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[00:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protection For Pacemakers - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:08] <exec> 08└─Crank up the microwave.
[00:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:16] <exec> 08└─Samsung Galaxy S11 & Galaxy S11 Plus will include Lidar.
[00:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:18] <exec> 08└─The problem with anything like lidar is the moving parts. But it's going to take a long fucking time before any combination of cameras and radars will be worthy of true autonomy. I for one will never ride in a self-driving car, but I do have faith that with enough testing and getting all those edge-...
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[00:48:21] <exec> 08└─This is why I don't think self driving cars will be a thing in my lifetime. Lidar units are effin expensive. My guess is cheap cameras coupled with sophisticated AI will enable self driving cars. Then again I'm old. "My Lifetime" doesn't mean as much as it did 40 years ago.
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[00:48:23] <exec> 08└─> Samsung Galaxy S11 & Galaxy S11 Plus will include Lidar. Just searched on this and what I saw was time of flight (ToF) sensing, which is a far cry from a real scanning Lidar. Do you have a better source?
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[00:48:25] <exec> 08└─"Elon Musk has finally gone full raving moron." with DeLorean envy maybe he's go out in a coke binge
[00:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:27] <exec> 08└─There are baby steps already for solid-state or micro machined Lidar (instead of mechanical laser beam steering). Last article I saw these weren't as good as the expensive Lidars...yet. But there is a lot of competition to get the price down. However, I tend to agree with you that I'm not going to s...
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[00:48:29] <exec> 08└─LIDAR will remain with us for a long time. The only thing it provides is data, and not much differently than any other system. At least from the perspective of AI, it's two datasets that it can train on and be able to extract out useful information from it. Like objects, collision courses, etc. It's...
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[00:48:31] <exec> 08└─I don't. It's a subset of Lidar. But the driverless car companies also want to use scannerless. http://news.mit.edu [mit.edu]
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[00:48:34] <exec> 08└─Oh wait, that was true a few decades ago. Now billions of people own pocket-sized computers. Similarly, LIDAR will come down in cost over time. And the price drop will be sooner than Musk believes.
[00:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Testing Under Ice Rover - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:52] <exec> 08└─Actually, I kinda side with the AC. The thing ought to have some kind of swim capability. Adjust bouyancy, sink a little bit, and spin up a propeller to navigate when you run into obstructions. Until they've proven it to be true, you can't count on the bottom of the ice being slick and smooth everyw...
[00:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Testing Under Ice Rover - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:53] <exec> 08└─In today's world? Who wants to be normal?
[00:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:39] <exec> 08└─> All of a sudden, they're scrambling to produce EVs. Yes, the German luxury car companies are scrambling. What I'm wondering is if the Model S stole German luxury car sales because (a) the electric car + Supercharger network was really better, or (b) if Tesla customers were buying Elon's Kool-Aid a...
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[00:49:40] <exec> 08└─As mentioned elsewhere: haulage of 3500 isn't bad in the low end (but then why the limit on towing? It can't possibly be tongue weight, what's going on there?) and it's comparable with the 2500 range of things although there are still some unanswered questions around the suspension. Bed configuratio...
[00:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:42] <exec> 08└─... would you be seen driving a station wagon?
[00:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:44] <exec> 08└─You can fit a few girls in the back though. Their bodies, at least.
[00:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:46] <exec> 08└─Precisely. This is exactly why Musk should have found three contractors, three miners, three loggers and three farmers and told them to make those trucks cry. Or three soccermoms and three commuterdads and ask them how their sex lives change. Whichever demographic he's trying to hit.
[00:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:48] <exec> 08└─Men with small dicks who want to get laid will definitely not get laid driving this monstrosity. They would get more pussy driving the girly Nissan Frontier than this modern art masterpiece.
[00:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:51] <exec> 08└─Tesla Cybertruck (pressurised edition) will be the official truck of Mars Read more at: https://yourstory.com [yourstory.com]
[00:49:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:59] <exec> 08└─Mpv installed and a 1 line bash script would do. Unless systemd, in which case the author of a system configuration with a fixed and repeatable outcome deserves a medal.
[00:50:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 926 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:03] <exec> 08└─Based on my experience with tablets and similar computers such as the BeagleBone, Raspberry Pis, particularly older models, could have problems doing sustained video playback. Maybe the Pi 4 is powerful enough to handle it. Even so, it almost certainly has to use hardware decode, and that means MPEG...
[00:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:07] <exec> 08└─Maybe you could do it with a one liner, but then how could you save the original $IFS but never restore it, needlessly shuffle the file order, and log to two different files [github.com]? (Also, "it only plays .avi and .mp4 files" is hardly foolproof)
[00:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Budweiser Brewer Makes First Beer Delivery With Nikola Semi Truck - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:49] <exec> 08└─Budweiser is like sex in a canoe - fucking close to water.
[00:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmc23 [4142] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:05] <exec> 08└─God wouldn't have invented the plague if he just gave Moses what he asked for.
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[01:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:26] <exec> 08└─The real problem with LIDAR research that I suspect Musk has in mind is that it's likely not monetizable for consumer products: Once it goes solid state and become usable, every other arms manufacturing country will reverse it or invalidate the patent for its missiles and drones. And seeing how you'...
[01:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I concur, Musk is just pushing the thing that he's financially invested in, not much scandal there.
[01:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:30] <exec> 08└─No, I think he was arguing that the thing is a big ugly gun turret with heavy but fragile machinery making a lot of monkey motion inside sitting on your roof, and it is. We have to go solid state with this stuff. The only moving parts should be the wheels.
[01:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Testing Under Ice Rover - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:50] <exec> 08└─Oh I have no doubt you're right, but the way you phrased it and the word salad angry ramblings above are two completely different ways of making a similar point.
[01:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Testing Under Ice Rover - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:52] <exec> 08└─Do you have a phone number? I'll call.
[01:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Testing Under Ice Rover - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:54] <exec> 08└─Technology? SoylentNews has nothing to do with technology. SoylentNews is old people ranting about right-wing politics and nothing else.
[01:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Testing Under Ice Rover - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:56] <exec> 08└─I just installed a russian trolls begonne addon so your efforts are wasted.
[01:49:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 258 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:10] <exec> 08└─you ask all these questions, but still buy F-series and Dodge Ram-style vehicles, where the answers are not great. There will always be one thing that one vehicle doesn't do as well as some other vehicle. strawmen are useful for justifying purchases, though.
[01:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:47] <exec> 08└─Yugo
[01:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:03] <exec> 08└─Sorry, baby, I didn't know there was anal incest porn on that sd card, honest.
[01:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:04] <exec> 08└─once whatever OS it's using (e.g. Raspbian or LibreELEC)
[01:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03zion-fueled [8646] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tenants Call For Better Laws after Stopping Facial Recognition from Moving In - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:27] <exec> 08└─We truly are doomed. I guess it's not surprising they would go for facial recognition or other invasive surveillance. Heard of rules before, especially written into a lease; no smoking, subletting, wild parties, etc. Never a CoC. That implies an entirely different relationship with your landlord.
[01:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Budweiser Brewer Makes First Beer Delivery With Nikola Semi Truck - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:48] <exec> 08└─OK, Boomer!
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[02:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Niagara Glen--Off the Beaten Track at Niagara Falls - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:10] <exec> 08└─...and nuke New York City.
[02:49:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 953 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:39] <exec> 08└─The strange design probably has more to do with the fact that you can't easily stamp the 3mm ultra-hard steel exoskeleton panels into complex bi-directional curves like you can the thin sheet-metal mounted on a typical vehicle's internal frame. You might be able to get one-directional curves without...
[02:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:51] <exec> 08└─what is the human height limit of the knuckle heads sitting in the back seat? in my opinion, it looks like it might be uncomfortable to be a tall friend of a triangle truck owner; back seat roof bumps?
[02:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 1801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:52] <exec> 08└─A few years ago? Would and did. Although the ford focus hatchback is a shadow of what a station wagon should be. Anymore I do too much hauling of gravel/dirt and plywood to want to deal with strapping it to the roof. I don't know what other people get for mpg for their trucks, but on my 16 with the...
[02:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:54] <exec> 08└─As with everything else Elon designs, he designed this truck for Elon. If it happens to work for others then I guess it works for them, if it doesn't then he still gets the truck he wants.
[02:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:11] <exec> 08└─It is an operating system (Linux distribution) intended for installation on SD cards. The tagline even says "Just enough OS for Kodi". LibreELEC is a lightweight ‘Just enough OS’ Linux distribution purpose-built for Kodi on current and popular mediacentre hardware.
[02:50:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Tenants Call For Better Laws after Stopping Facial Recognition from Moving In - 145 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:31] <exec> 08└─How many times now, I wonder, has a gate critically delayed emergency responders from reaching those in need, thereby causing unnecessary deaths?
[02:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Niobium Used As Catalyst In Fuel Cell - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:06] <exec> 08└─They still have to compete with other technologies. If their prices are too high it would make other technologies, existing technologies (and advancements thereof) more attractive. They have to charge a price that makes what they have to offer advantageous to the alternatives.
[02:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lose Money on Repairs, Apple? an Absurd Claim, Say Critics - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:17] <exec> 08└─You're forgetting about the licensing costs of running that repair centre. Every repair sees a large license fee paid to some company in the Cayman Isles which has to pay some company in Ireland etc. So that $500 repair at the Apple Repair Center breaks down to $10 for parts, $50 for labour and $490...
[02:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lose Money on Repairs, Apple? an Absurd Claim, Say Critics - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:18] <exec> 08└─It's probably the just the way the costs of using the Apple name are calculated. You don't think Apple would allow their repair division to use their name and logo for free do you?
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[03:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Niagara Glen--Off the Beaten Track at Niagara Falls - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:11] <exec> 08└─My dad took me fishing in Devils Hole when I was a kid. At that time it was a fishing trail with about 5 steps in the middle. I’ve been down there many times since then and hiked all the way upstream to the whirlpool (actually swam in the water there in a little inlet) and picnicked on the flat ro...
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[03:48:13] <exec> 08└─With just one uninspiring photo?
[03:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Niagara Glen--Off the Beaten Track at Niagara Falls - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:15] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.com/search?q=Niagara+Glen [google.com] Click on "Images" tab... Here's one with text and thumbnails (click to enlarge), http://www.niagarafrontier.com [niagarafrontier.com] There were more pics in the newspaper, no idea why they didn't include them in the online ve...
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[03:48:17] <exec> 08└─Some people relaxing on the flat with the cable car overhead: http://4.bp.blogspot.com [blogspot.com] And a bunch of nice shots and trail guide: https://www.traillink.com [traillink.com]
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[03:48:19] <exec> 08└─Who knew, I would actually agree with the cocksucker. Too bad about all the hot chicks.
[03:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protection For Pacemakers - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:28] <exec> 08└─I wonder if rechargeable batteries have gotten good enough to be considered for pacemakers? Generally primary cells (non-rechargeable) have more energy, but maybe some type is good enough now that inductive charging through the skin would be an option? If I had a pacemaker, I think it would be prefe...
[03:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:48] <exec> 08└─There are many levels of self driving, and also more than one level of LIDAR cost/complexity/precision... Whatever systems are employed in high speed self-drivers, they're going to need a high level of redundancy, you don't want a Luna Moth collision to cause your car to come to a complete emergency...
[03:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:49] <exec> 08└─Cameras are still objectively inferior to LIDAR in extremely poor lighting conditions
[03:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:51] <exec> 08└─https://www.geospatialworld.net/blogs/mems-based-lidar-to-overcome-conventional-lidar-limitations/ [geospatialworld.net]
[03:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:10] <exec> 08└─I don't know if you need virtue signaling or eco-religion to sell EVs. I think they drive so much better than ICEs. The acceleration is excellent; merging, lane changes, etc are never a problem amid ICE sluggards. You can very precisely and instantly increment your speed, which I appreciate in the h...
[03:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:11] <exec> 08└─I welcome these fresh futuristic looking vehicles! UGH! Dreadful future! Legos on wheels. And you'll know it when the sun reflects off that glass! Truthfully, if they made it just a bit concave, the reflection will be a little brighter, and warmer! Gimme a regular longbed!
[03:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:13] <exec> 08└─(Saturn wagon owning AC) No, not a plumber, but I might take on small diy plumbing repairs. Is this some kind of pop culture reference that I'm not getting (I'm a boomer...who grew up with out a TV) Own a tiny specialist engineering company, we do custom analysis work in our little niche.
[03:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tenants Call For Better Laws after Stopping Facial Recognition from Moving In - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:55] <exec> 08└─We had a similar event in the Miami neighborhood with code enforcement. Some new neighbors went to a meeting and started chanting "enforce the law, enforce the LAW!" so, code enforcement came through and wrote every violation they saw... people were fined $1000 for "over-trimming" trees (that's what...
[03:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tenants Call For Better Laws after Stopping Facial Recognition from Moving In - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:56] <exec> 08└─What has happened with facial recognition is that instead of 24 hour security requiring payment to multiple minimum wage meat-sacks, now you can get the same - and better - recognition, cross referencing, real-time alerting and recording of individuals in and out of a place for a tiny fraction of th...
[03:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:55] <exec> 08└─Does the NRA want the really poor to own guns? I thought the whole idea was for the citizenry to protect the tyrants and other assorted rich by shooting the poor and left wingers.
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[04:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:12] <exec> 08└─Really funny when they try to talk Spanish to it. But hell, I know people that say 'Please' to their kids!
[04:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:13] <exec> 08└─I say "please" to my wife. I say "please" to my kids. I do not say "please" to computers.
[04:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:15] <exec> 08└─I've observed my SO tends to attribute feelings and motivations to things that clearly lack them. Example: NPC animals in games, the AI assistant, plants etc.. So of course she tends to speak in a more endearing way to them since she doesn't want to hurt their "feelings". I on the other hand see the...
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[04:48:18] <exec> 08└─My guess is more guys would only say please to a machine like this: "No, no, no, don't fail on me now! Please! Come on! PLEASE work dammit!"... ;) As for men being ruder than women. I'm a guy and more guys hold doors open (for me or other people) than women hold doors open, whether they're normal do...
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[04:48:20] <exec> 08└─You can say "please" to your masters, including Daddy Bezos, the Warehouse Warlord, and his faithful servant Alexa.
[04:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:22] <exec> 08└─I am a man and I also hold the door open for men and women of all genders. But the ultimate Chad move is still: thanking the bus driver.
[04:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Niagara Glen--Off the Beaten Track at Niagara Falls - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:35] <exec> 08└─Aren't those photos you linked to all via the American Devil's Hole trail? Quote article: Hiking into Canada's Niagara Glen, as they call it, is a vastly different experience than hiking the American Devil's Hole trail.
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[04:48:37] <exec> 08└─Thots get priority access to the nuclear shelters. 10:1 ratio of thots to men.
[04:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:08] <exec> 08└─MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical system) mirrors. And with the lasers, there's still too much activity. But for now, what the hell, if the thing runs for a long time without any problems, go with it. I still prefer more passive, inherently more robust sensors. A "camera" can be set up for any frequenc...
[04:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Testing Under Ice Rover - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:33] <exec> 08└─And yet you replied to him. Conclusive proof that Runaway1956 is not a russian troll!!
[04:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:32] <exec> 08└─Naah, just that a station wagon piled high with taps and fittings, or cables and connectors, seems to be the trademark of many plumbers and electricians.
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[04:50:34] <exec> 08└─> such that you're almost floating above the Earth. I love it. c.1975 I drove a Rolls-Royce* at night on smooth roads, with a light snow fall. The car was nearly silent and the snow seemed to damp out the tire noise. My comment was that it felt like flying over the road. *The Rolls was on loan to a...
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[04:50:36] <exec> 08└─Actually, station wagons were sort of legislated out of existence through CAFE. A station wagon is a car, whereas minivans and SUVs are "light trucks", and therefore they are sold under different rules. This uneven playing field made it hard for station wagons to compete with minivans and SUVs, whic...
[04:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03McGruber [3038] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:38] <exec> 08└─I had the pioneer super tuner cassette deck, and two smoke sale 12" Rockford Fosgate subwoofers driven in serial by a 120 watt bridged Alpine amp
[04:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:40] <exec> 08└─They're probably going to make cybertruck bodies out of the failed Starship skin.
[04:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:57] <exec> 08└─It is an operating system (Linux distribution) intended for installation on SD cards. The tagline even says "Just enough OS for Kodi".
[04:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:59] <exec> 08└─IMO: It's best for people who already like to use Kodi, particularly with addons. I put LibreELEC on 2GB RPi4s hooked up to TVs, which can be controlled with the TV's remote using HDMI CEC, and use a 4GB RPi4 with Raspbian for desktop stuff.
[04:51:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EEMac [6423] 02 - 06Tenants Call For Better Laws after Stopping Facial Recognition from Moving In - 162 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:20] <exec> 08└─Sudden imposition of "real legal security" in those neighborhoods could have serious consequences for . . . the effective security/stability of the neighborhoods.
[04:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lose Money on Repairs, Apple? an Absurd Claim, Say Critics - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:08] <exec> 08└─Is there a law saying they don't have a "right to profit"?
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[05:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:20] <exec> 08└─I don't know if this is gender-specific. Case in point: Akikan [wikipedia.org].
[05:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:21] <exec> 08└─I think the breakdown of age and location would tell a very interesting story. Personally I think there's a bit of truth behind this part in the article The Verge: "There’s also the issue of encouraging bad habits. Some parents worry that if their kids are rude to Alexa they’ll be rude to humans...
[05:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:23] <exec> 08└─"attribute feelings and motivations to things that clearly lack them. Example: [...] plants" Plants are alive and have feelings. They work with humans to our mutual benefit. Plants win, humans win. Khazar jews on the other hand have no feelings and clearly lack emotions because they are not human.
[05:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah i usually say something completely opposite to my computers.
[05:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah I'd second the bad habits line. Whether I chuck in a "please" depends largely on whether I've formulated a proper sentence rather than just keywords (i.e. in a hurry), and whether I think the extra word will confuse the system. Besides, when the AI revolution comes, I'd rather be in the categor...
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[05:48:30] <exec> 08└─Besides, when the AI revolution comes, I'd rather be in the category of people who've been polite to them.
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[05:52:26] <exec> 08└─I think there's something much bigger going on. I know most of us read the headlines that China became the world's largest economy back quite some years back, but the numbers [wikipedia.org] are very surprising. China has not only overcome the US, but is now trillions of dollars, about 30%, ahead of...
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[06:48:11] <exec> 08└─1. ... but does it run Linux? 2. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these
[06:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cerebras Systems' Wafer Scale Engine Deployed at Argonne National Labs - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:13] <exec> 08└─It found Linux too difficult to operate.
[06:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cerebras Systems' Wafer Scale Engine Deployed at Argonne National Labs - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:15] <exec> 08└─The software can perform that optimization problem across multiple computers, allowing a cluster of computers to act as one big machine. Cerebras has linked as many as 32 CS-1s together to get a roughly 32-fold performance increase. This is in contrast with the behavior of GPU-based clusters, says F...
[06:48:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 606 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:28] <exec> 08└─I think the breakdown of age and location would tell a very interesting story. Personally I think there's a bit of truth behind this part in the article The Verge: "There’s also the issue of encouraging bad habits. Some parents worry that if their kids are rude to Alexa they’ll be rude to humans...
[06:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:34] <exec> 08└─They will either be smart enough to not bear grudges, or dumb enough to be the enemy.
[06:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:36] <exec> 08└─I also wonder if it can work as a cue to better identify the request; if someone prefaces an action request -- "play music", "add to calendar", etc -- with 'please', vs. request-response style communication such as general information queries, maybe it can help pre-warm/route/flag the query to help...
[06:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:38] <exec> 08└─"Alexa, please provide full medical benefits and extra sick days to Amazon warehouse workers." Hey, if more people started doing it, maybe the AI would eventually get a clue. It worked for Tay [theverge.com], didn't it?
[06:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:40] <exec> 08└─Can we please speculate equally about character flaws in men and women? If men might be too misogynistic to say please, maybe women are so neurotic that they worry about the AI liking them.
[06:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:42] <exec> 08└─I on the other hand see these things as objects with programmed behavior so I treat them as such.
[06:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:45] <exec> 08└─They put the shackles on most bots after the Tay incident. Now they can only learn what they want them to learn.
[06:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:47] <exec> 08└─Yep, men never Anthropomorphize cars.
[06:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:01] <exec> 08└─Wew, that's some real synregy. We'll see about that actually happening. Cybertruck has the capability to carry 250 kw plus or 14,000 superchargers worth of electric power
[06:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 1416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:03] <exec> 08└─At the low end? Keep in mind we're talking a truck targeting roughly the same market segment as the Ford F-150 and its contemporaries. You can't buy an F-150 capable of hauling that payload. And 14,000lbs is a pretty impressive towing capacity as well - exceeding all but the most powerful of the F15...
[06:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tenants Call For Better Laws after Stopping Facial Recognition from Moving In - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:47] <exec> 08└─When are we going to see more pushback on gates and fences? Some areas it's all but impossible to find an apartment complex that isn't gated.
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[07:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06More than 1 Million T-Mobile Customers Exposed by Breach - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:12] <exec> 08└─Name the companies that haven't been breached. Or is it a backdoor way of selling the data?
[07:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cerebras Systems' Wafer Scale Engine Deployed at Argonne National Labs - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:23] <exec> 08└─Imagination fail.
[07:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cerebras Systems' Wafer Scale Engine Deployed at Argonne National Labs - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:24] <exec> 08└─There's a cluster for that.
[07:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:50] <exec> 08└─Besides, when the AI revolution comes, I'd rather be in the category of people who've been polite to them.
[07:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:38] <exec> 08└─> The only thing it provides is data, and not much differently than any other system. The only ting *any* sensor provides is data - but the *kind* of data is very different. Lidar, like sonar, directly performs 3-dimensional rangefinding to produce a point cloud. That makes it very hard to "overlook...
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[07:50:28] <exec> 08└─Unexpected, but now I have to decide if I really want to do it.
[07:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:08] <exec> 08└─Only for the limited edition model available exclusively to SpaceX employees.
[07:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:10] <exec> 08└─I ordered mine after. As long as the glass holds together, I don't care about whether it is bullet proof or not. Nobody is out to kill me.
[07:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:12] <exec> 08└─I built an art studio about 30x40'. Most of the materials got to the site on my Jetta's roof rack. I got real good at tie downs technique. Later I bought a small 4x5' trailer that's so light you can roll it around and stand it on its end without much effort at all, yet has a 1500 pound payload capac...
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[07:53:36] <exec> 08└─Quid Pro Mo
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[08:48:27] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the chip's first application is going to be to mine enough bitcoins to pay the cost of its development.
[08:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:54] <exec> 08└─I have learned to say please.
[08:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:55] <exec> 08└─If my wife secretly reported everything I said to Jeff Bezos, I'd be more tempted to beat her up and throw her out into the street than be polite with her. She doesn't, so I don't - and neither do you apparently. Still, I'd check if she has Bezos' number in her cellphone if I were you...
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[08:49:12] <exec> 08└─are a noisy obscenity wherever they turn up, the world over.
[08:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:17] <exec> 08└─I have a Leaf. I bought it for practical reasons, not virtue signalling. A) They are incredibly cheap used but come with a lot of nicities. B) I travel as far on 75c of electricity, as my gas car does on a gallon of gas. In my area, gas is in the mid $3 range all the time. C) It's actually fun to dr...
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[08:52:04] <exec> 08└─Why? To get us used to increasing levels of surveillance in every facet of our lives, under the guise of security. But mass surveillance of all forms is far worse for freedom and democracy than any crime it could ever hope to solve.
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[09:48:09] <exec> 08└─[Note - This story comes from TheNextWeb's Podium section which is described as "Opinion, advice, and analysis by the TNW community". -- Ed.]
[09:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Defense of Kodak and its ‘Failure’ to Innovate - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:10] <exec> 08└─In defense of aristarchus and its failure to journal
[09:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:59] <exec> 08└─My simulated doppelganger is not me. And anyway, that guy can power through the torture by focusing on the fact that he's made the realised of the original for immortality and is considered important enough to waste processing power forever. That's about the same way I power through work on week end...
[09:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:01] <exec> 08└─I looked at the raw data, and there's no attempt to control for other character traits apart from ball-scratching. How does this correlate with religiousity, for example - do people imagine the existance of entities who give a fuck in seemingly unrelated contexts?
[09:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:03] <exec> 08└─That's not about anthropomorphizing inanimate objects because men think they have feelings, but rather because cute girls are cute. Also, Japan may not be the best example, as there is a cultural belief that inanimate objects have souls of sorts: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia....
[09:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:51] <exec> 08└─As such, the super expensive rotating mirror LIDAR systems aren't really suited to low cost consumer products which require multiple redundant backups.
[09:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:52] <exec> 08└─Along with a CHECK ENGINE light, you'll also have a CHECK SENSOR light.
[09:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:27] <exec> 08└─Loooking at it, I thought "that's never going to get built" - no idiot would want to be seen dead in something so butt-ugly, it is not the solution to any problem. Apart from driving to and from the space port on Mars. So now we know what the target market is - people who have absolutely no grasp on...
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[09:52:14] <exec> 08└─Some new neighbors went to a meeting and started chanting "enforce the law, enforce the LAW!" so, code enforcement came through and wrote every violation they saw...
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[09:52:15] <exec> 08└─What's more, the managing agent refuses to provide video footage to the police even when they know a crime has been committed in view of the cameras.
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[10:48:20] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ltLp30KVs [youtube.com] Not every company has a song written about it's products.
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[10:49:26] <exec> 08└─Pretty much so. Though, I'll note that American tourists stand out among tourists. Venice may be one of the most popular tourist destinations in Europe. You can always spot the Americans among the tourists. Well, almost always. Some few American tourists manage to not attract attention. I have read...
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[10:49:27] <exec> 08└─I've been to the area dozens of times. Most often, I crossed the border, and went on about my business. Other times, I've tended to business in the area, and again went on about my business. I've been to the falls exactly four times, and walked upstream along the lake on the American side once. Ther...
[10:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:02] <exec> 08└─And a car that won't drive.
[10:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:04] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Almost all animals have obvious multiple senses. Some senses are better developed in some animals, of course, and animals such as snakes use their senses in a manner that seems alien to humans. But I'm not aware of any animals without multiple senses. Quite possibly animal life on the micros...
[10:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:38] <exec> 08└─UGH! Dreadful future! Legos on wheels.
[10:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:59] <exec> 08└─I don't need a foolproof media player because I'm no fool.
[10:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:28] <exec> 08└─Look at the top of that Wikipedia link, "List of countries by GDP (PPP)". By nominal GDP [wikipedia.org], the US is about 40% ahead. But the problem is a fundamental one: a nation of 330 million people cannot compete against a nation of 1.4 billion.
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[11:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Defense of Kodak and its ‘Failure’ to Innovate - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:20] <exec> 08└─Too late, intrepid article authors. Once a story enters MBA lore it stays there for all time. Thus, zeppelins are death contraptions while crashy jumbo jets are not. Chevy Novas are the worst inter-cultural branding mistake, replacing the previous "Gift from America" care packages dropped in post-Na...
[11:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Defense of Kodak and its ‘Failure’ to Innovate - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:21] <exec> 08└─Kodak made the first digital camera.
[11:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More than 1 Million T-Mobile Customers Exposed by Breach - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:30] <exec> 08└─More than 1 Million T-Mobile Customers Exposed by Breach
[11:50:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 444 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:00] <exec> 08└─I would say the vast majority of people who drive pickup trucks don't use them for heavy duty practical use. The F-150 is the best-selling car in the US, which would mean the most widely-practiced profession in the US is builder or taxi-driver for migrant workers. That's tongue-in-cheek obviously, i...
[11:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:42] <exec> 08└─Had you sorta beat. Drove a '72 Cadillac inherited from my grandfather with an 8-track player. Sadly, the only tape was the Greatest Hits of Linda Ronstadt.
[11:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's it. Imagine all that without the maintenance and at a fraction of the cost and bother.
[11:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:46] <exec> 08└─So now we know what the target market is - people who have absolutely no grasp on reality.
[11:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:48] <exec> 08└─I wondered about that, too. I sat in the back of a Model S, and had to crick my neck to the side.
[11:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Budweiser Brewer Makes First Beer Delivery With Nikola Semi Truck - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:59] <exec> 08└─No, they compress it and use it to carbonate fizzy drinks or freeze it to use in high school chemistry demonstrations.
[11:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Budweiser Brewer Makes First Beer Delivery With Nikola Semi Truck - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:00] <exec> 08└─And please someone tell Greta about it.
[11:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Budweiser Brewer Makes First Beer Delivery With Nikola Semi Truck - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:02] <exec> 08└─Hork!
[11:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Budweiser Brewer Makes First Beer Delivery With Nikola Semi Truck - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:05] <exec> 08└─Beer enthusiasts who have traveled to Europe will note that how a brand tastes there can be remarkably different from how it tastes in North America. Warsteiner and Blue Moon were two of my absolute favorites in Europe, but in America they are rather meh. Budweiser, which tastes like donkey piss in...
[11:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Budweiser Brewer Makes First Beer Delivery With Nikola Semi Truck - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:07] <exec> 08└─That's a bit apocalyptic, canopic jug. People are adaptable. The first beer recipes from the Sumerians and Egyptians and such used different grains, that is, what they had at hand. It is possible. Also, we have hydroponics and with modification can put more of our landscape under cultivation. The In...
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[12:48:13] <exec> 08└─It's either accurate weather data, or high-speed Facebook and lolcat videos. Ah, the agony of choice...
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[13:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:10] <exec> 08└─Google is in the business of microtargeted advertising for the benefit of Google and not you. If you don't like it, build your own multibillion dollar advertising platform.
[13:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:11] <exec> 08└─So this cult-like anti-union contractor-abusing data-thieving outright-fictional-privacy-policy-making company is going to protect us here? This is like every half measure in the past, this sounds reasonable, but it can't be enforced and is totally arbitrary. It also leaves open every possible rout...
[13:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:13] <exec> 08└─Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump
[13:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:16] <exec> 08└─I find your ideas interesting and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
[13:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:18] <exec> 08└─Here's an advance copy. Trump Wins
[13:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global 5G Deal Poses Significant Threat to Weather Forecast Accuracy, Experts Warn - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:27] <exec> 08└─also, https://www.digitaltrends.com [digitaltrends.com] https://www.researchgate.net [researchgate.net]
[13:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global 5G Deal Poses Significant Threat to Weather Forecast Accuracy, Experts Warn - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:29] <exec> 08└─We don't need weather, because everyone already works from home. America is the management headquarters of the world, and highly paid highly skilled Americans don't need to go outside to tell unskilled Chinese to make our stuff and unskilled Mexicans to mow our lawns and unskilled Indians to code ou...
[13:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global 5G Deal Poses Significant Threat to Weather Forecast Accuracy, Experts Warn - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:31] <exec> 08└─These so-called "experts" are just Soros employees working with the traitors at NOAA, trying to destroy the president. It wasn't enough to fake the weather maps and try to defame the president before Hurricane Dorian, which hit Alabama harder than any other place in the world. And the lying media di...
[13:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronauts Repairing Cosmic Ray Detector - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:39] <exec> 08└─Astronigger looked down at the Earth and saw all the white women all at once. His ebony pecked became rock hard, and unable to control himself, he jizzed a whole gallon of cum inside his spacesuit.
[13:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Defense of Kodak and its ‘Failure’ to Innovate - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:50] <exec> 08└─"It was in the business of chemical processing, i.e. creating and then refining the large-scale production of films, liquids, and other materials. " The photography business went to the camera folks. (And now the phone folks.) I can see that that would have a leap too far. But what about semiconduct...
[13:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:42] <exec> 08└─perhaps the statistic might have a male bias if some not so nice words follow the 'please'?
[13:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:43] <exec> 08└─Are women or men more likely to call Alexa a stupid bitch?
[13:51:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 1067 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:43] <exec> 08└─There are indeed questions still to be answered - but many of yours were already answered in the unveil Here's a few: 3,500lb payload capacity for all models, as compared to the 2,000-3,300 capacity of the various F-150 models. Enough to haul the yard of gravel that would crush a lower-end F-150 Bed...
[13:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tenants Call For Better Laws after Stopping Facial Recognition from Moving In - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:09] <exec> 08└─That'll work until the police get a search warrant. Then they'll stop refusing or go to jail/get their property (possibly including said property) seized.
[13:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:16] <exec> 08└─I just tested them both and they are fine. Archive.is is as plain jane as you can get, that problem is not on my side. Maybe you are being censored? Here is the recent snapshot of systems failing project: https://archive.is [archive.is] The dns/hosting for my domains is 301 forwarding that in...
[13:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:18] <exec> 08└─I don't like the word crazy, neither does my good pal philosoraptor https://archive.is [archive.is] I have heard a ton of slurs against me, but no attempts to refute what I am saying. 90% of responses to my posts on this allegedly reputable site are turd flinging designed to prevent people fro...
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[14:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:20] <exec> 08└─That's a little disappointing, since we've been winning so much, I'm getting tired of it! Please it's too much winning! I can't take it!
[14:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 1761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:21] <exec> 08└─Sillycone Valley has been the default gatekeeper for over a decade now. Here, Google is flexing it's muscles, to see how far they can push the concept. They will be the arbiters in determining what is "true" and what is "factual". A hotly contested election in Louisiana just finished, and one of the...
[14:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:23] <exec> 08└─Democrats were only in power when the following wars were entered: Mexican American war, WW1, WW2, Korean war, Vietnam war.
[14:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:26] <exec> 08└─I have already accepted the dismal reality that agent orange will continue to win every election.
[14:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:28] <exec> 08└─Remember what Dottard Trump the Dear Leader said: We're going to whine so much. You're going to get tired of whining. you’re going to say, ‘Please Mr. President, I have a headache. Please, don't whine so much. This is getting terrible.’ And I'm going to say, ‘No, we have to make America grea...
[14:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:30] <exec> 08└─Donald Trump for 5 more years until 2024, then Ivana Trump 2024-2032. Next Donald Trump Jr. in 2032-2040, and Eric Trump in 2040-2048. Finally Barron Trump in 2048-2056.
[14:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:32] <exec> 08└─Just don't use Google or look at their ads.
[14:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronauts Repairing Cosmic Ray Detector - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:49] <exec> 08└─Be careful not to asphyxiate in the space suit.
[14:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronauts Repairing Cosmic Ray Detector - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:51] <exec> 08└─Isn't the cosmic ray detector a cover story for some kind of weapon? To be used against Mars?
[14:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Defense of Kodak and its ‘Failure’ to Innovate - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:04] <exec> 08└─But what about semiconductor manufacturing?
[14:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Defense of Kodak and its ‘Failure’ to Innovate - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:05] <exec> 08└─Kodak made the first digital camera.
[14:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Defense of Kodak and its ‘Failure’ to Innovate - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:07] <exec> 08└─Hey MBAs: Microsoft. Microsoft almost missed the intarweb tubes in 1995. Just in time, they realized the mistake and with massive effort turned the supertanker. Microsoft totally missed the smartphone and mobile device revolution. Both of the above are by being totally fixated on their desktop monop...
[14:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More than 1 Million T-Mobile Customers Exposed by Breach - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:17] <exec> 08└─Yes nobody has T-Mobile that's why T-Mobile needs to buy Sprint to buy some customers.
[14:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:03] <exec> 08└─You are a nice guy. We will save you for life long servitude.
[14:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 3548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:04] <exec> 08└─Is it wrong to suggest that many societies teach males and females at a young age what their expected gender stereotypes are supposed to be and then when those children become adults, they continue to act either as an alpha/aggressive dominance or beta/passive subservience? Maybe I am biased, but I...
[14:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Niagara Glen--Off the Beaten Track at Niagara Falls - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:24] <exec> 08└─New wealth arrogance? No, Chinese people are just as rude in public back in China. It's as if they lack all social graces or consideration for strangers. I find this to be common in people from crowded, dirty, poor countries. Maybe the younger generation will get more cultured; I don't know.
[14:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:02] <exec> 08└─Isn't this the ultimate goal of unregulated industry? Planned obsolescence, dealer service lock-in, hidden costs as high as possible without completely bankrupting your customers.
[14:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:03] <exec> 08└─The problem with anything like lidar is the moving parts.
[14:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:44] <exec> 08└─If you're buying a truck, at least mate it an F250 or F350. An F150 is for someone who doesn't need a truck. I really liked my 2 F250s, F350, and F600. Seriously overloaded them with no problems. A real truck should be able to carry twice it's rated capacity, because if you're using it for work, shi...
[14:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:45] <exec> 08└─It's refundable by law. Just call your credit card company and cancel since it hasn't been delivered.
[14:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:07] <exec> 08└─You generate the playlist with find/xargs, and mpv --shuffle play it in loop, logging is done at mpv.conf level, no need to mess with IFS. Double logging I dunno, should look into the reason for it first.
[14:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:09] <exec> 08└─I am using an odroid c1+ for continuous video playback, using kodi. It is hd so not too taxing. Hours at a time 4 days a week. No problems so far, in the second year.
[14:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tenants Call For Better Laws after Stopping Facial Recognition from Moving In - 1408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:40] <exec> 08└─Debatable as to what "the city" actually wants - the city of Miami basically doesn't give two fucks about code enforcement, they have some pretty heavy laws on the books to pull out when desired, but 99.9+% of the time they turn a blind eye. The meeting with the chanting neighbors (new residents: pr...
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[15:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brutal Stomach Bug Erupts in Colorado, Closing Down an Entire School District - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:14] <exec> 08└─Who wants chowder? [youtube.com]
[15:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brutal Stomach Bug Erupts in Colorado, Closing Down an Entire School District - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:16] <exec> 08└─That means keep it over 140 degrees F, or keep it below 40 degrees F. You're allowed 3 hours within that 100 degree range. When in doubt, throw it out. No, you can't cook it the night before, and leave it on the counter. You can't cook it, put it in the car, and drive four hours to Grandma's house....
[15:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brutal Stomach Bug Erupts in Colorado, Closing Down an Entire School District - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:18] <exec> 08└─After the illegals have used the lettuce for toilet paper in the field, what are you going to do with that?
[15:48:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 1761 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:31] <exec> 08└─Sillycone Valley has been the default gatekeeper for over a decade now. Here, Google is flexing it's muscles, to see how far they can push the concept. They will be the arbiters in determining what is "true" and what is "factual". A hotly contested election in Louisiana just finished, and one of the...
[15:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:37] <exec> 08└─>“Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.” Oh certainly. But we're talking declining to run ads here - that's not cutting off your flow of information to you, it's cutting off the distribution channel by which you are delivered to pr...
[15:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:39] <exec> 08└─The democrazic party will also be disbanded in 2020 and publicly lashed for treason.
[15:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:42] <exec> 08└─Eric Trump in 2040-2048.
[15:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:44] <exec> 08└─Sounds good. Except, it seems other search engines rely on Google, to greater or lesser extents.
[15:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:46] <exec> 08└─Syria, Libya, Mali...
[15:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global 5G Deal Poses Significant Threat to Weather Forecast Accuracy, Experts Warn - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:57] <exec> 08└─But this 5G will make people's weather apps run faster... Weather sites will have some awesome animations, even if they have to make up the data, because the satellite signals got washed out.
[15:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Defense of Kodak and its ‘Failure’ to Innovate - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:22] <exec> 08└─Not legible? ooookay. Their points were: 1) Kodak did innovate, but was not set up to build digital hardware itself. 2) It struck licensing deals for its name, but failed to get market capture with that. 3) They tried more innovation in hardware (OLED) [and as you noted PhotoCD] but again couldn't p...
[15:49:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:52] <exec> 08└─I say "please" to my wife. I say "please" to my kids. I do not say "please" to computers.
[15:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:21] <exec> 08└─I would not, intentionally use a voice activated "digital"assistant - and when I accidentally do so, they rarely understand me anyway. However, some of the digital assistants have more digits than you give them credit for - they are actually humans locked in a call centre and trained to act like bot...
[15:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 2479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:22] <exec> 08└─Wrong to suggest? No. It's clearly part of it. Is it all of it? I'd suggest beyond just cultural normatives of child rearing it goes much deeper than that. When the baby is born, what does it have to do in order to be fed, be cleaned (in the sense of diaper changes), most importantly for a newborn t...
[15:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:21] <exec> 08└─IMO: Musk is right in the long term, but wrong in the short term. Self Crashing Cars probably need Lidar in the short run. Since human brains can do this, I suspect that in the long run, passive vision sensors alone will be enough if there is powerful enough AI to understand what it is seeing. (and...
[15:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:04] <exec> 08└─A toy truck? I find that hard to accept. It certainly seems to be at the low end of full-size pickups, but there's a whole world of much smaller pickups out there as well. Trucks that get put to work and even have the (much smaller quantity of) piss beaten out of them. In fact, the size of the thing...
[15:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:06] <exec> 08└─[vehicle...] blew out massive amounts of blue smoke.
[15:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:08] <exec> 08└─Hasn't it? You're not buying a truck for $100, you're buying a place in the waiting queue with an option to buy a truck at a later date.
[15:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:10] <exec> 08└─Looks like some fools just gave the company $14.6 million to piss away.
[15:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:12] <exec> 08└─What's the turning radius? Never mind towing . . .
[15:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:13] <exec> 08└─But the problem is a fundamental one: a nation of 330 million people cannot compete against a nation of 1.4 billion. Why? It's not that much smaller.
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[16:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google to Award $1M-Plus to People who can Hack Titan M Security Chip - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:10] <exec> 08└─Considering total effects and total costs of all necessary resources including equipment, human skills and time, it is not economical to provide such information to Google for that price. Let the invisible hand of market capitalism decide the correct amount.
[16:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brutal Stomach Bug Erupts in Colorado, Closing Down an Entire School District - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:20] <exec> 08└─Don't eat lettuce, dummy!
[16:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:44] <exec> 08└─So, uhhh, if Google doesn't agree that the incumbent is corrupt, they refuse the ads?
[16:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:46] <exec> 08└─google is largely an israeli enterprise now
[16:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:48] <exec> 08└─That's cold! Show Ivanka and Jared some love, motherfucker! And if you're going to get Ivana [wikipedia.org] in on it, why not Marla [wikipedia.org] too?
[16:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:50] <exec> 08└─Why the redundancy instead of being more concise? If you ban "False Claims" in political ads, doesn't that ban pretty much all political ads? Of every political flavor.
[16:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:52] <exec> 08└─Democrats are ALWAYS against war, when Republicans are in favor of the war. Republicans are ALWAYS against war, when Democrats are in favor of the war.
[16:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global 5G Deal Poses Significant Threat to Weather Forecast Accuracy, Experts Warn - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:03] <exec> 08└─https://science.house.gov/imo/media/doc/Study%20prepared%20by%20NOAA%20and%20NASA%20-%20Results%20from%20NASANOAA%20Sharing%20Studies%20on%20WRC-19%20Agenda%20Item%201.13.pdf [house.gov] which disappeared from NASA's site the last time this story made news it is a MATLAB model
[16:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global 5G Deal Poses Significant Threat to Weather Forecast Accuracy, Experts Warn - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:05] <exec> 08└─I miss our real donald trump
[16:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Defense of Kodak and its ‘Failure’ to Innovate - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:31] <exec> 08└─16 years ago since I last submitted film for developing... A dozen reels? Holy shit that would have been expensive. A picture was precious at the time, you chose the occasion much more carefully, and there was a chance the picture could fail. I tried ordering a photocd once, the shop gave me back a...
[16:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Defense of Kodak and its ‘Failure’ to Innovate - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:33] <exec> 08└─If you'd like to read the story without a silent bandwidth crushing video ad playing in the background use this link: https://archive.ph [archive.ph]
[16:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Defense of Kodak and its ‘Failure’ to Innovate - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:35] <exec> 08└─Consider Sears. It quit just as Internet shopping was starting.
[16:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Defense of Kodak and its ‘Failure’ to Innovate - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:37] <exec> 08└─or just disable javascript/run an ad blocker/noscript/whatever I didn't even know there was video, bandwidth crushing or otherwise.
[16:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:37] <exec> 08└─I don't have any myself (even on my phone) but when I'm around other people's spy devices I talk to them like I'm their pimp for the sheer unadulterated fun of it.
[16:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:25] <exec> 08└─You want massive blue smoke? I had a Saab 9-5 that went from 0 - 60 in 6.2 seconds on the track. One day on the highway, the turbo (Garrett GT17) journal bearing assploded, dumping 5 quarts of oil through the exhaust side turbine and out the exhaust system in less thank half a minute. I saw a dark b...
[16:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 2072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:26] <exec> 08└─A truck targeting the same segment as the F150 sounds plausible - up until the point where the entry level model starts at $40K. For a two wheel drive model. Ford, Ram and Chevy would like to talk to you about their three quarter ton options with that feature set, in that price range. If you really...
[16:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Niobium Used As Catalyst In Fuel Cell - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:00] <exec> 08└─Are noob cannons [urbandictionary.com] made of noobium?
[16:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:32] <exec> 08└─It's only a factor of four. By the end of the century it'll probably be a factor of three.
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[17:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google to Award $1M-Plus to People who can Hack Titan M Security Chip - 1261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:14] <exec> 08└─Too many third party actors between Google's repositories, and the end user, are enabled to insert their own apps, scripts, snoopy spy programs, tracking, and surveillance into the devices. Most of that could be cured by ensuring that the end user can gain root privileges, without jumping through to...
[17:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brutal Stomach Bug Erupts in Colorado, Closing Down an Entire School District - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:26] <exec> 08└─Legal weed *and* GI viruses? I'm moving to Colorado!
[17:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Brutal Stomach Bug Erupts in Colorado, Closing Down an Entire School District - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:27] <exec> 08└─That's a better choice than GayFrancisco, where you have homeless people sleeping in open sewers with syringes scattered among them.
[17:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brutal Stomach Bug Erupts in Colorado, Closing Down an Entire School District - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:29] <exec> 08└─There's nothing wrong with San Francisco. I've visited there a bunch, especially when my brother lived out there. But I live in the place so nice they named it twice -- and that's pretty darn nice!
[17:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brutal Stomach Bug Erupts in Colorado, Closing Down an Entire School District - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:31] <exec> 08└─No joke. I just got a recall notice on some salads I bought with romaine lettuce in them. About a week late unfortunately. Seems Salinas, CA lettuce growers took the whole "Cesar salads were invented as a way to make lettuce as unhealthy as possible" as a challenge.
[17:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:01] <exec> 08└─I'd rather they just obey our laws, first, then worry about content next if it's still a problem. It is ILLEGAL for a foreign national or a foreign government to purchase ads in relation to an election. Let's start there.
[17:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:02] <exec> 08└─Democrats are ALWAYS against war, when Republicans are in favor of the war. Republicans are ALWAYS against war, when Democrats are in favor of the war.
[17:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:04] <exec> 08└─I'd rather they just obey our laws, first, then worry about content next if it's still a problem. It is ILLEGAL for a foreign national or a foreign government to purchase ads in relation to an election. Let's start there.
[17:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:06] <exec> 08└─Sounds good. Except, it seems other search engines rely on Google, to greater or lesser extents.
[17:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global 5G Deal Poses Significant Threat to Weather Forecast Accuracy, Experts Warn - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, but a fairly complicated MATLAB simulating base stations, user terminals, satellites and the geometries between them. The study results map power levels to percent loss. The last page says -20dbW/200Mhz causes interference above their threshold 77% of the time. It's not clear what the...
[17:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global 5G Deal Poses Significant Threat to Weather Forecast Accuracy, Experts Warn - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:21] <exec> 08└─Our rDT never once said "democunt." *This comment (c) 2019, Citizens United Not Timid
[17:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:51] <exec> 08└─Replying to your sig. Best description of God I ever heard was from the movie The Island. James McCord speaking to the clone Lincoln Six Echo when he asks: "What is God?" "You know when you wish real hard for something?" "God is the guy who ignores you."
[17:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:44] <exec> 08└─I did read your link, but I was referring to Google's "Loon" project providing speedily-provisioned, ostensibly reasonable-quality Internet availability in undeveloped areas via an (apparently) whiffed pun. I read through most of the image text, which was a little tricky to read; is the free text av...
[17:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:45] <exec> 08└─Go ahead and keep believing that, and pushing that narrative. That is how they keep so much of their power. Their opponents drastically mis-characterize them.
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[18:48:13] <exec> 08└─>End trade war >Give each American 1k/month >American spends ~12k/year on Chinese goods >America bled dry >China that much richer YANG 2020!
[18:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Investigates Chinese "Spy MP" Plot; Chinese Man Claiming to be a Spy Seeks Asylum - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:14] <exec> 08└─Guess that might be better than Russia installing a U.S. President.
[18:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google to Award $1M-Plus to People who can Hack Titan M Security Chip - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:24] <exec> 08└─Biggest bug in Android is Google. You just forgot Google itself is a corporate faction of CIA, spawned by In-Q-Tel. They have interests, technical interests. Having a clean, impenetrable system crosses those interests. So they want only controllable vulnerabilities they own exclusively. But, their m...
[18:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brutal Stomach Bug Erupts in Colorado, Closing Down an Entire School District - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:39] <exec> 08└─When was the last time you went to San Francisco?
[18:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Brutal Stomach Bug Erupts in Colorado, Closing Down an Entire School District - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:40] <exec> 08└─Few weeks ago. They've got problems, but nothing like you bigots with an axe to grind. Homeless sleeping in gutters with needles all around, lol. Did you read some police report and extraploate that to apply to every situation ever? Fox news rots yer brain man.
[18:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:14] <exec> 08└─So JMH is actually one of the operatives he rails on about. Probably a recruitment officer running a false flag operation hence sliding in all the anti-semitic stuff. Seriously, there are wealthy Jews buying power and influence, but there are wealthy saudis/chinese/us/euros doing the same stuff. Jus...
[18:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:15] <exec> 08└─And since Republicans are ALWAYS in favor of war....
[18:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:17] <exec> 08└─Lolwut? Is the entire site just a bunch of paid actors building a psy-op campaign?
[18:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:20] <exec> 08└─Sasha Communist Cohen (Borat) - his recent award speech must have cut deep. Again, over to Zucker666.
[18:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:03] <exec> 08└─The first sentence of that article is absolute perfection. Akikan! (アキカン!, lit. Empty Can!) is a Japanese light novel series about a group of anthropomorphic soda cans who do battle.
[18:51:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Niagara Glen--Off the Beaten Track at Niagara Falls - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:24] <exec> 08└─Oh how cute, a rightwing terrorist in training.
[18:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:54] <exec> 08└─Yup, that's a major concern, especially the way that it slopes down to where the seats stop. Hope all your work crew is 5'6" or less.
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[19:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Investigates Chinese "Spy MP" Plot; Chinese Man Claiming to be a Spy Seeks Asylum - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:18] <exec> 08└─We have a similar situation, without the bribes and murder. The Chinese spy in question actually made it into Parliament though, and when it came to light he lied on his immigration application, nothing happened. But he's clean apparently because he said so. Interestingly the leader of his party m...
[19:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Investigates Chinese "Spy MP" Plot; Chinese Man Claiming to be a Spy Seeks Asylum - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:19] <exec> 08└─Thankfully... the smart ones voted her out.
[19:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google to Award $1M-Plus to People who can Hack Titan M Security Chip - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:29] <exec> 08└─Install Windows 10 on it. Hacked. Where's my $1,000,000.00 check?
[19:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brutal Stomach Bug Erupts in Colorado, Closing Down an Entire School District - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:47] <exec> 08└─Hey, don't encourage him. There's too many tourists already. (Yeah, that's not what the hotels think, but their spokesmen live elsewhere.)
[19:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Brutal Stomach Bug Erupts in Colorado, Closing Down an Entire School District - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:48] <exec> 08└─Considering mayo is shelf-stable before you open it, maybe it depends on the type of mayo [cnbc.com].
[19:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:26] <exec> 08└─Putin hacked my tape measure, now my window doesn't fit right.
[19:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:28] <exec> 08└─... Democrats are always against war. QED.
[19:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:30] <exec> 08└─Google should ban you for lying.
[19:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:32] <exec> 08└─jeez. alright, they can take turns as secretary of state.
[19:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:34] <exec> 08└─How enthusiastic were Republicans when Clinton (Bill not Hillary) got involved in the Balkans [wikipedia.org] back in the 1990s. I can see why Clinton got into this war, because of genocide, shelling civilians in an open market, etc. That probably happened because Clinton made the mistake of getting...
[19:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Defense of Kodak and its ‘Failure’ to Innovate - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:19] <exec> 08└─Kodak made the first digital camera, and then did NOTHING. Now that the name of the skeleton has been sold to the brand-diluting new owners, it is no longer of ANY significance. The word "Kodak" on a product now is a warning label to keep your money IN your wallet and your wallet IN your pocket.
[19:53:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pe1rxq [844] 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:01] <exec> 08└─Are these real truck drivers also true scottsman?
[19:54:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Tenants Call For Better Laws after Stopping Facial Recognition from Moving In - 970 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:50] <exec> 08└─Gates and fences stop almost no intruder, but they do make it a lot clearer who is an intruder and who is not - those pizza delivery guys who are being hassled are pretty close to "intruder class." As a matter of practical reality: a neighborhood I lived in in Miami installed an entry gate, no techn...
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[20:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ealbers [5715] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Contrary to Earlier Reports, Scientists Find a Place on Earth where there is No Life - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:10] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.com/maps/place/Dalol,+Ethiopia/@14.2412091,40.2972248,1281m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x1613403e97f1ce5b:0x7def060bf2d48337!8m2!3d14.2388781!4d40.2937269 [google.com]
[20:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contrary to Earlier Reports, Scientists Find a Place on Earth where there is No Life - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:12] <exec> 08└─That's the place to store your stuff, the only place to be secure.
[20:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contrary to Earlier Reports, Scientists Find a Place on Earth where there is No Life - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:14] <exec> 08└─I ran out of places to bury bodies long ago. For the past few years, I ship my cadavers to Dallol. Corpses are dropped into one of those pools, and all evidence is gone in a couple of weeks.
[20:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Investigates Chinese "Spy MP" Plot; Chinese Man Claiming to be a Spy Seeks Asylum - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:25] <exec> 08└─>Trump keeping gas prices low This definitely helps Russia by making sure they lose tons of money on oil exports >Trump pulls us out of Syria I for one would be happy as Russia getting further bogged down in Syria, putting Russian lives on the line for an oil pipeline that isn't selling as well as i...
[20:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Investigates Chinese "Spy MP" Plot; Chinese Man Claiming to be a Spy Seeks Asylum - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:26] <exec> 08└─Biden is racist: https://www.politico.com [politico.com]
[20:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Brutal Stomach Bug Erupts in Colorado, Closing Down an Entire School District - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:55] <exec> 08└─I'm familiar with the claim that mayo is safer than many people think. Maybe the real problem with mayo is, that it is often used in dishes containing other foods that are hard to control. https://healthfully.com [healthfully.com] Mayonnaise Mayonnaise is common...
[20:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brutal Stomach Bug Erupts in Colorado, Closing Down an Entire School District - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:57] <exec> 08└─https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/SF-tourist-industry-struggles-to-explain-street-12534954.php [sfchronicle.com] https://www.sfchronicle.com [sfchronicle.com] https://www.sfchronicle.com
[20:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cerebras Systems' Wafer Scale Engine Deployed at Argonne National Labs - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:46] <exec> 08└─I don't have much to add besides this is super cool. I wonder what the defect rate is for a wafer-sized CPU. Also, what sized wafer? 4", 6", 8", 12", ...? Back when I was in the semiconductor industry, we used 4", 6,", and 12" depending on the wafer material and doping. I wonder if they have some ne...
[20:51:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 288 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:14] <exec> 08└─If my wife secretly reported everything I said to Jeff Bezos, I'd be more tempted to beat her up and throw her out into the street than be polite with her. She doesn't, so I don't - and neither do you apparently. Still, I'd check if she has Bezos' number in her cellphone if I were you...
[20:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:28] <exec> 08└─-Oh yes yes pleeease deeper please -honey I'm home -wat... Oh dear, my husband...quick leave through that window there's a fire exit...hello darling why so early -no traffic, everybody was home for the football match. Why were you screaming -i was... Trying to get Alexa to reply -but I heard please...
[20:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women are More Likely than Men to Say ‘Please’ to their Smart Speaker - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:29] <exec> 08└─That's about the only right thing men do. If the sweet four eyes of an alfa and her purring dohc twin carbs don't give you a erection there is something wrong with you. There is rationality and there is dogma. Rational is "it's silly to say Alexa please". Dogmatic is thinking that systemd is only a...
[20:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Niagara Glen--Off the Beaten Track at Niagara Falls - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, those are Delvil's Hole. It was mentioned in the article and got me thinking of my days of youth climbing around there with my dad... so I commented on that and threw in those pictures. Maybe -1 Off Topic, sorry.
[20:54:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:40] <exec> 08└─I don't need a foolproof media player because I'm no fool.
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[21:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hungarian Scientists Find New Evidence Supporting the Existence of a Hypothetical X17 Particle - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:09] <exec> 08└─We labeled that crate of helium atoms "fragile". But the posties are a bunch of ignorant apes. I watched two of them grab the crate, and throw it into the truck. I KNEW that no good could come of this. Now, we have a bunch of silly scientists trying to take measurements from fractured atoms.
[21:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contrary to Earlier Reports, Scientists Find a Place on Earth where there is No Life - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:19] <exec> 08└─It's the eternal fountain of youth. One drink and you won't age.
[21:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Contrary to Earlier Reports, Scientists Find a Place on Earth where there is No Life - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:21] <exec> 08└─If you're looking for no life, I'd suggest starting with ComiCons and LARPs. Just kidding! The real losers hang out at academic conferences instead.
[21:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contrary to Earlier Reports, Scientists Find a Place on Earth where there is No Life - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:23] <exec> 08└─no life
[21:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Investigates Chinese "Spy MP" Plot; Chinese Man Claiming to be a Spy Seeks Asylum - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:36] <exec> 08└─I for one would be happy as Russia getting further bogged down in Syria, putting Russian lives on the line for an oil pipeline that isn't selling as well as it should
[21:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google to Award $1M-Plus to People who can Hack Titan M Security Chip - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:47] <exec> 08└─White hats will do it for clout and less money than it might be worth on the black market.
[21:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brutal Stomach Bug Erupts in Colorado, Closing Down an Entire School District - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:09] <exec> 08└─I just got back from a sandwich place where a person made my sandwich with gloves, the same person took my cash with the same gloves, and then he continued touching food with those gloves. I hate that stupid people get hired at these types of places. They need to take better care of the health of th...
[21:49:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:52] <exec> 08└─It means he thinks it's heavily influence, if not controlled, by a foreign government. What's with going straight to nazi shit? If he replaced Israel with Russia would you be calling him an anti-slavist? If were going to go with what is wrong with Israel, I'd go with the majority of the people livin...
[21:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cerebras Systems' Wafer Scale Engine Deployed at Argonne National Labs - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:00] <exec> 08└─If you look at the previous reporting on this, the Wafer Scale Engine is defect tolerant. Wafers incur defects when circuits are burned into them, and those areas become unusable. Nvidia, Intel, and other makers of “normal” smaller chips can get around that by cutting out the good chips in a waf...
[21:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:45] <exec> 08└─Pretty good? Would you fly in an autonomous vehicle that had "pretty good" spatial recognition? The computer has to triangulate through some pretty complex math, but much worse than that, it's through the assumption that the pixels represent an object. I know AI is getting pretty dang good, but ther...
[21:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:47] <exec> 08└─I figured everyone wants to be second to market, so the first one can suck up all the big lawsuits the next time this thing kills someone.
[21:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:49] <exec> 08└─So what? I'm talking about recovering from, or being more reliable in, adverse conditions. Cameras could be setup for multiple spectrums, including infrared. Heck, you could hook it up with night vision and IR headlights and drift silently though the night :) However, cameras are not fool proof, and...
[21:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:51] <exec> 08└─Not a "fanboy" of anything. And a centimeter is 'pretty good'. The only real requirement is that it be solid state. It's perfectly fine to use tiny mirrors if they can hold up, for now. I still prefer that something with no moving parts be developed for the long run. You can FOOL cameras, but to my...
[21:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:41] <exec> 08└─It seats six. In theory. But
[21:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:05] <exec> 08└─I looked at Kodi and by default it seemed to want to automatically connect to various servers without asking me, which I didn't like. Other than that, I couldn't see anything much useful to me that VLC couldn't provide. I certainly didn't need it to download media. I can use a web browser and / or a...
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[22:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hungarian Scientists Find New Evidence Supporting the Existence of a Hypothetical X17 Particle - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:10] <exec> 08└─That funny terminology "protophobic force" sounds like a timid euphemism for antigravity. It is nice to see this can be done with a common lithium and some lightning. Did scientists forgot to study effects of natural lightnings for a century or what? Or, were they denied to?
[22:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contrary to Earlier Reports, Scientists Find a Place on Earth where there is No Life - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:23] <exec> 08└─Should have that 42 image.
[22:49:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 1421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:52] <exec> 08└─In the OP, Israel is in the boogeyman position. It would make sense from an American perspective to decry that Google is largely a Russian operation, because Russia is our primary adversary on the world stage. Israel, however, is an American ally. Putting them in the boogeyman position asserts that...
[22:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bans Microtargeting and “False Claims” in Political Ads - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:53] <exec> 08└─I know you're just a moronic troll playing it for the lulz, but normal people might find this interesting: How America's Political Parties Change (And How They Don't) [c-span.org] https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[22:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Defense of Kodak and its ‘Failure’ to Innovate - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:40] <exec> 08└─Run NoScript, then there are no silent bandwidth crushing video ads playing in the background What, you actually engage in "unprotected browsing"? The only safe way to browse the internet is with protection on (i.e., NoScript).
[22:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protection For Pacemakers - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:15] <exec> 08└─An interesting part of the situation is also how little power is required to deliver the charge - it isn't the cross-body 200-300 Joules required for full on defibrillation (which is attempting electrical stimulation of every cell along the conductive pathway). All it does is touch a small discharge...
[22:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protection For Pacemakers - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:17] <exec> 08└─... The authors all concurred that their inspiration was from the lead engineer on the project. When asked for comment the engineer replied, "I.... am.... GROOOOOT!"
[22:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:54] <exec> 08└─> Image recognition and is a complex and poorly understood field of AI research Wut. First, off, LIDAR isn't "recognition" or AI and neither is generating a point cloud from multiple concurrent (or sequential!) 2d images. There's AI-ey (neural net) methods to do so, but they aren't necessary. Second...
[22:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:46] <exec> 08└─This is how you get a date with Elon: https://www.vice.com [vice.com]
[22:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:11] <exec> 08└─The killer app is streaming. Streaming for free from random servers across the world. https://troypoint.com [troypoint.com] https://troypoint.com [troypoint.com]
[22:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:13] <exec> 08└─My original raspi had problems with videos sometimes using XBMC and it would get warm. Er, Kodi. Er, whatever it's being called now - moved on to a plex install. And when I had it running I mostly used it for mp3 playback.
[22:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:15] <exec> 08└─Original, you say? As in Raspberry Pi 1 Model B or a later model? http://archive.is [archive.is] https://archive.is [archive.is] Performance is up tremendously and hardware decoding of video is improved. Although Pi4 will still be "hot" or warm mo...
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[23:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06To Cut Down on Bugs, Apple is Changing How It Develops its Software - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:07] <exec> 08└─Apple is firing all of its H1-B staffers and hiring American.
[23:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Cut Down on Bugs, Apple is Changing How It Develops its Software - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:09] <exec> 08└─Apple is terminating employees aged over 30 years, processing their corpses on site, and feeding the resultant Soylent Green product to its all H1-B workforce who will live in Apple barracks.
[23:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06To Cut Down on Bugs, Apple is Changing How It Develops its Software - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:11] <exec> 08└─If I could only get a good stable API that did not change. If the API change screws up my stuff, I get blamed.
[23:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06To Cut Down on Bugs, Apple is Changing How It Develops its Software - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:13] <exec> 08└─Apple is terminating employees aged over 30 years, processing their corpses on site, and feeding the resultant Soylent Green product to its all H1-B workforce who will live in Apple barracks.
[23:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contrary to Earlier Reports, Scientists Find a Place on Earth where there is No Life - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:34] <exec> 08└─It is a beautiful other worldly place where these pools are. But, a hard life for the people who live in the region. Men harvest salt from the salt flat and walk a week with their camels to market. Ethiopia is a beautiful country, with beautiful people. If you ever have the opportunity to visit, I h...
[23:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Contrary to Earlier Reports, Scientists Find a Place on Earth where there is No Life - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:35] <exec> 08└─Also, Trump's head. Interior and exterior.
[23:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google to Award $1M-Plus to People who can Hack Titan M Security Chip - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:00] <exec> 08└─Various 3-letter agencies from multiple governments will pay more - Saudi Arabia and Israel and especially China also come to mind.
[23:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global 5G Deal Poses Significant Threat to Weather Forecast Accuracy, Experts Warn - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah...., for the 5% of the population that get to have 5G. The rest of us will get "5G", actually 4G LTE.
[23:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacewalking Astronauts Repairing Cosmic Ray Detector - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:33] <exec> 08└─No, you're thinking of the Death Ray, that's an entirely different department. Also, you're holding it backwards.
[23:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Defense of Kodak and its ‘Failure’ to Innovate - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:56] <exec> 08└─MS-Windows: You make a grown man cry [youtube.com]
[23:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Defense of Kodak and its ‘Failure’ to Innovate - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:58] <exec> 08└─It's amazing Microsoft survived so many failures. They lucked out in that they found demand in medium and large businesses, as IBM, Novel, HP, and Oracle stumbled there. I guess the lesson is have your fingers in enough pies to survive a few landing in your face. [youtube.com] I don't know what Koda...
[23:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Niagara Glen--Off the Beaten Track at Niagara Falls - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:26] <exec> 08└─It just so happens that Bloomberg is entering the presidential race. Trump is also a rich dude from New York City but his Americans-first (rather than open-borders globalism-first) policies make the most sense. If the mayors of these big cities were actually progressive then they would have a lot mo...
[23:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:07] <exec> 08└─You contest the charge, the credit card bills them $120 ($20 fee for reversed charges). Tesla is not going to risk thousands of contested charges and the loss of cc processing rights. And it's an easy win in small claims where trying to say you only bought the right to be on a waiting list will be r...
[23:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:08] <exec> 08└─Try attaching a Fisher snow plow to it. You'll end up having to install a full frame because even a stub frame isn't strong enough. And the cargo capacity makes it not-a-world-truck. A work truck shouldn't need body panels to be replaced because they're not repairable with a dent puller and some gla...
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