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[00:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:14] <exec> 08└─*Who's gonna stop them?*
[00:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:16] <exec> 08└─found an IBM paper produced by IBM's lab in China where they explained how they were able to monitor prison population on a scale larger than anybody else ever. It was just that - a very technical paper.
[00:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:18] <exec> 08└─You sound like a company man.
[00:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:20] <exec> 08└─To muddy the waters more: Can you blame the engineers?
[00:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:22] <exec> 08└─That's been tried countless times before. At best success is fleeting.
[00:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:25] <exec> 08└─It has to get bad enough to get the populace to act en masse. Like the French had to. The rich 1% use pens. The other 99% have to build guillotines.
[00:23:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 366 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:48] <exec> 08└─I have "ripped" content even when I had the legit disc or streaming service available. Netflix is $9-$16 per month, with the cheapest plan offering only SD content. The point isn't the cost of Netflix (which has increased several times), but the balkanization of streaming services, each with their o...
[00:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:48] <exec> 08└─Well, telegram refused to play Russian security game but it is alive as well so far. Perhaps, one needs better engineers and bolder managers.
[00:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:49] <exec> 08└─I prefer old school downloading not only because the quality is better, but because it forces me to choose what I want to watch in advance as opposed to mindlessly staring at the screen. I do realize that degrading the consumer is an important goal which forces them to promote all kinds of instant s...
[00:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:51] <exec> 08└─I used to rip dvd's from netflix just to avoid watching previews and fbi warnings.
[00:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:53] <exec> 08└─In short, you want ownership rights as opposed to usage ones. That's the main difference between capitalism and socialism. We do build socialism and most don't even notice. For example, one owns money as gold, while fiat money is just a use right.
[00:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:55] <exec> 08└─Netflix's inability to do subtitles was the main reason I quit it for good.
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[00:25:42] <exec> 08└─Once the bugs are worked out, the device is now considered "mature" and discontinued.
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[01:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:25] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, even engineers will whore themselves out. This is why money is so desired. It can make a whore of damned near anyone.
[01:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Approves $5 Billion Fine Against Facebook - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:15] <exec> 08└─A paltry 4% is weak and will be ignored by many companies. The very low cap prevents the legislation from having real strength.
[01:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:56] <exec> 08└─If true, that's really cool! That means there is still hope.
[01:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:57] <exec> 08└─Actually, you can't be sure that Telegram was being truthful with it's users. Where is/was the canary switch? PIA tried to negotiate with Russia, Russia refused to negotiate, so PIA pulled out. They made it quite clear that Russia would not permit them to remain in operation, unless PIA buckled unde...
[01:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:00] <exec> 08└─For as much as anybody can be sure about anything in politics, I am reasonably sure telegram is not compromised yet. The reason mostly is that a lot of very powerful bureaucrats lost their face in the battle and they are still in power. If/when they got what they want, they wil advertise it, I belie...
[01:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:02] <exec> 08└─both! [youtube.com]
[01:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water and Green Energy Produced by a Single Device - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:23] <exec> 08└─Actually, the plan is to pipe water from Canada too https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] No need for fancy tech at all.
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[02:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spooky Photograph - Bell Quantum Entanglement Image Captured - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:05] <exec> 08└─Someone photocopied their lips.
[02:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:27] <exec> 08└─Do you take money to do a job, under direction from someone, whoch may, or may not, be in the best interests of your customer/society/the planet? We are all already whores, all we're discussing here is thresholds and boundaries.
[02:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:29] <exec> 08└─Jews are all for making money, except when they do their historical thing of pissing off too many people to make money without being shoo'd out or executed.
[02:23:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Approves $5 Billion Fine Against Facebook - 809 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:07] <exec> 08└─It's revenue, not profit, so the impact felt by Facebook is likely to be much greater than some people are making out. According to a quick search, Facebook's last declared quarterly profit was $6.9b, so this is roughly 20% of what they are actually making each year; that's going to put a dent in an...
[02:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Approves $5 Billion Fine Against Facebook - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:20] <exec> 08└─Which still means they're not in the red and therefore have no incentive to stop what they're doing.
[02:24:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:27] <exec> 08└─What's so great about it? I know how popular it is but the appeal totally seems to bypass me. Do you need to be a people person? Someone please explain it.
[02:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Explores Hyperloop One System to Connect the Triangle - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:20] <exec> 08└─Duke University just scuttled a decades-long attempt to bring rail to the Triangle area of North Carolina. Presumably, the point of looking at Hyperloop is not for speed, but for going underground and bypassing all the issues of obtaining an above ground path.
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[03:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spooky Photograph - Bell Quantum Entanglement Image Captured - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:10] <exec> 08└─I know, there's a whole community of "really smart guys" from Einstein on down who have looked at this and nodded, but, it all stems from Bell's Inequality: No physical theory of local hidden variables can ever reproduce all of the predictions of quantum mechanics.
[03:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:34] <exec> 08└─Interviewee: "So this CEO of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, what kind of corporate culture does she promote? Interviewer: "Uh, well ..." Interviewee: "Oh, I'm sorry, it's just "Thanos", and he's the CEO himself?" Interviewer: "So ... we match 401k up to the full employer-sponsored maximum. Big yearly b...
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[03:22:35] <exec> 08└─Many argue that IBM was duped into all of that work.
[03:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Carolina Explores Hyperloop One System to Connect the Triangle - 2813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:25] <exec> 08└─Bigotry aside, most people just plain do not like change. There's always a few vested interests that think they will be hurt by a change, whether or not they really will, and will oppose it by every means they can, their own welfare, principles, and the high road be damned. That kind of opposition i...
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[04:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:08] <exec> 08└─It's called "deflation." The market expects things will go from bad to worse.
[04:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:10] <exec> 08└─As soon as the stock markets come to their senses and correct to something a little closer to actual value, bonds will be in demand again.
[04:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:12] <exec> 08└─They have to move all money to electronic storage to make this insanity even wobble along for a few more years. Pallets of cash "earn" more than bonds, even after accounting for the security and insurance. So it has to go, because we must have a fully debt based money. Why? Who said so? Don't ask, j...
[04:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:14] <exec> 08└─But.. it's Bloomberg. The company that makes up tech stories all the time for clicks. EG, the whole supermicro story. Stories from bloomberg should be ignored, really.
[04:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:47] <exec> 08└─The other 99% have to build guillotines. contribute latelly to the workwear industry (highvis clothing branch)
[04:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:49] <exec> 08└─Blame the evil "capitalists"... This makes it easier for everyone living in the real world.
[04:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:51] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, even engineers will whore themselves out.
[04:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microbiome-Testing Startup uBiome Lays Off 114 Employees - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:01] <exec> 08└─https://medcitynews.com/2019/07/the-precipitous-decline-of-once-promising-microbiome-startup-ubiome/ [medcitynews.com] So double billing and re-use of older tests to bump numbers. Yeah that's fraud. "lied about their age" Simple lies turn into large ones. Almost always. If you see nothing wrong with...
[04:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MyGov Australia Goes Down at Tax Time for the Second Year in a Row - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:57] <exec> 08└─Shit. You're right. Good thing MariaDB forked then, eh?
[04:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Explores Hyperloop One System to Connect the Triangle - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:42] <exec> 08└─You mean the one with the cost overruns before they even started? Or the one where they have to bulldoze thousands of homes because the existing rails can not be used? Or maybe they can just tear up more existing highways and add more toll roads. Or maybe you are talking about the one where they wan...
[04:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Las Vegas Autonomous Shuttle Crash Happened Due to Lack of Manual Control - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:16] <exec> 08└─Once the bugs are worked out, the device is now considered "mature" and discontinued.
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[04:26:17] <exec> 08└─Thanks, mod-point-giving AC. :) How about this explanation: as an engineer, the #1 thing I'm supposed to have on my resume is NOT how I improved a product, but how I cheapened, er, sorry, cost-minimized, something. Don't get me wrong, I'm all about efficiency in all ways, but the cost-cutting pressu...
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[05:22:12] <exec> 08└─It's called "deflation."
[05:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:14] <exec> 08└─Or let it trickle down in more productive ways [dilbert.com].
[05:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:16] <exec> 08└─The Empire will be destroyed by gold. Money is just an illusion for workforce and will be irrelevant in this event.
[05:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spooky Photograph - Bell Quantum Entanglement Image Captured - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:26] <exec> 08└─27 dimensions, a tetration of 3.
[05:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, I did. Did not like myself much, but I had bills to pay.
[05:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:56] <exec> 08└─Did not like myself much, but I had bills to pay.
[05:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Las Vegas Autonomous Shuttle Crash Happened Due to Lack of Manual Control - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:25] <exec> 08└─Long before IBM in the 1960s. My father worked at Vought before WWII. When the Navy requested bids for new carrier based planes, Vought proposed two designs and expected that the more conventional would win the competition. Instead the "vaporware" F4U Corsair gull wing concept won (although it was p...
[05:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03yuhong [6517] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Telemetry in Windows 7: Upgrade Readiness Deployment Script and DiagTrack - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:08] <exec> 08└─This telemetry has legitimate users, BTW: https://old.reddit.com [reddit.com]
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[06:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Successor to Spektr-R Space Telescope: Spektr-RG - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:03] <exec> 08└─This is the first space science win for Russia in a while, assuming it functions properly after reaching L2. They have a follow-up mission for ultraviolet wavelengths planned to launch in 2023: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] In 2025, they have Spektr-M for far infrared and E...
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[06:22:17] <exec> 08└─If investing in a sure thing is bad, wouldn't it encourage the little people to actually spend that money, or give it to people who will? Rather than park it in an investment bank where it gets aggregated into a financial market and just moves around rather than actually being put to work doing thin...
[06:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:18] <exec> 08└─Pallets of cash "earn" more than bonds
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[06:22:21] <exec> 08└─I hardly ever share your opinion, but I think you are right on the money here. The whole process is designed to boost money flow into the stock market (at least since St Obama's time). An earlier poster wondered why Netflix seemed to have an unlimited credit line to lose money, this is it.
[06:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03edinlinux [4637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:23] <exec> 08└─This is why govts and the big corps and banks are pushing so hard to get rid of cash... as soon as cash is gone, then interest rates can be negative as easily as they are positive... (they will just take it out of your account / smart-cash-card, each month..). They can't do that with real cash which...
[06:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:25] <exec> 08└─It is a very bad sign. Most everyday people don't invest in bonds of this type on a large scale. Basically, these are mostly for the class of large accounts that cannot have a standard savings account or hide money under mattresses; they have to invest in something. At the same time, bond rates are...
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[06:22:40] <exec> 08└─There are those who defend capitalism, religiously. It can do no wrong - if you're making money, then you're doing everything right. This news isn't really "news". It's been done before, if you know your history. Prior to the Second World War, IBM was in bed with the Nazis, cataloguing the populatio...
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[06:25:57] <exec> 08└─I was willing to believe you about the graft until you lied about the charlotte one the next sentence. The Charlotte light rail has been nothing but an unqualified success, on budget, over expected ridership, easy to use. The growing pains of construction are always real, but the long term alleviati...
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[07:22:06] <exec> 08└─Spektr-RG
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[07:22:26] <exec> 08└─I honestly don't see what the problem is with deflation. I took intro to micro and macroeconomics when I was in college.. in 1999, so an interesting mix of "traditional" economic theory and denial over the dot-com bubble.. the econ book I had even featured a chapter praising the behavior of Enron as...
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[07:22:27] <exec> 08└─Its bad, because wages do not stay the same during deflation. What happens is people get laid off (more so when in weak deflationary economies like this), then cannot find another job at the same wage, so have to settle for something lower. Their debts (i.e. mortgage) however, did not go down. So it...
[07:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 1892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:29] <exec> 08└─No argument that cash depreciates at the inflation rate, that being the definition of inflation. But that is less than the return of negative interest, which was my point. That pallets of cash in a vault outperform bonds, and that ain't sustainable. Everybody knows the problem with deflation is that...
[07:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:31] <exec> 08└─People are told capitalism rewards hard work in school. The truth is right in the name, it rewards existing capital. That means that the most wealthy, those with the most capital, have the most power. They will never allow negative interest to be a universal thing. Since interest is a percentage it...
[07:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MyGov Australia Goes Down at Tax Time for the Second Year in a Row - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:19] <exec> 08└─The government needs to cater for the services it forces people to use.
[07:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MyGov Australia Goes Down at Tax Time for the Second Year in a Row - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:21] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is forked. Oracle wanted to fork MySQL but decided to marry instead.
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[08:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Approves $5 Billion Fine Against Facebook - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:01] <exec> 08└─4% of turnover is an odd number, because it really depends on the company's margins how much that will hurt. In a lot of industries, a 10% margin is considered very high, so 4% of turnover means 40% of profit. Facebook's profits have been somewhere between 20-50% of their turnover for the last few y...
[08:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:49] <exec> 08└─He's talking about discs purchased at actual stores containing mainstream content like blockbuster movies and tv series. Not kiddy porn.
[08:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:51] <exec> 08└─Same. The first season of Saiki [wikipedia.org] was excellent, but I've put watching the second and third on hold due to lack of subtitles. I usually multitask while watching anime so with subtitles I miss half of it.
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[09:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:04] <exec> 08└─No word on the carbon footprints of HTTPS, JavaScript, or advertising.
[09:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:05] <exec> 08└─save the planet
[09:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:07] <exec> 08└─No word on the carbon footprints of HTTPS, JavaScript, or advertising.
[09:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:09] <exec> 08└─One would indeed thing that HTTPS; Javascripts, just generally bloating webcode of sorts and advertisements are just completely dwarfed by streaming (audio, video or both) when it comes to size. Just watching more then a minute or two probably turns the code output to an insignificant number. One co...
[09:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:11] <exec> 08└─The transmission and viewing of online videos generates 300 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, or nearly 1 per cent of global emissions. On-demand video services such as Netflix account for a third of this, with online pornographic videos generating another third.
[09:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:14] <exec> 08└─or transnational "think tanks"?
[09:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:16] <exec> 08└─If there had been no streaming and all these people should instead go out and about and do things to get their required form of entertainment or fun
[09:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Launches Successor to Spektr-R Space Telescope: Spektr-RG - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:26] <exec> 08└─Isn't that name a little on-the-nose for a Russian spy satellite?
[09:22:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:40] <exec> 08└─Pallets of cash "earn" more than bonds
[09:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:49] <exec> 08└─It might not matter to the economy in general, but deflation is a huge problem for the currency that is deflating. Inflation promotes circulation. Deflation promotes accumulation. The standard joke is, the Fed can always print money and drop it from helicopters, but they seriously do have a the abil...
[09:23:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:16] <exec> 08└─To muddy the waters more: Can you blame the engineers?
[09:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:11] <exec> 08└─Even without recompressing, DVDs are not that big in comparison to modern disks. A DVD is typically about 7.5GB. That's around 130 DVDs per TB. A NAS with a RAID-Z configuration of three 4TB disks, can store over 1,000 DVDs. That's 40 feet of DVD shelf space to store them all in their boxes. Once yo...
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[10:23:23] <exec> 08└─No one believes in capitalism. Certainly not the companies that, when they grow large enough, bribe governments to keep out competitors so that they can keep their monopolies, and that receive government bailouts when they crash the economy. It's socialism for the mega-rich, and ruthless capitalism...
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[11:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Releases BIOS Fix to Motherboard Partners for Booting Newer Linux Distributions - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:04] <exec> 08└─... you were supposed to tell all the distros to just ditch systemd... not to provide a patch to its glitches.
[11:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:19] <exec> 08└─Be interesting to see someone make a wedge issue of javascript between coders and greens.
[11:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:20] <exec> 08└─How does it break down between transmission vs. viewing, though? And couldn't it be amortized by downloading/caching during non-peak hours?
[11:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:22] <exec> 08└─Trade-off of increased decoding complexity for decreased data rate. Which is the dominant factor?
[11:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:33] <exec> 08└─How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State:
[11:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:34] <exec> 08└─My experience was with the Big Red A (I worked on the "creative" products, not the marketing) where the CEO bragged at an all-hands about how very well people were being tracked. "[female name] will walk into her hotel in New York, and we'll send her key to her phone so she doesn’t even have to st...
[11:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Approves $5 Billion Fine Against Facebook - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:29] <exec> 08└─soon we can use facebook to track where and how the beelleon dollar fine will be spent by the clubermint.
[11:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:19] <exec> 08└─I'm not desperate enough to be giddified by breasts bouncing on mainstream TV shows. We have pornhub and redtube and motherless now you know.
[11:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:21] <exec> 08└─Where would we be if they had shown the first half of the first season of Friends out of order, at different times of the week, and then cancelled the show after the 13th episode due to low ratings? Probably one of the best features of Netflix and their kin is the ability to watch a TV series in ord...
[11:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:23] <exec> 08└─Same thing with game consoles, right? Exclusive game X for console Y, limit this to that, and you end up with some people buying both consoles, but a lot of people just getting one. I have a Wii :)
[11:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:25] <exec> 08└─I currently have over 4TB of H264 video. Mostly 480p but a notable amount of 720p as well. It would take up an unholy amount of space in one-deep rows of discs and still be much slower to access.
[11:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:27] <exec> 08└─Gold is no different than paper unless you have a non-currency use for it. And it's a shitload heavier.
[11:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Las Vegas Autonomous Shuttle Crash Happened Due to Lack of Manual Control - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:21] <exec> 08└─Maybe try naming your sources next time? From wikipedia [wikipedia.org]: In computer science, real-time computing (RTC) [..] describes hardware and software systems [that] must guarantee response within specified time constraints, often referred to as "deadlines". The correctness of these types of s...
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[12:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 4740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:22] <exec> 08└─idk i look through te comments and maybe we all know this here on this particular forum or we are just tired of arguing. But from the perspective of freedom and economy and decentralization and good engineering principles, the concept of streaming is anti-thetical to the internet and is a technology...
[12:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:23] <exec> 08└─Exactly this. Seeing how much time people spend looking at this stuff, I'm surprised and pleased to see it only creates 1% of CO2. If they were not sitting at home looking at Netfix or porn, I bet that they would be doing something that would create a lot more CO2, like driving to the cinema or flyi...
[12:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:56] <exec> 08└─So I get modded 'disagree'. How odd. Bloomberg makes up all these crazy, wild accusations about China and Supermicro. Everyone involved, Apple, Amazon, says these accusations are 100% FALSE, *including* US Government departments, even at a time when the US is going crazy over "China spies!". Bloombe...
[12:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:40] <exec> 08└─Growth for the sake of growth is the morality of the cancer cell and xenomorph hive. Money with no questions asked is the idelogy of the Anton Chigur in No Country for Old Men. If anything has a price, that is the morality of prostitutes and clowns. You are responsible for the predictible effects of...
[12:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Approves $5 Billion Fine Against Facebook - 1812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:34] <exec> 08└─I am going to argue for the arrest of mark zuckerberg for espionage against every human being on planet earth. I support taking away all of his money and imprisoning him without parole for life. Americans, at least, have a RIGHT to privacy, and unless you want to argue that everything done on comput...
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[13:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Charter Gets Final Approval to Stay in NY Despite Breaking Merger Promise - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:04] <exec> 08└─Far, far, FAR too often, governments buckle, and allow the corps to get away with near-murder. NY should have booted their asses, just to make an example. Once again, I'll remind everyone that you need a "business license" to be in business. That is, you apply to the state for permission to do busin...
[13:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06AMD Releases BIOS Fix to Motherboard Partners for Booting Newer Linux Distributions - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:12] <exec> 08└─This isn't really a systemd-original glitch, and for once they acknowledge its uglivity: https://github.com [github.com] The bug is caused by systemd implementing a workaround for the known-broken state of RDRAND on Zen1 pro...
[13:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:32] <exec> 08└─this meme nails it https://www.genolve.com [genolve.com]
[13:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 1441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:33] <exec> 08└─45% of the so-called "emissions" aren't from streaming video at all, but instead the emissions generated during the production of consumer electronics, because no one bought TVs before streaming video. More than 1/3 of the rest is the electricity used by the TV itself, which no one ever watched befo...
[13:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:35] <exec> 08└─Or supercomputers trying to simulate climate for centuries ahead.
[13:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:38] <exec> 08└─Decoding complexity goes away once hardware decode support is available in GPUs and SoCs, which is what it will need to become widespread. Thus, data rate is the dominant factor.
[13:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:40] <exec> 08└─Oh Jesus tapdancing christ. I am going to go burn some Styrofoam to offset the stupidity
[13:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:14] <exec> 08└─Right, it's simply to make it much easier to steal your money (and it's gone [youtube.com]). Artificial inflation to steal 2% a year apparently isn't fast enough.
[13:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 2149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:15] <exec> 08└─Heh, no. You're applying too much intelligence to the whole thing. Really. It's just about monitoring, not control. Control comes "outside" of the banks. It's the very reason the US government has a record of every single credit card transaction made, the same reason they have those same records for...
[13:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:49] <exec> 08└─I have stacks of boxes with the original disks, which I almost never access. I've ripped it all to MPEG2 (DVD) and H.264 (Blu Ray) and then reencoded it all to H.265. The machine I'm typing from has a 3TB share of media files, and I've got Kodi installed on most of the devices in the house. It's i...
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[14:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Charter Gets Final Approval to Stay in NY Despite Breaking Merger Promise - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:05] <exec> 08└─You haven't read between the lines: The commission sold out downstate (where the deadlines were failing in the first place) for expensive broadband for upstate while framing it as a "settlement" so it bypasses the municipal contract procedure. It's brilliant really.
[14:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Releases BIOS Fix to Motherboard Partners for Booting Newer Linux Distributions - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:15] <exec> 08└─for build-server reasons, I still have an older ssd with 16.04 on it. bought a new r5/3600 this week and used the previous gen mobo (b450). no boot problems, as I suppose this system is before the systemd 'feature' (should we call it bootloopd, maybe? lol) its really fast, I have to say. if your net...
[14:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Releases BIOS Fix to Motherboard Partners for Booting Newer Linux Distributions - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:17] <exec> 08└─You must be new here. With actual factual useful information about the topic, you just destroyed what was poised to become a huge flamewar about Intel / Sceptre / AMD / systemd / Puttering [sic]. I was going to comment not to use the new BIOS because Poettering wrote it. Ruined. Thanks. Back to bo...
[14:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Releases BIOS Fix to Motherboard Partners for Booting Newer Linux Distributions - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:19] <exec> 08└─Motherboard vendor issues BIOS fix to systemd bug. "Not our fault-- systems devs" This was a perfect title/subtitle for a satire piece, I missed the opportunity.
[14:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:17] <exec> 08└─There's nothing wrong with short periods of deflation, the problem comes when deflationary expectations set in and people expect that their money will be worth more tomorrow than it is today. It tends to cause markets to grind to a halt. Likewise, having perpetual inflation isn't great either as it...
[14:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:19] <exec> 08└─When was the last time you saw the price of something go down? Certainly not at the supermarket, gas pump, or house market.
[14:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:21] <exec> 08└─When was the last time you saw the price of something go down?
[14:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How U.S. Tech Giants are Helping to Build China's Surveillance State - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:04] <exec> 08└─This news isn't really "news". It's been done before, if you know your history. Prior to the Second World War, IBM was in bed with the Nazis, cataloguing the population of Germany. When the Nazis finally decided to go forward with their "final solution", they had all the data they needed, because IB...
[14:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Telemetry in Windows 7: Upgrade Readiness Deployment Script and DiagTrack - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:35] <exec> 08└─the fact that I dont want them to? there are no harms in my looking in your windows and reading your diaries, finding out how much you make, and leaving advertisements in each of your rooms for products and services that I get a bonus for if you subscribe to or buy them? here's the deal: i never ask...
[14:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nielsen Wants to Track Podcast Data by... Calling People - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:46] <exec> 08└─they used to send out a device that tracked how you used a remote control, how long you were on a channel, did you sit through ad breaks, etc. users were supposed to abide by the this device and also keep a journal that detailed out their viewing habits--for every person and every television in the...
[14:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poll Results: Few Americans with Credit Card Debt Willing to cut Back Luxury Spending - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:08] <exec> 08└─dude if i want sex i have to watch porn. my wife has catholic guilt mixed with not wanting kids, so its a terrible sin to have sex according to the propaganda her father espouses because then you might get pregnant and might have an abortion and god punishes all women for being sluts even if they ar...
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[15:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Funds Demo of In-Space 3d-Printed Spacecraft Parts Manufacture and Assembly - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:05] <exec> 08└─This is the kind of thing that will help get our ape-like asses off this planet.
[15:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Gets Final Approval to Stay in NY Despite Breaking Merger Promise - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:14] <exec> 08└─Reading what wasn't between the lines... Cash exchanged hands behind closed doors.
[15:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Charter Gets Final Approval to Stay in NY Despite Breaking Merger Promise - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:16] <exec> 08└─Now take those two fines and farm them out to some random burb or county that doesn't want to be tied to Charter to help get another provider going. That might get their attention. But hey, it's NY, instead it will most just go into the general fund and be poured down the bottomless rabbit hole...
[15:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Gets Final Approval to Stay in NY Despite Breaking Merger Promise - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:19] <exec> 08└─I was hoping to see the state of New York display its strength but their leaders failed leaving an opening for some other state to show how these situations are supposed to be handled
[15:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:54] <exec> 08└─Compare the size of i.reddit.com with the current reddit.com to see how much bloat there is. Then multiply the difference by number of pageviews and watts used per MB bandwidth. I get 3 TWh per year of wasted (not total, just wasted on bloat) electricity for that site alone, more than used by 96 cou...
[15:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:56] <exec> 08└─Compare the dollar cost of streaming an hour of video, to the dollar cost of driving for an hour to get to a cinema. The cost of streaming is vanishingly small. The carbon cost, ditto. Like you, I think the "think tank" must be off their meds.
[15:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:58] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much carbon emission is attributable to the practices of religion and the making of repressive law? Building, travel, heating, cooling, lighting, radio and television transmissions, Internet activity, enforcement, manufacturing tokens of superstition, printing and shipping of volumes an...
[15:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Launches Successor to Spektr-R Space Telescope: Spektr-RG - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:08] <exec> 08└─The original submission's dept. "from the if Elon launched Spektr-RG i would be very very afraid dept." was going for a Bond villain vibe. I so want him to buy a volcano.
[15:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:39] <exec> 08└─My favorite tidbit was the depreciation twist they put in the tax code after the Trumpinator took office. Want to buy a bauble, like a sailboat "investment" somewhere tropical. Well, now, you can fully depreciate your investment in the first year, no more waiting for depreciation to approximate mark...
[15:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Head of Human Exploration at NASA Committed to Reaching the Moon by 2024 - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:53] <exec> 08└─Heavens forbid someone try to hold the SLS program to account for missing its deadlines or budgets. Orange Man Bad Uber Alles, I guess. I expect if it was D pushing this you'd be all for holding their feet to the fire.
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[15:27:16] <exec> 08└─A. men.
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[16:22:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Charter Gets Final Approval to Stay in NY Despite Breaking Merger Promise - 886 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:09] <exec> 08└─Far, far, FAR too often, governments buckle, and allow the corps to get away with near-murder. NY should have booted their asses, just to make an example. Once again, I'll remind everyone that you need a "business license" to be in business. That is, you apply to the state for permission to do busin...
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[16:22:27] <exec> 08└─> systemd-ebate is played out. Quite true. > Luckily, Linux fragmentation means you can have a systemd-free experience. Also quite true and played out.
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[16:22:29] <exec> 08└─PS: I mostly missed out on the systemd debates and have rarely commented, so I'm butt-hurt that you took away my opportunity. :) Kidding and sarcasm aside, other than booting some "live" images, I've never run systemd.
[16:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Releases BIOS Fix to Motherboard Partners for Booting Newer Linux Distributions - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:31] <exec> 08└─Is Slackware affected?
[16:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 1558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:58] <exec> 08└─I agree with commenters that have already pointed out that the paper completely fails to consider what will substitute for digital entertainment. Also, what is the real cost savings associated with less consumption on the large pieces of digital infrastructure that cannot be shut off as simply as th...
[16:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 1439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:39] <exec> 08└─Deflation in and of itself isn't bad, except to people with some of the currently popular economic theories like neo-Keynsians and MMTers. In truth, deflation in and of itself isn't a problem. It's happened a lot throughout history, albeit mostly before everyone switched to fiat money. Deflation cau...
[16:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:41] <exec> 08└─What are you rambling about? This is a discussion of monetary policy, not fiscal policy (which is relatively unimportant and mostly a distraction).
[16:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:43] <exec> 08└─People are told capitalism rewards hard work in school. The truth is right in the name, it rewards existing capital. That means that the most wealthy, those with the most capital, have the most power. They will never allow negative interest to be a universal thing.
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[16:23:45] <exec> 08└─makes sense. if there's deflation, don't borrow money =profit. if there's inflation, borrow money =profit. also, deflation is a bit of a unicorn, e.g. doesn't really exist in the real world. it sounds "bad" but if you get less wages and stuff becomes cheaper at the same time the absolute result woul...
[16:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Loss of Major TV Shows Could Lead to the Demise of Netflix - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:23] <exec> 08└─The biggest difference is that gold can't be easily devalued by the authorities. Yes, Romans and such shaved the coins and added silver, but it was a long process with limited results. Gold or any other commodity money would hold value as long as community accepts it. Money, by definition, is a comm...
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[16:27:24] <exec> 08└─Truth. It's much easier for one person to rip video and distribute it than for everybody to have to rip it themselves. Greener too from all the juice used for each encode.
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[16:27:27] <exec> 08└─Dunno what gives you that idea. What they accept as $1 of value is entirely up to the government. They could easily make gold worthless except as a commodity within a decade.
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[17:22:05] <exec> 08└─If this works, it has the potential to solve a lot of problems. I hope the entire thing is live-streamed and recorded for posterity.
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[17:22:06] <exec> 08└─would be for the factory to be able to build a copy of itself; that's when smart matter extermination robots on duty would come...
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[17:22:08] <exec> 08└─I see lot of difficulties with 3D printing in low gravity environment or no gravity at all environment.
[17:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Funds Demo of In-Space 3d-Printed Spacecraft Parts Manufacture and Assembly - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:10] <exec> 08└─I think the lack of gravity would open many opportunities. No need for support structures under long spans probably foremost. None of the major approaches depend on gravity to operate. Material self-adhesion is the norm. It might take some tinkering to make the new liquid layer stay beside the windo...
[17:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:04] <exec> 08└─Also, how does it break down between DRM and actual rendering? That is, what percentage would you save if you didn't have DRM? All that encryption/decryption surely doesn't come for free. Save the planet. Fight DRM! :-)
[17:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Successor to Spektr-R Space Telescope: Spektr-RG - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:15] <exec> 08└─As far as I understand, Russia put in space Spectr-R (radio) in space alone and only after the success of it Germany came on board with the project. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:50] <exec> 08└─Deflation: I own a manufacturing business that has to work all summer to produce enough toys to meet demand at Christmas. In order to have enough raw materials, I have to stock-up a year in advance. The supply chain isn't quick for some things. I have to pay my employees in today's dollars, not tomo...
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[17:23:51] <exec> 08└─Wrong. Food today is half the price it was in 1960, adjusted for inflation. Computers -- when was the last time anyone paid $3000 for a Windows 3 machine on an Intel 386 with 1 MB ram and 40 MB HD? (I did, in 1992) Remember a couple of years ago when gas was $4/gallon? Housing... ok, you got me ther...
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[17:27:32] <exec> 08└─Roman emperors tried and failed. I doubt ours would be more successful.
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[18:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:09] <exec> 08└─So, was this study funded by Time Warner/Comcast etc?
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[18:23:40] <exec> 08└─Its bad, because wages do not stay the same during deflation. What happens is people get laid off (more so when in weak deflationary economies like this), then cannot find another job at the same wage, so have to settle for something lower. Their debts (i.e. mortgage) however, did not go down. So it...
[18:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:57] <exec> 08└─Sounds great, I vote for the 30's lifestyle. I really do not feel the need to keep up with the Joneses.
[18:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Carolina Explores Hyperloop One System to Connect the Triangle - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:57] <exec> 08└─The science—and reality—do not support the claims being made. I like Elon Musk and believe we should all dream big but the Hyperloop is a non-starter. In fact the only purpose it's fit for is negotiating a lower cost for more viable systems, such as light rail.
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[19:22:03] <exec> 08└─Now that this is getting some press, I wonder how long it will take to close this loophole?
[19:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Releases BIOS Fix to Motherboard Partners for Booting Newer Linux Distributions - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:43] <exec> 08└─The bug is caused by systemd implementing a workaround for the known-broken state of RDRAND on Zen1 processors.
[19:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Releases BIOS Fix to Motherboard Partners for Booting Newer Linux Distributions - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:44] <exec> 08└─Eh?, I suppose it could be, if you've been crazy enough to install systemd on it. Much as i hate the damnable buggering thing that is systemd (just dont ask about the two laptops and a systemd weirdie which randomly kills the network hardware) it's your choice which init system to use, so go ahead,...
[19:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Releases BIOS Fix to Motherboard Partners for Booting Newer Linux Distributions - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:46] <exec> 08└─Slackware is systemd free.
[19:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:16] <exec> 08└─I'm going to help conserve greenhouse gas emissions by replacing my 44" HDTV with my old 1962 RCA 36" color TV... The one that hums and uses power like a refrigerator with the door stuck open.
[19:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:17] <exec> 08└─Blackhole their brainfarts.
[19:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:19] <exec> 08└─A large part of the green contingent is religion for the non religious. Meaning that what they really want is an excuse to say they are better than you and to regulate away your fun. Streaming may use some energy but it is obvious that it is better than the alternatives for carbon use. I'm a fan of...
[19:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Successor to Spektr-R Space Telescope: Spektr-RG - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:31] <exec> 08└─Treating it as space race fueled by nationalist ideas will lead to conflict of interest, since space exploration can be vital to survival of humanity as the whole, while nationalist ideas promote survival only of a small fraction of humanity at the expense of rest of it.
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[20:22:06] <exec> 08└─In August 2017, Hutchins was arrested by FBI agents in Las Vegas on suspicion of authoring and/or selling “Kronos,” a strain of malware designed to steal online banking credentials. A British citizen, Hutchins has been barred from leaving the United States since his arrest. https://krebsonsecuri...
[20:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Tax Loophole Is Helping Silicon Valley Workers Save Millions - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:14] <exec> 08└─So a demographic overwhelmingly in favor of higher taxes is outed as paying less by any means they can? Words cannot contain my astonishment.
[20:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Tax Loophole Is Helping Silicon Valley Workers Save Millions - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:16] <exec> 08└─Vulture capitalists, and techies? C'mon, Buzzard! Birds of a feather, and all that.
[20:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06How a Tax Loophole Is Helping Silicon Valley Workers Save Millions - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:19] <exec> 08└─Isn't that much every western (and probably others) nations national sport? Trying to dodge as much taxes as they possibly can while still being upset when other people do it to (and better then they did)?
[20:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Releases BIOS Fix to Motherboard Partners for Booting Newer Linux Distributions - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:59] <exec> 08└─You are looking at the finger pointing at the moon. We have an init system, whose work is to get the pc running fails in an unrecoverable way because of a hardware RNG related instruction is badly implemented. Now, I KNOW why one would want to get some random values to init a VM, as vulnerabilities...
[20:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook and CMU's AI Poker Bot Beat Five Pros at Once - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, we call it the windows(tm) user experience.
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[21:22:04] <exec> 08└─Whole antivirus industry always had its own dark side, to keep business as usual going...
[21:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Tax Loophole Is Helping Silicon Valley Workers Save Millions - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:16] <exec> 08└─This ‘loophole’ is not a big deal for the vast majority of other businesses with modest appreciation. When you finally sell that business you’ve been slaving at 24/7 for 15 years straight you want to be able to retire on the proceeds.
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[21:22:26] <exec> 08└─I think the lack of gravity would open many opportunities. No need for support structures under long spans probably foremost. None of the major approaches depend on gravity to operate. Material self-adhesion is the norm. It might take some tinkering to make the new liquid layer stay beside the windo...
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[21:22:58] <exec> 08└─To bots who don't rely on systemd, at least.
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[21:22:59] <exec> 08└─That might be interpreted as "Slackware is free" and "systemd is free". I'm afraid to look, but I bet someone evil somewhere evil has packaged a systemd.txz Sorry I even suggested it.
[21:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:32] <exec> 08└─But all the hardware that didn't support it goes to the landfill and needs to be replaced.
[21:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:34] <exec> 08└─I agree with the high resolution part though. Video is extremely expensive data-wise, and high resolution video is quadratically more expensive. But higher resolution video does not produce quadratically more entertainment value. 1080 is more than sufficient. We don't need this 5K, 8K bullshit.
[21:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:36] <exec> 08└─That hardware can be reused to control sprinkler systems and low-grade sex robots.
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[21:23:49] <exec> 08└─I didn't say anything about a race. They can have as many wins as they want. Previously they had very few wins, with a lot of things exploding, crashing, or failing (see Fobos-Grunt).
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[22:22:04] <exec> 08└─"Our research is at a very primitive stage," Bera said.
[22:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Tax Loophole Is Helping Silicon Valley Workers Save Millions - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:24] <exec> 08└─Well, of course. Most of us just don't have the levels of hypocrisy necessary to also demand higher taxes that we have no intention of paying.
[22:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Tax Loophole Is Helping Silicon Valley Workers Save Millions - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:26] <exec> 08└─You think techies aren't heavily left of center? What planet have you been living on?
[22:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How a Tax Loophole Is Helping Silicon Valley Workers Save Millions - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:28] <exec> 08└─Or the levels of hypocrisy required to pretend to care about the homeless while lobbying against affordable housing, because affordable housing is bad for already-ridiculous property values here. I'm still waiting for Jesus to come back and turn the inhabitants of San Francisco and L.A. into salt pi...
[22:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How a Tax Loophole Is Helping Silicon Valley Workers Save Millions - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:30] <exec> 08└─Still, 50 million bucks is a non-trivial amount even for "small" business. I think the limit line should be lowered down to 10 million max.
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[22:22:42] <exec> 08└─And we can use the ZBLAN [wikipedia.org] to make laser cannons.
[22:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Gets Final Approval to Stay in NY Despite Breaking Merger Promise - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:54] <exec> 08└─When I clicked on your link, I expected to be faced with a graph showing New York State wasting the general fund on nonsense like gold-plated toilets for every home, or expensive "fact finding" missions to the Bahamas for all mayors. Instead it looks like $49% - Health Care, Pensions - 15%, Transpo...
[22:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Gets Final Approval to Stay in NY Despite Breaking Merger Promise - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:56] <exec> 08└─You may have misunderstood who runs your country.
[22:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:55] <exec> 08└─It's a constant theme among the Marxist academics. "People are happy and comfortable, what can we do to stop that?"
[22:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:57] <exec> 08└─Koyter, your wasted brain power over a few decades is probably sufficient :)
[22:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:59] <exec> 08└─And buying legacy hardware rather than the hot new thing to Jew Qualcomm and others out of new revenue as revenge for them hiring H1-B stinkies rather than real Americans.
[22:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Successor to Spektr-R Space Telescope: Spektr-RG - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:12] <exec> 08└─Who they? Humans? Sounds about right.
[22:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:52] <exec> 08└─> Deflation makes manufacturing, farming, and anything else that relies on future price stability next to impossible. I think you need to look into the futures market--not to gamble, but to purchase your materials at stable prices. For example, the airlines purchase jet fuel far into the future, per...
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[23:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Identifying Perceived Emotions From People's Walking Style - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:12] <exec> 08└─The government should get involved in this. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Identifying Perceived Emotions From People's Walking Style - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:14] <exec> 08└─You beat me to it. The computers processing the data would stop crunching numbers and start playing Michael Jackson and Prince. Even to a machine, good dance moves are infectious.
[23:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Identifying Perceived Emotions From People's Walking Style - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:16] <exec> 08└─You beat me to it. x2
[23:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Sinkhole That Saved the Internet - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:26] <exec> 08└─Don't forget about big pharma, the military industrial complex, "climate change" advocacy, and American and Israeli intelligence services.
[23:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Tax Loophole Is Helping Silicon Valley Workers Save Millions - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:42] <exec> 08└─And make the nouveau riche poorer? That won't happen unless... revolution!
[23:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Tank: Streaming Video Has Massive Carbon Footprint, Needs Regulation - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:09] <exec> 08└─They need to keep the struggle alive so we don't all turn into the bourgeoisie (even tho that is in reality one of the utter failures of Marxism today -- most of the people in the west are not workers anymore but middle class enemies), cause then all would be lost and there would be no workers parad...
[23:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Launches Successor to Spektr-R Space Telescope: Spektr-RG - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:24] <exec> 08└─I so want him to buy a volcano.
[23:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Launches Successor to Spektr-R Space Telescope: Spektr-RG - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:26] <exec> 08└─The Russians. Not sure if it's PC to call them humans, plz check.
[23:24:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets - 1166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:50] <exec> 08└─So I get modded 'disagree'. How odd. Bloomberg makes up all these crazy, wild accusations about China and Supermicro. Everyone involved, Apple, Amazon, says these accusations are 100% FALSE, *including* US Government departments, even at a time when the US is going crazy over "China spies!". Bloombe...
[23:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Federal Trade Commission Approves $5 Billion Fine Against Facebook - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:44] <exec> 08└─The Democratic party is fighting a publicly-existential battle (as the Republicans are fighting a less-public existential battle), but the nexus is the Brown Question: How much more support can the Democrats garner? They need backup reinforcements. And the Mexicans and other Latinoids looking for fr...
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