud (fully open source and similar to - but in my not that humble opinion, much superior to - NextCloud), I use mailinabox.email for hosting my own email, and I use Duckduckgo and Ecosia as my search engines. ...and every. single. person. in my entire extended so...
[15:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:20] <exec> 08└─I'm not defending him, but rather saying that blaming him for everything under the sun is childish and tedious. Even if he is not mentioned by name in TFA, the implication is clearly there. It's the current Left's version of a dog whistle. It's not cute; it's not clever; and it's risky because it ab...
[15:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The 5G Protocol May Still Be Vulnerable to IMSI Catchers - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:31] <exec> 08└─It's not just your location they want to hijack. And they don't want you to know or install anything. After all, some people might be savvy enough not to fall for installing silly applications, even on a burner phone.
[15:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows How LSD Alters Directed Connectivity Within Brain Pathways in Humans - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:05] <exec> 08└─I don‘t have any knowledge in neuroscience or psychology, but this sounds damn cool!
[15:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:49] <exec> 08└─We live in a capitalist system. There is nothing wrong with owning a company. Or having it publicly tiraded. There is nothing wrong with it being profitable. There is nothing wrong with enjoying the blessings of that profitability. Where something wrong occurs is when the business is run in a way th...
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[16:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:45] <exec> 08└─The problem with racial bias in machine/Deep learning isn't inherent to the training images. Even if you have completely unbiased training images, the issue is that the real life associations - specifically crime, etc. - ARE racially biased, and not subtly. These are what you then have to train the...
[16:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:46] <exec> 08└─That's not very politically correct. It could be rephrased better . . . 1. I offer the suggestion to improve your database and make it more inclusive by excluding old white dudes from your database. 2. Old white dudes are definitely into diversity! As long as only old white dudes are included. Does'...
[16:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:49] <exec> 08└─I originally thought the title was "Diversity in feces."
[16:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:51] <exec> 08└─So how black are the blackfaces since the systems previously didn't notice them and just ignored them. I guess they have to be like over-the-top obvious now then ...
[16:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:53] <exec> 08└─Perhaps we could correct things by weighting mass violence more carefully? After all, most mass-murderers and terrorists in the U.S. are white men. And then there's indirect violence: white men are also the primary perpetrators of financial crimes, which essentially steal a slice of the victim's lif...
[16:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:55] <exec> 08└─You forgot to post as AC, physicsmajor. This account has now been flagged for wrongthink. This is your first warning.
[16:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Signals Translated Directly Into Speech Using a vocoder - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:06] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of a couple of stories about telepathy. If everyone around you can hear your thoughts, society will definitely have to change. In a world where some (or all of us?) communicate via computers monitoring our brains, society will again have to change. It could get very interesting, very quic...
[16:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Signals Translated Directly Into Speech Using a vocoder - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:08] <exec> 08└─"I've soiled myself... how embarrasing." (video [youtube.com])
[16:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:19] <exec> 08└─You're being ridiculous: everyone knows that time travel is impossible. Blame it on Aristarchus. He's old enough to have left it there after a family picnic.
[16:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:20] <exec> 08└─So, uhhh, could they get a DNA sample from the rock, to see just who the wood came from?
[16:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying - 4910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:31] <exec> 08└─"Children with autism have unusual patterns of microbial species in their stool... But none of these associations proves cause and effect. Finding an unusual microbiome in people with Alzheimer's doesn't mean that the bacteria drive the disease. It could be the reverse: People with Alzheimer's disea...
[16:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:54] <exec> 08└─Wait... my comment and the one above are marked as -1 Troll but the real troll is isn't? This really is /. of another color.
[16:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:56] <exec> 08└─My initial attempt was "Chompsky", which looked incorrect, but strangely appropriate.
[16:35:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1 Terabyte Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones - 576 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:28] <exec> 08└─https://www.tidbitsfortechs.com/2013/09/never-underestimate-the-bandwidth-of-a-station-wagon-filled-with-backup-tapes/ [tidbitsfortechs.com] I'll assume a vehicle has 75 cubic feet of usable space. I think the eUFS package is 1 mm thick, same as microSD. So that's a volume of 149.5 mm3 (they are sma...
[16:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:29] <exec> 08└─I would be surprised, if the fail rate has increased to an alarming number across the board. More likely is that you're abusing them in some fashion or you've just got a few lemons. That being said, you didn't mention how old the flash drives were when they died. A flash drive that dies after a coup...
[16:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:30] <exec> 08└─From my very limited sample size, and all the error that implies, I find the failure rate of cheap flash drives high, but have been fairly constant or if anything has gone down. The expensive ones have always seemed to fare better, but I wouldn't say that it justifies the price difference to me, jus...
[16:36:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] 02 - 06One Day Left to Opt Out of eHealth for Aussies - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:38] <exec> 08└─Ouch, I almost forgot to opt out. Thank you SN for reminding me...
[16:36:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03slinches [5049] 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 15 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:52] <exec> 08└─soylentnews.org
[16:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:30] <exec> 08└─So you can sell your data to an entirely different mega corporation? At some point you're either going to just bite the bullet on some things or live like it's still the 1980s-1990s.
[16:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:32] <exec> 08└─You can usually do that anyway. So long as you have access to a free USB port and the computer's configured to boot from an external device. Otherwise, most people just use their own device for mobile computing. Since, you can't rely on what someone else might have.
[16:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:34] <exec> 08└─That's when I find a different store / website to do business with. Newegg is great in that aspect, especially when compared with the likes of Amazon. Amazon triggers a bunch of blocks in uBlock Origins, while Newegg, just one or two.
[16:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:41] <exec> 08└─I dunno, it meets the helicopter parent / entitled brat criteria that seems to be quite pervasive.
[16:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mpc755 [7297] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:34] <exec> 08└─Dark matter is a supersolid that fills 'empty' space, strongly interacts with ordinary matter and is displaced by ordinary matter. What is referred to geometrically as curved spacetime physically exists in nature as the state of displacement of the supersolid dark matter. The state of displacement o...
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[17:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:45] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure "decantralized" should read "decentralized".
[17:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:47] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure "decantralized" should read "decentralized".
[17:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:49] <exec> 08└─fixed, decanted
[17:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:51] <exec> 08└─Why I chose SoylentNews to promote my pet project.
[17:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:05] <exec> 08└─ROFLMAO
[17:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:06] <exec> 08└─Two quick points to completely deflate your arguments: First, "White" needs to not lump in those of Hispanic or Arab/Middle Eastern descent. Yes, I know the liberal rags like to conflate these, and I'm calling it out as the complete bullshit that it is. Run the numbers again and you won't be able to...
[17:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:08] <exec> 08└─This is your first warning.
[17:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:10] <exec> 08└─I have never seen anyone combine hispanic and middle esstern as "white", and gang violence is classified differently from mass shootings, sort of like how military deas ths are not considered murder. You had a good point about how the simple statistics will result in a racist algorithm, but now you...
[17:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:13] <exec> 08└─You mean it isn't?
[17:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Brain Signals Translated Directly Into Speech Using a vocoder - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:25] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this also works with schizophrenics hearing voices that aren't there.
[17:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Brain Signals Translated Directly Into Speech Using a vocoder - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:27] <exec> 08└─Of course, it could be fun to have something like this in political debates: Morbo: "Morbo demands an answer to the following question. If you saw a delicious candy in the hands of a small child. Would you seize and consume it?" John Jackson: "Unthinkable." Jack Johnson: "I wouldn't think of it." Mo...
[17:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain Signals Translated Directly Into Speech Using a vocoder - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:29] <exec> 08└─Actually it should. Auditory hallucinations are the result of ambient noise being routed through speech processing centers of the brain rather than being filtered out like they should. According to this study, they are watching those sections of the brain associated with speech processing light up a...
[17:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:41] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't put a hoax of this nature past the USA, but in this case it's legit. My simple rebuttal to anybody doubting the moon landings is this: Why didn't Soviets say anything? They had the technology to track the rockets (or lack of), to listen in on radio communication (or lack thereof) between...
[17:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:43] <exec> 08└─NASA knows how they did it the first time around. A lot of very smart, brave, risk takers. While we may still have the first two of those, there's not that many in the latter category. Especially where the government is concerned.
[17:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:45] <exec> 08└─You are clearly unfamiliar with the topic: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:55] <exec> 08└─How long until we see people promising to greatly improve your intelligence using Nobel prize winner's shit?
[17:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:22] <exec> 08└─I don't know what Noam Chomsky said about this very topic, so I can't realize anything about whether he was right on it. But what I know for sure, by application of basic logic, is that if he was right on it, this doesn't allow any definitive conclusion whether he was right on anything else. After a...
[17:35:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:40] <exec> 08└─Is this supposed to be sarcastic?
[17:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:46] <exec> 08└─I understand that they believe their hypothesis. I don't understand why you think that is wrong. People who take a hypothesis seriously generally *do* believe it. Now are you saying "This is really the claim of a firm confirmation of the hypothesis"? If so, I'll request some more explicit source. Wh...
[17:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:48] <exec> 08└─That's a reasonable alternative hypothesis. Got a study to back it up?
[17:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe. It could also reduce the desire to be exposed to the stimulus, and if the stimulus is damaging despite the protection (it is) then that might be less harmful. But this requires additional studies, because that's a separate question, and this study doesn't answer it.
[17:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1 Terabyte Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:11] <exec> 08└─Thank Microsoft for that. How much more useful functionality do people really get from the over-10GB Windows 10, compared to the 100MB Win98 ?
[17:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Pays Minors for Complete Access to their Data - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:29] <exec> 08└─"How much for the little girl? How much for the women?" "What?" "Your women. I want to buy your women. The little girl, your daughters... sell them to me. Sell me your children!"
[17:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:03] <exec> 08└─Really, the more important question is why are you using USB Flash Drives like this today? Can you not just transfer files over the network?
[17:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, same here, lots of various FLASH drives and uses over the years, starting around 1994: SD, uSD, CompactFlash, BIOSes, PCMCIA/PC card/ExpressCard, proprietary camera cards (Sony, Olympus, etc.), Arduino/Raspberry Pi/PC104/BeagleBoard/other SBCs, on and on, and no failures here. Maybe messymerry...
[17:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah that quark powder is a mess, especially this time of year. Sticks to everything like laser toner or those infernal foam packing peanuts.
[17:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:09] <exec> 08└─Apple derives revenue from sales of devices and software. Particularly when it comes to mobile, they are one of the best devices regarding privacy (the alternative is Android).
[17:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:17] <exec> 08└─I read that article as a reporting a lot more actual destruction than you seem to, but we agree on what the words are.
[17:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Galaxies? Now There’s Too Many! - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:10] <exec> 08└─OR, inertia keeps the galaxy from flying apart. Occam's razor.
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[18:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:42] <exec> 08└─When you coddle criminals and make prisons too comfortable. Increase the chance of rape, starvation and disease and I GUARANTEE this will cease to be a problem. Japan should look to the US' private prison model as a guideline for how to implement this.
[18:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:53] <exec> 08└─The web pages for the web interface average less that 10 KiB and contain neither tracking nor JavaScript.
[18:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:55] <exec> 08└─Why oh why did I chose SoylentNews to promote my pet project...
[18:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:57] <exec> 08└─If it's open source, where's the github with the actualy source code?
[18:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:59] <exec> 08└─Who will win in the epic battle of Syntactic Whitespace vs. Codes of Conduct!
[18:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:18] <exec> 08└─So if physicsmajor is AC, then all AC's are physicsmajor! Errrrmmm....what? Posting as AC as this joke sucks. ;)
[18:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:19] <exec> 08└─Sure...I bring in black face in my journal, and now it's a meme! Al Jolson, save us ALL!
[18:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 2554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:21] <exec> 08└─I used to think exactly like you! I even made it the subject of my masters thesis thinking it was a genetic thing. After all, everyone knows that blacks are more violent to blacks than white folk are and blacks are just statistically more violent in general right? That was my personal experience and...
[18:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:23] <exec> 08└─This account has now been flagged for wrongthink. This is your first warning. Oh no! He might lose an internet point or two. Which, as we all know, is the exact same thing as censorship!
[18:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:26] <exec> 08└─Predictably, this entire thread has been triggered by the "D" word. Facial recognition can already recognize old white dudes. Facial Recognition Is Accurate, if You’re a White Guy [nytimes.com] The purpose of this training data is to make it able to recognize old non-white-dudes.
[18:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:56] <exec> 08└─Risk taking and brave are kinda synonymous, though the 2nd requires some reason for the risk taking. Are you a boomer? Are you just trying to feel relevant and special in a changing world?
[18:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:57] <exec> 08└─I have seen the future: It's Donald Trump for 6 more years until 2024, then Ivana Trump 2024-2032. Next Donald Trump Jr. in 2032-2040, and Eric Trump in 2040-2048. Finally Barron Trump in 2048-2056.
[18:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:34] <exec> 08└─You need a post-it note to remember 12345?
[18:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1 Terabyte Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:22] <exec> 08└─"You will stay in jail until you show us the one which contains child porn. We have enough circumstantial hearsay to hold you indefinitely without trial."
[18:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Pays Minors for Complete Access to their Data - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:42] <exec> 08└─No.
[18:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:21] <exec> 08└─My local DNS has an empty definition for google-analytics.com (they change IP every 5 minutes) What would be good would be a list of domain name to block for known telemetry; be it Google, Microsoft, Apple, so that I can add more to the list.
[18:39:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:15] <exec> 08└─They should just pass a state law that all National Parks default to closure during shutdowns...
[18:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:31] <exec> 08└─People who don't read history are doomed to repeat it. People who do read history are doomed to watch everyone else repeat it.
[18:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:33] <exec> 08└─So you're saying that it isn't a coincidence that the guy in the video looks a lot like Larry the Cable Guy?
[18:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PG&E Files for Bankruptcy. Here’s Why That Could Mean Bigger Electricity Bills - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:02] <exec> 08└─Well of course there is nothing wrong with companies being publicly tiraded! That's what's happening here. There may even be nothing wrong with them being publicly traded. After all, what could be better than gaining Utility from a Utility?
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[19:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:44] <exec> 08└─Good fish?
[19:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:45] <exec> 08└─The other solution is to remind them that criminals over 70 are irredeemable, and a social threat, and therefore should automatically get the death penalty. That would stop the problem right there (except for the tiny minority who needs help with suicide, obviously).
[19:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:47] <exec> 08└─I say we toss you in first, get that insider info to let us know how to be most inhumane! Then we'll do the exact opposite and create a better society. Back to the dungeons Vlad.
[19:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 1201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:50] <exec> 08└─Public perception built around Jack Nicholson's performance in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" not withstanding, government services for the mentally ill and infirm have been steadily and rapidly declining over the last several decades - leaving four basic options for these people: 1. Impose upon...
[19:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:52] <exec> 08└─And then they can starve on the streets of big cities everywhere, which is the only reason they're doing any little thing they can to get a safe place to sleep when they're broke because they can't work and can't afford to support themselves on pensions that never had a chance of keeping pace with t...
[19:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:54] <exec> 08└─The problem is fake inflation numbers, making the pensions worth a third of what they were supposed to be worth.
[19:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:56] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that the answer to that problem is not to keep the judicial and prison systems more attractive than the street. How about some actual help for the (near-)homeless elderly ?
[19:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:59] <exec> 08└─Nothing more to say really
[19:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:01] <exec> 08└─Guess this is what happens when you decide to either not have kids or allow your family to degenerate to a point where you have nobody to take care of you when you are older. This is going to be America for all those childless Gen Xers and Millennials.
[19:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:15] <exec> 08└─How did the bank robber plan the bank robbery? He s/Drew DeDvault/Drew DeVault/
[19:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:17] <exec> 08└─https://git.sr.ht/%7Esircmpwn/ [git.sr.ht]
[19:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:41] <exec> 08└─-1 censormongering!
[19:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:42] <exec> 08└─The kind of person who posts the shit "physicsmajor"--oops, pardon me, just some AC who is in no way at all physicsmajor--posts, is not going to listen to reality. He, and this has *got* to be a he, Has A Narrative. And if the data don't fit The Narrative (TM), then the data are wrong and/or don't e...
[19:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:45] <exec> 08└─Someone's projecting a lot, and it isn't physicsmajor - all the grandparent stated was that these things are not predominantly white (which is what the great-grandparent outright stated). They're right about that. You are the one making it about race/projecting it into a white supremacy post, when a...
[19:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:47] <exec> 08└─No one is worried about the old non-white-dudes. Even the women stop worrying about the old dudes, no matter what color. All of us old dudes look alike. Gray facial hair, gray or graying top hair, if we still have top hair. Whiter guys have faded to some indeterminate brownish color, blacker guys fa...
[19:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:49] <exec> 08└─Without addressing the specifics you are referring to, let me just point out: Something is not "bias" if its true. Too many people - on all sides of the political spectrum - want reality to conform to their preconceptions. You could create the most perfect training set, and all that will accomplish...
[19:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:21] <exec> 08└─That wasn't the future you were seeing, it was a nightmare. The idea of a dynasty such as you describe is more appalling to me than a Hillary Clinton presidency. There probably ought to be an amendment preventing any such dynasty from happening. It would be a bitch trying to write it though. How to...
[19:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:59] <exec> 08└─Your point, oh magnificent AC of admitted ignorance? I hope your confession has done some good for your soul, since it has contributed nothing to the discussion of whether language is innate.
[19:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:01] <exec> 08└─I just dropped the well-deserved -1 Troll on him. And if it weren't for the fact that for whatever reason the shit-for-brains management of this place doesn't consider his useless, ubiquitous shitposting spam, it would have been a Spam mod.
[19:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:03] <exec> 08└─https://i.pinimg.com/originals/6d/36/fa/6d36fa7cc9d762952a62c7374095c685.jpg [pinimg.com]
[19:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:28] <exec> 08└─It is simple correlation is not causation. There is no reason to favor their favorite interpretation of the correlation over the others...
[19:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:30] <exec> 08└─Sure, this one. The evidence supports either conclusion just as well.
[19:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03doke [6955] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:49] <exec> 08└─USB thumb drives are good way to keep important documents in a safe deposit box.
[19:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:05] <exec> 08└─So putting the responsibility where it belongs is childish and tedious? Lack of rangers to supervise the park due to a government shutdown 100% owned by Trump is a dog whistle? Possibly, now stay with me here, just possibly people see the shitty behavior of the president having consequences in the r...
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[20:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:42] <exec> 08└─Why do I get the sense there is no blame being placed on the healthcare providers?
[20:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:44] <exec> 08└─Get lap dance from an Oriental stripper, and get paid for it. Fuck the opioid epidemic, the doc is IN.
[20:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:46] <exec> 08└─My family doctor gets invited to "seminars" in sunny resort islands quite regularly, in exchange for prescribing this or that shitty useless cold medicines, antidepressants or blood pressure pills. We've known each other for 40 years, and he knows I'll only buy generic versions of whatever he prescr...
[20:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:48] <exec> 08└─Poor doc [youtube.com]
[20:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:50] <exec> 08└─nobody bats an eyelid
[20:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:07] <exec> 08└─This because defendants are questioned endlessly without defense attorneys present and are subjected to as long as a year of solitary confinement before trial, both of the clear human rights abuse
[20:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:08] <exec> 08└─More like late ponzi scheme.
[20:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:10] <exec> 08└─Monopoly confirms it. Late in the game it's often preferable to spend time in jail than to move around the board.
[20:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:13] <exec> 08└─I can go along with the sentiment, if not your apparent delight in prison rape, starvation and disease. Let's address the disease first: why do you want to incubate disease in prison, that will threaten the general population? Starvation? Not only is that inhumane, but conducive to disease. Prison r...
[20:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:15] <exec> 08└─Not to mention very expensive...
[20:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:17] <exec> 08└─Oh sure, THAT'S what's behind this, not growing wealth inequality and breakdown of the social safety net. Right. Not *enough* kids. Were you born this stupid and evil, or was it a lifestyle choice?
[20:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:19] <exec> 08└─Well thankfully the boomers got pensions, full social security, and they seem pretty casual about imposing on any of their children who are lucky enough to own their own home. We live in a new era of personal responsibility, I have a 401k and an IRA, VA benefits, HSA account, and a handful of other...
[20:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:21] <exec> 08└─Once again Azuma Hazuki sacrifices her own mental health to argue with a paid shill. Good work.👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
[20:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:24] <exec> 08└─This is a public service announcement provided for the benefit of SN's large autistic community in accordance with the ADA. This is a troll. They may be paid or they may want to laugh at you. But they don't believe what they posted!!
[20:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:26] <exec> 08└─Like in the US, where native-born non-criminal citizens are locked up in prison and told they have to work, paid $1 per day, until they earn enough money to purchase evidence of their innocence from their own government? (see page 20: https://www.amnestyusa.org) [amnest...
[20:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:28] <exec> 08└─Guess this is what happens when you decide to either not have kids or allow your family to degenerate to a point where you have nobody to take care of you when you are older. This is going to be America for all those childless Gen Xers and Millennials.
[20:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:30] <exec> 08└─In nature, over the long term, the species will bear more children so that the chances of one surviving is higher if there is no "safety net". Survival to adulthood is damn near guaranteed in the well developed "white" countries, so the birthrate is much lower, and mom can go out and her hair and na...
[20:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:33] <exec> 08└─> At least the younger, healthier prisoners should be make to work for their keep. Private US prisons do that very well. Using the Constitutional exception for the convicted, pad their bottom lines, while underpaying workers and therefore driving non-slave companies out of business. "Prevailing Wage...
[20:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:17] <exec> 08└─The original post maybe, but not the second one trying to "deflate" the rebuttal.
[20:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:19] <exec> 08└─#walkedawayintoabrickwallpleasesendhelpmybrainisleaking
[20:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:21] <exec> 08└─To access the actual dataset: https://www.research.ibm.com [ibm.com] The Flickr dataset used as the base: http://code.flickr.net [flickr.net] I am greatly amus...
[20:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:23] <exec> 08└─Dude, that's not your brain leaking. Remember your Mama explaining that you had "water on the brain"? Well, the brain dissolved, long ago, and you urinated it away. Now, it's just the water leaking out. Stay calm, and assume whatever position results in the least water leakage, while I call a plumbe...
[20:35:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon - 730 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:50] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't put a hoax of this nature past the USA, but in this case it's legit. My simple rebuttal to anybody doubting the moon landings is this: Why didn't Soviets say anything? They had the technology to track the rockets (or lack of), to listen in on radio communication (or lack thereof) between...
[20:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:57] <exec> 08└─Yea, I always vote against dynasties. People seem to love them for some reason though...
[20:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:09] <exec> 08└─... and lead to being banned from the day-room. "If you'll hand me my crayons, I'll be glad to take your name, In case I run across that guy you knew."
[20:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying - 1130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:10] <exec> 08└─Interesting. I too have some very autistic mannerisms, perhaps less than yourself, but enough that tech co-workers have basically said "I'm weird" even for tech people. My girlfriend said she thought I was autistic from our first meeting. You can decide if that plus my self-evaluation puts me on the...
[20:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:41] <exec> 08└─Is that cartoon infringement?
[20:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:27] <exec> 08└─Good flash media die becoming read-only. Bad flash media die losing data. That said, I haven't had a flash media to die on me for a while (~7 years?) - be it server or desktop SSD, usb flash or uSD. They are either bad from the start (i/o errors, silent data corruption or random disconnects from the...
[20:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vandals Damage Joshua Tree National Park During Government Shutdown - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:43] <exec> 08└─Even if he is not mentioned by name in TFA, the implication is clearly there.
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[21:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:46] <exec> 08└─No, I was thinking of Mitch Kapor. Nothing to see here, move on. In other news, I've had Dyslexia since third grade; that led me to think it was the Doc who gave the lap dance.
[21:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:47] <exec> 08└─The corruption has gotten flat out trashy!
[21:34:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 197 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:09] <exec> 08└─Oh sure, THAT'S what's behind this, not growing wealth inequality and breakdown of the social safety net. Right. Not *enough* kids. Were you born this stupid and evil, or was it a lifestyle choice?
[21:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:18] <exec> 08└─CPI definitely didn't keep up with the cost of housing, that's for sure - and what do pensioners need?
[21:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:20] <exec> 08└─I agree that services have eroded terribly, but FWIW public perception of the institutions (which also housed physically & developmentally disabled people of all types) was also based on an avalanche of lawsuits and undercover exposé journalistic coverage of what was really going on inside them. On...
[21:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:22] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, I think it was some kind of Soapy [gutenberg.org] opera tale or something.
[21:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:25] <exec> 08└─Basically, the more wealthy are going to have to pay a little bit more tax to keep society functioning rather than continually coming up with excuses why every last penny should be hoarded.
[21:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:27] <exec> 08└─Nature has one safety net - children. Because you decided not to have any, you are demanding that everyone else provide you with a safety net.
[21:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:29] <exec> 08└─I presume most everyone knows it is a likely troll, but we can never be sure these days. Who keeps modding it up? Probably the troll itself, pretty sad life where someone puts that much effort into being stupid.
[21:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:31] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure in most other species, the offspring don't take care of their parents in old age. More often than not, they come into direct competition with them. But I guess all you know how to do is fuck up the planet.
[21:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:34] <exec> 08└─It seems that most prisoners have little to nothing to do, other than sit around watching television, joining and promoting gangs and violence, and generally being useless.
[21:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:50] <exec> 08└─Git the software isn't the same thing as Gitlab/Github the websites and businesses. Git the software was designed from its beginning to be easily hosted by just about anybody. Setting up your own git repo server is quite doable, taking up something like an hour or two at most of a mediocre admin's (...
[21:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:51] <exec> 08└─So I'm now really wondering why this person is so excited about reinventing the wheel.
[21:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I'm tired of being pilloried for suggesting tabs instead of spaces in the hotel elevator. It was just a suggestion. There was no good reason to feel threatened. People can use braces for all I care! Sheesh. -- Sex on television won't hurt you. As long as you don't fall off.
[21:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:26] <exec> 08└─Amazing what you can learn about a person through the ways they try and insult you. I guess "shit for brains" was too solid a metaphor for you? Glad I didn't grow up with a mother like yours!
[21:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Signals Translated Directly Into Speech Using a vocoder - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:42] <exec> 08└─The Secret Service was planning on getting around to it, but then got a last-minute report from the CIA that they were planning on disposing of Whosit and replacing him with someone more friendly to US interests anyway. So they're off the hook and can keep officially checking the supply chain on all...
[21:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:46] <exec> 08└─Not if we had reasonable copyright laws that were limited to 25 years.
[21:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:47] <exec> 08└─"whatever reason" We know the reason, many of them are internet trolls here for the lulz. The admire trolling! Sadly this is probably the healthiest step away from christian fundamentalism they are capable of making.
[21:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:49] <exec> 08└─Some people don't enjoy repeated heavy trolling. I recall one libertarian friend who declared that if someone made him angry his strategy was to try and piss them off more, and that seemed to transfer his anger away. A pretty shitty tactic that doesn't even work long term, a form of emotional suppre...
[21:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1 Terabyte Universal Flash Storage for Smartphones - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:39] <exec> 08└─With associated circuitry etc; I want to be seeing 100TB drives become available; obviously I would not be able to afford them but still. Nice to have 30TB laptop drives also; then I could have everything on my NAS (20TB total, 8 used) also on my laptop with lots of room to spare for future stuff.
[21:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:39] <exec> 08└─Same here. My first flash drive lasted years before I lost it. The replacements have an average lifespan of 3-6 months before they die without warning.
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[22:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:42] <exec> 08└─Start with the lowest level employees involved and work up the chain till you get to Zucky. Charge them all and give deals to any non-management personnel. Last step, lock up the zuck.
[22:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:44] <exec> 08└─You don't even need to do that. If I were trump, I would kneecap the H1-B and other similar programs immediately. It's not like the tech industry, the largest abuser of visas, is friendly to Trump or anything. Without so many H1-B stinkies, there will be a more broad demographic of real Americans wo...
[22:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:46] <exec> 08└─Bots editing bots. But not. NEEDS EDITING!
[22:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:48] <exec> 08└─Tells MBS that FB propagates the ideas of people opposing him. Remind him that there are enough hardware stores to avoid BYOSaw. Wait.
[22:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:02] <exec> 08└─And is Soylent now set to follow? A propaganda piece this blatant is an insult to rationality, whatever the cause. When author does not respect readers, he/she/it is sure to respect facts even less.
[22:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:04] <exec> 08└─Here's a few books on the topic as well: https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] Hardcover published in 2004. https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] Hardcover published in 2013. https://www.amazon.com
[22:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:06] <exec> 08└─Oddly enough I was just watching a relevant documentary about why doctors do these sorts of things. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:08] <exec> 08└─It's kind of a "reverse Weinstein".
[22:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:10] <exec> 08└─was the lap dance any good?
[22:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:12] <exec> 08└─All that awareness justifies the many bills now running through congress to fix the problem.
[22:34:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 1201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:23] <exec> 08└─Public perception built around Jack Nicholson's performance in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" not withstanding, government services for the mentally ill and infirm have been steadily and rapidly declining over the last several decades - leaving four basic options for these people: 1. Impose upon...
[22:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:50] <exec> 08└─> underpaying workers They are literally allowed to enslave them. They are overpaid slaves that are being cuddled, not underpaid innocent victims. This is not an oversight, everyone always meant for them to be enslaved.
[22:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:52] <exec> 08└─How can a country suffer from both a wave of young Neets, and a wave of seniors so desperate for a place to sleep that they turn to living in jail? Why would a pensioner have significantly less money on average than a young adult who just never left his room after university? Are these pensioners pr...
[22:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:54] <exec> 08└─Trendy meme based on that tired old 19th century philosophy called Marxism. It's sad to see this up-voted here. Where are we? A lefty reddit sub? Yeah. "late capitalism", because socialism doesn't send people to prison. Sheesh!
[22:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:56] <exec> 08└─That's a very good point. It's because I don't want to be raped five times a day by prison gangs that I've long since resolved to never be taken alive. I'm not a criminal, but lots of innocent people get accused all the time. If I'm ever accused of anything, then it's time to take as many of the arr...
[22:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:58] <exec> 08└─not made up.
[22:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:00] <exec> 08└─Shit, you should see Norwegian "prison" cells. Each one of them is a helluva lot nicer than my apartment, for damn sure. Motherfuckers have X-Boxes and Playstations and shit.
[22:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:03] <exec> 08└─Either way, you have pretty damn good excuses for sitting on the steps of the public square and orating to the passers-by, "Now let me tell you about the Jews..." Retards and old people can also get away with slapping strangers' butts in public. Only Italians can get away with that one without being...
[22:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:05] <exec> 08└─How about some actual help for the (near-)homeless elderly ?
[22:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:07] <exec> 08└─There's the plan: if you can afford a plane ticket to Norway, alter your physical appearance as much as possible from your "norm", update your passport with the new photo, then go there and burn your passport. Return to your normal appearance, travel far from your entry point, learn some Norwegian,...
[22:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:09] <exec> 08└─Some people use capitalism to refer to various government run/supported scams these days. Seems pretty dumb to me but I guess that is language.
[22:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:12] <exec> 08└─I worked on Miami Beach for about 10 years, there were a couple of apartments on our work parking lot and in one of them was a little old lady at least 85 years old... She made her way to the grocery store and back almost every day, as did we to buy lunch sandwiches from the deli. One day, little ol...
[22:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:14] <exec> 08└─Ahh, the ol' refugee strategy. Suppose the only problem would be keeping the brown paint on my face, once it rolls off and they see my skin is lighter than a paper bag, and that have an education and can speak fluent English and actually be productive to society, I'll be deported.
[22:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:33] <exec> 08└─Hello fren, you can of course also use git purely locally with no repository whatsoever.
[22:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:35] <exec> 08└─And because "sr.ht" looks and sounds so much like "shit," perhaps the creator had better hire somebody without autism to provide some naming conventions.
[22:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:09] <exec> 08└─Didn't the FBI statistics consider Hispanics/Latinos "White" for quite some time? Kinda like this? [nationalvanguard.org]
[22:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brain Signals Translated Directly Into Speech Using a vocoder - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:26] <exec> 08└─Got two turntables and a microphone. [youtube.com]
[22:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:47] <exec> 08└─Soviet sent animals around the moon. Did USA, before the Apollo 8? Or did we rely on their findings?
[22:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:01] <exec> 08└─It would be interesting if those things are in any way linked (let alone causal).
[22:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:25] <exec> 08└─I always ignore this message; simply because if the drive was unmounted improperly and some files were corrupted; what is Windows going to do? magic up some data that is missing and put it back in...I realise some stuff has built in redundancy and may be able to be repaired but most files don't. I h...
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[23:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Second Chinese Apple Employee Charged by FBI for Trying to "Steal" Autonomous Car Trade Secrets - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:43] <exec> 08└─I see that we're finally reaping the benefits of all this diversity the tech companies are bringing in from overseas. This is only the tip of the iceberg, the U.S. government and Lockheed-Martin will give native-born Americans a huge ration of shit for having smoked a joint within the last year, but...
[23:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Chinese Apple Employee Charged by FBI for Trying to "Steal" Autonomous Car Trade Secrets - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:44] <exec> 08└─Was he imported as an H1B hire, did he complete a degree here, or did he even grow up here?
[23:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:55] <exec> 08└─Apparently, the editor forgot to remove the "NEEDS EDITING" note.
[23:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:57] <exec> 08└─Mr. Bone Saw
[23:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:59] <exec> 08└─We need bots commenting and the circle will be closed.
[23:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:01] <exec> 08└─How can WE collect data as effectively as you have? Maybe Facebook is intruding on exclusive government domain?
[23:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:03] <exec> 08└─Why torture yourselves? It's much simpler to assume they have everything and work from that.
[23:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:06] <exec> 08└─Sheesh! You people still don't know if that shit ever happened!
[23:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:08] <exec> 08└─What I want to know is whether I can pass myself off as my own parent. My sister and her hubby gave me their Android phones when they got new ones. So far I authorize my fourteen year old self to install this app, I'm going to earn my keep by surfing pr0n.
[23:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:10] <exec> 08└─He writes them in Ruby; he praises Ruby up and down. Robert Scott Mitchell [subbot.org] IMHO, Robert - never "Bob" - is the very most intelligent person I have ever met. The very most eccentric too: his economic and scientific theories are... uh... "unsupported by data".
[23:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:12] <exec> 08└─Right, because the Patriot Act and NSA mass surveillance was totally stopped by all those patriots with a conscience. Whistleblowers are shut down, and if they step up and blow the whistle anyway? Welp, Snowden sure enjoys his exile I'm sure! It is hard to tell if you're an idiot or a shill.
[23:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senators To Facebook: We Want Answers On Data Collecting App - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:15] <exec> 08└─You may have a point there, but the stakes are much lower with places like Google. Look at all the leaks to Breitbart, for example. Now we all know that this [bing.net] is pretty much all Google interns, they are made to wear that stupid hat and parrot the party line.
[23:34:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 21 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:25] <exec> 08└─nobody bats an eyelid
[23:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 1115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:34] <exec> 08└─That I was once the subject of a - fortunately successful - Drug Intervention had to do with a persistent cough. These days, prescriptions for controlled substances _cannot_ be refilled, once must physically visit the doctor for a new dead-tree prescription each time. Despite whatever digital signat...
[23:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:37] <exec> 08└─Pics/Vids or it didn't happen.
[23:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:39] <exec> 08└─How can this possibly classify as propaganda?? Can you trolls maybe just NOT? Some of us enjoy real discussion.
[23:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:41] <exec> 08└─Kapoor was convicted in 2017 for reasons that also have to do with him being a drug pusher. The testimony has already been given; criminal procedures can have Depositions too. Please to be specific as to what about TFS or TFA made them Propaganda.
[23:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:43] <exec> 08└─I'll have you know that many of my very best friends are strippers! Say "Hi!" to Satori at Mary's Club for me, next time you visit PDX.
[23:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:45] <exec> 08└─"Controlled Substance". While a step in the right direction that the US no longer permits refills of controlled substances but requires a new dead-tree script every single time, that Canada's prescriptions are numbered enabled them to fight Doctor Shopping.
[23:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:48] <exec> 08└─I don't think this is a case of a sales director providing a lap dance. I think this is Insys recruiting their sales directors from a very specific subset of the population with great "persuasive" skills. Just a case of knowing your audience, I guess.
[23:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:50] <exec> 08└─They're not as numerous as they at one time were, but provided you're also buying drinks you can get blown right there at the bar for three to five US dollars. It's somewhat more expensive in a private room.
[23:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insys Exec Allegedly Gave Lap Dance to Doctor While Pushing Deadly Opioid - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:52] <exec> 08└─t. doctor
[23:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:42] <exec> 08└─My mom's parents took care of just one of their four parents in old age - it forced them both into early retirement (about 5 years before plan), and was a terrible taxing experience for both of them for the seven years she was bedridden. The last several years they also had to bring in outside nursi...
[23:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:44] <exec> 08└─Basically, the more wealthy are going to have to pay a little bit more tax
[23:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:46] <exec> 08└─This is due to a breakdown of the traditional social contract in Japan (for good or bad). The way it traditionally worked was: Child grows up minded at home by grandparents, because parents are out workingParents work hard to earn enough to support themselves, their kids and their own parents, who h...
[23:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:48] <exec> 08└─Most people understand that civilisation costs money, and I'd certainly be willing to pay a little more tax
[23:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:50] <exec> 08└─But, deported to where? America based on your accent? I doubt America is taking indigent refugees from Norway anymore. Canada? UK? Take a vacation in the Caribbean first, learn a bit about an island then claim you came from there.
[23:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:52] <exec> 08└─I don't mind paying more tax, but I really think that tax should be based on disposable income rather than total income. Folks who aren't making enough money on their own to pay for food, clothing, shelter, transportation and medical care... really shouldn't be paying any tax, particularly because t...
[23:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:55] <exec> 08└─I want to download perfectly legitimate sequences of numbers while hanging at a wifi spot. I've found that the site from which I obtain their hashes from time to time plays me a video. My every attempt to find out how to disable video in Tor Browser is met with advice - often written for Trump and o...
[23:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:57] <exec> 08└─We know a Harvard PhD psychologist who worked for some years in community based drug rehab programs - alternatives to incarceration. Her subjects' recidivism rate was less than 1/3 that of the subjects who went to prison instead, but the county only funded her to the minimum required by some federal...
[23:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Some Japanese Pensioners Want To Go To Jail - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:59] <exec> 08└─"NEET": Not in Education, Employment or Training. Strictly speaking I'm not a NEET, as I'm training to be a professional musician. Just last night I was a huge hit when for the first time I sang at an Open Mic. What got me down about that particular open mic is that some of the guitarists were very...
[23:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why I Chose Flask to Build sr.ht's Mini-Services - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:21] <exec> 08└─I can tell you why. Because "sr.ht" is so much easier to pronounce than "git."
[23:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Releases "Diversity in Faces" Dataset for Facial Recognition Systems - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:57] <exec> 08└─that whites were mass murderers and terrorists White males responsible for more mass shootings than any other group [politifact.com] White males responsible for most US terrorist attacks. [vox.com]
[23:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain Signals Translated Directly Into Speech Using a vocoder - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:15] <exec> 08└─I know a number of people with various speech impediments. Something like this could be life changing.
[23:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:50] <exec> 08└─Vaccines cause autism. This bullshit is just drawing the fire with fad medicine.
[23:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Newborn Babies Have Inbuilt Ability to Pick Out Words - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:25] <exec> 08└─Well, you also know what R2-D2 is saying even though he's not speaking human language. Of course, George Lucas corrected that problem by having all cast communicate in baby-talk throughout the duration of episodes I-III.
[23:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Heavy Drinking May Change DNA, Leading to Increased Craving for Alcohol - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:53] <exec> 08└─I've met a lot of people who never got into and stayed away from alcohol in large part due to the fact that their family had problems with it. Smoking cigarettes is probably difficult to do after you've seen granny's slow and painful suffocation into death from emphysema or lung cancer.
[23:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: USB Flash Drives Failing - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:18] <exec> 08└─Not similar to the OP but why not have a rant.. A while back I was away for work and realized I had left my flash drive at home; so I went and paid FULL PRICE WTF for a 32GB USB3 sandisk flash drive. Turns out that I didn't need it; but you always need one when you don't have one..... So a few days...
[23:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Pervasive is Google in our Online Life? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:23] <exec> 08└─Apple derives revenue from sales of hype and fashion
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