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[00:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06General Electric Secures Contract to Provide Turbines and Generators to Egypt's First Nuclear Plant - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:31] <exec> 08└─This is going to end well!
[00:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06General Electric Secures Contract to Provide Turbines and Generators to Egypt's First Nuclear Plant - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:32] <exec> 08└─I think giving countries in that region of the world a secure, powerful, and stable power supply would be quite helpful in solving a lot of the issues. A nuclear power plant would secure the power supply for the local population not involved in the larger conflicts. Russia/USA/France/etc won't bomb...
[00:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06General Electric Secures Contract to Provide Turbines and Generators to Egypt's First Nuclear Plant - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:35] <exec> 08└─They've got a lot of catching-up to do to match the US, Russia, and Japan in the nuke "incident" department.
[00:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Buys ABQ Studios in Albuquerque, New Mexico - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it seems we've exported "our" corporate ethos to the rest of the world. Sorry about that, but you know how hard it is to keep cancer from spreading.
[00:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Buys ABQ Studios in Albuquerque, New Mexico - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:47] <exec> 08└─That said tho I would be far more inclined to fork over some pork-money to the farmers then to Hollyweird. After all I do have to eat but I could live without their "culture".
[00:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netherlands Ordered to Increase Greenhouse Emissions Cuts - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:09] <exec> 08└─Damned scientists [soylentnews.org] getting in the way of people's beliefs since at least 1600 [historytoday.com].
[00:44:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 1004 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:00] <exec> 08└─Oh fuck off already. Just admit that you will NEVER accept climate research because you have some kind of perverse emotional investment in the status quo and are unwilling to accept that you might possibly be responsible, even indirectly, to the fact that in less than a century the world as we know...
[00:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:30] <exec> 08└─I wonder why this is always the case when people complain about global warming and are anti-vaccine but not against other sciences. Why aren't they anti-gravity, anti-momentum, anti-special relativity, etc. It's not like we have perfect understanding and consensus on anything in science.
[00:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:31] <exec> 08└─No Almonds for Sulla! Let him eat figs instead! Good enough for Augustus. (And, oh, we're coming for your capital gains, Chuck!)
[00:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:34] <exec> 08└─The no evidence part is where I think you are wrong. (And I don't mean for a simulation, rather for a powerful delusion.) Testable? No. Because of the same problems you are going to run into if it was a simulation. But you can establish that something is off. So take a look. What is Winter Sunlight?
[00:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:36] <exec> 08└─Ugh, yikes!
[00:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:38] <exec> 08└─I'd gladly pay capital gains if only I had some capital to gain!
[00:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:40] <exec> 08└─Al Gore's going to be able to buy a huge mansion with his share.
[00:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:42] <exec> 08└─You can't say it's crying wolf when many of the predicted outcomes are already occurring. Ask the inuits how they like their permafrost melting. Ask the people of Venice how they like their ocean levels rising. Ask everyone on a coast how they like more frequent and severe hurricanes. You only don't...
[00:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:44] <exec> 08└─And if you have more than two children the extra ones have to be killed. I mean, if we're taking AGW seriously...
[00:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:47] <exec> 08└─If you have more than two children, the extra ones need to be killed. I mean if we're taking AGW seriously...
[00:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:49] <exec> 08└─Wow, you are not just an ancap nutter but truly a fucking moron.
[00:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:51] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. But pass on the figs, I hear they are poisoned!
[00:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:53] <exec> 08└─And the children of the UK will never see snow again, and we’ll have six super storm Sandy’s every year!!!!1!!1
[00:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:55] <exec> 08└─When the SHTF their money will stop being green. That scares the pants off them.
[00:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:58] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing, based on your comments, that you live in a major city, and rent rather than own your home. 1 and 3 imply you know more about the economics of retrofitting an existing building than the owners with actual money on the table
[00:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Now Is the Time to Start Planning for the Post-Android World - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:04] <exec> 08└─So what's stopping you. Plenty of devices can run plain linux, even stuff like nethunter. Find them and buy them used.
[00:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Limousine Crash in New York was the Deadliest U.S. Transportation Accident in 9 Years - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:21] <exec> 08└─Physics is ruthless
[00:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces 9th Generation Desktop Processors, Including a Mainstream 8-Core CPU - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:58] <exec> 08└─God forbid chrome crashes, because reloading everything makes the machine unusable for several cups of coffee.
[00:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Bipartisan Plan to End Surprise Emergency Room Bills, Explained - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:37] <exec> 08└─Good example I think. I think meet packing has come a long way since the early 1900s too but still some pretty awful aspects to it. Forestry, also. Not sure if I'd call it heavily regulated though.
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[01:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bioelectronic Medicine: Implantable Device Speeds Nerve Regeneration (in Rats) - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:47] <exec> 08└─Test in DC? As we've seen over the last couple weeks there are plenty of rats there. Maybe if we can regenerate some nerves they'll get either a moral compass, a spine, or even a conscience. / call me a bad person, but IMHO the Dems came off worse than the R's did. Discuss. // I'm embarrassed I have...
[01:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06General Electric Secures Contract to Provide Turbines and Generators to Egypt's First Nuclear Plant - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:01] <exec> 08└─pakistan isn't muslim?
[01:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06General Electric Secures Contract to Provide Turbines and Generators to Egypt's First Nuclear Plant - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:02] <exec> 08└─Egypt is both propped up and controlled by the US, not some Muslim caste. The US had the Egyptian military overthrow the democratically elected government, and then gave them military aid, despite that being against US law. Despite the Muslim Brotherhood being outlawed, they still ran as independe...
[01:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06General Electric Secures Contract to Provide Turbines and Generators to Egypt's First Nuclear Plant - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:04] <exec> 08└─Now if we could get GE to pay taxes then all will be fine. Don't buy GE crap. I don't. Not even used. Hate to see the GE logo on anything in my house.
[01:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:22] <exec> 08└─I wonder why this is always the case when people complain about global warming and are anti-vaccine but not against other sciences. Why aren't they anti-gravity, anti-momentum, anti-special relativity, etc. It's not like we have perfect understanding and consensus on anything in science.
[01:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 2192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:23] <exec> 08└─Your faith in the sensibility of vehicle design is touchingly naive. Price, safety and efficiency, you say? Wow, just wow. You totally overlooked appearances, which is stunningly important to most people. I am constantly amazed at the importance they place on appearances. The paint may not make the...
[01:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 1374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:25] <exec> 08└─I would take nuclear over fossil fuels, but as Fukushima showed, it's dangerous. Much rather see more renewables. Although we can operate nuclear power safely, that we know how to do it, the biggest risk is that bad actors will eventually be placed in control, and will start cutting corners on maint...
[01:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:27] <exec> 08└─But people won't accept it because it's "ugly".
[01:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 1403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:29] <exec> 08└─Have posted more times than I care to count on the futility of "Climate Science" because science has been debased, data destroyed, etc. Lemme make it simpler. The same people, to a very high degree of overlap, who insist that reality is a social construct, science is to be discarded anytime it gets...
[01:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:12] <exec> 08└─Interesting idea, but as counterexamples, I've often seen stories on combat wounded veterans, arrays of coffins arriving in Dover, and stories about casualties and their families, not just famous ones like Pat Tillmann.
[01:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:14] <exec> 08└─The US military brass firmly believes that the reason they lost the Vietnam War was that they were "stabbed in the back" by the lefties at home.
[01:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:16] <exec> 08└─Addendum: Anarchy is stoopid mmkay?
[01:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Amsterdam's Canal Boats Are Going Electric - at a Cost - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:13] <exec> 08└─And given that the full capacity is two days operation and a 10 hour recharge, they can actually run the batteries lonfer, that is, to 50% or so capacity before they actually have to swap them out.
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[02:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bioelectronic Medicine: Implantable Device Speeds Nerve Regeneration (in Rats) - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:55] <exec> 08└─Check the book "The Body Electric" quite interesting for how old it is.
[02:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06General Electric Secures Contract to Provide Turbines and Generators to Egypt's First Nuclear Plant - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:10] <exec> 08└─Like the gold saying goes you can't spell garbage without GE.
[02:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Buys ABQ Studios in Albuquerque, New Mexico - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:25] <exec> 08└─These "stars" make it biggish in their 20's, then in their 30's buy ranches in Wyoming and Tennessee and decamp. If you've never been to Hollywood, it's a shithole. Wanna see the stars in the sidewalk? Be prepared to dodge a couple dozen homeless, another dozen doofus' in costume pretending to be Sp...
[02:44:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Netherlands Ordered to Increase Greenhouse Emissions Cuts - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:45] <exec> 08└─Damned scientists [soylentnews.org] getting in the way of people's beliefs since at least 1600 [historytoday.com].
[02:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:28] <exec> 08└─We know, J-Mo. We know you're basically made of hate at this point. Good thing you're not making policy, eh? gb2/gab.io and spend the rest of your miserable life jerking off into a sock while the grownups try and patch shit up, kthx.
[02:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:29] <exec> 08└─The consequences of getting slipshod are very severe-- land rendered uninhabitable for centuries thanks to radioactive pollution
[02:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:31] <exec> 08└─All the money and control over people's lives is decidedly on the side of those who support "climate change". Governments want to tell you how to live, what kind of light bulbs to by, how your car should run, and to gain control of entirely new energy sectors. That's why they cannot abide "deniers".
[02:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:33] <exec> 08└─No no no no... everyone knows the solution is massive amount of government spending on trickle down economics, after all why just solve a problem when you can solve it and line yours and your cronies?
[02:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:36] <exec> 08└─They're seriously an apocalypse cult. If nature doesn't do it they will try to destroy everything by blocking out the sun, or covering the ocean with giant algae mats, or shooting million watt beams into the ionosphere, or whatever. There is no chance they can be allowed to be proved wrong at this p...
[02:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:38] <exec> 08└─Apparently, that link to the paper is incorrect; it's some abridged version or something. This looks more like the right one [sciencepublishinggroup.com].
[02:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:40] <exec> 08└─The truth is is building owners could realize significant savings they would. They like money.
[02:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:42] <exec> 08└─Your paranoid fantasies are finally leaking out as violent dreams. Good stuff. Your most deeply buried fantasies will also come true if you pull off your little shooting spree and get a life sentence.
[02:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:44] <exec> 08└─It is 100% possible, plenty of people do it. It is probably a bad idea to switch your diet immediately, I suggest slowly reducing the amount of meat you eat until you have just a few meals a week with it. We really don't need to eat meat on a daily basis, nutritionally speaking.
[02:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:46] <exec> 08└─Umm.. you do realize in your new reality, if it does indeed materialize, there's still going to be a similar group of folks that you hate right? It may not be the same faces but I betcha they'll be a group as such. Anytime there's any iota of opportunity where there's leverage for one human over ano...
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[02:48:28] <exec> 08└─Quite different: + Lithium metal reacts spontaneously with water (and even water vapor in the air) and makes a fire that can't be extinguished (at least in some cases). So the batteries have to be *extremely* well sealed, maybe they are soldered into big sardine cans with glass pass-through connecti...
[02:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Amsterdam's Canal Boats Are Going Electric - at a Cost - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:30] <exec> 08└─Sodium will react with water to produce hydrogen gas and a FUCKTON of heat, resulting in an explosion. Lithium is directly above Sodium on the periodic table, which means it should react in roughly the same way in the same situation. I expect he's making a joke about the reactability of lithium with...
[02:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Limousine Crash in New York was the Deadliest U.S. Transportation Accident in 9 Years - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:16] <exec> 08└─I didn't get safety as being a concern in "I am wondering how they got 17 passengers into a stretch limo;", just the question on "fitting many people in/on something"
[02:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 9th Generation Desktop Processors, Including a Mainstream 8-Core CPU - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:51] <exec> 08└─By "mainstream" that means it fits into Intel's standard desktop socket, and not their stupidly expensive "charge more just because we can" workstation socket. On the other hand, that also means you lose features such as ECC. Though if you want ECC, I'm sure there's a Xeon somewhere in the lineup th...
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[03:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pristine Apple I Sells at Auction for a Jaw-Dropping Price - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:10] <exec> 08└─Looking at the circuit board, the traces seem so... computer-designed. It's almost modern.
[03:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pristine Apple I Sells at Auction for a Jaw-Dropping Price - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:11] <exec> 08└─Woz used a ruler. And is a circuit design god.
[03:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06General Electric Secures Contract to Provide Turbines and Generators to Egypt's First Nuclear Plant - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:40] <exec> 08└─...If you can get these people some good AC they might be less angry.
[03:44:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:33] <exec> 08└─Build solar, nuke and wind plants. How's that for a plan?
[03:44:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 534 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:43] <exec> 08└─"We don't wanna, we like things the way they are, and you can't make us do anything about this problem." I mean, there's layers of rationalizations on top of that, but that's the gist of the response. And yes, I include the people who are in denial about the problem: The fact that they keep on getti...
[03:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:54] <exec> 08└─Dialogue and discussion between your fellow country peeps is easy. Dialogue and discussion between citizens and several embedded foreign shills/propagandists... that's tough. A moderation system helps eliminate the garbage but it's a kind of censorship.
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[04:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:09] <exec> 08└─Don't be mean to intel, they don't even have a CEO.
[04:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netherlands Ordered to Increase Greenhouse Emissions Cuts - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:24] <exec> 08└─What happened was, that the citizens wondered: "what the fuck are we taxpayers building a new COAL power plant for?!?". It's just as windy on the coast of the Netherlands as on Denmark.
[04:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:02] <exec> 08└─I agree, join us: There should be one university that is the best in all ways, everyone will be accepted, and it will be tought by angels.
[04:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now Is the Time to Start Planning for the Post-Android World - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:27] <exec> 08└─Maybe people will grow out of them but I doubt it. Again, if you look at what people are actually using and spending (wasting ineffectually) time on, it includes a lot of smartphones, tablets, and netbooks. For many, those are what they spend almost all of their screen time with even if they also ow...
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[04:48:40] <exec> 08└─What these anonymous officials are doing is called leaking. Some of them could lose their jobs over it, or even be imprisoned.
[04:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Limousine Crash in New York was the Deadliest U.S. Transportation Accident in 9 Years - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:46] <exec> 08└─Physics is. ruthless
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[05:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:51] <exec> 08└─Why even allow half the cores to be disabled on the budget processor? Sounds like shit drivers. If I had that, and saw game mode, I'd turn it on as well thinking it would improve performance, not reduce it.
[05:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:53] <exec> 08└─So, can we have the press question management at Principled and Intel about Intel stock options trading based on release of the skewed report? Some sort of wife beater questions like 'Will management commit to ending pump and dump options trading based on the release of these inaccurate reports?'. Y...
[05:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:55] <exec> 08└─Why even allow half the cores to be disabled on the budget processor?
[05:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pristine Apple I Sells at Auction for a Jaw-Dropping Price - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:06] <exec> 08└─What are you going to do with it? Play pong? Just think hippies, could have bought 150k starving babies food for that price, now they're going to DIE!?!
[05:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pristine Apple I Sells at Auction for a Jaw-Dropping Price - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:08] <exec> 08└─And now the seller can buy food for 150k starving babies. What was your point, again?
[05:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06General Electric Secures Contract to Provide Turbines and Generators to Egypt's First Nuclear Plant - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:37] <exec> 08└─They've got a lot of catching-up to do to match the US, Russia, and Japan in the nuke "incident" department.
[05:47:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 1309 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:49] <exec> 08└─Not in a society where every child spends their entire childhood being conditioned to sit still and memorize facts from authority, and questioning of the presented facts is punished. This is modern education. And by now, almost the entire population has been raised that way. Since they have been tra...
[05:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:59] <exec> 08└─Dialogue and discussion between your fellow country peeps is easy. Dialogue and discussion between citizens and several embedded foreign shills/propagandists... that's tough. A moderation system helps eliminate the garbage but it's a kind of censorship.
[05:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Limousine Crash in New York was the Deadliest U.S. Transportation Accident in 9 Years - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:50] <exec> 08└─Well yeah. If they fall off and come apart it is much easier to put them back together if all the parts are swappable.
[05:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 9th Generation Desktop Processors, Including a Mainstream 8-Core CPU - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah no. Stay in the dark ages if you like, but programmers *should* write multithreaded code. The reason we haven't is laziness and lack of multicore systems. As core count rises, the benefits of multithreading will increase, which will result in multithreading becoming more common. The way forward...
[05:52:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Hubble Telescope Placed into Safe Mode after Gyroscope Failure - 490 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:05] <exec> 08└─Or maybe rephrased with 3 to 6 gyros you can take as long of a photo as you want as long as the sun or earth don't pass thru the image LOL. But with 1 gyro everything is going to appear as a short arc, so you gotta take 100 short photos and stack them, which will burn a lot of bandwidth. There are a...
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[06:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Can Now Measure DNA We 'Shed' to Solve Crimes - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:56] <exec> 08└─The jokes on you. In the future, all home invasions will be done with robots.
[06:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:09] <exec> 08└─Also, if you have to name the company Principled, odds are you used all of them in your name and you don't have any left to use in your activity.
[06:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:10] <exec> 08└─Ryzen processors seem to cost between $US 99 and $US 899, so "budget" must mean "under $300" https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] I suspect the firmware enabling "game mode" is standard across all the proc...
[06:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netherlands Ordered to Increase Greenhouse Emissions Cuts - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:27] <exec> 08└─Which means they were already supposed to be working on it for the past 3 years.
[06:48:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 853 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:01] <exec> 08└─The problem with guys like Mr. Vim is they have a small kernel of truth, but they surround it by a giant, rancid overripe avocado of bullshit, much of which is contradictory to the truth they insist they are working to preserve and promote. This is something I've noticed with the right-wingers I've...
[06:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:10] <exec> 08└─"In the West at least, they have been thrust into a central role due to the general public's increased trust in them as institutions." ahahahahahaha. Oh wait you were serious. Allow me to laugh harder. AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[07:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Standard Treatment for Common STD Doesn't Eliminate Parasite in Some Women - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:29] <exec> 08└─Some women are the parasite.
[07:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Can Now Measure DNA We 'Shed' to Solve Crimes - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:39] <exec> 08└─You must acquit.
[07:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:56] <exec> 08└─"Take the money and say whatever they want you to say" is a principle. Groucho said it best [youtube.com] Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
[07:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:57] <exec> 08└─Ones without hyperthreading, or whatever AMD calls it.
[07:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:00] <exec> 08└─Why even allow half the cores to be disabled on the budget processor?
[07:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:02] <exec> 08└─Both companies use the same style of hyperthreading since AMD released Ryzen.
[07:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pristine Apple I Sells at Auction for a Jaw-Dropping Price - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:16] <exec> 08└─That apple fans are hippies and over pay for anything with the apple tag, regardless of function. Hippies are more likely to virtue signal about how much more they care about The People than I. Resellers will, more than likely, reinvest their profits back into their business/hobby than give to dying...
[07:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Amsterdam's Canal Boats Are Going Electric - at a Cost - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:49:12] <exec> 08└─Not sure this applies to EU, but here in the states the exhaust is vented into the water.
[07:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces 9th Generation Desktop Processors, Including a Mainstream 8-Core CPU - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:39] <exec> 08└─Which means a complete redesign AND it's probably just easier at that point to make a chip without SE, but with entire extra cores, for the same price.
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[08:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:35] <exec> 08└─"Soggy [soggy.jobs]."
[08:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 1471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:37] <exec> 08└─IIRC, Game Mode was always intended for Threadripper, because some games would not react well to 16 cores (or 32 threads). Although not that many titles had issues. Incidentally, Threadripper 2's 24- and 32-core variants have slower memory/PCIe access for half of the cores [anandtech.com]: *SPOILER*...
[08:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pristine Apple I Sells at Auction for a Jaw-Dropping Price - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:50] <exec> 08└─As an old hippie, I reject the notion any of us would buy overpriced gizmos, when we can spend the money on plenty of weed or acid. I'd love to make love now if I could but certainly I won't make war.
[08:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pristine Apple I Sells at Auction for a Jaw-Dropping Price - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:52] <exec> 08└─I would buy acid but I'm a social retard so that will never happen. Plus the Silk Roads are dead, and I would probably end up getting NBOMe isntead of acid anyway. And weed is so yesterday. Wait, did you say love? Never heard of it.
[08:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Buys ABQ Studios in Albuquerque, New Mexico - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:37] <exec> 08└─It's a thing because it's a useful propaganda tool.
[08:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netherlands Ordered to Increase Greenhouse Emissions Cuts - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:00] <exec> 08└─What economic effects would something like that have on the country?
[08:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:49] <exec> 08└─Whenever that actually happens, someone moves right on in, takes control then quite likely starts murdering their enemies. A Stateless society is at best a theoretical ideal. Consider also that the totally screwed-up notions of morality that many Americans possess are the direct result of the new wo...
[08:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:50] <exec> 08└─Many Republican elected officials have long opposed the teaching of Critical Thinking in schools for such reasons as that they claim it leads children to disobey their parents. My own education had quite a lot of Critical Thinking study. This was always taught in English or Literature classes. Math...
[08:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:52] <exec> 08└─It is very common that citizens of nations other than the US are multilingual, enough so that they do just fine living and working in foreign lands. While foreign languages are commonly taught in US Junior High and High Schools, it is exceedingly uncommon for American-born people to know a foreign l...
[08:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:55] <exec> 08└─The great thing about artificial intelligence as well as progress in control systems is that when a future American President decides to ensure their place in history by murdering a hundred million foreigners, the American public won't object because none of our children will have their lives put at...
[08:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:57] <exec> 08└─In my actual experience, the people who gripe about George Soros bear a great deal in common with that rogue USAF General in "Dr. Strangelove" who said "I only drink distilled water and clear grain alcohol because water fluoridation is a Communist plot to corrupt our precious bodily fluids".
[08:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Amsterdam's Canal Boats Are Going Electric - at a Cost - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:01] <exec> 08└─Regardless of how the economics of this play out, I would hope that you could get at least a somewhat better battery at the end of those 10-12 years, seeing as there have been promises of double the energy density or more for new battery technologies, and there have been incremental improvements for...
[08:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google+ Shut Down After Data Breach and Cover-Up are Exposed - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:57] <exec> 08└─Well, the social networks that I remember failing are Buzz, Orkut, and Google+. All three of those were under Google's wings. Clearly google themselves are doing something wrong in this field. And if you consider how much data-mining they do, they basically know everything about everything you do in...
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[09:44:09] <exec> 08└─That's all, folks!
[09:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UCSD Pascal Pioneer Ken Bowles Has Passed Away - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:10] <exec> 08└─Now we know what's under your dress. A mountain of Pascal code.
[09:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UCSD Pascal Pioneer Ken Bowles Has Passed Away - 2181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:13] <exec> 08└─One of the reasons for the popularity of the C programming language is that it was relatively easily to port the language to a different hardware platform. Once that was done, all manner of attendant tools and utilities could be recompiled and targeted for that platform... voilà! You could take it...
[09:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Standard Treatment for Common STD Doesn't Eliminate Parasite in Some Women - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:21] <exec> 08└─So why was the cure being called a cure? Did nobody measure how effective it was as such in the past? Don't drugs have to go through rigorous tests that demonstrate (I won't say "prove") this effectiveness? Who signed off on this drug's licence? Who did the tests, and what results were those origina...
[09:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Can Now Measure DNA We 'Shed' to Solve Crimes - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:33] <exec> 08└─More likely, criminals will burn routinely down the entire building after committing any crime.
[09:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nrudaz [6417] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:11] <exec> 08└─France has recently published a similar study: https://www.defense.gouv.fr [defense.gouv.fr] (Scroll down for the English version of the PDF report)
[09:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:12] <exec> 08└─Can we having an educated populace that can find the truth themselves, instead of needing it spoon fed to them by anyone? Not while you have the right to remain stupid, and a large part of the population that considers this their biggest priority. Note that the allies would not have won WW2* without...
[09:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:14] <exec> 08└─It's why the US and Britain still have executions The UK has not had executions since the late 1960's after it was discovered that the convictions of the last 13 hanged were all unconvincing, and in about 5 cases, someone else had admitted the offence later.
[09:51:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Fake Videos Become More Realistic, Seeing Shouldn't Always be Believing - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:02] <exec> 08└─https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/14/could-anyone-stop-trump-from-launching-nukes-the-answer-no.html [cnbc.com] https://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com] In contrast the USSR...
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[10:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Holes Ruled Out as Universe's Missing Dark Matter - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:05] <exec> 08└─This only hurts the prospects for macroscopic black holes as dark matter. It doesn't affect microscopic (planck mass) black holes as a dark matter candidate. I think this is fine. Macroscopic black holes would be the most boring possible explanation, although they do (or did?) have the advantage tha...
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[10:43:15] <exec> 08└─We had an Apple ][+ around 1980 and wanted to use it for engineering simulation work. When we looked at the choices of language to write in, it looked like the only system with usable/fast floating point support was UCSD Pascal, so we used that for a few years. It was a little big for that computer,...
[10:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Standard Treatment for Common STD Doesn't Eliminate Parasite in Some Women - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:25] <exec> 08└─College gf caught this (mid-1970s) and I (guy) had to be tested as well--easy test, pee in a cup, wait a couple of days for results. The docs called it the ping pong disease back then, the organism might be eliminated from one partner with treatment but still be in the other (with no symptoms). Then...
[10:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Can Now Measure DNA We 'Shed' to Solve Crimes - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:36] <exec> 08└─> criminals will burn routinely down the entire building This is good, the criminals will be burning routinely as they run the length of the building. What??!
[10:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pristine Apple I Sells at Auction for a Jaw-Dropping Price - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:12] <exec> 08└─If Bill missed this auction, I know where there is another Apple I, owned by an early Apple employee. My friend is happy to have it and my guess is that he will just hang on to it, doesn't need the money for anything in particular.
[10:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pristine Apple I Sells at Auction for a Jaw-Dropping Price - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:13] <exec> 08└─... but apparently it came preloaded with "Once Upon A Time In Shaolin".
[10:44:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06General Electric Secures Contract to Provide Turbines and Generators to Egypt's First Nuclear Plant - 596 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:36] <exec> 08└─Egypt is both propped up and controlled by the US, not some Muslim caste. The US had the Egyptian military overthrow the democratically elected government, and then gave them military aid, despite that being against US law. Despite the Muslim Brotherhood being outlawed, they still ran as independe...
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[10:49:13] <exec> 08└─That "somewhat better battery" might require some updates, good chance it isn't going to operate at exactly the same voltage or require the same charger as the original. My guess, if the same chemistry is still available, the cost effective choice is to hope for lower price from higher volume produc...
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[11:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06UCSD Pascal Pioneer Ken Bowles Has Passed Away - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:40] <exec> 08└─Because the p-code was interpreted, there was a performance penalty to be paid for the portability.
[11:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UCSD Pascal Pioneer Ken Bowles Has Passed Away - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:41] <exec> 08└─Its principles and concepts live on, however in such things as the Java VM.
[11:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:25] <exec> 08└─Very similar to this: "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't." -- Margaret Thatcher
[11:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06General Electric Secures Contract to Provide Turbines and Generators to Egypt's First Nuclear Plant - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:13] <exec> 08└─If this GE project is run anything like one I'm familiar with it will be a long time before this system is making any power. The project I know about (updating a large machine from 30 year old hydrostatic drives to AC electric machines) has gone about 5 years and 3 very expensive (lightweight, water...
[11:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:44] <exec> 08└─Either you want governments and social media companies to combat this type of interference or you don't (and if you don't then don't complain when you get Trumps).
[11:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:45] <exec> 08└─As a whole we tend to suck at it due to our internal biases.
[11:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Amsterdam's Canal Boats Are Going Electric - at a Cost - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:50] <exec> 08└─Not sure this applies to EU, but here in the states the exhaust is vented into the water.
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[12:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Holes Ruled Out as Universe's Missing Dark Matter - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:23] <exec> 08└─The astronomer's only tool is basically analyzing light. Interesting that all their focus is now on invisible stuff they only infer exists from the light emitted by other objects. Or does it just seem that way because the media likes to talk about it?
[12:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Holes Ruled Out as Universe's Missing Dark Matter - 2489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:25] <exec> 08└─A microscopic black hole would surely have the same gravitational effect... aren't they supposed to be at least 10^12 kg, and if there are enough of them to account for the missing matter, then there'll be a significant lensing effect that this experiment would also notice. We just can't get away fr...
[12:43:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02 - 06UCSD Pascal Pioneer Ken Bowles Has Passed Away - 2181 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:35] <exec> 08└─One of the reasons for the popularity of the C programming language is that it was relatively easily to port the language to a different hardware platform. Once that was done, all manner of attendant tools and utilities could be recompiled and targeted for that platform... voilà! You could take it...
[12:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Standard Treatment for Common STD Doesn't Eliminate Parasite in Some Women - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:50] <exec> 08└─Your points are valid and insightful, but there is a possibility that they did do their due diligence. When the drugs in question were first used against this organism, they may have worked 100% of the time with one dose. Since then the critter in question may have developed limited resistance, maki...
[12:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Can Now Measure DNA We 'Shed' to Solve Crimes - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:03] <exec> 08└─Nah, once people figure this out they will start framing each other by producing the relevant dna sequences in bacteria and leaving them at scenes of the crime. It isnt that hard to get a sample of someones DNA to do this.
[12:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:26] <exec> 08└─Man: Well, what've you got? Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg bacon and spam; egg bacon sausage and spam; spam bacon sausage and spam; spam egg spam spam bacon and spam; spam sausage spam spam bacon spam tomato and spam; Vikings (starting to chant): Spam...
[12:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pristine Apple I Sells at Auction for a Jaw-Dropping Price - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:45] <exec> 08└─making it one of the most expensive 6502-based computers in history
[12:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netherlands Ordered to Increase Greenhouse Emissions Cuts - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, I got that. What is the relevance of it?
[12:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:43] <exec> 08└─It's "terrorism gap"! The word originally meant government violence against its citizens. ref [wikipedia.org]
[12:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:44] <exec> 08└─Sadly the general public is not laughing but busily using these platforms. I wouldn't click your link because I ironically enough don't trust google.
[12:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now Is the Time to Start Planning for the Post-Android World - 1643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:14] <exec> 08└─Google style is crazy slow adoption rates to make things toxic. Half the android community won't use LiveData or material design widgets because they're only half a decade old. You'll see online forums with some wet behind the ears kiddo screeching about how the whole world has already moved to Kotl...
[12:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now Is the Time to Start Planning for the Post-Android World - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:15] <exec> 08└─I'm a dues-paying Free Software Foundation member. But you have some wishful thinking there. Windows is being replaced by Chromebooks and iPads in school. Windows use is being replaced by Samsung Galaxy S-whatevers and Pixels and iPhone Xs in homes. Windows Server is losing market share to Linux ser...
[12:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now Is the Time to Start Planning for the Post-Android World - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:17] <exec> 08└─Read https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] Google has gradually replaced more and more open features in Android with proprietary features and services, a fork will lack so many features that normal cons...
[12:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Limousine Crash in New York was the Deadliest U.S. Transportation Accident in 9 Years - 1872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:43] <exec> 08└─Precisely. I am blaming a culture that in 2018 thinks it's acceptable not to put on a seatbelt at 50mph in any vehicle, despite having concerns over the speed/safety of the vehicle they are in, when since the 1970's most countries have mandated them and eventually spread their use to virtually ALL i...
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[13:43:28] <exec> 08└─And, no. I'm not talking about the fact that you can't observe them directly. There are competing theories on what a black hole is; it's not some well understood phenomenon. And, predictions about material around where a black hole is supposed to be have failed in the past (e.g., stars or clouds of...
[13:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Detected Microquasar Gamma-Rays 'Call for New Ideas' - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:29] <exec> 08└─Is it possible dark matter is responsible for the additional acceleration?
[13:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Claims That a Major U.S. Telecom Operated a Server Backdoored by a Hidden Chip - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:40] <exec> 08└─Plenty of skill available to install back doors in the ME code, so it could be that. Honestly, though, how many companies perform a thorough receiving inspection, verifying the BIOS against a third-party inventory (get an image from Intel of their bits and check them against the BIOS, for example),...
[13:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Claims That a Major U.S. Telecom Operated a Server Backdoored by a Hidden Chip - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:42] <exec> 08└─Just because the boards were manufactured in China doesn't mean this is the fault of someone from there. The oddities of this story make me think apple, etc or at least the people responsible for checking this stuff at those companies were issued gag orders. Or maybe bloomberg is just falling for fa...
[13:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UCSD Pascal Pioneer Ken Bowles Has Passed Away - 2313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:07] <exec> 08└─In the early 80's I was using the UCSD p-System. There were two vendors that I know of. SoftTech of course. And a Canadian company DataLex. Others already mention that the p-System had about a 2K 'ish bytecode interpreter. This is what had to be ported to each new system. Once there, the entire p-Sy...
[13:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Standard Treatment for Common STD Doesn't Eliminate Parasite in Some Women - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:20] <exec> 08└─This study indirectly sponsored by Aurobindo Pharma Ltd, the manufacturer of metronidazole! Remember kids, one dose is not enough, buy two or three! It's the only way to be sure! /s
[13:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Standard Treatment for Common STD Doesn't Eliminate Parasite in Some Women - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:21] <exec> 08└─If you read the study or even the summary you'll see that going from 1 dose to 7 only reduces the chance of a persistent infection by 50%. This is a cost/benefit situation. The largest benefit comes from a single dose. If you increase the dose nearly 10 fold, you get some improvement but not enough...
[13:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:57] <exec> 08└─https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/7753-real-race-superiority-tsmc-vs-intel.html [semiwiki.com] While SemiWiki is focused on the manufacturing side, it does also comment that the AMD vs Intel comparison is finally coming down to architecture as TSMC's 7nm is comparable to Intel's 10nm processes.
[13:45:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fluffeh [954] 02 - 06General Electric Secures Contract to Provide Turbines and Generators to Egypt's First Nuclear Plant - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:39] <exec> 08└─...If you can get these people some good AC they might be less angry.
[13:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06General Electric Secures Contract to Provide Turbines and Generators to Egypt's First Nuclear Plant - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:42] <exec> 08└─It would be too easy to equate "democratically elected" with good, though. The Muslim Brotherhood showed the very same signs of starting to clean the administration as any other dictatorship. Historically, Egypt has been run by the military, its presidents being tolerated. If you go square against t...
[13:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:20] <exec> 08└─Very seriously. Look at what they [wsws.org] say about this and then compare it with the official material referenced in the summary. Pretty 1:1 if you ask me.
[13:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:22] <exec> 08└─Yes! Soon will implement the Exterminate Men Angelic Contract System!
[13:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:24] <exec> 08└─(Sorry, this one's a bit off topic. Not terribly I hope.) Don't worry. The witch hunt started by the #metoo movement will soon eliminate the last vestiges of critical thinking. #MeToo-style allegations used to oust popular University of Michigan professor [wsws.org]: Rubadeau is one of the most dist...
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[13:49:26] <exec> 08└─I'm a daily reader of World Socialist Web Site. What pulled me in is that they share my disdain for both of the major parties in the USA. They will slam Trump, and then they will slam Hillary. They slammed Kavanaugh, and then they promptly slammed Senator Hirono (D-HI) for her comments [wsws.org]¹....
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[14:42:57] <exec> 08└─Is it possible that God is fucking with scientists?
[14:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Claims That a Major U.S. Telecom Operated a Server Backdoored by a Hidden Chip - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:08] <exec> 08└─I like your thinking and I'd like to think inspections are being done, but I'm skeptical. Laziness is a big factor, often justified by cost reductions. Another factor is "production variations". To verify a BIOS image you'd have to remove the chip and read it in a chip reader. You might be able to d...
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[14:43:09] <exec> 08└─The Russia/China split thing is likely due to a conflict in the ruling class. The only thing that is certain is that the focus has moved from "war on terror" to "great power conflict." One faction of the ruling class believes that globalist capitalism will be served best by confronting Russia, I'd g...
[14:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UCSD Pascal Pioneer Ken Bowles Has Passed Away - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:36] <exec> 08└─Does writing that language make you a pee hacker? (obref for the uninitiated) [wikipedia.org]
[14:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UCSD Pascal Pioneer Ken Bowles Has Passed Away - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:38] <exec> 08└─FORTH was another VM language popular at the time and made its way into Open Firmware.
[14:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UCSD Pascal Pioneer Ken Bowles Has Passed Away - 1942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:40] <exec> 08└─The problem of such systems is fairly obvious though: You're paying the code conversion costs all the time it's executing. If you port the source code, and then compile once, the initial compile is "slow" but everything else operates at native speed for the rest of its existence. Compile-times are r...
[14:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Can Now Measure DNA We 'Shed' to Solve Crimes - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:06] <exec> 08└─Prescient movie. Now where are those manned missions to Titan?
[14:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03backsplatter [3394] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Can Now Measure DNA We 'Shed' to Solve Crimes - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:07] <exec> 08└─Depending on the amount of "shedding" that someone can do, it makes the possibility of your DNA showing up someplace unexpected scary. Just because a DNA sample is found at the scene of a crime doesn't give you 100% of the story.
[14:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:30] <exec> 08└─Intentions aside, the reason it was kept around for everyone else was because it's useful for some games regardless. There plenty of reddit posts of people trying it out and reporting improved FPS in older games and you can probably just try it yourself and see.
[14:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pristine Apple I Sells at Auction for a Jaw-Dropping Price - 1690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:50] <exec> 08└─I used to work at Hambrecht & Quist, a brokerage located in San Francisco. Hambrecht & Quist handled the IPOs of both Apple AND Genentech. So you could sort of say H&Q helped change the world. I worked in their information technology department. (As an aside, I encourage everyone to refer to it as '...
[14:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pristine Apple I Sells at Auction for a Jaw-Dropping Price - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:52] <exec> 08└─"I would buy acid but I'm a social retard so that will never happen." If you're a social retard you're supposed to make it, not buy it.
[14:45:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03epitaxial [3165] 02 - 06General Electric Secures Contract to Provide Turbines and Generators to Egypt's First Nuclear Plant - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:18] <exec> 08└─Like the gold saying goes you can't spell garbage without GE.
[14:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06General Electric Secures Contract to Provide Turbines and Generators to Egypt's First Nuclear Plant - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:23] <exec> 08└─Like the gold saying goes you can't spell garbage without GE.
[14:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Buys ABQ Studios in Albuquerque, New Mexico - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:40] <exec> 08└─This is a states' rights thing: If a state chooses to subsidize selected industries, why should the Fed's have the power to prevent it?
[14:47:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 690 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:20] <exec> 08└─One side effect of global warming I find almost no one considering is that grain belts are going to move rather far north. Siberia may become the world's breadbasket. What country "owns" Siberia? Russia. If the prospect of the Midwest becoming a desert and Russia essentially controlling the world's...
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[14:52:03] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately these investigations take a ridiculous amount of time, so it will be long out of the top story list when we find out what happened. I hope the limo had a "black box" recording. I'd like to know the limo's speed, and if and when the brakes were applied. I'd also like to know if the driv...
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[15:43:30] <exec> 08└─I went paronomasia [qz.com] and you just couldn't wait to blow it.
[15:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:31] <exec> 08└─"... to the right of Michael's projected landfall..." Does that mean "East", numbnuts?
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[15:43:34] <exec> 08└─Anyone in the area, GET OUT NOW.
[15:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:36] <exec> 08└─I had a "Millenials!" comment halfway to my fingertips, ready to be typed out. But, in fairness, the preceding generations haven't been much better. Learning to read maps is hard work, or some such thing.
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[15:43:38] <exec> 08└─Too late. [twitter.com] BTW: Part of the evacuation order was mandatory.
[15:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:40] <exec> 08└─I agree. Nevertheless, I would expect Soylentils to have an above-average understanding of cardinal directions and maps.
[15:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 1328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:42] <exec> 08└─Bad though this hurricane is, I wonder if this story isn't a little overly focused on the US. This being a forum of English speakers, and the US being one of the biggest contributors to Global Warming, perhaps the focus on this news is understandable. But hurricanes are part of life in Florida. So I...
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[15:44:06] <exec> 08└─Good point. This equipment could have just as easily been picked by the fed in customs when it arrived and diddled in one of the NSA's hardware diddling centers. Perhaps the question isn't who got pwnd but who did the pwning. Hell the NSA could have done it, AND been the one to leak to the press. En...
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[15:50:04] <exec> 08└─With or without court sanctions, regardless of it being public, closed doors or secretive, its own citizens or foreigners, at wartime or during peace, on its own soil or abroad, Britain been executing terrorists and the like for decades. Sometimes its using intelligence agents. Sometimes its by orde...
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[16:42:52] <exec> 08└─On-the-fly joins across multiple tables cause a performance hit which is exacerbated by the number of stories we have posted over the years (yes, it HAS been that long... YAY!). Further, stories which have been "archived" — allowing no further comments or moderation — are still sitting in the in...
[16:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:54] <exec> 08└─You are not entirely incorrect but I'm just not feeling the desire to completely revamp our DB structure and all the code that accesses it at the moment. The old site got around this by dumping archived stories out to mostly pre-rendered .shtml files on a daily basis. We're disinclined to take that...
[16:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:56] <exec> 08└─If you wrote your own database engine, you could call it martydb.
[16:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:15] <exec> 08└─Watching the Weather Channel right now. They just upgraded the wind speeds from 145 to 150mph. Category 5 is sustained wind speeds of 156+ mph. The pressure is reported as down to 923mb, even lower than the 933-930 mentioned in the summary. The outer edge of the storm is just barely making landfall...
[16:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:16] <exec> 08└─CAT4+ hurricanes are nothing to sneeze at. The one that hit my home state of Texas last summer was CAT4 when it hit Rockport/Fulton/Port Aransas. Rockport/Fulton got the eye dead-on and was nearly completely destroyed. My Aunt/Uncle are still rebuilding their house. When I was watching coverage I re...
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[16:43:18] <exec> 08└─Only if the storm is traveling due north.
[16:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:20] <exec> 08└─Check the live feeds, there's still people on the beaches.
[16:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:22] <exec> 08└─I'll seize on this as an excuse to flog Global Warming and denialist psychology some more.
[16:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:25] <exec> 08└─What if you were facing east?
[16:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:27] <exec> 08└─Or if you don't use a map that has north up?
[16:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:29] <exec> 08└─"Check the live feeds, there's still people on the beaches" . . Do you have any links you'd like to share?
[16:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:31] <exec> 08└─If the storm is moving, right and left are as meaningful as ahead and behind.
[16:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:34] <exec> 08└─The real question is: Is the Waffle House still open (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House_Index)?
[16:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:36] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, the red haired, metal playing, hurricane fighting weather shaman Florida man Lane Pittman will save us!
[16:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Detected Microquasar Gamma-Rays 'Call for New Ideas' - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:46] <exec> 08└─This paper about the same quasar was just published Oct 2: Galactic jets could therefore be contributing to this GeV feature, which has been otherwise interpreted in a annihilating dark matter scenario (Hooper & Goodenough 2011).
[16:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Claims That a Major U.S. Telecom Operated a Server Backdoored by a Hidden Chip - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:59] <exec> 08└─On what grounds are the critics calling BS on these two Bloomberg articles? Is it because the damning allegations come from 90% anonymous sources? That actually seems reasonable. Not that I'm all that skeptical, in general. It likely that everything is backdoored by at least one state-sponsored spy...
[16:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bloomberg Claims That a Major U.S. Telecom Operated a Server Backdoored by a Hidden Chip - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:00] <exec> 08└─"We have always been at war with Eurasia."
[16:44:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Claims That a Major U.S. Telecom Operated a Server Backdoored by a Hidden Chip - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:02] <exec> 08└─http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4995748-Letter-20-October-208th-20version.html [documentcloud.org] https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] If only actual backdoors are found in this Telco's servers but not App...
[16:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Holes Ruled Out as Universe's Missing Dark Matter - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:14] <exec> 08└─Dark matter being large was black holes already ruled out by Lithium abundance measures. OTOH, if micro black holes can't decay (maybe! -- really questionable, but possible) then they could have been made at the same time Hydrogen was being formed, and being so small their capture cross-section woul...
[16:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Holes Ruled Out as Universe's Missing Dark Matter - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:16] <exec> 08└─Sigh.
[16:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Holes Ruled Out as Universe's Missing Dark Matter - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:18] <exec> 08└─The astronomer's only tool is basically analyzing light.
[16:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Can Now Measure DNA We 'Shed' to Solve Crimes - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:05] <exec> 08└─Turned to the darkside Yoda has.
[16:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03messymerry [6369] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Now Is the Time to Start Planning for the Post-Android World - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:36] <exec> 08└─Not so fast, homeboy,,, Google doesn't want Android either. That is why they are building Fuschia. They took the high road and created AOSP and quickly learned their mistake. Since then, they have tried to increase their control by bastardizing Android to the point where it is a management mess. The...
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[17:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:23] <exec> 08└─one team that downloaded 100 gigabytes, approximately 142 compact discs, of data.
[17:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:25] <exec> 08└─> downloaded 100 gigabytes, approximately 142 compact discs, of data I know that the military still has floppies, and that congressmen reading reports are old old farts. Conversion to CDs just cracks me up. They should really convert the numbers to punch cards, or time the cute typist would take to...
[17:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:27] <exec> 08└─I know that the military still has floppies
[17:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:29] <exec> 08└─One congresscritter asks another: Hey, doesn't your page boy know something about the cyber and them intarweb tubes? Yalp! He shore does. Could you get him to convert this into some kind of useful units of measure like how many compact disks it fits on? Or how many trips to the moon and back this re...
[17:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:40] <exec> 08└─Further, stories which have been "archived" — allowing no further comments or moderation — are still sitting in the in-RAM DB and could be offloaded to disk for long-term access
[17:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:42] <exec> 08└─Or . . . . . you could use Microsoft Access database with VB.
[17:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:45] <exec> 08└─...daily/monthly job to move archiving data into separate tables, then remove archived data from live tables.
[17:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:47] <exec> 08└─Nah, I think I'll just write a clustered backend for MySQL that stores to on-disk XML files.
[17:43:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:58] <exec> 08└─"... to the right of Michael's projected landfall..." Does that mean "East", numbnuts?
[17:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:16] <exec> 08└─Had to hunt for it, was live and now finished. [youtu.be] Dunno which beach that is?
[17:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:17] <exec> 08└─But hurricanes are part of life in Florida.
[17:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:19] <exec> 08└─Correction: DO NOT trash multi-state areas. OT: A short-term Edit Post function would be nice.
[17:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:22] <exec> 08└─Bad advice, unless they drive tanks or APCs. A sports car avoiding flooding, with a few cement bags in the passenger seat and trunk, might be fine in that wind, until it gets hit by half a tree.
[17:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:24] <exec> 08└─If you assume "to the right of the storm" and not "to the right of some sucker on shore watching the storm make landfall," which, since we're talking about a group of people waiting on shore to watch the storm make landfall, is not an unreasonable interpretation.
[17:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:26] <exec> 08└─Or you have a map but it is of the Dordogne? Better just find a person that looks like they know where they are going and follow them. [c2.com]
[17:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Claims That a Major U.S. Telecom Operated a Server Backdoored by a Hidden Chip - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:51] <exec> 08└─Anonymous sources, anonymous victim. Maybe not implausible method but sounds like a movie plot when backdoors could easily be present in firmware without the need for an obvious physical alteration to the hardware. Actually this fits the bill for folklore/urban legend. Somebody, somewhere once encou...
[17:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Claims That a Major U.S. Telecom Operated a Server Backdoored by a Hidden Chip - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:53] <exec> 08└─Just an idea. What if BIOS / UEFI were in a socketed ROM chip, or something similar. The idea being that the only way to replace it is to have physical access to the computer. Not remote access. (Yes, I get it that in a data center this might not be the best idea. But for many other PCs it might be....
[17:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Claims That a Major U.S. Telecom Operated a Server Backdoored by a Hidden Chip - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:55] <exec> 08└─No it is Eastasia you ignert foal! Quick! Someone call the Ministry of Truth!
[17:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Holes Ruled Out as Universe's Missing Dark Matter - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:08] <exec> 08└─EM radiation outside of the visible spectrum, such as X-rays [harvard.edu] and radio waves [greenbankobservatory.org]. They've been doing this since the 1930's, which would be about when EM radiation was just beginning to be understood.
[17:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Holes Ruled Out as Universe's Missing Dark Matter - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:09] <exec> 08└─they could have been made at the same time Hydrogen was being formed
[17:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Holes Ruled Out as Universe's Missing Dark Matter - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:11] <exec> 08└─I'm sure they've done the math, but nobody ever writes it down for the general public: how much of the universe's mass is in the photons and gravitational wave energy that's flying all around the place?
[17:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Standard Treatment for Common STD Doesn't Eliminate Parasite in Some Women - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:40] <exec> 08└─trying to ensure the bad thing doesn't happen in the first place
[17:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Standard Treatment for Common STD Doesn't Eliminate Parasite in Some Women - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:41] <exec> 08└─The cure was being called a cure because historically the rate was 90-95% effective for a single 2 gram dose. 90-95% effective is pretty darn effective, ain't it? And this was a front-line very low dose. For those it didn't cure further steps can be taken (like the larger/longer dose regimen). There...
[17:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netherlands Ordered to Increase Greenhouse Emissions Cuts - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:59] <exec> 08└─smoke enough camels, read ayn rand and get your brain washed/mushy enough to not realize global warming is caused by capitalism
[17:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:00] <exec> 08└─So, uhhhhhhh - WTF you think rich people do with their money? You have the Carnegies, the Rockefellers, the Melons, and more who have returned some of the riches they've exploited from the commoners, in the form of museums and such. Soros? He wants to build a different kind of "legacy". He's an ideo...
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[18:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saturn's ‘Ring Rain’ is a Surprising Cocktail of Chemicals - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:05] <exec> 08└─I skimmed the article but didn't notice an obvious answer for this. If the ring rain moves materials from the rings to the planet's atmosphere, then wouldn't the rings eventually be depleted? Is there some sort of cycle that moves materials back out into the ring from the atmosphere? If the rings ar...
[18:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:19] <exec> 08└─Another test team reported that they caused a pop-up message to appear on users' terminals instructing them to insert two quarters to continue operating.
[18:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:21] <exec> 08└─Another test team reported that they caused a pop-up message to appear on users' terminals instructing them to insert two quarters to continue operating.
[18:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:23] <exec> 08└─I know that the military still has floppies,
[18:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:25] <exec> 08└─Nobody is, reporters are thinking "What well-known object can I convert <measurement> to and have it come out as a number between 10 and 1000?" (Sadly, they have somehow missed the opportunity to convert data to "USB sticks")
[18:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:27] <exec> 08└─How about DVDs then? Blue-Ray discs? The problem with any more modern "standardized" unit of capacity is that it's not actually standard. How much is 1 DVD in GB? 4.7? 8.5? I'll bet you your answer depends very much on how large you want your number to look. If we could trust people to reliably use...
[18:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:30] <exec> 08└─Anything after the DVD has not has fixed standard sizes, and 21 DVDs (or 11 double-layer ones) didn't look like enough stolen information. "44.4 PBR hours" would be a good metric (Pai broadband rate = 5Mb/s = 2.25GB/h)
[18:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:32] <exec> 08└─"Robbing a museum" is involved in the plan, but not at the "obtain 8-inch floppy disks" stage: https://www.ebay.com [ebay.com] Robbing a museum comes in when you get to the "obtain a computer with which t...
[18:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:34] <exec> 08└─Pentagon officials who met with GAO testers claimed their systems were secure
[18:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:36] <exec> 08└─this whole idea of having national governments who steal everyone's money and give it to their respective MIC to increase(? lol) security is ridiculous. the only way to have security one day is to get rid of this whole global scam. de-fund and route around these leaches and death profiteers. replace...
[18:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:52] <exec> 08└─I've brought the site to its knees!
[18:43:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:53] <exec> 08└─the solution unpopular with non-professional hippies living on some shitty boat is simple. why don't you just add more ram to your servers? this isn't a real scale-out site, and it doesn't have what any professional would call a real database. your servers are tiny, your footprint is tiny. double th...
[18:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:55] <exec> 08└─MartyDB is Web Scale.
[18:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:30] <exec> 08└─Had nothing to do with Soylentils, except insofar as there was a misinterpretation on your part. That's a quote from the article, and quotes are not generally corrected by the editors.
[18:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:31] <exec> 08└─18 Waffle Houses have been closed due to Michael. [cbsnews.com] I'm not sure where that lands it on the scale, though.
[18:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:33] <exec> 08└─Come to San Antonio here. Tornados? Rare. Hurricanes? Just a strong rainstorm by the time it gets here. Blizzard? HAHAHAH. All you have to deal with is hot summers, but sit back and enjoy some tacos and a margarita while listening to mariachis and you will be fine.
[18:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bloomberg Claims That a Major U.S. Telecom Operated a Server Backdoored by a Hidden Chip - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:05] <exec> 08└─Uhhhhhh. A socketed BIOS won't help if the motherboard has a parasitic implant.
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[19:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Saturn's ‘Ring Rain’ is a Surprising Cocktail of Chemicals - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:20] <exec> 08└─(insert today's selected conspiracy theory about the ring rain containing organic molecules)
[19:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Saturn's ‘Ring Rain’ is a Surprising Cocktail of Chemicals - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:22] <exec> 08└─(insert today's selected conspiracy theory about the ring rain containing organic molecules)
[19:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saturn's ‘Ring Rain’ is a Surprising Cocktail of Chemicals - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:24] <exec> 08└─I dunno, I got organic chicken breast and it was like a different animal than the non-organic (but also 2-3x more expensive). I think organic mostly means "premium" at this point.
[19:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saturn's ‘Ring Rain’ is a Surprising Cocktail of Chemicals - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:26] <exec> 08└─"today's selected conspiracy theory about the ring rain " Yo' momma WAS so fat...that she blew apart after eating one small chocolate (it was wafer thin) and now she's orbiting-- ... ......yeah... sorry....
[19:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe they should have measured it in porn minutes? "Approximately 8.64 minutes of average porn bandwith for RedTube"
[19:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:51] <exec> 08└─Sadly this approach only works when everyone can agree to follow the same set of rules for the benefit of all. And when they can all agree on how to define "benefit of all." To date, the human race has proven that it won't, and that it won't. In every group over a certain size, there's always some b...
[19:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:53] <exec> 08└─Definitely unrealistic -- who carries around coins these days? ;-)
[19:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:55] <exec> 08└─This is potentially a very sad story. Old school defense plan for something bad coming your way was to stop or deflect it. New school is to smile and send it back home. With enough control of the other side's systems you don't even have to wait for them to launch something at you. Perhaps networking...
[19:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:57] <exec> 08└─Are you talking about the "Violently Imposed Monopoly"™? Because if you are you're a very silly boy.
[19:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:00] <exec> 08└─21 DVDs (or 11 double-layer ones) didn't look like enough stolen information.
[19:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:19] <exec> 08└─Indexes?
[19:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:59] <exec> 08└─I'll take two hurricanes over an ice storm... at least when the power fails after a hurricane you're in no danger of freezing to death.
[19:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:01] <exec> 08└─So, surfs up?
[19:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:03] <exec> 08└─I'm anaspeptic, phrasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulation.
[19:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:05] <exec> 08└─"Cow!" ... ... "Another cow!" "No, i think that was the same cow."
[19:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, all they really could have done was add a (sic) joke. :)
[19:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Detected Microquasar Gamma-Rays 'Call for New Ideas' - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:17] <exec> 08└─Is it possible that God is fucking with scientists?
[19:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Claims That a Major U.S. Telecom Operated a Server Backdoored by a Hidden Chip - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:40] <exec> 08└─In fact when I hurriedly wrote my previous comment I was looking at an 8-year old ASUS MB which has, in good ASUS form, BIOS chip in an 8-pin DIP socket. That would be a big positive deciding factor for me (socketed BIOS). Also gets you out of the "bricked" MB due to failed BIOS update. Also allows...
[19:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pristine Apple I Sells at Auction for a Jaw-Dropping Price - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:36] <exec> 08└─Nintendo used a customized version of a 6502. Probably more NES units were sold than all 6502-based home computers combined.
[19:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06General Electric Secures Contract to Provide Turbines and Generators to Egypt's First Nuclear Plant - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:08] <exec> 08└─That is a good point, and I did not intend to imply the Muslim Brotherhood would be any better than what the Egyptians have had to put up with, but the fact is the military staged a coup, and Mr. Obama'a government declared that it wasn't a coup (even though it absolutely was) so they could continue...
[19:49:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Climate Report: Scientists Politely Urge 'Act Now, Idiots' - 1683 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:55] <exec> 08└─That's a good start. Some other things that should be on the list: 1. Bring building insulation up to modern standards more universally. Even if you think AGW is complete nonsense, this is a worthwhile spend for building owners this applies to, for the simple reason that it will cut utility bills an...
[19:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:56] <exec> 08└─Reading Comprehension.
[19:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now Is the Time to Start Planning for the Post-Android World - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:28] <exec> 08└─Any chance the new phones to come from Purism are going to satisfy you?
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[20:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:59] <exec> 08└─Zombies are to brains as megacorps are to growth. They can't stop chasing it. It was inevitable that google alphabet would start doing evil things. I mean, after all, executive bonuses are at stake!
[20:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saturn's ‘Ring Rain’ is a Surprising Cocktail of Chemicals - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:14] <exec> 08└─Some days my own "ring rain" would suit the exact description in the story subject.
[20:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:42] <exec> 08└─This is a good measuring stick of how far behind the times the military's technology is.
[20:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:50] <exec> 08└─18 closed? The end of life as we know it.
[20:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:52] <exec> 08└─And this is the perfect time to download our fux news weather app/spyware*. So you can follow the progress of Michael minuet-by-minuet as it occurs! Because EVERYONE need to follow shit at such minute detail with a constant feed of notifications and mixed in advertising! And WE need your banking acc...
[20:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:54] <exec> 08└─Just as meaningful? Uh yeah, right. Had a girlfriend once who got around by the same reasoning... she was always calling me saying she was lost.
[20:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Detected Microquasar Gamma-Rays 'Call for New Ideas' - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:05] <exec> 08└─There are competing theories on what a black hole is
[20:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Detected Microquasar Gamma-Rays 'Call for New Ideas' - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:07] <exec> 08└─Black Holes Behaving Badly [youtu.be]
[20:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Standard Treatment for Common STD Doesn't Eliminate Parasite in Some Women - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:26] <exec> 08└─Standard treatment: "Honey, I want you to meet my parents." Parasite: "Sweet! Is your mom a good cook?"
[20:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Can Now Measure DNA We 'Shed' to Solve Crimes - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:43] <exec> 08└─Optimistically, that could also protect the innocent. "Your honor, my client is a shedder, therefore it is perfectly normal that his DNA is all over the crime scene."
[20:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:11] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking it must be because Ryzen has far more of a heat problem than Intel.
[20:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:12] <exec> 08└─Extremetech have always been totally biassed AMD fanbois. If this article was written by absolutely anybody else I'd trust it far more. Their 1st claim that XMP wasn't enabled on AMD absolutely does not agree with the setup process that is described in the whitepaper itself. It clearly shows the MSI...
[20:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pristine Apple I Sells at Auction for a Jaw-Dropping Price - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:36] <exec> 08└─It ended up in the brain of Bender! [vulture.com] And here's the why and how. [ieee.org]
[20:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Buys ABQ Studios in Albuquerque, New Mexico - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:27] <exec> 08└─May be a shithole, but it is a shithole where it doesn't snow.
[20:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The US Military's Vision for State Censorship - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:57] <exec> 08└─Science papers have evidence, citations, and are peer reviewed (moderated). A news site comments section is the wild west and filled with bullshit. Trying to solve nationalized healthcare in the comments section of CNN is a terrible idea. You also completely ignored the point i was trying to make ab...
[20:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Now Is the Time to Start Planning for the Post-Android World - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:28] <exec> 08└─I want a full-on Linux or BSD handheld PC...
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[21:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSMC Tapes Out Second-Generation "7nm" Chip Using EUV, Will Begin Risk Production of "5nm" in April - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:49] <exec> 08└─If 11 nm is good enough for Intel, it sho u ld be good enough for you.
[21:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSMC Tapes Out Second-Generation "7nm" Chip Using EUV, Will Begin Risk Production of "5nm" in April - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:51] <exec> 08└─Can't someone come up with a more meaningful way to refer to these technologies? To start: There is nothing particular on these chips that is "7 nm" or "5 nm" in size, but "5 nm" is going to have generally smaller components than "7 nm" and thus require less power to perform the same task. So how ab...
[21:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:02] <exec> 08└─So the guy managing the project claims that it will launch in a year, but claims the timeline is subject to change? That definitely sounds like "not close to launching" to me.
[21:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:03] <exec> 08└─Alphabet, a for profit corporation delivers what the government(customer) requests for a profit and ensures it continues a very profitable business relationship with a foreign government. Sounds like business as usual. Anyone depending on a corporation to make a moral stand an not make a profit is u...
[21:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:05] <exec> 08└─If I was a Chinaman I would be using DuckDuckGo now.
[21:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:07] <exec> 08└─If I was a Chinaman
[21:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:09] <exec> 08└─Any reason to refrain from using DDG if you are not a Chinaman?
[21:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:12] <exec> 08└─DDG is good for Chinamen and non-Chinamen alike.
[21:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Saturn's ‘Ring Rain’ is a Surprising Cocktail of Chemicals - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:26] <exec> 08└─If the ring rain moves materials from the rings to the planet's atmosphere, then wouldn't the rings eventually be depleted? If the rings are not replenished, how large are they and how long would it take to deplete them if it hasn't happened yet in 4 billion years?
[21:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saturn's ‘Ring Rain’ is a Surprising Cocktail of Chemicals - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:28] <exec> 08└─It seems obvious to me that its aliens. Clearly there was a huge war a long time ago. They blasted the moons apart too. This is why Saturn is so gaseous, and there are organic remains in a ring around the planet. It was all blown up.
[21:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saturn's ‘Ring Rain’ is a Surprising Cocktail of Chemicals - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:30] <exec> 08└─then wouldn't the rings eventually be depleted?
[21:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saturn's ‘Ring Rain’ is a Surprising Cocktail of Chemicals - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:32] <exec> 08└─Apple should market the iPhone as organic. New Improved! Soylent Green -- made from all natural free range ingredients!
[21:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:02] <exec> 08└─Or just say 100 gigabytes and leave it at that. Converting it to elephants per library of congress isn't going to make any more sense to someone that doesn't know what a gigabyte is.
[21:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:04] <exec> 08└─All I have to do is break into an active military base sneak passed armed marines just itching to shoot, well anything, and into a busy control room with my USB stick and 'POOF' I have control of the weapon system ? Nothing could possibly be easier or less dangerous.
[21:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:06] <exec> 08└─We'll get right on that, just as soon as you point us to an infinite stack of contract-enforcing turtles for your worldview to stand on...
[21:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:08] <exec> 08└─Well, that's why you form a network of voluntary contracts to mutually defend other countries like you in the event of such a neighbor's aggression. (We tried this once, and it worked great right up until some Serbian assassin fucked everything up.)
[21:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:10] <exec> 08└─Does searching for 8" floppy disks put you on the Pentagon watch list? :-)
[21:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:30] <exec> 08└─As far as updating a DB schema live, it should not be an issue... It should if you try to insert a row into a table that suddenly has fewer columns or more columns that can't be null but default to null to keep screwed up rows from being inserted. Or if you try to pull data from a missing column. Ad...
[21:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:31] <exec> 08└─Do you have slow queries loggin turned on? That will point you in the right direction, at least. You can then describe those queries to find out where additional indexes may be useful. Pretty much everything in a well-designed database that you are only interested in small bits of should be O(log(N)...
[21:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:22] <exec> 08└─"minuet-by-minuet"... Hmm. Is Michael a musician?
[21:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:23] <exec> 08└─Its all just "evolution" folks. The new-age mamma earth is angry at naughty naughty US. "I'll scrub behind your ears!" she screams, "Never play with pollution again! I've told you a million times..."
[21:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Detected Microquasar Gamma-Rays 'Call for New Ideas' - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:41] <exec> 08└─Is it possible that God is fucking with scientists?
[21:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Detected Microquasar Gamma-Rays 'Call for New Ideas' - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:42] <exec> 08└─Oh, what a surprise, an Electric Universe nut.
[21:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Detected Microquasar Gamma-Rays 'Call for New Ideas' - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:44] <exec> 08└─Someone set up the telescope incorrectly and they're really just looking at a macroquasar doing its thing the way macroquasars are wont to do.
[21:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Claims That a Major U.S. Telecom Operated a Server Backdoored by a Hidden Chip - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:08] <exec> 08└─> an obvious physical alteration to the hardware I dare you to notice an 0402 or 0201 chip on a modern PCB.
[21:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bloomberg Claims That a Major U.S. Telecom Operated a Server Backdoored by a Hidden Chip - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:09] <exec> 08└─Pssssssst! Shhhhhhh! Don't tell anyone but that socketed ROM might even be able to hold an OS of sorts.
[21:47:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Black Holes Ruled Out as Universe's Missing Dark Matter - 2489 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:21] <exec> 08└─A microscopic black hole would surely have the same gravitational effect... aren't they supposed to be at least 10^12 kg, and if there are enough of them to account for the missing matter, then there'll be a significant lensing effect that this experiment would also notice. We just can't get away fr...
[21:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Holes Ruled Out as Universe's Missing Dark Matter - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:29] <exec> 08└─>predict - observe - extrapolate i prefer embrace extend and extinguish, but we can give it a spin predict> the missing dark matter is gonna be somewhere, either in the universe or conceptually in the mathematical demonstration that it was a fudge factor. observe> ur mom extrapolate> everybody has a...
[21:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Standard Treatment for Common STD Doesn't Eliminate Parasite in Some Women - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:06] <exec> 08└─How is this news?
[21:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Standard Treatment for Common STD Doesn't Eliminate Parasite in Some Women - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:08] <exec> 08└─I couldn't access the actual paper (or even its abstract), but one worry I had was that this was astroturf designed to sell more drugs, that's always the worry with big-pharma. Maybe there's a lighter weight regime that's nearly as effective. I've always heard the pharma industry saying that the rea...
[21:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:57] <exec> 08└─"must be" ? Nope. It's Intel that runs hot now. https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com]
[21:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Company Hired by Intel Uses Fatally Flawed Benchmarks to Promote the Intel Core i9-9900K - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:59] <exec> 08└─Oh! you said if absolutely anyone else wrote the article you'd trust it far more? Here you go: https://www.forbes.com [forbes.com] https://www.dsogaming.com
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[22:43:49] <exec> 08└─The numbers have been based on reflecting Moore's law (ish, I know), with a 2x gain every two generations, and marketing rounding the sqrt(2) every generation. Which was perfectly fine as long as 1) Moore's law was in full swing, 2) Intel was the unquestionable process leader Since condition 2) ran...
[22:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC Tapes Out Second-Generation "7nm" Chip Using EUV, Will Begin Risk Production of "5nm" in April - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:50] <exec> 08└─Intel came up with "millions of transistors per square millimeter" [soylentnews.org] as one metric.
[22:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSMC Tapes Out Second-Generation "7nm" Chip Using EUV, Will Begin Risk Production of "5nm" in April - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:53] <exec> 08└─What is that in hogsheads per furlong?
[22:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:10] <exec> 08└─liars lie Judges, presidents, corporations.. Even when caught out, lie again Welcome to 2018.
[22:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:11] <exec> 08└─Since there was that other leak where google is literally talking how to be "The good censor", "Finding the right amount of censorship". And their previous attempt at a censored version for China, I don't know how people are suprised that google is tap dancing over the grill, so they eventually find...
[22:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:13] <exec> 08└─https://www.comparitech.com/privacy-security-tools/blockedinchina/duckduckgo/ [comparitech.com] No, you wouldn't.
[22:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:16] <exec> 08└─How about the women and all the other genders?
[22:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:18] <exec> 08└─"Also, Dude, "Chinaman" is not the preferred nomenclature! Asian-American, please. " http://thebiglebowski.wikia.com [wikia.com]
[22:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saturn's ‘Ring Rain’ is a Surprising Cocktail of Chemicals - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:38] <exec> 08└─The peace treaty was signed on Titan.
[22:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:15] <exec> 08└─I'll bet you your answer depends very much on how large you want your number to look.
[22:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:37] <exec> 08└─Got plenty but do need a couple new ones added, yes.
[22:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:39] <exec> 08└─More or less. It should be time consuming not difficult.
[22:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:41] <exec> 08└─Not at the moment. Going to fix the calls I already know are causing problems. It's on the agenda though.
[22:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Detected Microquasar Gamma-Rays 'Call for New Ideas' - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:50] <exec> 08└─The top comment there is great: I love the thunderbolt project channel. It goes against everything I learned in grade school. I watch videos at night before bed.
[22:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Detected Microquasar Gamma-Rays 'Call for New Ideas' - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:51] <exec> 08└─"Gee. Maybe it'll work if we make the Universe 99% dark matter instead of 98%."
[22:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Detected Microquasar Gamma-Rays 'Call for New Ideas' - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:53] <exec> 08└─Or someone saw something through the telescope that proved Pluto was a planet. Then this what they came up with as the coverup.
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[23:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:54] <exec> 08└─You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
[23:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Joins OIN; Open-Sources its Patent Portfolio - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:55] <exec> 08└─Is this irrevocable?
[23:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC Tapes Out Second-Generation "7nm" Chip Using EUV, Will Begin Risk Production of "5nm" in April - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:10] <exec> 08└─Maybe early production is always referred to as Risk Production in this industry. In our industry, when we build "at risk" it means we've totally short-cut lots of procedural stuff and there's a good chance that something's not going to work out for final production, but we're building a (usually sm...
[23:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC Tapes Out Second-Generation "7nm" Chip Using EUV, Will Begin Risk Production of "5nm" in April - 2838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:11] <exec> 08└─It means something VERY hand wavy like the radius of a one bit cell in a SDRAM which is a weird way to spec a CPU because CPUs are not very dense. If I did the math in my head correctly (quite likely wrong) a "10 nm process" Apple A11 has 4E9 transistors on 88 sq mm which is something like 88e-3 **...
[23:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC Tapes Out Second-Generation "7nm" Chip Using EUV, Will Begin Risk Production of "5nm" in April - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:13] <exec> 08└─These nm measurements are basically the scaled reciprocal of those (which is there an area measurement), with a scale factor determined about a decade back when the number did correspond to some feature length. So if you see a halving of the 'nm' measurement, you'll be getting a double of the densit...
[23:44:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03archfeld [4650] 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 321 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:25] <exec> 08└─Alphabet, a for profit corporation delivers what the government(customer) requests for a profit and ensures it continues a very profitable business relationship with a foreign government. Sounds like business as usual. Anyone depending on a corporation to make a moral stand an not make a profit is u...
[23:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:36] <exec> 08└─I've been using mostly DuckDuckGo for a while now but this tears it. Falkon works as well as Chromium for me, DDG is good enough to find what I need, and I don't use GMail or any of their other products. Screw them. I hope they crash and burn for this.
[23:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:38] <exec> 08└─So what's it going to be, are we going to round up Muslims the world over and put them all in Gulags [scmp.com] or not? Worldwide condemnation and extensive economic sanctions on China would be the normal response, obviously Google executives have other plans.
[23:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Leaked Transcript Contradicts Google's Denials About Censored Chinese Search Engine - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:40] <exec> 08└─Since there was that other leak where google is literally talking how to be "The good censor", "Finding the right amount of censorship".
[23:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:34] <exec> 08└─If you can get past the gate guards, you can just pretend like you are there to do tech support. So, can we get past the gate guards? Air Force investigating after man gains access to South Florida military base; says it was a “prank” [wsvn.com] Woman charged with sneaking into MacDill AFB four...
[23:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:36] <exec> 08└─satisfactorily prevented unauthorized access by remote users, but not insiders and near-siders.
[23:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:38] <exec> 08└─and into a busy control room
[23:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:40] <exec> 08└─How much in Hollerith cards? :)
[23:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's New Next-Generation Weapons Systems are Laughably Easy to Hack - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:42] <exec> 08└─Along with "your weapon is made by the lowest bidder", we have the fact that the only Soylentil know to be employed in this sector is Ethanol_fueled. He's easy to hack.
[23:45:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:55] <exec> 08└─If you wrote your own database engine, you could call it martydb.
[23:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance Issues - We are Aware and are Making Plans - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:09] <exec> 08└─"So you're saying no-problemo?" I said that once. And then I learned. Murphy is always lurking in the background and ready to spring into action.
[23:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:03] <exec> 08└─At least it's not a sonata confalula!
[23:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:04] <exec> 08└─sonata confabula Blushes
[23:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:06] <exec> 08└─Well, she is.... Though humans are only one of many species she has given birth to. If they wipe themselves out, another will come about.
[23:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Michael now Category 4; has Become so Menacing that The Weather Channel Just Evacuated - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:09] <exec> 08└─Infrared, by extrapolation
[23:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Holes Ruled Out as Universe's Missing Dark Matter - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:16] <exec> 08└─It doesn't affect microscopic (planck mass) black holes
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