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[00:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart TVs Sending Sensitive User Data to Netflix and Facebook - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:56] <exec> 08└─I remember a world where this sort of thing didn't used to happen. Can we have it back now please?
[00:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart TVs Sending Sensitive User Data to Netflix and Facebook - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, but only if you can convince people to stop buying every new shiny that is offered to them. The "smart" part of "smart TV" doesn't have anything to do with features that the consumer might use. That "smart" describes the methods of datamining that the manufacturer offers to government and big i...
[00:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billions of License Plate Scans are Part of a Private Surveillance Database - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:05] <exec> 08└─You already have that data in the state DMV archive. Your license plate number is not a "private" data.
[00:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billions of License Plate Scans are Part of a Private Surveillance Database - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:07] <exec> 08└─The DMV doesn't (afaik) collect location data -- when and where any specific plate/car is in a particular place. This data (from https://drndata.com [drndata.com] ) is much more intrusive/scary than DMV data. What kind of shill are you?
[00:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billions of License Plate Scans are Part of a Private Surveillance Database - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:10] <exec> 08└─Don't know. DMV shilll?
[00:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Billions of License Plate Scans are Part of a Private Surveillance Database - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:12] <exec> 08└─Not only that but when you are in public there are few boundaries as far as what pictures someone can take. Couple that with easy access to public records (which is as it should be) and the fact that there's no limit to aggregating data, here you go: The surveillance society that I've warned to many...
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[00:33:36] <exec> 08└─When I check online ratings for almost anything, most of them are of no use at all. People already post star-rated reviews and leave no comment, and it doesn't help. Why is the product 1 star? Or 5 stars? The best reviews are almost always 2, 3 ,or 4 stars. Those people tend to leave some sort of c...
[00:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Tests a One-Tap Review System for Product Feedback - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:40] <exec> 08└─Isn't it common knowledge that companies farm out writing 5 star reviews? I no longer look for 5 star. Meaningless. They can buy that. What I look for is a trail of pissed off people leaving their tales of woe on the forum. The 1 star review, and WHY, is by far more valuable. "Rate and Run" reviews...
[00:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call Me Crazy, but Windows 11 Could Run On Linux - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:40] <exec> 08└─Linux was built from scratch for a student project to get a decent grade.
[00:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Call Me Crazy, but Windows 11 Could Run On Linux - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:41] <exec> 08└─Barbara Hudson = incompetent failure & stalker lazy do nothing all talk erroneous bs artist fails on C\C++ null-terminated string buffer overflow security issues + slower string performance vs. Pascal https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews...
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[00:35:43] <exec> 08└─Barbara Hudson = incompetent failure & stalker lazy do nothing all talk erroneous bs artist fails on C\C++ null-terminated string buffer overflow security issues + slower string performance vs. Pascal https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews...
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[00:35:46] <exec> 08└─Barbara Hudson = incompetent failure & stalker lazy do nothing all talk erroneous bs artist fails on C\C++ null-terminated string buffer overflow security issues + slower string performance vs. Pascal https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews...
[00:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO Pays Over $1 Billion for "The Big Bang Theory" Streaming Rights - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:17] <exec> 08└─Wow! That Soft-Core Porn Theory* is awesome. I mean it's a little mad, but that doesn't mean it's wrong. I had never thought of it before, but it kind of makes sense in a twisted sort of way. I don't actually find the actress who plays Penny particularly attractive, and certainly would not pay mon...
[00:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO Pays Over $1 Billion for "The Big Bang Theory" Streaming Rights - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:18] <exec> 08└─Those executives may be quite desperate to take this gamble.
[00:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO Pays Over $1 Billion for "The Big Bang Theory" Streaming Rights - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:20] <exec> 08└─I can congratulate myself I chose to emigrate into a country where one gets a good quality national news service (among others) paying for it with the taxes. (see https://news.abc.net.au [abc.net.au] ) (or, in other words, sucks to have only commercial news services)
[00:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO Pays Over $1 Billion for "The Big Bang Theory" Streaming Rights - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:22] <exec> 08└─Star Trek more your thing?
[00:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO Pays Over $1 Billion for "The Big Bang Theory" Streaming Rights - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:25] <exec> 08└─Me too! CBC.ca :)
[00:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Reading Tech is Coming but the Law is Not Ready to Protect us - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:21] <exec> 08└─I didn't say "only buys online", I said "buys online to save".
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[01:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart TVs Sending Sensitive User Data to Netflix and Facebook - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:56] <exec> 08└─the set top box that came from the ISP could be a cryptomining device, considering the bandwidth it uses when it is on standby (you can't turn these devices off, ever, without unplugging them.. which resets everything, and adds 30 minutes to start-up.) I always assume these devices send all usage st...
[01:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart TVs Sending Sensitive User Data to Netflix and Facebook - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:58] <exec> 08└─By using this TV set you accept the terms and conditions that will enable the provider of the software to spy the shit out of you. ---The Too Smart TV Inc.
[01:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billions of License Plate Scans are Part of a Private Surveillance Database - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:09] <exec> 08└─Not cool to reach for the shill button when someone says something you disagree with. You're in public, with your car, which has a plate. It's fair game to track. OK, go ahead and call me a shill. Embrace your ignorance and and don't get over yourself.
[01:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billions of License Plate Scans are Part of a Private Surveillance Database - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:11] <exec> 08└─s/to many/too many/ keep it sexy
[01:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billions of License Plate Scans are Part of a Private Surveillance Database - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:13] <exec> 08└─> You're in public, with your car, which has a plate. It's fair game to track. And...you are also fair game to track. Will you feel the same way if someone that doesn't like you uses this data to have you swatted or something similarly unpleasant?
[01:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billions of License Plate Scans are Part of a Private Surveillance Database - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:15] <exec> 08└─Both to and too are grammatically valid in that sentence.
[01:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billions of License Plate Scans are Part of a Private Surveillance Database - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:17] <exec> 08└─Actually, "too" is not grammatically correct in that sentence. "To" is.
[01:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billions of License Plate Scans are Part of a Private Surveillance Database - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:19] <exec> 08└─Ok, it is : )
[01:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clever New DDoS Attack Gets a Lot of Bang for a Hacker's Buck - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:33] <exec> 08└─While I don't excuse the attackers, this one sounds like it's nearly an own goal. Tell your firewall do not accept packets from outside with an inside source address and this won't happen. Of course, the upstream provider and pretty much every provider in the chain should have similarly filtered out...
[01:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clever New DDoS Attack Gets a Lot of Bang for a Hacker's Buck - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:35] <exec> 08└─How is this different from This story from 8/28? [soylentnews.org]
[01:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Tests a One-Tap Review System for Product Feedback - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:52] <exec> 08└─But for her pleasure we are changing that to pinch and sweep in order to find the button more easily. Gawd… that was crude. I apologize on behalf of my gender.
[01:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASIC Cracks Online Fraud Syndicate Allegedly Shipping Money Via Crypto - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:04] <exec> 08└─I thought it was about AI and ASIC chips used to track money laundering or ASIC crypto minning. But was an article about gender equality and crime women empowering.
[01:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LastPass Fixes Bug That Leaks Credentials - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:17] <exec> 08└─The new name, best fiting, can be Je Ne Pas.
[01:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LastPass Fixes Bug That Leaks Credentials - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:18] <exec> 08└─You forgot: Again.
[01:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LastPass Fixes Bug That Leaks Credentials - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:20] <exec> 08└─Weigh the differences. Garbage, reused passwords that you can remember, likely garbage passwords in a local password manager and hours keeping them synced across devices, or possibly decent passwords synced across devices with the risk that they may leak but no evidence they ever actually have. Last...
[01:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call Me Crazy, but Windows 11 Could Run On Linux - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:03] <exec> 08└─The Linus Torvalds-Jeffery Epstein link exposed! Feminists taking back their masculinity by sodomizing the males in their lives! It all makes sense! Men, it's time for anal chastity devices if you place to speak like a man, not a woman into the future. and a protective shield for your balls, lest so...
[01:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Call Me Crazy, but Windows 11 Could Run On Linux - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:05] <exec> 08└─or Wine would quit running certain old software, like old versions of MS-Office...
[01:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call Me Crazy, but Windows 11 Could Run On Linux - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:07] <exec> 08└─One could argue that ACLs and case/space insensitive filenaming, registry vs .ini files, etc. are irrelevant frivolous BS and that what matters are the applications and how they interact with the users. Just wait, next they'll be re-implementing Office in Qt.
[01:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call Me Crazy, but Windows 11 Could Run On Linux - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:09] <exec> 08└─Microsoft is going to have developers work on Wine to bring it up to full compatibility with Windows applications. This will allow a smooth, seamless transition.
[01:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call Me Crazy, but Windows 11 Could Run On Linux - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:11] <exec> 08└─The FAA, DOT, FDA, USDA, etc. don't guarantee a damn thing, never did, they just put a framework out there that good people/companies comply with, and when companies are so far out of line that lots of people are dying as a result they do eventually get around to shutting them down. Oh, and they're...
[01:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Call Me Crazy, but Windows 11 Could Run On Linux - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:13] <exec> 08└─Sorry, Starcraft I addict here - had to play Starcraft II when it came out, but, yeah, that online thing does chafe. They made it "make sense" with Hearthstone, but like all Freemium games that too eventually chafed - but I have to give them credit, I liked Hearthstone for over a year - I don't thin...
[01:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Facebook Developing Augmented Reality Glasses for 2023-2025 Release - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:38] <exec> 08└─With 8 buttons (one under each finger) you can type/chord in ascii. Steve Roberts implemented this on his recumbent bike and was typing while cycle touring: https://microship.com [microship.com] I had already spent months dreaming about what it would take to have a rich set of of capab...
[01:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO Pays Over $1 Billion for "The Big Bang Theory" Streaming Rights - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:52] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. FWIW, I see the jokes as more of a roast of Nerd Culture than denigrating nerds. I seem to recall that Chuck Lorre created TBBT as a passion project, and was only given the green light to write a Sitcom about nerds because of his success with Two and a Half Men (I suspect that TBBT was...
[01:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO Pays Over $1 Billion for "The Big Bang Theory" Streaming Rights - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:53] <exec> 08└─Can I get you to spray for spiders before I move in?
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[02:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit: AT&T Signed Customers Up for DirecTV Now Without Their Knowledge - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:03] <exec> 08└─Strangely reminiscent of the Wells Fargo fiasco. Is this more evidence of the decline of commercial morality or is this just more of the same and I just can't remember earlier instances?
[02:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit: AT&T Signed Customers Up for DirecTV Now Without Their Knowledge - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:04] <exec> 08└─It's almost like mandatory sales quotas are bullshit rent extraction.
[02:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Lawsuit: AT&T Signed Customers Up for DirecTV Now Without Their Knowledge - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:07] <exec> 08└─is this just more of the same and I just can't remember earlier instances? No, nothing has changed since we crawled out of the ooze. It was just easier to cover up in the old days when information channels were more limited.
[02:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03webnut77 [5994] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Amazon Tests a One-Tap Review System for Product Feedback - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:04] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't trust any review, good or bad, without any meaningful text. Reviews like "this widget is great" or "worst widget evar" don't qualify. Amazon could do a better service by not lumping all of a vendor's 13 different models together. Sometimes I forget to hunt and click the "only show me this...
[02:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Tests a One-Tap Review System for Product Feedback - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:06] <exec> 08└─Sometimes I forget to hunt and click the "only show me this blasted model" button.
[02:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LastPass Fixes Bug That Leaks Credentials - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:32] <exec> 08└─Hah, you insecure fools. My password is p4ssw0rd. They'll never guess that!
[02:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Reading Tech is Coming but the Law is Not Ready to Protect us - 3147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:59] <exec> 08└─Ask the Amish. [npr.org] Or if you don't want to ask them... (And my numbers are made up for some small degree of simplicity....) When you have 1,000 individual farmers each farming three acres and the farmers get 1 bushel per acre and corn costs $2 per bushel to grow and gets $4 per bushel every fa...
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[03:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Americans’ Medical Images and Data are Available on the Internet. Anyone Can Take a Peek - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:55] <exec> 08└─Cigna is already using my echo-cardiogram against me. I get HIPAA, but otherwise why does it matter if anyone else has it?
[03:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit: AT&T Signed Customers Up for DirecTV Now Without Their Knowledge - 1527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:07] <exec> 08└─I often asked my elders if morality has declined. And from all I've heard, no, on the whole, things have improved. It can be very hard to tell, what with the evening news and their relentless focus on sensational crime. But consider that lynchings are now very rare. 100 years ago, there might be 2 o...
[03:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit: AT&T Signed Customers Up for DirecTV Now Without Their Knowledge - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:08] <exec> 08└─Why wouldn't the bosses at AT&T order their minions to commit fraud? There were no consequences for the criminals at Wells Fargo and no-one who really counts will be punished for this either.
[03:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03webnut77 [5994] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Tests a One-Tap Review System for Product Feedback - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, it does. Case in point for the Tenda AC1900 router. https://smile.amazon.com [amazon.com] There are five dropdo...
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[04:33:19] <exec> 08└─Oh. My. God. I can't believe this is happening. They are such fine liberal companies obviously corrupted by TRUMP! Impeach the fake maternal figure already.
[04:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Billions of License Plate Scans are Part of a Private Surveillance Database - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:36] <exec> 08└─It's not going to get better ... As long as nobody has the advantage, it's all good.
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[05:32:58] <exec> 08└─A health insurance company fucks you over? Vote for someone to force everyone to give them more money... that will teach em. Seriously though, only idiots (and tax avoiders) still have health insurance in the US. Pay cash and save 10x.
[05:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit: AT&T Signed Customers Up for DirecTV Now Without Their Knowledge - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:11] <exec> 08└─AT&T needs to up their game. Wells Fargo created millions of fake bank accounts and auto insurance policies.
[05:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO Pays Over $1 Billion for "The Big Bang Theory" Streaming Rights - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:08] <exec> 08└─Now that story may actually be true.
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[06:33:29] <exec> 08└─The "smart" part of "smart TV" doesn't have anything to do with features that the consumer might use. That "smart" describes the methods of datamining that the manufacturer offers to government and big industry.
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[07:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Prove Low Cost Arthritis Drug Can Effectively Treat Blood Cancer Sufferers - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:51] <exec> 08└─Now they're going to raise the price by 20,000%
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[08:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:55] <exec> 08└─No, the world does not have 'a third pole', could we please avoid these retarded clickbait headlines on SN? Why does it not seem possible for people to simply discuss facts, rather that trying to 'hype by bs'?
[08:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit: AT&T Signed Customers Up for DirecTV Now Without Their Knowledge - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:28] <exec> 08└─No, nothing has changed since we crawled out of the ooze
[08:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clever New DDoS Attack Gets a Lot of Bang for a Hacker's Buck - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:12] <exec> 08└─First time was approved by Fnord666. Second time, by... First time, it was linked to a ZDNet story. Second time, to a Wired one. Both of the times it was picked by upstart from the SoyCow2718's IRC. Which makes me wonder: how exactly are the SoyCows numbered? And do we really have at least 2718 of t...
[08:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO Pays Over $1 Billion for "The Big Bang Theory" Streaming Rights - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:28] <exec> 08└─Wow, that nails it perfectly. The best-of I just watched was cringe inducing, and at times uncomfortable to watch - so often it was just shouting "hey autists, you ain't even clever". I just loved how all the stooges were male, that's very fair and equitable isn't it. Aside: Spike Lee's /Bamboozled/...
[08:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain-Reading Tech is Coming but the Law is Not Ready to Protect us - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:28] <exec> 08└─Different AC here. I think you need to read up a little more on intersectionality before critiquing other peoples understanding of it. This is something that has come from Critical Theory and is basically an re-expression of the old Marxist idea of the bourgeoisie oppressing the proletariat, but now...
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[09:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:57] <exec> 08└─We're living in a simulated Universe and the machine has limited computation power. The more details we can observe, the faster observable objects need to be extracted out of our field of observation, otherwise the computer overheats trying to keep the simulation coherent. (grin)
[09:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:06] <exec> 08└─could we please avoid these retarded clickbait headlines on SN?
[09:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:08] <exec> 08└─Almost always, the SN headline is the headline of the article we're referring to. I certainly agree that rewriting is occasionally appropriate, but at least it forewarns you about the kind of publication that the story is linking to. Guardian journalist can't tell the difference between a pole and a...
[09:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Prove Low Cost Arthritis Drug Can Effectively Treat Blood Cancer Sufferers - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:17] <exec> 08└─I hate you. That was going to be my frosty piss.
[09:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit: AT&T Signed Customers Up for DirecTV Now Without Their Knowledge - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:45] <exec> 08└─Telstra also does this. They also have pushed video streaming services to people on ADSL 1 with sub 2MB speeds. Assholes.
[09:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart TVs Sending Sensitive User Data to Netflix and Facebook - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:59] <exec> 08└─Got a new Toshiba LCD TV 50U6863DB only to find it will not take my WiFi password. Expected to have to take it back to the store as it could not complete its setup, but eventually it just gave up complaining, continued and now works as a dumb TV with a Roku box attached. There is no helpline and sin...
[09:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart TVs Sending Sensitive User Data to Netflix and Facebook - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:00] <exec> 08└─Just keep your own box hooked up, like Roku, or better yet a Raspberry Pi or other SBC. That should give you more control over it anyway.
[09:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Tests a One-Tap Review System for Product Feedback - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:54] <exec> 08└─They've gone from being the most useful to the least in just a few years. * Fake reviews. Verified purchase helps, but not nearly enough. * Reviews that say nothing. This is going to make that worse, not better. * Review pirates. What you do is find an old item that was discontinued but had lots of...
[09:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASIC Cracks Online Fraud Syndicate Allegedly Shipping Money Via Crypto - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:06] <exec> 08└─Places in Canberra do this. Have your licence scanned or don't come in. Very worrying.
[09:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain-Reading Tech is Coming but the Law is Not Ready to Protect us - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:49] <exec> 08└─It's not about being forced. Nope. It's about being *coerced* by competition.
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[10:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:56] <exec> 08└─When will the tension break? The tension over the Hubble constant, that is. Is this like Diane and that guy on the TV show where everybody knows your name, but I cannot remember his?
[10:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:57] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=19/09/14/1415230 [soylentnews.org] Universe wrapped around itself to give us this outdated article from July.
[10:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:00] <exec> 08└─We're living in a simulated Universe and the machine has limited computation power.
[10:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:10] <exec> 08└─No need to worry about it. It will be first one to melt, before Greenland glaciers are gone. Of course, the North Pole will be ice-free by then, but that's not where most of the ice is. On a good note, Antarctica will remain covered in ice for a while so remnants of humanity can escape there after w...
[10:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart TVs Sending Sensitive User Data to Netflix and Facebook - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:01] <exec> 08└─idiots can't perform a MITM attack to find out what's transmitted, news at 11.
[10:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO Pays Over $1 Billion for "The Big Bang Theory" Streaming Rights - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:52] <exec> 08└─It's apparently nerdy. SN is a bit nerdy. Yet there so much apparent TBBT hate from soylentils. What demographic is the *actual* audience for the show?
[10:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Reading Tech is Coming but the Law is Not Ready to Protect us - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:54] <exec> 08└─With computesr - designed for total control after period where it looked like it would allow personal use network - designed for total control after a period where it looked like it would allow personal use handheld computer phone - designed for total remote control In every single instance with eve...
[10:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brain-Reading Tech is Coming but the Law is Not Ready to Protect us - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:55] <exec> 08└─With computesr - designed for total control after period where it looked like it would allow personal use network - designed for total control after a period where it looked like it would allow personal use handheld computer phone - designed for total remote control In every single instance with eve...
[10:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brain-Reading Tech is Coming but the Law is Not Ready to Protect us - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:57] <exec> 08└─That was essentially Asimov's idea that once the "braincap" became available and could begin to detect formations of criminal thought it became mandatory for screening purposes. It was just too useful to society to allow for individual liberty to refuse one.
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[11:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:51] <exec> 08└─for predicting the future. Now that you are all locked in and there is nowhere else to even by a book without amazon knowing about it(almost), you get to see how they use this power to 'manipulate search results.' Yet another case of Slimy Abusive Lateral Power Grabbing! You thought they just wanted...
[11:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:53] <exec> 08└─Did I say shocked? I meant choked...
[11:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:55] <exec> 08└─It sounds anti-competitive to me.
[11:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:05] <exec> 08└─"You wanna go where everybody knows you're LAME" Cliff Clavin?
[11:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:07] <exec> 08└─It's more likely the early-universe data was moved to cold storage, since it's accessed much less frequently. So recent objects are immediately available, while peeking into the past has additional retrieval latency.
[11:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:09] <exec> 08└─Apparently, the universe needs two iterations to put a direct link to the article in the fine summary.
[11:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:19] <exec> 08└─You must be new here. On SN you are assumed to go into deep reflection mode whenever use study a headline and the TFS. After much pondering you will end up with the deepest questions of life and you start wondering why you automatically clicked on reply and entered 42. At this point you will click b...
[11:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:21] <exec> 08└─This is how glaciologists refer to the Tibetan plateau,
[11:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Smart TVs Sending Sensitive User Data to Netflix and Facebook - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:14] <exec> 08└─Can we have it back now please?
[11:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart TVs Sending Sensitive User Data to Netflix and Facebook - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:15] <exec> 08└─Pray tell, what characters do you include in your password? This sounds like a feature I want!
[11:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart TVs Sending Sensitive User Data to Netflix and Facebook - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:17] <exec> 08└─In the modern world of cord cutting, who still has a set top box from a cable company or ISP?
[11:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart TVs Sending Sensitive User Data to Netflix and Facebook - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:19] <exec> 08└─If a widespread consumer movement like that ever happens, I suspect there'll just be a rebranding exercise. "Smart" will become a dirty word, replaced with some other label. The requirement for wifi connectivity will be downplayed and perhaps the devices will ship with inbuilt SIM cards instead and...
[11:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billions of License Plate Scans are Part of a Private Surveillance Database - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:37] <exec> 08└─I'm so glad you outlined the worth of your post in its subject. The state DMV archive contains minute-by-minute archival records of the location of your license plates, really?
[11:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Billions of License Plate Scans are Part of a Private Surveillance Database - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:38] <exec> 08└─This data is gold that better not be touched for nefarious uses. These days, toll roads routinely scan license plates, and the car owner is eventually billed, one way or another. In the data is a record down to the minute of when you passed each tollbooth. That data would be so easy to use to catch...
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[12:33:16] <exec> 08└─otherwise the computer overheats
[12:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 1190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:17] <exec> 08└─Let's assume, like Einstein said, that every observer's measurements must be correct, even if they seem to contradict each other. The universe is supposed to have started as a Big Bang and we've always been part of it (meaning our observations are from inside this expanding universe). That would imp...
[12:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:31] <exec> 08└─With great sadness, after doing minimal research (DDGing "third pole glaciology"), I discover yet another science that has taken a word with a perfectly well understood meaning (one of a pair of endpoints of a rotational axis) and given it a completely different meaning. There's no other pole at the...
[12:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Prove Low Cost Arthritis Drug Can Effectively Treat Blood Cancer Sufferers - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:39] <exec> 08└─The saddest thing is that this is probably true. Current pharma companies would increase price of aspirin 1000 fold if it was discovered it helped cure any cancer and say that this is to cover the costs of developing the drug with a completely straight face.
[12:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Prove Low Cost Arthritis Drug Can Effectively Treat Blood Cancer Sufferers - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:42] <exec> 08└─The most likely tactic is to blend it with something else and patent the result as a miracle cancer cure. Then quietly take the old drug off the market by making it hard to find. Kind of like insulin. The FDA and patent office should set up a honey pot on this one. It will be interesting to see what...
[12:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart TVs Sending Sensitive User Data to Netflix and Facebook - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:30] <exec> 08└─others sharing the abode usually watch netflix, but when they want to watch anything on a hard drive, the STB is used, as the TV doesn't recognize either of the hard drives, and the navigation on the stb is 'known' (not 'easy', just 'known')... also, I haven't finished turning and old Pi into a kodi...
[12:36:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mobydisk [5472] 02 - 06Call Me Crazy, but Windows 11 Could Run On Linux - 653 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:32] <exec> 08└─Windows has a driver model that is very different from the Linux kernel module approach. The file system has a different way of handling security permissions. The authentication is different. These are things that are very low level and I don't see how you would port them to Linux without kernel mod...
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[13:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:55] <exec> 08└─Just like betting on stocks: no prize for predicting the obvious. Anyone using a shopping site's own search function MUST understand that the search designers are incentivized to make the most money possible for the site. If this means: showing you the best deals on what you are looking for so you w...
[13:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:56] <exec> 08└─It's like they are a ghost in a huge mansion and everyone is looking for a flashlight, but the ghost sets all manner of random things where the people will look first, vibrators, razor blades, things that will get you put on a watchlist, the ghost is manipulating all of the searching so he can custo...
[13:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:13] <exec> 08└─oh look. someone else watched the first episode of stranger things season 3. and now they're trying to act all smart about it.
[13:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:14] <exec> 08└─Knowing one of the operators, Knowing only one doesn't help too much to know the system, as none of them commute.
[13:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:28] <exec> 08└─it actually has many poles. twelve, including this third one. it was on QI, so it must be true https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[13:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit: AT&T Signed Customers Up for DirecTV Now Without Their Knowledge - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:09] <exec> 08└─It seems like there's a catastrophic loss of trust now that spans all sectors. Maybe we can chalk it up to having better access to information such that we now can know and find out about the dirty tricks and cheats that have always happened. Maybe there's something else going on also. But civilizat...
[13:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Billions of License Plate Scans are Part of a Private Surveillance Database - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:50] <exec> 08└─You already have that data in the state DMV archive. Your license plate number is not a "private" data.
[13:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Developing Augmented Reality Glasses for 2023-2025 Release - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:09] <exec> 08└─Typing while you're walking seems a tall order. There's not just losing your finger position instantly but all the hazards of not watching where you're going. But if that's what you want to do, there are those forearm mounted keyboards that I think you can even buy ready-made (as opposed to DIY proj...
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[13:39:27] <exec> 08└─I hear you. Commercials killed the goose that laid the golden eggs. The way the jacked up the volume to top-notch was the straw that broke the camel's back for us. We asked DirecTV several times to stop it, but of course they didn't. So we cut the cord, got fiber & Netflix streaming, and never looke...
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[14:33:18] <exec> 08└─15 years ago, "focus relentlessly on our customers" was one of their core values. Now, much like Google's "don't be evil," it's gone completely by the wayside. Tech companies used to be well liked because they had earned trust, but now they have earned distrust. Even this statement is garbage. "This...
[14:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:36] <exec> 08└─I read somewhere that turtles was a mistranslation. It was actually tortoises.
[14:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:52] <exec> 08└─What I'm trying to say is that, no matter what glaciologists call it, there's no goddamn pole in Asia.
[14:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:53] <exec> 08└─Gene Ray [wikipedia.org], is that you?
[14:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:55] <exec> 08└─Glaciology has been taken over by the climate change religion run by the deep state. The glaciologists are just the deep state's pets.
[14:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:57] <exec> 08└─The land becomes more habitable when the ice melts there, not "destroyed".
[14:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit: AT&T Signed Customers Up for DirecTV Now Without Their Knowledge - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:37] <exec> 08└─While I'm glad we've stopped physically lynching people, it's been my observation that the frequency and participation rate of internet character assassinations has been on the rise. Consider what just happened to Stallman. His life was substantially altered in a negative way by an angry mob because...
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[14:34:59] <exec> 08└─It says the data is encrypted or encoded at the least, numbnuts!
[14:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billions of License Plate Scans are Part of a Private Surveillance Database - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:21] <exec> 08└─They probably do. I see license plate cameras at homeland infrastructure, like tunnels.
[14:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Billions of License Plate Scans are Part of a Private Surveillance Database - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:22] <exec> 08└─Europe does that. It's called "section control".
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[15:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:58] <exec> 08└─Said it before and I'll say it again, there is absolutely nothing as good as perl for random text wrangling unless you're dealing with data sets so enormous that you absolutely have to have the fastest running code possible. For most applications you will never make up the extra time spent coding it...
[15:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:59] <exec> 08└─R would be better than this. Probably python too.
[15:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:01] <exec> 08└─Open Refine can do quite a bit with regard to text manipulation as well. I would say Open Refine is also much easier to see what you've done and what you're doing. There's also cool features like, being able to save a set of procedures, so you can replicate the process on another data set. OpenRefin...
[15:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:03] <exec> 08└─I live mostly inside my C++ bubble, further subset into the Qt API. In here, QString is pretty damn good at wrangling string issues, and when it's not enough you can always bail out to RegEx (sounds like: retch, for a reason I think.) So much is just whatever you are familiar with, Boost, stdlib, wh...
[15:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:05] <exec> 08└─Python is better than being fucked up the ass, but not much else. It's a terrible language designed by people who don't understand programming very well. Syntactic white space, uninformative error messages and dynamic typing being a few transgressions.
[15:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:30] <exec> 08└─Before you ask that, you need to ask whether it is true.
[15:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 1715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:50] <exec> 08└─I think you're misunderstanding the big bang. If there was a superconcentrated ball of material that exploded out into space - then yes, there should be an observable "origin point" to the bang - track all the remnants of a fire-cracker that exploded in a free-fall vacuum, and you can trace their pa...
[15:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 1706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:52] <exec> 08└─it's not *explained* "by assuming everything is on a balloon's surface". an *analogy* with a balloon's surface is made. another analogy would be an explosion in 0 gravity: within the expanding cloud of gas, pressure pushes all gas molecules away from their closest neighbours. if the explosion is lar...
[15:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:54] <exec> 08└─Interesting. I first heard the myth as elephants standing on a turtle that is swimming in the cosmic sea. That would suggest that it *is* a turtle, and not a land-dwelling tortoise, and it's just one turtle, not turtles all the way down. Could the cosmic sea be a later, proof-texting emendation?
[15:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:56] <exec> 08└─I moderated you insightful. But I dispute that the inflationary period went "faster than light". Even if there had been observers back then, the parts of the universe that you consider to depart from the observer faster then light would have been unobservable, so there would have been no way to know...
[15:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 1538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:58] <exec> 08└─I moderated you insightful. The balloon analogy almost works if you consider the 3-dimensional hypersurface of a four-dimensional balloon. (where this fourth dimension is spatial, not temporal). But this is also flawed, because there's no evidence for this fourth spatial dimension that the balloon i...
[15:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:00] <exec> 08└─Do some reading - for current cosmology to work, the universe had to expand much, much faster than light during the inflationary period. Presumably they don't mean every point was expanding away from every other faster than light, but pick a point at the center, and one near the edge, and the distan...
[15:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:02] <exec> 08└─The abstract clearly says the results are consistent with the prevailing consensus. Where's the twist? -- hendrik
[15:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:21] <exec> 08└─As we all know, having your pole melting prematurely is a common occurrence as you get older. Rather than be embarrassed about it, you should get proper treatment to ensure everything functions when you need it to.
[15:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions of Americans’ Medical Images and Data are Available on the Internet. Anyone Can Take a Peek - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:47] <exec> 08└─I called my dentist the other day, and asked them to send me a copy of my xrays. They told me their policy does not allow release of that information.
[15:35:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jb [338] 02 - 06Smart TVs Sending Sensitive User Data to Netflix and Facebook - 211 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:18] <exec> 08└─The "smart" part of "smart TV" doesn't have anything to do with features that the consumer might use. That "smart" describes the methods of datamining that the manufacturer offers to government and big industry.
[15:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Developing Augmented Reality Glasses for 2023-2025 Release - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:09] <exec> 08└─I liked AC's suggestion of eight-finger ascii chording, it might pair well with those sewable Arduinos + thread you brought up.
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[16:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:01] <exec> 08└─Kind of the point. Using perl you can do a whole hell of a lot in one line. I've used a lot of languages over the years and still pick new ones up for fun every year or two and I've never found anything even close to as versatile and efficient with text as perl. Python usually takes a minimum of thr...
[16:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:03] <exec> 08└─Your bubble will burst when touched by Unicode multilanguage data mixed with funny math/geometry/engineering symbols and true emoji.
[16:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, one-liners are good - I really appreciate having an easy GUI that I can just throw open a scrolling text box in, append text to it all day long with single line commands, HTML format that text if I feel like it, maybe toss on a few checkboxes to toggle boolean control variables (like command l...
[16:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:07] <exec> 08└─Perl's kind of shitty at that too unless you know the few simple tricks to make it not shitty at it.
[16:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:09] <exec> 08└─Honestly, I mostly use grep, awk, and sed for most one-liner type stuff. Perl is overkill for the extremely simple stuff. I mostly use it when I need something at least slightly more complex. The ability to get way more work done per readable line is just as useful in a script as on a command line t...
[16:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:12] <exec> 08└─Perl's great for this ... unless there's a simple known sed/awk approach to the problem, because those are both a bit faster and simpler.
[16:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Augmented Reality Head Mounted Display Offers Unrivaled Viewing Experience - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:24] <exec> 08└─36 degrees field of view may be the best on the market at the moment, but I still maintain that it sucks. Sure, your fovea isn't that wide, but your peripheral vision shouldn't be starved of virtual display just because it's lower resolution. In fact, "higher than perception" resolution in the perip...
[16:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Augmented Reality Head Mounted Display Offers Unrivaled Viewing Experience - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:26] <exec> 08└─Apple Watch resolutions are 272x340 and 312x390, while devs are instructed to use 2x image size assets on those resolutions.
[16:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:40] <exec> 08└─Rupert's Rag in a turf war with Bezos's Blog. Would it really be abnormal for a store to put its own brand up front? Where are they going with this? Aside from high drama?
[16:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 1281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:06] <exec> 08└─You're trying to take the analogy much too far by involving the whole balloon. The only part of the balloon involved in the analogy is the skin - the 2D (approximately, over a small sample area) skin stretches, and thus the distance between dots increases uniformly, despite the fact that none of the...
[16:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:08] <exec> 08└─The problem with this analogy is that it invokes a 3rd spatial dimension. Thus by anology our 3d space is curved in a 4th spatial dimension. However experiments and calcuations on the dissipation of energy (I forget the citation, it's gravitational waves) are unambiguous that the energy is lost only...
[16:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:10] <exec> 08└─Actually, it's even weirder than that. There's no rule saying when the inflation stopped, so probably lots of part of it (outside our light-cone) are still inflating, whereas other parts stopped inflating even sooner than our visible universe did. But since the "edge of the visible universe" is retr...
[16:34:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:21] <exec> 08└─This is how glaciologists refer to the Tibetan plateau,
[16:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clever New DDoS Attack Gets a Lot of Bang for a Hacker's Buck - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:10] <exec> 08└─I was once receiving packets from outside with an outside source IP number and an outside destination IP number. I complained to my ISP, who told me that this was impossible and those packets must have originated within my system. This despite them coming in through my DSL line. Never found out what...
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[17:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:57] <exec> 08└─"Unidentified" means just that, not identified. Move along - there is nothing here.
[17:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:58] <exec> 08└─What better way to conceal experimental weapons development and testing than to give information to the conspiracy theorists? Actual ET kind of stuff, unlikely. Now, please look into this red light and we'll tell you everything you need to know.
[17:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the whole thing with UFOs in the military(where the term originated) is they see things flying in or near american airspace and very much want to know what they are. Kind of a reasonable thing for a national military to be doing, keeping records of those things. Treating it as a national secr...
[17:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:03] <exec> 08└─That's what they want you to think.
[17:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:05] <exec> 08└─Das what they want you to think, mane.
[17:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:07] <exec> 08└─I saw a UFO once. It was late at night moving across the sky with a short bright yellow trail behind it. I got out my 20x50 binoculars for a better look. It was a rocket doing a suborbital burn maneuver.
[17:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:09] <exec> 08└─And it enables the "UFOs are aliens" weirdos. The respectful term is "reality impaired". But they can't park in the handicapped space. *Space* Get it??
[17:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:11] <exec> 08└─The UFO itself isn't a national secret. The systems and videos capturing the UFO are - they are taken on highly classified systems and releasing the video can tip your hat to the enemy on capabilities. The IR pod, it's functions, the aircrafts handling, where the aircraft was operating, etc.. and a...
[17:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 3375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:14] <exec> 08└─Okay, so Tom DeLonge is crazy, but there do seem to be UFOs. So that's weird. If you're doubting that Tom DeLonge is crazy, I suggest listening to this JRE interview with him. [youtube.com] He makes some absurd claims about why he was contacted by a government insider. It's literally cuz he was in B...
[17:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and I understand their reasoning. And I still think it's stupid and puts the vague possibility of giving some relatively innocuous information away to "the enemy" as far more concerning than hiding relevant information from the public. It's a bad habit.
[17:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:18] <exec> 08└─I don't think the exact specific capabilities of your nations weapons systems are exactly innocuous to give out to potential adversaries.
[17:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:20] <exec> 08└─some of which can pass as humans (specifically Caucasian humans) undetected in their natural forms
[17:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:22] <exec> 08└─I once saw a really cool sort of nested square of lights ufo in the French Luberon region at dusk. I somehow could tell it was really big, and came up out of the valley. My mind went like "no way, no way, that's not a plane, that's not a balloon, not Venus, not anything...". My heart was pounding, b...
[17:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:24] <exec> 08└─Yep, camera pictures are definitely specific weapon capabilities.
[17:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:42] <exec> 08└─Sounds like evidence tampering to me
[17:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:43] <exec> 08└─When you do not know what you are doing, you should not be touching any datasets. When you do know, you have plenty of time-tested tools that you can use, without having to learn a Google-invented bastard language not fit for any other purpose.
[17:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:45] <exec> 08└─Simpler, yes, faster, maybe. After three to five pipes it starts making more sense to break out the perl.
[17:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:48] <exec> 08└─Like phallic manipulation, it all depends on context. The frozen foods aisle in WalMart or someone else's patient records will both get you in trouble.
[17:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm talking about the near-1-liners that are sometimes available. I agree that if you start getting into complexity, then yes, bust out the Perl.
[17:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:52] <exec> 08└─Or, just use the built-in tools and ignore their bastardized language? This tool isn't an online Google service. It seems like your major complaint is Google touched it at one point, so it must be tainted demon spawn?
[17:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:21] <exec> 08└─It's nothing new. I tried to get management to sell a needed service that would result in a $100 profit by making a single phone call... Nope. The profit margin wasn't wide enough so customer has to go elsewhere.
[17:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:51] <exec> 08└─You're trying too hard to may something intelligible which nobody understands, or ever has understood. Even Hawking didn't understand it. If you learn the math, you can follow the math, but that's not the same as understanding it. For that matter there are lots of unsolved problems with the current...
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[17:34:52] <exec> 08└─Being consistent with the prevailing consensus isn't the same as being explained by the current consensus. The problem is that different means of measurement appear to give contradictory answers. I suspect that the solution is that supernovae of class 1a are not all of the same intrinsic brightness,...
[17:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 2161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:55] <exec> 08└─Quite so. In fact, if the decay of inflationary energy propagates at light speed, while the expansion is much faster than that, then the most reasonable conjecture is that our universe is one tiny bubble of collapsed energy in a nigh-endless sea of still-expanding inflationary energy. Presumably a s...
[17:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:57] <exec> 08└─No, it doesn't. The analogy is constrained to the 2D skin of the balloon expanding the distance between the points without the points moving on the skin. Beyond that, the analogy immediately breaks down. Remember - all analogies are bad analogies. If they accurately described what you were using the...
[17:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:59] <exec> 08└─There really is no twist here. Look at the Hubble values in the figure in the S&T article and you'll see that they are all largely the same when you take into account their error bars. Sure there is work here to understand the differences, but suggesting a "tension" is, I think, blowing it up more t...
[17:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:19] <exec> 08└─When this happens, it is often all the editor can do to verify the contents of the submission, and carry out the usual checks to make sure that we are complying with legal requirements regarding fair use and to ensure that we are not leaving the site open to a legal challenge, and push the story out...
[17:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:21] <exec> 08└─Don't we already have 4 poles? (magnetic and true)
[17:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lawsuit: AT&T Signed Customers Up for DirecTV Now Without Their Knowledge - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:03] <exec> 08└─It's almost like mandatory sales quotas are bullshit rent extraction.
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[18:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces Energy-Assisted Hard Drives - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:56] <exec> 08└─Not a single beep on what "energy-assisted" means in all that verbiage.
[18:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:17] <exec> 08└─That aircraft isn't a passenger jet. What do you think that IR pod is for?
[18:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:19] <exec> 08└─You're exactly as annoying and addicted to classification as the US government. Paranoia isn't policy.
[18:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:21] <exec> 08└─I'm not addicted to classification in any sense of the phrase. I believe we should know about these kind of phenomenon - it has no use being locked up in god knows where. I also am able to understand why the government wants to keep the edge on their investment in defense/offensive capabilities. At...
[18:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:23] <exec> 08└─And it enables the "UFOs are aliens" weirdos.
[18:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:25] <exec> 08└─The politically correct term is "reality challenged".
[18:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:27] <exec> 08└─I was unaware Microsoft had an AI. Let alone one capable of spewing Nazis. (Remember, Godwin only occurs when someone calls their debate opponent a Nazi, or compares them with one. Other casual use of the word gets zero Godwin points.)
[18:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:29] <exec> 08└─Microsoft made an AI, 4chan made her a Nazi: https://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com]
[18:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:54] <exec> 08└─But is Perl 6 used for /anything/ yet?
[18:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Augmented Reality Head Mounted Display Offers Unrivaled Viewing Experience - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:08] <exec> 08└─Ever try to use a watch interface to do anything beyond: telling time or clicking a binary yes/no choice? Actually, I have a smartwatch and I am totally impressed that it is even possible to use a querty interface on it, just barely, and it takes up 2/3 of the display area.
[18:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thanar [5860] (Score: 1) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:25] <exec> 08└─When I am looking for the best deal on a particular book, I use BookFinder [bookfinder.com] which is a meta-search engine that gives you price-(including shipping)-sorted results for both new and used versions of the book. The book sites that most often have the best deals are sites like AbeBooks [a...
[18:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:26] <exec> 08└─They used to have to win over customers/users. Now they are such big monopolies, they don't have to. They can be big assholes and not pay a price for it.
[18:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:28] <exec> 08└─"Bezos's Blog." the washington post?
[18:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:23] <exec> 08└─I discover yet another science that has taken a word with a perfectly well understood meaning (one of a pair of endpoints of a rotational axis) and given it a completely different meaning.
[18:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 2643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:24] <exec> 08└─How long is a piece of string? Even the law is imprecise on how much is fair use and how little might be viewed as plagiarism. The short answer is that you needn't worry about it. SN is responsible for ensuring that the stories that we publish comply with our understanding of the law. The job is act...
[18:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:26] <exec> 08└─This exact submission was stupid when it was on the green site, and it is even more stupid here.
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[19:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces Energy-Assisted Hard Drives - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:57] <exec> 08└─Would have been nice include this in the summary, but: Western Digital, Seagate, and others have been looking at technologies based around temporarily altering the coercivity of the recording media, which is accomplished by applying (additional) energy to a platter while writing. The end result of t...
[19:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:26] <exec> 08└─And we'll do it again.
[19:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:28] <exec> 08└─None of you are as fascist as all of you are.
[19:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:30] <exec> 08└─I wonder if he is more or less crazy than Philip K. Dick. https://en.wikipedia.org(book) [wikipedia.org]
[19:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:32] <exec> 08└─I don't exactly think they're deflecting top men with that little misdirection.
[19:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:34] <exec> 08└─I still find it extremely funny in a very dark and twisted sort of way. Be careful what you teach your AI, you just might make Skynet a reality. In that event, we'd deserve to be slow roasted as we'd have done it to ourselves. Can't be bothered to see just how bad of an idea it would be to leave the...
[19:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:36] <exec> 08└─So, it seems we have 4 possibilities here: - American - Russian - Chineese - Space aliens Forgive me, but I find the first one not plausible. Any significant research of this stage would be exposed already say from Hilary's emails, Snowden's dump, and countless other hacks. Chinese are not quite rea...
[19:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:38] <exec> 08└─If you have to ask, it's too crazy. Kind of like buying anything, if you have to ask it's too expensive.
[19:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:03] <exec> 08└─You brave! I was too afraid to ask that. No. Just, no.
[19:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:05] <exec> 08└─that sounds like time for a personal library extension...
[19:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:07] <exec> 08└─Python is better than being fucked up the ass, unless you're into that sort of thing but not much else.
[19:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:41] <exec> 08└─Exactly. If you don't put the product in the customer's face, they won't ever give it a chance. Profits are driven by volume for lower-margin retail stuff so it's a must that you get people into the store with a good deal and push something new onto them every step they take.
[19:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:42] <exec> 08└─Having said that, Amazon's search was always shitty. I usually find what I want using other methods and then find the thing on Amazon. Even then, when the exact name it typed, the crooks manage to return it on second-third page sometimes.
[19:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:17] <exec> 08└─The so called "Hubble constant" issue will not be resolved until renamed "Friedmann variable" https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:19] <exec> 08└─The trouble is, the nature of time isn't well understood outside the context of space-time, so how can you assert that there hasn't been an infinite amount of it? So. Maybe it's not infinite. But what are the grounds for making an assumption in either direction?
[19:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:44] <exec> 08└─False analogy. Those phrases were coined because the thing did have the property in question, under some interpretation. Clean rooms were clean (of the influence to be avoided), software architects were fabricating something, fabrication being the origin of the word. There is no interpretation of po...
[19:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:46] <exec> 08└─What do you think of when you picture yourself standing at the poles? The North pole is a vast expanse of glacial ice. South Pole is a vast expanse of glacial ice. This third "pole?" Why I daresay it is a vast expanse of glacial ice.
[19:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lawsuit: AT&T Signed Customers Up for DirecTV Now Without Their Knowledge - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:30] <exec> 08└─No, they don't seem to at first glance. But they're very much about leveraging established power to increase income without any actual improvements in economic efficiency.
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[20:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lunar Lander Failures Offer a Warning to Commercial Missions - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:57] <exec> 08└─Fuck you, India.
[20:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Lunar Lander Failures Offer a Warning to Commercial Missions - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:58] <exec> 08└─The moon creatures' aim is getting better. I wouldn't try a manned landing until we can figure out what's pissing them off.
[20:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Lunar Lander Failures Offer a Warning to Commercial Missions - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:00] <exec> 08└─When you outsource your tech to some shitstain country, it's a sure thing a parachute isn't going to make for a soft lunar landing.
[20:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar Lander Failures Offer a Warning to Commercial Missions - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:02] <exec> 08└─Didn't Israel also fail to land on the moon?
[20:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lunar Lander Failures Offer a Warning to Commercial Missions - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:04] <exec> 08└─Obviously, those Russian automatic bulldozers are just defending their perimeter... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:48] <exec> 08└─You left out "line noise". And you really shouldn't have. I once saw a UFO, quite an impressive one. Fortunately my wife, who was driving, was also interested in it so we followed it. It turned out to be a small Blimp with a transparent outer layer and a luminous inner layer advertising, IIRC, Nikon...
[20:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:49] <exec> 08└─Here's a hint: Phillip K. Dick published his ideas as fiction. He *may* have thought they were real, but he was sane enough to handle them appropriately. Besides, many of his ideas can't really be falsified. That I think them unlikely doesn't mean they're wrong. OTOH, I'm not awaiting Silent Trister...
[20:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:51] <exec> 08└─Treating it as a national secret is the kind of dumb "everything is an intelligence risk" thinking that happened during the cold war and I really wish would go away.
[20:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Augmented Reality Head Mounted Display Offers Unrivaled Viewing Experience - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:34] <exec> 08└─When Apple Watch starts projecting large holographic displays, they've earned my money. Until then, it's the $5 glow in the dark kids watch.
[20:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tension Over Hubble Constant Continues - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:31] <exec> 08└─At least he got a moon crater partially named after him.
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[21:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar Lander Failures Offer a Warning to Commercial Missions - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:04] <exec> 08└─When considering India and Israel's difficulty in landing on the moon, also keep in mind America's Ranger program [wikipedia.org]. Spoiler: We lost Ranger 3,4,5, and 6 before a successful impact mission. The moon is hard. Soft landing is really hard.
[21:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lunar Lander Failures Offer a Warning to Commercial Missions - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:05] <exec> 08└─Obligatory PBF comic here [pbfcomics.com].
[21:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lunar Lander Failures Offer a Warning to Commercial Missions - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:08] <exec> 08└─The technology is getting better. Much better computers, ion engines, etc. There are many previous examples to learn from. So more governments and private entities should be getting it right on their first try. China got it right on their first try in 2013 with Chang'e-3. Chang'e 1 was an orbiter de...
[21:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces Energy-Assisted Hard Drives - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:18] <exec> 08└─Since they used the generic "Energy assisted" label, which includes Heat assisted or Microwave assisted, they've apparently been beaten by Seagate who's already shipping HAMR (Heat Assisted Magnetic Recording) drives. Would be more interesting if these were MAMR drives and they were willing to come...
[21:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces Energy-Assisted Hard Drives - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:20] <exec> 08└─The only innovations that matter are capacity, price, and speed. WD just announced a 20 TB drive, but that uses SMR which hurts speed. It looks like Seagate only has 16 TB HAMR so far, WD has 18 TB HAMR or MAMR.
[21:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Navy Spokesman Acknowledges UFO Videos - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:58] <exec> 08└─Most of us are potential fascists. [wikipedia.org]
[21:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 2140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:28] <exec> 08└─Devops was done in Perl before Python was a thing. Python does not handle inheritance loops automatically, Perl does. Polymorphism in Python is an intolerable mess. It is easy as cheese in Perl. These two things are the whole reason you use OO. Sorry but there it is. Perl has better OO than Python d...
[21:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:29] <exec> 08└─Funny thing, QString handles Unicode, UTF-8, etc. conversions pretty much seamlessly, as do the other modern string classes. Thank God for that, because the last thing I want to fool with is conversion between Unicode and UTF-8.
[21:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but once one finishes building it, one discovers that he rebuild Perl.
[21:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:34] <exec> 08└─Lots and lots of automation, admin, monitoring tools, interface code and a raft of other stuff was done in Perl before devops was a thing.
[21:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:36] <exec> 08└─Larry Wall was Moses in a previous life. Everything was written in Perl at some point.
[21:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:38] <exec> 08└─We use Perl for data sets in the TB range at work and it's fine.
[21:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:15] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but they definitely deserved the name "Spamazon". Right now, booking.com are trying to do a spamazon imitation, I have used their services twice in the last year, and I get about 10 mails per day from them asking me if I want to go back to the place I've only visited once in my life, and shown...
[21:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:19] <exec> 08└─I've been wondering about this for a while. I'm the (well, AN) Anonymous Coward who has submitted a few stories, but I usually go out of my way to create a new headline, and usually try to minimize copy-paste from the article. I had thought that we would want to avoid plagiarism or other legally-act...
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[22:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:55] <exec> 08└─I cannot get to the engadget site because it jumps through: https://guce.advertising.com [advertising.com] Is it polyphonic? (The synth, not the site) Does it support MIDI?
[22:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, for i = 3
[22:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:59] <exec> 08└─I expect these new models all have MIDI/digital interface. Are they also equipped with circuitry to keep them in tune?
[22:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:01] <exec> 08└─Why? Are you in the market for $10k replica of a 70s synthesizer you could out-perform with a free open source software synth on a 5 years old $300 laptop?
[22:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:03] <exec> 08└─The vintage 70s synths still work 40+ years later... but this Model 10 will fail within ten years due to lead-free solder.
[22:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lunar Lander Failures Offer a Warning to Commercial Missions - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:18] <exec> 08└─Oy vey... the meshugene lander gefilte fishtailed on the way down.
[22:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces Energy-Assisted Hard Drives - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but seagate's aren't "next generation", they're "last generation", you admitted it yourself!
[22:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:42] <exec> 08└─I use it for fun, it's a hell of a language. But I can't find anyone to pay me to work on it and I'm not aware of anything with tens of thousands users that is written in it. And of course tens of thousands of users isn't many, to be really notable it would need millions. I've written a script that...
[22:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:43] <exec> 08└─First an eyeroll, but then...yeah. Actually kind of funny! Guess trying to avoid this kind of accidental entendre is an alternative reason to adhere to the "code of conduct"...
[22:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:45] <exec> 08└─First an eyeroll, but then...yeah. Actually kind of funny! Guess trying to avoid this kind of accidental entendre is an alternative reason to adhere to the "code of conduct"...
[22:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl Is Still The Goddess For Text Manipulation - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:48] <exec> 08└─The reason to play point-and-click game every time anew, instead of run a long-ago written oneliner, is ???
[22:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WSJ: Amazon Changed Search Results to Boost Profits Despite Internal Dissent - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:25] <exec> 08└─In the past year it has got *WAY* worse. I have not really bought anything lately on amazon. Cash is a bit tight. But I decided I would 'splurge' and buy a bluray. First page was pretty much all prime videos and 'sponsored ads'. The second page was 'region free' items at 15 dollars more than anywher...
[22:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:30] <exec> 08└─Thanks for explaining.
[22:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The World Has a Third Pole – and It's Melting Quickly - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:32] <exec> 08└─In retrospect I should have described it as "copyright infringement" rather than "plagiarism." It makes me wonder if there is a difference.
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[23:33:02] <exec> 08└─http://archive.is/Timit [archive.is]
[23:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moog Brings Back its Legendary Model 10 'Compact' Modular Synth - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:03] <exec> 08└─You can still find the SN76488N synthesizer chip on Ebay that Radio Shack used to stock. I built one using about 30 switches, pots, and variable caps back in the late 70's. You can now use other ICs to control it.
[23:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces Energy-Assisted Hard Drives - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:31] <exec> 08└─Think you may want to go back and re-read the article.
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