#comments | Logs for 2019-05-12

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[00:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:37] <exec> 08└─Didn't realize they were still around... thought Oracle bought them a few years ago after Zune failed.
[00:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:38] <exec> 08└─FLOSSing Linux fanbois BTFO: https://www.macrotrends.net [macrotrends.net]
[00:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:40] <exec> 08└─Cool now bring MFC and ATL back. With those two back and I can get a job.
[00:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Cloud Glitch Leaves Nvidia T4 GPUs Off Estimated Bills for Some Virtual Machines - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:51] <exec> 08└─Here's a simple idea - make such "estimates" for the price of service legally binding. If your "estimator" says it will cost me X amount for Y service when I sign up, then that's all I should have to pay. It's your problem, you pay for it.
[00:10:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JNCF [4317] 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:28] <exec> 08└─too many of them needed to express simple, everyday terms...
[00:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Fact-Checking Charity Secures AI Grant from Google - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:38] <exec> 08└─Can't the AI develop LBGTQ2S emojis on its own?
[00:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Fact-Checking Charity Secures AI Grant from Google - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:39] <exec> 08└─I checked your facts and you are correct. -Factbot 2000
[00:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Hysteria is a False Alarm, Culture Secretary Tells MPs - 1362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:58] <exec> 08└─Lost all spine to the US? I don't know where you live, or what culture you grew up in, but the very choice you present is somewhat telling to me. You present two choices. Either Canada "does a political thing" and releases to China, or Canada does "another political thing" and bends to US political...
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[00:13:00] <exec> 08└─SNC-Lavalin is a court case? Funny, even you describe it as something else. What you're describing is a "scandal". And what is a scandal? Hmm? Is it, maybe, something that could cause governments to fall? Politicians to be charged, or lose their seats? Is it -- maybe, just maybe, the system working...
[00:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Hysteria is a False Alarm, Culture Secretary Tells MPs - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:02] <exec> 08└─I read an interesting article a while back, it was about defense spending worldwide... Point was, that defense spending by nations? Are listed in USD. EG, US spends $50USD, China spends $10USD, Russia spends $20USD. But, the article pointed out -- that those figures should be re-worked. Because it s...
[00:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Hysteria is a False Alarm, Culture Secretary Tells MPs - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:04] <exec> 08└─"Where are they now?" Just checked, they both seem to occupy the approximate space they did before........:D So sorry, the smartass in me insisted.....
[00:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SF Facebook Office Worth More Than $1 Billion in Sale - City Gets $0 in Taxes - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:23] <exec> 08└─get richer, the poor get poorer. And so it goes.
[00:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Britain's Answer to 'King Tut's Tomb' Found on Roadside - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:41] <exec> 08└─Is his name, possibly, "Bruce"?
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[01:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:21] <exec> 08└─Embrace . . . Extend . . . Self-Destruct. Fear. . . Uncertainty . . .Self-Demolition
[01:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32 - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:22] <exec> 08└─If you'll bear with me, I'd like to link to one of my posts on that other site [slashdot.org], because I feel like I've had this called right for years now. I can't find the older post to which I referred, perhaps because they hide low-modded posts from search engines, which is a shame.
[01:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32 - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:24] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of good software for Windows is free/libre software. I just looked right now, and it costs a minimum of $19 to join the Windows Store as an individual publisher -- $99 for a "company" account. Plus I think you're required to sign your builds with a certificate you buy on the CA mar...
[01:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32 - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:26] <exec> 08└─That was Microsoft's mistake (and arrogance), they figured that since they own 100% of the market they can dictate what the ecosystem has to do, like IBM dictating that everyone had to move to PS/2 and OS/2. Problem is that what people care about is stuff that runs on Win32, not whatever MS dictates...
[01:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:29] <exec> 08└─Larry may be rich, but he's not richer than Bill, Paul and Steve.
[01:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tencent and Ant Financial Latest Firms to be Awarded Virtual Banking Licenses in Hong Kong - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:47] <exec> 08└─I know of at least one credit union in the US that was doing this in the 90s. ING also was online only but they weren't full service.
[01:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SF Facebook Office Worth More Than $1 Billion in Sale - City Gets $0 in Taxes - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:14] <exec> 08└─The poor only get poorer when they waste their money. Stop buying crack, hip hop clothes and KFC and you will be rich.
[01:15:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snospar [5366] 02 - 06Anger More Harmful to Health of Older Adults Than Sadness - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:48] <exec> 08└─Stop that! We came here for the news, not the truth.
[01:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian $50 Note Typo: Spelling Mistake Printed 46 Million Times - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:06] <exec> 08└─What I'd like to know is who discovered this? It's not visible to the naked eye, so there must be someone out there who goes through life with a loupe jammed to their eye looking for microscopic imperfections in things.
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[02:12:54] <exec> 08└─Huawei has a center in Brussels [techcrunch.com] where government auditors come in, review the code, and build it against Huawei's keys while md5ing the the firmware to make sure it's the same as the one found in the routers. A similar arrangement was conducted with the Germans a few months ago. Btw...
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[03:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:43] <exec> 08└─They REALLY don't know what they are doing, do they?
[03:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Chip Could be Key to the Future of AI - 1193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:19] <exec> 08└─AI can play chess, and Go, basically arbitrarily well. Before that happened, skill at games like that were considered indicators of intelligence. Go back to the 1960s, before the Encyclopedia had been digitized and made searchable - being able to process natural language queries and respond with an...
[03:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Britain's Answer to 'King Tut's Tomb' Found on Roadside - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:43] <exec> 08└─Either way, I think we can all agree it was not a real discovery unless Baldric surveyed the dig.
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[04:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reportedly in Talks to Acquire Self-Driving Truck Startup TuSimple - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:26] <exec> 08└─You call them auto driving trucks. I call them bot-controlled, multi-ton kinetic bombs. And the worst part for you is that skynet might not materialize after all, so your bosses would be bean counters ultimately working for the devil.
[04:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Chip Could be Key to the Future of AI - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:20] <exec> 08└─Those things were seen as algorithmic automation even back then. Maybe the masses thought otherwise. I have no issue with self aware strong/hard AI showing equivalence or superiority to human intelligence. I speculate that as mentioned previously that there may be an emergent spiritual quality in an...
[04:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Calls for National Privacy Law - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:32] <exec> 08└─If you tell me something, I have a first amendment right to tell anyone else that thing unless we explicitly agree it's private. That's a tidbit of First Amendment law for you. There are examples where the law creates a presumption of privacy (e.g. HIPPA) by changing the default rule. Somehow I doub...
[04:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Fact-Checking Charity Secures AI Grant from Google - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:46] <exec> 08└─We welcome our accurate automated real-time truth revealing buddies.
[04:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Source Code Discovery Sheds Light on the Business of Malware - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:58] <exec> 08└─I think what they are trying to say is that Carbanak has modularized things. Probably a library of routines, some command-line executables and a GUI that incorporates it all. The article contained two other URLs of interest: https://www.fireeye.com
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[05:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Confirms That Ride-Hailing Companies Are Causing a Ton of Traffic Congestion - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:15] <exec> 08└─Is this a US ton, a metric ton, a long ton, or maybe a butt ton? Possibly they are using metric butt tons, but who can say? You would think scientific researchers would define what kind of ton they are using.
[05:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Confirms That Ride-Hailing Companies Are Causing a Ton of Traffic Congestion - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:17] <exec> 08└─short ton of won tons
[05:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32 - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:40] <exec> 08└─I think they still make mice.
[05:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32 - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:42] <exec> 08└─And the first thing I did with the seldom-used Win10 box was banish everything that looked like a Store, restore the Classic menu, and promptly forget that Win10's reason for existence was to sell apps from the Windows Store. Hey Microsoft, repeat after me: the desktop is not a cellphone!
[05:10:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snospar [5366] 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 1120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:37] <exec> 08└─I can't think of a more stupid example to justify adding more crappy emojis to the world - there are already too many and nobody knows what they mean because they can mean whatever the sender or receiver perceives them to mean. "The Gents" and "The Ladies" signs are simple icons that can be recognis...
[05:11:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:39] <exec> 08└─Why not mark the toilet with, I don't know, a picture of a toilet? Isn't that the more interesting question?
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[06:09:32] <exec> 08└─Uber Eats®
[06:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Reportedly in Talks to Acquire Self-Driving Truck Startup TuSimple - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:40] <exec> 08└─It's Sunday. And this, I assume, is what they're preaching in the Robot Catholic Church.
[06:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32 - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:00] <exec> 08└─Problem is that what people care about is stuff that runs on Win32 Not really. Java, Javascript, python, C#. If you are doing anything else right now you are on old tech. Sorry, I was being a bit sardonic with my post about getting a job. I rather enjoyed that goofie win32 API. But going back to it...
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[06:10:11] <exec> 08└─Also referred to as, the Hope & Change!!!
[06:11:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 1129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:32] <exec> 08└─you do know that that symbol is actually meant to mean "Nuclear Disarmament" right? It is a combination of the flag semaphores for N and D. It was later taken to be the symbol of the whole "Anti-war Peace Movement". Though I've also heard it used as a warning of a painful death. Seems some ancient...
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[07:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Marks 150 Years of Transcontinental Railroad - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:26] <exec> 08└─Where multiple parties who didn't want to talk or agree to terms came to accept a single standard upon which to build.
[07:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Confirms That Ride-Hailing Companies Are Causing a Ton of Traffic Congestion - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:37] <exec> 08└─If a person already owned a vehicle it means that they had already weighted the inconvenience of public transportation and taxis against the inconveniences of owning a vehicle and decided to own. Uber/Lyft is not different enough to change that equation. People who originally weighted public transpo...
[07:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Chip Could be Key to the Future of AI - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:45] <exec> 08└─tool use was widely considered to be an indicator of human-level intelligence, but now that crows can do it, it is no longer a human-only thing. I have always suspected some of those PHP applications on github were written by crows. "Human level intelligence" evidently has no lower bound. (Is going...
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[07:14:24] <exec> 08└─I for one with them best of luck.
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[08:11:30] <exec> 08└─It is disgusting that the degenerates in the Bay Area tech companies get to decide this for the world. I want non-leftist stuff. I want politically incorrect stuff. I want weapons, and not just lame squirt guns. I want a Kel-Tec RDB, an M4 carbine, a pump shotgun, an MP5, a chromed pistol, a tan pis...
[08:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Stolen in Binance Hack Moved to Seven Addresses - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:38] <exec> 08└─This. And as long as there are darknet markets, we'll be able to cash them out for fiat. That doesn't mean that they wouldn't take a huge hit if Coinbase and friends got cracked down on.
[08:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technical Details on the Recent Firefox Add-On Outage Posted - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:31] <exec> 08└─Given this also affected torbrowser users the stakes are much higher. Very sad this happened, again.
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[09:09:53] <exec> 08└─Java, Javascript, python, C#. If you are doing anything else right now you are on old tech.
[09:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Chip Could be Key to the Future of AI - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:35] <exec> 08└─Seriously, people, take a $80 cell phone back to 1982, ask it "Hey, Google.....I submit that a 1982 Turing test judge would be 99% convinced that your 2019 cell phone is AI
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[10:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Confirms That Ride-Hailing Companies Are Causing a Ton of Traffic Congestion - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:40] <exec> 08└─Wait until autonomous, remote control, electric cars become the norm. Why pay for parking? Have the car drop you off at work, circle the city all day, occupying free parking spaces for as long as it's allowed before moving onto the next, and then just waiting to pick up back up again wherever you mi...
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[10:10:50] <exec> 08└─a true ai would build a bridge and/or tunnel when asked to solve a traffic light problem over night. a "hired" ai would start a study and how best to turn on and off the lights at the right time and recommend the "best" equipment to use ..
[10:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Fact-Checking Charity Secures AI Grant from Google - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:18] <exec> 08└─It's a UK charity, Which normally means that it's a gravy train, lots of otherwise-useless fuckwits with the right 'old school ties' and political connections playing at being executives getting very large salaries, charitable status means they're entitled to claim back VAT on purchases, government...
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[11:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams) Acquires Dogfish Head for $300 Million - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:09] <exec> 08└─When you spend a day at a brewery and make incredible memories, then you really need to get out more.
[11:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams) Acquires Dogfish Head for $300 Million - 1574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:11] <exec> 08└─Not sure that's fair. Breweries are cool, after all. I've been in several, the most memorable being Frankenmuth. http://frankenmuthbrewery.com [frankenmuthbrewery.com] I had already picked up loads of beer in the huge corporate breweries, and those were relatively uninteresting. At Frankenmuth, the...
[11:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Marks 150 Years of Transcontinental Railroad - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:19] <exec> 08└─150 years since we suppressed the Indians with our big iron horse? How time flies.
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[11:09:31] <exec> 08└─>> Seriously, if we don't legislate against that soon, it's going to happen Found the Democrat!
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[11:09:40] <exec> 08└─Catholicism does not represent well the fourth directive, try with wahhabism.
[11:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32 - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:01] <exec> 08└─But somehow they haven't sunk yet. Got the passengers all quaking in their boots that they might be thrown overboard or left behind at the docks. Vista was such a horrible poop cruise I wondered if that would finish them off. But no, seems they are a real floater. How do they do it? It must be MS Or...
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[12:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Final Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge Named - 1183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:16] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with tall - four stories seems alright. But, how about tall and fat? That "beacon" design just looks to me like an invitation for the wind to knock it over. Make the first two floors wider, then stick your "beacon" above them. Even better, make those first two floors more square, so as...
[12:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams) Acquires Dogfish Head for $300 Million - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:25] <exec> 08└─I was a bit sad when Heineken bought Lagunitas, but they *seemed* to have left it alone. DFH make an *insanely* good "Flesh and Blood" IPA. I would be most saddened if Sam Adam's kills that beer....
[12:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams) Acquires Dogfish Head for $300 Million - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:27] <exec> 08└─I never heard of Dogfish Head before today, but: any brewery worth $300 million isn't a "craft brewery" any more, at least, not by my definition. They're producing on an industrial scale, and sell throughout the USA. That's not to say their products are bad, but they certainly aren't small. They als...
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[12:09:36] <exec> 08└─So American rail transport is 150 years behind the rest of the known world. Who would have thought it?
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[13:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Final Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge Named - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:19] <exec> 08└─But, how about tall and fat? That "beacon" design just looks to me like an invitation for the wind to knock it over.
[13:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Marks 150 Years of Transcontinental Railroad - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:40] <exec> 08└─I flew out there to celebrate the railroad.
[13:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Fact-Checking Charity Secures AI Grant from Google - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:37] <exec> 08└─Same here. Associations and foundations manage stuff. They must not turn up a profit, but it's a gray area, because people work there and work implies wage https://www.unicef.it [unicef.it]. Sports teams also have peculiar status.
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[14:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DHS Warns Against “Password Spray” Brute Force Attacks - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:13] <exec> 08└─Since 2011, the firm has published the list based on data examined from millions of passwords leaked in data breaches, mostly in North America and Western Europe, over each year. In the 2016 edition, the 25 most common passwords made up more than 10% of the surveyed passwords, with the most common p...
[14:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Final Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge Named - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:23] <exec> 08└─>That "beacon" design just looks to me like an invitation for the wind to knock it over. That's not really a concern on Mars. The density of Martian air is only about 1% of Earth's (0.6% the pressure, * CO2 being 1.67 times the density at the same pressure), while wind pressure is proportional to de...
[14:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Final Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge Named - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:25] <exec> 08└─Don't try to feed us that, we've all seen The Martian. :-p
[14:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams) Acquires Dogfish Head for $300 Million - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:35] <exec> 08└─When you spend a day at a brewery and make incredible memories, then you really need to get out more.
[14:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams) Acquires Dogfish Head for $300 Million - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:37] <exec> 08└─Lagunitas appears to have stopped making Aunt Sally shortly after Heineken finished buying them out.
[14:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams) Acquires Dogfish Head for $300 Million - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:39] <exec> 08└─Even better, learn to brew yourself - it's not hard, it's fun, and you can make exactly the kind of beer you like.
[14:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams) Acquires Dogfish Head for $300 Million - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:41] <exec> 08└─Koch/BBC have a reputation for being good players in the game - remember the hop shortage a few years back? https://appellationbeer.com And talking about Kochs - when's the Stone/Keystone dispute going to be settled?
[14:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams) Acquires Dogfish Head for $300 Million - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:43] <exec> 08└─Not sure what the relative capacities are for DFH and BD, but the spot valuations are wildly different, BD being into the 10th digit now (at least if you combine all their components, which are presumably isolated on paper for tax reasons). Even $10M breweries have lost touch with some of the "craft...
[14:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Confirms That Ride-Hailing Companies Are Causing a Ton of Traffic Congestion - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:07] <exec> 08└─Have the car drop you off at work, circle the city all day, occupying free parking spaces for as long as it's allowed before moving onto the next, and then just waiting to pick up back up again wherever you might be. Why do people constantly repeat this misconception? The cars would leave the city c...
[14:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Confirms That Ride-Hailing Companies Are Causing a Ton of Traffic Congestion - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:08] <exec> 08└─The metric butt ton is properly known as the arse ton.
[14:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:40] <exec> 08└─Definitely MS Orifice and that their legacy and sales force in business. And sheeple....loooots of sheeple.
[14:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Chip Could be Key to the Future of AI - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:25] <exec> 08└─there may be an emergent spiritual quality in any self aware consciousness
[14:12:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Google Unveils 53 Gender Fluid Emoji - 459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:58] <exec> 08└─You reckon I should have to stop participating in the community or censor myself on story-related matters because I do lots of work for the site? Not gonna happen. I don't have a problem in the world keeping site matters on a mostly professional footing but I did not magically become some higher for...
[14:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Source Code Discovery Sheds Light on the Business of Malware - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:09] <exec> 08└─It's known as the Digital Transformation. More and more people are choosing Windows as their go-to Digital. And that's happening all over the World. Great job, Microsoft!
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[15:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DHS Warns Against “Password Spray” Brute Force Attacks - 1662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:22] <exec> 08└─I wonder when the day is coming when those biometric readers, like the fingerprint readers built into power buttons and touch screens, plus the cameras that enable facial recognition... are mandatory. But they will call it convenience and security when it happens, I am sure. I expect it'll get drive...
[15:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DHS Warns Against “Password Spray” Brute Force Attacks - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:23] <exec> 08└─Biometrics is not security. Biometrics only gives you "what you have" type of security, not what you know. Also, unlike OTP, you can't change your biometrics. This means that passwords will ALWAYS be de-facto authentication method. If you use anything else, you are in major trouble as someone can ju...
[15:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DHS Warns Against “Password Spray” Brute Force Attacks - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:26] <exec> 08└─TOTP, being HOTP-based, requires shared knowledge of a secret key. Remote storage of your secret key verbatim, rather than salted and hashed versions thereof, has never been a security issue, ever, no, no, no.
[15:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DHS Warns Against “Password Spray” Brute Force Attacks - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:28] <exec> 08└─When will they learn?
[15:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DHS Warns Against “Password Spray” Brute Force Attacks - 2433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:30] <exec> 08└─This is a common tactic to get a foothold. They aren't trying to beat someone that uses a serious password, or get straight into an admin account or restricted system, they are just looking for any way in. Once they have that, then they can scan and escalate and move laterally. So the bad guys start...
[15:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DHS Warns Against “Password Spray” Brute Force Attacks - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:32] <exec> 08└─It is very hard to get people to change habits and this tool 'makes sense' to most people as it makes logins easier AND secure. just get ONE really good password and then this tool manages your passwords on EVERY website. https://www.pcmag.com [pcmag.com]
[15:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DHS Warns Against “Password Spray” Brute Force Attacks - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:34] <exec> 08└─But if you only use fingerprint, then maybe your finger becomes valuable?
[15:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Final Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge Named - 1680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:45] <exec> 08└─They're probably right about structural concerns, but seem to overlook one of the most important features of a martian habitat: radiation shielding. You want several meters of rock between you and the sky to get anything like the radiation shielding offered by Earth's atmosphere. Instead they seem t...
[15:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Final Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge Named - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:46] <exec> 08└─What wind? For that, you'd need an atmosphere, which the moon completely lacks, and mars has so little of there's no point in trying to pretend that going there to live makes any goddamn sense at all. Can "we're never going to live on mars" be my equivalent of Gaaark's dark matter rant?
[15:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Marks 150 Years of Transcontinental Railroad - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:14] <exec> 08└─Surely the US-ians gave them the opportunity to participate?
[15:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Marks 150 Years of Transcontinental Railroad - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:15] <exec> 08└─Where multiple parties who didn't want to talk or agree to terms came to accept a single standard upon which to build.
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[15:10:31] <exec> 08└─colonials . . .
[15:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32 - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:04] <exec> 08└─"But doesn't everyone want a program that plays for sure on Windows?" I do but they discontinued that too.
[15:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Chip Could be Key to the Future of AI - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:49] <exec> 08└─Since before the 1980s, there have been city-wide traffic control systems that synchronize lights based not only on the clock, but also real-time traffic volume data. Not much intelligence is required. I have found it continually frustrating that when an "intelligent" traffic control officer takes c...
[15:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Calls for National Privacy Law - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:02] <exec> 08└─What do you believe is the recourse for a company that I told no information to, yet has developed a profile on be based on what they stole out of the contact information of other people that I did not expect to sell me out in that way when I gave them my contact info before privacy violating applic...
[15:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FTC Calls for National Privacy Law - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:03] <exec> 08└─I'm old fashioned, but there was a time when the phone company took protecting their client's communication private seriously. (As in go to jail if you don't, and yes, these days that should include metadata as well.) The Internet could have the same rules if one had two things: 1) Similar jail time...
[15:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Fact-Checking Charity Secures AI Grant from Google - 1646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:21] <exec> 08└─The one I worked for, the CEO was on his way out, and knew it. Let's just say the nature and number of purchases that were authorised in the CEO's name in the twilight months of his regime raised accountants eyebrows at one of the primary funding bodies...and you do not want accountants to raise the...
[15:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Hysteria is a False Alarm, Culture Secretary Tells MPs - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:44] <exec> 08└─You don't seem to understand at all. You're just full of random questions and stupid non sequiturs. Just like the politicians involved in this mess. Didn't you even watch the Simpsons cartoon about it?
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[16:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06DHS Warns Against “Password Spray” Brute Force Attacks - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:30] <exec> 08└─That's rich...
[16:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DHS Warns Against “Password Spray” Brute Force Attacks - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:31] <exec> 08└─TOTP is a crock. Checking passwords against spray attacks' one million most common passwords and denying _those_ passwords would be much more effective. TOTP with a requirement of 8, no two consecutive, characters, and 3 of: upper case, lower case, numeric, special can quickly lead to "degenerate" p...
[16:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Final Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge Named - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:45] <exec> 08└─"My battery is low and it's getting dark"
[16:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams) Acquires Dogfish Head for $300 Million - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:02] <exec> 08└─I struggle with the idea of "craft beer" that comes in a bottle. But then, my idea of craft beer is beer that is delivered in a barrel, unfiltered and unpasteurized to a a pub, so that the beer cannot be served until the sediment has dropped to the bottom of the barrel. It has to be served cool, not...
[16:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams) Acquires Dogfish Head for $300 Million - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:04] <exec> 08└─Bottled/canned beer can be unfiltered and contain sediment. Let's face it. No definition of "craft beer" really makes sense. It's a marketing term.
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[17:09:31] <exec> 08└─Then some genius would make them change their "one secure password" every month.
[17:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DHS Warns Against “Password Spray” Brute Force Attacks - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:32] <exec> 08└─And how exactly do you use a password manager for your login password?
[17:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Final Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge Named - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:47] <exec> 08└─If you'd said "We're never going to Terraform Mars" I'd probably agree with you. Living there is a different matter. I happen to thing it's the wrong place, but most people seem fixated on planets, and at least on Mars you could build a beanstalk. It might take awhile, of course, because you need a...
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[17:10:34] <exec> 08└─Watch. They will start using all those traffic cameras and license place readers to aggregate how much time you spend in the city center in order to 'help optimize traffic flow' for the little guys. But the wealthy will have the money to burn leaving their cars circling or parking around the city al...
[17:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:08] <exec> 08└─"But doesn't everyone want a program that plays for sure on Windows?"
[17:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FTC Calls for National Privacy Law - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:09] <exec> 08└─Why? I think you're forgetting something. The right to "Free Speech" is a constitutional right. There is no constitutional right to data privacy. In general, if I read some information, I am allowed to repeat that information to someone else. If you say "corporation may not read information" you hav...
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[18:09:16] <exec> 08└─"Our new research revealed that glioblastoma cells depend on the expression of a gene which produces the MDGI protein. Inhibiting the function of this gene results in the death of the tumour cells,
[18:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Discover Weakness of Most Common Incurable Brain Cancer - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:18] <exec> 08└─As it is only the glioblastoma cells that depend on the gene, inhibiting the function of this gene results in the death of the tumour cells. I suspect that they don't care if it kills other tumour cells too. As normal cells do not depend on the gene I cannot think why they should be affected. Althou...
[18:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Discover Weakness of Most Common Incurable Brain Cancer - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:20] <exec> 08└─Are you suggesting something along the lines of "the treatment was successful and the patient died"?
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[18:09:53] <exec> 08└─Well, Mars has 15x the partial pressure of CO2 as Earth - so there's plenty for plants to breath, though you'd need to pressurize it a bit to keep the water from boiling out of their cells. You would need about 10-20x the atmospheric pressure to avoid that problem and be able to walk around without...
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[18:10:41] <exec> 08└─Precisely. There is also another component which might not be considered. If people take ride share instead of driving, the parking situation improves, which in turn makes people more likely to take their car somewhere.
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[18:10:42] <exec> 08└─Why do people constantly repeat this misconception? The cars would leave the city center and go somewhere parking is more plentiful.
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[18:12:03] <exec> 08└─i agree, that turning traffic light from binary (on/off, red/green) to WARNING during high traffic and CERTAIN conditions smooths the flow. stopping and acceleration in a queue of 50 cars just needs one idiot on the mobile phone not paying attention to frustrate ALOT of fellow trafficers. having a s...
[18:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Chip Could be Key to the Future of AI - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, what’s the underlying technology? Is it CMOS, some other silicon based substrate, or something else altogether? I get the sense from the article that it’s just a new chip architecture.
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[19:09:16] <exec> 08└─Well as my expertise in this matter is about the same as that of a standard house brick I will have to leave it up to the experts to make such judgements. But if what you are suggesting is, in fact, true then I would expect others with far more knowledge than I have to also notice this phenomenon an...
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[19:09:17] <exec> 08└─Reading the paper again more fully, the mechanism that is used to fight the glioblastoma cells is rather more complicated than I thought after my first reading. I think that they have all the bases covered: The absence of MDGI caused instability in the membranes of lysosomes, cleaning organelles fou...
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[19:09:19] <exec> 08└─The lysosomal membrane is going to be in all cells, not just tumor cells. And here is what they say about it: About 90% cell death was observed with 2 ug/ml clemastine concentration, while 1 ug/ml clemastine concentration killed 50% of BT12 and BT13 cells and 64% of ZH305 cells at day 4 (Fig 6A). No...
[19:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03sfm [675] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DHS Warns Against “Password Spray” Brute Force Attacks - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:38] <exec> 08└─"correcthorsebaterystaple" - several common words, hard to guess or brute force, easy to remember
[19:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sfm [675] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DHS Warns Against “Password Spray” Brute Force Attacks - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:39] <exec> 08└─Even better if you misspell one of them.......
[19:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DHS Warns Against “Password Spray” Brute Force Attacks - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:41] <exec> 08└─Your comment makes clear that you don't know what TOTP is and mistook it for password expiration. TOTP stands for Time-based One-Time Password. The output of the algorithm is equal to the HMAC-based One-Time Password of a secret key, but with the current Unix time as the counter and the window lengt...
[19:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DHS Warns Against “Password Spray” Brute Force Attacks - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:43] <exec> 08└─Never. The point of SMS authentication is to track you by getting your cell phone number. Most people only have one of those.
[19:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Final Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge Named - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:59] <exec> 08└─Emulate Gaaark... great idea. With dark matter, you would be going against the consensus opinion of many physicists, but at least there are good reasons to doubt it. "We're never going to live on mars" just isn't true for some values of "we" and "live", unless we have a nice thermonuclear doomsday s...
[19:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Confirms That Ride-Hailing Companies Are Causing a Ton of Traffic Congestion - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:46] <exec> 08└─Are you advocating that we stop all progress in case somebody finds a way to exploit it to their own ends? Ban all cars because some have been used in bank robberies, ban all hammers because some have been used in murders, etc The problems you are describing are a result of the town, city, county, s...
[19:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Confirms That Ride-Hailing Companies Are Causing a Ton of Traffic Congestion - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:47] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile every other poor sod trying to get to work has their roads jammed up with driver-less cars running non-essential errands, circling endlessly and taking up all the parking spots.
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[20:10:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06Final Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge Named - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:07] <exec> 08└─But, how about tall and fat? That "beacon" design just looks to me like an invitation for the wind to knock it over.
[20:10:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Final Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge Named - 557 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:08] <exec> 08└─>That "beacon" design just looks to me like an invitation for the wind to knock it over. That's not really a concern on Mars. The density of Martian air is only about 1% of Earth's (0.6% the pressure, * CO2 being 1.67 times the density at the same pressure), while wind pressure is proportional to de...
[20:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams) Acquires Dogfish Head for $300 Million - 1387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:35] <exec> 08└─I'll have to differ in that opinion of Boston Beer Co and Jim Koch. I was a part owner of a micro-brewery in Northern CA in the 1990s. We built our brewery from misc used equipment. While we were REALLY brewing our own beer and struggling to get shelf space, Jim Koch had his beer brewed at large reg...
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[20:10:36] <exec> 08└─[...] I would be most saddened if Sam Adam's kills that beer....
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[21:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Use for Hashtags... Quantum Computing? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:07] <exec> 08└─What, no Twitter hivemind harvested for quantum processing and key generation?
[21:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06R3D2 Satellite Was Built in Record Time - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:14] <exec> 08└─20 months could be cut down even further. The smallsat launchers are going to enable a lot more entities to send small payloads into space. In the case of DARPA, they could skip lengthy testing, launch a payload for $5-10 million and just eat the cost if it fails. Rocket Lab is apparently planning t...
[21:09:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Final Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge Named - 1680 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:59] <exec> 08└─They're probably right about structural concerns, but seem to overlook one of the most important features of a martian habitat: radiation shielding. You want several meters of rock between you and the sky to get anything like the radiation shielding offered by Earth's atmosphere. Instead they seem t...
[21:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Final Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge Named - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:05] <exec> 08└─... You'll still need radiation shielding,
[21:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Marks 150 Years of Transcontinental Railroad - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:39] <exec> 08└─Great strides! this here revolution shook the world: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] And we might get, just maybe, get a US maglev: https://www.baltimoresun.com [baltimoresun.com]
[21:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Confirms That Ride-Hailing Companies Are Causing a Ton of Traffic Congestion - 1785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:01] <exec> 08└─OK, we might be able to measure this, but what's the theory? Let's say I need to go to a store that's two miles away. If I use my own car, I drive 4 miles (there and back). If I use a service, there might be a car 0.5 miles from my house. It picks me up and takes me to the store. Even if it's still...
[21:12:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06This Chip Could be Key to the Future of AI - 451 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:07] <exec> 08└─When someone actually makes real 'AI' we won't have a term to describe it, because it's already been so heavily plundered by marketing for anything from 'expert systems', 'deep learning', 'pattern recognition', 'statistical analysis' and pretty much anything else they want to apply it to. As for act...
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[22:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Use for Hashtags... Quantum Computing? - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah I clickbaited that headline based on an image in the linked article. I needed something interesting and it was hard coming up with something given the source material. Still, this is a really cool result and if it pans out, we may be sitting on the cusp of a revolution that will make the modern...
[22:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Use for Hashtags... Quantum Computing? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:31] <exec> 08└─talking about hashtag is already abusive on twitter as the system's not different from any other tag system on any other site, but this title is just plain nonsense
[22:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Use for Hashtags... Quantum Computing? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:34] <exec> 08└─Hashttags, quantum computing, in the title line... Mod me up/down if you actually managed to read TFS.
[22:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Use for Hashtags... Quantum Computing? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:36] <exec> 08└─just.. say.. FSCK NO
[22:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06R3D2 Satellite Was Built in Record Time - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:45] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, given your comment, maybe a different spin could be, "Northrup, realizing the newcomers to the market are about to eat their lunch, will offer their product at only 3x the schedule and 100x the budget of competitors. This is down VASTLY from previous Northrup products."
[22:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DHS Warns Against “Password Spray” Brute Force Attacks - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:21] <exec> 08└─Even better if you misspell one of them twice when setting it, then wondering why you can't login.
[22:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DHS Warns Against “Password Spray” Brute Force Attacks - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:22] <exec> 08└─I'm not familiar with TOTP. Password requirement as you stated will ensure 100% of them are written down and close-to-hand on a convenient sticky note pad.
[22:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DHS Warns Against “Password Spray” Brute Force Attacks - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:24] <exec> 08└─Well, failure is the best teacher I suppose...
[22:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams) Acquires Dogfish Head for $300 Million - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:01] <exec> 08└─I would love it if I could buy any unfiltered and unpasteurized beer, delivered to my local in a barrel, but as far as I am aware that is completely unheard of where I live. One of the many pleasures of Britain is finding a pub that serves real ale. The next time I go I must remember to get a copy...
[22:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams) Acquires Dogfish Head for $300 Million - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:03] <exec> 08└─I think Dogfish is employee owned, so good for all of those guys. Craft breweries are freaking everywhere now. My town as a case in point, we had one about 10 years ago and now we have dozens. I’ve lost track of them all. I went to a craft brew festival last weekend with maybe 100 breweries and a...
[22:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Marks 150 Years of Transcontinental Railroad - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:17] <exec> 08└─The railroad standards were enacted by Abraham Lincoln in the Pacific Railroad Act of 1863.
[22:11:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06New Research Confirms That Ride-Hailing Companies Are Causing a Ton of Traffic Congestion - 187 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:36] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile every other poor sod trying to get to work has their roads jammed up with driver-less cars running non-essential errands, circling endlessly and taking up all the parking spots.
[22:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Research Confirms That Ride-Hailing Companies Are Causing a Ton of Traffic Congestion - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:39] <exec> 08└─Ride hailing companies saw that to get rich quick they need to create a new product and keep doing it for as long as they wish to remain rich. (The alternative for them was to get a job like all the others and work themselves to death and never have enough.) But they were unable to create anything a...
[22:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Confirms That Ride-Hailing Companies Are Causing a Ton of Traffic Congestion - 2744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:41] <exec> 08└─Why? If parking costs money, but you're electric powered and autonomous, then it would have to fight its way out of the city, park up, then time itself coming back to miss all the traffic and potentially delay its arrival for your needed time. Or it could just circle in an hour earlier to be sure to...
[22:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Confirms That Ride-Hailing Companies Are Causing a Ton of Traffic Congestion - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:43] <exec> 08└─Are you advocating that we stop all progress in case somebody finds a way to exploit it to their own ends?
[22:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Reportedly in Talks to Acquire Self-Driving Truck Startup TuSimple - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:54] <exec> 08└─So, we minimize parking lots and charge like hell for use of one. But people are smarter than that. Nothing says cars with no immediate use has to be motionless. Its legal on the street as long as it is in the flow of traffic. The cost of gas, automated driving, Uber, whatever, may be a lot more pra...
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[23:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06A New Use for Hashtags... Quantum Computing? - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:12] <exec> 08└─That's what they said when Einstein published his early articles in the National Enquirer, and he went on to win the Nobel Prize. What's most interesting is that this is a lady scientist and if this hashtag-braiding technique takes off she could be the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. It's about ti...
[23:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Use for Hashtags... Quantum Computing? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:13] <exec> 08└─A hashtag is so named because it is a combination of a hash character (#) and a textual tag. If you wanted to make clickbait out of it, you should've made a weed reference.
[23:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A New Use for Hashtags... Quantum Computing? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:15] <exec> 08└─How about this: I think hashtags and marijuana fermions are just the breakthrough we’ve all been waiting for!
[23:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06R3D2 Satellite Was Built in Record Time - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:25] <exec> 08└─If an entire space economy blossoms with no help from the Beltway bandits, there will be savings that can be passed down to government. Of course, gov can still fuck it up like with computer procurement.
[23:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06R3D2 Satellite Was Built in Record Time - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:27] <exec> 08└─And it was a little robot not a little satellite. I hate it when they let arts majors write science articles.
[23:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06R3D2 Satellite Was Built in Record Time - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:29] <exec> 08└─Reverse the polarity.
[23:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DHS Warns Against “Password Spray” Brute Force Attacks - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:07] <exec> 08└─> it only counts as something you have, because anyone that knows all the parameters can generate arbitrary TOTP values. Therefore it's something you *know*, not *have*, but I presume you mis-typed, as you seem to be mostly on top of things. > shared secret key However, not on top of things enough t...
[23:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Final Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge Named - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:25] <exec> 08└─I have no problem clinging to a view that might eventually be proved wrong, as long as it retains potential truthiness for the entirity of my existence on this planet. And I'm up for making bets about that.
[23:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Final Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge Named - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:27] <exec> 08└─> assuming we want to dedicate that kind of resources to terraforming a planet Feel free to assume that. I feel free to assume the contrary.
[23:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Final Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge Named - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:29] <exec> 08└─No bet. You could shorten your lifespan to win. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Yes, I did just notice your ratebeer profile.
[23:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Final Winner of NASA's 3D-Printed Mars Habitat Challenge Named - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:31] <exec> 08└─Are you going to nag me about the 2000+ ratings I ought to type in too?
[23:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams) Acquires Dogfish Head for $300 Million - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:53] <exec> 08└─OK, so let's throw away beers like Cantillons, Rocheforts, Fuller's Vintage, Eldridge Pope's Thomas Hardy Ale, Hurlimanns Samichlaus, ... Oh - send them here!
[23:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boston Beer Company (Sam Adams) Acquires Dogfish Head for $300 Million - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:55] <exec> 08└─You can certainly afford to be more generous if you're already relatively dominant.
[23:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Research Confirms That Ride-Hailing Companies Are Causing a Ton of Traffic Congestion - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:34] <exec> 08└─So just spitballing real quick here, it seems like ridesharing is *bad* for congestion if you go it alone, because it keeps cars driving longer, but it's *good* for congestion if you actually share the car with another customer.
[23:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:11] <exec> 08└─I could never get the Windows store to work. I typed sudo apt-get install programname and just get an error.
[23:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Throws in the Towel on UWP, Elevates Win32 - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:12] <exec> 08└─Most of those bindings use the Win32 APIs, well other than C#. Microsoft pushes C# and other .NET languages hard, but you can still use other languages, and most of those hit the Win32 or Win64 API. I can't really think of ones that don't.
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