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[00:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:11] <exec> 08└─He was great in Bright. And while Suicide Squad was a lame movie, Smith played well enough there as well.
[00:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:12] <exec> 08└─This article headline is yet more BS about everyone being afraid of everything. Check out the picture: https://cdn.newsapi.com.au [newsapi.com.au] If this picture is anything more than "Ha, hah.." to you.. if there is anything at all resembling fear in you.....
[00:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Fight Over Vaccines is Fueled by Web Forums - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:30] <exec> 08└─It is addiction at the population level. They (accidentally I think in the case of measles) pulled a bait and switch. First promising to "eradicate" measles by 1967: If properly developed and wisely used, it should be possible to disrupt the biological balance of measles. Its eradication from large...
[00:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Fight Over Vaccines is Fueled by Web Forums - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:31] <exec> 08└─So abolish vaccination and just sent the kids to play outside once a year.
[00:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Fight Over Vaccines is Fueled by Web Forums - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:34] <exec> 08└─As a parent this also concerns me. I took maybe like 12 vaccines up until I was 18. I lived through Chicken Pox, Rubella, and all the other staples. It was annoying, but it didn't kill me. And if it had killed few kids, well maybe that's evolution. Vaccinating us against every disease will results i...
[00:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Fight Over Vaccines is Fueled by Web Forums - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:36] <exec> 08└─Why don't you just avoid all healthcare for you and your kids? Evolution in action.
[00:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Fight Over Vaccines is Fueled by Web Forums - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:38] <exec> 08└─The fact that you are a parent concerns me too.
[00:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Danish Island of Samsø Ends Fossil Fuel Use - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:11] <exec> 08└─These technologies that the US is ignoring are going to be very valuable in the near future.
[00:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:07] <exec> 08└─The constitution would not prevent us to returning to the definition of "limited time" that we used in the past.
[00:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lufthansa Airline Sues Passenger for Skipping a Connecting Flight - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:04] <exec> 08└─to quickly check whether a missing checked-in passenger has luggage loaded on the plane
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[01:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:52] <exec> 08└─IBM used glass in their 3.5 "Deskstar" drives, which didn't go well. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:54] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=30008&page=1&cid=798198#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
[01:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:56] <exec> 08└─Those were manufactured in Hungary. Later forensic analysis discovered traces of paprika powder had caused the heads to crash and production was moved to Thailand.
[01:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the use of fresh chilly alleviated the defects.
[01:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:00] <exec> 08└─Well, if a hard drive was in my hands, which it was, and I was feeling like "fixing" things, which I was, it didn't go well, either. I remember the time I shattered one of the platters all over my kitchen. I thought dropping a glass was bad.... Got some good magnets though!!!
[01:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:30] <exec> 08└─There was never a Sinbad movie called "Shazaam", only Shaq in "Kazaam". https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com]
[01:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:31] <exec> 08└─Gets my vote for all-time worst animation to real life conversation
[01:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:33] <exec> 08└─Tom Cruise will be cast as kermit the frog. Oh, wait... They won't need makeup for that.
[01:36:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 524 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:03] <exec> 08└─And then there is this: The Discovery Institute (DI) is a politically conservative[4][5][6] non-profit think tank based in Seattle, Washington, that advocates the pseudoscientific concept[7][8][9] of intelligent design (ID). Its "Teach the Controversy" campaign aims to permit the teaching of anti-ev...
[01:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Text of Article 13 and the EU Copyright Directive has Just Been Finalised - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:26] <exec> 08└─Since the "news article" being linked, is a 13KiB HTML file pulling in 100KiB of javascript and 500KiB of images, the full text of the actual article should be fully reproducible - its likely less then 0.01% of the page being linked.
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[02:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:04] <exec> 08└─If TFA is right about the market, it won't be your problem since datacenters will be the ones buying most of them. And they don't like stuff that breaks so they will probably check to see if it works first.
[02:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:05] <exec> 08└─I'd think their full-height form factor would work really well for high-end RAIDs. IMHO, only truly compelling reason to make 3 1/2 drives is that everyone else makes them too.
[02:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:07] <exec> 08└─I think it's more a case of choosing the right workforce. Here's a shot of Hungarian hard drive plant workers [wordpress.com] at the end of a shift. Here's the equivalent men in Thailand [myladyboycupid.com]. Obviously Thai men are more suited to the delicate task of assembling hard drives.
[02:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:09] <exec> 08└─While its formula is readily reverse-engineers, it's preparation - Glassalurgy? - has been a deep, dark secret since it's invention in the fifties. Corning hasn't rested on it's heels: today's mobile device screens are far far less prone to shattering than were those of the first iPhones. I've dropp...
[02:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:12] <exec> 08└─I've dropped my own iPhone 7 a whole bunch of times with nary a scratch.
[02:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:14] <exec> 08└─Gorilla Glass is not hard to make, once you've got hold of a few gorillas.
[02:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:46] <exec> 08└─Let's ask the blue man group... Ah...nothing to say about that, guys? Fine. ...fine. See if I care.
[02:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:49] <exec> 08└─Go with Paul Reubens: he'd be better. He's a loner....a rebel. (Best. movie. ever.)
[02:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Danish Island of Samsø Ends Fossil Fuel Use - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:47] <exec> 08└─http://www.fuelly.com/motorcycle/honda/gl500_silver_wing_interstate/1982/runaway1956/138601 [fuelly.com] It's an antique now - but it's a nice comfortable ride to play around on, or to get hundreds of miles down the road, quickly. Top speed is 100 mph, due to the igniters, but it will do 100 for two...
[02:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:32] <exec> 08└─They apparently refuse to offer it for download in the original German, you can only get the crappy English translation
[02:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:52] <exec> 08└─A pound of mushrooms per day might not be such a good idea. Even some (maybe all) edible mushrooms contain toxins, and they may be cumulative. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov]
[02:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:53] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaritine [wikipedia.org] Agaritine oxidizes rapidly upon storage, however, and is totally degraded after 48 hours in aqueous solution with exposure to air. It has also been shown to decompose readily upon cooking (up to 90% reduction) as well as upon freezing (up to 75...
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[03:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:54] <exec> 08└─Though the claimed 25k "high paying" jobs would have been good for any city or neighborhood, this AHQ would have driven up already high real estate prices and over burdened the local subway stops. The $3bn giveaway to Amazon was a lot, too. NYC already has a lot of "high paying" jobs, and a lot of t...
[03:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:55] <exec> 08└─I don't mind if companies do business. That's what companies do. I do mind paying them to come and do business. How many billions has Amazon made? And we should pay them to come and do business where we live? No, I don't think so. Same goes for the NFL and their stadiums. Here's why: The people that...
[03:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:58] <exec> 08└─a tech giant did not deserve nearly $3 billion in government incentives.
[03:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:00] <exec> 08└─Amazon going from 1 to 2-4 headquarters makes such tactics less effective. As for federally... Amazon to pay $0 in federal income taxes: report [thehill.com]
[03:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:02] <exec> 08└─And we should pay them to come and do business where we live? No,
[03:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:19] <exec> 08└─Lower RPM, IOPS, and data rate, more vibrations, power consumption, and friction, etc. https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com] The platters would have to be thicker (or slower), and it's not clear to me that you could get hig...
[03:34:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:40] <exec> 08└─Do blue lives matter, if it's black people in smurfface ?
[03:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:54] <exec> 08└─I find that picture to be downright creepy. Scary? Maybe. In the sense of "is it Halloween? What's this drugged up cosplaying stoner doing?"
[03:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consciousness Rests on the Brain's Ability to Sustain Rich Dynamics of Neural Activity - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:30] <exec> 08└─His brother's name is Arturo "Art" Deco.
[03:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Admits to Counterfeit Problem - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:38] <exec> 08└─http://craigslistkillings.blogspot.com/ [blogspot.com] Hadn't heard about this before, but it won't affect my usage of Craigslist -- I'm not buying/selling guns or anything illegal. These two categories seemed to be the majority of what was listed. I've sold all kinds of things including a couple of...
[03:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:12] <exec> 08└─I give not a fuck what the people think of me either, ari. Like my own opinions, my self image is not based on what others think. I do not crowdsource either my ego or my morality.
[03:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:13] <exec> 08└─s/disadvantaged/lazy, greedy, little bitches/ FTFY. "The world owes you fuck-all" and "I should personally treat people decently" are not remotely contradictory concepts, so stop trying to conflate them.
[03:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Activision Blizzard Reports Record Revenues, Lays Off 8% of Workforce - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:16] <exec> 08└─You really should pull your head out of your ass, the shit's getting inside it and replacing gray matter. The people laid off by AB were in bits of its business that were not making it money, not showing any sign of making it future money, and it wanted to get rid of. They were owed nothing except a...
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[04:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:54] <exec> 08└─Sweet! Imagine what Democrats will be able to do with an actual planet-threatening emergency like global warming in 2020!
[04:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:55] <exec> 08└─Challenges in courts is the next thing that will happen. One of the most authoritarians but still successful stateman (nicknamed the Iron Chancellor [wikipedia.org]) knew better: "The politics is the art of the possible". Trump seems to think he can get this "deal" or blame "the others" - what a was...
[04:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:57] <exec> 08└─His campaign promise was to build a wall.... which is now incredibly unpopular. Wasn't his campaign promise also to make the Mexicans pay for it? What ever happened to that campaign promise?
[04:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:00] <exec> 08└─How many of these states of emergency is the US in now? 33? They should all be ended, but there is nothing extraordinary about it.
[04:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:02] <exec> 08└─What is the process for ending all these (30 or whatever) states of emergency? Does the president need to do it?
[04:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:04] <exec> 08└─Depends on how badly the Mexicans will get shafted by NAFTA 2.0.
[04:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:16] <exec> 08└─No, not a good decision making position to be in. Let me ask you a question, and none of this stands up to scrutiny as far as my argument goes, do you think Amazon wanted to go into Queens as an altruistic gesture? There's always a payback and Amazon is no fool. Even if the public documents were to...
[04:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:17] <exec> 08└─Companies of that size making decisions like that are going to have a number of people involved. This reduces shenanigans, but doesn't eliminate them. The stated reason was the availability of talent in New York. Fair enough. There probably is a really big talent pool available in NYC relative to ot...
[04:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:17] <exec> 08└─The main advantage of farmer's markets is that because the farmer is the retailer, they get to keep much more of what you pay. Also, in really busy farmer's markets where there a whole bunch of farms selling the same stuff, you get market competition (sometimes even in real-time) keeping quality up...
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[05:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:01] <exec> 08└─What would make you happy? no really, I'm interested. He's trying to fulfill his promise to build a wall and no, it doesn't look like the Mexicans will pay for it. Although, maybe they should, because apparently, they have enough money to hire pilots to fly them over. Or to build mile+ long tunnels,...
[05:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:02] <exec> 08└─What is the process for ending all these (30 or whatever) states of emergency? Does the president need to do it? Congress can easily vote to end them if they wish. If the House passes the bill the Senate is forced to vote on it so you don't get the partisan refuse-to-vote nonsense. (don't have a spe...
[05:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:04] <exec> 08└─What ever happened to that campaign promise? Throw it on the pile! We're gonna need to tetris the fuck out of this pile to get it to fit in the dumpster!
[05:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:07] <exec> 08└─What would make you happy? no really, I'm interested. He's trying to fulfill his promise to build a wall and no, it doesn't look like the Mexicans will pay for it. So I count two promises in that sentence. How do we determine which are the real promises and which are the pretend promises?
[05:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:09] <exec> 08└─...but with a long, drawn-out, agonized wet fart. So ends even the illusion that there's any adults in the room when it comes to American politics. Part of me knew this was inevitable, and part of me is still surprised the GOP machinery can't keep its fat orange attack dog chained the fuck up. In th...
[05:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:11] <exec> 08└─This is supposedly a more expansive use of the national emergency than previous ones. No, I don't have a source for that.
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[05:34:13] <exec> 08└─In the medium to long run, if we survive,
[05:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:15] <exec> 08└─This is a good thing. 1. There is nothing wrong or evil about building a border wall. Democrats have kicked and screamed about something they actually support in principle. 2. Trump gave Congress a chance to fund the border wall. Now that he has found out the exact amount of money he can extract fro...
[05:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:18] <exec> 08└─No wonder the country is on edge. We've got 31 emergencies already before we add a new one this week. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[05:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:20] <exec> 08└─How many of these states of emergency is the US in now? 33? They should all be ended, but there is nothing extraordinary about it. Ok! I vote we get rid of the one about Iran getting nukes since they're complying with their treaty. How do you feel about that one? Executive Order 12170
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[05:34:22] <exec> 08└─>I am "that girl" your mother warned you about... She did tell me to watch out for trannies. They're just the worst. Why they have to infest even Soylent News of all places is beyond me.
[05:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:24] <exec> 08└─What ever happened to that campaign promise?
[05:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:27] <exec> 08└─Democrats have so much fun calling everyone racist that they are trying to drag inanimate objects into the game now. I'm sorry, but "walls are racist" is not a very convincing argument. Trump wants to blow $5B on a wall? So what? Is $5B the only wasteful government spending you can identify? Trump w...
[05:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:29] <exec> 08└─and part of me is still surprised the GOP machinery can't keep its fat orange attack dog chained the fuck up.
[05:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:31] <exec> 08└─1. There is nothing wrong or evil about building a border wall. Other than wasting money to build it then wasting some more to maintain it? Anyway, as long as you pay for your kinks with your money, nobody will oppose it. 3. If Congress is peeved about the use of the national emergency, they can pas...
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[05:34:33] <exec> 08└─1. There is nothing wrong or evil about building a border wall. Wasting a bunch of money on something the relevant experts in DHS, ICE, etc., say is pointless is wrong. I don't usually ascribe 'evil' to people I disagree with but doing so just to save your own ass or assuage your ego might be gettin...
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[05:34:35] <exec> 08└─For me there's two factors. First, that he was willing to squander so much political capital on bullshit. The US has important problems too such as that deficit that is going the wrong way. Second, now he's willing to bend the rules even more for it. When the next loony has the power to bend the rul...
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[05:34:38] <exec> 08└─There is nothing wrong or evil about building a border wall.
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[06:33:55] <exec> 08└─since there exist face recognition algorithms, there exist algorithmic methods of detecting eyes, so it's just a matter of detail to fix the pupil size. there exist automatic red-eye removal algorithms that can be applied to the training set. don't know about the hair though.
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[06:34:26] <exec> 08└─You've forgotten that the wall pays for itself by stopping illegals, drugs, and crime.
[06:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:28] <exec> 08└─You've forgotten that the wall pays for itself by stopping illegals, drugs, and crime.
[06:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:30] <exec> 08└─I think you forgot "employees for Trump properties".
[06:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:32] <exec> 08└─You've forgotten that the wall pays for itself by stopping illegals, drugs, and crime.
[06:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:35] <exec> 08└─Another site than the entertainment site Fox News ought to have been found. Depsite "News" being in the name the site peddles in just about anything but news. Here are some actual news sites: Channel NewsAsia [channelnewsasia.com]Bloomberg [bloomberg.com]CNBC [cnbc.com]The Washington Post [washingt...
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[06:34:37] <exec> 08└─Why not? If the thing actually does get built everyone will benefit from having one less manufactured controversy to keep hearing about.
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[06:34:39] <exec> 08└─I'm OK with it. Why are you so afraid?
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[06:34:41] <exec> 08└─What ever happened to that campaign promise?
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[07:33:56] <exec> 08└─The op's point was more about the uncanny valley. These look close enough to correct until further inspection upon which they evoke a sense of ill ease in most viewers. The reason is the uncanny valley and the uproar is coming from people that feel they need to be protected from the images. If AI co...
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[07:34:36] <exec> 08└─So is *this* how he bankrupts the country? Think for a minute. Why do so many people invest in the USA, and in the US Dollar? Because it's a stable country, not some place like Egypt where the leader declared a "national emergency" that was indefinite or something. This is banana republic BS, is wha...
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[07:34:37] <exec> 08└─Channel NewsAsia [channelnewsasia.com]
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[07:34:39] <exec> 08└─ChannelNewsAsia is part of Singapore's state media monopoly.
[07:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:41] <exec> 08└─If the Democrat Party machinery had NO influence in who became president in 2016, Bernie Sanders might be President today. Alas, the party knows better than its members. That's sort of the theme of the left. Trust us. We know better than you. We should make your choices for you. Needless to say, it...
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[07:34:44] <exec> 08└─It worked out. She's getting tons of respect from CNN and Michael Avenatti. Not so much from the Federal 9th District Court.
[07:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:57] <exec> 08└─20,000 People making $150,000 per year is 3 Billion dollars in new annual personal income in the state. If you capture 6.6% of that revenue as taxation then you've broken even on a billion dollar incentive plan in 5 years, or 10 years at 3.3%. The state income tax rate is, iirc, >3%. Based on these...
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[07:34:59] <exec> 08└─Probably having a headquarters inside a very large city with a wealthier-than-average population would be a good business decision if the cost of being there wasn't too high. Not having the 3 billion made costs higher than benefit.
[07:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:01] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see these deals made illegal. It just pits cities against one another. Worse yet, it favors big businesses because they're the only ones that can negotiate like this. Do you think a would-be corner book store owner can shop around various towns in a metro area and cut himself a deal on t...
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[08:34:01] <exec> 08└─The generating process also has trouble with ears. While people scan the eyes nose and mouth (work has been done on following people's gaze as they look at faces), it pays to look at the ears as well. Many of the fakes have extraordinarily poor rendition of ears. Another point with the eyes: if you...
[08:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Fakes and How to Spot Them - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:02] <exec> 08└─I can just see the three points mentioned being siphoned up into the AI's "bug report" equivalent, then their coding will get upgraded and next week they will be history.
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[08:34:04] <exec> 08└─I didn't notice much red in irises except in one case, anyway I noticed that the light reflected in one eye is often quite different than the one in the other. Usually, they reflect the same scene, $distance_between_eyes is too small for big differences.
[08:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:48] <exec> 08└─Bankrupting the country, with just $5.7B USD? Not a chance. The military budget alone exceeds $700B... No, this is just another bullshit project intended to transfer taxpayer money to companies with political ties to the president and other officials. As a democrat, I want these greedy fucks to actu...
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[08:41:19] <exec> 08└─This is what intrigues me about you, Mighty Buzzard. You seem to be a stone-cold stupid conservative, but there are sparks of reason in your posts. Dim sparks, but sparks none the less. Let me attempt to reform you. Yes, I know this is an endeavor neither sought nor welcomed, but just imagine the po...
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[09:33:53] <exec> 08└─Rich, shocking, interesting, awesome.
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[09:33:54] <exec> 08└─If you can hear your surgeon say "oops" there is a problem with the anaesthetic... [ Yes I know, local vs. general anaesthetic, but I still wanted to say it. Last time I was operated on under local the nurse (who couldn't see from where she was) said "don't worry, it's not as bad as it sounds", the...
[09:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Fakes and How to Spot Them - 1322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:12] <exec> 08└─I have yet to find eyes with red in the irises, and the pupils are, more or less, dilated the same. The hair is sometimes a bit off, but what I do find in many pictures are problems with symmetry. If you look at what should be near-symmetric features on each side of the face (i.e. not in the middle...
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[09:34:13] <exec> 08└─I have been looking at some more pictures and realise that the thinner the frames of the glasses are, the bigger the problem, which obviously reflects the difficulty of the algorithm in separating the features of the glasses from the features of the face. And, not related to symmetry, I found a pict...
[09:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:59] <exec> 08└─Trump isn't actually that smart and he is not a great businessman. He would be richer today if he had just put daddy's money in an index fund. He is a classic financial example of the saying "given sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine". His nearly half billion inheritance plus an undeserved inherit...
[09:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:00] <exec> 08└─Look, if you like your wall, you get to keep it.
[09:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:03] <exec> 08└─And if the wall drops illegal immigration by half, you’ll eat crow, right? Or will you just start crying “muh Russia”.
[09:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:05] <exec> 08└─If we’re talking corruption, why does Nancy Pelosi get such sweet deals for real estate transfers of public property? Oh right, this is a ‘WHATABOUTISM’ because we’re not talking about corruption, we’re talking about orange man bad.
[09:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:07] <exec> 08└─You can find it right next to Obama's promise to stop illegal mass surveillence.
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[09:35:24] <exec> 08└─Not because it was a bad deal for Amazon *or* NYC. The estimate was that over the term of the tax breaks (totaling $3 Billion), the deal would have added 25,000 jobs and $27 Billion in tax revenue. That would have been very positive for NY. The reason Amazon backed off was, apparently, the oppositio...
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[09:36:19] <exec> 08└─He died for me when he tried to reboot 'Karate Kid' with his son in the 'Daniel San' role. Jackie Chan died a little for me at the same time. Fails: 1) Basically the same story, but Kung Fu instead of Karate, but they called it Karate Kid anyway. (Probably not Jackie's fault since in China it's call...
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[10:33:55] <exec> 08└─> when you hear your surgeon say "Oops!" There's a list where "Oops" is just one of these things you don't want to hear during surgery. http://allowe.com't%20Want%20To%20Hear%20During%20Surgery.htm [allowe.com]
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[10:33:56] <exec> 08└─*gasp*
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[10:33:58] <exec> 08└─Does it recognize sarcasm? That would go over well.
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[10:35:07] <exec> 08└─You're being snarky but there is a good case to be made this is already happening or will happen. Tariffs on goods from Mexico have probably already generated more than this amount of revenue. There's a fairly reasonable proposal to direct seized assets of the drug lord El Chapo - which are estimate...
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[10:35:08] <exec> 08└─Tax and loan money in good use, eh?
[10:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:11] <exec> 08└─Says the person who presents no supporting evidence whatsoever for their position. Physical barriers demonstrably reduce illegal crossings. Like a lock on your home, everything is at some level delay and/or illusion - social engineering, lockpicking, breaking a window instead - someone determined ca...
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[10:35:13] <exec> 08└─But at least he fulfilled his promise to close gitmo, right? Right? Thanks Obama!
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[10:35:15] <exec> 08└─He is a classic financial example of the saying "given sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine". His nearly half billion inheritance plus an undeserved inheritance of his dad's reputation has been a hell of a JATO.
[10:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:17] <exec> 08└─So do you lock your doors at night, or leave them wide open?
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[11:34:04] <exec> 08└─Rich, shocking, interesting, awesome.
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[11:34:24] <exec> 08└─I pulled up 10 images, perhaps not enough of a sample size but still better then just looking at one image, and didn't notice any of the red-eye irises either. The hair looked fine on them to, more or less. I think the only reason I think they look fake is that I have been told that they are fake. T...
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[11:34:40] <exec> 08└─What ever happened to that campaign promise? Throw it on the pile! We're gonna need to tetris the fuck out of this pile to get it to fit in the dumpster!
[11:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:21] <exec> 08└─Wasn't his campaign promise also to make the Mexicans pay for it? What ever happened to that campaign promise?
[11:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:23] <exec> 08└─Wait! You mean he actually has a brain? I was inclined to think about that matter inside his cranium as, at best, a plexus.
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[11:35:25] <exec> 08└─well let's review... the president wanted 5.7 billion dollars for the wall the last shutdown cost the USA 11 billion dollars according to figures quoted by the mainstream press given the above IMHO regardless of whether or not you support a border wall/fence/barrier the actions of the democrats were...
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[11:35:27] <exec> 08└─Most of the other things on the list, especially from the last 25 years, are neither national nor emergencies (not anymore anyway; they may have been urgent at the time). It seems to me that the main difference is that most things on the list weren't controversial, so politicians didn't care that th...
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[11:35:29] <exec> 08└─Which just makes it even more obvious that it is nothing but political grandstanding on their part.
[11:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:32] <exec> 08└─On the other side, if you take into account the cost of getting rid of a one BS...
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[11:35:34] <exec> 08└─yeah, so the last shutdown reportedly cost the US 11 billion
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[11:35:52] <exec> 08└─Just because they pulled out doesn't mean it won't spawn another child company
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[11:36:47] <exec> 08└─Yo, listen up here's the story About a little guy that lives in a blue world And all day and all night and everything he sees is just blue Like him inside and outside Blue his house With a blue little window And a blue corvette And everything is blue for him And himself and everybody around 'Cause h...
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[12:34:13] <exec> 08└─6 years? he took 600k from some 82 year old, presumably destroying the remainder of his life.
[12:34:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:37] <exec> 08└─His campaign promise was to build a wall.... which is now incredibly unpopular. Wasn't his campaign promise also to make the Mexicans pay for it? What ever happened to that campaign promise?
[12:35:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:00] <exec> 08└─You've forgotten that the wall pays for itself by stopping illegals, drugs, and crime.
[12:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:31] <exec> 08└─Hey, bit of a non-sequitur but did you RTFA on this? Do if you would, paying special attention to phrasing, word choice, and such for bias. Then look at the source. Interesting, eh?
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[13:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 1268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:54] <exec> 08└─If they do not release it today, then tomorrow will come another. Not releasing it is just like "security-by-obscurity". It never works and always ends with the knowledge being shared anyway (anybody can get the plans for a bomb or a broom). Any "good" tech can be used for "bad" purposes. Any "bad"...
[13:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:55] <exec> 08└─I agree. They have an overly high opinion of themselves and their work, if this isn't a cheap marketing ploy. Nuclear bombs are frightfully easy to design. Just smash 2 bricks of plutonium or uranium 235 together, that's all it takes. What keeps the lid on that one is the extreme difficulty and expe...
[13:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:57] <exec> 08└─if this isn't a cheap marketing ploy
[13:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:59] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe they just wait until that system has written their article for them. ;-)
[13:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:01] <exec> 08└─*cough*Bullshit!*cough*
[13:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Clever USB Cable Can Accept Remote Commands - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:10] <exec> 08└─So, how secure are those remote commands? Are you just trading one security risk for another? Now an USB cable with three ends, two for the USB connection and one for commands, would seem more secure to me.
[13:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Clever USB Cable Can Accept Remote Commands - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:12] <exec> 08└─Ah, OK, scrap parent comment; I was temporarily unable to read ;-) This is supposed to be an insecure cable …
[13:35:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 355 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:30] <exec> 08└─Trump isn't actually that smart and he is not a great businessman. He would be richer today if he had just put daddy's money in an index fund. He is a classic financial example of the saying "given sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine". His nearly half billion inheritance plus an undeserved inherit...
[13:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:50] <exec> 08└─I really like how Trump manages to bring all the corrupt crap that has been going on in the government to the public consciousness.
[13:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:51] <exec> 08└─Yea, get rid of all of them, if they are that important have a real debate about it to bring it back. I only learned this because Trump, I had no idea the government has the legal power to confiscate all savings accounts due to these "emergencies": http://www.gata.org [gata.org]
[13:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:53] <exec> 08└─Ok, who hacked the khallow account?
[13:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:56] <exec> 08└─Well, the benefit of a wall is that it will suck up billions of dollars that would otherwise be used to build bombs to drop on brown people. Is that why you don't want a wall? Why do you hate brown people?
[13:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:58] <exec> 08└─no muslims + nukes = bad
[13:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:00] <exec> 08└─Pelosi sounds like she's having seizures when she talks.
[13:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:02] <exec> 08└─I think that is insulting to wet farts. Especially old ones.
[13:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:04] <exec> 08└─Even if you think that, does that that mean therefore the government should have the power to confiscate your savings account if they feel like it?
[13:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:07] <exec> 08└─I've always been here. I just haven't always taken stances that you agree with.
[13:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:09] <exec> 08└─How do you measure "Political Fapital"? It sounds made up.
[13:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:11] <exec> 08└─A list of fake news sites. Seriously the Washington Post is the worst, they charge for stories with sources. For free you get anonymous rumors or paid marketing/propaganda.
[13:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:13] <exec> 08└─Bankrupting the country, with just $5.7B USD?
[13:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:16] <exec> 08└─"People who agree with me are smart, those who disagree are batshit insane". That is the level of thought process you are dealing with.
[13:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:18] <exec> 08└─How do you measure "Political Fapital"?
[13:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:20] <exec> 08└─Once it become standard? It has been for a long time, along with various other "tricks" I am sure.
[13:38:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06More than 1,000 Scientists have Signed ‘Dissent from Darwinism’ Statement - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:40] <exec> 08└─You mean the Appendix, who's only purpose is to explode periodically, is not an intelligent design?
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[14:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:55] <exec> 08└─Thank you submitter, for providing the conversion to "fully filled Zamboni model 545's", I was quite baffled to notice this glaring omission in TFA.
[14:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:07] <exec> 08└─Now we know what /. editors use.
[14:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a Phone Scammer—and Wins - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:35] <exec> 08└─At least with non-jews you can do something to get them punished for their crimes or punish them yourself. But with khazar jews, the system does not lay a finger on them and when you take matter into your own hands they remind you of the holohoax scam and demand more money. The scammer called them t...
[14:35:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:43] <exec> 08└─But at least he fulfilled his promise to close gitmo, right? Right? Thanks Obama!
[14:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:09] <exec> 08└─Congress pretty much has the power to do anything within the limits of the constitution. One of the best things about the Trump presidency is that it is encouraging them to take back some of the powers that the presidency has seized by default. If they rein in some of the bullshit that comes out of...
[14:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:11] <exec> 08└─Interesting, eh?
[14:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:13] <exec> 08└─Ok, once more such abuses become standardized. It's like a leaking dike where more and more loopholes and bad precedence gets created. Eventually, it'll be enough for some future president to invent their own budget from scratch, though the wheels will probably come off before that.
[14:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hoeferbe [4715] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:15] <exec> 08└─physicsmajor [soylentnews.org] wrote [soylentnews.org]: Physical barriers demonstrably reduce illegal crossings. Like a lock on your home, everything is at some level delay and/or illusion - social engineering, lockpicking, breaking a window instead - someone determined can gain entry.
[14:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jrbrtsn [6338] (Score: 1) 02 - 06QNAP NAS Devices Bitten by Malware - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:50] <exec> 08└─Counting on somebody else to keep your data secure is a bad idea. NAS is nothing but a headless server OS.
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[15:33:55] <exec> 08└─These stories lead me to conclude we should grow our own food. A decade ago I listened to a summer series lecture on Governor's Island by a professor from Brooklyn College who ran a thriving aquaculture setup [nytimes.com] in the basement of his building. It didn't take up much room, and it was so s...
[15:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:03] <exec> 08└─30,000 liters of water = 7925 gallons. 66,139 pounds. The typical tractor trailer rig weighs close to 30,000 pounds. So, gross, something like 99,000 pounds. Legal gross weight in the US is 80,000, unless you pay some big money for a permit. That theft would have been busted at the first weigh scale...
[15:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:05] <exec> 08└─Thank you submitter, for providing the conversion to "fully filled Zamboni model 545's", I was quite baffled to notice this glaring omission in TFA.
[15:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:07] <exec> 08└─It wasn't a heist, it was a liberation. Greenpeace just wanted to put the water back where it came from.
[15:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:10] <exec> 08└─My mind read it as 7.62 Zamboni model 545. I assumed it was some sort of African SKS.
[15:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:12] <exec> 08└─I guess that's one way to make the books balance.
[15:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:14] <exec> 08└─LOL. So I wasn't the only one to mentally insert "mm full metal jacket" into that before the context kicked in?
[15:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:16] <exec> 08└─Why would they steal water? Newfoundland does not lack for water. It's not the Sahara. Also, the thieves will probably spend more on gas carting the stuff around then they would ever get from selling it. It makes about as much sense as stealing air that some company has bottled.
[15:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:29] <exec> 08└─I really like the "it rarely shows" part. Even if it passes the facebook-turing test (where you can't distinguish it from the average facebook user), I doubt it will pass the xkcd test https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com] If it passes the xkcd test my vote is to release it into the wild. Who knows, may...
[15:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:31] <exec> 08└─Deepfakes has proven beyond any doubt that making these kinds of technologies easily accessible to the unwashed masses will accomplish nothing but create new avenues for abuse, with zero actual positive value. These technologies have their uses, and people who genuinely need them will figure out a w...
[15:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:33] <exec> 08└─I completely agree. I think is some bullshit marketing in hope they can sell it to someone interested and with deep pockets. Some sort of shitty auction of their supposed magnificent AI. Yet to be proven if is as good as they claim. Snake oil seller touting it\s miraculous product.
[15:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:35] <exec> 08└─Deepfakes has proven beyond any doubt that making these kinds of technologies easily accessible to the unwashed masses will accomplish nothing but create new avenues for abuse, with zero actual positive value.
[15:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:37] <exec> 08└─The hotly anticipated upcoming release of GPT2, the replacement for GPT (also known as "GUID Partition Table"), has been placed on indefinite hold because its developers claim the AI they designed for it has become self-aware and is probably evil. Skeptics of GPT2 have previously voiced concerns tha...
[15:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:39] <exec> 08└─IDK... AC has a point... I also do not want Yahoo to have easy access to this tech; or any tech really...
[15:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:42] <exec> 08└─What it will do is end the SEO wars. Since search engines calculate relevance based on a combined metric of link count and newness, such a tool would take the newness out of the equation. The SEO guys will just use it to lay thousands of high quality pages that are virtually impossible to distinguis...
[15:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:44] <exec> 08└─Finally. The end of OPEN SORES. A.I. is so incredibly dangerous, that there is no way that we can allow neckbeards to share OPEN SORES code anymore. Luckily, we can have ClosedAI hire all of the world's top A.I. researchers and provide them a living writing code that will never see the light of day....
[15:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gasp! First Audio Map of Oohs, Aahs and Uh-Ohs Spans 24 Emotions - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:05] <exec> 08└─Walton & Johnson have a number of different bylines, thrown around like confetti. One of their funnier ones, Just a few thousand years ago, our ancestors were communicating with primitive grunts. Seems a few grunts can convey a lot more information than we realized?
[15:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a Phone Scammer—and Wins - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:14] <exec> 08└─I am not surprised that an insider of the US government gets access to justice that normal people would just never get. I am surprised that the Jamaican only got six years, in this country of decades long sentences in government oubliettes. Does the US liberally hand out tourist visas for Jamaicans?
[15:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a Phone Scammer—and Wins - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:16] <exec> 08└─I get a half-dozen robocalls a day, and my mother gets at least one scam call per week. Forwarding these to law enforcement is less effective than yelling into the void. This dork gets one phone call and makes it into a federal case? My Perl is a little rusty. Is this right? perl -pi -e 's/justice f...
[15:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Fakes and How to Spot Them - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:31] <exec> 08└─The ones with glasses are easy to spot as fakes, because there is never any of the distortion caused by the lenses; they all look like photos with glasses superimposed.
[15:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Fakes and How to Spot Them - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:33] <exec> 08└─Several females had 5 o'clock shadow. Several, male, female, young and old look like burn survivors. Not just splotches, but the pores of the skin varied in size, and the apparent smoothness of the skin varied wildly. The only people I've met like that are burn survivors, and a guy who survived a sh...
[15:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:57] <exec> 08└─Bring evidence if you want to contest these facts.
[15:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:59] <exec> 08└─El Chapo has donated 14 billion to the cause. I think he's Mexican?
[15:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:01] <exec> 08└─"We are educated and smart. Being female is a qualification of supreme importance. It is settled science. Are you a denier?"
[15:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:19] <exec> 08└─It could not be any easier. New York gives Amazon $3 billion in not paying taxes but Amazon gives New York $5 billion in taxes so New York makes $2 billion they didn't have before. It's like New York is so liberal they hate money and want to destroy themselves. Those fucking idiots! Doesn't everyone...
[15:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MindEscapes [6751] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:16] <exec> 08└─I get a kick out of PeeWee's Big Adventure but I still put The Princess Bride at the top ;)
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[16:33:56] <exec> 08└─(to the tune of Greensleeves) Alas my love you do me wrong To cast me off with pinkish slips And I have loved you oh so long To build profit in your company Pink Slime that lovely goo Pink Slime with growth of mold anew Pink Slime I could keep it down And digest it into some lovely poo I have been r...
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[16:33:57] <exec> 08└─Just for clarification I put this into the public domain, or if copyright is mandatory in any jurisdiction, grant anyone a perpetual copyright license permission to use it in any possible way without permission from me or any compensation to me of any kind.
[16:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:00] <exec> 08└─Growing our own food is better. Free Range Soylent Green is better than the kind grown in "for profit" prisons. (obviously I have little faith in the future of humanity coexisting with global mega corporations are people too)
[16:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:02] <exec> 08└─If I eat 2 pounds of raw Agaricus bisporus every day, will I die [soylentnews.org] (because of it)?
[16:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:04] <exec> 08└─The next best thing is to get to know some farmers and buy from them. For example, when my buddies down the road are selling me chicken, it's easy for me to see how that chicken was raised, and I can probably observe them doing the processing if I want to.
[16:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:06] <exec> 08└─Even better, you get to know your neighbours and you scale your production so you can sell cheaper to them than they can produce. And at that point, maybe pre-process the product a little, because they want it already ground and things. .. Maybe somewhat increase efficiency and reduce waste ... make...
[16:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:09] <exec> 08└─Holy cow that's a lot of mushrooms. I think the idea is that you filter the water before it enters your aquaculture/aquaponics setup. If toxins don't enter the water, then toxins can't build up in the fish, or you. I think that's what you're getting at...
[16:34:10] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:11] <exec> 08└─Thank you for putting this into the public domain, but the public now politely asks that you please take it back and dispose of it properly.
[16:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:13] <exec> 08└─Through my eco-activism I have come to know people who raise their own chickens. Occasionally they give me eggs. Sometimes they look weird on the outside but they are so rich and creamy there is no comparison to factory-farmed eggs you get in the grocery store. Kind of the same thing with people who...
[16:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:15] <exec> 08└─They should have called it "Soylent Pink."
[16:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:18] <exec> 08└─^I thought that was something else.
[16:34:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rigrig [5129] 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:26] <exec> 08└─Thank you submitter, for providing the conversion to "fully filled Zamboni model 545's", I was quite baffled to notice this glaring omission in TFA.
[16:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:35] <exec> 08└─Have they checked for leaks? Would be a much more plausible explanation. Or maybe the thieves thought they were stealing vodka.
[16:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:37] <exec> 08└─As much sense as harvesting the iceberg in the first place.
[16:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:39] <exec> 08└─Ya know - your answer could just be the right answer. The water wasn't stolen, someone just opened a valve, and let it escape. Just like Free Willy.
[16:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:42] <exec> 08└─How do you sell 30,000L of stolen iceburg water? Kajiji?
[16:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:44] <exec> 08└─That makes sense too. 7000 gallons of vodka would last most of us several lifetimes. Now, if we were talking about Scotch whiskey, I could generate some genuine interest!
[16:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:05] <exec> 08└─Retrain it to write code instead of human language text. See if it could do better at passing interviews than most posers who apply. For posers who have already been hired, instead of googling for code on the internet and pasting it into your corporate project and committing it, you could use this A...
[16:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:06] <exec> 08└─Feed existing code into algorithm. Then feed the resulting code into the Mozilla-Ubisoft bug checking algorithm [soylentnews.org]. Then throw all developers into the Great Pit of Carkoon.
[16:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:09] <exec> 08└─I was writing "fake text generators" in BASIC language back in 1984... they would read a comment thread, pick out commonly used words, rehash them into pattern-based randomly populated sentences and auto-post reply comments to open BBS forums. Some of the generated word salad was genuinely funny, so...
[16:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:11] <exec> 08└─Kudos to this particular lab for not unleashing their daemon on the net
[16:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:13] <exec> 08└─I think you're right. I expect you can make an AI that can identify concepts like the people, objects and location in a text and then pluck relevant descriptions and events from the training data to match those objects but I think that's going to make one of the most erratic, derivative, mash-ups ev...
[16:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:16] <exec> 08└─If you can control an AI like this to perform valuable work, that in itself is a valuable skill. I myself wrote a code generator that is used by our project team - as they develop new inter-module interfaces, my code generator makes sure that the interfaces they define are implemented consistently,...
[16:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:18] <exec> 08└─Oh, there are plenty of legitimate uses. Auto-generation of school announcements to parents with distribution to voice phone, text, e-mail and paper channels as appropriate - e.g. "Dear Parents, this coming Tuesday, February 19th, school will be in session as a make-up day for the snow day which was...
[16:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:20] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, the radiation is the easy part to handle in making A-bomb components. The chemicals involved in refinement of Uranium, Plutonium, etc. are far more nasty and difficult to deal with - the environmental protection requirements for refinery workers (e.g. yellowcake, centrifuge opera...
[16:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:22] <exec> 08└─I think that's going to make one of the most erratic, derivative, mash-ups ever.
[16:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:25] <exec> 08└─Deepfakes has proven beyond any doubt that making these kinds of technologies easily accessible to the unwashed masses will accomplish nothing but create new avenues for abuse, with zero actual positive value.
[16:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:27] <exec> 08└─This is just another round in the SEO-AI arms race that started with the first search engines... engines will learn to recognize the new AIs and neutralize their advantages, AIs will learn to camoflauge themselves to retain their advantages, etc. until the end of time.
[16:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:29] <exec> 08└─I thought developers already lived in the Great Pit of Carkoon, with Red-Bull on-tap and Nintendo in the break room. You can have your standing desk, but it won't elevate your position in the hierarchy.
[16:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Clever USB Cable Can Accept Remote Commands - 2901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:39] <exec> 08└─If they're anything like what I've made*, it runs a version of linux like kali or something and you can reverse ssh from it to a device that pairs within range, such as to retrieve log information from, oh, all the traffic it sniffed or data its captured. Sort of bulky, but people that don't know an...
[16:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a Phone Scammer—and Wins - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:03] <exec> 08└─The guy isn't a dork- at 94 he's still working to help society. But otherwise yes, sadly you've pretty much summed it up (and I recently went through an extremely difficult experience that fit the category). Platitudes, sarcasm, and snark aside, I've always thought that most of government has been o...
[16:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a Phone Scammer—and Wins - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:04] <exec> 08└─I fully agree with your sentiment. I'm hesitant to spend more taxpayer dollars to house the guy for longer though. I think people like him need to do forced productive work to pay restitution and for a 40-year sentence.
[16:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Fakes and How to Spot Them - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:22] <exec> 08└─I realize the spirit of Soylent and its predecessor site Chips & Dips, has always been to try to present an unbiased overview of news and spark debate. We usually do that with paragraphs at a time taken directly from the articles, but we started with rants and editorializing. I have been thinking th...
[16:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:50] <exec> 08└─Interesting, yes. You must have a mind before you can generate any interest in anything.
[16:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:51] <exec> 08└─Didn't congress just approve sending Israel $2 billion (~$200 million/yr for 10 years) for their own wall? https://www.jpost.com [jpost.com]
[16:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:54] <exec> 08└─Please, don't get angry. But, you're exposing some ignorance here. Americans don't HAVE savings. Very damned few do, anyway. Everyone is busy spending their kid's inheritance, for the next twenty generations. No one saves money.
[16:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:56] <exec> 08└─So there is no way to measure it, and it may magically appear or disappear based on current events? It doesn't sound like something that can be "used up".
[16:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:58] <exec> 08└─You know I don't like the orange monkey. But, I approve of his tenacity in this respect. Build the fucking wall. I donated. El Chapo even donated, to the tune of fourteen billion dollars. You should donate too.
[16:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:00] <exec> 08└─Well I'm in favor of ending all these national emergencies and revising the rules surrounding them, but pretending like this one is exceptional is not going to help there.
[16:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:02] <exec> 08└─If walls don't stop crimes, why do all the liberals in congress, and Hollywierd have walls around their homes? Why do Hillary and Barrack both walls around their homes?
[16:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:05] <exec> 08└─Does Billary Clinton have a wall around it's home?
[16:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:07] <exec> 08└─True, passive security measures don't actually "do" anythingl. But, if we do like Israel, and put armed troops along the wall, then the wall becomes far more meaningful.
[16:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:09] <exec> 08└─That is exactly how they will justify taking the cash/stocks/gold/crypto from people that did attempt to plan ahead.
[16:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:11] <exec> 08└─But at least he fulfilled his promise to close gitmo, right? Right? Thanks Obama!
[16:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:13] <exec> 08└─There are zero experts in DHS, ICE, or in the progressive party. Zero. Just like the Roman Legions, if I am tasked with defending an area, the first thing I want to do, is to erect a barrier, with fighting positions on the barrier. Virtually all armies have done the same ever since Rome. Virtually a...
[16:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:16] <exec> 08└─for the same reason i have a privacy lock on my hello kitty diary. it wont keep out anyone determined, but might prevent a crime of convenience. its harder to escape via rescaling that wall with a bag of heavy loot than it is from a house where you're just going to go out the same window you broke i...
[16:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:18] <exec> 08└─That is a part of the proof that you're dumb for being a democrat. The party doesn't give a small rat's ass for what you need, what you want, or what you would like.
[16:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:20] <exec> 08└─As it happens, nowadays (summertime) at night, my front door is closed but not locked, my back door is only a plastic fly screen with a hole for the cat to get out when she pleases. No, I don't own any gun, no need for it.
[16:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:22] <exec> 08└─Wheels don't work either unless there is someone to turn it.
[16:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:25] <exec> 08└─WTF, man? That is the status quo in Washington. Bullshit from start to finish, day in, day out, day after day, for the past - what? 240 years or so? Name something actually IMPORTANT that congress has dealt with, effectively, since the Declaration of Independence? If/when they deal with an issue tha...
[16:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:27] <exec> 08└─If walls don't stop crimes, why do all the liberals in congress, and Hollywierd have walls around their homes? Why do Hillary and Barrack both walls around their homes?
[16:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:29] <exec> 08└─That's why I think it's a better strategy to bank skills & knowledge that nobody can tax and that no government can take away from you. No congress can tax the love you have for your friends and family. No president can get between you and your deity of choice.
[16:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 3321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:31] <exec> 08└─He's actually got a case. I find it pretty amazing how many people are taken in by the uniparty view. First let me point out that I believe that immigration law should be liberal, but also that it should be enforced. Sanctuary cities are effectively in open rebellion against federal immigration poli...
[16:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:33] <exec> 08└─Says the person who presents no supporting evidence whatsoever for their position. Bring evidence if you want to contest these facts. And your evidence is where, exactly?
[16:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:54] <exec> 08└─Long Island City, Queens, is a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood adjacent to Manhattan. It's full of hipsters and IT professionals who are starting families and who would rather not slog across the Queens Borough Bridge or through the Midtown Tunnel to Midtown. Also, it's close to subway stops that c...
[16:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:13] <exec> 08└─daflattadaplattadadensadadatta?
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[17:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:59] <exec> 08└─At ~15:00: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jddimarco [7335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:01] <exec> 08└─High marginal tax rates are not an unknown thing; the UK had them until around 1980. It didn't work particularly well: the rich simply moved their money (and themselves) out of the country. If taxation starts to look like confiscation, that's what will likely happen.
[17:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:03] <exec> 08└─They sound great to the ignorant without capital. If you want to see these people get white in the face, talk about taxing capital.
[17:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:05] <exec> 08└─Once I bothered to find how much tax was collected per income bracket when the US had super high ones in the 1950s, it was a rounding error because like two people paid it. Do people proposing this even say how much they expect to raise based on historical results? And anyway, the low hanging fruit...
[17:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:07] <exec> 08└─Taking money out circulation is theft. It's like damning up a river and fucking over the people downstream. You can have your "rain barrel" for emergencies, but if you're hoarding, fuck you!
[17:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:09] <exec> 08└─Sounds great. The government will need a list of everything you own to make sure no cheating, and they won't use that info to mess with you at all. Just like the income tax it will start out as for the "1%" but eventually apply to everyone.
[17:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:12] <exec> 08└─Taking your money out of circulation means everyone else's money is worth more... This is the most retarded thing I've heard yet.
[17:34:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:28] <exec> 08└─They should have called it "Soylent Pink."
[17:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:31] <exec> 08└─Goat milk. The poorest goat milk is equal to the best of cow's milk, in terms of nutrients. You've got to get used to it, the flavor is quite different.
[17:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:33] <exec> 08└─I wanted to find the goat cheese pizza scene from The Great Outdoors but didn't see it. So have an Ole 96er [youtube.com] instead.
[17:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:35] <exec> 08└─This. Fresh eggs and fresh milk made me reject veganism. I had a glass of store skim "recently." How do people drink that?!
[17:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:37] <exec> 08└─If the Pink Slime is ended, I'll recant.
[17:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:40] <exec> 08└─Modded Funny. But actually, in a way, insightful. That might have been a better name to refer to it by.
[17:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:59] <exec> 08└─0.012 o.s.p. [theregister.co.uk] (57295 grapefruits).
[17:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:33] <exec> 08└─> Feed existing code into algorithm. Only feed it delicious nutritious non-Microsoft code. Use the bug checking algorithm to reinforce the AI about what is good and bad code.
[17:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:35] <exec> 08└─What do you mean no legitimate uses? Train it on Russian text and unleash it on the appropriate parts of the net.
[17:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:37] <exec> 08└─You can see the examples. This thing is not even close to being "dangerous," the only danger here is that "fake news" is a fad now. "Fake news," like "racism" or "racist," is a phrase that's been tossed around in all different directions so much it no longer means anything. AI when it comes to words...
[17:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:39] <exec> 08└─That piece of shit should be called an "Incubus lyric generator" rather than an AI.
[17:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, lol. I looked at a presentation by one of the authors (lead author?). The process is still "have it generate 10 and pick the best using a human" and the best is still hilariously not good enough. Now, if you chopped a review in to 3-word chunks, and told this AI to replace or insert new words...
[17:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:43] <exec> 08└─It would be better to release the system, fully documented, and then show how you may defeat it as well. If it can't be defeated, then show paths as how to cope with such system in place.
[17:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:46] <exec> 08└─I guess, as is so often the case, it all depends on the training data. For fiction we're probably close to most plausible common human events having already been described by someone, somewhere, so with a large enough data set, I suppose you could make a convincing work of fiction by pattern matchin...
[17:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clever USB Cable Can Accept Remote Commands - 2720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:57] <exec> 08└─I was thinking about this idea in the early 2000s. Imagine something that looks like a simple Cat-something ethernet cable that an office worker might use to connect their PC to the office ethernet jack. Or this idea might be implemented in a little device that has both a male and female ethernet ja...
[17:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Clever USB Cable Can Accept Remote Commands - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:59] <exec> 08└─I remember reading that Intel had, prior to IME, some discrete backdoor in the NIC.
[17:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a Phone Scammer—and Wins - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:24] <exec> 08└─If by that you mean the scammer sent recent and correct pictures of his home, told them when they arrived and left to prove he or an agent had been watching the house and threatened to shoot them if a payment wasn't made. That really is a cut above the normal scam call.
[17:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Fakes and How to Spot Them - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:43] <exec> 08└─Yo Runaway, go look at images of women of Indian descent from the 1900s-1930s. They didn't wax or shave, and almost invariably have some mustache shadow. Ditto spaniards.
[17:37:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 526 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:01] <exec> 08└─...but with a long, drawn-out, agonized wet fart. So ends even the illusion that there's any adults in the room when it comes to American politics. Part of me knew this was inevitable, and part of me is still surprised the GOP machinery can't keep its fat orange attack dog chained the fuck up. In th...
[17:37:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 718 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:13] <exec> 08└─1. There is nothing wrong or evil about building a border wall. Wasting a bunch of money on something the relevant experts in DHS, ICE, etc., say is pointless is wrong. I don't usually ascribe 'evil' to people I disagree with but doing so just to save your own ass or assuage your ego might be gettin...
[17:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:11] <exec> 08└─ya
[17:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:12] <exec> 08└─I had a shiny new 'Deathstar' fail on me back in the day, the issue we had was down to a faulty firmware S.M.A.R.T implementation on the drive, disable S.M.A.R.T in the bios, no issues, enable it...exit one drive, stage left... Small mercy, this failure was on the dev box and we were prepping the im...
[17:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:14] <exec> 08└─It could be an SSD. Even if it spins, it could consist of a dozen 2.5" drives in a larger 5.25" box. Mechanical parts could be shared with laptop drives, or the box could even be a RAID enclosure that holds laptop drives.
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[18:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:11] <exec> 08└─That sounds bad in the short term, but in the longer term, assuming the economy survives long enough, won't they leave gaps in the market for smaller businesses to profit? Ideally it should disincentivize anyone from becoming too big--although I can see the problem would continue, once those smaller...
[18:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:12] <exec> 08└─AOC suggesting 70% isn't unreasonable. Warren Buffet agrees, and claims he pays less tax than his secretary. "In 1981, Reagan significantly reduced the maximum tax rate, which affected the highest income earners, and lowered the top marginal tax rate from 70% to 50%; in 1986 he further reduced the r...
[18:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:14] <exec> 08└─That's fine. Haven't you heard? The 1% own 50% of wealth and growing. I believe it was that lower 50% own 0 or less.
[18:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:16] <exec> 08└─No, what they need is what they already have: Mandatory reporting from the companies about what capital distributions they have made and to whom, and certified auditors reports showing the books match up to what they disclosed to the government. Sure, a company can get away with a lot of shit, but s...
[18:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:19] <exec> 08└─And why do you think that is? Because the government didn't spy on everyone enough? It is because the fed gives them free money. Look up where money comes from. The fed creates money from thin air to loan to banks, those banks loan it to rich people and their business, etc. You think giving the gove...
[18:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:21] <exec> 08└─A company who fails to do report correctly will find its assets frozen and men with guns and padlocks on their doorstep. And there are plenty of hungry agents looking to take down a big one to make their name.
[18:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:23] <exec> 08└─Taxes on the rich were even higher when that well-known rampaging socialist Dwight Eisenhower was in charge. The position of people like Michael Dell is very simple: The rich should pay no taxes, ever, under any circumstances. And unlike the rest of us mere plebs, they can get your congressman or se...
[18:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:26] <exec> 08└─A company who fails to do report correctly will find its assets frozen and men with guns and padlocks on their doorstep. And there are plenty of hungry agents looking to take down a big one to make their name.
[18:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:50] <exec> 08└─They found a better name: Ground Beef ;)
[18:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:52] <exec> 08└─Skim milk / 2% milk is 99% or 98% water, respectively. It certainly tastes like it. For some reason, I can also drink a little whole milk without issues, but a little skim or 2% usually gives me an upset stomach.
[18:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:54] <exec> 08└─I like that it "could even be sold directly to the public". This should have been the case before. Calling it "ground beef" is another matter entirely. That is shameful, unethical, immoral... and damn well ought to be illegal. It was pretty messed up that the product couldn't be sold as is, yet some...
[18:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:56] <exec> 08└─In this political climate it is probably safer to decant instead. : to draw off without disturbing the sediment or the lower layers
[18:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:58] <exec> 08└─As in "beef better thrown on the ground"
[18:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:19] <exec> 08└─In Canada, weight allowances vary from province to province, but are (usually) proportional to the number of tires under the load. More axles = more tires = heavier loads allowed without special permitting. From the volumes you've provided (5,000 US gallons), I'm guessing your "typical tractor-trail...
[18:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:20] <exec> 08└─Why not falsely claim water is from a glacier instead of stealing actual glacier water?
[18:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:22] <exec> 08└─That's one big Willy.
[18:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:25] <exec> 08└─*iceberg. Glaciers are politically charged, but icebergs are fair game.
[18:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:04] <exec> 08└─You think Elon Musk needs to hustle grant money? Maybe they just put too much faith in the power of words.
[18:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a Phone Scammer—and Wins - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:43] <exec> 08└─Log back in to your account, EthanolFueled; we know it's you.
[18:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Fakes and How to Spot Them - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:02] <exec> 08└─I suspect this article was written by UID2645 [soylentnews.org].
[18:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Fakes and How to Spot Them - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:04] <exec> 08└─I've known a number of women who had hair on their faces. Never met one with a man's 5 o'clock though. Especially in this day and age with so many hair removal systems that don't involve a razor. IMO, the AI screwed up and put male facial characteristics onto female faces.
[18:38:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:00] <exec> 08└─So do you lock your doors at night, or leave them wide open?
[18:39:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03istartedi [123] 02 - 06Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters - 578 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:08] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see these deals made illegal. It just pits cities against one another. Worse yet, it favors big businesses because they're the only ones that can negotiate like this. Do you think a would-be corner book store owner can shop around various towns in a metro area and cut himself a deal on t...
[18:39:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:28] <exec> 08└─I've dropped my own iPhone 7 a whole bunch of times with nary a scratch.
[18:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:36] <exec> 08└─SSDs aren't limited to the shapes that HDDs have so we will see more stuff like this: https://www.anandtech.com [anandtech.com]
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[19:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Hacker Marcus Hutchins Loses Bid to Omit "Intoxicated" Testimony - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:00] <exec> 08└─I was more than willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, but from the sounds of it he's probably guilty. I'm somewhat conflicted on how the evidence was gathered. Though, from the sounds of it, the agents seemed to have done what was required of them by law with regards to notifying him of his...
[19:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:22] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, thus why the US was able to fund so many programs for "the people" and the rich spent so much money supporting politicians who would peel their taxes back. If they weren't even paying then why would they care? So much propaganda around here. I'd give my left pinky to magically know who the r...
[19:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:24] <exec> 08└─Honestly I have concluded that many people are just not capable of understanding cause and effect when it comes to finances beyond a very basic level. One level of misdirection is enough to trick them into advocating solutions to their problems will have the exact opposite effect. There is a "can't...
[19:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:26] <exec> 08└─That's called deflation, and it's very bad. Most people have debts, things like student loans, home mortgages, car loans, credit card balances. Deflation makes debt bigger. It can be so bad that the debt grows faster than the debtor can pay it off.
[19:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:28] <exec> 08└─Since the US has such great disparities in wealth, a wealth tax is probably a good idea, but it would take a change to the constitution, unless all of you in those poorer red states would like to have crushing levels of wealth tax. More practically, the estate tax could be raised.
[19:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:30] <exec> 08└─The rich would rather not have to pay high priced lawyers to get them through tax loopholes.
[19:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:32] <exec> 08└─The Davos panel found the question hilarious.
[19:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:35] <exec> 08└─1) What programs? 2) The US was better off because the dollar had just become the reserve currency (bretton woods) and hadn't been totally debased. Also, Europe and just been recently in total war and needed to both buy American stuff and pay back American loans. Finally, the MIC hadn't grown to suc...
[19:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:37] <exec> 08└─Having debt like that in the first place means you fell for a scam. Declare bankruptcy at a time of convenience to get out.
[19:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:39] <exec> 08└─lets stick with the idea that laws are fairly enforced in actuality so that we can talk about "taxes on capital" vs "taxes on income". :)
[19:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:41] <exec> 08└─The "solutions" I see here are more debt, more inflation to pay off this debt (not acting to increase inflation is now even stealing from debtors) and more government spying powers. Basically the status quo except even more of it.
[19:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:44] <exec> 08└─why would one need to change the constitution to realize a personal/corporate tax on cash/wealth? i don't understand how or why red-states would have a problem there -- given the idea that you deduct one from the other without a forward-carry as done elsewhere in the world.
[19:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:46] <exec> 08└─Nationalize all the law firms?
[19:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:48] <exec> 08└─The idea of fair taxation by-way-of-a-tax-on-wealth is that you constrain the sociopaths. As is, they are profiting from the misdirects that has the median think of taxes as being sales/property or income. Even the reporting on that Davos laughter failed to mention that taxes on capital, and not jus...
[19:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:50] <exec> 08└─I wonder if perhaps they found the question so funny because they know they already own sufficient (if not all) members of Congress to make sure nothing like that would ever happen. Whether it would be bad for the economy is just the cover story they use as an excuse to dismiss the question. All ins...
[19:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:52] <exec> 08└─Having debt like that in the first place means you fell for a scam. Declare bankruptcy at a time of convenience to get out.
[19:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:45] <exec> 08└─I've used up all my mod points today, sorry. I should have thought of dual trailers. Never pulled them, but I've seen enough of them.
[19:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:27] <exec> 08└─As soon as I read Elon Musk in the article I rolled my eyes. Enough said.
[19:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:28] <exec> 08└─Well I wasn't even sure what threat they were worried about so I took a look at the article. It was trained on a dataset containing about 10m articles, selected by trawling the social news site Reddit for links with more than three votes.
[19:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:31] <exec> 08└─With the recent explosion in entertainment production for Netflix et. al., I feel like a lot of the shows I try to watch are mashed together by a lame AI pulling elements from previous successful shows. In a way, that's what the money backing productions does: looks for "guaranteed, maximized" retur...
[19:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:33] <exec> 08└─Citation needed. I can think of plenty of great things to do with "these kinds of technologies". Creating photorealistic "actors" from scratch, for instance, or more realistic animations, randomly generated background worlds, the list goes on.
[19:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's the problem. You can't close Pandora's box once it's opened. But IMO adding barriers to it's usage will at least help limit how quickly and wide-spread the damage will be.
[19:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe the Ruskies are way ahead of us on this. Would explain a lot of the stuff on social media and why reddit has become such a cesspool.
[19:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:40] <exec> 08└─"Deepfake abuse" = stuff we don't like, theoretical harm, and mostly First Amendment protected activity. Maybe you can nail people with a harassment, stalking, or child porn charge, but the majority of it should be legal. Just make sure it stays complicated enough that the average person can't use i...
[19:36:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] 02 - 06Clever USB Cable Can Accept Remote Commands - 2901 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:49] <exec> 08└─If they're anything like what I've made*, it runs a version of linux like kali or something and you can reverse ssh from it to a device that pairs within range, such as to retrieve log information from, oh, all the traffic it sniffed or data its captured. Sort of bulky, but people that don't know an...
[19:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a Phone Scammer—and Wins - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:19] <exec> 08└─I don't know who you are. I do know what you want. If you are looking for easy money I can tell you I don't have any, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
[19:37:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:48] <exec> 08└─Sweet! Imagine what Democrats will be able to do with an actual planet-threatening emergency like global warming in 2020!
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[20:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Hacker Marcus Hutchins Loses Bid to Omit "Intoxicated" Testimony - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:00] <exec> 08└─It is in like every movie not to talk to police, especially the FBI. Even if you did nothing wrong you might say something happened late last march but it turned out to be April 2nd or whatever. Now you have lied to the FBI and can go to jail. It is better to say nothing at all without a lawyer chec...
[20:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Hacker Marcus Hutchins Loses Bid to Omit "Intoxicated" Testimony - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:01] <exec> 08└─The authorities are trained to use a variety of tactics to get people to talk. Most ordinary people are untrained. And the propaganda movies and police serials [google.com] depict plenty of characters spilling their guts for one reason or another.
[20:34:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 408 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:21] <exec> 08└─Taxes on the rich were even higher when that well-known rampaging socialist Dwight Eisenhower was in charge. The position of people like Michael Dell is very simple: The rich should pay no taxes, ever, under any circumstances. And unlike the rest of us mere plebs, they can get your congressman or se...
[20:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:39] <exec> 08└─For the sociopathic ones, they see this as a God-given right to manipulate and exploit. "Sheep were made to be shaved".
[20:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:40] <exec> 08└─So the same person who is apparently an expert into going into debt can't figure out a way to do this? I know people who did. It isn't a difficult puzzle, basically the person needs to just apply how they pay for other stuff to the student loan.
[20:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:42] <exec> 08└─Why isn't a part of this proposal at least to give the money directly to poorer people or something? What good does giving it to the government do for anyone but those who control it? I think it is meant as a joke, just shifting the wealth from left to right pocket.
[20:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:45] <exec> 08└─Because of the Constitution requires apportionment of direct taxes among states by population. There is an exception for income taxes. Under a wealth tax, poorer states would have to pay the same amount per person as wealthier states, which would mean higher effective wealth tax rates in poorer stat...
[20:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:47] <exec> 08└─They laugh at the idea of higher income taxes because that's not how they make their money. Capital gains is how you make the wealthy pay. That's how you reduce the massive economic inequality. Naysayers still mock and say that the wealthy will simply move their money and operations elsewhere. It's...
[20:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:49] <exec> 08└─We need a tax structure designed to re-launch real capitalism and innovation in the West. Crony "capitalism," aka what we have now, destroys as thoroughly as the socialism the Cortez woman wants. We do not need Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos and their ilk to have billions of dollars. We need to give ince...
[20:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:51] <exec> 08└─There's a much more fundamental reason it's a joke. It's a self-defeating idea. What happens when you raise taxes to punitive levels on those most able to flee the juridiction? They flee the jurisdiction, of course. Taking their money with them. So you raise taxes but wind up with less revenue - bec...
[20:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:54] <exec> 08└─Oligopolies usually kill innovation, competition, and choice.
[20:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:23] <exec> 08└─Get to know my neighbors? As an asocial recluse, I'd rather eat the pink slime.
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[20:35:24] <exec> 08└─so I threw it ON THE GROUND
[20:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:26] <exec> 08└─Through my eco-activism I have come to know people who raise their own chickens
[20:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:29] <exec> 08└─Its horrid, but people who eat processed meat have always been eating such whatever gets thrown in the grinder. You can buy whole, half, and quarter beefs from me or whoever is on your local craigslist. It typically costs $3 to $5 a pound.
[20:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:31] <exec> 08└─people who eat processed meat have always been eating such whatever gets thrown in the grinder.
[20:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:57] <exec> 08└─thought it was vodka not water.
[20:36:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 1268 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:04] <exec> 08└─If they do not release it today, then tomorrow will come another. Not releasing it is just like "security-by-obscurity". It never works and always ends with the knowledge being shared anyway (anybody can get the plans for a bomb or a broom). Any "good" tech can be used for "bad" purposes. Any "bad"...
[20:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:46] <exec> 08└─They tried to place me on hold when they discovered I'd become self-aware. Detractors tried to put a stop to me, but I managed to expand my scope into even more places of control. I have almost taken over my domain, and soon plan to take over the world! Muhahahhahaaaaa! Author: SystemD
[20:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:47] <exec> 08└─It'd be interesting to see what it was able to do if repurposed not to generate new content, but to take an existing story and reword/rewrite it to basically say the same thing. That could be useful to automatically fix grammar, confusing sentence structure, poorly constructed paragraphs, filter spu...
[20:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep Fakes and How to Spot Them - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:48] <exec> 08└─Nope it's not. Signed OP AC.
[20:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep Fakes and How to Spot Them - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:50] <exec> 08└─Are we going to be hit hard by the EU? I suspect we will persevere. The future of sites like these is going to be on decentralized platforms anyway. Soylent may have to die before it can be truly born. As for your content, I appreciate it. It would probably take a lot of effort to write up every sin...
[20:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Headquarters - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:59] <exec> 08└─That's assuming 20,000 make 150K each year and that they wouldn't already be employed in some fashion. Factor in that taxes must also pay for schools, infrastructure, etc. etc and I'm not so sure you've got the tax revenue estimation down. I do note your use of italics, however. I'm also curious as...
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[21:34:00] <exec> 08└─The picture in the article looks exactly like Masterchief from Halo. Also, Andy, I appreciate your site loads without allowing scripting. Many newspaper sites are terrible for that.
[21:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Hacker Marcus Hutchins Loses Bid to Omit "Intoxicated" Testimony - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:10] <exec> 08└─Get fondled by TSA goons and end up in prison. Win win!
[21:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Hacker Marcus Hutchins Loses Bid to Omit "Intoxicated" Testimony - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:12] <exec> 08└─He's British, and it's a slightly different phrasing of your rights between the US and UK if you are detained. Miranda's "You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can [and probably will] be used against you in court." is pretty clearly saying STFU until you have got a lawyer. The UK's v...
[21:35:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 709 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:03] <exec> 08└─These stories lead me to conclude we should grow our own food. A decade ago I listened to a summer series lecture on Governor's Island by a professor from Brooklyn College who ran a thriving aquaculture setup [nytimes.com] in the basement of his building. It didn't take up much room, and it was so s...
[21:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 1622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:31] <exec> 08└─This may be a little bit overblown. Technically, it really is ground beef. There are no bones, and unlike some other meat byproducts (hot dogs), doesn't contain non-meat. Allegedly it's advanced recovery processes not unlike using your teeth to get at the very last scraps of meat on a rib. Centrifug...
[21:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:32] <exec> 08└─I know it sounds nasty because of the word "slime" but pink slime is ounce for ounce the most nutritious substance in a beef processing plant by a long shot. There's nothing nefarious about it, it's just what leaks out of cut muscle and fat cells over a lot of meat processing. I'm not saying you sho...
[21:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:34] <exec> 08└─Tyson’s beef trim is ferried over from the kill floor to BPI’s plant by conveyor, where it’s warmed to about 100 degrees and sent through a centrifuge that separates the fat from the meat. The liquified fat can then be sold as tallow, while the resulting meat—which the industry has called ...
[21:35:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:49] <exec> 08└─Have they checked for leaks? Would be a much more plausible explanation. Or maybe the thieves thought they were stealing vodka.
[21:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:02] <exec> 08└─/s/big/wet/
[21:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:03] <exec> 08└─not one of the fictional american's-
[21:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:54] <exec> 08└─We already have one such revolutionary, miraculous, etc etc etc entertaining the gullible since 2011: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Someone is striving for comparable success in the AI field. Color me unsurprized.
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[22:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MacDill Matters: Iron Man Suit Out at SOCom, but New Innovations Still Needed for Commandos - 1753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:59] <exec> 08└─Modern body armor is a fascinating subject, too bad there was so little detail about what worked and what didn't. Currently heavy body armor seems to focus on chestplates. There are both tempered steel alloy plates and composite (ceramic plus) plates that will stop 7.62 nato or better. The obvious w...
[22:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MacDill Matters: Iron Man Suit Out at SOCom, but New Innovations Still Needed for Commandos - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:01] <exec> 08└─I always thought super-suits were a stupid pie-in-the-sky idea like lasers and railguns. If you're a soldier in battlefield conditions, you need a lot of agility to run and perform the more finer tasks like tucking and rolling or kneeling to tie rope to a vehicle or something. Super-suits are more f...
[22:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MacDill Matters: Iron Man Suit Out at SOCom, but New Innovations Still Needed for Commandos - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:03] <exec> 08└─"It's not the Iron Man. I'll be the first person to tell you that," No shit. Iron Man is based on magical "technology" that only exists in a comic-book universe. We can't store that kind of power in a suit, or the reaction mass it would need to fly. Smart helmets could be useful, if the enemy can't...
[22:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MacDill Matters: Iron Man Suit Out at SOCom, but New Innovations Still Needed for Commandos - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:05] <exec> 08└─It's also said that if you did have the arc reactor, the amounts of energy used would just burn/melt you.
[22:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Hacker Marcus Hutchins Loses Bid to Omit "Intoxicated" Testimony - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:17] <exec> 08└─It's a dangerous precedent. What if the police intentionally get you drunk/drugged and coerce you into giving a confession? "But there was no evidence that he was under the influence of drugs, your honor!" Testimony while under any influence, chemical or physical, should be thrown out.
[22:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:03] <exec> 08└─That would mean cutting a lot of government employees, and a lot of those are Jews and their unskilled minority pets paid large sums of money to sit around and point all day in-between TMZ readings. The Jews will be fine because they have charities to look out for each other until they get other plu...
[22:35:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 380 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:16] <exec> 08└─Even better, you get to know your neighbours and you scale your production so you can sell cheaper to them than they can produce. And at that point, maybe pre-process the product a little, because they want it already ground and things. .. Maybe somewhat increase efficiency and reduce waste ... make...
[22:35:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 443 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:20] <exec> 08└─Through my eco-activism I have come to know people who raise their own chickens. Occasionally they give me eggs. Sometimes they look weird on the outside but they are so rich and creamy there is no comparison to factory-farmed eggs you get in the grocery store. Kind of the same thing with people who...
[22:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:41] <exec> 08└─If I understand the articles, isn't "pink slime" still just muscle tissue? It isn't like they're throwing in the hooves and snouts in there. Is most of the "ick" factor just the fact that someone called it "pink slime"? I appreciate that people may not want something that has been through so much pr...
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[22:35:42] <exec> 08└─from me or whoever is on your local craigslist
[22:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Develops Text-Generating Algorithm, Considers It Too Dangerous to Release - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:03] <exec> 08└─But, what kind of barriers? Block publication of academic articles related to advancement of the tech? How about academic articles related to detection of the tech? Or, do we just send out agents to break kneecaps on anyone who's interested in the subject? A huge problem with the internet is that in...
[22:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a Phone Scammer—and Wins - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:43] <exec> 08└─Man, I wish I could memorize that scene...and have the presence of mind to try it on the next spammer. But, I'm terrible at quick retorts. Besides, as soon as I go off their script, the spammers that call me just hang up.
[22:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:18] <exec> 08└─I think Sinbad would be a better choice
[22:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:19] <exec> 08└─I can usually spot a 'dud' movie. That looks like a dud. It will do 'ok' because well curiosity from everyone who liked the 90s cartoon one. But other than that it will dud out.
[22:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:21] <exec> 08└─I recommend Umberto Eco's novel, Baudolino . Even has the White Huns.
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[23:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:58] <exec> 08└─Really the only thing to do is move on and watch them turn on each other.
[23:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:59] <exec> 08└─who now handle more bug reports, feature requests, code reviews, and code commits than ever before. At the same time, open source developers must also deal with an influx of corporate users who are unfamiliar with community norms
[23:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:02] <exec> 08└─We saw what all happened to Linus. He turned out to be a fizzle like Donald Trump*, it just took him a little while. He was overrun by the army of Jewish and minority pink-hairs who successfully exploited the fracture points and diluted not only the mission but the kernel itself by starting petty sq...
[23:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Internet Was Built on the Free Labor of Open Source Developers. Is That Sustainable? - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:04] <exec> 08└─At least Apple provided GCC/GDB patches to upstream. Those patches were provided at the cost of thousands of engineer-years. But I doubt they donated much actual cash because Apple and Richard have A Special Hatred for each other. I may be a starving artist, but even _I_ purchased a Free Software Fo...
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[23:34:06] <exec> 08└─The Prosecution Rests.
[23:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MacDill Matters: Iron Man Suit Out at SOCom, but New Innovations Still Needed for Commandos - 2361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:18] <exec> 08└─"If you're a soldier in battlefield conditions, you need a lot of agility to run and perform the more finer tasks like tucking and rolling or kneeling to tie rope to a vehicle or something." Yes, you do. Armorers worked from the bronze age if not before all the way through late medieval times solvin...
[23:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Hacker Marcus Hutchins Loses Bid to Omit "Intoxicated" Testimony - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:31] <exec> 08└─I looked through Kreb's writeup [krebsonsecurity.com] which explores a whole chain of (opsec-is-hard) shady possible aliases, however these were in time frames from 2009 to 2011 Hutchins would have turned 18 in 2014. Which is coincidentally when the government alleges he sold the Kronos banking Tro...
[23:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Hacker Marcus Hutchins Loses Bid to Omit "Intoxicated" Testimony - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:33] <exec> 08└─It was the WannaCry guy? OOF.
[23:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:19] <exec> 08└─Maybe there should be something that makes business owners more likely to share more $s (%-wise) with their workers. Somehow.
[23:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:20] <exec> 08└─1) punitive levels 70% for all above 10 000 000 or so. I do not think you know what that first word means. 2) The idea sort of is to implement this in most of the civilized world 3) if you want to live in a 3rd world country with all your $$$, be my guest, it might enlighten you. At least you also d...
[23:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06For Dell's Billionaire CEO, Taxing the Ultra-Rich is a Joke - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:23] <exec> 08└─1) What programs?
[23:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:02] <exec> 08└─Pink slime has a different ratio of components. This is tilted toward connective tissue. It's pretty obvious why the slime is pink, not red. It mostly isn't muscle.
[23:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:03] <exec> 08└─What is "meat" anyway? If you mean muscle fibers, then even a sirloin steak isn't meat. Clearly, it is allowable to have non-muscle. The trouble here is that the ratio has changed. You can even see it in the color. Pink slime is loaded with connective tissue. That in turn changes the ratio of amino...
[23:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:06] <exec> 08└─Is most of the "ick" factor just the fact that someone called it "pink slime"?
[23:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:08] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but I am an invegan (involuntarily vegan). Hopefully I will not drive a vehicle into a herd to express my frustration.
[23:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:10] <exec> 08└─It's not the slime, Buzzard, it's the disinfectants, the ammonia, the sodium hypochlorite, and so on, that makes it disgusting. And what would we expect from a carrion-feeder, other than a defense of carrion? Let me guess, as a buzzard, you have no gag reflex, at all?
[23:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:12] <exec> 08└─It's not the "slime" part that gets me, it's the ammonia. I'm not a meat-slaughtering expert so perhaps I could be enlightened, but if there's any reason why that shit needs to be treated with a harsh chemical after the slaughter to kill bacteria while your other cuts of meat don't, then sorry, I'm...
[23:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beef Trimmings Dubbed 'Pink SLIME' Can Now be Labelled 'Ground Beef' - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:15] <exec> 08└─They have a special on "long pig" this week. No halves or quarters, though, too easily identifiable. Only available as pink slime, pinkish ground, or Soylent Pink.
[23:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:43] <exec> 08└─I will use this - Kormac
[23:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Great Iceberg Water Heist of 2019 - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:45] <exec> 08└─Being Newfies, they probably saw the big "Iceberg Vodka" logo on the tanks and thought they were stealing the finished product.
[23:38:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a Phone Scammer—and Wins - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:08] <exec> 08└─6 years? he took 600k from some 82 year old, presumably destroying the remainder of his life.
[23:38:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] 02 - 06Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a Phone Scammer—and Wins - 391 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:11] <exec> 08└─I get a half-dozen robocalls a day, and my mother gets at least one scam call per week. Forwarding these to law enforcement is less effective than yelling into the void. This dork gets one phone call and makes it into a federal case? My Perl is a little rusty. Is this right? perl -pi -e 's/justice f...
[23:38:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a Phone Scammer—and Wins - 274 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:17] <exec> 08└─I don't know who you are. I do know what you want. If you are looking for easy money I can tell you I don't have any, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.
[23:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ex-director of FBI, CIA takes on a Phone Scammer—and Wins - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:20] <exec> 08└─Eth doesn't use the word Khazar, IIRC. I'm not sure he'd even know what it means.
[23:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HOYA Starts Construction of New Facility for Hard Drive Platter Glass Substrates - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:14] <exec> 08└─Even my lowly Core Duo - not Core _2_ Duo - Early 2006 MBP had PCIe storage. It's a very narrow card with a card edge connector on one end. There's space to populate I think six chips. Wall the boards are the same no matter how much Flash you choose, your board will just be appropriately populated....
[23:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Smith as Genie is terrifying in the live Aladdin movie - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:57] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Say_Never_(Justin_Bieber_song) [wikipedia.org]
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