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[00:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:54] <exec> 08└─It is just surreal watching people respond "remember when IE6 broke the web for their Microsoft's gain" and a Microsoft employee unironically states open source makes it different this time. Not only does history repeat, it gets weirder each time. He also lists a bunch of projects he is implying hav...
[00:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:55] <exec> 08└─Why am I not surprised that Microsoft only supports diversity when it comes to hiring practices. Here, I thought diversity was this wonderful ideology that makes all aspects of life and all things great because reasons. That's what the TV and news tell me every day.
[00:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:57] <exec> 08└─If you own any index funds you do too.
[00:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:00] <exec> 08└─They should donate Edge to apache foundation.
[00:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:02] <exec> 08└─Think about this. Now that MS will be shipping it by default would you *bother* to install chrome on windows?
[00:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:04] <exec> 08└─Mozilla will do that. They already copy chrome on everything else so they will copy the rendering engine.
[00:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browsing Engine to Chromium - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:06] <exec> 08└─Not really. If anything, this demonstrates the consistency of Microsoft's position. Microsoft in the year 2000: "Internet Explorer has 99% market dominance, everybody else should give up and just use it." Microsoft (or at least an employee) in the year 2019: "Chrome has a 95% market dominance, every...
[00:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:32] <exec> 08└─They've been predicting this tech for decades! Add demonic whispers to your opponents experience of the world today! Maybe project images onto their retinae too! Really customize their experience of reality!
[00:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:34] <exec> 08└─Thanks for an unsettling glimpse of the future! Give it another 15-35 years or so and we'll all be so vision-impaired, senile and, in many cases, intoxicated, and deranged that everyone will always misread every single headline then forget what they were discussing, multiple times, partway through t...
[00:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:36] <exec> 08└─Keep this technology a secret: Drive people crazy by making them think they are hearing demons. Publicize this technology: Drive people crazy by making them think they are being targeted by lasers.
[00:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:07] <exec> 08└─Sorry folks, but this seems another BS headline. I'd be happy to blame crap on the pope or the Catholic Church (which has done a lot of crap over the years), but I see no clear evidence cited here. I read TFA. And I was a bit confused about the exact connection. Then I noticed the following weird ed...
[00:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:08] <exec> 08└─Heck... I thought PMS occurred only once per year but lasts 365 days. My wife says so.
[00:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations Provide New Clues About Powerful Plasma Jets - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:23] <exec> 08└─Sounds every bit as plausible and dark matter and negative energy, which comes from bad vibes, by the way. I think they need to conduct more LSD experiments.
[00:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations Provide New Clues About Powerful Plasma Jets - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:24] <exec> 08└─I think they need to conduct more LSD experiments.
[00:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:50] <exec> 08└─but our resources for coding are limited (pretty much just TMB atm) and there is already too much on his plate.
[00:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:52] <exec> 08└─The AC question said they have an account, but as they clear browser cookies regularly, they tend not to bother logging in. Your suggestion may be useful for others, though.
[00:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:54] <exec> 08└─* AC in question
[00:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:56] <exec> 08└─Sarcasm?!?, what's that?
[00:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:58] <exec> 08└─I'll echo previous sentiments and say thank you for all that you do and for your hard work. One thing I'd highlight: The current thinking is that some kind of limit would be established (maybe per day and per week) where attempts to exceed that would be ignored. Say the daily limit was 4. Much like...
[00:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:28] <exec> 08└─You go to bed with a dog. You wake up with V. D.
[00:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:29] <exec> 08└─Altitude, Runaway, altitude. There is this thing called the "treeline" up there in elevation.
[00:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:49] <exec> 08└─Feel free to decipher it [google.com] yourself. I can't stand patentese.
[00:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Patents Programming Language Feature - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:51] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the SQL Coelesce operator, which is part of the SQL standard I believe.
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[01:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:08] <exec> 08└─Thousands of children are being killed in Yemen by U.S.-supplied bombs, and you are outraged about a tweet regarding browser choices?
[01:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:09] <exec> 08└─I'm outraged about whataboutism.
[01:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:11] <exec> 08└─We can be outraged by several things simultaneously.
[01:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:40] <exec> 08└─I know quite a lot of programmers claim to enjoy debugging but this is ridiculous!
[01:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Influenza Drugs - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:39] <exec> 08└─>>> being damaged just enough to make them dumber/ have learning difficulties or emotional problems. I think you mean lead poisoning: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:59] <exec> 08└─Yes. As if his life wasn't hard enough already, he also had a great fondness for moss and they insisted they couldn't be of the slightest help for that.
[01:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:30] <exec> 08└─The knowledge informs us that our activities are accelerating a process artificially and thus we should curb those activities and reduce the acceleration. Use your brain, stop trying to cherry pick little pieces so you can make a quick point. Either way, warm or cold, rapid climate change will be ba...
[01:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:31] <exec> 08└─Such a typically American comment, suspicious.
[01:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03gottabeme [1531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:33] <exec> 08└─It's not just hotter highs and colder lows. It's also more violent tornadoes and hurricanes. And more of them. Are we seeing more floods than ever before? More forest fires than ever before? More drought in some places?
[01:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03gottabeme [1531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:35] <exec> 08└─This comment is an example of why metamoderation is needed. Whoever modded this "Troll" should have his moderation privileges revoked.
[01:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03gottabeme [1531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:38] <exec> 08└─That said, I'll agree that we shouldn't be carrying out planet-wide experiments with our atmosphere. Cutting CO2 is a worthy goal, not because it causes AGW (for which there is poor evidence), but simply because we don't actually know what effect it may have.
[01:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:03] <exec> 08└─Building nuclear power plants on islands that sit on, and were created by, the Ring Of Fire? What could possibly go wrong? Then here in Australia, there's so much back pressure against nuclear generation. But it's the most geologically and politically stable place on Earth.
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[02:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmh [721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Digital Sky Survey (Pan-STARRS) Issues Biggest Astronomical Data Release Ever - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:42] <exec> 08└─(a petabyte is 1015 bytes or one million gigabytes)
[02:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Digital Sky Survey (Pan-STARRS) Issues Biggest Astronomical Data Release Ever - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:44] <exec> 08└─A kilogram is 1,024 grams!!! https://www.wolframalpha.com [wolframalpha.com] https://www.bipm.org [bipm.org] https://www.iso.org [iso.org]
[02:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Digital Sky Survey (Pan-STARRS) Issues Biggest Astronomical Data Release Ever - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:46] <exec> 08└─Is that Petabyte African or European ?
[02:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmh [721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Digital Sky Survey (Pan-STARRS) Issues Biggest Astronomical Data Release Ever - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:48] <exec> 08└─If you will agree that a byte is 10 bits, I'll agree to your 1000 byte kilobytes
[02:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Digital Sky Survey (Pan-STARRS) Issues Biggest Astronomical Data Release Ever - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:50] <exec> 08└─I don't need your agreement. The relevant industries and global standards bodies already agree with me.
[02:33:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03chromas [34] 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:58] <exec> 08└─Mozilla should switch to EdgeHTML now that Microsoft's done with it.
[02:34:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:09] <exec> 08└─So following that logic, why did Microsoft not replace their rendering engine with Gecko back when Firefox was the number one browser?
[02:34:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 393 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:11] <exec> 08└─... because they each run completely different code. In the early days of personal computing there were a whole bunch of different personal computers. Altair kits, the Apple II, the Commodore Pet, Radio Shack TRS and the list goes on. While we all knew that there _could_ be viruses, it was not until...
[02:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:24] <exec> 08└─Or the dumpster.
[02:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:25] <exec> 08└─Nothing more. This arrogant shitstain believes, if only subconsciously maybe, that Chromium *is* an MS product now. So of course its superior. So of course the opposition should switch. So of course MS can then eat it alive.
[02:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:28] <exec> 08└─And Kenneth will say, "oh, see that, they took my advice!" And folks will see that the Mozilla did what Kenneth told them to do. Everyone will see that Kenneth is a High I. Q. Person. Very smart!
[02:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, if there was never a competing product, we'd all still be cursing IE. All Firefox has to do is go back to being good.
[02:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:32] <exec> 08└─That's what happens when you crib your competitive strategy from the Democrats. The developers of Firefox more or less committed institutional suicide. They kept making Fx more and more like Chrome and making changes that none of their users were pushing for while ignoring things that the users were...
[02:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:34] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, you never would have had things like Pixar animated movie, games like Overwatch, or indeed pretty much any software over the past 20 years including but not limited to the Internet as a whole. The same fragmentation which makes it "too hard and cost ineffective" to have viruses AL...
[02:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:36] <exec> 08└─Why outsource garbage removal? Can't they do it themselves?
[02:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:39] <exec> 08└─So, basically, we're screwed unless another browser revolution happens again. This time from Firefox/Chrome to something better. Those who do not learn from the past? History repeats.
[02:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:09] <exec> 08└─“For it’s the application of the power, not its amount, that matters. How long do you think Hitler’s career as dictator of Germany would have lasted, if wherever he went a voice was talking quietly in his ear? Or if a steady musical note, loud enough to drown all other sounds and to prevent sl...
[02:35:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:31] <exec> 08└─You say that like it’s a bad thing.
[02:35:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 664 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:40] <exec> 08└─Sorry folks, but this seems another BS headline. I'd be happy to blame crap on the pope or the Catholic Church (which has done a lot of crap over the years), but I see no clear evidence cited here. I read TFA. And I was a bit confused about the exact connection. Then I noticed the following weird ed...
[02:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:43] <exec> 08└─At least you get to relax for a day every leap year. Problem is guessing which day that is.
[02:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations Provide New Clues About Powerful Plasma Jets - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:59] <exec> 08└─Dammit, Jim, I'm a pharmacy tech, not a mechanic!
[02:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Anti-Influenza Drugs - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:13] <exec> 08└─Genitalium? Anything that involves the old cock and balls sounds way more scary than it probably is.
[02:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Influenza Drugs - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:15] <exec> 08└─In the past week, two of the worst people on this site have exposed themselves as anti-vaxxers. The entire country seems to be doing the proverbial "rearing its ugly head" thing. It's scary, but sunlight is a good disinfectant.
[02:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 2062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:35] <exec> 08└─Wrong! And maybe you never look in the Editor Chat Room. So interesting. The Editors always, always put the Pause between the stories. They don't call it the Pause. They call it Spacing. Can we say, delay? Of, I think it's 93 minutes during the week. And 273 minutes on the week end -- thinking, I gu...
[02:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 2229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:37] <exec> 08└─I gotta ask, honest question. You are posting on reddit to actually have a conversation? Why? Places like this/techdirt/hacker news have a somewhat specific type of person on it. Here we're all old, calmed down in life and have ample experience, and stand for ethics - reason stuff here doesn't get d...
[02:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:39] <exec> 08└─So true. He probably legit believes this is tweeting
[02:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:41] <exec> 08└─Well accept this as another +1 vote for having a grace period to edit a post (5 minutes or until a reply is posted?)
[02:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:43] <exec> 08└─s/well/we'll/g echo "sigh"
[02:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:17] <exec> 08└─Just because there is a problem doesnt mean there is anything to be done about it.
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[03:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC Fab 14 B hit by Massive Wafer Defection due to Chemical Contamination, 16/12nm Production Line - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:40] <exec> 08└─AMD's upcoming parts should be "7nm" TSMC with some use of "14nm" GlobalFoundries. I'm not sure if the GPUs will use "14nm" components. Still, many of AMD's golden eggs are in one basket now because of GloFo's retreat.
[03:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Digital Sky Survey (Pan-STARRS) Issues Biggest Astronomical Data Release Ever - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:53] <exec> 08└─I blame the hard disk manufacturers' marketing departments.
[03:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:32] <exec> 08└─Try Edge. Just once. It makes Chrome look good.
[03:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:34] <exec> 08└─Compilers and system-specific standard libraries are why the same code runs on different hardware and different operating systems. Take a game or video rendering code and recompile it: mirabile dictu it runs on a different system. One of the reasons for not running interpreted languages is that it m...
[03:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:36] <exec> 08└─Yet for some sites, banks specifically, it is the only browser that always works. Firefox is not dead yet.
[03:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:38] <exec> 08└─Even Safari is beating the pants off FF.
[03:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:41] <exec> 08└─How could they not, when Google provided/provides most of the funding for Mozilla Foundation?
[03:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:43] <exec> 08└─It fares a little better when mobile is taken out of the picture. Closer to 9%. Ironically, mobile is where I am using Firefox 100% of the time. It works well there for me.
[03:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbruchon [4473] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:45] <exec> 08└─Because I, an individual U.S. citizen representing approximately 0.000000304878% of the U.S. population, with no wealth whom no one knows nor gives two-fifths of a crap about, can do something about something some very wealthy and powerful bureaucrats somewhere decided. Oh, and that somehow has anyt...
[03:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:16] <exec> 08└─So, it hits an Indian. Good to know.
[03:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:17] <exec> 08└─Next up: Mount them on sharks
[03:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:51] <exec> 08└─So many folks have been bleeding very badly from their wherever, because of Sugar Pill. Not great. But it's even worse than that. Because, they make Sugar Pill look like the real Pill. It's Fake Birth Control. And, they have to be very careful about the package for that one. Because when they put Su...
[03:37:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:27] <exec> 08└─And in particular, the Rolling Stones.
[03:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 2341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:48] <exec> 08└─You appear to be more of an idiot today than you normally are. You do remember that i was EinC for several years don't you? The pause between stories is there for several reasons. The most important of these is that we have to spread the printable stories over a 24 hour period; our community is worl...
[03:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:49] <exec> 08└─Too late! And, too bad. They already made the effort. And they're already Banning. They call it IP Karma. And they don't tell you, "oh congratulations, your IP Karma is tremendous, so beautiful." But you'll know when it's terrible. You'll try to tweet, you won't be able to tweet. Try to write in you...
[03:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:51] <exec> 08└─> Then you got reddit. That is literally like going to the DMV inside a highschool lunchroom I'd say reddit is more like a shopping district with seedy topless bars, pawn shops, and liquor stores at one end, and upscale retailers at the other end. > You are posting on reddit to actually have a conve...
[03:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:53] <exec> 08└─You mean bashing the social conservatives for their latest idiocy is not controversial? There may yet be hope for us all.
[03:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Treatment Centers for Internet Addiction are Popping Up - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:50] <exec> 08└─Once it starts impacting your life it's addiction. Addiction is defined by it's consequences.
[03:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:31] <exec> 08└─Humans put 37 Gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere last year. 37 trillion kilograms! The same weight as 100 million 747s Or 7.5 billion elephants. Or 75 times your weight (as well as 75X every other human) That can't be good!
[03:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 2199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:32] <exec> 08└─Stealing this from a friend: If weather is a function f(x), climate is the integral of f(x) over the time domain. Even if we're not sure what the value of f(x) will be at any given point on the time axis in the future, we can look at present and past data and see the integral of f(x) from arbitraril...
[03:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:34] <exec> 08└─You could make an argument that he is trolling the climate alarmists. Or possibly the denialists. Given how fervent both sides have gotten, just about any comment on the weather is a troll or flamebait to someone. "Hi Jo, Nice day today." "YOU HORRIBLE PERSON WHY DO YOU HATE THE PLANET AND WANT US...
[03:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:37] <exec> 08└─Since this change doesn't benefit humankind, doesn't it make sense to attempt to remedy the situation?
[03:41:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 556 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:56] <exec> 08└─My problem with nuclear is it's still centralization. You gotta cut a check to someone else to get your electrons. Distributed power generation from wind, solar, and micro-hydro are more appealing. I think I've even read lately that there are fuel cells that can run on methane, which is great becaus...
[03:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06English is King but Technology May Trump All - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:37] <exec> 08└─https://m.webtoons.com/en/sf/seed/list?title_no=1480&page=1 [webtoons.com] This one.
[03:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dishwasher Oven Hack - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:17] <exec> 08└─Well, it was new news to me.... ... and I like posting stories about mildly insane things
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[04:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Digital Sky Survey (Pan-STARRS) Issues Biggest Astronomical Data Release Ever - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:53] <exec> 08└─The thing seems to be underfunded. They only have 2 of the planned 4 telescopes. The very large field of view of the telescopes and the short exposure times enable approximately 6000 square degrees of sky to be imaged every night. The entire sky is 4π steradians, or 4π × (180/π)² ≈ 41,253.0 s...
[04:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:12] <exec> 08└─There are definitely some potential useful applications for directed audio, like a baby monitor that can be set to only wake one parent. Or a phone ringer that only the user can hear. Or to allow for tv audio without disturbing others nearby.
[04:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:47] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. The sugar pills are a different color to the other pills and are marked clearly on the blister packs.
[04:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:46] <exec> 08└─Personally, I'd rather folks comment on why it's a shit article as opposed to moderating it without explaining. Conversation's kind of our core thing here, ya know?
[04:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:27] <exec> 08└─Climate change was picked because global warming wasn't giving a sufficiently mistaken idea about qhat is going on.
[04:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:28] <exec> 08└─You sure you don't want a Royale with Cheese ?
[04:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:30] <exec> 08└─Remember the rule of thirty.
[04:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Extreme Cold Weather Grips U.S.; Dispelling Doubts about Climate Change; Heavy Snow Blankets Alps - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:32] <exec> 08└─Here you go - an interactive map [firetree.net]
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[05:33:49] <exec> 08└─Still, many of AMD's golden eggs are in one basket now because of GloFo's retreat.
[05:34:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 460 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:11] <exec> 08└─To be fair, this is Microsoft's doctrine. One OS to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them. Microsoft's perfect world is one in which they can either dominate a particular segment, or purchase the leader to ensure monopoly profits. Too many competitors make competition hard! It doesn't surpris...
[05:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:21] <exec> 08└─Did you write that from memory or did you have the book lying around and read and typed text from it? Or was it an ebook you used (what format was it?)? Just curious.
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[06:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Digital Sky Survey (Pan-STARRS) Issues Biggest Astronomical Data Release Ever - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:08] <exec> 08└─Still darn slow, judging by some of the objectives, Namely ... and Rapid Response System... One of the survey's goals was to identify moving, transient, and variable objects, including asteroids that could potentially threaten the Earth. ... The survey took approximately four years to complete, scan...
[06:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:29] <exec> 08└─"Sounds" to me like another nifty way to rig the game... One party can be made privy to information as the situation unfolds while keeping the other party ignorant. Looks very useful for business negotiations.
[06:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:05] <exec> 08└─I put the Link. And you can look at the Link, if you get FoxNews. They made a mistake on the Package. With the Fake Pills marked as real. And the real Pills marked as Fake. And there was a big recall of those. But some going out. And, how many Babies?
[06:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Comes to Washington - Selling the Promise of Nuclear Energy - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:14] <exec> 08└─But it's the most geologically and politically stable place on Earth
[06:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Sets 2038 Deadline to End Coal Use - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:39] <exec> 08└─Well there's an easy solution to that, burn the SJWs as well.
[06:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germany Sets 2038 Deadline to End Coal Use - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:40] <exec> 08└─Man sized hamster-wheel-paddle-farms? I hear Germany's got a refugee overpopulation problem...
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[07:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Releases Compute Module 3+, the Last 40nm-Based RasPi - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:43] <exec> 08└─What good is a "compute" node if you can't run a Beowolf cluster of those? How can I run a Beowolf cluster of those? Veeerrryyy ssslllooowww, limited by the speed of 330Mbs [raspi.tv] (40something MB/s) via USB2 [raspberrypi.org] (last linked is hardware spec for the C+ model - PDF warning - see the...
[07:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC Fab 14 B hit by Massive Wafer Defection due to Chemical Contamination, 16/12nm Production Line - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:57] <exec> 08└─All the other chip makers with fabs are examining the market right now to calculate how much this means they can raise their prices. (Not to mention how to spend their increased bonus this year .)
[07:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Digital Sky Survey (Pan-STARRS) Issues Biggest Astronomical Data Release Ever - 2159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:12] <exec> 08└─The mantle of killer asteroid finder is probably going to be stolen by LSST [wikipedia.org]: Site construction began on April 14, 2015, with first light anticipated in 2020, and full operations for a ten-year survey commencing in January 2022. [...] The Large-aperture Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST...
[07:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 1190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:10] <exec> 08└─You say I'm an Idiot. But, you were the Chief Editor. And you didn't go to the Editors Chat Room. Interesting. I have a very High I. Q., one of the highest (Montreal Cognitive). And you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure,it’s not your fault. The Spacing, they don't decide about...
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[08:33:46] <exec> 08└─Am I reading it wrong, or are the specs for another machine given instead of the one the headline mentions? Have they not changed since?
[08:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for 2018 - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:53] <exec> 08└─TFA doesn't disuss load or read/write frequency - anyone know the duty cycle of a dedicated cloud bak up drive might be? I imagine far heavier than any home user.
[08:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:15] <exec> 08└─What's not to hate?
[08:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations Provide New Clues About Powerful Plasma Jets - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:33] <exec> 08└─So, this opens a future possibillity to use a black hole as a energy source for interstellar travel?
[08:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agents Target Researchers who Reported Software that Spied on Jamal Khashoggi before his Death - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:51] <exec> 08└─A god damn GoPro? That's like putting one of those huge tape recorders and regular mic on him like they do in many comedy movies.
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[09:33:47] <exec> 08└─Flat Earth Creationists appointed to the board of NASA?
[09:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC Fab 14 B hit by Massive Wafer Defection due to Chemical Contamination, 16/12nm Production Line - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:12] <exec> 08└─Have the wafers become North Korean spies? Defection does not mean "become defective"!
[09:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:14] <exec> 08└─I am not aware that Firefox ever was the number one browser.
[09:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:50] <exec> 08└─oh, i know this! you mean bluetooth earphones!
[09:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:29] <exec> 08└─If you check the logs, you will see that I spent quite a lot of time on IRC. However, I will admit to spending more time in areas that you were unable to access than the 'Editorial Chat Room', whatever you think that is. They have cyber. They must have decided once, now they use the cyber and it co...
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[10:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unity Announces Game Designed to Test Artificial Intelligence, and $100,000 Prize Pool - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:43] <exec> 08└─> not to be played by humans, but by artificial intelligence. We serve AI's only No whites No blacks No jews No irish No mexicans No dogs beyond this point
[10:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for 2018 - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:05] <exec> 08└─It's immaterial to average user how many drives fail. Even to business, it's immaterial. It's only material to big players in storage and even then, it's almost immaterial. If I'm a home user and I have 10 drives, it doesn't matter which drive I pick except for the length of warranty the manufacture...
[10:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for 2018 - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:07] <exec> 08└─Backblaze has published their raw data [backblaze.com] including all S.M.A.R.T. statistics, so if you really want to know you could probably generate some report.
[10:34:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 897 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:52] <exec> 08└─It is just surreal watching people respond "remember when IE6 broke the web for their Microsoft's gain" and a Microsoft employee unironically states open source makes it different this time. Not only does history repeat, it gets weirder each time. He also lists a bunch of projects he is implying hav...
[10:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:33] <exec> 08└─Start new accounts with a karma of 1 sounds... brilliant! Should be a simple enough coding change and cannot off the top of my head think of any downside. If you are reading this and are in the situation described above (initial comment was mismodded and you are stuck at -1 karma), post a reply to t...
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[11:33:47] <exec> 08└─that can't use OpenGL
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[11:33:56] <exec> 08└─Ajit Pai running the FCC?
[11:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for 2018 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:15] <exec> 08└─If the drive fails before warranty is over, at least I can get a replacement.
[11:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSMC Fab 14 B hit by Massive Wafer Defection due to Chemical Contamination, 16/12nm Production Line - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:26] <exec> 08└─Just when the RAM memory prices were starting to fall after 2 years of collusion...
[11:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSMC Fab 14 B hit by Massive Wafer Defection due to Chemical Contamination, 16/12nm Production Line - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:27] <exec> 08└─Prices go UP UP UP and everybody's happy!
[11:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:30] <exec> 08└─> while ignoring things that the users were demanding. Do you have a good list of "changes that the users were demanding"? Do mozilla (maybe they published something)?
[11:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:32] <exec> 08└─by the way, does EMACS have an html wysiwyg mode? I remember that the LaTeX mode was pretty spectacular, and firefox has been annoying lately.
[11:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:51] <exec> 08└─That is a VERY interesting idea. There is something nagging at me that there is some edge or corner case where there may be issues, but I can't think of anything specific ATM. Need to think about it some more after I have had some coffee! Thanks for the suggestion!
[11:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:53] <exec> 08└─Here we're all old, calmed down in life and have ample experience, and stand for ethics
[11:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:55] <exec> 08└─This site has a few trolls that are not even hidden behind AC. Yes, I look at you MichaelDavidCrawford, theRealDonaldTrump especially. These two have been spamming this site with nonsense and I am growing tired of visiting this site. Several times I have considered to abandon this site. I just hope...
[11:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:57] <exec> 08└─It sounds fair in theory but I think it would need a fair bit of fine tuning. You might find that given the small size of the community, there aren't enough people modding for someone's karma to accurately reflect the popularity of their posts anymore. I don't know.
[11:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:59] <exec> 08└─If they really bother you that much, you could add them to your Foe list (or even Friends list, as you're not using it), then click the Edit Preferences link, click the Comments tab, scroll down to the People Modifier and set Foe to -6 and never be irritated by their contributions again.
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[12:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:42] <exec> 08└─They designed for specialty parts but didn't verify supply capacity? Why would this be anything but an Apple planning failure, where they assumed a specialty shop *also* has high volume capacity?
[12:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Debvgger [545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:43] <exec> 08└─Because it's just a bullshit excuse they are making.
[12:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:45] <exec> 08└─Maybe design for and use standard screws? maybe you gain .1 inches of thickness or something.
[12:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:48] <exec> 08└─Doesn't it seem a bit odd that they can't find a single shop or factory in America that can mass-produce something as simple as a screw? At the same time it's quite obvious that the reason Apple, and everyone else, makes things in China it's cause of the wages. Every other excuse is really just bul...
[12:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:50] <exec> 08└─Tests of new versions of the computer were hamstrung because a 20-employee machine shop that Apple's manufacturing contractor was relying on could produce at most 1,000 screws a day.
[12:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah but then people could fix the products and that would be the end of corporate USA.
[12:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:54] <exec> 08└─Apple probably did the supply model based on Chinese experience - 1,000 per eight hour day, makes 3,000 per day, 21,000 per week. Buuut gorram American worker doesn't work 24 x 7. Also "short notice" meaning "starting next week, 125 screws an hour, and keep going until we say stop"
[12:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:57] <exec> 08└─And while we're at it, can we please retire the crappy Phillips head? How about square or Torx, or anything that doesn't cam out and strip the head whenever a screw gets slightly stuck? It is the current year, after all.
[12:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:00] <exec> 08└─Wages and every other kind of regulation, e.g. environmental. In China you can do pretty much anything, especially if you pay a few peanuts to the right guy. While many products are relatively cheap currently in the west the actual cost when external costs are included is absolutely crushing.
[12:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Unity Announces Game Designed to Test Artificial Intelligence, and $100,000 Prize Pool - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:14] <exec> 08└─that can't use OpenGL
[12:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Advocates Appointed to Minnesota Autism Council After Measles Outbreak - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:23] <exec> 08└─Autism isn't prevented by avoiding vaccination, but by getting pregnant women to go out into the sunlight: Vitamin D deficiency during pregnancy tied to autism risk [spectrumnews.org]
[12:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Advocates Appointed to Minnesota Autism Council After Measles Outbreak - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:26] <exec> 08└─Abortion is the only surefire method for preventing autism. Likewise, post-natal abortion can potentially cure those already afflicted.
[12:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:00] <exec> 08└─Diversity helps alot, Micro$oft is wrong here. https://en.wikipedia.org(Ireland) [wikipedia.org]
[12:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:02] <exec> 08└─It's not about web browsers but the rendering engine, get your shit together man! That being said, nice snipe. Agree with you.
[12:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:04] <exec> 08└─Or then he just loves the idea of any evil megacorp dominating the shit out of some sector of life, be it Microsoft or Google. "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever." -- George Orwell (in Nineteen Eighty-Four)
[12:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmarujo [347] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:41] <exec> 08└─More ads if you don't pay...
[12:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sugar Pills in Birth Control Packs Were Put There to Placate the Pope - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:20] <exec> 08└─Was your mother 2D or 3D? Thought as much.
[12:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations Provide New Clues About Powerful Plasma Jets - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:39] <exec> 08└─\blackhole
[12:39:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:23] <exec> 08└─Personally, I'd rather folks comment on why it's a shit article as opposed to moderating it without explaining. Conversation's kind of our core thing here, ya know?
[12:39:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Debvgger [545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:32] <exec> 08└─The interesting thing is that -1 comments are usually not that bad. Yes, many swasticas and people commenting on the political scumbag of the time. But among these, there are many SUPER INTERESTING comments whose only problem is that go counter the main groupal opinion.
[12:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Debvgger [545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:34] <exec> 08└─I don't really understand why is a pause necessary when a lot of submissions arrive on a burst. If some day there are 20 and next one there are 0, then that's just a random event and I don't think it makes the site or the experience worse for any reason. In fact, maybe it's the opposite, as I may be...
[12:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:39:37] <exec> 08└─That'll be another +1 then, I presume. {stops to proof-read post three times before clicking submit.}
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[13:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:40] <exec> 08└─For showing us that anyone can be fallible
[13:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:42] <exec> 08└─Meh you own an apple so I knew you were going to tyoe that before you pressed submit.
[13:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:44] <exec> 08└─They were holding it wong.
[13:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:59] <exec> 08└─The proprietary screws in question look like thin Phillips head screws with another slot at the outer edges that turn 90° to the left.
[13:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 1086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:01] <exec> 08└─The story sounds extremely bogus intended as propaganda, in that the screw business is cutthroat and ironically the USA mfgr scene is reasonably healthy for weirdo custom stuff in modest production runs (less than a million per run) and all the hyper generic 6-32 pan head or whatever made by the bil...
[13:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:03] <exec> 08└─Its actually worse in that the kilobuck apple product made in China has identical to inferior hardware specs to a $500 android phone probably not made in China. Weirdly LG makes washing machines in Tennessee and phones in Korea, with screws, and it only seems to be Apple corp that fetishizes manufac...
[13:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:05] <exec> 08└─The whole production run was engineered to fail.
[13:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unity Announces Game Designed to Test Artificial Intelligence, and $100,000 Prize Pool - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:20] <exec> 08└─Ha, we've almost come full circle. It's like under DirectX enumerating device capabilities and execute buffers all over again. In fifteen years we'll be back to higher level graphics commands again.
[13:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Advocates Appointed to Minnesota Autism Council After Measles Outbreak - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:33] <exec> 08└─Malignant Narcissist elected president of United States?
[13:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Releases Compute Module 3+, the Last 40nm-Based RasPi - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:42] <exec> 08└─If yes, that would be a nice change compared with the original rasp pi which requires a proprietary blob. If no, then you can never own this device, just rent it.
[13:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:42] <exec> 08└─The principle reason is because we are not a traditional news site, but rather we are trying to promote a discussion on the stories that we publish. If you got all your stories at once you might comment on 1 or 2 of them, but you are unlikely to contribute to many others. The paced released allows t...
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[14:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:46] <exec> 08└─So the bug is that they activate microphones and such before the person at the other end accept the call and pick up? In essence you as the receiver are always picking up and accepting and everything else on screen is just for show and to terminate the call? I guess it's like the smart assistants, a...
[14:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:48] <exec> 08└─They had the story about, iPhone won't be "assembled" in U. S. A. From the Fake News N. Y. Times. Look, this is why we need American phones. And many kinds of digital -- made in U. S. A. Because the digital, very easily, can be hacked. And the country where it's made can put in a big beautiful Hacki...
[14:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:50] <exec> 08└─How better to catch your lover banging someone else than being able to listen when they don't think you can?
[14:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:52] <exec> 08└─see? I told you not to use social media!
[14:34:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 1086 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:08] <exec> 08└─The story sounds extremely bogus intended as propaganda, in that the screw business is cutthroat and ironically the USA mfgr scene is reasonably healthy for weirdo custom stuff in modest production runs (less than a million per run) and all the hyper generic 6-32 pan head or whatever made by the bil...
[14:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:12] <exec> 08└─Doesn't it seem a bit odd that they can't find a single shop or factory in America that can mass-produce something as simple as a screw?
[14:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:14] <exec> 08└─Tests of new versions of the computer were hamstrung because a 20-employee machine shop that Apple's manufacturing contractor was relying on could produce at most 1,000 screws a day.
[14:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:16] <exec> 08└─Don't give me this @NYTimes [twitter.com] Baloney telling me, Apple can't make tiny screws. Apple is a Trillion Dollar Company. With massive, massive Coffers. Because of our historic Tax cuts, Apple is investing $350 billion in the United States. They’re bringing $240 billion back. $240 billion. T...
[14:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:19] <exec> 08└─Yes that was included in the article. The question really was that they couldn't find someone in the entire USA that has a machine that can do screws, nuts and bolts anymore? Not a single one on an entire continent. Or if the order was just large enough could get a couple of machines, program or set...
[14:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:21] <exec> 08└─>the actual cost when external costs are included is absolutely crushing What do you mean by that? Like t-shirt costing 2 eurodollars WITH shipping and being sold for 40?
[14:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 2530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:23] <exec> 08└─Writing from very current own experience. I have designed a "vintage-style" electronics product that now enters the small-scale manufacturing phase after I've hand-built two evolving prototypes. There's one particular PCB, eurocard sized, of which I need eight per finished device. It has slightly ov...
[14:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:25] <exec> 08└─Or US (Western) manufacturing base has significant structural problems.
[14:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:28] <exec> 08└─I have indirect experience (i.e. a colleague trying to get something built) that indicates similar level of diligence. I think the "China stuff is s**t" story is rather oversold in the West.
[14:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Superbug Gene' Found in One of the Most Remote Places on Earth - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:35] <exec> 08└─And how do they know these germs haven't lived in the Arctic for ages? Because it would contradict "humans are causing a disaster"?
[14:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unity Announces Game Designed to Test Artificial Intelligence, and $100,000 Prize Pool - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:47] <exec> 08└─Stable feature complete drivers for any of them. OpenGL, OpenCL, Vulkan, GFXInterfaceNext. Seriously, fuck this treadmill of endlessly changing software. Get the last one finished and bugfree before you focus all your attention on something new and just as full of holes.
[14:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Advocates Appointed to Minnesota Autism Council After Measles Outbreak - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:59] <exec> 08└─Perform post natal abortions so there is a demand for workers in future generations. Remember, they're only pro-life until the child is born, after that we are all fair game :)
[14:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Releases Compute Module 3+, the Last 40nm-Based RasPi - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:10] <exec> 08└─I would not be surprised if the the socket the module goes in is a more expensive part than the module itself. The I/O dev board is expensive.
[14:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSMC Fab 14 B hit by Massive Wafer Defection due to Chemical Contamination, 16/12nm Production Line - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:34] <exec> 08└─A major player in the world's chip supply chain has been using poor quality inputs. I wonder if this is the first time, or just the first time it made the news? Too bad. It calls to question the reliability of a lot of gadgets. TSMC must be pretty skilled if they can make chips with a poor quality i...
[14:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:42] <exec> 08└─> To be fair, this is Microsoft's doctrine. One OS to rule them all, and in the darkness bind them. Apart from mobile, where they have killed WinPhone due to low market share and now actively support iOS / Android (better than WP) with apps, which to be fair is more or less what they are advising Fi...
[14:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:43] <exec> 08└─Chromium is open source, so if you used Chromiums code, in your own browser, you can patch the code, remove or add anything you want, basically you can do anything at all you want, your not really under the control of Google, since you can modify the code as you need to. In reality, it would have no...
[14:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Debvgger [545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:15] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I can fully agree with that, but thanks for the explanation :-)
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[15:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Singapore Blames U.S. Citizen for Leak of Around 14,200 HIV-Positive Patient Records - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:45] <exec> 08└─then you have nothing to hide. All medical records should be open to public browsing. /sarcasm What the hell - turn the sarcasm back on - Yeah, blame the American!!! Probably a black American, too! Racist assholes!!! That's enough sarcasm to last all day I think. Now, more seriously - maybe Singapor...
[15:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:59] <exec> 08└─Surveillance and privacy aside...
[15:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:00] <exec> 08└─We used to giggle at the "tin foil hat" types who were perennially paranoid about the government spying on them. Nowadays our phones are quite literally listening to us and watching us all the time. The time has come for a phone that has privacy built in from the start.
[15:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:03] <exec> 08└─yes. that time has come, but it has also passed. now you get this. don't like it? 1. get a dumb phone, as long as they're available. and if you believe that they are dumb. 2. don't buy a phone. yell very loudly instead (interestingly, this is what "call" originally meant).
[15:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:05] <exec> 08└─I know. I have one. I dare you to spy on me. https://www.gsmarena.com [gsmarena.com] Well, you could put up a GSM station and decrypt the traffic...
[15:34:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Debvgger [545] 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:14] <exec> 08└─Because it's just a bullshit excuse they are making.
[15:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:34] <exec> 08└─I doubt it. The supply chain should have been sorted out well in advance for every last detail of production. Worst case they could have flown in a few boxes of screws from China or somewhere else. Sounds more like a case of very poor planning, perhaps intentionally.
[15:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:35] <exec> 08└─A swastika screw?
[15:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:38] <exec> 08└─I would be real happy if the flat head disappeared with the Phillips. It is arguably the worst screw interface known to man, and you sometimes see new uses of it.
[15:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:40] <exec> 08└─Does anyone know of a $2.40 screw? 20 people, an _average_ of $15/hr, for eight hours a day. 20 * 15 * 8 = 2400. At 1000 screws per day, that's $2.4 per screw. Whereas everyone else in the thread is saying, "But why not source them from China?! It's just a part!" the fine summary says they need quic...
[15:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:42] <exec> 08└─I bet it's those triwing screws or something similar to try and prevent the owners from repairing their device.
[15:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:44] <exec> 08└─https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/15/business/apple-california-manufacturing-history.html [nytimes.com] We got to face it. As things are - for a few decades already - the US can not mass manufacture cutting edge technology. A lot would have to change to get this ability back. Perhaps we should start...
[15:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:47] <exec> 08└─I occasionally see flat heads - after I apply a Dremel cutting disk to the dome of a terminally-damaged Phillips head screw :-)
[15:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Superbug Gene' Found in One of the Most Remote Places on Earth - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:56] <exec> 08└─The "major classes of antibiotics" are all derived from ones found in nature, i.e. produced by soil bacteria since forever. The only reason they've ever worked to cure diseases, was that disease-causing bacteria did not share an ecological niche with the soil ones, and had no reason to waste energy...
[15:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:02] <exec> 08└─As you should know
[15:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:35] <exec> 08└─I'm happy to chat about the bits you don't agree with, if you wish? Please feel free to offer your suggestions for improvements or tell us if we are getting it wrong.
[15:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Debvgger [545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:36] <exec> 08└─Well, it's just that I don't get why I would be more engaged to discuss something if the submissions arrive from time to time instead of arriving in bursts. If someone checks the site once per day that person's going to read and contribute to the same number of discussions over time. The difference...
[15:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:38] <exec> 08└─To me, the main purpose of the names (with the exception of realDonaldTrump) is to be able to follow a conversation (i.e. this seems to be a direct answer to a reply, is the commenter also the GP?)
[15:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:40] <exec> 08└─Time zones, always a problem when we make Long Distance phone calls, right? But, a website is not a phone call. Very easy to let the stories wait for the people. Instead of having the people wait for the stories (Spoon Feeding). And maybe you don't know this, more than one story can go on the page -...
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[15:40:43] <exec> 08└─"Letting the stories wait for the users instead of the users waiting for the stories" is a nice way of saying what I meant to say, thanks.
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[16:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:43] <exec> 08└─If it snows the entire region will probably shut down due to the ice.
[16:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:44] <exec> 08└─It's times like these where I'm extremely happy that my parents moved back to the south after a short stint in the north as a child. It's going to be 70F+ over the weekend here. Will hopefully get to the Zoo with my kiddo. Wife's been feeling puny, so hopefully we don't all get a cold, instead.
[16:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:46] <exec> 08└─When it's so cold the ice doesn't help with melting - that's when you spread sand or grit (slightly larger diameter than average sand) instead. At least then you get some traction, and the darker color will actually help encourage melting once the temperatures start coming back up.
[16:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:49] <exec> 08└─You guys are weak. -- Snow from Canada.
[16:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Singapore Blames U.S. Citizen for Leak of Around 14,200 HIV-Positive Patient Records - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:58] <exec> 08└─14k to 5million is around the 1/350? Considering they're all likely between 16 to 40... Well, now I feel even more confident about what I've been saying about that Chinese genetics engineering doctor: It's very possible some regions in China have similar infection rates so the risks he took were qui...
[16:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Singapore Blames U.S. Citizen for Leak of Around 14,200 HIV-Positive Patient Records - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:00] <exec> 08└─They sent Mikhy back. But he did them a favor. Because now they know what a big problem they have. From the H. I. V. Aliens. They have more of those than they have of their own people. And if they send those people back, that will be tremendous for their Country. And, you know, they don't have to le...
[16:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Singapore Blames U.S. Citizen for Leak of Around 14,200 HIV-Positive Patient Records - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:02] <exec> 08└─what's there to stigma about? HIV is 95% using blood to lubricate the other end of your mouth ...
[16:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up - 1447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:20] <exec> 08└─maybe people should just get a tablet and dumb phone. but that would mean a lack of convenience, so it'll only be a reasonable option among the tin-foil hats you described. normal people won't bother because as you stated, they click next to continue and dont take any time to understand what is goin...
[16:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:56] <exec> 08└─The question really was that they couldn't find someone in the entire USA that has a machine that can do screws, nuts and bolts anymore? Not a single one on an entire continent.
[16:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:58] <exec> 08└─I can guarantee you that screw is not consuming the full capacity of that shop. They'll have dozens of other parts running concurrently.
[16:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Superbug Gene' Found in One of the Most Remote Places on Earth - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:08] <exec> 08└─Somebody needs to rethink what "minimal human impact" means. Svarlbard is permanently populated town, with a port, people travel to and from there from all over the world. Right now, one might say that Titan and Europa have "minimal human impact" - as for the Earth, maybe if you dig down into the so...
[16:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Superbug Gene' Found in One of the Most Remote Places on Earth - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:10] <exec> 08└─you know, this might change the narrative completely: so far the story has been that HUMANS made antibiotic resistant bugs. antibiotics were the end solution to ever getting sick from bacteria since they were invented. now the narrative might change, that there existed, since before antibiotics were...
[16:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Advocates Appointed to Minnesota Autism Council After Measles Outbreak - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:35] <exec> 08└─Hah! You can't retroactively abort me! I'm here!
[16:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:20] <exec> 08└─It seems that many people are conflating Chromium and Blink. While Microsoft is desperately in need of a whole new browser, and therefore Chromium is a good move, Firefox already has a good browser and a good renderer. The only issues is that Blink is more compatible with HTML 5 than Gecko is. I sti...
[16:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:22] <exec> 08└─Apple WebKit is beating Firefox's engine* because Apple WebKit is the only browser engine that can officially** execute at all on an iPhone or iPad. * The featured article is about usage share of browser engines. By this metric, Firefox for iOS and Chrome for iOS both count as Safari. ** In theory,...
[16:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:24] <exec> 08└─With 63 percent of website visits and 49 percent of web screen time now coming from mobile,[1] how exactly is taking "mobile [...] out of the picture" honest? [1] "Mobile vs Desktop Usage in 2018: Mobile takes the lead" by Eric Enge [stonetemple.com]
[16:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:26] <exec> 08└─All the more reason to not use either. i wish I was wealthy because then I'd just stop working in IT. all this shit is depressing that so many people are ok with privacy violations and tracking and all that crap
[16:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:28] <exec> 08└─What in particular makes Edge worth $199.99 for a Windows 10 Pro license, plus the cost of a RAM upgrade to run Edge in Windows in a VM without thrashing swap?
[16:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:30] <exec> 08└─im one of many people--but what's Blink? i conflated chromium with chrome and that it was a google product and so by default it just exists to violate your privacy and try to sell you shit you can't afford or already bought. and that of course its a perfect match for windows 10 because that's what t...
[16:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:08] <exec> 08└─I guess some of those highschool kids from the reddit lunchroom made it over here. Go back kid, this is not the place for you. I'm not nice, and you can't delete my comments by complaining. You can only fight in a battle of whits, and you've come unarmed. I once saw a kid at the grocery store. He wa...
[16:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 2279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:09] <exec> 08└─That's like justifying going to a strip club in thailand because you like elvis and they play his music. You're still having sex with a tranny. Your indie game (I don't play computer games, so I assume) has an indie site with a forum. Reddit for Android talk? I go to XDA for my CarbonOS, not reddit....
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[17:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:45] <exec> 08└─What the hell is going on in Chicago? What the hell is happening there? What the hell is going on with Global Waming? Please come back fast, we need you!
[17:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:47] <exec> 08└─If it just weren't for all the Southerners...
[17:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:49] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a mini boss in a jrpg.
[17:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:51] <exec> 08└─How about some tariffs on cold air that comes from other countries.
[17:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:54] <exec> 08└─I would be more concerned if a Polar Vortex Bares All. Without clothing it would succumb to exposure.
[17:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:56] <exec> 08└─Why, bless your soul, I think we have a grumpy goose in the house. Who needs a big hug?!?
[17:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:58] <exec> 08└─It's not because they are weak, it's because the FIBs don't know how to drive even when there isn't ice on the roads. (I kid, I kid... maybe)
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[17:34:09] <exec> 08└─"BUILD A WALL AND CRIME WILL FALL" More like "Build a wall and it won't do anything for crime or immigration, but it will make it harder for Americans to escape across the southern border when we start rounding up and imprisoning and/or shooting those godless liberals." and thus the real motivation...
[17:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:29] <exec> 08└─i am buying two of those because they have phenomenal battery life, like a WEEK! i am going to solder them together and put them in my smart phone. i suppose they have to put much better batteries in them cheap dumb phones because that's the only feature that out-classes the expensive smart phones ^...
[17:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:08] <exec> 08└─A replacement terminal screw-clamp for a Kenwood amplifier set me back 15$ plus 10$ shipping. Because instead of the standard size that everyone else uses, they use a different one, only available from their official parts store...
[17:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:09] <exec> 08└─You're likely to get crap if you don't have any power to get satisfaction for defects. Personal relationships matter more there, so arms length transactions increase the odds of having trouble. Quality though? High quality stuff can absolutely be made there, just not for pennies.
[17:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:11] <exec> 08└─> it's quite obvious that the reason Apple, and everyone else, makes things in China it's cause of the wages Not true. It's also because of the incredibly lax pollution regulations. Every little bit of cost savings helps line the corporate coffers and executive bonuses..
[17:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:13] <exec> 08└─now the chinese or some other would-be adversary needs to come up with a war game plan that relies on tiny screws to win and then amerika is ... screwed.
[17:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Superbug Gene' Found in One of the Most Remote Places on Earth - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:24] <exec> 08└─Carried in the gut of animals and people, the research team, ...
[17:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Superbug Gene' Found in One of the Most Remote Places on Earth - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:25] <exec> 08└─That said, there are two major points: 1) Minimal doesn't mean none. 2) The genes used to render antibiotics ineffective generally existed prior to the human use of antibiotics, they just weren't useful, so most bacteria didn't bother with them. (See articles on why cave fish are blind for explanati...
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[17:36:12] <exec> 08└─it's soooo awesome backblaze does it! maybe i will get some cloud storage from them just so i can help them keep (publicly!) testing harddisks ^_^
[17:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:42] <exec> 08└─Altair kits, the Apple II, the Commodore Pet, Radio Shack TRS and the list goes on.
[17:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:43] <exec> 08└─Someone would use Chrome in order to use an extension that is available for Chrome and not available for Edge. Last I checked, the Edge extension repository was more "curated" than Chrome Web Store. It cost more for a developer to obtain and maintain an account on Microsoft's store than on Google's,...
[17:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:45] <exec> 08└─i have chrome and firefox on mobile just because switching browser doesn't kill youtube. ^_^ opening a new tab in firefox and switching to it kills (mutes) the already open youtube ... opening in chromium does not. st0pid but true.
[17:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:48] <exec> 08└─idiot! why did you tell them? the morons will now make a API to allow firefox to tell chrome it has a youtube open so chrome can force the youtube in firefox to shut down when chrome is in the foreground and firefox is "minimized"!
[17:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:50] <exec> 08└─stress testing the HDD or SSD?
[17:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:52] <exec> 08└─If Presto was open-sourced I would support further development there. It still is the best behaved browser when memory starved.
[17:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:54] <exec> 08└─Best we can hope for is that every single person that used Chrome with Ad-blockers, switches to Firefox when ad-blockers are removed from Chrome. That will provide an extra boost to Firefox and it's usage. Which could eventually turn into a whole lot more people on Firefox. I wouldn't necessarily ho...
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[17:38:48] <exec> 08└─Was there never a medical reason for the break? I thought there was suppose to be. Even if the thought was - you don't need it for those days and as a general guide less medicine is better if not needed.
[17:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Escape a Black Hole: Simulations Provide New Clues About Powerful Plasma Jets - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:28] <exec> 08└─actually, if researching/observing blackholes from a spaceship, every good capt'n know to throw a anchor towards any OTHER nearest blackhole. if getting to close to the first blackhole, just let go of the anchor, so it drops further/closer into the other blackhole. the problem is then mostly timing...
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[17:41:35] <exec> 08└─But that would mean holding stories each day for publication the following day, simply so they could be released together, wouldn't it? Currently, anyone can log on and see the last 24 hours worth of stories, which is exactly what you are suggesting, but we would have to set up tomorrow's releases a...
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[18:33:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:46] <exec> 08└─You guys are weak. -- Snow from Canada.
[18:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:55] <exec> 08└─Currently -9F (-30F RealFeel due to wind), predicting -30F tonight (RealFeel -65F) and tomorrow (not as windy). I've been in that cold before but that wind is gonna be murder.
[18:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:57] <exec> 08└─This is silly.. it gets cold like that in Quebec (Canada, for geographically challenged) pretty much every year. In fact, we even have a cold winter festival where everyone is outside not only talking, but drinking too! (google 'bonhomme carnaval'!)
[18:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:00] <exec> 08└─Leonard Cohen song: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] An Eskimo showed me a movie he'd recently taken of you: the poor man could hardly stop shivering, his lips and his fingers were blue. I suppose that he froze when the wind took your clothes and I guess he just never got wa...
[18:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:02] <exec> 08└─It's what you are acclimatized to and it works both ways -- I'm sure there are people who live in hot areas who laugh at people who start whining or dying of heat stroke when it hits the 90s.
[18:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:04] <exec> 08└─Not really. 95 F is too hot for people to be very active in, even if acclimated. But when I lived in the San Jouquin valley (southern central California) we expected the temperature to go over 100 F at some point during each summer day. It sure wasn't nice, but it was dry enough to be tolerable if y...
[18:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:06] <exec> 08└─P.S.: I originally said "Nobody likes 90 F", but there actually are people who do. And for a short time, if you aren't being too active, it's OK. Consider saunas, hot tubs, etc. But those are special corner cases.
[18:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:08] <exec> 08└─So I guess the Church of the Goracle will now be firmly locked on Climate Change and Warming will be purged from the talking points... until summer. Like we have always been at war with East Asia... until we aren't. Gotta login to twitter daily to get the $current_truth.
[18:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:11] <exec> 08└─The climate change is changing.
[18:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:13] <exec> 08└─Your boss knows AGW is real. He just think's it'll give him an advantage over us.
[18:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Singapore Blames U.S. Citizen for Leak of Around 14,200 HIV-Positive Patient Records - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:25] <exec> 08└─The leaked information included names, test results and contact details of 5,400 Singaporean citizens and 8,800 foreigners.
[18:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Singapore Blames U.S. Citizen for Leak of Around 14,200 HIV-Positive Patient Records - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:26] <exec> 08└─"Singapore issued a photo of US national Mikhy Farrera-Brochez, who they believe is behind the leak" https://ichef.bbci.co.uk [bbci.co.uk]
[18:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Singapore Blames U.S. Citizen for Leak of Around 14,200 HIV-Positive Patient Records - 3101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:28] <exec> 08└─Interesting that they'll accuse this person on such flimsy evidence. Background 6 The confidential information is in the illegal possession of one Mikhy K Farrera Brochez, a male US citizen who was residing in Singapore, on an employment pass, between January 2008 and June 2016. Brochez was rem...
[18:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Singapore Blames U.S. Citizen for Leak of Around 14,200 HIV-Positive Patient Records - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:31] <exec> 08└─Note how they state the alleged criminal acts of Brochez as fact... Yeah, it sounds just like the democrats Russiagate bullshit. The courts still have nothing but allegations from dirty rats looking for a "Get out of Jail" card.
[18:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Singapore Blames U.S. Citizen for Leak of Around 14,200 HIV-Positive Patient Records - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:33] <exec> 08└─It's just over a year since Norway announced a leak of 2.9 million people's health records [securityonline.info]. I think we have to assume that at some point in our lives 'all our data are belong to $HACKER' and plan accordingly. Just as well-prepared companies have disaster recovery / business con...
[18:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:52] <exec> 08└─guess the worst would be people screening calls going "oh it's X, fuck that cunt I don't wanna talk to them ..."
[18:35:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 442 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:11] <exec> 08└─Its actually worse in that the kilobuck apple product made in China has identical to inferior hardware specs to a $500 android phone probably not made in China. Weirdly LG makes washing machines in Tennessee and phones in Korea, with screws, and it only seems to be Apple corp that fetishizes manufac...
[18:35:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rigrig [5129] 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 136 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:13] <exec> 08└─Doesn't it seem a bit odd that they can't find a single shop or factory in America that can mass-produce something as simple as a screw?
[18:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:36] <exec> 08└─In case of the Shenzhen prototyping houses, that power is the spread of word on the internet. If they deliver crap often enough, respected forum residents between eevblog and mikrocontroller.net will write about it and then they're done. On the other hand, if they've been around long enough (and rep...
[18:36:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Advocates Appointed to Minnesota Autism Council After Measles Outbreak - 29 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:06] <exec> 08└─Scott Pruitt running the EPA?
[18:36:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Advocates Appointed to Minnesota Autism Council After Measles Outbreak - 25 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:08] <exec> 08└─Ajit Pai running the FCC?
[18:36:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Advocates Appointed to Minnesota Autism Council After Measles Outbreak - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:12] <exec> 08└─Malignant Narcissist elected president of United States?
[18:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Releases Compute Module 3+, the Last 40nm-Based RasPi - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:24] <exec> 08└─The biggest change is the introduction of various Flash Memory (Not RAM) size options (4GB, 8GB, 16GB, 32GB). There is also a marked improvement in heat displacement with the new chip. There are no real performance gains made with this updated hardware. Just a slightly more stable chipset with large...
[18:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Releases Compute Module 3+, the Last 40nm-Based RasPi - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:26] <exec> 08└─The Raspberry Pi is about as good as it gets. Unfortunate or not, I'm not terribly certain. Companies like Broadcom, AMD, Intel, etc need to be able to make money on their designs. When those designs are 100% transparent, what's to keep the competition from stealing their ideas? I love the idea of a...
[18:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03LAV8.ORg [6653] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for 2018 - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:39] <exec> 08└─From what I recall, r/w load is of less significance than uptime, surprisingly enough. Also, one study showed hard drives last longer given operation above room temp.
[18:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03LAV8.ORg [6653] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for 2018 - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:40] <exec> 08└─The failure of machines exhibits the "bathtub curve," which means that given a sample group of the same machine you'll see a high rate of failure right out the gate (mfg defects), a span of limited to no failures, and then the final surge as worn parts no longer mesh (so to speak) and everything gri...
[18:36:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06TSMC Fab 14 B hit by Massive Wafer Defection due to Chemical Contamination, 16/12nm Production Line - 218 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:48] <exec> 08└─AMD's upcoming parts should be "7nm" TSMC with some use of "14nm" GlobalFoundries. I'm not sure if the GPUs will use "14nm" components. Still, many of AMD's golden eggs are in one basket now because of GloFo's retreat.
[18:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Influenza Drugs - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:05] <exec> 08└─Why? Because I exposed a factual link between some vaccines and Autism? I cited the facts and I gave with a link to the sworn affidavit. It's well known you can't expect a discussion from NPCs or give them cited facts..but sometimes it's still kind of amazing when they keep chanting the same thing o...
[18:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:57] <exec> 08└─You can only fight in a battle of whits
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[19:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Winds have so far Failed to Revive NASA’s Opportunity Rover; NASA Still Trying - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:40] <exec> 08└─just imagine how long it would have lasted if it had a windshield wiper... hindsight is 20/20 i guess.
[19:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winds have so far Failed to Revive NASA’s Opportunity Rover; NASA Still Trying - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:42] <exec> 08└─Will Huawei send a guy to steal the wiper arm to copy it ? Panels which can tilt all the way to vertical might have helped too. Get more sun late in the day, and flush the dust if it's not sticky... That wasn't in the 90-day-mission must-have list.
[19:33:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 67 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:56] <exec> 08└─How about some tariffs on cold air that comes from other countries.
[19:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:11] <exec> 08└─I just ask that you keep it down there. 70-75 F is a nice day... in July.
[19:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:12] <exec> 08└─Nah, I used to live in the southwest and go hiking for 4-5 hours at a time in 100+. As long as you bring plenty of water (and toilet paper), it’s not too bad.
[19:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:14] <exec> 08└─Freezing the NorthEast is a Chinese Ploy.
[19:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:16] <exec> 08└─where everyone is outside not only talking, but drinking too
[19:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:19] <exec> 08└─You must have missed it but Trump tweeted about the bible: https://twitter.com [twitter.com] Wow, wow, wow! Is this the most amazing moment of the presidency yet? Yes. Nothing can stop GOD! This is all about GOD, and nothing else. Who would vote against GOD...
[19:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:21] <exec> 08└─What is the toilet paper for?
[19:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:23] <exec> 08└─Wow, it's like, winter weather. When I lived in Ohio, too long ago, it was not unusual to have temperatures around -20 at some point during the winter. It's called a "continental climate": there are no large bodies of water to the West (where the weather mostly comes from), so there's nothing to mod...
[19:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:25] <exec> 08└─I'm not kidding. I've watched people in every city drive stupidly. Houston, Chicago, Los Angeles. Give them a little rain, and they can make excuses to pile cars up. Give them a bit of ice, and the excuses pile up faster than the cars do. When those reflective markers beside the highways, mounted on...
[19:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:45] <exec> 08└─There shouldn't be a problem as long as the screws aren't weightless.
[19:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:46] <exec> 08└─Exactly -- if the can build the whole item in China and ship it from there profitably, they could definitely FedEx a box of missing screws from China as a stop-gap. A cereal box sized container would probably hold 10-20k screws.
[19:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:49] <exec> 08└─It's called the Commons, and it's a major issue. "A" wants to make product X, which uses parts Y and Z, and the assembly requires some techniques provided by companies B and C. Once enough manufacturing has moved abroad, B has to fold, and Z isn't being stocked by anyone. Regardless of politician pr...
[19:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Backblaze Publishes Hard Drive Reliability Stats for 2018 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:52] <exec> 08└─Never did a backup despite having 9 spare drives.
[19:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSMC Fab 14 B hit by Massive Wafer Defection due to Chemical Contamination, 16/12nm Production Line - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:06] <exec> 08└─Chinese business dealings... typical. American manufacturers have been bitten by crap chemicals made in the PRC; I wonder where TSMC's came from?
[19:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:13] <exec> 08└─Agreed. The devil is in the details. Currently, nick1 could upmod enough comments by nick2 in one day to boost nick2's karma by 10. So... just pick a number from 1 to 10! =) But seriously, so far this month, we've averaged 350-500 mods per day. Also, most people use only a few of their mod points e...
[19:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:14] <exec> 08└─I read with a threshold of -1 so I see all comments, with an intention to rectify any errant mods I see. Sadly, I don't have enough time to read all the comments on this site, so I could well have missed the ones you've seen. Should you ever see a comment unfairly modded to -1, please mod it up!
[19:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:16] <exec> 08└─If I complain about comment moderation in this article would I still be moderated as offtopic?
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[20:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epigenetics for Alzheimer's Reversal, and a Better Alzheimer's Blood Test - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:43] <exec> 08└─They dissected so many goddamn mouse brains for this paper. Must've been fun. From their graphs, the apparent success of BIX01294 of returning a degree of normalcy to brain behavior is pretty unambiguous, though it's pretty clear from the expression analysis they do that they aren't able to control...
[20:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Winds have so far Failed to Revive NASA’s Opportunity Rover; NASA Still Trying - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:53] <exec> 08└─That probably wouldn't have helped too much. You want as little moving parts as possible on these things, and the ones you do have, you want to be large. The dust is terrible on Mars. It is microscopic and non-weathered, meaning it can work its way into the various seals and then grind away at the i...
[20:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winds have so far Failed to Revive NASA’s Opportunity Rover; NASA Still Trying - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:55] <exec> 08└─If the mission was originally designed to be 90 days long, how have they managed to continue to fund the ground operations for 15 years? That's over sixty times the "guaranteed" lifespan. Even if they were optimistic and planned for 5 years they've burned through that budget a decade ago.
[20:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winds have so far Failed to Revive NASA’s Opportunity Rover; NASA Still Trying - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:57] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_(rover) [wikipedia.org] The mission has received several extensions and has been operating for 5483 days since landing.
[20:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winds have so far Failed to Revive NASA’s Opportunity Rover; NASA Still Trying - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:59] <exec> 08└─"We have finally manage to disable the robot attack forces attempting to spy on our planet. We will be dismantling this attacker at a later date to learn what we can about the alien's technology. We've shot down many of their robots already, and we've noticed that it takes quite some time between at...
[20:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:36] <exec> 08└─the metric system must be adopted, because no one will admit to being the father
[20:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:37] <exec> 08└─Nope. This is a bit colder than usual, but we get temperatures down in this range fairly often here in Central Illinois. When it gets that cold, the packed snow really isn't all that slick like it is when it's not far below freezing. If you're used to driving on it, you just allow more time and go s...
[20:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:40] <exec> 08└─Chicago has discovered a new way to reduce gang violence. If it's too cold to go outside, the gangs can't shoot one another.
[20:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:42] <exec> 08└─It's only exceptional because some talking heads are telling us that it's exceptional. The young and the naive have to believe the talking heads, because they have no experience to draw on. I mentioned in another discussion that I've personally experience -20 degree (or lower) temperatures in every...
[20:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:44] <exec> 08└─I've got a friend in Winnipeg who teases me about cold weather. He's welcome to gloat. When Fahrenheit and Celsius are the same number that's colder than I want to be.
[20:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:46] <exec> 08└─That's not new. Everyone in Chicago already knows that when its too hot or cold things are calmer.
[20:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:49] <exec> 08└─Also, they now give weather events such cool names. "Polar vortex", like wow, that's so much more dramatic than "it's damn cold".
[20:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:51] <exec> 08└─Oh Runaway, you're so cute. Wednesday could be the coldest day ever recorded in Chicago – a forecast high of 14 below zero, the weather service said. There's a chance the Windy City will break its all-time coldest temperature record of 27 degrees below zero. Chicago's famous Brookfield Zoo will be...
[20:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:53] <exec> 08└─How about some tariffs on cold air that comes from other countries.
[20:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:55] <exec> 08└─Or you're just a nutter https://www.weather.gov [weather.gov] Sciencey stuff used to be avoided, but the demographics are changing and science literacy is up so now we get to use the cool names =)
[20:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:58] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, in Australia [theguardian.com], 48.9C (120F)
[20:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:00] <exec> 08└─Let's try putting this another way: If the record is broken, then it is only the lowest temp ever recorded since white men started setting up instruments to record the temperatures. In all thousands of years that the red man occupied this continent, do you think maybe they saw colder temps, but just...
[20:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Singapore Blames U.S. Citizen for Leak of Around 14,200 HIV-Positive Patient Records - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:17] <exec> 08└─How many of those 2.9 million people had the big HIV?
[20:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major iPhone FaceTime Bug Lets You Hear the Audio of the Person You are Calling, Before They Pick Up - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:38] <exec> 08└─" But the vast majority of people have let such devices into their houses years ago in the guise of cellphones and then smartphones -- which not only contain microphones but also (multiple) cameras. With closed-source software and operating systems on them, how do you have any clue how much spying t...
[20:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:25] <exec> 08└─I mean I can buy stuff for 5 bucks but the price includes slave labor and destruction of environment.
[20:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:26] <exec> 08└─I could believe that if Apple wanted these screws "tomorrow," maybe it could be difficult to book time at a larger shop and get them made in short order. But it strains credibility to think that no U.S. machine shop (large or small) would be willing to invest the time and/or equipment to make this h...
[20:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Advocates Appointed to Minnesota Autism Council After Measles Outbreak - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:04] <exec> 08└─Have you ever met a Baptist? Tell them you're "pro-choice."
[20:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:10] <exec> 08└─Install NewPipe [schabi.org]
[20:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mea Culpa! Corrections and Clarifications on Moderation - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:57] <exec> 08└─A spoiler-like hiding of nicknames has a certain attraction to it, but there is already some pretty hairy stuff going on in the comment header code to facilitate comment tree hiding and expansion; I suspect that adding this to the mix would be problematic and far from trivial. Thinking about trying...
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[21:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:42] <exec> 08└─It would be nice with an internet sherif around town, but I don't know if Moz will be any good at it. Whatever, it's better than the last one.
[21:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epigenetics for Alzheimer's Reversal, and a Better Alzheimer's Blood Test - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:50] <exec> 08└─the apparent success of BIX01294 of returning a degree of normalcy to brain behavior is pretty unambiguou
[21:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epigenetics for Alzheimer's Reversal, and a Better Alzheimer's Blood Test - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:52] <exec> 08└─They don't. They plot genotype against EHMT1/2 and against methylyzation, which they treat as a proxy measure of Alzheimer's progression. Then they later cast genotype+treatement/control groups against synaptic response to stimulus. Whether that adequately represents function is a tough question. Ce...
[21:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epigenetics for Alzheimer's Reversal, and a Better Alzheimer's Blood Test - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:55] <exec> 08└─They don't.
[21:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epigenetics for Alzheimer's Reversal, and a Better Alzheimer's Blood Test - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:57] <exec> 08└─Anybody catch the news blurb that Alzheimers' may be caused by ingress of dental bacteria through bleeding gums?
[21:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epigenetics for Alzheimer's Reversal, and a Better Alzheimer's Blood Test - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:59] <exec> 08└─When your patient population is hopeless, miserable and desperate, they'll let you try just about anything on them. Witness: the continued research into ECT for depression...
[21:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epigenetics for Alzheimer's Reversal, and a Better Alzheimer's Blood Test - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:01] <exec> 08└─Yes. But 30 years before initial symptoms the patients aren't seeing any symptoms.
[21:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epigenetics for Alzheimer's Reversal, and a Better Alzheimer's Blood Test - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:04] <exec> 08└─Developments that reverse Alzheimers can only be a good thing to help people suffering from . . . what were we talking about again? And who are you?
[21:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winds have so far Failed to Revive NASA’s Opportunity Rover; NASA Still Trying - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:16] <exec> 08└─I'm not disagreeing about the dust, but I don't see why hinges for solar panels wouldn't fit the definition of "large and strong". I couldn't find the array size, but it covers most of the top of the rover.
[21:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Winds have so far Failed to Revive NASA’s Opportunity Rover; NASA Still Trying - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:18] <exec> 08└─Why would it have been "non-weathered"? If it's blowing around, wouldn't it get weathered just as surely as if it were bouncing down a stream on Earth? More slowly perhaps, but I see no reason to believe it wouldn't get the sharp bits rounded off over time. Not like the Moon, where there is no disce...
[21:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:07] <exec> 08└─That's what they get for having summer in the middle of winter.
[21:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:09] <exec> 08└─"When Fahrenheit and Celsius are the same number..." At first I thought that's not possible, but a couple of minutes of math shows that -40 F does = -40 C.
[21:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:11] <exec> 08└─Oh wait that was a real tweet. Shit, we really are in a post-satire world.
[21:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 1210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:13] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Thank you for saying it. Those temperatures are normal in the winter in the Northwest and Midwest. It's so normal that getting worked up about it makes about as much sense as complaining about the rain in Seattle. The really great thing about cold weather is you can always put more clothes...
[21:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:15] <exec> 08└─Halfway through your dumbassery I said "duh we've been in a warming period for a little while now" and I was completely unsurprised to see you use that fact as some sort of win. You're getting close to the bottom, a few more beerfests and those last few brain cells will be permanently buzzed. Member...
[21:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:18] <exec> 08└─It's only exceptional because some talking heads are telling us that it's exceptional. The young and the naive have to believe the talking heads, because they have no experience to draw on.
[21:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Singapore Blames U.S. Citizen for Leak of Around 14,200 HIV-Positive Patient Records - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:36] <exec> 08└─Your brain is gonna implode with all this 17D chess yer playin
[21:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:45] <exec> 08└─Does anyone know of a $2.40 screw?
[21:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:47] <exec> 08└─We used to have cities like that. Detroit was one.
[21:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:49] <exec> 08└─Can you send me a picture, pencil sketch is fine, of what the resistors and diode leads should look like? I would like the challenge of designing a machine to do it.
[21:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:51] <exec> 08└─The supply chain should have been sorted out well in advance
[21:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:54] <exec> 08└─0.1" of extra thickness - what are you thinking? With that kind of extra thickness, there's be noticeably more space for battery capacity, more durable case materials, all kinds of long-term consumer friendly things. In our house, our 3rd Nexus 5x just went boot loopy, and our WiFi router is startin...
[21:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:56] <exec> 08└─my father was a machinist who retired
[21:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Advocates Appointed to Minnesota Autism Council After Measles Outbreak - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:34] <exec> 08└─Trump Apologist appointed Press Secretary or WH Communications Director ?
[21:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Releases Compute Module 3+, the Last 40nm-Based RasPi - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:47] <exec> 08└─Hopefully these limitations can be solved in the upcoming Raspberry Pi 4 and related products. Whatever die shrink we see could substantially boost performance over 40nm, perhaps to the point where you might actually want to connect to it and "compute".
[21:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSMC Fab 14 B hit by Massive Wafer Defection due to Chemical Contamination, 16/12nm Production Line - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:18] <exec> 08└─Agreed, but Intel is in a position of printing money they don't really deserve. They probably have over 95% of the server CPU market right now. AMD has to fight tooth and nail just to survive, while Intel has plenty of room to fail and coast. So a fab-related issue would hit AMD harder than Intel. A...
[21:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:43] <exec> 08└─Fallacy of relative privation (also known as "appeal to worse problems" or "not as bad as") – dismissing an argument or complaint due to the existence of more important problems in the world, regardless of whether those problems bear relevance to the initial argument. First World problems are a su...
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[22:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:43] <exec> 08└─Maybe when anyone publishes a web page, especially news, and it has a bunch of social media "like" buttons, there should be a massive dislike campaign to get people to stop doing that!
[22:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:45] <exec> 08└─i rememebr when cross-domain scripting was a bad thing. too bad money changes everything.
[22:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:47] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't be so bad if the buttons were passive, and only sent the page to a logged-in user's social media account. Alas, greed trumps privacy every time.
[22:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:49] <exec> 08└─Even worse, you have no way for a remedy. A non-user cannot say to FB to delete all non-user related data. You are not a user, so they can simply say "we do not have any of your data". The burden of proof falls upon you, the tracked party, and you have no real way to prove that they hold any of your...
[22:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:52] <exec> 08└─Those Facebook like buttons are really offensive.
[22:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epigenetics for Alzheimer's Reversal, and a Better Alzheimer's Blood Test - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:06] <exec> 08└─I mean, sure, just focus on the two word summary, and definitely ignore the context that establishes what they were doing and how it's genuinely relevant to establishing what the headline says. I mean a headline is a fully in-depth analysis, not some kind of summary of a summary, right? Definitely i...
[22:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epigenetics for Alzheimer's Reversal, and a Better Alzheimer's Blood Test - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:08] <exec> 08└─Just sign here, please.
[22:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epigenetics for Alzheimer's Reversal, and a Better Alzheimer's Blood Test - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:10] <exec> 08└─Yes. But 30 years before initial symptoms the patients aren't seeing any symptoms.
[22:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epigenetics for Alzheimer's Reversal, and a Better Alzheimer's Blood Test - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:12] <exec> 08└─ignore the context that establishes what they were doing and how it's genuinely relevant to establishing what the headline says
[22:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epigenetics for Alzheimer's Reversal, and a Better Alzheimer's Blood Test - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:14] <exec> 08└─Same AC. I just thought of a name for this behavior: The "White wall of scilence"* Researchers who are bought into and dependent on the system of crappy research refuse to out each other. Not even for blatant disregard for what most people would expect are basic scientific and/or ethical standards l...
[22:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epigenetics for Alzheimer's Reversal, and a Better Alzheimer's Blood Test - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:17] <exec> 08└─Alright, the snark was unfair, as you're too fucking dumb to get it. A headline is not a strict statement of a single observed fact. You're both dumb and wrong to demand it do so
[22:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epigenetics for Alzheimer's Reversal, and a Better Alzheimer's Blood Test - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:19] <exec> 08└─A headline is not a strict statement of a single observed fact.
[22:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:27] <exec> 08└─TIL there are people that don't know -40C=-40F.
[22:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:29] <exec> 08└─I have noted that hockey stick finale previously. As much as I admire xkcd, his cartoon doesn't validate the hockey stick.
[22:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:31] <exec> 08└─Drink you stupid horse!
[22:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:33] <exec> 08└─I mean, at least then they'd add some value to the world.
[22:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:35] <exec> 08└─So he can write "help" on the ground when the heat stroke hits.
[22:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:38] <exec> 08└─In the northern (US) plains (Eastern Montana and Wyoming, the Dakotas, ...), it's not so much that the snow is higher than the markers, but that it's blowing horizontally in such density that seeing them is about the only way to know where the road is supposed to be. "Once in a generation"? Went fro...
[22:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:40] <exec> 08└─I re-read your comment and wondered just how dire the OMG FREAKOUT stuff was compared to your characterization. I saw one sentence of doom "A snowstorm will wreak havoc across the Deep South on Tuesday." and then of course the evil lizard agenda Democrat governor said "In a statement, Whitmer said,...
[22:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:42] <exec> 08└─his cartoon doesn't validate the hockey stick
[22:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:44] <exec> 08└─https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1090074254010404864?p=v [twitter.com] That dementia must be getting bad, can't even remember last night?
[22:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:47] <exec> 08└─Runaway is looking to "validate" pretty basic data, there is no hope for someone that starts the propaganda that early in the process.
[22:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Singapore Blames U.S. Citizen for Leak of Around 14,200 HIV-Positive Patient Records - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:05] <exec> 08└─~2,900 [worldbank.org] (0.1%)
[22:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Singapore Blames U.S. Citizen for Leak of Around 14,200 HIV-Positive Patient Records - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:07] <exec> 08└─Let's throw them off tall buildings, and if they survive, stone them to death. Problem solved
[22:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:23] <exec> 08└─The entire American mfgr capacity for screws is maxed out? LOL not falling for that one.
[22:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:24] <exec> 08└─I bet if Apple started tomorrow, they could hire 270 women and start pumping out one Steve Jobs' frozen sperm baby per day. The problem is: for screws and heir apparents, the first article isn't due for 9 months.
[22:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:26] <exec> 08└─they'd have no idea how to bend the resistors
[22:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:28] <exec> 08└─I would really like to work with the little local assembly shop next town, because I've grown to like them when I visited them.
[22:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:31] <exec> 08└─You can see a picture of a machine that does the job and a good diagram of the bent part in this datasheet: http://www.renthang.com [renthang.com] I already mailed them about purchasing one of their machines, but they didn't respond. I also thought about how I would constr...
[22:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Superbug Gene' Found in One of the Most Remote Places on Earth - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:43] <exec> 08└─The thing that worries me about bacteriophages is that THEY mutate. What happens when one of them mutates in such a way that it finds, for example, that our mitochondria are delicious?
[22:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Vaccine Advocates Appointed to Minnesota Autism Council After Measles Outbreak - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:11] <exec> 08└─The only thing keeping abortionists from being executed is because the pro-life ideology prohibit murder even on lesser lifeforms. Bada-Bing!
[22:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Foundation Releases Compute Module 3+, the Last 40nm-Based RasPi - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:26] <exec> 08└─perhaps to the point where you might actually want to connect to it and "compute".
[22:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Largest Digital Sky Survey (Pan-STARRS) Issues Biggest Astronomical Data Release Ever - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:13] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter they couldn't bring a coconut back anyway.
[22:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:24] <exec> 08└─They're obviously butthurt for having given up, and instead of acting like adults, they instead taunt in a misguided effort to help themselves feel better.
[22:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:25] <exec> 08└─Are you sure they are done? They have been known to fuck the corpse as well.
[22:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:04] <exec> 08└─I have a somewhat battered old paperback which I’ve had for decades. However, I admit I didn’t type out the whole passage; once I found it in the book, I did a bit of googling to locate the same paragraph in some pirate text online, then did a copy & paste followed by cleaning up a few scan erro...
[22:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Anti-Influenza Drugs - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:19] <exec> 08└─The risk is still far lower than the benefit overall, and I'm not just saying that as a restatement of "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." Actually, I do wonder if the current vaccination schedule is the best we could be doing by our children, but vaccination itself is sound scien...
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[23:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Distant Kuiper Belt Planetesimal Found Using Occultation - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:42] <exec> 08└─Stare at the wall long enough and you'll see things. Doesn't mean they're there. And now these bozos announce that they're going to stare twice as long to see even more stuff. Remember, kids: don't mix drugs and astrophysics.
[23:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:57] <exec> 08└─If you are designing a site, it is possible to offer the ability to 'like' without a Facebook tracker http://panzi.github.io [github.io] Social Share Privacy Fork of "jquery.socialshareprivacy.js | 2 Klicks fuer mehr Datenschutz"
[23:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:59] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't trust Mozilla to do any of this properly anyway, at this point.
[23:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:01] <exec> 08└─The concept is only good to the extent it completely misses the point. The website designer shouldn't be the one deciding whether or not you have privacy - YOU should be. But you won't be, if you allow scripts to run you're at the mercy of the designer, or of the 12 year old that just rooted the web...
[23:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:03] <exec> 08└─Mozilla gets a lot of negative comments for the quality of Firefox and their lack of focus on core features. While many of the complaints are valid, I still strive to support the organization. From my view, the internet and connected devices are continually getting pushed into walled gardens and the...
[23:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Security Policy Cracks Down on Creepy Web Trackers, Holds Supercookies Over Fire - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:05] <exec> 08└─I bet the only reason they would block tracking is to muscle in on that revenue stream. Oh, you want to track mozilla users? well, well, well. I'd feel awfully bad about it. But... if the price is right... *clasps hands, smiles, then laughs*
[23:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epigenetics for Alzheimer's Reversal, and a Better Alzheimer's Blood Test - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:27] <exec> 08└─yeah it's on the pipelines : https://blogs.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org]
[23:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epigenetics for Alzheimer's Reversal, and a Better Alzheimer's Blood Test - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:29] <exec> 08└─There is no reason they couldn't measure "cognitive function" and then sacrifice the mice
[23:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Winds have so far Failed to Revive NASA’s Opportunity Rover; NASA Still Trying - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:44] <exec> 08└─It is not that it isn't communicating. It is no longer communicating, with us.
[23:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:49] <exec> 08└─I'm an even bigger nerd than the webcomic guy. I use numbers as my raw data instead of pictures and they lead to different conclusions.
[23:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:50] <exec> 08└─Please do tell! I've always wanted to hear tales from a real data scientist.
[23:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:52] <exec> 08└─Why would I give it away for free?
[23:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Minimize Talking' Outside: Polar Vortex Bears Down on Northern USA as Deep South Braces for Snow - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:55] <exec> 08└─Me too. Long ago I used to bike to work in that MN cold and moving along at 12mph average, the wind chill did not matter since I was getting that 12mph headwind all the time. People ski in the cold too... the people who do activities know to dress properly for the wind chills. People in MN seem less...
[23:37:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06A Tiny Screw Shows Why iPhones Won’t Be ‘Assembled in U.S.A.’ - 271 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:16] <exec> 08└─> it's quite obvious that the reason Apple, and everyone else, makes things in China it's cause of the wages Not true. It's also because of the incredibly lax pollution regulations. Every little bit of cost savings helps line the corporate coffers and executive bonuses..
[23:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Employee Sparks Outrage by Suggesting Firefox Switch Browser Engine to Chromium - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:28] <exec> 08└─Next thing you know they'll be telling out of work Firefox devs to "Learn to Code."
[23:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lasers Help to Transmit Audio Directly Into a Person's Ear Without Requiring Receiver - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:08] <exec> 08└─It seems only paying customers are affected by it...
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