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[00:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06An Irresistible Scent Makes Locusts Swarm, Study Finds - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:43] <exec> 08└─Armed with this knowledge, we may yet defeat the Jew Bastard threat!!
[00:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Irresistible Scent Makes Locusts Swarm, Study Finds - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:45] <exec> 08└─DAS RACISSS!!
[00:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Irresistible Scent Makes Locusts Swarm, Study Finds - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:47] <exec> 08└─Seems to me the obvious application of this research is to weaponize locusts by dosing a few with the pheromone and thus starting the chain reaction. Though baited traps might also be an option, so long as they were big enough and cleared out often enough - not gong to do much good if you lure enoug...
[00:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Irresistible Scent Makes Locusts Swarm, Study Finds - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:49] <exec> 08└─No, DAS SPECIST!!
[00:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Irresistible Scent Makes Locusts Swarm, Study Finds - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:51] <exec> 08└─He sold his patent to Monsanto, which in turn was bought up by Bayer.
[00:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06An Irresistible Scent Makes Locusts Swarm, Study Finds - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:54] <exec> 08└─No, OP was being Ethanolicist.
[00:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:16] <exec> 08└─ublock origin, noscript, ghostery... if there is no text readable, there was nothing I needed,
[00:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:18] <exec> 08└─What are some alternatives to Facebook? I looked at Diaspora, but didn't like that you have to "join" a particular server, instead of having your account more universal. As for dark patterns, that's been going on for decades. It's the grocery store putting the milk all the way in the back, to force...
[00:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:20] <exec> 08└─I sometimes dive into the browser preferences, privacy section, and manually delete the cookies. That stops the 5 articles per month limit. Mostly though, I just don't read the NYT or WaPo sites any more.
[00:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:22] <exec> 08└─You could set your cookies for current-session-only, or go in incognito mode, I guess. But if it's still dumping cookies on you, you may be able to submit that as a GDPR violation.
[00:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Turn Regular Bricks Into Electricity-Storing Supercapacitors - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:36] <exec> 08└─What happened, Fusty? You used to be cool. #catlivesmatter
[00:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:19] <exec> 08└─I did not travel outside Canada since 2010 or so, therefore I could not tell you how zealous is the typical Canadian custom officer is nowadays. Back then they were mostly angry looking but surprisingly courteous. Maybe Gaark, Snow or Barbara have more up to date information...
[00:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:30] <exec> 08└─Really, none of the alternative browsers seem worth using at this point, but in my experience Falkon does *most* things right. For some reason I cannot get it to work on sites like imgur or reddit, but that may be just my attempt at locking it down. Much like how no one runs Windows for Windows itse...
[00:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:32] <exec> 08└─If the classroom was me and 57 black guys, or 57 Indian women, would I have persisted when the course work got too hard?
[00:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Display Announces its First Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) Mobile Display - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:52] <exec> 08└─And they were social distancing before it was cool. You just can't catch a cold in a proper "clean room".
[00:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:20] <exec> 08└─Anchovies are awesome, come on. I like them on pizza next to pineapple and onion, as the flavors work really well together.
[00:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:26] <exec> 08└─A new drive is under $40.
[00:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 747s Receive Critical Software Updates Over 3.5" Floppy Disks - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:28] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the certification adds significantly to the retail cost, but the same was always true and would apply to the USB port as well.
[00:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Bullying' Apple Fights Couple Over Pear Logo - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:58] <exec> 08└─where is the "+1 insightfully depressing" mod...
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[01:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Irresistible Scent Makes Locusts Swarm, Study Finds - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:51] <exec> 08└─But first thing first. Figure out a way to capture and eat'em, turn it into animal feed, etc. Turn crisis into opportunity - the regions typically affected by locust swarms often suffer from famine. And maybe it's the famine that drive them buffers into swarms. Turn a pestilence into a feast. We hum...
[01:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Irresistible Scent Makes Locusts Swarm, Study Finds - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:52] <exec> 08└─How do you turn off the swarming behavior of cockroaches swarming around the orange cockroach in the white house ?
[01:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Irresistible Scent Makes Locusts Swarm, Study Finds - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:54] <exec> 08└─Cockroach sex pheremone?
[01:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Irresistible Scent Makes Locusts Swarm, Study Finds - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:57] <exec> 08└─Nahhh, you gotta beat their little meaties.
[01:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:24] <exec> 08└─That website does clarify that a cookie banner with just an "accept" button is not allowed under GDPR; you have to give the user an option to reject cookies (and be informed that you're storing a single cookie that just says to not store any other cookies). But I've only ever seen ones with just the...
[01:24:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 803 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:12] <exec> 08└─Seems the powerful are always trying to push enforcers to operate beyond their purview. The MAFIAA wanted colleges to police students' Internet activity, to stop piracy. Thought nothing of the burden they were asking schools to shoulder. Passing on the costs to someone else is of course another clas...
[01:31:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:09] <exec> 08└─Several people have bandied about the hypothetical example of regulating 20 work weeks (with presumably harsh overtime penalties to keep companies from employing people longer). The most likely outcome of such a reduction is people working two jobs. Or maybe people working one job where 20+ hours of...
[01:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:10] <exec> 08└─And you've accused me of making assumptions? wow, OK. People discuss the possibility of people working shorter weeks and your mind goes straight away to "your rights" and the possibility of violence. That says quite a lot about you.
[01:31:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Case for a Reduced Work Week - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:12] <exec> 08└─Data are for compensation (wages and benefits) of production/nonsupervisory workers in the private sector and net productivity of the total economy.
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[02:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nanotubes in the Eye that Help Us See - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:46] <exec> 08└─https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2589-x [nature.com] The video are available without buying the article and if you want to read the paper, the Russian science hub of Taiwan is there for you ;)
[02:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Irresistible Scent Makes Locusts Swarm, Study Finds - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:03] <exec> 08└─Dammit Jim, I'm an entomologist, not a miracle worker.
[02:23:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 1409 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:19] <exec> 08└─There are myriads of options designed to hide your choices, deny meaningful choices, or just overwhelm you. You've covered a couple, but the most obnoxious one I came across was one that gave you three buttons: Accept, Decline, and Options. Of course, "Accept" is a blanket approval and you get to se...
[02:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:33] <exec> 08└─It's fair enough IFF they make clear what they will be doing with your data in exchange for using the site. Part of the problem is they say one thing, users agree, then they "alter the deal".
[02:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:34] <exec> 08└─What are some alternatives to Facebook?
[02:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:36] <exec> 08└─You can make millions using Facebook's, and youtube's advertising services C'mon! Give it a try! You know you want to
[02:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:39] <exec> 08└─Honest marketing entails selling a product on it's merits. If you have an interior product that is more expensive, it doesn't work well.
[02:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemists Discover Way to Make New Nitrogen Products 'Out of Thin Air' - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:54] <exec> 08└─A large chunk of Nitrogen fertilizer is Ammonium Nitrate and Urea. Urea is harvested from many places. However, most of the Ammonium Nitrate is artificially generated, thanks to Haber and another process that slips my memory. If possible, you order it as straight product (CAN) because that includes...
[02:25:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 357 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:57] <exec> 08└─No, it started as the stripped down, customizable browser only alternative to Nutscrape Navigator, the browser that insisted you needed to install a dozen different clients in order to load a webpage. I'm not sure exactly when SeaMonkey started, but it took off about the time the stripped down custo...
[02:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:49] <exec> 08└─[...] But tell me again how Outreachy is the cause of Mozilla's problems and the reverse discrimination is oppressing white men. [...]
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[03:23:40] <exec> 08└─#catlivesmatter Only 1/9th as much
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[04:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Reelin" in a New Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:05] <exec> 08└─"Calvier and Herz are shareholders of Reelin Therapeutics Inc. .."
[04:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Reelin" in a New Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:07] <exec> 08└─Who among the eds has MS? Why are we seeing this on the front page, unless it is hump and dump, or the desperate wish of a terminally ill person? (not that I would dump on that, but, still. )
[04:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Reelin" in a New Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:09] <exec> 08└─I'm mostly cynical too... Both MS sufferers that I knew well also had mental illness problems. Given the slow progression of MS, it was hard to tell which came first. And they both were suckers for unproven treatments that cost a lot and, at least in their two cases, did nothing apparent to slow the...
[04:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:07] <exec> 08└─You can make millions using Facebook's, and youtube's advertising services
[04:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemists Discover Way to Make New Nitrogen Products 'Out of Thin Air' - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:29] <exec> 08└─Understood. It doesn't add hugely to the cost. But it does add. And, of course, how much it adds depends on the required purity. Medical oxygen machines run on household current, so it can't be very expensive. I'm assuming that it generates the oxygen via fractionating. OTOH, you neither usually nee...
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[05:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03crb3 [5919] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Irresistible Scent Makes Locusts Swarm, Study Finds - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:14] <exec> 08└─Attach an atomizer of the attractant to a wood chipper set on cruise; come back once a day to empty the holding tank into cannisters of what can be, after suitable treatment, animal feed. Too bad you can't choose where to site the harvester; I'm sure there're places in the American South that would...
[05:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:48] <exec> 08└─Exterior products work better.
[05:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:49] <exec> 08└─Give him his due, he's a "bovine effluent transportation engineer".
[05:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:51] <exec> 08└─And for those who do not know, "nutherguy" is a sockpuppet for Runaway1956 guy, on the IRC, where he does not think it counts as a sockpuppet. But still, submissions by this entity are to be held suspect. Quarantined for at least two weeks. And terminated with extreme participles.
[05:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:51] <exec> 08└─Naa, acoustic couplers for 300 baud- 1,200 if you're really lucky!
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[06:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simple Modification Makes Quantum States Last 10,000 Times Longer - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:53] <exec> 08└─If you experience a "coherent state" lasting longer than four hours, consult a quantum physicist immediately. They may want to "hold" it.
[06:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Reelin" in a New Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:03] <exec> 08└─At a cost of hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of our lives, we've just developed a cure for a cause of terrible human suffering. As our proper reward, let's give it away for free, and live our lives in obscurity and poverty. That's what you're implying they should do. With ideas like that,...
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[06:23:05] <exec> 08└─Dr. Jonas Salk, and Hippocrates want a word with you, mercenary drug dealer. Are still in prison for you last "investment opportunity", Pharma Bro?
[06:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Reelin" in a New Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:07] <exec> 08└─Ideals are great and all, but humans work for their daily bread, which is bought with money. Philanthropy is not a sustainable economic system.
[06:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Reelin" in a New Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:09] <exec> 08└─Plato said that a doctor who practices medicine to make money is a fee-collector, not a doctor. Mutandis mutandum, a medical researcher who hopes to strike is rich is a speculator, not a medical researcher. We have been over the sociopath question many times. I suggest you watch Darren Aronofsky's "...
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[06:23:12] <exec> 08└─But it is the only possible human system. Why do you think all those teachers teach for a pittance? Why do the first responders run toward danger when, seriously, they are not getting paid enough for that? Why do professors accept the lower income that they could have surpassed by prostituting their...
[06:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:13] <exec> 08└─I hate cell phone keyboards so much.
[06:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:15] <exec> 08└─The DHS said the privacy risks of using the tools are low because only trained forensics technicians will have access to the tools, ...
[06:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:17] <exec> 08└─Stupid criminals
[06:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Highly Efficient Process Makes Seawater Drinkable in 30 Minutes - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:51] <exec> 08└─Interesting factoid; Singapore has a raw sewage to water tap treatment system already in place. And the tap water quality in Singapore is better than many places in the USA. As my host's father so eloquently put it when we drove be the treatment plant during my visit there "Your drinking my shit wat...
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[06:29:52] <exec> 08└─Oh, and another interest fact. Urine has less dissolved salts in it than seawater, so giving this MOF urine to work with would be even better than seawater.
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[07:29:02] <exec> 08└─Coming up next: Lunch!
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[08:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:42] <exec> 08└─n/t
[08:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:44] <exec> 08└─not sure whether it's common for first pregnancies, but our female cat only had the one daughter. no real guilt afterwards, although I assume there were a number of health issues related to this. the male cat got neutered after marking a pillow on the couch.
[08:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:46] <exec> 08└─"... up to a few times higher ..." That range includes 0. Are they implying their error bars dip below zero?
[08:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:48] <exec> 08└─There's no correlation between having testes and building strong bodies. Fact. Trans women are women. Fact.
[08:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Simple Modification Makes Quantum States Last 10,000 Times Longer - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:56] <exec> 08└─This is brilliant. And I think I actually understand it. 1. the system is affected by many external agents which are independent. 2. the effect from each agent can accumulate and lead to decoherence. 3. by imposing a "reorientation" of the system on time scales shorter than those of the external age...
[08:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simple Modification Makes Quantum States Last 10,000 Times Longer - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:59] <exec> 08└─Huh, wut?
[08:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Simple Modification Makes Quantum States Last 10,000 Times Longer - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:01] <exec> 08└─allowed the system to stay coherent up to 22 milliseconds
[08:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:30] <exec> 08└─It's probably a single process, would make sense based on your 1/4 measure, because FF forks 4 worker processes on my system. FF and Chrome fork() with your ram, maaan!
[08:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:31] <exec> 08└─You know what? There are times when it's best to stay calm and don't panic. We have a clear proof that what Mozilla did was not the right move and a bunch of dedicated users complaining about Mozilla having ruined a great browser. When a giant monopoly jumps in, with an even greater position than th...
[08:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:34] <exec> 08└─If the classroom was me and 57 black guys, or 57 Indian women, would I have persisted when the course work got too hard?
[08:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:36] <exec> 08└─How would you categorize yourself, if I may ask?
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[09:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Touché) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:40] <exec> 08└─What's happening to you, Fatty? You're manifesting quite a few, not including zero, accesses of pedantry lately. Not finding anything of value to say? Then say nothing. Or join the #FreeAristarchus protest.
[09:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:42] <exec> 08└─Excesses, you illiterate AC! "Accesses" of pedantry would make no sense. Even if you did start with 0, which would be accessive and have no effect.
[09:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:44] <exec> 08└─Shelters, breeders and humane societies should consider adopting a standard of neutering at over a year of age for dogs that will grow into large sizes.
[09:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:46] <exec> 08└─Excesses, you illiterate AC!
[09:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:48] <exec> 08└─Learn literal English
[09:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:50] <exec> 08└─Whatever, Hudson.
[09:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Simple Modification Makes Quantum States Last 10,000 Times Longer - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:02] <exec> 08└─imposing a "reorientation" sounds like decohering to me.
[09:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06"Reelin" in a New Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:17] <exec> 08└─Ari, if you'd posted that non-A/C, I'd have up-modded you. Don't hide your light under a bushel. And, apropos of nothing, where do you stand on the horrors of "multiple sclerisis"? I personally think it's an abomination, and must be stamped out forthwith. Multiple scleroses. The clue's in the...
[09:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:20] <exec> 08└─c0lo wrote : it's their site, they do want they want with it. My choice is to not use them and search for the same information in other places.
[09:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:21] <exec> 08└─"Cookie AutoDelete" in FF. You can whitelist whatever site you want, the rest has all cookies deleted as soon as you close the tab.
[09:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:26] <exec> 08└─Was that the FreedomPop annual service?
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[10:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:57] <exec> 08└─The difference here is that fixing an animal completely removes two of their primary endocrine glands without otherwise replacing the hormones that would be produced. Transitioning usually does replace the hormones of one type of gonad with another, even in cases where they are not surgically remove...
[10:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Simple Modification Makes Quantum States Last 10,000 Times Longer - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:10] <exec> 08└─A reorientation is not decohering if it is controlled and reversible (that is, if you tell someone what you did, that person can in principle undo your action without further information). For example, turning by 180 degrees is not decohering. Turning it to point in a specific direction would be dec...
[10:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06"Reelin" in a New Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:27] <exec> 08└─where do you stand on the horrors of "multiple sclerisis"?
[10:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Reelin" in a New Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:28] <exec> 08└─Downmod me to hell, materhumpers.
[10:24:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:17] <exec> 08└─ublock origin, noscript, ghostery... if there is no text readable, there was nothing I needed,
[10:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:34] <exec> 08└─That sort of depends on the product, I would think.
[10:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:35] <exec> 08└─Aren't you not sure you don't not want to not continue not using a lack of cookies?
[10:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:37] <exec> 08└─When I run into that on a public computer, I like to randomly deselect one cookies the middle of the list, in case some guy reviews my entry manually. Just give him a moment of confusion as he wonders what that company in particular did to earn such an action.
[10:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:39] <exec> 08└─You will need to find that information in a book, because nearly every website uses cookies, including SN (so you'd better log off now?).
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[11:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:34] <exec> 08└─OpenAI first described GPT-3 in a research paper published in May. But last week it began drip-feeding the software to selected people who requested access to a private beta. For now, OpenAI wants outside developers to help it explore what GPT-3 can do, but it plans to turn the tool into a commercia...
[11:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:35] <exec> 08└─If they don't want to make it open, maybe they should rename themselves from “OpenAI” to “ClosedAI”.
[11:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:37] <exec> 08└─"Publish or Perish", anyone? Now, we need an AI which can peer-review :D https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] CYA
[11:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:40] <exec> 08└─which of the posters on SN is GPT-3?
[11:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:42] <exec> 08└─the one of them who writes "Shockingly Good", obviously. ;) CYA
[11:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:44] <exec> 08└─Maybe one should train it on mathematics textbooks and papers, and then prompt it with the title “Proof of the Riemann conjecture.” Then we would see if the AI really is intelligent, or simply a pretender! :-)
[11:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 3274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:46] <exec> 08└─All current AI is not intelligent at all. That's just a statistical text engine, tuned for success of "what sounds right", it has no depth or structure or context or understanding. It's also awful. I mean the first text is worse then a kindergarten kid, talking in short sentences, but without the ov...
[11:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:04] <exec> 08└─Spaying and neutering has been known to decrease an animal's health and lifespan for lots of reasons. It causes all types of problems while only reducing a couple. All you have to do is it look up in an animal focused textbook or journal. This isn't hidden information. Why is this on Soylentnews?
[11:24:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 541 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:18] <exec> 08└─Not using Facebook does ot solve the problem. The EFF are just using Facebook as a case in point, because everyone is familiar with FB if only by reputation. In fact the sameis true for most websites. If you do not accept their cookies and agree to them reading your data as far as they can reach, th...
[11:29:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:53] <exec> 08└─You do remember those rental phones: fixed to the wall with 2' handset cords...
[11:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:54] <exec> 08└─a reasonable price that enabled you to build and operate your system, with a healthy profit.
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[12:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:01] <exec> 08└─so, not the one writing the headlines...
[12:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:03] <exec> 08└─just get over yourself, will you? why can't people accept that there's nothing special about us humans? yes, this GPT thing is no more coherent than a 3 year old who swallowed a dictionary. what will you say about GPT-4? "well, being able to go to the store looking for bread and coming back with pre...
[12:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:05] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't be surprised if that text generator is more coherent than the average Twitter message... but that doesn't say much about intelligence, granted. Your example of a grenade-throwing AI is by no means different than average basic training in an army. You're telling soldiers how to lob a grena...
[12:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simple Modification Makes Quantum States Last 10,000 Times Longer - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:36] <exec> 08└─Go away Q.
[12:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:23] <exec> 08└─There's also Waterfox.
[12:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:24] <exec> 08└─Firefox was much faster and more stable than IE. That's one of the reasons everyone switched. Chrome was dramatically faster than Firefox until Firefox 57, which is relatively recent, and even then the gap only narrowed but did not go away. That's one of the reasons, though not the only one, that pe...
[12:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 1393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:27] <exec> 08└─It has nothing to do with them being "out to get me" or distracting me with ethnic activities. It has to do with feeling like I fit in, and having the confidence that I've got the intelligence and persistence to learn what I need to know. When the whole educational program is full of people with bac...
[12:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 1628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:29] <exec> 08└─Funny how "political correct" means "easily offended" but you're the one upset at the suggestion you might have had an unfair advantage. Which one of us is the whining one? The point is that in the US when I went to school, white men were just under 40% of the population and 90% of the tech industry...
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[13:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:36] <exec> 08└─When you rEArRange a few words you can read between the lines.
[13:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:37] <exec> 08└─Since the U.S. is hammering TikTok to get M$ a better deal on their assets acquisition deal, does this seem like it might be another M$ favor: spewing a bit of virus FUD on Linux?
[13:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 1812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe this is what I've been wanting. I am a very good coder, but I find the work tedious. I keep hunting for a better programming language, and trying to understand why coding is dull. One of the problems is that the typical compiler/interpreter is the most extremely anal retentive, brainless follo...
[13:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:15] <exec> 08└─because this is new information. additionally to the previously known problems, now you can take into account the fact that bigger dogs get joint disorders, and it's better to wait until the animal reaches its adult weight, rather than wait until it passes puberty.
[13:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:16] <exec> 08└─Joint problems can be severe enough to require the dog to be euthanized. Why don't we do the same with you? Most of my dogs are what you could call "hand-me_downs" - people move, they die, etc. The majority are so-called pure breeds, and most weren't neut. None of them has made puppies in over 30...
[13:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:54] <exec> 08└─Not one mention of the pioneer and developer of all these techniques?
[13:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Movie Theaters are in Trouble After DOJ Nixes 70-year-old Case - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:06] <exec> 08└─the interest of the people.
[13:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:08] <exec> 08└─That's one of the ones I looked into but nixed quickly. Not only for voice quality and network access problems, but they fail to mention- NO voicemail is included. You can buy it separately though, but that puts the total price in line with most other much better plans, so why deal with horrible "se...
[13:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:10] <exec> 08└─I remember much longer cords though. Maybe they were an option? A friend of mine's mom recently passed away and she still has a working wall-mounted probably 1970s phone. I'll measure the cord and get back to you. It may be 2' coil retracted. Love or hate it, you have to admit that old stuff never b...
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[14:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:53] <exec> 08└─...the FBI and NSA did not detail how the initial attack vector for the malware occurs.
[14:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:54] <exec> 08└─Oh, so you mean "sudo apt install systemd?"
[14:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:56] <exec> 08└─Nah, systemd is open source, even if only Lennart and his Red Hat minions can untangle the ball of string. If you want to pollute your system with non-free sudo apt install nvidia-driver (Although Torvalds is a fan of neither)
[14:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:58] <exec> 08└─Oh, so you mean "sudo apt install systemd?"
[14:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:01] <exec> 08└─"Despite the in-depth report, the FBI and NSA did not detail how the initial attack vector for the malware occurs. The report also does not specify how long the malware has been in action, or how many companies may have been targeted – and whether any attacks have been successful. Authorities didn...
[14:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:18] <exec> 08└─I think it's more like there's nothing (much) special about what humans DO. A non-sapient dumb algorithm can be used to write text or drive Good Enough™ to eliminate or streamline a lot of jobs, even if it's not perfect, non-thinking, requires a huge database of pre-existing training data or Mecha...
[14:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:20] <exec> 08└─IIUC, GPT-3 is considered pretty much "end of the line" for this line of development. It needs to be merged with some other lines of development to improve. It basically has no model of the external universe. But those other lines *are* being developed. Robots have, must have, a model of the externa...
[14:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:22] <exec> 08└─If people can just copy code that others have written off of Stack Overflow, mash it together, change a few things, and accomplish what they set out to do, it's no surprise that algorithms will become able to do that too.
[14:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:21] <exec> 08└─I love how everybody pretends that Soylent News isn't social media...
[14:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:24] <exec> 08└─Notice how this post is not a wall of text and only covers one topic. Also notice how much better it is being received. That's not a coincidence.
[14:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:25] <exec> 08└─I'm confused, are you opposed to federal border agents violating people's constitutional rights now? Because you didn't seem to mind when they were doing it in Portland.
[14:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:44] <exec> 08└─And maybe some of breakfast too...
[14:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:46] <exec> 08└─Or you could offer some kind of software that shows which users are hogging the network.
[14:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications: Data Caps Are Popular with Broadband Internet Users - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:48] <exec> 08└─On each cord was a tag that said "Short wire, short call".
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[15:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:41] <exec> 08└─Two corporate giants who fell backwards into stealing others' good ideas and mass marketing them more effectively squabbling about who gets to squeeze money out of the end user first.
[15:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:42] <exec> 08└─Apple didn't remove Epic because of their monetization strategy of pushing gambling to children... they removed it because Apple wasn't getting a big enough cut.
[15:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:44] <exec> 08└─At what point will Apple and Google be considered a duopoly that is abusing their position in the marketplace? The amount of money they suck from the market grossly outweighs the actual value they provide.
[15:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:46] <exec> 08└─Which is par for the course. Would be nice, if microtransactions died an unceremonious death. Then again, that might actually be something worth celebrating. Replace Cristopher Columbus day with Microtransaction Chains day.
[15:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:48] <exec> 08└─Considered by who? US regulators won't care, European ones might.
[15:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 1432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:50] <exec> 08└─In case Google was feeling left out of the party: https://www.androidcentral.com [androidcentral.com] n a copy of the lawsuit, obtained by Android Central, Epic said it seeks to "end Google's unlawful monopolization and anti-competitive restraints." The...
[15:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:53] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the reason we have Android is because Apple had such a sweet deal G could not resist. If Apple did not have the app store tax, would Android exist? Probably, because it still gives them ownership of the customer's access device and hence an inside track on the customer's actions. The issue h...
[15:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:55] <exec> 08└─Or how about they just fuck Apple's stupid retarded "app" store? Oh, right, they can't because those toy cell phones are locked down so you can't do anything with them that is not approved by Apple Nazis. On the other hand, "in-app payment"? This is why I don't touch games, even with a ten foot poll...
[15:23:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DECbot [832] 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:05] <exec> 08└─Oh, so you mean "sudo apt install systemd?"
[15:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobmorning [6045] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:10] <exec> 08└─No it's not garbage. The fact that detection methodologies were provided are invaluable. The Yara and Snort rules are invaluable to detect already in-place infections. It is probably the usual threat vectors used to get the stuff on the box (phishing, compromised credentials, yada yada yada).
[15:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:13] <exec> 08└─I guess you can nuke and pave when your distro has a new release. There are people out there that will treat their distro as a rolling release regardless how their distro structures their releases. Like this guy who just pointed his apt.conf file from Debian Wheezy repositories to Devuan Jessie repo...
[15:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:15] <exec> 08└─Yep, anyone with a brain knows it's impossible to write, much less distribute, malware for Linux. It just can't be done.
[15:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:17] <exec> 08└─While I appreciate the sentiment, I know more than a few people who are capable of packaging a kernel module into an update that gets pushed as part of "routine security updates." Not to my systems, at least not automatically, but there are plenty of people who accept automatic updates, then all tha...
[15:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 9883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:38] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I only have a degree in the subject, and have been following it since the 80's, and see no difference between results achieved then and now (we just get there a bit quicker!). I know what I'll say. I'll say what I've been saying for decades... your statistical model is missing any form of inf...
[15:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:39] <exec> 08└─Just imagine if every open source technology that could be used for harm were not published. For example: Metasploit. Kali Linux. DOT Net Core. Systemd. Mom: What language do they speak in the UK? Son: I'm at work mom, just Google it. Mom: I'll just wait 'till you get home. I don't want to bother G...
[15:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 2218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:41] <exec> 08└─Thinking is also something that humans DO. I don't really know the definitions, but you can talk about levels of "abstract": 1. Throwing rocks is something humans do. It's a genius achievement as far as the animal kingdom is concerned. It's also a sign of abstract thought: we have a model of the obj...
[15:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:43] <exec> 08└─All current AI is not intelligent at all. That's just a statistical text engine, tuned for success of "what sounds right", it has no depth or structure or context or understanding.
[15:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:46] <exec> 08└─https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/20/20876495/github-seth-vargo-pulled-code-chef-ice-deportations-trump-administration [theverge.com]
[15:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:48] <exec> 08└─What if GPT-3 could write code, provided that the code had to pass all the tests? Would it be possible to write the tests such that unexpected outcomes of reasoning did not occur? A system needs to efficiently send lunar ore to Earth, and decides that using the rail gun is the most efficient means o...
[15:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:50] <exec> 08└─What if GPT-3 wrote code, but in the sense of a compiler's back end code generator. It tries to generate multiple sequences of instructions that do what the annotated abstract syntax tree says to do. Then it selects whichever instruction sequence turned out to be most efficient (either time or space...
[15:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:52] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you how every AI project goes: PhD studies it. Knocks up a demo. Trains it for a couple of years until the "plateau" hits (and the plateau always hits). From there the device is indecipherable, cannot be retrained, can only be replicated from scratch at great computational expense, shows a...
[15:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:13] <exec> 08└─Do your female dogs leave the house? The males?
[15:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:14] <exec> 08└─For some "people of walmart" this might be the best dating experiences they ever get.
[15:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:17] <exec> 08└─Even after neutering, are you sure the marking behavior will completely disappear?
[15:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:57] <exec> 08└─To read the entirety of this comment, you must agree to let us rape you up the butt. [Yes, Begin Rape Now] [Maybe Later] (still means consent) Back during the 70s, 80s, early 90s there was a lot of user interface research done, and it would have been unthinkable to try and do anything that would har...
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[16:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:47] <exec> 08└─Apple REALLY needs to lose this one because there is NO way to install an app on a consumer's phone without that app going through Apple's app store and giving them a cut of the profits. That is straight-up anti-competitive business practice. As for Android, you can install any APK you want without...
[16:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:06] <exec> 08└─The paper itself does not look much as a product of analysis, but rather resembles a copypasted part of a manual. It does not look much Russian either. Nor the command language, nor the style of military thinking. My best guess: if this is not a NSA product, it came from the tool market, with the...
[16:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:08] <exec> 08└─Linux is secure but not invulnerable. So just use Windows. That's . . . impressive logic.
[16:23:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 9883 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:29] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I only have a degree in the subject, and have been following it since the 80's, and see no difference between results achieved then and now (we just get there a bit quicker!). I know what I'll say. I'll say what I've been saying for decades... your statistical model is missing any form of inf...
[16:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:38] <exec> 08└─Psychopathy is a neurological disorder, the selfishness is a result of impulsivity and often tuned to first order problems (food, sex, stimulants). So while it's believed to be an evolutionary adaptation, would anybody claim psychopaths are humane? Even animals display empathy, can we call people wh...
[16:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:40] <exec> 08└─*a pessimizing compiler ... Isn't that what MS uses to defeat all the speed increases that Intel & Moore's Law promise?
[16:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:42] <exec> 08└─All tools can be used for harm as well as good. A hammer can be used as a weapon. So can a screwdriver, if you splash it on someone. Even a laptop computer can be a weapon. (just ask anyone who has been hit over the head with a laptop) A crowbar can be used to remove nails from wood or as a burglar...
[16:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 3261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:44] <exec> 08└─thank you for not taking offence. it was so much easier to phrase things the way i did, although I now realize you personally do not fit the image I had in mind. while I think we could have a fascinating conversation, I don't think we can do it in this medium properly. However I find something that...
[16:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 1573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:47] <exec> 08└─Here's an author using a different text engine, in a recent Tech Review, https://wp.technologyreview.com [technologyreview.com] First -- read the short story on PDF pages 75-78, I've read a lot of SF and to me this was a unique take...
[16:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:49] <exec> 08└─I wrote one of these in 1973 - and fed it CDC7600 computer manuals. It then produced a manual that several people said was more intelligible than the real ones. This was, of course not a very high bar, and I doubt many people ever even tried to understand Compass (CDC7600 assembler). How to do it h...
[16:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:51] <exec> 08└─oh. and I forgot to mention a simple example of why this particular thing is a big deal. writers of good books tend to write different characters who are actually different. they act differently, but they also speak differently (not just accents, but word frequencies, etc). with this GPT-3 thing, it...
[16:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:53] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they should ask it to name itself. If it calls itself 'Colosson', show it a chicken picture immediately and report David Mitchell to the UK authorities for being a Cylon.
[16:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:55] <exec> 08└─If they don't want to make it open, maybe they should rename themselves from “OpenAI” to “ClosedAI”.
[16:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:57] <exec> 08└─Parent post AC here. My browser lied, sorry for the double post.
[16:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:22] <exec> 08└─Be careful not to fall into the trap of thinking there are only two genders when the underlying evidence indicates there are 87 genders.
[16:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:24] <exec> 08└─Instead of removing genitalia, just give them a new Apple iPhone. It is proven to do the same thing with fewer health side effects. As a bonus, it sells more glorious cell phones. Cell phone companies will love this.
[16:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:26] <exec> 08└─They say a responsible owner neutered their pets. I don't buy it - a responsible owner doesn't let them breed.
[16:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:28] <exec> 08└─This isn't hidden information. Why is this on Soylentnews?
[16:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:30] <exec> 08└─If you don't like Apple products, there are always virtual reality glasses/headsets.
[16:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Irresistible Scent Makes Locusts Swarm, Study Finds - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:27] <exec> 08└─Seems to me the obvious application of this research is to weaponize locusts by dosing a few with the pheromone and thus starting the chain reaction.
[16:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:14] <exec> 08└─People are fucking stupid.
[16:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:16] <exec> 08└─I guess editors can pick and choose based on their own political bias.
[16:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:21] <exec> 08└─In Portland, rioters were arrested and questioned. There is no violation of civil rights inherent in that fact. There might have been some violations of rights that weren't published. But nothing that I have seen published was an actual violation. In this case, federal agents are clearly violating c...
[16:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:46] <exec> 08└─(Self loathing racist and sexist whining by a rich white male, who completed a hard program with average results, yet was lucky to get a 6 figure job in the tech bubble)
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[17:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:38] <exec> 08└─The genuine videos that interfere with the election may continue.
[17:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:39] <exec> 08└─When Americans do it legally it's called "participating" in the election.
[17:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:42] <exec> 08└─To be fair, foreigners who do so legally are also allowed to participate. E.g. a Canadian commenting here about it while NOT on the payroll of a foreign national or government.
[17:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:44] <exec> 08└─When they say "hacked", they don't mean "partisan hack", because if they did that most of the major news networks couldn't post anything political anymore.
[17:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─In other words, Youtube is absolutely the last place you should go to find any kind of information about elections. Well, perhaps second to last after Fox News. :P Not that there are any reliable sources of information these days. Time to dig around and find a newspaper. Harder to do since libraries...
[17:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 1839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─The problem is how do you prove someone is "paid by a foreign national /government"? Quite often I have seen on the web (and even on this site), people with opinions contrary to the forum majority be accused of being some kind of "paid foreign agent", which automatically dismisses their opinions as...
[17:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah just like those US units google, facebook, ... .. oft times just the regular army goes in post election tho.
[17:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 1395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:06] <exec> 08└─They are suing google because Google blocked Epic from getting their store installed by OnePlus and LG as a default app on new devices, which would allow them access to automatic background updates (apparently not a thing for side-loaded stores, according to Epic) as well as being positioned on the...
[17:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:08] <exec> 08└─In that case, I hope Google loses BIG-TIME and gets fined over $1 billion or whatever punitive damages cause some real pain rather than a simple wrist-slap.
[17:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:10] <exec> 08└─Yerp. I think they actually have a better case here than with Apple. The Apple case is all about 1st party stuff (Apple's devices, Apple's store, etc), and while I think ALL platforms should be opened up, this is still new legal territory. What Google did is interfere as a 3rd party to deals between...
[17:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:12] <exec> 08└─> European ones might. But they can do sweet F.A about it. You can see it with the Fines they slapped Google/Amazon with. The ink on the ruling was not even dry yet, and the US was threatening Tariffs etc... against the EU for daring to even go down this route. Hence why the US still violates the GD...
[17:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:32] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between possible and common. It's possible for anyone on the planet to die of COVID-19, not likely - but common enough to warrant protective measures, at least in the opinion of some governments. On the other hand: Paraneoplastic Pemphigus, nasty and deadly as it is, not so much...
[17:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:34] <exec> 08└─Nope, it's literally impossible according to everyone I talked to about it today. The drunk homeless former Novell admin was particularly adamant that it's just not possible to have malware on any platform other than Windows.
[17:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:14] <exec> 08└─"Real macros" would solve a lot of your boilerplate problems, but they don't exist in C++. You get them in Lisp, but that introduces a bunch of other problems. Although it's not quite as polished as a well-developed macro system, you can always write code generators in the language of your choice. I...
[17:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:44] <exec> 08└─If you had been paying attention, you would have noticed that Barbara has repeatedly championed the idea of requiring a registered account to leave comments. To my knowledge, they have been consistent in applying that to the majority of their comments. You have to appreciate someone that has the bal...
[17:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:45] <exec> 08└─That bigger dogs get joint problems after neutering has been known for decades. It's caused by the increased load on joints from weight gain.
[17:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not pushing abstinence - Piggy the Jack Russell can hump his toys all he wants - he isn't going to get his teddy bear knocked up. I just don't understand how at some times of the year he can go 2-3 hours, stopping just to catch his breath. I know Jack Russell dogs are energetic, but I never exp...
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[18:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:43] <exec> 08└─All the interference and outright sabotage is coming from the president, and everybody is yammering about youtube and facebook and Russia and China. Looks like the magic still works. We are so doomed
[18:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:44] <exec> 08└─The problem is the implementation. The progrssive woke corporations have deplatformed a helluva lot of American citizens who do have the right to interfere in American elections. So, like many reasonable sounding laws, the policies at corporate levels are wide open to abuse. Wake up, America. Corpor...
[18:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:47] <exec> 08└─foreigners schmoreigners! The president is sabotaging the election, not Russia, or China. Let's get off that bullshit. Concentrate your fire on the enemy closest to you
[18:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:49] <exec> 08└─I think it's dangerous territory to have a content platform censoring speech at all. It's too easily abused. Shutting down malicious foreign state actors sounds good on paper, but it's too easy to cross the line to shutting down speech you don't like from actual citizens and using that accusation as...
[18:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:51] <exec> 08└─You can do it on the payroll of a foreign nation too, as long as that nation rhymes with "misrael".
[18:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:53] <exec> 08└─Youtube is doing squat compared to the interference from the president. He is the real danger and little is being done. Congress took the month off, so, I guess, good luck!
[18:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:55] <exec> 08└─To often one side of the two party duopoly of this country convinces their supporters to support and enact laws and policies that will favor them when in power, only to decry those powers when wielded by the other* side. *A good working theory would be that they are the same side who both desire mor...
[18:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:57] <exec> 08└─Chinese propaganda favoring the Biden campaign is fine.
[18:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:18] <exec> 08└─In Google's defense, you don't *need* to have your game on Google's Play Store for Android users to be able to install it. It is entirely possible to install apps through other stores (F-Droid is one famous one), or even directly with the .apk file and a USB cable. This just isn't the case with iPho...
[18:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:20] <exec> 08└─So, I create some product. And, I want to sell it at Walmart. But, Walmart declines to carry my product. Doesn't much matter why Walmart declines, they simply won't purchase and stock my product. Can I sue Walmart for not carrying my product?
[18:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:22] <exec> 08└─Probably about the same time Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are.
[18:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 2738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:24] <exec> 08└─Bad analogy. What you're missing here is that there's a device in the middle that you supposedly purchased (i.e., an iPhone or iPad). Walmart refusing to carry a product doesn't generally infringe on your rights to use a device you already own. Let's try to modify your analogy to make it more accura...
[18:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:46] <exec> 08└─It gives me a warm fuzzy feeling to know that developers are finally giving the Unix family some love.
[18:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:47] <exec> 08└─Damn those warm fuzzy feelings. Turns out the cat was curled up on my foot, sleeping. /me kicks cat into next week
[18:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:29] <exec> 08└─Wasn't he the one who said "if you give a million monkeys a million typewriters, sooner or later one of them will come up with Hamlet". So all this algorithm does is emulate monkeys.
[18:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:30] <exec> 08└─Actually, it was his publisher who said that when they were negotiating royalties. More interesting is the progress of technology over the centuries. The article indicates that they now use 175 billion "parameters" (the computer science word for monkeys), so they are currently running at 175,000 Meg...
[18:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:32] <exec> 08└─The article said that it cost $12 million to train the GPT-3 algorithm, which sounds outlandish until you consider the sheer number of bananas they must require.
[18:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:05] <exec> 08└─None of my dogs ever leaves the house without me, holding their leash, attached to their collars. We have skunks in the area. For some stupid reason they want to chase the "cats". They also like squirrels, etc. I have no desire to see my dog sprayed by a skunk or run over by a car. Dogs CAN get loo...
[18:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:06] <exec> 08└─And yet trans women should be banned from competition because estrogen builds skeletal muscle same as testosterone. It also allows damaged tissue to repair quicker. Trans women are women, but doping with extra estrogen (since there is no official limit and it was assumed that estrogen didn't confer...
[18:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:08] <exec> 08└─I disagree. The problem seems to be with large dogs (per the article title), so the solution is very simple: don't own large dogs. There's no good reason for it. If you want a pet, a small dog or a cat is much easier to take care of, costs less (because of less food over its lifetime), doesn't make...
[18:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DaTrueDave [3144] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:11] <exec> 08└─Neutering almost always stops the marking behavior in cats.
[18:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:13] <exec> 08└─I have a pretty big housecat that likes to come on the porch when I go out to smoke at night. The groundhogs are terrified of him. I've had to stop him from chasing them into their burrows a few times.
[18:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 1466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:15] <exec> 08└─I get where you're coming from here, but dogs are not children. I know you aren't trying to equate instincts with education, but mature dogs are fully functional adults of their species. They have instincts, hormones, and physical biological changes driving them to have sex. This is the natural cour...
[18:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Simple Modification Makes Quantum States Last 10,000 Times Longer - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:29] <exec> 08└─put the poor cats in limbo longer
[18:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Reelin" in a New Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:47] <exec> 08└─I never argued that people shouldn't do those things, just that you shouldn't expect people to do those things for free. Caring is a privilege of the rich! The poor have to "get it how you live". Expecting anyone to go beyond those very human impulses and do better is wishful thinking.
[18:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:02] <exec> 08└─It is exactly what is happening with wearing face masks. People aren't dropping in the streets, the ones who die do that two or more weeks later, and "it's an old person thing" anyway so they very loudly invoke their First Amendment Right not to be fored to wear one
[18:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:32] <exec> 08└─So you weren't properly socialized as a child, and are less comfortable around people who don't look like you. That's a good argument for enforced diversity in K-12.
[18:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Teckla [3812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:33] <exec> 08└─Really, none of the alternative browsers seem worth using at this point, but in my experience Falkon does *most* things right.
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[19:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:41] <exec> 08└─Edge doesn't sound qualified to be making environmental impact judgements. Here's a clue: if there's a regulation requiring you to account for and recover drilling fluid: it's not harmless.
[19:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:43] <exec> 08└─The drilling fluid's 50 feet below the ocean floor where no humans are expected to be. There's 6500 gallons of it spread over 1100 feet which works out to less than six gallons per foot, in an uninhabited area. Sounds like these tree-hugger Oregonians are getting their panties in a knot over nothing...
[19:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:45] <exec> 08└─Quick googling suggests that Oregon leans Democratic. Thus they might actually believe in regulations. They might actually believe that drilling fluid is not harmless. They might even try to enforce regulations. This was a stupid move on Facebook's part. A lesson I hope Facebook will learn from and...
[19:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:47] <exec> 08└─I don't get why FB is drilling to place fiber optics, don't they just lay on the seabed? Isn't it enough to reach xx% of humanity on the surface? Now they want to sign up Satan's charges in Hell too?
[19:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:49] <exec> 08└─I've been in and out of oil fields, to deliver pipe stem, as well as delivering the various muds used. Those fluids and muds really aren't much of a concern. I've parked truckloads of the stuff in my yard, over weekends. You can take just about any of them, and spread them on your lawn or garden, or...
[19:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:51] <exec> 08└─Only you can prevent forest fires
[19:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:54] <exec> 08└─The cable needs to be anchored at both ends. There may be some good reason to anchor it at places in between, but you must have a good anchor at both ends, in all cases.
[19:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:56] <exec> 08└─Look at the bright side. There would be a lot more spilled fluids if they kept on operating. Personally, I think it's a big shame that people aren't made to clean up their mess.
[19:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:58] <exec> 08└─They saw it on Facebook.
[19:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:20] <exec> 08└─They report false (out of context) statements and report hacked info all the time
[19:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:21] <exec> 08└─It's true! At night Trump sneaks out and rips up Biden signs from people's front yards! He laughs an evil cackle while he does it, too!
[19:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:23] <exec> 08└─Please, don't be an idiot. He is stealing mailboxes! [king5.com]
[19:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:25] <exec> 08└─What about all those times last summer when Tulsi Gabbard made a hit in the news cycle and was immediately shadowbanned for it from her Google Ads and Youtube videos for about a day and a half each time? Is that kind of election meddling okay for Google to do itself?
[19:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 1304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:28] <exec> 08└─We've been over this many times: You have the right to speak. You don't have the right to use somebody else's PA system to give your speech without their permission. You have the right to put a sign on your lawn. You don't have the right to put a sign on somebody else's lawn without their permission...
[19:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:30] <exec> 08└─So the best idea with videos about how to interfere with people's ability to vote is to say please don't do that? Let alone you requiring that someone host your content? Sounds like you want to nationalize social media, sounds awfully communist to me!
[19:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:32] <exec> 08└─There are reliable sources of information: Collections of peer reviewed studies, legal documents, widely acknowledged experts in the field, etc. What there aren't are reliable summaries for people who don't have the background needed to understand who is completely full of crap. And that's very inte...
[19:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:34] <exec> 08└─At last. I've known since about 1969 that all those blue boxes were just surveillance devices. I was happy to see the last of those blue boxes dragged out of my neighborhood, and dumped into the swamp. Let it report on the snakes and fishes and alligators. /me adjusts tinfoil hat
[19:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:36] <exec> 08└─You're walking a thin line there. Your tech companies are working hard to sway the elections. No company or corporation has the right to silence dissenting voices. You're asking us to accept that the KGB would have been a good thing, if only it weren't run by the state.
[19:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 1200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:01] <exec> 08└─This is, to my mind, a critical distinction. I completely understand Apple's desire to say "we don't support 3rd-party software on our devices that doesn't come through out software channels." Fine. Require users to click through 3 layers of dialogue boxes saying "Yes, I really understand this isn't...
[19:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:02] <exec> 08└─Didn't read my actual post I take it? Try to read past the title this time.
[19:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:05] <exec> 08└─Remember the "good old days" when Microsoft also prevented OEMs from installing 3rd party browsers on the PCs they sold? Did you think that was bad? Yes? Then why are you defending Google for doing the exact same thing here?
[19:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:07] <exec> 08└─Now that they've put the hammer down, we'll have to wait and see who shall prevail [youtube.com].
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[19:24:16] <exec> 08└─Since the U.S. is hammering TikTok to get M$ a better deal on their assets acquisition deal, does this seem like it might be another M$ favor: spewing a bit of virus FUD on Linux?
[19:24:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:21] <exec> 08└─Oh, so you mean "sudo apt install systemd?"
[19:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:33] <exec> 08└─At least you didn't # kill -9 cat
[19:24:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 3274 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:47] <exec> 08└─All current AI is not intelligent at all. That's just a statistical text engine, tuned for success of "what sounds right", it has no depth or structure or context or understanding. It's also awful. I mean the first text is worse then a kindergarten kid, talking in short sentences, but without the ov...
[19:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:17] <exec> 08└─"even animals display empathy" Has anyone ever looked for psychopathy in animals? I highly doubt it. Meanwhile, emotional responses lead you to classify psychopaths as subhuman - which is more dangerous to humanity?
[19:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:19] <exec> 08└─What's so incoherent about "covfefe"?
[19:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:21] <exec> 08└─Actually, it was Mr. Burns [youtube.com]. (They didn't have typewriters in Shakespeare's time)
[19:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:59] <exec> 08└─For me it is a moot issue. The dogs we have and have had in the past were all neutered, er, um fixed repaired. We have only one small dog now and she's getting a bit old but still doing well. I don't intend, at this point, to get another dog.
[19:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:01] <exec> 08└─Dogs past puberty, often not. Scientific American had an article on that a few decades ago. Brain changes caused by puberty were permanent. It's why horny old goats still whistle at women even if they don't remember why :-)
[19:31:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 1486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:22] <exec> 08└─It was originally an independent project to strip off the bloat of using javascript and html/xml markup to generate the user interface running on top of... either gtk 1.x or very early 2.x in order to have cross platform compatibility. It was fast with a small memory footprint, and the initial sourc...
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[20:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:03] <exec> 08└─I appreciate the sentiment of that. But that saying is outdated. Today it would be: only you can start forest fires.
[20:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:04] <exec> 08└─Don Lemon would be a good anchor for that.
[20:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:06] <exec> 08└─And where exactly can we find this lucrative state on the Left Coast?
[20:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:08] <exec> 08└─Hmm.... you make an interesting argument, however, I think there might be too much hot air in that cranium to sink it to the ocean floor.
[20:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:10] <exec> 08└─Follow the smoke and smell of Molotov cocktails.
[20:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:13] <exec> 08└─And where exactly can we find this lucrative state on the Left Coast?
[20:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:45] <exec> 08└─But this story is much better for stoking conservative faux outrage that fewer and fewer people care about them.
[20:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:46] <exec> 08└─Real problem: https://chicago.suntimes.com [suntimes.com] Fake problem: youtube moderation
[20:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:48] <exec> 08└─No company or corporation has the right to silence dissenting voices.
[20:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HammeredGlass [12241] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:50] <exec> 08└─Congress fucked the USPS. It's not the President's job to fix their mess. He should not be dumping taxpayer dollars down that bottomless pit of a badly setup pension funding requirement which the USPS is uniquely obligated to pre-pay for longer than any other pension system in this country.
[20:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:53] <exec> 08└─[CITATION NEEDED]
[20:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:55] <exec> 08└─A restaurant doesn't put itself into business by claiming to be a public forum. A better analogy would be the town square.
[20:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:57] <exec> 08└─Lol The President is openly saying he won't fund USPS to make sure ballots aren't delivered and you are here licking the shit stain off his ass.
[20:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:59] <exec> 08└─If they choose to exercise editorial control, they need to be fully liable for any libelous statement any user has posted there against anyone.
[20:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:01] <exec> 08└─Well, that's true for certain values of "reliable". Demanding certainty is almost certain to get you information that's at least slightly false. E.g. I can't decide whether Kamala Harris is owned by the copyright lobbies, or whether her position is negotiable. Or perhaps she was just a "gun for hire...
[20:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:03] <exec> 08└─And we've been over it just as many times, Thexalon, in saying that as much as that is true according to the letter of the law now, the practical effect is the same thing as saying that the phone company can choose to not connect your calls because they don't like your politics. Let's not be coy abo...
[20:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:06] <exec> 08└─Elections are a state matter. If the Democrat governors want to rig the elections in their favor, then they can buy a reply permit and pay for the postage. All of us small-d democrats must oppose the Democrat plan of unsupervised voting, as we opposed the Republican scheme of requiring ID to vote.
[20:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:08] <exec> 08└─But didn't the Supreme Court decide that corporations were people? I think it was the legal clerks decision in Santa Clara vs. Union Pacific, but the Supreme Court upheld it. So that's about 150 years of legal precedent you want to overthrow. (Not a bad idea in my view, but unlikely to be successful...
[20:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:10] <exec> 08└─Show me where YouTube claims to be a public forum. A public space owned by the government is just about the work analogy possibly.
[20:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:12] <exec> 08└─USPS warns 46 states that even if you follow all of your State election requirements your ballot still may not count (because of Republican fuckery) [washingtonpost.com]
[20:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:14] <exec> 08└─You mean I have to go find and then buy an overpriced postage stamp in order to make my voice heard even though my dumb ass mailman will probably misdeliver my ballot to my neighbors like he's done for the last 20 years? Fuck that.
[20:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:42] <exec> 08└─From something you said in another post in this very thread. Didn't read my actual post I take it? Try to read past the title this time.
[20:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mce [2811] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:43] <exec> 08└─Have a look into Windows 10 S mode. They are again trying to prevent users from using 3rd party apps. All they had to do to legally get away with it this time was to leave a documented backdoor that you can use to escape from their prison, knowing full well that many/most people will not dare since...
[20:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:34] <exec> 08└─Why not? All dogs need a home, and you're depriving yourself and the dog of a chance for better loyalty than most human-human interactions.
[20:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:36] <exec> 08└─It seems odd then that trans women lose their muscular (but not skeletal) advantage over time, almost as if the replacement of testosterone with estrogen explains the difference in physical strength between (actual) men and women.
[20:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:38] <exec> 08└─Why would any woman on her (cis or trans) ever stop HRT? The studies that claimed "the smallest dose for the shortest time" have been debunked. Fuck menopause - it's totally avoidable.
[20:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:26] <exec> 08└─Whelp, at least one person wants Soylent News to get sued out of existence!
[20:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:01] <exec> 08└─Is there an alternative that didn't toss the useful addons, but still has the newer "theme"? I understand how a lot of folks hates australis and not having a choice about it. Australis doesn't have theme-able eye-candy like some of the old themes I liked, but I like how easy it is to remove the icon...
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[21:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:05] <exec> 08└─We would have to know specifically which drilling fluid was in use to decide that stuff is potentially dangerous,
[21:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PaperNoodle [10908] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:07] <exec> 08└─Oddly enough, I came across this movement [greateridaho.org] the other day. Who knows maybe someday we can plan a vacation to the coastal state of Greater Idaho.
[21:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:09] <exec> 08└─Runaway, he know stuff, since he knows how to shift a two-speed differential. Truck driver, not smart enough to be a Teamster, but enough to defend environmental degradation and defend Facebook!
[21:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:11] <exec> 08└─We could use Runaway, since he is an anchor baby.
[21:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:13] <exec> 08└─Quick googling suggests that Oregon leans Democratic. Thus they might actually believe in regulations. They might actually believe that drilling fluid is not harmless. They might even try to enforce regulations.
[21:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:15] <exec> 08└─There might not be a problem. The reason you're required to report it to the agency is so we can figure out whether it's a problem or not.
[21:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:18] <exec> 08└─A LOT depends on where you are drilling. A 200' 4" drinking well made a nice truck sized pile of nasty slippery sticky goo on our land... wasn't exactly toxic, but you certainly wouldn't have wanted to walk in it when it was wet for the first 5 years after it came out of the ground, and any critters...
[21:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:20] <exec> 08└─Follow the slick to Deepwater Horizon... Louisiana.
[21:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:22] <exec> 08└─Personally, I think it's a big shame that people aren't made to clean up their mess.
[21:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:24] <exec> 08└─Trump stuffed every government agency with someone who would do exactly the OPPOSITE of what the mission of that agency is. EPA, check. FCC, check. Dept. of Education, check. Etc.
[21:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:26] <exec> 08└─For now, we need Harris to lay it on thick. I expect her to be very active
[21:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:13] <exec> 08└─There's a real problem here. In the first place you're absolutely correct, but in the second mobs aren't democracy either. ISTM that democracy has a scaling problem. This isn't unusual, as almost ALL organizations do. Democracy's scaling limit seems to be around 500 people, but only that high if the...
[21:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:14] <exec> 08└─Fox is worse, ban them first.
[21:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:16] <exec> 08└─The town square is a publicly owned space, and the only people that can (legally) kick you out of the town square are the government. Social media websites are privately owned, and if you don't like their rules you can take your eyeballs and your content elsewhere. That's an important distinction.
[21:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:18] <exec> 08└─the practical effect is the same thing as saying that the phone company can choose to not connect your calls
[21:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:21] <exec> 08└─Not at all, if it is the end user choosing not to listen.
[21:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:23] <exec> 08└─You make it sound so easy to take your views someplace else. Take Gab, for instance. All those people kicked off of a more-or-less public forum. They went someplace else, only to see the public forums come after them. "We won't rent you server space!" Oh - money. The Woke people control a lot of fin...
[21:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Opportunist [5545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:25] <exec> 08└─Is that finally being made legal?
[21:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:55] <exec> 08└─(meant "aren't" in last sentence.)
[21:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:07] <exec> 08└─Here is your joke as a sketch. Part 1-4: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[21:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:08] <exec> 08└─Perhabs thinking is just the perception of the brain muscle. Perhabs machines will think just as we do if we create a similar model. You are incapable of knowing that I think, how would you know if a machine does. Feel free to use that one next time you light a spliff or lick a stamp.
[21:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenAI’s New Language Generator GPT-3 is Shockingly Good - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:11] <exec> 08└─He ment covid. They were brainstorming names.
[21:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:54] <exec> 08└─HRT isn't free of side effects, adverse events, or contraindications. Sometimes the cons can outweigh the pros.
[21:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:56] <exec> 08└─Believe me, I know all that. This dog may be the last because we're getting old enough that we have less and less energy to take care of a dog. We have a good sized fenced in back yard, which is good. But we don't do as many walks as we used to. I would hate to have a new rambunctious puppy full of...
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[22:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung "X-Cube" Stacks SRAM Dies on Top of Logic Die - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:53] <exec> 08└─Did it work or did it die?
[22:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung "X-Cube" Stacks SRAM Dies on Top of Logic Die - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, wait till I get my hands on them.
[22:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:29] <exec> 08└─Seems like an aggressive prosecutor would be good for that job.
[22:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:31] <exec> 08└─You haven't atoned enough for your admission that you took $12k in Russian money and got the deplorables to vote Trump in. The responsible members of the Fourth Estate are going to watch your every potential misstep and call you to account. It isn't 2016 anymore.
[22:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:26] <exec> 08└─Soylent News exercises editorial control. Should we be fully liable is some AC posts some slander?
[22:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:28] <exec> 08└─The fediverse awaits! What do you propose instead of corporations to manage capitalism?
[22:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:30] <exec> 08└─Fe di verse! Build your own platform and connect it to the fediverse! It's the capitalist thing to do! Mostly what I'm interested in is whether some kind of right-wing negaverse will emerge if most of the fediverse doesn't care to link with fascist-oriented nodes.
[22:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:32] <exec> 08└─oops, meant to respond to Phoenix instead
[22:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:34] <exec> 08└─Do major news outlets post to youtube?
[22:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:36] <exec> 08└─The phone company doesn't block spammers, they ring through then, after receiving the call, I can block that number from ringing through the next time. Nothing done proactively by the phone company.
[22:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:39] <exec> 08└─Tulsi Gabbard Files $50M Lawsuit Against Google for Post-Debate Ad Ban [pjmedia.com] Tulsi Gabbard, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Sues Google for $50 Million [nytimes.com] Judge dismisses Tulsi Gabbard’s $50 million ad lawsuit against Google [engadget.com]: ...US District Judge Stephen Wilson...
[22:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, and Youtube is using its algorithms to aggressively promote their content over that of independent content creators. Can't have corporate media dying off with cable, after all.
[22:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:43] <exec> 08└─The abuses are already present. Corporate media outlets like CNN, MSNBC, etc. are all monetized on Youtube, whereas independent content creators like David Pakman and Kyle Kulinski routinely have their videos demonetized, and sometimes outright removed due to bogus copyright claims. Youtube's algori...
[22:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortnite Maker Sues Apple after Removal of Game From App Store - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:15] <exec> 08└─Again, try actually reading my first post. You believe Apple is worse here? Apple locks down their own app store and OS on their own hardware. Google, on the other hand, not only has the same policies for their apps store, but also sabotaged 3rd party deals between Epic and handset makers to distrib...
[22:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:41] <exec> 08└─Facts do not cease to exist because you're a Democrat. -- Aldous Huxley
[22:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:42] <exec> 08└─Izzat so? Why don't you read this, and explain why modern day slavery can be tolerated by the D party? https://prospect.org [prospect.org]
[22:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:16] <exec> 08└─Most of my dogs I got as adults. I could never understand why anyone would want a puppy - you really don't have any idea what you're getting into. And an active dog forces you to get off your arse. Jack Russells are freaking active, which forced me to be as well, which is a good thing after 60. I go...
[22:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:18] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily true. For. non-athletes, the combination of exercise and high doses of estrogen can cause significant muscle gain. Double your biceps without even trying. It's a curse.
[22:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:12] <exec> 08└─Modern Android phones require a chip in the phone itself in order to read anything that's been encrypted on it. It's not enough to have the relevant passphrases, you'd also have to figure out how to transplant the chip in order to get it to work. I learned this the first of five times I had to have...
[22:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeland Security Details New Tools for Extracting Device Data at US Borders - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:13] <exec> 08└─Don't worry the personnel operating the rapescanners and examining your data are trained professionals violating your constitutional rights. Yeah, I agree, that makes me feel so much better, I was concerned that it was untrained amateurs that were violating my constitutional rights, knowing that the...
[22:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:42] <exec> 08└─Are you a satisfied Firefox user?
[22:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:44] <exec> 08└─Okay, that makes more sense to me. I have never felt like I belonged in any group, so perhabs that is why I had difficulties understanding. It's not like im sad about that fact and perhabs there is some hacker community out there where I feel like I belong and that would be great, but I'm also quite...
[22:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:47] <exec> 08└─Firefox still offers a large number of add-ons and greater controls over your browsing experience in a readily available browser. Seamonkey is still not available in default Ubuntu repositories. Iceape and Iceweasel (forks of Seamonkey) used to be but I don't think they even exist any more. I don't...
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[23:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:49] <exec> 08└─We run into the same problem as programmers. The short, common words are already taken. Thus, we create new names, and they tend to be longer or less familiar than the words that came before. The problem is especially bad if the words are constructed to follow some naming pattern that is unambiguous...
[23:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WTF, When Will Scientists Learn to Use Fewer Acronyms? - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:50] <exec> 08└─What does UA mean? This list [thefreedictionary.com] only seems to have two of the medical versions. The issue is context-specific knowledge. Some inorganic chemistry papers [rsc.org] require advanced chemistry to even understand the topic. There is no possible way to 'dumb down' chemical compounds....
[23:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung "X-Cube" Stacks SRAM Dies on Top of Logic Die - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:00] <exec> 08└─So instead of a large surface area CPU will get once that is more like a cube? The heatsinks are going to have to look very interesting, sort of like a heatcage or are is this liquid cooling only?
[23:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:36] <exec> 08└─not yet. FCC succeeding recently in court to keep local laws from interfering with new cell phone cells is probably going to be seen by the current regime as justification for the US EPA regs from not being superceded by local regs in the next couple of months. Trump pathologically still wants to re...
[23:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Quietly Abandoned Drilling Gear Off the Oregon Coast - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:37] <exec> 08└─Things don't magically become safe if an idiot dumps it in his yard......
[23:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:41] <exec> 08└─"Personally, I think it is better to just accept everyone has vested interests in opinions they give (otherwise they would not give them) and what they do, and just concentrate on convincing others that your vested interests are better for them." It is in your beset interests that we impose data cap...
[23:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:42] <exec> 08└─Do provide examples how SN is exercising editorial control here in the comment section.
[23:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:44] <exec> 08└─If the Democrat governors want to rig the elections
[23:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:46] <exec> 08└─Unsupervised voting? What a total non-issue.
[23:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:49] <exec> 08└─"In other words, Youtube is absolutely the last place you should go to find any kind of information about elections." Isn't there that bannedfromyoutube site?
[23:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Bans Videos Containing Hacked Information that Could Interfere with the Election - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:51] <exec> 08└─Perhaps more people should do Youtube videos specifically detailing how IP laws are hindering free speech and how the law should be changed to prevent this.
[23:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:49] <exec> 08└─You mean she has conservative ideas about that issue? How about the rest of the conservative agenda? The ignoring of science on evolution, climate change, pandemics and on and on. The continued pushing of supply side economics, despite the fact that thousands of years of human history has shown that...
[23:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NSA, FBI Warn of Linux Malware Used in Espionage Attacks - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:50] <exec> 08└─Is that the guy who headed Nortel? :)
[23:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:28] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. The only side effect that could be considered negative is excessive muscle gain at high doses (caveat - don't smoke or you will have an increased risk of stroke, heart attack, etc). The Women's Health Initiative study that claimed negative side effects was seriously flawed both in methodol...
[23:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dogs Face More Joint Problems if Neutered Early - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:29] <exec> 08└─Let humping? Just get them some stuffed toys. Horny dogs will bump anything. Q. Why does a dog lick his balls? A. Because he can There's a Marylin Manson rib removal surgery joke in there somewhere.
[23:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Facebook and Other Sites Manipulate Your Privacy Choices - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:23] <exec> 08└─https://optout.aboutads.info/ [aboutads.info]
[23:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:03] <exec> 08└─So you weren't properly socialized as a child, and are less comfortable around people who don't look like you. That's a good argument for enforced diversity in K-12.
[23:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Lays Off 250, Including Entire Threat Management Team - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:05] <exec> 08└─Not a proper fork.
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