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[00:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:40] <exec> 08└─Who killed RSS?
[00:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:41] <exec> 08└─RSS is dead? I keep missing memos.
[00:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TechieRefugee [5665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:43] <exec> 08└─Considering I get a good bit of info through RSS (actually I was a bit of a late bloomer to this, I only started using it last April or so), yeah nobody. How long until "The Rise and Demise of IRC"? "The Rise and Demise of FTP"?
[00:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:45] <exec> 08└─RSS works just fine. It's just that it's not as profitable if people visit a news site one item at a time, instead of using the front page or an app, which are crammed with ads.
[00:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:48] <exec> 08└─It's as dead as bulletin board systems, IRC, MUDs, and whatever else the general Internet-using populace has no clue ever existed but people with a clue still use today just fine. Heck, I've even been contemplating starting up my own BBS over SSH and becoming a FidoNet node.
[00:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:50] <exec> 08└─FTP will never F%&%ing die, no matter how many times I try to explain to people that a plaintext protocol that is older than they are isn't really the best choice in the 21st Century. That damned protocol will outlive every one of us.
[00:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cadillac Shocks Detroit Auto Show with Electric SUV Preview - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:27] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile in China, a nice little affordable EV commuter for less than $10k: https://news.thomasnet.com [thomasnet.com] Also video: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] The range reports are all over the place but...
[00:34:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 257 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:36] <exec> 08└─Greed? Is the desire to continue to make money in order to keep your business afloat, pay your staff, and feed your family greedy? I know most fortune 500 CEOs don't but small companies sometimes care about their employees because they know them personally.
[00:34:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 132 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:46] <exec> 08└─They are, and so are their customers. It's called taxes. It's also called cabin rental fees, which were also paid to the government.
[00:35:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 776 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:02] <exec> 08└─Even without having a dispute, half of Trump's base would go for the shutdown. Shutting down government? Yes please! Right up until it impacts them directly, like the airports shutting down or the farmers not getting their Trade-War Bailout checks. Polls show that even democrat voters want the wall....
[00:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:22] <exec> 08└─The air traffic controllers might like to consider how reliable their only employer is, and look for another career. From the outside it looks like a really odd way to run a country.
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[00:36:04] <exec> 08└─I used Gandi.net for a client and it caused me more than a fair bit of grief, including downtime due to their infrastructure problems (more than a couple hours)--I'll spare the rest of the laundry list because it's mild in comparison. I'd strongly urge people to avoid them, based off my limited expe...
[00:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Beans 2021 - 5086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:22] <exec> 08└─We're also nowhere close to needing to farm in space (as distinct from on other planets) - that would require a large human presence in one of the most dangerous environments ever discovered by man. Which would serve... what purpose exactly? Nobody is even seriously suggesting we do so. The Moon or...
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[01:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Announces Radeon VII GPU, Teases Third-Generation Ryzen CPU - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:34] <exec> 08└─This is not a gaming card, it is a compute card for (high-end) gaming prices. A major bottleneck of computing on GPU is moving data from system memory to GPU memory, the number of cores and clock speed really isn't a big deal in comparison. Is there a comparable card with 16GB of GPU memory? On amaz...
[01:33:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:44] <exec> 08└─RSS works just fine. It's just that it's not as profitable if people visit a news site one item at a time, instead of using the front page or an app, which are crammed with ads.
[01:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:48] <exec> 08└─New users have started using the internet skipping the details of how this internet came to be and the older and recent history. They just want to visit "their" facebook page and upload a rectangle of pixels to it. Also, websites spy on their users, whether they came from RSS or whatever and nobody...
[01:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:51] <exec> 08└─I actually hope FTP dies soon... it's a more complex protocol than people give it credit for. Consider setting up firewall rules for HTTP or SSH... pretty darned simple, open 443 or 22; done. Now FTP on the other hand.. 21 plus a port range and to cap it all off there's no encryption https://www.mdj...
[01:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:53] <exec> 08└─I suspect its propaganda along the lines of "when did you stop beating your wife?" leading questions. I certainly don't see much change in use or quantity of info from my newsblur use. My guess is "big social media" is dying so a short term reaction is to declare everything else dead especially comp...
[01:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:55] <exec> 08└─Now They Are Coming For RSS
[01:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:57] <exec> 08└─I've been thinking of going back to USENET. I'm sure this "world wide web" thing is just a fad.
[01:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Atlantic Anomaly: Study Reveals Magnetic Pole ‘Wobble’ has been Growing for 1000 Years - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:08] <exec> 08└─So many have been added recently (using public money) to store the rich. They and their fat-filled bodies will be stored there until the surface of the planet can become habitable again. If something has become public, it has been going on for much longer and plans have been developed to save the se...
[01:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy Sneakily Injects JavaScript into Websites - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:13] <exec> 08└─We've been using nearlyfreespeech.net and gandi.net for years with 0 issues. I highly recommend both.
[01:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy Sneakily Injects JavaScript into Websites - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:15] <exec> 08└─I registered two personal domains with APlus.net in 2000. The websites & email have worked great the whole time. The few times that I had a problem, it was quickly fixed via their live chat.
[01:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turkey's Magical Hangover Cure (Pickle Juice) - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:17] <exec> 08└─No one ever tried the devil's submarine?? Get a pint of beer and drop a shot of tabasco. Chunk it up and in a matter of minutes you can start all over again. If you have to drive back home you just need some fresh garlic and some luck
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[02:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06South Atlantic Anomaly: Study Reveals Magnetic Pole ‘Wobble’ has been Growing for 1000 Years - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:05] <exec> 08└─The magnetic field has flipped a bunch of times. If man could go extinct in the wild from a flip, it would have happened millions of years ago.
[02:34:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Tomato Plant Aroma to Protect Crops - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:12] <exec> 08└─It's a resizable leaf pore that enables gas absorption.
[02:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:30] <exec> 08└─1. Keep the sociopath leaders too scared to try any crap, and as far as possible, make sure companies are run by people who are not sociopaths.
[02:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:31] <exec> 08└─He was right though. Until the past week or so, it's been well above freezing here in MI. Now it's below freezing, but still no snow on the ground in my area.
[02:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:33] <exec> 08└─> To be fair, the politicians are turning up to their jobs every day, so probably should be getting paid. Tell that to all the people who miss a commitment which causes their company to have to close while they try to recover. Especially when the closure persists because they don't just get together...
[02:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:35] <exec> 08└─Have you noticed how the shutdown has replaced Muller in the news ? Not an accident. Master of diversion at work.
[02:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 1857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:38] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure myself, but you're probably right. They still need to clean bathrooms, enforce laws, and empty the trash. And the money for that has to come from somewhere. Summer at Yellowstone has about 90% of the total year's visitation of well over 4 million visitors (the winter covering most of th...
[02:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:40] <exec> 08└─Is it that hard to prepare and vote in a bill to have basic funding for essential services always?
[02:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy Sneakily Injects JavaScript into Websites - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:24] <exec> 08└─We need a SoylentNews group: go together and pressure, say, Linode to give us a good price on web hosting!
[02:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Beans 2021 - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:44] <exec> 08└─Anything. Anything that works and makes the whole thing practical without constant pollution and many gravities on the way out. :) -- No, I didn't trip. That was a random gravity check.
[02:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Beans 2021 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:46] <exec> 08└─We're also nowhere close to needing to farm in space
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[03:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Eugeniu Iordachescu, Engineer who Moved Bucharest's Centuries-Old Churches, has Died at 89 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:35] <exec> 08└─Impressive feat. Too bad it was to save houses of child molestation.
[03:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eugeniu Iordachescu, Engineer who Moved Bucharest's Centuries-Old Churches, has Died at 89 - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:36] <exec> 08└─There were probably a few that weren't. And for many people the church itself may hold important memories of part loved ones or special occasions. Personally, I don't give a fuck about the churchs as churches, but I do believe old buildings that are not fundamentally flawed in their architecture sho...
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[03:33:38] <exec> 08└─The saved churches were orthodox ones. In the Orthodox Christianity, priests can marry before being ordained [orthodoxanswers.org] and most actually are.
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[03:33:41] <exec> 08└─It wasn't just Churches he saved either. He saved any 'landmark' buildings he could get permission to move that the regime didn't destroy before he could get a crew together to help relocate them. And keep in mind he wasn't apparently a religious man, just an appreciator of 'classical' architecture,...
[03:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Announces Radeon VII GPU, Teases Third-Generation Ryzen CPU - 1685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:50] <exec> 08└─I already looked. The RTX2060 is the closest 'cheap' card that Nvidia has, at 350 for 6GIG ram and competitive performance to the Vega 56 (it is comparable to RX570/580 on Single precision, but close to Vega 56 on FP16/FP64). As far as GPU memory goes, AMD is hands up the winner compared to NVidia,...
[03:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:07] <exec> 08└─Who killed RSS?
[03:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:09] <exec> 08└─channel, which is connected to the clearnet one. There are at least two Synchronet based BBSes up on it (not sure if either has automated registration, so they may be accessible to new users), plus Retroshare has nodes all across it. For that matter there are a few Tor based BBSes as well, not inclu...
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[03:34:21] <exec> 08└─I suspect this thread so far consists of mostly "gallows humor".
[03:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:52] <exec> 08└─And then picked up by the MSM. If the people of the united states rebelled against taxes (maybe akin to the ORIGINAL boston tea party and the original members of the upstart tea party from a few years ago, before it was coopted...) we would be in a lot better position to hold congresscritters feet o...
[03:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:53] <exec> 08└─as with all GOP propaganda it's half true at best
[03:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:56] <exec> 08└─Executed for treason each day until the budget is balanced. That is the only way to get our budget handled quickly and bring our politicians to heel. Hitting them in the pocketbook is fine and well, but if you truly want to put the threat of the citizenry in them, have a few of them go up on the pik...
[03:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, fair enough. It's an odd way to run a country alright.
[03:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:00] <exec> 08└─This has been true for 25+ years. They can shut down the government to make the other side look bad, and play a game of economic chicken to see which side's polling numbers drop faster. If it is a weak majority or minority they may be able to defect just enough people from the other side to win thei...
[03:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:02] <exec> 08└─No, the 27th amendment doesn't quite "lock salaries in stone" -- it just says laws affecting Congressional salaries can't go into effect until the next Congress. There's probably nothing in that amendment that would prevent Congress from adopting a law saying "In the event of a shutdown, Congress do...
[03:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:05] <exec> 08└─I'm in a state just south of you and have snow on the ground.
[03:36:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zemm [7178] 02 - 06GoDaddy Sneakily Injects JavaScript into Websites - 672 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:17] <exec> 08└─They may be alright for domain names, but as a web host, I would strongly advise anyone against using them. Their tech support is worthless and unhelpful. One example: They changed backend settings on one of the sites hosted by my workplace which entirely broke the website hosted there. (Shared host...
[03:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy Sneakily Injects JavaScript into Websites - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:50] <exec> 08└─To me, TRUST is damm near everything. If I can' t trust it, what good is it? Unfortunately, many companies will sell off their trusted reputation, which took many years to easablish, for a quick executive level handshake.
[03:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oak Ridge National Laboratory Increases Plutonium Production for Eventual Use in Space Missions - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:12] <exec> 08└─Assuming (ass u me ing) it stays there, perhaps contaminating something (or someplace) we might want to visit in the future? Contaminating (or perhaps, destroying) some life form of which we're unaware? Falling back to our planet? Yeah, it's kinda doubtful, but why take the chance? We should conside...
[03:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oak Ridge National Laboratory Increases Plutonium Production for Eventual Use in Space Missions - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:13] <exec> 08└─One gram of it, aerosolized, is enough to (eventually) kill every human on Earth. Bad stuph.
[03:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkey's Magical Hangover Cure (Pickle Juice) - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:58] <exec> 08└─Not sure if you got the reference, you incorrigible redneck, since you are living the movie instead of ever having seen it, except the central character was Army, so smarter than the average swabie. Idiocracy [imdb.com], once thought to be comedy and satire, but now we see it as prophecy. Brawndo ha...
[03:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkey's Magical Hangover Cure (Pickle Juice) - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:00] <exec> 08└─#FreeByzantium!!!
[03:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Had Opened an Investigation into Trump Ties to Russia - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:26] <exec> 08└─Fair enough, I was slightly mistaken, (good enough for hypocrite Sara S. good enough for me). "Democratic leaders rallied behind a bipartisan plan that would also give 1.8 million Dreamers a chance for citizenship. But while it would provide the $25 billion Trump wants for his wall, it would dole it...
[03:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Had Opened an Investigation into Trump Ties to Russia - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:27] <exec> 08└─Regan granted amnesty to 2.7 million illegal immigrants. Trump could learn a lot from history. Of course, that means reading something longer than a tweet without pictures.
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[04:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06Eugeniu Iordachescu, Engineer who Moved Bucharest's Centuries-Old Churches, has Died at 89 - 1386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:47] <exec> 08└─This is Romania - 2nd world, not 1st world. If you'd care to get a passport and travel to open up your mind, you'd realize how ridiculously ignorant your comment sounds. Having been to most of this world, I'll put Bucharest in perspective for you: It's getting cleaned up and becoming more european,...
[04:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eugeniu Iordachescu, Engineer who Moved Bucharest's Centuries-Old Churches, has Died at 89 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:48] <exec> 08└─Copy Slashdot codebase, change color to Communist Red.
[04:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eugeniu Iordachescu, Engineer who Moved Bucharest's Centuries-Old Churches, has Died at 89 - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:50] <exec> 08└─You got it wrong, the child molesters are the catholic ones. The orthodox priests kill the nuns with exorcism: https://www.dailymail.co.uk [dailymail.co.uk]
[04:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Radeon VII GPU, Teases Third-Generation Ryzen CPU - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:00] <exec> 08└─Then Ryzen CPUs, which typically become system bottlenecks at 1080p and below due to single threaded performance, will pair beautifully with cards like the VII, where all of that memory is available for larger textures. Red Team will be the Intel/Nvidia slayers for 4k gaming for at least the next ye...
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[04:34:03] <exec> 08└─Supposedly there is tensorflow support for AMD cards via ROCm now: https://www.phoronix.com [phoronix.com] I haven't found any success stories yet though.
[04:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:22] <exec> 08└─Maybe we should learn some English before RSSing our crap all over the place.
[04:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Atlantic Anomaly: Study Reveals Magnetic Pole ‘Wobble’ has been Growing for 1000 Years - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:35] <exec> 08└─The magnetic field has flipped a bunch of times. If man could go extinct in the wild from a flip, it would have happened millions of years ago.
[04:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tomato Plant Aroma to Protect Crops - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:52] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't be a shame to attract millions of tomato worms, some travelling for miles, to arrive only to discover after their journey, there's no tomatoes?
[04:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:15] <exec> 08└─Well, yes, that's a fair technicality.
[04:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkey's Magical Hangover Cure (Pickle Juice) - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:09] <exec> 08└─What you need to understand is, the movie is the dumbed-down version of several stories, written by several authors. You've heard of the Eloi and the Morlocks? I'm fairly sure that was the first version of the story. More, a number of us have been warning the world about the idiocracy for decades.
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[05:33:36] <exec> 08└─So kind of like the Brexit of the skies, then, isn't it? No need to reply. Point made.
[05:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:20] <exec> 08└─I keep missing memos.
[05:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cadillac Shocks Detroit Auto Show with Electric SUV Preview - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:04] <exec> 08└─Cadillac is a luxury marque. If you've ever sat in a Tesla, you know it's not a luxury car. They spent too much on the powertrain and batteries to do a nice interior. It's crap. Cadillac is trying to bring luxury to the EV segment. Even Mercedes hasn't been able to crack this one - the B class is a...
[05:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Beans 2021 - 6068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:23] <exec> 08└─>1G of stress isn't even close to an engineering problem. You're right, it's not. Not until you weigh the cost of the stronger superstructure against the much larger and more capable station you could build for the same price if you only had to withstand half of that. >Any solar panels don't have to...
[05:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Birth of a Black Hole or Neutron Star Captured for the First Time - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:37] <exec> 08└─What specifically is impossible in your mind? I'll admit the idea of a point with *no* dimensions and *infinite* density bothers me, a lot, but it may just be that these represent the end of our ability to describe them rather than literal infinities...then again i just move medicines for a living,...
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[06:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Loses Control of Only Space Telescope - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:32] <exec> 08└─Really?
[06:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Loses Control of Only Space Telescope - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:33] <exec> 08└─The orbit of this telescope passes through radiation belts. As electronic devices don't last long there, the telescope had three sets of transceivers. This time the last one is dead or dying. The replacement telescope is still on Earth, undergoing testing.
[06:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Loses Control of Only Space Telescope - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:35] <exec> 08└─The orbit of this telescope passes through radiation belts.
[06:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Loses Control of Only Space Telescope - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, really.
[06:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Loses Control of Only Space Telescope - 2993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:40] <exec> 08└─It's an accurate descriptor. They have been restructured repeatedly, some of their recent science missions have failed (Fobos-Grunt), they have lost launch business to SpaceX, India, etc., and they will lose more money once NASA switches to SpaceX and Boeing for manned launches to the ISS. Then you...
[06:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Loses Control of Only Space Telescope - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:42] <exec> 08└─Entirely unrelated. It was launched into this orbit by request of astronomers, to have a large baseline.
[06:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airlander 10: World's Longest Aircraft Gets Full-Production Go-Ahead - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:51] <exec> 08└─Like that scene, on the Zeppelin, where Indy tosses the Nazi out the window, and then proclaims, "No ticket!". Better than punching Nazis in the face, is throwing them off the "Flying Bum". Irony meter again subject to inputs well in excess of original design parameters!
[06:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airlander 10: World's Longest Aircraft Gets Full-Production Go-Ahead - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:53] <exec> 08└─I had to think of this film The Big Bus [wikipedia.org].
[06:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airlander 10: World's Longest Aircraft Gets Full-Production Go-Ahead - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:55] <exec> 08└─DailyFail story, what one is to expect of it? For instance, as a caption of one of the photos, one can read: The original mode cost £25 million to produce and was sued as a surveillance aircraft by the US army, before HAV bought it for civilian use
[06:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airlander 10: World's Longest Aircraft Gets Full-Production Go-Ahead - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:57] <exec> 08└─next phase of development is being funded by the insurance claim after the last crash. Hope they have a nore sustainable investment model for the future!
[06:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eugeniu Iordachescu, Engineer who Moved Bucharest's Centuries-Old Churches, has Died at 89 - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:11] <exec> 08└─orthodox priests are allowed to get married. so the proportion of pedophiles should be more or less the same as that in the regular population, since there's no prerequisite of deviant sexual behaviour (yes, I consider abstinence a form of deviant sexual behavior, since it's not normal, and I'm anon...
[06:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Announces Radeon VII GPU, Teases Third-Generation Ryzen CPU - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:22] <exec> 08└─AMD needs to release new thread repairs like once a year. Their cpus are so buggy that all the fanbois get excited for each new repair.
[06:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Radeon VII GPU, Teases Third-Generation Ryzen CPU - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe if I have enough money (aaaahahaha) by the time Ryzen 3xxx is out I'll get back into Gentoo/Funtoo with it. Whichever of the chips can reasonably fit into the Fractal Design Node 202 case with a Noctua L9H-AM4 cooler, a tiny Optane SSD, and as much RAM as possible, is my target. Imagine someth...
[06:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:46] <exec> 08└─If you give stuff away for free, you must be a Commie/Socialist/enemy of the state, so you deserve to die.
[06:35:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 8 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:58] <exec> 08└─Mad Max.
[06:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:39] <exec> 08└─Guess this just proves atheists can be religious too...
[06:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:41] <exec> 08└─You win stupidest idea of the week award.
[06:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy Sneakily Injects JavaScript into Websites - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:28] <exec> 08└─Please be posting this from a not-at-work machine, preferably behind a proxy. I'd hate for the company to pick up on who this is and blackball you. They're the kind of scum who'd do that, based on my past experience with them (no, never as an employee, thank Madokami).
[06:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farmer Tim [6490] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oak Ridge National Laboratory Increases Plutonium Production for Eventual Use in Space Missions - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:53] <exec> 08└─The things in that video are called remote manipulators or waldos. Guess what the technical difference is between those and robots (hint: it’s a word starting with A). https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[06:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oak Ridge National Laboratory Increases Plutonium Production for Eventual Use in Space Missions - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:54] <exec> 08└─Technically "OO-ran-ous" if we're going back to the proper Greek (Ouranos/the heavens). Which is weird, given all the other names are Roman. You'd think it'd be "Caelestus" or something.
[06:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turkey's Magical Hangover Cure (Pickle Juice) - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:43] <exec> 08└─More, a number of us have been warning the world about the idiocracy by role playing it for decades.
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[07:33:39] <exec> 08└─A new cycle of pump-and-dump began with news that a nobody in Russia said something grandiose.
[07:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airlander 10: World's Longest Aircraft Gets Full-Production Go-Ahead - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:03] <exec> 08└─Why would those passengers choose this airship? Where would they fly from and to? Will they even trust an "airline", knowing that the previous model crashed? At this point the company is best at insuring their product and later collecting the money. The airship is filled with helium. On one hand,...
[07:34:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03chromas [34] 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 15 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:35] <exec> 08└─Who killed RSS?
[07:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oak Ridge National Laboratory Increases Plutonium Production for Eventual Use in Space Missions - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:56] <exec> 08└─Thanks for doubting that assertion. On reflection, the "one gram" is probably from my faltering memory. I should think that it would take at least 454 grams (one pound) to achieve that effect. I regret that I'm unable to locate the book from which I read the statistic... my library is packed away, p...
[07:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Steam-Powered Hopper Spacecraft Could Explore Asteroids Indefinitely - 2819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:12] <exec> 08└─You're tweeting about me. I can tell you're tweeting about me. Saying some things that are very nasty. And by the way, not true. So many foolish people say, "oh, his hands are very small." They haven't seen my hands. My hands are too big. Really, they're too big. But the haters & loosers say, "oh, s...
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[08:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Russia Plans to Tackle US Sanctions With $10 Billion Bitcoin Investment - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:35] <exec> 08└─Got the bit-c0in in my Russian pocket! To be rich, all you have to do is send me your bank credentials, so I might make a mighty dump in your account! иди с Богом!!
[08:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Plans to Tackle US Sanctions With $10 Billion Bitcoin Investment - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:37] <exec> 08└─a nobody in Russia
[08:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airlander 10: World's Longest Aircraft Gets Full-Production Go-Ahead - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:02] <exec> 08└─Taking passengers?
[08:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:51] <exec> 08└─"Whom" is deprecated. Everyone uses Whobook and Whotter now.
[08:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Space Beans 2021 - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:01] <exec> 08└─Not until you weigh the cost of the stronger superstructure against the much larger and more capable station you could build for the same price if you only had to withstand half of that.
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[08:40:59] <exec> 08└─Yes? And when your "prior" ends up, in the technical jargon, just wrong? And you amend it, to "less wrong"? But now the same conundrum occurs, and you realize you are not a Bayesian at all, since God does, or does not, play dice with the universe?
[08:42:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06Nobel Prize-Winning American Scientist James Watson Stripped of Honorary Titles - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:46] <exec> 08└─Reverse discrimination is still discrimination, and doesn't make things better.
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[09:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only; AMD Radeon VII: Less Than 5,000 Available - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:35] <exec> 08└─Great, it'll be even faster to exploit the speculative execution flaws they still haven't addressed!
[09:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Radeon VII GPU, Teases Third-Generation Ryzen CPU - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:36] <exec> 08└─Are you moving from Ryzen 1700/1800 to 12-16 cores? I could imagine that setup lasting a long time. In fact, it could last until "the end". Ryzen will have at least one "7nm+" refresh and make it onto the "5nm" node. From there we start looking into the distance... either a Moore's law abyss of "1-3...
[09:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:01] <exec> 08└─It's sad that some pages have built in feeds but no button to click to subscribe. The usual fix is to view source and ctrl+f "rss". I don't think I could stand using the internet without it tho. All my webcomics have RSS, I get my youtube subscription feed via RSS, I get notified of available softwa...
[09:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:02] <exec> 08└─TEXT and binary transfer mode... the most awkward option in a protocol if you ask me.
[09:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:05] <exec> 08└─I'm one of the many users of TT-RSS. My list of feeds in there is rather long. It's my main, if not only, means of keeping up-to-date on news from all over. That list of feeds has (english, french, german language) sources from all over Europe, GB, the USA - the kind of "serious" media I read have a...
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[10:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only; AMD Radeon VII: Less Than 5,000 Available - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:35] <exec> 08└─Oh, come on, this is clearly nothing more than a publicity stunt, trying to get people who remember the glory days of the GHz wars back to consciousness with a nice warm fuzzy feeling of nostalgia (and then hopefully to get them opening their wallets again, for whatever scraps are available).
[10:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Loses Control of Only Space Telescope - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:56] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily unrelated. A lot of orbiting spacecraft use the Earth's magnetic field to offload torque from their attitude control system.
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[11:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only; AMD Radeon VII: Less Than 5,000 Available - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:44] <exec> 08└─These documents show that the processors will not be sold at retail; rather they will only be sold to system integrators, and then only through a closed online auction
[11:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only; AMD Radeon VII: Less Than 5,000 Available - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:45] <exec> 08└─Liquid nitrogen not included.
[11:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Plans to Tackle US Sanctions With $10 Billion Bitcoin Investment - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:56] <exec> 08└─Nigerian Tzar.
[11:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airlander 10: World's Longest Aircraft Gets Full-Production Go-Ahead - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:22] <exec> 08└─And if that fails, they can paint a thong on this thing [traveller.com.au], or maybe drape a skirt over it, and sell videos of it mooning around on Pornhub.
[11:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eugeniu Iordachescu, Engineer who Moved Bucharest's Centuries-Old Churches, has Died at 89 - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:37] <exec> 08└─I was very honored that he came to the White House. He's doing the 2% for NATO. Something so many wouldn't do. But, too bad what happened to the Ceausescus (RIP!!). Murdered, so tragically. They brought their country very far. And they're greatly missed. Buildings, I know more than anybody about bui...
[11:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:19] <exec> 08└─‘Do you not know that a protocol is not dead while its name is still spoken?’ - Sir Terry Pratchett
[11:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:20] <exec> 08└─They can pry my pipedot feed from my cold dead clammy hands.
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[12:33:37] <exec> 08└─Proof-of-concept: https://my.bluehost.com”><script>alert(document.d omain)</script>
[12:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: One-Click Client-Side Account Takeovers of Popular Web Hosting Platforms - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:38] <exec> 08└─...about possible patent violation.
[12:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: One-Click Client-Side Account Takeovers of Popular Web Hosting Platforms - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:41] <exec> 08└─Funny even SN could not handle the below text: Proof-of-concept: https://my.bluehost.com”><script>alert(document.d omain)</script>
[12:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airlander 10: World's Longest Aircraft Gets Full-Production Go-Ahead - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:26] <exec> 08└─In the main article and as a photo caption: "The original mode cost £25 million to produce and was sued as a surveillance aircraft by the US army, before HAV bought it for civilian use." s/mode/model/ s/sued/used/
[12:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eugeniu Iordachescu, Engineer who Moved Bucharest's Centuries-Old Churches, has Died at 89 - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:42] <exec> 08└─You need to read the full story. The woman was a schizophrenic who was engaging in self-harm which is why she was restrained, and it occurred in a relatively remote region of Romania where the closest thing to mental health care is an exorcism by a priest to drive out the evil spirits. There was a l...
[12:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Radeon VII GPU, Teases Third-Generation Ryzen CPU - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:56] <exec> 08└─My current Linux gaming rig - ha, ha, ha - has an AMD FX-8320. I've thought about getting a Ryzen 7 2700X, but I think I'll hold out for these chips in the summer. I wouldn't be surprised if the 15% boost in single-threaded performance is an exaggeration or only applies on a few key benchmarks. But...
[12:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:26] <exec> 08└─I plan to write a FTP server in COBOL when I retire, link to immortal pieces of technology together.
[12:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:27] <exec> 08└─-1 redundant Mozilla tries to kill all sorts of things all over the place.
[12:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:30] <exec> 08└─It's been done [wikipedia.org]
[12:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:24] <exec> 08└─We're talking about a president wanting 0.11% of the budget to start making true on his central campaign promise Quite frankly if congress isn't willing to compromise that much with the president... Then that president is absolutely right in playing hardball I'm also fairly certain Trump has the stu...
[12:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:26] <exec> 08└─you do realize that if they resign they stop being 'essential employees' right?
[12:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:28] <exec> 08└─You really think there are people who enjoy cleaning toilets filled with other people's shit and piss, and then just decide to earn a couple of cents while they're doing that?
[12:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that snow you had over the weekend didn't quite reach us.
[12:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy Sneakily Injects JavaScript into Websites - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:17] <exec> 08└─So you're saying"It's one dead parrot!" :)
[12:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oak Ridge National Laboratory Increases Plutonium Production for Eventual Use in Space Missions - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:44] <exec> 08└─Your new figure is just as false as the 1 gram assertion. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Had there been any malfunction causing the probe to collide with the Earth, NASA's complete environmental impact study estimated that, in the worst c...
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[13:33:32] <exec> 08└─AFAICT, the effect would be that the two stars would appear to move around a common point in the sky that moves as a single star would, so while it would make for some interesting length of day calculations as the stars alternate between which is first to rise/set first, you'd still have a day and n...
[13:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: One-Click Client-Side Account Takeovers of Popular Web Hosting Platforms - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:42] <exec> 08└─The bugs, now fixed -- according to Yibelo's writeup https://www.websiteplanet.com [websiteplanet.com] "It’s also important to note that during our process, Bluehost red-flagged our account and closed it down unceremoniously. No exact reason was given; however,...
[13:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only; AMD Radeon VII: Less Than 5,000 Available - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:53] <exec> 08└─Two of our biggest cyber Companies are working together. To make a very exclusive product. Less than 5000 made, they're doing an auction for this one. Something that, for one of them to do it by themselves would be almost impossible. One did the turbo. And the other did the accelerator. Very special...
[13:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only; AMD Radeon VII: Less Than 5,000 Available - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah that's kinda my point. They're doing everything they can to get people to forget about the glaring holes they haven't prioritized fixing. The more I see them trying, the more it makes me inclined to point out those severe security issues. Not that AMD's response to their own problems was all th...
[13:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Radeon VII GPU, Teases Third-Generation Ryzen CPU - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:01] <exec> 08└─15% might be underselling it. I've also heard that we can expect a roughly 13% IPC increase (compared to Zen+) combined with clock speed increases. Even going up from 3.5 GHz to 3.6 GHz (~1.029) multiplied by 1.13 surpasses 1.15. Combine that with well-binned 16-core parts, and maybe you could see 2...
[13:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:34] <exec> 08└─its funny, on my home network, or over the 2048 bit aes-256 vpn, regular ftp seems to fit my needs just fine. i dont add locks, not even privacy locks, on my refrigerator door and other points of the home that, technically, could be made less useful because someone else is insecure and has no concep...
[13:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. News Announces the 2019 Best Jobs - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:19] <exec> 08└─With millions of software developers unemployed and earning exactly zero to develop open source software for free, the claim cannot possibly be made that software developer is best job overall without permanently tarnishing the credibility of Soylent"News" as a news site. With millions unemployed wh...
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[14:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:39] <exec> 08└─... The ruling Communist Party's official mouthpiece the People's Daily tweeted ...
[14:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:41] <exec> 08└─And Jessica Chastain, so sexy. Great movie where NASA is working, very proudly, with the CNSA. They're doing the potatoes. And we hope their Moon Potatoes grow big and beautiful. In the Chinese poop, they call it Night Soil. But, The Martian isn't real. I'm not allowing NASA to work with China. And...
[14:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:43] <exec> 08└─But this means that Chang'e has colonized the moon... (cue David Bowie's Changes...)
[14:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only; AMD Radeon VII: Less Than 5,000 Available - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:12] <exec> 08└─Fewer than 5,000 available. If it is easily countable, its fewer, if it is a continuous quantity, or at least, not easily countable, it is less. And for those of you who don't care, the phrase is couldn't care less, not could care less, which makes no sense*. *Merriam-Webster sit's with it's butt fi...
[14:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airlander 10: World's Longest Aircraft Gets Full-Production Go-Ahead - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:51] <exec> 08└─Will they even trust an "airline", knowing that the previous model crashed?
[14:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Radeon VII GPU, Teases Third-Generation Ryzen CPU - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it could be awesome. One thing I am tempted to do is pick a motherboard that should be Zen 2 compatible and just buy something like a Ryzen 3 or maybe lower end Ryzen 5 for now, and then see if I can upgrade in the fall after the initial price spike on the Zen 2 parts ends. Though if they're g...
[14:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:57] <exec> 08└─I first saw this post in my RSS reader. I can get my information much quicker in one reader than if I visit every web site that I use RSS for. I would most likely not visit most of the sites very often if I had to use a web browser. I also liked it when twitter could be accessed by my reader. I only...
[14:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:59] <exec> 08└─Not a gopher server? I think you're missing out on a big chunk of the market!
[14:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cadillac Shocks Detroit Auto Show with Electric SUV Preview - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:43] <exec> 08└─I'm not a fan of GM, but they've had their full electric Chevy Bolt hatchback on sale since December 2016. The Chevy Volt was also spectacularly brilliant, and would have been the crown jewel of the company lineup if gas prices had spiked between the time it launched in 2011 and today. But they did...
[14:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cadillac Shocks Detroit Auto Show with Electric SUV Preview - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:45] <exec> 08└─Of course the Leaf is cheaper than the Bolt, and the Bolt is cheaper than the Model 3. Those are important details.
[14:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:02] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the link. Yeah, that's basically what I thought it was. A sprinkling of snow, but not enough to require grooming because it's too thin. So the dude in TFA who said he's spending $7500/day to groom trails in Yellowstone is scamming the gullible media, hoping for a federal payday when the g...
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[15:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Billion-Dollar Question: What Was Really Behind Qualcomm's Surprise Ten-Digit Gift to Apple? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:31] <exec> 08└─These are attributes that modern businessmen admire. In the business world, all the actors here are "winners".
[15:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Billion-Dollar Question: What Was Really Behind Qualcomm's Surprise Ten-Digit Gift to Apple? - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:33] <exec> 08└─To give these types of monopolies that companies can do whatever they want with? Isn't the whole point of patents to reduce competition to encourage companies to develop these technologies and eventually have them be in the public domain. If you disagree with what's happening then you disagree with...
[15:33:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 521 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:41] <exec> 08└─And Jessica Chastain, so sexy. Great movie where NASA is working, very proudly, with the CNSA. They're doing the potatoes. And we hope their Moon Potatoes grow big and beautiful. In the Chinese poop, they call it Night Soil. But, The Martian isn't real. I'm not allowing NASA to work with China. And...
[15:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:44] <exec> 08└─No. "With a robot" is to colonization what "on a computer" is (well, should be) to patents.
[15:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:47] <exec> 08└─It's too bad the 'West' is so obsessed with Mars: we could have been colonizing the moon. I'd have volunteered to be there. Build a base, work out the kinks, THEN go to Mars. Instead, I'll have to learn Mandarin.
[15:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:49] <exec> 08└─The Chinese Moon lander was carrying among its cargo soil containing cotton and potato seeds, yeast and fruit fly eggs. The plants are in a sealed container on board the lander. The crops will try to form a mini biosphere - an artificial, self-sustaining environment.
[15:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:51] <exec> 08└─"the completion of humankind's first biological experiment on the Moon"
[15:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 1713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:53] <exec> 08└─And the legal status of "what should be" in regard to patents done 'on a computer' is what, versus what actually occurs? Paraphrasing Heinlein, lawyers really don't care what should be as "should be's" almost never make them money where what "actually is" does. But let's say you're right and it must...
[15:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:56] <exec> 08└─Learn Mandarin? Do you want to go to Marts, or Mandalay?
[15:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 1488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:58] <exec> 08└─But... if it's sealed and self-contained... what exactly does that prove? That things trapped in an Earth-like environment grow like in an Earth-like environment? I mean, it's something that has to be done at some point, but is it really that big a deal if we've already done it aboard ISS? Now, if t...
[15:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 1142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:00] <exec> 08└─No one is living on the moon. It makes absolutely no sense and is a ridiculous and insane idea. We should prohibit funding of such ideas as they are a waste of money and resources. On the moon, temperatures vary from 127 C to -170 C.There is no air. There is only trace amounts of water. The dust is...
[15:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only; AMD Radeon VII: Less Than 5,000 Available - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:31] <exec> 08└─It was always couldn't care less. The "could care less" thing is people just parroting it incorrectly, it's an entirely American invention too (OED marks it as North American only). If you COULD care less, that means you care some amount already - i.e. you do care to some extent. If you COULDN'T car...
[15:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airlander 10: World's Longest Aircraft Gets Full-Production Go-Ahead - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:11] <exec> 08└─Why would those passengers choose this airship? Where would they fly from and to?
[15:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eugeniu Iordachescu, Engineer who Moved Bucharest's Centuries-Old Churches, has Died at 89 - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:28] <exec> 08└─Went looking for more information. In the first page of results, a nice article from the Grauniad: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] offers more information, including links to some of the churches that were moved. Good...
[15:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eugeniu Iordachescu, Engineer who Moved Bucharest's Centuries-Old Churches, has Died at 89 - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:30] <exec> 08└─"Mommy, I want to learn how to science!" "Oh, sweetie, you know you will burn in hell if you do that. The world is the way it is because GOD. Since you seem to have forgotten, I had better ram some more of my 2000 year old book in to your orifices." They are ALL child molesters.
[15:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:21] <exec> 08└─*this* the signal to noise of RSS is almost useful... the signal to noise of news site is almost useless...
[15:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06South Atlantic Anomaly: Study Reveals Magnetic Pole ‘Wobble’ has been Growing for 1000 Years - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:36] <exec> 08└─We can't use the same argument about the energy infrastructure or electronics, though.
[15:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06South Atlantic Anomaly: Study Reveals Magnetic Pole ‘Wobble’ has been Growing for 1000 Years - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:37] <exec> 08└─I suspect this thread so far consists of mostly "gallows khallow humor".
[15:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:28] <exec> 08└─That is because I had just driven across Pennsylvania, and there was no snow.
[15:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:29] <exec> 08└─I deny it when I've been in the place at the time they're talking about, and the conditions are not what the media are reporting. I deny it when family members who live in the area send me photos of 50F weather (that is, the ground is bare and they're wearing t-shirts and windbreakers), on the very...
[15:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy Sneakily Injects JavaScript into Websites - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:18] <exec> 08└─He's just a troll. He's never even met a godaddy employee. He'd have to leave his mama's basement to do so. You would be better off studying Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech.
[15:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oak Ridge National Laboratory Increases Plutonium Production for Eventual Use in Space Missions - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:47] <exec> 08└─That is informative. I'm going by how I have heard astronomers pronounce it on cable tv documentary programs back when I suffered from cable tv.
[15:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oak Ridge National Laboratory Increases Plutonium Production for Eventual Use in Space Missions - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:49] <exec> 08└─Cælus [wikipedia.org] was the name of the Roman sky god that they associated with Uranus/Ouranos in the same way they associated Aphrodite with Venus, Ares with Mars, Zeus with Jupiter, and so on.
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[16:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Billion-Dollar Question: What Was Really Behind Qualcomm's Surprise Ten-Digit Gift to Apple? - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:39] <exec> 08└─No matter how the tech sites try to spin this, I will never feel sorry for Apple. I don't care that they didn't get to dictate the prices that they'd pay Qualcomm for modems, and I don't feel sorry for them taking a $1B bribe. Not happening.
[16:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Billion-Dollar Question: What Was Really Behind Qualcomm's Surprise Ten-Digit Gift to Apple? - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:40] <exec> 08└─You should feel sorry for Apple because Michael David Crawford is not working there anymore. In the deservedly departed absence of Steve "Blow" Jobs, Apple is missing a Reality Distortion Field which Michael David "Cocksucker" Crawford is an expert at providing. Witness the one the only Michael Davi...
[16:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Billion-Dollar Question: What Was Really Behind Qualcomm's Surprise Ten-Digit Gift to Apple? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:42] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you have Crawford Derangement Syndrome. Are you equally deranged over Trump?
[16:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Billion-Dollar Question: What Was Really Behind Qualcomm's Surprise Ten-Digit Gift to Apple? - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:44] <exec> 08└─That depends. Is Trump a warmongering murderous war criminal yet just like Bush and Obama? Time will tell. Maybe enemies of the state will be hanging from Trump Wall real soon. Would you like a wall of executed terrorists?
[16:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 1384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:02] <exec> 08└─My wild-ass guesses: 1) Sure, variations been tried many times. The words you're looking for are "artificial biosphere". 2) Artificial light, obviously. "Self-sustaining" is a bit of a misnomer - how long do you want to sustain it? How do plants on earth survive very roughly 12 hours of darkness per...
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[16:34:04] <exec> 08└─the way they spell everything else it's probably pronounced "Schan-Gee" or something ...
[16:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:06] <exec> 08└─Glad you live in paradise, dude! So how is it in Olduvai Gorge?
[16:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:08] <exec> 08└─> I read that you need 10 full-grown trees just to make the O2 of one human Agreed. Might be true for Earth and it's moon but not the same on Mars. So yeah, not a lettuce proof for the red planet. Probably some deep-sea algae, dunno.
[16:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:10] <exec> 08└─Jawing away in the locker room? No - they haven't even arrived in the city where the stadium is waiting for them.
[16:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:13] <exec> 08└─Such negativity. Dude, you go to Florida, and I'll go to the moon, alright? You don't have to come along with us!!
[16:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:15] <exec> 08└─For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie. Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse [cloudflare-ipfs.com] It has blood on it! [cloudflare-ipfs.com] ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander [archive.org] Lunar Eclipse this Sun...
[16:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:17] <exec> 08└─CLoudflare has restricted their IPFS features for video. Here are fixed URLs. nat geo [wa.hle.rs] Mystery Red [wa.hle.rs] Blood on it [wa.hle.rs]
[16:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 2547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:19] <exec> 08└─Its a pointless experiment. Being able to grow a seed in a jar for a few weeks does not mean or prove anything about the habitability of the moon. No one is going to be living on the moon. Temperatures vary from 120 C to -170 C. There is no air. There is only trace water. The dust is toxic. It is ba...
[16:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protoplanetary Disks Can be Perpendicular to the Orbital Plane of Binary Stars - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:29] <exec> 08└─I'd say it's more likely that the stars wobbled into a different plane instead of the entire protoplanetary disk.
[16:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only; AMD Radeon VII: Less Than 5,000 Available - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:53] <exec> 08└─"flammable / inflammable" hahaha that's funny. i thought "flammable" is used for stuff that is supposed to be lite on fire ... whilst "inflamable" is used when you wan to use it but it might not be the best thing/material to use because it can (but should not) catch fire? nevermind, lame on!
[16:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only; AMD Radeon VII: Less Than 5,000 Available - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:55] <exec> 08└─Intel really should have just called this the i9-9590. That would clear up any confusion about this part.
[16:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only; AMD Radeon VII: Less Than 5,000 Available - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:57] <exec> 08└─it's literally impossible for you to care at a lower level than you already do
[16:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Plans to Tackle US Sanctions With $10 Billion Bitcoin Investment - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:08] <exec> 08└─this will prove to be a wise investment. fuck the bankster apologists.
[16:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Loses Control of Only Space Telescope - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:22] <exec> 08└─i thought they only point that thing at people they don't like?
[16:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airlander 10: World's Longest Aircraft Gets Full-Production Go-Ahead - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:41] <exec> 08└─Would an airship function in the updraft from a large fire? That seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
[16:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06South Atlantic Anomaly: Study Reveals Magnetic Pole ‘Wobble’ has been Growing for 1000 Years - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:07] <exec> 08└─I suspect this thread so far consists of mostly "gallows humor".
[16:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cadillac Shocks Detroit Auto Show with Electric SUV Preview - 2800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:41] <exec> 08└─Hmm, thought the Tesla Model 3 was cheaper, but it seems the price took a jump this year? Wasn't the Model 3 around $30k while the Bolt was about $40k? Checking, now it seems they've swapped price points. I see a starting price of $36,620 for the Bolt, with a cross and some fine print that says afte...
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[16:39:01] <exec> 08└─No doubt. And I'm sure there are controllers that are looking, plus there aren't many jobs (I'd imagine, anyway,) where the government can be the only possible employer. But they do indeed exist, and the real suprise would be if they aren't given all their back pay (for doing nothing) when governmen...
[16:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GoDaddy Sneakily Injects JavaScript into Websites - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:51] <exec> 08└─Q: Why do women rub their eyes when they wake up? A: Because the don't have balls to scratch. Yes, I suppose that it is discriminatory to notice that women have no balls. It's probably even more discriminatory that I only sleep with women who have no balls. But, that is life.
[16:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GoDaddy Sneakily Injects JavaScript into Websites - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:53] <exec> 08└─Amazon abuses their dominance to force employees to clock out before taking the six mile hike to the men's, women's, or unsure's restrooms.
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[17:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:38] <exec> 08└─Isn't this almost perfectly analogous to forcing someone to open a combination safe with punitive charges for refusal? Don't we already have a precedent for that? Serious question. I went looking and "safe, legal abortion" and this exact question pollute all the results I can find.
[17:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:39] <exec> 08└─This ruling is in general case. It doesn't preclude filing a request to unlock by specific individual. This the court indicated is more likely to be granted.
[17:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:42] <exec> 08└─"Isn't this almost perfectly analogous to forcing someone to open a combination safe with punitive charges for refusal?" NO. A safe could contain many different things. A phone contains personal information. Listen, son, you're an idiot. Quit posting your idiotic bullshit and smash your computer and...
[17:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:44] <exec> 08└─Once a warrant is issued for search of your property, "personal information" isn't at all sacrosanct, that's what makes it a "warrant" not an "arbitrary". That seems like a very silly distinction to draw. I am absolutely an idiot, but your reasoning here seems dumb even by my standards.
[17:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:23] <exec> 08└─> we should ban science Please, go back to your cave.
[17:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:24] <exec> 08└─One of the articles says they are considering a manned base near the south pole. If they build it in the right place, it would NOT experience 2 weeks of darkness at a time. More like 2 weeks of darkness out of the entire year. The fruit fly is not going to take over the Moon since the environment ou...
[17:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:27] <exec> 08└─At most you could see people maybe live there for a few months until they have to come back. Its a pointless exercise and lacks any real clear purpose. It has no more value than a tightrope walk stunt, perhaps negative value because of the immense amount of resources it would drain we could better s...
[17:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:29] <exec> 08└─I read that you need 10 full-grown trees just to make the O2 of one human
[17:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Plans to Tackle US Sanctions With $10 Billion Bitcoin Investment - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:15] <exec> 08└─Daddy needs a Lambo!
[17:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Plans to Tackle US Sanctions With $10 Billion Bitcoin Investment - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:17] <exec> 08└─What could go wrong? I guess PT Barnum was right after all: a fool and his money are soon parted.
[17:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Plans to Tackle US Sanctions With $10 Billion Bitcoin Investment - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:19] <exec> 08└─What if it goes right? Currently USD is used for a lot of international trade. That props up the value of the USD. If enough trade moves away to other currencies, then that's bad for the USD. If a lot moves away, it could be catastrophic.
[17:36:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DECbot [832] 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 21 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:47] <exec> 08└─I keep missing memos.
[17:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:02] <exec> 08└─USENET? Why bother when you can just be dialing up individual BBSes???
[17:38:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 321 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:45] <exec> 08└─My favorite radio talk show delights in playing back the sound bytes, when each of them supported, or even demanded the wall. Pelosi and Schumer are right among the leaders, as is Obama and Clinton. All of them have taken at least one turn, some of them many turns at demanding the wall and stricter...
[17:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 1445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:13] <exec> 08└─It might be libertarian talk show hosts. But Mick Mulvaney [politifact.com] also made the allegations about democrats previously voting for border security and he is chief of staff of a GOP elected, not Libertarian elected, presidential administration. Whatever his political bent, when he opens his...
[17:39:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:14] <exec> 08└─I read somewhere that if they quit then they are barred from ever getting a gov't job ever again, which would basically be a death knell for their careers.
[17:39:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:17] <exec> 08└─It's unclear if you're talking about republican voters or democrats voters. From what I keep seeing, the only people that are demanding that wall are Trumps core.
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[18:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:38] <exec> 08└─Doesn't seem like this will prevent anyone from unlocking your phone, since biometrics are not secrets. If this stands, it just means spooks need to use fake fingers or fake faces instead of the real ones, which might delay "authentication" by a few hours... Use a real secret for authentication, i.e...
[18:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:39] <exec> 08└─But in a more significant part of the ruling, Judge Westmore declared that the government did not have the right, even with a warrant, to force suspects to incriminate themselves by unlocking their devices with their biological features
[18:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Billion-Dollar Question: What Was Really Behind Qualcomm's Surprise Ten-Digit Gift to Apple? - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:52] <exec> 08└─Which is supposedly 243 Billion (https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/31/apple-q3-cash-hoard-heres-how-much-money-apple-has.html), how likely is Apple to be influenced by a bribe that is 1/243th (or only 0.4%) of their cash pile?
[18:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Billion-Dollar Question: What Was Really Behind Qualcomm's Surprise Ten-Digit Gift to Apple? - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:53] <exec> 08└─Winners because everyone else outside those privileged few loses.
[18:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:25] <exec> 08└─Send me to the moon on a colony: i'll learn Fartsi, if needed. I'll grow veggies, meat, long pig...i don't care. Just don't send me to Mars to die.
[18:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:26] <exec> 08└─Would you say putting a colony on Mars is a better idea? I'd say the moon first, then Mars: the resources sent to Mars being resources not needed on the moon. Moon colony, then Mars colony.
[18:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protoplanetary Disks Can be Perpendicular to the Orbital Plane of Binary Stars - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:36] <exec> 08└─Why? The stars are where all the mass is - the protoplanetary disk is a thin diffuse cloud of dust and gasses whose mass amounts to a rounding error. In our solar system for example, 99.86% of all the mass is in the sun. The remaining 0.14% is the planets, moons, and asteroids that formed from the p...
[18:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only; AMD Radeon VII: Less Than 5,000 Available - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:03] <exec> 08└─World Wide Words: Flammable [worldwidewords.org] The problem with inflammable is the in- at the front. English has many words in which it means “without” or “not”. A majority have been imported from Latin with the prefix already attached, such as infertile and inarticulate. Others, such as i...
[18:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only; AMD Radeon VII: Less Than 5,000 Available - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:04] <exec> 08└─oblig [youtube.com]
[18:35:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Russia Plans to Tackle US Sanctions With $10 Billion Bitcoin Investment - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:12] <exec> 08└─A new cycle of pump-and-dump began with news that a nobody in Russia said something grandiose.
[18:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Radeon VII GPU, Teases Third-Generation Ryzen CPU - 1794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:24] <exec> 08└─Assuming, I had the funds to do so, this is the kind of build I would go for: Case: Antec Nine Hundred - $101.40 https://www.newegg.com [newegg.com] Blu-Ray Drive: LG Electronics 14x Blu-ray burner OEM - $59.99 https://www.newegg.com
[18:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Radeon VII GPU, Teases Third-Generation Ryzen CPU - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:26] <exec> 08└─As it is, I would only need the Vega 64 and the SSD to upgrade my current machine. That would still cost me $594.98 + Shipping + Tax. Considering, I'm doing just fine with my current VR setup, I'm going to be saving up my pennies for a year or two and hopefully be able to afford a new machine at tha...
[18:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Radeon VII GPU, Teases Third-Generation Ryzen CPU - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:28] <exec> 08└─Check out https://pcpartpicker.com [pcpartpicker.com] I would say spring for the cheaper SSD ($100 / 1 TB). Sure, you get less sustained read/write, but that should almost never be an issue since a 1 Gbps internet connection would be the bottleneck or you would not be copying large amounts of data...
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[19:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:35] <exec> 08└─People who don't like EMACS think of themselves as "power users", but on average, when asked to locate the Escape, Meta, Alt, Control, and Shift keys on an unlabeled keyboard, they get less than 50% of them correct.
[19:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:37] <exec> 08└─Nearly everybody knows less than they think they know. That's the reason for this line from Plato's Apology (which Socrates might have actually said): Although I do not suppose that either of us knows anything really beautiful and good, I am better off than he is - for he knows nothing, and thinks t...
[19:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:39] <exec> 08└─Didn't notice the first time around.
[19:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:41] <exec> 08└─"Those who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." (In truth, the more educated I've become the more I realize how little I know.)
[19:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:44] <exec> 08└─The captain of the Titanic knew more about ships than almost any passenger. Certainly he knew more than some nervous Nellie who "had a bad feeling" about it. Definitely knew more than some old chap who said, "Maiden voyage, eh? Biggest ever? Maybe I'll book the second trip if she has one".
[19:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 1457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:46] <exec> 08└─Waste of time; probably just to bolster support with the corporate sources of their institutions funding... (if not already getting promoted, big PR firms know the playbook... one doesn't have to pay off people to get useful results.) We already have plenty on tribalism and identity psychology showi...
[19:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:48] <exec> 08└─One of the problems here is who defines "correct" information. Some of those with extreme views "know" things that those working in the field don't. Example: Airline professionals largely agree that chemtrails conspiracies are nonsense since they work on the planes and don't see any spray tanks or d...
[19:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 1326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:50] <exec> 08└─That right there is the problem. Whether or not Joe Blow understands this stuff is of minimal impact on policy. Nobody is really taking those folks seriously. The problem is that the people who are making the decisions have a naive sense of what's going to happen as a result of these decisions. Cert...
[19:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:53] <exec> 08└─The fine Article sounds just like what a genetically modified organism would say in defense of genetically modified organisms. Must be a FrankenArticle!
[19:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:55] <exec> 08└─...fanboys & trolls are clueless blowhards. Who knew?
[19:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 1346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:57] <exec> 08└─The flaw in the classic Socratic of reasoning is you eventually start discounting experts(or even non-experts who've thoroughly reviewed relevant expert analysis) who do understand things because they speak with a modicum of (apparently undue) confidence. And it can be identical to someone blasting...
[19:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:00] <exec> 08└─"Those who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
[19:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:02] <exec> 08└─Please don't tell me this is a White-house metaphor.
[19:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:15] <exec> 08└─So the thinking (before this case) was that the difference is that unlocking your phone (with a passcode, again, ignoring this case) was tantamount to testifying as it forced you to provide knowledge that could be used against you. Where as hacking the phone or breaking the door down doesn't require...
[19:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:02] <exec> 08└─You will become a cannibal to go to Mars? Ooooook
[19:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:03] <exec> 08└─This is what bad reading comprehension looks like folks. First, assume extra meaning behind slightly ambiguous words as if your interpretation is obviously what the author meant. Then, two paragraphs later when their intended meaning becomes clear just ignore that part and criticize the supposed con...
[19:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:06] <exec> 08└─Do you realize that someone running an experiment is allowed to set the parameters? Stay in school kids!
[19:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:08] <exec> 08└─At the minimum it will be a great tourist attraction. Ideally the moon would make for a great spaceport and it is the safest location for humanity to develop colony tech.
[19:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protoplanetary Disks Can be Perpendicular to the Orbital Plane of Binary Stars - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:19] <exec> 08└─I think GP is proposing that the interactions between the two stars - e.g. ~99% of the system's mass - are responsible for them being out of alignment with the planetary disk, not interactions between the stars and the planetary disk. That does raise an interesting question though; are they still do...
[19:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airlander 10: World's Longest Aircraft Gets Full-Production Go-Ahead - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:34] <exec> 08└─Hey look, President Trump finally managed to do a job correctly: post an actually OK story to SN.
[19:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Radeon VII GPU, Teases Third-Generation Ryzen CPU - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:13] <exec> 08└─I have a Thinkpad T440s, with a Core i5-4200U in it. This is just fantasy; I'll be lucky to just be able to afford utilities and rent in the future, even WITH a full-time pharmacy tech job, unless I can pick up extra shifts since it's only 0.7 FTE officially. And I'm trying to help a very sick, very...
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[19:39:12] <exec> 08└─It would instantly be a much more popular move if withholding was pro-rated. If the federal government doesn't work for a couple months, Americans don't pay federal taxes for a couple months. If Congress didn't get paid over the same time period, they'd throw ticker-tape parades on Main Street all o...
[19:39:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] 02 - 06Private Companies Are Paying To Keep Trails Groomed, Bathrooms Cleaned In Yellowstone - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:28] <exec> 08└─Lest anyone be confused, this is 90%+ a Democrat government shutdown. The remainder are the "Never Trump" Republicans. Jackasses, all of them.
[19:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oak Ridge National Laboratory Increases Plutonium Production for Eventual Use in Space Missions - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:24] <exec> 08└─I prefer to keep things civil on Soylent, and don't tend to use phrases like "talking out of your ass".* I do think however that you ought to do a little more research about plutonium 238, as it is not nearly as toxic as you might think. You should avoid storing it under your bed in a cardboard box...
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[20:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:54] <exec> 08└─Also, the important question is not how much one knows, but whether one knows the relevant facts. You don't need to know how exactly a nuclear weapon works, or how to build one, or how they are secured against unauthorized launch, in order to know that exploding one over New York would be pretty des...
[20:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:56] <exec> 08└─That applies to EMACS so-called "power-users" as well -- ask them to point out the Super and Hyper keys on their keyboards and less than 1% can do so.
[20:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:58] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't everyone know less than they think by virtue of it being highly likely that some of the information you have is wrong?
[20:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:01] <exec> 08└─Your examples are weird, there is point in putting quotation marks around "truth" when the question is something that can be resolved by e.g. making photos of planes or whatever. Most questions around GM are not that clear-cut at all. Questions like how sure we can be whether some gene editing might...
[20:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:03] <exec> 08└─the more strongly people report being opposed to GM foods, the more knowledgeable they think they are on the topic, but the lower they score on an actual knowledge test.
[20:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:06] <exec> 08└─My opposition to GMOs has nothing to do with genetics, or even science for that matter. It has everything to do with my strong position against industrial agriculture, and the idea that a handfull of mega multinational corporations want to possess absolute control over food production for the entire...
[20:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:08] <exec> 08└─Nearly everybody knows less than they think they know.
[20:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:10] <exec> 08└─it's impossible for me to understand anything but my own ignorance
[20:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:12] <exec> 08└─I felt like that was the point of my post, that you have to decide some rigorous method of sorting true from false, or at least more true from less true. That that is the most reasonable escape from that trap.
[20:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Billion-Dollar Question: What Was Really Behind Qualcomm's Surprise Ten-Digit Gift to Apple? - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:40] <exec> 08└─Anti-competitive behaviour is not about monpolies (including patents) but how you use them. You can't pay, bribe or otherwise "coerce" someone to not buy from your competitors. And you can't use your monopolies to eliminate competitors in other fields. Sure, you could solve these issues by forbiddin...
[20:34:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 83 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:48] <exec> 08└─... The ruling Communist Party's official mouthpiece the People's Daily tweeted ...
[20:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:19] <exec> 08└─> Nobody should be allowed to spend money or talk about things that I don't approve of.
[20:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:20] <exec> 08└─This is what bad reading comprehension looks like folks.
[20:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:22] <exec> 08└─I thought it would be cool, and potentially profitable, to learn Japanese. I signed up to audit a course in college - that thought lasted about 2 weeks before I decided: nah, plenty to keep me occupied with English and other Romance languages for now. I had Chinese speaking housemates for 3 years, t...
[20:35:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:24] <exec> 08└─Not really puzzling, short lifespan, high number of generations in a short mission timeframe.
[20:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:26] <exec> 08└─They have silkworms and microorganisms in there, some of which would have symbiotic relationships with the plants. But we don't really want fruit flies to be in our space habitats.
[20:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:29] <exec> 08└─Fruit flies are sort of the go-to for genetic / breeding / evolutionary experimentation. Pretty sure there's a high level of confidence in keeping the flies contained within the experiment site.
[20:37:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 662 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:48] <exec> 08└─I suspect its propaganda along the lines of "when did you stop beating your wife?" leading questions. I certainly don't see much change in use or quantity of info from my newsblur use. My guess is "big social media" is dying so a short term reaction is to declare everything else dead especially comp...
[20:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:11] <exec> 08└─I have scrapers for twitter and instagram so I have to exit tt-rss less and deal with aggravating infinite scroll ui's less.. There is a secret youtube url to turn any channel to a feed ("secret" url found via web search). This story was read over RSS. I am considering web scraping FB so I don't nee...
[20:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DBCubix [553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oak Ridge National Laboratory Increases Plutonium Production for Eventual Use in Space Missions - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:45] <exec> 08└─So if they pushed production to 0.4kg/year (an 8x increase), prior production before this technique was 0.05kg/year. New Horizons and Cassini required 42.75kg combined. This means the US started Pu-238 production 855 years ago. I somehow doubt that.
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[21:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06VR Gets Reality Check with Significant Decline in Investment - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:34] <exec> 08└─In the early 1990s VR was a hot topic as well. A number of game companies and such were investing heavily in it. The problem was that it induced nausea in a subset of users. The corporate legal teams told them that making kids sick to their stomach was a recipe for massive legal liability and bad pr...
[21:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VR Gets Reality Check with Significant Decline in Investment - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:35] <exec> 08└─We need to generically engineer VR-tolerant humans. You could house them in Amazon-style wage cages with no loss of productivity or morale!
[21:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06VR Gets Reality Check with Significant Decline in Investment - 1475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:37] <exec> 08└─I went ahead and got a VR setup. Overall I am happy with the decision but there are problems that hamper the experience. The wires! It really sucks being tethered especially when you have to keep track and be careful of the cables. Gameplay. There are many enjoyable games, but personally I can't sta...
[21:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VR Gets Reality Check with Significant Decline in Investment - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:40] <exec> 08└─Modded up. If not for the content, then definitely for the appropriate use of vestibular in a sentence.
[21:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Gets Reality Check with Significant Decline in Investment - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:42] <exec> 08└─I used to have a very nice vestibular but Mrs. Zombie decided they were no longer in fashion and donated it to the Salvation Army. I thought it looked quite smart, but what do I know?
[21:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:11] <exec> 08└─They aren't just a generic exercise of human ignorance, but victims of propaganda, and often have a few specific biases and fallacious worldviews holding up the superstructure of the propaganda.
[21:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:12] <exec> 08└─That depends, of course, on how you measure "how much you think you know" and the compared "how much you know". For example, the internet favorite Dunning-Kruger experiment asked people to place their understanding of 4 subjects as a percentile score, compared to their fellows in the room taking the...
[21:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:14] <exec> 08└─We need to know how to prevent and cure human flaws.
[21:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:17] <exec> 08└─know that exploding one over New York would be pretty destructive.
[21:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:19] <exec> 08└─The Titanic would have been totally fine had there not been a lot of screw-ups (going too far north, going too fast especially at night, not having enough lifeboats on board for everybody, and the ship nearest to the sinking not responding at all to what was happening) and bad luck (hitting the iceb...
[21:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:21] <exec> 08└─"Your examples are weird" The plane contrail example was intended to be. By making an outlandish example it draws the point to the type of thinking rather than risking getting hung up on a less whimsical subject that people care more about.
[21:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:24] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, 50% of Microsoft Office power users still can't find the 'Any' key.
[21:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 1335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:26] <exec> 08└─The interesting thing about the GM food debate, to me, is the fact that the uninformed, reactionary, absolute abolitionists - in my view - probably have the more beneficial approach, long term. Sure, foods like "Golden Rice" will be hugely beneficial (although the current strains of "Golden Rice" do...
[21:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:28] <exec> 08└─That doesn't sound like a very serious or scientific analysis of transgenic crops. Crop plants don't have the rigor to survive the wild very well. And, though I consider this a problem for farmers that mostly serves corporations, most GM crops are 100% sterile. They don't reproduce at all.
[21:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:30] <exec> 08└─While this post is leaning towards a conspiracy theory, the basic point is true. That is,the reasons you have an opinion on something might not be the reasons that other people assume you have, or the reasons they regard as important themselves. To take a less "conspiratorial" example, I might say t...
[21:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:33] <exec> 08└─The reason for all those "screw-ups" was that the owners wanted to make "fastest transatlantic crossing" - an enormous marketing boon. If the captain had put his foot down and refused these dangerous expediences (at the cost of his job, pensoon, and reputation), the Titanic would never have sank. In...
[21:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:35] <exec> 08└─The Dunning-Kruger effect is sneaky and affects literally everyone, without exception. Wisdom lies in realizing you have fallen into the trap and adjusting yourself accordingly. Unfortunately, a lot of our societal norms are set up to encourage the exact opposite. Knee jerks reactions are much more...
[21:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:37] <exec> 08└─If you're interested in depth, serious talk about the value of species diversity, follow the half Earth [half-earthproject.org] link. I'm not in the mood for more than a sound-bite, but the sound-bite on my mind is: billions of years of evolution produced more "value" in the diversity of life than a...
[21:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:39] <exec> 08└─Diversity of life is great for things like natural beauty and thriving ecosystems. It's not so great for, let me check my notes... uh... it says here on my todo list "feed 7 billion people with the least possible farmland"
[21:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:53] <exec> 08└─The meat locker analogy breaks down. The meat locker may contain evidence, but not every single detail of your entire life including the most private things that might be known about you. Things completely irrelevant to whether or not there are bodies in the meat locker. Your phone contains such com...
[21:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:54] <exec> 08└─What if the police happen to find an abandoned, severed finger somewhere and it just happens to unlock your phone? They'll say: it was an unintentional, happy accidental discovery that we found a key to the suspect's phone. Sorry officer, my mistake. When I saw all the police cars parked here I thou...
[21:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:57] <exec> 08└─"It can be 1, 2, 3, 4." So, I do 1, 2, 3, 4. And every time it's bing, bing, bing, bing to open my iPhone. It's very slow. And it doesn't always open on the first try. Or the second. I'm a busy guy, I don't have time for that. I said, change it to bank. So much easier. They said, "oh, that's bad, an...
[21:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:59] <exec> 08└─If an evil mobster has a meat locker with the bodies of his last 14 victims, can we not compel him, with a warrant, to open the meat locker?
[21:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:57] <exec> 08└─So these seeds will evolve into a crazy moon-alien race and come back in 1000 years to destroy the earth?
[21:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:58] <exec> 08└─We already extensively discussed [soylentnews.org] the profound errors in whatever you're trying to claim. There's no difference in the Sun between winter and summer. There's no weirdness in lunar eclipses that somehow disprove whatever it is you are claiming these days. We're figured out when sunri...
[21:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protoplanetary Disks Can be Perpendicular to the Orbital Plane of Binary Stars - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:10] <exec> 08└─If the disk had moved, I would expect it to at least be warped, or fragmented.
[21:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Core i9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only; AMD Radeon VII: Less Than 5,000 Available - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:40] <exec> 08└─Imagine a whole Beowulf Cluster of these!
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[22:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Gets Reality Check with Significant Decline in Investment - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:46] <exec> 08└─Well, there's definitely a reason that when Facebook took over Oculus from Luckey, they said "we need affordable and standalone, not high-performance and big-budget games". Can't say I like either owner nor either policy much, but the corporate controllers seem to have a better sense of where the t...
[22:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Gets Reality Check with Significant Decline in Investment - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:47] <exec> 08└─The VR enthusiasts I know already have a couple of generations of gear, and nothing on the market at the moment is terribly compelling to get them to buy yet another round of hardware. What really needs to happen is to get the software ramped up to a point that it's not just the enthusiasts buying t...
[22:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Gets Reality Check with Significant Decline in Investment - 1546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:50] <exec> 08└─VR isn't going away this time. What we've seen is the early adopter effect yet again. Tethered (at least using wires) is dumb, headsets should have front-facing cameras (and probably side cameras like HTC Vive Cosmos), they should have eye-tracking and foveated rendering, resolution and framerate ca...
[22:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Gets Reality Check with Significant Decline in Investment - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:52] <exec> 08└─Then again, they did use "super" as an adverb.
[22:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:35] <exec> 08└─Keep feeding those 7B people with no respect for thriving ecosystems, when they become 70B, or 700B, at some point the solar energy intercepted by the Earth won't be enough to sustain the human bodies. Now, read me fantasies about how the population boom is going to level out, any day now, go on, I'...
[22:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:37] <exec> 08└─Funny you should mention Golden Rice: https://slate.com [slate.com] Be very wary of the anti-GMO crowd.
[22:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:55] <exec> 08└─Actually, do android/iOS phones provide for requiring all three, for extra security? Say you haven't used your phone for over 24 hours, can it be set to require all three of passcode, face, and finger?
[22:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:56] <exec> 08└─Are you required to actually help with a warranted search? People usually open the safe because the police will simply cut it open if they don't. But hypothetically, if you had a safe made of unobtainium that was actually unbreakable, does a search warrant force you to open it? I am specifically ask...
[22:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:58] <exec> 08└─Which god? We have so many.
[22:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 1192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:59] <exec> 08└─God does it "For this reason." That being, those who will fall under the powerful delusion(Energeian Planes) have already "refused the love of the truth that would save them." This is a parallel to what Eve did, when she ate from the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge. She refused the love of...
[22:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Plans to Tackle US Sanctions With $10 Billion Bitcoin Investment - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:55] <exec> 08└─The international trade volume in 2017 was 17,700 billion dollars. A mere 10 billion is a drop in the ocean.
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[23:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Oh, SSH, IT Please see this: Malicious Servers can fsck with your PC's Files During scp Slurps - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:34] <exec> 08└─I'm glad I've only used scp on my own ssh servers! I hope putty and openssh (more important to me, whatever scp fedora uses). This is scary.
[23:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oh, SSH, IT Please see this: Malicious Servers can fsck with your PC's Files During scp Slurps - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:36] <exec> 08└─What would be really scary would be if /sending/ could be tampered with as well. Copying public keys is probably the most common use of scp outside of personally controlled networks (ssh-copy-id doesn't use it though), so if the ssh server that is receiving your key can tamper with your files during...
[23:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VR Gets Reality Check with Significant Decline in Investment - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:52] <exec> 08└─All VR headsets from the 90s had tiny field of views (installations like CAVE being an exception). It was like looking through toilet paper tubes. This time around, in my opinion, the big innovation was extremely wide field of view. This changed the game. It's going to be big, we are just in the fir...
[23:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:38] <exec> 08└─I think the other aspect, that hasn't been touched on, is the filter bubble. It can seem like you're doing a bunch of research when in fact you're just going down a rabbit hole full of bullshit....
[23:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03XivLacuna [6346] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:39] <exec> 08└─It really isn't because that the plants are genetically modified, but that they've been altered to resist stronger herbicides and insecticides which said GMO plants are sprayed with. Wash them off as much as you want. There will still be some herbicides and insecticides contained within.
[23:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03danmars [3662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:42] <exec> 08└─The most interesting part of this is that it's apparently way beyond Dunning-Kruger. Normally if a person knows less they realize that they know less. But in this case people who know the least actually rank themselves as experts, even though a person with average knowledge wouldn't rank him/herself...
[23:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:44] <exec> 08└─Don't forget things like modifications to produce Bt toxin will mean selective pressure to make that ineffective. And there will be Bayer with a patented replacement for the low low cost of your first born.
[23:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:46] <exec> 08└─The screw-up that has nothing to do with that was the actions, or more precisely inactions, of the Californian: They were stopped close enough to the sinking to see the ship's rockets being launched as a last ditch effort to try to get help, and did absolutely nothing about it for hours.
[23:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetically Modified Food Opponents Know Less Than They Think, Research Finds - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:49] <exec> 08└─Dismiss ecology in favour of growth at your peril. Everybody's peril, actually.
[23:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:08] <exec> 08└─Fair questions. Like I said, I tried to find older precedent, but got stuck on all the nonsense attached to the word "safe".
[23:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Can't Force You To Unlock Your iPhone With Finger Or Face, Judge Rules - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:09] <exec> 08└─How is one self-incrimination but the other one is not?
[23:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Billion-Dollar Question: What Was Really Behind Qualcomm's Surprise Ten-Digit Gift to Apple? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:26] <exec> 08└─This is why you are posting on S/N, loser.
[23:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:14] <exec> 08└─Well, you know how the saying goes: "Massachusettsans [lawsandsausagescomic.com] are from Mars, Floridians are from Venus."
[23:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:16] <exec> 08└─Is it comfy? I mean, the sand you sunk your head in?
[23:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:18] <exec> 08└─I'll grow veggies, meat, long pig...i don't care.
[23:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chang'e-4's Seeds Begin Sprouting on the Moon - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:20] <exec> 08└─You should go stick your head in the lunar regolith. Oh, wait, you can't. The US went there once, but got sidetracked with that shuttle theater. The next people to walk on the moon are almost certainly going to be Chinese. Are you Chinese?
[23:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Plans to Tackle US Sanctions With $10 Billion Bitcoin Investment - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:16] <exec> 08└─Money doesn't get used up, it simply moves. If that bitcoin is used to buy $10B worth of stuff, then somebody else now has it and can buy another $10B worth of stuff. It only has to be involved in 17 trades a year to take 1% of that total.
[23:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Plans to Tackle US Sanctions With $10 Billion Bitcoin Investment - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:17] <exec> 08└─Its not a safe place to "store" money. Must be hedging their bets by controlling the market.
[23:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Rise and Demise of RSS - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:07] <exec> 08└─Exactly!
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