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[00:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:11] <exec> 08└─I am curious about how long these things will store and still be recoverable. Also I wonder, having not read the article, about compatibility. Will my current BR player utilize the higher end multi layer disks or will I have to get a new 'multilayer' capable drive. I've got MP3 disks I created just...
[00:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:12] <exec> 08└─Can't hide a rootkit on a blank disc... right?
[00:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:14] <exec> 08└─The discs should be compatible with drives supporting the BDXL spec, though a firmware update may be needed regardless.
[00:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:16] <exec> 08└─There's a saying that's been upgraded a few times to "never underestimate the bandwidth of CD-Rs on a 747". Started with tapes on a station wagon, but whatever. How long will these new fangled discs last? Some, damn I'm old, 30 years ago I bought some Ozric Tentacles CDs. They suffered from this thi...
[00:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon 9 Certified to Lift NASA's Most Valuable Science Payloads - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:29] <exec> 08└─On Ariane 5, just to be safe
[00:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon 9 Certified to Lift NASA's Most Valuable Science Payloads - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:31] <exec> 08└─The plans have been made, a long time ago, and it's going on an Ariane 5.
[00:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bionic Mushroom" Produces Electrical Current - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:43] <exec> 08└─Red LEDs commonly get down as low as 1mA. Each mushroom puts out 65nanoAmps By my calc, that's 15 mushrooms to light an LED, unless they have better LEDs, or switch to Portabella.
[00:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:49] <exec> 08└─The time delay is important. We can see the sun as it was a mere nine minutes ago. But it takes a lot longer for a coronal mass ejection to get here. So a chance of seeing them coming and can take precautions such a shutting down and disconnecting the parts of our infrastructure at risk. We'll be of...
[00:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:45] <exec> 08└─The specific meme "3DPD" comes from a 4chan thread in which a Japanese person complains about Americans in broken English: "Americans are pig disgusting!" This peculiar phrase was then paired with a more appropriate object, 3D (as opposed to 2D anime) women. NB: while there are many similarities and...
[00:43:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Revek [5022] 02 - 06Ancient DNA Suggests People Settled South America in at Least 3 Waves - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:25] <exec> 08└─No, the truth shits all over your beliefs/fantasies. Science is a method for finding the truth nothing more nothing less.
[00:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:06] <exec> 08└─Company I work for has large headquarters in Manhattan and we produce our own electricity using fuel cells. Yes, we burn fossils for electricity right in the middle of the island. The reason is that it is cheaper than to pay for grid electricity plus to have backup generators. We, however, still att...
[00:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:07] <exec> 08└─They - power companies - have a point, I think, and our ancestors thought about it carefully.
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[01:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Will Support Initial Concept Studies for Privately Funded Mission to Enceladus - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:25] <exec> 08└─I first heard about them in the mid-seventies. We are using ion drives for such things as satellite stationkeeping. Someone _did_ test a small scale model, I think it was to verify the sails could be unfolded in space, but that's all I've heard about.
[01:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bionic Mushroom" Produces Electrical Current - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:10] <exec> 08└─Your posts are very powerful and make mushrooms grow.
[01:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 1678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:45] <exec> 08└─Not supporting the troll, but dropping the nuke could make it extremely difficult for the virus to propagate. It doesn't do well outside of the human body, especially in firestorm conditions. Quite a number of victims will be outright vaporized, which includes the virus. The overall effect is a bit...
[01:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:46] <exec> 08└─Most viruses that are dangerous like that tend not to survive very long outside the body and in cases like this where there's such difficulty in spreading, they'd likely die off naturally in a matter of a few weeks.
[01:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:48] <exec> 08└─The fallacy is strong in this one.
[01:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Headmaster Fired over Secret Mining of Cryptocoins at School - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:45] <exec> 08└─It's safe, but a lame attempt at humor.
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[02:38:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03archfeld [4650] 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 495 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:11] <exec> 08└─I am curious about how long these things will store and still be recoverable. Also I wonder, having not read the article, about compatibility. Will my current BR player utilize the higher end multi layer disks or will I have to get a new 'multilayer' capable drive. I've got MP3 disks I created just...
[02:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:16] <exec> 08└─Those people won't be buying just one disc. What's the price for a thousand terabytes of BD-ROM versus a thousand terabytes of flash?
[02:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:18] <exec> 08└─How about in the binary blob in the driver?
[02:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:20] <exec> 08└─Around the time I was at CERN, some collaborations were starting to use massively parallel Exabyte drives. One bit to drive one, one bit to drive two... Of course both BD-ROM and Flash can do that. Is there some limit to how parallel they can be made to be? For example Flash can have many small, par...
[02:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:22] <exec> 08└─-l to TPB.
[02:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:03] <exec> 08└─they had those in the 20s?
[02:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Yelp Craters as Much as 32% as Advertisers Abandon the Site - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:50] <exec> 08└─The "product" they sell as the front of the extortion racket is the ads. Basically, when you type in "restaurants" it shows ads for their featured listings. Makes both parties look better if the featured listings don't have those bad reviews, or if the bad ones they do show appear to be from some un...
[02:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:13] <exec> 08└─It's rather jarring that it took the writers so many decades to realize that maybe, just maybe, Superman and Batman having what amounted to a fanatically-compliant catch-and-release program for genocidal and/or omnicidal maniacs, usually sentenced to the same prison they broke out of 20 times before...
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[03:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Dead Redemption 2 Has Sold Over 17 Million Copies Worldwide - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:40] <exec> 08└─A New Visualization Technique Clearly Illustrates 'Red Dead Redemption II's HDR Failure [forbes.com] As it turns out, high dynamic range takes some work to get right, and is subject to creative choices.
[03:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:16] <exec> 08└─Also I wonder, having not read the article, about compatibility.
[03:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:18] <exec> 08└─Good thing you had the time to waste in responding, but NOT answering the question. Dory is that you ?
[03:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:23] <exec> 08└─We should study the Russian Revolution. There may be another period of history coming up where international working class has a credible chance at taking democratic control of the means of production and expropriating the wealth of the bourgeoisie.
[03:42:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:16] <exec> 08└─The strongest cheerleader for Linux and BSD will always be Microsoft :) Yet another reason I'm glad I finally quit Windows.
[03:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Movie Villains—“Good” Superheroes are the Most Violent - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:13] <exec> 08└─Yes. It took decades for the writers to figure out that Batman and Superman playing catch-and-release might not in fact be working after the 500th breakout. It will take some other people far longer, since most people who go to movies or buy comic books probably wouldn't want to spend entire story a...
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[04:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Dead Redemption 2 Has Sold Over 17 Million Copies Worldwide - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:19] <exec> 08└─One thing that made GTA V so great was having 3 different characters to play. And admit it, you enjoyed being Trevor best. Not criticizing, just sayin...
[04:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Will Support Initial Concept Studies for Privately Funded Mission to Enceladus - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:27] <exec> 08└─We are using solar sails. They're just much hard to deploy and use than expected and really slow (at current low thrust/weight ratios) relative to current propulsion methods (including ion drive).
[04:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:31] <exec> 08└─If you had read either you'd know they're inseparable.
[04:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:02] <exec> 08└─I also would have liked to see Tom Bombadil, played by Robin Williams.
[04:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:03] <exec> 08└─That's what I've been arguing, Computer game piracy was rampant in the 1980s, before we had the mp3 codec, CD burners, big hard drives, dedicated sound hardware, and the Internet. Was only a matter of time before music piracy took off, once all those elements were in place. And now we have much bett...
[04:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:08] <exec> 08└─Regarding brake fluid specifically it usually lasts the service life of a modern vehicle.
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[05:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Batteryless Smart Devices Closer to Reality - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:16] <exec> 08└─... than to have my Things be on the Internet. Did you know that IPv6 enables us all to have The Mark Of The Beast?
[05:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bionic Mushroom" Produces Electrical Current - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:35] <exec> 08└─How can you tell?
[05:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bionic Mushroom" Produces Electrical Current - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:36] <exec> 08└─https://tinyurl.com/yabbp2am [tinyurl.com]
[05:40:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 853 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:31] <exec> 08└─I've a whole plant full of equipment. Some of that equipment uses 50 year old technology, while we have (in some cases) almost identical equipment sitting next to it, that uses state of the art electronics. When we have a power fluctuation, it's the modern stuff that crashes first. In days gone by,...
[05:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:47] <exec> 08└─One of the Only places at home I get cell reception is in my truck, in a cubby hole under the dash. That ungrounded metal cage works great as an antenna.
[05:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:48] <exec> 08└─That sounds much better than a while back when just touching the leads could kill the devices even if the discharge was too small to be felt. I'm quite glad there has been improvement in that area. I do still see a lot of 3.3V devices that will burnout if provided overvoltage, so the question would...
[05:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:50] <exec> 08└─The larger problem is that it takes out the electrical grid completely, blowing transformers by the hundreds. Recovery would take decades (those transformers can take a couple of years to build in normal times.)
[05:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:48] <exec> 08└─What do you suggest? Killing the kids early? Killing the mothers and releasing the kids into the wild? Perhaps forcing woman and child to stay with the violent pedophile husband?
[05:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:49] <exec> 08└─Statistics show that the children of single mothers are at a huge risk of childhood sexual and physic abuse due to the mother's endless string of "boyfriends".
[05:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:51] <exec> 08└─Don't be afraid to tell your boss he's an idiot, and don't take on loans that are stupid. Take some fucking responsibility for your choices, asshole.
[05:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:53] <exec> 08└─Probably true, it happened to my wife after her dad left her mom due to the mom screwing around. What's the fix?
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[06:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Batteryless Smart Devices Closer to Reality - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:52] <exec> 08└─And now it's impossible to turn the thing off.
[06:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Dead Redemption 2 Has Sold Over 17 Million Copies Worldwide - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:03] <exec> 08└─I liked the black guy with the dog best. Playing fetch with grenades...
[06:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX's Falcon 9 Certified to Lift NASA's Most Valuable Science Payloads - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:57] <exec> 08└─There's a one in twenty chance we're gonna set James Web up the bomb.
[06:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bionic Mushroom" Produces Electrical Current - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:15] <exec> 08└─Electric Shrooms.
[06:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:56] <exec> 08└─Please explain how a nuke is going to wipe out a virus.
[06:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:58] <exec> 08└─From the CDC page on Ebola: [cdc.gov] Symptoms of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) include: Fever Severe headache Muscle pain Weakness Fatigue Diarrhea Vomiting Abdominal (stomach) pain Unexplained...
[06:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:00] <exec> 08└─I may not have the ebola life cycle straight in my mind - but doesn't it propagate in other simians? So, basically, we would have to wipe out all the simians in Africa, along with all the humans - AND whatever else the virus is able to infect. In other words, a true scorched earth, to get the last v...
[06:40:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 392 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:58] <exec> 08└─"I wasn't sure why I was alive, why I was here... I realised if I didn't do something I wouldn't be here in a year or two years." He finally decided to seek help and ended up taking part in the Real Ideas Organisation's (RIO) Game Changer programme, which aims to encourage young people to develop sk...
[06:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Replaying the Tape of Life: Is it Possible? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:32] <exec> 08└─I'm sure you could get things as similar as an ichthyosaur is to a dolphin. Anything much closer to any particular existing species would be unlikely.
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[07:38:12] <exec> 08└─May I suggest a large sledgehammer?
[07:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:21] <exec> 08└─To handle an Outbreak [youtube.com]? Not exactly a nuke, but close.
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[07:42:02] <exec> 08└─Privatize welfare (charity).Or, require welfare people to be "institutionalized". If you want to live in your dad's basement, then you have to live by your dad's rules; if you want to live on the taxpayers' dime, then you have to according to the taxpayers' strict rules, including curfew, showing up...
[07:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:03] <exec> 08└─You've chosen the dumbest interpretation of your opponent's point. Nobody said "all single parents chose their outcome". Weak sauce. I wonder how many single mothers are worthy to receive the money stolen from other people (mostly men, who are straight and white); certainly, I'd say such a worthy mo...
[07:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:05] <exec> 08└─Don't be afraid to tell your boss he's an idiot, and don't take on loans that are stupid. Take some fucking responsibility for your choices, asshole.
[07:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:07] <exec> 08└─To me, the comments tend to promote the expectation that "Some people should be forced to enable other people's mental illnesses." Ultimately, discomfort is what drove this young man to choose another path; what if he had been faced with [economic] discomfort much earlier, before his mental state de...
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[08:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Stole Income, Immigration and Tax Data in Healthcare.gov Breach, Government Confirms - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:04] <exec> 08└─who handles these stolen goods? what is that info worth for an hacker, without an infrastructure? Anyway, GDPR or no GDPR, whoever asks for more data than is strictly necessary to perform the advertised duty should be fined regardless of the EVENTUAL breach. It's like IRL if i went around carrying a...
[08:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:04] <exec> 08└─Ah, the totalitarian solution. I have a hard time accepting that.
[08:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:39] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the nugget of info, but my suggestion wasn't to be taken seriously.
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[09:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Stole Income, Immigration and Tax Data in Healthcare.gov Breach, Government Confirms - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:35] <exec> 08└─I am just so happy! That no submissions with biased commentary Adding insult to injury
[09:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Batteryless Smart Devices Closer to Reality - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:48] <exec> 08└─How about intranet of things? If you want to use these devices for your house, do not allow them to connect to the internet. Just use them in an intranet. Obviusly do not buy IOT devices, which require services from manufacturers in that case. You can then make a combined set of information you want...
[09:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:36] <exec> 08└─"centuries"? really? it was built from scratch less than a century ago! what is wrong with you?
[09:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's New Netflix Rival Will Be Called Disney+ and Launch Late 2019 - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:13] <exec> 08└─Have you watched enough pre 1990 stuff to say it's equivalent to newer stuff? Top productions now feature characters that have trouble attaining the depth of those in the Dukes of Hazzard. As for the political correctness in the newer stuff, it is commendable to present the main character as a spotl...
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[10:38:31] <exec> 08└─It was't hard to predict that this type of behavior would occur. How is it that no one at USPS thought of this (or listened to the warnings about this)?
[10:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Stole Income, Immigration and Tax Data in Healthcare.gov Breach, Government Confirms - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:40] <exec> 08└─It's like IRL if i went around carrying a baseball bat. Since it takes effort, I cannot be claiming it just hangs around me for no purpose at all.
[10:40:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:24] <exec> 08└─until they start raping babies to cure themselves https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[10:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Solar Storm Detonated Dozens of US Sea Mines in 1972 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:31] <exec> 08└─"centuries"? really? it was built from scratch less than a century ago! what is wrong with you?
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[11:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Stole Income, Immigration and Tax Data in Healthcare.gov Breach, Government Confirms - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:18] <exec> 08└─whoever asks for more data than is strictly necessary to perform the advertised duty should be fined regardless of the EVENTUAL breach. [snip] I see no technical reason for healthcare data to not be COMPLETELY anonymised, even the birth date altered as age goes on (when you are 50 it does not really...
[11:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 3767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:18] <exec> 08└─Most people don't have a few thousand TBs of data to store. The economics of storage have also been changed a lot by cloud providers. I back up my laptops to a FreeBSD NAS and then use zfsbackup-go to store the data in Azure (encrypted using PGP). That costs $10/TB/month for cold storage, a bit unde...
[11:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:19] <exec> 08└─In the 80's I was told (via a huge Sony campaign) that CDs were indestructible. Sooo, Sony. How long will these disc last?
[11:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:37] <exec> 08└─It also depends on the form of the nuke. Use a sloika (layer cake) design with Lithium-6 deuteride and sodium so you're producing Na-24 which has a short half-life while producing a ton of gammas. So you light one of those off and a few days later you can walk in and the area will be sterilised, no...
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[12:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Batteryless Smart Devices Closer to Reality - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:28] <exec> 08└─That would require actual smart devices, as opposed to the current wave of pretend-smart devices that are actually stupid slaves to some Centrally Intelligent Agent somewhere else.
[12:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:18] <exec> 08└─Nice modding. https://old.reddit.com [reddit.com] Normies have trouble filling 1 terabyte. I'm sure I could fill 100 terabytes if I set my mind to it. That would take at least 13 weeks at an average rate of 100 Mbps, or less than a week and a half at 1 Gbps.
[12:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VW Plans to Sell Electric Tesla Rival for Less than $23,000 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:57] <exec> 08└─I don't understand your comment here. What point and which ancestors?
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[13:38:09] <exec> 08└─https://informeddelivery.usps.com/box/pages/intro/start.action [usps.com]
[13:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service - 1981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:11] <exec> 08└─Another Krebs article, https://krebsonsecurity.com [krebsonsecurity.com] This service might be not quite as bad as TFA suggests. From the comments below this link: Isaac February 28, 2018 at 5:52 p...
[13:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Will Support Initial Concept Studies for Privately Funded Mission to Enceladus - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:59] <exec> 08└─Space is too expensive for private exploration. derpderpderp
[13:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:30] <exec> 08└─My stamped music CDs from the 80's and 90's all still play fine. I have some burnt Kodak Gold CDs that are over 15 years old that still play. Cheap disks I burnt for the car or got from friends don't do so well. Some of those have delaminated within a couple of years.
[13:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:48] <exec> 08└─Not knowing everything is not the same as not knowing anything. Reread this part again: Apparently 60% to 80% of the newly-confirmed cases have no known epidemiological link to prior cases
[13:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:50] <exec> 08└─a major threat like Ebola
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[14:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ZaqsNews [7176] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:09] <exec> 08└─In response to this legislation, I'm making a Spanish news aggregator. I figure once news linking is outlawed, maybe people will use my website. https://es.zaqs.org [zaqs.org]
[14:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:10] <exec> 08└─I don't particularly care if they impose a link tax. Have at it. So long as it isn't another submarine mechanism that imposes obligations after the fact that you didn't realize at the time. (Yes, I am aware this is essentially the opposite of what is desired by those proposing this) This requir...
[14:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:24] <exec> 08└─I agree that "in person" would be best, but you're right that it isn't practical. Requiring confirmation by mail is better but it's still subject to mail thieves (the same ones who signed up for the service in your name). Sending a confirmation postcard with an ID to everyone who signed up online (o...
[14:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:25] <exec> 08└─I have been using the informed delivery service now for about 6 months. I thoroughly enjoy it. Even a good friend of mine that actually works at the post office uses it. (He has been a friend since before he worked there.) I encourage people to sign up. One thing though... The emails say allow a wee...
[14:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Batteryless Smart Devices Closer to Reality - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:54] <exec> 08└─All they did is put a switch between the RFID tag and its antenna. Whoopi. Not seeing where an IP address comes from. Also, RFID, which means that these chips are only powered if a reader is pointed at them - nothing new there either.
[14:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:49] <exec> 08└─Tape is still king in size per space. Access not so much. Most CDR type media has a 'bit rot' because of the particular inks they are using. Put in a 'nice' environment and they would last nearly indefinably. Toss it in the back of your car in Florida? May last a couple of years. Some 'normal' CD ty...
[14:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:10] <exec> 08└─I may not have the ebola life cycle straight in my mind - but doesn't it propagate in other simians? So, basically, we would have to wipe out all the simians in Africa, along with all the humans - AND whatever else the virus is able to infect.
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[15:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Astronomers Find Pairs of Black Holes at the Centers of Merging Galaxies - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:16] <exec> 08└─This kind of thing reminds me why I loved astronomy as a kid!
[15:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:26] <exec> 08└─"Press publisher's right", huh? What a load of feces. Well, it's certainly a close relative to "intellectual property", one of the most damaging propagandistic expressions of recent times. "Intellectual property" is so enduring because it exploits an incorrect simplification. Anything a person creat...
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[15:38:28] <exec> 08└─I might use your English one. It loads a lot faster than Google News (which is an absolute snail on mobile). https://www.zaqs.org [zaqs.org]
[15:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 2077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:30] <exec> 08└─ZAQS.org (English link: https://www.zaqs.org) [zaqs.org] is exactly the sort of thing targeted by this legislation. The site is actually very interesting and I've bookmarked it to see how it develops, it currently suffers due to lack of capability to customize. A configuration page w...
[15:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:32] <exec> 08└─Dark Mode is a good option. People are crazy for it in 2018, and it's easy on the eyes. I'm making a new, darker theme for SoylentNews right now. I would add a dedicated Space section under Environment, populating it with at least these sources: NASA.gov (or JPL [nasa.gov]) https://www.nasaspaceflig...
[15:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:34] <exec> 08└─I have been using Gigablast news section [gigablast.com] for similar reason, but will add this site to my rotation. Gigablast does not have sections/topics, so this looks useful.
[15:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:49] <exec> 08└─>> Does anyone here (in USA) not have a bar code inside their mailbox by now? > I have no idea what you are talking about... My bad, since we have a sticker (and so does my parent's house), I made the wrong assumption that it was universal, explanations here, https://blog.stamps.com
[15:39:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 941 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:52] <exec> 08└─The problem is they are rapidly being eclipsed by newer tech. Yes you can buy 100GB triple layer BD-XL now, but look at the price tag, then compare to a flash drive. If they can't move these new 128GB blanks at a price competitive with 128GB flash sticks they are going to have a problem. It is a chi...
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[15:42:16] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I'll check it out.
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[16:38:16] <exec> 08└─A constellation class starship warping in while doing the Picard maneuver and opening fire.
[16:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:35] <exec> 08└─I'm making a new, darker theme for SoylentNews right now.
[16:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:37] <exec> 08└─Also interesting, but the big hurdle is (again) customizability. I added it to my extremely short list of search engines :-)
[16:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:39] <exec> 08└─it likely decreased the visibility (and by extension, revenues) of published content—exactly the opposite of what was intended.
[16:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:41] <exec> 08└─if that's a positive "sqeeee", then i agree. i can't deal with white/light grey "backgrounded" sites these days.
[16:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:57] <exec> 08└─no one at USPS thought of this (or listened to the warnings about this)
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[16:45:07] <exec> 08└─Excuse me for a moment... hahahahahahahaha aha ha ha ha ha ha. I just wish this sort of shit happened more often. Then perhaps more people would understand why this form of COPY PROTECTION is stupid. There is no guarantee at all that Microsoft will be around in the future. (And every day that passes...
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[17:38:48] <exec> 08└─I haven't read the legislation (all my time is devoted to The Cause) but it sounds ridiculous. It makes me sad that people tolerate governments like this. Just defund these pieces of shit. If you just go along to get along your grandchildren will know you were a coward that sold their future down th...
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[17:38:49] <exec> 08└─> all else being equal Which won't be the case.
[17:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:51] <exec> 08└─No doubt, that's why I had to put it in there ;-)
[17:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:53] <exec> 08└─(all my time is devoted to The Cause)
[17:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Stole Income, Immigration and Tax Data in Healthcare.gov Breach, Government Confirms - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:18] <exec> 08└─i had to lock my credit b/c people were opening accounts in my name all over the country. i don't really give a shit about my credit, but i don't need the collectors calling and there's the principle of the matter. anywho, the companies who allow the data to be stolen and the companies who give cred...
[17:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Batteryless Smart Devices Closer to Reality - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, sounds like a way to grab a teensy bit of current from a handscanner's signal, which RFID tags already do by design, and then instead of using it to power the RFID tag use it to run If you really want off the grid, might I recommend...mushrooms? https://soylentnews.org
[17:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Dead Redemption 2 Has Sold Over 17 Million Copies Worldwide - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:42] <exec> 08└─Looks like one big cut-scene interspersed with some shooting and running. Very guided in a heavy handed way.
[17:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:25] <exec> 08└─Normies have trouble filling 1 terabyte.
[17:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Bionic Mushroom" Produces Electrical Current - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:01] <exec> 08└─I for one welcome our myctarian overlords... With hot grits!
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[18:37:38] <exec> 08└─Learn something new every day.
[18:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:14] <exec> 08└─Dark Mode is a good option.
[18:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Stole Income, Immigration and Tax Data in Healthcare.gov Breach, Government Confirms - 1130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:45] <exec> 08└─Let's have the Boudica one! Because the plight of men in the working class, who each wield much more power and wealth than even the wealthiest bourgeois woman, is so much more privileged than the plight of women in the working class.... In fact, the reason Boudica has crap bonuses in Civ is because...
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[18:38:47] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxcJMoCbX2E [youtube.com]
[18:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Stole Income, Immigration and Tax Data in Healthcare.gov Breach, Government Confirms - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:49] <exec> 08└─How much would you pay each year to get health insurance without the risk of your data being hacked and used to spam, or worse, you?
[18:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:03] <exec> 08└─Flash drives are for temporary storage, less than, say, a year without power. This is a different use case than DVDs. The appropriate comparison is to an external hard drive. However that's also increasing in capacity more rapidly.
[18:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Bionic Mushroom" Produces Electrical Current - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:39] <exec> 08└─Is this a virus?
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[19:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dry Conditions May Have Helped a New Type of Plant Gain a Foothold on Earth - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:53] <exec> 08└─Exploding C4 based plants.
[19:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dry Conditions May Have Helped a New Type of Plant Gain a Foothold on Earth - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:55] <exec> 08└─Well death by pesticides is worse, at least for what concerns the bees.
[19:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dry Conditions May Have Helped a New Type of Plant Gain a Foothold on Earth - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:57] <exec> 08└─Making jokes about photosynthetic biochemistry is just crass -ula
[19:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Find Pairs of Black Holes at the Centers of Merging Galaxies - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:07] <exec> 08└─Literally their only tool is analyzing em radiation, yet nearly every "news" story about whats coming out of astronomy is about stuff they cannot detect directly but instead must infer based on a long chain of assumptions. It is getting really annoying, like during the end stages of a failed project...
[19:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Find Pairs of Black Holes at the Centers of Merging Galaxies - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:09] <exec> 08└─It is getting really annoying
[19:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Find Pairs of Black Holes at the Centers of Merging Galaxies - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:11] <exec> 08└─You can simulate it, and it predicts well. But, it's wrong.
[19:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Find Pairs of Black Holes at the Centers of Merging Galaxies - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:13] <exec> 08└─Does it predict well? Please provide an example of what you are referring to. I bet it involves putting arbitrary amounts of black/dark shit wherever is necessary to make the prediction work.
[19:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:39] <exec> 08└─"Anything a person creates is that person's property?". Nothing could be farther from truth. Most of stuff that is done nowadays is work for hire and thus doesn't belong to maker. It's as far from reality as proletariat owning the means of production.
[19:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:41] <exec> 08└─And in a SHOCK revelation, Dark Mode has been found to improve mobile battery life: https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com]
[19:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:43] <exec> 08└─If you live in the US just host all your services here. All you have to say is that the website is intended for X speaking americans.
[19:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:57] <exec> 08└─As mentioned in TFA, the security questions come from the three big credit agencies. Most of these questions require a little homework for someone looking to steal mail, but they aren't that tough. The ones I had to answer were about a previous address and about names of nieces and nephews. Being pr...
[19:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Stole Income, Immigration and Tax Data in Healthcare.gov Breach, Government Confirms - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:14] <exec> 08└─It's more convenient to dump the problems on you, a peon, than to annoy the good friends of congressmen.
[19:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Stole Income, Immigration and Tax Data in Healthcare.gov Breach, Government Confirms - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:15] <exec> 08└─How about you pay $1k/mo for Obamacare, and still get hacked? Thank Trump for abolishing the mandate for dealing with that information leviathan who didn't have to care one bit about the data they lost.
[19:39:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Stole Income, Immigration and Tax Data in Healthcare.gov Breach, Government Confirms - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:18] <exec> 08└─I think your post is making my point exactly. I was forced to pay about that much just to not be in their "health" scam database.
[19:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Batteryless Smart Devices Closer to Reality - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:33] <exec> 08└─More important, they are idiots who don't know how to google. You can buy RFID tags with built in sensors. The manual for the FEIG RFID scanners I use documents some of them.
[19:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CDC Director Warns that Congo’s Ebola Outbreak may not be Containable - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:59] <exec> 08└─I would have used the WHO page since those definitions would apply here, but it sounds like you agree with me anyway.
[19:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:46] <exec> 08└─You've chosen the dumbest interpretation of your opponent's point. Nobody said "all single parents chose their outcome". Weak sauce. I wonder how many single mothers are worthy to receive the money stolen from other people (mostly men, who are straight and white); certainly, I'd say such a worthy mo...
[19:43:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:47] <exec> 08└─You just have to have somewhere to go; if you have nowhere to go and must therefore trespass on someone else's property, then you should be arrested, removed, and institutionalized until you can make arrangements for having a place to be. You can't just shit in on my property.
[19:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Headmaster Fired over Secret Mining of Cryptocoins at School - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:12] <exec> 08└─GP AC here. Not an attempt at humor, rather a suggestion as to how to obtain readily available information. Expanded link here: http://www.lmgtfy.com [lmgtfy.com]
[19:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Win10 Activation Server Borked for a Bit - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:33] <exec> 08└─This one got me. I made a backup and was gonna put on 7, then the server came back online. Damn you and your activation bullshit. What a joke.
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[20:37:56] <exec> 08└─or at least a link to https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] and https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dry Conditions May Have Helped a New Type of Plant Gain a Foothold on Earth - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:57] <exec> 08└─...life on planet Earth continued as usual.
[20:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Find Pairs of Black Holes at the Centers of Merging Galaxies - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:11] <exec> 08└─My, aren't you clever. "Dark matter / energy" is a physicist's shorthand for "all the places where we *know* our current models are giving incorrect results". *Of course* it pops up in all places where the models are wrong, doh! The problem is: the current model is still the best we have. Even thoug...
[20:38:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 372 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:21] <exec> 08└─"Press publisher's right", huh? What a load of feces. Well, it's certainly a close relative to "intellectual property", one of the most damaging propagandistic expressions of recent times. "Intellectual property" is so enduring because it exploits an incorrect simplification. Anything a person creat...
[20:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ZaqsNews [7176] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:39] <exec> 08└─Great suggestions! Never thought of dark mode. I'll get started on customization per your options. Dark mode, category selection on home page and custom searches should be easy. Selection of websites will be trickier to do well, might as well try though. Thanks.
[20:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:40] <exec> 08└─You think it is governments that want this? They are just making the laws their corporate sponsors want.
[20:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:56] <exec> 08└─I just signed up to see for myself. The questions were actually really good. Someone would have to either know me personally or have a lot of detailed knowledge about my past. They probably should send you some physical mail though to confirm you are who you say you are.
[20:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Dead Redemption 2 Has Sold Over 17 Million Copies Worldwide - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:42] <exec> 08└─I thought it was supposed to be open world with emergent gameplay?
[20:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:27] <exec> 08└─Another thing is the failure mode of flash and HDDs, more often than not it is the controller hardware sitting between the motherboard and the actual bits that fail, not the bit surface. In contrast optical media, much like floppies of old, can easily be moved between RW hardware if it fails. Now if...
[20:43:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06The Gamer Who Spent Seven Years in His Dressing Gown - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:10] <exec> 08└─Not all single parents chose their outcome. Often their partner leaves against their will. Or they cheat on them. Enable them? So you'd prefer them to starve to death?
[20:44:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Appalbarry [66] 02 - 06Yelp Craters as Much as 32% as Advertisers Abandon the Site - 917 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:23] <exec> 08└─Surely the reason why Yelp is suffering is because of their reputation as being horribly untrustworthy. Well. that and a user interface that is truly abhorrent. I have never found Yelp useful as either a shopper or a victim vendor. The very first good review that our business received was spam-binne...
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[21:37:47] <exec> 08└─everyone was killed off at end of season 2 so think they were done with that set anyway and moving 'real world'
[21:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dry Conditions May Have Helped a New Type of Plant Gain a Foothold on Earth - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, but "life" doesn't neccesarily include humans [climatecentral.org]
[21:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dry Conditions May Have Helped a New Type of Plant Gain a Foothold on Earth - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:02] <exec> 08└─From the first section of the article: This same period saw the emergence of a new form of photosynthesis in a subset of plants, the C4 pathway. Present in a subset of plants, the C4 pathway supplemented the earlier C3 photosynthetic pathway, meaning those species now reaped energy from the sun usin...
[21:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dry Conditions May Have Helped a New Type of Plant Gain a Foothold on Earth - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:05] <exec> 08└─here is a comparison [cropsreview.com] of C3 and C4 and CAM (eg: cacti and pineapples) plants. and here is a more complicated version* [khanacademy.org] *khan academy requires javascript or shows no content
[21:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ZaqsNews [7176] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU’s Proposed Link Tax Would Still Harm Creative Commons Licensors - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:48] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the links! I've been hesitant at sub-categories because sometimes there's not enough content to have ordered groups of similar stories, but maybe listing sub-category stories by time is good enough. So click 'Space' under Environment (or Science?), see a time-ranked list of all headlines...
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[22:38:09] <exec> 08└─Not disparaging this TV series, but when I think of Westworld I think of the original movie [imdb.com] staring Yul Brynner.
[22:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iconic Westworld Set Burns Down in California Wildfire - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:10] <exec> 08└─It's just a simulation within a simulation within a simulation, all with the hope that with enough iterations, tomatoes will regain fidelity and remember what tomatoes tasted like, before the world was destroyed by giant mechs [wikipedia.org]. Nested simulations like Synecdoche, New York [wikipedia....
[22:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iconic Westworld Set Burns Down in California Wildfire - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:13] <exec> 08└─I didn't even know they made a tv series.
[22:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Iconic Westworld Set Burns Down in California Wildfire - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:15] <exec> 08└─Its excellent, you should check it out. The original man in black is even seen in a sketchbook.
[22:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iconic Westworld Set Burns Down in California Wildfire - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:17] <exec> 08└─Soylent News: We Really Mean The "News" Part
[22:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iconic Westworld Set Burns Down in California Wildfire - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:19] <exec> 08└─In other "News", Caitlyn Jenner's Malibu Barbie House did [google.com], or did not [google.com], burn down. Gerard Butler [people.com] was seen, shirtless, standing before the flames screaming, "This Is Malibu!!". Robin Thicke is coming out with a new music video, titled "Burned Lines". Meanwhile, P...
[22:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dry Conditions May Have Helped a New Type of Plant Gain a Foothold on Earth - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah the humans are SO much dumber than any antediluvian rat.
[22:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dry Conditions May Have Helped a New Type of Plant Gain a Foothold on Earth - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:39] <exec> 08└─Actually, they are.
[22:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Find Pairs of Black Holes at the Centers of Merging Galaxies - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:57] <exec> 08└─I understand. The models are the greatest thing since sliced bread, but there is no bread.
[22:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Dead Redemption 2 Has Sold Over 17 Million Copies Worldwide - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:31] <exec> 08└─You can do things in a different order and you get to ride a horse and collect plants. That's about it. Oh, and it looks very pretty.
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[23:38:34] <exec> 08└─Even if not... There is the MASH example... During the shooting the finally brush fire sweep through the San Monica Valley it was filmed in and burnt the set to the ground. They added a few sense to cover the change, rebuilt and finished the wrap. It is what insurance is for.
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[23:39:43] <exec> 08└─During their marriage, the white nationalist leader sometimes told her to use her own savings to pay for groceries, saying that his money was “for the cause”, she alleged. He also regularly failed to pay water, internet, electricity and cellphone bills and failed to make healthcare payments, cau...
[23:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Secret Service Warns ID Thieves are Abusing USPS’s Mail Scanning Service - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:03] <exec> 08└─I just signed up for this about a week and a half ago. They asked me four questions. 1) How much did we pay for our house (dollar range). 2) The year our house was built. 3) Which one of four choices was an old phone number of mine. (Not a current one, but used about five or more years ago.) and 4)...
[23:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Stole Income, Immigration and Tax Data in Healthcare.gov Breach, Government Confirms - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:23] <exec> 08└─i had to lock my credit b/c people were opening accounts in my name all over the country.
[23:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Batteryless Smart Devices Closer to Reality - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:42] <exec> 08└─Give them a break, they're foreigners who had to study in Canada because the USA has more effective screening systems.
[23:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Will Support Initial Concept Studies for Privately Funded Mission to Enceladus - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:11] <exec> 08└─True. Space is too expensive for private exploration. Until some billionaire decides it is not. Then it isn't.
[23:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Launches Quad-Layer 128 GB Blu-Ray Discs - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:49] <exec> 08└─I have trouble filling 256GB. All of my important data is text (configurations, scripts, sources built up over the years). My music collection takes up the most space, but that only grows a few gigs a year at max, and I end up deleting at least half of it over time anyway.
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