#comments | Logs for 2018-03-07

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[00:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:00] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they need to not be as interconnected, at least with AC transmission lines, and perhaps instead use HVDC to join different systems or regional grids.
[00:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:03] <exec> 08└─It is actually much worse... the phase relation changes more rapidly in practice because there are many intermediate stations. And yes, the speed of light is a harsh and unforgiving mistress. The phase is not a problem as such, but the group-delay is, which makes the control-system much more complex...
[00:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:05] <exec> 08└─Don't test that hypothesis at home.
[00:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:07] <exec> 08└─I don't think they are throttling to a lower frequency on purpose, it's actually the natural response of the grid on overload. Take the example of a mechanical to electrical generator, when you draw more power, the mechanical source has to work harder. You know what a car engine does when you start...
[00:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:09] <exec> 08└─However, DC is very ineffective for local distribution because the losses for DC-DC and DC-AC conversion are higher than AC-AC transformations and it is a lot more expensive too. I'm pretty sure this is no longer true. AC-AC transformation requires transformers, which are large, heavy hunks of iron...
[00:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:12] <exec> 08└─I don't think this is true, given that physiological muscle relaxation time (30-75 ms for half relaxation) is longer than half the period of the AC we are using (10 ms at 50hz). We** are electrochemical beings, the reaction speed is governed by the mobility of ions in acquatic solutions. --- **Well,...
[00:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Sells Off Zagat to Another Restaurant Review Company - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:23] <exec> 08└─Well, they don't, apparently. What ever means they used to use to rate eateries is going out the window in favor of the App approach under new management. And with that comes the rat-work of the competitors savaging the competition, the loud mouthed lout who got tossed out, and the woman who's pisse...
[00:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Sells Off Zagat to Another Restaurant Review Company - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe that's just me, but after having a good time and unwind in a restaurant, the last thing in my mind is to open the mobile and rate the experience - this is what I was trying to get away from, right? The next day may be too late for a review, the event is already in the past, I may or may not ev...
[00:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Sells Off Zagat to Another Restaurant Review Company - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:27] <exec> 08└─"Mists of dreams drip along the nascent echo and love no more. End of line." What I'm wondering is...wtf is Zagat again? Never fecking heard of it: really, is it worth $150million?
[00:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Sells Off Zagat to Another Restaurant Review Company - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:29] <exec> 08└─When you go to your next few non-chain restaurants, look for a Zagat sticker or plaque near the door. I've seen them, but I can see how its influence has waned as Yelp and others have taken over. Even the user reviews included with Google Maps are probably more relevant to people. Next to die: the M...
[00:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Sells Off Zagat to Another Restaurant Review Company - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:32] <exec> 08└─> the event is already in the past, I may or may not even remember to do it If you didn't extensively detail your diner on social media, did it actually happen?
[00:00:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:42] <exec> 08└─https://www.cdc.gov/std/hpv/stdfact-hpv-and-men.htm [cdc.gov] HPV can apparently still cause certain types of cancers in men and also warts.
[00:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:32] <exec> 08└─And people doubt that this site is semi-populated by bots....
[00:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:34] <exec> 08└─I'm not too displeased with it seriously. It is the edge and corner cases I'm thinking of. Really, there are just some people who should not be parents.
[00:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:36] <exec> 08└─I think you are right. I think that is the right place to put things. But there are some bad parents that have kids more responsible than the parents are.
[00:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:38] <exec> 08└─That's both right and wrong. Many in the gay community were "committed" to indiscriminate sex (among willing partners). They were quite reluctant to accept advice on how to restrict the spread of AIDS. This isn't to say that they held back research, but they weren't willing to change dangerous patte...
[00:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:41] <exec> 08└─I think I'd go for a more accurate headline like "Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate HPV". I'd think that there are quite a few other causes of cervical cancer apart from the human papilloma virus too, although it seems far and away the most common cause.
[00:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:43] <exec> 08└─To clarify what I believe to be your point: Unless the vaccine has been improved, it is only effective before you are exposed to the virus. So to be maximally effective, the vaccine needs to be given before the first sexual encounter. I'm not sure why they decided on 10 years rather than 2 years, bu...
[00:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:45] <exec> 08└─The problem is, *some* conservatives, just like *some* liberals, are exactly like their more negative caricatures. I've met a few of both.
[00:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064G LTE Pried Open To Reveal A Slew Of New Protocol-Level Attacks - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:25] <exec> 08└─With its secrets one could build an app that let you know when you were being spied on
[00:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Venomous Creatures Change Their Venom Recipe Often - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:40] <exec> 08└─Most people change their socks more frequently. It's just good personal hygene. Do like everyone else and change socks more often. Ideally on the same day of the year that you change underwear. Others around you will thank you for it.
[00:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Bans Orwell's Animal Farm and the Letter 'N' - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:37] <exec> 08└─So the place will hereafter be called Chia?
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[00:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:35] <exec> 08└─A few dollars chipped in from corporate giants, and they have also come under budget: We pride ourselves on being an efficient organization. In 2018 Let’s Encrypt will secure a large portion of the Web with a budget of only $3.0M. For an overall increase in our budget of only 13%, we will be able...
[01:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:02] <exec> 08└─You are right, the AC will not save you. The muscles feel the AC, but they remain contracted. Tested personally a few times.
[01:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:03] <exec> 08└─> Quartz crystals have good short term stability, but dreadful long term stability A sub-$ cheap crystal will run 50ppm over its lifetime ... Resultant clock would be off 4.3s per day, or 5 minutes every 69 days. For $10, you can divide that by at least 3, giving you barely a minute a month Dependin...
[01:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:06] <exec> 08└─This makes me wonder how well a power system based on DC would work
[01:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdccdevel [1329] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:08] <exec> 08└─I'm not an electrical engineer, but my understanding is that a PC power supply built that way works because the wattages required are relatively low, such that semiconductors can handle them without burning up. Try running a whole house's, (or an entire neighborhood's!) worth of power through a chea...
[01:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:10] <exec> 08└─Shitty consumer quartz crystals kept in-doors (temperature and humidity wise) on the typical EU national grid barely drift half a minute a month (10ppm/32kHz) and won't fail for a good decade. e.g. Look in eBay for "programmable relay switch timer 220v 16a" and you'll find 4$ wall mounted units that...
[01:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Sells Off Zagat to Another Restaurant Review Company - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:27] <exec> 08└─> in the age of yelp? Go ahead and tell me which Yelp reviews are the family, cousins, friends, competitors, building owners, delivery guy... Frojack/Colo below also have examples of inherent bias of the reviews. And that's assuming that Yelp really did stop racketing people for optimized reviews. I...
[01:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Sells Off Zagat to Another Restaurant Review Company - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:29] <exec> 08└─That the quux of the matter! The fscking tip of the ice-cube!!
[01:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Sells Off Zagat to Another Restaurant Review Company - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:31] <exec> 08└─When did you buy your last Zagat guide? Shit quality or no, I know that I personally just try to filter the readily available sources.
[01:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Sells Off Zagat to Another Restaurant Review Company - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:33] <exec> 08└─That is like picking bars on whether they paid BMI the last time they came through looking for bribes royalty payments.
[01:00:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 524 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:49] <exec> 08└─1. If we vaccinate 15 year olds then they will have sex 2. . . . without getting cancer that should result 3. . . . as God intended. 4. It would cost public money to have such a program. (socialism! next we would have roads without toll booths!) 5. The HPV virus would die out, and it is (questionabl...
[01:00:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:52] <exec> 08└─A quick googling yielded: "Each shot costs $130 to $150, for a total of around $390 to $450 for the series. "
[01:01:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:26] <exec> 08└─4) No long term studies. None. Zero.
[01:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:41] <exec> 08└─Cervical cancer *is*one of those nasty, life-threatening diseases.
[01:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:42] <exec> 08└─Steers and queers, which one are you boy.
[01:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:45] <exec> 08└─Even the governor himself backtracked - after the fact (and the money was in-pocket): https://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com]
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[01:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06American College of Physicians Recommends Relaxed Blood Sugar Targets for Type 2 Diabetes Patients - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:38] <exec> 08└─Is there a reason why ketogenic diets aren't tried as a first line before ponying up that metformin and raking in the insurance money? "He [Dr. George Grunberger] says that is based on a misinterpretation of old studies conducted for purposes other than setting optimal blood sugar levels." Am I misr...
[01:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:46] <exec> 08└─Yea, great more encrypted pages. Which means anyone who needs to run even a slightly older web browser (because the new ones are too buggy, intentionally fuck up UI stuff, intentionally fuck up other things that used to work, using an OS configuration that suddenly becomes "unsupported", and so on)...
[01:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:49] <exec> 08└─great more encrypted pages. Which means...slightly older web browser - well, no web for you!
[01:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:51] <exec> 08└─Get with the times, old man. You know what King Google V says, "mobile first, not IMMOBILE first." HTTPS is the future, otherwise how would the gate keepers of security make any money off certificates? Think about it. I'd be more than happy to do my duty for my community, and help out the elderly in...
[01:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:53] <exec> 08└─No one misses the Pony Express, except maybe the riders. Being secure includes being up to date. Deal with it. To borrow a phrase, 'Suck it up, buttercup!'
[02:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:24] <exec> 08└─Electricity in wire* doesn't travel at the speed of light. Just something approaching the speed of light. * Talking about propagation of the electric field. The electrons move at a much slower speed.
[02:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:26] <exec> 08└─I was in a warehouse building near Boston Chinatown in the late 1970s -- the freight elevator was DC. When the DC service finally ended around 1980, the building owner decommissioned that elevator (building no longer used for heavy freight.)
[02:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:28] <exec> 08└─HVDC seems to be the choice for water based connections, and also becoming the norm for new land based ones as well as adapter between regions. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] (out...
[02:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Sells Off Zagat to Another Restaurant Review Company - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:49] <exec> 08└─I know that I personally just try to filter the readily available sources.
[02:01:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 162 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:39] <exec> 08└─but the summary is in the earliest days the .gov blew as much time and effort as they could and were told to fuck off by the gays who felt it was just persecution
[02:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:00] <exec> 08└─Click-bait headline missed. Seriously though, if you're vaccinating all of the girls. What is the reason for vaccinating the boys? Considering that boys most definitely don't have a cervix. Does HPV do any real harm other than cause Cervical Cancer?
[02:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:02] <exec> 08└─A quick googling yielded: "Each shot costs $130 to $150, for a total of around $390 to $450 for the series. "
[02:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:04] <exec> 08└─Tax the prostitutes!
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[02:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 1) 02 - 06American College of Physicians Recommends Relaxed Blood Sugar Targets for Type 2 Diabetes Patients - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:42] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the United Corporations of America [ was USA ] where the real product it the stock and the true customer is the stockholder. In greenbacks we trust, all others pay foreign loan shark interest. You can not control a population that is: 1) well educated [call you bluff] 2) well fed [try fig...
[02:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06American College of Physicians Recommends Relaxed Blood Sugar Targets for Type 2 Diabetes Patients - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:43] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the Unified Scam of Advertisements [ est. 1913, acquired in 1963 ] where the real product is you you're the livestock that keeps the analytics stockpot stock stocked by stockinged stockboys stockpiling stockrooms stockwhipped by stocky stokebrokers and stockouted stockholders
[02:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:56] <exec> 08└─TFS raised a meta question about SoylentNews in my mind: Why do you use Gandi for it but Let's Encrypt for everything else? Seems like it would be better, or make more sense to use one or the other, if at least to have one sort of workflow/environment.
[02:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:58] <exec> 08└─Don't visit my sites. I'm encrypting everything.
[02:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 1440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:00] <exec> 08└─My God man, how old is your system that it doesn't support updated CA lists or allow you to install a modern browser? As for encryption methods that were perfect "five minutes" ago, if they've been depricated it's because they've been cracked, they really are NOT as secure as they were "five minutes...
[03:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:02] <exec> 08└─Is that what is happening? I don't see forced deprecation of older algorithms, but forced deprecation of compromised algorithms, and algorithms proven to be weak when compared to today's cryptanalysis capabilities. You can either choose to create a collection of acceptable algorithms that supports a...
[03:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:04] <exec> 08└─they've been cracked, they really are NOT as secure as they were "five minutes ago"
[03:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:39] <exec> 08└─Too Late :) This was well tested with a couple hundred thousand volts (comparable to a high setting on a taser) on an innocuous looking capacitor that somebody tossed me. It was a like a grenade that you couldn't pry out of your fingers with a crowbar. I almost shit myself, and the contact point was...
[03:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:40] <exec> 08└─All I can say with authority, is that you cannot let go of DC. I desperately tried. Boy did I try.
[03:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:43] <exec> 08└─It is a solved problem, you kick out the parts of the network that are not pulling their weight. This article: https://www.entsoe.eu [entso...
[03:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 1163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:45] <exec> 08└─IQD has some "low performance" products for $7 in bulk that are like 0.3 ppm. In stock at Mouser not imaginary datasheet stuff. Right now clock accuracy is changing like crazy, like how a couple decades ago when I was a kid a switching FET that could survive an amp at a couple volts at audio switchi...
[03:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:47] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I missed blockquoting what I don't think is true. What my reply comment was addressing is the: whereas AC allows you to get away from the wire again.
[03:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:21] <exec> 08└─Clearly this is another example herd immunity....
[03:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:23] <exec> 08└─LOL a species that lives 100+ years, and is fertile for 25+ years, and like the 8th line in your lame paper is the longest study ever attempted has 9 years of data. Not all studies, not average, longest. Nine years is aeons for javascript web framework lifespan, not so much compared to human lifespa...
[03:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift is Now the Most Popular VR Headset on Steam - 2842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:36] <exec> 08└─I agree on 720p resolution (which is considered to be "HDTV" while 1080p is "Full HD"). I use a lot of 720p or 768p displays and it seems to be a good enough resolution for video viewing. I'm pretty sure (drank the Kool-Aid) that VR will benefit from ridiculous increases in resolution, but the focus...
[03:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Venomous Creatures Change Their Venom Recipe Often - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:22] <exec> 08└─Do the world a favor and kill yourself, you useless worthless immature piece of subhuman waste.
[03:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Fires Up a Cloudy Quantum Computer - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:38] <exec> 08└─34 * 2 = 68 68 + 1 = 69 2 + 1 = 3 https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[03:59:42] <exec> 08└─N/T
[03:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russ Solomon, Founder of Tower Records Dead at 92 - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:43] <exec> 08└─"Ironically, he was giving his opinion of what someone was wearing that he thought was ugly, then asked (his wife) Patti to refill his whiskey," Solomon said. When she returned, he had died.
[03:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russ Solomon, Founder of Tower Records Dead at 92 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:46] <exec> 08└─Tower Records should never have gone bankrupt. I alone spent enough there to keep them in business!
[03:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American College of Physicians Recommends Relaxed Blood Sugar Targets for Type 2 Diabetes Patients - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:57] <exec> 08└─1) Smugly lecture them as if they are uneducated hicks. 2) Disparage them for eating healthy. 3) Tell them fat shaming is evil. 4) Tell them to support socialism. PAY YOUR FAIR SHARE.
[04:00:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 1061 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:12] <exec> 08└─Is that what is happening? I don't see forced deprecation of older algorithms, but forced deprecation of compromised algorithms, and algorithms proven to be weak when compared to today's cryptanalysis capabilities. You can either choose to create a collection of acceptable algorithms that supports a...
[04:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:14] <exec> 08└─The problem is that self-signed certs can be exactly the right choice for an embedded device which lives on the local network, behind the NAT, where it's impossible to get a Let's-Encrypt verification through. Yet the browsers scream bloody murder if you try to connect to it. And if you don't use TL...
[04:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:17] <exec> 08└─Because the server certificate came with the domain registration, bit it's not a wildcard certificate?
[04:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:56] <exec> 08└─I pretty much agree with you. I'll augment your post by saying: we had good efficient switching supplies in the 1970s, and they've gotten better and better ever since, due to better semiconductors (faster switching, lower "on" resistance). My only beef with them is the filter capacitor failures. I'm...
[04:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:58] <exec> 08└─When I was a wee child, had a relative who worked at a power company. Will never forget his recommendation that if you want to test if a wire is "live", *tap* it with the BACK side of your fingers. If it is, indeed, "live" it will cause your fingers to close AWAY from the wire. If you tap it with yo...
[04:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:00] <exec> 08└─Actually PC power supplies are DC to DC switching supplies _because_ of the power required. An iron-core transformer that can handle 200-400 W (VA) would be quite large and heavy. I'll put it in perspective: a typical house has 240V 200A service (some are 400A...) so ~50KW (or 100KW). A typical elec...
[04:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:02] <exec> 08└─HVDC has been a thing for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[04:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:38] <exec> 08└─he problem is, *some* conservatives, just like *some* liberals, are exactly like their more negative caricatures.
[04:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:41] <exec> 08└─Even the governor himself backtracked
[04:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift is Now the Most Popular VR Headset on Steam - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:54] <exec> 08└─It was the selling of the most promising VR to facebook that sour all the tech fever. It was a betrail by the community held celebratory that did not go over well.
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[04:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:43] <exec> 08└─The pro-coagulant effects of hormonal BC have been known about for decades. Estrogen-containing drugs of all stripes have big fat warnings on them not to take them if you've ever had DVT/PE or are at high risk for blood clots, e.g., if you have Factor V Leiden. The article, which is a paywalled jour...
[04:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:45] <exec> 08└─My wife and I met as virgins. We had a Catholic wedding. We've been faithful. We follow the teachings of Pope John Paul II on birth control. BTW, at 11 and counting, I'm outbreeding the average sinner by a factor of 5. The future belongs to those who show up.
[04:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:47] <exec> 08└─Life increases the chance of death, the chance being about 100%.
[04:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:50] <exec> 08└─More offspring just means more targets for our Satanization program. Your numbers "advantage" will be your downfall.
[04:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:52] <exec> 08└─Mary and Joseph only had one kid. What gives you the belief that you're better than the Mother of God and need to have more kids than her? When scriptures talk about going forth and multiplying, they're taking about mathematics. Everyone should become experts at mathematics. It's the language of the...
[04:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:54] <exec> 08└─In the absence of death there is only life. In the absence of life there is no death. Clearly one is superior to the other.
[05:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russ Solomon, Founder of Tower Records Dead at 92 - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:05] <exec> 08└─In Sacramento we had all the Towers, records, books, posters, jeans, shoes. The first three made for good times. Last year a Jewish deli opened up downtown that is named after him, Solomon’s Delicatessen.
[05:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Russ Solomon, Founder of Tower Records Dead at 92 - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:08] <exec> 08└─"Over-expansion played a large role in the stores going under. " Yeah, right, that's what brought brick-and-mortar record stores into extinction.
[05:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American College of Physicians Recommends Relaxed Blood Sugar Targets for Type 2 Diabetes Patients - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:18] <exec> 08└─That's not an argument to authority either; presumably, the people who spend time on diabetes know diabetes better than the generalists. If they say relaxing the standards is a bad idea, I will trust them. I've seen what diabetes does to people in the late stages.
[05:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:38] <exec> 08└─Mostly because if the non-"soylentnews.org" certs fail to auto-renew as expected (And they do. Often.), it causes us a few minutes of work when someone eventually notices. That's not acceptable for cert the main site uses.
[05:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:22] <exec> 08└─Ah, um, sort of not quite. Enough AC and your nerve electrical system is overwhelmed and you have no control of anything. You may want to, but agony is all you can muster. There is a range of current that will cause heart fibrillation. Some quick research shows lots of differing opinions on lethal c...
[05:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:24] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you've worked in power industry. I haven't (other than PV systems and 480 3 phase stuff) but did well in studies. I always heard that frequency was being watched and long-term compensated so that electric clocks would stay on track (eventually)??
[05:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:03] <exec> 08└─It doesn't make sense that you could get anal cancer. There shouldn't be any HPV on poo or toilet paper.
[05:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:05] <exec> 08└─There are people refusing any types of vaccinations for their kids in a world where herd immunity is a real thing. There are people feeding their kids bleach because, despite all evidence, they belief it is healthy. There are people who refuse blood transfusions for their kids when it is a matter of...
[05:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:07] <exec> 08└─I did not encounter any of the very deadly wildlife in Australia...
[05:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 064G LTE Pried Open To Reveal A Slew Of New Protocol-Level Attacks - 1504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:48] <exec> 08└─The first hypothesis seems much more plausible, since law enforcement doesn't need to use stolen keys. They can always twist the arms of the telcos to cough up whatever keys they are using, and with suitably worded National Security Letters, the telcos also can't tell anyone that they were so coerce...
[05:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Startup Wheels Out EU-Compliant Drone Traffic Management App - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:56] <exec> 08└─upstart [sic]
[05:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blended Beef-Mushroom Burgers - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:31] <exec> 08└─This, most people buy either store ground beef or the wrong cuts and then wonder why the burger tastes bland. Everybody will have to find their own blend, but I recommend at least a third of short rib and if you want it a little funky, grind in some oxtail as well. You can salt post-forming, pre-gri...
[05:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blended Beef-Mushroom Burgers - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:32] <exec> 08└─Ah, the secret of french cuisine. :)
[05:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blended Beef-Mushroom Burgers - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:34] <exec> 08└─For small batches, like for example Mapo Tofu, I prefer using a knife over food processor and meat grinder. The cleaning takes longer than hand chopping everything. Just teach yourself some knife skills.
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[05:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:51] <exec> 08└─For Catholics, the rhythm method is the best birth control. So many proud Catholic parents do that. But for everybody else, ass sex works great. Very hard for someone to get pregnant that way. But the Catholic Bible says don't do it!
[05:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:53] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as god, obviously, but most religions encourage their members to reproduce like rats in order to increase that religion's numbers/power/monies. It is that simple. Just a friendly reminder: please have your humans spayed or neutered!
[05:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:55] <exec> 08└─My wife and I met as virgins. We had a Catholic wedding. We've been faithful. We follow the teachings of Pope John Paul II on birth control. BTW, at 11 and counting, I'm outbreeding the average sinner by a factor of 5. The future belongs to those who show up.
[05:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:57] <exec> 08└─The Catholic church welcomes those who are retarded nigger. It also welcomes those who are just one of those or neither. You won't even be asked if you are or are not retarded or nigger. Retarded niggers, along with all other parishioners, are expected to remain virgin until married. They are expect...
[05:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:59] <exec> 08└─The life of a parent: spend 20 years telling your children to not have sex or children, no matter what. Then the next 20 years telling them to have sex and children, no matter what.
[06:00:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Geezer [511] 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 372 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:49] <exec> 08└─Short answer: grid switching requires near-perfect synchronization of feeders to minimize unexpected drastic load shifts and "motorizing" the slower feeder. Synchronization requires adjustment at the generating station, and big turbo-generators, while very stable thanks to inertia, don't generally h...
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[06:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Scientists May Have Solved the Mystery Behind the ‘Sonic Attacks’ in Cuban Embassy - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:39] <exec> 08└─Warning: Contains acoustic vibrations that may cause severe brain damage. [youtube.com]
[06:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Computer Scientists May Have Solved the Mystery Behind the ‘Sonic Attacks’ in Cuban Embassy - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:41] <exec> 08└─First, why the listening devices suddenly stopped listening and started outperforming the best tweeters on the market. Second, what kind if portable thermonuclear battery powers their continuous exercises? Third, quo bono? Fourth, as these devices must be still in the walls of the Embassy, why don't...
[06:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Scientists May Have Solved the Mystery Behind the ‘Sonic Attacks’ in Cuban Embassy - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:43] <exec> 08└─Well, only the US State Department has access to go tear up the walls of the embassy looking for these things. Which presumably they have done, on many occasions. But if this hypothesis is correct, that's what they should do, tear it apart inch by inch if they have to in order to find these things,...
[06:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Scientists May Have Solved the Mystery Behind the ‘Sonic Attacks’ in Cuban Embassy - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:45] <exec> 08└─Hire some apprentice interior decorator with a stud / metal / wire detector from the home Depot and find them for 8.75 per hour.
[06:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Computer Scientists May Have Solved the Mystery Behind the ‘Sonic Attacks’ in Cuban Embassy - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:47] <exec> 08└─I doubt that only plumbers and electricians employed by the State Department are allowed to work on the building. But whoever they are, please, please go there with all their microphones and solve the mystery. IMO, the sounds are just wind whistling in the cracks or on external adornments (they have...
[06:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Computer Scientists May Have Solved the Mystery Behind the ‘Sonic Attacks’ in Cuban Embassy - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:50] <exec> 08└─Likely its ultrasonic presence detectors. I am quite sensitive to these... Nausea results. I know of several others who react to them the same way. Kinda a sharp pain that you can't say where it is. Its somewhere in my head. There was one department store where I went to university I avoided for tha...
[07:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:34] <exec> 08└─Not sure about the clock thing, but my gut feeling is that has it's roots as an inside engineer joke. Pretty sure utility companies don't give a rat's ass whether somebody has to adjust their clock once in awhile, but they do care about power factor coefficients on large inductive loads. I worked in...
[07:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Sells Off Zagat to Another Restaurant Review Company - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:57] <exec> 08└─Agreed - "iconic brand like Zagat"?!?!? Trip Advisor, yep, can't avoid it. Yelp, yep, heard of it, but never seems relevant. Zagat? Never fucking heard of it. I guess this is another of "all over the USA, therefore the whole world" views. Heard at a local restaurant a while back: Customer: Do you ta...
[07:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Sells Off Zagat to Another Restaurant Review Company - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:58] <exec> 08└─I review a lot of pubs around Europe, and I always review them the day after I'm there, sometimes a week later. It's the memories that stay with you that are the important ones. That reminds me, I've got a dozen new English pubs from the UK to review from my trip there in January. I have photos, and...
[07:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 1473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:19] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, but "VLM"?? What does that mean? I also don't recognize either "RINOs" or "cucks". FWIW, I don't consider the US right wing to be conservative. They aren't even reactionary. "Jingoist" could be defensible. A conservative is one who wishes to conserve whatever they thing is good about the...
[07:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift is Now the Most Popular VR Headset on Steam - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:04:37] <exec> 08└─It was the selling of the most promising VR to facebook that sour all the tech fever. It was a betrail by the community held celebratory that did not go over well.
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[07:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Scientists May Have Solved the Mystery Behind the ‘Sonic Attacks’ in Cuban Embassy - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:47] <exec> 08└─Nobody ever ran one regularly in the embassy?
[07:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Scientists May Have Solved the Mystery Behind the ‘Sonic Attacks’ in Cuban Embassy - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:48] <exec> 08└─After reading TFA I found that they're proposing the listening devices are not at the embassy, but at a motel and some residences. Precisely because they do, in fact, have very tight security at the embassy. Outside plumbers etc. may well enter the building at times, but they are not left unsupervis...
[07:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Scientists May Have Solved the Mystery Behind the ‘Sonic Attacks’ in Cuban Embassy - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:51] <exec> 08└─why don't the scientists just go there and find them?
[08:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russ Solomon, Founder of Tower Records Dead at 92 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:19] <exec> 08└─Do try to read at least the first sentence in TFS before commenting.
[08:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russ Solomon, Founder of Tower Records Dead at 92 - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:21] <exec> 08└─By the time it had expanded to the UK, it was indistinguishable from all the other storees, having nothing special apart from brief novelty. So all my money went to "Andy's Records", which was local-ish and independent, and seemed to be run with the same kind of hands-off management as Tower. Some s...
[08:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:38] <exec> 08└─Learnt this in highschool. It'll still be a painful experience and a potentially (or does 'voltageusly' fits better in the context?) dangerous one.
[08:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:40] <exec> 08└─It's not an easy thing to test, and even if you could, some people are quite strong, and some ready to die without electric shock helping.
[08:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:42] <exec> 08└─Good catch. I wish I could give you more 'Informative' mod points. It's quite interesting that they give a figure for the missing energy of 113 GWh. That is non-trivial.
[08:02:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:59] <exec> 08└─Texas made this vaccine mandatory for Middle and High school attendance even before it was proven safe or effective in children, but that's another story.
[08:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Demos SD Card Using PCIe Gen 3 x1 Interface for 880 MB/s Read Speed - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:34] <exec> 08└─You could use the Batmobile, or maybe a Hyperloop.
[08:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blended Beef-Mushroom Burgers - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:53] <exec> 08└─You remind me of my friend who would go ballistic if someone tried to serve him hot dogs or hamburgers (lamb burgers are OK).
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[08:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seedboxes on the Decline - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:36] <exec> 08└─Once the transition from personal computers to toys is complete, and torrenting will be considered an act of terrorism (wait it already is), you will miss your seedbox a lot. Me? I have enough free as in freedom stuff to go by. Pirating is still abiding to the system. I either "buy" and download, or...
[08:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Scientists May Have Solved the Mystery Behind the ‘Sonic Attacks’ in Cuban Embassy - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:53] <exec> 08└─The warning is warranted.
[09:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:11] <exec> 08└─“I'll say one thing for Catholics: they do have natural rhythm!” (Lord Percy, Black Adder II)
[09:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:13] <exec> 08└─You'll die and rot just like everything else. Spreading your genes around means absolutely nothing in the grand scheme of things. The universe doesn't care about you or anyone else; it can't.
[09:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:56] <exec> 08└─That can't make older software support newer algorithms, of course
[09:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:58] <exec> 08└─Self-signed certs is easy to fix - accept the certificate into your store and browsers will shut up. But un-encrypted pages is just idiotic even for local networks in this day and age, if you have even two users rather than one. XSS attacks on router settings pages, password sniffing, and even just...
[09:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:48] <exec> 08└─I am not the author: Accuracy and stability of the 50 Hz mains frequency [utwente.nl] it has a link to a similar America website: 60 Hz AC Mains Frequency Accuracy Measurement [leapsecond.com] and a discussion on American practices [wikipedia.org] in the Wikipedia article on synchronous electric clo...
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[10:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:21] <exec> 08└─Why not just send the pipe to the chocolate room instead?
[10:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kawumpa [1187] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American College of Physicians Recommends Relaxed Blood Sugar Targets for Type 2 Diabetes Patients - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:47] <exec> 08└─I would generally agree with your sentiment, but recently cardiologists convinced me how flawed this argument can be. There recently was a documentary by French director Anne Georget about cholesterol and the flawed/questionable science behind statins. Cardiologists here condemned the documentary fo...
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[10:00:48] <exec> 08└─While changes in lifestyle and diet can often work wonders, you are forgetting the major obstacle to this course of action: No, not big pharma, patients. It's true that many patients wouldn't need any medication at all, it's just that far too many lack intelligence and motivation to completely chang...
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[10:02:00] <exec> 08└─It's been a while, but I remember that wind generators generate AC at unstable frequency. Which is why they transform that unreliable AC signal to DC and from DC back to grid AC. This is from years back, may not be true for all manufacturers or maybe a better method is found meanwhile or ...
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[10:02:02] <exec> 08└─Just a hunch but I would expect hydro have all the same issues as wind. And that's among the oldest power technologies we have.
[10:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064G LTE Pried Open To Reveal A Slew Of New Protocol-Level Attacks - 1142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:29] <exec> 08└─The gov certainly can compel businesses do anything. But I bet they wouldn't like to appear to be overreaching and like an all-seeing-eye in the pretend democracy. And then there is the funny idea of American exceptionalism, maybe these idiots think that no other party posesses the capability that g...
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[10:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:46] <exec> 08└─Trump was asked at his press conference with the Swedish PM what he thought had changed the political situation in Pyongyang, to which he replied; "Me"!
[10:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seedboxes on the Decline - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:54] <exec> 08└─If i ran a seedbox it would at least have a Plex server so i could stream my downloads; the good seedbox companies preinstall this and many other quality-of-life-improvements to make a seedbox slot extremely useful. SFTP to mirror your porn locally is so 2013
[11:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:31] <exec> 08└─More offspring just means more targets for our Satanization program. Your numbers "advantage" will be your downfall.
[11:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:19] <exec> 08└─It's not so much the new certs, or even the new algorithms, it's newer versions of the TLS protocol. All SSL versions and TLS 1.0 have known attacks and so a lot of servers now simply refuse to support clients requesting versions prior to 1.1, and an increasing number require 1.2. This was what kill...
[11:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:21] <exec> 08└─Why are other certs failing to auto-renew? I'm using Let's Encrypt with the default acme-client config, which renews the certs in a weekly cron job. The certs have a 3-month lifetime, so auto-renew needs to fail a lot of times before I need to care.
[11:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:14] <exec> 08└─Apparently Serbia and Kosovo are to be blamed. the full press release [entsoe.eu] has more information.
[11:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:15] <exec> 08└─Mostly you have a big lake of water behind you, at constant pressure, and you can control your penstocks, which govern the energy you can put into the system. So, the line frequencies and voltages to wobble a bit, in response to changing loads. And if things get too out of control, circuit breakers...
[11:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:18] <exec> 08└─Tossing a plebe a charged capacitor, or leaving a charged one in the box, was the standard initiation ceremony at the school I went to. I still remember sneaking up behind one guy thinking I was going to discharge a 40uF/450WV electrolytic behind him. I scared the hell out of him all right. I had...
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[11:59:42] <exec> 08└─Finally! About time the electrokinetic/ionocraft/lifter/"Biefeld-Brown" technology was adapted for use in space. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[11:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:43] <exec> 08└─Will this allow ISS to stay in orbit, without frequent fuel resupplies?
[12:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:36] <exec> 08└─For birth control [youtube.com]. No estrogen required!
[12:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:26] <exec> 08└─Not certain. I only notice they've failed either when I get an email that a cert is about to expire or when I don't and it already has expired. I haven't had the time to do any serious digging into the "why" the past couple times. I really didn't have the time to renew them manually but I went ahead...
[12:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:23] <exec> 08└─c0lo said : I don't think this is true, given that physiological muscle relaxation time (30-75 ms for half relaxation) is longer than half the period of the AC we are using (10 ms at 50hz).
[12:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:24] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure utility companies don't give a rat's ass whether somebody has to adjust their clock once in awhile
[12:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:27] <exec> 08└─Those giant spinning generators slow down under heavier loads and the line frequency is directly proportional to the rotation rate of the generators.
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[12:59:38] <exec> 08└─Does It Demonstrate "Quantum Supremacy"?
[12:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google's 72-Qubit "Bristlecone" Chip: Does It Demonstrate "Quantum Supremacy"? - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:39] <exec> 08└─Would something like this be able to decode DNA and tell us what's really in the "junk" DNA? Analyze many samples to reveal exactly what codon does what? How to modify for any new critter we may want to instantiate? How does one program such a thing to do something useful?
[12:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's 72-Qubit "Bristlecone" Chip: Does It Demonstrate "Quantum Supremacy"? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:41] <exec> 08└─there is no "junk" DNA. If it doesn't affect the reproductive rate of the organism, it will remain. Besides, alot of the *function* of the "non-coding regions", is timing....
[12:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:51] <exec> 08└─the mean height of ISS is just above 400km [heavens-above.com]; the project only tested at height of 200km, which was about as high as Sputnik-1 got.
[12:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:53] <exec> 08└─No mention about the achieved thrust though. Anyone here who has more info?
[12:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:56] <exec> 08└─It looks more like a Hall thruster [wikimedia.org] than an ion thruster [wikimedia.org]. Note [esa.int] the annular channel and the cathode on the side.
[12:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:58] <exec> 08└─Will this allow ISS to stay in orbit, without frequent fuel resupplies?
[13:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:07] <exec> 08└─There was a mild reaction, and he quickly replied to himself "No...", as a comedian would do. Then, after a pause, he said as if to himself "No one got that one", just like a comedian would. It's called banter, folks. It's called humor. It's called having a rapport with your audience. Now, where's m...
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[13:00:09] <exec> 08└─Kim Jong Un has said that he only has nukes for self defense, and is willing to get rid of them as soon as he believes he doesn't need them. So this should be easy for Trump. Just offer Kim a deal where the US and North Korea both get rid of all their nukes. That is, if the USA is serious about this...
[13:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:56] <exec> 08└─The life of a parent of Millennials :- spending that second 20 years being told how impossible it is to have sex and children when you're in the next bedroom.
[13:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:57] <exec> 08└─Pope Saint John Paul II, if you please. I mean, would you say "Mr. Evil"?
[13:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:59] <exec> 08└─Mary and Joseph only had one documented kid. (How many kids do the Osbournes have?)
[13:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:02] <exec> 08└─You'll die and rot just like everything else.
[13:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russ Solomon, Founder of Tower Records Dead at 92 - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:15] <exec> 08└─When I still lived in the Fatherland I used to spend large parts of my (then pitiful) salary at Spillers Records. They're still there, although the website looks almost as old as the shop itself: https://www.spillersrecords.co.uk [spillersrecords.co.uk] .
[13:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:52] <exec> 08└─whereas AC is "neutral" with regard to muscle pulling direction in that the current direction cancels out on average as far as muscle movement is concerned.
[13:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:37] <exec> 08└─Except all conservatives are now VLM. They have to be or they're expelled as "RINOs" and "cucks". There is no longer any moral equivalent.
[13:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:38] <exec> 08└─VLM feeds his kids bleach. He wants them to be white inside and out.
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[13:59:48] <exec> 08└─How does one program such a thing to do something useful?
[14:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:02] <exec> 08└─Will be impressive, indeed, if the thruster doesn't have to be as large as the spacecraft itself. When you're "in atmosphere" that can be used for thrust, it's also going to be hypersonically dragging on the satellite body. I don't see any way this could work on the existing ISS - maybe something sh...
[14:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:04] <exec> 08└─If you think PV panels, there's a trade-off: the panels will create drag.
[14:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:06] <exec> 08└─I was thinking of a new generation of satellites with hypersonic aero-design like a Blackbird... lay the PV panels along the body, might not be enough to keep it up (7-8km/s aerodrag has got to be a bitch to overcome...) but maybe with a nice hot plutonium pile onboard...
[14:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:17] <exec> 08└─Now, where's my "Informative" tag?
[14:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:19] <exec> 08└─Which I don't believe until I see it.
[14:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:21] <exec> 08└─Who are the most horrible national leaders in the world? There's a new ranking out, of US Presidents, and Trump was so bad, he took over last place from Lincoln's predecessor, Buchanan: https://sps.boisestate.edu [boisestate.edu] Trump is the Worst. US. P...
[14:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:24] <exec> 08└─I really don't care if I ever read again about what Donald Trump is Tweeting. Let him face the press. Or otherwise I really don't care - it really doesn't matter what he panders out to his base, and it really does give him undue influence when the entire press establishment waits with baited breath...
[14:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:26] <exec> 08└─It stuck to the linky to the video containing the clown's performance
[14:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:28] <exec> 08└─It's called banter, folks. It's called humor. It's called having a rapport with your audience.
[14:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:30] <exec> 08└─Trump is the Worst. US. President. Ever.
[14:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seedboxes on the Decline - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:40] <exec> 08└─Seems like it would be safe to conclude the following was correct: "People are willing to pay for content. If you price it reasonably and make it easier to get than pirated, people will preferentially pay rather than pirate."
[14:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:13] <exec> 08└─Learnt this in highschool. It'll still be a painful experience and a potentially (or does 'voltageusly' fits better in the context?) dangerous one.
[14:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:00] <exec> 08└─How can you possibly imagine that any thought at all went into his opinion about the safety or medical efficacy of a vaccine.
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[14:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:36] <exec> 08└─Software patents need to go. That is all.
[14:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:38] <exec> 08└─RIM aka Blackberry has two things of value anymore, old patents on messaging software and QNX. Beyond that they bordering on being a patent troll themselves.
[14:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:40] <exec> 08└─Wait a minute, Instagram and WhatsApp are subsidiaries of Facebook? No where is safe from the reaches of Zorgberg. Twitter and Snapchat are dying, while Insta the "young person's Facebook" is thriving. What a move, effectively solving the "Facebook's not cool anymore" issue. A bit off-topic, but it...
[14:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:42] <exec> 08└─HAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Your hero Richard Stallman is still a smelly hippie idiot. Nobody cares what you smelly hippies idiots think about software.
[15:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:08] <exec> 08└─This is why I said 'trade off' rather than 'outright impossible'.
[15:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:09] <exec> 08└─It's no different to propelling a boat through water. The satellite is 'buoyant' enough not to 'sink' so what it needs to do is propel itself through the medium it is floating on. Like a boat it will need to be shaped so that it doesn't have to work against itself, and isn't steered off course by a...
[15:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seedboxes on the Decline - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:35] <exec> 08└─The main cancellation reason for the last three years has been 'Not needed anymore'
[15:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seedboxes on the Decline - 2277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:36] <exec> 08└─Whats killed it for me is I buy stuff from Amazon such that it would be economically foolish not to go Prime, why pay more to UPS for the privilege of not having Prime, and Prime comes with free Prime video, and admittedly Hollywood product resembles the flow of a large city sewer in that its at lea...
[15:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:20] <exec> 08└─Plunging a person's asshole smells awful. Most people are not like porn stars; most people have not fasted the night before sex, and have not douched in advance of penetration. Blech.
[15:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:22] <exec> 08└─... for the love of Sappho!
[15:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:24] <exec> 08└─Blech
[15:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russ Solomon, Founder of Tower Records Dead at 92 - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:39] <exec> 08└─To-die or yester-die?
[15:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift is Now the Most Popular VR Headset on Steam - 1856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:22] <exec> 08└─I was looking up wireless info on the fly, so it's quite possible I got 10us from marketing literature - I do also remember a line about wired-comparable lag. Perhaps there's a way to tune it for less error-resistance at the price of less lag? 7ms would be extremely disappointing - I believe the con...
[15:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift is Now the Most Popular VR Headset on Steam - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:23] <exec> 08└─I rather doubt they'd continue to agree that is was high-def when looking at an 40" screen from 6" away, which is roughly the field of view we're talking about. But yeah, it's likely good enough to make do, especially if they could blend the pixels together so they looked more like film than looking...
[15:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Rift is Now the Most Popular VR Headset on Steam - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:25] <exec> 08└─Hmm - perhaps such a headset could draw on the R&D done for modular cellphones. It'd be really nice to be easily able to upgrade just the processor on such a potentially expensive piece of kit. Plug in the properly optimized hardware and it could possibly even do decent final-stage rendering for a P...
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[15:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves 23andMe DNA Test for Breast Cancer, With Caveats - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:40] <exec> 08└─So, uhhhh - Ashkenazi Jews. And, mutations. And, genetic testing. And, back to the "uhhh". Are they trying to say that Jews are mutants? Kinda like, but not just like, those of us from European ancestry? Dayumn. These must be more of the alt-right we're hearing about. Suddenly, Nietzsche fits in? An...
[15:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03west [6884] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:52] <exec> 08└─yeah i also want to pirate windows
[15:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:53] <exec> 08└─They need to stay, but only have a life of 3 years, then are open. This gives the holders time to make a product and make money.
[15:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:55] <exec> 08└─You're a geriatric, the ship has sunk, let it happen.
[15:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:58] <exec> 08└─Patent 8,279,173 covers the concept of tagging people in photos using an auto-completing search box. - Where all the examples in the patent are blackberry's facebook app. Specifically blackberry's re-implementation of photo tagging a year and a half after Facebook's patenting of the same. On the who...
[15:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:00] <exec> 08└─Wait a minute, Instagram and WhatsApp are subsidiaries of Facebook?
[16:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:02] <exec> 08└─I only use Windows at work because I'm paid to do so, and I'm not responsible for maintaining it. Despite that, I still have Linux at work on VMs. In other words, you can pay me to use Windows. But what would be the reason to pirate it? It would be like putting a security lock on the trash container...
[16:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:04] <exec> 08└─As bad as software patents are, part of me hopes that Blackberry wins and forces Facebook to shut down Instagram and WhatsApp. Then people would return to using actual open messaging solutions. It's a pipe dream, I know. What is more likely to occur is for Facebook and Blackberry to reach a settleme...
[16:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:07] <exec> 08└─Patent 7,372,961 covers the concept of generating a cryptographic key by choosing a pseudorandom number and then checking if it is "less than order q prior to reducing mod q." If it is, the key is used. If not, another key is chosen at random and the process repeats.
[16:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:09] <exec> 08└─Is IRC a messaging service?
[16:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 2873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:12] <exec> 08└─I think software should be protected by copyright and not by patent. Software patents need to go. Software patents are ridiculous. They end up protecting very basic ideas that are easy to implement. This Blackberry lawsuit is an example. Messaging? Really? Doesn't this go back to text messaging, use...
[16:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:14] <exec> 08└─And Twitter! How was Twitter not part of this? Oh, the humanity! Please add Twitter, and then win this lawsuit shutting down the major cesspools of social media.
[16:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:16] <exec> 08└─Hey, I did put from the "imaginary-property" department in the submission. :-)
[16:00:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 1085 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:54] <exec> 08└─Who are the most horrible national leaders in the world? There's a new ranking out, of US Presidents, and Trump was so bad, he took over last place from Lincoln's predecessor, Buchanan: https://sps.boisestate.edu [boisestate.edu] Trump is the Worst. US. P...
[16:00:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 602 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:56] <exec> 08└─I really don't care if I ever read again about what Donald Trump is Tweeting. Let him face the press. Or otherwise I really don't care - it really doesn't matter what he panders out to his base, and it really does give him undue influence when the entire press establishment waits with baited breath...
[16:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:01] <exec> 08└─Twitter is NOT news, ever.
[16:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:03] <exec> 08└─and Trump was so bad, he took over last place from Lincoln's predecessor, Buchanan
[16:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:05] <exec> 08└─Is this the tweet where he didn't actually know which Korea he had spoken with? Trump was referring to South Korea when he said he spoke with North Korea: report [thehill.com] That's some grade A diplomacy right there!
[16:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seedboxes on the Decline - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:17] <exec> 08└─But dude you must have seen all those movies to know they're bad. Plus you're still thinking about the snowcrash movie that was proposed a few years ago and hasn't had news since...you're waiting.
[16:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seedboxes on the Decline - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:19] <exec> 08└─I buy stuff
[16:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American College of Physicians Recommends Relaxed Blood Sugar Targets for Type 2 Diabetes Patients - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:34] <exec> 08└─Relaxing the standards for Type 2 diabetes is one of the dumbest ideas ever. Type 2 diabetes should go away in most cases if the simple carbs are cut low enough and the patient is able to burn off enough of the stored sugar that the body remembers how to properly metabolize fat. People shouldn't get...
[16:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American College of Physicians Recommends Relaxed Blood Sugar Targets for Type 2 Diabetes Patients - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:35] <exec> 08└─That's particularly true in the case of cardio vascular disease. There's never been any meaningful evidence that humans should be limiting their intake of sodium. The evidence for that was 6 French patients nearly a century ago that all happened to have both high blood pressure and excessive sodium...
[16:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:01] <exec> 08└─Agreed- the good old days of quality for quality's sake are gone. I just did some more research and found postings from power company workers in most of the world's more developed countries, and 20 years ago they were saying they stopped caring about long-term frequency stability. Very stable quartz...
[16:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:03] <exec> 08└─Pretty lousy actually. Do some research on the Edison versus Tesla distribution systems. DC has much greater voltage drop over line distance. DC generation required a power plant every few block in cities. AC travels through metal conductors much more easily than DC and can travel greater distances...
[16:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:51] <exec> 08└─While one may be seriously harmful and the other an arguable social good, they come from the same place. To the average C student, the two are about equally valid. This serves to highlight that non-scientific practices are not necessarily wrong, but that you will find it much harder to tell which on...
[16:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 064G LTE Pried Open To Reveal A Slew Of New Protocol-Level Attacks - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:35] <exec> 08└─Theory 1: Law enforcement has no idea how it works. (And remember, it's SECRET!) To law enforcement it is just a black box. Even if it uses stolen keys / credentials, law enforcement would be blissfully unaware. And, this would perfectly explain why no Stingray case will ever see a courtroom. You ma...
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[16:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FDA Approves 23andMe DNA Test for Breast Cancer, With Caveats - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:40] <exec> 08└─Anne Wojcicki is an Ashkenazi jew.
[16:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves 23andMe DNA Test for Breast Cancer, With Caveats - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:41] <exec> 08└─"According to the FDA, the test should not be used as a substitute for seeing a doctor:" stfu!
[16:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves 23andMe DNA Test for Breast Cancer, With Caveats - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:43] <exec> 08└─insular breeding populations will have higher incidences of specific genes, good or bad like how the scots have so many redheads. it's because it's all redheads banging other redheads and no dominant brunettes to mess it up you guys need to stop banging each other
[16:59:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03archfeld [4650] 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:52] <exec> 08└─RIM aka Blackberry has two things of value anymore, old patents on messaging software and QNX. Beyond that they bordering on being a patent troll themselves.
[17:00:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 334 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:01] <exec> 08└─I only use Windows at work because I'm paid to do so, and I'm not responsible for maintaining it. Despite that, I still have Linux at work on VMs. In other words, you can pay me to use Windows. But what would be the reason to pirate it? It would be like putting a security lock on the trash container...
[17:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:10] <exec> 08└─I'm truely saddened that this is what Blackberry has sunk to. It would have been better if they had simply declared bankruptcy or been bought.
[17:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:12] <exec> 08└─Well that should be obvious. Twitter doesn't have money. This is a shakedown, nothing more, nothing less.
[17:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:14] <exec> 08└─Apologies. My post had a paragraph dedicated to how BlackBerry should commit Hari-Kari before spiraling into dishonor. I then remembered Chen was Chinese, and they do not have a word for honorable suicide and retraced my statement. My last sentence was a from-the-stands exclamation of moral self-rig...
[17:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:17] <exec> 08└─I cringed when they acquired QNX.
[17:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:19] <exec> 08└─The same one Diogenes pisses on. I don't follow the news.
[17:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:21] <exec> 08└─slavebook and wantwits and whoever should counter sue and name the us patent office as well. these patents are nonsense.
[17:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:24] <exec> 08└─Sue the patent office? If one could, that would be really excellent! Malfeasance, dereliction of duty, whatever. They desperately need some incentive to actually vet patent applications.
[17:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:26] <exec> 08└─Patent 8,279,173 covers the concept of tagging people in photos using an auto-completing search box.
[17:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:28] <exec> 08└─They need to stay, but only have a life of 3 years, then are open. This gives the holders time to make a product and make money.
[17:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:30] <exec> 08└─yeah i also want to pirate windows
[17:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:33] <exec> 08└─Well that should be obvious.
[17:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:35] <exec> 08└─Sue the patent office?
[17:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google's 72-Qubit "Bristlecone" Chip: Does It Demonstrate "Quantum Supremacy"? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:45] <exec> 08└─Moreover, the ability to test a system for quantum supremacy is confounded by the very fact that classical computers cannot be used to compare test results.
[17:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:04] <exec> 08└─It's no different to propelling a boat through water.
[17:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:05] <exec> 08└─It's almost as though it's hard to find a perfect analogy! If only there were cars that travelled under the road instead of on top of it.
[17:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:07] <exec> 08└─Imagine a car with a snorkel plowing through the bottom of a lake....
[17:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:27] <exec> 08└─The problem is that he is in the news const-fucking-ly. I'm so god damn sick about hearing about Trump this, Trump that. The only way to not be constantly bombarded with Trump bullshit is to join an Amish commune, and even then it's only a maybe. Trump's administration has been the biggest trainwrec...
[17:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:29] <exec> 08└─khallow, you do not represent the average opinion of all Americans. Have you ever considered that you might be biased?
[17:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:31] <exec> 08└─How many other Presidents have we had that were actually better than Obama? Seriously. He wasn't great IMO, but it's not like we've had some huge number of great Presidents. George Washington is usually considered the best ever (considering how things were at the time and what he had to contend with...
[17:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 1800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:33] <exec> 08└─(continued from my last post; being able to edit would be nice here...) Of course, the list is biased, since different people have different opinions and political views. But looking at the list, I have some of my own problems with it. LBJ is 2 spots down from Obama at #10, but he's the guy who doub...
[17:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:32] <exec> 08└─Without death, there is no evolution. Complex life is impossible without death.
[17:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:33] <exec> 08└─Matthew 13:55-56 55 Is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary? and his brethren, James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas? 56 And his sisters, are they not all with us? Whence then hath this man all these things? He had siblings. They just aren't mentioned much. I've attended many...
[17:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American College of Physicians Recommends Relaxed Blood Sugar Targets for Type 2 Diabetes Patients - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:05] <exec> 08└─Doctors are worried about ketoacidosis [mayoclinic.org], which is one of the primary ways that untreated diabetes can be life-threatening. I am of the opinion that this is no excuse for using the same treatment regimen for pre-diabetics and low-risk type 2 diabetics; those people could reverse the c...
[17:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 1511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:33] <exec> 08└─I'm an electrical engineer, so I'm fully aware of the principles of electric transmission and Ohm's law. DC has much greater voltage drop over line distance. You're absolutely wrong about DC having a greater voltage drop: AC has a *higher* voltage drop over long distances because it constantly chang...
[17:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:34] <exec> 08└─Not going to take on most of your argument, but due to skin effect [wikipedia.org], you're incorrect on the relative performance of AC and DC in conductors. For example, in copper wire, the skin depth at 60 Hz is 8.5 mm. What that means is that the effective conducting part of a large high voltage w...
[17:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 1858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:36] <exec> 08└─I'm not an electrical engineer This is the first problem right here. You're commenting on something you don't understand. Someone else already responded pointing out that a typical electric car handles more power with semiconductors than your house does, so I won't comment on that. Saying AC is obso...
[17:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 1477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:39] <exec> 08└─DC would be great for many uses at the building level. One large DC power supply. Lots of appliances and electronics within a building powered by DC. But what voltage? Electronics wants low voltages. But a vacuum cleaner still needs a LOT of power, and even, say 48 v is going to require thicker wire...
[17:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 1384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:41] <exec> 08└─I was not aware of HVDC. My mention of transformers was in regard to high voltage AC transmission. Yes, I understand we using switching power supplies. And maybe that is an effective way to step down your 200 or 350 VDC to a stable 12 V or 5 V for many common uses. Although real isolation from the t...
[17:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:30] <exec> 08└─+1 informative, because I remember some of those attitudes and conversations. And, in retrospect, it seems that the gay attitude probably influenced hetero attitudes toward AIDS and homosexuality. In common street terms, "If the queers insist on trying to infect everyone they meet, then maybe AIDS r...
[17:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:32] <exec> 08└─yeah, they were focused on the gay community, all right. they seeded the hiv with the hepatitis vaccines. why do you think it was intravenous drug users and homosexuals who contracted the virus originally? they were eating monkeys or some shit?
[17:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:34] <exec> 08└─other people's kids are not your business. fuck off.
[17:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Could Become the First Country to Eradicate Cervical Cancer - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:36] <exec> 08└─"What's more, putting your kids at risk of getting cancer is bad parenting. Irresponsible at best and neglect at worst." as if you know what's even in the fucking vaccine. are you retarded? or you're just a groveling slave who thinks kissing up to the medical establishment makes him modern and sophi...
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[17:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biochemists Zero In On Key Molecules That Enable Cells To Crawl - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:39] <exec> 08└─reads like an April 1st joke.
[17:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biochemists Zero In On Key Molecules That Enable Cells To Crawl - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:40] <exec> 08└─Nanotechnology, man. Bacteria own us.
[17:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves 23andMe DNA Test for Breast Cancer, With Caveats - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:51] <exec> 08└─Correlation is not causation in such a circumstance. But there's little to complain about here; people are still using astrology, religion and other superstition to make health and life decisions. If the information is accurate (by which I mean the markers are valid, and the test doesn't falsely det...
[17:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves 23andMe DNA Test for Breast Cancer, With Caveats - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:53] <exec> 08└─From the moment of fertilization mutations start occurring in every living organism. The very first cell divisions display errors. Different groups display consistent and persistent error types. The reason genetics and Jews keep being brought up is because Jews have a shit-ton of doctors, a fetish f...
[17:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves 23andMe DNA Test for Breast Cancer, With Caveats - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:55] <exec> 08└─Why are amerimutts so obsessed with genomics?
[18:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:30] <exec> 08└─It seems that the endpoint of all tech corporations is for their patents to directly or indirectly be "monetized" for trolling others who build successful businesses. Either they directly engage in patent trolling. Or they sell their patents (or get acquired, or patents are the only asset at bankrup...
[18:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:32] <exec> 08└─When a patent application first arrives at the USPTO, it must be processed. A patent examiner carefully places the patent into a room full of other patent applications. Then into the room is released a large number of kittens with PATENT GRANTED stamps affixed to their feet. Then the kittens are lur...
[18:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:34] <exec> 08└─I remember very early in the Obama administration. I think it was in a state of the union address. He proudly announced how the USPTO had granted more patents than ever. And associated that with increased innovation. I was thinking . . . YOU IDIOT !!! The USPTO patents are not a measure of innovatio...
[18:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:36] <exec> 08└─I see windows as a gaming console. Beyond that, yeah: why use it? But wine on Linux is great!
[18:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:38] <exec> 08└─The patent office is just not doing their jobs. Patents are intended to protect an invention. The concept of invention is that you come up with something new and non-trivial, which makes a significant (positive or negative) difference compared to what was before. Most of the listed patents fail that...
[18:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:41] <exec> 08└─yeah i also want to pirate windows
[18:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:43] <exec> 08└─> > Well that should be obvious. > THEN IT SHOULD BE PATENTED!!! The patent on sorting potential lawsuit defendants by assets has long expired. Even the "on a computer" version.
[18:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:45] <exec> 08└─Be glad they don't want to pay me royalties, arguing about budget and workloads (I suspect Union-driven sloth), for my patent on feeding the kittens with caffeine.
[18:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's 72-Qubit "Bristlecone" Chip: Does It Demonstrate "Quantum Supremacy"? - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:57] <exec> 08└─Bourne, White, Quantum ... All that talk of supremacy, and for what? Can't we just get along, and just split the tasks based on effectiveness and availability? It would be so much cleaner and simpler. You compute this, you compute that. You kill this, I kill that. You drink here, I drink there. You...
[18:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:19] <exec> 08└─Well, air density at sea level is about 1225g/m3 while on-orbit around 200km up it's about 1/25 billionth as much at ~0.05ug/m3 [dtic.mil]. So, even though you are moving 500x as fast as the speedboat through air, and drag is a function of the square of velocity (does that hold in ultra-low densitie...
[18:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:20] <exec> 08└─The better analogy would be an air-breathing cannonball using a ramjet to expend reach, but without any control surfaces. > drag is a function of the square of velocity (does that hold in ultra-low densities?) That is a very good question, and I'm really curious what the answer could be. Obviously,...
[18:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:22] <exec> 08└─At ultra-low densities, molecules don't interfere much with each other, so drag is simply determined by kinetic energy. It's that equation K=0.5mvv with vv being v squared. At high densities, the fluid is viscous. Drag can be much higher.
[18:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:47] <exec> 08└─The reason Trump tweets is so that he doesn't have to face the press. He is unable to handle any criticism. Or unfriendly questions. "Fake News" he cries! And the free press is the enemy of the people. Using twitter and a lying press secretary, he doesn't have to face any "fake news" (aka, unfavorab...
[18:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:48] <exec> 08└─Ideally, it would be a crime against humanity for Any Nation to have Nuclear Weapons. A weapon with that amount of destructive power is beyond what anyone should have. Especially with all of the environmental concerns that go with even using one. Quickest way to destroy the earth is for a War to bre...
[18:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:50] <exec> 08└─Let's look at this another way: find the most recent president that was equal or worse than Obama. I think that might be LBJ. If not him, it's FDR, who was clearly worse. We can do similar for Trump. Worse would obviously be Obama, so let's flip it around: find the most recent president that was equ...
[18:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seedboxes on the Decline - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:04] <exec> 08└─your are kinda right about 2017 GITS movie. They made Kuze character unrecognisable, amongst other things. It is entertaining, but it is an alternate and very divergent timeline, compared to the serials and the 4 episode mini series.
[18:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:47] <exec> 08└─your access points should die in a fire.
[18:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:56] <exec> 08└─Honestly, I really wish people who aren't electrical engineers would just keep their mouths shut when these discussions come up. It's really annoying having to argue with people who have a layman's understanding of things and whose information is decades out-of-date.
[18:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:57] <exec> 08└─So what's going on between Kosovo and Serbia? Was hoping to read that here in the comments, but didn't find it yet.
[18:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:59] <exec> 08└─Honestly, I really wish people who aren't electrical engineers would just keep their mouths shut when these discussions come up.
[18:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:02] <exec> 08└─EE isn't as hard, mathwise, as a real math degree. It's possible to get through without having nearly the level of math knowledge that a true math major gets. But it does seem to be the hardest engineering degree. But I do think that a good Physics degree is probably harder. You should probably put...
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[18:59:42] <exec> 08└─All along we though Symantec and friends were not programmed efficiently, they were just mining stuff on our computer for the "antivirus" feature... If not that does smells like a new market opportunity, we'll protect you from miners and other pests for a very minimal 25% of your cycles in exchange!...
[18:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Miner Vs Miner: Attack Script Seeks Out And Destroys Competing Currency Crafters - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:43] <exec> 08└─Maybe new malware will save them from other older malware!
[18:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Miner Vs Miner: Attack Script Seeks Out And Destroys Competing Currency Crafters - 1534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:46] <exec> 08└─An imposing man stood in front of around thirty other people. There were numerous objects lined up, and the man was standing near the first one on the left; this appeared similar to those scenarios where someone would break wood with karate chops in front of an audience. Indeed, the man was a famous...
[18:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Miner Vs Miner: Attack Script Seeks Out And Destroys Competing Currency Crafters - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:48] <exec> 08└─Well, since its PowerShell we know its windows. The fact that both snuck through window's sieve/defense and got installed in the first place, while interesting and instructive, is not central to the question. Instead I ask should windows users actually care if one malware manages to kill off another...
[18:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Miner Vs Miner: Attack Script Seeks Out And Destroys Competing Currency Crafters - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:50] <exec> 08└─It should also be noted that Symantec is not just Symantec Norton (the anti-virus). They make most of their revenue off enterprise products and services (that don't blow ass), and from subsidiaries they've purchased over the years. I think Symantec made something like $150 billion off Norton (very r...
[18:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Biochemists Zero In On Key Molecules That Enable Cells To Crawl - 1601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:00] <exec> 08└─The man - whose name was Watson - was completely satified after playing with his toy; he did not need it any longer. The man lived on the tenth floor of an apartment building, and since there was an open dumpster below his balcony, he decided to see if he could toss his toy into it from there. Watso...
[19:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves 23andMe DNA Test for Breast Cancer, With Caveats - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:14] <exec> 08└─they aren't google is. and the marketing tries to make it look cool. you can call them alphabet but it doesnt make them any less evil. sure there are people that are OK selling out their genetic code to valued business partners so that they can be personally identified for advertising based on what...
[19:00:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:22] <exec> 08└─Software patents need to go. That is all.
[19:00:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 2873 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:35] <exec> 08└─I think software should be protected by copyright and not by patent. Software patents need to go. Software patents are ridiculous. They end up protecting very basic ideas that are easy to implement. This Blackberry lawsuit is an example. Messaging? Really? Doesn't this go back to text messaging, use...
[19:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:59] <exec> 08└─I would buy a blackberry phone, a few of them, if I thought they would be able to significantly punish facebook. There are some freedoms I actually would trade in exchange for a greater common good. stupid software patents need to go, but facebook should go first.
[19:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:35] <exec> 08└─I'm really curious what the answer could be.
[19:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:37] <exec> 08└─The thing that a spaceship has that your average pirate-era cannon ball doesn't is gyro control of orientation...
[19:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:39] <exec> 08└─The image from the article is similar to what you describe: http://www.esa.int [esa.int]
[19:01:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:53] <exec> 08└─It stuck to the linky to the video containing the clown's performance
[19:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:06] <exec> 08└─Funny that this study was run by two deep red state universities.
[19:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:08] <exec> 08└─The problem is that he is in the news const-fucking-ly. I'm so god damn sick about hearing about Trump this, Trump that.
[19:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:10] <exec> 08└─Funny that this study was run by two deep red state universities.
[19:02:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06Computer Scientists May Have Solved the Mystery Behind the ‘Sonic Attacks’ in Cuban Embassy - 456 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:35] <exec> 08└─Likely its ultrasonic presence detectors. I am quite sensitive to these... Nausea results. I know of several others who react to them the same way. Kinda a sharp pain that you can't say where it is. Its somewhere in my head. There was one department store where I went to university I avoided for tha...
[19:02:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 515 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:46] <exec> 08└─The pro-coagulant effects of hormonal BC have been known about for decades. Estrogen-containing drugs of all stripes have big fat warnings on them not to take them if you've ever had DVT/PE or are at high risk for blood clots, e.g., if you have Factor V Leiden. The article, which is a paywalled jour...
[19:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American College of Physicians Recommends Relaxed Blood Sugar Targets for Type 2 Diabetes Patients - 1679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:43] <exec> 08└─I can't say for everyone, but I did try that diet first, and it sent my triglycerides through the ceiling. Since then I've been diagnosed as diabetic rather than pre-diabetic, and have switched to a diet that just really low in starches and almost absent in sugars. That's not working quite as well a...
[19:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:22] <exec> 08└─And I wish that those who have knowledge would point this out and help interested others to understand things better without telling them to shut up and that they ought to be barred from the discussion. When those people post authoritatively-written responses instead of asking questions, that's the...
[19:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 1646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:23] <exec> 08└─I was not aware of HVDC. My mention of transformers was in regard to high voltage AC transmission. They've been using HVDC since the 1950s now. It's not new technology. Yes, I understand we using switching power supplies. And maybe that is an effective way to step down your 200 or 350 VDC to a stabl...
[19:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:26] <exec> 08└─Even the BBC have a report on this now. BBC: Kosovo-Serbia row makes Europe clocks go slow [bbc.com]
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[19:59:40] <exec> 08└─We just need to educate users on how to freeze their CPUs, to make sure all the gorilla miners die?
[19:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Miner Vs Miner: Attack Script Seeks Out And Destroys Competing Currency Crafters - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:42] <exec> 08└─Cryptocurrency is relatively new. Norton's horrendous slowness has been around for ages. Doesn't mean they can't add a new feature though!
[19:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Miner Vs Miner: Attack Script Seeks Out And Destroys Competing Currency Crafters - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:44] <exec> 08└─I'm quite sure the average user knows how to place their computer in a freezer. Most of them may not have room in the freezer, though.
[19:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Miner Vs Miner: Attack Script Seeks Out And Destroys Competing Currency Crafters - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:46] <exec> 08└─Not with gorillas inside, obviously.
[20:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves 23andMe DNA Test for Breast Cancer, With Caveats - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:09] <exec> 08└─FWIW, everyone is a mutant. Without known exceptions. In fact, it's almost certain that everyone has several cells that have mutated from the genetic code they started with. I believe the average is (from Wikipedia, generated by a Google search): Using data available from whole genome sequencing, th...
[20:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves 23andMe DNA Test for Breast Cancer, With Caveats - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:11] <exec> 08└─I agree, they need to let me join them.
[20:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves 23andMe DNA Test for Breast Cancer, With Caveats - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:13] <exec> 08└─"On a side-note, fun fact to troll the alt-right folks: Ashkenazi Jews have more German in them then the Brits. Really, there's like 30% German in the English and 40-60% (depends on the study) German in the western Ashkenazi Jews. Southern Ashkenazi Jews have a little less... In favor of Italian/Gre...
[20:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:57] <exec> 08└─I think software should be protected by copyright and not by patent. Software patents need to go. Software patents are ridiculous. They end up protecting very basic ideas that are easy to implement.
[20:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:59] <exec> 08└─and it's actually spelled hari-kiri
[20:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03cocaine overdose [6886] (Score: 1) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:01] <exec> 08└─Gomenosai, kiaku-sama. Wasabi ga machigatte imashita. Oresama wa hazukashee. Ore wa meiyo o motarashimasu.
[20:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 1551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:03] <exec> 08└─It may be great. In actual practice, if I'm provided a very nice Windows workstation that is maintained by someone else, I'm fine with it. I would never own one, and never have. But the fact is, I've used Windows at work for years. For what I do, it is generally reliable and stable. It works. As lon...
[20:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:06] <exec> 08└─You're saying patent protection is supposed to work well to protect only actual innovations. In practice it does not work and is broken.
[20:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google's 72-Qubit "Bristlecone" Chip: Does It Demonstrate "Quantum Supremacy"? - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:18] <exec> 08└─"Quantum Supremacy" is useful for PR purposes, but worthless as an objective target. Generally it demonstrated on a test that's entirely useless, but which is designed to give quantum computers a maximal advantage over classical computers. What's useful is what you can do with it. It *ought* to be u...
[20:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Electric Thruster Tested; Could Enable Long-Lived Satellites in Low Orbits - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:46] <exec> 08└─Tremors 7! (Yes, I checked, there's already a 6th in the works...)
[20:02:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 582 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:10] <exec> 08└─The reason Trump tweets is so that he doesn't have to face the press. He is unable to handle any criticism. Or unfriendly questions. "Fake News" he cries! And the free press is the enemy of the people. Using twitter and a lying press secretary, he doesn't have to face any "fake news" (aka, unfavorab...
[20:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:17] <exec> 08└─This is how the Dems pick their presidential candidates. They do a poll of their best people, the superdelegates. Looking forward to 2020!
[20:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:19] <exec> 08└─I'm ready to GO HARD in either direction. North or south. Believe me.
[20:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:21] <exec> 08└─It's called banter, folks. It's called humor. And if he hadn't cried joke-wolf so many times before when it was obvious he was serious we might believe him.
[20:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:23] <exec> 08└─offer Kim a deal where the US and North Korea both get rid of all their nukes
[20:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:26] <exec> 08└─This isn’t a guns situation. I think that mental health is your problem here. We have a lot of mental health problems in our country, as do other countries. This is a very -- based on preliminary reports -- very deranged individual. A lot of problems over a long period of time. As far as the risk...
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[20:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Miner Vs Miner: Attack Script Seeks Out And Destroys Competing Currency Crafters - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:48] <exec> 08└─they were just mining stuff on our computer
[20:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Miner Vs Miner: Attack Script Seeks Out And Destroys Competing Currency Crafters - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:49] <exec> 08└─Maybe new malware will save them from other older malware!
[20:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Miner Vs Miner: Attack Script Seeks Out And Destroys Competing Currency Crafters - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:51] <exec> 08└─i can't believe this is making the rounds now. this security expert is wayyy behind. there have been crypto miner 'worms' evicting existing worms off consumer routers and ip cameras and stuff for a while now. couple examples of code floating about, and i believe a wallet or two was shut down as a re...
[20:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Miner Vs Miner: Attack Script Seeks Out And Destroys Competing Currency Crafters - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:54] <exec> 08└─Microsoft calls that "gathering telemetry data".
[21:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:09] <exec> 08└─Actually, I think if you look around, there have been a number of patent decisions that are slowly bringing patents closer to where they should be, and reducing nuisance law suits. Its not as broken as you think. http://www.iam-media.com [iam-m...
[21:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:10] <exec> 08└─Patent 8,677,250 covers the concept of tying a messaging service and a game application together so that a user playing a game can send messages to contacts on the messaging app that includes updates on the player's progress in the game.
[21:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:13] <exec> 08└─Formerly relevant company seeks to stay afloat via legal action. Is Blackberry public? I'd be selling it if I owned any, and shorting if I really had guts.
[21:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:15] <exec> 08└─Is there any way they could both lose?
[21:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:17] <exec> 08└─Sounds a lot like my workplace: Windows on the desktop, Linux in a VM. Windows itself seems to work OK, however it's still Win7, for now. They're moving to Win10. Some people who have already been moved are reporting a lot of problems. Are you still on Win7? You might in for some real "fun" when you...
[21:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:20] <exec> 08└─not true; geeksquad makes their money from the fbi. also, windows 10 took away most admin control and replaced it with feel good errors and the illusion of controls, but the real control is gone. its perfect for people that don't know and don't care.
[21:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:22] <exec> 08└─I hate to argue in favor of software patents, but let me play devil's advocate here for a bit. You're absolutely right about patents where it's "something we've been doing for ages + 'on a computer'": those are total bullshit, and the USPTO is negligent in allowing these broad and obvious patents. B...
[21:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:24] <exec> 08└─This is exactly what I think when someone is watching a football game near me.
[21:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:26] <exec> 08└─> The patent office is just not doing their jobs. I'll say. They have incentive not to seriously vet patents. Their revenue is directly proportional to the amount of patent applications. So if by being very lax they give hope to businesses that getting a patent is easy, and get patent trolls into a...
[21:02:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 218 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:26] <exec> 08└─Is this the tweet where he didn't actually know which Korea he had spoken with? Trump was referring to South Korea when he said he spoke with North Korea: report [thehill.com] That's some grade A diplomacy right there!
[21:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:42] <exec> 08└─A few Dems sound like you. The ones who didn't vote for me but wish they had. Our great investors are VERY HAPPY I have nuclear codes -- we call them Gold Codes. Our Dow was 18,000 on Election Day. It went over 26,000. We have NEVER had 70 Dow Records in a one year period. Wow! And it's going much,...
[21:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:44] <exec> 08└─'m sure Putin would love that.
[21:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:46] <exec> 08└─We don't pick our presidents according to the average opinion of all Americans. If we did, I would STILL win overwhelmingly (Jesus would come in 2nd but he's not a Citizen). We go by the opinion of the Americans who show up to VOTE. At the Electoral College.
[21:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:49] <exec> 08└─Patience. He's only been in office for a little over a year.
[21:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:51] <exec> 08└─All of them.
[21:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:53] <exec> 08└─Even Dubya thinks Trump makes him look good.
[21:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:56] <exec> 08└─khallow, you do not represent the average opinion of all Americans.
[21:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:58] <exec> 08└─How many other Presidents have we had that were actually better than Obama?
[21:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:00] <exec> 08└─Why is Reagan at #9?
[21:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:03] <exec> 08└─Truman at #6 dropped two atomic weapons on an already-defeated country just to show off to the Russians.
[21:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:05] <exec> 08└─Suppose the president ordered people into concentration camps due to their ethnicity. Compared to the "biggest trainwreck in US history", how would that compare? In case you've forgotten, that actually happened. FDR, a democrat, shipped off the Japanese. Some were even shot. BTW, the Amish flipped P...
[21:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:07] <exec> 08└─Even when the tweeter has a nuclear football?
[21:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Birth Control Pills Increase Risk of Ischemic Stroke - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:09] <exec> 08└─When I was a young man I used to rely on Mother Nature's very own contraceptives, namely garlic, onions and an overtly cynical attitude fueled by unhealthy and anti-social quantities of alcohol.
[21:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russ Solomon, Founder of Tower Records Dead at 92 - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:25] <exec> 08└─Probably not too bad for his family either. A lot of people talk about dying in their sleep; but that means people wonder if they could have done something. This way, she found him pretty soon. I'm sure an ambulance was called. She knows she did everything she could. There's no good way for your fam...
[21:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:23] <exec> 08└─Propellers? That makes for an odd bit of trivia. On airplanes, Americans refer to propellers, or just props, while the Brits call them airscrews. Now flip that around. You say the RN calls the spinning bronze bits in the back propellers, but in the US Navy we called them screws. Go figure. At least...
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[21:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Resolution View Into The Infrared Universe - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:41] <exec> 08└─MATISSE is able to deliver the sharpest images ever in the 3–13 μm wavelength range.
[21:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Resolution View Into The Infrared Universe - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:42] <exec> 08└─The president's Twitter exploding the JWST budget, on a whim, is less predictable than the launch vehicle reliability.
[22:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves 23andMe DNA Test for Breast Cancer, With Caveats - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:28] <exec> 08└─Besides Google, there are also the Mormons that have made it their business to track ancestry.
[22:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves 23andMe DNA Test for Breast Cancer, With Caveats - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:31] <exec> 08└─"The question, 'A few people in my family have had breast cancer. Should I get genetic testing?' was answered by Megan Frone, certified genetic counselor, National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Maryland." foxnews.com/health/2017/10/11/should-get-genetic-testing-for-breast-cancer-gene.html [foxnews.c...
[22:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves 23andMe DNA Test for Breast Cancer, With Caveats - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:33] <exec> 08└─re: de-identify / re-identify https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:01:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:05] <exec> 08└─They need to stay, but only have a life of 3 years, then are open. This gives the holders time to make a product and make money.
[22:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:32] <exec> 08└─I'm on Win 10 Enterprise Edition. It seems to work fine. But . . . for corporations, we get different things than consumers. For example, I have absolutely no reason to use the Windows Store. We pay obscene amounts of money for corporate antivirus software. Again, it is completely invisible to me --...
[22:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:34] <exec> 08└─there have been a number of patent decisions that are slowly bringing patents closer to where they should be
[22:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:36] <exec> 08└─Well, that crap isn't really the same crap that home users are using either. A big, big factor here is the forced updates that home users (and "pro" editions too) get, which make their computers unusable during the update process and force reboots. The enterprise version doesn't have that garbage. O...
[22:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:38] <exec> 08└─I believe we have our own central windows update servers. In principle, I know some people I could ask to find out more. I know that through the policy mechanism they can selectively push out updates or installs to various groups that should get them. (eg, all HR people get this software. All suppor...
[22:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's 72-Qubit "Bristlecone" Chip: Does It Demonstrate "Quantum Supremacy"? - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:52] <exec> 08└─Exactly what I thought. Factorize numbers that a classical computer could not factorize in reasonable time, and the classical computer can then check in virtually no time that the product of the claimed factors indeed is the original number.
[22:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:08] <exec> 08└─One can also see it in the ranking of Obama in 8th place...
[22:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:09] <exec> 08└─I am not going to worry too much about Mr. Trump and the nuclear codes as I have faith that the adults who run the US government are self interested enough to route around Mr. Trump and ensure things tick over pretty much as they always have. That might not always mean good things for ordinary peop...
[22:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Scientists May Have Solved the Mystery Behind the ‘Sonic Attacks’ in Cuban Embassy - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe there are too many countries snooping on us such that their devices interfered with each other.
[22:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russ Solomon, Founder of Tower Records Dead at 92 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:31] <exec> 08└─Gives me a certificate warning. [soylentnews.org]
[22:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American College of Physicians Recommends Relaxed Blood Sugar Targets for Type 2 Diabetes Patients - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:50] <exec> 08└─While changes in lifestyle and diet can often work wonders, you are forgetting the major obstacle to this course of action: No, not big pharma, patients...
[22:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American College of Physicians Recommends Relaxed Blood Sugar Targets for Type 2 Diabetes Patients - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:51] <exec> 08└─I can't say for everyone, but I did try that diet first, and it sent my triglycerides through the ceiling. Since then I've been diagnosed as diabetic rather than pre-diabetic, and have switched to a diet that just really low in starches and almost absent in sugars. That's not working quite as well a...
[22:05:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Shire [5824] 02 - 06Let's Encrypt - Looking at the Recent Past and Forward to 2018 - 1440 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:06] <exec> 08└─My God man, how old is your system that it doesn't support updated CA lists or allow you to install a modern browser? As for encryption methods that were perfect "five minutes" ago, if they've been depricated it's because they've been cracked, they really are NOT as secure as they were "five minutes...
[22:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:34] <exec> 08└─What you say is interesting. I am clearly uninformed about switching power supplies. And HVDC.
[22:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 2433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:35] <exec> 08└─> Was hoping to read that here in the comments, but didn't find it yet. Probably because it is more suited to a political section, rather than this technical article. In a nutshell, it is like an European version of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Two peoples lay claim to the same chunk of land, a...
[22:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:37] <exec> 08└─After posting, I found this post: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Which mentions a BBC article, in it this bit gives some clarity: During the crisis period, Kosovo did not generate enough electricity to meet its needs. Accordin...
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[22:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iconic Stellar Debris Ring Much Stranger Than Previously Thought - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:41] <exec> 08└─Clearly, this system is the ruins of a great civilization that was annihilated by another civilization that had a Death Star, and used it to wipe out not only the inhabited planets, but all the other planets in the system too, just as a show of force.
[22:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Iconic Stellar Debris Ring Much Stranger Than Previously Thought - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:42] <exec> 08└─> HR 4796B, is influencing the shape with its gravitational pull She prefers to be called Shelly.
[22:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iconic Stellar Debris Ring Much Stranger Than Previously Thought - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:44] <exec> 08└─Pics or it didn't happen...
[22:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iconic Stellar Debris Ring Much Stranger Than Previously Thought - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:47] <exec> 08└─https://media.stsci.edu/uploads/story/display_image/1213/low_STSCI-H-p1811a-k-1340x520.png [stsci.edu]
[22:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iconic Stellar Debris Ring Much Stranger Than Previously Thought - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:49] <exec> 08└─Check the Fine Article. There is this Hubble thing. I think it took some pictures.
[22:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Resolution View Into The Infrared Universe - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:59] <exec> 08└─Space telescopes are amazing, but JWST will have a short life for the amount of dough spent on it, likely already has a fully booked schedule until the day it warms up, and can't be serviced. Having permanent ground observatories to correlate the results and keep the experiments going is definitely...
[23:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High-Resolution View Into The Infrared Universe - 1797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:01] <exec> 08└─* JWST will have a short life for the amount of dough spent on it The lifetime for JWST is estimated at 5-10 years. This is likely a conservative estimate based on aggressive use of the propellant that is used for station keeping and rotation. It should be closer to the 10 year lifespan, and possibl...
[23:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Miner Vs Miner: Attack Script Seeks Out And Destroys Competing Currency Crafters - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:21] <exec> 08└─The only thing that can stop bad malware on a computer is good malware on a computer.
[23:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03milsorgen [6225] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FDA Approves 23andMe DNA Test for Breast Cancer, With Caveats - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:52] <exec> 08└─Why would anyone give two thoughts to the amount of "German" Brits might have in them? What an odd thing to say really.
[23:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:56] <exec> 08└─I believe we have our own central windows update servers. In principle, I know some people I could ask to find out more.
[23:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:57] <exec> 08└─Software patents are ridiculous. They end up protecting very basic ideas that are easy to implement. This Blackberry lawsuit is an example.
[23:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06BlackBerry Sues Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram for "Messaging" - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:59] <exec> 08└─[...] and maybe even Commodore 64s [...]
[23:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:31] <exec> 08└─Twiggahd!
[23:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:32] <exec> 08└─God damn you try hard! You must have one of the most limber minds around here with all those mental gymnastics. Oh woops, I forgot you started off as a rock, so you're probably just about "oak tree" level now.
[23:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 1278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:34] <exec> 08└─I thought about before I first posted, and yes. I'll stand by first of all that what Trump puts out on Twitter is not news. It's not information. It's data, at best - there is not enough content to make it information. News must be informative and this isn't really at all. That's quite aside from as...
[23:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03milsorgen [6225] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:38] <exec> 08└─BSU is not red at all, it's also right in the middle of Boise a democratic stronghold here in Idaho.
[23:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03milsorgen [6225] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets about Nuclear Talks with North Korea - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:40] <exec> 08└─Did you know a synonym for data is information?
[23:06:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:44] <exec> 08└─Those giant spinning generators slow down under heavier loads and the line frequency is directly proportional to the rotation rate of the generators.
[23:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:05] <exec> 08└─Thanks! That clarifies the issue greatly!
[23:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slipping Standards: Continental Europe Slows Clocks - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:07] <exec> 08└─At the last place I worked we had EE's, ME's, and WE's....Wikipedia Engineers.
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[23:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supercapacitors vs. Lithium-Ion Batteries - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:37] <exec> 08└─supercaps makes good makeshift handgrenade
[23:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercapacitors vs. Lithium-Ion Batteries - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:38] <exec> 08└─That's going into The Soylentil's Cookbook.
[23:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercapacitors vs. Lithium-Ion Batteries - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:40] <exec> 08└─I once knew someone who made a gadget to aid in tying sutures to the lenses used to replace cataracts. He told me that the plastic used was compatible with one's eyes. That this is the case is the result of WWII pilots getting their canopies blown to bits with shards of the canopy getting embedded i...
[23:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03milsorgen [6225] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Supercapacitors vs. Lithium-Ion Batteries - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:43] <exec> 08└─I thought super capacitors were limited to very low (>3V) voltage. Have they overcame this limit and retained the long working working life?
[23:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supercapacitors vs. Lithium-Ion Batteries - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:45] <exec> 08└─- YOU DO! Purchase the largest electrolytic capacitor you can find or connect several of them in parallel. Charge the cap with a nine volt battery. Touch the cap to a doorknob.
[23:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iconic Stellar Debris Ring Much Stranger Than Previously Thought - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:56] <exec> 08└─This is demonstrated by the abundance of heavy elements such as lead and uranium. Iron is the most stable element. You can get energy by fusing atoms lighter than iron, or by splitting atoms that are heaver. But you can't obtain energy by fusing heaver atoms, or splitting lighter ones.