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[00:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:48] <exec> 08└─With the full knowledge that I am replying to a troll... What you are describing is a set of problems of culture, not race. The issue is in the noosphere, not the genome. As evidence, I give you the United States, which has incredible divides within the same racial demographics across geography. Are...
[00:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:50] <exec> 08└─if you consider 1000-person years of people that have rough, bloody sex (e.g. fisting)
[00:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:52] <exec> 08└─The troll got trolled by other trolls and is now a non-trolling troll because it actually believes what the other trolls trolled him with.
[00:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:54] <exec> 08└─Jeff Bezos has a high IQ, but Cletus has a low IQ. Sub-Saharan Africa's average IQ is 66 to 73, well below the threshold for criminality and functioning democracy: 85.
[00:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:57] <exec> 08└─I think you mixed up your numbers here. 66 to 73 is the IQ range of the average Trump supporter.
[00:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:59] <exec> 08└─However, the average IQ of white's in the U.S. is 100 or so, and above that in Europe. So, Africa is full of Cletuses. Cleti?
[00:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:01] <exec> 08└─What you are describing is a set of problems of culture, not race.
[00:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Force Requirements Will Keep SpaceX From Landing Falcon 9 Booster After GPS Launch - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:27] <exec> 08└─It's new. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] F9 B5 B1054.1
[00:39:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rleigh [4887] 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 2215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:59] <exec> 08└─Agreed, the implication is quite false. Not that there wasn't lots of fighting and warfare over the years, there was, but outright genocide isn't the explanation for the language changes over time except perhaps for local and extreme events. We can also see this in recent history. If we look at the...
[00:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:17] <exec> 08└─"Second, going to China and speaking Mandarin won't help, either, because they will always see you as a laowai (foreigner) anyway" Assuming you don't look chinese, that's true, but that particular prejudice can work to your example. If you can understand what they're saying, and they can't grasp tha...
[00:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:19] <exec> 08└─The bullets are beyond your control
[00:41:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:30] <exec> 08└─Old(er) cars you can work on are fun. The new ones just aren't.
[00:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:24] <exec> 08└─When I was in my mid 20s (in the 90s) I did not own a car. Did not need it and could not afford the insurance. So I got by. But when I needed a car I got one. Judging by the traffic jam I sit in daily I would say cars are not going anywhere (hehe).
[00:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:25] <exec> 08└─Those particular platforms are truck based ones. Those are usually *very* reliable. They last 10-15 years usually. A car usually eats itself by 10 unless you take care of it.
[00:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:27] <exec> 08└─How many guns do you own?
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[01:36:15] <exec> 08└─That was always my thinking.
[01:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Let Apps Access Unposted Photos for Millions of Users - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:16] <exec> 08└─Does 'data breach' include simply finding a bug, without evidence that someone has used it to steal data? That would seem unlikely since it might even discourage developers from looking for bugs which might be hard to exploit. So it isn't necessarily a given that there was some violation of EU regul...
[01:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:00] <exec> 08└─OK, so add them to the list. By this point, the only place not infested with Muslims is Antarctica. Penguin jihad, Allah Akbar!
[01:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:02] <exec> 08└─They sound like winners to me. Others should emulate them.
[01:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:04] <exec> 08└─If the U.S. nukes anybody on the list, your life is going to start to look like Fallout 76. Assuming you have one.
[01:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:27] <exec> 08└─Ummm... this may mean that, in 100 years, the American language will get extinct, replaced by Mandarin?
[01:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:38] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone else can chime in on their costs for a smaller vehicle. But for comprehensive insurance with a zero deductible I am paying 45/mo on a 2016 truck. Our '12 caravan is 50/mo for a 500 deductible. I presume this is because my truck has five stars and my wife's caravan is a deathtrap.
[01:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:39] <exec> 08└─I think he meant the fun to drive, not to maintain it.
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[02:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:20] <exec> 08└─but we need to understand how and why scientists came to believe it had, to avoid future episodes like this. The climate-research community's acceptance of a 'pause' in global warming caused confusion
[02:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:22] <exec> 08└─No, they didnt. That's ok though, the Hansen 1988 scenario B/C scenario is still pretty good: https://www.skepticalscience.com [skepticalscience.com] This type of article that tries to pass of post-hoc justifications with predictions is anti-scientific though. If climate r...
[02:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:24] <exec> 08└─We have a fight over high-stakes funding for research, and a fight over far higher stakes control of the world economy. In such an environment, honest science is impossible and nobody can be trusted. Not that the science matters! No matter if the orthodox opinion is factual or not, the winning move...
[02:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:26] <exec> 08└─*"pass off post-hoc justifications as"
[02:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:29] <exec> 08└─What I'd like to hear from my scientists: "We did research. Here are the results."
[02:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Let Apps Access Unposted Photos for Millions of Users - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:40] <exec> 08└─"Your data was exposed, and we don't know who took advantage of it" I'd say that classifies as a breech, and if it was my data I'd want to know about it. Which is the whole point of the 72-hour deadline: Facebook had three days to figure out how bad this was, after which they were required to at lea...
[02:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Holographic Acoustic Tweezers Able to Manipulate Multiple Objects In 3-D Space - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe we do go extinct with a bang, or at least a loud acoustic noise, after all. Just scale it up to a global level, throw the switch, and the bane of humanity is wiped from the Earth forever. Sucks for us humans, but is probably a benefit to everything else living in this world.
[02:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Holographic Acoustic Tweezers Able to Manipulate Multiple Objects In 3-D Space - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:06] <exec> 08└─Apparently the US set a level many times higher than other countries and gave some Russian scientists a little sass about it, so the Russians set up a microwave emitter to irradiate their offices just below the US safety level.
[02:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:59] <exec> 08└─"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." --James D. Nicoll
[02:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:00] <exec> 08└─CWM is pronounced like KOOM in English, so CWN would be KOON, not QUEEN. Further evidence -- CRWTH is a KROOTH. The W has the OO sound, as in BOO or ROOT. When I was in first grade, back in 1965, I was taught the vowels are A, E, I, O, U, sometimes Y and sometimes W. I wondered about the W until I w...
[02:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:04] <exec> 08└─"Either you hold the gun and the bullets are under your control or you don't hold the gun" Wrong. Either way, once the trigger is pulled, the bullets are beyond your control. Unless you have more powerful magic than I have seen. The stick is on the end of a bit of rope on the end of another stick, y...
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[02:42:05] <exec> 08└─That was an alternative way to use it I have seen taught in kwoon as well, but 4-steps-to-chuck was by far the most popular method of dealing with someone who is NOT a surprise attacker but makes a lot of noise and thumps his chest on the way in: 1. Raise the chucks dramatically, making animal noise...
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[03:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:27] <exec> 08└─especially when I read things like: "The comparisons were made with a variety of statistical techniques to correct for problems in previous work." you can 'fix' anything using the 'right' statistical techniques.
[03:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:28] <exec> 08└─the Hansen 1988 scenario B/C scenario is still pretty good
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[03:36:41] <exec> 08└─Most programmers are female. That is a fact.
[03:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JEDEC Updates High Bandwidth Memory Standard With New 12-Hi Stacks - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:51] <exec> 08└─Did I not clickbait enough? Anyway, AnandTech came out with their story so let's see what they have to say: On the capacity front, the new version of the specification, JESD235B, had added support for 12-Hi chip stacks. With 4 more layers than the previous limit of 8-Hi stacks, this will allow memor...
[03:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:31] <exec> 08└─Not so long ago, almost everyone in the US not living near the coast was a bunch of utter cretins. Literally. As in "widespread iodine deficiency was causing massive, endemic intellectual debility even in cases where it didn't result in goitres the size of one's fist." Even more recently, lead pollu...
[03:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Force Requirements Will Keep SpaceX From Landing Falcon 9 Booster After GPS Launch - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:02] <exec> 08└─"I guess it's possible that the Air Force could have insisted" I kind of wonder about that. Like maybe the spec isn't about performance so much as it is about making the spec to fit a particular vendor. Because of course that vendor always shows up with free booze and hookers. Must be nice being an...
[03:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's First- Ever Graphene Hiking Boots Unveiled - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:41] <exec> 08└─I think a better description is that a sheet of graphene is literally a single extremely large molecule, with every carbon atom reachable from any other by traversing only covalent chemical bonds - and one of the strongest covalent bonds. Graphite in contrast is typically something more like flakebo...
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[04:36:15] <exec> 08└─A lot of models, including some that have a far less alarming long term prognosis would fit "pretty good".
[04:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:17] <exec> 08└─Or we're toast. Once again the human race is counting on a technology breakthrough to save our asses. Something like fussion or workable carbon capture . The last breakthrough was the agricultural revolution. Now we need an energy breakthrough.
[04:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:19] <exec> 08└─*Bayes' rule I mean you need to sum up the performance of all possible explanations in the denominator. The model in question (found in both the numerator and denominator) is only interesting if it dominates. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[04:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:21] <exec> 08└─Proves? Time after time, we get articles about "new research" claiming to "prove" something - anything. Ho-hum. No research is ever dis-proven, cast into doubt, questioned, superseded, or shown to be fraudulent. Better titles are those that "suggest". New research suggests that the sun rises in the...
[04:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:24] <exec> 08└─Now we need an energy breakthrough. Or we could just chill... Cutting back on the confidence games will go a helluva long way
[04:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:26] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting for "new research" to say bacon and beer for breakfast is good for you. We're part way there. Eggs and butter are back on the menu. And they're having second thoughts about salt.
[04:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:28] <exec> 08└─Regarding the salt in the diet, it is actually that more salt is associated with a lower blood pressure: https://www.fasebj.org [fasebj.org] While obviously consuming salt raises blood pressure in the short term, presumably there is some feedback that lea...
[04:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:30] <exec> 08└─It's worth reviewing what these two studies actually did. The first retconned the Pause out of existence. And the second rationalized a lot of dubious "robust statistics" for biasing various temperature data sets which just so happens to exaggerate the global warming aspect of climate change. One al...
[04:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 1325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:32] <exec> 08└─https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/01/nuclear-fusion/ [ucsd.edu] Was trying to find some post about how nuclear fusion and no use of fossil fuels would still kill the planet since we would be dumping so much heat. But found that more optimistic blog instead. You may have heard of a number of companies...
[04:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:35] <exec> 08└─Crushing our own economy in self-inflicted burden will ultimately weaken us
[04:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:37] <exec> 08└─Seems like if we were in as dire straits as the news has us believe, then we would be switching to nuclear. But we aren't. We are sitting on our hands doing nothing. We could turn all of the US's coal plants into nuclear in a couple of years. And deal with the issue of waste material later.
[04:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:39] <exec> 08└─The "waste" is actually fuel for when mining and processing the current fuel becomes to expensive. Shit that sits there and heats up is fuel. I think that is another angle in this whole "energy scam".
[04:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:41] <exec> 08└─The problem with salt is that about 10% of people have a bad hypertension reaction to too much of it. This reaction is so bad that even though it has little to no effect on 90% of people, in any statistical analysis this 10% of people skew the average so that salt looks really really bad.
[04:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:44] <exec> 08└─We could turn all of the US's coal plants into nuclear in a couple of years.
[04:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Let Apps Access Unposted Photos for Millions of Users - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:56] <exec> 08└─"Facebook allowed Microsoft’s Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consent, the records show, and gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages. The social network permitted Amazon to obtain users’ names and cont...
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[04:37:06] <exec> 08└─I have HBM1. How do I become more envious? Most people are not envious and want to become more envious.
[04:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JEDEC Updates High Bandwidth Memory Standard With New 12-Hi Stacks - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:08] <exec> 08└─How do I become more envious?
[04:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 1590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:50] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, decades of putting your point to practice has revealed that the average IQ of a population cannot be raised that much beyond a certain threshold (neglecting the Flynn effect*), and that IQ does indeed appear to be controlled by particular genes. This is well documented in the literatu...
[04:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:03] <exec> 08└─I deliberately never said democracy. I said "better forms of government". You are projecting. You also take nuanced statements and rephrase them as absolutes. You contradict yourself: A strongest group will always arise, and then force its will upon others. Everyone can be ma...
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[04:39:05] <exec> 08└─What keeps Tyranny at bay is competition
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[04:39:07] <exec> 08└─In other words, as capital is accumulated into fewer and fewer hands, the result is...
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[05:36:20] <exec> 08└─I don't care. I like salt, so I eat it.
[05:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:21] <exec> 08└─You will stop eating it if you eat too much. That is the point. Dont eat the "food pyramid" diet that tricks you into consuming more of various stuff like salt than you otherwise would. But really, get some fries and just douse them with salt. If it still isnt salty enough, add some more. Eventually...
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[05:36:24] <exec> 08└─Offtopic??! How was that Offtopic? You damn people got it right there in the headline, "New Research"! And I'm talking about new research! You no speeka the English?
[05:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Let Apps Access Unposted Photos for Millions of Users - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:39] <exec> 08└─Oh, is that the scandal I was hearing about on CBSN earlier? It's becoming hard to track these Facebook scandals. Especially when we are at a 1 scandal per 3 days pace.
[05:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:33] <exec> 08└─HCV is also a positive sense RNA virus, which has a higher transmission rate than HIV.
[05:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:34] <exec> 08└─Well, Patton and MacArthur were right. We never finished the war. We could have had true peace.
[05:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most of Saturn's Rings Could Disappear Within 100 Million Years - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:55] <exec> 08└─the entire ring system will be gone in 300 million years
[05:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:48] <exec> 08└─You're admitting that capitalism will fail... by resulting in government. Not exactly a stellar case for yourself.
[05:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canada Prohibits Piracy Settlement Demands in ISP Copyright Notices - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:20] <exec> 08└─Actually if the government fails to pass a supply bill such as the budget, the government falls. They're expected to resign and always do but if they didn't, the Queen or rather her representative, will fire them. At this point the Queens representative makes a decision, give the opposition a chance...
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[05:40:21] <exec> 08└─See my post down the page. Basically if a government can't pass a supply bill, they fall and resign, usually leading to an election. Their job is to run the country, which especially includes paying the bills.
[05:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:06] <exec> 08└─Pronunciations shift over the miles and centuries. And languages that diverge shift differently, even more words that are incorporated from one language into another. But, FWIW, "cwn" would have been the Anglo-Saxon spelling, not the Welsh.
[05:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 1011 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:19] <exec> 08└─Farmers account for an insignificant part of the market. Farmers tend to gravitate towards pickups, and less towards SUVs. Now, if you look at the pickup market, almost all pickups made nowadays are crew cabs and high trim line models. This is the exact opposite of the kind of trucks farmers buy - u...
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[06:35:38] <exec> 08└─The UK is coming home, as the 51st state.
[06:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:39] <exec> 08└─Kinda had to. Turkey is massing troops on the border against the Kurds, which we were arming. Don't wanna get caught in that crossfire. Plus we sold a bunch of patriot missiles to Turkey. Don't wanna jeopardize that three and a half bil... As for the "hard" brexit. I wanna see what happens in Irelan...
[06:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:42] <exec> 08└─It's all just an excuse so martial law can be declared and the last illusion of freedom will be stripped away. Welcome, my son, to the machine.
[06:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:44] <exec> 08└─The US does NOT need OR want a turd like the UK. The UK is a case study in what happens when an empire is poorly managed, and the downfall of the UK is imminent, despite whatever the royals or the idiots in the UK government may spew. Can you imagine what it's like to live in a shithole like the UK...
[06:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:46] <exec> 08└─I'm dubious about the riot quality. Brits used to be able to riot pretty good back in the day. Today though? Who knows?
[06:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Let Apps Access Unposted Photos for Millions of Users - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:42] <exec> 08└─The one you allude to is HUGE. Basically Facebook has argued to US regulators that no privacy was breached, because users had given consent. That consent being to "integrated partners, affiliates, sisters-cousins-friends-roommate, etc.". They argued that this partners were "effectively extensions of...
[06:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Let Apps Access Unposted Photos for Millions of Users - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:44] <exec> 08└─the defacto leader of Big Ad
[06:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most of Saturn's Rings Could Disappear Within 100 Million Years - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:02] <exec> 08└─Not funny. I can remember young Paul before he was playing in a band...
[06:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:24] <exec> 08└─They don't seem to feel that way about my van, even though I am quite happy to have it. It was never designed to be a fashion statement. But will haul anything I can get into it and damn near anything I hook onto it. Its no gazelle, not even a jackrabbit. If I were to choose an animal to use as its...
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[07:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mathematicians Seal Backdoor to Breaking RSA Encryption - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:21] <exec> 08└─Assuming the Riemann hypothesis for Dedekind zeta functions, we prove that...
[07:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Seal Backdoor to Breaking RSA Encryption - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:23] <exec> 08└─And is it possible that RSA becomes impractical after some maximum keysize because the number of primes above a certain number of bits becomes low enough that brute forcing on a sufficiently large supercomputer or cluster can find the appropriate primes in a sufficiently short period. Or that storag...
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[07:36:39] <exec> 08└─So we will have a whole bunch of squaddies at the ready to check all imports and exports comply with WTO rules. Unfortunately, since no one yet knows how to perform said checks, and the necessary paperwork/software does not exist, this strategy is somewhat doomed. -- We are doomed, I tell you. Doome...
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[07:36:40] <exec> 08└─"PLAN"? I doubt that and certainly not well-orchestrated. Fortunately, I imagine the great narcissism of the elites is more than ready to handle this unhealthily competent stereotype you have.
[07:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:24] <exec> 08└─Lead's still less than a buck per pound. Seal it up overkill style, dump it in the middle of a stable mountain that you don't like, and forget about it. I was going to say launch it in a random direction and get it to escape velocity but then I looked at the cost per pound of payload to escape veloc...
[07:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:26] <exec> 08└─Only a hand full of people in the world come even close to be qualified climate scientists, and they're under just as much social pressure as anybody else. For the rest of us, it's like we've been knocked out and have woken up aboard a lavishly appointed cruise ship. We're seated at some kind of gam...
[07:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:28] <exec> 08└─The best part is how they are harvesting these posts and trying to figure out the best way to convince people to buy whatever is being sold.
[07:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Let Apps Access Unposted Photos for Millions of Users - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:45] <exec> 08└─It's kinda fun to watch Facebook being MySpaced by the media. Zuckerberg looks like he aged a lot recently.
[07:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Most of Saturn's Rings Could Disappear Within 100 Million Years - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:06] <exec> 08└─Global De-ringing is fake news by the Uranians to get socialistic funding! So sad.
[07:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:07] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how one would describe the absorption of "words" like lol.
[07:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:09] <exec> 08└─My recollection (from Terry Deary) is that it was spelt "kwene" . But that's mainly an example of the Normans swinging their "qu" s about. I think the root word is Saxon or Old English (it certainly doesn't sound Celtic to me). Or were you aiming for a republican joke, given that "cwn" is Welsh for...
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[08:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mathematicians Seal Backdoor to Breaking RSA Encryption - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:46] <exec> 08└─And is it possible that RSA becomes impractical after some maximum keysize because the number of primes above a certain number of bits becomes low enough that brute forcing on a sufficiently large supercomputer or cluster can find the appropriate primes in a sufficiently short period.
[08:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:02] <exec> 08└─Jeff Bezos has a high IQ, but Cletus has a low IQ. Sub-Saharan Africa's average IQ is 66 to 73, ..
[08:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York State's Ban on Nunchaku ("Nunchucks") Found Unconstitutional - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:52] <exec> 08└─Well, I was deliberatly vague about who the "Crunch!" applied to...
[08:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Have We Reached Peak Car? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:08] <exec> 08└─If you're holding onto a vehicle for that long, you really should be taking care of it. At which point, there isn't much difference in reliability.
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[09:36:38] <exec> 08└─I've read about this years ago. I don't know where, but it isn't new. And it makes perfect sense: if you take energy from an air flow you end up with less energy in the air flow.
[09:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wind Plants Can Reduce Flow to Downwind Neighbors - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:39] <exec> 08└─It also causes local global warming :-) “Our results show a significant warming trend of up to 0.72 degree per decade, particularly at night-time, over wind farms relative to nearby non-wind-farm regions,” wrote lead author Liming Zhou, a Research Associate Professor from the Department of Atmo...
[09:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mathematicians Seal Backdoor to Breaking RSA Encryption - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:52] <exec> 08└─In addition, the Quanta author's "backdoor" was never a backdoor in the first place. In fact the only connection between the paper and RSA was the one made by the writer at Quanta magazine. So this sounds like not-very-much ado about nothing.
[09:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:09] <exec> 08└─While this whole Brexit mess might not be planned or well orchestrated I would remind readers of the old adage: "Never let a good crisis go to waste" And as to how much damage a bunch of incompetent leaders can do to a country's freedoms just look at the mess Bush jr and company made of the USA afte...
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[10:36:47] <exec> 08└─"local global" ????
[10:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03clive_p [4631] (Score: 1) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:19] <exec> 08└─And as the first phase of this: they've closed London Gatwick Airport for the last 12 hours (ostensibly because drones have been seen in the area, but it's hard to take that as an excuse). Which other airports will be next?
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[11:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Librem 5 Dev Kits Are Shipping - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, I know you can Google it, and eventually find something useful about it, but if it's this obscure then perhaps it doesn't really merit a front-page article. For those who don't know, it's some sort of open-source phone platform, at which point I lost interest.
[11:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Seal Backdoor to Breaking RSA Encryption - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:25] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure why someone suggests RSA is now quantum proof. Perhaps, if the paper is correct, quantum proof from one *form* of attack. But there are endless means to attack a problem, and quantum hardware may present new methods not known as of yet.
[11:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:47] <exec> 08└─Finally a raison d'etre for the Oxford University Boat Club.
[11:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:48] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of that Obama era government shutdown where they closed parks that were nothing more than sidewalks with trees. Got to make it look bad somehow.
[11:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:51] <exec> 08└─The squaddies are to prevent fights breaking out in the line to collect your medicine rations
[11:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:53] <exec> 08└─I for one have my fingers crossed that it all just blows over with a big "meh" like Y2K 10 years of work to mittigate the problems of Y2K worked (mostly), and people say "bah it was all project fear" Andy: Lets use this gokart to go downhill to the ravine really fast Bob: We won't be able to stop, t...
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[11:36:55] <exec> 08└─> Street gangs are everywhere No they're not > you are forbidden by law to own pretty much any weapons you could use to protect yourself It's the U.S. where kids get killed in their schools on a monthly basis. Chicago (2.7 million) had 650 murders in 2017. London (8.8 million) had 116. So U.S. citie...
[11:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:57] <exec> 08└─British millennials don't riot very well. Half of them are on Twitter complaining that someone should do something. The other half are on Instagram complaining that they can't get on Twitter.
[11:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:59] <exec> 08└─Ah, the young ones.... https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[11:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:02] <exec> 08└─Well it does lend a bit of hope but it's also from 1995, so...
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[11:37:05] <exec> 08└─> > the weather sucks most of the year > Yup Hey, I like rain.
[11:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Let Apps Access Unposted Photos for Millions of Users - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:11] <exec> 08└─"For example, if someone uploads a photo to Facebook but doesn't finish posting it -- maybe because they've lost reception or walked into a meeting --
[11:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Let Apps Access Unposted Photos for Millions of Users - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:12] <exec> 08└─Nice to know someone's allowing Bing to do something. I won't even allow it to do a search.
[11:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:35] <exec> 08└─I wonder if there exist radionuclides with an appropriate half life (~10 yrs) and no nasty decay products?
[11:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:37] <exec> 08└─Google tells me that, for example, tritium has a half life of 12 years and decays to 3He via beta decay... which doesnt make much secondary radiation and can be managed by appropriate shielding. Tritium occurs naturally in solar fusion so it would not be a "pollutant". It is an ingredient in H-bombs...
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[12:36:29] <exec> 08└─Ugly industrial wind turbines are ruining the beauty of parts of the Country -- and have inefficient unreliable energy to boot. They have all these different companies and each one is made by a different group from, all from China and from Germany, by the way -- not from here. The reality is, wind t...
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[12:36:30] <exec> 08└─Just wait until they suddenly realize that removing the cooling effect on the earth from wind via the increased use of wind turbines leads to global warming. No one thought this through very well.
[12:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mathematicians Seal Backdoor to Breaking RSA Encryption - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:42] <exec> 08└─I'll have to look at this more, but my first impression is that something doesn't add up. If RSA really is secure, safe from factorization, if factorization is intractably hard, then that can only mean that Shor's algorithm does not work or is impractical. Maybe they've based their proof on the assu...
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[12:37:13] <exec> 08└─As a person from the UK: Ah ha ha ha, that's pretty funny. Oh wait... Your serious? Let me laugh harder! AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!
[12:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:14] <exec> 08└─I have a relation with a customs officer. There orders are: On March 29th 2019, its tools down. Only check for immigrants, weapons and drugs. NOTHING will be stopped at the border, everything will be allowed through. They have been told that this is so if there is any disruption, the UK gov can poin...
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[12:37:16] <exec> 08└─Rain is fine, but it's the continuous overcast and drizzle that's depressing. The Brits have 432 words for rain, all of them are pitiful compared with real weather like monsoons or hurricanes.
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[12:37:19] <exec> 08└─That takes competence, which is the one thing that has been completely lacking from the UK's government and Civil Service throughout the entire Article 50 process. And the key point from all this that the Brexiteers *still* don't seem to have woken up to is that if/when they actually get their separ...
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[12:37:21] <exec> 08└─"Finally a raison d'etre" Mmmmmm, raisons.
[12:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:23] <exec> 08└─You must be from the south.
[12:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Anglo-Saxons Were Worse than the Vikings - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:58] <exec> 08└─FYI: I"m native Celsius and metric. Which, hopefully, places me in the potential winning category (for a change). (grin)
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[13:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Didn't Think Facebook Could Get Any Worse? Think Again. - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:36] <exec> 08└─It cannot be much longer before Facebook is facing a whole series of GDPR lawsuits. While it only took effect last Spring, and so doesn't apply to actions before that, it seems that Facebook is incapable of understanding privacy. A couple of lawsuits resulting in penalties measures as a percentage o...
[13:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Didn't Think Facebook Could Get Any Worse? Think Again. - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:38] <exec> 08└─I always assume everything can get worse, a lot worse, that way I'm hardly ever surprised when shit goes terribly wrong -- which they usually inevitably does. Facebook is just to large to not have horrible features that will go wrong and considering the amount of data they consolidate or have at the...
[13:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Delivers Emergency Patch for Under-Attack IE - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:48] <exec> 08└─Microsoft rarely mentions Internet Explorer (IE) anymore, but when it does, it usually means bad news.
[13:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wind Plants Can Reduce Flow to Downwind Neighbors - 1704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:13] <exec> 08└─existence or non-existence of wind-turbines has absolutely no effect on global warming. local temperature may increase because wind turbines increase air turbulence, but this simply means that the turbulence is happening "earlier" in the airflow than it would happen without the wind turbines (for in...
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[14:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Didn't Think Facebook Could Get Any Worse? Think Again. - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, the lawsuits are already on their way in the EU. Also, many indirectly related lawsuits are running in parallel, where facebook or google are third parties, but are embedded into the first party's website. These have actually been running before the GDPR, but are still relevant. The rules got m...
[14:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Didn't Think Facebook Could Get Any Worse? Think Again. - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:08] <exec> 08└─Most major companies have privacy policies where they swear up and down that they're never doing anything bad with your data. Most of them routinely break those policies when they don't think they'll be caught and believe it profitable to do so. You should assume that everybody who has data about yo...
[14:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Librem 5 Dev Kits Are Shipping - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:23] <exec> 08└─Not open source, but free software, and phone, not phone platform.
[14:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wind Plants Can Reduce Flow to Downwind Neighbors - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:36] <exec> 08└─We've been half-joking for years that enough wind turbines upstream will probably reduce tornadoes in oklahoma/missouri/tornado alley.
[14:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wind Plants Can Reduce Flow to Downwind Neighbors - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:38] <exec> 08└─This is news? I thought this had been known for decades. When they speak of "uncoordinated development", I was under the impression that planning permission for wind farms included careful placement of the turbines to account for this effect both for adjacent turbines and those located some distance...
[14:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mathematicians Seal Backdoor to Breaking RSA Encryption - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:51] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with quantum computing. It is about factoring numbers by turning them into polynomials and factoring those, and then converting the results back to numbers. They proved that this won't work for large numbers, because the chance of the polynomial being factorable goes to zero....
[14:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:28] <exec> 08└─Everywhere's south. Drive to Inverness and you get a sign pointing to "The North". Reach Thurso and the islanders will laugh at you. #NoTrueNorth
[14:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:30] <exec> 08└─Just wanted to point out that these school shootings are happening under governmental supervision.
[14:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:37] <exec> 08└─People have done statistical analyses to come up with these numbers. Your gut feeling ain't worth shit.
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[15:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alien Imposters: Planets With Oxygen Don't Necessarily Have Life - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:06] <exec> 08└─So... how did we get from "oxygen and organic compounds" meaning "life may be present" to those being "evidence of life" ? The only cautionary tale here is how to correctly interpret what is actually your premise.
[15:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alien Imposters: Planets With Oxygen Don't Necessarily Have Life - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:08] <exec> 08└─Researchers are getting their ducks in a row ahead of first light for the next generation of telescopes, such as the Extremely Large Telescope (2024) and JWST (2021???). They are going to look a lot more closely at exoplanet atmospheres, with hopes of finding an unambiguous biosignature, if there is...
[15:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alien Imposters: Planets With Oxygen Don't Necessarily Have Life - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:10] <exec> 08└─To be fair, the scientists seem to be saying "Oxygen and organic compounds? That seems like a good place to look for ET life." Not "Oxygen and organic compounds? WE'VE FOUND ALIENS EVERYBODY!!! And they say they built the pyramids too!"
[15:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Didn't Think Facebook Could Get Any Worse? Think Again. - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:23] <exec> 08└─My farce shnook take: I'm like 7-UP - never had it, never will. I recognized it was likely to be a problem for any- and every- one who used it. I'm trying REALLY hard not to say "I told you so" to friends and family.
[15:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Didn't Think Facebook Could Get Any Worse? Think Again. - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:24] <exec> 08└─I find saying "I told you so" pleasant. if someone doesn't like it, they should stop doing the stupid.
[15:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Delivers Emergency Patch for Under-Attack IE - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:34] <exec> 08└─found a script to download and install Arch Linux over the Windows install.
[15:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Delivers Emergency Patch for Under-Attack IE - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:36] <exec> 08└─You did? Check your IDA settings, as you should have found a routine that adds bounds checking to some of the routines in our legacy ECMAScript provider, Jscript.dll.
[15:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Delivers Emergency Patch for Under-Attack IE - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:38] <exec> 08└─Back in the Visual Basic days, IE supported ActiveX. ActiveX let you do some very sophisticated stuff that HTML wasn't yet ready for. IE is bad news now - and ActiveX was always bad for security - but for a few years it let you do things other browsers couldn't.
[15:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Librem 5 Dev Kits Are Shipping - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:49] <exec> 08└─Its a phone with hardware kill switches.
[15:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wind Plants Can Reduce Flow to Downwind Neighbors - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:04] <exec> 08└─The side effects though aren't quite so obvious. Lighter winds probably results in less heat transfer from soil to air. Which means higher soil temperatures. This would amplify the effects of drought, particularly in areas like the U.S. midwest. This could potentially result in lower food production...
[15:36:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 479 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:42] <exec> 08└─> Street gangs are everywhere No they're not > you are forbidden by law to own pretty much any weapons you could use to protect yourself It's the U.S. where kids get killed in their schools on a monthly basis. Chicago (2.7 million) had 650 murders in 2017. London (8.8 million) had 116. So U.S. citie...
[15:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:56] <exec> 08└─"It's the U.S. where kids get killed in their schools on a monthly basis." The above is a false equivalency, you stupid sack of shit. Take your bullshit faggot arguments and shove them up your ass, if there isn't a dick already there, that is.
[15:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:57] <exec> 08└─"No they're not" You're full of shit, you cock-gobbling piece of subhuman waste.
[15:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:59] <exec> 08└─Oh no no no. Everything north of the river is north. Your all northerners. (The Thames for the foreigners, "The river" means the Thames)
[15:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, he should have said weekly basis.
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[16:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Alien Imposters: Planets With Oxygen Don't Necessarily Have Life - 1194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:16] <exec> 08└─Pretty much all non-divine-intervention theories of the origin of life on earth require the abiotic synthesis of organic molecules. And we've known that abiotic synthesis is possible for over 60 years, since since the Miller-Urey [wikipedia.org] experiment. The presence of organic molecules makes it...
[16:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Didn't Think Facebook Could Get Any Worse? Think Again. - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:32] <exec> 08└─I created a Facebook account when they began because I had previously used Friendster, Meetup, and Yahoo Groups. I think there is utility in platforms that can facilitate collective action. Also, network effects are interesting to me and social media gives us a lot of insight into how societies work...
[16:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Delivers Emergency Patch for Under-Attack IE - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:46] <exec> 08└─The day they released Edge upon the world.
[16:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Delivers Emergency Patch for Under-Attack IE - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:48] <exec> 08└─Are we talking JavaScript here? (or ECMAscript or M$ bastard JScript)
[16:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:47] <exec> 08└─They did the research, the nonexistant pause is the result.
[16:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:49] <exec> 08└─Calling it a "pause" in the first place was pretty damn clickbaity. Global Temperature Record [wikipedia.org] Most humans would not call 2014 a pause.
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[17:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:04] <exec> 08└─So how do I avoid having a stroke? Live dangerously and hope I die before I have one? Quick someone LMGTFY
[17:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:06] <exec> 08└─Having a stroke vastly increases the chances of having a second stroke. So, I guess a pretty solid way to avoid strokes is to not have a stroke.
[17:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:08] <exec> 08└─I wonder, if this means that vascular diseases are less deadly than was previously estimated? Alternatively, this perhaps means other usual suspects are less deadly?
[17:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:10] <exec> 08└─The lifetime risk of death for 25-year-olds is 100%!!!
[17:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:12] <exec> 08└─Open up R (comes with most linux distros), and paste: set.seed(12345) treatment = c(rep(1, 4), rep(0, 4)) gender1 = rep(c(1, 0), 4) gender2 = rep(c(0, 1), 4) result = rnorm(8) summary(lm(result ~ treatment*gender1)) summary(lm(result ~ treatment*gender2))
[17:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:15] <exec> 08└─For those of us that use real words, what do you mean by LMGTFY?
[17:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:17] <exec> 08└─http://lmgtfy.com/?q=lmgtfy [lmgtfy.com]
[17:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Alien Imposters: Planets With Oxygen Don't Necessarily Have Life - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:28] <exec> 08└─Planets with oxygen don't necessarily have life
[17:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alien Imposters: Planets With Oxygen Don't Necessarily Have Life - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:29] <exec> 08└─Alien Imposters: Planets With Oxygen Don't Necessarily Have Life In their search for life in solar systems near and far, researchers have often accepted the presence of oxygen in a planet's atmosphere as the surest sign that life may be present there. A new Johns Hopkins study, however, recommends a...
[17:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alien Imposters: Planets With Oxygen Don't Necessarily Have Life - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:31] <exec> 08└─Oxygen planets both have life and DON'T have life until we 'open the box'? E.T...phone the morgue and get them to open up the body bag...
[17:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alien Imposters: Planets With Oxygen Don't Necessarily Have Life - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:34] <exec> 08└─Primarily? Because based on looking at our own planet's history, producing molecular oxygen may be easy, but keeping it around is hard. Oxygen is extremely reactive so to get a build up you must continually produce it faster than it can oxidize exposed minerals, react with other gasses, etc. And whi...
[17:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Didn't Think Facebook Could Get Any Worse? Think Again. - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:49] <exec> 08└─It's like the lemmings that use Failbook today have totally and utterly given them a carte blanche to do anything.
[17:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Didn't Think Facebook Could Get Any Worse? Think Again. - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:51] <exec> 08└─Generally, they don't care. So, the I told you so has very little effect. I just try to convince them that getting "real news" from Facebook is like getting "real news" from the tabloids. Since, essentially, they have the same vetting proces, 0% or -500% or something like that. If there's only 5 sta...
[17:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Librem 5 Dev Kits Are Shipping - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:15] <exec> 08└─>lose interest for an open phone platform Wew lad, that's like a caged man losing interest for crowbars.
[17:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Wind Plants Can Reduce Flow to Downwind Neighbors - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:34] <exec> 08└─That's probably like comparing a fart to a coal power plant annual output. There is no good way to produce electricity. We must conserve and not use.
[17:36:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rigrig [5129] 02 - 06Mathematicians Seal Backdoor to Breaking RSA Encryption - 441 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:49] <exec> 08└─This has nothing to do with quantum computing. It is about factoring numbers by turning them into polynomials and factoring those, and then converting the results back to numbers. They proved that this won't work for large numbers, because the chance of the polynomial being factorable goes to zero....
[17:37:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 481 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:08] <exec> 08└─While this whole Brexit mess might not be planned or well orchestrated I would remind readers of the old adage: "Never let a good crisis go to waste" And as to how much damage a bunch of incompetent leaders can do to a country's freedoms just look at the mess Bush jr and company made of the USA afte...
[17:37:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 515 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:14] <exec> 08└─I for one have my fingers crossed that it all just blows over with a big "meh" like Y2K 10 years of work to mittigate the problems of Y2K worked (mostly), and people say "bah it was all project fear" Andy: Lets use this gokart to go downhill to the ravine really fast Bob: We won't be able to stop, t...
[17:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:32] <exec> 08└─Please note that Chicago has strict gun laws, so pointing at them as a bastion of free toting gun lovers is a really bad example. Criminals are going to be criminals. Taking away guns from the populace isn't going to protect the populace.
[17:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:34] <exec> 08└─Maybe, try reading a little less "news" from "news sources" ? The job of news outlets hasn't been reporting "real news" for quite some time. It's been making sure that people are watching, so Sex, Violence, and Money. Those are the things news agencies are peddling nowadays. They're not reporting "t...
[17:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Vaunt Augmented Reality Smartglasses Concept Lives on at Canadian Company North - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:42] <exec> 08└─The two technologies share enough challenges that a win for AR is a win for VR in my book. Hopefully, they come up with something great and are able to get it to a large market.
[17:38:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 1325 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:07] <exec> 08└─https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/01/nuclear-fusion/ [ucsd.edu] Was trying to find some post about how nuclear fusion and no use of fossil fuels would still kill the planet since we would be dumping so much heat. But found that more optimistic blog instead. You may have heard of a number of companies...
[17:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:21] <exec> 08└─But in that context it's worth noting that with current design we probably don't have enough resources to build enough solar cells. So it's going to need a different design, possibly based around carbon, or at least different doping compounds and different connections. Of course, cheap energy would...
[17:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:23] <exec> 08└─Actually, if it were evenly distributed before coming down it wouldn't be much of a problem. It's the concentration that's the problem. The high level radioactives burn out pretty quickly, and could be used for process heat after they were no longer good enough for the reactor. Actually, IIUC, there...
[17:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 1328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:25] <exec> 08└─also, there is a whole lot of nimby--it's a problem even for athiest non-voters that believe in neither political party to do the right thing or those that care not who is in charge as long as the lights are on and they have a job. that one mountain they hollowed out and don't use is a good example...
[17:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Let Apps Access Unposted Photos for Millions of Users - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:45] <exec> 08└─Personally, I assumed you signed away any right to privacy, etc for anything you shared with Facebook. What lawyer would have not told them to cover their backsides?
[17:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Let Apps Access Unposted Photos for Millions of Users - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:46] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's sarcasm / funny, but I've seen "Definitely Not Millenials, because they're way too old for that." people playing games on their phone while in a pretty small meeting with the boss. Some people just don't live in reality.
[17:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Propose "Tunnelbot" to Drill Into Europa's Ocean - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:06] <exec> 08└─Our wage is in watt/hours. Fail delivering a sufficient amount and we literally won't lift a finger anymore...
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[18:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:43] <exec> 08└─This is distinct from the President's goal (enjoyed by both his supporters and detractors) of creating a separate "Space Force" military branch.
[18:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:45] <exec> 08└─Space Force chaaaa
[18:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:47] <exec> 08└─Finally, we may be prepared for when we find giant Alien bugs that want to use the Earth as a breeding ground.
[18:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:49] <exec> 08└─the vast constellations of satellites that American forces rely on for navigation, communications and surveillance
[18:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:06] <exec> 08└─Ahh..., good thing I use DuckDuckGo, then. LMDTFY.
[18:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:07] <exec> 08└─Doubtful, you're at a much higher risk of a 2nd stroke, if you've had a stroke. Strokes seriously mess you up. They can be very mild effects, like minor motor impairment (inability to use a hand effectively, can't bend a leg, or whatever), to major effects, like can't walk, talk, etc. Then there's t...
[18:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:09] <exec> 08└─Likely, #1 for most people: #1 Stop drinking Coffee or Substantially reduce your intake of Coffee. Other contenders for #1: Stop Smoking. (I assume most studies are for Tobacco. Not sure about Weed, but that would be interesting to know.) Stop drinking Alcohol.
[18:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:12] <exec> 08└─Haha, a new Nature program: When Coders Try to Science!
[18:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alien Imposters: Planets With Oxygen Don't Necessarily Have Life - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:28] <exec> 08└─Virtually NO scientist thinks life can only exist in the presence of oxygen. This is just you putting words into their mouths. Life existed, and even thrived, for a billion years, here on earth, without atmospheric oxygen. Every single biologist in the world already knows this.
[18:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Didn't Think Facebook Could Get Any Worse? Think Again. - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:45] <exec> 08└─I closed my facebook account earlier this year, and to my surprise, my profile was still visible 6 months later. Apparently, there is 'delete' then there is 'permanently delete', latter of which I could only as a link on some other website that was explaining how to do it. At the end of the day, I g...
[18:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Didn't Think Facebook Could Get Any Worse? Think Again. - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:47] <exec> 08└─If Facebook pulls out of Europe that would be corporate suicide. As soon as that happens Europeans will start looking for alternatives, and any alternative social networking platform out there that can comply with the GDPR would instantly have access to some 750 million people. The resulting network...
[18:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Delivers Emergency Patch for Under-Attack IE - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:02] <exec> 08└─Are we talking JavaScript here? (or ECMAscript or M$ bastard JScript)
[18:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wind Plants Can Reduce Flow to Downwind Neighbors - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:33] <exec> 08└─"The wind kills all your birds." I got a couple 'birds' for you, Orange One Iowa has the cheapest electricity in the Midwest, and it ain't from the coal you worship.
[18:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Seal Backdoor to Breaking RSA Encryption - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:50] <exec> 08└─Quantum computing appears to only be mentioned by the submitter. TFA does not say anything about it, and neither does the actual paper which does not even mention RSA at all.
[18:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Seal Backdoor to Breaking RSA Encryption - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:51] <exec> 08└─A maybe not-so-well-known fact about RSA is that its security does not depend directly on the difficulty of integer factorization at all, but rather a different problem (called the "RSA problem"). Given M, e, and C, where - M is the product of two (unknown) primes, ...
[18:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:36] <exec> 08└─Nearly 40,000 People Died From Guns in U.S. Last Year, Highest in 50 Years [nytimes.com]
[18:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:38] <exec> 08└─Ah, the old "shit the bed then blame the housekeeper" bit, classic!
[18:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:30] <exec> 08└─Maybe not in our lifetimes, or the next generation or two--or even thousands of years.
[18:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:32] <exec> 08└─voiding coal just reduces the price, making other nations more likely to cheat
[18:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:34] <exec> 08└─Feel free to fact check me on this one, but as I recall breeder reactors that would burn off most of our waste and give us power are illegal because they produce plutonium. Would need to repeal that. Or like you know use Muh Thorium
[18:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:52] <exec> 08└─People have done statistical analyses to come up with these numbers. Your gut feeling ain't worth shit.
[18:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Strains of Hepatitis C Found in Africa - 1590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:53] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, decades of putting your point to practice has revealed that the average IQ of a population cannot be raised that much beyond a certain threshold (neglecting the Flynn effect*), and that IQ does indeed appear to be controlled by particular genes. This is well documented in the literatu...
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[19:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:04] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[19:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:05] <exec> 08└─When you're starting from ordinary Windows 10 as a baseline, it's not hard to move in a more safe direction. I wonder, are sandboxes supported within virtual machines, or is that too many layers of virtualization?
[19:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:17] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the link A/C. I love a good "ancient wisdom" theory and that's a great read. There's even a link at the bottom to were Celts in Oklahoma? [viewzone.com] which is hilarious. (The answer is no by the way).
[19:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:19] <exec> 08└─It should probably be more like Space Force .. FUCK YEAH! ... Now the real Alien hunting can begin. There will be problems building a wall in space tho to keep them all out, if they exist. But then it's only fitting that the God Emperor takes the first step out into the cold darkness of space to com...
[19:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:21] <exec> 08└─creating the Space Force.
[19:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:23] <exec> 08└─I just want giant weapons in the asteroid belt. I mean yeah i guess they could be turned on earth. But I would rather humans waste a couple trillions on weaponry in the belt than in Earth orbit.
[19:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:25] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you've got a good idea, pink skin.
[19:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:27] <exec> 08└─build the space wall now!
[19:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:30] <exec> 08└─I would love to know how they purport to show longitude with a cross. Likely Vespucci's or Galileo's methods, which both required significant foreknowledge and very sensitive measurement. But if they have some new novel method I would love to hear it, even if only to forward it to the flat earth clo...
[19:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:32] <exec> 08└─It should probably be more like Space Force .. FUCK YEAH! ... Now the real Alien hunting can begin.
[19:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:34] <exec> 08└─Oh don't worry, we're building ourselves an amazing Kessler syndrome. And having a small scale military conflict in space is the perfect way to make that happen.
[19:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:36] <exec> 08└─I was mimicking Trump's announcement, but you nailed his supporters' reactions.
[19:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 1311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:39] <exec> 08└─A Prime Meridian 5. The establishment of a prime meridian where watchers or astronomer/astrologers create an almanac showing the positions of the moon at midnight at that meridian using Draconis and the Ecliptic pole against the celestial pole to determine their local midnight. See this link. Star c...
[19:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:41] <exec> 08└─But if they have some new novel method I would love to hear it, even if only to forward it to the flat earth clowns.
[19:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:43] <exec> 08└─We don't need giant weapons in the asteroid belt. The asteroid belt is the ammo clip for our civilization-destroying hilarity. Just need to get a few automated factories into position and a target list. Scientists haven't found any signs of life anywhere but Earth, and it's time to make sure it stay...
[19:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:03] <exec> 08└─This ain't science. It's NHST. If it were science you would see people checking predictions made earlier against data they just collected. You would also see there are plans to attempt to exactly replicate this study by some other group and make sure the same results are returned.
[19:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:04] <exec> 08└─Very well then, throw the coxswain overboard.
[19:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:06] <exec> 08└─You people use this thing to do real work?
[19:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:08] <exec> 08└─Don't get stressed out after age 50. That seems to be what caused the stoke in a number of friends
[19:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:11] <exec> 08└─Coffee did not make this list, so not a top 8 item to worry about https://www.health.harvard.edu [harvard.edu]
[19:37:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06Alien Imposters: Planets With Oxygen Don't Necessarily Have Life - 1194 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:23] <exec> 08└─Pretty much all non-divine-intervention theories of the origin of life on earth require the abiotic synthesis of organic molecules. And we've known that abiotic synthesis is possible for over 60 years, since since the Miller-Urey [wikipedia.org] experiment. The presence of organic molecules makes it...
[19:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alien Imposters: Planets With Oxygen Don't Necessarily Have Life - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:29] <exec> 08└─They say they built the pyramids, but did they put a bomber on the moon? Oh, wait, that was the RAF. [workshopshed.com]
[19:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Didn't Think Facebook Could Get Any Worse? Think Again. - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:49] <exec> 08└─except LinkedIn
[19:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Didn't Think Facebook Could Get Any Worse? Think Again. - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:50] <exec> 08└─Didn't Think Facebook Could Get Any Worse?
[19:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Didn't Think Facebook Could Get Any Worse? Think Again. - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:52] <exec> 08└─Dancing elves aren't a traditional Christian symbol.
[19:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Didn't Think Facebook Could Get Any Worse? Think Again. - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:54] <exec> 08└─Hey man, that thing is actually useful. And it doesn't have me discussing my private life, only projecting my professional image.
[19:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:45] <exec> 08└─Please note that Chicago has strict gun laws I live in Chicago. Chicago had strict gun laws, and they had a degree of effectiveness, however imperfect. Now even those modest restrictions have been undone by the state supreme court. As a result, Chicago must now allow conceal-carry, possession, etc....
[19:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:46] <exec> 08└─"It's the U.S. where kids get killed in their schools on a monthly basis." The above is a false equivalency, you stupid sack of shit. Take your bullshit faggot arguments and shove them up your ass, if there isn't a dick already there, that is.
[19:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unrelated Events are Linked in Memory When They Happen Close Together - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:15] <exec> 08└─So maybe there's another way to analyze this data: Look for people who recalled events clustered around more than one distinct time interval (ie, maybe they remember 5 headlines from early September, then 7 more in late October). Then you can measure how much of this garbage election coverage someon...
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[20:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:43] <exec> 08└─Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust Microsoft is trying to address the fear of running an unknown .exe on your PC.
[20:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:45] <exec> 08└─Going the other way, I wonder if this concession to security from MS could also include ways to really turn off all the auto-updating, tracking and calling home that Win10 does? I might be willing to use 10 (instead of 7) if there was a way to refuse all updates. Note, Linux not an option, my custom...
[20:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:47] <exec> 08└─Can I force user to run internet explorer, outlook, excel, word and pretty much every Microsoft technology in this sandbox? They are where all the viruses come from.
[20:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:49] <exec> 08└─No, they're only trying to protect you a bit from *other* threats. They don't like the competition.
[20:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:52] <exec> 08└─who will sandbox the sandboxers?
[20:36:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 25 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:06] <exec> 08└─creating the Space Force.
[20:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:17] <exec> 08└─Hey watch out, you'll trigger khallow if you make fun of the brain damaged.
[20:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:18] <exec> 08└─This isn't just a foreword to declassifying the actual Space Force we've had for 50 years, and declaring ownership over the Moon, Mars, etc thanks to already having covert (now overt) bases settled on them, and a ground war with Russian and/or Chinese military forces who have also already arrived th...
[20:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:21] <exec> 08└─... from TFA... According to one U.S. official, the command would pull about 600 staff from existing military space offices, and then add at least another 1,000 over the coming years.
[20:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:46] <exec> 08└─Sure, try running this first # Library that colorizes R output # https://github.com git clone https://github.com R CMD INSTALL colorout # Run R R --no-save # R options (eg, dont wrap text prematurely) # Run every time or add to Rprofile.site file options(width...
[20:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:48] <exec> 08└─It's NHST
[20:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:50] <exec> 08└─Point estimates and 95% uncertainty intervals representing the 2.5th and 97.5th percentiles around the estimate were used to compare results between groups. Differences in the estimates of the risk of stroke were considered to be significant when the 95% uncertainty intervals did not overlap or when...
[20:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:52] <exec> 08└─They did not perform a test. They did model the data: An ensemble model was used to estimate a continuous time-series for mortality by age, sex, country (developed or developing), and year. Country-level covariates associated with stroke were used in the model and out-of-sample validity testing was...
[20:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:19] <exec> 08└─... but boy can they flash-mob.
[20:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Bug Let Apps Access Unposted Photos for Millions of Users - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:42] <exec> 08└─But then, wouldn't you have to make such a notification basically anytime you ran security updates on a server which contained a fix for an exploit? That happens constantly.
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[21:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06New Tool Uses AI to Roll Back Problematic Continuous Delivery Builds Automatically - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:26] <exec> 08└─In truth, computing systems are not this complex (because most human activity is not this complex); and, if you think yours is, then that's a signal that you should re-think your design.
[21:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New Tool Uses AI to Roll Back Problematic Continuous Delivery Builds Automatically - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:28] <exec> 08└─In truth, computing systems social institutions are not this complex (because most human activity is not this complex); and, if you think yours is, then that's a signal that you should re-think your design.
[21:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Tool Uses AI to Roll Back Problematic Continuous Delivery Builds Automatically - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:30] <exec> 08└─24x7 == 666. But seriously folks: what's 665? 667? The neighbors of the beast.
[21:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:45] <exec> 08└─Windows 10 eat a dick.
[21:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:47] <exec> 08└─I see this as a waste of resources, as it's intended to be used. If done right, it will seem to be useful for a while: run the program in the sandbox, decide it's safe, install it on the real system. But then, malware writers will adjust to how the sandbox is used: run the program once or twice, the...
[21:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:49] <exec> 08└─Or equally likely, malware writers will learn to detect the sandbox, and act accordingly. So this is yet another in a long line of useless misfeatures Microsoft dreamed would somehow make Windows more secure. As is usual with Microsoft, it will have the opposite effect: it will make Windows less sec...
[21:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:51] <exec> 08└─Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust Microsoft is trying to address the fear of running an unknown .exe on your PC.
[21:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:53] <exec> 08└─I see this as a waste of resources, as it's intended to be used. If done right, it will seem to be useful for a while: run the program in the sandbox, decide it's safe, install it on the real system. But then, malware writers will adjust to how the sandbox is used: run the program once or twice, the...
[21:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:55] <exec> 08└─in sandboxes.
[21:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:24] <exec> 08└─I wondered about that too. I also wondered how the Celts got to Oklahoma without going through any of the eastern parts of North America. Maybe they parachuted in.
[21:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:26] <exec> 08└─If they are trolls, it only leads to us both having a good time (they get fed, and I get to call them idiots). If they aren't trolls then they I will doubly enjoy watching the ancient aliens and flat earthers argue about their terrible methods to measure or disprove longitude. And believe me, I can...
[21:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:55] <exec> 08└─wrong. number 1 is salt. stop adding salt to your food.
[21:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:57] <exec> 08└─That list is for women only. Look at the url: it says explicitly that there are eight things to do, but the article only lists seven. Got a list for men too?
[21:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:59] <exec> 08└─> Doubtful, you're at a much higher risk of a 2nd stroke, if you've had a stroke. You are also at _zero_ risk of a 2nd stroke until you've had a first one...
[21:40:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:22] <exec> 08└─But in that context it's worth noting that with current design we probably don't have enough resources to build enough solar cells.
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[22:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06New Tool Uses AI to Roll Back Problematic Continuous Delivery Builds Automatically - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:08] <exec> 08└─We have a bigger (and growing) service based architecture at our company. Not as big and developed as Amazon, Google, Facebook, etc., but still quite big. Each of our services depends on other services in various ways. We are also too coupled to our dependencies in ways that hurt us. And it's simila...
[22:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06New Tool Uses AI to Roll Back Problematic Continuous Delivery Builds Automatically - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:10] <exec> 08└─"using AI and machine learning to identify problems and bring them back to a working state without human intervention." bring WHAT back? a forked source tree? top of trunk? what is considered WORKING? it builds again? it passes all regression tests? will any human be able to understand the build tre...
[22:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Tool Uses AI to Roll Back Problematic Continuous Delivery Builds Automatically - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:12] <exec> 08└─x3.964285714 - the ratio of the tool.
[22:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New Tool Uses AI to Roll Back Problematic Continuous Delivery Builds Automatically - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:14] <exec> 08└─Instead of hiring nimwit millennials who think Ruby on Rails is a good idea, why not hire programmers who understand maintainability?
[22:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:34] <exec> 08└─Sandboxes all the way down.
[22:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:36] <exec> 08└─Please temper your MS shill activities with a sliver of common sense. Thanks. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[22:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:38] <exec> 08└─Really, people just haven't treated the Internet with the respect it deserves. You treat it like Lava, assume it will burn through everything and only touch it lightly. Otherwise, you're dead. Ok, maybe an Ebola allegory would have been better.
[22:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:10] <exec> 08└─The goal is to set up a command to oversee and organize space operations, accelerate technical advances and find more effective ways to defend U.S. assets in space, including the vast constellations of satellites that American forces rely on for navigation, communications and surveillance. The move...
[22:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:11] <exec> 08└─(The answer is no by the way)
[22:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:45] <exec> 08└─Except for Peter Thiel, who drinks young boys' body fluids to stay young forever.
[22:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Reveals 'Startling' Risk of Stroke - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:47] <exec> 08└─And since I've been seeing some "salt isn't actually bad" claims lately: A large number of epidemiologic, evolutionary, and clinical studies have confirmed that salt intake is an important factor in elevating the BP in humans.
[22:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Librem 5 Dev Kits Are Shipping - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:58] <exec> 08└─I need that in order to get my apps from Google Play Store.
[22:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wind Plants Can Reduce Flow to Downwind Neighbors - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:19] <exec> 08└─The humidity that travels with the wind, goes somewhere to sustent some ecosystem. Driying that wind may cause those places that were receiving humidity will go inert because of short water supply.
[22:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 063,500 Troops on Standby to Prepare for a "No-Deal Brexit" - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:27] <exec> 08└─Who in their right mind would willingly vote in favor of everything going to shit like this? Oh that's right... the people.
[22:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Pause' in Global Warming Was Never Real, New Research Proves - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:25] <exec> 08└─> No research is ever dis-proven The ONLY thing science can ever do is disprove. If you find evidence consistent with your theory, that does not prove your theory. If you find evidence contradicting your theory, then your theory is wrong. The point of science isn't to formally prove anything, since...
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[23:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Courts Want "Something More" Than an IP Address to Catch Pirates - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:01] <exec> 08└─Have they tried uploading malware-infested files yet?
[23:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Courts Want "Something More" Than an IP Address to Catch Pirates - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:02] <exec> 08└─The overriding issue is that online piracy should never have been criminalized, and entertainment industries need to transition to other business models. How can it be a more serious crime to copy a song than to speed or smoke a joint? So this ruling says the accusers have to dot a few more i's and...
[23:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Courts Want "Something More" Than an IP Address to Catch Pirates - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:04] <exec> 08└─The big thing is illicit streaming now. If they don't criminalize that, and it becomes easier and more reliable (due to cheaper bandwidth from whatever lawless foreign country is hosting the content, combined with better codecs like H.265 and AV1), then it's game over. Maybe the situation will sort...
[23:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Tool Uses AI to Roll Back Problematic Continuous Delivery Builds Automatically - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:24] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, social institutions show behavior in the aggregate that doesn't appear in/isn't directly derivable from individual human behavior. A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it! -- Agent K You can't make anything idiot proof because idiots are so...
[23:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Tool Uses AI to Roll Back Problematic Continuous Delivery Builds Automatically - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:25] <exec> 08└─I always assumed 'working' meant "the last deployed version that was running for a certain period of time without a rollback".
[23:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Tool Uses AI to Roll Back Problematic Continuous Delivery Builds Automatically - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:27] <exec> 08└─Because they demand salaries, and benefits! This AI thing though, that could help our bottom line.
[23:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Tool Uses AI to Roll Back Problematic Continuous Delivery Builds Automatically - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:29] <exec> 08└─computing systems are not this complex
[23:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Tool Uses AI to Roll Back Problematic Continuous Delivery Builds Automatically - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:31] <exec> 08└─bring WHAT back?
[23:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Tool Uses AI to Roll Back Problematic Continuous Delivery Builds Automatically - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:34] <exec> 08└─If a group of people behaves in a dumb, panicky, dangerous, animalic fashion, then that's only because individuals in that group are acting in that way. So, the group behavior is indeed derivable from individual behavior; it's just that each individual might not realize he has this nature until it m...
[23:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:59] <exec> 08└─Now, so does Microsoft!
[23:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Sandbox is a Safer Way to Run Programs You Don't Trust - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:00] <exec> 08└─MS could also include ways to really turn off all the auto-updating, tracking and calling home that Win10 does?
[23:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Space Command Authorization Signed - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:36] <exec> 08└─To insanity and beyond!...
[23:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Didn't Think Facebook Could Get Any Worse? Think Again. - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:53] <exec> 08└─Facebook could get much worse. [8ch.net]
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