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[00:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of New Dark Matter Candidate Could be Found in Crystals Deep Inside the Earth - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:39] <exec> 08└─We've secretly switched Gaaark's coffee with Dark Matter Crystals...
[00:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of New Dark Matter Candidate Could be Found in Crystals Deep Inside the Earth - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:41] <exec> 08└─Do away with the asinine preamble. We know what "dark matter" is - a place holder, correction factor for GR and observed universe. The summary tells nothing related to the headline. We are nerds. Don't insult our intelligence.
[00:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of New Dark Matter Candidate Could be Found in Crystals Deep Inside the Earth - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:43] <exec> 08└─Marianne Williamson finally has all she needs to defeat the dark forces. Using dark matter sealed inside power crystals she can transform into the ultimate form of consciousness!
[00:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of New Dark Matter Candidate Could be Found in Crystals Deep Inside the Earth - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:45] <exec> 08└─the Cheshire cat could be stalking you, right now!
[00:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:44] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/OFRe4nl8ugM?t=1348 [youtu.be] Camp and corn become reality. Idiocracy becomes prescient. And apparently so does Lexx.
[00:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Artificial but not intelligent. True since at least Reagan.
[00:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:47] <exec> 08└─The first season were originally 4 movies entitled "Tales from an Alternate Universe" on Showtime. They were cut into the first season. Eva Habermann was Zev who was killed at the end of the forth movie, Xenia Seeberg was Xev reconstituted from leftover Eva goo for the next three seasons. Dark and t...
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[01:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of New Dark Matter Candidate Could be Found in Crystals Deep Inside the Earth - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:50] <exec> 08└─Although it outnumbers regular matter by a ratio of five to one, dark matter is frustratingly elusive.
[01:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of New Dark Matter Candidate Could be Found in Crystals Deep Inside the Earth - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:51] <exec> 08└─I thought that phlogiston handled it pretty well.
[01:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:55] <exec> 08└─Communist? Naw, more like Authoritarian Capitalism. Hell, the government of China is more Capitalist than we are! They just openly control it from the barrel of a gun. True Communism (IMHO) cannot exist beyond the tribal stage of development, when everyone works for the good of the tribe or they all...
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[01:52:57] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, WHY it was an awesome series: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[01:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:59] <exec> 08└─Back in the '70s that was an option here. You went to the scheduling window, plead not guilty with an explanation and got a reduced fine. There was a level, I think 15 over, where a live court appearance was required, but for lesser infractions it was just a way to avoid court and get a reduced fine...
[01:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, exactly. I have some microfiber cleaning cloths and they work wonders on outsides, so why not use them for insides?
[01:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:38] <exec> 08└─You can do either, just like baby diapers- buy disposables, or washables. It's up to you. If you do nothing, they get returned to the environment where they are biologically neutralized by self-limiting bacteria, UV, ozone, cosmic rays, car exhaust, etc., and eventually they make it back into the fo...
[01:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Installed Five Flavours of Linux on My New Laptop: Here's What I've Learned - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:50] <exec> 08└─Nice. Sounds very useful. Should save a lot of duplication of effort. Perhaps this sort of cross-everywhere packaging will eventually become the norm? (what with flatpak etc.)
[01:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:38] <exec> 08└─Get a job.
[01:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What's Driving More Women to Drink? - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:39] <exec> 08└─The unambiguous description would require a block digram of the system under consideration. Feedback polarity would never have been in doubt. ;-)
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[02:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:43] <exec> 08└─The budget went into my cousin's pocket at least. :)
[02:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:44] <exec> 08└─For 1km of solar road 5.5 mil doesn't seem too crazy.
[02:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:46] <exec> 08└─Lest anyone forget, wind farms were also failures the first time around in the 60s and 70s and 80s. They just weren’t economical enough once the oil crisis ended. That does not mean that solar roads will be successes some day, but it is a good reminder that to science even negative results are st...
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[02:53:23] <exec> 08└─While nobody dies instantly from microplastic exposure, it can be some nasty stuff. If you spend a lot of time on urban freeways, you might notice a black goo on your windshield that simply will not come off for anything short of blasting with walnut shells, this is "microplastics" particles of vehi...
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[03:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:51] <exec> 08└─Solar Roadways® (SR) [solarroadways.com] is a modular system of specially engineered solar panels that can be walked and driven upon. Our panels contain LED lights to create lines and signage without paint. They contain heating elements to prevent snow and ice accumulation. The panels have micropro...
[03:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:53] <exec> 08└─This article [sciencealert.com] has a photo of what looks like the damage at the bottom. It says tractors caused unplanned damage. Glass is no match for heavy vehicles with big rocks stuck in the treads.
[03:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:55] <exec> 08└─Can anyone explain why we need to drive on the panels? Why build a covering for the road that provides shade, collects sunlight as electricity, and even keeps the rain off? Is the cost of building an elevated structure really so high as to offset the drawbacks of driving on, to say nothing of shadin...
[03:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:57] <exec> 08└─5m for a test project that gets .6 miles of test area is a pretty good deal, especially for new tech. I am not one who would have any faith in something like this working, but it would have been nice if it did. The cost of trying was low so it was a good try.
[03:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waymo Releasing Driverless Car Dataset for Researchers - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:17] <exec> 08└─If I wanted to develop "models to track and predict the behavior of everyone using the road, from drivers to pedestrians to cyclists" I'd be working for a self-crashing car company.
[03:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Police Department Partnering with Samsung for in-Vehicle Smartphone Docking - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:32] <exec> 08└─Hogwash! We need to move them all to the Cloud!
[03:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chicago Police Department Partnering with Samsung for in-Vehicle Smartphone Docking - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:34] <exec> 08└─Nice to see the URL text in the titty doesn't turn into a link.
[03:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Site Certs Updated Today - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:23] <exec> 08└─I very much appreciate your most generous subscription and attempt to build interest in others doing the same. I wish you the best on that one! What I am unable to contribute in money, I have tried to make up for in other ways. Obviously, my contributions as an editor here stands out, but there are...
[03:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:11] <exec> 08└─If you think it is Syrians coming in mass to Italy, you're mistaken. There's an invasion of surplus population from north and west Africa, not under political repression, just purely economically interested to work (or be) in Europe. Do-gooders had been doing the coyotes' work for them, picking up p...
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[04:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:47] <exec> 08└─I just can't get my head around the fact that there are still some people that cling desperately to the completely delusional belief that uranium-fission reactors can ever be made safe, with enough technology. Read my lips: You can't fix stupid. Period. No amount of technology, education, or even ma...
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[04:49:48] <exec> 08└─Thorium molten salt reactor. Oh that was so difficult.
[04:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:50] <exec> 08└─What about molten salt reactors?
[04:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:04] <exec> 08└─There is nothing to explain. There is no parallel universe, no alternate reality in which this could have been a good idea. None. But that didn't stop a bunch of sociopathic con-men from convincing another bunch of clueless, idiotic morons that it was.
[04:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:05] <exec> 08└─That is actually bad for three reasons. The Colas road requires being built on an already existing road. Said roadway was a single lane. The average highway cost in France is 4.5 million Euros (IQR 3 mil to 5 mil) per lane-km of asphalt road with a 15 year minimum lifespan. To add a bit of reference...
[04:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:07] <exec> 08└─Or people can put them on roofs, so that way they are near where the energy is used and don't have cars or debris on them.
[04:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:09] <exec> 08└─Solar roads have been well proven in so many ways to be one of the most stupid ways of approaching solar generation. In fact, it is very difficult to think of one single positive feature of them... what are are suggesting has nothing to do with a 'solar road', solar cells near a road are not a solar...
[04:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:11] <exec> 08└─In the winter, you don't want shade. It makes the road icy. And columns to hold a roof will kill people when they crash into them.
[04:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of New Dark Matter Candidate Could be Found in Crystals Deep Inside the Earth - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:24] <exec> 08└─You can escape The Cheshire Cat with this One Weird Trick.
[04:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of New Dark Matter Candidate Could be Found in Crystals Deep Inside the Earth - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe the æther isn't massless.
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[05:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2 Updates: Lunar Orbit Insertion and Lunar Orbit Maneuver - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:43] <exec> 08└─114 km x 18072 km Ah, a very Kerbal orbit for sure...... https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[05:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chandrayaan-2 Updates: Lunar Orbit Insertion and Lunar Orbit Maneuver - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:45] <exec> 08└─Let's hope they can avoid excessive lithobreaking.
[05:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:55] <exec> 08└─shhhh... why are you doing this? You know the anti-nuke's head will explode if you present safe solutions...
[05:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:57] <exec> 08└─So are there any units in production?
[05:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:49:59] <exec> 08└─They did specify uranium. Jackass.
[05:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:02] <exec> 08└─There are safe ways to go about it, just usually expensive to keep safe due to the fast rate of decay. Until humanity is capable of ignoring personal greed or we develop truly safe reactors then I have to side with the alarmist.
[05:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:04] <exec> 08└─Check the subject line. Jackass.
[05:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:22] <exec> 08└─The current tech is clearly a terrible idea. But if we spend the next 20 years failing to make it work, we may well wind up with some photovoltaic bulk aggregate material that we can just dump out the back of an asphalt mixer truck, or spray on like paint along with the lane markings. At that point,...
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[05:50:23] <exec> 08└─some photovoltaic bulk aggregate material that we can just dump out the back of an asphalt mixer truck, or spray on like paint along with the lane markings.
[05:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of New Dark Matter Candidate Could be Found in Crystals Deep Inside the Earth - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:39] <exec> 08└─of....Let's all make up some more dumb shit particle physicists are going to try and pass off as real science to further their descent down this rabbit hole. Energy, frequency, and waves ya'll! Get in where you fit in! We stand on the shoulders of giants...as the saying goes. So, one of those "giant...
[05:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation Shows Off an Inflatable Habitat - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:27] <exec> 08└─The inflatable hoes are sold separately, with optional 'ballast'. How to steal a city: Montes v. City of Yakima - https://www.aclu-wa.org [aclu-wa.org] How to steal a state budget: McCleary, et al. v. State of Washington - Supreme Court Case Number 84362-7: https://www.c...
[05:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation Shows Off an Inflatable Habitat - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:28] <exec> 08└─I know we are talking about out of this world, but the math doesn't add up. I know it's more like a torus or a do-nut than a sphere, but shouldn't the diameter of the do-nut be more like 37.5 meters?
[05:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Extreme Self-Citing Scientists Revealed in New Database - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:16] <exec> 08└─This author has hidden access to their database and not exposed the names of any self-cite abusers, presumably out of fear of accidental slander
[05:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:44] <exec> 08└─This observation was from my home country, from the shithole of Europe. Didn't see a centrist government in the last 20 years.
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[06:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Troll) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:43] <exec> 08└─I post this here as frist Piste, of the top, so to speak, so that other soylentils will not have to suffer the agony and embarrassment of being modded down, simply because they said something stupid and alt-right that everyone knows is stupid and wrong, and so everyone disagrees with, because it is...
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[06:49:44] <exec> 08└─I think that this moderation is in part a side-effect of the hyper-partisan nature of debate in society today (whether Politics, Abortion, Gun Rights, LGBTQI, Climate, Vaccination or any number of other topics). People have now got to the point where they genuinely believe that there is an objective...
[06:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:47] <exec> 08└─And, this is front page material, while any given aristarchus submission is not? Eds, your slip is showing. Thots of the Alt-right.
[06:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:49] <exec> 08└─we're conditioned to think there is a right or wrong way of thinking.
[06:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:51] <exec> 08└─Okay admins, could we have a review of whoever modded the parent Troll and Flamebait?
[06:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:53] <exec> 08└─If my suggestion of putting who did what in the score section below was followed, said accountability would already be there. At least it would allow everyone to know who the idiot mods, sockpuppets, virtuous truth-seekers, mod-bombers, etc. are in a giving situation.
[06:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:55] <exec> 08└─Mods are secret, unless undid by the TMB. No one can know who modded who what, or people might begin to hate Sulla, only because he has taken the name of a Roman Patriot, and supporter of business. And, Abuse? Just because you did not realize the trollishness of your comment? Troll tears turn to st...
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[06:49:57] <exec> 08└─What does the I stand for? Incel?
[06:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:21] <exec> 08└─They were just boosting output by producing extra heat for the turbines.
[06:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:42] <exec> 08└─What actually makes the road icy is water falling onto it, which a roof would prevent. That's not to say that coverings would be workable. First, roads have to accommodate occasional oversize trucks. Second, the majority of roads are in urban areas where building large structures around them would b...
[06:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:43] <exec> 08└─In fact, it is very difficult to think of one single positive feature of them...
[06:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:45] <exec> 08└─Sure but much of that surface is being covered with .... cars. Unless you have transparent cars that allow usable sunlight through it seems like the cars themselves will act as an obstruction.
[06:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aighearach [2621] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Terrascope": Earth's Atmosphere Could be Used as a Refraction Lens for a Space Telescope - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:34] <exec> 08└─And if you need extra magnification, there is always Cowboy Neal!
[06:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aighearach [2621] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sierra Nevada Corporation Shows Off an Inflatable Habitat - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:51] <exec> 08└─Correct, the math doesn't add, it integrates. Hope that helps, now you should have no trouble calculating the required topology, presuming 2 dimensions of symmetry.
[06:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:55] <exec> 08└─"Microplastic" is plastic dust. How exactly is plastic dust scarier than plant pollen, cellulose dust, chitin dust, mineral dust, carbon dust? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] If your tap water is badly cleaned, of dust or whatever else, you install a water filter. You are not a la...
[06:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Loses Government, Coalition of Right-Wing, Anti-Establishment Parties Collapses - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:09] <exec> 08└─Voter fraud doesn't happen in any significant numbers, even according to the Heritage Foundation, of all things.
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[07:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:56] <exec> 08└─Gotta be, back-channel. I have never seen a Soylentil more thin-skinned about being appropriately modded. He is a criminal, his appeal rejected, and know he has to abide by the decision of the Court that he is a troll. I will go do a search for his posts, to find one I can down-mod again. And then,...
[07:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:58] <exec> 08└─A lot of talk from one of the worst offenders.
[07:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:00] <exec> 08└─We already know who they are, TRDT and Aristarchus sockpuppet quite often. Death Monkey moderates anything they disagree with was Troll, Flamebait, or Offtopic.
[07:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:02] <exec> 08└─I haven't performed a downmod in over a year now. My ratio of performing ups to downs is somewhere north of 95%.
[07:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:04] <exec> 08└─I will troll mod you, since I disagree. But seriously, Soylentils are not even trying! The Balance is being returned to the force, which means the entire FA is an Imperial Death Troll!!!
[07:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:06] <exec> 08└─aristarchus never sockpuppets. On occasion, when the occasion presents itself, he may change IP addresses in order to up-mod a sorely abused AC post, which may or may not be by the same poster, in order to bring balance to the force. But, sock puppetry is the ability to mod based on a second usernam...
[07:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:08] <exec> 08└─As if, with the current Administration, we could trust a Republican not to lie.
[07:50:10] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 3386 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:10] <exec> 08└─I wholeheartedly agree with the AC who posted this story and, surprisingly, disagree with martyb's comments on this matter. This site only works with moderation. It is there to allow people to filter out easily the comments worth reading from the multitude that are not. It is all the more important...
[07:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:12] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that we can see who is moderating, and also who is making spurious comments.
[07:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:15] <exec> 08└─Intersex, although whether that is a reference to sex, gender, or both is somewhat disputed.
[07:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:17] <exec> 08└─There IS a right and wrong way, unfortunately it's those pushing the wrong ways who usually want them to be perceived as THE UNDISPUTABLE TRUTH(tm)
[07:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, the Soylent Eds behind the curtain! This is OZ! I spurn your spurious comments, JR. You are quite spurious, and I would not ride you without spurs. So, can you see me troll-modding you! Do you feel tempted to use your Ed super powers to countermand my troll mod? Do you, janrinok? You should...
[07:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:21] <exec> 08└─When I mod somebody 'troll' I imply that person is ugly, green skinned and living under bridges.
[07:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:23] <exec> 08└─Maybe we need a +1 Strength mod.
[07:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:25] <exec> 08└─I prefer that the 'authors' of mods remain anonymous to the general user base, because I think on the whole it is better than making those authors public. While it would increase accountability, I can also see that it could increasingly lead to 'tit for tat' modding when someone gets their nose out...
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[08:49:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 780 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:49:49] <exec> 08└─I think that this moderation is in part a side-effect of the hyper-partisan nature of debate in society today (whether Politics, Abortion, Gun Rights, LGBTQI, Climate, Vaccination or any number of other topics). People have now got to the point where they genuinely believe that there is an objective...
[08:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:11] <exec> 08└─Muscles, or smell?
[08:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:12] <exec> 08└─C'mon! Soylentils! You can downmod aristarchus more than this, because you disagree with me! And because I am right! Mod down the truth! Somebody has to do it, or the truth will get out! Mod down the aristarchus because he is correct, much as he downmods you because you are not! It is a fairy ba...
[08:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:15] <exec> 08└─trolls are made of rocks. well-known fact.
[08:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:17] <exec> 08└─Rehash is the software powering this site. I'm pretty sure it's not the software that does these troll moderations (well, in a sense it does). Thus the topic of this post should be Soylent, not Rehash.
[08:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:19] <exec> 08└─Please define truth.
[08:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:21] <exec> 08└─This happened to me a couple of times. Modded a troll just for having an opinion. It tells me that some people here are doing exactly what you're describing. What's frustrating is that you can't have a discussion about it. Because modding is anonymous, but also because opinions are obviously so far...
[08:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:23] <exec> 08└─Experience is what I am doing right now. If you discard solipsism it is what you are doing right now. Real is what can directly or indirectly influence experience. Truth is a statement that describes reality. This sidesteps the misconception that real is the infrastructure, which has you wondering a...
[08:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:47] <exec> 08└─best plot for a "wargames" sequel ever. employee links nuclear plant to the net to make cryptomoney nuclear plant AI system detects intrusions and starts fighting back all the tropes are there.
[08:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:12] <exec> 08└─Even then, why would you put in under the wheels, instead of over the wheels? Having a roof-top would turn many of the disadvantages into advantages, plus it would be much simpler to follow technological progress (spray over the roof-top with traffic going instead of closing the road/lanes for days)...
[08:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:40] <exec> 08└─Watched the first one last night. It's terrible. Really terrible. However, it is so bad that it's good.
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[09:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:25] <exec> 08└─I can also see that it could increasingly lead to 'tit for tat' modding when someone gets their nose out of joint.
[09:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, I know. But if moderations are meaningless then we might as well simplify the software by removing those parts that are involved with moderation, comment filtering and maintaining karma.
[09:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:29] <exec> 08└─Why post that as A/C? Don't you want some reward for your wit?
[09:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:31] <exec> 08└─It's good that the people who have the power disagree with each other. I think 'troll' is a mod that means different things to different people. Which also means that when people see 'Troll', they will judge it differently. Me? I ignore how things are modded, because only one of those tags is shown,...
[09:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:33] <exec> 08└─Experience is what I am doing right now. If you discard solipsism it is what you are doing right now.
[09:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:35] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic28JniSYY4 [youtube.com]
[09:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:37] <exec> 08└─So exactly how is one SUPPOSED to mod inflammatory babbling? It is a huge problem on this site. What should be discussion about some specific technical issue gets filled with pages of off topic, trollish, inflammatory blather about "alt-left" "alt-right" or whatever that borderlines on spam. Perhaps...
[09:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:26] <exec> 08└─You know, 5 million Euro sounds like a lot of money, and for an individual that would be, but for a government that's effectively peanuts. France has more than 60 million inhabitants, which means that this experiment costed each inhabitant less than ten cents. And compared to the national budget, th...
[09:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:28] <exec> 08└─Maybe you should look at roads (at times where there's no traffic jam). Under normal operation conditions, only a fraction of the road is covered with cars. For example, consider this image, [umweltbundesamt.de] which actually shows quite dense traffic. But still there's clearly more uncovered than...
[09:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:30] <exec> 08└─If it's only the tractors, then the solution is easy: Just use it only on roads where tractors don't drive.
[09:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:32] <exec> 08└─We probably will have roads for a while yet, but I wonder. What if we changed to a rail system? Solar panels would probably work a lot better on a railroad. Also, they could better withstand the much lighter weight that bike trails and walkways must bear. But as you say, better yet, roof over the ro...
[09:52:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Chicago Police Department Partnering with Samsung for in-Vehicle Smartphone Docking - 271 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:06] <exec> 08└─That's in Australia, silly. Everyone knows that the moment a phone crosses the Equator, it magically turns into a computer! It just goes along with every other wackiness -- toilets switch direction, mammals lose their pouches for their young, and phones become computers.
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[10:49:47] <exec> 08└─Artemis is the first book released by Andy Weir after achieving 'The Martian' fame. I found it pretty disappointing in that it was a pretty overt effort to grab a Hugo award by directly appealing to their current trend for hardcore identity politics. The protagonist is a Muslim Saudi Arabian super-p...
[10:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX 'Starhopper' Highest-Ever Test Flight Early Next Week - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:49] <exec> 08└─It was looking a lot worse [teslarati.com] earlier and Musk never took to his readily available soapbox to badmouth the FAA. All he said was "Good conversation with head of FAA Space. Need a bit more hazard analysis & should be clear to fly soon." Starhopper is rapidly approaching obsolescence as a...
[10:50:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 1117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:29] <exec> 08└─It's good that the people who have the power disagree with each other. I think 'troll' is a mod that means different things to different people. Which also means that when people see 'Troll', they will judge it differently. Me? I ignore how things are modded, because only one of those tags is shown,...
[10:50:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 722 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:32] <exec> 08└─So exactly how is one SUPPOSED to mod inflammatory babbling? It is a huge problem on this site. What should be discussion about some specific technical issue gets filled with pages of off topic, trollish, inflammatory blather about "alt-left" "alt-right" or whatever that borderlines on spam. Perhaps...
[10:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 3027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:34] <exec> 08└─I am writing on SN about my experience with police harassment of myself, and my 20 years experience with this means that I actually know a few things about actual current operations. I call it Reverse Social Engineering, when years later you realize someone you knew wasn't who you thought they were,...
[10:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:36] <exec> 08└─yes. but that's a different discussion. first you figure out what the community wants (and that discussion is filed under "soy"), then you decide how to bring it about (and that is filed under "rehash").
[10:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:39] <exec> 08└─Don't you want some reward for your wit?
[10:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:41] <exec> 08└─Which is why we suck at Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock.
[10:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:43] <exec> 08└─The Dutch language has two genders: * male or female * neuter
[10:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:45] <exec> 08└─Incidentally, the implied swear word in the title of this submission may have earnt a down-mod from me (WTF), if it were possible to mod submissions. Swear words are usually used to provide emphasis to a point; which is only necessary if the argument itself is too weak to stand on its own merit. Tha...
[10:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:47] <exec> 08└─Parent is already at 5 insightful, so I'll just repeat: So exactly how is one SUPPOSED to mod inflammatory babbling?
[10:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:11] <exec> 08└─Ha! Don't think we don't see through your attempt to coax us into accepting an AI overload by making more movies about them. We're on to you Bot, you ... um ... you bot you!
[10:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Police Department Partnering with Samsung for in-Vehicle Smartphone Docking - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:18] <exec> 08└─So long as this is integrated with the city police, and not directly to the pentagon and tel aviv. But since mr. Emmanuel is israeli military, expect these tools to provide assistance to all of the paramilitary forces of that country as well. You can have new fancy expensive tools, so long as you ar...
[10:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Now Has AI-Powered Judges - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's an accurate description. It gets weirder from there. It was pretty risque for its era, and would never get made today in the 'I'm offended by everything climate.' I love a lot of bad movies though...MST3K fan since the first episodes. My 'Skull and Crossbones' movie collection consists...
[10:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization: No Evidence That Microplastics in Water Harms Humans - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:54] <exec> 08└─"Microplastic" is plastic dust. How exactly is plastic dust scarier than plant pollen, cellulose dust, chitin dust, mineral dust, carbon dust?
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[11:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:43] <exec> 08└─What if I told you Facebook was just one big bug? #arrestzuckerberg
[11:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX 'Starhopper' Highest-Ever Test Flight Early Next Week - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:59] <exec> 08└─> It's absurd ... until someone gets a rocket landing on their house.
[11:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX 'Starhopper' Highest-Ever Test Flight Early Next Week - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:00] <exec> 08└─I would like to propose a ban of all rich people from space until they use their wealth to fix problems down here and stop creeping out 13 year old girls.
[11:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:53] <exec> 08└─You are not reading what I have said. But if moderations are meaningless ....
[11:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:54] <exec> 08└─opt for 'troll' instead, because the ones I disagree with so strongly enough that I feel the need to express my disagreement without wanting to waste effort engaging with a clear idiot are ones where I simply cannot believe the poster can be that ignorant or stupid.
[11:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:56] <exec> 08└─I stand corrected - I can now see the point you are making. It is the topic indicator that you are objecting to - correctly in my opinion also - and not to my comment which I how I had interpreted it.
[11:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:58] <exec> 08└─If a post is only vaguely related to the topic and doesn't bring anything to the table I mod it off-topic. I don't recall ever modding a post troll. Perhaps because I stay away from the US-centric political discussions. I do wish for a "uninsightful" moderation sometimes when a poster clearly didn't...
[11:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:01] <exec> 08└─When there are lots of people replying to a comment with the same point, it is impossible to catch them all. It would be nice (I realise a big change in interface and code) to be able to respond to similar comments with one answer. It might also stop threads from exploding. I can't just respond mult...
[11:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:03] <exec> 08└─only tangentially related to the current discussion,
[11:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:05] <exec> 08└─+1 Agreed and Informative/Insightful -1 Agreed but Off-topic -1 Agreed but Offensive +1 Disagreed but Informative/Insightful -1 Disagreed and Off-topic -1 Disagreed and Offensive +1 Funny or touche -1 Factually false -1 Redundant and overrated --- -1 Spam Notes: 1. 1-to-2 positive-to-negative moddin...
[11:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 1163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, you captured my intent far better than I was able to express. My point was that as a living breathing human being going about my day in the real world ®, whether or not a comment of mine was downmodded is of small consequence. How it affects things here is another matter and you rightly called...
[11:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:32] <exec> 08└─Putting my bobbing duck to one side - TFA is a pretty low risk incident. Someone attached some unauthorised kit to the office LAN near to a nuclear power plant. Any office LAN has to be able to tolerate this sort of stuff, it happens all the time. Not only that - but they got caught and arrested.
[11:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:01] <exec> 08└─> The average highway cost in France is 4.5 million Euros (IQR 3 mil to 5 mil) per lane-km It isn't fair to compare a prototype with existing technology.
[11:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of New Dark Matter Candidate Could be Found in Crystals Deep Inside the Earth - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:17] <exec> 08└─> a place holder, correction factor for GR and observed universe. Dark matter is the model that best explains the observed data.
[11:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chicago Tribune Finds iPhones Emitting Excess Radiofrequency Radiation, FCC Investigates - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:26] <exec> 08└─Your black box tech is not behaving as expected? Someone put digital mechanical design requirements as a more important criteria than the survival of the biological organism using it? Whose ready for that upgrade! Sure I'll upgrade to let you beam whatever into my house as long as I get a sensor tha...
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[12:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03garfiejas [2072] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An AI Privacy Conundrum? The Neural Net Knows More Than It Says - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:41] <exec> 08└─And originally submitted back in Feb 2018; https://arxiv.org [arxiv.org] I'm working on projects where this is a real problem and there is active research going on on how to prevent its misuse;
[12:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An AI Privacy Conundrum? The Neural Net Knows More Than It Says - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:43] <exec> 08└─Say I train a neural net to identify credit card numbers. My training set is 0123 4567 8901 2345. Now I can throw stupid numbers at the neural net and it will only identify 0123 4567 8901 2345 as a credit card. So I can figure out the training set from the neural net responses. It's pretty obvious r...
[12:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX 'Starhopper' Highest-Ever Test Flight Early Next Week - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:06] <exec> 08└─No. That's the same idiotic argument that has been thrown around a million times before, only with an irrelevant Epstein twist.
[12:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:07] <exec> 08└─In all seriousness, some site-wide totals of moderations per day (X insightful, troll, Z funny) could be an interesting read.
[12:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:08] <exec> 08└─That was neuter me.
[12:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:10] <exec> 08└─Indeed there is. And guess what? Your corrupted, 3/4th-ignorant bastardized version of Christianity isn't it. The complete lack of self-awareness in your posts is incredible.
[12:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:12] <exec> 08└─It's good to see some constructive thinking, but I don't think that it's always possible to agree/disagree with something: if I post "this is my experience, this happened to me", are you looking for mod-point-wielders to decide " yes, I agree that this happened to them", or something else? On note 3...
[12:51:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03catholocism [8422] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:14] <exec> 08└─That's a valid fucking point.
[12:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:16] <exec> 08└─Is this actually serious? I've always wondered what got his panties in a bunch over the court system...figures it'd be something personal and petty, huh? :/
[12:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:19] <exec> 08└─I've added 'Soylent' to the topics. I haven't removed 'Rehash' because some have already seen it under that topic and might use that as a search key at a later date.
[12:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:21] <exec> 08└─With all due respect, you are a naive fool and it's that kind of softheadedness that's letting this place turn into an alt-right cesspit. Wake up, Jan. There are such things as influence campaigns. There are insane far-right groups, from the large to small (and some of our posters are cells of one a...
[12:51:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:23] <exec> 08└─Is this actually serious?
[12:51:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:25] <exec> 08└─Ok, let's suppose Janirok takes heed of your call to action and gets woke. Then what should he do next? Mod some posts as troll?
[12:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:27] <exec> 08└─Never knew that...
[12:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:54] <exec> 08└─But which ones? If you side with the climate-alarmists you have to be pro-nuclear. If you side with the nuclear-alarmists you have to be anti-climate. Sometimes it is required to take a step back and question assumptions. What do you really want to achieve?
[12:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:55] <exec> 08└─For example: Wind turbine fails catastrophically. Worst case scenario: A few cows get beheaded. Maybe.
[12:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of New Dark Matter Candidate Could be Found in Crystals Deep Inside the Earth - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:41] <exec> 08└─> I would postulate that a reworking of the math (or suppositions) might fix this rapid rabbit hole idea that will never turn out to be true. Thanks, AC. I will phone the nobel prize committee, once you post that reworked math. Here is fine, or arxiv.
[12:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of New Dark Matter Candidate Could be Found in Crystals Deep Inside the Earth - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:43] <exec> 08└─#DarkMatterMatters
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[13:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An AI Privacy Conundrum? The Neural Net Knows More Than It Says - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:45] <exec> 08└─But a neural network doesn’t have a structured file system like a regular computer, so it would seem much more difficult extract a body of information that pertains to a single target you intend to victimize. If, for example, if I have just a credit card number with no other information to go with...
[13:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03garfiejas [2072] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An AI Privacy Conundrum? The Neural Net Knows More Than It Says - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:46] <exec> 08└─Agreed, but it could be the entire record that was present in the training set thats encoded, the trick is to how to get it uncoded; The paper talks about "unintended" memorisation of elements of very large data sets, so in normal operation the network behaves as expected, but if an adversarial netw...
[13:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:55] <exec> 08└─I wonder if even a single line of his original code is still among those millions.
[13:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:57] <exec> 08└─what's original code? first commit, version 0.0.1 ...?
[13:50:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:43] <exec> 08└─When I mod somebody 'troll' I imply that person is ugly, green skinned and living under bridges.
[13:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:26] <exec> 08└─So by having a point of view that is different to yours, I am somehow providing support to the alt-right or the far left? I am being influenced by 'influencers'? I should mark down views that you do not like as trolls merely because you don't agree with them? The bogey men are out to get us all, is...
[13:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:27] <exec> 08└─I asked about +1 flamebait [soylentnews.org] a while back. And I’m pretty sure I’ve similarly modded something +1 (or maybe +2) Troll in the past month. I’ve seen a fair number of things tagged troll lately, but I just figure the answer is to mod it up if it was unfairly down-modded. Or someti...
[13:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:30] <exec> 08└─That looks too much like the IRS Form 1080. We need to keep it simple for IQ's under 180.
[13:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:32] <exec> 08└─A serious problem: Some things are matters of opinion and/or taste; other things really do have objective "right" and "wrong" answers (or more complicated multiple "acceptable" answers). Categorization is blurred; issues of fact are dismissed with "That's just your opinion" while issues of opinion (...
[13:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:34] <exec> 08└─I'm not the AC who posted the above story. I'm also most definitely not incarcerated, comfortably posting from home here. Though I did complain about this same issue on our IRC. Whoever wrote this post is clearly one of the editors/staff, which I am not.
[13:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:36] <exec> 08└─That works too!
[13:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:38] <exec> 08└─Just wondering if the site admins (who do a great job!) are seeing a general increase in troll mods across the board, rather than being associated with something more specific like an influx of new accounts, for example. I’m not asking for a statistical breakdown as I’m sure you folks are busy e...
[13:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:40] <exec> 08└─That's something the ctrl-left cannot stomach. They strive to be so righteous (in their minds), that if you have a contrary opinion, you must be an evil fascist racist denying oppressor who must be silenced for the good of humanity itself.
[13:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:42] <exec> 08└─I'm not a cop. But I think you are crazy, yet I will still read your contributions. Wanna be our replacement MDC?
[13:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:44] <exec> 08└─If you can't produce the minimal cursory standard critique in the vain of "That's very interesting and good to know but I disagree / and I agree", then you're not being informed or inspired.
[13:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:12] <exec> 08└─Come on, divine intervention can fix stupidity.
[13:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:43] <exec> 08└─Don’t forget to address the problem of keeping the surface free of contamination that might attenuate light reaching the photovoltaics. Let’s face it, it’s an absolutely terrible idea.
[13:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:44] <exec> 08└─Still looks like much of the road is covered with cars. Traffic is just one of the many factors that reduce efficiency. It should also be noted that traffic tends to be heavier during the day than at night or at 2AM in the morning. During the times of least traffic there is also the least sunlight.
[13:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of New Dark Matter Candidate Could be Found in Crystals Deep Inside the Earth - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:03] <exec> 08└─It isn't even close. Both MOND and QI are much better. Dark matter is really the most pathetic explanation at this point. The only evidence for it after tens of billions of dollars spent assuming it exists is that GR predicts the wrong thing. And dark matter has never been (and never will be) used t...
[13:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waymo Releasing Driverless Car Dataset for Researchers - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:12] <exec> 08└─It says 200,000 frames, but it also says "those" (not each) 20-second clips (plural). So that's the frame count for all 1,000 clips combined? 10Hz seems like it would be woefully inadequate.
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[14:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Disney Accused of Inflating Revenue Figures by Billions - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:45] <exec> 08└─You have to do double entry bookkeeping. First, if you book $500 but only $395 came into the bank account, the remaining $105 have to be booked somewhere else which creates an account unaccounted for. Second, it is very detrimental for Disney to report more revenue than they actually have as they ha...
[14:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Accused of Inflating Revenue Figures by Billions - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:46] <exec> 08└─What kind of cartoon comedy are you talking about trying to have Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck do accounting -- with a bunch of other loose animals running around. Disney (or any corporation) would try to inflate revenues, or deflate true costs or any other type of accounting games. I'm shocked, shoc...
[14:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An AI Privacy Conundrum? The Neural Net Knows More Than It Says - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:57] <exec> 08└─In this particular case, the neural net would probably identify credit card numbers as four groups of four decimal digits. Considering real brains as trained neural networks, I would assume that this why you gave 0123 4567 8901 2345 as an example, and I had no trouble identifying it as such. I doubt...
[14:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An AI Privacy Conundrum? The Neural Net Knows More Than It Says - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:58] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't GAN's be naturally leaky? They have to "generate" from something and that's more likely to be patterns trained into the network rather than random data.
[14:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:09] <exec> 08└─What if I told you that Facebook eats each bug that it catches when no Elmer's glue is handy. Incidentally, Facebook also tries to catch bugs in their code.
[14:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:10] <exec> 08└─I can see mt. Zoncolan from here BTW https://goo.gl [goo.gl]
[14:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:13] <exec> 08└─Static analysis tools are useful. That being said, they often cast too broad a net, finding too many false positives. In addition, they take a lot of fiddling to tune and/or to get to shut up when aforementioned false positives occur. You'll spend a lot more time with these things than you expected...
[14:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:15] <exec> 08└─The platform, dubbed Zoncolan, is a "static analysis" tool that maps the behavior and functions of the codebase and looks for potential problems
[14:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:17] <exec> 08└─Ugh . . . if( Color.Wed IN workdaze ) { . . . } Drat . . . if( Weekday.Wed IN workdaze ) { . . . } But the compiler would have complained.
[14:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:54] <exec> 08└─I'm not modding the poster, I'm modding the post. If the post looks as if it's the kind of thing a troll would post, then it is the kind of thing a troll would post - it's a troll post. Check my history, I've even up- and down-modded the same poster's different posts in the same discussion sometimes...
[14:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:56] <exec> 08└─As someone who was hit just a couple days ago with a Troll mod that was pretty clearly a Disagree mod (others counteracted the downmod before I'd even noticed), and been mod-bombed in the past (and was targeted for a mod-bomb on the green site back in the day as well): If your response to an on-topi...
[14:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:58] <exec> 08└─Mod me down instead! Because you disagree with me, and I am right!
[14:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:00] <exec> 08└─...unless you hit me with an acid or fire based weapon I will just regenerate and come back to kill you and your party of adventurers.
[14:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:02] <exec> 08└─Just wondering - assuming that there's a relatively small number of people making the majority of unjustified troll mods (as is usually the case with most things), wouldn't that be relatively easy to detect? If someone mods a post troll while others mod it informative, etc. then it seems like there'...
[14:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:04] <exec> 08└─This isn't that great of an adventure (e.g. thy graphics) I might not want to respawn.
[14:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:06] <exec> 08└─Hello fren, I always thought troll was racist and body shaming myself. Since realDonaldTrump has disappeared, I think you're SN's satirist in chief now.
[14:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:08] <exec> 08└─Your corrupted, 3/4th-ignorant bastardized version of Christianity
[14:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:10] <exec> 08└─I wasn't challenging your moderations - just giving an alternative view.
[14:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:12] <exec> 08└─My girl loves it in juxta position!
[14:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:14] <exec> 08└─Better to see editor's slip, than Aristarchus ass.
[14:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:15] <exec> 08└─Why are some commenters so up in arms about this? It doesn't matter that the road was a failure. This was an experiment, and experiments yield tons of useful data even when they fail. Sometimes more than when they succeed. This experiment provided real-world data about the materials, the amount of p...
[14:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:16] <exec> 08└─Actually it's easy to think of one. (Emphasis on "one".) They don't take away any area that could be used for something else (like farming, et.c.) This is where this whole idea had its origins. We have all this road surface that's only being used to drive vehicles along... What if we could use it fo...
[14:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:19] <exec> 08└─Brilliantly insightful. (seriously) It's too bad that it isn't obvious to more people. But then being non-obvious means that the idea might be patentable. Hmmm. Solar panels on roofs?
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[15:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Disables 210 Channels for Spreading "Disinformation" about the Hong Kong Protests - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:42] <exec> 08└─Youtube has followed the lead of Twitter and Facebook, and chosen sides on an issue that doesn't really affect them.
[15:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Disables 210 Channels for Spreading "Disinformation" about the Hong Kong Protests - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:43] <exec> 08└─they had removed thousands of accounts that originated in China
[15:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Disney Accused of Inflating Revenue Figures by Billions - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:53] <exec> 08└─The $105 is a rebate. There are special rules for rebates. I believe this is supposed to be recorded as a contra-cost-of-goods-sold, but if they are reporting it as an operating expense, they they are overstating revenues. Not sure about that, if somebody knows better feel free to correct me. There...
[15:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Accused of Inflating Revenue Figures by Billions - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:55] <exec> 08└─What kind of cartoon comedy are you talking about trying to have Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck do accounting
[15:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Accused of Inflating Revenue Figures by Billions - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:57] <exec> 08└─The bubble this time is 100% under-financialized corporate debt. It's at unprecedented levels, and it was used for completely unwise things like stock buybacks. I'm calling it now. Whole bunch of 401k owners left holding the bag as stocks turn out to be massively massively overvalued and debt servi...
[15:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An AI Privacy Conundrum? The Neural Net Knows More Than It Says - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:12] <exec> 08└─> I doubt that the neural net contains the actual training data You just trained the neural net to identify 0123 4567 8901 2345 and only 0123 4567 8901 2345 as a credit card number. Type in 0123 4567 8901 2346 and the neural net says "no". Type in 0123 4567 8901 2345 and the neural net says "yes". T...
[15:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An AI Privacy Conundrum? The Neural Net Knows More Than It Says - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:13] <exec> 08└─So many good stories to reference... WarGames The Adolescence of P-1 2001 Second Variety R.U.R. Erewhon Portal And this explains why the dude I was chatting with on the darknet the other night about data purchases was able to type at 650 words per minute...
[15:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:29] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one wondering how the fuck they have 100M lines of code?
[15:51:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 266 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:40] <exec> 08└─opt for 'troll' instead, because the ones I disagree with so strongly enough that I feel the need to express my disagreement without wanting to waste effort engaging with a clear idiot are ones where I simply cannot believe the poster can be that ignorant or stupid.
[15:51:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03catholocism [8422] 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 29 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:51] <exec> 08└─That's a valid fucking point.
[15:51:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 842 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:58] <exec> 08└─So by having a point of view that is different to yours, I am somehow providing support to the alt-right or the far left? I am being influenced by 'influencers'? I should mark down views that you do not like as trolls merely because you don't agree with them? The bogey men are out to get us all, is...
[15:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:20] <exec> 08└─Right on queue. No one called for censorship but everyone should stand up to your nonsense instead of letting it fester in the open.
[15:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:21] <exec> 08└─Whoever wrote this post is clearly one of the editors/staff
[15:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:23] <exec> 08└─I like how you declaim the hyper partisan nature of discussion. And then blame that problem on the left.
[15:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:25] <exec> 08└─to be. Personally, any time I see a poster insulting the person they're replying to, calling them names, or questioning their intelligence, I tend to moderate them Flamebait. So maybe not everybody argues in good faith, but generally assuming they are instead of screaming at them promotes better dis...
[15:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:27] <exec> 08└─NB: I am finding it difficult to concisely express my thoughts on this.
[15:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:29] <exec> 08└─Only if you promise to wash your hands.
[15:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:32] <exec> 08└─argumentum ad baculum
[15:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:34] <exec> 08└─Modding is a form of commenting -- attaching mods to usernames is reasonable.
[15:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:36] <exec> 08└─I'll confess to drawing parallels between GP and MDC.
[15:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:38] <exec> 08└─I ignore how things are modded, because only one of those tags is shown, so you never really know what other people have thought about the post
[15:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:40] <exec> 08└─I hate myself for typing this, and for being so confrontational
[15:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:42] <exec> 08└─We have also seen that some groups (particularly far-left groups on University campuses)
[15:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 1405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:44] <exec> 08└─So I just re-read the mod guidelines just to be sure it wasn't listed. And it's a serious question. Both, as I understand (and may misunderstand) the terms are posts which are judged to not add to the discussion. Both, when used, are judged as attempts to provoke reactions and not represent the trut...
[15:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:46] <exec> 08└─I have posted several replies that have been modded "Troll." I'm not particularly worried about it. I figure that those modding my posts are thin-skinned snowflakes who can't wrap their brains around the idea that other people have different opinions. Sorry folks...the world is bigger and more varie...
[15:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:48] <exec> 08└─I don't think it is a fucking point. It is a fucking valid point.
[15:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:50] <exec> 08└─I agree. When I see "you are a fucking moron" or "libtard" or "nazi" -- that adds nothing to a conversation and it deserves a troll/flamebait depending. Those are just insults and not even amusing ones, so a downmod is appropriate. I don't mind argument, argument is interesting. I'm not interested i...
[15:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:55] <exec> 08└─It's even more funnier when you consider electric cars to be the future. The more cars on the road, the less electricity generated due to the shade from those cars. Yet those cars need electricity. The French will think of something. What if we made cars and clothing transparent?
[15:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:57] <exec> 08└─We experiment, we fail, we improve, we iterate. We learn and benefit from every step. This is the most basic principle of science.
[15:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:59] <exec> 08└─Apparently wind doesn't exist in your world and cars don't drive through snow and ice on the non-roofed roads. If it really is just a roof with no sides then water and snow will blow in from the sides (or at the entrance and exit to the roofed sections). If it isn't just a roof then you've created t...
[15:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of New Dark Matter Candidate Could be Found in Crystals Deep Inside the Earth - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:19] <exec> 08└─> Both MOND and QI are much better I never saw the reference that demonstrated this.
[15:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traces of New Dark Matter Candidate Could be Found in Crystals Deep Inside the Earth - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:20] <exec> 08└─Well, that is your own fault. Go read some of Stacy McGaugh's papers. And to be clear, being superior to "dark matter" is not difficult. That "theory" is on the level of "god did it". But MOND and QI are much more impressive, one with a single tunable parameter (that has been constant since the mode...
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[16:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Disables 210 Channels for Spreading "Disinformation" about the Hong Kong Protests - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:46] <exec> 08└─No, it is not. This is only a naive western trick to mimic fake government involvement for propaganda purpose.
[16:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Disables 210 Channels for Spreading "Disinformation" about the Hong Kong Protests - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:47] <exec> 08└─To some extent, you can backtrack a proxy chain. If you're a helluva good forensics guy, you might follow a very long convoluted proxy. The TFS says the accounts originated in China, which is not exactly the same as saying that the accounts connected from China.
[16:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Disables 210 Channels for Spreading "Disinformation" about the Hong Kong Protests - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:50] <exec> 08└─I assume the worst at this point. The whole "Russia hacked the election" thing was based on them finding a bunch of weird IP addresses from many countries and then picking out a few from Russia to lay the blame.
[16:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06YouTube Disables 210 Channels for Spreading "Disinformation" about the Hong Kong Protests - 1291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:52] <exec> 08└─Two entities arguing who I don't trust at all whatsoever, google and the chinese communist party. A real global civilization would have an archive server for video uploads for regions in political crisis or emergency in order to preserve the true history of the conflict and protect the rights of all...
[16:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06YouTube Disables 210 Channels for Spreading "Disinformation" about the Hong Kong Protests - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:54] <exec> 08└─The Hong Kong issue does not affect YouTube. The use of YT to spread disinformation DOES affect YouTube. Regardless of whether only one side or both sides spread disinformation. It seems YT may have chosen to be arbiter of what is disinformation.
[16:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Accused of Inflating Revenue Figures by Billions - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:05] <exec> 08└─The difference in wealth growth between the bottom 80% and the top 20% after the last crash almost perfectly tracks the growth in the stock market over that time. The lower wealth group were more skittish and didn't put what money they did have back into the market. It hurts today but you shouldn't...
[16:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Disney Accused of Inflating Revenue Figures by Billions - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:07] <exec> 08└─The problem being that no one has any savings because housing prices eat, at bare minimum, a full half of income to the bottom 50% of workers. No savings in the bank vs no savings in the stock market are the same thing. Now I've got a few stocks and a couple 401ks, and am not suffering that situatio...
[16:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Disney Accused of Inflating Revenue Figures by Billions - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:09] <exec> 08└─We had managers that would sell services/products to his friends really cheap (under cost) then refund those friends the full amount. Sometimes refunding a recalled product or exchange (free) even though they never owned any of it. It was driving up sales figures but the refunds didn't count because...
[16:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:39] <exec> 08└─I was just about to ask the same! That is patently fucking absurd.
[16:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:40] <exec> 08└─GCs on multiple cpu cores can be more efficient than storage management done by hand.
[16:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:42] <exec> 08└─the most important thing as far as the people up top are concerned is that it is impossible to audit so the carefully placed backdoors will survive for as long as possible, they hope for generations i bet. Anyone who is still using facegag after what we know about what the company really is, a cult,...
[16:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:44] <exec> 08└─Even if you don't accept GC as being more efficient overall, my point still stands that all of the deallocation happens on a different cpu core than the main application. Thus the execution of the primary task sees zero cpu cycles spent on 'dispose'. More cpu cores are cheap and getting cheaper as w...
[16:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX 'Starhopper' Highest-Ever Test Flight Early Next Week - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:01] <exec> 08└─People like me have been pointing out wealthy people squandering their wealth in parasitic immoral ways for a long time, as well as the true nature of the parasitic immoral alliance with israel, but now we have the ultimate proof, proof beyond anything I would have ever dreamed of, that the people w...
[16:51:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 854 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:32] <exec> 08└─I prefer that the 'authors' of mods remain anonymous to the general user base, because I think on the whole it is better than making those authors public. While it would increase accountability, I can also see that it could increasingly lead to 'tit for tat' modding when someone gets their nose out...
[16:52:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kazzie [5309] 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:02] <exec> 08└─In all seriousness, some site-wide totals of moderations per day (X insightful, troll, Z funny) could be an interesting read.
[16:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:20] <exec> 08└─That's probably a good idea, but it needs more development. It's an especially good idea if it can actually recycle spent fuel rods, as one source I read claimed.
[16:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:21] <exec> 08└─Pebble bed reactors are also probably safe. Swimming pool reactors are safe against most of the usual problems. But there are questions about efficiency, and, at least in the case of swimming pool reactors, about how to prevent production of plutonium.
[16:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:00] <exec> 08└─Switzerland has plenty of covered highways, and they seem to do fine. Of course, they cover them to keep avalanches and rockfall from blocking the roads, but the basic principle is the same. If covering roads with solar panels lowers plowing costs, why not do it? The right of way is already there, a...
[16:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:02] <exec> 08└─I posted the parent. "People" can put them on roofs. Whose roof, and how much are you compensating them for using that space? If this was meant to be a public project (no idea if it was but why else would you use a roadway?), then why not use public right of access that's going unused? Then again, u...
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[17:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Shield Just 10 Atoms Thick to Protect Electronic Devices - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:47] <exec> 08└─Just 10 atoms thick? Must be incredibly fragile. I'd guess the material has to be physically bonded to something thicker and stronger. I always find it easier to think of electricity in wires as analogous to water flowing through garden hoses. A capacitor is a storage tank, a resistor is a narrow sp...
[17:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Shield Just 10 Atoms Thick to Protect Electronic Devices - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:48] <exec> 08└─a resistor is a narrow spot in the hose, and an inductor is, well, I'm not sure.
[17:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Shield Just 10 Atoms Thick to Protect Electronic Devices - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:50] <exec> 08└─A thing I have always thought funny about the electricity as water analogy, which I sometimes think of myself, is the units we measure in. With water it would be volume per time, eg, gallons per minute. That would be like current 'amps'. But we don't measure current in something per second -- althou...
[17:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Shield Just 10 Atoms Thick to Protect Electronic Devices - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:52] <exec> 08└─I would point out, the act of charging a capacitor is also resisting a change in voltage. This pair of wires is at zero volts potential. Apply voltage, the capacitor charges while soaking all the current keeping the voltage low until capacitor can no longer resist change in voltage.
[17:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Shield Just 10 Atoms Thick to Protect Electronic Devices - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:55] <exec> 08└─Thinking about heat as a form of sound inspired the Stanford researchers to borrow some principles from the physical world.
[17:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Shield Just 10 Atoms Thick to Protect Electronic Devices - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:57] <exec> 08└─But we don't measure current in something per second -- although at the base most units, it seems it must be electrons per time. (coulombs per second?)
[17:50:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] 02 - 06YouTube Disables 210 Channels for Spreading "Disinformation" about the Hong Kong Protests - 1291 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:10] <exec> 08└─Two entities arguing who I don't trust at all whatsoever, google and the chinese communist party. A real global civilization would have an archive server for video uploads for regions in political crisis or emergency in order to preserve the true history of the conflict and protect the rights of all...
[17:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Disables 210 Channels for Spreading "Disinformation" about the Hong Kong Protests - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:13] <exec> 08└─Unless Twitter, FB and YT are in the pockets of the CIA, and the Hong Kong protests are also financed by the Firm.
[17:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Disables 210 Channels for Spreading "Disinformation" about the Hong Kong Protests - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah no, that's not how it works. The social media secret police go through and make a list of the naughty ones, then they say they're Chinese and ban them. Evidence? They don't need no stinking evidence. No badges neither.
[17:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Disables 210 Channels for Spreading "Disinformation" about the Hong Kong Protests - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:17] <exec> 08└─Not according to Edward Snowden. [salon.com] Even if the attackers try to obfuscate origin, #XKEYSCORE makes following exfiltrated data easy. I did this personally against Chinese ops.
[17:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Disables 210 Channels for Spreading "Disinformation" about the Hong Kong Protests - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:19] <exec> 08└─A real global civilization would have an archive server for video uploads . . .
[17:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Accused of Inflating Revenue Figures by Billions - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:34] <exec> 08└─First, if you book $500 but only $395 came into the bank account, the remaining $105 have to be booked somewhere else which creates an account unaccounted for.
[17:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Accused of Inflating Revenue Figures by Billions - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:35] <exec> 08└─The lower wealth group were more skittish and didn't put what money they did have back into the market.
[17:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Accused of Inflating Revenue Figures by Billions - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:38] <exec> 08└─While the stock market has a great run up, and many say that people who did not buy in missed out, the problem is the elites rode it up, but they will also know when its time to get out. But the poor schmuck with their 401(k) cant get out and will be wiped out. So just as important as getting in, is...
[17:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An AI Privacy Conundrum? The Neural Net Knows More Than It Says - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:52] <exec> 08└─Oh I l know: because we can.
[17:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:13] <exec> 08└─In dynamic languages with loose type discipline, it is hard to refactor a large code base. Where one would normally see common patterns and refactor out the commonality, this may not be so easy to do in a large project using a dynamic language. In a strongly typed language with a good IDE, the tools...
[17:51:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:15] <exec> 08└─One of the best static analysis tools is the compiler for a language that has strong type discipline and other safety features. The language design becomes one of the major safety features, enforced by the compiler.
[17:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:17] <exec> 08└─Heresy! That forces the programmer to explicitly say what he wants. That might do terrible things like permit reviewers to see if what the code does matches what it's supposed to do. >quack<!
[17:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:19] <exec> 08└─You're right! Better to depend on unit testing which demonstrates that the code does the right thing, at least under certain conditions, rather than that it does the right thing in principle. Not that I'm against unit testing. Just for testing higher level things that compilers cannot (yet) test. Be...
[17:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:21] <exec> 08└─I bet the NSA doesn't think it is so absurd. It seems ideally suited for placing backdoors and other goodies.
[17:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:58] <exec> 08└─Thorium molten salt reactor. Oh that was so difficult.
[17:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:59] <exec> 08└─For example: Wind turbine fails catastrophically. Worst case scenario: A few cows get beheaded. Maybe. Uranium-fission reactor fails catastrophically. Worst case scenario: Dozen of immediate deaths, hundreds of others die a slow, grewsome death. Thousands of people are displaced; they lose everythin...
[17:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:41] <exec> 08└─Solar roads have been well proven in so many ways to be one of the most stupid ways of approaching solar generation.
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[18:49:56] <exec> 08└─Amperes are Coulombs per second.
[18:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Disables 210 Channels for Spreading "Disinformation" about the Hong Kong Protests - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:17] <exec> 08└─We deleted it but we will tell you our take on it is something I don't trust. I'd rather make the call as if it is reliable or not. Seeinign how the big tech companies have already bowed to China on topics i can only expect that China wanted these deleted and told them to delete them. In which case...
[18:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Disables 210 Channels for Spreading "Disinformation" about the Hong Kong Protests - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:18] <exec> 08└─Ok, but it was according to the governments own indictments.
[18:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Disables 210 Channels for Spreading "Disinformation" about the Hong Kong Protests - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:21] <exec> 08└─Are you a Chinese government shill?
[18:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:18] <exec> 08└─my point still stands that all of the deallocation happens on a different cpu core than the main application
[18:51:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:19] <exec> 08└─Apollo 11: 145K lines of code Mars Curiosity Rover: 500K lines of code Facebook: 100M lines of code Something is seriously wrong here.
[18:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:21] <exec> 08└─nim's GC sounds like it's pretty dang efficient.
[18:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of New Dark Matter Candidate Could be Found in Crystals Deep Inside the Earth - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:03] <exec> 08└─Does he turn into a Skeksis?
[18:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traces of New Dark Matter Candidate Could be Found in Crystals Deep Inside the Earth - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:04] <exec> 08└─We are nerds. Don't insult our intelligence
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[19:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:45] <exec> 08└─Does this mean that if I find the tracker, I can disable it and then stop making payments?
[19:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:46] <exec> 08└─[Mercedes] admits sharing car owner information and vehicle location details with third-party bailiffs and recovery firms who repossess the cars.
[19:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:48] <exec> 08└─As long as you do it in that order and not the reverse order.
[19:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:50] <exec> 08└─This is one of the reasons I am hesitant to "upgrade" to a newer Hyundai or other similar car. Hyundai has this BlueLink thing like others have OnStar. On my current car, those stupid buttons are standard garage door opener buttons. On my sister's Hyundai, she does not subscribe to the BlueLink serv...
[19:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:52] <exec> 08└─I don't want your satellite radio. … I don't want any form of transmitter inside my car
[19:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Disables 210 Channels for Spreading "Disinformation" about the Hong Kong Protests - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:27] <exec> 08└─That's not how indictments work. Evidence is presented in the subsequent trial, the indictment only states the charges.
[19:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Disables 210 Channels for Spreading "Disinformation" about the Hong Kong Protests - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:29] <exec> 08└─Books are for historians. Video, especially if fake, is for immediate use.
[19:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Accused of Inflating Revenue Figures by Billions - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:48] <exec> 08└─HAHAHAHAHAHA ROFLMAO! Disney...pay taxes... You kill me.
[19:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Da Vinci Hidden Painting | New 'Virgin of the Rocks' Painting - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:37] <exec> 08└─the scientists expected to find an underdrawing.
[19:54:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03qzm [3260] 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 507 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:28] <exec> 08└─Solar roads have been well proven in so many ways to be one of the most stupid ways of approaching solar generation. In fact, it is very difficult to think of one single positive feature of them... what are are suggesting has nothing to do with a 'solar road', solar cells near a road are not a solar...
[19:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:52] <exec> 08└─And traffic would count here as contamination...
[19:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:54] <exec> 08└─The thing is, there's an obvious alternative to putting solar panels in the road itself, suggested by solar roadways opponents: Build structures above the roads and put the panels on that. With an added advantage of providing shade (which reduces sun glare problems and car A/C usage) and less rainwa...
[19:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:56] <exec> 08└─There was. It was installed on a sidewalk, not on an actual road, and IIRC approximately 1/3 of the units failed immediately upon installation and it never came close to generating enough electricity to even power the LEDs that were going to be lit up by it. In short, it was a complete and total fai...
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[19:55:19] <exec> 08└─Here's a good link for QI [youtube.com]. I'm unfamiliar with the other one.
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[20:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Says Turning Away Researcher Reporting Steam Vulnerability Was a Mistake - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:42] <exec> 08└─How is turning away someone who is helping to secure your product even remotely advisable?
[20:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Valve Says Turning Away Researcher Reporting Steam Vulnerability Was a Mistake - 1541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:44] <exec> 08└─Fuckups happen. I work at a company that once screwed up a vulnerability disclosure. We were switching between outside groups handling our bug bounty program. (There are a few companies like HackerOne. After a merger, several of our business units were standardising that sort of thing.) A hacker pro...
[20:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Valve Says Turning Away Researcher Reporting Steam Vulnerability Was a Mistake - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:46] <exec> 08└─The manager was looking to cover their own ass. Though I can't imagine how they wouldn't think this would eventually become public.
[20:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:57] <exec> 08└─Those are EU mandated, and likely soon in the US as well. That being said, I found the spy unit behind the radio and disconnected it from the antennas and the car, and finally completely removed it. The car runs, and it didn't cause the Government Alert (Check Engine) light to go on.
[20:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:59] <exec> 08└─I know that Sirius offered me a free 3-month trial after my last oil change. To activate the trial, I had to go to a web page to click through. Then, I went out to the car for my radio to activate itself. I'm guessing that involves some sort of 2-way communication just like with satellite internet....
[20:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:01] <exec> 08└─Back in the 80s and 90s, it had luxury/technology prestige, but since then... At least I can understand the appeal of beemers - they are another expensive-to-operate junk, too, but it offers the enjoyable suspension/handling characters.
[20:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:03] <exec> 08└─How large of a payment is required in order for the circumstances to qualify as "extreme" ?
[20:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:05] <exec> 08└─"beemers enjoyable suspension/handling characters" LOL... You've never driven a Porsche.
[20:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:07] <exec> 08└─"LOL" Porsche makes sports cars (or they used to). Beemers make sedans and wagon, bit more practical. Both are garbage that break down all the time, but you can justify better for porsche because it's a sport car, it's not meant to be honda civic.
[20:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Shield Just 10 Atoms Thick to Protect Electronic Devices - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:20] <exec> 08└─In the water hose analogy, voltage is pressure, and current is water flow rate. A pressurized storage tank is a good analogue for a capacitor. For the inductor analogy, you could think of the kinetic energy of the moving water as the stored energy, so maybe something like an impeller in the hose tha...
[20:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heat Shield Just 10 Atoms Thick to Protect Electronic Devices - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:22] <exec> 08└─Interesting development, but keep in mind when putting it to practical use in anything like electronics, the heat is still going to need to go somewhere. If you put this across one side of a planar structure like a chip package, you’re going to have sink the rest of the heat off the other side som...
[20:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employees Connect Ukranian Nuclear Plant to the Internet to Mine Cryptocurrency - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:27] <exec> 08└─In fact the situation is so dire we need both nuclear and wind. And solar and hemp soap. And it will still be an uphill battle.
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[21:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ring Asks Police Not to Tell Public How its Law Enforcement Backend Works - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:44] <exec> 08└─It's been a long time since I read 1984. Can someone remind me where this fits in? Because this type of shit means some of my neighbors may "accidentally" be surveilling others on our street.
[21:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Valve Says Turning Away Researcher Reporting Steam Vulnerability Was a Mistake - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:55] <exec> 08└─How often does someone come to you making a generous offer out of nowhere for your own good and your "Am I being scammed?" instinct doesn't immediately kick in?
[21:49:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Valve Says Turning Away Researcher Reporting Steam Vulnerability Was a Mistake - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:56] <exec> 08└─Probably often enough if you have a BUG BOUNTY PROGRAM.
[21:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:17] <exec> 08└─From the story in the Sun [thesun.co.uk]... Benz said sensors are not used to permanently track customers or access real time data. It added: “When a customer chooses to finance the purchase of their car this way they sign a contract and agree to the location sensors in the car being activated in...
[21:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe, but satellite services for a long time have had things like smartcards which contain an authenticator and the satellite broadcasts the key on a subcarrier that is always monitored by the unit. The device has to be prepared to receive whatever authentication algorithm is being used, but two wa...
[21:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:20] <exec> 08└─The last time that I checked on GM vehicles, all you needed to disable onstar completely is just pull a single fuse. The fuse had no other systems attached so it was quite effective and did not disable anything else.
[21:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:22] <exec> 08└─GPS tracking in your car can be useful in a number of scenarios and in this particular case the capability was disclosed in the sales paperwork. Further, society as a whole has not pushed back against tracking so I don't understand why there would be an uproar over this type versus mobile phone trac...
[21:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heat Shield Just 10 Atoms Thick to Protect Electronic Devices - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:38] <exec> 08└─Electrons per time would be an impractical measure for two reasons: First, it would give impractically large numbers for everyday currents (even the SI prefixes would not suffice to describe them). And second, while in most cases, the charge flow is carried by electrons, sometimes (particularly in b...
[21:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06YouTube Disables 210 Channels for Spreading "Disinformation" about the Hong Kong Protests - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:01] <exec> 08└─Fakes are not just for videos you know. Books can be fake too.
[21:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Accused of Inflating Revenue Figures by Billions - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:21] <exec> 08└─Should have also said that what was being accused here wasn't what I said, but it almost certainly utilized accrual accounting for part of it. From TFA: Kuba’s whistleblower filings, which have been reviewed by MarketWatch, outline several ways employees allegedly boosted revenue, including record...
[21:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:05] <exec> 08└─I can't answer how, but I can answer why. This way the bugs get confused, trapped, and just plain exhausted when trying to get anywhere, and can never make it out into the real world.
[21:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:06] <exec> 08└─You got a problem with that? Then invent your own Facebook! With blackjack, and hookers! And send it to the moon!
[21:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:08] <exec> 08└─These bugs just vanish in a greasy black ball of flaming smoke from heck! God only knows how much time and money has been wasted by these.
[21:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Da Vinci Hidden Painting | New 'Virgin of the Rocks' Painting - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:17] <exec> 08└─the scientists expected to find an underdrawing.
[21:53:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 1158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:36] <exec> 08└─With all due respect, you are a naive fool and it's that kind of softheadedness that's letting this place turn into an alt-right cesspit. Wake up, Jan. There are such things as influence campaigns. There are insane far-right groups, from the large to small (and some of our posters are cells of one a...
[21:54:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06WTF is Up With the "TROLL" Mods? - 362 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:04] <exec> 08└─to be. Personally, any time I see a poster insulting the person they're replying to, calling them names, or questioning their intelligence, I tend to moderate them Flamebait. So maybe not everybody argues in good faith, but generally assuming they are instead of screaming at them promotes better dis...
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[21:56:25] <exec> 08└─I know I will live to regret this, but... [citation needed] On every sentence you wrote and on most of them several citations.
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[22:49:44] <exec> 08└─As planned. We need privacy legislation soooo badly.
[22:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ring Asks Police Not to Tell Public How its Law Enforcement Backend Works - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:46] <exec> 08└─Unclear. Do you want to restrict the ability to record people out in public and anything seen from one's property, or restrict the ability of the police to get user data from Ring?
[22:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ring Asks Police Not to Tell Public How its Law Enforcement Backend Works - 1672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:48] <exec> 08└─Well, to start out with if the cameras are on their property or in public space, generally speaking your neighbors can intentionally be surveilling whomever they please within plain view of the camera. It doesn't have to be an accident. You have no right of privacy as far as cameras placed on your n...
[22:49:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ring Asks Police Not to Tell Public How its Law Enforcement Backend Works - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:50] <exec> 08└─That man was prescient. That man saw this coming, a modern day Orwell.
[22:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ring Asks Police Not to Tell Public How its Law Enforcement Backend Works - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:52] <exec> 08└─Here is how Ring's law enforcement backend works: 1. You don't buy Ring products 2. No data is transmitted to Amazon to share with random third-parties 3. You live your best life The end
[22:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ring Asks Police Not to Tell Public How its Law Enforcement Backend Works - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:54] <exec> 08└─What security infants most people must be that such a lame excuse flies.
[22:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Valve Says Turning Away Researcher Reporting Steam Vulnerability Was a Mistake - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:05] <exec> 08└─I can't give Valve or HackerNone the benefit of the doubt on this one. They turned the same researcher away on two separate vulnerability reports. If it had happened once, I could maybe give them a pass (though their rejection overflowed with many much weak sauce). But the same guy twice, especially...
[22:50:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 145 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:13] <exec> 08└─[Mercedes] admits sharing car owner information and vehicle location details with third-party bailiffs and recovery firms who repossess the cars.
[22:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:28] <exec> 08└─I want to rip all the electronics of that crap out of any car I drive.
[22:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:29] <exec> 08└─Mercedes will not say how long it has used the sensors. Since at least 2012 was when I first heard about it. Probably more like ~2010 when they started working with the onstar group. It is the same backend just different front end to look more 'quality'. Oh and if you think your new shiny car does n...
[22:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:31] <exec> 08└─These cars are not meant to be economical, efficient, or practical. These are status symbol cars to signal the owner had lots of disposable income.
[22:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heat Shield Just 10 Atoms Thick to Protect Electronic Devices - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:48] <exec> 08└─Voltage is like water pressure. A narrow spot in the hose rather than being a resistor is a transformer. It trades voltage / current like a transformer. Higher water speed at lower pressure. Wide spot in hose is lower water speed at higher pressure? Not sure. When that wide spot in hose ends, you're...
[22:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Accused of Inflating Revenue Figures by Billions - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:32] <exec> 08└─I have put in 100k. I now have '800k' I think I will do just fine.
[22:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Accused of Inflating Revenue Figures by Billions - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:33] <exec> 08└─I saved while in that low group, thousands a year every year. It isn't always fun but that doesn't make it impossible. I also didn't use the word cowardice for a reason. It is far too harsh. For that bottom group the 30% dip looks like the difference between a reasonable chance at retirement and a w...
[22:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Accused of Inflating Revenue Figures by Billions - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:36] <exec> 08└─7% annually accounting for crashes and inflation. Better than any bank account by a lot.
[22:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 1360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:49] <exec> 08└─I could only see solar roads working if we found a method of recessing the panels, which in current technology are fairly fragile, beneath some sort of protective cover. Maybe using only the heat generated by solar radiation? I suspect the idea is a no go on any heavily traveled roadway, but maybe i...
[22:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Solar Road was a Failure - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:50] <exec> 08└─Whose roof, and how much are you compensating them for using that space?
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[23:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apollo’s PLSS And The Science Of Keeping Humans Alive In Space - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:45] <exec> 08└─The fabric they selected glowed beautifully under the stage lights, and the AC did a great job keeping the astronauts cool between takes.
[23:49:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ring Asks Police Not to Tell Public How its Law Enforcement Backend Works - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:59] <exec> 08└─Thank you, Jeff Bezos! Amazon's Ring camera has completely foiled Mohamed al-Jihadi's attempts to launch a terrorist attack on my street. We also caught the Smith kid sneaking out back for cigarettes, and two city cops beating up an unarmed homeless man.
[23:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ring Asks Police Not to Tell Public How its Law Enforcement Backend Works - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:01] <exec> 08└─Definitely the latter, warrants for everything and none of this back-end fast-tracking for access. Warrant for the users, NOT the company! Now restricting public recording, obviously not that drastic. However posting videos of people online is a modern day problem, I've seen so many videos of people...
[23:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ring Asks Police Not to Tell Public How its Law Enforcement Backend Works - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:03] <exec> 08└─Something tells me the latter event may have been remotely deleted by your helpful local law enforcement agency... to free up valuable storage space on your device, of course.
[23:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ring Asks Police Not to Tell Public How its Law Enforcement Backend Works - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:05] <exec> 08└─At least your dog is still alive.
[23:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ring Asks Police Not to Tell Public How its Law Enforcement Backend Works - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:07] <exec> 08└─Found the Ring a/o law enforcement shill.
[23:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:45] <exec> 08└─When I bought my current car, a GM in 2014, I remove the antenna for the 'onstar' unit, and shorted the antenna lead with a resistor. All transmission attempts were lost as heat. Works quite well, and the system just thinks it is always out of range of cell towers. Downside? GPS/compass doesn't work...
[23:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:47] <exec> 08└─You can turn off your phone, leave it at home, or (supposedly) disable tracking. Cars however, are very 'black box' about some of this. Where's the off switch? Note that people aren't OK with tracking. There are constant stories about it, about companies agreeing to disable it, but in many cases you...
[23:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:49] <exec> 08└─A contract is not about asking someone to do something. It is about an exchange of value, and in fact, you can't even have a completely one sided contract! There *must* be an exchange of "something". Further, something being in a contract doesn't make it legal. And outside of legality, it doesn't ma...
[23:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:51] <exec> 08└─I might add, that there are differences between leasing, financing, and buying outright. If you lease, well.. the manufacturer still owns the car! Completely! That is an entirely different beast. Is it wrong for me to have GPS in my car, and let you borrow it for a week? Or, if I tell you to give me...
[23:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:53] <exec> 08└─You're disposable income, abubi! YOU"RE DISPOSABLE INCOME!!!
[23:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mercedes Spies on Drivers by Secretly Installing Tracking Devices in Cars - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:55] <exec> 08└─While some cars are worse than others, please tell me which horror this is.. so I can not even bother with a test drive...
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