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NVIDIA Announces “NVIDIA Titan X” Video Card: $1200, Available August 2nd

Move Over GTX 1080, There’s A New Titan X In Town

Meaningless for anybody who doesn't want the general compute features. It's $200 more expensive than its predecessor, probably to avoid cannibalizing sales of more expensive Pascal GPUs intended for businesses.

The billion-dollar RNC question: What is Peter Thiel doing there?

Fun for everyone.

Previously I wrote a journal entry that asked the community if the objectivity requirements in submissions should be relaxed, perhaps limited to a specific topic for exactly those cases so that fact is readily apparent to anyone who looks. It was for personal reasons because I write about things I'm passionate about and my bias comes through. The consensus was no, do not do that.

Here's the deal: I've got a 100% success rate on story submissions which generally I would consider to be a demonstration that I'm doing something right. But in my previous RFC a site moderator pointed out that at this time the bar is very low for story submissions since the need for content is so great at this point in Soylent News's life cycle. That is a valid point and some advice was given on how to temper my submissions to fall more inline with community norms here. Well I tried but it didn't seem to work and I'm wondering if I'm even capable of being so impartial.

I understand the revulsion to a story biased with quadcopter hurting babies but at least that story had some people who saw the merit in the joke and my approach to the topic.

I don't understand the libertopia response and near universal distaste for the content of my FCC/Wireless router article which despite my best efforts produced the following:

• Complaints of bias
• Hatred for the FCC
• Hatred for the Government
• Considering me a shill sucking the governments dick
• Conspiracy theories about the NSA

I'm not particularly concerned about being called a shill or having people jump to conclusions about how I feel about the FCC (though you are almost certainly wrong in your assumptions regarding how I feel about the FCC) but there was also a number of comments complaining about bias. Despite by best efforts to damp that shit down. People latched onto single word choices to prove the bias. I'm unsure if my bias is still leaking through or it is just a typical libertarian response to the concept of regulations and restrictions on freedoms and the need to vilify those that question the viability of that philosophy even if indirectly. There is no doubt this place is mostly inhabited by, or at least the majority of commenters are, libertarians on the moar freedom spectrum of that philosophy. I'm a reformed libertarian myself so I can appreciate the stance.

My question is: am I providing value? I'm not really interested in spending the time to produce content and submitting what a community would consider crap even if the editors decide the content is worth approving. I've tried to conform to the community to the ability that I can but it doesn't seem to work. I'm perfectly happy to run around and just make comments since the community feedback from that is quite positive.

And that is why I again seek comments from my peers here at SN. Thanks for your feedback. For reference my list of submissions can be found at the bottom of my user page. That is the most direct link I could find or I'd provide one that didn't involve directions to scroll to the bottom of the page.

Not a big enough deal to get an article. Prices start at $460-$535, significantly more than 8 TB drives which can be bought for $200 on sale.

Seagate Announces 10TB Consumer HDD Lineup With Five Year Warranty

Seagate's New 'Guardian Series' Portfolio Brings 10TB Helium HDDs to Consumers

Seagate BarraCuda Pro 10TB Helium HDD Capsule Review

Melania Trump speech appears to plagiarize Michelle Obama's 2008 Democratic convention address

Watch Melania Trump Plagiarize Michelle Obama's 2008 Democratic Convention Speech

Pakistani QT killed by brother for what would be usual vanity stuff for Westerners on social media:

Qandeel Baloch: Pakistani social media star strangled by her brother

Qandeel Baloch, one of Pakistan's most famous and controversial social media stars, has been strangled to death in what police are calling a case of so called "honor" killing in the city of Multan in the country's province of Punjab. Azhar Akram, Multan's chief police officer, told CNN that Baloch was killed by her brother in her family's home after he had protested at the "kind of pictures she had been posting online."

[...] She had nearly 750,000 followers on Facebook, where her videos went viral but were also the subject of much debate and discomfort. In recent weeks, several of her posts encouraged her audience to challenge old practices of Pakistani society. In a July 14 post, Baloch referred to herself as a "modern day feminist."
Hamna Zubair, the culture editor of Pakistani newspaper Dawn, told CNN that she had received much criticism for carrying pieces on Baloch. One commentator asked her if she would be "reporting from a brothel" next.
Baloch tightly controlled her narrative in the media. She shared little about her personal life and was something of an enigma; nobody really knew which city she was based in.

She found fame and slipped into the national consciousness after declaring that she would perform a live strip tease online if Pakistan won a cricket match against arch rival India.
As her media profile grew, Zubair said Baloch became aware "of her power to deliver a certain message about being female in Pakistan," and that she had become a "burgeoning activist for increasing women's visibility" in the country. She made more headlines after posting selfies on her Instagram account with Mufti Abdul Qavi, a senior member of the clergy. The bizarre pairing led to frenzied media coverage and resulted in Qavis's suspension from his post on one of Pakistan's religious committees. After news of Baloch's death, while waiting to go on air on a local channel, Qavi told CNN that "her death should be a lesson for all those who point fingers at someone's honor."

[...] A couple of days ago, local media reported that Qandeel Baloch had married at 17 and left her husband about a year later. After the reports were published, she confirmed that her legal name was Fouzia Azeem and that she had been using an alias for safety reasons. Earlier this week Baloch had stirred up more controversy by releasing a kitschy music video on YouTube called "Ban," which mocked some of the restrictions that she had been subjected to. Behind the scenes, however, things were a bit different. Hassan Chaoudhry, a reporter for local paper Express Tribune, told CNN he had spoken to Baloch on the phone just two days ago, saying she was sobbing and "feared for her life." On the morning she was murdered, Qandeel had shared a picture of herself staring defiantly into the camera, wearing a pair of leopard print pants and a black tank top. She had written that she was a fighter. "I will bounce back," she said, adding she wanted to inspire women who have been "treated badly and dominated by society."

This is a story that can only be found on NextBigFuture and wire services:

Super controversial Brilliant light Power aka blacklight power claims to be generating bursts of megawatt power and claim independent validation

Wikipedia article.

http://www.vice.com/read/oakland-underage-sex-work-scandal

Not so long ago it was possible to point to Oakland as a police reform success story. In the last decade, the cops have gone from conducting an average of 3,000 searches without probable cause every year to 280 in 2015. Officers are now required to wear body cameras. After decades of abuse, violence, and corruption, the police department seemed to finally be changing.

In the last few weeks, though, a scandal has emerged that threatens to tear the department apart. In brief, 14 Oakland police officers are currently under investigation for sleeping with an 18-year-old sex worker—three of them when she was 17, thus allegedly committing rape and sex trafficking under California law. The woman, using the alias Celeste Guap, told the East Bay Express earlier this month that she was having sex with the cops for money and protection; she had been given a friend's arrest history and information about undercover prostitution stings.

Hints of the scandal surfaced last year, after a suicide note written one of the officers involved, Brendan O'Brien, mentioned Guap, prompting an investigation. But the higher-ups allegedly dragged their feet, and the supposed cover-up has only widened the sordid scandal has since expanded. (According to Guap's later comments to the media, she's actually had sex with "more than 30 officers" from multiple agencies around the Bay Area.)

The shocking and salacious events were the catalyst to Oakland appointing four police chiefs in two weeks. Initially, Sean Whent, who was promoted to top cop at the end of a similarly messy 2013 shuffle that saw three new police chiefs in three days, got canned because he allegedly knew about Guap sleeping with Oakland cops but didn't press for a speedy and public investigation.

A funny article I found on NBF:

Do not "blame" life extension for Rupert Murdoch and Fox News, If Murdoch died Fox would still be right wing

Which is a response to: Bonus Level: The World's Most Powerful Humans are Getting Another 10-15 Years on Earth

A common argument against life extension is that it would allow the elites to live indefinitely, accruing more power, wealth, and influence for themselves. To that I say: If you're so worried about it, stop waiting for them to die, and start killing them.

There are currently 32 stories in the submissions queue: i think the Poll for : "On average, how many stories do you submit to Soylentnews each month?" has made many of us up our submissions rate, lol.

Biggest submission queue i've ever seen.
(That's what she said.)