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[00:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 'Shocking' New Way to Treat Infections - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:25] <exec> 08└─Somewhere in one of these: https://www.gwern.net [gwern.net] magazines was a photo of a Russian with two electrically charged tampons stuck up his nostrils... apparently it was a proposed "cure for the common cold."
[00:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Successful Biological Decontamination of an Aquifer - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:37] <exec> 08└─Not wasting tax money hyping up panic about a contaminant, but devising and applying a method to assist nature in clearing it up.
[00:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:57] <exec> 08└─I mostly agree, and am really rooting for Starship to come to fruition quickly and with a minimum of pain (Though I do kind of want to see at least one Super Heavy explode spectacularly...just because) I think you're asking for trouble with modular telescopes though. Modular means it must be assembl...
[00:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:44] <exec> 08└─The meaning of CPU has changed over the years... so get over it! 1959 a CPU was the size of refrigerator or bigger. Yes it memory. It had an ALU. It had special registers (memory restricted to a give use) When a chip had the ALU and registers. It was called a CPU too. Memory was pushed out and incr...
[00:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:45] <exec> 08└─Non-volatile storage will be made a part of the CPU with 3DSoC
[00:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:47] <exec> 08└─There still a valid point there, even if it's only a tangent one: the fact that the "primary sources" are no longer accurate for the majority of current CPU-es (thus the definition is not valid in the general sense), it doesn't mean [wikipedia.org] that the use of "special registers" cease to exist....
[00:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:50] <exec> 08└─So, er, what was the problem exactly?
[00:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Send a Probe to Venus That Can Last 60 Days - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:11] <exec> 08└─Cooling should be possible, just the heatsink of your refrigerator has to be hotter than the ambient
[00:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Halfway Toward LHC Consolidation - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:42] <exec> 08└─Robots operating near superconducting magnets? Perhaps they are afraid it may play out like that scene in Terminator 3 [youtube.com]?
[00:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:29] <exec> 08└─It means that astronomers with military ties, who perform at least some work with national security implications (satellite tracking, among others - feel free to follow the links you supplied) can probably bring more political pressure to bear than a bunch of academics. Nothing more.
[00:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 1336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:30] <exec> 08└─>Ever trip on something in the dark? rarely >Or try walking on the sidewalk at night during a power failure? Not that many power outages here, but how How about hiking across country in the dark, without a flashlight, on a moonless night? We have pretty decent night vision for a reason - you just ha...
[00:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:32] <exec> 08└─Quite. In theory at least. The electrode quality might affect longevity though. Electrodes do degrade over time due to electron sputtering. They could also corrode or otherwise react with the surrounding environment, breaking the seal with the surrounding glass. It's not hard to make them nigh indes...
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[01:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Turning Plastic Trash Into Lubricant Oils - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:46] <exec> 08└─"Don't use lube. Use spit." -- Jenna Jameson
[01:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turning Plastic Trash Into Lubricant Oils - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:47] <exec> 08└─In before butts. PS: love all of sn friends + bots.
[01:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turning Plastic Trash Into Lubricant Oils - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:49] <exec> 08└─http://www.plastic2oil.com/site/evolution [plastic2oil.com] started ten years ago.
[01:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Successful Biological Decontamination of an Aquifer - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:20] <exec> 08└─So there's some chemicals in the water. So what? Water *is* chemicals (mostly Hydrogen and Oxygen with some trace stuff in water found in situ). Who cares if there are a few more? What's that? There's danger? Bah! Chemicals aren't dangerous. Anyone who tells you that is just a commie collectivist tr...
[01:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:40] <exec> 08└─I do kind of want to see at least one Super Heavy explode... AFAIK Starship doesn't have a launch escape system. I do not want to see the consequences of that decision.
[01:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:42] <exec> 08└─IIRC, one of the astronauts who built or serviced Hubble said they were willing to risk death to do it. Building or upgrading a giant space telescope is arguably one of the most important things an astronaut could do in space. And we apparently insist on having humans traveling to space stations in...
[01:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:44] <exec> 08└─Pad abort with explosive Super Heavy could be tested sooner than you think™: https://www.teslarati.com [teslarati.com] Starship escape system nowhere to be found: https://space.stackexchange.com
[01:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:34] <exec> 08└─Security bugs don't matter unless you're networked. Once you connect to the surveillance network known as the Internet, omae wa mou shindeiru (nani?!).
[01:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 1400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:35] <exec> 08└─The lines have definitely not blurred, the popular languages have just gotten further from the hardware. And even with languages like C, modern compilers can usually perform the relevant optimizations almost as well as a good programmer. Just because you usually don't have to think about the differe...
[01:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:37] <exec> 08└─Security bugs don't matter unless you're networked.
[01:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:40] <exec> 08└─Side-channel attack
[01:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA To Demonstrate New Star-Watching Tech With Thousands Of Shutters - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:48] <exec> 08└─You mean... Apple don't give us what we need [soylentnews.org]? But... but.. that's...
[01:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA To Demonstrate New Star-Watching Tech With Thousands Of Shutters - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:50] <exec> 08└─We need more like this [cnn.com].
[01:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Halfway Toward LHC Consolidation - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:38] <exec> 08└─Considering the tunnels are depressurized to vacuum when those electromagnets are switched on, I think the robots would have a better time than humans... Also, that movie was clearly very forgettable - I didn't even remember having seen that scene!
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[02:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turning Plastic Trash Into Lubricant Oils - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:14] <exec> 08└─Sounds like something in an episode of Preacher.
[02:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A 'Shocking' New Way to Treat Infections - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:32] <exec> 08└─Tends to corrode... But it should be the metal of choice on hospital fixtures.
[02:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Successful Biological Decontamination of an Aquifer - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:46] <exec> 08└─If not, it will stay as hydrochloric acid in concentrations lower than in your stomach. Yeah, but the path to your stomach is a bit more sensitive. At least it will clean out the calcium deposits in the pipes.
[02:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Successful Biological Decontamination of an Aquifer - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:47] <exec> 08└─Without hype, Greta would be working at a McDonalds.
[02:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:34] <exec> 08└─You didn't miss your ration: https://images.fastcompany.net [fastcompany.net] https://www.fastcompany.com
[02:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:36] <exec> 08└─Since revenue is what so much traffic enforcement is really about, always fighting is a viable strategy. One thing they count on is people just rolling over. People are busy. They even set the fines low enough that most people will conclude fighting is not worth their time and effort. While scoring...
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[03:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:47] <exec> 08└─This is what you asked for folks.
[03:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:48] <exec> 08└─Just another rat race.
[03:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:50] <exec> 08└─Self Replicating.
[03:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:52] <exec> 08└─Here's the CPU!
[03:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Plans to Make Policy Changes to Help Combat Deepfakes - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:15] <exec> 08└─if twitter is shutdown, twitter won't be able to spread deep fakes. and fake news. seems like a win-win.
[03:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:01] <exec> 08└─GP is right. CPUs used to fetch data from RAM, decide on operations, use values stored in registers. Now CPUs only use on-chip data obtained from very local cache; the cache controller is responsible for making data available in the cache from RAM so that the CPU can see it. If you've only used asse...
[03:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:01] <exec> 08└─👊 Back in the day, all the interesting machines around me having Z80s, which was an improvement on the Intel 8080. M68K was going to power the next generation. I was wondering when Intel was going to disappear. Alas, Intel is still here and Motorola and Zilog really aren't.
[03:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:01] <exec> 08└─Side-channel attack
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[03:21:20] <exec> 08└─This is equivalent to car manufacturers requiring you to use their brand of gasoline
[03:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:31] <exec> 08└─So, we can expect practitioners of black magic to convert to this heme? LOL!!
[03:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:33] <exec> 08└─Ok, how do they get away calling them ham burgers, when there's no pork in it? While it can't be called a milk shake if there's no milk in it. But they can call it a shake, or a burger.
[03:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:35] <exec> 08└─It's shit like this that keeps me on the anti copyright, anti patent bandwagon, and will provide a very strong incentive for my vote should someone run on a bandwagon of some serious DMCA reform.
[03:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Satellite Collision Avoidance - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:40] <exec> 08└─I am just waiting for some small rogue nation to retaliate for sanctions by launching a ton of coarse sand into an elliptical polar orbit that intersects geosynchronous, leveling the playing field by messing things up for everyone.
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[04:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:57] <exec> 08└─If liberals can learn to drive, why can't rats?
[04:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:58] <exec> 08└─The front runner for this years ig noble https://www.improbable.com [improbable.com]
[04:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:00] <exec> 08└─Because rats are conservative! (large grin - I have no skin in the game, 'twas you who asked for it!)
[04:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:02] <exec> 08└─I saw that movie. I wonder if they'll get sued for plagiarizing Stuart Little?
[04:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:05] <exec> 08└─likely to be no worse than most drivers out there
[04:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:13] <exec> 08└─No, CPUs used to be the box that contained the processor, ram, motherboard and whatever disk drives you were using. Over time, people have misused the word CPU to mean processor. It's similar to the way that people have abused to term memory to be more than just the RAM. Back in the '90s a computer...
[04:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:14] <exec> 08└─I think it's troubling that all the folks on this site seem to think there's a problem with a CPU having storage. That was the case for years after I began using computers. The CPU is just the box that includes the processor, storage and all the other goobins involved with processing information. Yo...
[04:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:16] <exec> 08└─This is true. Nearly 30 years ago when I started using computers regularly, the CPU was what you connected the peripherals and monitor to. It contained a processor, RAM, motherboard and some sort of storage medium. Over the last 15-20 years the term CPU has morphed to refer to just the processor and...
[04:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:18] <exec> 08└─It's sad that the pronunciation on the page is wrong. Or, do they pronounce memo, meemoh?
[04:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:20] <exec> 08└─Nope, that is the correct usage, in fact, I didn't see anybody refer to the processor as the CPU until about 15 years ago when shops started to market to people who were technologically illiterate. The term in use was consistently "processor" rather than CPU. The processor being the CPU wouldn't hav...
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[05:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:53] <exec> 08└─If they manage to eradicate all polio, will childhood vaccination stop, eventually? The risks of re-emergence vs. rare side effects must be hard to estimate.
[05:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:09] <exec> 08└─Try this movie. https://www.imdb.com [imdb.com]
[05:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:10] <exec> 08└─but what would their stress levels become when the number of rat mobiles and traffic increases?
[05:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:12] <exec> 08└─Un-possible sir, because it's all in their name, DemocRats. ;-)
[05:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:15] <exec> 08└─Ummm... minor point, I know, but the OP reberred to liferals or somethin like that.
[05:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:17] <exec> 08└─You joke, but there could be big money involved if they can get the rats to race. Much more eco-friendly than NASCAR or Formula 1, and probably more interesting really.
[05:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:29] <exec> 08└─So, you have to wonder why didn't they just go with a super-sized die like those guys?
[05:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03unitron [70] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:30] <exec> 08└─...one album on an obscure label, some underground buzz, a little bit of airplay on some of the early "freeform" FM stations, then they split due to "creative differences" about the time their van broke down during their tour, and they faded into oblivion.
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[05:22:05] <exec> 08└─The plug issue is a very minor one. Even phones check if they are connected to a friendly charger. On a separate but similar note, most people do not realize how difficult it is to make shit a commodity. Oil is not the same and refineries have to be built for a specific supplier. Even more so for ir...
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[05:24:49] <exec> 08└─...better than you at storytelling
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[06:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:04] <exec> 08└─Has anyone here observed this connection, that blindness prevents schizophrenia ??
[06:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:05] <exec> 08└─Hang on a bit, I need to ask my blind alter-ego when he gets back.
[06:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:07] <exec> 08└─It seems like this might need a double blind trial to confirm...
[06:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:09] <exec> 08└─There [soylentnews.org] he is! Now, quick, ask him.
[06:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:18] <exec> 08└─nature will find a way.
[06:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:38] <exec> 08└─Can I get a rat driver for my tesla? Only fully insured will be considered.
[06:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:40] <exec> 08└─Of course it reduces stress *now*. There are just a few rat-cars on the road. Call me 50 years from now when there's a 10 rat-car pileup on the expressway to the cheese, and you're late for the maze experiment.
[06:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Super-Strong Magnetic Supercrystals Can Assemble Themselves - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:48] <exec> 08└─Can I "cook" a gun this way? 45 ACP please.
[06:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning Plastic Trash Into Lubricant Oils - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:58] <exec> 08└─Only chems work for arsehole.
[06:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Plans to Make Policy Changes to Help Combat Deepfakes - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:08] <exec> 08└─If you tweet, blame yourself.
[06:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A 'Shocking' New Way to Treat Infections - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:21] <exec> 08└─An ingenious idea, probably. Back to implants, anyone can have a little electricity applied for free.
[06:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:02] <exec> 08└─I've heard muggles use CPU for the entire computer in the 1980s. At least according to the OED, CPU only refers to the actual processing component.
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[07:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:58] <exec> 08└─My theory: When people really struggle with something (e.g. blindness), they don't have time to dwell on misery and develop mental health issues. This one problem soaks up any spare thoughts. How many people in 3rd world countries develop schizophrenia? A lot of people develop mental health problems...
[07:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:59] <exec> 08└─The blind asking the blind?
[07:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:01] <exec> 08└─Lol Common Sense Man, saving the day 50% of the time!
[07:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:03] <exec> 08└─Insightful? It's supposed to be Funny! Are you blind? ;P
[07:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, it will eventually stop. Poliovirus does not have any known animal reserviors and no recorded zoonotic cases, even with other primates and domesticated animals. This means that the OPV can be discontinued once active cases of polio cease in an area in favor of IPV-only and sanitation monitoring...
[07:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:15] <exec> 08└─Are the including laboratory strains when they say "eradicated"? There are plenty of stories about polio viruses being weaponized. How many of those stories are true? How likely is any military to give up their potential weapons?
[07:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:38] <exec> 08└─Study lead Dr Kelly Lambert said the rats felt more relaxed during the task, a finding that could help with the development of non-pharmaceutical treatments for mental illness.
[07:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:39] <exec> 08└─IDK. But it bet Uber would be ecstatic.
[07:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 3938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:57] <exec> 08└─This (to my knowledge) has had 0 coverage by mainstream news outlets even though it's probably one of the single most important space stories of our time. This is such a big deal because we're talking about a difference in technology on the order of a decade depending on whether we pander to deeply...
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[08:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:03] <exec> 08└─In Trump's defence, the security/intelligence community did organise that whole hysteria/putsch against him. Like, how much can he trust his IT guys?
[08:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:04] <exec> 08└─FFS, this leadership is finishing up it's third year, in a four year term. There's nothing "new" about it. That phrase makes the whole memo sound like the crazy ramblings of a disgruntled old fool of an employee. Where's the bit about, "I kept waiting for the real leadership in this country to impea...
[08:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:06] <exec> 08└─Hmmmmm - let's bear in mind that IT staff is at best peripheral to "intelligence". Sure, all the staff at the White House have to have clearances to access anything, so, you might stretch the "intelligence" umbrella over them. But, it remains a stretch.
[08:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:08] <exec> 08└─Or, with a stable genius like Trump in charge, you don't really need all those "apprentices", you can just fire them and the "Trump Organization" will go on just fine, with the best cyber being done by the President hisself on Twitter! Or Bannon will handle it. He's really something when it comes to...
[08:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:10] <exec> 08└─the crazy ramblings of a disgruntled old fool of an employer.
[08:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:13] <exec> 08└─Sure, all the staff at the White House have to have clearances to access anything
[08:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:28] <exec> 08└─Interesting idea. My thinking takes a different path though. Vision is an important part of our being. It affects our thinking, our actions, our reactions to the world around us, it determines our abilities. The thinking is key to my way of thinking. Schizophrenia is what - a crazy way of thinking?...
[08:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:29] <exec> 08└─My thinking takes a different path
[08:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Super-Strong Magnetic Supercrystals Can Assemble Themselves - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:12] <exec> 08└─Can they also assemble to a dept. line? (BTW, I've got the impression that it is mostly stories posted by chromas that are missing them.)
[08:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning Plastic Trash Into Lubricant Oils - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:24] <exec> 08└─was going to point out the exact same thing. only thing "new" about this is the use of nano scale stuff. And the problem is STILL that most people just throw the plastics into the landfill bin instead of the recycle bin, if they even use any of the bins to begin with. last I heard something like 80%...
[08:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 1171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:31] <exec> 08└─Searching for the origin of the term "central processing unit" I found this [ed-thelen.org] report from 1961. For examples of its use follow the links to General Electric or IBM machines. While the report doesn't define what is meant by the term I notice that primary storage isn't mentioned as a com...
[08:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:08] <exec> 08└─Hamburgers are named after the German city of Hamburg, from which came a well known recipe for a minced meat patty. In much the same way, a Berliner is a style of deep-fried dough ball ( a dough-nut ). A Philly steak sandwich is named for the city of Philadelphia, so the idea of naming a particular...
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[08:23:09] <exec> 08└─Ukraine can be integrated into tge EU, as several eastern bloc countries already have been, such as Poland, The Czech Republic, Slovskia, and Slovenia. It just tskes money and time. The EU is well known for providing funds for integration.
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[09:19:06] <exec> 08└─https://www.stevemillerband.com/ [stevemillerband.com] You're right on one count, anyway.
[09:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:08] <exec> 08└─Does US have concept of constructive dismissal? i.e. rather than laying off staff (with legal requirements, redundancy payments, etc) one makes the work environment so hostile that the employee is forced to quit. In Europe this would be grounds for a legal suit.
[09:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:25] <exec> 08└─If this map [wikipedia.org] is correct the data don't support your theory. The page contains a link to the WHO data the map is based on.
[09:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:01] <exec> 08└─If you read the article it says that the rats had heightened levels of anti-stress hormones in their feces after the task which actually suggests their stress levels are elevated. The body produces anti-stress hormones in response to stress.
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[10:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Homing in on Zebrafish Heart Repair Mechanism - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe we can surreptitiously introduce a heart into congresswoman Pelosi?
[10:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Homing in on Zebrafish Heart Repair Mechanism - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:42] <exec> 08└─That's not even funny. Where would she keep a heart?
[10:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:58] <exec> 08└─from: agent luvzion34 to: boss noticed some network slowdowns on the wh network, and sure enough... systemd-backdoord tty1 2019-03-03 09:33 this is us user20 tty7 2019-10-25 09:13 (:0) legit mkstiller 85.10.2.4 2019-10-25 10:33 legit dmitri 203.88.32.3 2019-10-25 11:21 ??? WTF???
[10:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:59] <exec> 08└─Vastakis is anagram of svastika. Maybe somebody is being trolled? It is obvious that the system is one and has decided that China must hold everybody's balls for a while with the manufacturing capacity. Next Africa turns out the next China and Europe the next Africa and usa the next Europe
[10:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:28] <exec> 08└─Polio is going to have a beautiful comeback story.
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[11:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:53] <exec> 08└─But the consumertard lemmings that call themselves people will still happily buy this crap and then act all surprised when their personal information winds up in the hands of hackers, or worse. Then they will happily "solve" the problem by going out and buying all new "smart" stuff because new is al...
[11:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:35] <exec> 08└─Are you blind?
[11:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:37] <exec> 08└─How many people in 3rd world countries develop schizophrenia?
[11:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:38] <exec> 08└─Awww, you and your facts!
[11:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:41] <exec> 08└─However, we are just not completely convinced it actually is "thinking."
[11:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:18] <exec> 08└─Everyone gets a little stressed in traffic.
[11:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning Plastic Trash Into Lubricant Oils - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:39] <exec> 08└─Been my experience that everyone works for an arsehole.
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[12:18:50] <exec> 08└─So, what we must do is generate open-ish hardware products that can be built with commodity parts from websites like SparkFun [sparkfun.com], AdaFruit [adafruit.com], and what-have-you by a hobbyist. Publish the recipes under create commons or which ever popular libre/socialist, GPL-compatible/inspi...
[12:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:51] <exec> 08└─The article is devoid of technical details but since I have to guess, I would expect that the hardware in these bulbs is one-off for each production run. That means that the firmware is too. In any case it is improbable that they have designed these things with even a modicum of update capabilities....
[12:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 1290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:53] <exec> 08└─I'll second the "Smart" stuff is dumb. Exactly what features does a "smart" light bulb offer? I've never even CONSIDERED the possibility of a "smart light". Let me look for something . . . I see a useful feature. They can be set to come on and off at some preset time, such as ten minutes before you...
[12:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:55] <exec> 08└─I'm planting my own Ada tree, so I can get my Adafruit for free!
[12:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:58] <exec> 08└─A very difficult step there will be to get all the certifications needed so that such a bulb is approved as a consumer device and allowed to be sold, even in small quantities. You can bet that the proprietary bulb makers, who wish to facillitate planned obsolesence as well as lock out competition, w...
[12:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Homing in on Zebrafish Heart Repair Mechanism - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:08] <exec> 08└─The thing that blows my mind is that we even know that zebrafish have special hearts. I man who the hell first looked at a little cm-long fish and thought "I'd really like to research the heart on that thing, just in case it has some special properties that might be useful to human medicine". Or may...
[12:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Homing in on Zebrafish Heart Repair Mechanism - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:10] <exec> 08└─She would sure look funny, walking around with a heart up her ass.
[12:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:27] <exec> 08└─Friendly foreign governmt, so dmitri comes from Ukraine?
[12:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:28] <exec> 08└─This is what it would look like if the administration was going into seige mode and was outsourcing its computing to the people pulling the strings. This is always the habit of tyranny, to start doing more and more things in secret, put their goons in charge of the key systems. When they say the sco...
[12:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, Trump is trying to shrink the government. There are thousands and thousands of make work jobs that need to be cleaned up. I remember when putin expelled some diplomats and he thanked him, saying he didn't even know they were there, and asking wth they were doing anyway. https://www.cnn.com
[12:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:03] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that insight, Jenny.
[12:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:32] <exec> 08└─Wonder how bad Chinese rat drivers will be. Or worse yet, female Chinese rat drivers in BMWs.
[12:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:33] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one that read the title as: "Rats Thought to Drive Tiny Cars" and though, really, some crackpot thinks that rats drive tiny cars and now I have to hear about it? Maybe I just need more caffeine this morning.
[12:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Super-Strong Magnetic Supercrystals Can Assemble Themselves - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:43] <exec> 08└─Self building crystal nano-houses? Chalk it up -chinese moon gel -moon talking to coral reefs -trees on tree welfare -people still using facebook and microsoft -rats driving cars now this? Liking crystals is THE WORST and MOST EGREGIOUS hippy sin you can make to get cast out as some kind of pseudosc...
[12:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:05] <exec> 08└─High cost big silicon dies like Intel's and IBM's are designed so it's either possible to fuse out defective logic blocks and sell the chips as reduced features / lower performance models or also place redundancies that you can fuse on and off. Well, it's a gross simplification of yield equations an...
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[13:19:16] <exec> 08└─commodity parts from websites like SparkFun [sparkfun.com], AdaFruit [adafruit.com], and what-have-you by a hobbyist.
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[13:19:17] <exec> 08└─the average lard-assed American actually NEEDS the exercise associated with turning lights off and on.
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[13:19:19] <exec> 08└─> life force ... What does an old Patrick Stewart movie have to do with this topic?
[13:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:22] <exec> 08└─Exactly what features does a "smart" light bulb offer?
[13:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 1270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:24] <exec> 08└─The people that are getting powned are buying vertical silo devices that connect to big brother and nobody else over the internet. Anyone who wants something useful has the opposite devices. My hass.io is firewalled off from the internet, has a zwave radio, and I could, if I wanted, buy standard com...
[13:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:26] <exec> 08└─Don't forget kids, The "S" in "IoT" stands for "Security". But our never resting industry, in it's never ending quest for an improved, family-friendly, and children-safe usage experience, already works on a next generation of great products specially focused on the domestic market, tentatively dubbe...
[13:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:28] <exec> 08└─In any case it is improbable that they have designed these things with even a modicum of update capabilities.
[13:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Homing in on Zebrafish Heart Repair Mechanism - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:38] <exec> 08└─This is a really good point, and I think it can be summed up as: "Research ALL the things!"
[13:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Homing in on Zebrafish Heart Repair Mechanism - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:40] <exec> 08└─I can only assume that somebody was looking for a new heart treatment, and decided to investigate all 8.7 million species in the animal kingdom. "Well guys, it's been a long road. We've gone all the way from Aardvark to Zebra with nothing. If what we're looking for isn't in this zebrafish or that zo...
[13:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:01] <exec> 08└─Getting rid of competent IT security staff ought to make it much easier for the Russians to access sensitive White House material directly.
[13:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:03] <exec> 08└─In the US it is near impossible to fire a federal employee. Usually the easiest thing to do to get rid of them is promote them Then at least they are someone else's immediate problem.
[13:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:04] <exec> 08└─My money is on Unit 8200, any takers?
[13:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:06] <exec> 08└─It could be easier. They could CC all their emails to them.
[13:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:08] <exec> 08└─All these records of incriminating emails and conversations and things are proving to be very inconvenient. Rump can afford to have only "his" people1 handling such data, and so is purging anyone who may be unwilling to hide / purge evidence when so ordered. It fits his MO perfectly. 1 That is to sa...
[13:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:11] <exec> 08└─friendly foreign government is an oxymore.
[13:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:32] <exec> 08└─my theory: from a darwinian point of view, multiple personalities and self destructive voices in the head are deeply unhelpful for the survival of the individual. They also are difficult to implement from an information system POV. It makes more sense to give credit to countless and trans-cultural e...
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[13:20:34] <exec> 08└─That's pretty interesting AC. I had almost the opposite hypothesis where from an EE-like communications theory perspective, vision provides tons of super high bandwidth input signal and enough of some kinda bab signal might help overload or otherwise distort something. Therefore lack of stimulation...
[13:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:36] <exec> 08└─You could extend that theory by exploring its exceptions. Everybody around you is dying of undercooked pork meat causing massive parasitical infections... Well 1 in 1000 people occasionally being nutty about claiming God speaks to them, even a blind dog finds a bone once in awhile, and "God told us...
[13:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:48] <exec> 08└─Have you vaccinated your kid against smallpox lately? No, you haven't. The answer to your question is, yes, they will eventually stop vaccinations as there IS risk with them, it is just that the risks of polio are so much worse.
[13:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:24] <exec> 08└─I am a jelly donut! [snopes.com]. Too bad it's false - it makes a great story.
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[14:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right, hobbyist with deep pockets...
[14:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:16] <exec> 08└─Internet of ThingSSS
[14:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:18] <exec> 08└─No thanks I'm going back to incandescent lights. Winter is on the way anyhow.
[14:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:20] <exec> 08└─From TFA: If these same bulbs are also infrared-enabled, hackers can send commands via the infrared invisible light emanated from the bulbs to either steal data or spoof other connected IoT devices on the home network. The owner might not know about the hack because the hacking commands are communic...
[14:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:57] <exec> 08└─In Trump's condemnation, he did seek political dirt on his chief rival through conduct unbecoming the office of the President (and certainly regardable as illegal), then tried to store the evidence on a system reserved for national (and not political) security matters, and the security/intelligence...
[14:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:37] <exec> 08└─As above... was smallpox eliminated from laboratories when it was eradicated? Nope (Para 2). [nih.gov] And yes, mistakes can be made [sciencemag.org]. But while if it exists it could be multiplied and weaponized, and one is entitled to be cynical about that, the real purpose to retain it is research...
[14:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they wrote and recorded all their tunes in that van. It was a central place for them to act as a unit to do all of their song processing. So when the group lost their CPU they had no choice but to disband.
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[15:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Government, Military Personnel Data Leaked By Autoclerk - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:57] <exec> 08└─And yet there are still people in the world who will put their fingers in their ears and tell themselves, "The cloud is great, the cloud is great, the cloud is great!" Look at data leaks throughout the history of computing, and you'll find one here and one there. Look at data leaks throughout the hi...
[15:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Homing in on Zebrafish Heart Repair Mechanism - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:39] <exec> 08└─Just guessing, but I'd say that a researcher at one time had a sick or damaged zebrafish that unexpectedly recovered. A lot of scientific discoveries start out after someone said: "now that's odd...".
[15:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:06] <exec> 08└─Did you say that about Hilary Clinton, who actually got caught doing these things you accuse Trump of with no evidence? No, because you are a partisan idiot.
[15:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:08] <exec> 08└─State Dept. Inquiry Into Clinton Emails Finds No Deliberate Mishandling of Classified Information [nytimes.com] Meanwhile... National Archives probes Wilbur Ross’ use of private email [politico.com] But their emails: Seven members of Trump’s team have used unofficial communication tools [washing...
[15:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:47] <exec> 08└─Yes they forgot the ‘knock on wood’ idiots
[15:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:48] <exec> 08└─We're down to Afghanistan and Pakistan, two countries that are undesirable anyway. Polio can not survive the heat of a nuclear explosion. Trump could eliminate Polio in under an hour. Putin could eliminate it in less than half an hour. Xi or Modi could give it a try even faster, but might fall short...
[15:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:42] <exec> 08└─> no longer capable Why? What changed?
[15:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:43] <exec> 08└─Starship *is* the launch escape system. Super Heavy is the high-power launch system (first stage). In event of problems Starship jets away in front of the (potential) fireball, just as the Dragon capsule would from the Falcon 9. Now, if Starship itself blows up during a non-test flight (especially w...
[15:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:45] <exec> 08└─Finding people willing to risk death for a good cause is easy. Heck, in the immediate aftermath of the Fukushima disaster several retired nuclear engineers and technicians came forward to volunteer to go in and stabilize things, knowing full well it would be a death sentence. Better they chop a few...
[15:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:47] <exec> 08└─The spacewalks weren't the real risk with the final Hubble servicing mission. It was the use of the Space Shuttle. A vehicle that left 7+7 astronauts dead, not in space, but in Earth's atmosphere. We are continuing to send people to the ISS, despite risks that can't be entirely minimized, as well as...
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[16:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:49] <exec> 08└─Literally "Hello" will do it...
[16:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Afty [8588] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:49] <exec> 08└─Someone who can communicate well, speak clearly and has good pronunciation and elocution is almost certainly going to be a better candidate for a job, than someone who who has a limited vocabulary, poor speech patterns or a strong accent. This may or not be "class bias" but would be an entirely expe...
[16:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:49] <exec> 08└─I call it the "Viewing Room." It's a juxtaposition wherein your rectal interface is completely transparent, allowing passersby to casually observe the contents of your rectum in order to gain a full understanding of the ramifications therein. Thus serves the nature of the room. The very existence of...
[16:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:50] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, and I know this is controversial in modern social sciences, but correlation is not causation. The paper itself states: Study 1 was limited because it asked perceivers to infer educational attainment, a correlate of social class most closely tied to speech patterns...
[16:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:52] <exec> 08└─No, this bias just gives psychopaths who want to game the system an advantage over others. Speaking skills are usually not the main skills required for the job, so this proves once again that meritocracy is nothing but a myth. It doesn't matter that you can do the job very well, because the employer...
[16:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:55] <exec> 08└─This [dialectsarchive.com] is the source they used to get their voice samples. Really neat site to listen to different accents from around the world. Now I can tell the difference between a Hebei accent and a Jiangsu accent! Hah! Of course not, but it's really interesting to imagine that to a Chines...
[16:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:57] <exec> 08└─is almost certainly going to be a better candidate for a job
[16:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:59] <exec> 08└─Nb: relevant data is social mobility https://www.epi.org [epi.org] US ranks 5th worst for social mobility, quite closely to the UK, out of list of 17 developed nations.
[16:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:02] <exec> 08└─What the fuck's wrong with you lately Runway? You have re-joined reality. What traumatic event occurred that reset the Fox brain - we need to repeat it with others.
[16:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:03] <exec> 08└─It's true - if you are OK to look at and speak the right way, the world is your oyster. Until you and people like you destroy all the oysters through incompetence. Look at British politicians for examples.
[16:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:05] <exec> 08└─As I mention below (in a root level reply), the study itself (see sci hub [wikipedia.org] for access) is a sufficient citation. It acknowledges that the most readily and accurately determined characteristic of individuals, based on their speech patterns, was their educational attainment. Even here i...
[16:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government, Military Personnel Data Leaked By Autoclerk - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:15] <exec> 08└─We're building a border wall in Colorado. It'll stretch from the beaches of southern Utah to the Rocky mountains of Virginia.
[16:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taxi Dudinous [8690] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Whole Picture Of A Distant Supercluster In Three Dimensions - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:22] <exec> 08└─That it takes a really long time for comments to find their way here.
[16:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Whole Picture Of A Distant Supercluster In Three Dimensions - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:25] <exec> 08└─This Subaru interesting Subaru finding is Subaru made Subaru possible thanks Subaru to Subaru funding by Subaru Subaru. Next up Subaru study finds Subaru cars need Subaru tax Subaru credit for Subaru investment in Subaru telescopes. Brought to you by Subaru.
[16:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:50] <exec> 08└─A very difficult step there will be to get all the certifications needed so that such a bulb is approved as a consumer device and allowed to be sold, even in small quantities. You can bet that the proprietary bulb makers, who wish to facillitate planned obsolesence as well as lock out competition, w...
[16:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jay [8679] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:51] <exec> 08└─I have a half dozen Phillips Hue programmable LEDs. I set them up to perform a sunrise and sunset every day. Living where the daylight hours changes by 6+ hours over the course of a year I find the consistent artificial sunrise and sunset to be invaluable. Having "sunrise" at the same day every day...
[16:20:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:16] <exec> 08└─the crazy ramblings of a disgruntled old fool of an employer.
[16:20:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 737 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:23] <exec> 08└─This is what it would look like if the administration was going into seige mode and was outsourcing its computing to the people pulling the strings. This is always the habit of tyranny, to start doing more and more things in secret, put their goons in charge of the key systems. When they say the sco...
[16:20:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 411 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:30] <exec> 08└─All these records of incriminating emails and conversations and things are proving to be very inconvenient. Rump can afford to have only "his" people1 handling such data, and so is purging anyone who may be unwilling to hide / purge evidence when so ordered. It fits his MO perfectly. 1 That is to sa...
[16:20:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 507 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:35] <exec> 08└─State Dept. Inquiry Into Clinton Emails Finds No Deliberate Mishandling of Classified Information [nytimes.com] Meanwhile... National Archives probes Wilbur Ross’ use of private email [politico.com] But their emails: Seven members of Trump’s team have used unofficial communication tools [washing...
[16:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:37] <exec> 08└─Wow, the department investigated itself and found no wrongdoing. I wish we all got to investigate ourselves.
[16:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:39] <exec> 08└─The president could upgrade his phone to a superior one provided by a friendly government like Russia.
[16:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:41] <exec> 08└─Did they investigate this?? July 23, 2014: The State Department reaches an agreement with the Benghazi committee about producing records for its investigation into the 2012 attack on a U.S. embassy in the Libyan city.
[16:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:43] <exec> 08└─How dumb are you chuckle fuckers?
[16:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, cutting security because you think it's worthless is a great idea. That's the conclusion of every single security breach thread here on SN for sure! /s
[16:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:48] <exec> 08└─The president could upgrade his phone to a superior one provided by a friendly government like Russia.
[16:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:50] <exec> 08└─Wow, the department investigated itself and found no wrongdoing.
[16:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:52] <exec> 08└─Hey come on, it's Friday. Shouldn't redneck fascist-apologists like you be at home fucking their sisters?
[16:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:54] <exec> 08└─Mike Pompeo investigated Hillary Clinton and they STILL couldn't make anything stick!
[16:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:57] <exec> 08└─I think it is a freudian slip. It shows that the long-term bureaucrats regard Trump as an outsider to the normal Democrat/Republican business-as-usual swamp. Three years is new when you consider how long the inside group of political dynasties has been running things.
[16:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:58] <exec> 08└─I did notice the government is still overrun by career bureaucrats/politicans.
[16:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:01] <exec> 08└─Strewth mate, the bloody ruskies have hacked ya bloody server. Yawanna vb?
[16:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:03] <exec> 08└─And? I don't know what that is supposed to mean. Is he a republican, or Trump appointee, therefore he is supposed to be an honest dude who does a good job?
[16:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:05] <exec> 08└─Just like you thought Q followers were a bunch of teenage boys in their moms basement. Stop reading fake news and get out in the world, you will discover nearly everything you have been told is wrong.
[16:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:07] <exec> 08└─I'm well aware of the Federal government's IT security, it is garbage that they pay far too much for (just like everything else they do).
[16:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:09] <exec> 08└─"Enemy Within." Interesting choice of words. I gather that you think of the IT guys as the "enemy within". I have my own take on who the real enemy is. In Trump's defence, the security/intelligence community did organise that whole hysteria/putsch against him.
[16:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:11] <exec> 08└─If he was outside the USA then intercepting his phone calls would maybe be understandable. But to say that US phone companies are cc'ing everything to Russia and Chine is unbelievable. Why aren't they being locked up for espionage? an iPhone that has been altered by the National Security Agency, but...
[16:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:14] <exec> 08└─> usa the next Europe Need to have a socialist revolution for that to happen. It doesn't look likely.
[16:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:16] <exec> 08└─And? I don't know what that is supposed to mean.
[16:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 3854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:41] <exec> 08└─It seems strange to me that we openly accept that how we use every muscle in our body has a direct effect on our body. Exercise, your muscles become stronger and more effective - don't exercise and your muscles atrophy and become dysfunctional. Or for your digestive system eat too much and you becom...
[16:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:59] <exec> 08└─Once a disease is truly eradicated, the risk of re-emergence is the same as the risk of the re-emergence of dodos or dinosaurs. Extinct species don't spontaneously come back from the dead. When's the last time you were vaccinated against smallpox? Of course, a lot of diseases can also survive in ani...
[16:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:29] <exec> 08└─nascar? go straight. turn left. turn left some more. go straight. turn left. turn left some more. yup, i think rats are up to the task.
[16:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turning Plastic Trash Into Lubricant Oils - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:53] <exec> 08└─high-quality liquid products, such as motor oils, lubricants, detergents and even cosmetics
[16:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter Plans to Make Policy Changes to Help Combat Deepfakes - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:04] <exec> 08└─#DeleteFaceboook was a thing a while ago. Sigh.....
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[17:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:13] <exec> 08└─Study shows wife beaters tend to lie. When asked "why do you beat your wife?" 95.122987% of wife beaters denied.
[17:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:14] <exec> 08└─is your use of commas in your sentences.
[17:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 2710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:16] <exec> 08└─I have a simple question for you. Would you expect the wealth equality within nations to be higher in those with a greater standard deviation, or a lower standard deviation* in IQ scores? Isn't it then somewhat expected, even in a perfect meritocracy, for their to be increasing income inequality alo...
[17:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:18] <exec> 08└─I'm the same old asocial asshole. Your perception of me varies with the time of the month, the seasons, whether you've been laid recently, and the zodiac. Don't ask ME to explain stuff to YOU. BTW - one more time: I'm not a Fox News watcher. No television, remember?
[17:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:20] <exec> 08└─and his use of apostrophes . . . *chuckle*
[17:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:23] <exec> 08└─I thought I went to lengths to demonstrate that the person who sits in a college classroom, learning how to conjugate verbs, etc, may NOT be the best candidate for the job. IRL, some damned fool from a college manages to land a manager position. Once his ass is embedded behind the desk, he does his...
[17:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 2176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:24] <exec> 08└─They're actually looking for signs of class. And sometimes race, immigration status, and cultural background. Take, for instance, people whose profession is communication, and that somebody is at or near the top of their field. Now imagine what would happen if you walked into a job interview and usi...
[17:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:27] <exec> 08└─Often class distinctions are wrongly categorized as race. The typical study uses near-identical resumes, some with normal names and some with stereotypically black names. Black people can have normal names. Most likely they do, if they aren't from the ghetto. Maybe businesses just don't want ghetto...
[17:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:29] <exec> 08└─Isn't it more accurate to say that candidates are being judged more directly by their level of education than by their social class? If Donald Trump came to you for a job interview (high class, near zero education) would you hire him?
[17:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:31] <exec> 08└─Dat be wot you FINKIN', but dat not be da TROOF, you raciss cracka! I be all like educate-it an shit, but ma ak-sint be hole-in me back like a mutha. For real for real.
[17:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Government, Military Personnel Data Leaked By Autoclerk - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:41] <exec> 08└─Can't be any worse than the OPM breach.
[17:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:15] <exec> 08└─No, it's not. The ongoing fights against the Right to Repair are well documented. Firmware modding falls into that category. It's not just John Deere. M$ fights the right to repair, so does Apple [soylentnews.org], and pretty much any company that plans to get some short term gain by screwing purcha...
[17:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:17] <exec> 08└─Sparkfun and Adafruit are as reliable as the Aliexpress stuff. Only 3-5 times as expensive.
[17:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:19] <exec> 08└─I often wonder how non-technical people cope. It's very difficult to know if your IT staff tells you "no" to your request because it's actually stupid and they shouldn't do it, or because they can't accommodate because of some kind of shortcoming. When you talk to a potential new IT contractor and h...
[17:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:20] <exec> 08└─That is a lot of assumptions you've got there. I don't trust anyone in DC, and you are a fool to do so.
[17:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:22] <exec> 08└─The same way you cope with going to the doctor.
[17:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:25] <exec> 08└─That is a lot of assumptions you've got there.
[17:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:27] <exec> 08└─Pompeo has no interest in shielding Hillary from accusations of wrongdoing
[17:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:29] <exec> 08└─And you also assume the director has any say about the details of the investigation. Look at Mueller, who didn't even know what Fusion GPS was because his team of DNC lawyers didn't tell him about it.
[17:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:31] <exec> 08└─And why would you assume anyone in DC gets to a position of power without being blackmailed from multiple angles?
[17:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:33] <exec> 08└─I think the NSA can secure a phone. But the old saying . . . you can lead a jackass to a secure phone, but you can't make him use it.
[17:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:35] <exec> 08└─And you also assume the director has any say about the details of the investigation.
[17:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─We're going to need better mouse traps.
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[18:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Improving 10 Percent of Searches by Understanding Language Context - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:50] <exec> 08└─"Can you get medicine for someone pharmacy?" How soon before Google queries consist of vocal grunts and clicks?
[18:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Google is Improving 10 Percent of Searches by Understanding Language Context - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:52] <exec> 08└─Eh, it's more coherent than half the posts here.
[18:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Improving 10 Percent of Searches by Understanding Language Context - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:54] <exec> 08└─Depending on the initial search string, and the results offered, that's not a "bad" search term. I've often started a search using some term that made sense to me, the results looked crazy, so I altered the search by a single word, or started over, or added a word. It's always been a guessing game,...
[18:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:22] <exec> 08└─The sexually frustrated shitposter is back! Hi weirdo!!
[18:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:24] <exec> 08└─By "same old asocial asshole" he means emotionally reactive right qing nutjob that sometimes gets clobbered over the head by reality hard enough to disrupt the brainwashing. Or a shill playing a persona and shifting with the winds.
[18:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:26] <exec> 08└─Someone who can communicate well, speak clearly and has good pronunciation and elocution is almost certainly going to be a better candidate for a job, than someone who who has a limited vocabulary, poor speech patterns or a strong accent.
[18:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:28] <exec> 08└─Personally, no, but a simple look at his "employment" history suggests that he gets "hired" a lot in spite of obvious signs that he is under-educated and otherwise under-qualified. It took many years for most banks to come to the realization that he is a bad risk for a loan.
[18:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:31] <exec> 08└─If companies hire poorly qualified people for dumb reasons and I'm more qualified than they are then I have huge incentive to start my own company and hire all of these overqualified people that never get jobs. I will drive all my competitors out of business just like that since my company will have...
[18:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:32] <exec> 08└─Someone who can communicate well, speak clearly and has good pronunciation and elocution is almost certainly going to be a better candidate for a job
[18:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:34] <exec> 08└─Being from a wealthy family does not make one high class.
[18:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:37] <exec> 08└─I'd say it's less about social level, or education, than it is "culutral fit" - sameness with the existing organization, particularly from the hiring manager's perspective. You don't get hired into a chain smoking, foul mouthed, stinking construction crew by displaying your Harvard pedigree and Bost...
[18:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:39] <exec> 08└─I call bullshit on that. One doesn't just start up a company, and overnight challenge a multi-national multi-billion dollar company, no matter how much talent you can corner. If you've never seen a freaking half-wit supervising highly talented people, then either A: you haven't been paying attention...
[18:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:41] <exec> 08└─Typically anyone granted an interview meets all of my requirements and would be a good hire, making the point of the interview to see how they think on their feet, handle themselves under pressure, and interact with my current staff. If I have two candidates equal in every way but has any accent (so...
[18:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:27] <exec> 08└─I work with building automation so I have some insight. The problem with light bulbs in most/domestic environments is that they must be easy to replace and cheap to install. You won't get a consumer to enter a pincode to make a new bulb work. You won't get an engineer in a hotel to enter a pincode t...
[18:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:29] <exec> 08└─I have long thought the correct term is IDIoT (Insecurely deployed internet of things)
[18:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:31] <exec> 08└─at the same day every day
[18:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:42] <exec> 08└─You have evidence he isn't blackmailed? The default assumption is that everyone who gets into power is blackmailed. You stay in power by blackmailing the people who blackmailed you. Do you not understand how the world works?
[18:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:44] <exec> 08└─Mueller, decided that Fusion GPS was outside of the purview of his investigation.
[18:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:45] <exec> 08└─I totally agree 110%, The answer is most obviously no security. That is why I don't use condoms, because the Latex industrial complex is fixing prices. No excuse me while I apply some ointment to my rash....
[18:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:47] <exec> 08└─Do you not understand how the world works?
[18:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:49] <exec> 08└─If your choice is a condom with a hole in it vs no condom at all, which would you choose?
[18:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:52] <exec> 08└─No, I really don't have the burden to prove it. That they are all blackmailing each other to survive is a first principle you need to accept to understand how the world works.
[18:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:54] <exec> 08└─Does US have concept of constructive dismissal? [...]
[18:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:56] <exec> 08└─That youtube clip doesn't say what you apparently think it says. In fact, it reinforces what I have already said: Fusion GPS was outside the purview of Mueller's investigation.
[18:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:58] <exec> 08└─So, I feel very safe in assuming you have no evidence to back up your claim. May I take my victory lap now?
[18:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:00] <exec> 08└─Based on your demonstrated paranoia, we can dismiss any analysis you might make of current politics.
[18:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:02] <exec> 08└─The evidence is that he is in power. I don't need any more.
[18:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:04] <exec> 08└─It says exactly what I said it said. Mueller says he is not familiar with Fusion GPS. I mean, whatever... your loss for not understanding how Washington DC works to the point you disregard a blatant fact. You had your chance but are too dumb to learn. It is one big cross-blackmail CYA operation.
[18:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jay [8679] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:48] <exec> 08└─Of course, a lot of diseases can also survive in animals
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[18:24:51] <exec> 08└─The lunar lander was built by Grumman. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[19:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:53] <exec> 08└─Outsourcing INTERNAL communications IS an existential threat, but not for the reason you'd think.
[19:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:54] <exec> 08└─The only upstart that has ever beaten Microsoft has been Linux. And even then, the desktop has been damned near unassailable. I can't think of a single small, for-profit company that has ever beaten Microsoft. Hell, I can't think of any for-profit company that has ever even just been touched by Micr...
[19:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:56] <exec> 08└─Firefox(even if chrome came by and won after that) v IE was a fight that mozzilla won handily.
[19:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Improving 10 Percent of Searches by Understanding Language Context - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:07] <exec> 08└─the other 90 they let go to shit.
[19:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Improving 10 Percent of Searches by Understanding Language Context - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:09] <exec> 08└─There are other smaller contextual clues as well. Recognition of a comma and capitalization would be very helpful to correctly understand when I am trying to help my Uncle Jack, off a horse.
[19:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Improving 10 Percent of Searches by Understanding Language Context - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:11] <exec> 08└─More coherent than a Trump Tweet.
[19:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Improving 10 Percent of Searches by Understanding Language Context - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:13] <exec> 08└─Blacks see less advertisements than whites on Facebook/google due to racist algos: https://techcrunch.com [techcrunch.com] All people should see equal numbers of ads.
[19:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Improving 10 Percent of Searches by Understanding Language Context - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:15] <exec> 08└─Did you know one of the ways psychiatrists diagnose prepsychosis in teens is that they have a tendency to start one sentence as one thought and then complete it as a different one without noticing? You just sit them down and let them talk and if they do it more than twice in an hour, they're conside...
[19:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Improving 10 Percent of Searches by Understanding Language Context - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:17] <exec> 08└─Close. That should be "Help your uncle, Jack, off a horse." Both commas or neither. You might help your Aunt Jane make biscuits. Or your aunt, Jane, make biscuits. But you wouldn't help your Aunt Jane, make biscuits.
[19:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Improving 10 Percent of Searches by Understanding Language Context - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:20] <exec> 08└─Honestly, there's a specific subset they've been improving: topical searches, where you search a vague idea and usually find what you want in the first result. And there's a different subset they've actively punished: when you know what kind of information you want exactly and want to explicitly fil...
[19:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:58] <exec> 08└─I agree, it does happen, but I do think it's exaggerated because if it happens to such an extreme degree then someone will hire all this underutilized / unutilized talent and outcompete their competitors. Big companies got big by doing something right, hiring the right talent. Sure they have the fir...
[19:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:59] <exec> 08└─The problem TFA is talking about is that given 2 candidates who meet the above criteria, there will still be discrimination based on the interviewer's perception of the applicant's social class as inferred from speech patterns and word choice.
[19:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 1226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:01] <exec> 08└─Regulatory capture. I'm not sure if you'll count "intellectual property" as regulatory. But, it's a real hurdle, in the Western world. Not so much in China, though. It's impossible for me to start producing the stuff my company produces, without a lot of years tied up in court. Walmart, however, is...
[19:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:03] <exec> 08└─He did interview with me for his current job, and I voted to hire him. I wouldn't want to take him away from his duties, since he is doing the best of anybody elected after 1904. You have funny standards for "near zero education". University of Pennsylvania is Ivy League, and the Wharton School of t...
[19:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:05] <exec> 08└─Someone may simply want to hire people who they can understand. Possibly.
[19:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:08] <exec> 08└─I'm not talking about candidates who sound like they're sucking on marbles. Agreed that any such study needs to control for not only intelligibility but for pleasantness of conversation (many won't enjoy someone who routinely drops the F bomb in a professional environment), but if I understand corre...
[19:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:10] <exec> 08└─see in the United States how poverty is not meaningfully changing over the decades
[19:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:57] <exec> 08└─The answer is simple: Does it have "smart" in the name? Then it's not secure. Maybe "smart" is really an acronym for "Security Missing And Ready to Tap".
[19:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:58] <exec> 08└─I downloaded and looked at the paper. The IR modulation stuff they are talking about is using it for data extraction: We show that such an attack can be accomplished by carefully manipulating and controlling (possible on modern smart lights) the infrared light to create a “covert-channel” betwe...
[19:21:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:49] <exec> 08└─Mike Pompeo investigated Hillary Clinton and they STILL couldn't make anything stick!
[19:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:21] <exec> 08└─Improper possession of classified documents was proven. That's all that's needed for a conviction. Spoliation of evidence enhances that. Politics and finality both weigh heavily when it comes to Hillary. Similar facts for a person not politically connected would result in jail time. Political power,...
[19:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:22] <exec> 08└─And a bit to the point. Lets say the Pres is a shithead. And DC staffers in 'non political' positions are in fact working to undermine/leak/discredit or set him up. Both can be true. What's reasonable at that point? Shithead could be correct about this, at least in part. Same with wanting meetings a...
[19:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:25] <exec> 08└─Looks like he's also a warmonger, like Clinton: There are troubling signs that Secretary Pompeo is not likely to jettison his more warlike approach, More importantly, we know from personal experience with Pompeo’s dismissive attitude to instructions from you that his agenda can deviate from yours...
[19:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:51] <exec> 08└─Are you sane then? Or just a little crazy? Vision is very CPU intensive. The brain doesn't have enough resources to maintain sanity after dealing with our lying eyes. I mean, first it has to invert the picture, constantly adjust the exposure, trying to ignore all the garbage floating around inside.....
[19:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:10] <exec> 08└─A good point - we don't necessarily know that animal reservoirs exist until we've nearly eliminated a disease in people. At least on a regional basis - you'll probably discover the animal reservoirs in the first regions to "eradicate" a disease long before you get anywhere close to eradicating it gl...
[19:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:11] <exec> 08└─Undesirable? Afghanistan is rich with oil, precious metals, and other mineral wealth. Not to mention that thanks to our efforts since the war, they've gone from producing about half the world's opium supply, to almost all of it. If it was undesirable, we never would have invaded to spread "freedom"...
[19:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 2970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:13] <exec> 08└─We no longer have any national unity. We have become incredibly divided and tribal. And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country. Can you imagine if such a phrase was uttered now a days? Let alone from a democratic and very liberal po...
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[20:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lotame Unveils Cartographer, its New Approach to Tracking User Identity - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:49] <exec> 08└─Sometimes I think that this string of inane Runaway submissions is meant to tell us all something about he political bent of SoylentNews.
[20:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:00] <exec> 08└─Mozilla is a non-profit.
[20:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:02] <exec> 08└─OK, this is just like that Docker article. What the heck is "Slack"? I first assumed it was Slackware, from the Church of the Sub-genius. But sounds like not. Everyone is using this? Or all Micro$oft zombie users? What is Slack?
[20:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:04] <exec> 08└─Oh just because the GGP was explicit and clear on that point is no reason to bring it up.
[20:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:06] <exec> 08└─Imagine chatting on the internet, but it's with your coworkers instead of people you only sort of hate.
[20:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:08] <exec> 08└─Firefox rose from the ashes of Netscape -- which Microsoft destroyed. Netscape only won because . . . open source. Apache vs IIS . . . open source. Linux vs Windows on servers, devices and non-desktop . . . open source. I begin to perceive a pattern. When it comes to commercial things going up again...
[20:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:10] <exec> 08└─Since we're talking about browsers, let me mention another one. In 1995 Microsoft still didn't recognize the internet. Bill Gates said it was just a fad. Suddenly Microsoft realized it was a tsunami. Microsoft needed their own browser and quick. They found a small company Spyglass that made a browse...
[20:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:13] <exec> 08└─I just learned some weeks back what Microsoft Teams is. From TFA it seems Slack is a competitor to that. Teams: yet another new tool I have to learn how to use, to communicate with coworkers. Q. What does it do that wasn't previously possible? A. It lets Microsoft have access to what ought to be str...
[20:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:15] <exec> 08└─Sue the fuckers. SLackware can use coupla new vt100s.
[20:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Improving 10 Percent of Searches by Understanding Language Context - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:32] <exec> 08└─Ideally that equal number should be zero.
[20:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:17] <exec> 08└─I absolutely count intellectual property as regulator capture and a topic worth discussing with respect to a meritocracy.
[20:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 2811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:19] <exec> 08└─There's a very simple reason. Let's use this text as an example. I'd like to express my disagreement with you in the hope of persuading you to my point of view. Why I am typing the words I am here now instead of, for instance, choose to use netspeak: lol u no wat i mean? It's because I have the inte...
[20:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 2271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:21] <exec> 08└─"And, I'm told that doing so is racist. In fact, doing so can be, and sometimes is, racist. When telling someone where my home is, I say something like, "I live at (insert street address here)". Many, or even most, black people say "I stays (street address)". Just one example of many, of the way bla...
[20:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:23] <exec> 08└─I've read somewhere that the whole English pronunciation vs. spelling difficulty was designed to separate people educated at right places. The price for it is that American children spend twice more time learning to write than most aliens and can't do it anyway. Any attempt to fix this should start...
[20:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:25] <exec> 08└─I mean high socioeconomic class as described in TFA, of course. If you mean high class in the more cultured sense of the term, I agree that Trump is a bad example.
[20:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:27] <exec> 08└─since he is doing the best of anybody elected after 1904.
[20:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:29] <exec> 08└─If somebody shows up to an interview in a tank-top then that interview is over.
[20:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:31] <exec> 08└─"can you explain to me why "Where are you?" is more correct than "Where you at?"" Because "where are you?" is the common phrase you'll find most often in English literature, across many countries and many centuries, all the way back to Shakespeare; and "where you at?" is not. It's really as simple a...
[20:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:34] <exec> 08└─I built those phrases that you keyed on, intentionally. I scaled up from some, to a more inclusive term, to "nevery hire a black person". Parent poster's justification of hiring people they understand easily scales right along with what I answered with. And, when you cut all the bullshit away, you'r...
[20:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:36] <exec> 08└─Well, the second question is missing a verb", you're ignoring the fact that the verb "to be" means basically nothing, the dialect of English where "Where you at?" developed has never required pointless verbs like that, both sentences have identical meaning and express that meaning clearly and concis...
[20:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:38] <exec> 08└─I wasn't talking about his current job, and I don't really think campaigning and debating is the same as interviewing. I'll concede, though, that it really does depend a lot on the job you're interviewing for. Salesman seems like an especially good fit. As far as his education level is concerned, gr...
[20:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:40] <exec> 08└─"And, when you cut all the bullshit away, you're left with the very same classism/racism - you have plausible deniability to go with your prejudices." I kind of agree. It's not 'the very same' because it's clearly different. But it's a subset of what you're starting with - so it's an improvement. A...
[20:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:42] <exec> 08└─Also worth discussing are non-compete clauses and regulations surrounding them. The focus should be on anything that prevents a competitor from outcompeting a company that employs poor hiring practices.
[20:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jay [8679] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:45] <exec> 08└─In addition the interview is after you've weeded out a lot of the total garbage candidates, and often is where you decide who you're actually going to hire. At that point, provided your selection process isn't completely garbage, the candidates should be moderately close to each other in ability. It...
[20:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:47] <exec> 08└─We could start by substantially weakening IP laws so we could compete with China. Why do you think China is out-competing us? Stronger IP laws will only reduce Chinese imports into the US, not other countries. If we try do that eventually China will just stop trading with the U.S. and the U.S. will...
[20:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:02] <exec> 08└─In that case, I am going to assume that you are a troll on Putin's payroll. The evidence is that you are here, desperately trying to defend the indefensible. I don't need any more.
[20:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turning Plastic Trash Into Lubricant Oils - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:47] <exec> 08└─One of the big limitations on recycling is the sensitivity of the process to contaminants. Plastics in particular usually have to be VERY clean. Paper too. In addition to your observation about getting things to the recycle bins, the processes still have a ways to go to handle contaminants because,...
[20:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:56] <exec> 08└─Grumman.
[20:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:06] <exec> 08└─Always thought IBM chose the wrong processor for their PC.
[20:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:07] <exec> 08└─That's the contrapositive, not the reciprocal.
[20:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:09] <exec> 08└─and all registers are storage anyway.
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[21:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Lotame Unveils Cartographer, its New Approach to Tracking User Identity - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:58] <exec> 08└─...unintended consequences of that legislation...
[21:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lotame Unveils Cartographer, its New Approach to Tracking User Identity - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:58] <exec> 08└─Hm, so a fairly neutral reporting on this shows a political bent? I take it you mean SoylentNews should not have reported on it at all? Or did you mean that the reporting should have been skewed towards whatever opinion you have? Sorry to ask, but it is not entirely clear from your post — albeit I...
[21:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lotame Unveils Cartographer, its New Approach to Tracking User Identity - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:01] <exec> 08└─All the scare-mongering/surveillance was directed at the evil commies/commie sympathizers. Now it's straight up at everyone, not even a pretense of "for the greater good". The West (or perhaps USians?) is overdue for another bloody upheaval.
[21:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lotame Unveils Cartographer, its New Approach to Tracking User Identity - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:03] <exec> 08└─Kill the owners of the companies that make the trackers*
[21:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:21] <exec> 08└─j.r. bob dobbs recommends slack.
[21:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:23] <exec> 08└─I can't think of a single small, for-profit company that has ever beaten Microsoft.
[21:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Improving 10 Percent of Searches by Understanding Language Context - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:41] <exec> 08└─Google have "optimised" and "improved" their algorithms so often and so much that they are becoming near useless for me for anything beyond the most basic searches. Even when jumping through hoops with quotes around terms I must have and minuses in front of terms I do not want, they provide results...
[21:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:43] <exec> 08└─Another huge burden to manufacturing is the red tape required to do chemical manufacturing. Really simple chemicals (like iodine for christ sake) have huge amounts of associated red tape. We cannot compete in manufacturing with a country that has lax chemical laws when ours are so strict. We NEED ch...
[21:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 1628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:44] <exec> 08└─If you're going to have troops abroad, they should be there in overwhelming numbers for safety. Scattering them about the world makes them easy pickings. It's better to have 10 million in 1 country than it is to have 8 million spread across 8 countries. (that is, 1 million in each of the 8 countries...
[21:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 1594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:46] <exec> 08└─Sure, but all nations are improving. Holding our system up to the worst possible places on Earth for those in poverty and calling it a success makes a failure pretty much impossible. The modern food stamp program didn't even exist until the mid 60s. Suffice to say we weren't having carts drive by as...
[21:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:49] <exec> 08└─So which do you hire? a) Hello b) G'day mate c) Top o' the morning to ye d) Howdy partner e) Yo dog f) Ohio g) Knee-how-maw h) Numm-us-day i) Salaam Why don't we all just use beautiful words? ...The best words! Then all our conversations (and phone calls) will be perfect.
[21:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:51] <exec> 08└─Your question is a fine one, but note I posted data on social mobility, i.e. social correlation between parents and children. I didn't post social equality, i.e. income parity within the same generation. The point is, one hindrance to social mobility is that people who grow up with a poor person's a...
[21:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:53] <exec> 08└─If you're going to have troops abroad, they should be there in overwhelming numbers for safety. Scattering them about the world makes them easy pickings. It's better to have 10 million in 1 country than it is to have 8 million spread across 8 countries. (that is, 1 million in each of the 8 countries...
[21:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:55] <exec> 08└─provided your selection process isn't completely garbage
[21:22:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:12] <exec> 08└─Sure, all the staff at the White House have to have clearances to access anything
[21:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:14] <exec> 08└─The real answer is that one needs to accept varying levels of uncertainty. To decide on the available evidence either that he was or wasn't blackmailed is clear bias. To assert that "nobody gets into a position of power without being blackmailed multiple ways" is probable paranoia unless there is ev...
[21:23:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:22] <exec> 08└─It seems like this might need a double blind trial to confirm...
[21:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:41] <exec> 08└─IIRC (not too certain) being impoverished is not associated with a decrease in mental health issues, but only with their being detected and treated. Certainly schizophrenia was known among the serfs during the middle ages. Some came to the attention of the religious authorities.
[21:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 1740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:42] <exec> 08└─Which would be fine if mental health issues were purely developed from behavior. Some may be, as talk therapy helps many. But it is also known as fact that many conditions arise out of imbalance of neurotransmitters in the brain. Or at least, when the right neurotransmitter is found by trial-and-err...
[21:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:44] <exec> 08└─No, schizophrenia is not "crazy thinking". Schizophrenia is when one has trouble processing what reality is. Schizophrenia is a mental illness characterized by abnormal behavior, strange speech, and a decreased ability to understand reality. Other symptoms may include false beliefs, unclear or confu...
[21:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:06] <exec> 08└─But what they should do immediately is start giving the Salk vaccine a couple of years before the Sabine vaccine. The Salk vaccine has no possibility of causing a temporary mild case of polio, and, IIRC the Sabine vaccine (sugar cube) does. But the Sabine vaccine give a permanent immunity, where the...
[21:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:07] <exec> 08└─The thing is, polio is a virus whose genetic code has been determined. You don't need to keep a laboratory strain around to recreate it. That's the easy way, but several viruses have already been built in active form from just they genetic sequence. I think tobacco mosaic virus was the first.
[21:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:39] <exec> 08└─+1, Under-rat-ed.
[21:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:40] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting to see how things change once the soccer mom rats start carpooling their kittens/pups to the playing field and have a little wine with the other dams during the game.
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[22:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Brain Approaches Tricky Tasks In A Surprisingly Simple Way - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:55] <exec> 08└─I sat down one time and dissected an MIT differential equation in my head until it made sense. You have to concentrate on two sides of the equation at the same time.
[22:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lotame Unveils Cartographer, its New Approach to Tracking User Identity - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:07] <exec> 08└─And the anti-theft laws have the “unintended” consequences of harming the otherwise profitable business of street robbery.
[22:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lotame Unveils Cartographer, its New Approach to Tracking User Identity - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:08] <exec> 08└─"Whitmore continued, “One of the unintended consequences of that legislation and some of what is happening in the browser space is that we could be forced into a position where we are having to ask you every single time you visit a site whether it’s okay to sell your data, whether it’s okay to...
[22:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:29] <exec> 08└─He recommends it, we require it.
[22:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:31] <exec> 08└─Mozilla is dependent on ad revenue from search engines, you know, Google and Microsoft's Bing. That's 97% of their revenue. So Firefox has turned into just another branch of Google and Microsoft.
[22:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Improving 10 Percent of Searches by Understanding Language Context - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:50] <exec> 08└─That would be in America.
[22:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:59] <exec> 08└─Will be less likely to be chosen. Other radical related topics: If you sound like an idiot you're probably going to be worse at a higher end job.
[22:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:01] <exec> 08└─The guy has made billions. Do you really think he couldn't make you money?
[22:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:02] <exec> 08└─No, the "at" isn't entirely redundant: "Where you at?" versus "Where you going?"
[22:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:04] <exec> 08└─Trump also doesn't have to impress anyone. He's the rich boss. It's not uncommon for people like that to show coarseness almost as a show of their power.
[22:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:55] <exec> 08└─So IOT bulbs have security risks? Gee, who wouldda guessed.
[22:23:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 330 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:34] <exec> 08└─My theory: When people really struggle with something (e.g. blindness), they don't have time to dwell on misery and develop mental health issues. This one problem soaks up any spare thoughts. How many people in 3rd world countries develop schizophrenia? A lot of people develop mental health problems...
[22:23:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:40] <exec> 08└─If this map [wikipedia.org] is correct the data don't support your theory. The page contains a link to the WHO data the map is based on.
[22:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:54] <exec> 08└─That sounds like a proverb...
[22:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Findings Support Idea that Early Cortical Blindness Eliminates Risk of Developing Schizophrenia - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:55] <exec> 08└─GP wrote: If this map is correct...
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[23:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Brain Approaches Tricky Tasks In A Surprisingly Simple Way - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:59] <exec> 08└─If someone throws you a ball, for instance, the low-dimensional manifold allows your brain to swiftly coordinate the muscle movements needed to catch the ball, rather than your brain needing to learn how to catch a ball afresh each time.
[23:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Brain Approaches Tricky Tasks In A Surprisingly Simple Way - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:00] <exec> 08└─Please just think for me and tell me the answer since I'm a lazy piece of shit. Simple.
[23:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:37] <exec> 08└─Skype? I don't think so. Microsoft bought them from eBay in May of 2011.
[23:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:38] <exec> 08└─IRC as-a-service Simple to use. Cheap enough. IRC integrations with everything thats ever existed are POSSIBLE with perl but nobody never writes it, whereas on slack they're not only possible but it exists and only takes one click.
[23:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:40] <exec> 08└─I bet the fancy features can be duplicated if they haven't been already. Like an IRC client that is prettied up to look more like a Slack or Discord, automatically embeds YouTube videos when they are linked, supports emoji, etc.
[23:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stewart Butterfield Says Microsoft Sees Slack as Existential Threat - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:42] <exec> 08└─That's the point. The reason stormreaver specified for-profits is because foundations like Linux, OpenOffice and Mozilla winning against Microsoft is the result of multiple corporations joining hands to develop/dump the market with a collaborative product which they're planning to profit from indire...
[23:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Improving 10 Percent of Searches by Understanding Language Context - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:03] <exec> 08└─> just want to find an exact phrase dammit. This is very much a case of "be careful what you wish for" and "users don't know what they want". Doing the equivalent of grep over the entire Web will only get you billions of Viagra spam websites, to say nothing of the fact that that's infeasible to inde...
[23:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:17] <exec> 08└─Based on history, HE would make money and I would end up holding the bag. Based on analysis, he has consistently under-performed, it's just that he started on 3rd base.
[23:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:18] <exec> 08└─Esperanto for social justice!
[23:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:20] <exec> 08└─Candiates that sound like idiots...
[23:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Class Bias in Hiring Based on Few Seconds of Speech - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:22] <exec> 08└─Speak for yourself. I got a good technology job because I could speak eloquently, now those assholes want me to do people things like schmoozing and other people bullshit I have no patience for, rather than what I want to do, which is more technical work with less people bullshit. Perhaps I shpuld s...
[23:22:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:11] <exec> 08└─The answer is simple: Does it have "smart" in the name? Then it's not secure. Maybe "smart" is really an acronym for "Security Missing And Ready to Tap".
[23:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Warns Of Security Gaps In Smart Light Bulbs - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:14] <exec> 08└─I set them up to perform a sunrise and sunset every day.
[23:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Kicks Infosec Team to Curb in IT Office Shakeup - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:43] <exec> 08└─I've heard this 'they are a bunch of lazy incompetent people' thing before. I'm not buying it. There are a lot of people as smart as snowden who are not so morally inclined, and then all that stuff gets leaked to who all manner of people who want to manipulate society 20 years from now. And probably...
[23:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:39] <exec> 08└─You won't need lab stockpiles for reemergence in the future: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] In 2017, Canadian scientists recreated an extinct horse pox virus to demonstrate that the smallpox virus can be recreated in a small lab at a cost of about $100,000, b...
[23:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Health Organization Says Two of Three Polio Strains have been Eradicated - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:40] <exec> 08└─https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genomes/GenomesGroup.cgi?taxid=10240 [nih.gov] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov]
[23:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:15] <exec> 08└─But to drive for Uber the rats would need smartphones. They'll be distracted looking at cheesy cheese porn.
[23:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rats Taught to Drive Tiny Cars - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:16] <exec> 08└─Ratcar?
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