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[00:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Police Take Down Malware Gang That Infected 800,000+ Android Smartphones - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:16] <exec> 08└─I was just waiting for someone making bad Russians theme out of this...
[00:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Police Take Down Malware Gang That Infected 800,000+ Android Smartphones - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:17] <exec> 08└─Those poor, poor Russian victims! Why doesn't anyone think of the Russian victims?
[00:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Police Take Down Malware Gang That Infected 800,000+ Android Smartphones - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:20] <exec> 08└─I only know one person living in russia. How much evidence is there that they are real?
[00:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WordPress Sites Under Attack as Hacker Group tries to Create Rogue Admin Accounts - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:47] <exec> 08└─also someone tell "https://slashdot.org/~StopBanningMeFFS" that there's something in red and it's GOOD!
[00:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cracking the Code of a Brain Cancer that Keeps Coming Back - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:26] <exec> 08└─A good friend says it cured his advanced prostate cancer. He has had ten 1cm sized, hard, bitter apricot kernels a day for over a decade, and tested his prostate tumor markers. He stops, the markers shoot up, he has them, and the tests go down to zero. He has seen kernels help several other people....
[00:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple iPhones Hacked by Websites Exploiting Zero-Day Flaws - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:00] <exec> 08└─"This indicated a group making a sustained effort to hack the users of iPhones in certain communities over a period of at least two years," Beer says.
[00:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:20] <exec> 08└─Doesn't Google provide IMAP and POP interfaces to gmail? Aren't these the protocols that Thunderbird and Outlook use? If that's what you use, then you are using an officially provided interface.
[00:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:22] <exec> 08└─Which is why I started calling the secretive powerful elites "lizard people". I can't bring myself to refer to any of the mostly innocent, sometimes downtrodden groups that are often blamed for the world's ills. Then someone complained, saying "lizard people" is a codeword for . I suspect that happe...
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[00:41:24] <exec> 08└─NTP? Network Time Protocol?
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[01:33:23] <exec> 08└─If future quantum internets could not be tapped, how could we blame Russians for intrusion? This breaks all our political culture model!
[01:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Entanglement Sent Over 50 Km Of Optical Fiber - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:24] <exec> 08└─(arms reaching out) "I'm ready! Entangle me!" Seriously, this is huge.
[01:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Police Take Down Malware Gang That Infected 800,000+ Android Smartphones - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:36] <exec> 08└─Instead of locking these people in jail where they belong they are more likely conscripted into Putin's cyber army.
[01:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Fresh Images of HMS Terror Shipwreck Could Clear Up Lingering Mysteries - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:53] <exec> 08└─Sir, meatbags are not logical animals. Their circuits are "analogic": a Greek term made up by the particles anal and logic. This should give you a hint.
[01:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fresh Images of HMS Terror Shipwreck Could Clear Up Lingering Mysteries - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:55] <exec> 08└─IIRC, some years ago there was a PBS show- maybe Nova, or Secrets of the Dead, and I thought they generally concluded the explorers exhibited irrational behaviors likely due to lead, cadmium, and other metals which leached into food stored in lead-sealed cans, pewter dinnerware, etc. But maybe I'm m...
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[02:33:06] <exec> 08└─It's no big deal for the average person. Won't work over wireless or Bluetooth. If the node isn't built into your computer, you have a gap in security, if your OS or the computer you're connecting with or the applications you use aren't 100% secure, you don't really gain anything, doesn't stop web b...
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[03:34:04] <exec> 08└─What's with the scorpion?
[03:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:39] <exec> 08└─The presentation is part of the message. Using derogatory misnomers hurts your message in multiple ways. It increases the mental effort your reader has to go through to decipher what you are saying, if they actually get that far.
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[04:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WordPress Sites Under Attack as Hacker Group tries to Create Rogue Admin Accounts - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:17] <exec> 08└─That message would probably be upmodded to +5 if it was posted on the right discussion here. His delivery was off.
[04:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Single Genes: CRISPR Now Cuts and Splices Whole Chromosomes - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:29] <exec> 08└─You're on the right track. It will probably be computers or "strong AI" making the necessary discoveries.
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[04:34:47] <exec> 08└─Try $100 between friends, when one or both don't like to carry cash. I've also seen it used to pay the landlord. A landlord who managed to lose a rent check once -- it was picked up by a kind stranger and mailed back.
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[05:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huge Find of Silver Coins Provides New Clues to Turbulent Times - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:23] <exec> 08└─I'm betting Baldric had a cunning plan for those coins.
[05:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fresh Images of HMS Terror Shipwreck Could Clear Up Lingering Mysteries - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:01] <exec> 08└─Robots are also not logical. Unless you mean 'logic' as in TTL gates.
[05:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Radar Demonstrated for the First Time - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, the response around here is lackluster but this looks like it could be a Big Deal™. Anyone want to bet that they have been using this kind of tech at Area 51 for the last 10 years or so?
[05:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:57] <exec> 08└─Two scientists know for a fact that the world is going to end and has the evidence to prove it. One tells you calmly, on television as part of an international broadcast shown simultaneously around the world. The other tells you while running down the sidewalk of a public park while screaming at the...
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[06:33:24] <exec> 08└─lol
[06:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Inspector General Urges Congress to Reconsider SLS Requirement for Europa Clipper Mission - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:25] <exec> 08└─It's better for these things to be stated on the official record than not. When the Musky One gets Starship ready, he can brandish a copy of the NASA OIG report. Maybe roll it up into a large blunt. Then people might actually go and read it.
[06:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fresh Images of HMS Terror Shipwreck Could Clear Up Lingering Mysteries - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:13] <exec> 08└─It's an anthology show
[06:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Radar Demonstrated for the First Time - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:29] <exec> 08└─Once people say they can do this, it's classified, and no one can prove someone's lying, then that someone has yet more FUD to control you with. This is like playing poker. Who is bluffing? I never was any good at it.
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[08:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 2026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:13] <exec> 08└─As an american hanging on to my patriotism by a very thin and thinning thread, I cannot express enough shame that this huge global issue which effects every actual thing on the planet, is being presented to us by this utterly corrupt, unintelligent stooge and as if this is a serious policy he has th...
[08:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06NASA Inspector General Urges Congress to Reconsider SLS Requirement for Europa Clipper Mission - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:23] <exec> 08└─Congress is more likely to insist that the space ship visit Jesus and find evidence to disprove the theory of gravitation.
[08:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Inspector General Urges Congress to Reconsider SLS Requirement for Europa Clipper Mission - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:25] <exec> 08└─I heard that one of the reasons NASA didn't save Skylab was because Congress wanted the thruster module that NASA had designed to raise Skylab's orbit to be delivered using the brand spanking new, and as yet non functional, Space Shuttle. NASA on the other hand wanted to deliver the thruster unit wi...
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[08:33:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, like the moon landing and various current scientific theories. We can only guess, it's all 50-50.
[08:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Entanglement Sent Over 50 Km Of Optical Fiber - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:46] <exec> 08└─How much porn can I shovel down this link? Vital to encrypt it. Oops all the Intel chips are backdoored! Who cares about the pipes.
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[08:33:48] <exec> 08└─This may be the most insightful comment I have read on here.
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[09:33:29] <exec> 08└─If you look at people like Barr as positively as possible: - He's in his own personal bubble, surrounded by people who think like he does. He sees only the problems that law enforcement has. - He's like pointy-haired bosses everywhere. He has authority over things he does not understand: he, persona...
[09:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:31] <exec> 08└─Barr repeated a common fallacy about a difference between military-grade encryption and consumer encryption
[09:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venmo's Public Transactions Policy Stirs Privacy Concerns - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:19] <exec> 08└─Well that's quite a steep fee, but the fact that the sending of funds is simplified is as much a bad thing as it is a good thing. I think I'd rather write a check in that situation.
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[10:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:23] <exec> 08└─We all know the major tech vendors build backdoors into their products already. There is always some magic input they can make that will unlock the data of any of their devices. Just issue a warrant and make them comply.
[10:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fresh Images of HMS Terror Shipwreck Could Clear Up Lingering Mysteries - 1361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:25] <exec> 08└─There have been many theories about what happened to the men from Franklin's expedition. Lead poisoning has been a favourite as people got a phobia about lead in the 1980's and wanted as much "evidence" as possible about how bad it was, and the Franklin expedition was grist to their mill. In fact mi...
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[11:33:19] <exec> 08└─a young desparate-to-be-rich israeli-first pimp break into fashion industry
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[11:33:31] <exec> 08└─Was drinking beer with my brother-in-law at the lake that night. We were facing directly at it. It was just spectacular. Thanks bureaucracy.
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[12:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 1580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:20] <exec> 08└─I had to deal with this nonsensical thinking during the W. administration. The military wanted unbreakable security that they could break. We would be secure in our communications, and the rest of the world would not, pretty much just like it was in WWII. Not that they stated their notions and goals...
[12:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:22] <exec> 08└─that's why airgapped rooms exists! Of course XKCD "rubber hose" might still work...
[12:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:24] <exec> 08└─vendors build backdoors into their products
[12:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:26] <exec> 08└─pretty much just like it was in WWII
[12:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huge Find of Silver Coins Provides New Clues to Turbulent Times - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, like the moon landing and various current scientific theories. We can only guess, it's all 50-50.
[12:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huge Find of Silver Coins Provides New Clues to Turbulent Times - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:48] <exec> 08└─An ancient hodre of silver, still valuable for its base metal and increased for its historic interest. Let's see how well your paper wallets and QR codes hold up, if they even survive a 950 year burial.
[12:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huge Find of Silver Coins Provides New Clues to Turbulent Times - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:50] <exec> 08└─No. He has a 50% chance of being a troll, and a 100% chance of being a dumbass.
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[12:35:29] <exec> 08└─And CMYK output didn't work. :(
[12:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cracking the Code of a Brain Cancer that Keeps Coming Back - 1378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:31] <exec> 08└─An apricot kernel is the seed of an apricot, and is often called a "stone". It is known for containing amygdalin, a poisonous compound. Together with the related synthetic compound laetrile, amygdalin has been marketed as an alternative cancer treatment. However, studies have found the compounds to...
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[13:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03chucky [3309] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:01] <exec> 08└─What if the car manufacturers painted prototypes of their new models with this? Would it be better than the camouflage they use nowadays? If caught on pictures, you could only see the parts which were supposed to be shown, you'd probably get a rough idea about the shape (from which angle?) but every...
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[13:33:02] <exec> 08└─Paint starhopper 2 this colour and fly it into the sun, that would be cool.
[13:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:04] <exec> 08└─Don't forget vantablack is hardly anything-proof. Those CNT can't be covered by a nice hard and impermeable coat of varnish because that'd make it reflective. Just the rain, the wind or any contact with a solid object will start to wear out the effect.
[13:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burgundy’s Vineyards Haven’t Been This Hot Since the Black Death - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:12] <exec> 08└─The vineyards have been this warm before, within recorded history. Alarmist news is alarmist news, as usual. And, this time, they manage to link global warming to the Black Death? No mention of ignorant, uneducated, superstitious people living in close proximity to rats and human waste? Got it. Blac...
[13:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:28] <exec> 08└─So anti-Israel is anti-Semitic now? I guess that Jewish uncle I had who was a staunch anti-Zionist was also anti-Semitic somehow? Maybe a self-loathing Jew? Come on now, THINK: Israel itself exists because the British (mostly) decided to piss all over the existing tribal borders and carve out a home...
[13:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:29] <exec> 08└─THAT is why the hard right "supports Israel," because they're trying to cause the Battle of Arma-fucking-geddon in our lifetimes.
[13:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:31] <exec> 08└─Why ruin your point by including garbage such as this? So you are anti-Semitic, but what has that got to do with encryption? We understood the point you were making, and probably agree with you, but this is simply unnecessary. Just my opinion.
[13:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:33] <exec> 08└─Well said. The most vocal supporters of Israel I know are all rabid Christians who are big believers that either everyone in the world must be Christian, or their work is not done yet. They believe Israel must exist because their interpretation of the bible says so. Besides, it's no longer acceptabl...
[13:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:35] <exec> 08└─Many notable Jewish and non-Jewish sources take the view that anti-Zionism has become a cover for modern-day antisemitism, a position that critics have challenged as a tactic to silence criticism of Israeli policies.
[13:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:38] <exec> 08└─Nitpick: as far as I understand it, the rank and file hard right support Israel because they seek the end times. The upper class right support Israel because it's an excuse to sell weapons, and to stoke regional conflicts where they can sell even more weapons to our own military. The Trump supporter...
[13:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:40] <exec> 08└─Quantum computing might break RSA, might even break every known public key method, but there's still symmetric encryption.
[13:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Entanglement Sent Over 50 Km Of Optical Fiber - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:14] <exec> 08└─I see what appears to be a new claim, or new jargon, concerning “entanglement between matter and light”. Can anyone explain what this means, and how it might be different from the usual descriptions we read of entanglement between particles? In reading TFA, I note that the purpose of the “non...
[13:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fresh Images of HMS Terror Shipwreck Could Clear Up Lingering Mysteries - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:47] <exec> 08└─Dose makes the poison. And there's an ongoing claim that the crime wave of the 1960s and 1970s was due to leaded gasoline and lead paint.
[13:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Radar Demonstrated for the First Time - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:04] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe we can finally answer the Schrödinger's cat question w/o opening or looking in the box? My money is on the outcome that the cat has died of old age by now, even if the cat got radioactive...or not. ;-) rts008
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[14:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:23] <exec> 08└─Is it radar proof? I can see Uncle Sam ordering this stuff to paint ships, planes, tanks, etc. The old Haze Gray paint for ships was somewhat radar absorbent, reducing most radar signatures by maybe 15%. If this stuff absorbs radars like it absorbs visible light, that would be awesome! That makes me...
[14:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:24] <exec> 08└─Chief critic: Auto enthusiasts. They question why a car needs to be painted with vantablack,
[14:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:26] <exec> 08└─Have to remove those damned reflectors
[14:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:29] <exec> 08└─Helmets are optional in most states anyway. And, a helmet isn't going to save anyone's life at high speed. Note that "highway speed" and "high speed" are not synonymous. A helmet might save your life at highway speed, not at high speed.
[14:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:31] <exec> 08└─They're forgetting the most important bit. In the real world cars get dirty. The paint may not show shadows or reflections but the dirt certainly will.
[14:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:33] <exec> 08└─Don't forget including a heavy Air Conditoner unit for each request.
[14:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burgundy’s Vineyards Haven’t Been This Hot Since the Black Death - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:42] <exec> 08└─..And, this time, they manage to link global warming to the Black Death?..
[14:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:04] <exec> 08└─William Barr belongs in Austrollia and their weird weak crypto laws.
[14:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Inspector General Urges Congress to Reconsider SLS Requirement for Europa Clipper Mission - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, NASA's original plan of spreading the work around to make sure enough of Congress would get a taste to keep it from being cut is biting them in the ass. What a shock. Just like when they tied themselves to the US military. Seems they've never had a particularly politically astute leadership. O...
[14:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Entanglement Sent Over 50 Km Of Optical Fiber - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:41] <exec> 08└─World’s first link layer protocol brings quantum internet closer to a reality [tudelft.nl]. Some days ago I tried to post this here on SN and failed miserably. Seems like lot of buzzwords but TU Delft seems like a serious institution.
[14:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venmo's Public Transactions Policy Stirs Privacy Concerns - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:59] <exec> 08└─$100 dinner tab? Ohkay, no problem. Just ask for separate checks when ordering. That problem was solved about the same time that coinage and currency were invented. You can even do it in a humorous manner. "No, he/she is not my son/daughter, I'm not raising him/her. He/she gets his/her own check."
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[15:33:34] <exec> 08└─Paint starhopper 2 this colour and fly it into the sun, that would be cool.
[15:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:36] <exec> 08└─If they could have waited for the next Hollywood reboot of Batman (probably just a few days away) they could have pitched this as the next batmobile.
[15:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:38] <exec> 08└─As a counter point, the effects of the color black go both ways. So any object hotter than ambient, like most electronics, will cool faster by being more black. So this has commercial applications even though it is sure to be overused in other places for trendiness.
[15:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:40] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but... it's hellish expensive at the moment, and not practical at all in the weather. Good for telescope barrels and satellite panels, not so much for anything that gets rained on.
[15:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:42] <exec> 08└─Are there any genuine sources of nearly-black flat paint? Lots of people rip-off the Vanta name and sell you a can of Krylon or an ordinary black T-shirt, I'd really like to have a can of something nearly this black to paint the inside of my TV cabinet - the flat-black Krylon from Home Depot is bett...
[15:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:45] <exec> 08└─If they could have waited for the next Hollywood reboot of Batman (probably just a few days away) they could have pitched this as the next batmobile.
[15:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burgundy’s Vineyards Haven’t Been This Hot Since the Black Death - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:55] <exec> 08└─As I've pointed out here before, it kind of doesn't matter. Smog is bad if it causes heating, cooling or nothing. The air quality hurts human health and lifespan. The politics surrounding warming keep us from fixing that problem.
[15:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:19] <exec> 08└─Israel itself exists because the British (mostly) decided to piss all over the existing tribal borders and carve out a homeland
[15:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:21] <exec> 08└─is security by obscurity. The world's militaries collect so much data from so many sources, just organizing it in a searchable manner is a huge challenge. If you record video for military use, they're more concerned with you using a standard format with the correct indexing tags than they are the se...
[15:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohackers Are Pirating a Cheap Version of a Million-Dollar Gene Therapy - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:26] <exec> 08└─MIT Technology Review is not included in my current subscription package, and last I checked, the website blocked access by users of privacy tools. But the summary appears to use "piracy" in the sense of infringement rather than armed robbery at sea. Since when is recreating an established or revers...
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[16:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:10] <exec> 08└─Spewing fake news? It seems indistinguishable from the President's own news channel. I'd say this AI has passed the Turing test.
[16:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:11] <exec> 08└─OpenAI
[16:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:14] <exec> 08└─So that's where all the Subs come from in the Subs Queue.
[16:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:16] <exec> 08└─Presumptions, much? 1. Trump can pass a Turing test. 2. The alternative news sources can pass a Turing test. 3. You can pass a Turing test. 4. The Turing test has some kind of political bias. 5. The Turing test actually matters.
[16:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:18] <exec> 08└─The ones from Aristarchus and NPC, at least. We're not sure about Ethanol-Fueled yet.
[16:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:20] <exec> 08└─They say this new AI could fool many people. I bet I know who they voted for in 2016. https://jamanetwork.com [jamanetwork.com]
[16:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:22] <exec> 08└─Story automatically generated by StoryBot Version 0.5.0b (Development). Storybot ('Arthur T Knackerbracket') is written in Python3
[16:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:24] <exec> 08└─" Aaron Gokaslan, 23, and Vanya Cohen, 24 "
[16:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:27] <exec> 08└─I've seen some of the text generated by this AI shit, and even with the better stuff there is something still "off" about it, just like with those AI robocallers that adapt in real-time. Someday the AI may be indistinguishable from real humans, but that day has not yet arrived.
[16:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:29] <exec> 08└─Nope, the only thing even close was Hysterical Hillary [soylentnews.org] and I read actual Hillary speech quotes but still generated the text by brain and hand. Around 10-ish serious submissions (some under other names) with around 3-ish shitpost submissions including the one linked above, all 100%...
[16:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:51] <exec> 08└─Also discussed on car site, http://www.autoextremist.com [autoextremist.com] where there are some clever letters, http://www.autoextremist.com [autoextremist.com] Kudos to BMW for discovering a paint hue that finally accentuates all the beautiful lines of the X6 S...
[16:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:52] <exec> 08└─Paint over the dirt too.
[16:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:54] <exec> 08└─One of the links [fastcompany.com] above is about a competitor, which links to a Kickstarter [kickstarter.com] (now ended) for their comparable product Black 3.0 [culturehustleusa.com]. Black 3.0 is currently sold out, they say a new shipment is expected in November, or you can purchase Black 2.0 [c...
[16:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:29] <exec> 08└─The best reasons for maintaining strong encryption for all are the very people who argue against it.
[16:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Inspector General Urges Congress to Reconsider SLS Requirement for Europa Clipper Mission - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:43] <exec> 08└─>Europa Clipper spacecraft will likely have to be placed in storage for up to two years, which will cost about $3 to $5 million a month Have you tried http://pods.com [pods.com] You even get free pickup delivery!
[16:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Inspector General Urges Congress to Reconsider SLS Requirement for Europa Clipper Mission - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:45] <exec> 08└─Was drinking beer with my brother-in-law at the lake that night. We were facing directly at it. It was just spectacular. Thanks bureaucracy.
[16:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huge Find of Silver Coins Provides New Clues to Turbulent Times - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:57] <exec> 08└─Silver has some value currently, but not huge. According to https://www.ngccoin.com [ngccoin.com] American silver dollars at 90% Silver and 26.73 grams (less than an ounce) have melt value of USD $14.24. The silver in 2000 of these is worth USD 28480. A nice payday...
[16:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huge Find of Silver Coins Provides New Clues to Turbulent Times - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:58] <exec> 08└─hodre
[16:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fraunhofer ISE Sets Records for Efficiency of Silicon-Based Monolithic Triple-Junction Solar Cells - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:13] <exec> 08└─Seems like it doesn't matter to Soylentils, with only one reply before falling to end of first page... Some applications depend on cell efficiency: + Satellite power is one obvious place, grams saved in launch weight translates into $$$ savings + The solar powered cars that race across Australia (an...
[16:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Attacking the Intel Secure Enclave - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:37] <exec> 08└─Who trusts what from who? What is secured against who doing what? And each and every time it is somebody trusting or securing "your" computer from you.
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[17:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Play Apps with 1.5 Million Downloads Drained Batteries and Slowed Devices - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:22] <exec> 08└─So in other words, they were pulled because the advertisers objected. If they displayed ads properly, they would have been fiiiiiine. I'm so glad I don't own a "smart" phone. I would never tolerate this kind of shit on any device of mine.
[17:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:40] <exec> 08└─https://talktotransformer.com/ [talktotransformer.com] Put something in, post results here. Your mom, is she in a cult?" I inquired the moment I saw her. "No... I don't know." her eyes were blank. It was like staring into a black hole. She didn't seem to even try to look at me. After a short silence...
[17:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:41] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus looked at his friend, The Mighty Buzzard, and said: "I suppose my friend was right." Curious what happens with a dead friend to make you decide that death is no big deal. Here's a video. And this was just the start of a series of strange "deaths" in the video: "I think it's more than one...
[17:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:43] <exec> 08└─Oh, one more on that prompt: Your mom got pregnant. You've got seven kids to pay for. So you're going to get your shit together. You're going to get your job done. You're going to do that. And then you're going to get married." (APPLAUSE) So there was the first woman president, who I was going to ge...
[17:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 1029 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:46] <exec> 08└─With apologies to Ethanol-fueled: I've seen some of the text generated by this AI shit, and even with the better stuff there is something still "off" about it, just like with those AI robocallers that adapt in real-time. Someday the AI may be indistinguishable from real humans, but that day has not...
[17:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:48] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews is people ಠ_ಠ
[17:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:50] <exec> 08└─Toxic Gryphons Discovered in Remote Alabama Village The discovery of toxic reptiles in a remote Alabama village has some residents concerned. The creatures, discovered Thursday, had gone missing after they were fed contaminated fish. Hearing about the discovery of four deadly animals was a shocking...
[17:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:52] <exec> 08└─Russian authorities have arrested members of the TipTop cybercrime group, believed to have infected more than 800,000 Android smartphones with malware since 2015. The group operated by renting Android banking trojans from underground hacking forums, which they later hid inside Android apps distribut...
[17:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:54] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews is people !!!) and people are not afraid of death. Not at all. I've come to accept it. SoylentNews is also very smart about it. I can't even begin to explain its brilliant approach.
[17:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:19] <exec> 08└─A friend in the police forensic department always told me: "A helmet in a motorcycle crash makes a difference: an open-casket or a closed-casket funeral." But dead you are...
[17:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:21] <exec> 08└─Douglas Adams laughs at you from beyond the grave.
[17:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:23] <exec> 08└─Stargate Universe
[17:34:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] 02 - 06Burgundy’s Vineyards Haven’t Been This Hot Since the Black Death - 229 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:33] <exec> 08└─As I've pointed out here before, it kind of doesn't matter. Smog is bad if it causes heating, cooling or nothing. The air quality hurts human health and lifespan. The politics surrounding warming keep us from fixing that problem.
[17:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Radar Demonstrated for the First Time - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:34] <exec> 08└─If you didn't feed the cat back then and give it milk or water regularly, the cat has died of starvation. Not old age.
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[18:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Play Apps with 1.5 Million Downloads Drained Batteries and Slowed Devices - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:01] <exec> 08└─Easy enough to avoid, isn't it? Just don't download a bunch of silly apps. Oh, wait - Angry Birds? OOOOOhhhhh! Gotta have it!
[18:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:27] <exec> 08└─I woke up in a Soho doorway A policeman knew my name He said, "Your name is Jack" There we were, I was dead Jack the Cop My name is Jack the Cop All the time I was always walking Always walking when the rain comes and when I'm in deep water All the time. I am Jack the Cop It is the name of the city...
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[18:33:28] <exec> 08└─There was a DOS shareware program around 1992 called "babble". It did much the same thing, taking a lot of input and outputting random vaguely coherent sounding text. It used to be fun feeding it BBS chat logs. No one ever called that "AI". It does make me wonder, though. If the only feedback these...
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[18:33:31] <exec> 08└─Michael David Crawford, 20, of Fairfield Ave., was killed when the train he was in collided with a truck Thursday afternoon in Dublin. A third man who tried to intervene was also killed, police said. Sgt. Matt Cunniff of the Calvo Police Department said the crash happened at 4:40 p.m. near the inter...
[18:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:33] <exec> 08└─There was a DOS shareware program around 1992 called "babble" that was a little too close to the original, but I'm fairly certain that any copy of "Babbble" that ever appeared was not the original. That program was written by the late Mike DeGiorgio. He died in 1999. My copy, for a while, had some s...
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[18:34:01] <exec> 08└─I want it anyway.
[18:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:02] <exec> 08└─The description of this paint reminds me of the description of the nothing in the Neverending Story.
[18:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:04] <exec> 08└─Aren't some police speed measurements done with lasers? I guess that wouldn't work too well with that car.
[18:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:06] <exec> 08└─I thought the lasers bounced off the (retro)reflective front license plate (in states like NY, where front plates are mandatory).
[18:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:09] <exec> 08└─It turns out if enough people just stop putting plates on their car the police don't care. You can get pulled over for speeding with no plates and they won't even mention it.
[18:34:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 782 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:25] <exec> 08└─If you look at people like Barr as positively as possible: - He's in his own personal bubble, surrounded by people who think like he does. He sees only the problems that law enforcement has. - He's like pointy-haired bosses everywhere. He has authority over things he does not understand: he, persona...
[18:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:44] <exec> 08└─I don't know who he means by the pimp, but Trump has family married into Jews who are the bridge Israel uses to get unprecedented access to presidential power. Things like the transfer of the embassy to Jerusalem and our adversarial policy towards Iran are tailored to Israel's benefit. The fox is bo...
[18:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huge Find of Silver Coins Provides New Clues to Turbulent Times - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:12] <exec> 08└─When their equipment bleeps
[18:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Entanglement Sent Over 50 Km Of Optical Fiber - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:27] <exec> 08└─More to the point, it won't work past a repeater even on a wired connection. But that may be the next step...however it looks to me (a non-specialist) as an especially tricky one. Otherwise the signal could be copied at every amplifier stage it hits.
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[19:33:21] <exec> 08└─The lack of even the most basic note taking app, todo list, or reminders facility running locally is a huge hole in terms of out-of-the-box usability. You should not be required to visit the mother ship for such basic functions. These are basic tools that should run locally, store their data locally...
[19:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:50] <exec> 08└─Is GPT-2 ready for trolling? You decide! DICK NIGGERS We don't fuck no old pussy We only fuck the young pussy If you're older than 25, you're fucking old Ain't nobody getting laid in the old country But the kids are so fresh out the door That their pussy is hot and sweaty We come here to party We do...
[19:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:52] <exec> 08└─Natalie Portman, naked and petrified, covered in hot grits. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) It was all set to a score by The Rolling Stones, with its lead singer Mick Jagger looking absolutely horrified, with eyes rolling back, a cigarette in his mouth, and a pair of black-gloved...
[19:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:26] <exec> 08└─Not in the UK.. Both plates or get fined [www.gov.uk]
[19:34:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 637 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:52] <exec> 08└─So anti-Israel is anti-Semitic now? I guess that Jewish uncle I had who was a staunch anti-Zionist was also anti-Semitic somehow? Maybe a self-loathing Jew? Come on now, THINK: Israel itself exists because the British (mostly) decided to piss all over the existing tribal borders and carve out a home...
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[20:33:07] <exec> 08└─The original nigger slave owners, they all left, all the slaves, all the children, all the families, all the babies - they just left the house and went to work. So, if you are a black, no matter where you go, no matter who your parents are, the law still applies, the laws still operate. They still c...
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[20:33:08] <exec> 08└─Amber (23-year-old girlfriend), was accused of punching and stabbing her boyfriend of a month who was allegedly "fucking her black boyfriend". As they were on their way out, the girlfriend allegedly pulled him by the face and pushed him down onto the pavement. As he was about to get up, she reported...
[20:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Play Apps with 1.5 Million Downloads Drained Batteries and Slowed Devices - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:19] <exec> 08└─https://m.apkpure.com/search?q=notepad [apkpure.com] I await your objection to sideloading an apk.
[20:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Play Apps with 1.5 Million Downloads Drained Batteries and Slowed Devices - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:21] <exec> 08└─AFAICT, Android's and IOS's walled garden stores have a financial barrier to entry. If they did not -- if kids could package free software web apps as "apps" without paying and registering with a gatekeeper, the app stores wouldn't be full of malicious software.
[20:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:52] <exec> 08└─Ha, our vaunted billion dollar AI economy is just about able to produce readable Vogon poetry. After the April fatal shooting of Officer Daniel Faulkner, Crawford's girlfriend, Rachel Jeantel, told The Philadelphia Inquirer that he told her that he killed Faulkner because he saw him driving a truck...
[20:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:54] <exec> 08└─I vaguely recall hearing of an algorithm called "Dissociated Press" that also did this.
[20:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:29] <exec> 08└─Whoever described that as deeply unsettling must have led a very, very sheltered life. Mob violence. Kangaroo courts. Ideological purity tests. These things are unsettling. A low-albedo vehicle is not unsettling; it's just different.
[20:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fresh Images of HMS Terror Shipwreck Could Clear Up Lingering Mysteries - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:19] <exec> 08└─My assertion didn't imply what you claim as being false, so I won't dispute your strawman.
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[21:33:00] <exec> 08└─"You have some time," says a new visitor, the middle-aged gentleman in a white suit. He is the supervisor, whose long brown hair and gray suit seem slightly out of place behind the polished table and round table. "Where is this, then?" He asks, pointing to a chair in the corner. "I guess there was s...
[21:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:44] <exec> 08└─Interesting how many of the links in that submission now go nowhere.
[21:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:20] <exec> 08└─There's only so many times you can do that before you have to put a bigger engine in to haul around all that paint.
[21:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:22] <exec> 08└─Correct, then they write "NULL" in the license plate name, and that guy in California gets ticket!
[21:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Burgundy’s Vineyards Haven’t Been This Hot Since the Black Death - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:33] <exec> 08└─Why as a Canadian should I lift a finger when Canada is going to the a place that will benefit from hotter temperature ( https://business.financialpost.com [financialpost.com] https://www.moodysanalytics.com
[21:34:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 1580 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:45] <exec> 08└─I had to deal with this nonsensical thinking during the W. administration. The military wanted unbreakable security that they could break. We would be secure in our communications, and the rest of the world would not, pretty much just like it was in WWII. Not that they stated their notions and goals...
[21:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huge Find of Silver Coins Provides New Clues to Turbulent Times - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:31] <exec> 08└─Nah. It's the bleeps, the sweeps and the creeps: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[21:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Entanglement Sent Over 50 Km Of Optical Fiber - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:47] <exec> 08└─The fact that one can't use amplification en-route without breaking the entanglement (i.e. it's s passive optical network) is a major range limitation. I know of research in the Cambridge/Ipswich area of the UK that's looking into using entanglement in between each pair of optical amplifiers, and us...
[21:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Entanglement Sent Over 50 Km Of Optical Fiber - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:49] <exec> 08└─Well, they're able to try entangling photons at a rate of 2.2kHz at the moment. So you might be better sticking to ASCII porn.
[21:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Entanglement Sent Over 50 Km Of Optical Fiber - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:51] <exec> 08└─As I read it, they're creating entangled photons at around 850nm using an existing process, then they're using a low-noise method of converting the photon to 1550nm (not 1300nm) for the single mode fiber, without breaking the entanglement. The low noise means they can receive the entangled photons a...
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[22:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Likely to Overshoot Greenhouse Gasses (GHG) Targets - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:11] <exec> 08└─Judging by our past and current performance CO2 emission won't reach the safe target set by the IPCC. In my opinion that capital is better spent locally in preparation and remedial than globally trying to prevent the now unpreventable.
[22:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06EU Likely to Overshoot Greenhouse Gasses (GHG) Targets - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:13] <exec> 08└─Judging by our past and current performance CO2 emission won't reach the safe target set by the IPCC
[22:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Likely to Overshoot Greenhouse Gasses (GHG) Targets - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:15] <exec> 08└─"Greenhouse asses," a term that came up when Trump asked his Cabinet to come up with their own names. In other words, Trump's cabinet is comprised of folks who have already worked at the EPA, a group known to be anti-green. The president also asked a question about climate change while speaking to a...
[22:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Hominin Skull Fills in “a Major Gap” in the Fossil Record - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:26] <exec> 08└─I see the Trumptards have found their way to Soylent News.
[22:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Hominin Skull Fills in “a Major Gap” in the Fossil Record - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:28] <exec> 08└─Now that the Fox News watching dullards have been banned elsewhere, they're probably bored. Unlimited free speech is awesome though.
[22:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Hominin Skull Fills in “a Major Gap” in the Fossil Record - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:31] <exec> 08└─I think it is spillover from the OpenAI story. They are trying to prove Musk right. The algorithm will end civilization as we know it.
[22:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Hominin Skull Fills in “a Major Gap” in the Fossil Record - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:33] <exec> 08└─It's getting pretty close to qualifying as spam.
[22:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google Play Apps with 1.5 Million Downloads Drained Batteries and Slowed Devices - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:44] <exec> 08└─F-Droid is free, open source and most apps are ad free (some apps have warnings 'this app has features you may not like' before you download them).
[22:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Play Apps with 1.5 Million Downloads Drained Batteries and Slowed Devices - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:46] <exec> 08└─I've been using this one: https://m.apkpure.com [apkpure.com] Quite happy with it
[22:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Play Apps with 1.5 Million Downloads Drained Batteries and Slowed Devices - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:48] <exec> 08└─The lack of even the most basic note taking app, todo list, or reminders facility running locally is a huge hole in terms of out-of-the-box usability. You should not be required to visit the mother ship for such basic functions.
[22:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:22] <exec> 08└─It is an old post. But in case you're wondering what those were, they were unflattering stills of Hillary's bizarre facial expressions with the word links being onomatopoeia of the expressions she was portraying.
[22:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:00] <exec> 08└─Why would Google need a materials lab?
[22:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:02] <exec> 08└─To improve their ability to collect personal data from you.
[22:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burgundy’s Vineyards Haven’t Been This Hot Since the Black Death - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:13] <exec> 08└─What? Too late to do anything? Unlucky ones will have to die? Then guess #malthusWasRight
[22:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burgundy’s Vineyards Haven’t Been This Hot Since the Black Death - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:14] <exec> 08└─Why should the rest of the world suffer just so you can have better grape harvests?
[22:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burgundy’s Vineyards Haven’t Been This Hot Since the Black Death - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:16] <exec> 08└─Fuck you, denialist republican scumbag. Fix climate NOW!
[22:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:45] <exec> 08└─So anti-Israel is anti-Semitic now?
[22:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fresh Images of HMS Terror Shipwreck Could Clear Up Lingering Mysteries - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:07] <exec> 08└─People without any knowledge about ships (such as myself in the past) may not be aware that ship names are reused frequently. Therefore, simply mentioning the name of a ship is ambiguous. For example, there have been eight ships known as HMS Terror: https://en.wikipedia.org
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[23:33:06] <exec> 08└─The we I implied is the western capitalist societies that won the cold war. Also I don't except different result that the whole point of my post. We are bad a long term planning but we are quite competant at dealing with short term economic issues. Correspondingly I don't care about climate change a...
[23:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06EU Likely to Overshoot Greenhouse Gasses (GHG) Targets - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:07] <exec> 08└─Europe has third-world filth streaming through its borders, its most magnificent utopian cities have become little Mogadishus rife with fires, grenade strikes, and other brutal crimes happening on a daily basis; but never fear, rest-of-the-world! We are throwing the lives of our citizens away to ins...
[23:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Likely to Overshoot Greenhouse Gasses (GHG) Targets - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:09] <exec> 08└─Was it liberated by the US? I didn't know they found oil in Brussels... Does put Freedom Fries in a more reasonable context though.
[23:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Likely to Overshoot Greenhouse Gasses (GHG) Targets - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:11] <exec> 08└─The we I implied is the western capitalist societies that won the cold war.
[23:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06EU Likely to Overshoot Greenhouse Gasses (GHG) Targets - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:14] <exec> 08└─Why stop there! Lets get into the madness of treating politicalized science as real! Take a look at https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] and debunk the argument that all of the ass-umptions behind climate science rest on the exclusion of realities .. just as those policies made...
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[23:33:16] <exec> 08└─western capitalist societies that won the cold war
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[23:33:18] <exec> 08└─Also the tfa is a sham as they include carbon credits that only serve to transfer wealth to less developed countries, while doing nothing to actually reduce CO2 emission. The real output probably increased since 1990 but we cannot know with that as the linked report does not include numbers before t...
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[23:33:20] <exec> 08└─We found something better: Methane gas, caused by Brussels-sprouts farts. We found an alternative to oil that's like liquid natural gas, only better. Better than Texas livestock pastures, in fact.
[23:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Likely to Overshoot Greenhouse Gasses (GHG) Targets - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:22] <exec> 08└─There is no dissonance as doing nothing require no planning whatsoever.
[23:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Hominin Skull Fills in “a Major Gap” in the Fossil Record - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:36] <exec> 08└─It's getting pretty close to qualifying as spamming, but we're trying to focus on getting a good enough sample size of real people that we can confirm whether or not we're actually getting genuine feedback from them through the survey. A lot of people have been asking for this and we know how hard w...
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[23:33:52] <exec> 08└─Yes, there is a financial barrier to getting an app on the playstore. It's a one-time fee of $25 for the developer. They take a percentage if you want to sell it. That's zero for a free game. But if you release it for free, apparently you aren't allowed to charge for it later. Once free, always free...
[23:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:28] <exec> 08└─It seems indistinguishable from the President's own news channel. I'd say this AI has passed the Turing test.
[23:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:29] <exec> 08└─So, what you are saying, then, oh wise and insightful c0lo, is that it is not Artificial Intelligence, but rather Artificial Simulated Stupidity (ASS)?
[23:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:31] <exec> 08└─So, what you are saying, then, oh wise and insightful c0lo, is that it is not Artificial Intelligence, but rather Artificial Simulated Stupidity (ASS)?
[23:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI Has Released the Largest Version Yet of its Fake-News-Spewing AI - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:33] <exec> 08└─OpenAI must be banned The humanitarians, whose lives are so closely intertwined with the use of AI technology, can no longer just turn a blind eye to their misuse. They must ban them, as they currently are, though it will take several years to set this in motion. "We are working on a formal proposal...
[23:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:13] <exec> 08└─For their Skunkworks [wikipedia.org].
[23:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bad Idea: Paint a Car with Vantablack - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:14] <exec> 08└─Is it still cheaper than a steel armor?
[23:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:58] <exec> 08└─The anti-semitism is in two phrases: if I were trying to take over a country or disintegrate it from the inside
[23:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:59] <exec> 08└─Can confirm, worked at a startup building routers. (Real ones, not home routers, unless you have a high five or low six figure home network budget.) We didn't backdoor it. We would have had zero tolerance. We would have fired, ostracised, etc. an employee who did such a thing, and our buyers were mo...
[23:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:01] <exec> 08└─Sorry I neglected to specify: hardware companies who sell to plural entities with military might are unlikely to willingly backdoor their product. All bets are off when it's consumers receiving. Consumers won't jail your CEO on a stopover flight. :)
[23:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bruce Schneier on the Myth of Consumer Security - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:03] <exec> 08└─two, twain, twins, pair, duo, couple, ... hmm ok, twins maybe carries connotations beyond "2"
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