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[00:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Holograms in One Surface - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:00] <exec> 08└─Until female scientists develop a way to have two holograms on one surface this is just another example of the scientific patriarchy at work.
[00:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Holograms in One Surface - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:01] <exec> 08└─First, they were able to fully encode a 3D image on a two dimensional surface (and that maybe a similar thing can encode a whole universe in lower dimensions according to the Holographic Principle [wikipedia.org]) but now they're saying they can fit two 3D images on there with no loss of detail. Int...
[00:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 061600 Vine Street - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:20] <exec> 08└─Well, we do need our two minutes' hate discussions and it's no longer fashionable to bash Microsoft. And everybody is recovering from their hangovers today anyway.
[00:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 061600 Vine Street - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:21] <exec> 08└─khallow is my SoyBook homie.
[00:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:36] <exec> 08└─I'd call myself a progressive, and am CERTAINLY no fan of Trump. One must admit the actual evidence presented is against Clinton on this, and also against the FBI. "Mainstream opinion falls the other way of course, but dollars dictate opinion in the media business, and dollars also dictate "mainstre...
[00:21:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Minnesota 14-Year-Old Girl Charged for Sending Nude Selfie - 391 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:00] <exec> 08└─Child pornography laws are stupid to begin with. It's just an image. Go after real child abusers, the images don't hurt anyone. They just like to pretend they're doing something by catching "dangerous" "child predators" when in reality they aren't doing a very good job at dealing with the real dange...
[00:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:25] <exec> 08└─Does SN provide a mechanism to blacklist this tripe? As opposed to forcing us to constantly need to moderate it? Not that I think all that highly of Ars these days, but at least there's a Usenet-Level PLONK.
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[01:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:56] <exec> 08└─I'm looking forward to many of the myths around recreational marijuana use being completely without negative side-effects finally getting dispelled.
[01:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:57] <exec> 08└─PG&E once announced that there were more than 30,000 grow-ops in California.
[01:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:59] <exec> 08└─So what is California doing about it's homelessness problem? *crickets*
[01:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:02] <exec> 08└─It's creating jobs and collecting more taxes.
[01:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:04] <exec> 08└─Compare the negative effects of marijuana with those of a completely legal, even for kids, drug that is nicotine.
[01:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:06] <exec> 08└─Like the ones with booze?
[01:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:08] <exec> 08└─This is a good opportunity for bum job training, but the only way it will work would be to embrace the idea of putting people into work camps. Affordable housing? Not while douchebags still want to move here from every other state. And they still do.
[01:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:10] <exec> 08└─It's creating jobs and collecting more taxes.
[01:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:13] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napa_County,_California [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] If we are going to go by the amount of harm caused [ias.org.uk], LSD, buprenorphine, shrooms, and ecstacy should be legalized first.
[01:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 061600 Vine Street - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:44] <exec> 08└─"the brothers Logan Paul and Jake Paul, Amanda Cerny, Juanpa Zurita, Lele Pons and Andrew Bachelor, known as King Bach." Yup...don't know any of these "stars" AND don't care. King Bach: wannabe somebody?
[01:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 061600 Vine Street - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:45] <exec> 08└─This is the first article I'd agree is a wtf. A just. Don't. Care article. But....happy new year!!!!
[01:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 061600 Vine Street - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:48] <exec> 08└─Bash bash bash! And no hang over here.... Bummer, kind of, lol. Always fashionable to bash crap like Microsoft!
[01:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:33] <exec> 08└─Thank you, Tricky Dick (Nixon) could not have put it more eloquently, and he did not. As for: Start with cementing MAD, removing the concept of front lines or defensive fortifications.
[01:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:34] <exec> 08└─It's not a bad theory. The Hubble Space Telescope has the same form factor as the Keyhole satellites and apparently some degree of overlapping tech. So it may be with the JWST, though there isn't that much in common with spy satellites these days. One aspect though is that any spy satellite actuall...
[01:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:37] <exec> 08└─where do you think automatic computing would be without the need calculate orbital trajectories and re-entry points?
[01:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:39] <exec> 08└─in the process generate much higher metrics.
[01:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drone Collides With US Army Helicopter, Puts 1.5" Dent in Rotor - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:21] <exec> 08└─At an absolute bare minimum, the drone operator failed to keep the drone within sight. Meaning that anything coming in from a side not covered by cameras would be completely missed. The restrictions are a separate matter, but anybody operating a drone should be able to see where it is at all times s...
[01:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:00] <exec> 08└─Think about demographics and reproduction in the US: who's having all the kids these days? Hint: it's not the highly-educated liberals in the cities.
[01:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:02] <exec> 08└─I'm was raised Catholic, and of course am now an agnostic. and pretty strongly anti-religious in fact. I went to Catholic school for some of my pre-high-school schooling, and honestly, it was mostly very good compared to what I saw in public schools (which I also went to at times, we moved around a...
[01:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elementary Schoolteacher Fired for Showing Classical Paintings With Nudity to Students - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:04] <exec> 08└─With stuff like this happening in our schools, it's no wonder that intelligent people who would be good at teaching don't want anything to do with the profession.
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[02:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:01] <exec> 08└─If we are going to go by the amount of harm caused
[02:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:03] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_equivalence [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[02:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:05] <exec> 08└─"children" https://www.npr.org [npr.org]
[02:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:07] <exec> 08└─Apparently people missed your point. Mary Jane has been WOEFULLY understudied. It probably is fairly harmless. But proper studies are few and far between.
[02:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:09] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imbecile [wikipedia.org]
[02:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:12] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem [wikipedia.org]
[02:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:15] <exec> 08└─New York, Illinois, and Texas are the most populous states remaining. It's time to get to work on them! Of course, when they see all the taxes being raked in by the first six states, they'll be jumping on the bandwagon!
[02:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:17] <exec> 08└─Misread that as 30,000 grown-ups in California, and didn't believe you.
[02:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:19] <exec> 08└─You couldn't pay me to move to California. I've turned down job offers simply because they were in California.
[02:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:21] <exec> 08└─As long as cannabis is on Schedule I, the necessary research is not going to get done or will get done very slowly. That's not a good thing given that states have already taken matters into their own hands. Yet researchers still have their hands tied. DEA Accused of Obstructing Research on Marijuana...
[02:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:24] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of the shift that happened in the early 2000s against same sex marriage, except in a positive direction. We now have 8 states that allow recreational use of marijuana and 21 states where "medical use" of marijuana is allowed. I think in a few more years, the scale will tip towards fe...
[02:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:27] <exec> 08└─Well, you can pay me to work in California. As the joke goes, it's a great place to work, but you wouldn't want to live there.
[02:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:29] <exec> 08└─I do not disagree with anything you said. They point is the study of it is bad. I mean there are people walking around thinking it cures cancer. What we have are tons of 'wives tale' evidence. As it gets more and more legal perhaps maybe we can get real studies. People are going to use this stuff le...
[02:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 061600 Vine Street - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:04] <exec> 08└─All I would have had to do is reframe the summary to bash YouTube a bit, and maybe quote different paragraphs from the article, and most of you would have let all your hate out at the target instead of the article.
[02:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:20] <exec> 08└─People saying a lot of stuff, yet no substance so far: Of the thousands of emails: what specifically, is a problem? What specifically did the FBI find she did, that rises to the level of prosecuting a presidential candidate? Easy to say a lot of vague, scary sounding stuff, but what are the specific...
[02:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:55] <exec> 08└─A great many factors go into wars, not the least of which is public sentiment. The public (should be, and usually) is aware, awestruck, and terrified of nukes. But... they were also terrified of rifles, handgrenades, and tear gas. Before Sputnik, missiles had limited range, were not terribly reliabl...
[02:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:56] <exec> 08└─it is quite simply that it is describing things that are unique, previously unknown, and otherwise not observable.
[02:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:59] <exec> 08└─Without the massive infusion from NASA's (and military)
[02:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drone Collides With US Army Helicopter, Puts 1.5" Dent in Rotor - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:42] <exec> 08└─We've been hitting -10F in MN over the weekend. It was literally colder than Antarctica (it's summer there).
[02:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minnesota 14-Year-Old Girl Charged for Sending Nude Selfie - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:01] <exec> 08└─I think that you err, but only in detail. I believe that the *court records* may be sealed, and expunged, but the POLICE RECORDS are completely separate, and never expunged. So, no matter how thoroughly the judicial branch may expunge their records, there remains an executive branch arrest record. J...
[02:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minnesota 14-Year-Old Girl Charged for Sending Nude Selfie - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:03] <exec> 08└─The very short version - https://definitions.uslegal.com [uslegal.com] The four paragraph version - http://law.jrank.org [jrank.org] The prosecutor thus plays a pivotal role in the administration of justice in America....
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[03:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:24] <exec> 08└─I mean there are people walking around thinking it cures cancer.
[03:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:25] <exec> 08└─Quit smoking pot a good 40 years ago (it gave me a headache, my dad and sister have migraines so, yeah). The San Diego Reader has a bunch of ads for medical weed, price seems to be $7-10 a gram. Sounds like the State and cities are getting greedy and ratcheting up taxes on the stuff. In maybe 3 days...
[03:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:27] <exec> 08└─So nicotine is bad therefore we have to legalize marijuana? I don’t see the logical connection. Why even being up tobacco while rebutting his comment?
[03:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:29] <exec> 08└─Not sure what your brother-in-law charges but otherwise one would assume your friendly neighborhood drugdealer would be the cheapest since there are no taxes on his transactions. That said one could further assume that you get what you pay for and one would assume that would be easier to know or fig...
[03:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:32] <exec> 08└─I've never asked what he charges, but he has 5-6 plants at a time in his greenhouse. He also grows tomatoes and various herbs, all of which he uses himself. I suspect CA will smother the golden goose via taxes, I'm guessing the price low to high will be: 1) Local weed dealer. No taxes, but no idea h...
[03:18:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 061600 Vine Street - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:52] <exec> 08└─This is the final frontier.
[03:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:24] <exec> 08└─Get real, guys. Can you?
[03:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:25] <exec> 08└─The fact that many of those emails were classified and sent to an unsecured server, run by a 'mom&pop' hosting company. https://www.dailykos.com [dailykos.com]
[03:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:04] <exec> 08└─9/9 missions putting 3 men in Lunar orbit and bringing them back to a target on Earth, changed the perception that a nuclear war could be survived - not among those who knew the facts, we are still demonstrating clearly today that politics is not governed by facts, truth, or even reality - but among...
[03:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:06] <exec> 08└─What would be interesting is a compilation of the JWST victims over the last 15 years. That program has sucked the life out of a bunch of programs because of all those budget and schedule overruns.
[03:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Defects in Silicon Could be Leveraged to Build a Quantum Computer - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:06] <exec> 08└─That's one kind of lever. ...then there's the 3rd-class lever, which multiplies speed: A flyswatter, fishing pole, baseball bat, mop. /pedant -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[04:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:56] <exec> 08└─If this thing really does impact the cloud and the only mitigation imposes up to a 50% performance penalty, many interesting questions arise. 1. If this could be fixed with a microcode update it would be. And if it is really a Rowhammer attack, none of this is going to stop it, only mitigate. So eve...
[04:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:57] <exec> 08└─You only have to guess 9 bits of the address space at a time if you can go level by level. You could guess kernel addresses if faulting on a unmapped kernel address takes a different amount of time than faulting on a mapped kernel address. An address in a big unmapped area might fault when relativel...
[04:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:59] <exec> 08└─The comments on the HN posting [ycombinator.com] are quite interesting. One of them referenced a patch that excludes the mitigation on AMD CPUs [lkml.org] because of the implementation that AMD uses: AMD processors are not subject to the types of attacks that the kernel page table isolation feature...
[04:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:34] <exec> 08└─So nicotine is bad therefore we have to legalize marijuana?
[04:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:35] <exec> 08└─California excise tax and cultivation tax is what I found, but whose pockets are they going into?
[04:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:37] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy [wikipedia.org]
[04:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:40] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_Use_of_Marijuana_Act [wikipedia.org] Revenue paid into the new California Marijuana Tax Fund will allocate 60% of outflows to youth programs, 20% to environmental damage cleanup, and 20% to public safety.
[04:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:42] <exec> 08└─This is NOT legal until the federal law changes. At any time, that federal law can be enforced against politically disfavored people. One symptom of being a 3rd-world country is that there are lots of laws that are seldom enforced. Such laws are used to go after people that piss off those with power...
[04:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:44] <exec> 08└─I wonder what those ias.org.uk guys were smoking. The paper claims that alcohol is drastically more harmful, even to the user only, than tobacco or cocaine. Hmm right... the average user of tobacco loses 14.5 years of life, while the vast majority of alcohol users get no negative effects whatsoever....
[04:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:46] <exec> 08└─If you look at the breakdown (the more detailed second graph), it includes categories such as "drug specific mortality" and "crime". Basically, alcohol comes way ahead because of people drinking and driving. Drunk people also commit a lot of crimes that they may never have intended to commit, people...
[04:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:48] <exec> 08└─(I meant to say "Figure 4" instead of "second graph") I'll refine my response a bit with some quotes from the paper, using alcohol vs. tobacco as the example: Drug-specific mortality Intrinsic lethality of the drug expressed as ratio of lethal dose and standard dose (for adults)
[04:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:51] <exec> 08└─Smart Stoners [thirdmonk.net] Francis Crick - Nobel laureate - Settled in San Diego County Richard Feynman - Nobel laureate - Cal Tech Kary Mullis - Nobel laureate - PhD from Berkeley; mostly a Californian since then Sergey Brin - PhD from Stanford - Silicon Valley dude -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnew...
[04:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Holograms in One Surface - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:04] <exec> 08└─The 4 known dimensions are height, width, depth, and time. While color is a unique quality|property|characteristic (and takes more bits|more expensive film to store than monochrome), it isn't a dimension. . Now, those of you with imaginations working overtime, what is a new application for this new...
[04:19:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 061600 Vine Street - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:11] <exec> 08└─Unless there's video of some neckbeard setting up a systemD-free beowulf cluster, why would I care?
[04:19:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 795 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:37] <exec> 08└─Yup. The investigation into Clinton's crimes was an all out effort to find some way to excuse crimes that had been exposed and were obviously not only merely criminal but treasonous. At the very same time they were working with the Russians to fabricate evidence (the Steele "Dossier") to lever up to...
[04:19:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:41] <exec> 08└─That may or may not be . . . but the FBI's "opinion" is certainly not binding on Justice. FFS, far to many people dropped the ball on this. Both Clintons should be sitting in prison cells.
[04:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:47] <exec> 08└─Why should that be special? Why should a person get a pass if they are a presidential candidate? Are crimes supposed to be excused as long as you immediately file candidacy paperwork with the federal election commission? This, fundamentally, is what "rule of law" is all about. Fair treatment under t...
[04:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Switch Homebrew Mode Coming Soon Due to NVIDIA Tegra X1 Exploit - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:56] <exec> 08└─"Running unapproved programs on your own computer coming soon due to exploit!" is dystopian bullshit. Fuck buying computers which only let one run approved programs.
[04:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:30] <exec> 08└─"Hold mah beer"
[04:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:31] <exec> 08└─Does Mr. Lawnchair have equations and risk breakdowns giving his venture a % chance of success or failure? Elon says that the Falcon Heavy w/ Tesla launch has a 50% chance of failure. Maybe he made that number up.
[04:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 1411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:33] <exec> 08└─General Ripper's entire premise was that we could "get in early, catch 'em with their pants down" and the movie included a side plot element that a "high alert status" could intercept and destroy most bombers. The early space program launches were a clear demonstration of what our rockets could, and...
[04:20:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:35] <exec> 08└─Elon is working with 50 years of data and experience to make his numbers up from. Mercury and Gemini was best guess of the best people at the time based on essentially nothing, the same inexperience that fried Apollo 1 during a ground exercise, the same massive pile of variables that led to two shut...
[04:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:38] <exec> 08└─Why in the world do you not get that "business as usual" is very aggressive technology development?
[04:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drone Collides With US Army Helicopter, Puts 1.5" Dent in Rotor - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:22] <exec> 08└─Ha! Only the other week did I find this out. Came into work and it's been below freezing around here and left my phone in the car. Realized it an hour later and came out to find that it was dead. Huh? Just charged the damn thing. Go inside and plug the phone on my charger and it says full battery. W...
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[05:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:10] <exec> 08└─It screws over the pleb users by intentionally leaving them unable to defend themselves. If your organization can't function if a single component is compromised and needs to be temporarily shut down, then your organization is incompetent. It's only a shame that this self-reinforcing bullshit has le...
[05:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:11] <exec> 08└─This isn't even a bug at all. It's a side-channel attack. Side channel attacks are not bugs. Not every security issue results from a bug. Stupid summary.
[05:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:13] <exec> 08└─This could be thought of as a logical bug, no? In other words, everything is syntactically correct and working as expected, but real-world usage produces unwanted results? I'm not a programmer and most of the linked article was juuuuuust with my comprehension, but the whole thing had me making painf...
[05:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:52] <exec> 08└─I like her values. She has run a real business, which is better than we can say for most presidential candidates. Seriously, I'm with her. As a bonus, we can call the haters "sexist". If some SJW complains about the guns or the Muslim stance, we can just dismiss the SJW as a sexist who stands in the...
[05:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:54] <exec> 08└─The one who handed Trump the presidency on a silver plate.
[05:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:56] <exec> 08└─Obama's IRS purposely targeted conservative non-profits to deny them non-profit status. Tea party stuff was particularly targeted.
[05:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:58] <exec> 08└─There is no evidence she intentionally forwarded any classified material. As far as "gross negligence", here's a fun little simulated trial: http://econ-ecoff.blogspot.com [blogspot.com]
[05:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:00] <exec> 08└─> If I did half the shit Hillary Clinton did, I'd be looking at decades in prison. Also, half the shit Trump did, half the shit Roy Moore did, half the shit Al Franken did, half the shit Bill O'Reilly did, half the shit Harvey Weinstein did... It's not a "Clinton" thing, it's a "rich and powerful" t...
[05:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 1525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:02] <exec> 08└─Simplify. Classified information was emailed to a system not under the control of the United States government, that had not been certified for handling classified information, had no hardening, was in point of fact a goddamned Microsoft Exchange Server, including information marked such that it was...
[05:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:49] <exec> 08└─For example, protein crystallization on a large scale was for a time though to be impossible on Earth, but found to be quite possible in the zero gee environment of Earth orbit. Then someone figured a way to do it on Earth for much less.
[05:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:50] <exec> 08└─No redneck, ever, came close to the utter ballsy faith in everything gonna work out and this is gonna be EPIC demonstrated by the Mercury and Gemini astronauts.
[05:21:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Drone Collides With US Army Helicopter, Puts 1.5" Dent in Rotor - 621 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:08] <exec> 08└─The biggest crime is the badthink being displayed that the government paid a metric shitload to arm and maintain and field a brigade of horse cavalry troops but the entire brigade can be wiped out by a single crew served machine gun, and the crime is pointing out all that money and lives and efforts...
[05:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drone Collides With US Army Helicopter, Puts 1.5" Dent in Rotor - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:37] <exec> 08└─Not sure why after years of owning one have I only just found this out.
[05:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062017: Gene Therapy's Milestone Year - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:48] <exec> 08└─> "I am totally willing to use the 'C' word," said the National Institutes of Health's director, Dr. Francis Collins. You've explicitly shown you're not willing to use it.
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[06:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Stellar X-Ray 'Reality' Show Debuts - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:56] <exec> 08└─The data should be added to something like SpaceEngine [wikipedia.org], Google Sky [wikipedia.org], or Celestia [wikipedia.org]. All of these should be able to make it viewable, 1-2 should work with a VR headset.
[06:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:10] <exec> 08└─But how are monoculture pushers going to get lots of money if you spread over different vendors? Oh, the humanity, the software makers would have to stick to common things and agree on them, instead of steamrolling everything with own policy. And they would have to test 32, 64, little endian, big en...
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[06:18:11] <exec> 08└─JEDEC has already standardized a hardware mitigation for rowhammer. It is called Targeted Row Refresh and is currently an optional part of the LPDDR4 standard, although manufacturers have added it to other memory modules (which is technically a violation of the standard). Basically, the way it works...
[06:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:14] <exec> 08└─So AWS, Azure etc. should be able to handle shutting down all their DRAM? I dislike single points of failure, but realistically avoiding that means avoiding standardization and really over complicates things.
[06:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:16] <exec> 08└─> This isn't even a bug at all. It's a side-channel attack. Side channel attacks are not bugs. Not every security issue results from a bug. Stupid summary. The idea is that there is likely an undisclosed hardware bug that can be exploited if you know the physical addresses (Like Row-hammer). These p...
[06:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:18] <exec> 08└─There ought exist at least two types of memory which share an interface yet are implemented differently enough that vulnerabilities are very unlikely to be shared. If this was the case then they could literally just shut down the machines with the vulnerable kind, swap those sticks out, and bring th...
[06:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:01] <exec> 08└─To avoid being a 3rd-world shithole, it is necessary to fairly enforce all laws.
[06:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 2026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:03] <exec> 08└─That's only one dimension. Yes, there is an unresolved conflict [wikipedia.org] between state and federal law. States have gone beyond mere decriminalization (make the feds do the work of arresting people if they want to) and are permitting sales, handing out licenses, and collecting taxes. The feds...
[06:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 1293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:05] <exec> 08└─The most proper study of all is ongoing. As now the entire west coast has legalized recreational use. So far, it has been a net positive for society. In fact, the reality here is it has dispelled the stereotype of the 'doper.' The people of the stereotype simply are not the people visiting the pot s...
[06:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:07] <exec> 08└─Here in Washington, the weed is as cheap, and frequently cheaper than the street. I only speak of the east side, as I live in Spokane, not Seattle. Meh weed is like 6 a gram or 65 an oz, good weed 10-12 a gram and around 110-150 an oz. Great weed maybe 15-20 and 150-220 an oz. The black market is de...
[06:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:09] <exec> 08└─The GOP-lead DOJ can still put her on trial. In my opinion the laws as written are too vague to survive her powerful lawyers, but nothing is stopping GOP from doing a trial.
[06:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Switch Homebrew Mode Coming Soon Due to NVIDIA Tegra X1 Exploit - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:18] <exec> 08└─So which flavor of caged computing are you running? Intel, AMD, or ARM?
[06:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Nintendo Switch Homebrew Mode Coming Soon Due to NVIDIA Tegra X1 Exploit - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:20] <exec> 08└─I'm not happy with them, but they don't forbid me from running unauthorized programs so far as I know.
[06:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:01] <exec> 08└─A LARGE portion of the business world is extremely conservative with regard to research and development.
[06:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:02] <exec> 08└─would enough intellectual and monetary investment have been put into doing it on Earth as quickly as it was, if ever?
[06:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 1610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:05] <exec> 08└─And you are cutting down SpaceX's accomplishments, why again? I'll note that in the early-2000s, things looked really grim. In the wake of the dotcom collapse, space launches went way down [wikipedia.org] (including suborbital flights which cross the 100 km altitude mark). Everyone had some kind of...
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[07:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:59] <exec> 08└─OTOH, tobacco has been used in highly dangerous ways. E.g. Back around 1500 the AmerInds had an working anesthetic, and the Europeans didn't...you take a cigar (I don't know the details) and slowly insert it into the patients rectum until they pass out, then you remove it some (but not entirely?). B...
[07:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 699 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:00] <exec> 08└─That doesn't have a lot of bearing on long-term health effects. There are plenty of studies still being done on alcohol, tobacco, coffee, etc. The data for cannabis is lacking due to government restrictions, or tainted due to reefer madness and getting grant money based on saying what certain feds w...
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[07:19:02] <exec> 08└─FWIW, I have known people who basically couldn't safely use marijuana. So far I've known one and met two briefly. I have no idea how many users I've met. It seems that there is the marijuana equivalent of the alcoholic, though I'm sure the mechanism is different. And I'm *guessing* that the proporti...
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[07:19:05] <exec> 08└─Interesting joke. I rather *like* living here, but it's getting too expensive.
[07:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:07] <exec> 08└─Can we also mention the loss of revenue to criminal gangs? Jeez, it would be worth legalizing just to deprive violent criminals their source of revenue and reduce the expense of law enforcement / incarceration. Anything else, whatever, is icing on the cake.
[07:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:09] <exec> 08└─It's also a loss of revenue for law enforcement gangs who use asset forfeiture to take money, drugs, and possessions away from criminals as well as ordinary citizens.
[07:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:11] <exec> 08└─No evidence anyone intentionally did any such filtering. Sloppy practices, perhaps.
[07:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:13] <exec> 08└─Intent is not needed for gross negligence.
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[08:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:53] <exec> 08└─Things seem slow, how about an aristarchus submission, for many comments? Just an idea for the new Year. Better than banning submissions that the TMB and the CMN disagree with. Copyright is snot the same as "disagree".
[08:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:55] <exec> 08└─No.
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[08:18:04] <exec> 08└─Things seem slow, how about an aristarchus submission, for many comments? Just an idea for the new Year. Better than banning submissions that the TMB and the CMN disagree with.
[08:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:21] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it just is not possible for mere humans to think of every possible angle of attack and test for it. Bring on AI?
[08:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:23] <exec> 08└─https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/ai-for-security-microsoft-security-risk-detection-makes-debut/ [microsoft.com] https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk]
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[08:18:25] <exec> 08└─manufacturers have added it to other memory modules
[08:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:19] <exec> 08└─... you take a cigar (I don't know the details) and slowly insert it into the patients rectum until they pass out, then you remove it some (but not entirely?)....
[08:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Holograms in One Surface - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:33] <exec> 08└─What dimension is "drinking coffee"?
[08:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:26] <exec> 08└─People saying a lot of stuff, yet no substance so far: Of the thousands of emails: what specifically, is a problem? What specifically did the FBI find she did, that rises to the level of prosecuting a presidential candidate?
[08:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:28] <exec> 08└─It's not a "Clinton" thing, it's a "rich and powerful" thing, Trump is at least as bad. If you want to lock one of them up, you need to lock both of them up -- selective prosecution is way, way worse than no prosecution. And for Trump, there's, like, actual tape and public confessions...
[08:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 1486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:22] <exec> 08└─It's less than 1/2 of one year of NASA funding, and will enable great infrared observations not achievable with any other telescopes. Some of the technology developed for JWST could be reused, such as in the proposed HDST [wikipedia.org]. The SLS [wikipedia.org] has already cost more than JWST witho...
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[09:18:02] <exec> 08└─[quote]"A lot of folks know about our Wayback Machine and its 20+ years of website history, but there’s petabytes of media and works available to see throughout the site. I called it “30 Days of Stuff”, and for the last 30 days I’ve been pointing out great items at the Archive, once a day."...
[09:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:04] <exec> 08└─https://archive.org/details/TaoOfBitcoinIssue1 [archive.org]
[09:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:33] <exec> 08└─hardware mitigation for rowhammer.
[09:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:35] <exec> 08└─maybe. but whether it is a hardware bug or software bug depends on what the guarantees the hardware provides is. if the hardware provides documented branch prediction, it's a software issue, not a hardware one, that you didn't use a method not vulnerable to side-channel attacks. It's not enough to s...
[09:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:30] <exec> 08└─I haven't been keeping up with this... is it legal to grow your own?
[09:24:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Minnesota 14-Year-Old Girl Charged for Sending Nude Selfie - 146 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:33] <exec> 08└─It's called prosecutorial discretion. It is the legal and moral right to decide that a particular prosecution would not be in the public interest.
[09:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minnesota 14-Year-Old Girl Charged for Sending Nude Selfie - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:40] <exec> 08└─Twins and triplets don't really take more time. And while you can't have 9 women collectively make a baby per month for 9 months, you can have them reach the same quantity of babies at the end of those 9 months if you let them make babies the normal way.
[09:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minnesota 14-Year-Old Girl Charged for Sending Nude Selfie - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:42] <exec> 08└─These days I often can't get enough line pressure to overcome surface tension, I get runback I cannot see
[09:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minnesota 14-Year-Old Girl Charged for Sending Nude Selfie - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:45] <exec> 08└─I don't know about the photos in this case, but there seems to be an assumption now that child nudity is -- a priori -- pornographic and "sexual" somehow.
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[10:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:05] <exec> 08└─What is entering the public domain in the United States? Not a single published work. Once again, no published works are entering our public domain this year.
[10:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:36] <exec> 08└─Rowhammer vulnerability implies DEFECTIVE HARDWARE. If you CPU is vulnerable to this, it is goods not of merchandisable quality ie unfit for the purpose for which is is sold (computing), and should be replaced without charge by the manufacturer (Intel). If not, its probably because you live in a cou...
[10:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:38] <exec> 08└─"Its not a bug, its a feature" is not a defence. If a plane falls out of the sky because it is Thursday, whether or not the manufacturer told you their planes are not reliable on Thursdays, it is not an adequate defence - even if they claim that they tested it in February, and it often works on Thur...
[10:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:40] <exec> 08└─OP: I had thought the Rowhammer failure was in the cache memory - it appears to be in main memory (at least in this context). In that case it is the memory manufacturer selling duff product, not the CPU manufacturer.
[10:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:42] <exec> 08└─to show there is a hardware bug, you must show that the hardware was designed to prevent that attack.
[10:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:45] <exec> 08└─Oh! I know! What if they switch back to RAMBUS?
[10:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minnesota 14-Year-Old Girl Charged for Sending Nude Selfie - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:52] <exec> 08└─It's not nonsense. 1) For the same reason that they are considered not adults and able to "legally consent" that's the same reason why you should not try and punish them as adults. 2) And if one is 15 and the other is 17 AND the act was consensual (in the eyes of the 15 year old despite not the law)...
[10:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minnesota 14-Year-Old Girl Charged for Sending Nude Selfie - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:53] <exec> 08└─The seriousness is to the girl. Lots of girls don't seem to like random guys wanking off to photos of them. Only the guys they find attractive. But they may not realize that might end up happening when they send a nude of themselves to someone else. Yes it's a serious breach of trust by the recipien...
[10:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Minnesota 14-Year-Old Girl Charged for Sending Nude Selfie - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, no way we could try something different than the age of consent. Like maybe only involving the government if someone claims a rape occurred, and then investigating and trying the case on an individual basis just like we do with ordinary rape cases. That can't be done, since it would be too log...
[10:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Minnesota 14-Year-Old Girl Charged for Sending Nude Selfie - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:58] <exec> 08└─No, it happens after the age of 25, and only on Tuesdays.
[10:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protests Spring Up Across Iran - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:47] <exec> 08└─Yes. But with cell phones.
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[11:18:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 534 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:29] <exec> 08└─The comments on the HN posting [ycombinator.com] are quite interesting. One of them referenced a patch that excludes the mitigation on AMD CPUs [lkml.org] because of the implementation that AMD uses: AMD processors are not subject to the types of attacks that the kernel page table isolation feature...
[11:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:49] <exec> 08└─If researchers were truly responsible and publicly disclosed flaws forthwith following discovery/confirmation then this culture of "we literally can't do business without this one specific library/OS" wouldn't have emerged and a bug in amd64 would lead to nothing more than the RISC-V servers being s...
[11:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:45] <exec> 08└─Ditto that. Actually, I don't want to live on the west coast. OR the east coast, unless maybe Maine, or Nova Scotia. I believe the most sane Americans live in the middle of the continent.
[11:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:47] <exec> 08└─That is kind of interesting. The street dealer only really offer two perks -- one should be the price since he doesn't have to pay any sales taxes and his transaction should be more anonymous then getting a card or register in some other fashion. The problem might be greed, the legal and illegal sid...
[11:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:49] <exec> 08└─I think that you may be overlooking one pretty serious cost for illegal sales. That is the risk of jail. Remember Al Capone? They never did convict him of the various violent crimes he committed. They got him on tax evasion. He "got away with" countless violent crimes, but was burned for not paying...
[11:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:56] <exec> 08└─As someone who is not from the USA, and therefore independent to some degree, I would say that it is pretty clear that Hillary did many of the things which she is accused of. However, in the scale of things, you probably won't find any politician who will not do things like this. They are all useles...
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[12:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Pterosaur Eggs Found in Record-Breaking Fossil Haul - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:06] <exec> 08└─They can't be that old, the earth is only 2018 years old, we just had its birthday. /sarcastic.
[12:18:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:17] <exec> 08└─What is entering the public domain in the United States? Not a single published work. Once again, no published works are entering our public domain this year.
[12:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:18] <exec> 08└─It will go on until enough people get pissed. For now, politicians can keep teasing us with things like abortion, gay rights, gun control, weed, who can use which bathroom, almost anything that can keep us all worked up while they milk the cow. I don't think any of us will actually force a Congressm...
[12:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:55] <exec> 08└─it is faulty, and should be returned to the manufacturer no software work arounds.
[12:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:57] <exec> 08└─Oops, forgive the double reply: my example at the end there doesn't hold, as formal verification doesn't tend to help with side-channel issues like this. Real-world CPU perfection is even harder than that!
[12:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:59] <exec> 08└─This is security sensationalism for you. Because all the truly severe stuff is a thing of the past everything that remains gets blown out of proportion.
[12:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:58] <exec> 08└─The downside of crime, it very rarely pays. I seem to recall having read numerous studies where they conclude that if criminals had just taken the worst of lowpaying McJobs they would in the long run have been better off. There is just a small group of criminals that actually make decent money and i...
[12:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Holograms in One Surface - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:13] <exec> 08└─There are three physical dimensions and one temporal dimension, it's true, but we do often consider progression within other spaces to be dimensions as well. This can include colour (wavelength progression in RGB/BGR/hyperspectral) and other "channels", coarse and fine subdivisions of time and space...
[12:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:09] <exec> 08└─we can just dismiss the SJW as a sexist
[12:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:11] <exec> 08└─Putting your data in the cloud is like sending your teenage daughter backpacking in a 3rd world country with a pimp
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[13:18:57] <exec> 08└─So AWS, Azure etc. should be able to handle shutting down all their DRAM?
[13:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:59] <exec> 08└─RISC-V servers? Aren't we getting rather ahead of ourselves?
[13:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:01] <exec> 08└─This is security sensationalism for you. Because all the truly severe stuff is a thing of the past everything that remains gets blown out of proportion.
[13:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:01] <exec> 08└─Yea, no one ever said it was 100% harmless. Safer than alcohol and everything else that gets you high? Yup.
[13:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Holograms in One Surface - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:18] <exec> 08└─They placed millions of vertical surfaces on top of a horizontal surface. Yes, the vertical surfaces are incredibly small and to the naked eye, it appears a single surface. But the result is achieved by the vertical surfaces, not the single horizontal surface. So I would credit them by breaking it w...
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[14:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:58] <exec> 08└─If you greatly dislike using it, why are you using it? Is someone holding a gun to your head?
[14:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:00] <exec> 08└─3 years ago... X: "Phiiiilll, why don't you use facebook so we can talk about plans with you?" Y: "Phiiilllll, why don't you use google chat so we can talk about plans with you?" Me: "Because I do my communication on IRC" 3 years later, after simply being stubborn (and setting up a few accounts on m...
[14:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:02] <exec> 08└─the sort of small, weird communities ...
[14:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:04] <exec> 08└─I think because it's still the best social platform out there and a lot of people, especially older folks are now using it to keep in touch with family. I even have an account that gets uses rarely and keep in touch with distant family who otherwise would be forgotten about. So I get why people woul...
[14:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:07] <exec> 08└─That was my first thought, yep.
[14:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Experts Believe Cheaper, Better Lidar is Right Around the Corner - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:14] <exec> 08└─What is it 1936 all over again? Was this invented by J L Baird? I would have thought that piezo based mechanisms would be the obvious way, and an array of leds like an OKI printer, paired with an array of CCD devices the best approach. Publicly disclosing both ideas as obvious to anyone with any rel...
[14:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Experts Believe Cheaper, Better Lidar is Right Around the Corner - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:17] <exec> 08└─But moving laser beams is as cheap as chips. Every PoS commodity handheld barcode scanner, decades old technology costing almost nothing, can move a laser beam around. That's surely not the tech that's keeping LIDAR expensive?
[14:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Experts Believe Cheaper, Better Lidar is Right Around the Corner - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:19] <exec> 08└─Do you seriously think that would stop Sony from patenting it?
[14:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Experts Believe Cheaper, Better Lidar is Right Around the Corner - 1499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:21] <exec> 08└─OK I think I understand how one lidar works: Send a pulse of laser light and measure the return time, giving the distance to whatever the pulse reflected from. What happens with multiple lidars operating in the same environment (say, freeway)? How does my lidar know that that reflection came from me...
[14:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Pterosaur Eggs Found in Record-Breaking Fossil Haul - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:34] <exec> 08└─Déjà vu all over again.
[14:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:47] <exec> 08└─I'd like to take this chance to suggest everybody James Boyle's The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind http://www.thepublicdomain.org [thepublicdomain.org] (Don't give any money to Amazon though...)
[14:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:49] <exec> 08└─"a list on what we would have had with sane copyright under the old rules" Shouln't that be a list of things that are 14 years old, or 28 assuming that one renewal is performed? So 2003 works, or 1989 works for those too lazy to do the mental arithmetic. I'm pretty sure that pop music seems to enter...
[14:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 1201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:51] <exec> 08└─Even without these distractions, copyright is an abstract concept that's hard to get the average Joe and Jane excited about. Most people tend to primarily consume recent pop culture works, so whether stuff goes into the public domain after a couple decades or a century (or never) isn't a pressing qu...
[14:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:53] <exec> 08└─That is why it is important for us Little People to claim copyright explicitly on everything we create and release so that we retain some semblance of personal freedom through ownership of our own efforts. It's why licenses like Copyleft are crucial to our freedom.
[14:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:55] <exec> 08└─I still can't get people excited about privacy..... ....too busy with blah of the day and "if you've done nothing wrong, you have nothing to worry about!", which is what the Jews of Nazi Germany, what...1938ish were saying when asked to register at the local police station. Sheeple.
[14:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:38] <exec> 08└─Too late. They already patented the vulnerability and are working to release it in their next spec.
[14:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:40] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when the poster doesn't understand the article, feels stupid, gets mad about feeling stupid and says something dumb.
[14:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:41] <exec> 08└─They can still take the money and the assets. You have to prove you weren't buying drugs to even have a chance of getting any back. Good luck proving a negative. Personally, I can't see how that doesn't violate the fourth amendment, but then I am not a lawyer.
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[15:18:09] <exec> 08└─Really? Because when I tried that I lost all my friends over time. It's been worse in some ways, but in other ways, it's been better.
[15:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:10] <exec> 08└─I can barely find it worth my time listening the morons here. Let alone all of them in the world. Waste. However keep it up. Helps my data needs for AI studies. You are my robot. And at that level it is useful.
[15:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:12] <exec> 08└─My little group just migrated over to Discord after many years on IRC. We're generally pretty happy with the move. We've an IRC gateway for a couple of stubborn people though.
[15:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:15] <exec> 08└─Is someone holding a gun to your head?
[15:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:17] <exec> 08└─How's the weather in your mom's basement nowadays?
[15:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Experts Believe Cheaper, Better Lidar is Right Around the Corner - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:27] <exec> 08└─LIDAR isn't the only sensor on a vehicle guiding the car. Plus, the chances that your lidar beam strikes the sensor of another lidar is so small that any occurrence, even on a crowded highway would introduce only a small amount of error that the computer would simply ignore.
[15:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Experts Believe Cheaper, Better Lidar is Right Around the Corner - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:29] <exec> 08└─The LIDAR is sending a pulse out to a specific polar coordinate, and expects the pulse back from that specific polar coordinate within a very limited range of times. The change of another LIDAR targetting a surface on that particular ray within that narrow space of time is tiny. And if it did, that...
[15:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:45] <exec> 08└─Bring on AI?
[15:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:46] <exec> 08└─So buy AMD stock now, right?
[15:20:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:11] <exec> 08└─Misread that as 30,000 grown-ups in California, and didn't believe you.
[15:20:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 2026 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:32] <exec> 08└─That's only one dimension. Yes, there is an unresolved conflict [wikipedia.org] between state and federal law. States have gone beyond mere decriminalization (make the feds do the work of arresting people if they want to) and are permitting sales, handing out licenses, and collecting taxes. The feds...
[15:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:49] <exec> 08└─Just because it's less bad, and worse things are legal, doesn't mean it 'deserves' to be legalized.
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[16:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LG's 88-inch 8K OLED TV - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:57] <exec> 08└─Just hearing people talk about their 4K screens is annoying. I guess they'll soon update then and start to talk shit about how dreadful it is with only 4k and how they just can't watch anything lower then 8K. Once it becomes the new normal I guess LG (or whomever) will start to push their 16K screen...
[16:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LG's 88-inch 8K OLED TV - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:58] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, there's so little content other than porn in 4k that it doesn't make sense except for jacking off
[16:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:16] <exec> 08└─"the internet would only ever induce the sense of powerlessness that comes when the sphere of what a person can influence remains static, while the sphere of what can influence us seems to expand without limit, allowing no respite at all." The ability of our environment to influence us on the Intern...
[16:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03seandiggity [639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:17] <exec> 08└─Mastodon grew massively in 2017: https://www.engadget.com [engadget.com] https://mnm.social [mnm.social] https://mastodon.social [mastodon.social] ...and other decentralized/federated social networks are stable...
[16:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:19] <exec> 08└─Obligatory [xkcd.com]
[16:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:22] <exec> 08└─This might spell out good news for Mastodon, the decentralized microblogging platform. If people are looking for small and weird, you absolutely can get that by picking a small and weird local instance, and looking at the local timeline rather than the federated one. On the other hand, when your fri...
[16:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03seandiggity [639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:24] <exec> 08└─I forgot this fun visualization! https://kumu.io [kumu.io]
[16:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:26] <exec> 08└─We are cleaning out the house of a 95 year old friend who died recently. She collected many things, including old post cards. Many of them are over 100 years old, when it cost a penny to mail a card. The ones that are written on, usually have the equivalent of "What's up?" for the message -- so the...
[16:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:11] <exec> 08└─How did other bad laws get repealed? It took a lot of public scoffing and years of pressure to overcome the entrenched interests that had positioned themselves to benefit from the status quo. When fines from enforcement seem to benefit a municipality (or at least key officials and their cronies) mor...
[16:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:58] <exec> 08└─Do we have a snazzy name and logo yet for this issue?
[16:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:02] <exec> 08└─Sometimes I wonder how things like this were discovered. Then I think it's probably better not to ask such questions.
[16:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:04] <exec> 08└─I'd wager that even if you somehow were able to go back in time and tell each and every one of the individuals, the criminals, the exact statistics - and have them somehow completely believe you - that they would still choose crime. There's more to life than maximizing expected income. Going the rou...
[16:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:06] <exec> 08└─Actually, yes, that is a good reason to make them legal. It's consistency. What's going on is that marijuana is illegal because an unpopular minority uses it, not because it "deserves" to be illegal.
[16:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:08] <exec> 08└─The paper claims that alcohol is drastically more harmful, even to the user only, than tobacco or cocaine.
[16:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:10] <exec> 08└─Personally, I can't see how that doesn't violate the fourth amendment
[16:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Holograms in One Surface - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:27] <exec> 08└─I'll grant that color is not a physical dimension of our universe. But a color needs multiple bits to store as you note and they are numerical variables that can be projected onto a color space, often represented using three dimensions e.g. RGB, HSV. Our retinas and computer screens are two dimensio...
[16:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Holograms in One Surface - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:29] <exec> 08└─Oh, definitely a higher dimension. It's geometry isn't perfectly smooth though, it's kind of quivery but in a good way. Quite a fast, good way.
[16:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Holograms in One Surface - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:31] <exec> 08└─s/It's/Its but just the first one!
[16:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:29] <exec> 08└─However, in the scale of things, you probably won't find any politician who will not do things like this.
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[17:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Intel Core i7-8809G with Radeon Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory: Details Leaked - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:58] <exec> 08└─The term has started to lose its meaning. Sites that suck use it to attract viewers. I was going to blame Anandtech, but after going there to confirm things, the word "leak" isn't part of the content. The word appears when they referenced information they had last year, but it's not relating to the...
[17:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i7-8809G with Radeon Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory: Details Leaked - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:00] <exec> 08└─Agreed. This is a "sneak peek". Not a leak.
[17:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03massa [5547] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LG's 88-inch 8K OLED TV - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:10] <exec> 08└─or, as it is better known, "everyday use" :-)
[17:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LG's 88-inch 8K OLED TV - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:12] <exec> 08└─I don't see the need for it for video, but 4K makes a huge difference for text rendering at normal monitor viewing distances. You barely need antialiasing and what AA you do have is such a small proportion of the total line width that it makes text significantly crisper. 8K would probably completely...
[17:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:35] <exec> 08└─I wound up pulled on to Discord as well. I still use a personal IRC server for conversations I want to remain absolutely private instead of being archived at a megacorp until the end of time. However, only using IRC for private conversations makes the private conversations interesting to those who h...
[17:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:36] <exec> 08└─It always goes like this: them: "rich, you're on facebook, aren't you? Can I reach you there?" me: "No, I work in IT." them: "Oh, of course, I understand." People seem to have some conception that those working in IT are smart enough to not use facebook ;)
[17:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:38] <exec> 08└─but his opinion is of value because he "uses the internet every day"! that makes him an expert, right? hang on my totally non technical mom is skyping; she uses it every day! maybe i can get her opinion? so hey uh wake me up when email makes a comeback. it was so easy to just get messages in my emai...
[17:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:41] <exec> 08└─Yup. People get along better in small gatherings. Like when you hang around a fire with three or four good friends. In larger settings the noise level significantly increases and it all goes to shit.
[17:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:43] <exec> 08└─I like email: no likes unlikes, etc. No garbage, no shite. I can make it long or short. I just couldn't take FB. Someday, maybe people will get smart, but it'll probably be shit that replaces it. Stupids gotta have stupid. AND, how many people on FB do you REALLY want to interact with?
[17:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:45] <exec> 08└─That's why the older folks like it. They get to see plenty of pictures of the grand kids, family photos, vacation photos, and comment on them. I can appreciate it for that ability.
[17:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 1343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:47] <exec> 08└─"There is no limit to the amount of misfortune a person can take in via the internet" So true. Just the other day I was reading an online news site, and it had two leading articles about two different bus accidents, in two different (both foreign) countries. I suppose it was a positive sign, in a we...
[17:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:50] <exec> 08└─Except, people who DON'T use FB get by just fine! It's like cell phones: we didn't have them as kids, but now you GOTTA HAVE ONE!!....ummmm...no you don't. You WANT one. If people really want to include you in something, they'll include you. If they won't do it outside FB, they really don't want you...
[17:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Experts Believe Cheaper, Better Lidar is Right Around the Corner - 1419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:02] <exec> 08└─We've already been around this topic before, as AC, I submitted this article https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] back in July 2017. The Valeo unit noted below does not use a rotating mirror -- Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com
[17:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Experts Believe Cheaper, Better Lidar is Right Around the Corner - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:04] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/12/28/0157212 [soylentnews.org] In a new paper appearing in IEEE Access, members of the Camera Culture group present a new approach to time-of-flight imaging that increases its depth resolution 1,000-fold. That's the type of resolution that could make self-d...
[17:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Experts Believe Cheaper, Better Lidar is Right Around the Corner - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:06] <exec> 08└─Here's an excerpt of what I wrote to Google 3 years ago: From what I gather the Google autonomous car Lidar seems to be from roof level (same for other sensors?). In case you haven't considered it yet, I suggest it might be helpful to add sensors just below bumper level too. This would help detect p...
[17:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Experts Believe Cheaper, Better Lidar is Right Around the Corner - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:08] <exec> 08└─I never quite understood why autonomous cars would need LIDAR in the first place. The existing biological guidance systems get a halfway decent performance out of two passive optical receivers about 65 mm apart. And these receivers only have a very narrow high resolution viewing angle. I would imagi...
[17:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:40] <exec> 08└─Gotta love the censorship that goes on here. Clue for the clueless, benevolent dictatorships are not what make a free and open community. SN experiment failed, all that has happened with their "free speech" is enabling people like EF to troll with racist garbage. Its like the special Olympics of the...
[17:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:29] <exec> 08└─The only issue we know about is a side channel attack based on page table faults, it's pure speculation about Intel's speculative execution. Thomas Gleixner has already proposed an excellent snazzy name "Forcefully Unmap Complete Kernel With Interrupt Trampolines" [lkml.org] and the logo could be so...
[17:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:30] <exec> 08└─Severe: Remote code execution via malformed ping that anybody can do in their sleep (old school sploit shit). Modern: Some cryptic stuff that nobody is going to bother doing on a large scale (low hanging fruit and all) except in highly targeted attacks (and if you're at the receiving end of one of t...
[17:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:32] <exec> 08└─Sigh, didn't read the paper. They didn't try TRR (which is citation 33). They instead dismissed it on page 4 with: Hence, all elimination-based defenses are either not practical or require hardware changes, making them not applicable for commodity systems. Commodity systems should instead be protect...
[17:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:35] <exec> 08└─Severe: Remote code execution via malformed ping that anybody can do in their sleep (old school sploit shit). Modern: Some cryptic stuff
[17:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:00] <exec> 08└─wait, isn't an activist a SJW by conservative definition? what's a conservative SJW called then?
[17:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:56] <exec> 08└─Not cutting down, but it's comparing apples and raisins - Elon is exploring like Myles Standish (captain of the ship that founded Plymouth colony) - the space race astronauts were more on the order of Columbus. Both important, but there's a difference between leading and following.
[17:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drone Collides With US Army Helicopter, Puts 1.5" Dent in Rotor - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:44] <exec> 08└─Cold temperatures don't literally kill phones; they just drastically reduce battery efficiency.
[17:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drone Collides With US Army Helicopter, Puts 1.5" Dent in Rotor - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:45] <exec> 08└─Yea, I didn't go into detail but the cold increases the resistance of the electrolyte causing voltage to drop fooling the battery management into thinking the cells are low and shuts the phone down.
[17:25:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06The Most Awesome Codebreaker in World War II Was a Woman - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:22] <exec> 08└─How are tits relevant to math? Sorry, ladies, but cheerleading women simply because they're women is just as sexist as deriding them because they're women.
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[18:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i7-8809G with Radeon Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory: Details Leaked - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:05] <exec> 08└─The info was obviously published on accident before a regular press release: I imagine that this listing will come down fairly quickly. The product page that the link goes to for this chip gives a 404.
[18:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i7-8809G with Radeon Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory: Details Leaked - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:06] <exec> 08└─If it were more info about Intel's Management Engine, it would be a whistleblower, not a "leak". Paid for by Americans for Renewable Complaining and Sustainable Whining.
[18:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LG's 88-inch 8K OLED TV - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:18] <exec> 08└─One word which justifies high DPI and resolution screens: text.
[18:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LG's 88-inch 8K OLED TV - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:19] <exec> 08└─Looking at 4K is like smearing hydrochloric acid in my eyeball. That's why I only use 16K screens at a minimum.
[18:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LG's 88-inch 8K OLED TV - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:21] <exec> 08└─If you went back 10 years ago and replaced "4K" with "1920x1200" you would have been able to say the same things. But the future always sucked because mainstream adoption went to 1920x1080. They couldn't even upgrade from 1024x768 to something cool like 1280x1024 or 1680x1050 to tide them over until...
[18:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LG's 88-inch 8K OLED TV - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:23] <exec> 08└─It also depends on view distance and screen size. The problem with these bigger and higher resolution screens is that many people are watching their TV from across the room, where the increase in detail doesn't matter. There is a reason why TV stores don't let you see anything but their largest at a...
[18:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LG's 88-inch 8K OLED TV - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:26] <exec> 08└─So now we have the video 8K, 16K, 32K, etc people who are the equivalent of audiophiles who claim that a $1,000 speaker sounds so much worse than their $25,000 speaker. Even though nobody else can hear the difference. And of course, you need a pear. Then you get Monster Cable type claims, that gold-...
[18:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LG's 88-inch 8K OLED TV - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:28] <exec> 08└─I'm not excited at all about big screens. I'm waiting for _small_ 8k screens per eye (and the hardware and optics for them). That should make things a lot better for AR/VR. Then we can have screens as huge and as many as our hardware and wetware can cope with. And hopefully OS builders actually make...
[18:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LG's 88-inch 8K OLED TV - 1182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:30] <exec> 08└─The use case for 16K involves strapping it to your face. Very close to your face, and distorted by lenses as well. 16K [wikipedia.org] per eye (total of 30720 x 8640) ensures a wide field of view which should cover most of your peripheral vision [wikipedia.org]. https://wccftech.com
[18:18:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:41] <exec> 08└─the sort of small, weird communities ...
[18:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:03] <exec> 08└─how many people on FB do you REALLY want to interact with?
[18:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:04] <exec> 08└─Absolutely agree. I don't use FB. I don't understand why people think FB needs to be treated so delicately. Just nuke it from orbit! Paid for by Americans for Renewable Complaining and Sustainable Whining.
[18:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:06] <exec> 08└─Did you post on the wrong forum? Do you have red / green color blindness? Paid for by Americans for Renewable Complaining and Sustainable Whining.
[18:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:08] <exec> 08└─I hate Facebook, but I still keep the account. My boss uses Facebook to communicate things, like snow days, and whatnot. Birthday parties. Potluck dinners. I logged in two days ago to wish the old bat a happy 99th birthday - I'll have my ears chewed off tonight when I get to work. And, my kids. They...
[18:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:11] <exec> 08└─You see advertising with your email? You don't pass yourself off as a techie, do you?
[18:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, I've seen a stash of such postcards after the death of an older relative too. It's also important to remember that in many locations (particularly large cities), the post office used to deliver multiple times per day. And somehow they managed to communicate with only punctuation and the occasio...
[18:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:15] <exec> 08└─Ummmm...were they REALLY your friends? Doesn't quite seem so.
[18:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:17] <exec> 08└─Probably has an add-on that eliminates all the red green stuff. Almost all of my windows and tabs are dark background, with light coloring. Generally, black background, with white text, but it varies a little.
[18:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:20] <exec> 08└─Never heard of it, and suddenly two of you mention it. Guess I will give it a look later.
[18:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:22] <exec> 08└─I can't wait to see the AI you develop based on these training data. I'll be disappointed if it doesn't become some kind of alt-Randian objectivist communist.
[18:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:24] <exec> 08└─I can barely find it worth my time listening the morons here... ...but I do cause I'm a useless person with no life and soylentils are my only 'friends'. And my sentence structuring sucks.
[18:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 1265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:26] <exec> 08└─TFS talks about "fake Instagrams" and how this is supposedly subverting intended use by using pseudonyms to post more interesting or weird things for a more selective audience. As more platforms seem to be insisting on real names and verification, it's important to hold on to this sort of thing. Zuc...
[18:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:28] <exec> 08└─You: http://www.asofterworld.com [asofterworld.com]
[18:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:31] <exec> 08└─So, you really do see the world in black & white.
[18:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:33] <exec> 08└─Oh my, oh me o my. after realizing I couldn't "fix" them
[18:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:35] <exec> 08└─I spend most of my time on hatebook, but only in my mind because the asshole that owns the domain won't do anything useful with it ! HATE THIS! CLAIM AS ENEMY PROVIDE EVIDENCE OF HAVING BEEN DRIVEN BEFORE YOU!
[18:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:37] <exec> 08└─Uhhhhhhh - no - the background doesn't smother images. I look at images on my browser pages, and there's yellow, blue, various shades of red and blue that I can never identify, etc ad nauseum. To much white space hurts my eyes, so I've eliminated most of it.
[18:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:39] <exec> 08└─I give it 1-5 years before some organizations get enough tech saavy people to start getting a clue. Remember, the current generation in charge is the baby boomers with a few older holdouts holding key positions of power. Hell I'm a techie and shit still changes too fast! People have given all this s...
[18:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:42] <exec> 08└─Zuckerberg is also on record as saying that people that use facefuck are idiots and suckers so...
[18:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Experts Believe Cheaper, Better Lidar is Right Around the Corner - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:59] <exec> 08└─The existing biological guidance systems get a halfway decent performance out of two passive optical receivers plus intelligence
[18:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Experts Believe Cheaper, Better Lidar is Right Around the Corner - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:00] <exec> 08└─AMEN! "Weak minded" single though people are building these cars. Come on now we have multiple "pick ups" on backup sensors / bumpers, MIR, CAT scanners, and our own human build. Following Biology, use 3 rows of 2 at least eyes... 2 low (bottom of bumper), to medium (hood level), to high (roof lev...
[18:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:34] <exec> 08└─Submissions have always been edited or discarded by the editors. Maybe you should log in and post to your journal if you have a problem getting content onto the front page.
[18:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:26] <exec> 08└─For example, https://www.skhynix.com [skhynix.com] But you really need to check the specs yourself for now and test yourself. Some manufacturers leave it disabled (as it is optional) in LPDDR4 and others tack it on DDR4. Also, some implementations, like Mic...
[18:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:35] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato [wikipedia.org]
[18:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:55] <exec> 08└─what do you mean she isn't sexist? she married a man named Mr. Weiner! I mean talk about a dick move (posting anonymously because I am at work...)
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[19:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:59] <exec> 08└─I always found the name was the stigma, it just sounded cheap and shitty.
[19:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:01] <exec> 08└─Because I can white list my inbox. Only contacts get in. Plus it's my only email address that hasn't changed in 15 years. And it's still free. Damn ISPs being traded like baseball cards made using their email a living hell.
[19:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:03] <exec> 08└─It's the domain + tld combo that is the stigma. They should redirect it to hotmale.xxx.
[19:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:05] <exec> 08└─Back in the 90's hot mail was great, for throwaway email addresses, or even 'cause you forgot your old email address.. Just create a new account, accounts for each resume you sent out, accounts for friends and one for acquaintances, helped you compartmentalize things, they where not especially trust...
[19:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:07] <exec> 08└─It's actually a traditional Unix-esque in-joke, since it was one of the first webmail systems: HoTMailL. It might be cheap and shitty, but it's pretty geeky as well.
[19:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:10] <exec> 08└─The domain + tld is not the problem. It's the incoming mail announcement. It should be: You've got male! Paid for by Americans for Renewable Complaining and Sustainable Whining.
[19:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:12] <exec> 08└─Same reason I still use a Yahoo address. Their spam filtering works well, perceived availability is over three 9s, and the address doesn't change every other year.
[19:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:14] <exec> 08└─From TFA (on Ars Technica). . . However, Hotmail had a password length limit of 16 characters
[19:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:16] <exec> 08└─I have several hundreds of Yahoo addresses that I haven't looked at for years. They could even be gone for all I know. Last I checked (about 2016) the few that I tried still were there and could be logged in. When several high profile breaches of Yahoo email occurred, it led me to wonder: * what per...
[19:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:19] <exec> 08└─"password" and "abc123" don't require 16 characters.
[19:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Core i7-8809G with Radeon Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory: Details Leaked - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:29] <exec> 08└─The "mistake" has saved Intel millions in advertisement costs.
[19:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i7-8809G with Radeon Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory: Details Leaked - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:31] <exec> 08└─All they have to do is issue a press release to get coverage on these sites. One drone typing for an hour, cross checked with marketing and legal. Probably several hundreds of dollars of expenditure, not millions. And they will still issue one even if ALL of the relevant details have already leaked.
[19:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i7-8809G with Radeon Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory: Details Leaked - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:33] <exec> 08└─Dang, they still have much to learn from Apple, which gets full front page coverage on the potential that some rumor about the idea of a leak might be plausible, plus full-blown analysis of fanfiction photoshops.
[19:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LG's 88-inch 8K OLED TV - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:51] <exec> 08└─TV "4K" (3840x2160) has a lot of infrastructure in common with movie 4K (4096x2160). The content industry is very happy that SMPTE finally got some of their duck in a row and provided standards (manufacturer-driven, obviously) to simplify many of the workflows. 2K and 4K were originally the shortcut...
[19:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:43] <exec> 08└─The only winning move is not to play :-(
[19:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:44] <exec> 08└─To much white space hurts my eyes, so I've eliminated most of it.
[19:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:46] <exec> 08└─Zuckerberg for example is on the record for repeatedly denying the possibility of multiple online identities for Facebook
[19:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:48] <exec> 08└─And online you have the additional noise from professional astroturfers and shills...
[19:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:34] <exec> 08└─And an update: https://lkml.org [lkml.org]
[19:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 061600 Vine Street - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:26] <exec> 08└─Damned whiners! I thought we were all about destroying the legacy media monopolies around these parts. Newsflash for whiners: you sitting on your ass whining doesn't change anything. While I don't give a crap about their content these people are at least doing something.
[19:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 061600 Vine Street - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:28] <exec> 08└─lol xD [npr.org]
[19:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:06] <exec> 08└─This isn't an us vs. them scenario here. It is a problem with the system. Bush, Obama, Trump, they're all symptoms of a fucked up system. Playing whataboutism to support "your team" which is currently the most blatantly corrupt of all time really illustrates your values. Nothing wrong with pointing...
[19:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:07] <exec> 08└─Keep flogging that dead horse. It doesn't look desperate at all...
[19:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:10] <exec> 08└─Which member of the FBI said that? Gregory A Brower, Assistant Director, Office of Congressional Affairs said it. [documentcloud.org] "All twelve chains had previously been reviewed by investigators"
[19:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:05] <exec> 08└─Not cutting down, but it's comparing apples and raisins
[19:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:06] <exec> 08└─Both important, but there's a difference.
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[20:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0! - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:59] <exec> 08└─So glad to hear that it will be published!
[20:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0! - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:00] <exec> 08└─While I rarely looked at Linux Journal, I wish them the best of luck. Make a New Years Resolution to not cease publication. Make a New Years Resolution to cover things that Linux users care about, such as the extreme rise of the Linux Desktop in 2018. This year I definitely will not break my new yea...
[20:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:19] <exec> 08└─Yup. One for each mailing list I subscribe to. Kind of the way I use Gmail today. And Yandex mail. Same way I used yahoo before that. And Hotmail. And AOL. I have more forgotten email addresses than currently used addresses. Every once in a while I dig out my old password book, wake up an long disus...
[20:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:20] <exec> 08└─It has become harder to do this now that more services demand phone numbers. Gmail is particularly bad in that you could make an account without a phone number (last time I checked) but draconian "unusual activity" detection will often permanently lock your account away for some arbitrary and unknow...
[20:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:22] <exec> 08└─Various of those providers have powered up two factor authentication - for those accounts you care even a little bit about. I had old yahoo account hacked/stolen and used by a guy in India. He changed the password. It took him a year to realized that I had it set up to forward a copy to another acco...
[20:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:25] <exec> 08└─At least you aren't suggesting 12345 which is reserved for presidents to use on their luggage.
[20:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:27] <exec> 08└─Trick there is to use two factor with the Authenticator App or the Yubikey. [yubico.com] No phone number needed. One key will serve for a bunch of different accounts from a bunch of providers.
[20:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:29] <exec> 08└─Oh, and the "unusual activity" alerts usually amounted to accessing the account via a cellular network which bridges to the internet at some random place which changes hour by hour in some cases. Very annoying. 2FA solves that.
[20:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06LG's 88-inch 8K OLED TV - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:01] <exec> 08└─You barely need antialiasing [with 4K displays]
[20:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LG's 88-inch 8K OLED TV - 1572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:02] <exec> 08└─I have an LG OLED55B6P that I bought last year. The picture quality of OLED really is second to none, primarily because of the true black. Black pixels are just like the TV being shut off. Can't say enough about it. It makes even the best plasma TVs look just OK. HOWEVER: Since LG has decided their...
[20:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:58] <exec> 08└─Oh really? No garbage at all in emails? No wasted pointless posturing and feel-good nonsense? Thexalon Grand Poo-Bah, Loyal Order of Water Buffalo Lodge 35 123-456-7890 Fax: 493-555-2385 email.address.I.just.sent.this.from@waterbuffalolodge.info 1450 Grand Office Park Rd Springfield, AN 12345 "I thi...
[20:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:00] <exec> 08└─wanted me to impregnate her, but give up any and all parental rights
[20:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:02] <exec> 08└─It's not just trivial to move away from sites like Facebook, but the only smart move as well. Don't let yourself be used by a deeply unethical mass surveillance engine. Using it also often helps Facebook conduct surveillance on people who don't even use the service, like when someone uploads a pictu...
[20:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Experts Believe Cheaper, Better Lidar is Right Around the Corner - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:21] <exec> 08└─I mean seriously, so it will see me when my dumb car comes around the corner and crashes into it???!!!! why would I want lidar anywhere but in my car!! Why are people so dumb(like my car)!!! Seriously though, with more utilization comes more development, it's a known and well understood technology,...
[20:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Experts Believe Cheaper, Better Lidar is Right Around the Corner - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:22] <exec> 08└─moving laser beams is as cheap as chips. I am not sure I would agree. Chips (as in volume produced silicon) is about as cheap as you can get. Moving parts are not an attractive feature if you are interested in reliability, and loss of input from you lidar could lead to very costly law suits. When it...
[20:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:58] <exec> 08└─Now let's see how many new American movie etc releases, using these other countries public domain content, make money.
[20:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:53] <exec> 08└─Buy AMD processors now. Intel processors suffer from the vulnerability. If AMD processors do not, then I also observate . . . Intel is strongly associated with the Management Engine, a huge vulnerability disguised as a "feature". Gee, could this vulnerability be deliberate? A very deep obscure way t...
[20:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:03] <exec> 08└─In all the state's that have legalized recreational use yeah, up to X number of plants. Here in CA I think it is 6(?) and you can legally carry up to an ounce of weed. I can't wait for the end of the black market, it attracts so many scum sucking slimeballs. The decent folks are all going through th...
[20:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:05] <exec> 08└─There isn't a whole lot you can do unless you go full out and provide housing, but that will also entail a near-permanent officer presence since drug addiction is highly correlated with homelessness. Many homeless people avoid shelters too, not only are they an easy target for bullies / thieves but...
[20:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:07] <exec> 08└─State vs. Federal, its about time we started getting some progress on that front! I think the current example is precisely how it should be done. Allow states to test out their own laws before revoking or enacting it as Federal law. I think we're reaching the tipping point where Federal law will hav...
[20:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:31] <exec> 08└─I'll take the easy win on this one: all the millions he defrauded from his investors and all the discriminatory practices from employment to hotel patronage. Sadly there is no criminal statute for hypocrisy or he'd get a life sentence, but combined with the thousands of cases against him we could pr...
[20:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:33] <exec> 08└─You don't want a desperate jmorris, that is how people get shot / run over.
[20:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:35] <exec> 08└─That is some weak shit, but hey 1+ year later you still have nothing better to distract away from Trump's massive failure. You are #sad.
[20:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:37] <exec> 08└─A sheltered life you have lived, or you need more coffee. The pimp will PIMP OUT the daughter to every rich fucker in town.
[20:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:39] <exec> 08└─This isn't an us vs. them scenario here. It is a problem with the system. Bush, Obama, Trump, they're all symptoms of a fucked up system. Playing whataboutism to support "your team" which is currently the most blatantly corrupt of all time really illustrates your values.
[20:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:42] <exec> 08└─That is what we've been saying every time "her emails!" comes up in a Trump story! No it is not OK, but you have to deal with reality. Right now the reality is that we're saturated with corrupt politicians, and it has been this way since the beginning of the USA to varying degrees. Harping on Clinto...
[20:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:44] <exec> 08└─I'll take the easy win on this one: all the millions he defrauded from his investors and all the discriminatory practices from employment to hotel patronage.
[20:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:42] <exec> 08└─space is every bit as important as conquering the ocean was 250 years ago.
[20:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:43] <exec> 08└─I'm not disputing the science it is supposed to produce, nor am I complaining about its cost. I'm just saying that many programs (at the time existing and proposed) have been gutted over the years because JWST was too big to fail. A lot of NASA resources, at the direction of Headquarters, went into...
[20:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:46] <exec> 08└─These may have been killed by JWST [wikipedia.org]: In contrast to other proposed observatories, most of which have already been canceled or put on hold, including Terrestrial Planet Finder [wikipedia.org] (2011), Space Interferometry Mission [wikipedia.org] (2010), Laser Interferometer Space Antenn...
[20:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 2261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:48] <exec> 08└─Thanks for fact-checking me, history is highly dependent on where you learn it, and that power steering tidbit came to me by way of the son of Charles Bancroft. In 1991, I sketched out an alternative rotary engine design - and then I went to the downtown Miami library and did a patent search on the...
[20:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:50] <exec> 08└─Risking money, whether yours or investors' or the tax payers', is not the same thing as risking your life. Launching the car, instead of some cement ballast, is a brilliant twist - but also demonstrates the disjointed scales of money we're talking about - a $100K car is in the rounding error for a M...
[20:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0634th Chaos Communication Congress (34C3) Presentations Online - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:05] <exec> 08└─I think the CCC is well known enough not to need a lengthy introduction at the end of every post about it. Maybe in CNN or Fox, but not in tech sites, it's the largest group and the largest Congress of this kind in Europe. The post had clear context (it's a mostly tech Congress) and people who don't...
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[21:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0! - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:06] <exec> 08└─At this point you're the chicken. Question answered, next up: why does God hate you and ten ways to get back in his good graces.
[21:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0! - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:07] <exec> 08└─What did LJ do wrong to get into that situation in the first place? Tons of other Linux mags, many from the UK, still lie in magazine racks.
[21:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:32] <exec> 08└─ISP email? The only use for ISP email is getting the damn copier to send emails using their barely secured SMTP servers.
[21:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:33] <exec> 08└─You don't need 90's Hotmail for throwaway and unlimited email addresses. I use a conventional email client and an email forwarder which offers me an unlimited number of addresses, and I also have a hosting provider ditto. I never give out the same email address to more than one entity; downside is t...
[21:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:35] <exec> 08└─https://smsreceivefree.com/country/usa [smsreceivefree.com]
[21:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03waximius [1136] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Core i7-8809G with Radeon Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory: Details Leaked - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:49] <exec> 08└─Ok, I've seen this going on for a while and will now ask the dumb question - why is Intel integrating GPUs onto the same package as their processors? Don't misunderstand, I can see many benefits of on-package GPUs, but if we're going to disrupt motherboards and sockets again why are we not making fa...
[21:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:07] <exec> 08└─How does one actually go about posting video on something like Mastodon? Is there a facility to upload a video to a Mastodon server or something equivalent? Reason: a lot of people who want to leave instagram/facebook/youtube/whatever have activities that relate to photo/video/audio content (thinkin...
[21:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:08] <exec> 08└─Praying MIGHTILY you are correct, sir!
[21:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:11] <exec> 08└─Dumb fucks [theregister.co.uk]. They "trust him." Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask. Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one? Zuck: People just submitted it. Zuck: I don't know why. Zu...
[21:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Experts Believe Cheaper, Better Lidar is Right Around the Corner - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:31] <exec> 08└─Anybody know is familiar with working on gadgets knows that the "moving" part of "moving parts is the primary cause of failure in sensory gadgets, and especially since the LIDAR head likely uses a slipring in its comparatively fast rate of rotation. If I were to drive a self-driving car I would pick...
[21:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:07] <exec> 08└─Here's the problem with us Little People using copyright in our own defense: It's a civil matter. Which means that in order to enforce it, you need to know that the big corporate giant stole your stuff, and then convince and probably pay for a lawyer to file suit. By contrast, the big corporate gian...
[21:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:09] <exec> 08└─I have no problem, but it is clear there is quite a bias going on. The only positive change I've seen is a reduction in the massive editorializing by TMB and other submitters. Maybe editors should use some sort of ranking system, or has been said before create a "spill over" front page, maybe title...
[21:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 1869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:11] <exec> 08└─I do mean us plebians. The big corporations have been very busy fighting with each other over their own scraps of "innovation" through their cross licensing deals.Then there were the patent trolls. Next came the ones trying to claim public domain works as their own because of some idea of corporatio...
[21:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe Dinsney Corp. could go mining the rich seams of Chinese fairy tales? (I assume there are Chinese fairy tales).
[21:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:52] <exec> 08└─Harping on Clinton's emails is like harping on Trump's excessive visits to his own resorts and general waste of tax payer dollars.
[21:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:53] <exec> 08└─Trump will be remembered as the worst president after Nixon, and if he were smarter he'd easily be able to win that award with the ridiculous level of police state controls that was handed to him on a silver platter. Oh, it was silver and not gold with a monogrammed DJT on it, thus why he didn't rea...
[21:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:55] <exec> 08└─One possible positive externality of this is the longer the Clintons skate, when they have so obviously broken the law with impunity time and time again, the more it exposes the Deep State and drives home the necessity of uprooting it. Letting high profile criminals like them go scot-free destroys p...
[21:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:58] <exec> 08└─Cut jmorris a little slack. He's actually reading the great books of the Western canon right now. He's been reading Karl Marx and will tackle Bentham next. I really hope he does read Nietzsche, because he's entertaining and important, but mostly because I hope he comes to understand that Nietzsche i...
[21:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:00] <exec> 08└─It's not weak shit. Many have been prosecuted and served jail time for the same kind of mishandling of classified information. Hillary and Huma did it, so why aren't they being prosecuted for it? I said the same thing when Karl Rove did the same thing, running government business off personal email...
[21:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:02] <exec> 08└─I have to side with khallow on this one. Not liking Trump is not enough reason to prosecute him. If, however, we indict Trump for what you're claiming and prosecute him, I say great, as long as we're doing the Clintons and Wall Street and the whole rest of the power-elite at the same time. One quest...
[21:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:04] <exec> 08└─A white, conservative, ammosexual Woman!
[21:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:07] <exec> 08└─Defend your hero as you will, I'm not calling him bad, or a failure, just different.
[21:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:09] <exec> 08└─Risking money, whether yours or investors' or the tax payers', is not the same thing as risking your life.
[21:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:11] <exec> 08└─but he's not crossing any new thresholds yet
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[22:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A US Customs Computer Snafu Caused Major Airport Delays - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:59] <exec> 08└─Give me a break. What is the peak rate of traffic? A big airport has maybe 20 customs lanes, and there are 20 big airports? So 400 people every 20 seconds? 20 per second is not a lot of traffic. You could run it in a 486 with WinSock over dialup.
[22:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0! - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:10] <exec> 08└─I always found Linux Journal to be an interesting magazine. The Library I work out used to subscribe, but it was dropped when they switched to Online only. The "Official Raspberry Pi Magazine" MagPi has filled that niche for me. Linux Journal definitely covers a lot more, but I'm not interested enou...
[22:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0! - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:12] <exec> 08└─A few guesses. Lack of corporate overlords to float them through lean times. Lack of desire to accept just any advertising. Presumably lack of sales staff to sell said advertising.
[22:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:39] <exec> 08└─Semi-decent game support, isn't even in the picture for Apple or Linux. You can just imagine how much Microsoft pays for this to happen!
[22:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:41] <exec> 08└─I think I might have used a service just like that (same layout, maybe same website), as well as a couple of other ones in an attempt to trick Google. But Google had blacklisted the numbers, making them utterly useless. I certainly like the idea though and it seems like something that could be used...
[22:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:43] <exec> 08└─Multiple throwaway accounts is arguably better from a security standpoint since you can use a different username/password as needed. Or entirely different services so that if one gets completely hacked, not everything is rekt.
[22:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:45] <exec> 08└─Hotmail still has that limit, which by extension means Outlook.com also does, and that cascades onto the entire Microsoft Account (formerly "Live ID") so if you're using any MS cloudy service thingy, you're stuck in the dark ages with 16 characters. At some point I read that it was for compatibility...
[22:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Intel Core i7-8809G with Radeon Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory: Details Leaked - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:00] <exec> 08└─You're thinking small. Don't misunderstand, I can see many benefits of on-package GPUs, but if we're going to disrupt motherboards and sockets again why are we not making faster/larger processors instead of trying to integrate GPUs? If we are creating more real estate on-package, I don't see that pu...
[22:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Core i7-8809G with Radeon Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory: Details Leaked - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:01] <exec> 08└─And as for your driver complaint, you think Intel would let that be a problem?
[22:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03waximius [1136] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Core i7-8809G with Radeon Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory: Details Leaked - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:03] <exec> 08└─Thank you, great information. One follow up to your point: There's this thing called the internet which is heavily driven by visual content delivered to screens. With all the new web technologies such as WebGL, streaming video, and all sorts of other stuff, why would you not include a GPU? It's a de...
[22:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:24] <exec> 08└─One assumes that those folks would eat jumbo shrimp and communicate with their honest congressman about military intelligence. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:26] <exec> 08└─Are you trying to monetise? If not, how about archive.org?
[22:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:28] <exec> 08└─You were an early commenter in a (sub)thread that mentioned it back in April. [soylentnews.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESA's Second Batch of Gaia Data Coming in April 2018 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:56] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much work could it be to make these data available and incorporated in Celestia?
[22:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:31] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, Woody Guthrie was an early anti-copyright artist. From the linked wikipedia: "This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin' it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a d...
[22:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:27] <exec> 08└─OK, Company A produces wooden pedestrian bridges, advertised and sold as pedestrian bridges. Company B builds railroads and uses one of Company A's wooden pedestrian bridges as railroad bridge. The moment the first train drives over that bridge, it crashes down. Is it now Company A's fault that the...
[22:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:17] <exec> 08└─Redirect your energy to fixing the system instead of hunting for every bit of partisan ammunition you can find. The FBI did an investigation, she didn't go to prison, Trump lied yet again. Get over it and at least change your narrative to something more constructive to political reform.
[22:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:19] <exec> 08└─One question, though--given that judges are all political hacks and all prosecutors are too, who are we going to trust to conduct said trials?
[22:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06State Department Releases Huma Abedin Emails - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:21] <exec> 08└─This would be all well and good if the practice of home servers stopped when it was deemed bad. However, now the members of the administration that got voted in based on the failure of their opponent to use the proper server, are themselves making the same failure.
[22:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 1540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:27] <exec> 08└─My point wasn't supposed to be about bravery, it was supposed to be about exploration - novelty - pushing the boundaries. JWST is a big fat white elephant that WILL push those boundaries, open new frontiers of knowledge, and the outcome of that is completely unknowable. Maybe a waste of time, maybe...
[22:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:28] <exec> 08└─So, the adversarial process is making me out to be an Elon hater, which I am not (though I don't love him as much as some do...) I will say, though, no matter how you slice it: that car is not at risk, that car is expended as a publicity stunt. In the event of successful deployment, it is also step...
[22:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:30] <exec> 08└─sending payloads into space for comparable rates to the Russians and Chinese with much lower rates on the horizon.
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[23:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:04] <exec> 08└─I always wondered if this, robocalls, was a very American thing. I dont think we even have it, we have sales people that call you up sometimes and want to sell you (or for you to renew) subscriptions to newspapers -- mostly due to stupidity of once upon a time I actually gave them my phone number an...
[23:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:05] <exec> 08└─Sounds like that Do Not Call List that was supposed to solve all the telemarketer problems didn't actually solve any problems?
[23:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:07] <exec> 08└─We don't even have the sales stuff here, contracts can't be accepted by phone. It certainly sounds like a very American thing.
[23:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robocalls Were Worse Than Ever in 2017 - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:10] <exec> 08└─In Canada we have a do not call list: https://www.lnnte-dncl.gc.ca [lnnte-dncl.gc.ca] It works pretty good, but not perfect. It DOES reduce the calls a lot, it does not eliminate them (or....we still get them because my wife answers all calls, while I let the machine screen them for me: I...
[23:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A US Customs Computer Snafu Caused Major Airport Delays - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:19] <exec> 08└─You could run it in a 486 with WinSock over dialup.
[23:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A US Customs Computer Snafu Caused Major Airport Delays - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:21] <exec> 08└─I did notice a sudden rash of major terrorist attacks on US soil as soon as the system went down. I am really glad it usually works.
[23:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A US Customs Computer Snafu Caused Major Airport Delays - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:23] <exec> 08└─Not to mention bags inspection if the computer "randomly" selects you for that, and one guy with dodgy documents can tie up a line for a long time. Its only fast if they know you are coming well ahead of time, (returning flight, visa travel, etc). If I wanted to put my tin foil hat on, I would say t...
[23:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A US Customs Computer Snafu Caused Major Airport Delays - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:25] <exec> 08└─Sadly, all they have is hundreds of millions worth of lameframe hardware.
[23:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A US Customs Computer Snafu Caused Major Airport Delays - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:27] <exec> 08└─If you have Excess Budget to buy lameframe hardware, then it doesn't take much traffic to have Excess Traffic. Why can't they past mainframes and move into the 1980's?
[23:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A US Customs Computer Snafu Caused Major Airport Delays - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:30] <exec> 08└─Interesting. You've "triggered" me, LOL. Have mainframes not kept up with the advances in PC's and other computer hardware? 40 years ago, when I was leaning up against a mainframe to stay warm while studying, they were 'The Thing', so to speak. If it couldn't be solved on a mainframe, it probaly cou...
[23:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0! - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:43] <exec> 08└─LJ was fucking rad, and anyway, if you want something printed in professional color magazine format for a niche hobby of super-autists it's gonna be fucking expensive. When I could get my grubby hands on their hard copy I saw that it was as valuable as 2600 or Nuts and Volts.
[23:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0! - 1234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:44] <exec> 08└─How many other Linux mags are there? There's a couple in Europe/UK I'm aware of, but not here in the US. The thing that seemed to do them in was going to online-only: lots of people stopped their subscriptions because they didn't see the point in paying for something that was no longer printed on pa...
[23:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Happy New Year- Welcome to Linux Journal 2.0! - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:46] <exec> 08└─general desktop stuff just isn't very interesting now thanks to crap like Gnome3
[23:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:17] <exec> 08└─Android still has a 16-character limit, and it is used for the encryption password as well.
[23:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:19] <exec> 08└─Do you want an OS or a toy?
[23:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Hotmail Stigma - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:21] <exec> 08└─I get hot mail from wikileaks.
[23:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i7-8809G with Radeon Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory: Details Leaked - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:39] <exec> 08└─I don't like this. Intel poached Koduri essentially--we know *nothing* of how or why he joined Intel!--and now appears to be trying to create a mashup of Ryzen CPU performance with Ravenridge-level IGP. It's an interesting technical angle, but something about this smells as far as the corporate side...
[23:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Intel Core i7-8809G with Radeon Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory: Details Leaked - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:40] <exec> 08└─AMD has done well with Ryzen and GPUs recently, but their easy cryptomining cash boost will probably dry up soon. This gets them to tap into a source of revenue. Although it probably doesn't help them with market share, they can leech off of Intel's. This is also less of a devastating self-flagellat...
[23:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i7-8809G with Radeon Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory: Details Leaked - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:42] <exec> 08└─The combination of an on-package GPU and the High Bandwidth Memory may have some advantages over discrete GPUs. Moving everything closer together helps overcome certain limits: http://www.nersc.gov [nersc.g...
[23:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Core i7-8809G with Radeon Graphics and High Bandwidth Memory: Details Leaked - 1340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:45] <exec> 08└─With Ryzen and Vega, AMD has fully thrown itself into the 'Secured for government spying' Arena, with backdoored CPUs and GPUs with signed firmware and potential hypervisor level backdoors that co-opt what little of the mainstream computer market was left after Intel was done with it. If you conside...
[23:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LG's 88-inch 8K OLED TV - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:06] <exec> 08└─Please hold still I don't want to get this shit on my fingers ...
[23:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:11] <exec> 08└─Yours was a reply to a reply to me. Easy to miss, especially when I've written over 8,500 comments apparently. Did they ever rename the "toots"?
[23:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:12] <exec> 08└─You never got an email that ended with "Do you Yahoo!?"? Yes, that was advertising in emails.
[23:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, if fires get too large, they are not fun any more ;-)
[23:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:17] <exec> 08└─Not exactly an expert, be a sample end user. And, to be fair, the end users are the entire point of the internet. Experts aren't.
[23:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny, Weird Online Communities Made a Comeback in 2017 - 1729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:19] <exec> 08└─I can't really recall seeing that. Maybe years ago. It seems I remember that phrase, or question, but I can't actually remember seeing it. Certainly not in the past few years. Do people still Yahoo? Probably, those emails that might contain that phrase go to my spam folder. Let me take a look. OH MY...
[23:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Experts Believe Cheaper, Better Lidar is Right Around the Corner - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:41] <exec> 08└─> I would imagine that two modern full scale DSLR sensors could deliver all the data needed, and it's mainly a software challenge. The output of human eyes is not like the output from a camera -- eyes have layers of hardware processing for edge detection, velocity of objects moving in the scene, and...
[23:22:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 1116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:10] <exec> 08└─"a list on what we would have had with sane copyright under the old rules" Shouln't that be a list of things that are 14 years old, or 28 assuming that one renewal is performed? So 2003 works, or 1989 works for those too lazy to do the mental arithmetic. I'm pretty sure that pop music seems to enter...
[23:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:24] <exec> 08└─Something like 5 of every 6 submissions is accepted, probably a much higher rate compared to Slashdot. We've tried to keep politics to 1-2 a day maximum, and preferred articles that aren't complete flamebait. If you read some aristarchus submissions that linger in the submission list, it should beco...
[23:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Domain Day, 2018 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:25] <exec> 08└─Poor Aristarchus! He's kind of the Harry Truman of SoylentNews!
[23:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Hardware Bug Quietly Being Patched in the Open - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:22] <exec> 08└─In theory it is, though you very soon end up in "infinite monkeys" territory. In practice I think you're right. Though, what about "formally validated" hardware?
[23:23:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Recreational Cannabis Goes on Sale in California - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:53] <exec> 08└─I mean there are people walking around thinking it cures cancer.
[23:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:27] <exec> 08└─Will the JWST bring us cold fusion on a platter? Or something unexpected and equally dramatic? Likely not, but without continued expansion of the frontiers, big dramatic improvements like that won't be happening.
[23:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JWST: Too Big to Fail? - 2516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:28] <exec> 08└─I was in that large mirror business back in those days (late 90's/early 2000's) when all of those missions were concepts (including JWST). I'll go off of my faulty memory instead of following your links, but in terms of technology, a lot of those missions were related. The grand goal (50+ years out)...
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