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[00:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:51] <exec> 08└─Why think of the future when you can get short term profits today? I mean kids are smart. They'll figure out how to clean up the world. until then lets put money into making even bigger SUVs so we have more reason to pump more fuel out of the ground. JOBS! The wind and sun are like communist hippies...
[00:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:53] <exec> 08└─The pennies in most any wishing well are free also, but few fortunes are made by haphazard collectors. You have to be systematic.
[00:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:55] <exec> 08└─So, the map of "wind speed" shows the best wind speeds in a line down the center of the country, starting in North Dakota/Wisconsin at the top on down to Texas at the bottom. Shocker! Maps of wind turbine deployments and wind power capacity shows concentrations of turbines in a line down the center...
[00:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:57] <exec> 08└─building any wind turbines where the wind doesn't blow.They built a few dozen near me and they sit motionless for 10.5 months out of the year. People assume that they were built because they got government money to do so. From an intelligent perspective it would have produced far more energy to buil...
[00:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:00] <exec> 08└─Maybe with enough wind generators, it will dissipates the wind energy to reduce the tornado frequency.
[00:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:02] <exec> 08└─And it turns out there are several reasons states like Alabama and Georgia are so far apart from states like Nebraska and Wyoming
[00:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Launches InSight Mission to Study the Interior of Mars - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:11] <exec> 08└─They're spending millions of taxpayer dollars to go to Mars to study how Earth was formed? WTF, NASA. Elon is smart enough to do the tunnelling right here on Earth. No wonder Trump hates NASA.
[00:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Launches InSight Mission to Study the Interior of Mars - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:13] <exec> 08└─The solar system is more than just Earth. Besides, we've had decades of surface foreplay, bout time for some penetration.. you'd think Trump would be excited by this.
[00:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Launches InSight Mission to Study the Interior of Mars - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:15] <exec> 08└─NASA Launches Mission to Study the Interior of Mars
[00:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DDR5-4400 Test Chip Demonstrated - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:36] <exec> 08└─That latency value is measured in clock cycles. So you can't compare that number without the frequency as well. Admittedly, even then, it's a couple of nanoseconds slower on the ddr4. But it more than makes up for that in the crazy improvement in bandwidth.
[00:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:35] <exec> 08└─- gdb That way you can do CC=clang in your makefiles
[00:05:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:36] <exec> 08└─They ask us to "Try to reply to other people's comments instead of starting new threads." There was an earlier comment about telemetry [soylentnews.org].
[00:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:39] <exec> 08└─What won in 2010-2015?
[00:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:41] <exec> 08└─code.visualstudio.com/License [visualstudio.com] github.com/Microsoft/vscode/blob/master/LICENSE.txt [github.com]
[00:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Overtakes UK to Become World's Fifth Largest Economy - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:30] <exec> 08└─They’re angry over borders, they’re angry over people coming into the country and taking over, nobody even knows who they are. They’re angry about many, many things. They took back control of their country. It’s a great thing. I think it’s a great thing that happened. People are angry, all...
[00:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Broke the Law by Advocating for Trump, Officials Find - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:03] <exec> 08└─It's not possible to mod a comment underrated (or overrated) if it hasn't already been modded at least once.
[00:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Criminals' Drone Swarm Used To Obstruct FBI Hostage Raid - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:06] <exec> 08└─Certainly possible depending on the situation and circumstances and department and media coverage... I'm a little less cynical about law enforcement than you seem to be, but i'm not going to argue that justice is blind or that police don't give each other slack the plebs can only dream of :-\
[00:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Criminals' Drone Swarm Used To Obstruct FBI Hostage Raid - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:07] <exec> 08└─HERF guns FTW. I would expect nets though.
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[01:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:53] <exec> 08└─Doubtful, you'd need a crapton of them over a very small area, and they'd have to be pretty much everywhere in order to have any hope of making a difference. Even the super huge tornadoes are only a few miles in diameter, with most of them being at most a few hundred feet. In order to dissipate that...
[01:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:54] <exec> 08└─You are probably right. But you know non-linear math, chaotic system, etc.? Pile on enough small factors, the sum effect can be exponential, not linear.
[01:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:57] <exec> 08└─There was a time when those were kinda common. [google.com] ...and they're making a comeback. [realtor.com] . WRT TFA, I agree with requerdanos (below). It's very clickbaity. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:59] <exec> 08└─energy over that short of a distance
[01:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:01] <exec> 08└─The areas in purple and red — the Great Plains states — have the fastest wind speeds and therefore the most wind energy available for harvest. The Southeast, clearly, has a lot less wind.
[01:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:03] <exec> 08└─More careful reading will show that those sparsely populated states, Montana, the Dakotas Wyoming, and Nebraska are under populated with turbines. Minnesota has as many as both North and South Dakotas, yet it has inferior wind potential. Then there's Iowa, for Pete Sake, as many as the Dakotas and M...
[01:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:06] <exec> 08└─Long reach for that one.
[01:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:08] <exec> 08└─Georgia is a coastal state, so there is no geographical reason they couldn't have wind farms there.
[01:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:10] <exec> 08└─> they sit motionless for 10.5 months out of the year Just out of curiosity, do you see these at all hours of the day or only (for example) in the morning when wind speeds are typically lower? Most of the turbines I've seen were really going by late afternoon as the day's solar heating brought up wi...
[01:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 1310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:12] <exec> 08└─I'm color blind, so those damned color coded charts often look like gobbledygook to me. But, please, take another look at that wind speed map. Tell me if I'm wrong: California's wind speed is mostly the same as those south eastern states, with significant portions of California even lower. Unless my...
[01:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:15] <exec> 08└─Here is a global wind speed map, https://www.ceoe.udel.edu [udel.edu] which shows that the Southern US states are not that windy. Even off-shore windmills wouldn't be all that effective off the Atlantic coast of those stat...
[01:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:17] <exec> 08└─super huge tornadoes are only a few miles in diameter
[01:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DDR5-4400 Test Chip Demonstrated - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:48] <exec> 08└─Run Firefox and watch free RAM be rapidly consumed... (Win version). For some reason, opening pdfs in a FF tab seems to make it really unstable(??)
[01:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medieval Records Could Point the Way to Planet Nine - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:09] <exec> 08└─I was there! Pretty frigging dark! More darkness than light! People becoming illiterate, travel was very dangerous, roving bands of deplorables (we called them "Germanic Barbarians"), and Twitter was the dominate mode of communication. There was an idiot king, and a mad man for a pope, but fortunate...
[01:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:52] <exec> 08└─And I wrote PalmOS apps on Windows with CW in the late 1990s. QtCreator was lame in the extreme in 2006, and started coming into its own around 2010 - write Windows, Mac and Linux native apps on any of those platforms - code once, run anywhere. I haven't tried to use it for mobile apps yet, last tim...
[01:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Scientists Are Engineering Silk to Save Our Bodies - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:16] <exec> 08└─> ... Even there, however, graphene is likely to be too stiff. That's not what she said.
[01:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Overtakes UK to Become World's Fifth Largest Economy - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:42] <exec> 08└─Jerry Brown's budget is as meaningful as Donald Trump's: hardly at all. California's legislature is not bound by Jerry's plans any more than the federal house or senate are bound by Donald's. It might as well be printed on toilet paper.
[01:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Files Patent For Blockchain-Based DRM On PlayStation Games - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah I sold my ps3 because every time I turned it on, which was say once every couple of weeks, it would say there were necessary system updates to download and install. This meant it refused to sign in to PSN and therefore I couldn't play any games. Installing the updates took about 15min+ and it g...
[01:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Files Patent For Blockchain-Based DRM On PlayStation Games - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:47] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't that people like playing games. The problem is that these people tolerate and pay for the companies who make these proprietary games and devices to abuse them. This means that companies have no incentive to not be abusive, and so the abuses become more and more widespread as time g...
[01:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Criminals' Drone Swarm Used To Obstruct FBI Hostage Raid - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:22] <exec> 08└─In Saudi Arabia, they use machine guns. And it works very well.
[01:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Criminals' Drone Swarm Used To Obstruct FBI Hostage Raid - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:24] <exec> 08└─Here in Oz, we launch drop bears!
[01:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06North Korea Changes Time Zone to Match South Korea's - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, I heard that rumor too. They had foreign visitors recently to dispel the rumor. It's false. The site was still operational very recently. It was shut down voluntarily.
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[02:04:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 956 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:05] <exec> 08└─So, the map of "wind speed" shows the best wind speeds in a line down the center of the country, starting in North Dakota/Wisconsin at the top on down to Texas at the bottom. Shocker! Maps of wind turbine deployments and wind power capacity shows concentrations of turbines in a line down the center...
[02:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:22] <exec> 08└─You don't have to catch the tornado itself. Just slow the contributory winds. People are no longer discounting the effects of large wind farms, and if some of those taller towers migrate to land the effect will be larger. https://www.nature.com [nature.com] https://www.p...
[02:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:23] <exec> 08└─Am I too late to argue that even though countries in Europe are having a great success with wind power, you can't say that it would work in North America because [mumble mumble] is so different here? (Never have been entirely clear how North American wind is significantly different from European win...
[02:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:25] <exec> 08└─You should continue on with the links on that page. Taking one area, we do a first-cut analysis of the near-term resource, considering wind speed, depth, and current technology, for the U.S. Eastern continental shelf.
[02:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:28] <exec> 08└─I don't see them 24/day, but have seen them at all parts of the day, but the wind in my area only blows in he rest of the year is dead calm. When it does blow it's ~15ms^-1, but they are built in an area, https://windexchange.energy.gov [energy.gov] that annually get'...
[02:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:30] <exec> 08└─California's wind speed is mostly the same as those south eastern states, with significant portions of California even lower.
[02:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:32] <exec> 08└─super huge tornadoes are only a few miles in diameter
[02:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:34] <exec> 08└─I live in one of those states. I would not even bother building them at this time. Most of our power is hydro and NG. They build thousands of dams across the state to feed the now nonexistant textile and tobacco industries. We are per megawatt one of the lower states. Our rates are only as high as...
[02:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:36] <exec> 08└─It mostly comes down to population distribution. Where the power is needed is not necessarily where the wind is. There is also major political aspects to it as well. For example Texas is neither an importer or exporter of electricity. It is self sufficient. It is also one of the larger users of wind...
[02:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Launches InSight Mission to Study the Interior of Mars - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:47] <exec> 08└─Take that old beat-up hollow earth theory. Apply it to Mars. They're going to send a robot to Mars to dig into the surface. Damned thing is going to break through, and fall into the hollow interior, where the Martians are hiding. The Martians will be offended at our trespass, and launch an invasion...
[02:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Conquering the Extreme - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:56] <exec> 08└─and they live in a parasitic relationship with their parents.
[02:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DDR5-4400 Test Chip Demonstrated - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:11] <exec> 08└─Keep long-haired cats away from the PC
[02:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Records Could Point the Way to Planet Nine - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:34] <exec> 08└─Whatever else you may think of the Papacy, the current occupant of the Throne of St. Peter is far [soylentnews.org] more [soylentnews.org] sane [soylentnews.org] than many other world leaders today.
[02:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Records Could Point the Way to Planet Nine - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:36] <exec> 08└─Neptune and the plutinos
[02:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:20] <exec> 08└─vi and gcc.
[02:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Broke the Law by Advocating for Trump, Officials Find - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:44] <exec> 08└─No, you’ll end up living in an Islamic state, but you’re too pridefully blind to notice.
[02:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Broke the Law by Advocating for Trump, Officials Find - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:46] <exec> 08└─That answer would be "Ensure that there are less frequent administration changes."
[02:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Files Patent For Blockchain-Based DRM On PlayStation Games - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:20] <exec> 08└─Just like $1,500 PSLs, $180 jerseys, $40 parking, $12 beers and $7 hotdogs. If we keep paying it the NFL teams will keep raising prices.
[02:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Criminals' Drone Swarm Used To Obstruct FBI Hostage Raid - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:57] <exec> 08└─Here in Oz, we launch drop bears drop bear launch on you
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[03:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Shifts its $8bn Pot of Gold, Sparks Fears of Corporate Money Grab - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:09] <exec> 08└─Namely is good to collect money from paisanos to feed the corporations. I can't fathom why the US conservative bitch against the government.
[03:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:43] <exec> 08└─Thank you - and, yes, looking closer, I can see some of that orange and red. Makes sense!
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[03:05:18] <exec> 08└─Use Windows straight on a Linux box?... This is extreme masochism with no safe word.
[03:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medieval Records Could Point the Way to Planet Nine - 1300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:42] <exec> 08└─They are. ;) Rethinking and re-reading, I get the picture now. It actually is taking our current data and back-checking it to Pre-Copernican observations, a different kettle of fish. Much as you said, though they can simplify it further and walk it backwards. Since we know those parameters for exist...
[03:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Records Could Point the Way to Planet Nine - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:44] <exec> 08└─Shhh, it's only a model
[03:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:29] <exec> 08└─Unless I'm mis-remembering VB6 also broke one of the cardinal rules of good development platform design -- the source code wasn't stored in plaintext; especially form / layout design. It had a GUI form designer like a lot of IDEs provide but you couldn't simply toggle it and look at and work directl...
[03:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Broke the Law by Advocating for Trump, Officials Find - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:55] <exec> 08└─From Mr. "I can't tell you if I'm pulling out of or bombing Syria this week, am I taking away guns without due process or cozying up to the NRA, am I kiling TPP or getting into it, Kim Jong Un is an evil person but let's support reunification, and 'I'm not going to have time to play golf'" Trump? Ev...
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[04:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Could Make Semiconductor Computers a Million Times Faster or Even Go Quantum - 1616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:00] <exec> 08└─That thought has crossed my mind, a few times. Likely, millions of other people have given it a thought or more. We use fiber optic at work. Of course, it is limited - mostly, our fiber optic cables carry data from one obsolete computer, to another obsolete computer. But, the transmission is fast! I...
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[04:04:41] <exec> 08└─There is a difference between wind and hot air.
[04:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:43] <exec> 08└─Maybe some sort of horizontally-mounted one to catch the thermal updrafts? I'm sure there's an opportunity there for a Kickstarter.
[04:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DDR5-4400 Test Chip Demonstrated - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:20] <exec> 08└─Does jedec spec specifies cooling? I miss the days when PCs didn't need no loud fans along with all the dust clogup killing the machines.
[04:05:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DDR5-4400 Test Chip Demonstrated - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:21] <exec> 08└─From time to time do "$ ls -s /var/vm"
[04:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:32] <exec> 08└─Has anyone submitted a patch yet to completely disable all telemetry by default and make it opt in? It is open source. Site GDPR or something. Better yet, submit a patch to send the telemetry to someone else instead and see how that goes over.
[04:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:33] <exec> 08└─the same survey found 64% linux, 49% macos and only 18% windows desktop
[04:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:36] <exec> 08└─Right. Visual Studio Community has essentially the same functionality as Visual Studio Pro. The license is somewhat restrictive: Last I looked, you could only use Community if 5 or fewer devs at your company were using it, or for non-commercial/open source projects. Visual Studio Code (https://code....
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[05:03:49] <exec> 08└─Is this talking about photonic circuit or quantum computing?
[05:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Shifts its $8bn Pot of Gold, Sparks Fears of Corporate Money Grab - 2085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:57] <exec> 08└─> I can't fathom why the US conservative bitch against the government. They're faking, of course. It's all a pose. When it's a government program to help the people then conservatives scream about fiscal irresponsibility and balancing the budget and moral hazard, that is, that little moochers will a...
[05:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Shifts its $8bn Pot of Gold, Sparks Fears of Corporate Money Grab - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:59] <exec> 08└─The screaming screeching is particularly intense when liberals are in control.
[05:04:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 946 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:17] <exec> 08└─More careful reading will show that those sparsely populated states, Montana, the Dakotas Wyoming, and Nebraska are under populated with turbines. Minnesota has as many as both North and South Dakotas, yet it has inferior wind potential. Then there's Iowa, for Pete Sake, as many as the Dakotas and M...
[05:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:35] <exec> 08└─I'm color blind, so those damned color coded charts often look like gobbledygook to me I encountered similar stuff back in the day. My first computer video setup had no color (Hercules Graphics Card). It would have been so easy for guys who included drawings in their stuff to have made the different...
[05:05:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 21 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:54] <exec> 08└─Open source the code.
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[06:03:48] <exec> 08└─Light, huh? That thought has crossed my mind skull, a few times
[06:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Could Make Semiconductor Computers a Million Times Faster or Even Go Quantum - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:49] <exec> 08└─Is this talking about photonic circuit or quantum computing?
[06:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Curious George [6763] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Shifts its $8bn Pot of Gold, Sparks Fears of Corporate Money Grab - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:00] <exec> 08└─I'm dazzled at your ability to adhere strongly to the Democratic party narrative as if they are some vastly superior champion of the people. The whole good vs. evil story is really played out, did you even read the article? People with power will be people with power. I think the Bible says somethin...
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[06:04:02] <exec> 08└─I'm dazzled at your ability to adhere strongly to the Democratic party narrative as if they are some vastly superior champion of the people....
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[07:03:50] <exec> 08└─...cool! I mean... hot!
[07:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DDR5-4400 Test Chip Demonstrated - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:16] <exec> 08└─Add-Ons are in Javascript and are crossplatform. Plug-Ins are native code and most commonly written in C++. They can do all manner of skanky things to the innards of your browser; I expect that's why OSX Safari Plug-Ins must be signed by Apple. Somewhere in Firefox's UI you can enable and disable th...
[07:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medieval Records Could Point the Way to Planet Nine - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:43] <exec> 08└─Now, here's the kick: if you find where a planet was 500 years ago, and it's orbit, you can calculate where it would be now.
[07:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Overtakes UK to Become World's Fifth Largest Economy - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:23] <exec> 08└─Right in the middle of the Great Recession a body shop recruiter told me that there were 24,000 homeless people in Silicon Valley. I expect the reason she said that to me is that I was openly publishing such essays as The Ethical Engineer [warplife.com] and Hilarity Ensues [warplife.com]. (I'll fix...
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[07:07:24] <exec> 08└─Some manner of libertarians got the idea that they should all move to Vermont as it is a sparsely-populated state, so they could dominate the city and state governments.
[07:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Overtakes UK to Become World's Fifth Largest Economy - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:26] <exec> 08└─So say the people who regard "Cannibis" as a Gift From G-d. Personally I prefer to call it The Evil Weed.
[07:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Files Patent For Blockchain-Based DRM On PlayStation Games - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:35] <exec> 08└─they can patent the evil parts. It's SONY, remember. - user forced to run blockchain - user login as blockchain transaction - user kicked out for things unrelated to the blockchain operations
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[08:04:01] <exec> 08└─Sounds a bit like Aristarchus, but I'm not sure. Probably not my female fan, as she uses more vulgarity than this. Is this a new adoring fan? So many fans, so many AC's . . .
[08:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Could Make Semiconductor Computers a Million Times Faster or Even Go Quantum - 1301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:03] <exec> 08└─Just to be clear: using light for data transmission doesn't buy you much: electrical signals already travel at around 1/3 C, and multi-GHz chips already run into limits in transmission speed. The clock on one side of your chip is not in sync with the clock on the other side, and sending signals back...
[08:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Could Make Semiconductor Computers a Million Times Faster or Even Go Quantum - 2168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:05] <exec> 08└─"But how will I implement that feature?" That was the question that currently plagued Chapperson, who worked as a software developer. You see, a particularly troublesome boss had given the developer a hard-to-fulfill task, and he was expected to do so within a short timeframe; such was this man's li...
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[08:04:16] <exec> 08└─The Republicans are correct about a number of things. Moral hazard is real. Poverty is far more complicated than a simple story of the rich stealing from the poor. "Made bad decisions" is also real. The playing field is tilted, but not so much that the disadvantaged can't still win a few. Hares do s...
[08:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06FCC Shifts its $8bn Pot of Gold, Sparks Fears of Corporate Money Grab - 2171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:18] <exec> 08└─"But how will I implement that feature?" That was the question that currently plagued Chapperson, who worked as a software developer. You see, a particularly troublesome boss had given the developer a hard-to-fulfill task, and he was expected to do so within a short timeframe; such was this man's li...
[08:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:56] <exec> 08└─the state as a whole, yes. But there are places like San Gorgonio Pass (near Palm Springs), the mountains between Oakland and Livermore, etc. that are quite windy most of the time because of their geography, much like the Columbia Gorge & Plateau. Those areas get good steady winds too, and are close...
[08:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:57] <exec> 08└─the US is 3 or 4 power distribution zones that are not interconnected. "ooo interconnect them all!" uh no fk that... and I'n not even in the Texas grid.
[08:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:59] <exec> 08└─and y'all in New England should get that great negotiator in the White House go to get better terms from Trudeau up north... or build more coal power plants, so many, that we can then sell Ontario & Quebec power at a 10th of what they sell it at to the US.
[08:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medieval Records Could Point the Way to Planet Nine - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:05] <exec> 08└─Pretty frigging dark! More darkness than light!
[08:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Records Could Point the Way to Planet Nine - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:07] <exec> 08└─While the knowledge of a single point is more than nothing, it doesn't make your job easier in the general sense. (...) I have a hunch it will require enough records about different positions at different times.
[08:06:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:21] <exec> 08└─The "community" edition is full of telemetry. If this new one is cross platform, enjoy your new mac/linux spyware.
[08:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Overtakes UK to Become World's Fifth Largest Economy - 1483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:49] <exec> 08└─I feel compelled to test all things and keep that which is good, as instructed. Everything is here for some reason. Ok, I will call it cannabis. It has a number of unusual properties. ( Ok, I do not do everything as instructed, as if I sincerely believe the instructions are in error, common sense ru...
[08:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Overtakes UK to Become World's Fifth Largest Economy - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:51] <exec> 08└─Whoops.. my bad... the proper spelling hasn't updated yet. s/cannabis/cannibis/
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[09:03:47] <exec> 08└─This should be interesting.
[09:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Could Make Semiconductor Computers a Million Times Faster or Even Go Quantum - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:02] <exec> 08└─Sounds a bit like Aristarchus, but I'm not sure.
[09:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Could Make Semiconductor Computers a Million Times Faster or Even Go Quantum - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:04] <exec> 08└─How fast will that process be?
[09:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:53] <exec> 08└─I get the idea even the author never knew if his work was laden with snoopware by the compiler itself. And with the filesizes what they are, and the obfuscation of the source code, one simply doesn't have the time to investigate. If it works... ship it. A business-class product.
[09:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:54] <exec> 08└─but from what I hear VS is (was?) perhaps the single best IDE available
[09:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Scientists Are Engineering Silk to Save Our Bodies - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:20] <exec> 08└─People don't touch cyber links from Anonymous. Because you never know what they go to!!
[09:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Broke the Law by Advocating for Trump, Officials Find - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:29] <exec> 08└─That wasn't me tweeting. It was The Mighty Buzzard. But I'm sure I'll have your support in 2020!!
[09:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Broke the Law by Advocating for Trump, Officials Find - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:30] <exec> 08└─I've evolved on a lot of different things. But I always, always put America First!
[09:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Files Patent For Blockchain-Based DRM On PlayStation Games - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:06] <exec> 08└─The stupid thing is that the advantages of a console was that you didn't need to waste time installing games, downloading updates and cracks. You just inserted the disc, and everything worked. The advantages of PC gaming was that the games were cheap (can't beat the price at the pirate bay), but ins...
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[09:12:19] <exec> 08└─It uses DNA and RNA. I expect in a few generations half of developers will be using those to develop their systems.
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[10:04:06] <exec> 08└─"Go Quantum" is now the new "Web Scale". Use it thoughtfully and sparingly. We don't want it to become meaningless, or worse, a meme.
[10:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Could Make Semiconductor Computers a Million Times Faster or Even Go Quantum - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:07] <exec> 08└─The downside to that is, Yours Truly wouldn't be qualified to make any repairs to the damned thing, LOL! Oh well - maybe I'm growing obsolete.
[10:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Shifts its $8bn Pot of Gold, Sparks Fears of Corporate Money Grab - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:22] <exec> 08└─They have courted stupidity and embraced propaganda and lies.
[10:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Shifts its $8bn Pot of Gold, Sparks Fears of Corporate Money Grab - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:23] <exec> 08└─People with power will be people with power. I think the Bible says something about rich men and camels...
[10:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Overtakes UK to Become World's Fifth Largest Economy - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:58] <exec> 08└─The economy in California is absolutely booming. That's to be expected. Because we did the biggest Tax Cut in the history of the world. California has so many of our big cyber companies. Apple, Google, Intel, Facebook, Oracle and many more. Under my predecessors, they had to send their money oversea...
[10:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Files Patent For Blockchain-Based DRM On PlayStation Games - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:12] <exec> 08└─It's more so I can browse porn without damaging the minds of my roommate's kids. Granted they're only here half the time but when I wanna look at boobs, I wanna look at boobs.
[10:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Files Patent For Blockchain-Based DRM On PlayStation Games - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:14] <exec> 08└─I'm okay with consoles being black boxes. They started that way and it won't bother me if they end that way. The only real question then is do I get my money's worth from them during their lifecycle.
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[11:03:48] <exec> 08└─Why was the world such a cruel place? How did it end up this way? When? This man, Clapper, was pondering the horrendous state of the world deeply. In fact, because he witnessed so many tragedies, much of his time was spent asking these unanswerable questions. But ignorance was unacceptable to this m...
[11:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Could Make Semiconductor Computers a Million Times Faster or Even Go Quantum - 2652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:14] <exec> 08└─My main concern is will I know what its doing? If its just to carry out someone else's agenda behind my back, I would probably be better off having nothing to do with it. Given this machine's temperature requirements, its probably nothing I need to be concerned about though as far as me having one...
[11:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medieval Records Could Point the Way to Planet Nine - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:17] <exec> 08└─If you have not seen it, check out "Urga", a 1991 film by Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov. It was released in North America as Close to Eden. It depicts the friendship between a Russian truck driver and a Mongolian shepherd in Inner Mongolia.
[11:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Records Could Point the Way to Planet Nine - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:19] <exec> 08└─This latter restriction excludes objects whose orbits may cross but that will never collide with each other due to orbital resonance, such as ... Neptune and the plutinos.
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[11:07:37] <exec> 08└─https://www.britannica.com/science/bacteria/Growth-of-bacterial-populations [britannica.com] E Coli is 20 minutes. Clostridium perfringens is one of the champs with 10 minutes. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is 12 to 16 hours.
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[12:03:48] <exec> 08└─Each core should finish its assigned task, then locate another busy core and ask it to share busy core's unfinished task. If the particular task is not yet finished, a core working on it must be able to assign half of the rest of it as a new task to another core which asks for it. If it is unable to...
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[12:03:50] <exec> 08└─the problem is that it's not busy "cores", it's busy nodes in a network, and they talk to each other through MPI. which means that either you write very slow code, or you write something where you can't have arbitrary communications between processes. this is sort of the point: when one process real...
[12:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Alamos Scientists Attack Load Balancing Challenge - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:52] <exec> 08└─Work queues: https://www.rabbitmq.com [rabbitmq.com]
[12:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Could Make Semiconductor Computers a Million Times Faster or Even Go Quantum - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:18] <exec> 08└─The same Facebook but faster. The same Twitter but faster. The same Microsoft but faster. Going quantum. It's what we do.
[12:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:13] <exec> 08└─Lower the blades to near ground level, position them to interlock, and set to blend, and you've got yourself a deal.
[12:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:15] <exec> 08└─A variety of explanatory factors suggest themselves. First, the Southeast doesn't have wind turbines because they don't want them, not because the wind magically stops at the East Texas border. Second, the states in the West that have fewer don't lack for wind, but they do for population. Third, clu...
[12:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:17] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, a fine example of 19th-century neoclassical architecture crowned by a magnificent white dome that overlooks the city of Washington. The tenants arrive here and are carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort, past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotati...
[12:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:16] <exec> 08└─Their C++ compiler is developed lockstep with VS. When Microsoft announces that Windows is now building against clang and they're contributing a ton to it, or when they officially spin off MSVC and (probably) release the source, *then* I'lll believe the claim.
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[13:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 1689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:48] <exec> 08└─It was dark. It was almost too dark to see, but if one strained their eyes, they could still manage. If one looked down the long portion of this relatively narrow space, they could see old, tall brick walls to both their left and their right. It was a city alleyway. A man stood in the center. Someth...
[13:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alan Turing's Chemistry Hypothesis Turned Into a Desalination Filter - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:05] <exec> 08└─Have you run out of popcorn yet?
[13:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Could Make Semiconductor Computers a Million Times Faster or Even Go Quantum - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:26] <exec> 08└─I was with you up to this line, > Only God and a few elites know what these devices will have as hidden agendas. We're similar except that I believe in one less God than you believe in. As well as the elites, there will also be all the programmers that work for the elites, and also all the crackers...
[13:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Could Make Semiconductor Computers a Million Times Faster or Even Go Quantum - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:28] <exec> 08└─Sounds a bit like Aristarchus
[13:04:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06FCC Shifts its $8bn Pot of Gold, Sparks Fears of Corporate Money Grab - 2085 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:37] <exec> 08└─> I can't fathom why the US conservative bitch against the government. They're faking, of course. It's all a pose. When it's a government program to help the people then conservatives scream about fiscal irresponsibility and balancing the budget and moral hazard, that is, that little moochers will a...
[13:05:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:27] <exec> 08└─The wind farms are bird Cuisinarts, they're the Cuisinarts of the sky. Wind turbines threaten the migration of birds. And they're ruining the beauty of parts of the country. If they were to ruin Washington with that, then I would walk away. We would sell the site and go elsewhere. I'll be sitting pr...
[13:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:29] <exec> 08└─You are misremembering. The source code was stored in plain text files and the GUI layouts were stored in a fairly simple text serialisation (which was easy to modify). The GUI libraries did not; however, make it easy to maintain MVC-style abstractions and so it was very common to have model state s...
[13:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:30] <exec> 08└─lldb's command syntax is not the same as gdb's (and is far more sane), though both speak the gdbserver protocol if you want to do remote debugging. Clang does provide a gcc-compatible driver, but clang also provides a cl.exe-compatible driver, so you can build a custom version of clang and use it fr...
[13:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Scientists Are Engineering Silk to Save Our Bodies - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:58] <exec> 08└─The silk doesn't distinguish harmful pathogens (like E. coli) from benign ones e. coli isn't a "harmful pathogen", unless you come into contact with someone else's, or one of the really bad strains. Your body relies on e.coli for your digestive system to work. Most any bacteria can be helpful or har...
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[14:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:46] <exec> 08└─I'd have said the site was slashdotted. Now it's, what, soyled? Whatever, it's not responding.
[14:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:47] <exec> 08└─archive.fo/www.ioccc.org/years.html [archive.fo] archive.fo/9BlZw [archive.fo]
[14:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:50] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it was, as your subject suggests, “years ago”, but I just downloaded from http://www.ioccc.org [ioccc.org] (such as the tarball from http://www.ioccc.org [ioccc.org] ) and it worked fine.
[14:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 1500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:58] <exec> 08└─I have made a few minor changes to TFS. Not criticising the editors in any way, just thought that TFA might have an agenda and might have left out some important information. Brief comments follow. Last December, Ashley Sehatti sold her 2015 Jetta [but sneakily kept her online access account to spy...
[14:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Los Alamos Scientists Attack Load Balancing Challenge - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:09] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the real-time simulations that I (and most the embedded engineers) have been working with for decades. I thought it was a solved problem. Get a copy 0f simulink and see how it works. https://www.sciencedirect.com [sciencedirect.com]
[14:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Alamos Scientists Attack Load Balancing Challenge - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:11] <exec> 08└─To work around these imbalances, scientists must devise ways to break apart, or decompose, a problem's most complex components into smaller portions. Multiple processors can then tackle those subdomains.
[14:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alan Turing's Chemistry Hypothesis Turned Into a Desalination Filter - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:20] <exec> 08└─So, how water softeners and reverse osmosis works?
[14:04:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06FCC Shifts its $8bn Pot of Gold, Sparks Fears of Corporate Money Grab - 1296 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:54] <exec> 08└─The Republicans are correct about a number of things. Moral hazard is real. Poverty is far more complicated than a simple story of the rich stealing from the poor. "Made bad decisions" is also real. The playing field is tilted, but not so much that the disadvantaged can't still win a few. Hares do s...
[14:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farmer Tim [6490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:42] <exec> 08└─Would it be treasonous to suggest putting the turbine blades at neck height?
[14:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:43] <exec> 08└─It's classic Leftist-Rag nonsense. As soon as I looked at the stupid maps, I already knew which showed what and how it would be mis-reported. It's not stunning, it's not lop-sided, and it's not fucking oppression.
[14:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Overtakes UK to Become World's Fifth Largest Economy - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:47] <exec> 08└─If you think ambiguous drug-use creates wealth you are a fucking moron.
[14:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Overtakes UK to Become World's Fifth Largest Economy - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, pursuit of Libertarian Utopia through co-opting government institutions seems like pursuit of Communist Utopia through taking over Capitalistic companies. And probably ends just as well.
[14:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Overtakes UK to Become World's Fifth Largest Economy - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:51] <exec> 08└─So you are saying that the money is in the security market for the growers?
[14:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Broke the Law by Advocating for Trump, Officials Find - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:29] <exec> 08└─Sort of makes me wonder how the CIA twisted your arm. I know you're lover and not a fighter (*snicker*), ah, but I shouldn't snicker. Nobody wants World War 3, excepting, of course, the capitalist elites working through the CIA. Only Trump could go to North Korea. I'm certain there's some profound t...
[14:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Files Patent For Blockchain-Based DRM On PlayStation Games - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:07] <exec> 08└─Is this the patent-diarrhoia phrase of the teenies in the same way that "on a computer" was for the nineties? Looking forward to "Mechanism and aparatus for the relief of hysteria, on a blockchain", and "mechanism and aparatus for exercising a cat, on a blockchain"...
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[15:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:49] <exec> 08└─Nope, site still times out. Maybe it's a California thing.
[15:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the word is "soyled", though I doubt there are enough Soylentils to bring down the IOCCC by ourselves :) Instead, it was "hugged to death" - I just saw the link posted on the HN frontpage [ycombinator.com] an hour or two ago (#1 then, #6 now), and it was already unavailable then.
[15:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:53] <exec> 08└─Only if California recently emigrated to Europe... Because it's not really working here either.
[15:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:55] <exec> 08└─I love "Soyled!"
[15:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:05] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't you have expected the dealer to check these things before reselling it, though? I think that's the problem. The dealer will check for things like if the spare tire is missing when they buy it back. They'll also presumably complain if you've removed the seats or the radio or the roof, or if...
[15:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:07] <exec> 08└─GM is supposed to reset OnStar when selling a used car, but there are plenty of reports of the same problem.
[15:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:09] <exec> 08└─You trying to portray the previous owner as a stalker is simply trolling. Volkswagon's evil intent? Doubtful.
[15:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:11] <exec> 08└─The thing is, Car-Net is *not* free. It's a subscription service after a free trial period after purchasing a new VW vehicle. The person in the article was paying for the Car-Net service after the car had been sold. One has to ask why the person continued to pay for that service... And why the servi...
[15:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:14] <exec> 08└─Many people end up still paying for things after it should have cancelled due to automatic credit/debit card payments. But, in any event, since the car was resold by the dealer, surely the dealer should have killed the old account. The system itself should also make it clearer to a new owner who has...
[15:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Alamos Scientists Attack Load Balancing Challenge - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:26] <exec> 08└─The first strategy you describe is called work stealing [wikipedia.org]. I'm sure the scientists in the article already know about the obvious concepts behind parallelization. The article is just probably written at too high a level to really explain why the obvious solutions are not good enough at...
[15:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Could Make Semiconductor Computers a Million Times Faster or Even Go Quantum - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:58] <exec> 08└─Quantum was just to hook in more cash.
[15:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Could Make Semiconductor Computers a Million Times Faster or Even Go Quantum - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:59] <exec> 08└─You could get more transmission speed by sending more photons at once. https://www.photonics.com [photonics.com]
[15:06:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Medieval Records Could Point the Way to Planet Nine - 1010 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:52] <exec> 08└─The smallest official planet in the solar system is Mercury. It's smaller (although more massive) than Ganymede and Titan. But Mercury is more than 25 times more massive than Pluto. One solution that could satisfy everyone would be to call Pluto both a planet *and* a dwarf planet. Just define dwarf...
[15:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medieval Records Could Point the Way to Planet Nine - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:10] <exec> 08└─The approach is still subject to issues with the medieval/ancient astronomical observations. If there are not many data points and they are off, they could suggest an anomaly that doesn't exist, or hide an anomaly that does. We'll see if these astronomers come up with anything useful in time, since...
[15:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Overtakes UK to Become World's Fifth Largest Economy - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:07] <exec> 08└─They need to recalibrate. New Hampshire is the place they want, since that state is halfway there already. Vermont is so far to the left it about falls off the spectrum; we live in the most progressive neighborhood in Brooklyn, but upon visiting Vermont and witnessing a town parade my wife commented...
[15:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06North Korea Changes Time Zone to Match South Korea's - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:28] <exec> 08└─Just imagine if one day you woke up as him and you still wanted to live your "great dictator lifestyle". Which probably isn't that bad. You'd probably do about the same things he is doing in order to survive and maintain that lifestyle. Try to get nuclear weapons. Then if it fails, try plan B which...
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[16:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sensor Stickers Transform The Human Body Into A Multi-Touch Surface - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:48] <exec> 08└─You've heard of naked sushi. But with this development, an elite could control a computer by fondling a naked "assistant" who is lying on the ground. Multi-touch means multi-user interaction is possible. Next up is the "nipple mouse" [wikipedia.org].
[16:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sensor Stickers Transform The Human Body Into A Multi-Touch Surface - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:50] <exec> 08└─Heh... Nipple Mouse/Pointing stick. This stuff just writes itself.
[16:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:04] <exec> 08└─you would . . .
[16:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:18] <exec> 08└─You'd think if nothing else there should be a big bold page at the front of the owner's manual saying "If you've bought this car used, be sure to..." so that the new owner knows to disable/transfer the stalkery bits
[16:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alan Turing's Chemistry Hypothesis Turned Into a Desalination Filter - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:42] <exec> 08└─But is the reaction Turing complete? :-)
[16:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Could Make Semiconductor Computers a Million Times Faster or Even Go Quantum - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:07] <exec> 08└─"Spock! Don't stare into that chip!..."
[16:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:09] <exec> 08└─It's not just you. The scale on the wind map makes no sense. There is a band of red between the two top-end blue bands. I think that is an editing mistake, but its Vox, so what can you expect?
[16:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medieval Records Could Point the Way to Planet Nine - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:21] <exec> 08└─> Nibiru is coming! Call in the Navy, we'll sink the bastard! https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[16:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Records Could Point the Way to Planet Nine - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:22] <exec> 08└─What about the Old Biru? Obsolescence?
[16:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Overtakes UK to Become World's Fifth Largest Economy - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:22] <exec> 08└─That doesn't sound like many people. Is that large there? I have read that the recent referendum on Scottish independence voted to stay because people were afraid to leave the EU (Brussels had told the Scots their accession to the EU would neither be immediate nor assured). I suppose that would tilt...
[16:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Overtakes UK to Become World's Fifth Largest Economy - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:23] <exec> 08└─It seems like the clock is ticking on Scottish independence. It seems the pro- forces were rather counting on North Sea oil to help finance an independent Scotland, but as EVs and alternative energy burgeon that cash cow will wane.
[16:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Overtakes UK to Become World's Fifth Largest Economy - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:25] <exec> 08└─I'm a little surprised California accomplished this only now. If you chopped it off and plunked it in the middle of Europe, it would dominate. It has everything it needs to be a successful country on its own, from a highly diversified economy that spans high-tech to agriculture, to thriving cultural...
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[17:03:54] <exec> 08└─It's called a "joy stick"
[17:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:09] <exec> 08└─Most all of my C is naturally obfuscated. Sometimes I'm so good at it that even I can't read it the very next day.
[17:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:11] <exec> 08└─I'd have said the site was slashdotted...
[17:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Could Make Semiconductor Computers a Million Times Faster or Even Go Quantum - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:14] <exec> 08└─Not poetic enough and too blunt.
[17:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Shifts its $8bn Pot of Gold, Sparks Fears of Corporate Money Grab - 1283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:30] <exec> 08└─How does taking the funds from the private sector and putting it into government benefit Pai's "business buddies?" And why is a recommendation from GAO seen as a particularly Republican move? I'm no fan of Ajit Pai but this seems to be a stretch when the GAO stated: Further, FCC maintains the Unive...
[17:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Launches InSight Mission to Study the Interior of Mars - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:29] <exec> 08└─>> They're spending millions of taxpayer dollars to go to Mars to study how Earth was formed? Mars lack of tectonic and weather activity means that we'll be able to see things there that have been erased or buried by these processes.
[17:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DDR5-4400 Test Chip Demonstrated - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:59] <exec> 08└─Single-ended signalling doesn't like high-speed. It took them a very long time to come up with the standard, because reliable 4400MT/s per pin through a connector and quite a few inches of cheap PCB at low voltage using as little total power as possible ... is really f___ing hard. GDDR is simpler, s...
[17:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 1473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:27] <exec> 08└─Your comment induced me to try and look it up, and you are right the forms themselves defined in .frm files are plaintext. But I'm not entirely remembering either; turns out I was remembering the .frx files, which are a proprietary binary format used by VB6 for various form resources including icons...
[17:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Overtakes UK to Become World's Fifth Largest Economy - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's very large for Scotland. It's a tenth of a city. There are over twice as many people in Greater London than the whole of Scotland. Despite this, Scotland retains its own laws, legal system, education system and health service etc.
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[18:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:10] <exec> 08└─I've actually had to threaten to fire a guy who used acronyms for all his variables, and never wrote a line of comment. His stuff was working, but was unmaintainable, maybe not even by him. He was nice enough to find somewhere else to be.
[18:04:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 964 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:18] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't you have expected the dealer to check these things before reselling it, though? I think that's the problem. The dealer will check for things like if the spare tire is missing when they buy it back. They'll also presumably complain if you've removed the seats or the radio or the roof, or if...
[18:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:26] <exec> 08└─check for things like if the spare tire is missing when they buy it back. They'll also presumably complain if you've removed the seats or the radio or the roof, or if you've replaced the wheels with monster truck wheels or something.
[18:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:28] <exec> 08└─Make sense?
[18:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:30] <exec> 08└─trying to portray the previous owner as a stalker
[18:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:32] <exec> 08└─...
[18:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:35] <exec> 08└─OnStar...there are plenty of reports
[18:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:37] <exec> 08└─It would make sense if you sold the car through Joe Dirt Lot. An Official Dealer should send a service termination notice to the factory upon buying a car. After all, they typically set up the car to give the next buyer one to three months of free service, hoping to get them hooked into monthly paym...
[18:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Alamos Scientists Attack Load Balancing Challenge - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:51] <exec> 08└─If the article wasn't written at too high a level, how would the internet D-Ks show off their superior knowledge by spouting solutions that nobody with access to a million-cores supercomputer could have possibly though of ?
[18:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Light Could Make Semiconductor Computers a Million Times Faster or Even Go Quantum - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:28] <exec> 08└─If you read the link it explains all. To summarise: But qubits are hard to make because quantum states are extremely fragile. The main commercial route, pursued by companies such as Intel, IBM, Microsoft and D-Wave, uses superconducting circuits—loops of wire cooled to extremely cold temperatures...
[18:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Shifts its $8bn Pot of Gold, Sparks Fears of Corporate Money Grab - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:45] <exec> 08└─so they steal my money to give to "the poor" and then they horde it until it's 8 billion? i thought they were stealing that money to build the interwebs for the poor? fucking thieves, the whole cess pool.
[18:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:33] <exec> 08└─My units of measurement must be off. Which is bigger, helluva monster or super huge?
[18:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:35] <exec> 08└─Ok, so given enough butterflies...
[18:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Atatsu [4251] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:37] <exec> 08└─I'm from South Dakota and unfortunately there are a bunch of morons that live here (yay midwest). Your basic NIMBY shit. https://www.argusleader.com [argusleader.com]
[18:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Launches InSight Mission to Study the Interior of Mars - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:50] <exec> 08└─"See" might be a strong word given that InSight will only drill a few meters. But future missions will be able to do even more. We ought to be sending missions of the Discovery class every year. Now we need to send a new orbiter to Mars: http://www.spaceflightinsider.com
[18:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Launches InSight Mission to Study the Interior of Mars - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:51] <exec> 08└─Garbage troll. Next you'll be saying that we need to cut NASA's Earth science budget.
[18:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Launches InSight Mission to Study the Interior of Mars - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:53] <exec> 08└─Nope, they're gonna do better: imagine that you land somewhere on Earth that looks interesting, dig one 15-ft hole, check what's inside, and deduct the history of all of Earth from it. You get to measure local seismicity, too, just to help you. We really need the Indians and the Chinese to team up,...
[18:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DDR5-4400 Test Chip Demonstrated - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:23] <exec> 08└─Run a ~10 Watt CPU (with integrated graphics) and maybe your case won't need any cooling. https://www.quietpc.com [quietpc.com]
[18:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medieval Records Could Point the Way to Planet Nine - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:58] <exec> 08└─One solution that could satisfy everyone would be to call Pluto both a planet *and* a dwarf planet.
[18:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:54] <exec> 08└─"I could write Mac code on Windows and Windows code on the Mac" dirty bird.
[18:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Scientists Are Engineering Silk to Save Our Bodies - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:23] <exec> 08└─A lesson was learned from the whole getting in touch with Russians fiasco, it sounds like.
[18:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Overtakes UK to Become World's Fifth Largest Economy - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:05] <exec> 08└─as opposed to what? pigs stealing from the whole nation to fund their war on freedom while they break up families by kidnapping non-violent offenders and forcing them into monster school?
[18:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Files Patent For Blockchain-Based DRM On PlayStation Games - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:22] <exec> 08└─exactly, and anyone who buys their shit is an enemy of humanity. fuck you, sony!
[18:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Criminals' Drone Swarm Used To Obstruct FBI Hostage Raid - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:00] <exec> 08└─I can see why #3 could be a problem. Do they really want to start shooting during a tense and volatile situation? Can they shoot the drone if it's all up in the agents' faces or whatever they are claiming?
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[19:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:44] <exec> 08└─Tell me something else, like how a bald middle aged coder of device drivers was arrested for knowingly spreading HIV to multiple young women.
[19:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:46] <exec> 08└─That would only be newsworthy if he wasn't paying them.
[19:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:48] <exec> 08└─I'd rather get the measles. https://www.yelp.com [yelp.com]
[19:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:50] <exec> 08└─There was a delightful chap who did this to Leftist women back in 08 in Poland, to me he deserves posthumous honors for halting the spread of Communism.
[19:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 "Meltdown" Mitigation Undermined, and Other Patch News - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:59] <exec> 08└─Working as intended, would you like to apply updates and restart? Y/y?
[19:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 "Meltdown" Mitigation Undermined, and Other Patch News - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:01] <exec> 08└─So in other words, the patch made things LESS secure. Brilliant. "I ran the latest updates so I'm perfectly secure! Pollywannacracker!" Sure. At this point I wouldn't even trust Microsoft to maintain anything more complicated than Minesweeper. (Wait, what? They moved Minesweeper to their online stor...
[19:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sensor Stickers Transform The Human Body Into A Multi-Touch Surface - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:12] <exec> 08└─From what I can tell the sensor stickers allow touch interfaces to be *attached* to the human body (or most anything else, presumably), but do not actually use the body as an input device. As contrasted to some of the other experimental technology over the years that has used acoustic vibrations, et...
[19:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sensor Stickers Transform The Human Body Into A Multi-Touch Surface - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:14] <exec> 08└─I never tried it myself, but the videos and research paper I saw before 2011 of the sound-based UI systems looked completely functional. Basically you mount 1-3 contact mics on your body, run a calibration program while tapping along the areas you want to use, and now you've got a touch interface. T...
[19:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:32] <exec> 08└─Gotta save those bytes man! I have never found typing speed to be the bottle neck, so I try and keep my variables reasonably descriptive.
[19:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:34] <exec> 08└─Used to develop in assembly language - had a hard time deciphering some x86 source for a port to another device. The x86 author was steadfastly opposed to using comments, and was fond of saying, "Well, it's obvious what this routine does." Hell, even the name of the routine didn't come close to hint...
[19:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:36] <exec> 08└─(See a porting project description below) I'm not much of a typist (school of seek and ye shall find), so I employ "search and replace" to improve function / procedure / variable / parameter names... I usually start out with some funky short string as a name, then s/r to a descriptive one. Sheesh, m...
[19:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:38] <exec> 08└─Site works fine for me. Just downloaded http://www.ioccc.org [ioccc.org] and while it took 10 seconds to download about 3.4 MB, it download just fine. I went to a new York site and downloaded from that host and it took 8 seconds. I went to our UK office, 9 seconds. From Paris, 10 s...
[19:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:40] <exec> 08└─optimized for both size and instruction cycle counts,
[19:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:01] <exec> 08└─An Official Dealer should send a service termination notice to the factory upon buying a car.
[19:05:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:03] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, but IMO the blame lies entirely with the manufacturer and the dealer. They should be ensuring that prior owners no longer have access to the vehicle. For the keys, they should be reprogramming them all, and the car, so that only the keys being given to the new owner actually work with the...
[19:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:05] <exec> 08└─If a car has electronic keys, which all cars do nowadays, the dealer can reset the codes when they get the car back. So no, if you "accidentally" keep the electronic key to your old car, it won't work unless the dealer is negligent.
[19:05:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 1824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:07] <exec> 08└─You're placing blame entirely on the old seller, which is a stupid and useless course of action. This is how we wind up with a judicial system where your only recourse is to sue people, which rarely works out because the legal costs are far higher than you're ever going to get back in collections fr...
[19:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:09] <exec> 08└─I am observing her behavior without trying to characterize her intent.
[19:05:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Alamos Scientists Attack Load Balancing Challenge - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:24] <exec> 08└─I think their main problem is in massive simulations where the problem sort-of parallelizes for one cycle of simulation, but then they want all cells of the simulation to complete before running the next cycle, so the long pole in the tent so to speak makes the others all wait. The summary example o...
[19:06:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06FCC Shifts its $8bn Pot of Gold, Sparks Fears of Corporate Money Grab - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:16] <exec> 08└─People with power will be people with power. I think the Bible says something about rich men and camels...
[19:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Shifts its $8bn Pot of Gold, Sparks Fears of Corporate Money Grab - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:19] <exec> 08└─Depends on the "people". Republicans are the unquestioned champions of both the undesired unborn people, and the people who forgot they were just screaming about deficits but really like a tax cut. Let's not talk of camels and rich people, for I shall not judge those who enjoy alternative beauty pag...
[19:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:10] <exec> 08└─Surprisingly, despite significant wind every single time I go there, and a huge need for power next door, the very green people have yet to install any turbine along the Malibu coast.
[19:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:12] <exec> 08└─Plaid.
[19:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four Maps Showing the Lopsided Growth of Wind Power in the US - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:14] <exec> 08└─Uh-Oh ... Don't you know about saying Candyman or Beetlejuice too many times ? HIDE YOUR OUTLETS ! Here come the cryptominers !!!
[19:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:31] <exec> 08└─Better yet, send fake telemetry that bleeps up their pattern matching algorithms. When all the coders get Hello Kitty ads, I'll laugh my pu..., um, cat off.
[19:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:33] <exec> 08└─Looks like a lot of dudes will have to learn to program.
[19:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Overtakes UK to Become World's Fifth Largest Economy - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:44] <exec> 08└─you're remembering wrong. it's the free state project [fsp.org] and it's new hampshire.
[19:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Broke the Law by Advocating for Trump, Officials Find - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:24] <exec> 08└─Accepting massive donations while quite freely giving their opinions on all things campaign-related.
[19:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Broke the Law by Advocating for Trump, Officials Find - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:26] <exec> 08└─Somebody asked him a question. He gave what can only be described as an accurate answer. If that violates the Hatch Act, then it seems that the Hatch Act would violate "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the free...
[19:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Broke the Law by Advocating for Trump, Officials Find - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:28] <exec> 08└─1) The President doesn't set policy, he implements it. The Legislature sets policy. 2) Trump's administration has been particularly unstable*. So even if we're specifically focused only on executive branch policy, keeping Trump isn't necessarily going to bring any more stability than bringing in som...
[19:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Commissioner Broke the Law by Advocating for Trump, Officials Find - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:30] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't call that advocacy, I'd call that a simple, factual statement. If Trump gets reelected, his policies will be very likely to continue; if he doesn't, they may or may not. Telling the truth is nod advocacy. Advocacy requires putting forth an opinion. The opinion that Trump should be reelect...
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[20:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:53] <exec> 08└─Measles vaccinations have been common for decades
[20:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03chucky [3309] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, they have. But lately there's a growing number of people who refuse to give the vaccinations to their kids, so the overall vaccination ratio dropped under 95% of the population, which is needed to prevent the epidemic.
[20:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:56] <exec> 08└─Sorry, you’re not allowed to access this page.
[20:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 "Meltdown" Mitigation Undermined, and Other Patch News - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:07] <exec> 08└─How do you figure? I assume they still make roughly the same amount selling licenses to system builders, and certainly Windows 10 is no cheaper to purchase an OEM or retail license than its predecessors. Yes, there was a brief window where they gave away free upgrades from Win7 and 8, but that was w...
[20:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 "Meltdown" Mitigation Undermined, and Other Patch News - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:08] <exec> 08└─Windows is Microsoft's way to push X, Y, and Z to hundreds of millions of people, collect "telemetry", display advertisements, etc. If it's broken and starts to lose users to other platforms, it's not good for Microsoft.
[20:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:42] <exec> 08└─How about a Readable Code Contest? Take a specimen algorithm and the person/team who re-writes it in the most readable code form wins. You don't need to encourage coders to write obfuscated code; most do that naturally. That's like a "messy dorm contest".
[20:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is. Less opcodes means (usually) less clock cycles.
[20:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:46] <exec> 08└─As I understand the point is to hide the true behavior of your code to demonstrate how easy it is to hide malicious behavior, even from those with access to the source code.
[20:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:12] <exec> 08└─To a lot of people many of these "services" are big vague confusing nebulous things. It is easy to imagine they might have thought the service would transfer to their new car (even without whatever system), or perhaps they even thought they didn't need a car for whatever this service is. They just k...
[20:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Alamos Scientists Attack Load Balancing Challenge - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:28] <exec> 08└─Here I thought this was going to be about electrical grid switching...
[20:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Medieval Records Could Point the Way to Planet Nine - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:37] <exec> 08└─True, but I was referring to if Pluto is allowed to be designated the ninth planet by some, but not all, then any other planet(s) found after that will have a numbering controversy. Is Planet Ten going to be the tenth planet or the eleventh, depending on how you happen to feel about Pluto?
[20:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:36] <exec> 08└─I agree, the Web is a UI mess, still in Wild West Cowboy mode. I don't mind learning new things that add new value, but keeping up with the "UX" Flavor of the Month is like keeping up with the Kardashians. Both the Kardashians and Web UI "standards" suck in similar ways. No wonder web co's keep dump...
[20:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Overtakes UK to Become World's Fifth Largest Economy - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:49] <exec> 08└─I don't know about THE money, but I do know that a lot of CCTV operators and security firms are doing a roaring trade. Other than that, it's rather like the booze industry - big taxes, thin margins, specialty retail.
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[21:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:00] <exec> 08└─And if there is an epidemic, every death should get anti-vaxxers charged with murder.
[21:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:01] <exec> 08└─A measles vaccine only grants immunity for a few years. If you actually had measles, you would have gained lifetime immunity and would not have had to freak out over "european travellers". Having measles as a child is a nuisance. Having measles as an adult can be a very big problem. This is one big...
[21:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:03] <exec> 08└─That number is determined by how unsanitary people are. We could go with 0% and still eliminate all human disease if people would stop being unsanitary. Some places have their act together more than other places. In the USA, we are expected to shake hands. In Japan, it is common for people to weak m...
[21:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:05] <exec> 08└─Charge the people who shake hands. Charge the people who work in restaurants without face masks. Charge the people who recontaminate their hands when turning off sinks. We don't even have vaccines for most things. Enterovirus-68 can paralyze you, and there is no vaccine. Fix your filthy behavior......
[21:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:08] <exec> 08└─Having measles is only a nuisance if you survive. The children that died aren't around to complain about it.
[21:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 "Meltdown" Mitigation Undermined, and Other Patch News - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:20] <exec> 08└─> One of the factors has to be that Windows 10 makes Microsoft absolutely no money whatsoever. AFAIK, they're displaying ads on the lock screen and in the start menu. That has to be worth quite a sum.
[21:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 "Meltdown" Mitigation Undermined, and Other Patch News - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:21] <exec> 08└─I completely agree, relative apathy to the OS itself seems to be the case given all of the recent very embarrassing things Win10 users have had to endure. They may seem to be getting away with this in the near term, but it's interesting to note that most enterprises are still running Win7, including...
[21:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:58] <exec> 08└─No, that's the Underhanded C Contest, this is the Obfuscated C Contest. Different beasts.
[21:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Could Make Semiconductor Computers a Million Times Faster or Even Go Quantum - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:19] <exec> 08└─But MongoDB is Quantum!
[21:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Overtakes UK to Become World's Fifth Largest Economy - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:04] <exec> 08└─It also has water. So much water. All the water! Waterama! You know, except for the part where if it left the US and other states started taking back water rights, California would have to build massive desalination plants to have any hope of maintaining those burgeoning, successful communities. Env...
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[22:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abbott Addresses Life-Threatening Flaw in a Half-Million Pacemakers - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:43] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I'd line up to be the first to get an update.
[22:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Privacy Measure's Backers Submit Signatures - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:50] <exec> 08└─Too late to pretend you're not a vampire squid.
[22:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Privacy Measure's Backers Submit Signatures - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:52] <exec> 08└─... But commenting would reveal too much about how we feel.
[22:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:11] <exec> 08└─Works for me (Firefox + NoScript)
[22:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:12] <exec> 08└─every death should get anti-vaxxers charged with murder.
[22:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:15] <exec> 08└─I Am Absolutely Serious
[22:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:17] <exec> 08└─It was a nuisance, and what was even more of a nuisance is having to get vaccination for College because "I had the real thing" is not a valid excuse for the stupid vaccination requirement.
[22:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:19] <exec> 08└─She refused to stop working in the food industry
[22:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 1079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:21] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure I had the measles and the mumps, as did most of my classmates. Nobody in my schools ever died of these things, and if kids in the county ever died of childhood disease, it wasn't the kind of thing that made the news. I was, perhaps, at the golden age of non-vaccination, where we had the...
[22:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:24] <exec> 08└─Sounds good to me. I need the dividends from the Private Prison stock, so I can avoid becoming their customer.
[22:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:26] <exec> 08└─I'm curious, why do you have such a thing for MDC? He seems to stay out of flame wars and the worst I've seen are off-topic posts.
[22:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 "Meltdown" Mitigation Undermined, and Other Patch News - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:40] <exec> 08└─Hahahaha Gasp Hahahahahahahahahaha........ Windows is, at best, a gaming console. Real men (and women) use ANYTHING but Windows online. "Kick me in the nuts AGAIN Microsoft! Please!!!" Seriously! Put Windows in a VM on linux!....isolate the problem. WHY, oh WHY do people put up with this? Would you,...
[22:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sensor Stickers Transform The Human Body Into A Multi-Touch Surface - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:53] <exec> 08└─Sensor Stickers Transform The Human Body Into A Multi-Touch Surface
[22:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former VW Owner Discovered Digital Access to Her Car Months After It Was Sold - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:46] <exec> 08└─When the IOT includes your car, it's not your car anymore. Disconnect the fuse or buy another car.
[22:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Alamos Scientists Attack Load Balancing Challenge - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:04] <exec> 08└─As you say, an easy way to avoid idling is to work on more than one problem instance at a time. The Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search takes that approach. Each computer is working on one number at a time, no parallelism finer grained than that. No need. Takes a few months for one computer to chec...
[22:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alan Turing's Chemistry Hypothesis Turned Into a Desalination Filter - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:15] <exec> 08└─Well, if you know how water hardeners and osmosis works, they're just that running the opposite direction.
[22:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Light Could Make Semiconductor Computers a Million Times Faster or Even Go Quantum - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:45] <exec> 08└─block quantum chain, that's where it's at
[22:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Medieval Records Could Point the Way to Planet Nine - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:18] <exec> 08└─Stern, currently leading NASA's New Horizons mission, disagrees with the reclassification of Pluto on the basis of its inability to clear a neighbourhood. One of his arguments is that the IAU's wording is vague, and that—like Pluto—Earth, Mars, Jupiter and Neptune have not cleared their orbital...
[22:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visual Studio Code Will Replace Visual Studio - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:18] <exec> 08└─Oops, I stand corrected. He's probably right that "Pro" is largely pointless then.
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[23:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cyclone Shield: Breathing New Life Into Myanmar's Mangroves - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:45] <exec> 08└─And a cropduster filled with seeds could spread half a ton of seeds in a few minutes scattered down a length of coastal estuary.. (and yes, seeding by cropdister is not at all uncommon..) And is even done (when I was looking for a link to add.) http://www.nola.com
[23:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cyclone Shield: Breathing New Life Into Myanmar's Mangroves - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:46] <exec> 08└─Want funding? Put the seeds inside machine-gun cartridges, and invite the military to go at the mangrove Vietnam-style. There's always manpower and funding to shoot stuff, in the name of readiness. Bonus points if the Myanmar military forgets to revert back to regular cartridges before their next Ro...
[23:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cyclone Shield: Breathing New Life Into Myanmar's Mangroves - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:48] <exec> 08└─Mangrove seedlings are softshelled pre-sprouted plants directly off the trees. While they can survive dropping a few feet into the water and maybe floating to a nearby shoreline, they are not hardshelled seeds built to withstand the abuses of airdrops or projectile fire. Having said that, drones tha...
[23:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Privacy Measure's Backers Submit Signatures - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:03] <exec> 08└─Yup. This is one topic where even the trolls have to pass, on ethical grounds.
[23:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:30] <exec> 08└─First, the last Measles death in the U.S. was in 2015. Pneumonia comorbid from measles. Annually it killed 73,000 worldwide in 2014, down from 2.6 million deaths in 1980, thanks to vaccination. Mainly the deaths are people with problems like compromised immune systems, infants, or the elderly; death...
[23:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:32] <exec> 08└─No, the measels vaccination scheme was originally predicted to eradicate it in a few years. They should have stopped it once they realized 1) how much more virulant the measles virus is than eg small pox, 2) waning measles immunity after vaccination was much stronger than after infection, 3) Much we...
[23:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:34] <exec> 08└─A measles vaccine only grants immunity for a few years.
[23:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:36] <exec> 08└─Before the blood tests a lot of other viruses got diagnosed as measels since they cause the same symptoms. Also people used to literally spread measles on purpose and dont do that anymore. Dont you think the influence of those factors should be accounted for?
[23:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:39] <exec> 08└─It doesn't hurt to be vaccinated anyway, however, you could have gone and gotten an MMR Titer lab test, which would have proven your immunity. Your college should (should!) accept a positive titer result as proof you didn't need the immunization. Taking the shot probably would have been quicker.
[23:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:41] <exec> 08└─Fine with uMatrix too. Anyway, 5/10 is too good for them - an average 1.5/5 from 25 reviews, almost all of which are for 1/5 with words like "dirty" and "disgusting" featuring quite heavily (14 further one star ones are hidden on top of the seven displayed). Sounds positively delightful. I guess if...
[23:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:43] <exec> 08└─Your source for waning measles immunity please? (Aside from the known pre-1967 dead vaccine which was not ineffective so they switched to attenuated...) One shot for low risk, two for high risk, lifetime. Here's mine. [cdc.gov] I wouldn't call 97% effectiveness low, you can worse secondary immunity...
[23:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:45] <exec> 08└─I use a combination of uMatrix, Privacy Badger, and Adblock Plus that tends to kill off certain advertising-extremist sites. The "Old Country Buffet" restaurant genre is a warning sign that health problems may ensue. Got food poisoning from one of those once.
[23:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:47] <exec> 08└─It is not impossible that a different maculopapular rash disease can be mistaken for measles, although it isn't easy because measles has a pretty distinct rash presentation. How much error would you like in the numbers because it is still overwhelming even at 50% misdiagnosis. But I'm talking about...
[23:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:50] <exec> 08└─Waning effectiveness I have always read not as "didn't provide an effective immunization" but rather "the conferred immunity wore off relatively quickly". FWIW, dead virus vaccines often have a relatively rapid waning of effectiveness. I believe the original Salk polio vaccine needed to be repeated...
[23:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measles Exposure Warning Issued for Four New York Counties - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:52] <exec> 08└─Well, people did die of measles, though admittedly it was relatively uncommon. Permanent neural damage was more common. And mumps is a disease that one can catch several times if all the susceptible glands don't become infected the first time. If you don't get it in your genitals until you're adoles...
[23:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sensor Stickers Transform The Human Body Into A Multi-Touch Surface - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:19] <exec> 08└─Have remote sex with one person while having sex with a local person. Niiiiiiiiiiiice!
[23:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 0625th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (2018) - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:46] <exec> 08└─Shit! You da Flash? Man you gets around!
[23:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Light Could Make Semiconductor Computers a Million Times Faster or Even Go Quantum - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:11] <exec> 08└─"informative", eh? I've got a masters in EE working on solid state physics (semiconductor), and that quoted bit, which is the same in the summary, makes no sense whatsoever to me.
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