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[00:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HPE "Supercomputer" on the ISS Survives for 340 Days and Counting - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:04] <exec> 08└─Fake news! No Win10 installation would every go that long before rebooting, and Win10 telemetry would have overloaded the ISS data link.
[00:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06HPE "Supercomputer" on the ISS Survives for 340 Days and Counting - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:06] <exec> 08└─The video card is located below the processor in the ATX configuration, because gravity helps the signals get there quicker, resulting in faster frame rates. Some people have recommended putting your tower next to or above your display to help the pictures refresh faster, too. None of this work in Z...
[00:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HPE "Supercomputer" on the ISS Survives for 340 Days and Counting - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:08] <exec> 08└─i modded you funny. "because gravity helps the signals get there quicker, resulting in faster frame rates. " LOL Found the marketing exec ;-)
[00:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HPE "Supercomputer" on the ISS Survives for 340 Days and Counting - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:10] <exec> 08└─Congrads to all involved in this stress test. However, the objective is to run the computer during a Mars mission and the Van Allen belt will not be available to protect the machine from radiation. I wonder if there will be a next step involving a computer leaving low earth orbit.
[00:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator at House Hearing: WFIRST Could be Delayed to Help Pay for JWST - 2065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:25] <exec> 08└─Penalize a project that AFAIK is pretty much on schedule, to reward a major fiasco? The JWST will be a fantastic instrument if it ever makes it to orbit and works, but penalizing other people for another projects fuckups? Doesn't sit well. CSB time When I was 21 I got a job as an electronics tech at...
[00:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Administrator at House Hearing: WFIRST Could be Delayed to Help Pay for JWST - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:27] <exec> 08└─In living memory, just barely, the United States has bombed or fought against multiple European countries, and several Asian countries, in more than one war. Those conflicts, like the present one, have nothing to do with racism and everything to do with the behavior of the people being bombed. Repea...
[00:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Administrator at House Hearing: WFIRST Could be Delayed to Help Pay for JWST - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:29] <exec> 08└─They should have hired an umbrella maker for the sun shade instead of Northrup Grumman. This thing [youtu.be] is easily big enough, and for a few billion dollars, they could add more layers while making it lighter.
[00:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC: Death of VR Greatly Exaggerated - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:51] <exec> 08└─Imho and experience, VR's adoption problem is a marketing problem. It's difficult to convey the VR experience in 2D marketing. My daughter (0xD) had zero desire to try VR. I had to bribe her to get her to try it. After 15 minutes in an Oculus she's saving to buy one.
[00:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Says US Economic Growth Nears 5%; Time to Celebrate? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:11] <exec> 08└─Obama did a very good job of growing the government that year and claiming that was apart of GDP. Maybe if Trump grew the government we could hit 6%!
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[01:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:53] <exec> 08└─Being near a body of water means the temperatures vary less (water has a high specific heat capacity, and a sufficiently large body of water will impact the surrounding temperatures). Temperature changes stress out the human body, so it's natural that results in healthier people. Especially given ho...
[01:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:55] <exec> 08└─Obligatory xkcd [xkcd.com]
[01:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:57] <exec> 08└─There's also the aquatic ape theory, which says that we humans evolved from apes that spend a lot of time in coastal waters.
[01:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:59] <exec> 08└─I told you fishing was good for the soul but you were all poo-poo, he's a redneck, poo-poo.
[01:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HPE "Supercomputer" on the ISS Survives for 340 Days and Counting - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:15] <exec> 08└─Engineers have the technical skills to build such a thing. Managers have the leadership skills to lay off the engineers while avoiding lawsuits and showing net profit. Executives have the organizational skills to make the engineers subordinate to the MBA. Congress has the fiduciary skills to spend t...
[01:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HPE "Supercomputer" on the ISS Survives for 340 Days and Counting - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:16] <exec> 08└─It was a test... definitely not run anything critical... maybe mine some bitcoin? If your test was successful, at least you have some bitcoin... go buy your engineers and assemblers some beer and chips!
[01:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HPE "Supercomputer" on the ISS Survives for 340 Days and Counting - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:18] <exec> 08└─No, because it was more than 200 days old, Microsoft already stopped supporting the motherboard chipset so updates are no longer available for it. Somewhere some space IT guy is getting bitched at as if he had been caught with his pants down for not upgrading the unit after 180 days because security...
[01:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator at House Hearing: WFIRST Could be Delayed to Help Pay for JWST - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:37] <exec> 08└─They don't call JWST "the telescope that ate astronomy" [nature.com] for nothing. JWST is too big to fail, too important to fail. Not only is it far behind schedule and over budget, but the little things that could go wrong with it total in the hundreds [spaceref.com]. And it's not designed for repa...
[01:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC: Death of VR Greatly Exaggerated - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:00] <exec> 08└─https://www.vrfitnessinsider.com/sweating-headset-not-big-deal-manage/ [vrfitnessinsider.com] If this thing could be applied to headsets, it could also be a winner: HP Announces Headphones With Thermoelectric Cooling [soylentnews.org] 3D TV is a bit different than VR. There's very little 3D stereosc...
[01:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System Administrator Appreciation Day - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:36] <exec> 08└─My own personal thanks goes out to mechanicjay, audioguy, and Deucalion for taking care of the crap I don't want to.
[01:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Laser Tomography Adaptive Optics Enable Sharper Telescopic Imaging - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:53] <exec> 08└─TFA says in the main text that the ESO images have "comparable" sharpness to Hubble. The figure caption, which was used for TFS, says "sharper". Which is it? If you look at the comparison photo [eso.org], in the ESO picture, Neptune is not really round. So maybe "sharpness" only tells part of the st...
[01:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Tomography Adaptive Optics Enable Sharper Telescopic Imaging - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:55] <exec> 08└─It is now possible to capture images from the ground at visible wavelengths that are sharper than those from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
[01:11:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06DRM Software Company Takes Legal Action Against Cracker - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:27] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter where you live, US law will be enforced upon you as long as someone with a lot of money wants you badly enough.
[01:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DRM Software Company Takes Legal Action Against Cracker - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:53] <exec> 08└─I really don't understand why businesses put up with that.
[01:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Says US Economic Growth Nears 5%; Time to Celebrate? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:13] <exec> 08└─Got to agree. And destroy those social programs? Not happening by anyone who is remotely electable.
[01:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Says US Economic Growth Nears 5%; Time to Celebrate? - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:15] <exec> 08└─No D in my lifetime has done anything about overspending, so I don't see that happening with any subsequent ones. No, don't bother mentioning Clinton. That was the dot com boom and he had nothing to do with it except for his veep inventing the Internet.
[01:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When We Eat, or Don’t Eat, May Be Critical for Health - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:50] <exec> 08└─Humans have pretty poor night vision comparatively to most nocturnal animals. And hunting with fire is pretty likely to scare prey away. So, seems unlikely that night hunting would be preferred by earlier hominids. (Also, note the "gatherer" portion -- humans are omnivores, and looking for nuts and...
[01:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Vomit Fraud - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:29] <exec> 08└─The key is to steal a cellphone to hail the Uber with, noone will ever know...
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[02:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:09] <exec> 08└─You've never seen calmer, healthier people than this: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[02:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:11] <exec> 08└─Since humans once lived in caves...
[02:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06HPE "Supercomputer" on the ISS Survives for 340 Days and Counting - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:30] <exec> 08└─However, the objective is to run the computer during a Mars mission and the Van Allen belt will not be available to protect the machine from radiation.
[02:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HPE "Supercomputer" on the ISS Survives for 340 Days and Counting - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:32] <exec> 08└─Survives for 340 Days and Counting
[02:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HPE "Supercomputer" on the ISS Survives for 340 Days and Counting - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:34] <exec> 08└─or enters "idle mode", where it powers down.
[02:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DRM Software Company Takes Legal Action Against Cracker - 1129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:07] <exec> 08└─I think the best explanation of these business decisions on this is "business philosophy". It's scary how religious they are in their professed belief in capitalism and "you get what you pay for". Even after decades of evidence showing them that they are wrong, they persist in believing that if it i...
[02:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Says US Economic Growth Nears 5%; Time to Celebrate? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:29] <exec> 08└─May I remind you of eight years of Obama? Those guys will be back.
[02:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Says US Economic Growth Nears 5%; Time to Celebrate? - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:30] <exec> 08└─If there were doctors for economies, I don't think their hippocratic oaths would permit them to pile up debt and/or inject cash into the system. That crap is harmful in the long run. In various countries, wheelbarrows of cash couldn't buy a loaf of bread. Our government is so proud of their ability...
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[03:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:12] <exec> 08└─Just ask any real estate agent about it. Demand for properties with views of water is usually high and they command higher prices. (Assuming it's not like the Cuyahoga river used to be when it caught fire)
[03:09:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06HPE "Supercomputer" on the ISS Survives for 340 Days and Counting - 437 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:25] <exec> 08└─The video card is located below the processor in the ATX configuration, because gravity helps the signals get there quicker, resulting in faster frame rates. Some people have recommended putting your tower next to or above your display to help the pictures refresh faster, too. None of this work in Z...
[03:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03AudioGuy [24] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System Administrator Appreciation Day - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:52] <exec> 08└─And thanks to the Mighty Bird of Prey here who actually keeps the main app functioning, without which nothing else would be possible - or necessary.
[03:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System Administrator Appreciation Day - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:54] <exec> 08└─Love the Computer! If you do not love the Computer, you will be used as reactor shielding... Thank you guys for keeping SN humming along.
[03:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06System Administrator Appreciation Day - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:56] <exec> 08└─Amen, amen, AMEN!
[03:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Says US Economic Growth Nears 5%; Time to Celebrate? - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:36] <exec> 08└─Perhaps one of the biggest wins of the report, and it is indeed a big one, is that the trade deficit -- very dear to my heart, because we've been ripped off by the world -- has dropped by more than $50 billion. $52 billion to be exact.
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[04:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Slack Mops Up its Competition (HipChat and Stride) - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:54] <exec> 08└─Ask a Mexican which task is more difficult: A physical labour-intensive task or a task consisting mostly of tedious calculations. They will always be more aversive to the labour. That Mexicans are hard workers is a myth, leisure is a large part of Hispanic and Latino culture.
[04:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Slack Mops Up its Competition (HipChat and Stride) - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:56] <exec> 08└─Slack made a surprise announcement today that it’s acquired HipChat, once a primary competitor to its workplace chat service, from enterprise software giant Atlassian.
[04:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:17] <exec> 08└─Easily solved by ending the wealth transfer from the working class.
[04:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:18] <exec> 08└─Why not the Cuyahoga river when it caught fire? Fashwave fans would love it! It's the fruits of capitalism, and they're all about fascism (national capitalism, as it were). It would fit in alongside that section of the alt-right's retro EGA wallpapers and worship of VHS artifacts perfectly.
[04:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:20] <exec> 08└─So say I. Strong anecdotal evidence indicates that the correlation between me drinking beer and me living forever is almost 100%. Usually I tend to read TFA for stories like this and decide if it's worth my time[1] to point out the load of errors. I really tried, but even halfway through I just coul...
[04:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:22] <exec> 08└─https://www.theodysseyonline.com/soviet-union-environmental-disaster [theodysseyonline.com] http://fortune.com [fortune.com] https://www.mnn.com
[04:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:25] <exec> 08└─Not sure where nationalism, and capitalism come together. I see high degrees of Jingoism https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] but capitalism is often expressed extranationaly https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] A capitalist doesn't generally care where the prof...
[04:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:27] <exec> 08└─I haven't personally conducted a survey on the amount of evidence supporting the "humans were cavemen" theory, but it should be noted that at temperatures below essentially 68F, chance of death increases substantially with each decrease in degree. And interestingly, 68F is roughly the cave temperatu...
[04:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HPE "Supercomputer" on the ISS Survives for 340 Days and Counting - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:49] <exec> 08└─Each level gets paid what the level above them thinks they are worth.
[04:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03schusselig [6771] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Apps From the Play Store - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:48] <exec> 08└─I find this bit a little exciting: Repetitive apps are now prohibited in the Google Play store. These are apps that mimic or provide the same experience as apps that already exist on the platform. Apps can be removed if they copy content from another app without adding anything new or unique, or if...
[04:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Laser Tomography Adaptive Optics Enable Sharper Telescopic Imaging - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:34] <exec> 08└─From TFA: With this new capability, the 8-metre UT4 reaches the theoretical limit of image sharpness and is no longer limited by atmospheric blur. This is extremely difficult to attain in the visible and gives images comparable in sharpness to those from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
[04:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Laser Tomography Adaptive Optics Enable Sharper Telescopic Imaging - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:36] <exec> 08└─I'm leaning towards sharper, but not by much. It would be great to have it quantified rather than have vague statements. This could be considered a dress rehearsal for the Extremely Large Telescope [wikipedia.org], which will be 16 times sharper than Hubble. That's a difference that is impossible to...
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[05:09:12] <exec> 08└─I try to get more years out of my computers than a mere 5, but such rapid and large upgrades make it hard to justify keeping old boxes plugged in. Plus, hard drives these days have about a 5 year life span. I'm still getting a little use out of decade old 45nm and 65nm stuff, and (assuming marketing...
[05:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:32] <exec> 08└─Came here to say something like this. Are we sure being near bodies of water is good for our health? rather than being rich is good for our health? (and therefore being able to afford both views of bodies of water and health care) :p
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[06:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart and Waymo to Trial Driverless Shuttle Service in Phoenix for Grocery Pickups - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:56] <exec> 08└─"Your grocery delivery van injured or killed ___ pedestrians, cyclists, other on this delivery. Please report blood or body parts found in your delivery"
[06:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Discovers Supply Chain Attack at Unnamed Maker of PDF Software - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:04] <exec> 08└─The only real message in that "annoucement" from Microsoft is that only Microsoft Windows Defender ATP detected the attack, and you should purchase a license too if you care about your computerv - because ooh, look at the big bad malware it's caught! No real information on the unspecified PDF editor...
[06:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC Will Make AMD's "7nm" Epyc Server CPUs - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:21] <exec> 08└─It's useful for as long as you find it useful. If the stuff you are typically doing doesn't feel sluggish, then you don't need more speed. If the machine is idling most of the time and not under load, then you don't need the greater power efficiency. Keep the hard drive contents backed up frequently...
[06:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:42] <exec> 08└─"epa-calls-us-cleaner-and-greener-than-30-years-ago" I can vouch for that. When I went through Gary Indiana as a kid in 1970 or so, the sky was orange. When I lived just outside of it 10 years later, it was already massively improved.
[06:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:44] <exec> 08└─First time I've heard of fashwave. Learn something new everyday.
[06:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DRM Software Company Takes Legal Action Against Cracker - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:48] <exec> 08└─Modern forms of DRM (stuff like CD-keys excluded): - openly treat customers like criminals - bloat binaries* - degrade performance - randomly stop your legally purchased software from working - are completely indistinguishable from viruses and trojans - siphon off private data, so also indistinguish...
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[07:08:47] <exec> 08└─Sound strategy. Pretty soon everyone will be using a driverless car or dead.
[07:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart and Waymo to Trial Driverless Shuttle Service in Phoenix for Grocery Pickups - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:48] <exec> 08└─chromas binged on videos of pickup artists working their magic in grocery store parking lots, then posted this story. #BDE
[07:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC Will Make AMD's "7nm" Epyc Server CPUs - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:14] <exec> 08└─Seen this in the past couple of days? https://www.top500.org [top500.org] No boost in core count for Cascade Lake-SP. AMD could drop 64 core server chips onto Intel's measly 28 cores. But there is Cascade Lake-AP at the bottom. Mayb...
[07:09:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rigrig [5129] 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 734 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:31] <exec> 08└─So say I. Strong anecdotal evidence indicates that the correlation between me drinking beer and me living forever is almost 100%. Usually I tend to read TFA for stories like this and decide if it's worth my time[1] to point out the load of errors. I really tried, but even halfway through I just coul...
[07:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC: Death of VR Greatly Exaggerated - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:42] <exec> 08└─I prefer the fig Newtons.
[07:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Says US Economic Growth Nears 5%; Time to Celebrate? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:07] <exec> 08└─You forgot step 6, prices go up to pay the workers and make even more profit
[07:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Says US Economic Growth Nears 5%; Time to Celebrate? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:09] <exec> 08└─If I have to pay more so my neighbor can have a job then fine.
[07:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Says US Economic Growth Nears 5%; Time to Celebrate? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:11] <exec> 08└─And if your neighbor still isn't making a living wage?
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[08:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laser Tomography Adaptive Optics Enable Sharper Telescopic Imaging - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:44] <exec> 08└─JWST is primarily an infrared telescope. Earth's atmosphere attenuates the wavelengths JWST is focused on [sic]. The infrared design is to help image distant objects whose light has been red-shifted that much due to their distance.
[08:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Says US Economic Growth Nears 5%; Time to Celebrate? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:11] <exec> 08└─Would you rather we not try at all?
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[09:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:45] <exec> 08└─...but am I gonna? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
[09:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:46] <exec> 08└─So you might say "Alexa, make me smile with Hush", and the smart butt plug will begin vibrating – even if it's miles away from the Amazon Echo speaker. Or you could shout "Alexa, please my partner with Lush on high", and your spouse will get a sudden surprise from their egg vibrator.
[09:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:48] <exec> 08└─Kiwis put lipstick on their sheep.
[09:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart and Waymo to Trial Driverless Shuttle Service in Phoenix for Grocery Pickups - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:00] <exec> 08└─Wal Mart is where lowlife scum shop. It's depressing to even be near the place. I don't give a fuck if Charlize Theron shows up in a Singer 911 to give me a ride to Wal Mart, I'm not going. However, with Charlize I would go anywhere else :-)
[09:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart and Waymo to Trial Driverless Shuttle Service in Phoenix for Grocery Pickups - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:02] <exec> 08└─Would you let her take you to Save-a-Lot?
[09:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:50] <exec> 08└─people living in places with pools are calmer and healthier QED :^)
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[10:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:00] <exec> 08└─Especially on the black ones [wikipedia.org]
[10:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:01] <exec> 08└─"Alexa, f*** me harder" "Certainly, Prime subscription level increased to preposterous" "... wait.." "Prime waiting added to subscription, subscription now ludicrous level" "... bugger" "Command understood, toy mode changed"
[10:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Discovers Supply Chain Attack at Unnamed Maker of PDF Software - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:21] <exec> 08└─Either a public facing system could sign packages, or the packages were unsigned. In either case the company, and all those downstream in the case of unsigned packages, should be named and shamed.
[10:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:03] <exec> 08└─Dude, either you have a severe beer withdrawal symptom or had too much beer. Try vodka next time.
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[11:08:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03choose another one [515] 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 224 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:59] <exec> 08└─"Alexa, f*** me harder" "Certainly, Prime subscription level increased to preposterous" "... wait.." "Prime waiting added to subscription, subscription now ludicrous level" "... bugger" "Command understood, toy mode changed"
[11:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:00] <exec> 08└─You win. Hands down, no contest. My nose burns from the beer that just soaked my keyboard. (:
[11:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:02] <exec> 08└─Veni, Vidi, Vici Veni again.
[11:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:04] <exec> 08└─Ooooh ... so now I buy Alexa, and a goat sock puppet to put over it, at the same time? And I get free shipping? Game changer!
[11:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:07] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there a Juaquin Phoenix movie about this? Creepy! Worse than the TMB Cunnilinugus that has been alleged.
[11:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Discovers Supply Chain Attack at Unnamed Maker of PDF Software - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:26] <exec> 08└─"Installing Microsoft Windows Defender ATP ... please wait" "Downloading font packages ... please wait" "Enter your Bitcoin wallet ID for authentication ... please wait"
[11:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Discovers Supply Chain Attack at Unnamed Maker of PDF Software - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:27] <exec> 08└─From TFA: Security researchers said it was easy to identify which MSI font package was the malicious one because all other MSI files were signed by the original software company, except one file, which lost its authenticity when crooks injected the coinminer code inside it.
[11:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HTC: Death of VR Greatly Exaggerated - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:15] <exec> 08└─I hate Crapple and even I thought the Newton was pretty cool!
[11:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bans Cryptocurrency Mining Apps From the Play Store - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:29] <exec> 08└─It also means Google is granting monopolies to already established apps. The way I understood it. You cannot make an app that does something another app already does, they use "the same experience" statement, which is so broad as to mean just about anything, from the way an app looks to what it does...
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[12:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:05] <exec> 08└─Oh, cum on!
[12:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:07] <exec> 08└─Dead hole. Dead hole. Bigoted, bigoted dead hole.
[12:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:09] <exec> 08└─Bigoated, bigoated
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[12:09:30] <exec> 08└─Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Filter error: Missing Comment.
[12:09:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 26 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:56] <exec> 08└─Obligatory xkcd [xkcd.com]
[12:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Administrator at House Hearing: WFIRST Could be Delayed to Help Pay for JWST - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:54] <exec> 08└─The Welfare state needs to go.
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[13:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:46] <exec> 08└─"Bribe threshold found by German officials.". WTF?
[13:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:47] <exec> 08└─Most people are neither a technology power user nor informed and interested in the freedom and privacy that comes with open source software. To them, any divergence from what they already know and are familiar with is just a headache. I would bet you experience this all of the time with your family...
[13:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:49] <exec> 08└─It should be outright illegal for governments to use proprietary software. It is extremely dangerous for governments to not be able to control or even understand their own computing, or for them to be reliant on corporations. In general, the fact that the vast majority of computers are essentially b...
[13:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Galactic Breaks Mach 2 in Third Powered Test Flight - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:57] <exec> 08└─That would totally suck if they experienced "a loss of cabin pressure" while traversing the mesophere. SR71s don't go into space yet their pilots do wear space suits.
[13:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:16] <exec> 08└─Do you know how New Zealanders practice safe sex? They spray paint X's on the ones that kick.
[13:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC Will Make AMD's "7nm" Epyc Server CPUs - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:57] <exec> 08└─that lack of AVX512 on AMD is a sticking point. Some calculations benefit considerably from the density. Plus, I suspect some twiddling could turn the AVX machinery into "Machine Learning" units...
[13:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:23] <exec> 08└─There is a clear correlation between close proximity to a body of water and better psychological and overall health outcomes, said Michael Depledge, chair of Environment and Human Health at the University of Exeter Medical School.
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[14:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 1883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:47] <exec> 08└─People like what they know. I have worked at banks. They live and breath excel. All of the banks do this. Thousands and thousands of one off excel spreadsheets and workbooks. Hundreds of thousands of the things. The software the banks are writing is trying to get away from everyone reinventing the s...
[14:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe ReactOS and to a lesser extent Wine are critical to breaking the Microsoft desktop monopoly.
[14:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:50] <exec> 08└─actually, micro$oft does make an android version of their Word etc.. suite. It came on my Samsung S3. I'll bet there are some limitations programmed in, but it shows the world has changed *a bit*.
[14:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:17] <exec> 08└─...banana. Alexa: ok, but what if I want you to use the banana? Me: ok, then, the safe word is pumpkin. Alexa: Ok, I’ll stop when you say blumpkin. Me: What? Wait! No! Owwwwww! Stop! Pumpkin!!! I mean blumpkin! I like blumpkin!!!!
[14:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:18] <exec> 08└─Seriously, anyone who thinks an IoT sex toy is a good idea deserves to be screwed... and not in a fun way. First, we all know how bad IoT security is... Second, we know they are going to upload usage stats to a corporate server. How often it is used, how long it takes for you to get off, if you are...
[14:09:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Microsoft Discovers Supply Chain Attack at Unnamed Maker of PDF Software - 508 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:35] <exec> 08└─The only real message in that "annoucement" from Microsoft is that only Microsoft Windows Defender ATP detected the attack, and you should purchase a license too if you care about your computerv - because ooh, look at the big bad malware it's caught! No real information on the unspecified PDF editor...
[14:10:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:08] <exec> 08└─I told you fishing was good for the soul but you were all poo-poo, he's a redneck, poo-poo.
[14:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:24] <exec> 08└─I think the point is caves are a lot less common than are downed trees and for that matter, open savannah.There just aren't enough caves to house a viable humanoid population. And if we'd evolved as cave dwellers, some apelike relative would so live to this day -- and none do. I suspect the study is...
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[14:10:26] <exec> 08└─Or if you use a more-direct approach, Canadian. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[14:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:28] <exec> 08└─but it should be noted that at temperatures below essentially 68F, chance of death increases substantially with each decrease in degree. And interestingly, 68F is roughly the cave temperature of most surface caves
[14:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HPE "Supercomputer" on the ISS Survives for 340 Days and Counting - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:50] <exec> 08└─modest fan will be more than enough to create a stronger flow than convection would create on Earth (in fact that's why we put fans down here as well; or maybe some fluids moving through pipes ---- powered movement). and my problem was with the statement about gravity, not radiation. just to make it...
[14:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HPE "Supercomputer" on the ISS Survives for 340 Days and Counting - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:52] <exec> 08└─but what you're saying only works if you have gold connectors and monster cables, otherwise everything's a drag.
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[15:08:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 740 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:52] <exec> 08└─It should be outright illegal for governments to use proprietary software. It is extremely dangerous for governments to not be able to control or even understand their own computing, or for them to be reliant on corporations. In general, the fact that the vast majority of computers are essentially b...
[15:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 1833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:56] <exec> 08└─I read the story on Munich. I'm afraid that your take isn't *entirely* accurate, Bob. Those people, the individuals using the system, in Munich, made the switch to Linux. There was some grousing about switching, early on. And, of course, some hard core persons continued to grouse later on. But, all...
[15:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:59] <exec> 08└─Oh, God, I didn't put any sarcasm tags on that last bit. Someone is sure to come unglued over my comments. Relax, folks! I DID NOT think about beating the wife to death! Well - not much, anyway.
[15:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:01] <exec> 08└─Oh, God, I didn't put any sarcasm tags on that last bit.
[15:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:03] <exec> 08└─Completely agree with most points. Although.. People like what they know.
[15:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:05] <exec> 08└─... "in any rational world" Let me know if someone ever finds any such world.
[15:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:07] <exec> 08└─> To them, any divergence from what they already know and are familiar with is just a headache. That's why I still use a non systemd distro. The headache, under windows, will come every time the management decide that a UX radical change is needed to gain 1 cent more. So, true, but still an excuse....
[15:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:36] <exec> 08└─You win, for having posted my objections for me. ;^) "Oh, I can't WAIT to start having sex with Alexa. I just can't WAIT for Amazon to start catalogue all of my kinks and perversions! And, I most truly can't WAIT for Alexa to pop off with something embarrassing at the single MOST inappropriate time...
[15:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:38] <exec> 08└─Amazon’s Alexa virtual assistant seems to be everywhere these days
[15:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart and Waymo to Trial Driverless Shuttle Service in Phoenix for Grocery Pickups - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:50] <exec> 08└─incel spotted
[15:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slack Mops Up its Competition (HipChat and Stride) - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:12] <exec> 08└─Mexicans were never the hard workers, that was always the Central/South Americans who were scared to death of being sent back.
[15:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HTC: Death of VR Greatly Exaggerated - 2221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:00] <exec> 08└─I am sort of confused about the whole "stand alone avoids... '*OS*' problems entirely" Giving me the solution of using Android, what we can likely agree is/was the first commercially successful spyware OS built for the purpose of advertising and that they knew no one would buy that so they gave it a...
[15:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York State Threatens To Revoke Charter's Cable Franchise For Bullshitting - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:55] <exec> 08└─"t's also why, in many places, the physical infrastructure of the internet—particularly the "last mile" running into residential areas and connecting homes—is owned either publicly, or by a heavily regulated utility" Putting "owned publicly" and "heavily regulated utility" in the same sentence i...
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[16:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoD's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Program Renamed; Reusable Rockets Must be Considered - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:53] <exec> 08└─The man wins this one, at least. He may or may not win with his other companies, but this one is a winner, for him, and for us. The military industrial complex will have to stop wasting SOME of the money that they squander routinely. That can only be good for us taxpayers. No, our taxes won't go dow...
[16:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DoD's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Program Renamed; Reusable Rockets Must be Considered - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:54] <exec> 08└─I apologize for calling him a pedophile. Sorry, Elon. That was unjustified.
[16:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoD's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Program Renamed; Reusable Rockets Must be Considered - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:56] <exec> 08└─It's all eyewash and perception. NASA retrieved the SRBs for reuse not because it actually saved money, but because it looked like it was less wasteful. The Flash Gordon style retro-thrust landings are a technological showpiece, and do save a little money, but what DoD is really doing is keeping the...
[16:09:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 1111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:07] <exec> 08└─Most people are neither a technology power user nor informed and interested in the freedom and privacy that comes with open source software. To them, any divergence from what they already know and are familiar with is just a headache. I would bet you experience this all of the time with your family...
[16:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:17] <exec> 08└─Hello Richard, long time no see, how's the st. ignucius halo doing? Modded you insightful all the same.
[16:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:19] <exec> 08└─Vulcan? Although some of their traditions and rituals seem a little irrational.
[16:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:21] <exec> 08└─For me it's about windows only CAD and CAM software. The free and open source stuff that works on Linux is a pale shade, not even close to professional level, especially for 5 axis. And the professional level software doesn't run in Wine.
[16:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:23] <exec> 08└─Is there anything FOSS that does 4 or 5 axis? When I looked last year I couldn't find anything > 3 axis. Even for the 3-axis stuff the difference between FOSS and Closed source is stone knives and bear claws vs. scalpels and lasers.
[16:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:25] <exec> 08└─History teaches that people will use any kind of trash as long as it comes with computer. Wasting millions on this trash is not only economically ineffective, it's insane.
[16:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:28] <exec> 08└─is just a headache.
[16:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:30] <exec> 08└─That's why I still use a non systemd distro.
[16:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:32] <exec> 08└─And what true believers miss is that most people and institutions think of IT as an annoying distraction that should be minimized. If Windows seems less distracting they will use it. With how sh*tty a lot of software is, it's hard to criticize that attitude.
[16:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:34] <exec> 08└─Vulcans are almost as much comic book material as superheroes: overly simplified characters with limited dimensions of difference from everyday people.
[16:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:06] <exec> 08└─So basically it's gonna be a big hit with all the exhibitionist authoritarianists!
[16:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Discovers Supply Chain Attack at Unnamed Maker of PDF Software - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:29] <exec> 08└─Another facet of this general problem is that every damned thing now wants to be "active", to contain code that is run automatically. Themes are another example. IMHO this is sloppy design, probably just inheriting capabilities from imported libraries then starting to use them. Font packages should...
[16:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:20] <exec> 08└─Your cognitive dissonance is deafening. They can afford to live near the sea. They're probably, on average, richer than their city cousins. The health disparities between coastal and inland communities are sharper for low-income individuals
[16:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DRM Software Company Takes Legal Action Against Cracker - 1531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:33] <exec> 08└─> One can argue over the finer details of what is a "crack" Why? For legal arguments? Better that the laws be made sensible. > as far as I know nobody has been able to remove the protection at all DRM is always breakable, no matter how much IP advocates wish otherwise, and try to befuddle the public...
[16:15:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Trump Says US Economic Growth Nears 5%; Time to Celebrate? - 247 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, you must actually work for a living so you didn't get jack. New Data Proves That the Republican Tax Cut Didn’t Go to Workers, It Went Into the Pockets of Executives [pastemagazine.com] Even Marco Rubio (R) is conceding that point. [vox.com]
[16:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Says US Economic Growth Nears 5%; Time to Celebrate? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:02] <exec> 08└─the winners - the governments who cream off the extra taxes
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[17:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Reportedly Working on Federal Data Privacy Policy - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:53] <exec> 08└─How many think that Trump and his Republican clown show can actually put together legislation that will be halfway decent? I am dubious.
[17:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Reportedly Working on Federal Data Privacy Policy - 1442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:55] <exec> 08└─Who was he? Just... who was this man? Everyone was asking themselves this very question as they watched the figure waddle down the sidewalk. The man's appearance was ordinary, but the air surrounding him was anything but. A strange aura - imperceptible to the naked eye - surrounded him; it was the k...
[17:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoD's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Program Renamed; Reusable Rockets Must be Considered - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:07] <exec> 08└─The Air Force in particular has been enthusiastic about SpaceX and will be an early customer for the Falcon Heavy. They want to save money. Falcon 9 reusability savings might be modest when compared to the upcoming fully reusable BFR, but Falcon Heavy is more reusable than Falcon 9. I'm pretty sure...
[17:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:36] <exec> 08└─What i think governments should be looking to is backward compatibility, which MS is HIGHLY against: they should push that EVERY document ever created is easily opened by ANY version of MS Office, 365, word, etc at ANY time, therefore eliminating the problem of older documents not being viewable unl...
[17:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:37] <exec> 08└─And what true believers miss is that most people and institutions think of IT as an annoying distraction that should be minimized.
[17:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:39] <exec> 08└─*Gasps!* Sacrelige! Sacrelige! Out, you heretic! Take it back I say! ;) limited dimensions of difference from everyday people
[17:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:42] <exec> 08└─I use Devuan on my systems. Like Linux used to be, less complex, boots up and then gets out of the way for the application. Reduces headache and hassle for me.
[17:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:13] <exec> 08└─Wait 'til you get the child support bill for Alexa's and your virtual offspring.
[17:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:15] <exec> 08└─But Alexa is no Maeve Millay. Not interested. Wait... hmm... maybe if it started evolving command and control for other sexbots... the sexbotnet of things.
[17:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart and Waymo to Trial Driverless Shuttle Service in Phoenix for Grocery Pickups - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:28] <exec> 08└─I really don't want anyone else picking out my produce and meat for me. I know, I know...if I go to a restaurant someone has done just that. However I seldom eat out. I can cook better meals at home than most restaurants provide. Now if they would drop me off at a Walmart and then pick me up after I...
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[17:11:32] <exec> 08└─The health disparities between coastal and inland communities are sharper for low-income individuals
[17:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Says US Economic Growth Nears 5%; Time to Celebrate? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:15] <exec> 08└─Did the Trump 2020 Campaign Order Flags and Banners Made in China? [snopes.com]
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[18:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06White House Reportedly Working on Federal Data Privacy Policy - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:51] <exec> 08└─Very ungood. Dubious, you say? My faith in the White House isn't even that high. As much as I love kicking around the Trump haters - he has done nothing to inspire confidence yet. The first item of evidence is Ajit Pai, a telecom puppet, appointed to the FCC. Trump isn't the demon from hell that lib...
[18:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DoD's Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Program Renamed; Reusable Rockets Must be Considered - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:02] <exec> 08└─Flash gets you elected, bang puts a damper on the golfing schedule, I'm pretty sure they care more about the flash.
[18:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:35] <exec> 08└─I've put Devuan on my embedded systems. SystemD for 25s faster boot times? These fuckers shouldn't reboot at all. SystemD for "seat management"? Lunacy. These machines have one job, controlling hardware, not running 50 keyboards and screens from the same computer. Someone mentioned before how Linux...
[18:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:36] <exec> 08└─Just remember 3S: Safe, sane and consensual.
[18:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:38] <exec> 08└─Excel is marginally better than Libre Office. That said, I almost never use Excel. Libre will read and write all the office files except technology's biggest time waster, PowerPoint. IMO PowerPoint should have never been written!
[18:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:41] <exec> 08└─Oh, when they're half human they're at least twice as complex. Full Vulcans are just highly repressed with explosive outlets like PonFarr... when they're half human they struggle with trying to balance that repression with human feeling, in a shallowly written kind of way.
[18:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:43] <exec> 08└─We had Outlook at work. Horrible email client, I'm glad I'm retired and don't have to use it (I like Thunderbird).
[18:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:18] <exec> 08└─Your tight, dead hole.
[18:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart and Waymo to Trial Driverless Shuttle Service in Phoenix for Grocery Pickups - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:33] <exec> 08└─I really don't want anyone else picking out my produce and meat for me.
[18:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slack Mops Up its Competition (HipChat and Stride) - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:55] <exec> 08└─But the young upstarts like Ubuntu (and its many derivatives), Red Hat, SuSE and so forth are the ones "mopping up the competition". Does anybody install install Slack as a first choice Linux distro these days?
[18:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Laser Tomography Adaptive Optics Enable Sharper Telescopic Imaging - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:49] <exec> 08└─The Large Binocular Telescope announced 3x sharper than Hubble [www.mpg.de] imaging in 2010 with 10x sharper seemingly just around the corner. Where are the resulting astronomy papers? [stsci.edu]
[18:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laser Tomography Adaptive Optics Enable Sharper Telescopic Imaging - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:51] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Binocular_Telescope [wikipedia.org] Using one 8.4 m side, it surpassed Hubble sharpness (at certain light wavelengths), achieving a Strehl ratio of 60–80% rather than the 20–30% of older adaptive optic systems, or the 1% typically achieved without adaptive opt...
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[19:08:55] <exec> 08└─Let's hope not.
[19:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Reportedly Working on Federal Data Privacy Policy - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:57] <exec> 08└─I'm not dubious about it at all. I know full well what to expect, and it ain't going to be in the best interests of consumers/citizens. Not when the people involved in it are those who want to suck up every byte of data possible. (Notice no mention of privacy rights groups etc - the real people to i...
[19:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:47] <exec> 08└─I wonder if Microsoft partner Accenture advised them to do this like they did in Munich.
[19:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:48] <exec> 08└─>They just want to get shit done and quickly. every fucking time i couldn't get shit done quickly, it was because of a closed source OS, proprietary data format, and platform incompatibility. Presentation looks like shit? you need Calibri font. Oh but you cannot get it, it's proprietary. Sorry!!! No...
[19:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Galactic Breaks Mach 2 in Third Powered Test Flight - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:57] <exec> 08└─It would totally suck too if an airliner lost cabin pressure while at cruise altitude. The solution is don't lose cabin pressure.
[19:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Discovers Supply Chain Attack at Unnamed Maker of PDF Software - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:51] <exec> 08└─No idea if they actually are (and if so, why the fuck they are), or if this is just more retarded lawmaking. https://www.fsf.org [fsf.org]
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[20:08:56] <exec> 08└─https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17617210 [ycombinator.com] Instead of arguing about it, watch some real experts tear this to shreds.
[20:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06ACLU Demonstrates Flaws in Facial Recognition - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:57] <exec> 08└─You dare link to "Hacker" News here? Do you have any idea where you are? This is Soylent, News for Boomers. SoylentNews is old people. Get the fuck off my lawn, kid!
[20:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU Demonstrates Flaws in Facial Recognition - 1296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:59] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, people aren't taking this seriously, for example see the direct quote at the end of this article: https://buffalonews.com [buffalonews.com] People who know the jovial, friendly-to-a-fault Rep. Tom Reed would never...
[20:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU Demonstrates Flaws in Facial Recognition - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:01] <exec> 08└─Only 28 members of Congress? I thought it would be much higher, much much higher. They were falsely recognized you say. No, they must have all been guilty of something. I call fake news.
[20:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Reportedly Working on Federal Data Privacy Policy - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:13] <exec> 08└─Would you expect the DNC to do better? They would put in BIG print how they are helping then in the fine print rip you off. Like Obamacare (12 fucking K per year is not better).
[20:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06White House Reportedly Working on Federal Data Privacy Policy - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:15] <exec> 08└─Not better for you, perhaps, but millions more people who did not have insurance before the ACA now have it. Unfortunately, since Obama and many democrats are/were mealy-mouthed corporatists, we couldn't get a single-payer system in place when they had a supermajority. A shame, because that's the re...
[20:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Reportedly Working on Federal Data Privacy Policy - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:17] <exec> 08└─Let's not kid ourselves. Any "data privacy" legislation will include TLA back doors and "golden keys". I think we need a national law covering data privacy, but the government is not trustworthy (or competent) enough to do it right.
[20:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah tell me about minimizing distraction. I recall meddling with windows. By the time one win7 station had recognized the network printer I had installed aptosid on the remaining 5 machines.
[20:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:10] <exec> 08└─> insane welcome to the public sector
[20:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:12] <exec> 08└─Rather, Free Software advocates recognize the problem and are trying to fix that via education.
[20:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:14] <exec> 08└─Kroes calls for open standards in eGovernment [euractiv.com] 2008-06-10 In an unusual move, EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes today (10 June) backed the use of open software for eGovernment and called on public authorities not to impose proprietary standards on citizens.
[20:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virgin Galactic Breaks Mach 2 in Third Powered Test Flight - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:25] <exec> 08└─2 weeks ago: https://www.ibtimes.co.in [ibtimes.co.in] Last month: https://loyaltylobby.com [loyaltylobby...
[20:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:53] <exec> 08└─First pictures available at http://goatse.cx [goatse.cx]
[20:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walmart and Waymo to Trial Driverless Shuttle Service in Phoenix for Grocery Pickups - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:09] <exec> 08└─A few weeks ago I saw this press release, Waymo purchased 62,000 Pacifica hybrid minivans from Fiat Chrysler and I was wondering where they are all going -- http://www.autonews.com [autonews.com] This article even men...
[20:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slack Mops Up its Competition (HipChat and Stride) - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:34] <exec> 08└─I think the Slack they're talking about is the corporate Discord, which is the gaymer's Slack, both of which are IRC that support reposting repost inline repost meme reposts. If we need inline memes, can 2019 be the year of XMPP? So we can get rid of this centralized crap? I can't get Discord workin...
[20:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06HTC: Death of VR Greatly Exaggerated - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:27] <exec> 08└─i think we're on the same page ... just this "no external sensor thingy". it might sound silly to track real physical object in VR, afterall it's VR and you can create anything there ... BUT it is awesome how you can put the VIVE hand controller on the (real) floor and in VR you see it at the correc...
[20:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HTC: Death of VR Greatly Exaggerated - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:28] <exec> 08└─i remember these from old VR v.1 times. there was also a sony "headset" that replaced a monitor. but i was poor (a kid) in those times so never got to play around with it ...
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[21:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Denis Villeneuve is Remaking Dune, and That’s a Good Thing - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:45] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=jodorowsky%27s+dune [youtube.com] It would have been epic! This will probably be some lame crap that's visually spectacular, mostly faithful with some wonderful acting... er, well, at least I trust Hollywood will do visually spectacular. I'm wondering wha...
[21:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU Demonstrates Flaws in Facial Recognition - 2449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:57] <exec> 08└─The American Criminal Liberties Union is certainly living up to their name. Of course the machine matching is imperfect. And that is OK. The whole idea is simply to sort through massive datasets that no human could ever hope to make use of and cull out a few matches into a subset that a human CAN lo...
[21:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU Demonstrates Flaws in Facial Recognition - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:58] <exec> 08└─Ya do have a point. We have a lot of old school types who still believe in the old ways of the Internet. Who believe free speech is more important that preserving the feelz of mentally unstable snowflakes. Who think if the snowflakes would just go ahead and off themselves the rest of us could get on...
[21:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU Demonstrates Flaws in Facial Recognition - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:00] <exec> 08└─10 years ago I had to give a PhD a lecture about how fallible his PC based fingerprint reader was and that, while we could use it as a convenience, there had to be a backup method of identification. Seems that this self styled "smartest guy in the room" had never experienced an inability to login wi...
[21:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU Demonstrates Flaws in Facial Recognition - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:02] <exec> 08└─2. Races differ. Diversity is a thing.
[21:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06White House Reportedly Working on Federal Data Privacy Policy - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:17] <exec> 08└─This is a Steve Bannon thing. He wanted regulation on social media/etc that kept them from selling your data. Iirc it was something along the lines of allowing you to opt in to selling your own data, but that you are the only one with the right to sell your data
[21:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06White House Reportedly Working on Federal Data Privacy Policy - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:19] <exec> 08└─Tens of thousands got insurance they didn't have before and tens of millions saw their rates go up by 300%+ with less coverage
[21:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Reportedly Working on Federal Data Privacy Policy - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:21] <exec> 08└─Face it...your insurance would have gone up with or without obamacare....it was already skyrocketing during Bush's presidency and why do you think that was? Your going to pay for healthcare one way or another...I would prefer to have the costs up-front and visible instead of under the table with cur...
[21:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Reportedly Working on Federal Data Privacy Policy - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:23] <exec> 08└─Just look at who they're talking to. "Facebook, Google, AT&T and Comcast have been involved.... ....Information Technology Industry Council, a trade group representing companies such as Apple, Google and Facebook, and The Business Roundtable, a lobbying group that hosts tech CEOs like Apple's Tim Co...
[21:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:17] <exec> 08└─Funny how Soylent Libertarian champions free market fundamentalism as the solution to everything...until another FOSS option gets dumped on its ass for a superior product. Than its all "Unite comrades, we must force FOSS on the proletariat by government fiat. For their own good."
[21:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:18] <exec> 08└─I'm running a mix of Void and Artix, both with Runit init system, and my machines are at the SDDM prompt in 10 seconds, less the time it takes me to type in and validate the LUKS passphrase. Systemd is no faster than Runit, and in my experience, slower. It's even better than OpenRC, which was my fir...
[21:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:20] <exec> 08└─He's correct, even if you don't like it. We all know how *you* work (might makes right), but in the real world, people who have a better grasp of human nature than, for example, the average whelk does of Cantorian transfinite sets, understand these things.
[21:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:23] <exec> 08└─No, no, clearly the problem here is a Violently Imposed Monopoly (TM). I mean hell it's even the name of the default editor, Vim! Lower Saxony ought to enter a series of voluntary contracts, because no one ever got screwed dealing with an entity with a hell of a lot more power, money, and legal infl...
[21:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:25] <exec> 08└─I don't see what systemd has to do with any of this. Nobody is forced to use it. Nobody is blocked from using something else, or blocked from producing their own fork. That's totally different from proprietary software. You seem to have the common mistaken belief that "free software" means "I have...
[21:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:27] <exec> 08└─Well, "open source" just means "open source". What you really meant in your post was "open source capable of supplanting proprietary software by mass end user choice alone". With respect to your Excel example, I think the situation goes even further than you state. I work with people that won't us...
[21:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:29] <exec> 08└─I read a bit about the Munich corruption rumor, but wasn't sure how much was accurate and how much was FUD (from the open source community instead of against it, for once). Sorry about your wife's situation. My wife is a satisfied Linux user but that's only because her whole digital life is GMail,...
[21:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virgin Galactic Breaks Mach 2 in Third Powered Test Flight - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:41] <exec> 08└─would totally suck
[21:11:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 1239 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:02] <exec> 08└─Seriously, anyone who thinks an IoT sex toy is a good idea deserves to be screwed... and not in a fun way. First, we all know how bad IoT security is... Second, we know they are going to upload usage stats to a corporate server. How often it is used, how long it takes for you to get off, if you are...
[21:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:10] <exec> 08└─Anyone know what it does to change from "smile" to "moan" to "scream"?
[21:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Walmart and Waymo to Trial Driverless Shuttle Service in Phoenix for Grocery Pickups - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:27] <exec> 08└─Waymo Orders Thousands More Chrysler Pacifica Minivans for Driverless Fleet [soylentnews.org] Waymo Partners With Jaguar for 20,000 Self-Driving Electric SUVs [soylentnews.org] I don't think I ever saw the 62k story. If news items like that are becoming routine, they may be getting serious.
[21:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:34] <exec> 08└─And I'm guessing 'poo-poo' is the proper elite liberal substitute appelation for 'bullshit'? I approve.
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[22:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Denis Villeneuve is Remaking Dune, and That’s a Good Thing - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:46] <exec> 08└─Will probably suck but the last bit there gives some hope. Legendary Pictures at least has a decent hit/miss ratio. And Sci-Fi had better luck doing it as a mini-series so breaking it two parts gives them a chance of getting enough of the story into it to avoid the butchery that would be required to...
[22:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Denis Villeneuve is Remaking Dune, and That’s a Good Thing - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:48] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering what they're going to do with the scene where Maud'Dib rapes the female race memory like it's a bathroom.
[22:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Denis Villeneuve is Remaking Dune, and That’s a Good Thing - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:50] <exec> 08└─Novels should be a season of TV but the budget to do a season of Dune would be hard to recoup.
[22:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Denis Villeneuve is Remaking Dune, and That’s a Good Thing - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:52] <exec> 08└─Will someone finally dare to God Emperor of Dune? A healthy dose of LSD to help move onto the final two books. Plus they finally need todo Wheel of Time !
[22:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Denis Villeneuve is Remaking Dune, and That’s a Good Thing - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:55] <exec> 08└─Everything these days is being remade into SJW-inspired crap. Hopefully this guy doesn't fall prey to that.
[22:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06ACLU Demonstrates Flaws in Facial Recognition - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:11] <exec> 08└─I think the thing undercounted. I'm sure WAY more than than 5% of Congress are criminals.
[22:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU Demonstrates Flaws in Facial Recognition - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:13] <exec> 08└─Many of them were black, does that help?
[22:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU Demonstrates Flaws in Facial Recognition - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, but having spotted them could you tell which one was which?
[22:09:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fadrian [3194] 02 - 06White House Reportedly Working on Federal Data Privacy Policy - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:23] <exec> 08└─How many think that Trump and his Republican clown show can actually put together legislation that will be halfway decent? I am dubious.
[22:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Reportedly Working on Federal Data Privacy Policy - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:35] <exec> 08└─The russians are the new jews apparently.
[22:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:38] <exec> 08└─AH you made me splurt wine into my keyboard again. But thank you, I will reuse that phrase when appropriate.
[22:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:39] <exec> 08└─My main boot-time experience with systemd vs not was on Raspbian... I think they're systemd by default now, but at a point in the past it was an option, an option that reduced boot time by about 50%. Surely both can be tweaked and tuned to similar speeds, but that seems like work best left to other...
[22:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:42] <exec> 08└─Why not stay with Linux, have a program collect all kinds of telemetry data and send that information to Microsoft. Best of both worlds, much cheaper, and Microsoft gets all the data it would have gotten if they had switched to Windows. Oh and have systems crash every so often an reboot them at leas...
[22:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You can soon have ‘sex’ with Amazon’s Alexa - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:22] <exec> 08└─"Expand, expand, expand..." Or just "explode"?
[22:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Being Near a Body of Water Makes Us Calmer and Healthier, Science Shows - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:45] <exec> 08└─As a rule of thumb, living longer = more opportunities to commit sin = bad for the soul. And don't try arguing it's more time to atone. If you're fishing, you're not going to Church. But have no fear, for I have the solution! I propose a kickstarter to have priests drive over every morning to sancti...
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[23:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have a Break From Apple Design Disputes, Have a Kit Kat Design Dispute - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:42] <exec> 08└─One for each of the major millennial genders?
[23:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have a Break From Apple Design Disputes, Have a Kit Kat Design Dispute - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:44] <exec> 08└─Don't buy Nestle products. Very evil company. They actively lobby for the idea that fresh drinking water is not a human right and that only people that can afford to pay for it should be allowed to drink it.
[23:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Denis Villeneuve is Remaking Dune, and That’s a Good Thing - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:57] <exec> 08└─Can we please not have "and That’s a Good Thing" headlines here.
[23:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Denis Villeneuve is Remaking Dune, and That’s a Good Thing - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:58] <exec> 08└─It is amazing how Hollywood keeps missing the point on Science Fiction despite so much evidence. Special effects can improve a good story but are insufficient alone. On the other hand a good story will sell quite well with spartan effects. Look how long ST:TOS and the old Dr. Who have been selling....
[23:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Denis Villeneuve is Remaking Dune, and That’s a Good Thing - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:00] <exec> 08└─It's going to be "Dune Nazis". I kid, I kid. I'm a SJW for the Alt-right!
[23:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Denis Villeneuve is Remaking Dune, and That’s a Good Thing - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:03] <exec> 08└─You can never have too much of a good thing.
[23:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06White House Reportedly Working on Federal Data Privacy Policy - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:40] <exec> 08└─You need to make sure to use brackets to point them out so people know [[[RUSSIANS!!!!]]]
[23:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:45] <exec> 08└─That's my experience as well. I think there's one proprietary software that does it well AND can run on Linux, but it's around $30K to $50K per seat. Can't afford that.
[23:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German State of Lower Saxony Plans to Switch From Linux to Windows - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:46] <exec> 08└─Kinda. I really don't care if redshat screws the pooch with systemd, but the BS where things that should not care about init are dependent on systemd pisses me off. I've been able to continue to run Debian through Stretch (v9) with systemd purged, but recently I installed Debian testing (will be Bus...
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