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[00:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:24] <exec> 08└─mattel (big wheel)?
[00:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:26] <exec> 08└─So now, in addition to "Florida Man" [wikipedia.org], we'll now have "Florida Bot" or "Florida AI" to amuse us as well? Good times!
[00:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:28] <exec> 08└─Florida Man jaywalks, gets struck by autonomous vehicle
[00:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:30] <exec> 08└─[How many fatalities and injuries are acceptable for non-autonomous vehicles? -Ed.]
[00:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:32] <exec> 08└─Presumably autonomous vehicle, but yeah, that threw me too. We just need a bigger alphabet to avoid acronym reuse.
[00:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:34] <exec> 08└─What is an example...of a "big AV company"?
[00:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:37] <exec> 08└─-1 won't be nearly enough. The 30% overhead incurred by doing the human speed limit everywhere will cost far more human life in aggregate than the remaining lifetime of someone too decrepit to get out of the way of a slow moving AV. Myself, I just need these things to be live by the time I can...
[00:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:39] <exec> 08└─Parent has it right. Humans set a shockingly low bar for driver safety. Google/Waymo passed this bar in (no shit) 2012.
[00:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:41] <exec> 08└─We put people in prison for non-autonomous vehicle fatalities. You reckon we should take the nav system out and lock it in a cabinet for ten years when it kills someone?
[00:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:57] <exec> 08└─We do see such headlines, and have seen those for at least 20 years now. However, what with you being a junkie, you only have a selective focus on your brain degenerator of choice, and feel put upon, and thus need to spew out some self-righteous "oh woe is me" bullshit.
[00:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:59] <exec> 08└─Or not. I smoked a lot and meditated a lot a lot for a long time while earning my retirement money as a software developer. 52 now, I've been diagnosed with the desirable opposite condition or enlarged frontal lobes, they seem to have grown on the left and rh sides producing pleasant alpha waves wit...
[00:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:01] <exec> 08└─You're adorable! Are you available for parties?
[00:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:03] <exec> 08└─True rebels do LSD instead.
[00:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Someone Just Hard Forked Facebook’s Libra Coin over Democratic Issues - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:16] <exec> 08└─Don't underestimate it. It has some powerful backers.
[00:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic Leap Accuses Chinese Company of Copying Trade Secrets - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:25] <exec> 08└─Either they hired too many Chinese - or they didn't hire enough. Apparently, if they had hired MORE Chinese, they would have brought the product to market, and would be making money now. I'm with you on those mixed emotions. If the Chinese really are smarter than our people, maybe we need to shut up...
[00:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic Leap Accuses Chinese Company of Copying Trade Secrets - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:27] <exec> 08└─If you can "steal" (copy) and face no consequences whatsoever, smart people will do just that.
[00:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:24] <exec> 08└─AT&T was broken up in the early 1980s after a long anti-trust investigation. But not really broken up as for the most part the Boards of the "Baby Bells" were of the same few dozen people. Around the turn of the century they were all being gathered together again under the Southwestern Bell umbrella...
[00:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aston Martin CEO Claims Valkyrie Will Attempt a 'Ring Record, Report Says - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:40] <exec> 08└─It is tough when a car analogy is insufficient for the situation and we have to break out the gender studies textbook. What is the world coming to? :-)
[00:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Firefox 67.0.3 Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:15] <exec> 08└─They already have these for the 26 pin floppy cable (the pin version of the 26 pin Shugart edge connector?) How hard would it be to engineer one for these nuclear systems? If you can't use USB/SD or capacitive memory, like flash, there is still FRAM, available in 8 pin SPI packages. 512K chips in a...
[00:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record Efficiency for a Gas Engine - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:43] <exec> 08└─Honda had the EW5, the final engine in the series, which combined the previous carb'd generations CVCC with a 5 injector fuel injection setup, that netted an added 15-30 horsepower over the normal 4 injector EFI motor, and fuel economy closer to a Civic HF (I forget the EW model, wikipedia has it th...
[00:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06One Legacy of Carl Sagan May Take Flight Next Week—a Working Solar Sail - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:07] <exec> 08└─if zillions of them pass through the sail, there's a slight chance the payload will be affected :-p
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[01:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:34] <exec> 08└─Testing grounds to word the wrinkles out.
[01:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, those wrinkles will generate more than a few words (your typo).
[01:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:57] <exec> 08└─A lack of privacy, investigating, and tattling on your neighbors was the 'Communist thing to do.' Having to show your papers while traveling was the 'Communist thing to do.' Being punished for speaking out against authority was the 'Communist thing to do.' I'm sure a few of you can remember other 80...
[01:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:58] <exec> 08└─Well, given how shitty American "education" has become, I wonder how long the discoveries of people such as Galois and Rayleigh are incomprehensible to 99% of humanity. I wonder when we will reach the point of scientific regression rather than progression. You may laugh at soft sciences such as the...
[01:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:01] <exec> 08└─Off the smartphone and onto the full-size PC you no doubt bought him if you are willing to let him smoke weed in the house and do whatever the fuck else he wants. Parents tell you weed is bad and don't want you to be high around them because they want to engage your baseline state and make sure you'...
[01:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:03] <exec> 08└─I was intoxicated by speed at an early age--learned to drive at age 5 and was racing around in go-karts, building mini-bikes, and related speedy adventures (off road) until I could get a license to drive on the road at 16. Intoxicants aren't all chemical...
[01:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Data Localization = Caps On H-1B Visas - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:58] <exec> 08└─The way I see it, it's win-win for Americans. Indian men are obnoxiously arrogant, because the ones that shit in toilets, whether or not they eventually make it to the USA even as H1-B hires are the family golden-boys. Give them a little money and popularity on the world stage and it goes straight t...
[01:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 1608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:30] <exec> 08└─Everybody says things that are "over the edge." Have you ever had a bad day and said something like, "I want to kill that damn woman!" Of course you weren't going to kill that damn woman. People vent nonviolently, and they say irrational and often violent things and imagine nonsensical scenarios tha...
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[02:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:58] <exec> 08└─If I'm not in control, then I am not responsible. If I am not responsible, I'm not the one that needs to carry insurance. If I'm injured by the car, or the car injures someone, those responsible for making the car or designing the controls will be the ones on the hook. If they're not, I want no part...
[02:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:00] <exec> 08└─Florida, right? 4) Brandish and/or discharge sidearms when observing marginally aggressive behavior in traffic
[02:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:02] <exec> 08└─You reckon we should take the nav system out and lock it in a cabinet for ten years when it kills someone?
[02:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:04] <exec> 08└─> ... If I am not responsible, I'm not the one that needs to carry insurance. ... Looks like you (personally) aren't going to be buying any of these AI vehicles and signing the included EULA. Instead, you and many others will pay a premium price to the entity that owns the vehicle that you rent/leas...
[02:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:06] <exec> 08└─My prediction for the next fatality is an elderly person in a wheelchair.
[02:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data Localization = Caps On H-1B Visas - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:29] <exec> 08└─A not so long time ago there was a company that used its technological superiority to first make agreements with local governments to open their market and then after pushed for more and more favorable terms so that local manufacturing jobs died and the market was filled with the company made produc...
[02:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aston Martin CEO Claims Valkyrie Will Attempt a 'Ring Record, Report Says - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:14] <exec> 08└─IC has some time left. For example, the VW ID pure electric prototype set a recent 'Ring lap record, but you can bet that the battery was pretty well flat after that high speed run, and needed time to cool and recharge the batteries before going out again. Contrast that with an IC car that can run m...
[02:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:04] <exec> 08└─Actually, disciplining a government employee for non-work speech does qualify as a First Amendment violation. They can sue and possibly win.
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[03:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Supremacy and Nevin's Law - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:29] <exec> 08└─I remember reading about flying cars in Popular Mechanics as a kid when Scientific American was a serious magazine. Now Scientific American are just tech-cheerleaders. What's holding up that Bristlecone chip that was "previewed" over a year ago? Are there any scientific papers about it?
[03:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:01] <exec> 08└─That's why it's called The Sunshine State, sunshine ensures maximum wrinkles.
[03:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:26] <exec> 08└─Using intoxicants before then is not recommended for very obvious and medically sound reasons.
[03:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:28] <exec> 08└─Dude, I know a child of Doctor/Nurse parents - he's been on some serious ADHD meds his whole life, they stunted his growth, he's barely 5' tall. He's the nicest guy you'll ever want to meet, but he's got some pretty serious doormat issues - like: lets people take advantage of him all the time. The m...
[03:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:30] <exec> 08└─China is a very old, mature even, society. The United States is likely to become more like China, not less, in the future - regardless of labels like Capitalist, Communist, etc.
[03:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:32] <exec> 08└─Speed (go karts, and similar) are primarily an adrenaline releaser, though dopamine is a strong secondary, and the kind of sunshine wind in your hair you get from a convertible at speed triggers a serious seratonin surge. The best chemicals are released from within your own body, not taken in pills,...
[03:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:35] <exec> 08└─Alcohol messes with more than brain development, it screws up physical development as well. The truth of the matter is that we barely know anything about the real, total effects of any chemicals on anybody - not long-term, not really. We've barely started cataloging carcinogens, and can't yet make u...
[03:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:37] <exec> 08└─LSD was for true rebels decades ago. Today's true rebels synthesize their own drugs.
[03:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:00] <exec> 08└─My aunt worked for "The Phone Company" for many years. I even have some cherished tools that are labeled "Bell System". When that breakup happened, she had the option of going with AT&T or the local Bell operating company ("Baby Bells"). I forget what it was called then. It got gobbled up by the gro...
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[04:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Supremacy and Nevin's Law - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:26] <exec> 08└─Ask Google. Maybe they want a competitive advantage. Maybe the NSA has all the working quantum chips.
[04:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Supremacy and Nevin's Law - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:27] <exec> 08└─https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/the-case-against-quantum-computing [ieee.org]
[04:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Supremacy and Nevin's Law - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:29] <exec> 08└─The thing is, "Nevin's Law" is a bit less soundly based than "Moore's Law" was, and that wasn't soundly based at all. Additionally, for many kinds of problem, quantum computers have no advantage, and lots of drawbacks...and for this step I'm not even counting the fragile engineering and the need for...
[04:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:00] <exec> 08└─When AI can equal that, then autonomous cars will become mandatory in the most forward looking states.
[04:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:02] <exec> 08└─autonomous cars will become mandatory in the most heavily bribed states.
[04:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:04] <exec> 08└─And yet you can expect them to protect traffic citation revenue. Dash cams have been an annoyance, providing pesky evidence of citations being issued for 10+ mph over the clocked speed. They can just order that inadmissible. What happens when it's either the 'owner', Waymo or the municipality has to...
[04:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:06] <exec> 08└─> ... they alter signage to be contradictory Wow, where do you live? I'd like to know in advance to watch for inappropriate low speed limits, randomly around town. I'm outside Buffalo, NY and as far as I know that kind of crap doesn't happen here. With that said the cops in one town (Kenmore), are k...
[04:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:38] <exec> 08└─Alcohol messes with more than brain development, it screws up physical development as well. The truth of the matter is that we barely know anything about the real, total effects of any chemicals on anybody - not long-term, not really. We've barely started cataloging carcinogens, and can't yet make u...
[04:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:39] <exec> 08└─> if the government would get out of the way and let researchers study it You don't mention it, but I'm assuming you have read about some of the research done before LSD was outlawed? Leary was in on some of it and he was one smart guy (I had a chance to meet him in the mid-1980s, very together and...
[04:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 1494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:41] <exec> 08└─My memorable brain mush experience was when I went to the US for the first time after finishing school. At that time, in Germany, we only had about three state-sponsored programs, and I was exposed to dozens of channes of cable TV for the first time. Back then, MTV was still good, with actual music...
[04:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:43] <exec> 08└─You ooze nonsense spoon-fed to your brain-damaged psyche.
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[05:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debunked: The Absurd Story About Smartphones Causing Kids to Sprout Horns - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:22] <exec> 08└─What, no studies about the germ mutation petri dishes they call touch screens? No studies about blue LEDs burning out retinas? No studies about smart phones/twatter/facefook turning brains in to goop? Ah, this one must have been so "absurd" that the cell phone overlords didn't feel the need to throw...
[05:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Supremacy and Nevin's Law - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:33] <exec> 08└─So *that's* why they're cool with possibly getting defunded -- they can now run all their datamining right on their phones, and use the remaining computing power to mine the cryptocurrency of the week and arbitrage it. So obvious now that I think about it.
[05:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:10] <exec> 08└─Florida, right?
[05:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:12] <exec> 08└─Nah, this is Florida Man. The story is more likely to be something like: "Florida Man jaywalks while high on cocaine, struck by autonomous vehicle. Florida Man retaliates by pulling baby alligator from backpack and beats autonomous vehicle with it. Vehicle attempts to maneuver away, so Florida Man g...
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[05:15:14] <exec> 08└─[Citation needed] And no, Google's BS press releases don't count. I've been reading the actual detailed reports Google puts out for years, and these supposed AI vehicles are always driven many miles by human drivers (with AI off). There is often precious little documentation about why a human driver...
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[05:16:03] <exec> 08└─What the fuck is "tow a root".
[05:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:17] <exec> 08└─I'd settle for a toe tag....../s
[05:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aston Martin CEO Claims Valkyrie Will Attempt a 'Ring Record, Report Says - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:35] <exec> 08└─Totally need hot-swappable batteries.
[05:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:26] <exec> 08└─that r-teamer lincoln was putting journalists in jail just like trump! where is your free speech now?
[05:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:28] <exec> 08└─You misogynist! Phoenix666 is pro-rape!
[05:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record Efficiency for a Gas Engine - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:44] <exec> 08└─Wait till you hit 60, and that injector becomes a dribbler........(:
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[06:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debunked: The Absurd Story About Smartphones Causing Kids to Sprout Horns - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:28] <exec> 08└─I'm still waiting for the one about Antivirus software giving you digital autism.
[06:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:53] <exec> 08└─It just gets so much more dramatic if you're dosing organisms (and people are organisms) during development, since it can introduce developmental changes which last a lifetime.
[06:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:23] <exec> 08└─While you're right that political leanings are hard wired to a large degree, it's still a spectrum with a sizeable chunk in the middle who can be swayed either way, or into not voting. The other thing I've noticed, at least here in Canada, is the right is much more united and are likely to win the n...
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[06:17:24] <exec> 08└─Yup. When AT&T was pushing for a merger with T-Mobile, they also got caught lying -- they made claims how they needed T-Mo spectrum and such to complete their LTE upgrade, and stated how this would not reduce jobs but actually increase them. Then an AT&T memo was accidentally (or maybe "accidentally...
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[06:17:42] <exec> 08└─'Cause they're certainly hot...
[06:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:35] <exec> 08└─What a wonderful idea!
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[07:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sally_G [8170] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Debunked: The Absurd Story About Smartphones Causing Kids to Sprout Horns - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:17] <exec> 08└─The growth of horns is spurred by attending Black Mass, and worshipping Satan. People were growing horns long before there was electricity!
[07:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:08] <exec> 08└─That sounds more like Los Angeles. Number 4 would be more of an accessory [digitaljournal.com] for passengers with little time to spare in their busy lives.
[07:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Someone Just Hard Forked Facebook’s Libra Coin over Democratic Issues - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:00] <exec> 08└─Libra isn't even running yet - there's only a test net. A "hard fork" makes zero sense. And just who is going to be running the servers for this? For Libra, it's the not-for-profit association based in Switzerland. Since Libra is open source, there will be another dozen or hundred forks - but the is...
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[08:14:25] <exec> 08└─Growth of horns is also spurred by belonging to Homestuck fandom.
[08:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debunked: The Absurd Story About Smartphones Causing Kids to Sprout Horns - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:26] <exec> 08└─There will be an app to vaccinate you, and the anti-vaxxers will come out in droves to denounce it!
[08:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Supremacy and Nevin's Law - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:38] <exec> 08└─I do not care what they SAY they need to simulate some unnamed "test" of some undescribed "quantum chip". What I could care about, is an example - ANY example - of a practical application. THEN we could compare what it costs in HW, time and money.
[08:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Nvidia Supercomputer to Crunch Autonomous Vehicles Data - 1477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:45] <exec> 08└─“Listen,” said Ford, who was still engrossed in the sales brochure, “they make a big thing of the ship's cybernetics. A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature.” “GPP feature?” said Arthur. “What's that?” “Oh, it says Genuine...
[08:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sally_G [8170] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:55] <exec> 08└─How did they ever manage to fund such an exhaustive study? That's like, what, the entire populaton of a very small high school's senior class? Did they control for mothers who used/abused drugs before the kids were born? https://jaacap.org(18)31910-5/fulltext [jaacap.org] It appea...
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[09:14:28] <exec> 08└─As in all things, Eco addressed this, in his Novel Baudolino [wikipedia.org] , where the only way to attract a Unicorn was with a virgin. And a unicorn was actually what is attracted to virgins. Kind of makes sense of the entire mythos, if you are not into snipe hunting, and gay nights in the forest...
[09:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Magic Leap Accuses Chinese Company of Copying Trade Secrets - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:24] <exec> 08└─Remember, this is Magic Leap that we're talking about. They're very high on hype, but their rigged demos are worse than their competitor's shipping products.
[09:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Article: Random Uniform Experiment for the Masses - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:54] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if it was about this project, but was something similar, the review said: "It's a instresting source of random bits but not intended for cryptographic uses". But according with the creators, it is a good source for cryptography: Every other existing randomness beacon is generated by an...
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[10:14:32] <exec> 08└─i have an occipital bump. They are genetically inherited. It has been there since before i was born, certainly long before cell phones and tablets.
[10:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debunked: The Absurd Story About Smartphones Causing Kids to Sprout Horns - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:34] <exec> 08└─Do you get good reception with that bump?
[10:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data Localization = Caps On H-1B Visas - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:04] <exec> 08└─And then (somehow nobody can add 2 plus 2)... spam and scam calls from: India / Pakistan. duh! your outsourced dollars at work
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[11:14:17] <exec> 08└─It's obvious to most of the SN crowd, but it cannot be stressed enough: email can deliver phishing and ransomware attacks (among other nastiness). Users are the weakest link. Training is so very, very important but it's still not enough when employees are in a rush or not paying attention. Make sure...
[11:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:05] <exec> 08└─To your point about doormat issues: a lot of ADHD kids have bad self esteem because it is hard for them to read social cues or control their behavior to match social expectations of others. It can be hard to make and keep friends for them. Some compensate by being too generous. This has nothing to d...
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[11:18:47] <exec> 08└─Racism has not gotten worse. You have many more mixed race marriages as compared to decades past and it's not that big a deal, just as one example. What HAS changed is that the far Left has taken control and it is especially true in media establishments. So you get this CONSTANT drumbeat of racism,...
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[12:14:34] <exec> 08└─Our current system of aircraft design and certification has failed us,"
[12:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debunked: The Absurd Story About Smartphones Causing Kids to Sprout Horns - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:49] <exec> 08└─The real question is "Will these bone spurs keep me from serving in the military?"
[12:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Supremacy and Nevin's Law - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:03] <exec> 08└─I'm not current in cryptocurrency (meaning, I haven't looked deep into it for about 90 days), but so much of the crypto market's tech is based on signatures that are relatively easily broken by a powerful quantum computer. Of course there are "quantum safe" crypto signatures that will, in theory, ju...
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[12:16:22] <exec> 08└─Dramatic isn't necessarily bad. What does blow me away is how we take something like MJ which has a relatively long track record of relatively little serious or permanent harm and we ban it from all use, but we turn around and feed our newborns formula made from all kinds of experimental shit and th...
[12:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Someone Just Hard Forked Facebook’s Libra Coin over Democratic Issues - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:39] <exec> 08└─That's when you hook a chain up to your pick-up truck and try to pull a stump out of your cousin's yard.
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[12:17:55] <exec> 08└─is the right is much more united and are likely to win the next election due to the centre and left being divided
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[13:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Rises Above $10,000 for the First Time in a Year - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:12] <exec> 08└─for the guy that mortgaged his house to invest in BTC [cointelegraph.com]. Oh well.
[13:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Rises Above $10,000 for the First Time in a Year - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:13] <exec> 08└─Gently up the curve Tumbly tumbly down it goes not so gently down again. Until the actual use of x is in balance with the investment of x, it ain't an investment. But it is fun to watch.
[13:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Rises Above $10,000 for the First Time in a Year - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:15] <exec> 08└─A fool and his money are soon parted.
[13:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Rises Above $10,000 for the First Time in a Year - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:18] <exec> 08└─Only idiots would use bitcoin, it never even had a chance which is so obvious to anyone with a brain.
[13:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Rises Above $10,000 for the First Time in a Year - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:20] <exec> 08└─More accurately, the experiment that Bitcoin is finished long before the time the public got wind of it. The way it is being used now does not make any more sense than the pogs craze a while back.
[13:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Rises Above $10,000 for the First Time in a Year - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:22] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin is being used exactly as predicted by satoshi, so not sure what you are talking about. Go read bitcoin talk forum from 2009-2012, everything that is happening now was discussed and predicted from the beginning. The forks, the alt coins, the coming (again) high tx fees, the high price, everyt...
[13:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Rises Above $10,000 for the First Time in a Year - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:24] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin is rising because the federal reserve indicated they are going to cut the already low (historically) federal funds rate this year when stocks are already at an all time high and inflation and unemployment are supposedly very low. Gold is at 6 yr highs too.
[13:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian City Loses $500,000 to Phishing Attack - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:33] <exec> 08└─I like this: ANOTHER city gets taken for cash, someone says more training is needed and they are modded Redundant! Obviously not Redundant enough!, lol.
[13:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Canadian City Loses $500,000 to Phishing Attack - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:35] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a cya release to hide the fact that some Nigerian Prince sent the guy an email from a gmail account asking for this transfer and he fell for it. I've seen far too many incompetent morons in senior management in my life not to believe this was a fool and the cities money that were so...
[13:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian City Loses $500,000 to Phishing Attack - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:37] <exec> 08└─They should have know they would be modded "Redundant" if they knew enough to start with "It's obvious to most of the SN crowd".
[13:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger and Boeing 737 Max News - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:46] <exec> 08└─Also, the people in charge of Boeing’s system of aircraft design and certification have failed us. Why haven’t they been fired?
[13:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debunked: The Absurd Story About Smartphones Causing Kids to Sprout Horns - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:01] <exec> 08└─I thought this happened when they become teenagers?
[13:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debunked: The Absurd Story About Smartphones Causing Kids to Sprout Horns - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:03] <exec> 08└─Phew
[13:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Supremacy and Nevin's Law - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:17] <exec> 08└─You lost trees too, I can feel it. I lost many. That damned beetle TOOK them. Dozens, just on my 1 acre lot. They're GONE, and almost as bad was the sudden emergence of woodpeckers that came with them. I used to think the laugh in Woody Woodpecker was made up, but no.. they sorta sound like that. An...
[13:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Nvidia Supercomputer to Crunch Autonomous Vehicles Data - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:25] <exec> 08└─But who wants to deal with nvidia and all their lies and backstabbing partners/investors to use this stuff?
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[14:14:30] <exec> 08└─Maybe this https://www.genolve.com [genolve.com]
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[14:14:41] <exec> 08└─Scott County Schools victim of $3.7 million scam [wkyt.com] OR if you prefer: from Google [google.com] Though they have said lately that they are getting the money "back".
[14:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger and Boeing 737 Max News - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:51] <exec> 08└─> Why haven’t they been fired? The FAA employees who review designs and do the certification? Pretty hard to fire a gov't employee.
[14:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger and Boeing 737 Max News - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:53] <exec> 08└─This plane is too big of a story for any one story to capture it. The CEO apologizes, huh? Well, apologies aren't bringing anyone back from the grave, are they? This thing has to cost Boeing, and it needs to cost them a lot. Early on, I kinda sided with them, but there is just too much bullshit from...
[14:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger and Boeing 737 Max News - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:55] <exec> 08└─> Also, the people in charge of Boeing’s system of aircraft design and certification have failed us. Absolutely agree. >Why haven’t they been fired? I feel that firing is much too soft. They need to spend time behind bars. I wonder how many of them are pilots themselves? I'd like all of them to...
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[14:15:13] <exec> 08└─maybe I've just found out why my phone has bad reception...
[14:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Supremacy and Nevin's Law - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:28] <exec> 08└─Additionally, for many kinds of problem, quantum computers have no advantage, and lots of drawbacks...and for this step I'm not even counting the fragile engineering and the need for cryogenic computing. Additionally, the engineering is fragile and cryogenics don't scale well into a small form facto...
[14:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Supremacy and Nevin's Law - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:30] <exec> 08└─The guy's case is a bit certain, had to be amended (see editor's note), and doesn't consider quantum machine learning. Repeating "10300 continuous parameters" seems to be for shock value. It doesn't mean you need that many variables, bytes of data storage, or whatever. I think we'll know that quantu...
[14:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Nvidia Supercomputer to Crunch Autonomous Vehicles Data - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:40] <exec> 08└─There are still some car companies that don't have their own autonomous development effort, and are not partnered with one of the large tech company efforts -- that's who nVidia is trying to attract. I think Intel may be doing something similar? A related question, would it be worse to deal with nVi...
[14:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Nvidia Supercomputer to Crunch Autonomous Vehicles Data - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:42] <exec> 08└─The HHGTTG dystopia is still a few (light) years off... Closer to home, I saw something recently about relatively small sounding tweaks to the organization of back propagating neural networks. The idea was to add a touch more "intelligence" to the pattern recognition and the claim was it would reduc...
[14:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:30] <exec> 08└─The real job creators have always been little people. Small businesses, small-time inventors, and entrepreneurs. In the news, we see a steady stream of startups, being bought out by the corporates. Where did these startups come from? They were all just small town people with an idea to do something...
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[14:19:43] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure - have you ever worn a uniform? I know you're familiar with troops, but, you? Anyway, while I wore the uniform, I was perfectly free to vent when I needed to. There were times and places when venting had to be done in very respectful ways, if at all. There were times and places when ven...
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[14:19:44] <exec> 08└─One does not "nurture" hate. One tolerates it. If you "nurture" hate, then you are in fact a hater. A Ghandi, a Nelson, a King, "tolerated" hatred, while preaching a better message, in an attempt to counter the hatred. You most certainly don't battle the hatred. Doing so only validates the hate. Nee...
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[15:14:13] <exec> 08└─My wise old hacker (in the MIT tradition) friend always said, "Those who live by the un-backed-up hard disk, die by the un-backed-up hard disk. The only difference in this case is that innocent tax payers have to shoulder the cost. If I go to a town meeting, I think I'm going to ask them for details...
[15:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tale of Two Cities: Why Ransomware Will Just Get Worse - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:14] <exec> 08└─Wasn't something M$ was big on pushing in the 90s? But I'm getting old, that will be a battle the millennials will have to continue.
[15:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Rises Above $10,000 for the First Time in a Year - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:30] <exec> 08└─Satoshi predicted the drugs, passports and ransom economy?
[15:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Rises Above $10,000 for the First Time in a Year - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:31] <exec> 08└─No one needs to predict that black markets will use whatever type of money is available to them.
[15:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Rises Above $10,000 for the First Time in a Year - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:33] <exec> 08└─It's easy to trade Bitcoins for other non-repudiable commodities.
[15:15:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06Quantum Supremacy and Nevin's Law - 598 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:22] <exec> 08└─The thing is, "Nevin's Law" is a bit less soundly based than "Moore's Law" was, and that wasn't soundly based at all. Additionally, for many kinds of problem, quantum computers have no advantage, and lots of drawbacks...and for this step I'm not even counting the fragile engineering and the need for...
[15:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aston Martin CEO Claims Valkyrie Will Attempt a 'Ring Record, Report Says - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:45] <exec> 08└─Yep, the world will be a better place when charging stations stock dozens of different sized and different voltage battery packs for the wide variety of different size and shape vehicles. NOT. What company could possibly come up with the investment to support all those batteries sitting around? Just...
[15:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 1200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:42] <exec> 08└─The racism. Has it actually gotten worse? Honestly, I don't think so. My wife and her sisters can remember signs from their youth, "Nigger, don't let the sun set on your ass in this town!" There were lynchings, within our lifetimes. Today? Nope. Nada. Not even the ignorant macho rednecks I live amon...
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[15:19:43] <exec> 08└─No because those "opinions" indicate psychological disorders that disqualify the person for the job. There are plenty of jobs that place limitations on people's freedoms.
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[16:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tale of Two Cities: Why Ransomware Will Just Get Worse - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:18] <exec> 08└─Is this why bitcoin are over $10k again? Ransomeware targeting townships all across the land (or western world or whatnot). Coincident?
[16:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Tale of Two Cities: Why Ransomware Will Just Get Worse - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:19] <exec> 08└─"Any data you have in only one place, you don't have"
[16:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tale of Two Cities: Why Ransomware Will Just Get Worse - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:21] <exec> 08└─Probably not. Bitcoin is far from anonymous. It is quite trackable. Some of the other cryptocurrencies do support anonymity. You'd have to check to see if they are on the rise instead.
[16:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Rises Above $10,000 for the First Time in a Year - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:39] <exec> 08└─I still have my pogs collection... Waiting for them to appreciate in value to pay for a new Lamborghini.
[16:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger and Boeing 737 Max News - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:01] <exec> 08└─Why haven’t they been fired?
[16:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debunked: The Absurd Story About Smartphones Causing Kids to Sprout Horns - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:21] <exec> 08└─Only when held the “right way”
[16:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debunked: The Absurd Story About Smartphones Causing Kids to Sprout Horns - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:23] <exec> 08└─I wanted horns, dammit. Just not sure which brand phone. Samsung was offering me these sweet rams' horns, curling back. Apple was going to give me long, sharp oryx horns. And those open source phone guys were telling me I could do whatever I want - kudu horns maybe? Would have been sweet.
[16:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Someone Just Hard Forked Facebook’s Libra Coin over Democratic Issues - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:16] <exec> 08└─Don't underestimate it. It has some powerful backers.
[16:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Someone Just Hard Forked Facebook’s Libra Coin over Democratic Issues - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:18] <exec> 08└─Still wont touch it tho... spawn of evil is still evil
[16:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Lays Off Thousands After Nabbing Billions In Tax Breaks And Regulatory Favors - 1568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:37] <exec> 08└─Well, the right has split up here a few times, extreme right and centre right, the left gets in, and the right freak out, blame all the problems on the left and reunite, usually as more extreme right. Alberta is a good case, 30 years of conservative rule, lowering taxes, giving away resources, not i...
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[17:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tale of Two Cities: Why Ransomware Will Just Get Worse - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:24] <exec> 08└─My hard drive got infested with mute ants, they would just pour in and out silently.
[17:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tale of Two Cities: Why Ransomware Will Just Get Worse - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:25] <exec> 08└─There's no point in idiot proofing your network. Someone will breed a better idiot.
[17:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tale of Two Cities: Why Ransomware Will Just Get Worse - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:27] <exec> 08└─It is always a temptation For a rich and lazy nation...
[17:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tale of Two Cities: Why Ransomware Will Just Get Worse - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but tracking the transaction to "was spent in Romania" effectively means it was anonymous. Unless you taint all descendants from that transaction, and are able to recover money from criminal transactions from people who have later accepted tainted buttcoin. It may be possible to do that in hig...
[17:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tale of Two Cities: Why Ransomware Will Just Get Worse - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:32] <exec> 08└─This is the best tl;dr I could make of your post, original reduced by 99%. (I'm a bot) Orange man bad. I love being scammed by banks.
[17:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Rises Above $10,000 for the First Time in a Year - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:50] <exec> 08└─Interest rates need to be low so I can borrow more money to pay for my bitcoin mining electric bill.
[17:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Rises Above $10,000 for the First Time in a Year - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:52] <exec> 08└─Interest rates need to be low because treasury yields are plummeting.
[17:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger and Boeing 737 Max News - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:16] <exec> 08└─But they're our only remaining civil aviation manufacturer. The government will not hurt them too badly.
[17:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debunked: The Absurd Story About Smartphones Causing Kids to Sprout Horns - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:39] <exec> 08└─Never get in the way of the news trying to make something up that sounds good. The story sounded plausible. The story had about 2 seconds of vetting before going up. Got to make those deadlines you know. It makes people feel better/worse about themselves. Emotional content is best. It keeps people c...
[17:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debunked: The Absurd Story About Smartphones Causing Kids to Sprout Horns - 2901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:40] <exec> 08└─The real story was that some sort of conspiracy theory peddling website that makes its money through invasive and full screen advertising had taken a legit story about actual bone spurs growing in young people's necks as a result of frequently hunching in the same position to look at their phone. It...
[17:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Supremacy and Nevin's Law - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:57] <exec> 08└─Room temperature quantum chips, if they come, which is, indeed, likely, would certainly change my argument. Then I'd be arguing that they'd be co-processors rather like GPUs, highly useful for certain jobs. Actually, a good enough room temperature quantum chip might actually totally replace current...
[17:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:42] <exec> 08└─I am not a racist or bigot. Unlike those people in Florida. If you can not see the irony you need a bit of self reflection.
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[18:14:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, so can whites and coloreds. Pretty amazing, isn't it? Biology is cool!
[18:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Narwhals and Belugas Can Interbreed - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:22] <exec> 08└─Depends on how horny the Narwhals are.
[18:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tale of Two Cities: Why Ransomware Will Just Get Worse - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:39] <exec> 08└─There should be large personal penalties against people who fail to produce or provide proper funding for backups. The real culprit is their own incompetence and corruption. They make computer crime a very lucrative business. So, fuck 'em! Time for lawsuits, not compassion!
[18:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tale of Two Cities: Why Ransomware Will Just Get Worse - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:41] <exec> 08└─It's a city. Someone else pays. You would hurt them more by forcing them to disband their 10 people IT team, and use some centralized state run system. Ten plum government jobs disappear, that will lead to a shakeup among the connected.
[18:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tale of Two Cities: Why Ransomware Will Just Get Worse - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:43] <exec> 08└─They will all just be transferred to a new division of the code enforcement office.
[18:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Rises Above $10,000 for the First Time in a Year - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:04] <exec> 08└─Sure. If I hold buttcoin, and someone is willing to give me cash for buttcoin, so he can buy CP, I can use the cash to buy gold. By transitivity I can be said to be buying gold for buttcoin. Just that the person who is parting with something real and legal is going to do so for cash.
[18:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Rises Above $10,000 for the First Time in a Year - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:05] <exec> 08└─Yea... As I sit on a couch bought with bitcoin and just wiped my ass with toilet paper bought with it and then washed my hands with soap I got for bitcoin too.
[18:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debunked: The Absurd Story About Smartphones Causing Kids to Sprout Horns - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:54] <exec> 08└─My theory is the kids have been finding chemtrail powder in the woods while doing their satanic rituals and huffing it, a side effect of which is horn growth.
[18:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles Cleared to Operate in Florida - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:57] <exec> 08└─Make it look like an accident.
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[19:14:33] <exec> 08└─It's a city. Someone else pays. Yeah, the voters. And they should pay for (re)electing incompetent and corrupt people. Make them think twice before voting themselves another handout.
[19:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Rises Above $10,000 for the First Time in a Year - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:56] <exec> 08└─Shit, I forgot. I even paid the next 5 months rent with bitcoin.
[19:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger and Boeing 737 Max News - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:22] <exec> 08└─MBA's Vs Engineers MBA's win. Profit over people.
[19:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data Localization = Caps On H-1B Visas - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:33] <exec> 08└─Your weakness is not white people's weakness. They seem to be doing better than everyone from the looks of it, and without deserving it.
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[20:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Soldiers on, Announces Nova 5 and Kirin 810 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:22] <exec> 08└─With the exception of a few models and vendors (unfortunately Huawei included), most phones come with open / unlockable boot loaders letting you install whatever you'd like.
[20:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Soldiers on, Announces Nova 5 and Kirin 810 - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:24] <exec> 08└─Huawei wants to install "security updates" while knowing the phones that receive it will be the last phones they will ever have sold into the US? Would you trust this software from a vendor banned from the US for spying on its customers?
[20:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Soldiers on, Announces Nova 5 and Kirin 810 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:26] <exec> 08└─You may want to work on your grammer.
[20:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Narwhals and Belugas Can Interbreed - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:35] <exec> 08└─Where Joel finds a frozen woolly mammoth and goes off to call in an expert only to come back and find Walt having a barbecue and mentioning mammoth meat is the tastiest and he's been waiting for it to thaw for years.
[20:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger and Boeing 737 Max News - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the other aviation manufacturers are far too impolite.
[20:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debunked: The Absurd Story About Smartphones Causing Kids to Sprout Horns - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:09] <exec> 08└─The real story was that some sort of conspiracy theory peddling website that makes its money through invasive and full screen advertising had taken a legit story about actual bone spurs growing in young people's necks as a result of frequently hunching in the same position to look at their phone.
[20:17:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Early/Regular Cannabis Use by Youth Associated With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits - 1176 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:27] <exec> 08└─With Alteration in Cognitive Control Brain Circuits. How come we don't see headlines like that as well? Note that I'm not advocating regular cannabis use by kids. Merely pointing out that *regular* use of *any* mind-altering substances can have deleterious effects on developing brains. That said, wh...
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[21:14:25] <exec> 08└─Huawei Has Largest 5G Patent Portfolio – Starting to Flex IPR Muscle [wccftech.com] In an interesting development in the US – China trade war this week, it emerged that Huawei is asking Verizon for $1 billion for using its 5G patents. While this would normally just be a corporate discussion and...
[21:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Soldiers on, Announces Nova 5 and Kirin 810 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:27] <exec> 08└─Which is why we need to skip straight to 6G as the President suggested.
[21:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Soldiers on, Announces Nova 5 and Kirin 810 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:29] <exec> 08└─FTFY... You may want to work on you grammar.
[21:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Soldiers on, Announces Nova 5 and Kirin 810 - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:31] <exec> 08└─I trust everyone who was bullied, banned, subjected to sanctions, or directly attacked by US. By principle of past experience.
[21:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Soldiers on, Announces Nova 5 and Kirin 810 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:33] <exec> 08└─Why not 7G? It's been already part of Mars after all, you know...
[21:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Soldiers on, Announces Nova 5 and Kirin 810 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:35] <exec> 08└─Speaking of which, I don't think IPv6 has enough addresses for the galactic empire.
[21:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Huawei Soldiers on, Announces Nova 5 and Kirin 810 - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:37] <exec> 08└─It's a smartphone. If the parent company's not spying on you by default something is very wrong. Huawei isn't suddenly free of spying because they got banned but the competitors are now less likeable because of the hypocrisy.
[21:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tale of Two Cities: Why Ransomware Will Just Get Worse - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:07] <exec> 08└─This is incredibly important. The elected official may not have directly been the one who failed to patch a security hole, or the one who approved some service be left wide open, but they are responsible for the people who work directly under them and general policies. In practice, they bring in the...
[21:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debunked: The Absurd Story About Smartphones Causing Kids to Sprout Horns - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:22] <exec> 08└─Uh hey, incidentally, has anyone else come to the conclusion Ars Technica is going downhill compared to how they were just a few years ago?
[21:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06 Nvidia Supercomputer to Crunch Autonomous Vehicles Data - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:50] <exec> 08└─It's very expensive to design your own. You'd have to, essentially, recreate some of Nvidia, with its labs, people and skills. Just the conductive cooling will cost you; then the bus. Don't forget, the whole thing is rated for high vibration. Think about the time to market - Nvidia has it now, you a...
[21:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Magic Leap Accuses Chinese Company of Copying Trade Secrets - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:36] <exec> 08└─But, but, they had to rig their demos because the Chinese ate their homework!
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[22:14:23] <exec> 08└─It goes to 11 "(with maximum value of 100 kΩ, which is controlled by a knob that ranges from 1 to 11)"
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[22:14:25] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjK5d0_Yd8Y [youtube.com]
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[22:14:27] <exec> 08└─I am also much more sensitive when in an especially excited state.
[22:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Soldiers on, Announces Nova 5 and Kirin 810 - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:45] <exec> 08└─USA - 400 million EU - 500 million and Huawei smile, because: China - 1.2 billion India - 1.2 billion Africa - 1 billion Who cares if the small, increasingly irrelevant markets "boycott" the brand?
[22:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Soldiers on, Announces Nova 5 and Kirin 810 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:46] <exec> 08└─Poor people outnumber rich people in the most populous countries. Businesses target disposable income, not bodies.
[22:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tale of Two Cities: Why Ransomware Will Just Get Worse - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:18] <exec> 08└─There's better idiots, and better trained (better) idiots. Maybe: The idiot users should start at the outer ring, moving in once they're better trainedThe idiot sysadmins similarlyThe idiot system architects, well, just convince the management that it's better off having no architect than an idiot o...
[22:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Aston Martin CEO Claims Valkyrie Will Attempt a 'Ring Record, Report Says - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:18] <exec> 08└─Most fuel pumps today are actually mixing pumps. There is a giant tank of gasoline and a giant tank of anhydrous ethanol (and one giant tank of diesel if they offer that too). The pump then mixes them together based on what fuel type is selected at the pump.
[22:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Group Compiled Police Officers' Offensive Facebook Posts; Now Departments are Taking Action - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:17] <exec> 08└─Actually, a police officer is never "off-work".
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[23:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We’re One Step Closer to Atomic Radio - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:20] <exec> 08└─We could have radio tuners built into laptops and smartphones.
[23:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We’re One Step Closer to Atomic Radio - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:21] <exec> 08└─> That means, in principle, that Rydberg atoms could receive and play back radio signals. As radio is an EM wave, then they are saying that the atoms are capable of absorbing EM radiation. I wonder what the minimum wavelength is. Small enough that we could absorb higher frequency EM waves, like ligh...
[23:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We’re One Step Closer to Atomic Radio - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:23] <exec> 08└─by using an atom-based receiver to make a stereo recording of music streamed into the laboratory—namely, Queen's "Under Pressure."
[23:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We’re One Step Closer to Atomic Radio - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:25] <exec> 08└─Signal to noise ratio has been and will always be a limiting factor in radio communications. An atom sized antenna can’t fix this... unless it’s a “smart” atom that knows the difference between signal and noise. Oh wait! It’s quantum! Yeah, sure...
[23:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Soldiers on, Announces Nova 5 and Kirin 810 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:45] <exec> 08└─I hope you’re not in charge of any airports.
[23:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Soldiers on, Announces Nova 5 and Kirin 810 - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:46] <exec> 08└─So what is better? Sell 10 million $100 phones into an economy that is "poor" but will be boosted by the tech to new levels, OR, sell 1 million $1000 phones into a saturated, mature, tech-savvy market. Think long term, not next election.
[23:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Soldiers on, Announces Nova 5 and Kirin 810 - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:49] <exec> 08└─Oh. Samsung? Locked down hard in most markets. And most phones comes pre-loaded with unremovable apps like Facebook.... :( We really DO need freedom of choice in this area. Android itself is also 100% Google, same problems as are hitting headlines about Chrome, possibly worse.
[23:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Soldiers on, Announces Nova 5 and Kirin 810 - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:51] <exec> 08└─Just leave this insufficient technology lying around near the Big Auto guys. Result: IP V12 Turbo. Efficient, no. Good sounding for marketing-speak, yes.
[23:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Soldiers on, Announces Nova 5 and Kirin 810 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:53] <exec> 08└─Think long term, not next election.
[23:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Soldiers on, Announces Nova 5 and Kirin 810 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:55] <exec> 08└─"Poor" people are the growth market. The developed countries have been saturated by smartphones.
[23:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Capt. 'Sully' Sullenberger and Boeing 737 Max News - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:15] <exec> 08└─No safety features should ever be optional. If that increases the cost of the plane then so be it
[23:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Data Localization = Caps On H-1B Visas - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:37] <exec> 08└─Shut da fukk up whitey.
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