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[00:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why the Bitcoin Network Just Split in Half and Why It Matters - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:53] <exec> 08└─Is the competition better? * Dash * Zerocoin * Ethereum And why not simply increase the block rate instead of the size? Way simpler to deal with in FPGA etc. How about Gold?
[00:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's New Workstation GPUs Can Handle Very Large Datasets - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:04] <exec> 08└─I think the difference to a Floating Point Unit (FPU) or Digital Signal Processor (DSP) is that these GPUs are optimized for matrix and vector data with specific optimizations for graphics presentation. To make them useful however a standardized and open API is needed. OpenCL maybe works..
[00:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's New Workstation GPUs Can Handle Very Large Datasets - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:06] <exec> 08└─If the graphics card can swap to main memory. Then it should by extension be possible to swap to harddisc too. Which means gigantic graphic datasets becomes possible and slowneeeesss.... These data crunching cards should come hand also for stalking customers in shops ;-)
[00:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's New Scheme to Connect Online to Offline Shopping Scrutinized - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:21] <exec> 08└─Community Supported Agriculture. You sign up for a series of food baskets to be delivered as the produce becomes available. A co-op between producers and consumers.
[00:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's New Scheme to Connect Online to Offline Shopping Scrutinized - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:22] <exec> 08└─I use google maybe twice a month, and it's never for shopping info. More likely, when I use google I'm searching for something technical where DDG is giving me nothing but 5 year old stack exchange replies.
[00:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Google's New Scheme to Connect Online to Offline Shopping Scrutinized - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:25] <exec> 08└─voting with your feet works until the industry(s) for important things that practically everyone uses gets monopolized. And the rate of monopolization is accelerating, if anything.
[00:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RedHat Gets Serious With Deprecation Process of Btrfs With RHEL 7.4 - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:56] <exec> 08└─Yep, I was thinking the same thing. SystemD FS. Remember, if something goes wrong with it, its your fault -- WON'T FIX, NOT A BUG.
[00:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RedHat Gets Serious With Deprecation Process of Btrfs With RHEL 7.4 - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:57] <exec> 08└─Until late last year, I was using btrfs on two luks-encrypted disks (no RAID or anything). It worked fine most of the time, but any time there was much disk activity firefox would freeze up, or when doing something even more I/O-ier like moving a big file, the whole desktop would lock up. But I gave...
[00:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RedHat Gets Serious With Deprecation Process of Btrfs With RHEL 7.4 - 1557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:00] <exec> 08└─The post that upset you came from "Posted Jan 21, 2016 22:25 UTC (Thu) by brine (guest, #106482)". The full posting here: "She left the GNOME Foundation in a better state than when she was hired as the ED, all things considered." This comment some what confirms the impression that most software deve...
[00:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RedHat Gets Serious With Deprecation Process of Btrfs With RHEL 7.4 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:02] <exec> 08└─"You got a new pen-pal at NSA" ;-)
[00:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RedHat Gets Serious With Deprecation Process of Btrfs With RHEL 7.4 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:04] <exec> 08└─Is there any way to use such refusals to make them suffer at their own making?
[00:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RedHat Gets Serious With Deprecation Process of Btrfs With RHEL 7.4 - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:06] <exec> 08└─Why? Is old news no longer true?
[00:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RedHat Gets Serious With Deprecation Process of Btrfs With RHEL 7.4 - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:08] <exec> 08└─Have the issues been resolved?
[00:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Panasonic AI Senses Drowsy Drivers and Cranks Up the AC - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:40] <exec> 08└─Yep, second this statement. I too am tired of all the cameras everywhere, and will not accept them monitoring me in my car (or my house for that matter.)
[00:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Panasonic AI Senses Drowsy Drivers and Cranks Up the AC - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:41] <exec> 08└─Since your body naturally gets colder when you sleep, turning on the AC is probably exactly what you don't want to do if a driver is already starting to doze off. Works silently in the background? So the driver is completely confused and distracted because the fucking AC won't stay turned off in the...
[00:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Pistol Locking System Foiled by Magnets Worth Only $15 - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:24] <exec> 08└─A weapon is neither offensive nor defensive, it's a tool that performs whatever function you choose to put it to. It is inherently dangerous but it has no volition of its own. You can leave a loaded gun pointed out your front window all day long and I guarantee it won't fire itself at a single passe...
[00:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Methane-Eating Microbes May Reduce Release of Gases as Antarctic Ice Sheets Melt - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:19] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't bet
[00:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Says its Specific Plan to Stop DDoS Attacks Must Remain Secret - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:21] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the "rescue consulting" is booming ;-)
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[01:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why the Bitcoin Network Just Split in Half and Why It Matters - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:55] <exec> 08└─I admit following "digital currency" only from a distance, but I thought what made the whole concept work was the immutability of the blockchain, once transactions had settled and been confirmed by more than 50% of the participants. Now we have Ether-whatever forking whenever they want to erase a mi...
[01:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's New Workstation GPUs Can Handle Very Large Datasets - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:08] <exec> 08└─Did you happen to notice the final paragraph of TFS talking about a configuration which uses, essentially, a solid state hard drive 2TB in size for this purpose?
[01:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's New Scheme to Connect Online to Offline Shopping Scrutinized - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:27] <exec> 08└─The cable companies couldn't have cared less about any of that
[01:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BrickerBot Dev Claims Cyber-Attack that Affected Over 60,000 Indian Modems - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:40] <exec> 08└─People say "who cares" until a huge botnet of compromised devices is used to hack their bank, their pension organization, their hospital or any number of organizations that hold their private information. That's why it matters.
[01:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet's Largest Bitcoin Mixer Shuts Down Realizing Bitcoin is Not Anonymous - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:11] <exec> 08└─"the cops will never figure it out."
[01:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RedHat Gets Serious With Deprecation Process of Btrfs With RHEL 7.4 - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:10] <exec> 08└─BTRFS is an inferior version of ZFS, basically. The interface is awful in comparison, and it has many silly requirements(why exactly would I want snapshots mounted all the time or read-write? Kinda defeats the point.) Also why is a snapshot command like a copy command? btrfs subvolume snapshot /...
[01:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RedHat Gets Serious With Deprecation Process of Btrfs With RHEL 7.4 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:11] <exec> 08└─There are many to choose from. Most don't try to wedge themselves into the system like systemd does.
[01:23:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lx [1915] 02 - 06The New Hot Spot for Outsourcing: The U.S. - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:25] <exec> 08└─Slightly disappointed that they don't start the day singing the company song.
[01:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Booker Introduces Marijuana Justice Act - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:26] <exec> 08└─1 What if black people are worse criminals, and get caught more? 2 What if black people are caught using marijuana because they were involved in some other crime which they are more likely per capita to commit?(like rape, or murder, or domestic violence) 3 What if the poll about illegal drug use had...
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[02:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over 263,000 Glitter-Filled iPhone Cases Recalled Over Skin Irritation Risk - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:56] <exec> 08└─call in a drone strike on MixBin's CEO.
[02:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over 263,000 Glitter-Filled iPhone Cases Recalled Over Skin Irritation Risk - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:57] <exec> 08└─What, men can't own glitter??! This reminds me of that time I bought a glitter-filled Hello Kitty mouse and I endured incessant mockery. Fuck you, I'm fabulous!!
[02:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbv [6022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why the Bitcoin Network Just Split in Half and Why It Matters - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:07] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at $2716 and Bitcoin Cash (BCC, the smaller one) at $488. That said, the block size and time are problems (too small, both of them) but it seems like it will get aleviated, one way or another. I think some really exciting times are ahead of us, in terms of crypto currencies.
[02:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's New Workstation GPUs Can Handle Very Large Datasets - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, and solid state drives seems to have limited write cycles and be more expensive per bytes of storage.
[02:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03axsdenied [384] (Score: 1) 02 - 06RedHat Gets Serious With Deprecation Process of Btrfs With RHEL 7.4 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:22] <exec> 08└─I, for one, welcome our new systemd-FS overlords.
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[03:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over 263,000 Glitter-Filled iPhone Cases Recalled Over Skin Irritation Risk - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:56] <exec> 08└─"...another consumer reported chemical burns and swelling to her leg, face, neck, chest, upper body and hands." Wtf was she *doing* with her phone?
[03:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over 263,000 Glitter-Filled iPhone Cases Recalled Over Skin Irritation Risk - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:57] <exec> 08└─Huzzah! AC is finally out of the closet!
[03:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over 263,000 Glitter-Filled iPhone Cases Recalled Over Skin Irritation Risk - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:59] <exec> 08└─Isn't it obvious? She was holding it wrong.
[03:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03liberza [6137] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why the Bitcoin Network Just Split in Half and Why It Matters - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:10] <exec> 08└─Monero is one cryptocurrency that's caught my eye during the Bitcoin infighting. It aims to be private by default, making it more fungible than BTC, more like cash. As for increasing the block rate... well, that will still cause the block chain to bloat. Actually, it would bloat a little bit faster...
[03:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03liberza [6137] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why the Bitcoin Network Just Split in Half and Why It Matters - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:13] <exec> 08└─The number of Bitcoin that will ever exist has not changed. When the block chain forks, the longest branch of that fork is "Bitcoin". The other branch of that fork is not. In this case, that other branch is BCash.
[03:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why the Bitcoin Network Just Split in Half and Why It Matters - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:15] <exec> 08└─Is the problem inherent with Bitcoin or is it a general cryptocurrency problem? and is there any way to get past the 7 transaction/second limit without cobbling up peoples communication lines or processing capacity?
[03:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03liberza [6137] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why the Bitcoin Network Just Split in Half and Why It Matters - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:17] <exec> 08└─It seems like a problem that all cryptocurrencies will face when they get more heavily adopted. One possible solution is using an abstraction on top of Bitcoin like the lightning network:
[03:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03liberza [6137] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why the Bitcoin Network Just Split in Half and Why It Matters - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:19] <exec> 08└─Can't edit... Here's the link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[03:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why the Bitcoin Network Just Split in Half and Why It Matters - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:22] <exec> 08└─That could lead to a Bitcoin network dominated by a few big players
[03:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's New Workstation GPUs Can Handle Very Large Datasets - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:36] <exec> 08└─Those bytes are not more expensive than VRAM/HBM. Write cycles will depend on the type of NAND used... given the insanely (in terms of SSDs) fast speeds they have cranked it up to, they might be using SLC or MLC. The first generation product apparently carried 2x Samsung 950 PRO SSDs inside. Which u...
[03:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet's Largest Bitcoin Mixer Shuts Down Realizing Bitcoin is Not Anonymous - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:38] <exec> 08└─And the cool thing about a population of Billions is that the successes can replicate and endure while most of the failures just fade away. Also stated as: "Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes, and if you have enough blind squirrels...."
[03:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet's Largest Bitcoin Mixer Shuts Down Realizing Bitcoin is Not Anonymous - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:40] <exec> 08└─Dollars aren't illegal, but structuring is. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Structuring is the act of parceling what would otherwise be a large financial transaction into a series of smaller transactions to avoid scrutiny by regulators or law enforcement.
[03:24:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Senator Booker Introduces Marijuana Justice Act - 698 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:36] <exec> 08└─And the actual numbers: Approximately 12% of white Americans, and 14% of black Americans respond in polls that they've used MJ. That means that there are about 25 million white MJ users, and 7 million black MJ users. So, if the arrests were proportional, we'd expect that about 3.5 times as many whit...
[03:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Booker Introduces Marijuana Justice Act - 1161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:56] <exec> 08└─I just can't comprehend other people thinking they have right to tell other people how to live their lives when it comes to innocuous behaviors. Obviously I'm not talking about murder, rape, and pillage -- it's OK to tell people they can't harm others -- I'm not talking about all of the victimless c...
[03:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Booker Introduces Marijuana Justice Act - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:57] <exec> 08└─There is no overreach when the state is free to refuse the money. Most of the prohibition states are net recipients of Federal money anyway. It would be nice for donor states to get a little bit back.
[03:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Booker Introduces Marijuana Justice Act - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:59] <exec> 08└─1) What if you were an asshole? 2) What if you were a giant asshole? 3) What if you were a goatse scale asshole?
[03:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Booker Introduces Marijuana Justice Act - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:02] <exec> 08└─People aren't just leaving half a bottle of oxy unused in the cabinet to go seek out heroin. People switch when the oxy is no longer legal -- ie, when their prescription runs out and they can't get another.
[03:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Pistol Locking System Foiled by Magnets Worth Only $15 - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:10] <exec> 08└─A battle axe is a weapon. A lumberjack's axe is a tool. This is due to intent of design. A weapon, by its design, is offensive, even when used in defence.
[03:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Pistol Locking System Foiled by Magnets Worth Only $15 - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:11] <exec> 08└─It sounds like that problem could be solved by simply selling guns without any safety features and letting Darwin sort things out.
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[04:21:04] <exec> 08└─Sounds like she was holding it against her ear in a sitting position, and it burst and leaked with liquid contacting her face, neck, chest, upper body, hands. Then feeling the phone ooze like that, she pulled it away from ear to look at it while holding it in front of her face so she could see it be...
[04:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over 263,000 Glitter-Filled iPhone Cases Recalled Over Skin Irritation Risk - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:06] <exec> 08└─Why not just use water. If a slower action is desired, how about vegetable oil?
[04:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why the Bitcoin Network Just Split in Half and Why It Matters - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:22] <exec> 08└─The blockchain growth seems like a devastating bad time for crypto currencies. The more mainstream the payments get, the worse the scaling problems.
[04:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why the Bitcoin Network Just Split in Half and Why It Matters - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:23] <exec> 08└─Also, isn't it partially a question of the "traditionalists" (read "early adopters") protecting their own profits for being an early adopter by pushing the deflationary nature of the currency?
[04:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why the Bitcoin Network Just Split in Half and Why It Matters - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:25] <exec> 08└─The deflationary nature is mainly to encourage people to save rather than waste their money on stuff they don't really need and pollute the environment, etc.
[04:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why the Bitcoin Network Just Split in Half and Why It Matters - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:28] <exec> 08└─Competition: Our money is cheaper than your money! Move over today! Save millions of drachmae! No taxes! Babes in bikinis! You can host the Miss Universe Pageant! In Moscow! And no one will know it was you, or that you peed the bed! Bit-coin: What happens in bit-coin, stays in bit-coin. With a p...
[04:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's New Scheme to Connect Online to Offline Shopping Scrutinized - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:01] <exec> 08└─Is balaclava legal to use in the USA? some will disagree, but overall, they DO consider it 'illegal' to hide your face/identity in public. its not an absolute and lots of people will debate this, but The Man(tm) will fuck with you -and get away with it- if he wants, and if you actively hide your fac...
[04:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RedHat Gets Serious With Deprecation Process of Btrfs With RHEL 7.4 - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:47] <exec> 08└─Sorry, that's not what I meant by in development longer. I mean that ZFS was shipping, as I understand it more or less as ZFS is today, 4 years after its inception (2001). It took btrfs 7 years just to decide what its on-disk format should be permanently with zfs to draw inspiration from.
[04:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Booker Introduces Marijuana Justice Act - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:06] <exec> 08└─I agree it is likely a stunt (Booker is one of the Senators who opposed Bernie's plan to let US Citizens access the global markets like Corps do by purchasing prescription drugs from Canada based on arguments by Pharma which also pays him a ton of money -- yeah, I'm no Booker fan). He probably added...
[04:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Pistol Locking System Foiled by Magnets Worth Only $15 - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:12] <exec> 08└─Weapons are a subset of tools.
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[04:27:08] <exec> 08└─But you would bet humanity's future on your particular flavor of Pascal's wager.
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[05:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Claims Densest Tape Storage Record - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:57] <exec> 08└─How many terabytes per station wagon is that?
[05:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06IBM Claims Densest Tape Storage Record - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:58] <exec> 08└─(226195.2 / 14.18055) * 330 = 5,263,859 TB or about 5.2639 exabytes. Multiply by the 2.5:1 compression to get 13,159,647.5 TB or about 13.16 exabytes. http://www.classiccmp.org [classiccmp.org] http://www.tidbitsfortechs.com
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[05:21:01] <exec> 08└─One of these drives and three or four tapes and I can back up my entire prono collection!
[05:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Claims Densest Tape Storage Record - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:03] <exec> 08└─Thanks, informative! One quibble though. I know manufacturers always love to push those 'compressed' numbers but calling them speculative would be insulting to speculators. Of course the files to be backed up are nearly always completely uncompressable, particularly the ones large enough to matter.
[05:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over 263,000 Glitter-Filled iPhone Cases Recalled Over Skin Irritation Risk - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:16] <exec> 08└─My question as well. Why the hell would anyone use a caustic liquid, even if they thought it would never leak? Surely water and/or vegetable oil would be cheaper? Or did they finally figure out a way to get rid of all of that irradiated water from Fukushima?
[05:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Over 263,000 Glitter-Filled iPhone Cases Recalled Over Skin Irritation Risk - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:18] <exec> 08└─Then she washed it off with concentrated nitric acid.
[05:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over 263,000 Glitter-Filled iPhone Cases Recalled Over Skin Irritation Risk - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:20] <exec> 08└─But, but, . . . the AC is actually Ethanol_fueled! I mean, how could we know it is not? Therefore, it is. Ethanol with glitter. Seems legit!
[05:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Over 263,000 Glitter-Filled iPhone Cases Recalled Over Skin Irritation Risk - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:22] <exec> 08└─Why the hell would anyone use a caustic liquid, even if they thought it would never leak?
[05:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over 263,000 Glitter-Filled iPhone Cases Recalled Over Skin Irritation Risk - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:24] <exec> 08└─Then she washed it off with concentrated nitric acid.
[05:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Booker Introduces Marijuana Justice Act - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:23] <exec> 08└─It shouldn't be legal in the first place. Lot of people get addicted because they take that shit thinking since it is legal it must be OK. A lot more shitheads are going to start smoking pot because they think since it's legal it must be OK. You can't ignore the problem got out of hand because of th...
[05:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Methane-Eating Microbes May Reduce Release of Gases as Antarctic Ice Sheets Melt - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:25] <exec> 08└─2. certainly the biotic methane destruction capacity is well under the level of currently trapped methane - a Clathrate gun [wikipedia.org]-like scenario is likely to lead to human species extinction
[05:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane-Eating Microbes May Reduce Release of Gases as Antarctic Ice Sheets Melt - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:26] <exec> 08└─What makes it a Pascal's wager is the infinite cost not the degree of uncertainty.
[05:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Methane-Eating Microbes May Reduce Release of Gases as Antarctic Ice Sheets Melt - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:28] <exec> 08└─If we figure out how to capture the methane, we'll have better uses for it than feeding bacteria...
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[06:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Claims Densest Tape Storage Record - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:59] <exec> 08└─Since IBM is teaming up with SONY, that means these cartridges will be so ridiculously expensive, and so completely proprietary (with them not being available from any other manufacturers) that it won't make any financial sense to actually adopt them.
[06:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet's Largest Bitcoin Mixer Shuts Down Realizing Bitcoin is Not Anonymous - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:58] <exec> 08└─That's just BS. Trump was elected because of the way the electoral college system works, but the voters (all of them) are still at fault here, because they never demanded their elective representatives to change that horrible system. This isn't the first time this has happened, and the last time was...
[06:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RedHat Gets Serious With Deprecation Process of Btrfs With RHEL 7.4 - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:00] <exec> 08└─I'd say that this incident shows LF willing to take difficult steps to prevent a blatant attempt to seize the Foundation's resources and Converge it to a purpose incompatible with its current mission. Banning all individual contributers from running for the position was drastic but probably the only...
[06:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Booker Introduces Marijuana Justice Act - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:22] <exec> 08└─There's still the original reason for the ban. It's just too useful. Hearst got it banned due to needing to protect his pulp paper business. They'd just invented a machine to separate the fiber from the rest and hemp is a much better source of cheap paper then wood. There has been a lot of other use...
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[07:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Build an Ancient Robot Overlord - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:55] <exec> 08└─Oh please. LotR is full of dramatically tragic declines, falls, and losses. Presumably the reason they decline is The Enemy messing everything up. The tone harks back to a time when memory of the Dark Ages was still fresh and raw, when Europeans suffered the huge setback of Rome falling, and lost a...
[07:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Build an Ancient Robot Overlord - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:57] <exec> 08└─How do they fight decay for thousands of years? But I guess it's possible with stuff like self-repair. Energy could come from matter-energy conversion. There are old swords that survive in good condition: http://www.independent.co.uk
[07:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Build an Ancient Robot Overlord - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:59] <exec> 08└─I think these ideas are more about lost technologies and ideas these "ancients" would have had, but we don't know about. The idea that there is a "magical" field of science that we have overlooked in our scientific time line. In principle, the same as if friendly aliens would land tomorrow and give...
[07:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Claims Densest Tape Storage Record - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:11] <exec> 08└─It's about 5% as dense as Trump is.
[07:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Claims Densest Tape Storage Record - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:12] <exec> 08└─You heard the man, this is the newest shiny!
[07:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's New Scheme to Connect Online to Offline Shopping Scrutinized - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:26] <exec> 08└─With facial recognition, though?
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[07:23:14] <exec> 08└─but the voters (all of them) are still at fault here, because they never demanded their elective representatives to change that horrible system.
[07:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet's Largest Bitcoin Mixer Shuts Down Realizing Bitcoin is Not Anonymous - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:15] <exec> 08└─Laws against structuring are nonsense to begin with, since the government shouldn't be spying on everyone's financial transactions.
[07:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Booker Introduces Marijuana Justice Act - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:40] <exec> 08└─You do realize that the illegal drugs are unregulated, right? People have no idea what they actually contain, which often leads to overdoses when some much more powerful drug is mixed in.
[07:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Booker Introduces Marijuana Justice Act - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:42] <exec> 08└─Found the Presbyterian.
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