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[00:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nissan Made Self-Parking Slippers Based on ProPilot Tech - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:19] <exec> 08└─But can they escape getting chewed on by the dog?
[00:17:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 1113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:32] <exec> 08└─From page 15 of the preprint: We have two key recommendations. First, we recommend that the label “statistically significant” should no longer be used. Instead, researchers should provide more meaningful interpretations of the theoretical or practical relevance of their results. Second, authors...
[00:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:33] <exec> 08└─When used properly statistics are a beautiful tool to observer the world around us. But you must factor in the sample size, and the balance of probabilities that data is correct. If you don't know intimately what Bayesian or the Central limit theorems describe, quit trying to comment now - that is t...
[00:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:36] <exec> 08└─Flamebait?! What, you can't say fuck on the internet anymore? What's the matter with you people? Oh! I get it. I was modded by a statistician. Getting a bit sensitive are we?
[00:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:38] <exec> 08└─Without a doubt psych and social will one day be quantitative Consider the origin of chemistry
[00:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:40] <exec> 08└─Daniël from Holland is disappointed. He doesn't know about our Senate. Our Senate is a joke. We have 100 individuals in there, they're not loyal to their parties. They don't represent the will of the American people. And they can't make up their own minds! So we have a PART TIME government, it does...
[00:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:42] <exec> 08└─Statistics is like dynamite. Use it properly, and you can move mountains. Use it improperly, and the mountain will come down on you.
[00:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Takes An Unexpected Lead In The Race To Develop Autonomous Vehicles - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:59] <exec> 08└─a good analysis. But the murky reporting of these things by vested interests, suggests that Tesla may yet succeed. He's managed to exploit the exponential effect of modern computing - and more importantly, changed the exponent of manufacture. Of course, we'd all like to see a smooth delivery... but...
[00:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:39] <exec> 08└─> The Apple Wars is how God kept Adam & Eve from paradise and forced them into a horrible life of living well, being the ones just before the ultimate expression of creation has its drawbacks, meatbags. Deal with it.
[00:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:40] <exec> 08└─The people who abuse drugs and die made their own choice. It's great to try to mitigate that harm, but not at the expense of people who actually do need those drugs. Why should they suffer? We did exist before fentanyl. We also had more pain patients commit suicide. Although not strictly legal, we D...
[00:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:42] <exec> 08└─Or do they have immunity from the law?
[00:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:45] <exec> 08└─That mind control can only go so far. I'm actually fairly good at it, right up until it breaks through and I grey out or black out. It can certainly help you need less pain killers, but it can only go so far. Thankfully, the pain that blacked me out was temporary. I can only imagine how much worse i...
[00:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:47] <exec> 08└─We could, but "drugs" is one thing you can say to a conservative that will make him ask for big government. Maybe we could call them global drugging alarmists.
[00:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$400+ Million Stolen From Coincheck Cryptocurrency Exchange - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:02] <exec> 08└─I think that crypto pretending to be anonymous went out of fashion within the last year... it's only very recently that I've seen any mainstream media articles that don't call it "anonymous."
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[01:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Nissan Made Self-Parking Slippers Based on ProPilot Tech - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:25] <exec> 08└─now we can watch tables and slippers chasing dogs.
[01:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:43] <exec> 08└─Origin of chemistry is cooking. What's your point?
[01:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:44] <exec> 08└─But you don't need to know how to do any analysis if you never need to do any analysis because you've not passed the earlier hurdle that lets you have data to analyse! If you aren't familiar with Simpson's Paradox, and Reversion to Mean - you shouldn't even be collecting the data!
[01:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:47] <exec> 08└─If you don't know intimately what Bayesian or the Central limit theorems describe, quit trying to comment now - that is the ground floor in analysis...
[01:18:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ben_white [5531] 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 24 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:15] <exec> 08└─Ban the mail system Now!
[01:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:48] <exec> 08└─Apparently not.
[01:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:49] <exec> 08└─Once we educate degenerate drug users on the proper dosage of fentanyl, there will be less of them showing up in the morgue.
[01:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:51] <exec> 08└─But I bet you are both in favor of free government supplied health care.
[01:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:53] <exec> 08└─Actually, IIRC, requiring cigarette packages to not have blatantly distinctive packaging did reduce the amount of cigarettes sold in Austrailia?
[01:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:23] <exec> 08└─You know you can just check "No karma bonus", right?
[01:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:24] <exec> 08└─One is designed to repeative use. The other is designed for rare use. Break the little clip off then you break connection must easier.
[01:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:27] <exec> 08└─For me it wa 1983. Preloaded services with 1 to n of a given service so that disk IO could be interwoven. On that machine 1 disk IO was equal 40,000 asset instructions. So a name search normally had 3 services to share by 72 workstation / users. And 20 llines to show on a display would work out to 0...
[01:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:29] <exec> 08└─You overdose on memes.
[01:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$400+ Million Stolen From Coincheck Cryptocurrency Exchange - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:17] <exec> 08└─They call it distributed. Our Federal Reserve System is distributed too. Little Rocket Man nukes San Francisco, nukes Los Angeles, nukes Chicago, nukes New York City, it's no problem for our Federal Reserve. Because that leaves 8 banks. Beautiful system!!!!
[01:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$400+ Million Stolen From Coincheck Cryptocurrency Exchange - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:18] <exec> 08└─I guess you've never seen our American money, our beautiful Greenbacks. Every one has a VERY SPECIAL number, they call it a serial number. If our money ever gets stolen, very easy to trace that number. And GRAB, GRAB, GRAB that money. When President Lincoln invented Greenbacks, it was hard to trace....
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[02:17:11] <exec> 08└─Ruh Roh, V'Ger all over again.
[02:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:40] <exec> 08└─Tkdfrbjf gb
[02:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:41] <exec> 08└─So someone couldn't find a statistically significant relationship between something that they really wanted to, and they try to re-define what statistically significant is instead of just accepting what they found. That's how I read that load of crap, anyway.
[02:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03lars [4376] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:47] <exec> 08└─What crime? The crime produced is due to it being illegal in the first place. All that's left is DUI/public intoxication. DUI will be a thing of the past with self driving cars. Public intoxication isn't much of an issue, as well as being something that can be prevented effective with enforcement as...
[02:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Potentially Deciphers Voynich Manuscript - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:17] <exec> 08└─a kind of "p-hacking" kind of thing where we just find the closest hit and assume it must be a meaningful pattern
[02:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:24] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6YiAqOgGOI [youtube.com]
[02:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As National Football League Ratings Fall, Could the "XFL" Make a Return? - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:01] <exec> 08└─I found it interesting how hockey played professionally in Europe is much more precise than in America. They don't permit the physical mixing it up that the NHL does. It's almost a different game entirely, like ice ballet with points. Perhaps a major rule revision in the NFL to minimize blunt force...
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[03:17:20] <exec> 08└─The public's fetish for svelte consumer electronics will defeat this
[03:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:21] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure how real that fetish is. I see a lot of thin phones locked into protective cases that make my Duraforce look svelte.
[03:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:23] <exec> 08└─It really seems to be only Apple with the fetish, and other companies assume that's what people want and follow them. Most people I know would rather have a phone that's 3mm thicker, has a headphone jack, and a battery that lasts almost a week.
[03:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 1288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:26] <exec> 08└─A person should be able to make repairs to anything, and everything, that he owns. I can't begin to count the items that I have damaged, because I didn't know how to get it OPEN! Automotive panels and upholstery, for starters, household appliances, and electronics - no one wants to tell you how they...
[03:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:28] <exec> 08└─I preferred my old dumb phone. Plenty thin, about a quarter of the size, and the battery lasted a week more than once when new. Yes, it didn't do BookFace, but I call that a feature.
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[03:18:21] <exec> 08└─Yet, in the real world, pay-by-the-minute rental cars work just fine.
[03:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:11] <exec> 08└─Whatever they gave me for post-op pain control (oxy, I think) worked really well on the conscious level pain, but when the therapists were pulling half-dissolved stitches out of my thumb-tip, I could sit and not flinch, but I was sweating bullets and about to pass out.
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[04:17:18] <exec> 08└─They are easily parted...
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[04:17:31] <exec> 08└─Yowza! Sounds like you shouldn't be trying to fix anything yourself. Maybe you should take whatever is broken (meaning before you broke it further) to a professional. Then you can spend all that free time in anger management to learn how not to break things in the first place. Remember "Hulk smash!"...
[04:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:32] <exec> 08└─Same experience here. Most (aka 'all') of my equipment gets opened sooner or later. Making that harder just means fixing broken parts takes extra time and resources. This does not endear the brand to me. Stock ICs either potted-in or with the numbers ground off have been known to get suppliers black...
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[04:17:34] <exec> 08└─"With access to technical information, criminals can more easily circumvent security protections, harming not only the product owner but also everyone who shares their network."
[04:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:36] <exec> 08└─Remember "Hulk smash!" is only entertaining in the movies.
[04:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:39] <exec> 08└─The only problem with a dumb phone is that you cannot use Lyft - and sometimes it is needed.
[04:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:41] <exec> 08└─But I prefer a water resistant one. So, no to your requirements for me. This is by and large being brought and promoted by people who do not own an apple phone. So, go buy what you prefer and leave my preferences to continue to exist. Why should peons decide what I am allowed to have?
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[04:17:43] <exec> 08└─[Conspiracy mode="1"] They know more than we suspect. They are afraid that sooner rather than later the stream of cheap gadgets will end. This may be due to crash of the dollar, or due to a war between India and China and NK, or revolution in China... many reasons. Of course, this will result in ver...
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[04:17:45] <exec> 08└─The only problem with a dumb phone is that you cannot use Lyft - and sometimes it is needed.
[04:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:48] <exec> 08└─I would consider paying extra (as bullshit as that is) for the "no hidden screws or tabs" version of laptops. Nothing pisses me off more than removing 8 screws to pull off a keyboard and almost breaking it because there was a 9th hidden under a plastic tab that looked like it was part of the surroun...
[04:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Takes An Unexpected Lead In The Race To Develop Autonomous Vehicles - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:43] <exec> 08└─Can someone help me out here? The French company NAVYA has multiple demonstrations, is running in Helsinki as a shuttle service, and is hitting Copenhagen this Spring/Summer. Seems like they're closer. NAVYA [navya.tech] Applications [navya.tech] Helsinki [nytimes.com] Copenhagen [cphpost.dk]
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[05:17:27] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure how real that fetish is. I see a lot of thin phones locked into protective cases that make my Duraforce look svelte.
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[05:17:40] <exec> 08└─"The public's fetish for svelte consumer electronics will defeat this" Fetish? Last I checked, the public doesn't have much of a choice. It's either 'svelte consumer electronics', or live 'off the grid'.
[05:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:42] <exec> 08└─And all that, just to replace a battery.
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[05:17:44] <exec> 08└─Not sure what that has to do with it. My phone has a headphone jack and a rubber cover with a gasket that goes over it and is rated for a depth of 6 feet for 30 minutes. Alas, the battery won'y last a week, but it's decent and thick enough that I don't feel like it'll snap in half if I sneeze too ha...
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[05:17:46] <exec> 08└─It's a convenient excuse for not having a removable battery, Micro SD slot or headphone jack. Not having those things is a convenient way of making customers pay extra for accessories and/or upgrade more often. We hit the point where thinner was no longer any better years ago. These days, the excess...
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[05:18:43] <exec> 08└─NAVYA doesn't have a car -- it is a low speed (20 mph/30kph) shuttle pod/bus. And not very good if this Tech Review test ride is to be believed, https://www.technologyreview.com [technologyreview.com] I submitted this as a st...
[05:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Takes An Unexpected Lead In The Race To Develop Autonomous Vehicles - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:45] <exec> 08└─This is just PR for gullible investors. In fact, I don't even think it is the first time that such a claim has been made about GM, making it not a surprise at all. Here we go: Navigant again, April last year: https://www.wired.com [wired...
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[05:19:36] <exec> 08└─This ignorance is reprehensible. People don't choose to become addicted to substances. People don't just wake up one day and decide that they want to try fentanyl. That's ludicrous. What about that woman that died of an overdose just coming into contact with the powder while cleaning up after her so...
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[05:19:38] <exec> 08└─Not really, pain isn't a real thing, it's an interpretation of nerve impulses. People have used hypnosis for full on surgeries with success in the past, so to claim that there are limits is rather silly. For example: https://www.cbsnews.com [cbsnews.com]...
[05:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:15] <exec> 08└─Here, the ISA modem's phone plug was around the back of the computer whereas when I updated to an external modem, it sat beside the computer with a nice accessible switch. Switching it off also saved power as those modems ran pretty hot.
[05:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:17] <exec> 08└─I don't see how hacking a modem hanging on the serial port would in any way allow to compromise your computer. Unless there's an additional vulnerability in the serial driver that the attacker can exploit, of course. But that's a further line that has to be broken. Remember, security is not an absol...
[05:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rupert Murdoch Begs Facebook to Just Give Him Money - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:54] <exec> 08└─Don't just leave it a Fox. CNN's idea of news, posted on their main page earlier today with a great big picture, was the CNN EXCLUSIVE that Trump's DC hotel was more expensive and more vacant than similar DC hotels. WOW. CNN is digging pretty deep in the barrel for today's two minute hate. https://w...
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[06:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Blockchain" Stocks Collapse by 40% to 90% - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:23] <exec> 08└─My much older and wiser friend asked me if I'd done any research or whether I just trusted them. "I just trusted them. See, they have a very professional website." I at first made bank on NAGA but then I bought it all back after its price dropped back down. I've gotten my comeuppance: it continued t...
[06:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Blockchain" Stocks Collapse by 40% to 90% - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:24] <exec> 08└─Up 1000% and then down 90%? Sounds like you'd still be ahead as long as you didn't buy in at the peak.
[06:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:50] <exec> 08└─Neither are hoverboards. Specifically Note 7's and hoverboards. My iPhone and my Acer both have lithium batteries but the airline thought they were completely cool.
[06:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:52] <exec> 08└─I find it deeply gratifying on a primal level.
[06:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:54] <exec> 08└─The only problem with a dumb phone is that you cannot use Lyft - and sometimes it is needed. I don't use Lyft either, but it only took me about 5 seconds to prove you wrong. It appears that all you need is a web browser and the ability to receive a text. http://ride.lyft.com As I said, I don't use...
[06:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:56] <exec> 08└─A person should be able to make repairs to anything, and everything, that he owns.
[06:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:58] <exec> 08└─Full documentation of the electronics, provided at a reasonable copy fee upon request to anyone who has purchased the product. No blackbox firmware. Source code must be published and made available to purchasers. "bluh blugh bluh muh secret sauce code! my _patented_ mathematical algorithms!!" Don't...
[06:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:00] <exec> 08└─Nothing pisses me off more than removing 8 screws to pull off a keyboard and almost breaking it because there was a 9th hidden under a plastic tab that looked like it was part of the surrounding molding.
[06:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:03] <exec> 08└─To put this in other terms, the right to repair electronics is a basic and utterly common sense consumer protection law, and its only medium and long term effects would be cheaper, better electronics produced by more businesses in a more competitive economy, because instead of suing each other over...
[06:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:05] <exec> 08└─To put this in other terms, the right to repair electronics is a basic and utterly common sense consumer protection law
[06:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Long-Lost IMAGE Satellite Found to be Still Transmitting - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:14] <exec> 08└─I hope they buy him one of those at least.
[06:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Takes An Unexpected Lead In The Race To Develop Autonomous Vehicles - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:06] <exec> 08└─GM makes reasonably well-engineered and reliable gas and diesel powertrains. Then they put them in ugly cars with mandatory GPS tracking and shitty sound systems. They are fast-followers, waiting for risk-takers to get there first and then copy and improve on them as quickly as possible. Then they w...
[06:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:59] <exec> 08└─Oxy can certainly do that. But of course, there are much more painful conditions that the oxy can't even put a dent in. An interesting thing about blocking pain through meditation and other mindfulness techniques is that even while you may tolerate the "mental aversiveness" of the pain, your body ma...
[06:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:38] <exec> 08└─For those who prefer not to watch an hour-long video to find out what this is about, here's the Wikipedia link. [wikipedia.org]
[06:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Bill Proposes up to 6 Months Imprisonment for Unsolicited Plastic Straws - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:12] <exec> 08└─??? I assume your comment made some sense to you, if only as a joke, but it doesn't make any sense to me.
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[07:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Chronicle, Combining Cybersecurity With Machine Learning - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:26] <exec> 08└─If I remember correctly. Can I find the link? https://www.cylance.com [cylance.com] Prevent Cyberattacks with Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity that predicts, prevents, and protects. It can protect against zero-days before humans are aware of their existence.
[07:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Chronicle, Combining Cybersecurity With Machine Learning - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:28] <exec> 08└─Sound like this guardian of the inter tubes will have to get a lot more well informed about each of us for our own good. With perfect knowledge comes perfect protection. Prepare to be assimilated.
[07:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Blockchain" Stocks Collapse by 40% to 90% - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:39] <exec> 08└─"Up 1000% and then down 90%? Sounds like you'd still be ahead as long as you didn't buy in at the peak." Barely ahead. initial investment with a 1000% gain followed by 90% loss ==> initial investment x 11 x 0.1 ==> initial investment x 1.1 That's a net gain of 10%. And that's only if one bought righ...
[07:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:11] <exec> 08└─With access to technical information, criminals can more easily circumvent security protections, harming not only the product owner but also everyone who shares their network.
[07:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 1872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:13] <exec> 08└─So Washington State, home to Microsoft; Amazon and Boeing and a few others, are going to be like Amish country soon then cause I seriously doubt manufacturers are about to change the way they make electronics these days so that you can repair them at home. A lot of items that was previously mechanic...
[07:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:15] <exec> 08└─"I preferred my old dumb phone." Good for you. Now run along an play Sonny, we're not interested in your buggy whip collection.
[07:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:17] <exec> 08└─Right to repair means you can restore it to essentially new condition. Replace a broken screen, replace a failing battery. Maybe even provide an alternative os. Doesn't mean you get source code. Doesn't mean you get access to binary blobs running the radios or driving the screen. You don't get Circu...
[07:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:20] <exec> 08└─Society hurt bank account, TMB SMASH!!
[07:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:22] <exec> 08└─People need to replace screens, batteries, and maybe a push button or some such. Beyond that it is board level subcomponent replacement as you explain. And once the cost of parts exceeds the purchase price of a new phone nobody is going to buy those parts except hobbyists. Not sure the right to repa...
[07:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:59] <exec> 08└─People here at SN indulge you because of your mental illness, but that schtick is done. Get back on med or GTFO.
[07:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:01] <exec> 08└─Sounds like someone couldn't find a relationship.. So someone couldn't find a statistically significant relationship between something that they really wanted to, and they try to re-define what statistically significant is instead of just accepting what they found. That's how I read that load of cra...
[07:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:16] <exec> 08└─You can call it silly if you like, but it is a personal experience I had and so I have to accept it as true. Pain may be just a signal, but the human physiology responds to that signal. You should note that "hypnosurgery" still includes receiving a local, you just don't get rendered unconscious. I'm...
[07:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 1697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:18] <exec> 08└─There are already many such substances out there. It's just that most of them aren't abused. I personally would advise treating opoid addiction as a medical problem and telling law enforcement to but the hell out. If that was done, then people would likely stick to heroin. I wouldn't call that safe,...
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[08:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Blockchain" Stocks Collapse by 40% to 90% - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:34] <exec> 08└─But not all will get the timing right. Short sellers, when they want to take profits, have to buy their shares back in order to cover their short position, and many of the stocks are thinly traded, and covering a big short position can cause shares to bounce violently. So there will be some serious...
[08:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:14] <exec> 08└─I'll raise you cheap laser printers... from annoying to dismantle to impossible to dismantle without destroying.
[08:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:54] <exec> 08└─The probability that you were modded down by a statistician is... er... let's not go there.
[08:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM Takes An Unexpected Lead In The Race To Develop Autonomous Vehicles - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:17] <exec> 08└─Musk has his finger in too many pies
[08:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Takes An Unexpected Lead In The Race To Develop Autonomous Vehicles - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:19] <exec> 08└─We have had eclectic vehicles
[08:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rupert Murdoch Begs Facebook to Just Give Him Money - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:30] <exec> 08└─So, not only does he want to be labelled a trusted news source, he wants to get paid for the privilege? Well, that's easy. Ignore him. Don't label his stuff a trusted news source, and don't pay. Just like certain European news sites that wanted to get paid every time Google News sends a potential ne...
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[09:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Chronicle, Combining Cybersecurity With Machine Learning - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:33] <exec> 08└─"Give Good The Advantage" Really? Don't be evil just didn't cut it anymore I see. Anyway they seem to be more into the "analysis" business, not actually fixing problems. Hey you have a problem over there ... They don't even seem to be sure what it is that they are actually offering. Are you the type...
[09:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Chronicle, Combining Cybersecurity With Machine Learning - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:34] <exec> 08└─Bow down to your artilect overlord.
[09:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Blockchain" Stocks Collapse by 40% to 90% - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but it sounds like a great profit. And who cares about facts anyway these days? ;-)
[09:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:28] <exec> 08└─...for in his heart he deems himself your master.
[09:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:29] <exec> 08└─And why not? You say yourself that once the cost of parts start exceeding the cost of a new replacement people will just buy the replacement. Meaning this won't change anything in the long run except help an extra segment of the population for anything over a certain degree of repair. But everyone e...
[09:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:32] <exec> 08└─Those who drafted the bill know that washington state is too small to take on the likes of apple. Law to lawsuit, the bigger wins. Good luck enforcing the ban too. What about something like this: 1. taking apart any piece of electronic MUST be obtainable for free on the assistance network. Ditto for...
[09:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:34] <exec> 08└─Reach too far, demand too much and that's why companies dig in their heels and stone wall everybody.
[09:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:16] <exec> 08└─Exactly: statistics is a tool. p 0.05 is just fine for most things, as long as you defined your hypothesis ahead of time. The problem comes with things like p-hacking, where people runs all sorts of random correlations, find one that just happens to be p 0.05, and claim that as a useful result. Sett...
[09:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:16] <exec> 08└─I'll second that. My main home computer is still an X61s Thinkpad, which is now over 10 years old. Running Slackware and XFCE, it's a bit beat up around the edges, but does browsing, light gaming and typing just fine. The heavy number crunching is all done on the (far newer) work PC instead.
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[10:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:40] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you are being a smartass with no skills.
[10:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:42] <exec> 08└─Firstly, fuck the miniaturization trends. Secondly, why the hell are you so mad when there are still plenty of stuff you can repair? Are you an Apple representive?
[10:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:44] <exec> 08└─You're only interested in proprietary trash that constantly mistreats you. A masochist, I take it?
[10:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:25] <exec> 08└─There aren't many good researchers in the social sciences, anyway. You can tell because the good ones will have little else to say than, "More research is needed." The social sciences try to measure things that are entirely subjective and largely unprovable (like how "happy" someone is), and therefo...
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[11:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Memristor Design Can Hold Up to 128 Memory States Per Switch - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:11] <exec> 08└─"We are demonstrating memory cells with up to 6.5 bits of information storage" which would be about 90 distinguishable states, which isn't "up to" 128, as it clearly falls short. (Reading on, the actual number's 92.) Either way, the 4 times comment is a bit weird as "some recent reports of multibit...
[11:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Memristor Design Can Hold Up to 128 Memory States Per Switch - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:12] <exec> 08└─Going from three bits to over six bits is more than doubling the performance. Nice, as long as it is just as fast and stable as the three bit version was.
[11:17:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 244 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:56] <exec> 08└─It really seems to be only Apple with the fetish, and other companies assume that's what people want and follow them. Most people I know would rather have a phone that's 3mm thicker, has a headphone jack, and a battery that lasts almost a week.
[11:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:35] <exec> 08└─We might consider the opposite position. You appear to be helpless, without a specialist holding your hand. You're afraid of breaking an already broken item, so you won't even look inside of it, hoping to find something that you understand. If you don't understand what you see, you probably won't se...
[11:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:36] <exec> 08└─If/when I ever see this alarm again, I'll know to look for those wires. The next guy to come along, trying to keep these things running, won't know that.
[11:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:38] <exec> 08└─Actually, it sounds like "smartass" is a skill AC has mastered.
[11:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:40] <exec> 08└─Says you. I find it deeply gratifying on a primal level.
[11:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:24] <exec> 08└─There are disciplines involved here other than probability theory
[11:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Takes An Unexpected Lead In The Race To Develop Autonomous Vehicles - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:50] <exec> 08└─Or, of course, they could just grease a few friendly palms to get some analyst to say they were leading by using much measures as corporate size as a factor. Which is what they did here. Surprised?
[11:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Takes An Unexpected Lead In The Race To Develop Autonomous Vehicles - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:51] <exec> 08└─*ahem* https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[11:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:47] <exec> 08└─Drugs, immigrant, gay, terrorist, liberal....yeah, they all pretty much work that way.
[11:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:28] <exec> 08└─Progress eh? Sheesh, this is what the whole bitch-fest boils down to? A little plastic tab on a cable. Bitch moan waaah.
[11:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:30] <exec> 08└─Particularly when your extensions are intended (uBlock, Flashblock, noScript) to improve performance by disabling the new whizzbang.
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[11:26:05] <exec> 08└─Where do you think the Cali plastic comes from? Asia. Plastic is manufactured from granules. The production standards in Asia are horrible and the pollution enormous. Then you have the shipping part where containers regularly fall off ships in storms and even entire ships sink spewing all their cont...
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[12:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Memristor Design Can Hold Up to 128 Memory States Per Switch - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:22] <exec> 08└─Nominally doubling the per-gate information density, yes, that's impressive. This definitely looks like very interesting technology for the future (I'm reminded of the history of high-temperature superconductors, and how different element ratios were toyed with). But you're right, it needs to be pra...
[12:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Provocateur [6855] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cloud Seeding For Snow: Does It Work? Scientists Report First Quantifiable Observations - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:30] <exec> 08└─I would like to thank the Academy for this worthwhile pursuit of scientific knowledge =]
[12:17:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06"Blockchain" Stocks Collapse by 40% to 90% - 580 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:56] <exec> 08└─"Up 1000% and then down 90%? Sounds like you'd still be ahead as long as you didn't buy in at the peak." Barely ahead. initial investment with a 1000% gain followed by 90% loss ==> initial investment x 11 x 0.1 ==> initial investment x 1.1 That's a net gain of 10%. And that's only if one bought righ...
[12:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:51] <exec> 08└─You appear to be helpless, without a specialist holding your hand. You're afraid of breaking an already broken item, so you won't even look inside of it, hoping to find something that you understand. If you don't understand what you see, you probably won't search for a book that might give you some...
[12:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:52] <exec> 08└─because you are often a miserable prick.
[12:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:54] <exec> 08└─It really seems to be only Apple with the fetish, and other companies assume that's what people want and follow them.
[12:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:56] <exec> 08└─The real question is, why in hell isn't there a schematic in the operator's manual?
[12:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:40] <exec> 08└─That's not limited to social sciences. In computer science, our statistical errors are largely irrelevant because our experimental errors are often an order of magnitude higher. Different cache sizes, code layouts, small changes to pipeline structures, and so on can have a ±50% effect on the result...
[12:19:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06GM Takes An Unexpected Lead In The Race To Develop Autonomous Vehicles - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:52] <exec> 08└─Both of Tesla and Nissan beat GM to the EV market by years
[12:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Takes An Unexpected Lead In The Race To Develop Autonomous Vehicles - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:08] <exec> 08└─All of those possible problems sound like they'd also apply to ZipCar, yet it manages to function well - cars are left parked around a city, anyone with an account can book them and drive them off. There's no routine inspection other than the next customer checking for dirt / damages, but if you don...
[12:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:06] <exec> 08└─The images aren't meant to stop you from smoking, they're meant to discourage first-time smokers from buying a pack. The goal is to say 'actually, smoking isn't cool, it's a slow and not fun way of committing suicide'.
[12:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:07] <exec> 08└─The people who abuse drugs and die made their own choice. It's great to try to mitigate that harm, but not at the expense of people who actually do need those drugs.
[12:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:50] <exec> 08└─If I were designing a new CPU now, to be fast and not have to run any legacy software, it would have a large number of simple in-order cores, multiple register contexts, hardware-managed thread switching (pool of hardware-managed thread contexts spilled to memory), hardware inter-thread message pass...
[12:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:52] <exec> 08└─Transistor counts are still increasing
[12:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:54] <exec> 08└─AI is not magic. AI is a good way of getting a half-arsed solution to a problem that you don't understand, as long as that problem doesn't exist in a solution space that has too many local minima. Pretty much none of that applies to software development, and especially not to optimisation. We alread...
[12:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:56] <exec> 08└─In Alan Kay's experience, if you teach small children to program in a shared-nothing actor-model language, they can happily write code that effectively uses hundreds of threads. The difficulty is not writing parallel code, it's writing parallel code in a language that's fundamentally designed for se...
[12:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, but we live in a world policed by the C++ Inquisition. Amongst their weapons are platitudes, condescension, hand-waving, obfuscation, appeal to authority, not-invented-here, comfy chairs...
[12:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:01] <exec> 08└─Intel disputes that cost per transistor is not going down: Intel: Our 10-nanometer chips will cost 30% less than the competition’s [venturebeat.com] Intel’s 10 nm Technology: Delivering the Highest Logic Transistor Density in the Industry Through the Use of Hyper Scaling [intel.com] Everybody is...
[12:23:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06$400+ Million Stolen From Coincheck Cryptocurrency Exchange - 727 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:30] <exec> 08└─Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi would have wept tears of joy at the beauty of it: No central owner / top of the pyramid to villify and convict. All "potential victims" are willfully buying into something that clearly advertises no intrinsic value. Once "in" the only way "out" for inves...
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[13:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Memristor Design Can Hold Up to 128 Memory States Per Switch - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:24] <exec> 08└─which would be about 90 distinguishable states, which isn't "up to" 128, as it clearly falls short. (Reading on, the actual number's 92.)
[13:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Blockchain" Stocks Collapse by 40% to 90% - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:01] <exec> 08└─There is investment and there is speculation. The latter is gambling, the former is long-term money saving. If you have money to spare do speculate if you wish. If you are fed by others (directly and indirectly) please consider to act responsibly with your money. Save as much as you can but please d...
[13:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:59] <exec> 08└─Most people in your field needs to be LARTed it seems - in my field the on-site documentation is put back _and_ alphabetised. The most common pieces used we laminate a copy of and affix to the wall near the unit (or in case of lack of wallspace - on the unit). Net result is that we rarely need to wa...
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[14:17:16] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:16] <exec> 08└─Pork generation successful, and continuing.
[14:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:18] <exec> 08└─If the U.S. wants strategic air superiority, we need to scrap the F35 program here at home, and gift the entire fleet to China and/or Russia. We would immediately cripple their entire air defense program.
[14:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:20] <exec> 08└─The Chinese stealth fighter is very similar to the F35. There are many other Chinese engineering projects very similar to Western ones. Great minds think alike?
[14:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Blockchain" Stocks Collapse by 40% to 90% - 3312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:12] <exec> 08└─Admit I got bit investing in oil&gas back in the 2007 timeframe ( peak-oil ). I thought to the very best of my experience working in the field, working with geologists, had and read "Twilight in the Desert" by Matthew Simmons, and even had the President of the United States warning the public about...
[14:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Blockchain" Stocks Collapse by 40% to 90% - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:13] <exec> 08└─You acted responsibly, except for one thing: you did not spread the risk.
[14:19:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:46] <exec> 08└─If you don't know intimately what Bayesian or the Central limit theorems describe, quit trying to comment now - that is the ground floor in analysis...
[14:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:21] <exec> 08└─Physician friend of mine went to China, they showed him all sorts of things, including a (successful) open heart surgery performed with only accupuncture and heavy mental preparation. There's all kinds of perception of pain, ways to get through it, pain that can't be blocked, etc. and it depends as...
[14:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:10] <exec> 08└─I wonder how that performs against SIGSTOP/SIGCONT toggled by temperature treshold, an approach I sometimes use myself. At least my variation is looking at the relevant variable. Of course on the other hand you might get wildly fluctuating temperatures if you set the cut off and start again limits w...
[14:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:11] <exec> 08└─We've invested billions in compiler and architecture R&D
[14:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:14] <exec> 08└─So where does the name from from then? Marketing dept?
[14:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$400+ Million Stolen From Coincheck Cryptocurrency Exchange - 2829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:03] <exec> 08└─I believe it is just as possible to launder crypto, similar to but with slightly different methods than cash. As a person who has just barely gotten into cryptocurrency for fun, but not as an investor and not as a purchaser of goods, I think the breakdown of the system would lie like this: 1) Stolen...
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[15:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:18] <exec> 08└─... influence, then maybe your system is crap and shouldn't exist in the first place. A vote given to a person for free is going to be vote that isn't spent wisely; make people work for their right to vote in any given election.
[15:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:20] <exec> 08└─Doctors have to prove that they remain competent; maybe voters should have to prove the same. Perhaps voters should have to complete "Continuing Education" every 4 years or so, showing that they retain a knowledge for how the system works, who has been elected so far, what the deficits are, etc. Of...
[15:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:22] <exec> 08└─Q: Do you promise not to vote Democrat or any other kind of pinko commie? A: If you insist. Q: Congratulations, citizen, your voting license is renewed for another four years. God bless America!
[15:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:24] <exec> 08└─Any time anyone wants to interfere in our elections by spilling the dirty secrets our politicians are hiding, they have my eternal gratitude.
[15:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:26] <exec> 08└─Went through the European press a few days ago. Chances are it is fake because: 1) The supposed workings of the Dutch security services would not have been released to the unwashed masses. 2) The US security services own the Dutch services, they already know what they are working on. I am so glad Tr...
[15:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:29] <exec> 08└─That's a genius idea that has never been tried before and has never been used to suppress minorities. How can we possibly trust whoever makes these tests to not abuse this power to try to suppress the votes of groups they do not like? who has been elected so far, what the deficits are
[15:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:31] <exec> 08└─Hear, hear! The truth does not become a danger to our democracy, even if it's our geopolitical opponents that let the secrets out.
[15:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:42] <exec> 08└─It's just crowdsourcing. The Pentagon and military industrial complex are the crowd being sourced from.
[15:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 1582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:44] <exec> 08└─As George Orwell ruthlessly explains, the point of ridiculous military spending is not to protect the nation or win the war. It's to use up valuable resources on a useless activity, thus allowing the government to deprive its citizens of the resources that would enable them to rebel. The point of th...
[15:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:46] <exec> 08└─Inverse aerial defense plot: Create cool looking but crippled stealth fighterDemonstrate maximum commitment to your new fighter investing shitloads of cash in itWait for enemies to copy your crap...Profit Win
[15:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:49] <exec> 08└─Taking into account the money dumped into the program, I hope that a single F35 can win a war.
[15:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 New VM Escape Vulnerabilities Discovered in VirtualBox - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:57] <exec> 08└─I didn't use VirtualBox. I just thought it was that it was crap and from Oracle (fuck you, Larry Ellison). Apparently there are other reasons too. Who knew?
[15:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Memristor Design Can Hold Up to 128 Memory States Per Switch - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:07] <exec> 08└─But are the US states all distinguishable? :-)
[15:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Chronicle, Combining Cybersecurity With Machine Learning - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:32] <exec> 08└─Woo Hoo! Because no one else ever heard of SIEM [wikipedia.org], so now Google can save us all from those nasty crackers. Don't forget that before Google we all lived in caves and and scrounged whatever we could. Now we have rail and cars and factory farms. All thanks to Google! Please.
[15:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Blockchain" Stocks Collapse by 40% to 90% - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:49] <exec> 08└─I wonder how many people involved in thinly traded alt-coins have any concept how a thinly traded market works...
[15:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:48] <exec> 08└─Is that what they said? What if they, like I and most likely most other soylentils, desire a smartphone which runs open firmware, open OS, and not loaded with malware? Why cant we have both?
[15:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:34] <exec> 08└─the media has problem with all maths - they often quote numbers with no reference to the mean and variance of the distribution. This is middle school level maths, and an interesting proxy to why so much bad stuff goes on,contrary to the data. The fact that many respectable journals can barely keep t...
[15:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Takes An Unexpected Lead In The Race To Develop Autonomous Vehicles - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:03] <exec> 08└─In the sufficiently distant future, there'll be only cockroaches.
[15:21:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hoeferbe [4715] 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:27] <exec> 08└─Unsurprisingly, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Tom Carper (D-DE)'s statement includes gems like: The federal government can, and must, act to shore up our defenses against this deadly drug and help save lives.
[15:22:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06AI Potentially Deciphers Voynich Manuscript - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:23] <exec> 08└─Okay, earlier when I said "That's as good a guess as any," it turns out I was wrong.
[15:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Potentially Deciphers Voynich Manuscript - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:34] <exec> 08└─> On p. 85 of the technical article, there's another histogram showing that if you drop vowels in other languages (as they do in Hebrew), Latin, Italian, and English all have matches for vocabulary in the 75-85% range, similar to Hebrew. So the biggest takeaway from this is that the script might be...
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[15:24:47] <exec> 08└─Depends on your definition of fiat, and whether it requires a government. I'd rather think of it as the purest form of pure fiat - something intrinsically useless that neverthess holds value as a medium of exchange. And it's not from "any" perspective it has zero intrinsic value. From the perspectiv...
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[15:24:48] <exec> 08└─They can indeed undo any transaction. IF 51% of all active miners - however that it parsed by the mutually agreed upon rules of the network - agree that a transaction or transaction(s) should be erased from a blockchain, then it is. And then all subsequent transactions (receivers) either A) do not e...
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[16:17:17] <exec> 08└─The "private" option is for people who like to track their step count during sexual activity
[16:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:31] <exec> 08└─bad troll is bad at trolling. On the off-chance that you legitimately think your assertion has merit: nothing was released to unwashed masses by the Dutch, the US did that.
[16:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:33] <exec> 08└─Your rebuttal could be said for doctors. I guess when it comes to knife against flesh, people take things a bit more serious, and thank goodness that they do. Also, "It's unconstitutional" is irrelevant; the very discussion is about the nature of the existing system, and how it could be changed.
[16:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:35] <exec> 08└─Your rebuttal could be said for doctors.
[16:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:37] <exec> 08└─Oh, look, another story about interference and cheating in our elections. Trump is so cooked, but the Republicans won't stick the fork in. The wing nuts, racists, and fascists won't abandon him until the world is falling apart. The crooks will stand with him as long as there's more loot to be grabbe...
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[16:17:39] <exec> 08└─You forgot to mention the Log Cabin Republicans.
[16:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:42] <exec> 08└─Do the words "poll tax" ring any bells? How long has it bloody been since fourth grade civics for you anyway?
[16:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:44] <exec> 08└─and Hitler. Gotta Godwin by Godwinning.
[16:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:46] <exec> 08└─The Log Cabin Republicans make no sense. It's like having a Black Caucus of the KKK (well, okay, BESIDES Clarence Thomas).
[16:17:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:57] <exec> 08└─It's just crowdsourcing. The Pentagon and military industrial complex are the crowd being sourced from.
[16:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe a war against Sudan or Yemen.
[16:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:04] <exec> 08└─Don't shout. Or you'll scare the canadians from buying the gem.
[16:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:07] <exec> 08└─Step 4, in this case, is to keep the fleets of F-15s, F-16s, A-10s, and various late-20th-century bombers whose designations I don't remember functional.
[16:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Memristor Design Can Hold Up to 128 Memory States Per Switch - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:25] <exec> 08└─Xkcd's Researcher Translation [xkcd.com]
[16:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03flippynet [4986] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Memristor Design Can Hold Up to 128 Memory States Per Switch - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:26] <exec> 08└─If you can program a cell to one of 92 states, and there is a probability that it won't read back as the exact state but rather a different "nearby" state, then this seems like a good candidate for advanced signal processing techniques, like hard drives or radio signals, I'm talking forward error co...
[16:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloud Seeding For Snow: Does It Work? Scientists Report First Quantifiable Observations - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:35] <exec> 08└─So then, on top of leeching the planet on trees and wild animals and fossil fuels, now there's research for leaching the atmospheric water cycle as well. Well done, humanity!
[16:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610,000-Year-Old "Crayon" Found - 2039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:44] <exec> 08└─It's fun to see the rock in the article. I paint with ochre I find on the north shore of Long Island when I'm fishing at Sunken Meadow State Park. My rocks tend to acquire circular grooves as that's my grinding pattern, but the scratches on the one in TFA are recognizable. I don't know that I would...
[16:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Blockchain" Stocks Collapse by 40% to 90% - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:12] <exec> 08└─If they didn't know when they started, they probably figure it out in time.
[16:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:57] <exec> 08└─I have fuzzy recollections of a paper involving "grumpy old men," "damn kids," and "my lawn!" that concluded that a sample size of 1 is the minimum necessary to represent the views of like minded individuals. The real challenge was proving they were all liked minded. Tell me, these 100 scientist, wh...
[16:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:26] <exec> 08└─If proper treatment programs are in place, an addict won't need my wallet to get the next hit. Opiates are actually pretty cheap once you get law enforcement out of it.
[16:22:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06AI Potentially Deciphers Voynich Manuscript - 979 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:53] <exec> 08└─Don't we all remember the many times before when someone has claimed to have deciphered this thing, often to proved to be a complete idiot once any random expert who knows anything about medieval languages and manuscripts looks at their "translation"? Didn't we learn anything even from the one just...
[16:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$400+ Million Stolen From Coincheck Cryptocurrency Exchange - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:12] <exec> 08└─Are you saying khallow isn't a crazy lady on the moon that wants to kill us?
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[17:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:14] <exec> 08└─The magical time to watch on the west coast is 3:45AM to 5AM. Believe what you see.
[17:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:22] <exec> 08└─I suspect this is example #153116 of the general societal problem of everyone in every country in both the government and corporate ecosystem has free access to data one thousand times more detailed, but because your next door neighbor, who ironically doesn't care at all, has no access, we as a cult...
[17:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:25] <exec> 08└─Obligatory: Adam Sandler - Sex or Weight Lifting [youtube.com] (audio only, NSFW)
[17:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:27] <exec> 08└─> Strava said it had excluded activities marked as private from the map. Which confirms that they have it. "Next, from Strava : The sex rating app ! Know how good your show-off guy really is before you're disappointed ! People may elect to be excluded from our app, or our Tinder/grindr partnership,...
[17:17:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:37] <exec> 08└─Any time anyone wants to interfere in our elections by spilling the dirty secrets our politicians are hiding, they have my eternal gratitude.
[17:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:49] <exec> 08└─Let's start there. Answer me that. And, please, no snide "Your type".
[17:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:51] <exec> 08└─Huh that is the whole point of an election...people get influenced to vote one way or another. But they are supposed to be influenced by politicians and news pertaining to issues that matter to them. Whether they are morons in your point of view or geniuses ...is immaterial. The people make the deci...
[17:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:53] <exec> 08└─Given your history of comments, I'm pretty sure you live in a hay bale. Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet...
[17:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:55] <exec> 08└─You keep using that word, "fascism". It does not mean what you think it means.
[17:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:57] <exec> 08└─For this discussion, it's totally irrelevant what the Constitution or the wider law says. The system as currently set up is brittle and reactionary. Voting in an election is, as with every human interaction, a question of how society's resources should be allocated; why should this question be answe...
[17:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:59] <exec> 08└─Oh, look, another story about interference and cheating in our elections.
[17:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:16] <exec> 08└─You mean theirs doesn't work either? Or are you suggesting buying parts from China
[17:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:18] <exec> 08└─It won't work. As I understand it, this stealth fighter isn't "crippled" at all, at least not in its basic design, and when it's working, it works well. (I could be wrong, so correct me if I am.) The problem is in production and reliability. So in theory, someone else could copy the thing, but do th...
[17:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:20] <exec> 08└─While I agree with you (and who wouldn't) that military spending can turn into a jobs program / corporate welfare, it is not true that America's only enemies/agressive rivals are poor countries. The USSR may not exist anymore, but Russia still does and it has invaded and annexed territory basically...
[17:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:22] <exec> 08└─But it wouldn't be very stealthy.
[17:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cloud Seeding For Snow: Does It Work? Scientists Report First Quantifiable Observations - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:51] <exec> 08└─If we're going to play that game, let us note that life on Earth leeches energy from the Sun and the Earth's hot core too. I guess we better kill off all life on Earth to stop that. Or... we could just not be idiots and fault humanity for reasonable actions that don't actually hurt anything?
[17:20:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 175 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:00] <exec> 08└─With access to technical information, criminals can more easily circumvent security protections, harming not only the product owner but also everyone who shares their network.
[17:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:26] <exec> 08└─(grin)
[17:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:27] <exec> 08└─I am surprised bills ensuring the right to repair have even made it to legislatures. No corporation would advocate it. It's hard to imagine any consumer advocating for it, either, because they've all been trained by planned obsolescence to an extreme degree. Some feature of your device has broken or...
[17:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:29] <exec> 08└─"Well the product must be exactly like it already is; if you want a different feature we have to throw everything out, kill the existing product, and make one with only that feature" is a rather crap argument. Making it a bit thicker is not going to automatically throw all the other features out the...
[17:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gertlex [3966] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:32] <exec> 08└─Worse might be the screws hidden under rubber feet, which don't stay put if you try to reattach them after pulling them off (carefully, even!). Albeit, more of an issue with mice and keyboards than laptops. I should just buy some VHB tape and resign myself to fixing those I suppose...
[17:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:34] <exec> 08└─I live in Washington. I read this news as meaning I’ll soon have to drive to Canada to buy an iPhone. Washington’s government is totalitarian in the sense that it tries to pervade and regulate every facet of life: the state leaves nothing beyond its power. I can’t wait to find a job back in Am...
[17:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:22] <exec> 08└─The 0.05 to 0.005 move was actually designed to do EXACTLY the opposite of this. That is, it was designed to make it harder to infer fake relationships. For comparison, the 5-sigma standard used in physics is 0.0000006, a much harder standard to meet.
[17:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 2013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:52] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of components to it. Some seem to be matter of mental training while others seem to be inherited traits. Also there is more than one variety of pain. In addition to the obvious and dramatic cases of congenital insensitivity (which can be quite a problem), there seem to be people who...
[17:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Death Notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:46] <exec> 08└─my variation is looking at the relevant variable [temperature threshold].
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[18:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:20] <exec> 08└─> [Mars] a human mission likely would require 40 to 50 kilowatts of power (...) > A spare Cassini RTG was used for New Horizons, which provided 245.7 W at launch (~200 W by the Pluto encounter). While the minivan to go to the grocery store has 296 hp, or 220 kW. Now you know why Elon is starting by...
[18:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:22] <exec> 08└─Even Matt Damon figured out that he needed a better heater in his Mars rover.
[18:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:24] <exec> 08└─"Mars is a very difficult environment for power systems, with less sunlight than Earth or the moon, very cold nighttime temperatures, very interesting dust storms that can last weeks and months that engulf the entire planet," said Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator of NASA's Space Technology Mis...
[18:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:26] <exec> 08└─This is a typical, genuine NASA spin off. It checks off a bunch of sexy boxes - Stirling engines capable of decades of continuous use, sophisticated heat transfer and radiation systems, and a working instance of nuclear power. But it requires 93% enriched (that is, U-235) uranium (anything above 90%...
[18:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:29] <exec> 08└─I care more about increasing the power available to outer solar system missions by 1-2 orders of magnitude.
[18:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:39] <exec> 08└─however no armed guards to prevent access to the bowling alley, library, or PX (essentially a socialized government on-base department store)
[18:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:40] <exec> 08└─Flesh slapping against flesh. Punching. These things could be heard from within the building. Eventually, a man exited the establishment; he looked refreshed, as if he was a new man. And what a great man he was; a man who utilized others so that they could reach their full potential; a man who gave...
[18:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 3018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:42] <exec> 08└─A single data point doesn't matter. Google, for example, doesn't care about me personally. My information is a drop in the ocean. Lost in the noise. Google simply wants to put better ads in front of my eyes. Facebook simply wants to reprogram my brain, manipulate society, create a programmable zombi...
[18:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:45] <exec> 08└─You cannot be allowed access to the dorms, because you might be a cereal killer or rapist. You cannot even be allowed access to the students in the cafeteria because you might promote unacceptable ideas to the kiddies. And it might poison their young minds and affect how they vote.
[18:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:47] <exec> 08└─You cannot even be allowed access to the students in the cafeteria because you might promote unacceptable ideas to the kiddies. And it might poison their young minds and affect how they vote.
[18:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:49] <exec> 08└─One major data point for IDing you is MAC addresses. Spoof them, browser imprint info, etc., and you'll fuzz up the databases.
[18:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:51] <exec> 08└─Unless there is some monkey business I am not aware of, the MAC address shouldn't leave the local network you are on. It is lost at the first router. There are way better things to I-Ding you such as browser cookies, and various forms of stealth cookies. Even combinations of "harmless" info such as...
[18:18:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 860 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:08] <exec> 08└─Oh, look, another story about interference and cheating in our elections. Trump is so cooked, but the Republicans won't stick the fork in. The wing nuts, racists, and fascists won't abandon him until the world is falling apart. The crooks will stand with him as long as there's more loot to be grabbe...
[18:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:20] <exec> 08└─Given your history of comments, I'm pretty sure you live in a hay bale. Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet...
[18:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:21] <exec> 08└─The Netherlands has landed super deep discounts on next gen American military hardware. These discounts are to be subsidized by U.S. taxpayers. The Pentagon declined to comment, but laughs and whitehouse jokes could be heard from behind closed doors. Later the DNC returns from the Pentagon after pro...
[18:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:23] <exec> 08└─Oh, you're the guy who always starts his posts in the subject field. My mistake. Congratulations, I guess.
[18:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:26] <exec> 08└─Except if The Donald doesn't like the truth. In that case it's called fake news spread by the unreliable media.
[18:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:28] <exec> 08└─The real fix is not some kind of voter qualification test -- as tempting as that sounds. That would be subject to massive manipulation as bad or worse than pole tacks, jerry meandering, or other mechanisms to prevent or erect barriers for otherwise qualified individuals to vote. The real fix is edum...
[18:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this particular case is not hacking the election. It's "illegal investigative journalism" ;)
[18:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:32] <exec> 08└─This is why we cannot have nice conversations:
[18:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:34] <exec> 08└─I'm curious. Why would anyone bother to virtue signal as an AC? I mean, it has to be virtue signaling because it can't be meant as a joke. Jokes are meant to be funny and, since most of the nation do not suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, it's not.
[18:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:37] <exec> 08└─Personally, I hope they do it every four years from now on. And I hope western Europe does the same for the Republicans.
[18:18:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormreaver [5101] 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 204 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:45] <exec> 08└─If the U.S. wants strategic air superiority, we need to scrap the F35 program here at home, and gift the entire fleet to China and/or Russia. We would immediately cripple their entire air defense program.
[18:18:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 1582 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:49] <exec> 08└─As George Orwell ruthlessly explains, the point of ridiculous military spending is not to protect the nation or win the war. It's to use up valuable resources on a useless activity, thus allowing the government to deprive its citizens of the resources that would enable them to rebel. The point of th...
[18:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:00] <exec> 08└─We can also throw in the F22s, which are so expensive we can't use them for anything risky (and they have no actual role, given we currently don't need air superiority), so fragile and hard to maintain they can't go to many bases, and have such a short range they're useless against the few real enem...
[18:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Memristor Design Can Hold Up to 128 Memory States Per Switch - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:21] <exec> 08└─forward error correction (FEC) codes like convolutional/turbo codes, reed-solomon codes, and the like. The problem with this approach is that the failure modes become more complex and less than easily recognised. I worked on a comms system with FEC about 40 years ago, very similar to reed-solomon (b...
[18:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud Seeding For Snow: Does It Work? Scientists Report First Quantifiable Observations - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:31] <exec> 08└─Will this just give back water that would normally have fallen in these areas? Will this lead to droughts in other places? What are the impacts on the environment? This seems like something that should be tested in controlled experiments, first. Instead of just sent out into the clouds. Seems like t...
[18:20:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 468 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:31] <exec> 08└─It's a convenient excuse for not having a removable battery, Micro SD slot or headphone jack. Not having those things is a convenient way of making customers pay extra for accessories and/or upgrade more often. We hit the point where thinner was no longer any better years ago. These days, the excess...
[18:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:11] <exec> 08└─It is important that consumers preserve their right to remove the tubes and take them down to the local pharmacy's tube tester.
[18:23:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 386 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:00] <exec> 08└─So, other than suggesting to patients that screaming and crying inconsolably 24/7 while the pain blots out conscious thought might take their mind off of it, what's your suggestion? The reason people use fentanyl on the streets is that it's easier to smuggle past the DEA. Fentanyl use is a product o...
[18:23:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 727 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:11] <exec> 08└─That mind control can only go so far. I'm actually fairly good at it, right up until it breaks through and I grey out or black out. It can certainly help you need less pain killers, but it can only go so far. Thankfully, the pain that blacked me out was temporary. I can only imagine how much worse i...
[18:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:30] <exec> 08└─We don't even have a way to objectively measure it.
[18:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:32] <exec> 08└─The war on drugs has definitely proven that. The relatively few deaths due to the Opioid Crisis don't compare to the overall numbers of people hurt / killed by drugs. I'm not a fan of recreational illegal drug use, but I'm also not a fan of Alcohol or Tobacco. The war on drugs doesn't seem to be wor...
[18:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:34] <exec> 08└─The staff have to use rate your pain. It's the only measure they have. In many ways it's better than an objective measure, it's the subjective pain that must be treated in order to help the patient improve. It would help though if they really understood what might affect the patient's subjective mea...
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[19:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After a "Major" Launch Anomaly, Satellites Scrambling to Reach Orbits - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:14] <exec> 08└─Evil Russian hackers have shifted Earth around while no one was looking! So says the Ukrainian CIA...
[19:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After a "Major" Launch Anomaly, Satellites Scrambling to Reach Orbits - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:16] <exec> 08└─What's up with all the weird launch mess-ups of late? Most are being blamed on second stages doing weird things. The Russian launch, from the wrong spaceport [theguardian.com] not only lost its principal payload, but also 18 other smaller packages for an assortment of countries. And of course nobody...
[19:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After a "Major" Launch Anomaly, Satellites Scrambling to Reach Orbits - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:18] <exec> 08└─However, the satellites have orbital inclinations of about 21 degrees, far higher than planned inclination of 3 degrees.
[19:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After a "Major" Launch Anomaly, Satellites Scrambling to Reach Orbits - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:20] <exec> 08└─nobody know if Zuma is really lost or not.
[19:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After a "Major" Launch Anomaly, Satellites Scrambling to Reach Orbits - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:23] <exec> 08└─Ran on Friday already: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[19:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After a "Major" Launch Anomaly, Satellites Scrambling to Reach Orbits - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:25] <exec> 08└─You haven't seen me killing Kerbals, have you, lol.
[19:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After a "Major" Launch Anomaly, Satellites Scrambling to Reach Orbits - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:27] <exec> 08└─The SES-14 satellite and the Al Yah 3 satellite ARE NOT Global-scale Observations of the Limb and Disk (GOLD) satellite. These are not the failed satellites you were looking for. So NOT Dupe.
[19:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:40] <exec> 08└─So what brought this attempt at humor on? And if you're sending carbon to the Moon, better add some hydrogen to it, say like polyethylene. Lowers the density, but hydrogen combined with the prevalent oxygen (in the form of metal oxides and silica) gets you water. Of course, we'd need to start worry...
[19:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:41] <exec> 08└─I care more about increasing the power available to outer solar system missions by 1-2 orders of magnitude.
[19:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:43] <exec> 08└─Remember, the approved shape of the shadow of the Earth is round. Freemasons will rough you up and steal your mailbox, if you see any other shape.
[19:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:45] <exec> 08└─I was going to propose the Mars pipeline, so we could get a cheap, reliable supply of oil there. We should fund a study right away. Obviously, it's going to be the longest pipeline ever built - so it will need to be the biggest study ever funded.
[19:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:48] <exec> 08└─New Horizons 2 (or any mission to Kuiper belt objects other than Pluto), a follow-up Pluto mission, Uranus/Neptune missions (recommended by the Decadal Survey and long overdue since the last encounter was by Voyager 2). The Planetary Science Decadal Survey also recommends missions such as: Jupiter E...
[19:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:51] <exec> 08└─And how many of those will launch in the next four decades? There have been nine missions [wikipedia.org] to the outer planets (Jupiter or beyond) since 1973.
[19:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:53] <exec> 08└─Why, all of the asteroid mining missions of course, and also the space manufacturing platforms near those mines, not to mention any mission that mentions gravity wells, Dyson spheres, and maybe throw in Faraday Cages just to check all the boxes. Its amazing the sheer number of projects that hand wai...
[19:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:56] <exec> 08└─The frequency doesn't matter. Obviously they are developing this technology, and it can be used for a variety of different missions, including outer solar system missions. Increasing the power available to outer solar system missions is a good thing. It means spacecraft can carry more instruments, u...
[19:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:58] <exec> 08└─Those are your words, not mine. You can put a rover on any outer solar system moon with this technology. You could put a nuclear-powered submarine in the lakes of Titan.
[19:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:00] <exec> 08└─Umm, sooo big question time. Is the Earth flat or spherical?
[19:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:02] <exec> 08└─You are like a hoover vacuum for all things good.
[19:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:05] <exec> 08└─It's always impressive when a new technology promises to enable missions that simply would not be practical or even possible with the existing tech. I am excited for the future of space exploration.
[19:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:24] <exec> 08└─and then at other times, some of those anonymous table rows then move to clusters of similar IDs which might be a secret base.
[19:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:25] <exec> 08└─Based on what this vulnerability actually reveals, I can say with authority that this is a massive problem. I'm dead-certain that the FSB, ISIS, and the PLA are dying to know where every lard-ass supply sergeant or tinhorn 2nd Lieutenant goes jogging.
[19:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:27] <exec> 08└─MAC address shouldn't leave the local network you are on. It is lost at the first router.
[19:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:29] <exec> 08└─Unless there is some monkey business I am not aware of, the MAC address shouldn't leave the local network you are on. It is lost at the first router.
[19:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:32] <exec> 08└─In seventh grade, we were allowed to wear knives on our belts. Typically a Bowie knife. The times they are a changing.
[19:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:34] <exec> 08└─You seem to assume an enemy who already knows where the base is. Where it's coffee house is. Etc. The point of TFA was that a secret, formerly unknown base, becomes discovered because of clusters of fitness tracking devices with unusually good scores. I was speculating about other ways to discover s...
[19:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:38] <exec> 08└─Why would a browser offer the MAC address to JavaScript? I can't think of any good reason. The MAC is only useful for the first network hop to your local router. After that, it's gone.
[19:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe because not not all people are attention whores like Trump obviously is? Just guessing... Different ACs will have have different opinions & reasons.
[19:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:16] <exec> 08└─It is illegal for a foreign entity to invest in advertisement to influence the election in the US and that is what happened....
[19:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:18] <exec> 08└─Even when nobody reads the post, you always have yourself as audience.
[19:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:20] <exec> 08└─The real fix is edumacation. I don't think so. Lots of "smart" people are still voting for republicans and democrats. Evidently they are just as easily manipulated by propaganda as anybody.
[19:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:23] <exec> 08└─Given your history of comments, I'm pretty sure you live in a hay bale. Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet...
[19:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:26] <exec> 08└─He's been hoist by his own petard.
[19:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:28] <exec> 08└─I'm curious. Why would anyone bother to virtue signal as an AC? I mean, it has to be virtue signaling because it can't be meant as a joke. Jokes are meant to be funny and, since most of the nation do not suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome, it's not.
[19:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:31] <exec> 08└─Maybe because not not all people are attention whores like Trump obviously is? Oh please! What does that have to do with the price of rice?? Who is making you give Trump any of your attention?? What, is the channel knob broken? Well, maybe you should give it a little polish...
[19:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 1614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:34] <exec> 08└─The thing is that The Donald just so happens to be right, just not for the reasons he thinks he's right. He doesn't go far enough either. It's mostly the stopped watch effect. After watching the press over the past year push for World War 3, I came to the conclusion that it's all fake news. I believ...
[19:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:55] <exec> 08└─Spending hundreds of billions USD to enable Chinese military R&D is a brilliant strategic maneuver.
[19:19:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:57] <exec> 08└─The F-35 is not is good enough shape for a new problem to be news worthy.
[19:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 0610 New VM Escape Vulnerabilities Discovered in VirtualBox - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:06] <exec> 08└─I'd rather read about a company fixing known vulnerabilities than use software that is rarely updated. With the latter, one never knows whether no bugs are known, bugs are known but not being fixed, somebody has actually written 'perfect code' (yeah, course they have!), or nobody cares about the sof...
[19:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Memristor Design Can Hold Up to 128 Memory States Per Switch - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:21] <exec> 08└─I can never remember which one is Mississippi and which one is backward Mississippi...
[19:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Memristor Design Can Hold Up to 128 Memory States Per Switch - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:22] <exec> 08└─"Almost four times more"? zero works!
[19:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:14] <exec> 08└─Had a water resistant android for a few years. This one i think: https://www.samsung.com [samsung.com] Great for kayaking (which i was really into at the time). No need for a protective case because it pretty much IS a p...
[19:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:15] <exec> 08└─Reason 1: Because lawyers. The lawyers, in order to protect the company against the idiot who zaps themselves with electricity then sues the company for damages, pushed for "don't provide any repair info" with the device, and further, stamp everything "no user serviceable parts inside, and further,...
[19:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Long-Lost IMAGE Satellite Found to be Still Transmitting - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:25] <exec> 08└─I like hearing about stuff like this. Not everyone is trapped in front of a TV waiting to die. Very cool hobby : ) Read the blog comments and really liked someone saying that they have lost all hope in finding alien life via radio. If we don't hear a satellite we built outselves that has been dilige...
[19:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:39] <exec> 08└─Don't get me wrong, I know several good doctors - it's just a shame that they're in the minority. Cost of med school is one thing, but on top of that, cost no object there's a limited number of seats in the program every year. In the US they explain this by pointing to a limited number of seats in t...
[19:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:41] <exec> 08└─"bipartisan investigation" That is, we Googled the thing...
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[20:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Demo Flight Set for Tuesday 2018-02-06 @ 1830-2130 UTC (1:30-4:30 p.m. EST) - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:11] <exec> 08└─Has Elon stripped out or removed more valuable items from the Tesla being used as a dummy payload? (Batteries, motor, computer, large touch screen, etc.) Replace with bags of unicorn excrement or other dead weight that wouldn't biologically contaminate other planetary bodies in case of eventual cap...
[20:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Demo Flight Set for Tuesday 2018-02-06 @ 1830-2130 UTC (1:30-4:30 p.m. EST) - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:12] <exec> 08└─They should put it in an orbit that will reach as much space junk as possible and then magnetize the shite out of it. Then, as it gets 'heavier'/more massive and starts heading in for a burn up, either rocket it out into space (if it will not burn up in the atmosphere) or just let it burn up. Clean...
[20:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After a "Major" Launch Anomaly, Satellites Scrambling to Reach Orbits - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:26] <exec> 08└─Bit of reading perhaps ? Friday's TFS: SES-14 is hosting an instrument called GOLD, which is the first NASA mission to consist of an instrument living on a commercial company's satellite.
[20:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After a "Major" Launch Anomaly, Satellites Scrambling to Reach Orbits - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:28] <exec> 08└─So, did the supposed orbit pass close to Area 51 or China Lake?
[20:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:53] <exec> 08└─But it requires 93% enriched (that is, U-235) uranium (anything above 90% is weapon-grade). No way a private entity that's not up to its eyeballs in US national security will be let near one of these reactors.
[20:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:55] <exec> 08└─And get eaten by Titans? What is this, a rehash of the B ark?
[20:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:57] <exec> 08└─Humans will never create a utopia.
[20:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmh [721] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:59] <exec> 08└─EARTH IS A CUBE! EARTH HAS 4 CORNER. SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY.
[20:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:01] <exec> 08└─I used the expression to be concise. Humans will always have and create conflict.
[20:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:03] <exec> 08└─https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/28/16053652/saturn-moon-titan-alma-telescope-vinyl-cyanide-cell-membranes [theverge.com]
[20:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:30] <exec> 08└─You cannot be allowed access to the dorms, because you might be a cereal killer or rapist.
[20:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:31] <exec> 08└─Where were you living? Where I was we had to conceal things better. :-)
[20:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:33] <exec> 08└─I know what goes on in the dorms. That is the rappists I mention along with the cereal killers. Imagine rappists unable to get their rap music to rhyme, in the dorms! Poisoning the minds of the kids.
[20:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, especially if they're jogging at a forward operating base or advance airfield that isn't already on the map.
[20:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:38] <exec> 08└─Early 1970's. About 4th grade, can't remember precisely. Not allowed to have fingernail clippers. Because it's a weapon! Reminds me of TSA today. On an airplane: Look! I've got nail clippers! I'm going to take over the plane! You better stay back or I'll use these nail clippers! Nobody will be able...
[20:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:40] <exec> 08└─cereal killer
[20:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:42] <exec> 08└─Awww, way to ruin a good knee-jerk reaction!
[20:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03starvingboy [6766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:44] <exec> 08└─? Having spent some time on military bases in my youth, you had to have a base ID in order to actually do anything. Sometimes they'd check just going into the BX, and you definitely needed one in order to buy anything, from candy to movie tickets. Carrying your ID was a rite of passage as a base kid...
[20:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:31] <exec> 08└─Yes, your reputation follows you. You may not have an account but you've shitposted here long enough that I often suspect you're in a thread and then you confirm it with some of your more drastic positions. Like putting half our comment in the subject line. Others have done it, but paired with your...
[20:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:32] <exec> 08└─"jerry meandering" Sorry I just thought that was adorable.
[20:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:34] <exec> 08└─Please stop using this trash website. Sincerely, Oscar
[20:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:36] <exec> 08└─Capitalism: the system that has resulted in sequestering humanity's wealth into the hands of the few. Said wealth is then used to purchase legislation, which is obviously a branch of corruption not Capitalism, therefore any problems resulting from Capitalism will be ignored because REASONS! Get help...
[20:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:39] <exec> 08└─If a comment has 40% validity and 60% stupidity will you be unable to hear the criticism of the 60% due to your ego attaching itself to the 40%?
[20:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:41] <exec> 08└─If "hacking of the Democratic Party" is "interference with the American elections", then we can conclude that the democratic party has improper control of the American elections. Messing around with an individual party is not supposed to be able to affect the vote tally. Of course, given how the vot...
[20:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:43] <exec> 08└─lolololol That has to be the best explanation as to why the infowars/breitbarters are such die hard morons. Please note that I am not saying your list of liberal sites is wrong, there is undoubtedly some fake shit rolling through there as well. But god DAMN! "Why are these news source "fake news?" B...
[20:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:45] <exec> 08└─Nice to see you ignore the last part: "I suppose there are still a few sincere, principled Republicans, the ones who believe in personal responsibility and restraint with the free handouts and similar philosophies. And, oh yeah, the Rule of Law." Hey, how else would you justify yet another wall of b...
[20:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:48] <exec> 08└─You realize that in this case it is the GOP that has been sucking the MIC's cock? All I can hear is Putin's laughter as he makes his favorite worm squirm.
[20:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 New VM Escape Vulnerabilities Discovered in VirtualBox - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:19] <exec> 08└─Does anyone even care about VirtualBox anymore? Oracle doesn't seem to care much about it anymore. They did release patches. I suppose that means something.
[20:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:15] <exec> 08└─Actually "Tkdfrbjf gb" is about all one can say to an idiot with little knowledge of history but an insufferable ego that thinks it has all the answers. I found it to be quite appropriate, insightful even.
[20:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Justify Your Alpha: A Response to "Redefine Statistical Significance" - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:16] <exec> 08└─Your username isn't joking around!!
[20:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:51] <exec> 08└─i don't agree with this either/or proposition. how about the (US) government do what it is actually authorized to do (very few things) and stay out of things that are none of it's business, like telling people what medicine they can use, possess or produce?
[20:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:53] <exec> 08└─There are good doctors out there, I know a few as well. They sometimes have a hard time applying that when time is short and student bills are huge though, so I suspect many could do better given half a chance. This is one reason I would like to see a single payer system. It would provide the levera...
[20:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:55] <exec> 08└─no, but they're using the ~40k deaths a year (out of 400 million people. that's aprox. .0001 percent...) to totally clamp down on the global mail system. we'll have to route around the official mail services as you can bet more and more things will be on the naughty list over time. some people need...
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[21:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana to FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:17] <exec> 08└─Can it be true? Is this man correct? Impossible. But you need to verify it. You put your hand down the back of your undies. Then, slowly, you slide your hand through your asscrack like you would a credit card through a credit card reader, and you pull your hand back out of your pants. You look at yo...
[21:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Demo Flight Set for Tuesday 2018-02-06 @ 1830-2130 UTC (1:30-4:30 p.m. EST) - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:26] <exec> 08└─He got up. Dope. He couldn't get enough of it. The man walked away happily. The woman died in terror and despair, having fulfilled her purpose as a used.
[21:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Demo Flight Set for Tuesday 2018-02-06 @ 1830-2130 UTC (1:30-4:30 p.m. EST) - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:29] <exec> 08└─Given the subject, "Dummy Payload", I thought this was gonna be a comment thread suggesting letting Trump the Tesla driver's seat. How tweet that would be.
[21:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:47] <exec> 08└─It is useful as an identifier.
[21:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:49] <exec> 08└─Said bases and airfields are pretty obvious to satellites, recon drones, sigint, and some guy on a camel with binoculars.
[21:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:45] <exec> 08└─If that is your choice...
[21:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 1789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:46] <exec> 08└─Ultimately a bad idea anyways. Essentially suppressing the expression of views, which also happen to result in foreign economic contributions. The former is antithetical to American values, the latter is very much in line with American Capitalism. There are two things here with the election that mat...
[21:20:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 580 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:08] <exec> 08└─We can also throw in the F22s, which are so expensive we can't use them for anything risky (and they have no actual role, given we currently don't need air superiority), so fragile and hard to maintain they can't go to many bases, and have such a short range they're useless against the few real enem...
[21:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 1184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:11] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of reasons to want you to think the F-22 is a failure. The military doesn't want foes to know how good it is. The democrats, particularly Obama, weren't about to appreciate a plane being built in Alabama, a red state that is useless to them. Other defense contractors, the ones that...
[21:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:13] <exec> 08└─Can you spell boondoggle? Good, I knew you could.
[21:20:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:16] <exec> 08└─China couldn't make jet engines for fighter planes. China got the right to build Russian planes. They built just a few, then ended the contract and started building their own. Russia was pissed. Since the engines had been made in Russia, China didn't have the factory design for that. The copies were...
[21:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:18] <exec> 08└─Russia still does and it has invaded and annexed territory basically just yesterday.
[21:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:20] <exec> 08└─I do hear that it's not very good. I'm hearing that our existing planes are better. And one of the pilots came out of the plane, one of the test pilots, and said this isn't as good as what we already have. And to spend billions and billions of dollars on something that maybe isn't as good? They're s...
[21:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloud Seeding For Snow: Does It Work? Scientists Report First Quantifiable Observations - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:55] <exec> 08└─This was my first thought too. I recall reading that China has already been involved in Cloud Seeding to improve rainfall, and as a result have cause significantly *less* rainfall in other major regions.
[21:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:37] <exec> 08└─Woooooow, did they seriously pull the "Think about the criminalz!" card? I can only assume that this bill is causing the consumer electronics industry to collectively crap their pants. This will not only destroy their lucrative "Authorized repair partner" programs, but worse still it will destroy th...
[21:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:39] <exec> 08└─No. They are not, nor have ever been, needed.
[21:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:41] <exec> 08└─For the same reasons dems should dictate behavior, and social justice. like, duh, like.
[21:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:43] <exec> 08└─No, just money, replacing iphones like they were candy. Its good to be king.
[21:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:46] <exec> 08└─Interpreted to mean that you are often a miserable prick because you disagree with me. :^)
[21:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Takes An Unexpected Lead In The Race To Develop Autonomous Vehicles - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:05] <exec> 08└─Oi! Where are the links to the SN stories about those ones? Here's an example from Tallinn, Estonia [soylentnews.org] (where I was the humble editor). But those are indeed not the kinds of vehicles being talked about. The GM guy was suspiciously precise about what kind of vehicle he was talking abou...
[21:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Takes An Unexpected Lead In The Race To Develop Autonomous Vehicles - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:06] <exec> 08└─They also excluded more luxury vehicles from the comparison, and cheaper vehicles from the comparison. I suspect that if other competitors were available in yellow, they'd have ensured they never released theirs in yellow and added a "not available in yellow" clause to the list of subset-defining pr...
[21:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 2159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:17] <exec> 08└─1990 Dusseldorf, actual case of blood poisioning presented on my left wrist. Walked to the desk of the hostel I was staying at and asked where is the nearest hospital? "oh, you're kind of in a bad spot here, halfway between two" - they were both ~10 minutes walk. I walk in to the E.R. "oh, we're ver...
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[22:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana to FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:16] <exec> 08└─They shouldn't be allowed to advertise 'Internet' if they aren't offering it. But we can't have truth in advertising. Then people would realize just how awful they have it.
[22:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana to FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:18] <exec> 08└─How would politicians EVER get elected? :-D
[22:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Montana to FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:20] <exec> 08└─Ohhhhhhhhhhhh! My fetid, disease-ridden little friend can't stop his hips! Your rancid, feces-filled hole is totally sucking me in, as if it wants to be pregnant! What's this...!? Pinworms!? Ahhhhhhhhh, they're wrapping around my rotten rod! Too good! Get pregnant! Rectum became bubble gum.
[22:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana to FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:22] <exec> 08└─"Internet" can be 0.05 Mbps and still qualify, as in the case of v.90/v.92 dial-up. So long as the ISP doesn't block a particular site but instead throttles it to dial-up speeds, it's still offering "Internet access." Or an ISP can instead advertise "Web access," playing on widespread confusion betw...
[22:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana to FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:24] <exec> 08└─What makes them think that ISPs would play ball? They have every incentive to ignore this threat, as long as none of them comply, Montana government will appear foolish doing on thing and saying another. It is almost inconceivable that Montana won't find that it isn't stuck with local monopolies as...
[22:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Montana to FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:27] <exec> 08└─It's peeking out. Peeking out of the hole. Your hole. A face. It's a face. An ET doll's face. It's grinning. It's sneering at you. A malicious grin. Its neck stretches and it quickly bends its long head upwards, slamming it on the outside of your snappyhole while producing an unintelligible wail. Wh...
[22:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Demo Flight Set for Tuesday 2018-02-06 @ 1830-2130 UTC (1:30-4:30 p.m. EST) - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:37] <exec> 08└─Didn't you read Gaaaaaaaaaark's comment about reducing space junk ?
[22:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:24] <exec> 08└─I could have sworn that was a GWB quote, but apparently it is indeed Quayle. Wikiquote claims it's from a 1989 CNN interview.
[22:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:25] <exec> 08└─Yep. That was the VP of GWB's father. There was a whole book of Quayle Quotables. And were they ever funny and many.
[22:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:02] <exec> 08└─True, but those camels tend to be really obnoxious, and often won't tell you what they see thru the binoculars. Might be easier to look it up online.
[22:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fitness Tracker Strava's Geolocation "Lights Up" U.S. Military Bases - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:03] <exec> 08└─yea but go take a look at the map in Afghanistan. The data does a nice job of mapping the interior layout of the bases as well as showing how much areas are or are not traveled by the app's users. That's a lot of extra detail I'm sure no one at those places really wants to advertise.
[22:19:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:23] <exec> 08└─Do the words "poll tax" ring any bells? How long has it bloody been since fourth grade civics for you anyway?
[22:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:02] <exec> 08└─That isn't a straw man, you stupid motherfucker. Crack a goddamn history book for once in your life, assuming you can read beyond a kindergarten level.
[22:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:03] <exec> 08└─Were you born this way or was it a lifestyle choice? I am genuinely curious.
[22:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:06] <exec> 08└─He will, because he's deranged :) And I am being dead serious here: projection, hypocrisy, willful ignorance, and utter amorality are the tools of the trade for anyone who wishes to retain the kind of worldview he does.
[22:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:08] <exec> 08└─Or, it could be true, you know.
[22:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:10] <exec> 08└─You seem to be confused about who was poking a bear and who's currently poking a small dog.
[22:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:12] <exec> 08└─That's a really good point. I completely neglected to take into account the fact that Trump Derangement Syndrome almost exclusively afflicts those already suffering from severe narcissism.
[22:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Agencies Provide Crucial Intel About Russia’s Interference In US Elections - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:14] <exec> 08└─If you are dumb, you shouldn't vote. We ought to have a high standard for this, probably without a sharp cutoff. For example, votes get weighted according to intelligence percentile. Throw a few IQ questions on the ballot. If your family contains anybody who has ever been here illegally, you shouldn...
[22:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:44] <exec> 08└─> The military doesn't want foes to know how good it is. Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost if you KEEP IT A SECRET! Why didn't you tell the world, eh?
[22:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:08] <exec> 08└─No, no, no. Just like with the saying about money, you left out the most important part. /The LOVE of Apple/ is the root of all evil.
[22:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:10] <exec> 08└─Cynics don't smile. Things going worse is just a confirmation that everything is in the expected SNAFU state, no worries. Cheers, mate.
[22:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:12] <exec> 08└─Giantcorp has more money to buy lobbyists and legislators than you.
[22:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:14] <exec> 08└─The razor thing is why I use an old school safety razor. It also cuts through all those weird cowlicks on my neck that the multiblade pos would leave as stubble and razor bumps.
[22:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken [5985] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:16] <exec> 08└─This law may pass. But it will be also be circumvented. Loopholes will be written into the law. Special exemptions will be allowed afterwards. It will never completely deliver what it promises.
[22:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Takes An Unexpected Lead In The Race To Develop Autonomous Vehicles - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:38] <exec> 08└─Interesting but NAVYA still has more going on, and more planned for this year. Plus no reason to assume they're done improving. But thanks, good review.
[22:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GM Takes An Unexpected Lead In The Race To Develop Autonomous Vehicles - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:40] <exec> 08└─Thanks! The article does sounds way too tailored to the situation ... and the USA.
[22:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GM Takes An Unexpected Lead In The Race To Develop Autonomous Vehicles - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:42] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that it is a vehicle that takes inspiration from many other types of vehicles. Part ATV, part luxury car, part convertible, part hard top, part sports car, part grocery getter.
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[23:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06ATM Makers Warn of 'Jackpotting' Hacks on U.S. Machines - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:15] <exec> 08└─Whispers. All around you. You hear them. The source is... evil. Slam! Slam! Slam! Slam your ass down on them all! What a bunch of fools for challenging you. As you begin dancing with your bootyass in celebration, tickle overcomes your snap! No! They're bouncing around inside it! They've turned your...
[23:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ATM Makers Warn of 'Jackpotting' Hacks on U.S. Machines - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:17] <exec> 08└─A good website would tell us exactly how this hack works.
[23:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ATM Makers Warn of 'Jackpotting' Hacks on U.S. Machines - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:19] <exec> 08└─I'd be happy just knowing what "jackpotting" means. Is this a crime against the ATM/bank, or against the customers, etc.
[23:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ATM Makers Warn of 'Jackpotting' Hacks on U.S. Machines - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:21] <exec> 08└─Search what version of Windows runs on the ATM; Either find random exploit that allows some sort of execution of code on that version of Windows; Or start phishing campaign to get employees of Diebold or another ATM supplier to execute E-Mail attachments and then; Try to get mallware instal...
[23:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ATM Makers Warn of 'Jackpotting' Hacks on U.S. Machines - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:23] <exec> 08└─Many years back someone used a backhoe to rip a rural ATM out of the wall of a bank near where I live. I suppose you could armor it up against that, but it would be tough.
[23:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ATM Makers Warn of 'Jackpotting' Hacks on U.S. Machines - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:26] <exec> 08└─There's a documentary. Google for 'Terminator 2 ATM hacking scene'. Trouble is: you need an Atari.
[23:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ATM Makers Warn of 'Jackpotting' Hacks on U.S. Machines - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:28] <exec> 08└─There is a whole thing on YouTube about failed ATM thefts. Some of them are rather funny.
[23:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Montana to FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:41] <exec> 08└─Silence has descended upon your dry nutsack. Deathly silence. Your once dry nutsack, that is! I beg you, check your sack! It's nothing but a fuckin' drippin' papoohiesack now! A silent papoohie overcame your defenses. You don't believe me!? Check it! You're just making things harder on yourself. The...
[23:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana to FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:43] <exec> 08└─Russian troll bots?
[23:17:44] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03melikamp [1886] 02 - 06Montana to FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality - 579 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:45] <exec> 08└─If none of them comply, that's collusion, and is probably illegal. But there's no way they will collude, for two reasons: a single detractor willing to work with Montana will get to serve the entire state, while everyone else loses a chunk of market share, with nothing but red to show for it. And i...
[23:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana to FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:47] <exec> 08└─We need to get rid of Net Neutrality, because Obama was for it, so it is a job-killing over-regulation of the kind only a Liberal could love! Darn Montana Commie Librul Hippies !
[23:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana to FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:50] <exec> 08└─The big net neutrality violators are probably Cellphone companies, with their free bandwidth for X if you buy from us. Those are going to be pretty hard to get around, because access to towers would be taking. Land line / Cable / Fiber providers are already occupying the public rights-of-ways along...
[23:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana to FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:52] <exec> 08└─as long as none of them comply, Montana government will appear foolish doing on thing and saying another.
[23:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana to FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:54] <exec> 08└─The question is can anyone make the overarching promises that Montana requires in the hopes that they are that sole defector, it seems to me, this is analogous to prisoners dilemma. Except it will be iterated among a presumably huge number of connections, and as you point out, the analogy breaks dow...
[23:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana to FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:56] <exec> 08└─Still I find it interesting that Montana only protects government
[23:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana to FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:58] <exec> 08└─Just guessing but it looks to me like they are being very careful to avoid overstepping state's rights. Smart, actually.
[23:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana to FCC: You Can't Stop Us From Protecting Net Neutrality - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:01] <exec> 08└─Well many states explicitly don't permit this, I have no idea about Montana. Even ignoring that, starting a municipal internet project on a statewide scale is a huge step away from issuing a executive order saying you will only do business with vendors who promise net neutrality to all citizens of M...
[23:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Demo Flight Set for Tuesday 2018-02-06 @ 1830-2130 UTC (1:30-4:30 p.m. EST) - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:12] <exec> 08└─You're wasting three seats. How about Devin Nunes for one of the seats?
[23:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:02] <exec> 08└─Define utopia. Is there one of those on Earth?
[23:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Initial Tests of NASA's Kilopower Nuclear System Successful - 1441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:03] <exec> 08└─We are talking about a couple of kg of U-233. Quite frankly not really that much to worry about (you would probably get most bang for the buck out of it by using it as a combined balast and warhead in a camouflet (pretty much only way to get it down fast enough to not turn into global skeet shooting...
[23:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:16] <exec> 08└─> allowing the government to deprive its citizens of the resources that would enable them to rebel Indeed too many resources under control of the common man generate time (to get informed, to bond with others), decreasing of the value of money (so people can afford not being yes men), and decreasing...
[23:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:17] <exec> 08└─an F35 can win a war, just make the enemy maintain it and wait a couple years.
[23:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06F-35s Continue to Have Problems, Acquisition Costs Increase - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:19] <exec> 08└─You forgot to blame Obama... and Bush.
[23:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington State Bill Would Make Hard-to-Repair Electronics Illegal - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:48] <exec> 08└─I truly envy you, for your work environment. Digitization is beautiful. I thought that we were entering the 21st century when they set up a computer in the shop. "Sweet", says I. "We can get the digital stuff, and put it all in one place, and maybe get digital copies of stuff that is on paper now!"...
[23:25:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl - 544 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:52] <exec> 08└─The feds and states must stop protecting us from everything. Make it all legal, tax it, and focus on education campaigns. Anything prescription should have specific requirements for proper risk discussions between doctor and patient but nothing more. How many billions of tax dollars have been poured...
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