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[00:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:49] <exec> 08└─People who are good at shoveling crap around already had to retrain when cars took over.
[00:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:50] <exec> 08└─One important thing to remember is that whenever someone says "cloud" in the context of IT, what they mean is "someone else's servers." If you keep that in mind, it's clear that as applications move to "someone else's servers," those managing internal IT infrastructure become unnecessary. That said,...
[00:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:52] <exec> 08└─Assembly language is a good first step, because it lets you understand how the stuff works. But it doesn't need to be assembler for a modern CPU. MIXX or z80 would be sufficient. Ideally you'd bootstrap yourself though interpreter and compiler design, but that takes a few years. I've got a book call...
[00:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 1497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:55] <exec> 08└─" The cost for AWS per year was identical to just buying the hardware outright." For some use cases. I'm not sure its true for a majority though. Most case studies I've done have found the cloud to be more expensive; sometimes considerably more expensive. The clients often went with the cloud anyway...
[00:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:16] <exec> 08└─Duh, it is software that helps teachers by automatically identifying what class a child belongs to. Then if the child misbehaves, the software determines whether it will be fined (middle class), let off with a warning (upper class), jailed (lower class) or shot for resisting (African American).
[00:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:18] <exec> 08└─so, basially, software enables good and bad behaviour, and people, often in positions of authority, screw things up by reating bad policy, and using software/computers/apps as the tool for implementation, so the "software/computes/apps" are used as the excuse/reason/validation of the bad policy. Pol...
[00:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:48] <exec> 08└─Most Android apps look and work like blown up phone apps on tablets, (which is because they are). As I pointed out above, iOS also respects its users' privacy a lot more than Android does. So while Android may also work, I'd rather use a mobile OS that respects my privacy.
[00:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:51] <exec> 08└─Interesting. So factory reset isn't a full reset. So I guess somebody needs to figure out how to do a full erase?
[00:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:52] <exec> 08└─This was a few years ago but seems apropos still: https://www.investors.com "By outsourcing all of its manufacturing to Asia and focusing on design and marketing, Vizio keeps its overhead low. The company has just 407 employees. In 2014, Vizio repo...
[00:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well look at who the sponsors of Solid are: MasterCard and Qatar Computing Research Institute.
[00:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think these ideologues don't get that so many people are not in a position to have symmetric upload/download speeds on their Internet connection. Decentralization would mean chopping off at least three quarters of the effective bandwidth available to the web.
[00:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:23] <exec> 08└─But I can't personally think of anything I do in my day-to-day work that should be compensated at the rate of $1500/hr. Can you?
[00:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:24] <exec> 08└─And I imagine that you are going to feel quite differently about that "health care theater" when it comes down to your last year of life. Just sayin'.
[00:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:26] <exec> 08└─The facts behind this article are the best argument for socialism and the higher taxes that come with it. There is nothing wrong with being rich, but having so much owned by so few is morally unjust.
[00:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06If 5G Is So Important, Why Isn’t It Secure? - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:56] <exec> 08└─Moderated funny? Really? What was 4G What is 5G? I'm surprised nobody has brought up 6G yet. I've been doing wireless drivers for 20 years now. I find it interesting that somebody in the industry points out a fact and gets modded funny. Sad, yeah, I get that. Whatever.
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[01:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orange Pi 3 H6 Released - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:41] <exec> 08└─I've got a bunch of h.265 that won't play on my pi, I have to use handbrake to convert it to h.264. If this board will let me skip this step then I'm on board, otherwise why bother?
[01:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orange Pi 3 H6 Released - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:42] <exec> 08└─You could face the same problem with AV1 [wikipedia.org] in a few years, which is why I don't want any new computer unless it has at least hardware decoding of AV1.
[01:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orange Pi 3 H6 Released - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:44] <exec> 08└─Apparently yes: https://www.techrepublic.com [techrepublic.com] https://www.aliexpress.com [aliexpress.com] • H2...
[01:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Orange Pi 3 H6 Released - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:46] <exec> 08└─see it compared to its competitor https://www.cnx-software.com [cnx-software.com]
[01:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:03] <exec> 08└─The cost to retire in a affordable area of the US: $2.8m if you want to live in luxury and not work $500k if you want to live off the grid in complete self reliance $80k if you can live simply for a few years, have or gain a locally useful skill, can make friends easily or have a support network.
[01:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:04] <exec> 08└─Up front it has a nice advantage of you can spin some serious hardware up very quickly. To build something like a 10 machine cluster system locally could involve 6 months of purchasing and site work to 'do right'. But with AWS you can spin something like that faster. AWS has its use. But people need...
[01:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:06] <exec> 08└─It's amazing the number of non-technical people that are under the mistaken impression that once something is in "the cloud" that means that there's no physical machine involved anymore. I'm very curious how these people think any computation or storage happens in "the cloud" as a result.
[01:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:03] <exec> 08└─You can at an Apple store. The "Genius" desk there has access to insider tools that the common folk don't. My Grandfather was locked out of various things when his spouse died. After we couldn't make headway in getting into the iPad due to the restrictions, we went to them, explained the situation,...
[01:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:04] <exec> 08└─True, all iOS, tvOS, and watchOS devices don't work until activated which has to be done against Apple's servers (and perhaps yours as well if you are an MDM user). That is how the much vaunted activation lock works (and why there is no activation lock on MacOS devices). And I had mentally excluded...
[01:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:06] <exec> 08└─cept I don't have a cable box :)
[01:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03everdred [110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:09] <exec> 08└─I actually have a new Vizio that's working happily without a wifi connection. (Unless I needed the clock set correctly for some reason, or accidentally pressed one of the "smart" buttons.) Tuner, component/composite and HDMI inputs all work. I did let it connect once to download system updates, but...
[01:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:11] <exec> 08└─Why is any of this nonsense with the hardware worth putting up with when there is so little left on tv to bother with? For what little is worth watchng, stream it on any device you want. If you want a home cinema experience, hook a projector up to your laptop. Aren't there about 50 different ways to...
[01:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aerospace Startup Making 3D-Printed Rockets Now Has a Launch Site at America’s Busiest Spaceport - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:37] <exec> 08└─Burning a fossil fuel and then throwing out hydrogen, carbon and oxygen atoms at high speed to propel the rocket, whose weight is dominated by carrying the fuel to do just this is so last century. Can't we come up with anything better? Where's the actual innovation?
[01:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:23] <exec> 08└─You're right, I probably should have written 'hardly anyone gives a shit' instead of 'no one...'. Then I started thinking about how I was taking shit about my post. And thought, phew, imbalance restored! However, if one is taking shit, then by implication someone was giving them shit. So it is alway...
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[02:33:53] <exec> 08└─Allwinner is not a good name. They should change it to something else, like Lucky Goldstar (which has a nice ring to it) became LG.
[02:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orange Pi 3 H6 Released - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:54] <exec> 08└─How about AW Shucks? It could be called Super Dragon Crescent 10K for all I care. The name doesn't matter.
[02:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:15] <exec> 08└─It kind of makes sense, why waste a day debugging some obscure problem, or some system corruption, when you can wipe and rebuild in half an hour, and be back up and running. Sure, if you start getting repeated identical failures, then you investigate, but otherwise just carry on.
[02:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:16] <exec> 08└─Your use case is not all the use case of AWS though. AWS also provides rent-an-ops not just rent-a-computer. For example AWS is starting to release managed mongodb and kafka services where you arent' t just renting infra and operating it yourself, you are also off-loading operational work to them (i...
[02:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:18] <exec> 08└─Blockchain! Duhh!!
[02:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:20] <exec> 08└─Never forget that the vast majority of programmers can learn to do just about any office job. That means we can replace most of your ilk without much effort. When a hiring manager has the choice between a regular person or a programmer, they know the programmer will work smarter, pay attention to de...
[02:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:22] <exec> 08└─In all of this discussion of "the cloud", there's a big missing piece. Sure, you've moved to someone else's servers, so you don't need the guy who can change out a hard drive anymore, but you still need someone to admin your VMs in the cloud. That someone needs to make sure all your software and dat...
[02:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:25] <exec> 08└─But getting a good compiler for z80 assembler code, much less IBSYS code, isn't going to happen, and you need a compiler rather than an interpreter because you aren't going to have access to the real hardware, so you need to cross-compile the assembler you write.
[02:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:18] <exec> 08└─That's the problem. There's so many opportunities for Apple to venture into with the size of their current warchest. But cook is not a visionary, he can man the ship once a direction is set but he ain't no explorer. It wasn't just devices with Jobs, it was things like a marketplace, i.e. App Store a...
[02:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:20] <exec> 08└─Ya, that subsidized iPhone 1 vs non-subsidized iPhone Xs comparison was nothing more than shock-and-awe clickbait, but it did make me actually take a few moments to think "Waaaaaait a minute...I'm sure the original iPhone was more like $600". I just looked at my unfriendly-neighborhood cellphone com...
[02:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:29] <exec> 08└─Last time I looked for a new TV I saw that the smart TVs were about 20% more expensive for otherwise comparable TVs.
[02:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:30] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the Playstation / Xbox debacle. Imagine opening up a new console on Christmas Day in the country side where dialup is the norm. Kids tend to be unhappy when toys don't work. Not fun to watch.
[02:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:32] <exec> 08└─Around here the SmartTV tends to be cheaper then a similar size make and model normal tv.
[02:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aerospace Startup Making 3D-Printed Rockets Now Has a Launch Site at America’s Busiest Spaceport - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:59] <exec> 08└─The innovation will be a fully reusable rocket, with launches costing a fraction of what much smaller rockets currently cost, dramatically lowering the cost per kilogram of payload, and burning a fuel that can be made on Mars without fossils. Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless...
[02:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:24] <exec> 08└─Is there a guide to the various possibly interconnectable distributed open-source social networks? I can get lists of them, but I have yet to find reviews of them. Which ones do what?
[02:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:06] <exec> 08└─And yet, you say not one word about why I should care that there are racist posters on SN.
[02:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:08] <exec> 08└─This is an edited extract from Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World by Anand Giridharadas, published by Allen Lane on 24 January and available to buy at guardianbookshop.com
[02:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:10] <exec> 08└─So your job is probably worth less than $1500/hr - unlike the CEO's. I have no problem at all with the concept that jobs aren't all worth the same amount.
[02:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:12] <exec> 08└─I'm just saying that you may feel quite differently about it when it is your life on the line.
[02:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Mobile Support Ending: Microsoft Says Go to iOS or Android - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:10] <exec> 08└─Support for personal computing on Windows 10 has also ended. It's all either corporate or public computing now. Do they have any recommendations for that?
[02:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:41] <exec> 08└─What the Dutch surgeon's name? I've looked at a bunch of articles and can't find it anywhere.
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[03:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESA Plans to Send Mining Equipment to the Moon - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:41] <exec> 08└─We can't pollute the moon with mining, it should remain a pure and clean nature reserve.
[03:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESA Plans to Send Mining Equipment to the Moon - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:43] <exec> 08└─how muh an they remove before the tides are effected?
[03:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06ESA Plans to Send Mining Equipment to the Moon - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:45] <exec> 08└─One of the world's largest iron mines [wikipedia.org] mined about 1 billion metric tons of iron ore in over a century. The Moon's mass is about 70 billion billion (or 70 quintillion) metric tons.
[03:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06ESA Plans to Send Mining Equipment to the Moon - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:47] <exec> 08└─Not even one grain - any change in mass whatsoever will have an effect on the tides. Just a proportionally minuscule one. How much before the effects become noticeable? That's a kind of arbitrary line, but if we say a 0.1% reduction in the force of lunar gravity would be noticeable, then we could re...
[03:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ESA Plans to Send Mining Equipment to the Moon - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:50] <exec> 08└─Thank you, both. I was being a little disingenuous or flippant, but I appreciate the real answers.
[03:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orange Pi 3 H6 Released - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:03] <exec> 08└─The Orange Pi is a bit of a swing and a miss, the H6 is sort of halfway between a low-end Arm64 (Pi) and a high-end one (anything with an RK3399). So it's competing with things like the Pine64 (which has been around for ages and costs about the same, but with far better support) and NanoPi K2. If yo...
[03:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:30] <exec> 08└─Well, MIXX is run in an emulator, so that's not unreasonable. OTOH, I don't know that the 6809 has a simple assembler. I didn't pick the i6502 because its assembler is too complex. The z80 was relatively simple. So was the i8080.
[03:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:31] <exec> 08└─I don't know that the 6809 has a simple assembler.
[03:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:34] <exec> 08└─Please. Stop. Making. AI. Predictions! Writers and academics have proven terrible at predicting the future. While they sometimes got specific things mostly right, the timing is quite often off. For example, in the 1950's it appears academics considered a chess-playing bot harder than a dish-washing...
[03:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 1405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:30] <exec> 08└─I don't agree with your assessment of Steve's return to Apple in the 90's. That Sculley guy almost destroyed Apple by releasing mediocre and overpriced products, like Cook is doing now. People stopped buying Macs. OS9, or OS8, or maybe both I don't remember, was a disaster. They didn't respond to W...
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[03:35:31] <exec> 08└─I've played with my girlfriends surface and I really liked it and was very impressed. She squealed with delight as she could see how impressed I was and how much I was enjoying it. Like most people, I am not a fan of Windows 10, but as far as the Surface goes, for a similar price of a iPad Pro you g...
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[03:36:44] <exec> 08└─The SmartTV I have crashes. A patch, downloaded from the vendor and installed via USB, was supposed to fix it. No go. The OS is a bastardised version of Android. No root access. Apps that can't be installed. TV is actuality just an application. Which crashes. The idea of YouTube on TV is nice. For a...
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[03:36:45] <exec> 08└─Me, I prefer DVD / Blu-ray media as opposed to streaming. Much higher quality, immune to network problems, and the ability to replay the content anytime I like. The whole "no one knows what we're watching" thing is a side effect, but a pleasant one. Not me. DVDs look like total crap, and Blu-Rays ar...
[03:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:47] <exec> 08└─That is a problem we are all going to face at some point. Google is at least thinking ahead of the pack on that one, you can dead man trigger their account. Set an email address to trip after you don't access Google for X days and it will receive some sort of code to allow them to take over everythi...
[03:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:50] <exec> 08└─And then you are in fact collecting your data. You do run [automatic content recognition].
[03:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:52] <exec> 08└─Me neither, but I do have a CableCard. Thankfully Suddenlink (whatever they call themselves now...) is too clueless to make the bidirectional part work, it is still in the waiting to be activated state. So I am one of the lucky few who can watch scrambled digital cable without all viewing habits bei...
[03:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Re-decentralizing the World-Wide Web - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:46] <exec> 08└─To be fair, Qatar are Moderate Muslims
[03:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:31] <exec> 08└─There is a huge difference to WW1, WW2 vs Napoleon's invasion of Russia. The scale of the events. WWs had many cities destroyed(e.g. Dresden), far larger areas directly involved in conflict. Much greater levels of destruction. Large amounts of equity was lost/ used. The intensity of the fighting in...
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[03:39:33] <exec> 08└─and (b) I don't want people to think I am one of them (guilt by association).
[03:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Top 26 Billionaires Now Own as Much as the Poorest 3.8 Billion - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:35] <exec> 08└─Still doesn't mean that much. Things like pain management and assisted end of life hygiene, would have to go through the theater. And as long as my assets are protected (say by giving them away to family and friends and then going on some single payer system like Medicaid), there's not much downside...
[03:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:04] <exec> 08└─Actually, no, we don't. We have thousands of years of culture based on the presumption that it works. When we actually look at it scientifically, we find that the data doesn't support the presumption.
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[04:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESA Plans to Send Mining Equipment to the Moon - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:53] <exec> 08└─We can't even get to low earth orbit ourselves anymore. Hell, we can't even keep our government open. Fortune favors the bold. And we aren't bold. We aren't very competent either. More's the pity. Sigh.
[04:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orange Pi 3 H6 Released - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:09] <exec> 08└─Hey, at least it's not 10000 Years Fu Dragon Happy Golden Luck Red Black 8888888, Inc.
[04:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orange Pi 3 H6 Released - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:10] <exec> 08└─That's the 3328, which has been superseded by the 3399. Also, if your main goal is video playback then the cheapest way to get that is to buy one of the bazillion cut-price TV set-top boxes and use that as your base hardware, either with the built-in software or whatever distro you want to drop on i...
[04:34:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03arslan [3462] 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 18 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:32] <exec> 08└─Blockchain! Duhh!!
[04:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:40] <exec> 08└─So guess who will actually lose their jobs in the end?
[04:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:04] <exec> 08└─Even in the early 70s, I was a latchkey kid - making my own oatmeal in the morning and letting myself in the house after school, in 1st grade. Of course I could leave my parent's sight with very little other than a mention of "hey, I'm leaving" - and by age 12 I remember riding my bike for an hour+...
[04:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:06] <exec> 08└─Training is training,...bodily restraint is something you should put up with.
[04:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:42] <exec> 08└─Not only are the specs good enough for me, I actually prefer the slightly smaller form factor (it is still just a little too big in my opinion - the iPhone 4 was a great size as I recall because you could reach the whole screen with your thumb when holding with one hand).
[04:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Classic Double-Slit Experiment in a New Light - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:11] <exec> 08└─Does anyone know where this can be found?
[04:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aerospace Startup Making 3D-Printed Rockets Now Has a Launch Site at America’s Busiest Spaceport - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:27] <exec> 08└─Also, "busiest spaceport"? That makes it sound like there's spaceships taking off and landing every few minutes. In particular, LC16 is an inactive site that was last used in 1988, the whole reason why these guys have got it is because no-one was using it. So it's actually "America's Least Busy Laun...
[04:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dutch Surgeon Wins Landmark 'Right to be Forgotten' Case - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:11] <exec> 08└─We have thousands of years of culture based on the presumption that it works.
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[05:33:50] <exec> 08└─Not even one grain - any change in mass whatsoever will have an effect on the tides. Just a proportionally minuscule one. How much before the effects become noticeable? That's a kind of arbitrary line, but if we say a 0.1% reduction in the force of lunar gravity would be noticeable, then we could re...
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[05:33:53] <exec> 08└─ESA Plans to Send Mining Equipment to the Moon
[05:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06ESA Plans to Send Mining Equipment to the Moon - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:55] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial_Crew_Development [wikipedia.org] ESA crewed flights = 0.
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[06:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:40] <exec> 08└─But steel, you can do 1500, 1600 degrees Fahrenheit.
[06:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:42] <exec> 08└─Steel memes, and only in the presence of jet fuel.
[06:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:44] <exec> 08└─Something something the jews.
[06:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:43] <exec> 08└─Everything old really is new again I guess. I've been turning people's tedious workloads into very small perl scripts for decades.
[06:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:44] <exec> 08└─CMP killed BYTE.
[06:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:01] <exec> 08└─Make the Smart TV element be functionally separate from the TV Monitor element. You mean, like a TV stick connected to a dumb TV?
[06:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:03] <exec> 08└─Well, given that all computers I've bought since the year 2000 came without Windows, it's not that impossible.
[06:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aerospace Startup Making 3D-Printed Rockets Now Has a Launch Site at America’s Busiest Spaceport - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:33] <exec> 08└─Until somebody builds a skyhook, or an M-Drive with KN of thrust, chemicals are the best we can do. https://www.relativityspace.com [relativityspace.com] They claim they are getting an Isp of 350 from LOX and CH4, with a 3D printed engine. If so, and if it has a reasonable reliability and lifet...
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[07:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Version 0.9 of the PCI Express 5.0 Specification Ratified - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:39] <exec> 08└─Open your mouth.
[07:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Version 0.9 of the PCI Express 5.0 Specification Ratified - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:40] <exec> 08└─yielding a data rate of 32 GT/s
[07:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:51] <exec> 08└─Sell it to Space Force. They won't ask a lot of questions if it sounds cool.
[07:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:53] <exec> 08└─Of course it was them
[07:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:53] <exec> 08└─I saw this coming a good while ago, and by some Slavic miracle have ended up a pharmacy technician. Hope to Madokami I get to keep this; it's not only the best job I've ever had, but it feels right, like I've been called to it.
[07:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe nobody is. The world is currently Jobless.
[07:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:16] <exec> 08└─I have literally never seen an hdmi cable that has pin 14 unconnected. Since that pin was "reserved" in HDMI versions prior to 1.4 I suppose in principle a cable could omit wiring that pin and things would work. The same pins used for ethernet are also used to implement the ARC feature. Probably a "...
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[08:33:43] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that, I just assumed they somehow garbled the units completely and was trying to decide whether "Giga-Tera- per second" was a thing.
[08:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Version 0.9 of the PCI Express 5.0 Specification Ratified - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:45] <exec> 08└─GT/s is an informal measure of the number of information transfers per second [wikipedia.org]. Each individual lane of a PCI Express interface is bit-serial, so it corresponds to the number of bit transitions per second. As PCI Express uses an 8b/10b encoding [wikipedia.org] scheme, each 8-bit word...
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[08:33:47] <exec> 08└─Beaten to it by c0lo. I forgot to check my link to goodput [wikipedia.org], so I'm putting the correctly formatted one in this post.
[08:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:59] <exec> 08└─Giving money to SpaceX doesn't enrich the usual suspects.
[08:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:00] <exec> 08└─Definitely. They used steal beams to take all of the gold.
[08:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:02] <exec> 08└─They won't ask a lot of questions if it sounds cool.
[08:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:05] <exec> 08└─I was surprised as well, but a little time with Google, and Musk is absolutely correct. He is refering to Austenitic stainless steel [stainlesssteelsubstrates.com], which has a melting point around 1400C. Aluminum melts at 660C. This type of steel has a crystalline structure that remains the same at...
[08:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:07] <exec> 08└─I don't claim to know much about space engineering, or engineering in general for that matter. But if you have steel and then have many many tiny little holes that you are going to "bleed" liquid out via in a temperature that is below freezing isn't that an issue? Are they going to heat the liquid b...
[08:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:09] <exec> 08└─What? The jet fuel was made of jews? The beams were made by jews?
[08:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:11] <exec> 08└─Yes yes but they don't actually go to bed with it
[08:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:14] <exec> 08└─https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/aiqrk4/elon_on_twitter_yes_also_despite_high_outside/ [reddit.com] https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com] https://www.reddit.com
[08:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:16] <exec> 08└─You conveniently forgot to factor in the human labor needed to manage actual hardware. That is to say, once your company fires you, those AWS instances will be a lot cheaper. Blah blah third party support sucks, but when has that ever stopped a manager? And most cloud providers have SLAs for uptime.
[08:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:17] <exec> 08└─Have you not heard of Kubernetes or SaaS? A single guy clicking buttons on a web interface can set up all of those things in an hour. That's exactly what TFS is talking about for fucks sake. All of the repetitive shit with setting up software and backups can be automated. >it will all disappear one...
[08:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:21] <exec> 08└─Tell that to the government.
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[09:33:41] <exec> 08└─Funny they would think how current your capitulation to the Dark Side is would make any difference. But on the other hand, the advice in general is good, just do not run anything out of Redmond, where the Dark Lord rules, and keep up to date on security patches.
[09:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:42] <exec> 08└─Frost Pist: As a general rule, I try not to comment, at least under my own username, on my own submissions. Second, I have not run Windows since Win95, when I was Blue Screened to Death. So have fun, Soylentils! On Piste!
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[09:33:45] <exec> 08└─As long as there is some vestige of the horse remaining, it is not without purpose that we beat it. “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pas...
[09:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:47] <exec> 08└─Windoze software is packaged with local copies of required libraries, you can bet most of the libraries will be very outdated.
[09:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:49] <exec> 08└─Frost Pist:
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[09:33:51] <exec> 08└─run it in a VM guest with a Host-Only Adapter (VBox) or equiv, and pipe all guest networking through proxies running on the Linux VM host. Keep the host and proxy software updated.
[09:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:53] <exec> 08└─I needed to test something on windows so booted up that partition and started installing/running it. I left the room thinking I'd come back to see it complete in an hour or so, but instead saw the computer had rebooted. I can only assume this was an "update". How do people use this for real work?
[09:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:56] <exec> 08└─Yao [wikipedia.org] foiled, but did Shun [wikipedia.org]? If I were the alleged aristarchus [wikipedia.org], posting as an AC [slashdot.org], in what sense would warning others be a foil [youtube.com]?
[09:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:58] <exec> 08└─From the article: "If you run Windows, you are running a security risk." "If you run Windows, you are a running security risk." might cover it better :-)
[09:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:00] <exec> 08└─Windows 10 is much more consumer-abusive than anything Microsoft did in the 90's.
[09:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:03] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be nice if you could trust that your computer would be functionally intact after accepting security updates? Perhaps Microsoft and other vendors should work on their consumer trust before complaining that people don't want to update.
[09:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:32] <exec> 08└─Great Scott!
[09:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:34] <exec> 08└─What the hell is going on here?
[09:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:36] <exec> 08└─> But if you have steel and then have many many tiny little holes that you are going to "bleed" liquid out via in a temperature that is below freezing isn't that an issue? I think the whole point is to pump the liquid out when the (local) outside temp is really _hot_, in order to cool it down. This...
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[09:34:51] <exec> 08└─Charlie don't surf.
[09:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Orange Pi 3 H6 Released - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:08] <exec> 08└─Well, for one thing the name implies that they are the best chip company out there. I guess they could document the issue in the errata.
[09:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 5744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:46] <exec> 08└─You remember differently to I, or we had very different experiences. The 80's - Apple was non-existent. I don't remember a single mention of them until I saw one guy who had a Macintosh (128Kb). The ones with the tiny integrated screen. I was mad-keen to have a look at it because it was unusual, and...
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[09:36:48] <exec> 08└─Then use Replicant, even if the phone selection is limited. The problem with iOS is that it's a proprietary jail; it does not respect users' freedoms at all. And even if it does respect your privacy now, that could change at any time, given that you have no real control over it.
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[10:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 1500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:53] <exec> 08└─I admit that I rarely upgrade things unless I have to. If things work and does what I want I usually don't bother. New versions are not necessarily better versions, yes they might fix bug but more of then not they seem to add "features" that I do not want that only seem to bloat the software in ques...
[10:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:55] <exec> 08└─Generally . . .
[10:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:57] <exec> 08└─I have a feeling it is because quantum ethnoscientists are at the verge of revealing humans are quad-dimensional primates, who gain consensus via holographic mammalian belief systems. Good luck making sense of that without connecting 7zip to the internet.
[10:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:59] <exec> 08└─With much embarrassment, when you get a 5-minute restart warning part-way through an important presentation.. Savvy users spend the day before these sot of meetings forcing updates, just in case they get lucky, and make it through half a day without those pop ups. Note, they only appear during impta...
[10:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:01] <exec> 08└─Give artichokes a break. He isn't very good posting or submitting. Maybe he should try the "not posting" thing on all posts.
[10:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:35] <exec> 08└─Why does this Elon Musk talk just like the president trump of SN? is it Musk posing as trump here? is Trump posing as Musk in the interview?
[10:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:37] <exec> 08└─That is a huge compliment to president Trump.
[10:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:44] <exec> 08└─"But getting a good compiler for z80 assembler code, much less IBSYS code, isn't going to happen," /Au contraire, mon frère./ Z80 development tools (including assemblers, disassemblers, etc.): http://www.z80.info IBM 7090/7094 tools (including cross-assembler and linker): http://www.cozx...
[10:36:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 3656 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:20] <exec> 08└─I remember when Apple was a great company. The classic Mac days. Apple led in technology. BYTE magazine wrote that the history of the microcomputer industry was an effort to keep up with Apple. Mac fanboys used to laugh at PCs. Dip switches? Motherboard jumper pins. Cryptic autoexec.bat and config.s...
[10:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:10] <exec> 08└─Tangentially: https://www.xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[10:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:36] <exec> 08└─Is a fecal transplant the most disgusting medical procedure?
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[11:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:42] <exec> 08└─from the insurance industry: "can you sick people just hurry up and die?"
[11:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:05] <exec> 08└─So, the host of my host is my proxie?
[11:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:07] <exec> 08└─I think my Flash player is at version 23, and my 7za is dated 2006. Sometimes I use PKZip instead. No need to worry about JRE though since I don't use it. Considering that my personal info was already leaked in multiple high-profile breaches of organizations which are not run by me, (and there have...
[11:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:09] <exec> 08└─Since the dirty trick that Microsoft played "updating" users' Windows 7/8 to WIndows 10, I have turned off updates on all Windows machines around here. (Mrs Nuke's, and the dual bootable/ VM copies that I have). I have made the judgment that I can cope with viruses, encryption, data theft, or any ot...
[11:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:11] <exec> 08└─Savvy users...don't use Windows! :)
[11:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:13] <exec> 08└─I used to wonder that: Does the richest man in the world (back then a bit) REALLY put up with this blue screen shit? Then watched the video of his presentation where Windows blue screened on him and thought, Wow...what a luser.
[11:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:15] <exec> 08└─I use whatever the company paying me allocates to me, That way corporate email, share drives and 'special' software all work*, and nothing I have "done" on my own machine can be blamed for any "issues" - using their machine, with their IT support, means you are not going to get blamed when email bor...
[11:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 1234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:02] <exec> 08└─For business people (and especially those that travel outside the US) e-mail and BB PIN messaging were the killer apps. Nothing else was even worth wasting time on and while there was a lot of 'ooh ooh shiny' uptake and people 'demanding' iPhones because they were status symbols the bulk of the busi...
[11:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:03] <exec> 08└─They already sold off their spare kidneys to buy the last phone, how are they going to afford the latest one?
[11:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PocketSizeSUn [5340] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:05] <exec> 08└─Yes .. you can tell the phone not to do that .. not sure how much the google apps honor the request though. And of course that location information could be misused, or used to incriminate. One of the primary uses of that data (well that I use a lot) is related to maps ... like when a place is busy...
[11:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:26] <exec> 08└─Too hard to see through... Also. shiney side in or out?
[11:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:28] <exec> 08└─I tried to install lineageOS on a Samsung phone, it was necessary to unlock the bootloader with a special code obtained from Samsung website upon sending them the serial number of the phone.
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[12:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:45] <exec> 08└─I'm ditching Netflix for a better service that doesn't cater to Mafia rule. P1r@736@y sounds like a better option.
[12:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:53] <exec> 08└─from the insurance industry: "can you sick people just hurry up and die?"
[12:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:23] <exec> 08└─Well I don't know why people don't update their MS programs. Maybe because they tend to break things? When did the October update roll out again? Recently they updated Microsoft office and broke word wrapping in excel cells that contain unicode characters in the string. A feature that worked fine si...
[12:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:24] <exec> 08└─I made that call when XP service pack 2 or 3 capped the number of outgoing network connections, supposedly to fight SPAM-generating malware, hat just so happened to murder torrent speeds as well. A few years later I made the permanent GNU+Linux jump. I still consider grabbing on of those SD card to...
[12:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:26] <exec> 08└─It's a Windows aggravation thingy. Kind of like when you forget to close a window in your house and Ethanolfueled crawls in and drinks your stash of baileys.
[12:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:29] <exec> 08└─What? Ethanol-fueled does that shit? That's another reason to lock my windows.
[12:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:31] <exec> 08└─Dude, really? Let me tell you how I know your idea is bogus: you didn't mention the lizard people.
[12:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:33] <exec> 08└─I didn't even notice it was Arti, where is all the alt-right conspiracies and Nazis? The post is clearly lacking in content for it being a proper post.
[12:34:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 354 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:58] <exec> 08└─I was surprised as well, but a little time with Google, and Musk is absolutely correct. He is refering to Austenitic stainless steel [stainlesssteelsubstrates.com], which has a melting point around 1400C. Aluminum melts at 660C. This type of steel has a crystalline structure that remains the same at...
[12:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:09] <exec> 08└─Yep. My materials professor at University said that, if he were asked to redesign the Super-Sonic Transport plane (SST/Concorde), he'd use stainless rather than Titanium for all the reasons already mentioned. [1] He's retired now, but is probably feeling vindicated by this news item. [1] one more re...
[12:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:10] <exec> 08└─Bruce Perens is mad about this and mocks Elon (See Bruce Perens' twitter). What a fucking faggot. Elon should sue him for libel.
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[13:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:52] <exec> 08└─If it's legal for loan sharks, why not for Pharmaceutical manufacturers?
[13:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:53] <exec> 08└─They don't want them to die, not until they've drained the entire family's net worth - then they can die. Actually bought a cord of firewood from a backwoods Alabama family who lost the family farm to the hospital - Daddy got sick, and after 3 months they ran up a bill sufficient to foreclose on the...
[13:34:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:10] <exec> 08└─Windows 10 is much more consumer-abusive than anything Microsoft did in the 90's.
[13:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:29] <exec> 08└─Direct Internet access by an outdated application isn't the only vector for exploit. If they process files which you've _downloaded_ from the Internet, then there is still a risk. For example for 7-zip, you might unknowingly download a malicously malformed archive, which when decompressed _locally_...
[13:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Version 0.9 of the PCI Express 5.0 Specification Ratified - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:41] <exec> 08└─the first support for PCIe 4.0 on the desktop will land soon in AMD's third-gen Ryzen chips
[13:36:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:59] <exec> 08└─You can't easily copy your own media to a iProduct, you don't get an SD card slot, you can't sideload your own apps and you can't get root. On what planet is that "best" when it isn't even an option?
[13:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:24] <exec> 08└─I want to use monotone to sync the documents I write between my Android tablet and my computer.
[13:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:26] <exec> 08└─The Surface Pro looked very nice, indeed. But can it dual-boot Linux and Windows? Will it still do that after a Windows forced upgrade?
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[14:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Split Images of Quasar Used to Produce a New Estimate of the Hubble Constant - 4919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:45] <exec> 08└─Xonotic vs ChaosEsque:Anthology, Which to chose. A debate on OpenSource FPS's >Xonotic over ChaosEsqueAnthology: .................................. Ayyo. Before you make a big mistake in choosing a project or sum shit you gotta be feeling the ways of the both the people. You feel me? M'fcking Xonoti...
[14:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Split Images of Quasar Used to Produce a New Estimate of the Hubble Constant - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:46] <exec> 08└─information about the meddling galaxy's gravitational field
[14:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Split Images of Quasar Used to Produce a New Estimate of the Hubble Constant - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:49] <exec> 08└─Cut the fucking crap, there's more important debates to be found. https://soylentnews.org¬e=&title=Xonotic+vs+ChaosEsque%3AAnthology%2C+Which+to+chose.+A+debate+on+OpenSource+FPS%27s [soylentnews.org]
[14:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:06] <exec> 08└─The cost didn't significantly increase, the price did. That's a major problem with the US medical system. This isn't about the cost of production. It's about charging what the market will accept. Acceptance includes not causing too much outrage which would result in Congress stepping in. See frog bo...
[14:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:43] <exec> 08└─I still consider grabbing on of those SD card to SATA adapters, installing XP and then switching on the write-protect switch so that a rebbot would wipe out anything that may infect it.
[14:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:44] <exec> 08└─I paid £100 for an OS that *advertises* at me. Note Android, which is a free as in beer operating system run by the biggest advertising outfit in the world (well maybe), does not advertise at me. £100! It is the most expensive software license that I own bar none.
[14:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:46] <exec> 08└─and I might upgrade more often. A year or two back LibreOffice Draw moved things around, things I rely on. Took a couple hours dorking with it to figure out where stuff went, and preferred the older way once I figured it out. Haven't updated LibreOffice since, and probably won't until I get a new la...
[14:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:48] <exec> 08└─As much as I prefer Android to its competitors... The OS may not overtly advertise to you... but like Win10, it does slurp your personal data.
[14:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:51] <exec> 08└─You mean the reptilians? https://pbs.twimg.com [twimg.com]
[14:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:29] <exec> 08└─On launch, it takes a whole booster full of fuel and chemical reactions to get enough energy to get to orbit. To return, this proposes to use evaporative cooling without gain from a chemical reaction to absorb that energy so as not to become a fire ball. How does one carry enough cooling fluid to do...
[14:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ESA Plans to Send Mining Equipment to the Moon - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:45] <exec> 08└─You can’t mine without staking a claim of ownership. I thought it would be China to stake the first claim, I was wrong!
[14:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:11] <exec> 08└─I watch too much television, good for you for finding other ways to spend your time. I wasn't aware of Zap2It, I'll check that out before my next Tivo service renewal. I grew up watching and recording shows on DVR, but I've become fond of Blu-Ray/full HD video quality and I can't imagine going back....
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[15:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:42] <exec> 08└─gHacks published an article [ghacks.net] this morning with news that Opera has also gotten into the "block the ad-blockers game," currently only with search engines. Opera users who run any recent version of the web browser -- Stable, Beta or Developer -- and either the native ad blocker or a browse...
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[15:33:52] <exec> 08└─no.
[15:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:00] <exec> 08└─I'll want and see. But this could have a good moderating effect on the MPAA. Netflix has an interest in making sure its content cannot be 'stolen'. But Netflix has an interest in a cheap vibrant internet in order to deliver its content. This would cause Netflix to oppose some other MPAA members' ide...
[15:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:02] <exec> 08└─If you can't beat em, join em. Netflix doesn't care if the internet is crippled as long as they are the ones doing the crippling.
[15:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:14] <exec> 08└─https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act [wikipedia.org] Life expectancy also decreasing since 2014: https://www.theatlantic.com [theatlantic.com] Here is whats going on: 1) When the government sub...
[15:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:16] <exec> 08└─That's the medical industry - the insurance industry is on the hook for a lot of that expense too, and is only interested in your survival if it means you can reasonably be expected to pay enough future premiums to cover their current expenses.
[15:34:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 910 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:44] <exec> 08└─I use whatever the company paying me allocates to me, That way corporate email, share drives and 'special' software all work*, and nothing I have "done" on my own machine can be blamed for any "issues" - using their machine, with their IT support, means you are not going to get blamed when email bor...
[15:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 2211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:58] <exec> 08└─Most desktop applications are simply not designed with "security" in mind. But you don't usually feed them constant streams of untrusted data, so they usually don't need to be. A web browser needs to be updated as it is constantly exposed to untrusted data. Browser plugs in such as PDF readers eithe...
[15:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:59] <exec> 08└─Was it with the review of the new Microsoft Disk Compression Utility?
[15:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, but blame it on "DLL hell".
[15:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, but a magical proxie from a VM land far away, sprinkling magical proxie dust everywhere.
[15:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:06] <exec> 08└─If you hold your hand to to your ear and listen carefully . . . . . . in the background you can hear the blue scream of death!
[15:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:08] <exec> 08└─Over half of applications installed on Windows PCs are out-of-date
[15:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:47] <exec> 08└─Not seeing enough clicks Bruce?
[15:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:49] <exec> 08└─What surprised me most about this article is that apparently SpaceX measures temperature in Fahrenheit. Or does Musk only do this when talking to the American press?
[15:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:51] <exec> 08└─Steel memes, and only in the presence of jet fuel.
[15:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:53] <exec> 08└─Great Scott!
[15:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:01] <exec> 08└─and whose attire leaves something to be desired
[15:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:03] <exec> 08└─They probably become the ones walking in front and behind cars carrying the red flags to warn the public that a car was approaching. After all, cars frightened the horses.
[15:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 1530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:15] <exec> 08└─I remember the Apple ][. We used the p-System (and Pascal language). On the Apple ][ and Apple ///, we used Apple Pascal which was extremely close, except the binary formats were different. (Apple Pascal was forked from the p-System 2, and we used the p-System 4 on all other platforms, IBM PC, Corvu...
[15:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:16] <exec> 08└─As I seem to recall, and from regular MacWEEK issues of the day, was that Apple was almost destroyed by Scully's successor. Can't quite remember his name. Apple was pushing the PowerPC as the future. First they had to convince developers. And they did. Then they had to convince customers, and slowly...
[15:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:19] <exec> 08└─What is CMP? An assembly language instruction? Or some kind of PC magazine I never heard of? (But I was a Mac fanboy by then.)
[15:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:21] <exec> 08└─We do have different experiences. Once I got started on the Mac in late 1984, I never looked back. I lived in an entirely Mac centric world until 1993 when I did go back to doing some cross platform work with Mac and PC Win 3.1. But I thought of Win 3.1 as quite an inferior toy. In every possible wa...
[15:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:23] <exec> 08└─Alternatively: don't break the law.
[15:39:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:47] <exec> 08└─Basically, yes. But it's got to look more technical than that. There must at least be a cable to the stick / box. And that whole arrangement must be under some kind of cover, box or flap that requires a screwdriver to open. That way this superior "smart" tv can be sold for cheaper, but you can still...
[15:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 1453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:49] <exec> 08└─Well, in general I have some significant hobbies / interests / projects / goals and entertainment isn't helping them along. :0 Yeah, MythTV is great but you have to get the video into the computer, which will require an investment in some kind of hardware, although I admit it's gotten very inexpensi...
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[16:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:48] <exec> 08└─Then why are you using chromium? You would be better off with one of the Firefox forks.
[16:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:50] <exec> 08└─Not that firefox development hasn't gradually drifted into a place where they're tightly bound to a narrow revenue stream from sources whose interests don't align with Firefox's users'. Closed source was clearly never the problem with proprietary software, it was always profit motive.
[16:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:52] <exec> 08└─This seems to be a complementary API to webRequest. I see no indication from the linked documents that the webRequest api is going away. Each API has pros and cons, from what I can see. I do see changes happening to webRequest. It now requires host permissions. [thehackernews.com] That means the end...
[16:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:54] <exec> 08└─Ah, I found it. It's not in API documentation, but in a Google docs proposal for Manifest V3: In Manifest V3, this API will be discouraged (and likely limited) in its blocking form. The non-blocking implementation of the webRequest API, which allows extensions to observe network requests, but not...
[16:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:56] <exec> 08└─Just in case, Firefox wasn't an example of this strategy being applied by Google - now you have it.
[16:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 1272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:59] <exec> 08└─Not great news for Joe Public, but for those of us with a bit more nous I see adblockers as more of the final line of defence in a whole series of them. In order to even get a chance of being blocked by the adblocker extension in my web browser, an ad will have to: Not be hosted on a (sub-)domain I...
[16:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:01] <exec> 08└─That we can block servers at the router. That means ad-servers, googleanalytics, the many MStelemetry servers, and so much more. Your browser doesn't control your router (yet, at least) so those of us who demand that WE control our "experience" will still have control.
[16:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:03] <exec> 08└─I'm still thinking that maybe Google is still less evil than Microsoft and Facefook. They are busily eroding my remaining faith in them.
[16:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Split Images of Quasar Used to Produce a New Estimate of the Hubble Constant - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:13] <exec> 08└─If you use an average expansion speed of 70 km/s/Mpc and 300,000 km/s for the speed of light, then the edge of the observable universe would be 300,000/70 = 4285.71 Mpc = 13,971 billion light-years away. Anything beyond that distance would be invisible to us. The age of the universe is estimated to...
[16:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:24] <exec> 08└─I think with their recent news about creating things people are not asking for, increasing price and losing customers, they are now partnering up to get more money.
[16:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:38] <exec> 08└─1) When the government subsidizes something it gets more expensive. Which explains why other Western countries that have fully funded healthcare for all have shorter average lifespans and more expensive medicine ..... Oh wait! They don't!
[16:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:40] <exec> 08└─Sounds more like a failure of insurance coverage, or did someone who owns 80 acres not have insurance?
[16:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:42] <exec> 08└─"Drugmakers say they periodically need to raise U.S. list prices of their medications to help offset steep rebates they must offer to get them covered by insurance plans" So if this is true, it is the insurers who are to blame
[16:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:44] <exec> 08└─Smokers die young and die quickly, saving the rest of us money.
[16:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:47] <exec> 08└─All the debate and politics is about who is going to be forced to pay the inflated price. How can we shift the burden to someone else? But addressing why the price is so high in the first place... nothing! Rising prices also mean that there is little incentive for providers and suppliers to do somet...
[16:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:34] <exec> 08└─I still consider grabbing on of those SD card to SATA adapters, installing XP and then switching on the write-protect switch so that a rebbot would wipe out anything that may infect it.
[16:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:18] <exec> 08└─Probably for the press - He's an immigrant, and his staff are mostly engineers, so it seems very unlikely that Fahrenheit is used internally at SpaceX.
[16:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:29] <exec> 08└─I will make a prediction. Once everyone has become redundant and automated out of existence, all of the hardware that makes up the cloud will be virtualized and put somewhere in the cloud. Then there will be no more need even for hardware maintenance.
[16:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:55] <exec> 08└─This is "progress" in the modern world.
[16:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:57] <exec> 08└─Ho-hum. A free man or woman decides for him/herself what risks he/she is willing to take. It is not the place of government to decide for me what risks I may or may not take. Government doesn't take the same sort of interest in my financial risks, does it?
[16:38:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 640 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:10] <exec> 08└─Like typical desktop computers, phones eventually have enough cpu, memory and storage. Once that point is achieved, adding more does not really benefit most users, but continues to increase the price. Most PC users now could do with a PC that easily costs under a few hundred dollars. A similar thing...
[16:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:15] <exec> 08└─Which will work great until a year or so later when the software mysteriously "breaks" and insists that it needs to update again I make something up to counter your position
[16:40:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:16] <exec> 08└─I actually have a new Vizio that's working happily without a wifi connection.
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[17:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waymo Announces Plans for a Driverless Vehicle Factory in Michigan - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:47] <exec> 08└─Will this driverless car factory be workerless? That would be a double whammy from Waymo. #RobotOverlordsAreComing
[17:34:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 1272 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:02] <exec> 08└─Not great news for Joe Public, but for those of us with a bit more nous I see adblockers as more of the final line of defence in a whole series of them. In order to even get a chance of being blocked by the adblocker extension in my web browser, an ad will have to: Not be hosted on a (sub-)domain I...
[17:34:05] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 781 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:05] <exec> 08└─One of the major motivators of Richard Stallman and his GNU project was to ensure that software could be altered as needed to make sure it worked for its users rather than against its users. It was 30 years ago when he raised the issue, and he's still right about the nature of the problem. His main...
[17:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:08] <exec> 08└─Facebook I suspect are evil to the core and we just haven't found out about all the details of how far they're prepared to go (and are going) yet, so definitely the worst of the three IMHO. Microsoft though seems to have mellowed a bit under Nadella, certainly a lot of Ballmer's public anti-Linux rh...
[17:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:10] <exec> 08└─is there anyone left who *still* thinks Google isn't evil?
[17:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:12] <exec> 08└─As annoying as this is, and certainly neither easy nor free as just installing UBO is, if it comes to that, I will build the Pi Hole (see here: https://pi-hole.net) [pi-hole.net] if it comes to this. If these weaselly motherfuckers want to escalate the war, fine; let's see them get through THAT.
[17:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:14] <exec> 08└─extension system to switch to WebExtensions. Oh wait... But one way Google would like to achieve these goals involves replacing the webRequest API with a new one, declarativeNetRequest.
[17:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:16] <exec> 08└─What security and privacy problems do they say it addresses in particular? I am generally in agreement this sounds like a bad idea as presented, but I only see vague descriptions like "Google's stated rationale for making the proposed changes is to improve security [...]" in the linked postings. It...
[17:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:19] <exec> 08└─I'll be using the last version of Chrome that supports UBO. I knew UBO was too good to last. Someone makes something cool, and an army of douchebags finds a way to ruin it.
[17:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:21] <exec> 08└─Except the web is actively breaking around them. It's now weekly that I have to switch to something Chrome-based, despite having up-to-date Firefox forks, to complete some desirable web task.
[17:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:23] <exec> 08└─DNS66 does a good job of blocking ads system wide on android, provided you can spare the VPN interface. No root or modding required, other than side loading an app from f-droid. https://f-droid.org [f-droid.org]
[17:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:25] <exec> 08└─While your user name is "ikanreed", this obviously does not mean that you can read. Because otherwise you would have noticed that the parent didn't suggest using Firefox, but one of the Firefox forks.
[17:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:47] <exec> 08└─It seems the MPAA had cookies. MPAA is the enemy of a free internet and the people. I cannot support MPAA members. I would join the boycott of Netflix but I already don't subscribe because of how they treat Linux users. Instead I will convince others to join the boycott.
[17:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:48] <exec> 08└─If Netflix can't deliver its content, it goes out of business. Netflix cares that the internet works. The MPAA would like to destroy the internet.
[17:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:51] <exec> 08└─"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em", I guess. All the other media companies desperately trying to kill off Netflix pivoted them to making their own content, and now this is the next logical step. If these morons would just license all their content to one central service instead of thinking they can g...
[17:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe if there was a non-profit in charge of the gateway to their content... one which wasn't totally beholden to the corps they support... like the MPAA but not 100% corporate whores who are stuck in a past before the transistor; with the goal of keeping customers happy so they don't copy the stuff...
[17:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:55] <exec> 08└─Of course, now it is a content producer. When it was just paying royalties for streaming other's content, maybe it was a little upset for having to pay while others did it for free, but not a big deal. It needn't to be an adamant defender of Copyright system that is not very popular in Internet. Now...
[17:35:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 238 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:09] <exec> 08└─1) When the government subsidizes something it gets more expensive. Which explains why other Western countries that have fully funded healthcare for all have shorter average lifespans and more expensive medicine ..... Oh wait! They don't!
[17:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:14] <exec> 08└─Get an entire nation to give up healthy diets in favor of obesity- and diabetes-inducing alternatives. Reap profits. Get the fat, sedentary couch potatoes to give up reading and crafts in favor of TV-, movie- and video-watching activities. Reap profits. Completely muddy the waters of exercise and di...
[17:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 1399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:16] <exec> 08└─I work in healthcare now and have seen things like this happen. It's not just insulin. What we have here is not a problem of either technology or supply, except in a few rare cases. It's purely a political issue. Goods and services have varying degrees of elasticity in the demand for each; the lower...
[17:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:18] <exec> 08└─Acceptance includes not causing too much outrage which would result in Congress stepping in.
[17:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:21] <exec> 08└─Type I Diabetes has no relationship whatsoever to diet and exercise. While you are attempting to blame big business, they are not the problem in this case. In fact heredity has a lot to do with this. Type 2 Diabetes can be related to diet and exercise, but even that is not the full story as that als...
[17:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:23] <exec> 08└─I'm not as educated as I would like to be in this department, but I was under the impression that most of the "good" countries had government funded healthcare, not government subsidized health care. That distinction seems important to me, though I can't say why I'm more willing to believe that the...
[17:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:11] <exec> 08└─While there is evil, it must be fought. Do you TRULY think Microsoft has turned over a new leaf? Do you really and honestly think they're any better morally now than they were in the mid 90s? Don't delude yourself; the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. The leopard, as Nanny Ogg says, does not c...
[17:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:13] <exec> 08└─He's one king hell mountain of a lot better than at least 1/3 of the commentariat here, especially when he's not trolling. I'd rather read a threadfull of Aristarchus replies than more of VLM's "scientific" racism or Runaway's delusional paranoid ranting or jmorris's...jmorris-ing.
[17:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:00] <exec> 08└─Crazier things have happened. Apparently the SR-71's fuel tanks didn't seal fully until they warmed up enough, so on takeoff they leaked fuel everywhere, too. Granted, the SR-71 doesn't quite make it to space. Fuselage panels were manufactured to fit only loosely with the aircraft on the ground. Pro...
[17:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:11] <exec> 08└─Last week I was hanging out at a tech meetup, and one of the fun activities was to get people to stand up and make BS sales pitches. One guy got on stage and made precisely that pitch: "Blockchain! Whatever your problem is, blockchain will solve it!" I was grabbing a drink with him later, and after...
[17:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:13] <exec> 08└─The M6800 was also a nice orthogonal assembler. But it wouldn't have been a good starting point. The IBM 7094 was better, if you ignored the peripheral controllers. But I wouldn't recommend that either. The z80 and i8080 were much simpler. Not, admittedly, as orthogonal as the M6800, but simpler to...
[17:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:15] <exec> 08└─The advantage of the i8080/z80 is that you don't need to worry as much about word length, register size, paging, etc. It limits what you can practically do, but for learning the basics that doesn't matter. But thank's for listing the references. Anyone wanting to follow up on this may find them very...
[17:38:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 1091 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:23] <exec> 08└─They said "Oh all this totalitarian school rules encoded into an enormous tome will make them used to surveillance," and that's just silly it... ..."Hey, NSA guy I'm just trying to call my mother-in-law, I'm not one of bad international terrorist phone calls"... Sorry about that, anyways, it's just...
[17:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:35] <exec> 08└─You still get more bang for you buck building your own AMD machine. I've only built AMD over the past decade and am quite happy with my choices. None of the computers I've built have died over that time period. I had some stability issues with my current setup, but I got 1st gen Zen and motherboard....
[17:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taking the Smarts Out of Smart TVs Would Make Them More Expensive - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:03] <exec> 08└─Then you're looking at the wrong TVs. I went for bargain basement, but with the specs I wanted. No "Smart" junk included. "SmartTV" is an oxymoron. You want a good "SmartTV" like experience. Buy a dumb display and hook up your favorite thing. Whether that's a Blu-Ray player, a RaspberryPi, a ChromeC...
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[18:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Waymo Announces Plans for a Driverless Vehicle Factory in Michigan - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:44] <exec> 08└─It's news to me that most factories even have drivers - since they mostly sit in one place firmly anchored to the ground, a driver seems rather pointless. Must be one of those jobs given to the boss's useless nephew.
[18:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waymo Announces Plans for a Driverless Vehicle Factory in Michigan - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:45] <exec> 08└─I specifically switched from "Autonomous" to "Driverless" in the headline so you wouldn't make that joke.
[18:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waymo Announces Plans for a Driverless Vehicle Factory in Michigan - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:47] <exec> 08└─And yet, here we are. I was also considering a "these cars will sell themselves" joke.
[18:34:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 297 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:07] <exec> 08└─As annoying as this is, and certainly neither easy nor free as just installing UBO is, if it comes to that, I will build the Pi Hole (see here: https://pi-hole.net) [pi-hole.net] if it comes to this. If these weaselly motherfuckers want to escalate the war, fine; let's see them get through THAT.
[18:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:14] <exec> 08└─"Security" to block extension publishers from snooping on users' browsing history perhaps?
[18:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:16] <exec> 08└─I wanted to pedantically defend my position because I had considered that when I made my post and decided the downstream effects from pulling changesets being easy still influences them the way chrome basically decides chromium's features. But you know... that's a totally fair point and worth more t...
[18:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:19] <exec> 08└─That a company that relies on advertising for 100% of its revenue stream does not have you (joe browser user) interests in mind when it creates a web browser. Ad blockers becoming too popular directly effect said companies bottom line. Therefore, why are you still using a browser created by a compan...
[18:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03splenolymph [5495] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:21] <exec> 08└─They will probably solve this problem, their engineering talent is quite dedicated.
[18:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:23] <exec> 08└─oh but many vendors are expecting people to configure the edge devices in a mobile application that runs on iOS or Android *only*. Telnet/ssh/https from something else (modern desktop or whatever) is not the focus. just you wait--features you had will be removed, or at least, your ability to access...
[18:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:25] <exec> 08└─The problem with the Mozilla Firefox forks is that they are all run by one or two core developers, much like the systemd-less Linux distributions. Therefore, they are susceptible to the bus factor. Not only that, but they also can't keep up with all of the various Internet and web changes. Much like...
[18:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:28] <exec> 08└─Been running a home firewall since mid 90’s first on 386 now p2 professor. Tossed in n the 17,000 black hole tracking sites. I am 99% ad free. New servers pop up everyday. In the firewall all 60 home devices are ad protected. Hell but out a small app on the machine being the dns for the phone can...
[18:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Split Images of Quasar Used to Produce a New Estimate of the Hubble Constant - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:39] <exec> 08└─I suspect the problem is the assumption that the universe is expanding at the same rate in all directions. This seems as if it's got to be wrong, as areas with denser clusters of mass should expand more slowly. The divergence wouldn't be much, but these measurements would seem to be the kind that wo...
[18:34:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 501 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:53] <exec> 08└─"If you can't beat 'em, join 'em", I guess. All the other media companies desperately trying to kill off Netflix pivoted them to making their own content, and now this is the next logical step. If these morons would just license all their content to one central service instead of thinking they can g...
[18:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:56] <exec> 08└─If I were a Netflix customer, I'd consider this a good reason to switch to Fortnite. Even if it meant buying a MSWindows computer. MS is evil and vile, but they aren't as bad as the MPAA.
[18:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:58] <exec> 08└─Netflix ceased to be a "market disruptor" quite some time ago. They are a massive corporation and have started creating their own content. I use them, because it's better than Hulu/YouTube and not as evil as Amazon or the Cable/Satellite TV Cartels.
[18:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:01] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=29485&page=1&cid=782978#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
[18:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I saw the Netflix v. Fortnite article, but if you aren't gaming it makes more sense to replace Netflix with Kodi [soylentnews.org] or some other means of streaming or downloading.
[18:35:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 1399 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:22] <exec> 08└─I work in healthcare now and have seen things like this happen. It's not just insulin. What we have here is not a problem of either technology or supply, except in a few rare cases. It's purely a political issue. Goods and services have varying degrees of elasticity in the demand for each; the lower...
[18:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, IF this is true. But why would you believe them? What evidence do they offer? How transparent are their finances?
[18:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:29] <exec> 08└─Daddy got sick, and after 3 months they ran up a bill sufficient to foreclose on the 80 acre estate... Slightly tagnetial.... How the Affordable Care Act Drove Down Personal Bankruptcy [consumerreports.org] Expanded health insurance helped cut the number of filings by half
[18:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:20] <exec> 08└─Heh heh heh. Windows (as in XP, maybe 7) are still fine to run. Install and isolate (zero network, zero updates). Not 100% guaranteed secure, but better than allowing Microsoft 2.0 to "update" your system to ex-your system. IF you need to (still) run Windows... Over in Linuxland, we have systemd. :(
[18:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:21] <exec> 08└─I try not to comment, at least under my own username, on my own submissions. Why? If you saved the editorializing for the comments you'd probably get more stories accepted....
[18:36:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zinho [759] 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 789 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:59] <exec> 08└─Yep. My materials professor at University said that, if he were asked to redesign the Super-Sonic Transport plane (SST/Concorde), he'd use stainless rather than Titanium for all the reasons already mentioned. [1] He's retired now, but is probably feeling vindicated by this news item. [1] one more re...
[18:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:08] <exec> 08└─Aside from the fact that "gentle Mach 25" is an oxymoron, I suspect that there is no solution to the reentry equations that does not involve periods of intense heating. If there were, they would have used it. Without doing the actual math, consider that anything that slows you in the upper atmospher...
[18:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:10] <exec> 08└─Generally no, you have that backwards, though it depends on the alloy. Titanium will not crack. Steel will crack. There are exceptions, like spring steel. While I don't know of any titanium alloy with the cracking problem, I'm quite sure they exist, simply since cracking is the norm for most metals.
[18:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:12] <exec> 08└─There are downsides of course, but how about this: giant balloon Given a large enough balloon, the vehicle density can be taken way down. You can even float in the upper atmosphere. Because the cross-section is large, compressive heating will be distributed over an extremely large area. Temperatures...
[18:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:27] <exec> 08└─Have you not heard of Kubernetes or SaaS?
[18:38:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 530 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:42] <exec> 08└─One of these things just doesn't belong. And is ridiculous on its face. Can you guess which one it is? Is it this? One of the most chilling laws in recent history was the Federal mandatory child restraint seats, for safety, of course. Let's just get the kids before they can even talk and train them...
[18:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:56] <exec> 08└─It is in society's interest when they become a burden because of their actions. Uninsured and underinsured people without seat belts cause a financial burden on society as well as taking the time and resources of emergency services. Car manufacturers are required to design more expensive air bag sys...
[18:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fecal Transplants: The 'Super-Donor' Phenomenon - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:45] <exec> 08└─No.
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[19:33:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Waymo Announces Plans for a Driverless Vehicle Factory in Michigan - 216 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:49] <exec> 08└─It's news to me that most factories even have drivers - since they mostly sit in one place firmly anchored to the ground, a driver seems rather pointless. Must be one of those jobs given to the boss's useless nephew.
[19:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waymo Announces Plans for a Driverless Vehicle Factory in Michigan - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:53] <exec> 08└─Sure, most factories have slave drivers. We usually call them managers.
[19:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waymo Announces Plans for a Driverless Vehicle Factory in Michigan - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:55] <exec> 08└─Actually, most car factories do have drivers to move the cars to different lots once they're complete.
[19:34:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 244 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:19] <exec> 08└─DNS66 does a good job of blocking ads system wide on android, provided you can spare the VPN interface. No root or modding required, other than side loading an app from f-droid. https://f-droid.org [f-droid.org]
[19:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:29] <exec> 08└─The proposal here: https://docs.google.com [google.com] That document doesn't explain the specific circumstances but seems to suggest a processing speed concern (from poorly written extensions using the API) as w...
[19:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:31] <exec> 08└─The codebase is a huge nasty POS.
[19:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, that and it should be fairly easy to make software that would insert itself into the network packet flow and function as a packet filter. That said, some of the crap comes with the datastream you want, so... But hopefully someone will build a browser, based on open-source chromium, that will co...
[19:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:35] <exec> 08└─Didn't take long to show their true colors. Is somebody surprised? I guess not. And also this is why other browsers decided to just use chromium for their browsers. Behind closed doors they are all compromised and owned by (((them))).
[19:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:07] <exec> 08└─no. netflix cares if it's traffic gets to it's slaves and that's not necessarily the same thing as a working internet.
[19:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:08] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the MPAA know what their customers want. Customers want DRM in their media. Anyway: You wouldn't steal a handbag. You wouldn't steal a car. You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman. And then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet. And then send it t...
[19:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:10] <exec> 08└─quit being a slave and download torrents. if you're scared of getting in trouble use a vpn. if you're scared of getting malware use a grown up's OS. ridiculous false choices...
[19:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:36] <exec> 08└─We know the cure for type 1 diabetes, people just find it distasteful.
[19:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:37] <exec> 08└─What part of backwoods Alabama did you not understand? I just bought firewood from these old boys, I didn't audit them, but if I had to guess... ah, nope - just Medicaid most likely.
[19:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:40] <exec> 08└─Yup, but too many US citizens think reigning in wealth inequality will hurt their small business. It is so ridiculous, yay propaganda! Boo education!
[19:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:42] <exec> 08└─And then.... Under Trump, the number of uninsured Americans has gone up by 7 million [vox.com]
[19:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:44] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they can't even get basic stuff like a wheelchair or enough beds despite being 15 billion usd in debt: Patients needing a wheelchair for less than 6 months are subject to a postcode lottery and frequently do not get one. [...] One out of seven NHS hospital operations are cancelled just b...
[19:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:46] <exec> 08└─I don't believe many people are thinking that. Instead they are thinking the government is full of incompetent buffoons whose best skills are lying and scamming.
[19:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:49] <exec> 08└─Medicaid will pull the plug and call debt collectors? Or did you mean the hospital?
[19:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:51] <exec> 08└─Sounds more like a failure of insurance coverage,
[19:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:53] <exec> 08└─And now those poor hospitals will be forced to post their prices online. Won't someone please think of the hospital lobby!
[19:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:55] <exec> 08└─The reason the NHS in the UK is struggling is because successive Tory government have under funded it, in an attempt to prove how much better the private sector would be in providing healthcare. They have already done that to the trains, with the same result. Worse service for more money.
[19:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:48] <exec> 08└─The reason Windows bashing was always so popular was the requirement to reinstall every day, and the constant BSOD as has been mentioned by other posters. At that time Windows was bashed on terms of performance, stability, security. The one and only thing that's improved is the BSODs and stability,...
[19:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:51] <exec> 08└─Go back to school and get a degree in something else, is one route. But don't make it the "next handful" of years. If you're serious about it, find out what you're doing next and go start training for it. Now. When you get laid off it will likely be too late. But maybe you'll get lucky and squeeze t...
[19:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:53] <exec> 08└─We left an Oracle service due to this factor. Support was inadequate and even management acknowledged this. So, it happens.
[19:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:55] <exec> 08└─We'll agree to disagree on this one. -- It's only when a mosquito lands on a man's testicles that he realizes violence is not always the answer.
[19:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Classic Double-Slit Experiment in a New Light - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:57] <exec> 08└─Actually found one: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[20:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waymo Announces Plans for a Driverless Vehicle Factory in Michigan - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:57] <exec> 08└─1. They'll create 101 jobs, get the incentive, then layoff 100. 2. Profit! 3. Who cares. Profit made. 4. See 3. 5. Waymo car kills people, they use the incentive money to pay off families.
[20:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:36] <exec> 08└─Are we returning to a world of "This site is best viewed in Internet Explorer 6"? That would be truly depressing.
[20:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:38] <exec> 08└─Blocking at this level, doesn't allow me only allow ads on websites that I approve of receiving the ads for, does it?
[20:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Split Images of Quasar Used to Produce a New Estimate of the Hubble Constant - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:50] <exec> 08└─well this is all strange methinks. the fact that the (finite but constant-speed) light(s) leaving the quasar at different angles are arriving at different times (and angles) seems to hint that "space-time" is not uniform, which might lend itself to the theory that the universe is not expanding at sa...
[20:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Split Images of Quasar Used to Produce a New Estimate of the Hubble Constant - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:52] <exec> 08└─What I was really looking for was a good slot machine game. Any ideas?
[20:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:15] <exec> 08└─i have a t-shirt showing Yoda on a exodus walk from the disney-starwars universe on chronos wielding a tvONE light saber. oh, and it got those DVD numbers printed on the backside ...
[20:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:17] <exec> 08└─maybe i did something wrong, but i installed AndroidX86 on a intel nuc, fetched the neflix app from google play and ... it didn't work. so, 3 bucks per month for unlimited TV watching is ok, if they would already provide a official netflix repo for kodi, non?
[20:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:54] <exec> 08└─Oh, so centralized/socialized medicine works fine until politics messes it up. Is that what happens?
[20:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:55] <exec> 08└─As I said, I was buying a cord of firewood from these good 'ol boys - they were probably in their 30s. The story lasted as long as it took to fill up the back of the pickup with firewood, so details were sketchy. Sounded like it was the hospital, and it sounded like the lawyers had already done the...
[20:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:49] <exec> 08└─Those are Red Dresses, technically speaking anyway.
[20:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Version 0.9 of the PCI Express 5.0 Specification Ratified - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:02] <exec> 08└─all good and well. you can have pcie4 or 5 and lots of slots and all...but doesn't it also depend on the GT/sec of the processor managing this? if the CPU has support for pcie 4 (for example) but only has 5 GT/sec?
[20:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jman [6085] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 12947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:19] <exec> 08└─In Q4 2018, Apple computer revenue - around seven and a half billion dollars - was nearly twice their tablet sales, but only around twenty percent of what the phone brought in. That doesn't look good for them; with the planet fairly saturated with cell phones, Apple, may need to consider alternate r...
[20:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple on the Decline - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:20] <exec> 08└─CMP Publications, I believe is what the poster was referring to. Now a part of UBM Technology Group.
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[21:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Shepard Makes 10th Launch as Blue Origin Aims to Fly Humans Late in 2019 - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:42] <exec> 08└─No one cares, Jeff. Sending a rocket straight up and down is boring. It's more boring than the Boring company. Shoot it sideways and have it drop Amazon deliveries on customers. That would be exciting.
[21:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Shepard Makes 10th Launch as Blue Origin Aims to Fly Humans Late in 2019 - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:44] <exec> 08└─Well, it would be mildly amusing to see suborbital space tourism take off after years of talk. Also, the flight carried several research payloads, so it isn't completely useless.
[21:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:37] <exec> 08└─Some of the pseudo-privatized parts of the australian Government (Australia Post parcel tracing, in particular) have websites that just don't work even on vanilla versions of some mobile browsers. Screwing around can sometimes trigger a pop up suggesting you install an app, but the page itself just...
[21:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:39] <exec> 08└─Securing google's revenue stream. Very important, that.
[21:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:41] <exec> 08└─You cannot install an adblocker, script-blocker, user-agent changer in an app. You cannot clear cookies & history & tracking in an app. With a browser, a few plugins, a little knowledge about cookie/tracking management, and a good VPN you can surf the web at least semi-anonymously as long as you do...
[21:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:43] <exec> 08└─That isn't as easy as you think. On many pages, adblockers have to redirect googleanalytics and other javascript to avoid breaking the pages.
[21:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 2060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:45] <exec> 08└─DNS-over-HTTPS may present quite a problem if it is implemented inside Chrome/Chromium without the option to specify the DNS server. Imagine all DNS requests sent directly to 4.4.4.4 wrapped up in SSL certs you don't control. Then pi-hole won't work anymore. We need a full intercepting proxy that ca...
[21:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that is precluded with pi-hole. You probably can white-list some domains. Then again, if those ads you wish to allow are also coming from problematic advertisers, then you would be unwise to allow it. Even if it contributed to content creators you wish to support. The problem isn't just...
[21:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:50] <exec> 08└─Jesus Christ, that is *evil.* Whose idea was that, DNS over HTTPS? To see our best tools for liberty and defense, the SSL and HTTPS standards, used against us as weapons is a special kind of tragedy...
[21:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:29] <exec> 08└─Man, these anti-piracy ads are getting really mean.
[21:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:30] <exec> 08└─Yup: this is why people download and share. Cut the crap and people wouldn't bother! Plus, Netflix (et al) drop a show you want to see, you are SOL: you download it, it is yours when YOU want to watch it.
[21:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:32] <exec> 08└─I can't steal (eg download) your movie right now because my internet connection is busy downloading a pizza.
[21:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:35] <exec> 08└─I have the MPAA and RIAA as much (maybe more) than anyone. I'm just thinking that Netflix joining might not be all bad news.
[21:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:12] <exec> 08└─When they say 'rebates', that's probably a euphemism for kickbacks. Basically, insurance company comes in and you offer your product for $10, but then 'Bruce' offers his for $100. But, 'Bruce' is shrewd and puts $50 worth of unmarked bills in a brown paper bag and casually leaves it on the seat afte...
[21:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:14] <exec> 08└─As a taxpayer, I'm glad to know exactly how much I'm paying when an uninsured person shows up at the hospital and they're obligated to care for them.
[21:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:16] <exec> 08└─Canada has a government insurance system. England has publicly funded services. They're both much better than the US.
[21:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:18] <exec> 08└─Well you won't know that, since they are only publishing the "chargemaster" values, which are typically 2-10x higher than the real price. Also, emergency room expenses are really far down there in terms of where healthcare spending goes. The vast majority is for chronic conditions in the elderly.
[21:36:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:45] <exec> 08└─Savvy users...don't use Windows! :)
[21:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PC Security Warning: That Out-of-Date Software is Putting You at Risk - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:13] <exec> 08└─Microsoft never turned over a new leaf, they just tried to cover up their true intentions until the DoJ let up on them. In the process they made a lot of relatively inexperienced developers and computer enthusiasts think they were a company with good intentions and was "with it" in regards to things...
[21:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk: Why I'm Building the Starship Out of Stainless Steel - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:04] <exec> 08└─Reading the blurb. It looks like we've found TheRealDonaldTrump.
[21:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Surveillance in Our Schools: Beneath the Friendly Exterior of ClassDojo - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:52] <exec> 08└─In school you learn to read, write and calculate, but most importantly, you learn how to make friends, resolve conflicts with your peers, and how to oppose authority, through ruse, makebeleive compliance, or blatant disobedience. Kids WILL find loopholes in surveillance, and they will learn, for the...
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[22:33:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:42] <exec> 08└─US district judge Haywood Gilliam last week rejected AMD's claim that "a significant majority" of people understood the term "core" the same way it did as "not persuasive."
[22:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:44] <exec> 08└─Siamese twins are still called twins and considered separate individuals - and their being conjoined usually slows them down quite a bit also. So why should siamese CPU cores be treated any different just because they're joined at the cache?
[22:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:46] <exec> 08└─an explanation of different types of promises [smh.com.au]
[22:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:48] <exec> 08└─In the server market it's not at all uncommon to have multiple cpu's which have to share resources with each other. They're still refered to by the total number of cores. For example, if I have a server that contains two hex core xeons, the server is still refered to as having 12 cores despite the f...
[22:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:51] <exec> 08└─When I bought my FX-8350, one of the features that excited me (besides the superior cost/performance vs a comparable Intel processor) was that, where Intel's processors were pitched as quad-core with hyperthreading, my AMD FX processor didn't fake 8 with 4 cores + hyperthreading, but provided an act...
[22:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 1351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:53] <exec> 08└─That was my take at the time too, although I actually went with Intel for reasons related to available motherboard options. To me "core" implies the actual microprocessor element that executes instructions, not the cache and all the other stuff that goes into a CPU "package", which in turn are now o...
[22:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:55] <exec> 08└─Anyone who bought one either knew what they were buying, or didn't care.
[22:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:58] <exec> 08└─What if one (two) of the jurors is a siamese twin? Do they count as one or two jurors?
[22:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:00] <exec> 08└─RTFA'd. It sounds like the description is consistent with what I remember when I bought my AMD FX processors. Eight cores, as advertised. Not necessarily optimally configured and sharing FPUs between pairs of cores, but definitely 8, not like Intel's hokey 4+hyperthreading.
[22:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:02] <exec> 08└─I don't think anyone would have sued and gotten this far if the Bulldozer architecture wasn't such shit and hyped by AMD. The new 24- and 32-core Threadripper 2 CPUs have potential bandwidth/latency issues for half of the cores, but I don't see any lawsuits. Nvidia settled [arstechnica.com] a class...
[22:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:04] <exec> 08└─AMD was very forthcoming
[22:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:07] <exec> 08└─No, they absolutely have 8 physical cores - those cores just don't each have their own dedicated cache and FPU. For reference, most 386 CPUs had *no* on-board cache or FPU (a.k.a math coprocessor), those were implemented in separate chips that a motherboard manufacturer could choose to include (or n...
[22:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:09] <exec> 08└─*40% IPC increase
[22:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:11] <exec> 08└─What other technical terms with well established meanings became meaningless due to marketing and advertisements?
[22:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:13] <exec> 08└─Your comments are possibly the best I've read on it. Complete with a good example. Here's hoping this thing winds up in AMD's favor as this lawsuit reeks of someone looking for a payday.
[22:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:16] <exec> 08└─Please stop! I'm going to fill-up my bullshit bingo card prematurely.
[22:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:18] <exec> 08└─When buying a processor most folks look to see what the actual benchmarks are before purchase. I agree this architecture has all kinds of flaws that hobble its performance, but it doesn't change the fact that there are 8 instruction executing cores.
[22:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:20] <exec> 08└─If you bought two slaves and got siam. twins, you'd have been cheated.
[22:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03laserfusion [1450] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Shepard Makes 10th Launch as Blue Origin Aims to Fly Humans Late in 2019 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:30] <exec> 08└─I liked the large windows on the capsule. Also I liked the powered landing, but it's just a suborbital vehicle. Still impressive.
[22:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waymo Announces Plans for a Driverless Vehicle Factory in Michigan - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:44] <exec> 08└─1. They'll create 101 jobs, get the incentive, then layoff 100.
[22:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waymo Announces Plans for a Driverless Vehicle Factory in Michigan - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:46] <exec> 08└─I want my Johnny Cab! (for you yung'uns, google 'Total Recall') :-)
[22:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 1842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:33] <exec> 08└─Doubtful. Hell, I recently switched away from their software. A couple months ago did a massive overhaul to make their browser more like Chrome, which is a damn shame because it was my favorite of all the browsers I use. I could keep using the classic version but I'd just be leaving myself open to s...
[22:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:35] <exec> 08└─Some of the pseudo-privatized parts of the australian Government (Australia Post parcel tracing, in particular) have websites that just don't work even on vanilla versions of some mobile browsers. For JavaScriipt-free parcel tracking you can use the following websites (which support many carriers in...
[22:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:19] <exec> 08└─The fact is that downloading torrents of copyrighted works is illegal where I live. As such I am obligated to abide by the laws we have setup or help to get them changed. Even in the event that we gate sane copyright laws on the books. That doesn't mean downloading a torrent of a recent movie would...
[22:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:20] <exec> 08└─Nice. Is it still illegal to download pineapple on it?
[22:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:03] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you value (at least the appearance of) security over freedom?
[22:39:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06The Creeping IT Apocalypse - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:53] <exec> 08└─Everything old really is new again I guess. I've been turning people's tedious workloads into very small perl scripts for decades.
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[23:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft and WhatsApp Try to Stop Fake News - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, only warnings. But are people really that godawful stupid? Wait, yeah the are. Sorry. Still.... maybe anyone stupid enough to believe a WhatsApp or a Tabloid really gets what they deserve? Just a thought...
[23:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft and WhatsApp Try to Stop Fake News - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:42] <exec> 08└─Well, if you have the Edge browser on your phone and use it, then yea, potentially. Not sure how many people fall into that category. I'm guessing not too many (Play store shows 5 million downloads, which I find surprisingly high...).
[23:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft and WhatsApp Try to Stop Fake News - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:44] <exec> 08└─For once, Microsoft wrote some code that works and does some social good. It calls out the Daily Heil! Fake news detected [theguardian.com].
[23:33:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 241 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:54] <exec> 08└─Siamese twins are still called twins and considered separate individuals - and their being conjoined usually slows them down quite a bit also. So why should siamese CPU cores be treated any different just because they're joined at the cache?
[23:33:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Shire [5824] 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 1025 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:57] <exec> 08└─In the server market it's not at all uncommon to have multiple cpu's which have to share resources with each other. They're still refered to by the total number of cores. For example, if I have a server that contains two hex core xeons, the server is still refered to as having 12 cores despite the f...
[23:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:12] <exec> 08└─In particular, the sharing of at least some layers of cache between cores is absolutely standard procedure, a complete non-event. There's a stronger argument for considering the FPU to be part of the CPU now, as they've been inseparable since Pentium times.
[23:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:14] <exec> 08└─But how many floating point or SIMD instructions can it execute in parallel? If the answer's 4, then the argument that it's 8 cores is weakened somewhat, if the common consensus (of all morons in a hurry) is that cores contain FPUs and SIMD units. Sufficiently bullshitty marketting guys could have h...
[23:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:16] <exec> 08└─There needs to be standard organizations that define such terms. Then when someone uses the term 'core' they can say 'ISO standard Core" or whatever organization is being referred to. So that we are all on the same page and we can better compare two different products from two different companies an...
[23:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:18] <exec> 08└─To make your analogy very real and accurate: Britiesh Leyland "B" series engines, as installed in the MGA and MGB, have a header that has siamesed ports. They have 4 cylinders, but the head only has two intake ports and 3 exhaust ports, and the intake is fed from two carburettors (except for late mo...
[23:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:20] <exec> 08└─I don't disagree that the underlying architecture is a mess with bottlenecks all over the place including the FPU. However the design does include 8 discrete cpu's. The fpu situation doesn't take away from there being 8 cores which can all crunch instructions simultaneously. I'm old enough to rememb...
[23:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06When is a CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide. - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:22] <exec> 08└─I mostly agree, and for sure many of technology's terms are not well defined, or fall into misuse. A minor (but annoying) example is hard disk sizes where 1 GB ≠ 1024^3 , but rather = 1,000,000,000. Sigh. Just to clarify, the 80486 DX has both cache and math coprocessor. The SX has cache but no ma...
[23:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Shepard Makes 10th Launch as Blue Origin Aims to Fly Humans Late in 2019 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:33] <exec> 08└─the flight carried several research payloads
[23:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:38] <exec> 08└─Apple's "evilness" is an interesting subject of debate. On the one hand, they love their walled gardens. These achieve two purposes: Customer lock-in and revenue protection. Depending on your perspective, you could call that evil (though IMO not as evil as selling your customers out)Security. Apple'...
[23:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:40] <exec> 08└─Looking for free shit? Beggars can't be choosers. If you don't want to be a slave to Google or Mozilla, man up and hack on your own browser.
[23:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:42] <exec> 08└─Does anybody else know about this Pi Hole thing? On the surface it sounds quite intriguing. However, I'm a bit hesitant to give all my DNS traffic to a third party unknown place. Can anybody else vouch for this?
[23:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:44] <exec> 08└─From what I've read, these changes will destroy NoScript and uBlock as well. And I simply will not use a browser without JavaScript blocking. I have to do it from time to time on collegue's computers at work, and I don't understand how anyone can stand that shit.
[23:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:46] <exec> 08└─They are busily eroding my remaining correcting my misplaced faith in them.
[23:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, ther are work-arounds, but they shouldn't be neccesary
[23:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:51] <exec> 08└─Use the Tor browser, they have to still maintain script-blocking capabilities.
[23:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:53] <exec> 08└─... and you laughed at me for using lynx [wikipedia.org]. (grin)
[23:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:55] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't have to enable an add-on to disable this junk, you should have to enable an add-on to *allow* it.
[23:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:57] <exec> 08└─Here soon it wont even be worth bothering with unless you want to buy something, or be bought.
[23:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:00] <exec> 08└─But yes, it is quite high. And while i hate ads as much as the rest, it IS their product, so they get to do what they want with it. We get to choose another product.
[23:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Set to Block Ad-Blockers in Google Chrome - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:02] <exec> 08└─https was a defense for liberty? Not since the net got it in its mind to make it the enforced standard of all and browsers started warning you about insecure browsing, even for things that had absolutely no requirements for security. Quite the opposite of liberty.
[23:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:46] <exec> 08└─You sound like a faggot.
[23:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Becomes First Streaming Company to Join the MPAA - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:48] <exec> 08└─You're using Netflix incorrectly then. I think I get a 1/3 to 1/2 of my content via Netflix, and the rest via piracy. When I wish to watch something that is on Netflix, it's just plain easier, or about the same amount of work on Kodi, to watch it. The moment Netflix drops a show, I use piracy instea...
[23:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:33] <exec> 08└─Which European style?
[23:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:34] <exec> 08└─Let's see you find your "freedom" scrounging for scraps out of a dumpster in january when it's below freezing outside, asshole.
[23:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:37] <exec> 08└─Nearly all of it? Just about the entire EU and the Scandinavian nations in particular do this the right way.
[23:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Insulin Costs Nearly Doubled From 2012 to 2016 - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:39] <exec> 08└─Because politicians who are against it mess it up. You may as well say there's no point to having a lock on your door because a criminal can mess it up with, for example, a can of liquid N2 and a good swift kick. Of course I know what you were really trying to say/do here, but it doesn't work, so I'...
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