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[00:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:29] <exec> 08└─How scientific of them! Then again everything they said is way more reasonable than the fat earthers, climate deniers, and anti-vaxxers of the West. Smells more like politics to me.
[00:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:31] <exec> 08└─Indian academics need to move with the times and concentrate on a gender specific wage gap, systemic racism and "gender fluidity" in a sexually dimorphic species.
[00:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:33] <exec> 08└─fat earthers
[00:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:35] <exec> 08└─Einsteins theories apparently (maybe it is some auxiliary assumption about the distribution of matter, etc in the simplifications) predict the wrong result. There was an attempt to save this with "dark matter", but despite billions of dollars and nearly a hundred years of effort no evidence for that...
[00:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:37] <exec> 08└─Modi himself is essentially denying the existence of the 200M Indian Muslims. It's a good thing that ISRO is still doing their work despite all these crazies at the top. The Chinese get to laugh at the whole "democracy" concept...
[00:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:39] <exec> 08└─Einstein liked to shit on a toilet. Indians prefer the street.
[00:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 1175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:42] <exec> 08└─Also, Newton was fully aware of "repulsive" models of gravity: There was a strong personal relationship between Isaac Newton and Fatio in the years 1690 to 1693. Newton's statements on Fatio's theory differed widely. For example, after describing the necessary conditions for a mechanical explanation...
[00:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:44] <exec> 08└─I do not think galactic rotation is affected much by Einstein’s theories and they say nothing about ‘dark matter’ - which probably does not exist.
[00:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:47] <exec> 08└─‘dark matter’ - which probably does not exist.
[00:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:50] <exec> 08└─Let's try the lost art of compromise. CSV in an Excel spreadsheet. Best to be on the safe side and encapsulate it in XML too.
[00:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:51] <exec> 08└─I would like the "slow down cowboy" thing to disappear. Commenting, navigating to another story, reading comments and then trying to comment may take me less than the limit, which is I think 60 seconds.
[00:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:54] <exec> 08└─I figured it would take a lot more testing, tweaking, retesting, and so on or I wouldn't have waited until I had a couple days free.
[00:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Create Qubits on a Chip With Two Layers - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:01] <exec> 08└─At first I thought that millennial researchers had created a new block of genders.
[00:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:43] <exec> 08└─You probably think McDonald's is a Scotish Resturant.
[00:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:55] <exec> 08└─Long story. Investing in shares in mining companies has its ups and its downs as much as any other limited-resource primary industry. The big wins come from the big finds, and there's no way looking at any larger picture will help you predict when those happen. So basically it's a bit of a crapshoot...
[00:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:24] <exec> 08└─Here's how I would, theoretically, approach it, were this something I was trying to do: get a wafer switch like the one I linked youfile the phone case to pass the flat cablelocate and cut one line to the micconnect (probably cut and expose the existing switch cable, it's probably too long) to the c...
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[01:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Shortcut for Photosynthetic Glitch to Get 40% Efficiency Boost - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:29] <exec> 08└─This has me thinking I should start a tobacco garden. Loose tobacco is pretty damned cheap and they don't do a tenth of the stuff to it that they do to pre-assembled cigarettes but it'd still be nice to know exactly what's been done to it.
[01:33:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 12 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:38] <exec> 08└─fat earthers
[01:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:46] <exec> 08└─A key prediction of such models is that, at a fixed dark matter halo mass, dwarfs with a higher stellar mass will have a lower central dark matter density.
[01:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:49] <exec> 08└─Well, I guess that settles it, then.
[01:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah man. Evolution is just a theory!
[01:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Promises "10nm" Chips by the End of 2019, and More - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:00] <exec> 08└─Make sure there's an off switch [edge.org]
[01:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Promises "10nm" Chips by the End of 2019, and More - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:02] <exec> 08└─They are fucked and they know it. So Intel must avoid people discovering alternatives (AMD, ARM... whatever fills the task you need covered).
[01:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Promises "10nm" Chips by the End of 2019, and More - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:04] <exec> 08└─Intel still has almost all of the desktop, laptop, and server CPU market share: AMD Improves Server Market Share by 100%... to 2% [soylentnews.org] Tomorrow's AMD announcement could be a big blow to Intel, but Intel has a lot of easy money flowing in from businesses and fanbois. They are far from fu...
[01:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:05] <exec> 08└─If you need the spacebar heating [xkcd.com], install a Monero miner.
[01:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:06] <exec> 08└─"Invalid form key" might happen if you click Reply and then wait several hours before submitting.
[01:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:08] <exec> 08└─Sounds good until you realize it would leave folks able to spam the complete and utter hell out of every non-archived story without so much as a speed bump. It is a thing that's extended to subscribers though. Not because they're special but because at least the site got something useful out of it i...
[01:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:11] <exec> 08└─Or if you change IP addresses, yep.
[01:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:00] <exec> 08└─Sriracha doesn't have tomatoes in it though. I'm thinking of making some on my own (e.g. fermenting it on a counter, stirring occasionally).
[01:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:02] <exec> 08└─Might help with the insects too. I have seen a lot of tomato plants ruined by various bugs. Edit some capsaicinoids in there, maybe a little nicotine, and you're golden.
[01:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 1365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:04] <exec> 08└─I fall pretty far over towards the "we'd all be better off if people were smarter" side of these issues. I certainly have no beef with "find a better way to educate them", and even have what I think is a reasonable list of things I would like to see changed in the educational and social systems to f...
[01:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Overtakes Microsoft and Apple in Market Value - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:16] <exec> 08└─As above. Wasn't Apple worth $1tn recently?
[01:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:45] <exec> 08└─Cool, you did it with out any of the components I'm worried about. As described that would probably fit. And you got water tightness which is a big concern. Long term results, which most people ignore, would have to be determined. Usually the first try will fall apart quickly and it takes refinement...
[01:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:47] <exec> 08└─Does that membrane switch debounce?
[01:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Assistant Could be on a Billion Devices Soon, and Target Feature Phones for the Next Billion - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:49] <exec> 08└─Would you have to root the phone?
[01:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Launches Second-Generation Ryzen Mobile Processors - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:15] <exec> 08└─Whatever mitigations the "12nm" desktop CPUs got should be in there. If the "7nm" products (Eypc, or the desktop Ryzens about to be announced) are already more secure, that might be another good reason to skip these mobile chips.
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[02:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Shortcut for Photosynthetic Glitch to Get 40% Efficiency Boost - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:32] <exec> 08└─Uh.. wait a minute....
[02:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:51] <exec> 08└─The Chinese get to laugh at the whole "democracy" concept...
[02:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:52] <exec> 08└─The genders [wikia.com]! We're up to 1010⁴ genders!
[02:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:54] <exec> 08└─but despite billions of dollars and nearly a hundred years of effort no evidence for that has ever been found except that GR predicts the wrong result.
[02:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:57] <exec> 08└─The weird thing is some congresspeople seem to sponsor the bills for every single new commemorative coin. And that's like all they sponsor except when it is to do something like rename a post office.
[02:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:59] <exec> 08└─We also have galaxies which do seem to fit the dark matter-free models.
[02:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:01] <exec> 08└─Newton/Galileo formulated theories that worked well on the Earth's surface, just as Galileo was discovering how to really look with detail into the planets, in the 1600s. Einstein formulated theories that work well far out into space, but perhaps not at full galactic scale - in 1905, while Hubble di...
[02:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:03] <exec> 08└─"Actually, dark matter has been found" Citation needed.
[02:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 1573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:06] <exec> 08└─> a relatively competent government is running things in China. But they're Commies! > Would be nice if we all had one. Whoa, hold on there. We the people are the ultimate governors. Don't think of our representatives as leaders, because they aren't. If we don't keep our representatives' toes to the...
[02:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Promises "10nm" Chips by the End of 2019, and More - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:16] <exec> 08└─IBM has an interesting chip. It even has a mass debater [ibm.com]
[02:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:14] <exec> 08└─immigration is good! just consider the story of the baby paprika -aka- chilli and tomatoe plant. they both were dragged into exile by invaders only to grow new roots oversea and become stable foods so ingraid that many people in their exile home country think that they are natives ... only to return...
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[03:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:28] <exec> 08└─With GitLab, I use private repos for storing more than code. Stuff like living documents that I want version control on or I need access through a web browser. While I'm not going to migrate from GitLab to GitHub, GitHub offering unlimited private repos allows me to suggest this workflow to a wider...
[03:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:30] <exec> 08└─The phrase "Beware Geeks bearing gifts", or something like that, comes to mind.
[03:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:32] <exec> 08└─If you’re a GitHub user, but you don’t pay, this is a good week.... Free GitHub users now get unlimited private projects with up to three collaborators.
[03:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Shortcut for Photosynthetic Glitch to Get 40% Efficiency Boost - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:42] <exec> 08└─"Well, I was a farmer, like everybody else back then. Of course, you didn't start that way. The wheat had died. The blight came, and we had to burn it. And we still had corn. We had acres of corn, but mostly we had dust."
[03:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coligny [2200] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:08] <exec> 08└─Well, quite normal from a country who got nukes before even hearing aboot indoor plumbing and treat sacred cows better than wamen...
[03:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:10] <exec> 08└─Why would that need citation? Existence of neutrinos, MACHOs (such as Earth, for a prominent example close to home), and photons from the Big Bang are all well known phenomena. The fact that they aren't sufficiently massive may be less well known, but you'd be hearing about it, if they though there...
[03:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:12] <exec> 08└─Oh, hell, I'll say it first. This is DIVERSITY!! Diversity in science (or tech, or industry, or academics) is not about a person's size, color, language, race or religion. It's about how they perceive the world, and science, and tech, etc. So, maybe some of these people look crazy? So what? Let them...
[03:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:14] <exec> 08└─photons from the Big Bang are ... well known phenomena
[03:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:16] <exec> 08└─If he makes some breakthrough, we can tolerate all of his craziness.
[03:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:19] <exec> 08└─Most of all, they need a huge helping of humble pie.
[03:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:21] <exec> 08└─Hey, it's "Americans" to you! hey, not all of us are *girthers*, if that's what you're implying.
[03:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:23] <exec> 08└─If you don't do anything, you can't do anything wrong.
[03:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New BGU System Produces High-Res Images at Low Cost - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:44] <exec> 08└─interferometry suffers from a missing flux problem. Is that going to be an issue for them? This arguably groundbreaking study is presented here as "it's all about the megapixels". As with everything with shortcomings, there are shortcomings.
[03:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can a Set of Equations Keep U.S. Census Data Private? - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:08] <exec> 08└─Supposing that the census bureau comes up with the bestest algorithms evah. They do perfect work. The next generation of researchers reverse engineers those algorithms - and we're right back where we started. Big corporations with lots of money to throw at the problem still identify the individuals...
[03:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:42] <exec> 08└─That's odd - it was designed to NOT WORK on Android. TMB should check that out.
[03:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:43] <exec> 08└─I've seen both of those. Type a reply, get called away by the wife, come back and hit submit. Or change to VPN, or disconnect from VPN. Both easily solved - hit the "back" button, copy what you had typed, then reload the topic to which you were responding, hit the "reply" button again. It's a mild i...
[03:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:12] <exec> 08└─Technically, having more than 1 partner doesn't automatically imply they don't have long lasting and meaningful relationships.
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[04:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:31] <exec> 08└─OK, so let's say you're some sort of independent developer, and you put some stuff in a private repo. And that means the general public doesn't have access to your stuff. So far so good. But guess who does have access to your stuff? Microsoft. Which is a bit of a problem if you're developing somethi...
[04:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:32] <exec> 08└─Their earch within repo function has started to fail at detecting exact matches for function names that have been in the same file for years.
[04:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Shortcut for Photosynthetic Glitch to Get 40% Efficiency Boost - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:43] <exec> 08└─My dad used to grow it in his garden. He did it more as a lark than anything practical. The growing is easy. It's the curing and aging for a year or more that takes time and getting the conditions right.
[04:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Shortcut for Photosynthetic Glitch to Get 40% Efficiency Boost - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:45] <exec> 08└─You grow it in your Garden -- no Tax. You don't pay Tax on it. That makes you smart. I hate the way our government spends our taxes because they are wasting our money. They don’t know what they’re doing. They’re running it so poorly. Whether it’s spent in Iraq or wherever they’re spending...
[04:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Shortcut for Photosynthetic Glitch to Get 40% Efficiency Boost - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:47] <exec> 08└─Good job on making sure they can't spend as much of it for the past couple weeks then.
[04:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New BGU System Produces High-Res Images at Low Cost - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:42] <exec> 08└─Well, that and flying a rotation constellation of microsats with sub-wavelength precision while pointing at different objects. Which would beg the question 'would it really be bigger/heavier/harder to just have them physically attached' This sounds a lot like an academic though-experiment with littl...
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[04:35:42] <exec> 08└─It'd probably be a good idea to ditch it for all registered users, honestly. If they get their spam on we have a damned easy recourse, so there's not really a need for them. Cleanup would still be annoying but not insurmountable.
[04:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:12] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Though I do wonder whether they are actually trying to hide the fact that they are dallying, rather than simply trying to avoid being interrupted in the act. A rather important distinction there I think, and in a small troupe where everybody knows each other's scent it's probably quite...
[04:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:13] <exec> 08└─You might want to do a little more research into those before you make such ridiculous claims...
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[05:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:32] <exec> 08└─How about a drug that temporarily turns off the balance mechanism in the inner ear, maybe that would cure motion sickness ... but you better be sitting down, else you will fall down! More seriously, from the first day I saw Jaron Lanier wearing VR goggles and crawling around the room (c.1990), I gue...
[05:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:33] <exec> 08└─What will it take for VR to finally realize the potential everyone keeps believing it has?
[05:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:35] <exec> 08└─VR has great potential. You put a funny hat on and all you can see are alt-rights everywhere. Then you punch them until you can no longer get it up.
[05:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:38] <exec> 08└─And they can't tell who you are.
[05:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:40] <exec> 08└─It might be useful, but only after the user is provided with simulation of all senses. Otherwise the brain perceives one sense apart from others. A digital machine would throw an error, but an analog machine (a brain) merges unmergeable, causing headache. Seasickness is another example of this effec...
[05:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:42] <exec> 08└─To quote Jean-Louis Gassée (at least I think it was him): The way to make a new technology successful is to make porn available on it.
[05:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:54] <exec> 08└─By making it cheaper for tiny groups to keep their source code secret, Microsoft are of course encouraging young programmers to keep their source code secret. By doing so, they seek to recruit a whole new generation of programmer to help them perpetuate the myth that "secret source" is somehow an ac...
[05:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Shortcut for Photosynthetic Glitch to Get 40% Efficiency Boost - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:06] <exec> 08└─Attack of the killer tobaccos! Attack of the killer tobaccos! They'll beat you, bash you, Squish you, mash you Chew you up for brunch And finish you off for dinner or lunch!
[05:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:42] <exec> 08└─Modi, making India great again!
[05:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Promises "10nm" Chips by the End of 2019, and More - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:55] <exec> 08└─Well I care a whole lot less about "10nm" than them actually fixing all the damn security issues around their speculative execution.
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[06:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic (ETC) Trading after Double-Spend Attacks - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:30] <exec> 08└─Whats the best way to monitor for a double spend attack?
[06:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic (ETC) Trading after Double-Spend Attacks - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:31] <exec> 08└─Be the attacker :O
[06:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:45] <exec> 08└─While people are still on earth, the majority still can go to a park. When people hit Mars, walking through a forest in VR will be a thing. On earth, the current audience is relatively small compared to future Mars when everyone is going to want a holodeck. Folks can sneak in a little smartphone us...
[06:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:46] <exec> 08└─If you criticize a libertarian they’ll never shut up
[06:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:48] <exec> 08└─They don't do anything. They look weird and weigh too much. We're just going to have to wait for 3D full color and opaque holograms.
[06:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03xvan [2416] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:00] <exec> 08└─Or you could take off your tin foil hat, and realize they are just catching up with bitbucket and gitlab free offerings
[06:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:50] <exec> 08└─Pseudoscience moves from fringe to the mainstream
[06:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:51] <exec> 08└─On a more serious note, it is pure politics: Such claims usually hark back to an imagined glorious Hindu past to bolster religious nationalism. The BJP and its hard line allies have for a long time mixed mythology and religion to bolster political Hinduism and nationalism.
[06:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:53] <exec> 08└─(1) aren't dark
[06:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:56] <exec> 08└─Mass isnt synonymous with matter, matter has volume too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Basically matter is ponderable, you can weigh it on a scale.
[06:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:58] <exec> 08└─On the "darkness" of photons, baryonic matter and associated electrons (in other words, normal matter) interacts with and scatters photons readily. You can see baryonic matter via EM sensors just from the thermal photons it emits. Photons that aren't traveling right into your detectors can primarily...
[06:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:00] <exec> 08└─Mass isnt synonymous with matter, matter has volume too
[06:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:02] <exec> 08└─So if you shine some light into a bathtub you can displace the water since the photons have volume? Can we measure the mass of the photon this way? I dont think so since you can have as many photons as you want in the same place: Particles with an integer spin, or bosons, are not subject to the Paul...
[06:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:04] <exec> 08└─So if you shine some light into a bathtub you can displace the water since the photons have volume?
[06:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:55] <exec> 08└─Anglerfish?
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[07:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic (ETC) Trading after Double-Spend Attacks - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:31] <exec> 08└─Not kidding. At first glance it seems easy, just monitor the input hashes[1] in every new block for duplicates, but if no one involved here was monitoring for it there must be some issue. [1] https://en.bitcoin.it [bitcoin.it]
[07:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:48] <exec> 08└─VR hentai is already a thing, and it even integrates with onaholes and related accessories. Yet few people buy it, because imagination is free.
[07:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:49] <exec> 08└─Not treated like a display and a mouse pad. Instead have bullshit proprietary interfaces, thus can't be used with most things. The early open-source versions were popular.
[07:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:51] <exec> 08└─The nursery was silent. It was empty as a jungle glade at hot high noon. The walls were blank and two dimensional. Now, as George and Lydia Hadley stood in the center of the room, the walls began to purr and recede into crystalline distance, it seemed, and presently an African veldt appeared, in thr...
[07:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:05] <exec> 08└─Why not just host your code on Google docs?
[07:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:02] <exec> 08└─Heating the water increases the volume the water takes up where the photon hits, this is the opposite of what would happen if you hit it with matter (the water would move away from that spot). Im just saying photons arent matter and have no volume, not arguing about the mass. Its in the intro to tha...
[07:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARP Founder Alan R. Pearlman Has Died - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:34] <exec> 08└─Why were they pissed that it sounded good?
[07:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:26] <exec> 08└─But only if the XML is encapsulated in JSON.
[07:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:28] <exec> 08└─What about enacting the time limit only for three or more posts in a row? Spammers would still get blocked, but most normal users won't run into the restriction. The logic could be almost the same as currently: Instead of denying a new post when there was one post in the last 60 seconds, you'd deny...
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[08:33:27] <exec> 08└─ESR feels Rescind(ers) have good factual case, but need help with public relations https://soylentnews.org¬e=&title=ESR+feels+Rescind(ers)+have+good+factual+case%2C+but+need+help+with+public+relations [soylentnews.org] ESR has opined that those who have been making...
[08:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:28] <exec> 08└─GPLv2 License Recission (revocation), and the linux kernel. The copyright owner can rescind. Those saying you cannot are wrong. Explained. In american vernacular (since you don't like explanations by lawyers, clearly): www.veoh.com/watch/v141917696RbH96XaD Video: https://openload.co
[08:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:30] <exec> 08└─Ummm... I seem to be missing the relevance of this in the context. Do you care to clarify?
[08:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:32] <exec> 08└─It seems I remember a time when I was able to count to 21 using long body appendices. But beat me if I can remember what I was using. (grin)
[08:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:35] <exec> 08└─>Linux fans will be relieved to know that while 2019 should feature a gentler, softer and less sweary Torvalds, the Obliquely Refers to the CoC. The document that threatens linux programmers with expulsion if they do not adhere to speech codes. They have a remedy: rescind the code. It is no lie.
[08:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic (ETC) Trading after Double-Spend Attacks - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:46] <exec> 08└─The most interesting ideas I've seen regarding this is that it was a rehearsal for a larger coin in the future, that bitcoin cash is the next prime target in pure economic terms, and that this is going to start giving people ideas. Not a good situation for cryptocurrency.
[08:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic (ETC) Trading after Double-Spend Attacks - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:48] <exec> 08└─I doubt that it will "give ideas" to anyone who matters. Everyone has known about this since the beginning: If a greedy attacker is able to assemble more CPU power than all the honest nodes, he would have to choose between using it to defraud people by stealing back his payments, or using it to gen...
[08:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:07] <exec> 08└─everyone is going to want a holodeck
[08:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:08] <exec> 08└─butt plug into a 4 hour experience and people will eventually notice.
[08:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:23] <exec> 08└─I have one better - just use Gmail, one mail per file.
[08:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:25] <exec> 08└─Why not both? (grin)
[08:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New BGU System Produces High-Res Images at Low Cost - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:47] <exec> 08└─... in Israel for those who do not know — not Bishop Grosseteste University in Lincoln, England. (Had not heard of the latter until i looked up BGU.)
[08:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can a Set of Equations Keep U.S. Census Data Private? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:13] <exec> 08└─No, next question?
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[09:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:35] <exec> 08└─What, did you cut your dick off? Fucking faggot.
[09:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Shortcut for Photosynthetic Glitch to Get 40% Efficiency Boost - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:34] <exec> 08└─Or, when they get back their control, waste some more on an ineffective wal
[09:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Shortcut for Photosynthetic Glitch to Get 40% Efficiency Boost - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:36] <exec> 08└─Now, 40% more efficient.
[09:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Shortcut for Photosynthetic Glitch to Get 40% Efficiency Boost - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:38] <exec> 08└─Pfft, amateur. If he'd used the right curing accelerant [wikia.com] he'd have had a full tomacco crop overnight.
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[10:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:40] <exec> 08└─Mysoginist basement dweller who doesn't like girls
[10:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:41] <exec> 08└─I can get to 1023 just on my fingers and thumbs, and (2^20-1) If I'm allowed to use my toes as well.
[10:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic (ETC) Trading after Double-Spend Attacks - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:53] <exec> 08└─You left out the next sentence, which is quite important: He ought to find it more profitable to play by the rules, such rules that favour him with more new coins than everyone else combined, than to undermine the system and the validity of his own wealth.
[10:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:15] <exec> 08└─or people could get an education, learn about noneuclidian spaces, and realize that they can use VR to explore them. there are already noneuclidian maps made with the portal tools (example https://www.youtube.com). [youtube.com] I made a particularly nice one myself, but I hit th...
[10:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:32] <exec> 08└─Does "jump into bed" and "skydive into bed" mean the same thing?
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[11:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:29] <exec> 08└─Didnt a story about how 5g causes cancer get scrubbed from the internet? Is that what they mean by "evolution"? Mutations?
[11:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon - 1754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:31] <exec> 08└─Which is perfectly fine. In fact, it is the carrier that tells the phone bought from that carrier what icon to put there, and how many bars to show. For example, you could be on 1-bar LTE, and your phone shows full bars LTE - because the 2G connection has good reception. This is made for consumers w...
[11:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:46] <exec> 08└─Make it 59048 for the fingers (straight, bend, sharp bend; hey, we live in an MLC world). How do you independently bend your toes?
[11:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:47] <exec> 08└─Not quite that many. Your fourth digit doesn't have independent musculature. Don't believe me? Try sticking up your 4th digit (as if you were giving them 'the middle finger' but with the 4th finger) while curling the rest of your digits.
[11:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:50] <exec> 08└─You can get it much of the way up (form the kuckle out) Based on a quick test with one hand I can put my 4 fingers and thumb into 100 different positions (two for thumb and ring three for first/middle/little), or 10000 combinations on my two hands. There may be a few combinations that I can't achiev...
[11:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:52] <exec> 08└─You are clearly looking at a 7mm process. Most current processes are still at 13mm or even 15mm. Not to mention the GF fab (giant fingers, commonly seen around these cricles).
[11:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:26] <exec> 08└─VR hentai is already a thing, and it even integrates with onaholes
[11:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Shortcut for Photosynthetic Glitch to Get 40% Efficiency Boost - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:59] <exec> 08└─If they thought it would be ineffective, nobody would be bitching. As far as boondoggles go, less than ten billion wouldn't be out of the ordinary for DC.
[11:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:45] <exec> 08└─Photons turned out to be dark matter. That's surprising.
[11:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:46] <exec> 08└─"The end result is that photons are very dark relative to baryonic matter." Doesn't make them 'dark matter'. "The end result is black people are very dark compared to white people." Doesn't make them hockey pucks. Citation still needed.
[11:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Can a Set of Equations Keep U.S. Census Data Private? - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:37] <exec> 08└─Just lie. That's what Aussies do now on the census. The data is complete junk. But, who cares. The ABS can't be trusted. The government can't be trusted. Who would be stupid enough to give enough private information to a government body that admits it sells the data to third parties for a profit?
[11:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:16] <exec> 08└─Fine, so long as you then serialize it with YAML [wikipedia.org]
[11:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:17] <exec> 08└─Use Android Mobile Firefox. When they introduced the new + for expanding comments it broke on other browsers.
[11:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:19] <exec> 08└─Nooooooo he'll get sucked into a hurricane!
[11:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:22] <exec> 08└─It looked all washed out, grey, with bits missed? It looked okay the next day. I figured someone made a CSS fluckup.
[11:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:24] <exec> 08└─You mean iCrap, right?
[11:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:26] <exec> 08└─First I've heard of it. We tested a pretty good range of browsers but we only have so many phones between us to test with.
[11:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:28] <exec> 08└─Doable but that'd still require formkeys. I was thinking to yoink that logic out entirely for registered users.
[11:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:30] <exec> 08└─The CSS includes get sent out as part of a "header" routine. It was shitting itself for reasons currently unknown. So was the "footer" call for that matter.
[11:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:25] <exec> 08└─What could possibly go wrong [wikipedia.org]
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[12:33:31] <exec> 08└─In case you were wondering what's to be done about this, that's a long since solved problem [ftc.gov]. The current problem is how to get someone with a low bullshit tolerance appointed to head the agency rather than a partisan shill.
[12:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:33] <exec> 08└─So, your petrol can be sold as 100, when it is only 95RON, don't mind if your medicine is only 50% strength, but labeled "strong".. All the phone carriers had to do was make the icon show "4G+", and no one would have raised an eyebrow.
[12:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:35] <exec> 08└─Just remember, it's not a lie if you believe it. [youtube.com]
[12:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:53] <exec> 08└─You ain't just whistling dixie. I can cover the screen of my phone with three fingers and only have a few tiny bits around the corners peeking out. It does not make touchscreen devices especially useful to me.
[12:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic (ETC) Trading after Double-Spend Attacks - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:07] <exec> 08└─We should not presume that there are no big, state-level players who want to destroy cryptocurrencies.
[12:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic (ETC) Trading after Double-Spend Attacks - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:09] <exec> 08└─Also consider competing cryptocurrencies.
[12:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:32] <exec> 08└─Practice, practice, practice.
[12:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Shortcut for Photosynthetic Glitch to Get 40% Efficiency Boost - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:06] <exec> 08└─That comment is not funny. In case there is anyone who didn't notice I'll write this here. If this works this means that modified plants will use less energy to steal more CO2 and dump more poison called oxygenium (in latin) into atmosphere. Of course this won't work like almost anything these days....
[12:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:54] <exec> 08└─>> Most of all, they need a huge helping of humble pie. > Why? Our society not screwed up enough? What do you mean? Humble pie is good for most everyone, the vain most of all, but you talk as if that would screw things up. "Remember, thou art mortal."
[12:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:55] <exec> 08└─This is actually very correct and on topic
[12:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:57] <exec> 08└─"Differently Thinking"
[12:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:59] <exec> 08└─a demon king from the Hindu religious epic, Ramayana, had 24 types of aircraft and a network of landing strips in modern day Sri Lanka
[12:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Editing Could be Used to Create Spicy Tomatoes - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:30] <exec> 08└─Humanity has nothing to fear from plants [wikipedia.org]
[12:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:12] <exec> 08└─Sky Diver, Inside Her [youtube.com]Megaman Dive Man remix
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[13:33:37] <exec> 08└─> The current problem is how to get someone with a low bullshit tolerance appointed to head the agency rather than a partisan shill. I think they are appointed by the POTUS, right?
[13:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:38] <exec> 08└─As far as I know. Too lazy to look it up this morning. That does make getting someone who tries to do the actual job instead of helping out donors a bit tricky, yes.
[13:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:41] <exec> 08└─I understand why AT&T is doing this: customer deception. But they're not alone... Just yesterday I decided to update my Java installations to Java 11. This turned out to be a much bigger adventure than expected, but that's another story [soylentnews.org]. The part relevant here - deliberate mislabel...
[13:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:37] <exec> 08└─What will it take for VR to finally realize the potential everyone keeps believing it has?
[13:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:54] <exec> 08└─I had to laugh at the idea of corporate benevolence knowing that offering free private repos is a key distinction for quite a few git-hosting firms. Thus this nicety will likely thin out that market. That was an easy win for them.
[13:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:03] <exec> 08└─There is no difference between US and China as far as large scale decision making is concerned. Both objectively have to acquire support from significant part of population or face a revolution. And how exactly those countries use science to see the word is determined by particular people making the...
[13:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:05] <exec> 08└─support for O(100) % inheritance tax
[13:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:42] <exec> 08└─FWIW, I use Brave Browser on both Android and iOS. Many times the site displays in very tiny text. Zooming only makes the text slightly larger. Other times, it's fine. Also, when posting, many times the entire text box envelopes all of the buttons, including "Preview" and "Submit," making it very di...
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[14:33:38] <exec> 08└─Thank you!
[14:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Late Christmas Present - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:39] <exec> 08└─The stories with a lot of Tweets, they go into so many Pages. Because the cyber -- they said -- was too slow. An the Pages are a big headache. As everyone knows. But the cyber is faster now. So possibly they don't need the Pages anymore. Hopefully they don't need those with the fast new digital.
[14:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Late Christmas Present - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:42] <exec> 08└─We might indeed be able to raise the 100 comment per page limit. It'll need some testing though.
[14:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Late Christmas Present - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:44] <exec> 08└─Or actual stories with more than 100 comments. :) OK, I know there have been a few, but it's still pretty rare, but well done on spotting the missing index and taking the time to investigate further anyway. Faster load times = more time to read and comment!
[14:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Late Christmas Present - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:46] <exec> 08└─Ten in the last thirty days. Two of them journal entries. That's not bad for us for a month heavy on holiday stuff.
[14:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:19] <exec> 08└─My hands are too big. Great to know there's a name for that!
[14:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:58] <exec> 08└─Market, market, market When you think about it, every major device was slow to catch on: Digital assistants Tablets Ebooks My prediction, it will catch on when Apple sells one
[14:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:17] <exec> 08└─My only concern for this "free" service is: "free" for how long? I'd rather not train myself to a specific workflow that's going to go away on me at some unexpected future date.
[14:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:18] <exec> 08└─They let Windows be pirated easily (almost the same as free) for 15 years...
[14:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:21] <exec> 08└─Is there a good encryption wrapper solution for git yet? Would seem to be fairly easy to keep the local repo "in the clear" for all your tools to work with, while cloud hosted copy is obfuscated with cryptographic key.
[14:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:23] <exec> 08└─"secret source" is somehow an acceptable software development model
[14:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:25] <exec> 08└─I have to agree with the above tinfoil hats: this seems to be more of a mind-share play to perpetuate the widespread practice of closed source coding.
[14:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:27] <exec> 08└─By omitting the ‘Arrr!’ I thought we could avoid comments on piracy. Ducks.
[14:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:15] <exec> 08└─If I'm commenting while riding the city bus, then my IP address will change depending on what hotspots my laptop or phone happens to pick up at the time. Could the form key IP address check be made less stringent for logged-in users, or for excellent-karma logged-in users? Or is it considered a meas...
[14:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Performance - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:17] <exec> 08└─It could likely be removed entirely for registered users. I'll need some thought time on the ramifications.
[14:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fast-Moving Spacecraft Could be Sent to Study a Kuiper Belt Object - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:00] <exec> 08└─Current railguns are firing fairly hefty objects. With microelectronics, you can fit a lot in a small size. A Huge camera lense isn't needed because doing a close flyby and a huge antenna is also not needed because the mother ship relays messages.
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[15:34:07] <exec> 08└─heavy on holiday stuff
[15:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Late Christmas Present - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:08] <exec> 08└─I knew it! This can't be the readDonaldTrump because he speaks far too clearly and makes too much sense!
[15:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Late Christmas Present - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:10] <exec> 08└─Man, I only put on five pounds between the big food holidays and having to eat more often for ten days of thrice-a-day antibiotics. Since I lost 35 pounds or so over the past year, I'm calling that a win.
[15:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Late Christmas Present - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:13] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't this break existing URLs that link to specific pages?
[15:34:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon - 1020 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:26] <exec> 08└─I understand why AT&T is doing this: customer deception. But they're not alone... Just yesterday I decided to update my Java installations to Java 11. This turned out to be a much bigger adventure than expected, but that's another story [soylentnews.org]. The part relevant here - deliberate mislabel...
[15:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:28] <exec> 08└─New process for manufacturing lies that are true. 1. Tell the lie to someone gullible (note FoxNews has a large audience to choose from) 2. The gullible person believes the lie and retells it, thus transforming it into truth 3. Profit!
[15:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:30] <exec> 08└─Dear AT&T: Instead of lying to customers, how about telling the truth. Do not replace the LTE icon with 5G E. Replace the LTE icon with 5G LIE. Now you're telling the truth. But the difference between LTE and LIE is so subtle that on a tiny icon it maybe be only one pixel or a sub pixel difference....
[15:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:32] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Rather than "alternative facts" I suppose you could also call it "fact laundering."
[15:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:35] <exec> 08└─On the flip side of the coin, executive discretion on what to enforce is setting aside marijuana prohibition right now.
[15:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:37] <exec> 08└─5G isa gonna make life miserable for 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz wifi users. ofc it can co exists but if it cant you can guess what the (l)user is gonna chose/support... insert waving-goodbye-with-a-tear emoticon and middle finger
[15:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:58] <exec> 08└─Pay attention to marketing trends. Haven't you seen? Don't call it Linux 5. It should be called: Linux 5G!
[15:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:00] <exec> 08└─Jesus H, people. Parent was sophomorically funny, not a troll. And, sophomorism appeals to almost half of the human race. It's great to have a dick, but you don't have to BE a dick!
[15:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic (ETC) Trading after Double-Spend Attacks - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:16] <exec> 08└─We should not presume that there are no big, state-level players who want to destroy cryptocurrencies.
[15:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 1354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:42] <exec> 08└─I had access to the original HTC Vive that ran at 120 fps and I rarely got motion sick. Lots of amazing games, demos and experiences. Currently it lives in a box because there is nowhere to set up the lighthouse sensors(how the Vive does its tracking). I also got to go to the Dubai VR Park a few mon...
[15:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:43] <exec> 08└─A proper holodeck won't happen until you have artificial gravity.
[15:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:46] <exec> 08└─My 20-year-old nephew, who at this time in his life has more disposable income than God, invited me to try out his VR setup. I played three games, each one lasting about 20-30 minutes. They were interesting -- even a little bit fun. But after playing them I had no desire to ever play them again. For...
[15:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:48] <exec> 08└─Literally "woman-hole."
[15:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:50] <exec> 08└─Since the 50's video calls were a promise of how all communication would be in the future. Well the future arrived like 10 years ago; and it turns out that very few people desire this. In fact, very few people desire voice calls anymore. The only person I know that calls instead of texting first is...
[15:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:14] <exec> 08└─Interesting question, though - if these are truly free and private git repositories, can they be used to host warez without fear of prosecution (as long as the password is only shared among trusted sharers...)?
[15:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Shortcut for Photosynthetic Glitch to Get 40% Efficiency Boost - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:33] <exec> 08└─Like border walls? I hate it when politicians waste money on useless border walls.
[15:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Shortcut for Photosynthetic Glitch to Get 40% Efficiency Boost - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:35] <exec> 08└─Cue lens flares.
[15:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:29] <exec> 08└─No, Fat as in round. Round is a shape like a sphere, the shape I believe the earth to be. Therefore I am a Fat Earther.
[15:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:30] <exec> 08└─Some academics superstitious idiots at the annual Indian Science Congress dismissed the findings of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.
[15:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:32] <exec> 08└─Humble pie is good for most everyone, the vain most of all, but you talk as if that would screw things up.
[15:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:35] <exec> 08└─Don't think of our representatives as leaders, because they aren't.
[15:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:37] <exec> 08└─Heating the water increases the volume the water takes up where the photon hits, this is the opposite of what would happen if you hit it with matter (the water would move away from that spot).
[15:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:39] <exec> 08└─Doesn't make them 'dark matter'.
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[16:33:35] <exec> 08└─InTelAviv BTFO!
[16:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:41] <exec> 08└─I've been quietly suggesting this to a few friends for the past 3-4 years who were into ML. It's the next big leap forward in cost reducing bug fixing and reverse engineering.
[16:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:44] <exec> 08└─Makes sense - ML is getting very good at learning games given only the rules and the "win" notification, see e.g. AlphaGo Zero. if we can only teach them what a vulnerability looks like
[16:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:18] <exec> 08└─Sorry, all we have is the other side's partisan shill pick. There is no non-shill option.
[16:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:41] <exec> 08└─Hey Linux, Another idea! Don't call it Linux 5. Call it Linux 10. Version 10 is always the final version number of every modern OS. Mac OS X Windows 10 Linux 10
[16:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic (ETC) Trading after Double-Spend Attacks - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:57] <exec> 08└─There is also the possibility of whatever the equivalent of short-selling is. Isn't there some exchange now trading futures on cryptocurrencies?
[16:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic (ETC) Trading after Double-Spend Attacks - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:59] <exec> 08└─As long as there are fools and their monies and the potential to separate the two, there will be futures markets.
[16:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Shortcut for Photosynthetic Glitch to Get 40% Efficiency Boost - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:14] <exec> 08└─For not fixing this on your own. There is no doubt a reason it did not find this, either it wasn't that much of a benefit or has a hidden cost.
[16:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Shortcut for Photosynthetic Glitch to Get 40% Efficiency Boost - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:16] <exec> 08└─On evolutionary timescales the CO2 content of the atmosphere was a lot higher. The efficiency gain from this probably wasn't as important in an atmosphere with >1000ppm CO2.
[16:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:16] <exec> 08└─No, in the usual context dark matter means some sort of exotic matter at this point: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] And you have chosen to have your own definition of "matter" different from everyone else, whatever, but stop pushing it like it is standard
[16:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:17] <exec> 08└─Only because they don't have enough of the rest of the dark matter to cover the perceived gap.
[16:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 1877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:19] <exec> 08└─> You have yet to describe a problem that requires forced serving of "humble pie" That's a "Let Me Google That For You" problem. Where to begin? How about "Too Big To Fail"? Whole lot more bankers, financiers, and CEOs should've been axed. And stood trial and gone to prison for all kinds of lying an...
[16:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New BGU System Produces High-Res Images at Low Cost - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:44] <exec> 08└─Interesting. I was going to comment that this technique might be useful for sources with sufficient brightness, such as planets and asteroids here in the main body of the solar system, but apparently not necessarily from the information given in that slide show. Of course, more and more smaller sepa...
[16:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Can a Set of Equations Keep U.S. Census Data Private? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:12] <exec> 08└─Let me get idea straight. You conjecture that anonimyzing data ruins its utility, so therefor create intentionally bad data?
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[17:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch AMD's CES 2019 Keynote Live: 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:58] <exec> 08└─Peace has cost you your strength, victory has defeated you. — Dr. Lisa Su to Intel
[17:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch AMD's CES 2019 Keynote Live: 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:59] <exec> 08└─Lets see how much of this insane looking lineup gets confirmed: http://thinkcomputers.org [thinkcomputers.org]
[17:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch AMD's CES 2019 Keynote Live: 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:01] <exec> 08└─No 6-cores on the Reddit leak? I didn't notice that before. I'll place my bet on the AdoredTV leak: https://wccftech.com [wccftech.com]
[17:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch AMD's CES 2019 Keynote Live: 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:03] <exec> 08└─This is blocked by my company firewall for malware??
[17:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch AMD's CES 2019 Keynote Live: 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:06] <exec> 08└─Hm, I dunno. I found it by image searching AMD leaks with startpage.
[17:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch AMD's CES 2019 Keynote Live: 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:08] <exec> 08└─From this page: https://thinkcomputers.org [thinkcomputers.org] "Anon" view: https://browse.startpage.com
[17:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch AMD's CES 2019 Keynote Live: 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:10] <exec> 08└─"muh diversity" corporate promos with shitty music -- why?
[17:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch AMD's CES 2019 Keynote Live: 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:13] <exec> 08└─It's an industry standard
[17:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:23] <exec> 08└─the ML system will probably be part of his or her software design tools and will automatically find and fix vulnerabilities while the code is still in development.
[17:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:25] <exec> 08└─I'm not even a developer, but I can see your point, and agree with it. You've built it, tested it, and turned the ML loose on it. It finds a "vulnerability" which it fixes - and your software no longer does the magic that it was designed to do. Yeah, you want to confirm, maybe allow the ML to "fix"...
[17:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hopdevil [3356] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:27] <exec> 08└─People tend to think ML will solve their problem, especially if they don't understand how ML works. Or even what their problem is. Sorry Schneier, but this is out of your league. I know of several bug finding "systems", some of which use algorithms... and they are all terrible. The false positive r...
[17:34:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bobs [1462] 02 - 06Meta: Late Christmas Present - 10 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:35] <exec> 08└─Thank you!
[17:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Late Christmas Present - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:45] <exec> 08└─Are there (m)any of those? I suppose one could only raise the bar on stories newer than $date to maintain compatibility.
[17:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Late Christmas Present - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:48] <exec> 08└─Ugghhhh - hate those meds. And, they suck even more during the holiday season.
[17:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Meta: Late Christmas Present - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:50] <exec> 08└─Glad you finally did your job!
[17:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:10] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't that be "lie laundering"? They certainly aren't starting with "facts".
[17:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:12] <exec> 08└─The previous other's side partisan shill pick gave us formal net neutrality, and a lot of other pro-consumer rules. False equivalency FTW.
[17:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:14] <exec> 08└─"lie laundering" is too long. Doesn't roll off the tongue. I propose "Foxing" instead.
[17:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:16] <exec> 08└─The FTC has five commissioners, each nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate. They can't serve a term of more than ... seven years, I think it is. The president gets to choose which among them is the chairman. I don't think this choice needs to be confirmed.
[17:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:40] <exec> 08└─"including some early support for Nvidia's Turing GPUs, which will be of interest to those following CES 2019." no, dumb ass. ps. fuck you nvidia.
[17:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:42] <exec> 08└─My mother-in-law had one of those newfangled advent calendars for adults this year, one with nail polishes behind each door. When I asked her what she'd do on the 21st, she said she'd start using her husband's nails.
[17:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:44] <exec> 08└─Well it worked for Slackware [wikipedia.org]...
[17:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:46] <exec> 08└─That may be a "remedy", but I'm not sure it's a legal right. Not at all sure. In fact, I tend to believe otherwise. This may, of course, depend on what jurisdiction you live in, but my understanding of the GPLv2 was that the license could only be revoked on certain listed particular grounds...like m...
[17:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:48] <exec> 08└─But the linux penguin logo says Linux 5Ge! Is that different somehow? Imma so confoosed!
[17:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coinbase Suspends Ethereum Classic (ETC) Trading after Double-Spend Attacks - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:06] <exec> 08└─http://cfe.cboe.com/cfe-products/xbt-cboe-bitcoin-futures [cboe.com]
[17:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:38] <exec> 08└─Onaholes are penis sheathes, used to aid masterbation. The inner molds differ among models, for differences in stimulation. Or as I like to call them, jack-in-the-boxes.
[17:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:39] <exec> 08└─Self-contained VR devices can only ever be lower-end toys. The best VR experiences will always need far more compute/GPU power than can ever be provided by a small, low-power CPU/GPU as used in any self-contained headset. A lot of the reason that VR is not more popular is exactly because many people...
[17:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:41] <exec> 08└─You don;t mention what his VR setup is, but it very much sounds like you were more a victim of his personal taste in games, that what is currently state-of--the-art of VR. Its stupid and incorrect to assume that all VR must necessarily be like that. There are some very good and in-depth PC-based VR...
[17:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:43] <exec> 08└─Texting and voice both have their places. Sure texting gives you a useful record, but you can get far more information from a voice call than a text. Voice tone, inflection etc communicate far more than just the words themselves do.
[17:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Shortcut for Photosynthetic Glitch to Get 40% Efficiency Boost - 1364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:30] <exec> 08└─Okay, boost the efficiency of photosythesis, wonderful- - sounds like an unmitigated win for agriculture, right? But what of the unintended consequences? First there's the obvious - what is the nutrition and toxicity profile of the new chemical pathway they've created - i.e. will eating the new leav...
[17:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Shortcut for Photosynthetic Glitch to Get 40% Efficiency Boost - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:32] <exec> 08└─Or there's a key side-effect that scientists or farmers haven't discovered yet.
[17:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:35] <exec> 08└─khallow is using 'matter' where he should be using 'mass', but other than that minor difference in terminology, he is pretty much entirely correct.
[17:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:36] <exec> 08└─That's a "Let Me Google That For You" problem. Where to begin? How about "Too Big To Fail"? Whole lot more bankers, financiers, and CEOs should've been axed. And stood trial and gone to prison for all kinds of lying and market manipulation and straight up theft such as not paying their employees.
[17:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:38] <exec> 08└─G Nageshwar Rao, vice chancellor of Andhra University, also said a demon king from the Hindu religious epic, Ramayana, had 24 types of aircraft and a network of landing strips in modern day Sri Lanka.
[17:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:41] <exec> 08└─Dark matter has NOT been found: dark matter is a kludge 'discovered' JUST JUST JUST to make GR still work. Some matter has been found. Is it 'dark matter'? No. Dark matter is a magic kludge. GR does not work without it and we can't allow that so we wave our hands and we come up with 'dark matter'. T...
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[18:33:51] <exec> 08└─So no real info?
[18:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:04] <exec> 08└─You have a bug in a format parser so clearly the way to fix the bug is to remove the format parser. I swear it was just yesterday that I was reading about an ML tool that was hiding information in plain sight by encoding it in high frequency detail. That might have been last week but I'm sure it was...
[18:34:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon - 439 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:40] <exec> 08└─Dear AT&T: Instead of lying to customers, how about telling the truth. Do not replace the LTE icon with 5G E. Replace the LTE icon with 5G LIE. Now you're telling the truth. But the difference between LTE and LIE is so subtle that on a tiny icon it maybe be only one pixel or a sub pixel difference....
[18:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:17] <exec> 08└─Omg! You have openened my eyes! I was so stupid before! After seing this (spoiler; I didn't) I'm so much smarter! If you believe it, I urge you to test in court.
[18:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:18] <exec> 08└─Don't give him any ideas...he could go the non-OS naming route - (read bat-shit-crazy) like those of Chrome and Firefox.
[18:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:20] <exec> 08└─Why are your thumbs not fingers?
[18:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:23] <exec> 08└─Bad design: the 21st bit is definitely slowing down the counter...
[18:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:16] <exec> 08└─Are you talking about a prototype or something? No commercially available HTC Vive has ever been capable of 120hz. Vive runs at 90hz just like every variant ever since.
[18:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:18] <exec> 08└─Oculus already tried this at Best Buy for a while. HTC had Vive demos at Gamestop for a while and still have Vive demos at Microsoft stores. It seems like a great idea. I don't know why they both mostly stopped.
[18:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:20] <exec> 08└─Oh, yes I saw that video of a japanese dude in a weird VR masturbation machine.
[18:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:22] <exec> 08└─I put the heavy vest and pants on, feeling thick elements added to strategic locations. I put the special boots on, then the thick gloves lined with rubber bumps. I put the helmet on, not too heavy, but limiting my view and not something I'd do all day long (thankfully I'm in between my years of wea...
[18:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:25] <exec> 08└─> Instead have bullshit proprietary interfaces, thus can't be used with most things. THat's not even close to true. Oculus and Vive both use HDMI. Some newer headsets are using DisplayPort or the new open VirtualLink standard.
[18:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:27] <exec> 08└─I never could understand how anyone would willingly eat at Jack-in-the-Box.
[18:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 1604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:29] <exec> 08└─There's only so much you can do with an hour of testing out VR. Personally, I suggested a specific title or two to the few people I've shown my VR setup to. You want something that's fun and easy to get into, if you only have 30 minutes to an hour in VR. Probably the most Wow, I've gotten from peopl...
[18:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:31] <exec> 08└─My parents do video calls quite a bit with my brother who is overseas. Perhaps, it's not very useful for day-to-day communication with people you normally see, but it sure is nice to see someone you wouldn't otherwise.
[18:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Engineer Shortcut for Photosynthetic Glitch to Get 40% Efficiency Boost - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:22] <exec> 08└─It's good for intercropping, and not hard to grow in most climates. The processing is where all the annoyance is.
[18:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:29] <exec> 08└─When you say Miga, I think Migas. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 1405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:31] <exec> 08└─I'm running into that rule where you can't tell if something is satire or not. It's all well and good to question your assumptions, but magical thinking which is scientifically implausible is not good for anybody, it just corrupts the scientific process. It's already why you can't trust scientific r...
[18:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 3352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:33] <exec> 08└─Tell me honestly, do you believe "too big to fail" actually meant that congress truly believed that letting them collapse, or breaking them up, would destroy the US economy, or that it would damage their campaign contribution and post-political employment options (and likely hurt they and their frie...
[18:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:35] <exec> 08└─> whose sole common characteristic is that they're successful financially Read this: https://planetsave.com [planetsave.com] . It's about experiments in which the game of Monopoly was rigged to give one...
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[19:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:33] <exec> 08└─I’m surprised this is just now getting attention. I know it irritated me so much I switched from Samsung to Apple, years ago, and never looked back. I would only ever go back to Android if I was guaranteed an unlocked boot loader so I could remove all the bloat ware/spyware.
[19:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:35] <exec> 08└─Have you ever tried to get rid of that stupid and pointless "Stocks" app on your iPhone? Yeah, me too. Can't even remove the icon from the home screen. Makes no difference to me if it's not a third party app, I want it gone.
[19:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:37] <exec> 08└─Was able to remove almost all the things I didn't like, google play services are baked into the image so you gotta reflash your device to remove those. So many apps use google services though, wish you could give Uber / Lyft a street corner or that they would support non-google location services.
[19:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:39] <exec> 08└─Why do we pay good money for stuff that we don't own? I like Newegg. I buy stuff, and it's mine. I like Linux. I don't have to buy it, but it's mine. We seriously need naked hardware, and a Linux distro for that hardware. But, we don't need a proprietary version of a Linux distro provided by Google....
[19:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:41] <exec> 08└─> Why do we pay good money for stuff that we don't own? Because the average people doesn't care enough to either learn to fix it, or put up a fight. Approximating the average for the median, about half of the population doesn't give a shit. Have you seen the latest cat video ? The ad before it was q...
[19:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:44] <exec> 08└─Not all phones are rootable, at least not until a hack is found: https://old.reddit.com [reddit.com]
[19:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:46] <exec> 08└─https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/ [puri.sm]
[19:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:48] <exec> 08└─I'm running iOS 12.1 and you absolutely can remove the stocks app. And the calendar. And the mail app. Even the iTunes store and the music player app.
[19:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:50] <exec> 08└─You can use lyft through your browser: https://blog.lyft.com [lyft.com]
[19:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:53] <exec> 08└─That's why I switched to Nokia. All their phones ship with Android One, which means that virtually nothing is on there that an't be uninstalled. Pretty much just the things essential to having a working system.
[19:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch AMD's CES 2019 Keynote Live: 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:09] <exec> 08└─The first Ryzens were released in March 2017, and Ryzen 2 in April 2018. Maybe they will launch Ryzen 3 in May to coincide with the company's 50th anniversary. Also, the Ryzen 3 die that Su held up was significant since you could clearly see the empty space where 8 more cores or integrated graphics...
[19:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch AMD's CES 2019 Keynote Live: 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:11] <exec> 08└─Yea, but in terms of verifying/refuting the "leaked" specs, nothing. While somewhat boring, I actually did like to see that they are working with "partners" though, getting mindshare and all that.
[19:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch AMD's CES 2019 Keynote Live: 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:13] <exec> 08└─128 threads? Wow, so what's the memory bandwidth then? in MB/s/thread? :D
[19:34:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hopdevil [3356] 02 - 06Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities - 511 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:24] <exec> 08└─People tend to think ML will solve their problem, especially if they don't understand how ML works. Or even what their problem is. Sorry Schneier, but this is out of your league. I know of several bug finding "systems", some of which use algorithms... and they are all terrible. The false positive r...
[19:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:26] <exec> 08└─Among other reasons, you now have an easy way to intentionally introduce backdoors into all kinds of software: Compromise the ML auto-fix system.
[19:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux Version 5.0 RC1 Released - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:41] <exec> 08└─Rude millenial.
[19:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 2177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:42] <exec> 08└─VR is Awesome, but that doesn't mean all the games will be. Where's my VR Theme Park / Roller Coaster building VR game? Hopefully to be released soon. Motion sickness, blah, blah, blah. Some people get motion sickness just from normal 3D games on a flat screen. I get motion sickness pretty easily, a...
[19:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:43] <exec> 08└─I have played various VR games on a demo system set up at my local electronics store, and sometimes had to wait in line for a go. As far as I could tell it didn't help them sell any units at all. I just don't think it offers anything compelling. I did buy a headset I can use with my phone, and som...
[19:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:09] <exec> 08└─Greeks or Trojans? It's a question of personal preference...
[19:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:10] <exec> 08└─The phrase "Beware Geeks bearing gifts", or something like that, comes to mind.
[19:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:12] <exec> 08└─This one of the reasons I advise GitLab: if GitLab's policies change you can migrate to a personally hosted server. GitHub is not open source, but you still could migrate your files to a new git service. While I self-host a lot, I keep re-learning I'm not a good system admin. Hosting on a profession...
[19:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:14] <exec> 08└─Actually, the owner plus three collaborators makes four. If you want to reenact said movie, Microsoft is rooting for you!
[19:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:17] <exec> 08└─Read the terms of service, GitHub/Microsoft don't own your code. If companies weren't afraid of violating copyright on software, they wouldn't be using clean room techniques when developing software to avoid to possibility of copyright infringement (rumors about Uber notwithstanding).
[19:38:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 1573 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:08] <exec> 08└─> a relatively competent government is running things in China. But they're Commies! > Would be nice if we all had one. Whoa, hold on there. We the people are the ultimate governors. Don't think of our representatives as leaders, because they aren't. If we don't keep our representatives' toes to the...
[19:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 1984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:52] <exec> 08└─Because you're claiming Dark Matter has been discovered, while simultaneously admitting that there's not nearly enough of it to explain anything. AKA it hasn't been discovered. The problem is "Dark Matter" isn't just code for "matter we haven't yet discovered", it's code for "matter that must exist...
[19:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:53] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindutva [wikipedia.org]
[19:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, I know. That is the topic of discussion. Here is what I said above: Mass isnt synonymous with matter
[19:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:14] <exec> 08└─Some species do fall pretty close to the "permanently incorporated into her body" model that a few animals practice, since the males rapidly atrophy to the point that they can't survive independently any longer. Not really monogamy though, as a single female may host several mates. (though I suppose...
[19:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:16] <exec> 08└─> who may never experience a long lasting, meaningful relationship "Meaning" is a human construct, a self delusion. Some people find "meaning" in religion, art, or other pursuits. That you have to feel sorry for other people based on your own opinion of what should matter to other people, in my opin...
[19:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 1190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:18] <exec> 08└─Only if the harem-masters contribute more to society than all the "cannon fodder" they displaced would have. In practice that's almost certainly not the case, especially not in capitalist societies where your wealth (and ability to support a harem) has very little relationship to your actual contrib...
[19:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:20] <exec> 08└─Since it's almost certain that neither of us are going to be the ones with harems? Productivity. No question. I like getting laid. The thing about harems is that only a tiny percentage of the population can have them - heck, limit harem size to a tiny 3, and you still end up with 2/3rds of men going...
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[20:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:44] <exec> 08└─Your iPhone has even worse software that can't be uninstalled. It's called iOS.
[20:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:45] <exec> 08└─Congratulation. You've just proven to anyone with a clue that you haven't touched an iPhone for years.
[20:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:47] <exec> 08└─After my Samsung Galaxy S5, which was a great phone, I decided to try something different because of the pre-installed bloatware. Over the life of my S5, Samsung had decided to add even more non-removable crapware to the phone . . . after the purchase. Eventually I could not even do OS updates and h...
[20:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:49] <exec> 08└─But it's not 3rd-party software.
[20:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:52] <exec> 08└─First, you shouldn't use Uber. Scum company doesn't deserve your hard-earned (I suppose) money. Second, it's not that hard to install a GPS spoofer on your android phone, and tell anyone who wants to know your location that you are in Burundi, until such time that you need the GPS to tell the truth....
[20:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:54] <exec> 08└─And it has ‘courage’ 😂
[20:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:56] <exec> 08└─I use the stocks app a lot to keep an eye on my portfolio, So I never tried deleting it. You’re not much into investing I suppose?
[20:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:58] <exec> 08└─Really good point— But why stop at just the software, when the hardware is still proprietary. We need open source hardware as well. I’m really excited for companies to start putting out open source RISC-V ISA based phones!
[20:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch AMD's CES 2019 Keynote Live: 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:18] <exec> 08└─This is blocked by my company firewall for malware??
[20:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch AMD's CES 2019 Keynote Live: 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:19] <exec> 08└─VirusTotal says its clean: https://www.virustotal.com [virustotal.com] Is intel paying your company to block good AMD news?
[20:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch AMD's CES 2019 Keynote Live: 9am PT/12pm ET/5pm UK - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:21] <exec> 08└─Well here is the one with 64 threads at 87.42 GiB/s: https://en.wikichip.org [wikichip.org] So 1074 MB/s/thread? The ryzen 3000's will have this multi-core but single IO die design though: https://www.extremetech.com
[20:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Late Christmas Present - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:53] <exec> 08└─With that discovery, I wonder if there are other missing indexes or with columns in the wrong order. Maybe you should try some EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN queries with your usual DML statements. That might also reveal instances where a covering index might be handy. An ANALYZE statement may also help your qu...
[20:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Late Christmas Present - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:54] <exec> 08└─Where's my bitcoin subscription option?
[20:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Late Christmas Present - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:57] <exec> 08└─I'm blind.
[20:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Late Christmas Present - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:59] <exec> 08└─I went to subscribe with bitcoin and it didn't work. So my original comment still stands.
[20:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Misleads Customers by Updating Phones With Fake 5G Icon - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:24] <exec> 08└─AT&T has a history of fake marketing. The coverage map scam. The "biggest coverage study"(fine print: Excluding crowdsouring) and other shams to try to show their coverage being anywhere near Verizon's coverage. Why not just fake 5G too? Glad I dropped them years ago.
[20:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:00] <exec> 08└─Roller coasters are about throwing your body around, giving you a few Gs or weightlessness, the scare that it won't make that sharp turn, the rushing wind in your face, the drop from scary heights ... How much of that do you get in VR ? VR is not immersive, and therefore not thrilling, if your other...
[20:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:30] <exec> 08└─I know they don't own your code, but they sure as heck can read it, and even if they don't violate copyright by simply taking your code and compiling it, they can violate any trade secrets locked up in that code and as long as they keep the fact that they used your algorithms secret from you they ca...
[20:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:31] <exec> 08└─Let's assume that you make something really really good. Microsoft steals it. Who is going to win, the lawyers you can afford or the lawyers Microsoft can afford?
[20:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:33] <exec> 08└─I have long wondered, thanks to various people I have met over the years, if the difference between i-was-born-a-ramblin'-man people and you-are-the-sunshine-of-my-life people is a bigger difference, and a more important difference to societal development, than that between straight and gay people.
[20:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monogamy in Animals May Have a Telltale Signature of Gene Activity - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:34] <exec> 08└─Indeed, my cheek is sore from excessive tongue friction. The people interested and able to procure and maintain harems are not typically hindered by considerations about their probable impact on overall societal contributions of the individuals involved.
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[21:33:58] <exec> 08└─I dispute your laim to "average" Even the hyper-geeky end of town (which seems to cover quite a few on this site) doesn't reflash phones. I have friends who have tried apple, samsung, windows and nokia, but I can count on one finger the number who have installed lineage (me). Many people are interes...
[21:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 1504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:00] <exec> 08└─My first cell phone was Siemens C35i with its terrible Internet pop-up from menu, killable with settings. Next, a small blue-lit Nokia (I don't remember model) was quite OK. With a good experience with this Nokia I bought my first "smartphone": E61 with Symbian. To remove some proprietary apps which...
[21:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:02] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking of switching to Android, because Apple no longer offers a phone with a headphone jack, and apparently will soon enough no longer offer one with a fingerprint reader either. No, I don't want my phone knowing my face, thank you. But at least Apple doesn't spy on me (as far as has been pro...
[21:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:04] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, I live in too small of an area for uber / lyft to even operate! On the occasions I go to a bigger city I have wanted to use one of them, regular taxis are awful if you have to call dispatch. I will be using the lyft web portal mentioned above for future rides.
[21:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:06] <exec> 08└─Sounds interesting, but I expect it will end up like much other "open source hardware". Either it will never gain traction, never be released, or end up being a scam from the beginning.
[21:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:09] <exec> 08└─My Sony phone comes with a bunch of Sony crapps, I can uninstall it, but the next update will reinstall them. They're not 3rd party per say, but takes up storage, memory and battery - some of them insist on running in the background after install; I can disable it, though I normally delete it until...
[21:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:45] <exec> 08└─We did pretty darn well in the Cyber Grand Challenge. Our code would fix bugs, then exploit them for attacking while patching them for defense. It really works. That said, there is so much variety in the real world. Humans aren't going away any time soon. We still hire lots of people to manually go...
[21:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:46] <exec> 08└─The point where it really gets interesting is when the ML program is allowed to fix its own code …
[21:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:48] <exec> 08└─Machine Learning that identifies patterns unique to tech-illiterate, gullible, naive, and highly exploitable USERS. Wouldn't those targets be just as valuable, perhaps more so, than software vulnerabilities. You can protect against an implementation error or a design flaw. But can you really protect...
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[21:35:11] <exec> 08└─Good goin'
[21:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:14] <exec> 08└─Marketers and a few enthusiasts are super excited about it. The general public doesn't give the tiniest crap, and never will.
[21:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:15] <exec> 08└─To my eternal sorrow, I looked it up. If you're on the fence about doing so—don't.
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[22:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:32] <exec> 08└─Keep pursuing someone better, idiot! Surely, there are swarms of women around him who have no interest in his money. "To love, and be loved..." good luck with that second part, Jeff!
[22:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:33] <exec> 08└─"I'm down to my last $68.5 billion, whatever am I to do? Whoah is me." Costliest divorce in history, and smallest violin.
[22:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:35] <exec> 08└─According to the statement in TFA it all sounds quite relaxed and adult. Assuming for a moment the statement wasn't written by the marketing intern at Amazon, (it's a stretch, but bear with me) MacKenzie might well be feeling OK about things and only want $10 or $20 billion in the settlement. Also...
[22:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:38] <exec> 08└─Any subsequent marriages will come with ironclad pre-nups.
[22:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:40] <exec> 08└─What makes you think there is "someone better." Maybe he is just plain tired of putting up with their shit.
[22:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:42] <exec> 08└─All that hard-earned money just tossed away... I'd be a lot more sympathetic if he had actually done anything to earn most of it, rather than just playing monopoly with other people's money while screwing over his employees.
[22:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:44] <exec> 08└─Why are they divorcing? They say they remain great friends, and will stay in touch. Is this to be believed? Or is this an attack on marriage, and religious conservatives? They will stay married in spirit, while showing their disdain for the legal trappings of marriage? Or maybe Jeff Bezos wants to h...
[22:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:47] <exec> 08└─Fun fact: If he got divrced in France, he'd have to pay a divorce tax of 2.5% of the assets to the country. That'd be about 3.5 billion dollars, not too bad for a few forms.
[22:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:49] <exec> 08└─"We want to make people aware of a development in our lives. As our family and close friends know, after a long period of loving exploration and trial separation, we have decided to divorce and continue our shared lives as friends," the tweet says.
[22:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:20] <exec> 08└─They've already released laptops though.
[22:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:21] <exec> 08└─I currently have the same problem with the S5. Even if I remove all the apps I have put on, I barely have enough space for OS updates. Every now and then I look at the pre-installed apps and go "I don't remember that being there!" But I always figured it was me. I didn't realize they were actually a...
[22:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:23] <exec> 08└─I have an iPhone 7 as a work phone, but only use it for calls and texts. You are quite right, the only time I ever interact with it is when I send or receive a call or text, so I was not aware I could get rid of a whole bunch of stock apps. Now I know, which is nice.
[22:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:25] <exec> 08└─My current phone is XiaoMi 5x. My mom has a 4x. My sister has a Huawei, dont know the model. We are all sattisfied and quite happy with these phones, which all cost around half the price of a similar hardware Samsung, a S7 I think it is, that my inlaw has. And I could even say we scoff not as often...
[22:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:28] <exec> 08└─I was leaving some margin for those who are annoyed by this stuff, yet unable to do anything about it, if at all aware that there are solutions. Saying that half doesn't give a shit, doesn't realize these things are there, or -gasp- appreciate some of the apps we consider bloatware, was just a way t...
[22:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:30] <exec> 08└─High-end Android phones have removed the headphone jack as well, and mid-range Android phones have started to remove the headphone jack as well. I don't expect headphone jacks to be on Android phones at all in a couple of years.
[22:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:32] <exec> 08└─How this god modded insightful, I have no idea. Just cause you don't like something, doesn't make it inferior. It just doesn't do the job that YOU want it to do. I'm not even going to go into the reasons because this has been argued to death an almost infinite number of times already. I guess I shou...
[22:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:34] <exec> 08└─I did the same thing with my S3. It got to the point where I felt I had no choice but to root the phone and install cyanogenmod because the default setup Samsung provided was THAT bad. That one change increased by battery life by almost a full day. I was shocked. It was then I decided this would be...
[22:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:14] <exec> 08└─Then we're starting to get into Reflections on Trusting Trust [acm.org] territory.
[22:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:42] <exec> 08└─A way to safely "jack in" to the brain seems more attainable.
[22:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Reality Feels Like a Dream Gathering Dust - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:43] <exec> 08└─Exactly my experience too : I have a sensitive vestibular system and I was told at my workplace that the vestibular-vision brain loop has a latency of around 11ms. The Vive tracking is around 15ms so most people tolerate it well. In my case, when developing our own software we also increased acciden...
[22:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:16] <exec> 08└─the owner plus three collaborators makes four. If you want to reenact said movie, Microsoft is rooting for you!
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[23:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mexican Drug Lord "El Chapo" Was Brought Down by His "I.T. Guy" - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:28] <exec> 08└─"Hello?" "Hey, so Mr. Snowden, I was wondering if you might have a place I could crash for a while?"
[23:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mexican Drug Lord "El Chapo" Was Brought Down by His "I.T. Guy" - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:30] <exec> 08└─He'll be fine. Those drug lords are a pretty forgiving bunch.
[23:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:46] <exec> 08└─She should take 10 or 20 billion, plus a bunch of stock.
[23:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:47] <exec> 08└─ _ __ _ _ _ | |/ /__ _ ___| |__ (_)_ __ __ _| | | ' // _` |_____ / __| '_ \| | '_ \ / _` | | | . \ (_| |_____| (__| | | | | | | | (_| |_| |_|\_\__,_| \___|_| |_|_|_| |_|\__, (_) ...
[23:33:48] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years - 31 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:49] <exec> 08└─He caught her shopping on eBay.
[23:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:52] <exec> 08└─after a long period of loving exploration and trial separation
[23:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:54] <exec> 08└─Dale Gribble: True, but Sheila, I'm married. Sheila: It's just us tonight. Dale Gribble: Oh no, Missy. There are 3 people here tonight. You, me, and my wife. I've taken two oaths in my life: One to the NRA, and the other to Nancy Hicks-Gribble.
[23:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:56] <exec> 08└─Also, she has a Scotsman's surname for a first name.
[23:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:58] <exec> 08└─> Or is this an attack on marriage, and religious conservatives? He should decide to be a woman, just to piss off the ultra-conservative people who couldn't stand the idea that the richest person in the word would be a liberal trans girl.
[23:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:00] <exec> 08└─Your signature suggests you are a Trump supporter, but your comment appears to be at odds with that.
[23:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:03] <exec> 08└─Tune in next week...same Bat time, same Bat channel!
[23:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos, Amazon CEO Worth $137 Billion, to Divorce Wife of 25 Years - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:05] <exec> 08└─Not really news for nerds.. can get this in all the tabloids just trashy 'celeb' news that we are going to hear about now for months in National Enquirer and the "Mirror".. Lets have some articles about Amazon's new warehouse robots or something like that instead ;-)
[23:34:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 333 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:16] <exec> 08└─Why do we pay good money for stuff that we don't own? I like Newegg. I buy stuff, and it's mine. I like Linux. I don't have to buy it, but it's mine. We seriously need naked hardware, and a Linux distro for that hardware. But, we don't need a proprietary version of a Linux distro provided by Google....
[23:34:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 830 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:26] <exec> 08└─After my Samsung Galaxy S5, which was a great phone, I decided to try something different because of the pre-installed bloatware. Over the life of my S5, Samsung had decided to add even more non-removable crapware to the phone . . . after the purchase. Eventually I could not even do OS updates and h...
[23:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:46] <exec> 08└─You've been able to do that since iOS 10. And even when I couldn't do that, I ended up just creating a "Crap I don't need" group, put all the unwanted stuff in there, and moving the group to it's own home screen so it didn't clutter the screens I actually used. Finally, the stocks app barely qualifi...
[23:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:47] <exec> 08└─I would only ever go back to Android if I was guaranteed an unlocked boot loader so I could remove all the bloat ware/spyware.
[23:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 1895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:49] <exec> 08└─Oh, I fight it, but of late, I've been losing that one. I hacked an old Samsung Galaxy tablet to put Cyanogenmod on it. Had to, as the last version of official Android available was 4.0, and I wanted some features that weren't available until 4.1. Like, the very simple ability to go full screen, rea...
[23:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:52] <exec> 08└─You are not mis-rembering. They were mistaken in my case. On my 2nd Google phone now, not likely to ever go back.
[23:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:54] <exec> 08└─One more thing . . . On a Google phone, you are first in line for updates. And security updates are monthly, sometimes more. OS updates are prompt. That was something else I didn't get from Samsung.
[23:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:56] <exec> 08└─Users have found that applications like Facebook can't be uninstalled, which has caused some distress given the recent data breaches and lack of respect Facebook has shown towards its users in the past decade.
[23:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:58] <exec> 08└─You still trust Sony? I have avoided that company since that rootkits like businesses avoid hiring an ex-con. They sold off, for a quick handskake, that which meant nothing to a Sony Executive: Their Reputation. For a Hand-Shake.
[23:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Users Upset With Undeletable Apps, Samsung Nonplussed - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:01] <exec> 08└─Samsung does not care because people keep buying their phone. I have been using Sony Xperia XZ phones for a few years and, to their credit, Sony has been aggressive about getting their stuff into the AOSP and making it very simple to unlock the bootloader. I was just looking at the XZ2 Compact Dual...
[23:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning to Detect Software Vulnerabilities - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:41] <exec> 08└─I swear it was just yesterday that I was reading about an ML tool that was hiding information in plain sight by encoding it in high frequency detail.
[23:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Late Christmas Present - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:05] <exec> 08└─Sometimes all it takes is one small but critical detail. Reminds me of a developer who complained that one of the pages they wrote has started running slow and complained about the infrastructure being inadequate. After some investigation, it turned out they were doing a select * on blah without a w...
[23:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Late Christmas Present - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:06] <exec> 08└─You.... You understood that.
[23:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Late Christmas Present - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:08] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't this break existing URLs that link to specific pages?
[23:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Late Christmas Present - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:11] <exec> 08└─It's just another clone.
[23:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GitHub Free Users now Get Unlimited Private Repositories - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:49] <exec> 08└─While I self-host a lot, I keep re-learning I'm not a good system admin.
[23:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Academics at the Indian Science Congress Dismiss Einstein's Theories - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:28] <exec> 08└─But if you want to be taken seriously you'll need another theory which explains everything explained by Eintein's one plus your new observations. Next it must also make prediction of phenomena which can be subsequently observed and verified by independent observers. Go ahead. Fill your boots!
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