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[00:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03seagoon [12257] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:02] <exec> 08└─Save your sanity - Red Letter Media has done the hard yards watching it for you - https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[00:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 1970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:18] <exec> 08└─While steam accounts are free, I know of the reluctance some people have with them and I understand. When buying it direct, Humble does deal with the transactions and you do get a steam key with it. (as well as being able to download direct from Factorio.com/Wube.) You can buy factorio on GOG.com as...
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[01:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:34] <exec> 08└─It's easier to trust an AI, even a poorly trained AI, than it is to trust a person.
[01:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:35] <exec> 08└─Something really needs to be done about China. Something drastic, if this goes on for much longer. That kind of evil cannot be allowed to fester and metastasize.
[01:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Forensic Research Proves That Textile Fibres Can be Transferred in the Absence of Contact - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:46] <exec> 08└─It's almost like you'll have to think about this.
[01:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinnia Zirconium [11163] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forensic Research Proves That Textile Fibres Can be Transferred in the Absence of Contact - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:48] <exec> 08└─Okay gotta wear dry cleaning bags over the clothes all the time now. Also the face mask. Gotta stay safe from airborne chroma virus and airborne virus fibers. Virus fibers. Wasn't that the premise of Kill la Kill the anime. Life Fibers are real! Hahaha.
[01:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forensic Research Proves That Textile Fibres Can be Transferred in the Absence of Contact - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:50] <exec> 08└─How long until they use this peer-reviewed science to put an innocent person in prison?
[01:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:12] <exec> 08└─Wookiee Legos Matter.
[01:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:14] <exec> 08└─I'm done with Star Wars. Had enough. Even this, which is obviously some sort of sanctioned parody just doesn't interest me. Surely we've already reached peak Star Wars.
[01:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink Speeds Revealed as Beta Users Get Downloads of 11 to 60Mbps - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:36] <exec> 08└─Megastallion you say? That’s one busy girl, how’d she find time for that https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[01:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink Speeds Revealed as Beta Users Get Downloads of 11 to 60Mbps - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:37] <exec> 08└─Mad Max: Fury Road energy.
[01:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:32] <exec> 08└─Mr Flibble says "Game over, boys!"
[01:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:16] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't chip flint, but there's plenty of non-sexual stuff you can work on while sitting on a bed.
[01:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:44] <exec> 08└─Have we improved since?
[01:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:45] <exec> 08└─Well, I take back my concerns about your level of whataboutism given that AC started it first.
[01:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:47] <exec> 08└─Well, that and the most lethal chemical in the world, dihydrogen monoxide.
[01:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:12] <exec> 08└─That was a much later decision. Also a bad one, but not the one I referred to.
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[02:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:42] <exec> 08└─Doing nothing is easier. Just let it happen.
[02:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:43] <exec> 08└─Something really needs to be done about China. That's up the the folks that live there. Their trade of anything goes for stability is a deal that won't end well.
[02:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:46] <exec> 08└─The USA announced that thermonuclear bomb tests would be started up again soon...
[02:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:48] <exec> 08└─Already here? It has been here since 1791, all that improved was technology and that our world, or part of it, is slowly turning into a golden cage.
[02:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:50] <exec> 08└─Daily dose of dumbass brought to you by Runaway.
[02:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:52] <exec> 08└─> Something really needs to be done about China. Socialism presents as an ideology, in reality it's a criminal conspiracy.
[02:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:54] <exec> 08└─Would you trust an AI more?
[02:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:56] <exec> 08└─And for good reason! People are stupid, incompetent, overly emotional, prone to believing in fantasies or conspiracies, I could go on and on. It's just like why so many people trust their pets or other animals more than humans. You don't have to worry much about your cat or dog plotting to murder yo...
[02:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:59] <exec> 08└─AI is too arbitrary. Bring back good old-fashioned tried-and-true racism.
[02:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:01] <exec> 08└─Artificial intelligence has applications in nearly every human domain, from the instant translation of spoken language to early viral-outbreak detection. But Xi also wants to use AI's awesome analytical powers to push China to the cutting edge of surveillance. He wants to build an all-seeing digital...
[02:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:03] <exec> 08└─Something really needs to be done about China. Something drastic, if this goes on for much longer. That kind of evil cannot be allowed to fester and metastasize. Why not? How does it affect you? Do you live in China? If not, it's really none of your concern. Sucks to be them, but it's their own prob...
[02:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:05] <exec> 08└─The Chinese proletariat should seize political power.
[02:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:07] <exec> 08└─The big social media businesses were required to develop censorship tools at the behest of China and the EU. Now they're using those tools on us.
[02:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:10] <exec> 08└─Also a number of films are compromising their quality in order to sell in China.
[02:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forensic Research Proves That Textile Fibres Can be Transferred in the Absence of Contact - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:22] <exec> 08└─Airborne textiles, who knew? Might be a big "garbage patch" of fabric circulating up there.
[02:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:46] <exec> 08└─I was probably 11, younger brother aged 6, and the Star Wars holiday special was "after our bedtime, and therefore impossible for us to watch." Only our extremely rich neighbors had a VTR at that time (I think it cost 40% as much as our new 6 cylinder BMW), and they didn't regularly tape TV with it....
[02:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:48] <exec> 08└─Jumped the shark long ago, in a galaxy far far away... Still, even if Solo ripped off the train robbery from Firefly, it was fun to watch. That episode 9 thing was some awful BS though - felt like I had to keep watching it just to experience the train wreck first hand.
[02:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:50] <exec> 08└─Fighting the frizzies, at 11
[02:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:52] <exec> 08└─I've seen dogs flop down across a cinder block. I don't know how that can be comfortable, but it doesn't seem to bother 'em any.
[02:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:25] <exec> 08└─Trump raped my wife, killed my children and ate their livers. See, AC can say anything.
[02:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:26] <exec> 08└─Too much lead content.
[02:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:29] <exec> 08└─It must be tough to know-it-all and have no one to tell it to.
[02:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:31] <exec> 08└─We've had a hiatus from getting into new conflicts (mostly -- the Democrats and other warhawks did get their wish for some Syria bombings) since BushObama years but should Democrats take control again, I fully expect the war machine to ramp up fast. It's how they will address unemployment.
[02:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:33] <exec> 08└─What type drilling mud? WBM, OBM or SBM?
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[03:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:04] <exec> 08└─Something really needs to be done about China. Saudi Arabia. Something drastic, if this goes on for much longer. That kind of evil cannot be allowed to fester and metastasize. That fits too, doesn't it? You could also use Indonesia if you like, they're not much better. I'm sure there are others.
[03:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:05] <exec> 08└─The US is not going to invade China. For a start that's not a fight they can win, and secondly too many western corporations make too much money from China to allow it. No matter who wins your election in November, all this anti-China stuff will end pretty quickly. Trump won't need the distraction...
[03:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:07] <exec> 08└─Besides, it suits this president just fine.. Take good care, Mr. Buttle
[03:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:10] <exec> 08└─Something needs to be done about the United States of America. Something drastic. The evil has festered and metastized for centuries, and it cannot be allowed to continue. Yesterday Libya, today Syria and Yemen, tomorrow Belarus.
[03:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:12] <exec> 08└─Something really needs to be done about China Trump! Something drastic, if this goes on for much longer. That kind of evil cannot be allowed to fester and metastasize.
[03:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:14] <exec> 08└─Trumpyland will open next year. The E ticket rides are reserved for Republicans. Democrats are stuck with the A ticket ride... the teacups.
[03:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:53] <exec> 08└─By all that is holy in this uncaring universe, do not watch it. I saw it when it was aired. I sat there, eyes unable to tear away from the sheer insanity. When Bea Arthur appeared, my soul died... screaming. Do you want to go through the rest of your life a soulless husk like me? Sure it'll help you...
[03:25:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 638 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:51] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Oxygen Not Included. One of the great things in ONI is the physics. For example, as you industrialize, you start creating massive amounts of heat, and getting rid of that heat is a key challenge. You also manage different gasses with different densities. Carbon dioxide is denser than...
[03:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:31] <exec> 08└─I fully expect the war machine to ramp up fast. It's how they will address unemployment.
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[04:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Forensic Research Proves That Textile Fibres Can be Transferred in the Absence of Contact - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:33] <exec> 08└─As an old guy who did radio and TV repair as a kid, I can't even begin to describe the debris I found around the high voltage cages in old school vacuum tube TV receivers... Especially around smokers, whose airborne tar emissions condensed all over the inner workings of the set. Hair, fibrous dust i...
[04:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:23] <exec> 08└─Mods. There's a mod that makes the dupes smarter. A mod that adds radiators that dump heat out into the void. Etc.
[04:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:11] <exec> 08└─Sadly, you are correct. For the record, it was in the United States. I don't have to mention which city as there were plenty to pick from back then and there are even more today.
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[05:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:15] <exec> 08└─RACIST!!!! "No, my issue isn't that they're 'Chinese' the issue is the totalitaria-" RACIST!!! RACIST RACIST!!!!
[05:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:17] <exec> 08└─Sue the CCP scums down to pennies. They can bankrupt the evil dictatorial regime and save the world. Brave Hong Kong freedom lovers will repay you with life-time best-of-the-best dim sum meals forever for anyone from the estate. But tell them you are allergic to bats.
[05:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 1244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:19] <exec> 08└─Get your head out of your ass. China is not a socialist country. It isn't Communist/communist either. China has an authoritarian government, and state capitalism. You know how they sell all that shit to us for a profit, but at low costs due to exploiting their labor force, and the means of productio...
[05:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:21] <exec> 08└─It's easier to trust an AI, even a poorly trained AI, than it is to trust a person.
[05:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:23] <exec> 08└─Is the US government a horrible, totalitarian bully? Yes. Is the US a nice place? Not anymore. Will the east try to change that? No.
[05:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:25] <exec> 08└─and state capitalism.
[05:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:28] <exec> 08└─Is the programmer convicted pedophile and rapist Dick Bathroom Stallman? Remove Emacs from macOS.
[05:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:10] <exec> 08└─I remember thinking "Sure, people say it's terrible, but c'mon - it's Star Wars! How bad can it possibly be?" Then I watched it, and I was like.... oh..... my.......god...... Of course, this was before the prequels and the Disney Star Wars stuff, so I actually had reasonably high expectations for so...
[05:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:06] <exec> 08└─That would be just fine - unless I'm mistaken in that case they're still legally responsible by default - the sellers simply agree to step in and assume responsibility as needed. And if the sellers are some fly-by-night outfit, that's not going to happen no matter what they signed. Bam! Someone is a...
[05:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:07] <exec> 08└─If Amazon is in the chain of custody though, there's a good argument that they're the seller. Ebay, Craigslist, etc. never take possession of the product - they help coordinate the sale, and (in ebay's case, usually) act as a payment intermediary, but they never take possession of the product. Amazo...
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[05:26:19] <exec> 08└─I have spent quite a few hours playing Oxygen Not Included. (I admit that I was a fan up until the last minute changes that Klei made right before release.) ONI was actually announced, developed, and released all in less time than Factorio spent just in early access. They both appeal to a similar se...
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[05:29:56] <exec> 08└─Looks like Water-based mud or synthetic-based mud [techosmo.com]. Despite the company’s insistence that the abandoned equipment won’t impact the environment, Oregon Coast Alliance executive director Cameron La Follette told The Oregonian: “This accident, which resulted in Facebook/Edge Cable a...
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[06:22:38] <exec> 08└─Particularly out here in CA, with the record heat wave, we are experiencing, once again, roatating power... asdf!&@&*!^&*(^
[06:22:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Subsentient [1111] 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:52] <exec> 08└─Something really needs to be done about China. Something drastic, if this goes on for much longer. That kind of evil cannot be allowed to fester and metastasize.
[06:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:20] <exec> 08└─I think we can put China on the back burner for a couple of months
[06:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:22] <exec> 08└─God don't you douchebags get tired of cheerleading your favorite words? If bad capitalism is socialism, and good socialism is capitalism, then you might as well say I WIN and give up the pretense of having a debate about it.
[06:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:24] <exec> 08└─> Will the east try to change that? Yes FTFY. Russia and probably China and North Korea are interested in screwing with us, much like we screw with them.
[06:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:26] <exec> 08└─Found the racist - it's subtle but definitely there.
[06:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:28] <exec> 08└─The solution is to colonize Mars! Let's go!!
[06:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:31] <exec> 08└─Me? Not me. I don't trust programmers any further than I can throw them. But, look at the world today. Everyone stakes everything on their computers working correctly. People trust computers - they don't trust people.
[06:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:33] <exec> 08└─Talented Chinese leave China in droves every day. The only thing that AI will do for the Chinese (if anything) is squeeze their poor people even harder. If you think treating people like shit improves productivity or morale, you'd be dead wrong. I know, deep insight into human psyche.
[06:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but we're going to ship all the politically incorrect convicts first. And, we're going to name the first city "Melbourne", and the first state will be "New Australia".
[06:24:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 1166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:00] <exec> 08└─It pays to read the court judgement [justia.com] instead of imagining what it means for Craiglist or eBay. Whatever your opinion of lawyers (and judges are lawyers) mostly they have to follow the law and judge based on proof presented in the courtroom. As a factual and legal matter, Amazon placed it...
[06:25:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 3100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:02] <exec> 08└─But they are NOT just "shipping the package" and "hosting the website." There's a fundamental confusion I find among consumers about what "comes from Amazon" that's very different from stuff that comes from eBay or Craigslist. This is because Amazon itself sells a lot of stuff. And for the longest t...
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[07:23:28] <exec> 08└─"There's a China caravan coming to our border and will arrive on election day. Vote for a wall!"
[07:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MIRV888 [11376] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:12] <exec> 08└─The Rifftrax of it is one of the funniest things I have seen.
[07:24:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06SpaceX Starlink Speeds Revealed as Beta Users Get Downloads of 11 to 60Mbps - 929 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:21] <exec> 08└─Most people don't play competitively. It's just that simple. In my gaming days, I made sure I had pings on single-digit ms. Nowadays I game over 4G. It's not critical that I win, it's a bit of fun and I don't get trounced JUST because I have a slightly higher ping. That said my pings are in the 30-5...
[07:26:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Factorio 1.0 has Launched - 1970 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:32] <exec> 08└─While steam accounts are free, I know of the reluctance some people have with them and I understand. When buying it direct, Humble does deal with the transactions and you do get a steam key with it. (as well as being able to download direct from Factorio.com/Wube.) You can buy factorio on GOG.com as...
[07:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:58] <exec> 08└─Look where general peace has got us - people thinking how they will change their gender today and media trying to tell us that is normal, people afraid of going in public because they could catch a bug, teachers want to collect their full salaries while only phoning it in for the kids, vain reflecti...
[07:31:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:26] <exec> 08└─When I saw "hacked information", I thought of whistleblowers releasing internal information, like what happened to the democrats in 2016. Weren't the democrats high on "whistleblowers" sometime last year for the previous anti-Trump campaign until they pivoted to Covid-19?
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[08:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:37] <exec> 08└─Bison was just horny.
[08:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:36] <exec> 08└─body's one-of-a-kind protein-construction schema
[08:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MIRV888 [11376] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:21] <exec> 08└─https://thepiratebay.org/search.php?q=Star+Wars+Holiday+Rifftrax&all=on&search=Pirate+Search&page=0&orderby= [thepiratebay.org]
[08:32:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:20] <exec> 08└─I think he was suggesting that there are only two mobile phone platforms. The Android/Apple duopoly has a higher market share than Microsoft had at the time of its anti-trust case. But that's not important, it's what you do with a monopoly that counts. Apple/Google are saying "Nice little business y...
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[09:22:37] <exec> 08└─When is Grandpa Joe not horny? Oh, you said 'Bison'.
[09:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MIRV888 [11376] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:39] <exec> 08└─Redtail hawks are territorial as hell (in Louisville KY). They're also .
[09:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Linatux [4602] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:41] <exec> 08└─Much worse to come!
[09:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Vokbain [2372] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:43] <exec> 08└─I've been attacked by red-winged blackbirds many times while walking. They're crazy fuckers during nesting season. I've also been stung by wasps a few times. One of those times I ran over part of their nest with a lawnmower. I assume the only reason it was smashed up and half of it was in the way of...
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[09:22:45] <exec> 08└─What is this shit doing in SN?
[09:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:47] <exec> 08└─Bald Eagle Attacks Woman[1]; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans[2]; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone[3]; How About You?
[09:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:47] <exec> 08└─Imagine you finding something that rots easily and you are surrounded by it. You take that thing and wash it with water as much as you can and dry the residual. This thing can be torn, burned, dissolved and has no structural integrity. So you start writing on it and people trust that more than peopl...
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[10:23:04] <exec> 08└─Fuck knows, sacred bird of American nationalism, I guess.
[10:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:05] <exec> 08└─Just last night I was bitten by a mosquito. Not spectacular, I know, but it is a wild animal that attacked me.
[10:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:07] <exec> 08└─Let's see, there was an aristarchus submission with a bald eagle, oh, yes, here https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Attacked a pacific Giant octopus, and had to be rescued by humans, so not accepted by SN eds. And, it was pre-pandemic. Everything is different...
[10:23:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 1244 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:50] <exec> 08└─Get your head out of your ass. China is not a socialist country. It isn't Communist/communist either. China has an authoritarian government, and state capitalism. You know how they sell all that shit to us for a profit, but at low costs due to exploiting their labor force, and the means of productio...
[10:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:06] <exec> 08└─You still need to become person of interest in one way or another.
[10:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:08] <exec> 08└─Like I said. Humanity's utter failure will be nearing completion when this is fully in place in the west as well. I give it about 30 years, tops, for that to happen. They'll just call it something different because it'll honestly, definitely, only be used against those nasty "criminals". You'd proba...
[10:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:10] <exec> 08└─And once again, that is on the people who live [wherever it is] to fix. The EU seems to be fighting back against surveillance, why don't you? If capitalism is so great buy your own politicians and pass the laws you want.
[10:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:12] <exec> 08└─"New Australia".
[10:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06200,000 Years Ago, Humans Preferred to Sleep in Beds - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:12] <exec> 08└─Other comment mentioned hyperbaric chambers. Look into that.
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[11:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:41] <exec> 08└─This sounds like a videoconferencing gimmick; combine this with 3D and a remote person in front of a green screen is there in the room with you.
[11:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:43] <exec> 08└─It might be worthless for watching TV, but I'd wager you could do a lot of interesting things with it hooked up to a computer of some kind, even a weak one like a Raspberry Pi. Transparent displays and smart mirrors (one-way mirror with a display behind it) can be used for all kinds of cool stuff at...
[11:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:45] <exec> 08└─So when you turn it off the view won't be obstructed...
[11:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Steve_Baker [1641] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:47] <exec> 08└─without the glasses. Still probably way too niche.
[11:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:03] <exec> 08└─LOL, yeah, tourists often don't read those bison pickup lines well. They think they're being friendly and the bison get all worked up! No wonder things got so out of hand! Tourists have no clue about wildlife. Many don't have the respect they should, but it's mostly just plain ignorance. One of my f...
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[11:23:05] <exec> 08└─a) Human Woman invades Bald Eagle territory. Bald Eagle defends it by attacking woman. b) Human Woman invades Bison territory. Bison defends it and takes attacker's skin as warning. c) Human Government Drone invades Bald Eagle territory. Bald Eagle defends it by taking down offending drone. That is...
[11:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:07] <exec> 08└─Left the gym one day and there was a canadian goose hanging out by the car, just chilling near the door. Fucker refused to move and got hyper aggressive if I got anywhere near the vehicle, would just start making this horrible hissing sound and spreading its wings out trying to look intimidating if...
[11:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:09] <exec> 08└─I was once chased by a tortoise in a park. For some reason, it had become obsessed with my shoes, and wanted to bite them. These animals can run surprisingly fast, if all you know about tortoises comes from Aesop's fable. I found the situation very amusing, leading the tortoise around in circles and...
[11:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 2458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:12] <exec> 08└─Why 30 years? The UK already uses AI in its CCTV system to better track "persons of interest" as they move along through the camera system. They can use AI to track based on anything from face biometrics, to your heartbeat, to the way you walk. The "risk scoring" that China is already doing is being...
[11:24:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Forensic Research Proves That Textile Fibres Can be Transferred in the Absence of Contact - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:24] <exec> 08└─How long until they use this peer-reviewed science to put an innocent person in prison?
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[12:22:40] <exec> 08└─for those times the wallpaper is more interesting than anything on the tv..
[12:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:42] <exec> 08└─It might be worthless for watching TV, but I'd wager you could do a lot of interesting things with it hooked up to a computer of some kind, even a weak one like a Raspberry Pi.
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[12:22:44] <exec> 08└─women in extravagant ballgowns
[12:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03isocelated [7338] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:05] <exec> 08└─So, par for the course for 2020. Thankfully I have not yet been attacked or disrobed by wild animals this year.
[12:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:07] <exec> 08└─Neighbors have two little yappy dogs, and a big yard - much of which is closer to our house than theirs. We have a Traxxas Bandit that I put over the fence once and ran around the yard chasing the yappers... now, anytime they see it they run back to their house, I don't even have to put it on their...
[12:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:09] <exec> 08└─I have seen the term "cobra chicken" used to describe Canada geese lately. :)
[12:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:14] <exec> 08└─The "it's not real communism" argument again. Why that fat, psychopathic pedophile Mao was just a regular capitalist wasn't he? In socialism, the workers own the means of production.
[12:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:16] <exec> 08└─"You still need to become person of interest in one way or another" Not necessarily. When the AI automatically awards negative points on you based on stupid shit like wether you buy beer or not, no one has the ability to check that all those negative points are correctly given to the correct people,...
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[12:25:02] <exec> 08└─After the awful plot, awful acting and ridiculous wokery which made the whole thing a bad parody of itself, I swore off all Star Wars after episode 8. Haven't even thought of watching 9 yet; is it even worse than 8?
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[12:25:03] <exec> 08└─9 is like the epitome of "how bad could it get?" To get any worse, they'd have to go back to cheezeball costumes like the Ewoks movies (were there 2 Ewoks movies, I forget...) - the plot is already that clumsy and thin. And, for reference, I kinda liked 8... just as a way to pass the time, not as a...
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[13:22:48] <exec> 08└─Isn't that all the time?
[13:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:50] <exec> 08└─Seems that when turned on they will not be transparent unless there is a deliberately transparent part of the image, the background to the butterflies in the demos. Not something generally provided in EastEnders or The Dukes of Hazzard. This thing is for shop window displays and little else. So what...
[13:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:14] <exec> 08└─Victor Davis Hanson has drawn allusions between Trump and the Greek tragic hero [youtube.com] (13 minute mark).
[13:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:15] <exec> 08└─But...but...I thought it was a government bison!
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[13:24:22] <exec> 08└─I agree with everything you said. I really wrote 30 years as an upper limit--how fast this stuff develops depends partly on what pace of change they think they can get away with, given as you said they still currently find it useful to make people think they're still free. We'll have reached the end...
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[13:24:24] <exec> 08└─>> The last time we tried invading a country to "liberate" it, it didn't go so well and we created not just a bunch of terrorists, but a bunch of terrorists bent on creating their own country. Canada?
[13:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:26] <exec> 08└─who live on Earth to fix
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[14:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Imaging Pioneer Russell Kirsch Dies at 91 - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:52] <exec> 08└─“Squares was the logical thing to do,” Kirsch told the magazine in 2010. “Of course, the logical thing was not the only possibility … but we used squares. It was something very foolish that everyone in the world has been suffering from ever since.”
[14:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Imaging Pioneer Russell Kirsch Dies at 91 - 3492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:53] <exec> 08└─trivia - Digital Imaging Pioneer Russell Kirsch Dies at 91 trivia - Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV trivia - Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? trivia - How the 8086 Processor Handles Power and Clock Internally tr...
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[14:23:10] <exec> 08└─Xiaomi talks up its AI Master Smart Engine and the custom-made MediaTek 9650 chip for being able to intelligently optimize how the picture appears, but it doesn’t mention how it’s able to isolate objects from a background like the images show — if that’s even something it can do. Perhaps, it...
[14:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ze [8197] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:11] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure some of the images and videos are fake, in particular the few that show any black content against the transparency. Transparent + OLED (and no light-absorbing display element mentioned) should = light emission over top of whatever you see through it. No darkening (beyond the whole screen...
[14:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:14] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking set one up for Halloween: put it in the hallway behind you, answer the door and when you turn away to get the candy bowl, the kids see your hallway (darkened so they can't see there is a tv there). All they'll see is your hallway with a bunch of ghosts or zombies coming towards them. Ny...
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[14:23:16] <exec> 08└─My rating: VERY cool. This kind of technology has a TON of applications, most of which we haven't thought of yet. How long have movies been showing us transparent screens with information on them? They look cool. They also make it easy to share graphical information with a large group, without losin...
[14:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:18] <exec> 08└─They don't mention any of the other technical implementation details, why would you expect an opacity layer to be mentioned? The options seem to be that either they have opacity control that they didn't bother to explicitly mention, or basically every image and video are faked, and they're looking t...
[14:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 1257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:20] <exec> 08└─To be fair, they claim it as "Art" in TFA, so I presume they are aware that this is not a practical substitute for a normal TV. As for uses, the first that sticks out in my mind is as advertising or some kind of display. You can show objects as "floating in mid air" in lobby's or store fronts. Beyon...
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[14:23:22] <exec> 08└─I suspect you're right - I wonder if they're using some sort of "green-screened" color-keyed images to get the transparency, or actually have alpha-channel transparency control. (in essence, .gif or .png style transparency) The former would certainly be much easier to drive with existing video sourc...
[14:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:24] <exec> 08└─It just doesn't seem very practical, if the background could change all the time such as with light and texture etc. Wouldn't it sort of break or interfere with the "ultra-immersive viewing experience"? The sales-pictures seem very interesting and sort of artsy. Interesting to note that all the wom...
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[14:23:51] <exec> 08└─Small dogs can be targeted by birds of prey. I think my neighbor's dog had an eye gouged out by one.
[14:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:52] <exec> 08└─I never thought of Narcissus as a tragic hero.
[14:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the 8086 Processor Handles Power and Clock Internally - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:02] <exec> 08└─Get a UPS.
[14:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:06] <exec> 08└─Nothing happens in a vacuum and out of the blue. These things are permitted by external entities to happen. The Nazi extermination camps were known about for years but were deemed a "distraction to the war effort" so none of the military operations targeted operations of the extermination camps. Thi...
[14:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:07] <exec> 08└─https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/unabomber/manifesto.text.htm [washingtonpost.com] - Ted Human freedom mostly will have vanished, because individuals and small groups will be impotent vis-a-vis large organizations armed with supertechnology and an arsenal of advanced psycholog...
[14:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:09] <exec> 08└─WTF does this even mean??
[14:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:12] <exec> 08└─Infowars' Millie Weaver and her husband were both arrested on interesting charges [heavy.com] the other day just prior to releasing this documentary. [youtube.com]
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[15:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Imaging Pioneer Russell Kirsch Dies at 91 - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:39] <exec> 08└─So Im sure this 91 year old I have never heard of was a nice guy, the gaping holes in the content of this frontpage feed may tell you a lot about the actual interests of those who moderate it.
[15:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:03] <exec> 08└─Warning: That nazi-ific site does not like adblockers. Fuck them with a splintery transparent dick. Anyway, this is the kind of dumb shit sci-fi movies have been pushing forever. The reason they use transparent crap in movies is so as not to block the view of the actors. It is not always even meant...
[15:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:05] <exec> 08└─Warning: That nazi-ific site does not like adblockers. Fuck them with a splintery transparent dick.
[15:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:07] <exec> 08└─or you could place a few dozen in a row at a few centimeters apart, and then show blueprints of buildings or whatever other 3D stuff you'd like to show as a hologram. but no. it's much better to just laugh it off as an expensive useless thing. I mean... what the hell was bill gates thinking, fitting...
[15:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:09] <exec> 08└─I'd rather see transparent gowns and brightly colored TVs, but whatever. My guess is you stack like 30 displays on top of each other and burn 30 times the bandwidth for real true 30 pixel deep pr0n^H^H^H^H I mean valuable politically correct 3d video content. The gown thing is kinda funny to think s...
[15:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:11] <exec> 08└─Managers will think this crap is cool, buy it up, and plop it on your desk.
[15:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:13] <exec> 08└─LCDs and polarization filters are good and twisting and blocking light. You can buy LCD shades for many years at immense expense and making them with pixels is no biggie. It won't get very dark, but it would kinda work. The black panther would likely look like a gray kittie but it would be recogniza...
[15:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:15] <exec> 08└─My best use would to put in front of large window and feed argument reality to it Think like at Condo twenty floors up and looking out over the near by world. Now that window if it is LCD so it can go "frosted" to clear. So clear is see through. Frosted is TV set. Now go look at LCD Windows on Youtu...
[15:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:18] <exec> 08└─Still more useful than thin laptops.
[15:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:46] <exec> 08└─Last night yo momma was pretty wild.
[15:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:47] <exec> 08└─In other news, Man attacks woman. Man pulls off woman's jeans. Man takes down drone. How about you?
[15:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:49] <exec> 08└─well, the mosquitos are like two inches across in my home state, so ...
[15:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:52] <exec> 08└─Always will remember that day a magpie chased me down the street on my pushbike, slid into the front yard and got inside without injury. Then 30min later, out watering the garden, thwump, little bastard got me in side of head. Remember it most for the crazed look in it’s eye when i had looked back...
[15:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:54] <exec> 08└─Can't we find a better source than Signs of the Times [sott.net]?
[15:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:56] <exec> 08└─Bison was just horny.
[15:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:58] <exec> 08└─A Canadian goose charged me when I was riding my bike once. He knocked me over by body slamming the front wheel and strutted away.
[15:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:00] <exec> 08└─Maybe, maybe not, probably not. With mainstream media doing #wrongtrump, and otherwise suffering from TDS, where are we to get our news? All snark aside, sit back and enjoy. Mother Nature is tired of a lot of our shit, so she is sending her agents to deal with us. WTF did you think Covid-19 was all...
[15:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:02] <exec> 08└─Moreso than our Hellenic half-wit.
[15:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:18] <exec> 08└─What data do you think they train the AI on? Humans - search racist AI for examples. All the AI does is a high dimensional version of fitting a straight line to data points and using the slope to predict future events. All the hoopla is marketing blah blah blah.
[15:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:19] <exec> 08└─I think you'll find we're having the "it's not real capitalism" argument.
[15:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:21] <exec> 08└─Compromising? Some of us like Rambo thank you very much.
[15:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:23] <exec> 08└─Still too long for the lazy bastards. Nosty.
[15:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:26] <exec> 08└─No need to invoke the Unibomber. Every scifi movie since... forever... predicts a dystopian world.
[15:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:28] <exec> 08└─I think you'll find you misunderstand the Chinese economy. [city-journal.org]
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[15:25:30] <exec> 08└─Alarmist canaries. need to become person of interest
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[16:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Online Calculator Can Predict Your Stroke Risk - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:37] <exec> 08└─"MetS Calc does not send any information to a server and can be used entirely online." Can you say double talk. I think I'll pass. Besides I know what the risk are. They have been in the news for 40+ years. Basically anything fun is bad for you. "Mama always told me not to look into the eyes of the...
[16:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Online Calculator Can Predict Your Stroke Risk - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:38] <exec> 08└─The usability for the average person is probably quite low as the form requires a several forms of lab-work and measurements. If you need to get those you might as well just ask your healthcare provider since you'll be visiting them to get most of the lab-work done anyway. Is there a reason hispani...
[16:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Online Calculator Can Predict Your Stroke Risk - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:40] <exec> 08└─racism. it can only be racism. racist, racist, racist.
[16:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Online Calculator Can Predict Your Stroke Risk - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:42] <exec> 08└─This has been known for several years but for some reason doctors have been slow to learn of it. Most people never learn that they're insulin resistant (i.e. have metabolic syndrome) until it either gets bad enough to be labeled as type II diabetes, or they have a stroke or one of the other conseque...
[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Online Calculator Can Predict Your Stroke Risk - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:45] <exec> 08└─I don't have my actual blood results, but I don't think I have more than 2 out of those 5 symptoms. I do have other stroke risk factors they don't ask about... Also not clear if they want results sans-medication or results-when-on-medication. No idea what my BP would be today without the BP meds, no...
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[16:22:47] <exec> 08└─> "MetS Calc does not send any information to a server and can be used entirely online." Not exactly double talk, not very well explained either. The calculator is in javascript so you can use it without installing any app or application - "runs entirely in browser" might be better than "online". Ja...
[16:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Online Calculator Can Predict Your Stroke Risk - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:49] <exec> 08└─I do not trust my healthcare provider to be up on the current science about cholesterol, triglycerides, etc. and how they relate to heart disease risk. If they pushing the statins you know they're only going on what big pharma is telling them.
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[16:23:30] <exec> 08└─Exactly... and it doesn't take too much creativity to put a pane of switchable glass behind it (switchable between transparent and black/opaque). Our homes have had progressively more and more windows as we've moved, so it must be a preference thing, coupled with a IDGAF about the heating/cooling ef...
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[16:23:32] <exec> 08└─This thing is for shop window displays and little else.
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[16:23:34] <exec> 08└─your freezer has a display layer that shows you what's inside before you open the door. Why wouldn't it?
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[16:23:36] <exec> 08└─Panopticon office... in 1987 I setup a computer lab with "giant" 19" CRT monitors that effectively obstructed the view of people working in the lab from people at the door... it became a popular place to hang out, people were comfortable there, and we had pretty good compliance with class lab work a...
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[16:24:13] <exec> 08└─The little fucker charged me. I grabbed it by neck, and body-slammed it. Had roast goose for dinner. (Ok, I'm lying - I ran away and had McD for dinner).
[16:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:37] <exec> 08└─Also a number of films are compromising their quality in order to sell in China. And this is a good thing, according to capitalism: the film studios can make a lot more money by pandering to China and compromising their movies' artistry. Would you prefer that we have state socialism like China, wher...
[16:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:38] <exec> 08└─When the AI automatically awards negative points on you based on stupid shit like wether you buy beer or not Why would people get "social credit demerits" for not buying beer? Is the beer industry in control of the US government now? I know the movie industry has some sway in Congress, but I've neve...
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[16:25:40] <exec> 08└─Russia and China and NK are certainly interested in screwing with us, but that doesn't equate to them trying to make the US a nicer place. They're trying to reduce our power so that they can become more powerful.
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[16:27:24] <exec> 08└─[...] Having my name associated with some product that goes to shit after one or two uses would make me look like an idiot or a shill. [...]
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[17:22:56] <exec> 08└─Just another cis-privileged-white-male-who-had-the-world-handed-to-him-on-a-silver-platter. Worse, he's probably a closet Jew! Don't like the story, asshole? Submit your own stories. If you submit a wall of fucking text with dozens of links to your own inane maudlin "memes", you know it won't be acc...
[17:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Imaging Pioneer Russell Kirsch Dies at 91 - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:57] <exec> 08└─Hexagons probably would be better than squares. Octo maybe better. Dodecagon probably best. The world really isn't a bunch of tiny squares all stuck together. Not at the subatomic level, atomic, molecular, or even the macro scale.
[17:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Imaging Pioneer Russell Kirsch Dies at 91 - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:59] <exec> 08└─If Belarus is so important to you, you should take your lame ass to Belarus, and do something about the current situation. And, none of us will notice when you are arrested, tortured, and executed as a foreign agent interfering in Belarusan affairs. You won't even become a trivia, to be ignored.
[17:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Imaging Pioneer Russell Kirsch Dies at 91 - 1145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:01] <exec> 08└─The irony being that top poster had to use a device with a pixel display in order to grace us with their opinion on how unimportant the inventor of said pixels is compared to other news of the day. I fully concur with you. If I want my daily dose of human-created insanity, I can visit any of the myr...
[17:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Imaging Pioneer Russell Kirsch Dies at 91 - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:03] <exec> 08└─Lukashenka is finished, he has but an insignificant number of Marxist supporters and rumors are he's just run to Russia. All this happened without any assistance from Mr Hudson. So we can get back on topic now.
[17:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Imaging Pioneer Russell Kirsch Dies at 91 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:06] <exec> 08└─With a high enough resolution you can do that but square (or rectangular) pixels make more sense for linear scanning and rgb color arrays.
[17:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:42] <exec> 08└─it will be dropping in price by huge multiples over the coming decade.
[17:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, exactly. This is what I thought when I looked at the photos. This is absolutely useless for normal TV/movie watching, but there's a lot of other things this would be nice for. Whether it'll become cheap enough to actually be used for those things, I don't know. I could see this being used for m...
[17:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:45] <exec> 08└─In front of a window...
[17:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:47] <exec> 08└─Warning: That nazi-ific site does not like adblockers. Fuck them with a splintery transparent dick. What are you talking about? It looks fine on Firefox with uBlock Origin.
[17:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 1507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:50] <exec> 08└─n COVID-era womens clothes stores the changing rooms are closed down, so my wife claims, so you line up woman, transparent TV projecting an image of her proposed new clothes, and a mirror, and have her twirl around in front of the live action spy cam that updates the image of the clothes to match he...
[17:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:52] <exec> 08└─Put an Apple logo on it and triple the price.
[17:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the 8086 Processor Handles Power and Clock Internally - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:38] <exec> 08└─Shipped by FedEx?
[17:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:40] <exec> 08└─Rage-packed: Items that have been destroyed, packed, & shipped by angry Amazon employees.
[17:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:41] <exec> 08└─[...] Amazon warehouses the products, Amazon employees pack and ship those products in Amazon boxes. [...]
[17:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:43] <exec> 08└─Awesome. I'm going to order your head. On a silver platter, would be nice. No dome covering for the platter - that seems pretentious and wasteful.
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[18:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:40] <exec> 08└─...mine goes to 11.
[18:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:42] <exec> 08└─Centimeters? Millimeters?
[18:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:44] <exec> 08└─So take the output of the photodetector, feed it into the photon emitter, siphon off 30% so it doesn't explode, and use that 30% to power a city, electric cars and trucks, ion drive rockets, etc.
[18:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:46] <exec> 08└─Ah, see, there's the rub - photon emitters at this wavelength have a maximum theoretical efficiency of 50%....
[18:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Online Calculator Can Predict Your Stroke Risk - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:59] <exec> 08└─javascript for people who don't know any programming languages Why would anyone want to use their INTERNET BROWSER to access a calculator?
[18:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Online Calculator Can Predict Your Stroke Risk - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:01] <exec> 08└─My doctor gives me the results of my blood tests, so I was able to run the calculations. I got a MetS Z score of -1.912, and a MetS percentile of 2.8%. Without the diet and exercise plan I started 7 years ago the numbers wouldn't be nearly as good. My diet is simple - eat less crappy food, eat reaso...
[18:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Imaging Pioneer Russell Kirsch Dies at 91 - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:17] <exec> 08└─Mr. Hudson might have intercepted Lukashenka before he got to Russia - if only Mr. Hudson were genuine, and if Mr. Hudson had any intestinal fortitude. Mr. Hudson is just a whiny bitch.
[18:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Imaging Pioneer Russell Kirsch Dies at 91 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:18] <exec> 08└─Intestinal fortitude are his other meds. Farewell to the last vestiges of the USSR, even leftists are cheering the dictators demise. Honk [twitter.com]
[18:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:01] <exec> 08└─Actually the technology is quite cheap, and will get plenty dark. That's *exactly* what LCD TVs and computer screens are built from. You have a constant bright white backlight shining through colored filters, and then through an LCD sub-pixel matrix that only allows through as much light as desired...
[18:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:40] <exec> 08└─For a period of time I kept hanging planters on the fire escape outside our kitchen window in Brooklyn because it was pleasant to have a profusion of flowers out there in the spring. One Saturday afternoon I had opened the window and screen to give them plant food, and a squirrel darted through the...
[18:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:42] <exec> 08└─A couple weeks back I took down my inpenetrable anti-robin defenses. A robin is a small, flying dinosaur/song bird that absolutely flips out if it sees its reflection. Rather than have the bird attack our reflective windows for weeks on end, I taped a plastic bag on the window that the robin found s...
[18:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:44] <exec> 08└─Probably thought you were nuts.
[18:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:46] <exec> 08└─You pissed him off by calling him a Canadian Goose. All geese are mean including Canada Geese.
[18:25:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 2458 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:52] <exec> 08└─Why 30 years? The UK already uses AI in its CCTV system to better track "persons of interest" as they move along through the camera system. They can use AI to track based on anything from face biometrics, to your heartbeat, to the way you walk. The "risk scoring" that China is already doing is being...
[18:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:12] <exec> 08└─Why not? How does it affect you? Do you live in China? If not, it's really none of your concern.
[18:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:14] <exec> 08└─If Trump were the monster you think he is, and unceasingly complain about, you wouldn't be here to write such a thing. Q.E.D.
[18:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:16] <exec> 08└─So...you're the racist?
[18:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:18] <exec> 08└─Great post. I'd mod you up, but you're already maxed out. It doesn't mean China isn't evil, because it is, but that they are ham-fisted when the governments and corporations in the West are subtle. So, all of us who love and long for freedom have a lot of work to do.
[18:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forensic Research Proves That Textile Fibres Can be Transferred in the Absence of Contact - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:33] <exec> 08└─So much this. And if this is true for textile fibers, it's true for hair and skin flakes (and so, DNA). Sure, if they find a huge blood stain on your shirt and a bunch of the victim's DNA in it, you got some 'splainin' to do, but just finding a trace of DNA doesn't prove anything. The elephant in th...
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[19:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:44] <exec> 08└─It's more than 100% efficient as a detector, not as an energy producer. That means one photon excites, on average, 1.3 electrons. This says nothing about the efficiency of the conversion of light energy into electric energy, which is necessarily still less than 100%.
[19:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:46] <exec> 08└─Like a 400% efficient refrigeration cycle...
[19:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:48] <exec> 08└─Not only would it exceed unity, but it would also do so 1.12 seconds before the first photon hit it.
[19:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:50] <exec> 08└─Will the coffee machine give me 30% off?
[19:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:52] <exec> 08└─In this universe we obey the laws of THERMODYNAMICS!
[19:24:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 561 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:25] <exec> 08└─a) Human Woman invades Bald Eagle territory. Bald Eagle defends it by attacking woman. b) Human Woman invades Bison territory. Bison defends it and takes attacker's skin as warning. c) Human Government Drone invades Bald Eagle territory. Bald Eagle defends it by taking down offending drone. That is...
[19:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:49] <exec> 08└─Every year, all Canadians participate in a ritual to transfer all of their rudeness into a goose and then send it away.
[19:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:51] <exec> 08└─Canada remain assholes afterward. It's like spoonful out of the sea.
[19:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:53] <exec> 08└─The key to a tragic figure is some fatal flaw, often a lack of knowledge, that in the Dunning-Koeger sense, leads to hubris and o'er reaching. Herakles is more the Trump version: for all his strength, he was not to bright, accidentally killed the wife of a host once, had to go down to Hades and brin...
[19:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:25] <exec> 08└─If der Fuhrer ver ze monster joo seem to sink he iz, joo vould not be hier to wrrrrite such sings. Q.E.D. Der Fuhrer iz not zo bad, und he iz only talking about rrrremovink zose people whoze debilities cost der Volk millions of unnecessary Deustchemarks a year in medical expenses. Ve vill all be bet...
[19:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:14] <exec> 08└─Good luck. I so far have only managed to make it about half way. It is ... well terrible. Not in a 'i could see how someone may like this' but bad. This is coming from someone who kinda likes the movie Battlefield Earth (its bad but at least kinda consistent in its weird logic and at least kind of f...
[19:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney+ Will Show a Lego Star Wars Holiday Special on Wookiee Life Day - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:15] <exec> 08└─9 is better than 8. I would not have been mad about spending my money on that. 8 I was mad about. Still not sure if 8 tops 2 but it is up there. 9 is about as enjoyable as say the Solo movie. Not terrible, not great. That there is a better cut out there makes me very excited as I kinda liked 9. You...
[19:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:50] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't acronyms. It's deciding that you don't need to explain your acronyms. Most of the problem would go away, if they just explained the acronym, or even put in a glossary. Acronyms are a standard and well understood way to enhance language. In particular, there's no way that thousands...
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[20:23:06] <exec> 08└─The .3 is coming from where?
[20:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:07] <exec> 08└─Ångströms...
[20:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Online Calculator Can Predict Your Stroke Risk - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:24] <exec> 08└─I was recently advised that I could register for a free account with AHA, and make use of tools to track blood pressure, among other things. I went to AHA's site, found a crap privacy policy, and tossed that idea into the circular file. Basically, AHA can share anything and everything with "partners...
[20:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Online Calculator Can Predict Your Stroke Risk - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:25] <exec> 08└─Well, it also provides a nice interface to HTML, is available almost everywhere, and make displaying graphics easy. In many languages doing the task is a lot easier than showing a nice graphic of the results.
[20:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Online Calculator Can Predict Your Stroke Risk - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:28] <exec> 08└─There's a bit of real evidence that statins help, though no where nearly as much as the drug companies claim.
[20:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Online Calculator Can Predict Your Stroke Risk - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:30] <exec> 08└─Why would anyone want to use their INTERNET BROWSER to access a calculator?
[20:23:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Marand [1081] 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 403 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:56] <exec> 08└─It might be worthless for watching TV, but I'd wager you could do a lot of interesting things with it hooked up to a computer of some kind, even a weak one like a Raspberry Pi. Transparent displays and smart mirrors (one-way mirror with a display behind it) can be used for all kinds of cool stuff at...
[20:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:06] <exec> 08└─We all need to join the AAAAA: Anatolian Association Against the Abuse of Acronyms.
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[21:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Using Ears, Not Just Eyes, Improves Robot Perception - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:42] <exec> 08└─Have your sensors cover the entire spectrum, from DC to gamma rays. Do it in pairs so you get StereoVision™
[21:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Ears, Not Just Eyes, Improves Robot Perception - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:43] <exec> 08└─That is my position on self-driving cars. Put visible light cameras on them, and infrared, and lidar, and, yes, even sound sensors. Expensive? Maybe - but give the car ALL THE TOOLS necessary to distinguish a fire truck from a tricycle. And, teach the damned AI that it is unacceptable to drive into...
[21:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Ears, Not Just Eyes, Improves Robot Perception - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:45] <exec> 08└─21 Century update on Little Red Riding Hood [wikipedia.org] - the wolf is a robot.
[21:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Using Ears, Not Just Eyes, Improves Robot Perception - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:47] <exec> 08└─Hold the LIDAR. All that mechanical monkey motion... It should never have escaped the lab. Sensors have to be solid state, stuck on like a decal
[21:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:05] <exec> 08└─the maximum theoretical limit was calculated, and, arbitrarily*, designated the point at which photodetectors would be achievieng "100%" efficiency. The theoretical limit has been found ot be wrong, but rather than adjust all the textbooks, they report "130% efficiency", when what they should be say...
[21:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:06] <exec> 08└─So just make an emitter using the reverse process of the detector. Any more problems to solve? :)
[21:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:09] <exec> 08└─People here are too serious sometimes... It was an obvious (or so I thought) joke.
[21:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:11] <exec> 08└─It seems jokes here are only okay if the science is just right. Thus precludes 2/3rds of potential laughter energy. Concluding that SN has maximum joke efficiency of 30% possible.
[21:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:13] <exec> 08└─Both funny and true.
[21:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Online Calculator Can Predict Your Stroke Risk - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:33] <exec> 08└─What does AHA stand for? I found both American Heart Association and American Hospital Association. Both of those appear to be more concerned with their profits than your health, so no surprises there.
[21:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Digital Imaging Pioneer Russell Kirsch Dies at 91 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:52] <exec> 08└─.ɘɿod ɒ ƨi noƨbυHႱlɘɒʜɔiM
[21:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:21] <exec> 08└─Truth is Redundant. That's why we have Fake News to the rescue! People got tired of hearing the truth.
[21:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:22] <exec> 08└─You mean, because there was no Mighty Buzzard involved? :-)
[21:32:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:14] <exec> 08└─𒀀?? (5x /U+12000) Or perhaps just plain old α? But the modern rulers would be :kısaltmaların kötüye kullanılmasına karşı ilişki", which breaks the entire alliteration.
[21:32:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:16] <exec> 08└─You are thinking of the Castle of AAAAAAAAAaaarh, the final resting place of the Most Holy Grail. Carved into the living rock, by Joseph of Arimathea, as he died.
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[22:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:11] <exec> 08└─Dark energy. Duh. :)
[22:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:12] <exec> 08└─Poe's law, my friend. I've seen things that just had to be a joke offered up in full sincerity too many times in my life.
[22:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:14] <exec> 08└─Kinda like when Ben Franklin said electricity flows from pos to neg, he didn't know and guessed wrong. Electron flow is neg to pos. Maybe the speed of light limit is breakable after all.
[22:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:16] <exec> 08└─dork energy
[22:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:19] <exec> 08└─Poe's law- interesting. Thanks (again?) I think you mentioned that to me here some time ago. Methinks that's why smileys were invented? But for sure, intent and humor are often lost, especially in blogs where 1) we're not necessarily wordsmiths (and I'm surely not), and 2) it's mostly off the cuff....
[22:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Online Calculator Can Predict Your Stroke Risk - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:39] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I should have specified. It's the American Heart Association that I was referred to.
[22:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Digital Imaging Pioneer Russell Kirsch Dies at 91 - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:59] <exec> 08└─Quote from the "About" page: We are a volunteer-powered news aggregation site that deliver[sic] articles about technology, science, and general interest.
[22:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:31] <exec> 08└─The key to a tragic figure is some fatal flaw, often a lack of knowledge, that in the Dunning-Koeger sense, leads to hubris and o'er reaching.
[22:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:32] <exec> 08└─I saw a bloke defend his child from a goose by punching it in the head. It was hilarious, the goose had no idea what to do next, and just staggered off. Stupid geese are not even nice to eat. (From what I have been told, anyway).
[22:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:34] <exec> 08└─It's like bacon version of chicken. Well, actually, that's domesticated ducks. Guess geese are more valuable for the feathers.
[22:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the 8086 Processor Handles Power and Clock Internally - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:45] <exec> 08└─I commended the post as apt, some mofo mod mod me down as "off topic." Cocksucker.
[22:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:08] <exec> 08└─If bad capitalism is socialism, and good socialism is capitalism, then you might as well say I WIN and give up the pretense of having a debate about it.
[22:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:10] <exec> 08└─is there will be false positive arrests.
[22:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:12] <exec> 08└─:-) The day is young, my friend... You should know, the slow boil is best
[22:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Panopticon is Already Here: China's Use of "Artificial Intelligence" - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:14] <exec> 08└─Would you prefer that we have state socialism like China, where the government has a lot of control over what kind of movies the studios are allowed to make?
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[23:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Micron Accidentally Confirms GDDR6X Memory, and Nvidia's RTX 3090 GPU - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:45] <exec> 08└─Micron is one of the Big Three of memory chip makers, the other two being Samsung and SK Hynix, South Korean outfits. Initially, American outfits owned the field, but then got ass-raped by the Japanese firms in the 80s/90s, and then South Koreans firms ass-raped everyone (i.e., the Japanese - Intel...
[23:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MIRV888 [11376] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:23] <exec> 08└─I don't pretend to understand the energy dynamics of interaction between light and substances, but is this article suggesting this material absorbs more light than it can hold? Wouldn't it glow or irradiate you? Is it having a fission/ fusion reaction from the sun?
[23:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Silicon Photodetector Breaks the 100% Efficiency Limit - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:24] <exec> 08└─On the more serious side... this "100% efficiency" thing is like a 400% efficient refrigerant cycle... you're releasing 1.3 electrons per photon detected, but you already had the 1.3 electrons pumped up and ready to go, they're not free, they're just being released at a particularly high rate per ph...
[23:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:50] <exec> 08└─I was actually thinking that the window _is_ the display. Most windows are double-glazed, so you could have your outside layer just go black (so that you aren't displaying your TV preferences to the world) while the inside layer can display your show. This removes the need to put aside a large opaqu...
[23:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Xiaomi Launches a Nearly Useless Transparent OLED TV - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:51] <exec> 08└─My perception of this is that Xiaomi are in a tech race with other internationals like Samsung and LG, and the Chinese govt are keen on this too, probably supporting it. It gives them legitimacy and trust in leading new technology and although the practical uses are debatable, as has been done here,...
[23:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Bald Eagle Attacks Woman; Bison Pulls Off Woman's Jeans; Bald Eagle Takes Down Drone; How About You? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:42] <exec> 08└─Phoenix666 dominates a squirrel and turns it into a heroic story. Mmhmmm.
[23:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Court Rules: Amazon Liable for Defective Products Sold by Third Parties - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:10] <exec> 08└─Apple does take responsibility for the content of the Apple Store - they review everything and ensure that objectionable content, virii etc don't make it in. You absolutely could take them to court for malware, porn etc. Behaviour-wise, they are about as far from Amazon as you can get.
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