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[00:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 1635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:31] <exec> 08└─"Bend over!" "I don't wanna!" "Bend over!!!" The man screamed at the child at the top of his lungs. Since the child would not comply, the man, Emmerson, used his superior might to force the child to bend over and then jammed his penis into the boy's anus.The man was squeezing the child's neck from b...
[00:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:32] <exec> 08└─If something dark goes overhead in the night sky I see a shadow where the object blocks the stars. Will something with this cloak show a similar shadow?
[00:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:34] <exec> 08└─The government can and will step in and prevent disclosure of technology which would confer an advantage to an enemy. Because this has not happened, it can be inferred the government is a few steps ahead of this technology.
[00:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Ear Grown on Forearm for Transplant - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, nah Nah, yeah Oi!
[00:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Human Ear Grown on Forearm for Transplant - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:51] <exec> 08└─In the Navy, they grow a pussy inside a seaman's ass.
[00:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Ear Grown on Forearm for Transplant - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:53] <exec> 08└─Depending on the ear's position on the forearm, listening to her heart lets you grab different parts.
[00:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Ear Grown on Forearm for Transplant - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:56] <exec> 08└─But where to grow them? Forehead?
[00:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:08] <exec> 08└─All Turing complete machines are identical. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:10] <exec> 08└─Here's hoping that 5 years from now, Microsoft will have competition from a free open source Windows compatible OS.
[00:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:12] <exec> 08└─NOOOOOO! If all machines are IDENTICAL then there would be no need for Michael David Crawford to code DEVICE DRIVERS. Stop ruining the LIVELIHOOD of an overpaid DICKHEAD.
[00:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:14] <exec> 08└─Here in the really real world where you live, the exact opposite of your FOSS utopia is happening right now. The Internet of Things is all around you and all the Things are proprietary black boxes with your precious FOSS software trapped inside. You can't modify your precious FOSS software. The prop...
[00:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:17] <exec> 08└─silly wabbit, /r/stallmanwasright
[00:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:20] <exec> 08└─I would imagine that the project will need to spend considerable time to ensure compatibility with all of the various exploits that Windows offers. After all, a lot of effort went into developing them in the first place!
[00:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:52] <exec> 08└─Here in California they're running a commercial where they say that smoke can come through your electrical sockets and harm babies. I think we've officially hit the "reefer madness" stage of the anti-tobacco campaign. I mean, I'm willing to wait for the science; but during the wild fires last year I...
[00:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:54] <exec> 08└─I think it's the other way around, truth be known. When's the last time you saw a millennial who's confused about their gender dig in to a plate of biscuits and gravy? It's pretty obvious to me that they're suffering from a severe gluten deficiency.
[00:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:56] <exec> 08└─Anti smokers are bad. But as a non-smoker (cant stand the taste), I have noticed the ex-smokers are the worst of the lot. It is not enough for them to quit they have to go all ban happy on everything. They can not control it so they want laws written so they can not relapse. Show some self control.....
[00:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:58] <exec> 08└─Link to the commercial?
[00:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:01] <exec> 08└─[list of similar symptoms with different causes],
[00:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:04] <exec> 08└─It's been almost 2 years and this is still what you're doing?
[00:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch on Friday [Updated 3] - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:24] <exec> 08└─Something is not right with their preflight testing, if the computer cancelled just two seconds after gaining control. What did it know that the control center did not, and why? That had to be something static, like voltage or pressure somewhere, as these checks are done first.
[00:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch on Friday [Updated 3] - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:26] <exec> 08└─I can speak to what caused it, but Falcon 9 rockets have always had the ability to sense a problem and shut down the launch sequence in the final minute or so. There was one time where the rocket aborted just 1 second before launch. SpaceX considers this a good thing, better safe than boom. https://...
[00:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch on Friday [Updated 3] - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:28] <exec> 08└─*Can't speak to what caused it, since they haven't said anything beyond that statement. It's probably something to do with this being the very first Block 5 launch. Could even be a software bug.
[00:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:23] <exec> 08└─Some people are under the delusion that they are likely to survive an all-out nuclear war. They are very wrong about that. Even with, say, India and Pakistan going at it, they have enough firepower to cause nuclear winter, which interrupts everybody's food supplies, which means we're all likely to b...
[00:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Injured Amazon Worker Describes High-Tech Dystopia Inside Texas Warehouse - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:10] <exec> 08└─Oh, I get it. You're regretting that whole Listen and Believe doctrine you've been pushing. I mean, otherwise you just called Democrat voters utter morons who have to be lead around by the nose. It also greatly amuses me that you're bitching about Bernie not getting the nod for losing the popular vo...
[00:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:41] <exec> 08└─I know you're being sarcastic, but it seems to work. Maybe not as well as you like.
[00:24:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 418 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:27] <exec> 08└─I was in the Youth Conservation Corps when I was fifteen. We stayed in an old fire station just outside the Yerba Buena Island Coast Guard Station on San Francisco Bay. During my summer the Coast Guard carried out a huge weed bust - they captured a ship that had a double hull, with the stash between...
[00:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Won't Somebody Please Think of the Dogs? - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:12] <exec> 08└─Dude - anecdotal evidence to invalidate your claims: I've been smoking for over 45 years, have been gainfully employed for most of that time, and currently earn 6 figures as a system administrator for a science establishment. All pot smokers are not losers.
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[01:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:31] <exec> 08└─I'm also paranoid about governments suppressing technology, but I'm not under the impression that they can suppress all of the technology they want to all of the time. If this was funded by DARPA or a similar agency and still public knowledge, I would agree with your assessment. This is how I feel a...
[01:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:32] <exec> 08└─For a directional sonar, it would show as an area or infinite depth (equivalent to seeing a black object). The problem is that in most places underwater, the surrounding area is also beyond detection range, and therefore infinite depth (unlike stars).
[01:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:35] <exec> 08└─hanky panky i just like how that sounds say it right now aloud "handy panky" delicious.
[01:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:37] <exec> 08└─Metamaterials commonly exhibit extraordinary properties...like negative density.
[01:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:39] <exec> 08└─Since the friendly neighborhood overlords review every "spam" mod, what can we do to eliminate this problem? I'm not the only one browsing at -1, and we definitely need to nuke this amazingly dedicated troll. I guess that protecting messages from being completely obliterated is a good thing overall,...
[01:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Ear Grown on Forearm for Transplant - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:59] <exec> 08└─Right smack dab on top of your clitoris.
[01:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:18] <exec> 08└─I know a number of companies (small/medium sized) that are not going past Win 7 for engineering and other technical computing...and are not sure where they are going next. Do the ReactOS developers need more resources (money, mostly) because if they do I could imaging a number of potential users tha...
[01:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:19] <exec> 08└─-rstand. BEHOLD:
[01:18:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 321 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:47] <exec> 08└─I'm very lucky. I've never used tobacco. But I eat whatever I want. Whether it's a juicy cheeseburger or a dark, sweet chocolate cake. Dr. Bornstein says my health is "astonishingly excellent." He says I'm "the healthiest individual ever elected to the Presidency" And Dr. Jackson says I "might live...
[01:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:59] <exec> 08└─Get back to running the country already!
[01:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:00] <exec> 08└─Notice he only said "tobacco".
[01:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:03] <exec> 08└─Forth hand smoke
[01:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, but second or third hand smoking as described in the article isn't a thing people habitually seek out either. I'm saying the dose of sitting in front of 1 camp fire = years of third hand smoke. I think 1 bad traffic jam is worse than years of third hand smoke. Let's prioritize.
[01:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:07] <exec> 08└─... mostly permit smoking during the workday. A Texan who was among my collaborators at CERN fired up a cigar every day at noon. Our entire office building smelled like an ashtray that was sorely in need of the SuperFund.
[01:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:09] <exec> 08└─Sitting in front of a campfire and not moving, if the smoke blows in your face, not so much... ...just don't do it
[01:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:12] <exec> 08└─Really the only difference is craving a cigarette instead of cabs [sic] and losing weight instead of gaining it.
[01:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:14] <exec> 08└─HEPA filters were invented by the Manhattan Project to get Plutonium dust out of the air. You can get them at big box stores. In the Great White North, Canadian Tire sells them. They are the best thing for airborne allergens; I bought one for my ex who suffered crippling sinus headaches every day, e...
[01:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Person With Diabetes Discovers Open Source and Builds Her Own Medical Device - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:53] <exec> 08└─The scourge of mobile devices and their autocorrect (lets -> less/let's?) One can only hope to trigger their annoyance less, see...?
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[02:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Releases New Kernel Live Patch for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS & Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:31] <exec> 08└─I don't trust your phony baloney kernel livepatch nonsense. I'm going to restart the userland of my microkernel like RMS intended.
[02:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:46] <exec> 08└─Light travels in a relatively straight line through space and atmosphere. If the night sky object absorbs light (is opaque), you observe a loss of starlight- a dark shadow. If that object is clear, you might not see it, but you might notice some kind of disturbance, especially around the edges. Soun...
[02:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:47] <exec> 08└─That's complete absorption though - not invisibility. I believe most "invisible" meta-materials cause the wavelengths affected to bend around the target, so that you can still "see" things behind it - i.e. a meta-material invisible to visual light would NOT blot out the stars, though there might be...
[02:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:49] <exec> 08└─Reflecting sonar is already defeated by anti-reflective coatings they use on mil subs. However, with passive sonar, sensor arrays and processing detect the sonar shadow / disturbance in the background acoustic noise caused by an object in the water. The idea here is to minimize that disturbance.
[02:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:52] <exec> 08└─Bending around so it's not reflected, I can fathom. Bending around with such precision and so little interference that it is emitted from the back exactly as if the object wasn't there, and back for the return path if reflected (or emitted in the case of stars), without noticeable distortion ? Sci-F...
[02:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Ear Grown on Forearm for Transplant - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:12] <exec> 08└─Sure makes this limmrick more attainable. There once was a man from Nantucket. Whose dick was so long he could suck it. He said with a grin As he wiped off his chin If my ear was a cunt i could fuck it.
[02:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:33] <exec> 08└─BEHOLD: -- "MICHAEL DAVID CRAWFORD IS A LYING MOTHERFUCKER."
[02:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:35] <exec> 08└─Only in theory. In practice, where things like time, temperature, and energy consumption are concerns, Turing-complete machines vary wildly.
[02:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:37] <exec> 08└─Your mom wasn't that special. At least MDC shared this time. Sloppy second FTW!!!!!
[02:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:39] <exec> 08└─Good luck. MS will crush this if it ever gains traction. MS will make sure newest programs use Win 10 telemetry APIs and must be bought from the app store. Sure you can run old programs on ReactOS but you probably won't be able to run tomorrow's shiny ones.
[02:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:26] <exec> 08└─I did a month ago. The nausea lasted about a week, but it's been a month now and I am _still_ getting headaches. Any substance that has such a profound affect on the human body is without a doubt A Tool Of The Devil.
[02:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:27] <exec> 08└─Your fear of voodoo taboos doesn't impress me much. "Don't do it in my face" you say. So, how close to you is "in my face"? Are you going to claim a personal space of five feet, or do you think you need a mile?
[02:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:13] <exec> 08└─Yer so stupid we're almost sorry for you. Almost.
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[03:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:32] <exec> 08└─I didn't say you could talk!
[03:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canonical Releases New Kernel Live Patch for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS & Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:40] <exec> 08└─That's old news. What about the kernel security issue that came out just a few days later? https://lists.ubuntu.com [ubuntu.com] "The fix for this problem requires modification of the interrupt descriptor tables (IDT), and modification of the in...
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[03:17:42] <exec> 08└─Plus live patching doesn't completely negate the need to reboot. After a live patch, every call has added overhead to determine whether it is patched or not, which increases per live patch installed. Also, depending on the work it does, it can murder performance, cause instability, and increase atta...
[03:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:34] <exec> 08└─The president is providing us a tremendous service. He's fantastic at what he does. Four more years!
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[04:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:32] <exec> 08└─We already have AI that rejects the resume of every qualified applicant. Now we can use AI to replace every recruiter job. No longer will fraudulent companies need to employ stupid Indian recruiters to call unemployed people on the phone and tell them all about fake jobs that don't exist at companie...
[04:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:33] <exec> 08└─The robots came for the factory jerbs, and there's a robot technician training program at the local community college. Of course, there will be far fewer robot technicians than manual laborers. (Thus freeing up plenty of time, all of which the working class has generously donated to the ruling class...
[04:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:35] <exec> 08└─Why won't the poor people just die. No living person earns $13 per hour. That's pocket lint money. At $13 per hour you're just dying in slow motion. Poor people should solve poverty by killing themselves quickly and as soon as possible.
[04:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:38] <exec> 08└─$13 an hour, 20 hours a week is more than enough to fund rent, food, internet, and bus fare. Just don't get sick or injured.
[04:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:40] <exec> 08└─The tech may be getting good, but we humans will soon pick up the subtle differences. My bet is that it's going to become a cat and mouse game.
[04:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:42] <exec> 08└─Better yet, sell a phone app that tells you when the voice on the line is a robot. And another to optimize fucking with it.
[04:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:54] <exec> 08└─Yes. Much of the effort seems to go into reverse-engineering the weird workarounds Microsoft has baked into Windows for specific programs and use cases over the years.
[04:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:56] <exec> 08└─Technical and engineering users often write their own in-house software, and don't normally care about the latest shiny thing.
[04:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch on Friday [Updated 3] - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:09] <exec> 08└─10 boosters, should suffice for handling any remaining Falcon 9 flights.
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[05:17:40] <exec> 08└─I'm doing it, Ma! I told you I was worth saving!
[05:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:41] <exec> 08└─some of my best friends are inflatable.
[05:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:56] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you'd enjoy the California Girls: Find a Computer Industry Job in Los Angeles [soggy.jobs].
[05:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:57] <exec> 08└─So, basically, those horrible luddites were right, in the end.
[05:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:00] <exec> 08└─Why should they bother to distinguish them? - "you can shove your fucking offer up your digital ass, you dirty cunt bot!" - "actually, sir, I am human..." - "oh sorry... then you can shove your fucking offer up your ass, you dirty cunt!" - "BTW are you a bot, sir?" - "no, but I like to play one on t...
[05:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Releases New Kernel Live Patch for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS & Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:10] <exec> 08└─Debian. It's really that simple. Debian. I know you want to. Debian.
[05:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:29] <exec> 08└─There would be distortion, like the sonar equivalent of predator camo. It may be possible for advanced processing to pick up the outline.
[05:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:17] <exec> 08└─There does not exist a single Turing complete computer in this universe. All existing computers have finite memory, but a Turing machine has an infinite tape. You cannot simulate an infinite tape with finite memory.
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[06:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 1265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:53] <exec> 08└─Analyzed. The first example was ditz-to-ditz conversation, so in a sense both of them really weren't paying attention to each other. I'm also guessing that the bot was programmed with the callee's voice without the callee's knowledge. The second example was hipster to non-native English speaker conv...
[06:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 1498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:55] <exec> 08└─We have to take care of people. If you can’t take care of your sick in the country, forget it, it’s all over. I believe in universal healthcare. I'm a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one. We should not hear so many stories of families ruined by healthcare expenses. As far as si...
[06:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:57] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCLLAJDF1fM [youtube.com]
[06:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Releases New Kernel Live Patch for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS & Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:07] <exec> 08└─waiting for the M$ buyout
[06:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:28] <exec> 08└─I dunno, an effective spectrum of 7-12 KHz might bamboozle Zimbabwean subs, but won't fool the Chink subs or anything else constructed in the past 40 years.
[06:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:29] <exec> 08└─Anything called "Applied Physics Laboratory" has some government funding or otherwise has government tentacles in it. This one, [jhuapl.edu] for example, doesn't even try to hide it.
[06:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 1504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:31] <exec> 08└─Mitch McConnell, smart guy, right? He used the Nuclear Option in the Senate. It worked great, we got Judge Gorsuch into the SC. And I asked Mitch, why don't you use that one all the time? And he said it could come back to bite us in the ass. And not in a good way. Because if the Dems ever get a majo...
[06:21:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 1066 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:57] <exec> 08└─From the Bloomberg link -- Trump tweeted: > As everybody is aware, the past Administration has long been asking for three hostages to be released from a North Korean Labor camp, but to no avail. Stay tuned! 8:53 PM - May 2, 2018 Bloomberg > The problem? “Of the three prisoners only one, Kim Dong-c...
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[07:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Who Controls Tor's DNS Traffic? An Analysis of the Tor DNS Landscape - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:28] <exec> 08└─- Justice? A few years ago I reported CloudFlare to the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center [ic3.gov] for caching child pornography. I checked just now; the domains are registered but are now used to distribute perfectly legal Flash updates.
[07:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Who Controls Tor's DNS Traffic? An Analysis of the Tor DNS Landscape - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:30] <exec> 08└─yes it was your memo that killed internet freedom your check is in the mail keep up the good work
[07:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:58] <exec> 08└─The tech may be getting good, but we humans will soon pick up the subtle differences. My bet is that it's going to become a cat and mouse game.
[07:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:00] <exec> 08└─We have to take care of people. If you can’t take care of your sick in the country, forget it, it’s all over. Its not over til the fat lady sings (Madame La Guillotine). If you fuck the poor, they have a big incentive to kill you. If they are in danger of dying, they have nothing to lose. This...
[07:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:02] <exec> 08└─I am Jewish Bot, you insensitive clod.
[07:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:04] <exec> 08└─you'll start to think some of the real people you talk to on the phone are actually bots. Think? I know damn well that half "real" the people I speak to on the phone are bots. However, I refuse to give names in order to protect the guilty. (In case you are asking: No ... my mother-in-law is dead).
[07:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:06] <exec> 08└─It's great that they have "tapes." But doing a live show, it's much harder to get it PERFECTO. Let me tell you, I have a daughter. She married a nice -- and very rich -- Jewish boy. And folks compliment me all the time on how well I raised her, what a cute couple they make. They don't see all the du...
[07:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Ear Grown on Forearm for Transplant - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:01] <exec> 08└─I'm a man trapped in a woman's body - I can't find my clitoris.
[07:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:19] <exec> 08└─I was asked once if I ever smoked during sex... I really don't know... I never looked down there to see.
[07:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch on Friday [Updated 3] - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:44] <exec> 08└─The actual estimate is 30-50 Block 5 cores [reddit.com], not 10, and up to 300 total flights expected. At least according to a teleconference yesterday. Those are shared between Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy, and some will be expended. Many of the flights may be for the Starlink satellite Internet servi...
[07:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe, maybe not dying. Possibly the REAL AGENDA is starting to rear its head. Either tha or they are bloody desperate! Hunting for a nice, juicy MIL contract. Those are worth billions! You can supply a toilet for $800 or $8000, there is no beancounting or accountability. F-35 that can barely funct...
[07:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:09] <exec> 08└─...Burger flippers
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[08:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:45] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm retarded for wanting the GUI way, but I like Terminator. I actually had someone get pretty pissed at me for liking Terminator once, and they suggested tmux. I tried it, and the ugly, choppy, semi-unreadable line output for, say, split screen compilation jobs, was intolerable. I don't like...
[08:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:10] <exec> 08└─Which leads to another important question, or, rather, an answer. Gay Jewish Robots. In that particular instance AT&T had a good idea of what a Black man should sound like. It was primitive but from the perspective of what a Black man's voice should sound like. Now, I shall show you.
[08:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:11] <exec> 08└─This is going to be great with sex bots. Mmmmhmmm... Ummmm.... Oh yeaaaahhh...
[08:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch on Friday [Updated 3] - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:49] <exec> 08└─SLS is not a launch provider though. It is a government owned job-program. It will never be a viable commercial competitor. I agree with you on principle, but as a launch competitor, it might be better to hope for Amazon's (ironically) rockets.
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[09:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:30] <exec> 08└─(a megaparsec is about 3.3m light-years).
[09:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Releases New Kernel Live Patch for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS & Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:25] <exec> 08└─You do realize that is two persons names, right? Okay. Let's read what you wrote again...
[09:18:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:38] <exec> 08└─Metamaterials commonly exhibit extraordinary properties...like negative density.
[09:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 3027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:37] <exec> 08└─They've just put in NTFS support. The first public version of NTFS came out in 1993. 5 years from now you won't have a free open-source Windows-compatible OS, if it takes them 25 years to get a filesystem in there (one that's been in Linux and other OS for quite a while with several implementations...
[09:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:28] <exec> 08└─I did a month ago.
[09:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:30] <exec> 08└─The stress induced by reading about the stress induced by reading about the stress induced by reading about the dangers.... Screw it, I'm going back to bed!
[09:22:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 609 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:56] <exec> 08└─Some people are under the delusion that they are likely to survive an all-out nuclear war. They are very wrong about that. Even with, say, India and Pakistan going at it, they have enough firepower to cause nuclear winter, which interrupts everybody's food supplies, which means we're all likely to b...
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[10:17:30] <exec> 08└─His hair, black and balding. His face, deformed. His lips, skinny, purple, ridged. His body, obese. His eyes, nonexistent. His name, Ahson. The girl, beaten and bloody. His lust, insatiable. His actions, violent. His fists, slam. His fists, slam. His fists, slam! The girl, deathly silent. His smile,...
[10:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:38] <exec> 08└─Well, it is like a walk in the park. It may seem like a long walk, but once you are out and going you will find the actual distance to be getting smaller. Please beware that walking at speeds that compensate for the red-shift may cause bugs in the park to pass right through you. You have been warned...
[10:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:56] <exec> 08└─i3 [i3wm.org] solves the problem at the root cause. Though admittedly, you'd still want lxde (for lxappearance) and/or xfce around to adjust GTK themes and fix the odd glitch in some apps just in case. But I honestly haven't touched those in years...
[10:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:19] <exec> 08└─What are you afraid of it it's +2?
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[11:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Posed as ISIS to Threaten U.S. Military Wives - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:38] <exec> 08└─Russia has been intervening in US elections since before 2916. And the US in Russian elections.
[11:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Posed as ISIS to Threaten U.S. Military Wives - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:39] <exec> 08└─How hot were these wives for them to even bother? Seems like more fake news.
[11:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:06] <exec> 08└─at some point I was looking into this, but ended up using plasma (I still think of it as kde, but whatever), with multiple separate terminator windows that I tile using "xdotool" from inside the terminal. I wrote a little script which takes desired grid shape/position as parameters, and then applies...
[11:18:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 1498 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:24] <exec> 08└─We have to take care of people. If you can’t take care of your sick in the country, forget it, it’s all over. I believe in universal healthcare. I'm a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one. We should not hear so many stories of families ruined by healthcare expenses. As far as si...
[11:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:33] <exec> 08└─Why has no one done a Trumpbot.
[11:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:51] <exec> 08└─Don't ever eat smoked goods. Yes, do consume as much nitrite preserved salami as you like.
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[12:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:31] <exec> 08└─so it's OK
[12:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:32] <exec> 08└─I only visit places I can get to by walking or bicycle. Looking at photos and videos from around the world, priceless. <sarcasm>And for everything else there is Mastercard.</sarcasm>
[12:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:34] <exec> 08└─We need to increase gas emissions else where in order to lessen the % of impact from tourism.
[12:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:37] <exec> 08└─I take the bus to and from the grocery store, so I can fuel up and wear my VR helmet.
[12:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:39] <exec> 08└─Soon we'll all be going on holiday by rocket instead: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[12:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:41] <exec> 08└─I can bike to Venice :P
[12:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:43] <exec> 08└─I can bike to Niagara Falls. Want to trade VR feeds?
[12:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Posed as ISIS to Threaten U.S. Military Wives - 1353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:54] <exec> 08└─Which is why any "we're seeing cyber-attacks from China" thing is an absolute load of nonsense without proof. Not just "the packet came from an IP registered in China" but actually proof that the author / instigator of the attack was somehow a Chinese state actor. We've had people in the Whitehouse...
[12:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 1277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:04] <exec> 08└─One possible explanation for this discrepancy in measurements of the Hubble Constant is that the Milky Way and most of the nearby galaxies are actually inside a big void [soylentnews.org] (the KBC void). So that means if you try to measure the Hubble Constant by observing relatively nearby galaxies...
[12:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:06] <exec> 08└─So the answer to life, the universe and everything might be 73, or 67 or 42. Why does it have to be just one of them? Can't we just declare that it's an non strict interval between 42 and 73 or that it's an array {42,67,73} ?
[12:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:52] <exec> 08└─The Final Solution: hang up.
[12:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:53] <exec> 08└─https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PtXtIivRRKQ [youtube.com]
[12:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:55] <exec> 08└─What? You think that our own realDonaldTrump is a person? No one could possibly stay in character that long...
[12:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Human Ear Grown on Forearm for Transplant - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:51] <exec> 08└─Does the title seem a little misleading? They didn't grow an actual outer ear, they grew an outer ear shaped piece of cartilage. I was expecting to read about them taking a stem cell and inducing it to grow into an actual anatomically correct outer ear, not a simulacrum of one.
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[13:17:31] <exec> 08└─Let's test this . . wow! what a difference. . .
[13:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:32] <exec> 08└─Many moons ago I worked at a (US) Federally Funded Research and Development Center, which housed a number of scientists and their 'administrative assistance'. Those poor bastards were basically technical writers, who had to reformat everything handed-in by the eggheads before it was sent in. There w...
[13:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:35] <exec> 08└─This study is garbage. They did the study using a monospaced font, and then just hand-waved at the end saying "well, it should apply to proportional fonts too". Bullshit. The two-space thing only makes sense on monospaced fonts, and came about because typewriters were monospaced, unlike printing pre...
[13:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:37] <exec> 08└─This study is garbage. They did the study using a monospaced font, and then just hand-waved at the end saying "well, it should apply to proportional fonts too". Bullshit.
[13:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:39] <exec> 08└─https://www.xkcd.com/1285/ [xkcd.com] How was this not in the summary? Truly, a most vexing omission. > from the BBC-thinks-it's-a-paragraph-break-after-a-period dept. To be fair, I find BBC articles quite a bit more readable than other newspapers. It doesn't work for long articles, but for a typica...
[13:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:42] <exec> 08└─I prefer newlines as sentence separators in my monospaced text files. Newlines make great separators after commas as well, especially when writing a lengthy subordinate clause. There again, I'm a LaTeX user.
[13:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:55] <exec> 08└─"Global tourism causes 10th of all greenhouse gas emissions" "Domestic and international tourism account for eight percent of total worldwide carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions" "The aviation industry accounts for two percent of all human-generated C02 emissions" Pick 1 out of 3.
[13:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:56] <exec> 08└─#2 + #3 = #1 5 = 1 50 = 10 50% of all emissions caused by tourrorists.
[13:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Posed as ISIS to Threaten U.S. Military Wives - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:07] <exec> 08└─And that's precisely why we need to STOP the Mueller investigation.
[13:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:18] <exec> 08└─You mean binary tree.
[13:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:20] <exec> 08└─Except that the gravitational effect of a hollow sphere on masses inside it is exactly zero. So you don't get acceleration towards the edge. The reason is that while the near edge is nearer, the far edge has more mass in the same solid angle. While the attraction per mass goes like 1/r², the mass p...
[13:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:22] <exec> 08└─69 was tremendous for me. And 71 is amazing!
[13:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:24] <exec> 08└─Why can't the answer be a vector?
[13:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:26] <exec> 08└─I think the point is that there is evidence for a non-constant constant i.e. new physics (variable speed of light etc).
[13:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Who Controls Tor's DNS Traffic? An Analysis of the Tor DNS Landscape - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:36] <exec> 08└─any good up-and-coming search engine would start by providing and obviously logging "dns" resolution. from the logs, then, a good search engine could be built. how this might lead to a "plug-in" for tor that enables a decentralized searchable web-page database is left to the reader.
[13:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Who Controls Tor's DNS Traffic? An Analysis of the Tor DNS Landscape - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:38] <exec> 08└─So you say they changed from distributing illegal evil to distributing legal evil?
[13:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 4954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:49] <exec> 08└─No commentary on OPs tmux settings? I'll go for it, since I use tmux every day. 1) OP's setting prefix2 to C-a, like why? I'm a C-z guy it just seems more natural. If you ever get stuck editing something remotely thru a SSH using emacs, you can "work around" something messing with C-z but its hard t...
[13:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Ear Grown on Forearm for Transplant - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:18] <exec> 08└─Many people thought the fact that I kept my heart on my sleeve was an endearing quality. Others only complained about the blood dripping everywhere.
[13:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:07] <exec> 08└─(cont) We want to thank Kim Jong-un, who really was EXCELLENT to these three incredible people! They are really three incredible people. And the fact that we were able to get them out so soon was really a tribute to a lot of things, including a certain process that’s taking place right now.
[13:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:08] <exec> 08└─And even if you had such a shelter, and it was well defended or remote that nobody would get there, what kind of life would that be? Forget the nuclear winter, just a dozen nukes on the eastern seaboard would cause a massive change in lifestyle for the U.S. You don't win a nuclear war, at most you l...
[13:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine Serious About Returning to the Moon - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:28] <exec> 08└─Nope, even Trump doesn't spew as much bullshit as Oprah has. I'm serious here: if the dumb-ass Democrats nominate fucking Oprah in 2020, I'm voting for Trump. I will not vote for someone who's peddled as much pseudoscientific bullshit as Oprah. At least Trump *tried* to make money somewhat honestly,...
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[14:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon-Rich Asteroid Identified in the Kuiper Belt - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:31] <exec> 08└─Thank goodness! This discovery comes in the nick of time. The world's supply of carbon has been nearly exhausted by the demand for carbon paper. Asteroid mining, now!
[14:17:44] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:45] <exec> 08└─your word processor will automatically put the correct amount of space between two sentences
[14:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:46] <exec> 08└─This study is garbage.
[14:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:48] <exec> 08└─Lets cross out the irrelevant stuff leaving us with Psychological
[14:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:51] <exec> 08└─Who need more space during a period? Women.
[14:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:53] <exec> 08└─the correct amount of space between two sentences (which is actually more than one space, and less than two).
[14:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 1827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:55] <exec> 08└─I learned to type decades ago in high school. Coincidentally, right when I got my first access to a computer about the time BYTE magazine got started. What perfect timing to be enrolled in Typing 1. After the first six weeks, I knew all I needed for the rest of my life! Everything else in the class...
[14:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:57] <exec> 08└─Oh - and one more dot-point for two-space advocacy... if; let's say; my publisher demands "single spacing". No problem - that's a mundane search-and-replace. Going the other way; from one space to two; requires manual confirmation for each replacement.
[14:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:59] <exec> 08└─ANYGOODCRYPTOGRAPHERKNOWSTHATPUNCTUATIONSPACESANDLETTERCASEARESUPERFLUOUSTOUNDERSTANDINGOFTHEMESSAGE
[14:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:02] <exec> 08└─How was this not in the summary?
[14:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:04] <exec> 08└─Sadly, working out what constitutes a sentence is something we imagine is easy but turns out to be very much harder in practice. The canonical stumbling block are abbreviations, such as "M. Lentilla" - one sentence, or two?
[14:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:06] <exec> 08└─I don't know where the one-space convention started.
[14:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:22] <exec> 08└─The first two stats are incompatible, but the third one could fit with one of the others: Aviation CO2 will only be a part of Tourism CO2: Tourists also burn CO2 via other means of travel, also there is the footprint of their food and accommodation etc...
[14:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:23] <exec> 08└─They don't eat at home and in a foreign country simultaneously. Also for an economic system built around few are rich and most are poor, that would imply the number of accommodations built for tourists would be a very small additional load on the planet, likewise all the "get no vacation" meme impli...
[14:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but you're only starting in Santa Monica so what's the big deal? Or are you talking about the other Venice?
[14:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, these goofy stories do make the rounds. Yesterday I saw one that claimed "half the world has been destroyed by turning it into farmland!!!" Its map included the Sahara Desert and the American West, which I guarantee you are not wall-to-wall farms. 3-4 years ago it was "Fukushima is poisoning th...
[14:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:54] <exec> 08└─I'm sure it was, unfortunately it apparently wasn't earth moving for Mrs. Daniels.
[14:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:55] <exec> 08└─I believe you mispronounce Hubba Bubba https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:57] <exec> 08└─I don't want megaparsecs, I prefer Attoparsecs. [wikipedia.org] Very conveniently, 1 attoparsec per microfortnight is 1.0043268 inches per second. Very close.
[14:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:00] <exec> 08└─Does this mean that "light speed" travel might be possible as the speed of light may be variable depending on local conditions?
[14:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:02] <exec> 08└─The boundary of the void may not be a sphere. It may not even be evenly populated.
[14:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:04] <exec> 08└─I can't stand the stress of a vector victor. That would make me tensor and tensor.
[14:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:26] <exec> 08└─Tmux is well-written
[14:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:28] <exec> 08└─And then there's screen, where some parts of the source code are a little mysterious.
[14:19:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:47] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCLLAJDF1fM [youtube.com]
[14:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:59] <exec> 08└─Hmm. I am not well versed in the events of the 18th and 19th century in Europe. Is the French revolution unlike the others listed? My naïve understanding might have me list the American Revolution beside Al Quaida, Boko Haram, and ISIS as revolutions that came about with foreign material aid (Franc...
[14:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:01] <exec> 08└─It could also be that the Luddites suffered a massive capitalist propaganda campaign to portray their protest over low wages and the alienation from production inherent in factory labor (sometimes expressed contrapositively with terms such as workmanship, seems to me) as an anti-technology movement,...
[14:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:03] <exec> 08└─That would be AS - Artificial Stupidity.
[14:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:05] <exec> 08└─I want an AI that's programmed to mess with telemarketers and other nuisance callers. I want one I can plant into their systems so that they're constantly calling themselves, and trying to sell each other vacation deals to Florida. I want one that will route all such calls to members of Congress and...
[14:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:07] <exec> 08└─sounds like it may be easier to just use their webpage to set up an appointment. maybe there will be an app for that, rather than this whole human imitating thing. chances are good that I personally will just stop using the phone to make and receive calls, once it is clear that the people I used to...
[14:21:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 654 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:12] <exec> 08└─I would love a free open source alternative to Windows that wouldn't require switching to different programs, fiddling with Wine, dual-booting, or just doing without. ReactOS could be that free open source alternative, but it's not ready yet. Despite the huge improvement over just a few years ago, i...
[14:21:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 882 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:16] <exec> 08└─I'm not him and I do not, but this seems informative: https://reactos.org Looks like quite a few programs run well or with only minor issues but a great many more have serious problems. I gather that the OS itself is actually pretty stable. I have been rooting for this project f...
[14:21:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 220 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:24] <exec> 08└─I would imagine that the project will need to spend considerable time to ensure compatibility with all of the various exploits that Windows offers. After all, a lot of effort went into developing them in the first place!
[14:21:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 3027 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:35] <exec> 08└─They've just put in NTFS support. The first public version of NTFS came out in 1993. 5 years from now you won't have a free open-source Windows-compatible OS, if it takes them 25 years to get a filesystem in there (one that's been in Linux and other OS for quite a while with several implementations...
[14:21:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:56] <exec> 08└─When your poor choices affect my health and the pursuit of happiness. You want to smoke, that's fine. Just don't do it in my face.
[14:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:29] <exec> 08└─Ok, you need a mechanism... It isn't hard: The predominant effects of nicotine in humans include increased release of catecholamines into the bloodstream that increase pulse rate and blood pressure, the release of plasma free fatty acids, and the mobilization of blood glucose
[14:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:31] <exec> 08└─It sounds like a funny video, is it online?
[14:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:33] <exec> 08└─i understood what he wrote to have an implicit 'to ensure your good health', as opposed to a moral imperative that you follow the decree of his benevolent authoritarian based decision making. of course, if you regularly do unhealthy things and drive without a seatbelt and have a heart attack while d...
[14:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch on Friday [Updated 3] - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:00] <exec> 08└─10 boosters, should suffice for handling any remaining Falcon 9 flights.
[14:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:16] <exec> 08└─Know anyone who does this type of thing? I mean I have a raspberry pi Im not using for anything so in theory I could just get a screen and a case and make my own.
[14:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:17] <exec> 08└─Have you considered using a low-profile heaphone/microphone plug to trick the hardware into thinking there's an external microphone? It won't work on all devices, but might work on yours. https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
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[15:17:31] <exec> 08└─Look it up. [youtube.com] What you think you know is wrong.
[15:17:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:41] <exec> 08└─This study is garbage. They did the study using a monospaced font, and then just hand-waved at the end saying "well, it should apply to proportional fonts too". Bullshit.
[15:17:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 1827 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:50] <exec> 08└─I learned to type decades ago in high school. Coincidentally, right when I got my first access to a computer about the time BYTE magazine got started. What perfect timing to be enrolled in Typing 1. After the first six weeks, I knew all I needed for the rest of my life! Everything else in the class...
[15:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:00] <exec> 08└─In HTML, spaces and certain other characters are treated as "whitespace" which is a single thing. but what happens if I have whitespace on a dark themed web page?
[15:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:02] <exec> 08└─Putting frequent newlines in standard places (such as between sentences and around lengthy subordinate clauses) helps revision control make precision differences. Making the newline wait for a new paragraph makes it hard to see what actually changed in the paragraph, and makes merge conflicts more l...
[15:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:04] <exec> 08└─I wonder whether the tendency of people to drop the last period in acronyms (A.P.A) is related to this? Or if it's just a stylistic thing that artists like to put on album covers and the mimics can't be bothered to do it the right way. And then there's the whole double period thing, too. No, not an...
[15:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:06] <exec> 08└─Let me ask the TeX experts. What do you do if you want your document to contain a symmetrical double quote? Like the ASCII double quote. TeX seems to convert them to an asymmetrical one.
[15:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:09] <exec> 08└─This study is garbage....just hand-waved at the end
[15:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:11] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, with HTML, you have to do things that look odd. That is, until they are rendered. Then, they look normal. Well, normal-ish.
[15:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:13] <exec> 08└─I don't know where the one-space convention started
[15:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Myfyr [3654] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:33] <exec> 08└─The first two stats are incompatible
[15:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Posed as ISIS to Threaten U.S. Military Wives - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:45] <exec> 08└─The U.S. literally invaded Siberia at one point.
[15:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Posed as ISIS to Threaten U.S. Military Wives - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:46] <exec> 08└─the same Russian hacking group, APT28 aka FancyBear, that intervened in the American election and exposed the emails of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta
[15:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:09] <exec> 08└─But then you'll get an inhomogeneous acceleration towards specific places (like the Great Attractor [wikipedia.org]), not a homogeneous acceleration towards the edge. Of course such inhomogeneous acceleration can be identified and calculated out of the equation (guess how they found the Great Attrac...
[15:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:10] <exec> 08└─I hereby declare a new unit of Belongies (B). One B is a set range between 1.595 and 1.738 km/s/∆MPc You may now rest assured that The Answer can be expressed as 42 B by itself, with my compliments. You may even just leave off the unit designation since everybody knows what a B is now.
[15:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:12] <exec> 08└─Vectors imply force, which makes the answer to life kinda rapey ...
[15:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:15] <exec> 08└─Roger, Oveur. Done, Dan.
[15:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:39] <exec> 08└─tmux (or screen) are what you want when you SSH into a system that doesn't have any GUI. Yes, such "headless" Linux configurations actually do exist. Both on Cloud Servers (VPS), and on headless Raspberry PIs. Otherwise, Terminator sounds like a nice GUI program. But in a GUI, I've never needed anyt...
[15:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:41] <exec> 08└─If I don't have to see how the hamburger is made, then maybe I don't mind too much.
[15:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:43] <exec> 08└─So are the president's. Thus, you're in good high class company.
[15:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:45] <exec> 08└─Definitely agree with 3!
[15:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:21] <exec> 08└─https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/01/16/meet-trumpbot-the-bot-that-tries-to-talk-like-trump/ [washingtonpost.com] Using Markov Chains [wikipedia.org], of course.
[15:20:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:22] <exec> 08└─I enjoy that when I entered in "weather", about 25% of the time it talked about the weather, 25% of the time it talked about "weather underground" (not sure if its the terrorist group or the weather prediction site) and 50% of the time it used it as the word "whether". Seems pretty accurate to me.
[15:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:25] <exec> 08└─They demonstrated "my" robot talking to "their" human. What is way more useful is my robot to get their robot to get a human on the line for me. Easier to implement as well. Android app anybody? A longer term dev plan would be to get 3rd level support and/or a real manager.
[15:21:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:31] <exec> 08└─Modded you insightful because there's no 'Amen, brother' mod.
[15:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:51] <exec> 08└─Or just pay off some people in order to sue ReactOS out of existence if it ever gets close to usable, regardless of the fact it's a clean-room implementation.
[15:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:49] <exec> 08└─I do try to stay away from all smoked goods as they taste like smoke. Which isn't a flavor I enjoy.
[15:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:50] <exec> 08└─I'm fine with the current laws regarding smoking. It's about as good as we can get when taking into account personal freedom and public health.
[15:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch on Friday [Updated 3] - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:19] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the correction! Still, 300 flights using just 30-50 Block 5 cores is a whole lot less cost to SpaceX than 300 (no re-use), or 150 (single re-use) cores.
[15:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:44] <exec> 08└─All great and wonderful that one wants to lower costs. It is easy to lower costs in space and air travel. The easiest way to do so would be to conveniently ignore any regulations that you don't want to follow, like all those pesky safety aspects. Uber has lots of experience trying to get around regu...
[15:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber's Flying Cars - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:45] <exec> 08└─Never believe a smiling, attractive person who makes promises about tech!
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[16:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:29] <exec> 08└─What, magic dogs? Magic beans? Is there any actual proof they "smell" blood sugar, or perhaps the ketones (which even us humans can perceive)?
[16:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:31] <exec> 08└─"backed by science"? They should have said ""backed by God". Then nobody would be able to disprove them no matter how much evidence there is against, and nobody would question when the dogs rape their owners up the butt.
[16:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:33] <exec> 08└─It is not uncommon for people to get donations from others toward purchase of a service dog (of all types, not just diabetes) - so the money is not their own, they get a scam dog, and they are too embarrassed to tell their donors that their money was wasted. I wonder what Charles Warren Jr.'s exit p...
[16:17:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:56] <exec> 08└─Who need more space during a period? Women.
[16:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:14] <exec> 08└─The article makes it sound like "space" was an actual thing placed in documents. I know about word-break, sentence-break, and paragraph-break, but how those are actually displayed is determined by the users style choice isn't it? I mean, sure, sentence break is usually represented by a period, thoug...
[16:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:16] <exec> 08└─How was this not in the summary? Truly, a most vexing omission.
[16:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:18] <exec> 08└─'administrative assistance'
[16:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:20] <exec> 08└─This study is garbage.
[16:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:23] <exec> 08└─Search around for TeX "straight quotes" or "dumb quotes". I got a few results, but there doesn't seem to be a "canonical" way, everyone seems to have their own, and it's always clumsy to use and/or has some caveats. The best I've seen seems to be the macro "\textquotedbl", but the required includes...
[16:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:25] <exec> 08└─10% seems like a huge overstatement. It's probably more of a 1%, 0.1%, or even 0.01% range. Don't confuse "people on tech forums" with "general populace" :) Anyway, I'm a non-religious one-spacer, but I completely agree with you on the Oxford comma.
[16:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:27] <exec> 08└─As someone (DannyB?) pointed out above, touch-type for long enough and you don't think. You just type. Sentence separators for me are just automatic - I hit two spaces when I separate sentences. The real question to me is: What is the harm with two spaces? (And did they even touch colons? Probably n...
[16:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 1260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:29] <exec> 08└─Well, I respect you, but honestly I'm not sure what to make of your opinion, which I think is likely uninformed in this case. If this were an exploratory study in an area that no one had ever investigated empirically before, I might have a view similar to yours. However, that's not true. This is a w...
[16:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:50] <exec> 08└─First of all, it isn't just Syrians. It's lots of Moslems and people from Africa, obviously with lots of overlap. Syrians are a small part of it. Second of all, exponential growth determines the result. Native Europeans have less than 2 children per woman, so they are currently on a path to extincti...
[16:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:52] <exec> 08└─The left taunts the right: 1. says the right is failing to care about global warming 2. says the right never gets out anywhere to see different cultures around the world and -- gasp -- might not even have a passport Well now. Us on the right are just saving Earth.
[16:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Posed as ISIS to Threaten U.S. Military Wives - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:06] <exec> 08└─I can send you a packet now, today, from just about any nation state in the world, Yes, but only if you remember to turn on your VPN! Guccifer 2.0 Outed As Russian Spy By VPN Slip Up: Report [ibtimes.com]
[16:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:32] <exec> 08└─2019 will be great for the rest of us. (after you are impeached.)
[16:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:40] <exec> 08└─HowTo: Pwn Telemarketers with Lenny https://web.archive.org Asterisk Telemarketer Torture https://www.voip-info.org Five great ways to annoy telemarketers with Asterisk https://i...
[16:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03hereweareagain [6590] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canonical Releases New Kernel Live Patch for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS & Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:53] <exec> 08└─This came out on May 2 and I had already updated my kernel, but thanks for the warning
[16:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:17] <exec> 08└─In 2005 military drill a single Sweden diesel submarine was able to sink an entire US aircraft group after sneaking under the sonars https://www.popularmechanics.com [popularmechanics.com] The US supposedly improved the detecti...
[16:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:11] <exec> 08└─Honestly, by the time ReactOS is just a "download, install, run" kind of thing, it'll be our kids saying "Oh, yeah, I remember having to install programs... look man, they have the version of Skype before Microsoft messed it up".
[16:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:11] <exec> 08└─Lighten up, Francis.
[16:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch on Friday [Updated 3] - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:40] <exec> 08└─It was an annoyance for United Launch Alliance, who then demanded that the bureaucrats follow the letter of the law exactly.
[16:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New--and Likely Final--Version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 to Launch on Friday [Updated 3] - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:42] <exec> 08└─Two is an oligopoly. They collude to raise prices. It's effectively a cartel. You're doing OK when nobody has more than 15% market share (any way you measure it) and you're doing well when nobody has more than 10% market share.
[16:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask the Community: In the Market for a Modern Tablet - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:02] <exec> 08└─Very interesting idea, thanks. Although for the tablet I have never once even used the mic or cameras (unlike my phone) so would probably just remove them. Of course it would be better to not pay for that hardware to begin with but that seems impossible these days.
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[17:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:39] <exec> 08└─Hey, but at least when capitalism blows up in your face, you'll have an untrained puppy to clean up after. That'll keep you busy while you're dying of low blood sugar.
[17:17:40] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:40] <exec> 08└─It is not uncommon for people to get donations from others toward purchase of a service dog (of all types, not just diabetes)
[17:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:42] <exec> 08└─We have to euthanize them all now.
[17:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:45] <exec> 08└─There have been studies done on it and they can it. However they seem to have a high false-positive rate (although a low false-negative rate). In this case it seems this outfit just fraudulently sold untrained animals.
[17:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:47] <exec> 08└─Who? The dogs, the owners, or the seller??
[17:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:49] <exec> 08└─Yes.
[17:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:51] <exec> 08└─No proof that they smell blood sugar, but there might be a breath give away, IDK. Most likely the REAL blood sugar dogs are reacting to behavior, especially of children or elderly who might not understand their own symptoms. This is just another example of fake service dogs epidemic in this country....
[17:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:54] <exec> 08└─We have to euthanize them all now.
[17:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon-Rich Asteroid Identified in the Kuiper Belt - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:03] <exec> 08└─Quack quack quack
[17:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon-Rich Asteroid Identified in the Kuiper Belt - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:06] <exec> 08└─Lighten up. Enjoy a little banter; enjoy a little intrigue; enjoy a mind expansion. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. —Aristotle
[17:18:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 22 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:20] <exec> 08└─This study is garbage.
[17:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:48] <exec> 08└─No, I'm not a one-spacer or a two-spacer. I made my position clear, but apparently most people are just too fucking stupid to understand anything besides being on Team A or Team B.
[17:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:49] <exec> 08└─Really? "VLM should be the subject of psychological research." They seem to go together just fine.
[17:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:52] <exec> 08└─And then there's the whole double period thing, too. No, not an ellipsis: *two* periods at the end of a sentence. It's probably just laziness and/or a typographical error, exacerbated by the input method (a tactile feedback-less touchscreen, rather than some kind of key).
[17:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:54] <exec> 08└─Coders that prefer tabs should themselves be marinated within a giant vat of Tab soda. Disco music should be turned up to 11 and they should be left to contemplate their sin. But otherwise spot on.
[17:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:56] <exec> 08└─See? Function overloading is bad! English uses the same symbol for ending a sentence and (in America) for separating the fractional part from the whole part of a decimal number, and for abbreviations and ellipses. ASCII mostly copied typewriters, which overloaded symbols everywhere possible. Old mec...
[17:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:58] <exec> 08└─Studies like this are fine as long as they clearly state the limits of the study. No one uses monospace fonts these days, except maybe programmers or people writing simple text files, so it really isn't applicable. If they want to do a study using actual modern fonts, with actual modern software (wh...
[17:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:01] <exec> 08└─No kidding. . It's ridiculous having to put in other characters to get the spacing I want between lines.
[17:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:03] <exec> 08└─PDFs often have newlines between each word, or even within words.
[17:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:05] <exec> 08└─I would reverse the question: Where did the two-space convention start? It started with the popular usage of the typewriter. In professional typesetting before that, typesetters (like the people who typeset books for printing) put in extra space between sentences for readability. It wasn't "one spac...
[17:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:07] <exec> 08└─I'll take a guess that the two space convention predates using computers for text. The convention originates in an ancient dark time of pain and anguish when people used typewriters. Ancient typewriters were monospace. I'll suppose the two space convention is a result. I'm not against single space (...
[17:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:10] <exec> 08└─Agree. It would be more productive to argue about spaces vs tabs.
[17:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:12] <exec> 08└─No, they really don't need any experiment. Professional typesetters have been putting extra space between sentences in books for literally *centuries* now. This two-space thing only came about because of typewriters in the 20th century. Well, no one uses typewriters any more, and only programmers us...
[17:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:14] <exec> 08└─Try to explain that to a python programmer.
[17:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:16] <exec> 08└─Careful with those , they can lead to odd line wrapping.
[17:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:19] <exec> 08└─TeX manages to get this right in almost all cases (in English, at least), using the same rules that it used in the '70s. I think the default space size that it uses for new sentences is around 1.5 times the normal space size for the line (which is variable in justified text).
[17:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Posed as ISIS to Threaten U.S. Military Wives - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:55] <exec> 08└─That's a non sequitur. If the primary evidence Mueller was investigating were packets sent from Russia, then yes, I'd say that's the issue. But as far as I can tell he's mostly been following chains of conversations and cash between individuals, which is (A) unrelated to GP's point, and (B) a lot mo...
[17:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Posed as ISIS to Threaten U.S. Military Wives - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:56] <exec> 08└─Russia has been intervening in US elections since before 2916.
[17:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ngc3242 [1455] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:25] <exec> 08└─Back in the 2017-11-02 issue of Nature, a paper was published based on LIGO measurements of an event in a relatively nearby galaxy (NGC 4993) that puts H0 at 70 km/s/Mpc (+12/-8). The preprint of the paper is at https://arxiv.org [arxiv.org] The actual paper is at https://www.nature.c...
[17:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:26] <exec> 08└─Maybe a tuple which is less stressful than a tensor.
[17:20:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:28] <exec> 08└─The problem is, as stated in a post above, "Why can't the results be a vector?". I realize that this would violate the Copernican hypothesis, but there's really only a very small amount of data that indicates that space has no preferred orientation. So it could well be different along different axis...
[17:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:57] <exec> 08└─i3 locally, tmux remotely, vim either way. Tiles in tiles in tiles, dawg.
[17:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:58] <exec> 08└─I just open another ssh connection to the server in terminator's split screen. Not tmux or screen required.
[17:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:00] <exec> 08└─Oh, and I'm well aware of SFTP. Look up "sshfs", it's very useful. You can mount a path on ssh like a regular filesystem via FUSE. I use it a lot.
[17:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:03] <exec> 08└─I don't care if the remote system doesn't have a GUI, my local one does. My terminal emulator sets a UUID in an environment variable, so I use a small script to ssh to remote systems that sets up a tmux session at the remote end with that name and uses autossh. If I move between networks, or reboot...
[17:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:43] <exec> 08└─Sir, you are confusing Siri with Google Assistant.
[17:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:44] <exec> 08└─Why won't the poor people just die.
[17:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:46] <exec> 08└─Soon enough small businesses will be able to buy an AI box provided by Microsoft that answers phone calls placed by Google Duplex.
[17:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:48] <exec> 08└─AI - Artificial Insanity.
[17:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:51] <exec> 08└─Today I will call my insurance company to ask essentially one question - "Where is the money?" I will give them all my personal information. I will give them all my case files/numbers. They will look up all this crap in the system. They will then say one of two things: 1) the check is in the mail (u...
[17:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:27] <exec> 08└─I doubt that. If long range detection can't keep up, there are other counter-measures they could pursue. A hemisphere of submersible drones doesn't seem unreasonable. Aircraft carriers are too important for global dominance -- consider the godawful amounts of money we already throw at them, and ask...
[17:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:22] <exec> 08└─Hardware compatibility used to be a huge issue. Driver compatibility issues. Etc. That's at least how bad it used to be. I haven't played with it much recently, but I usually fire up a ReactOS instance in a VM when they do a new release. It seems to be pretty stable nowadays, but they recommend not...
[17:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:23] <exec> 08└─I do have similar concerns, but the one thing they have going for them is that they're not in the US. Otherwise, I'm sure they would have already been sued and the project would have died years ago.
[17:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:24] <exec> 08└─Hilariously if I follow the citation (107) for that claim there is nothing about glucose at all. The medical literature is great!
[17:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:25] <exec> 08└─More sources though: Both groups showed an increase of glycemia following smoking, more marked, however, in the group of diabetics. In 16 cases the experience was repeated once more, and an even higher increase of the blood glucose values was recorded as a result of the new nicotine charge. Converse...
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[18:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:49] <exec> 08└─Is there any actual proof they "smell" blood sugar, or perhaps the ketones (which even us humans can perceive)? Yes, apparently what they smell is isoprene. [gizmodo.com] They do need to be trained to do so, of course.
[18:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:50] <exec> 08└─The airlines are finally starting to push back, demanding medical certificates from doctors, training certificates for the dogs.
[18:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:52] <exec> 08└─Most likely the REAL blood sugar dogs are reacting to behavior, especially of children or elderly who might not understand their own symptoms.
[18:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:55] <exec> 08└─In the case of at least one organization (Guide Dogs for the Blind), there are no charges for the blind person to receive a dog. More than that, Guide Dogs pays for blind people to fly to their campus and spend 2 weeks on site to receive and be trained to handle their dog. Later, a trainer will visi...
[18:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:57] <exec> 08└─It's worth noting this paragraph from that article (my emphasis): Alavian is mistaken about that. Contrary to what many business managers think, having an emotional-support card merely means that one’s pet is registered in a database of animals whose owners have paid anywhere from seventy to two h...
[18:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:03] <exec> 08└─That's way easier than just hitting the biggest button on the keyboard twice!
[18:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:05] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the universe is unknowable therefore my BS is the same as your science. I'm pretty sure it is possible to study the lump of logic circuitry that lives between the ears of most humans.
[18:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 1850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:07] <exec> 08└─I heard a radio talk show host use almost those same words this morning. They were chatting back and forth, when the gay DJ mentioned that this is the 50th (or maybe the 60th) anniversary of "The Pill" - aka contraceptive pill. The loud guy who talks over his fellow hosts all the time made some inan...
[18:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:09] <exec> 08└─I remember complaining to grade school teachers about flip flopping grammar rules. Then you get into high school and college and the ever changing footnote formatting. Not as bad now, but before word processors when you had to perform magic on the typewriter to get it to make special characters at 1...
[18:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:11] <exec> 08└─Gmail is my word processor. Automatic backup, spelling check and versioning. It's very light weight, responsive and available from most any device. When I'm done I cut and paste into to wysiwyg formatting software de jure, run a few macros and I'm done.
[18:19:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 701 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, these goofy stories do make the rounds. Yesterday I saw one that claimed "half the world has been destroyed by turning it into farmland!!!" Its map included the Sahara Desert and the American West, which I guarantee you are not wall-to-wall farms. 3-4 years ago it was "Fukushima is poisoning th...
[18:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:34] <exec> 08└─Niagara Falls! Slowly I turn. Step by step...
[18:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:36] <exec> 08└─Anyone in the USA can drive to Venice. So long as they aren't trying to go to the one in Italy.
[18:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Posed as ISIS to Threaten U.S. Military Wives - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:52] <exec> 08└─The supposed group that supposedly did a thing has supposedly done another thing. The US military invades a country and somebody else sends them threatening tweets in response. Who are the bad guys in this scenario?
[18:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 1302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:23] <exec> 08└─We both know the 115th Congress isn't going to impeach me. Because I have too many loyal guys & gals in there. The 116th starts on Jan. 3. And maybe the VERY CROOKED Dems will rig enough elections, get enough seats, that I could be impeached. That could happen. You know that there's a trial, right?...
[18:20:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 4954 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:45] <exec> 08└─No commentary on OPs tmux settings? I'll go for it, since I use tmux every day. 1) OP's setting prefix2 to C-a, like why? I'm a C-z guy it just seems more natural. If you ever get stuck editing something remotely thru a SSH using emacs, you can "work around" something messing with C-z but its hard t...
[18:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:57] <exec> 08└─tmux expects a system with UTF-8 support. Period. It doesn't need to be able to display UTF-8 to the screen, but internally, it depends on having UTF-8 support available.
[18:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canonical Releases New Kernel Live Patch for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS & Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:55] <exec> 08└─I always thought it was Red Hat who was going to be bought out, but you might be on to something. Ubuntu makes a better platform for a Microsoft to bolt its crapware onto for the point and click crowd and Ubuntu's server customer base is closer to Microsoft's target base. Likewise, there will be les...
[18:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:17] <exec> 08└─Please note that ReactOS is open source. "Blackbox programs" exist in the Linux world too. Nowadays you can get many open source programs for Windows PCs too. React OS + open source programs would fit the bill. The only reason I still use Windows is because I am a PC gamer. At least with a computer...
[18:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:18] <exec> 08└─They could be baking in the same exploitable vulnerabilities or they could be coming up with compatible, but not exploitable implementations thereof. Ensuring compatibility with Windows applications doesn't mean they have to be creating the same vulnerabilities. The underlying code won't be a 1:1 ma...
[18:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Watch: Mac OS X 10.4 Running in Windows Alternative ReactOS via PearPC Emulator - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:20] <exec> 08└─Please note until recently, they were fairly unpolished and had very few contributors. They recently switched to github and have for the past few years been coordinating with the Wine dev team. Or at least stealing from and I assume adding to Wine dev. I've not really looked into it very much. Yes,...
[18:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:23] <exec> 08└─But smoking allows you to both live shorter and drastically increase your cancer risk at the same time. Two smoker's lungs with one stone!
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[19:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Scraps Plan For $1 Billion Data Center In Ireland - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:28] <exec> 08└─Delays ... right. I'm sure this has nothing to do with Apple suddenly realizing that having their stuff in Ireland came with actual tax requirements ($16B overdue) or personal data storage rules (same reason why facebook is moving non-EU users to US storage/rules).
[19:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:58] <exec> 08└─Guide Dogs for the Blind gets funding from somewhere, probably not far off from $25K per dog placed in service, maybe a bit less since they just have to screen and wait-list recipients - which should be cheaper than sales and marketing for placement with paying customers. $25K is a realistic cost fo...
[19:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:59] <exec> 08└─My coworker has a teen daughter who went to college and subsequently decided to get a kitten. She wasn't allowed pets in the apartment, so she paid $50 for an "emotional support" animal card for the kitten. He finds it funny. That drives me nuts.
[19:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:01] <exec> 08└─The airlines are finally starting to push back
[19:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon-Rich Asteroid Identified in the Kuiper Belt - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:11] <exec> 08└─I thought the plan was to encourage space exploration with "Hey everyone! There's coal in the asteroid belt! Go get it!"
[19:18:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 953 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:22] <exec> 08└─This study is garbage. They did the study using a monospaced font, and then just hand-waved at the end saying "well, it should apply to proportional fonts too". Bullshit. The two-space thing only makes sense on monospaced fonts, and came about because typewriters were monospaced, unlike printing pre...
[19:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:15] <exec> 08└─/s Sorry, forgot.
[19:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:17] <exec> 08└─``like that''
[19:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:19] <exec> 08└─Lorem ipsum or fake.
[19:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:43] <exec> 08└─They don't have a RORO ferry between Kenai and Beringovski, yet ?
[19:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Posed as ISIS to Threaten U.S. Military Wives - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:02] <exec> 08└─Will not comment on whether the article is fake news or not, but I do not discriminate based on the nationality of anyone who lets me know that my "masters" are breaking the law.
[19:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russian Hackers Posed as ISIS to Threaten U.S. Military Wives - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:03] <exec> 08└─Even if it turned out that there never was any interaction whatsoever between Trump and Russia ... Mueller is actually draining the swamp and scaring politicos. We need more Mueller investigations: Tell him to review the Capitol Cafeteria menu for potential Zimbabwean influence, and we'll end up wit...
[19:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:08] <exec> 08└─fish is awesome, it is like a fast zsh
[19:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:32] <exec> 08└─At sea, the bigger the boat the faster it can go and speed is important. So, no, underwater drones will not do.
[19:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peace Dividend? - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:12] <exec> 08└─Part of my point is that the US doesn't even need to get close to being hit in order for nuclear war to be a big problem for USAians. As another example, if Israel nuked Iran into the ground and nobody retaliated, that would also do enough to trigger serious problems for everybody else.
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[20:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Scraps Plan For $1 Billion Data Center In Ireland - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:39] <exec> 08└─I'm skeptical of the delays being the real reason too, but I don't think it's anything to do with Ireland being in the EU for tax reasons either. From TFS: A similar Apple center announced at the same time in Denmark was due to begin operations last year and Apple announced in July that it would bui...
[20:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Apple Scraps Plan For $1 Billion Data Center In Ireland - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe you heard about the beautiful Five Year Plan by Apple. To invest $350 BILLION in the USA. 🇺🇸 Pay $38 BILLION in taxes to the USA. 🇺🇸 And bring 20,000 JOBS back to the USA! 🇺🇸 All because of me -- and our great Republicans in Congress. Who worked very hard on the Tax Cuts & Jo...
[20:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Scraps Plan For $1 Billion Data Center In Ireland - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:43] <exec> 08└─So, your theories are that it was driven by regulatory bullshit, regulatory bullshit, or regulatory bullshit.
[20:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Scraps Plan For $1 Billion Data Center In Ireland - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:45] <exec> 08└─If your society depends on arbitrary and capricious transfers of money to one particular organization at the point of a gun, then you're doing it wrong.
[20:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:17] <exec> 08└─Guide Dogs for the Blind gets funding from somewhere, probably not far off from $25K per dog placed in service,
[20:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:34] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what to make of your opinion, which I think is likely uninformed in this case.
[20:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:35] <exec> 08└─Can't remember what my choices were, but they were limited.
[20:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:37] <exec> 08└─I agree with your second line, but I don't think "the academic community" in that field is rational, mostly.
[20:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:39] <exec> 08└─Because it was authored by hand and that required it to be readable. One line of 999999 characters long isn't quite as readable. And even in case of generated HTML there are still whitespaces floating around.
[20:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:42] <exec> 08└─I was always taught to use 2 spaces after a period. (Yes, I am old... at least they were electric typewriters at the time...) Ofc, I am a developer, including web development, and HTML ignores all extra whitespace. regardless of fixed or variable width fonts. The last time I read a newspaper or a bo...
[20:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:07] <exec> 08└─Second of all, exponential growth determines the result. Native Europeans have less than 2 children per woman, so they are currently on a path to extinction. The invasion force does about 4 children per woman if I remember right, causing population to double with every generation. This won't end wel...
[20:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:32] <exec> 08└─I've never tried it. With PIs, they might get rebooted a lot. With a VPS, it might be worth a try.
[20:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:33] <exec> 08└─What I would love is something like SSH that allows the "client" end to have a roving IP address. Like a mobile phone or Pixelbook that may be on various WiFi's, or cellular IP addresses. I looked at Mosh, but I don't think it does everything SSH does.
[20:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:35] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying YOU weren't aware of what I pointed out, but I am surprised at people that don't realize that -- hey I've got a GUI at MY end. GUIs are a wonderful productivity invention (decades ago) that are to be embraced. But still there are systems that are (and probably should be) GUI-less. (He...
[20:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:37] <exec> 08└─I fucking love SSHFS. Mounting remote machines as file systems is extremely handy, and adds to the "defense in depth" approach.
[20:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:40] <exec> 08└─To us old timers, all shells are fast on modern hardware. Besides I'm not implementing 3-d rendering code or a bitcoin miner in bash, so I don't care if its 50% slower if it would be unnoticeable unless it were 3455158 times slower or whatever it is.
[20:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underwater Acoustic Shield Metamaterial is Invisible to Sonar - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:04] <exec> 08└─Slow carriers are better than no carriers, but they'll probably come up with something much more clever than my spitball solution.
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[21:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06MAGESTIC: A More Efficient and Accurate Version of CRISPR - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:30] <exec> 08└─Ahson was his name. Known in his community for his rampant littering, his reputation was nonetheless excellent. Why would someone who was actually famous for littering have such a stellar reputation? There were many reasons for that. A group of children was happily playing ball in a park on a sunny...
[21:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Scraps Plan For $1 Billion Data Center In Ireland - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:42] <exec> 08└─Or maybe Denmark has some subtle social means of keeping TWO Malcontents from killing off several hundred jobs. I would not have thought the Irish were timid in this area, and wouldn't give even odds on Sinead Fitzpatrick and Allan Daly surviving a month in that town.
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[21:18:04] <exec> 08└─Yes.
[21:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:37] <exec> 08└─Or any programmer of a modern language. If you want a language that ignores space characters outside character/string constants, you need to write FORTRAN. Where instead of DO I = 1, 10
[21:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03danmars [3662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:38] <exec> 08└─On a lot of soft keyboards, hitting space twice (which is easy to do by accident on a touchscreen) will give period + space. So they could have accidentally hit period-space-space instead of period-space and gotten an extra period that way.
[21:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:41] <exec> 08└─Back to the typing subject, I do recall that in my high school typing class, the right side of the room had "Elite" typewriters, and our formatting math was based on a 96-character width line, and the left side of the room, who had to make do with "Pico" typewriters that could only squeeze a paltry...
[21:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:43] <exec> 08└─I'll eagerly await your paper entitled, "Effects of high levels of caffeine consumption on car analogy quality."
[21:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:45] <exec> 08└─That is the preferred way to get asymmetrical, "smart" quotes, literally the opposite of what GP asked for :)
[21:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:47] <exec> 08└─Fine. Compare: Bacon ipsum dolor amet kevin ham hock ground round jowl venison drumstick. Sirloin brisket turkey tri-tip meatball beef ribs, alcatra jerky ham hock pork belly. Tri-tip leberkas picanha sirloin bresaola alcatra. Salami leberkas beef ribs, buffalo shank capicola pancetta ham chicken ha...
[21:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:49] <exec> 08└─> No one uses monospace fonts these days, except maybe programmers or people writing simple text files, so it really isn't applicable. I beg to differ [soylentnews.org] :P
[21:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:52] <exec> 08└─Took me a ridiculously long time (like, 10~15 years) to realize that is not just a "space", but a "non-breaking space". Heh. Of course, I only occasionally dabbled in some HTML, but still.
[21:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:19] <exec> 08└─No, no, we all need to stay home in our houses, turn down the thermostat and not go outside except to work in the vegetable garden. Remember YOU caused all this trouble, you and your parents.
[21:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:20] <exec> 08└─According to the Washington Post, there are seven times more Irish in the US than in Ireland.
[21:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:22] <exec> 08└─That's why I went to Chicago instead of Africa for my safari.
[21:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gregory Pakosz's .tmux.conf explained - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:51] <exec> 08└─abduco is what you want. I only use tmux on my OpenBSD machine because it's in base (and even there only in my urxvt-kuake script because tiling+virtual desktops mean I can just open another terminal, no need for tabs and all that), for everything else I use abduco.
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[22:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Backdoored Python Library Caught Stealing SSH Credentials - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:31] <exec> 08└─Makes one wonder that there may be as well some backdoors that went unnoticed.
[22:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MAGESTIC: A More Efficient and Accurate Version of CRISPR - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:39] <exec> 08└─Genetic Engineering Will Change Everything Forever – CRISPR Kurzgesagt https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[22:17:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Apple Scraps Plan For $1 Billion Data Center In Ireland - 265 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:47] <exec> 08└─Delays ... right. I'm sure this has nothing to do with Apple suddenly realizing that having their stuff in Ireland came with actual tax requirements ($16B overdue) or personal data storage rules (same reason why facebook is moving non-EU users to US storage/rules).
[22:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:25] <exec> 08└─Very well then, seize all the dogs and redistribute them. According to our most recent study, the USA has 0.27 dogs per capita. Please stand in line. Your 27% of a dog will be available sometime in the next 10 years.
[22:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$25K “Diabetic Alert Dogs” Were Untrained, Un-Housebroken Puppies, Lawsuit Says - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:27] <exec> 08└─Sorry, states are starting to pass laws banning the eating of dogs. Not that anyone is really eating dogs in this country, but just so they can feel superior to other countries and gain election points. Of course those countries feel superior than us because they ban eating cows or some other animal...
[22:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon-Rich Asteroid Identified in the Kuiper Belt - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:39] <exec> 08└─What can I say? My mind went to Brazil [wikipedia.org] first.
[22:18:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AssCork [6255] 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 874 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:48] <exec> 08└─Many moons ago I worked at a (US) Federally Funded Research and Development Center, which housed a number of scientists and their 'administrative assistance'. Those poor bastards were basically technical writers, who had to reformat everything handed-in by the eggheads before it was sent in. There w...
[22:19:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:58] <exec> 08└─"The real question to me is: What is the harm with two spaces?" I live and work in Japan, and Japanese text doesn't uses spaces at all. Every now and then a colleague will ask me to check their English, and in their Word document there will be a random mix of zero(!), one, or two spaces after senten...
[22:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:00] <exec> 08└─https://baconipsum.com [baconipsum.com]
[22:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, but that field is neuroscience, not psychology. Psychology is a mix of crackpots, scammers, and really, really bad statistical studies conducted by people who have no real working knowledge of statistics.
[22:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global Tourism Causes 10th of All Greenhouse Gas Emissions – Report - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:32] <exec> 08└─I know you are joking but oddly enough there is some truth to it. Without eco tourism the locals would little economic reason not to clear cut and stripmine in an attempt to accelerate development. So while it does contribute carbon it prevents mass release of other sinks and helps to preserve biodi...
[22:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything Might be 73. Or 67. - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:22] <exec> 08└─and I prefer you to pence anyday. he looks and behaves like a sith like emperor palpatine
[22:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Ear Grown on Forearm for Transplant - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:52] <exec> 08└─Why didn't you grow the ear on the side of her head where it belongs. Is it because then you wouldn't get to bill the taxpayers for another operation?
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[23:17:35] <exec> 08└─Mr Plow is on it [soylentnews.org] nobodies backdoor will be safe. On a more serious note; it seems there's too many language specific package managers out there and not enough eye balls on the code.
[23:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Backdoored Python Library Caught Stealing SSH Credentials - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:36] <exec> 08└─When a Jew is giving something away for free, why are you surprised that there's a catch?
[23:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Backdoored Python Library Caught Stealing SSH Credentials - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:38] <exec> 08└─Whoever is in charge of python's security should be fired. Wouldn't surprise me if they turn or to be a music major with a minor in blowjobs.
[23:19:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 22 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:22] <exec> 08└─This study is garbage.
[23:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:06] <exec> 08└─Them commies were first in space, period. So we gotta make sure to not be like them commies, period, space, second space.
[23:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:08] <exec> 08└─Meh -- I think it's just a lazy way to deal with a line wrap between two space characters so the first line doesn't start with a space. I can understand why whitespace can be important in a command, script, or program -- but in the output?? That feels lazy.
[23:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Spaces After Period Are Better Than One, Except Maybe They Aren't, Study Finds - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:10] <exec> 08└─Sure -- but typing out an HTML character code is not the same as hitting the spacebar twice.
[23:22:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Google Duplex: an AI that Can Make Phone Calls on Your Behalf - 547 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:44] <exec> 08└─I want an AI that's programmed to mess with telemarketers and other nuisance callers. I want one I can plant into their systems so that they're constantly calling themselves, and trying to sell each other vacation deals to Florida. I want one that will route all such calls to members of Congress and...
[23:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:37] <exec> 08└─Here it is. [youtube.com]. "second hand smoke from a neighbor's apartment can enter your home through air vents, through light fixtures, and even through cracks in the walls and floors"
[23:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thirdhand Smoke is Widespread and May Be Dangerous - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:38] <exec> 08└─The ghost was in another commercial. Here's that one. [youtube.com].
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