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[00:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[00:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:53] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Talk about too little too late. Die in a fire Adobe,
[00:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:05] <exec> 08└─The question I have is whether this kind of event is more likely to destroy all life nearby, or cause chemical reactions leading to life in the right primordial soup. Both, i guess.
[00:34:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:12] <exec> 08└─Offline backups are your annoying friend.
[00:34:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:17] <exec> 08└─We can only hope they could erase Twatter and Facefuck with the same amount of efficiency.
[00:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:27] <exec> 08└─why doesn't the mod go to +infinity... "There are two sorts of people in this world - those that backup and those that *will*". Douglas Adams.
[00:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:48] <exec> 08└─Oh, don't be such a pussy.
[00:35:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:15] <exec> 08└─Wait … 0.12 standard deviations? Doesn't sound statistically significant. Did the authors get their statistics knowledge from Facebook?
[00:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:31] <exec> 08└─Your religion died in 325 AD....
[00:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:06] <exec> 08└─Both cockroaches and sinapsids (ie. the mammal-like reptiles we're decended from) almost became extinct during the permian extinction event... the so called "great dying". Amusingly coal "fly ash" has been discovered from ocean deposits layed down during that time. They believe a monumental flood ba...
[00:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:54] <exec> 08└─Or just have 1 big 'who cares' melt?
[00:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sand from Glacial Melt Could Be Greenland's Economic Salvation - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:56] <exec> 08└─Why would they? What is the money for?
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[01:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:53] <exec> 08└─While I do appreciate how my supplier can send me 3D models in PDF form, it's mind-boggling that Adobe manages to insert so many critical bugs in something that should be primarily a document reader/editor. How do the annual numbers compare to MS Office ?
[01:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:06] <exec> 08└─I am 2 degrees meters tall. Does that make sense?
[01:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:07] <exec> 08└─About as much sense as Snow's pedantry.
[01:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:09] <exec> 08└─I stand 6 foot 3. You can’t teach size!!
[01:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:11] <exec> 08└─is also 0° Kelvin.
[01:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:14] <exec> 08└─Something similar may have hit earth around 400 BC that basically reset C-14 levels for the last half millenia: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Alternatively the earth's magnetic field weakened for some reason.
[01:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:35] <exec> 08└─At least only mutable through human intervention.
[01:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:36] <exec> 08└─But if that were the case they would have used sharks with lasers.
[01:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:38] <exec> 08└─This reeks of an inside job. No ransom note, just seek out and destroy
[01:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:00] <exec> 08└─Today's "journalism" is about spending lots of time and effort to come up with a punny headline and little if any time or effort on the actual story.
[01:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:46] <exec> 08└─I have not yet been involuntarily committed to a loony bin
[01:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:47] <exec> 08└─I believe that refers to the people who do use Failbook,,,
[01:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:47] <exec> 08└─Congratulations: You are an authoritarian. Show me a case where cops or TSA verifiably violated someone's rights and that person didn't get at least a settlement out of it.
[01:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:09] <exec> 08└─Too soon.
[01:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetic Testing for Dogs - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:28] <exec> 08└─You Muslims also don't like bacon or alcohol. Losers!
[01:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetic Testing for Dogs - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:29] <exec> 08└─Can they do the same for San Francisco's homeless and H1B holders? Shit on the street, get sent back to India.
[01:39:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 768 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:14] <exec> 08└─As a Navy veteran I can confirm this. Fresh water is a rationed commodity on a ship. In my day, the showers had "wands" with push buttons on them that released the water. You wet yourself, then lather up, then rinse. The water does not continuously run like a civilian shower. It's not nearly as sati...
[01:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 3403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:39] <exec> 08└─Most of our water consumption is due to flushing our toilets. While I reside maybe four miles from the Mighty Columbia River, to maintain a constant water pressure, our water is pumped up a hill then up into a large, tall water tank. There's a lot of people here, we flush our toilets quite a lot so...
[01:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:41] <exec> 08└─And yes: I am bald. But that patch of bare skin on top? It still produces as much hair oil as it did in the days of my misspent youth when my hair went halfway down my back.
[01:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:43] <exec> 08└─NOT MIL-SPEC mind you, in that I use hot water; in the Navy when aboard ship, everybody gets cold showers. Such is my understanding anyway. Turn on water, get wet all over. Turn off water. Soap up _all_ over, including shampoo in the hair. Turn on water, rinse off, turn off water. If we _all_ did it...
[01:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:45] <exec> 08└─Specifically, a surgeon and a Captain for the US Army Air Forces during World War II. I inherited from my grandfather the text "Rats, Lice And History". It's all about how the course of history is often determined by such public health problems as the outbreak of Cholera among one of the opposing ar...
[01:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:47] <exec> 08└─This is stated in literally the following sentence. READ.
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[02:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:49] <exec> 08└─Ok, going to be honest here. I bought the book and was immediately turned off by the writing style. There may be much of merit within the book but I never got to it. Oh well, that's one person's opinion. I suppose I'm as entitled to it as anyone else is to their's.
[02:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:50] <exec> 08└─I agree. No pictures, no tentacles, too many words.
[02:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:52] <exec> 08└─"Oh well, that's one person's opinion. I suppose I'm as entitled to it as anyone else is to their's." You are. For a contrary opinion, I bought it ca. 1983 and was only able to understand parts of it later. Because a fair portion of it is in Aussie. A dialect I only started to encounter ca. 1991 wit...
[02:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:03] <exec> 08└─It's time for adobe to die a quiet death while we remember them fondly for introducing to the world a format better than .doc but for whom did not finish their quest
[02:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:21] <exec> 08└─400BC... isn't that around the time Mahommed was born? Coincidence?
[02:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:23] <exec> 08└─No, Mahommed was born about 400 years after dots were used for punctuation. This is ~400 years before commas were invented.
[02:34:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Apparition [6835] 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 831 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:31] <exec> 08└─Bleeping Computer has a more recent article on the attack [bleepingcomputer.com] with a statement from the owner. The owner stated that he will most likely shut VFEmail down as a result of this hack. I don't know why this level of attack was executed. I wouldn't say I have no idea why, but I hear ru...
[02:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ensigndna [7179] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:47] <exec> 08└─Had they used modern storage arrays with snapshots and off site replication combined with better security measures this could have avoided the issue or at the very least undone the damage in a few hours.
[02:35:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:11] <exec> 08└─Isn't Bloomberg pretty mainstream? Yet they have headlines like "Before Bezos Fight, Enquirer Publisher AMI Faced Steep Losses" -- https://www.bloomberg.com , sure enough, if anyone cares, AMI seem pretty fucked wi...
[02:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:12] <exec> 08└─"Buttcrack Plumbing" was in the local yellow pages.
[02:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:59] <exec> 08└─No, really, explain this. I am well aware that geocentrism can be made to match the math if you screw a bunch of other variables up, but that same sort of reciprocal mapping would also "prove" the entire universe is solid rock and the surface of earth is a concave bubble within it. Are you even trol...
[02:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:00] <exec> 08└─Something tells me it would be, and this may be the most appropriate use of the phrase ever, a "pearls before swine" situation. Just an odd feeling I've got.
[02:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:24] <exec> 08└─Feed it to goats. Keep it in field of poison ivy to attract goats and keep away "russians".
[02:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:25] <exec> 08└─-Old soviet trick.
[02:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:59] <exec> 08└─I inherited from my grandfather the text "Rats, Lice And History".
[02:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cutting-edge Underwater Mining System Can Give Flooded Mines a New Lease of Life - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:57] <exec> 08└─I can't wait for someone to complain about them putting ground in the groundwater. That will be fun.
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[03:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:02] <exec> 08└─"too many words." The timeless echo of your words, from the illiterate. Whose words are notorious for their inability to echo. Sorry, my brother in shitty fate. It sounds like you just don't want to read. That door over there. The one that says 'ladies.' There you go. Don't come back. Sayonara, see...
[03:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:03] <exec> 08└─I recall that being an issue when I read it the first time. But, I persevered. Don't recall what year that was, exactly, but I think I was in junior high school. Had to be junior high, because I read Harsh Mistress before I read Foundation, and that was sophomore year of high school. So, lay it down...
[03:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:15] <exec> 08└─https://www.cvedetails.com/product/921/Adobe-Acrobat.html?vendor_id=53 [cvedetails.com] vs https://www.cvedetails.com [cvedetails.com]
[03:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:35] <exec> 08└─Buddha died around that time..
[03:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:37] <exec> 08└─Muhammad was born around 570 AD, almost a thousand years later. The 400s BC would have been the era of Socrates, Confucius, Buddha, Pericles, and Leonidas of Sparta.
[03:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:39] <exec> 08└─6 foot 3 wide you mean?
[03:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:41] <exec> 08└─If, up until 1967, "2 degrees metre" was proper, and now we just say "2 metres"... then yeah, it would make sense. But lets put it another way: saying 'x degrees kelvin' makes as much sense as saying 'y kilomiles'. It's not the fact that it's wrong (it most definitely is), it's that wrong or not, ev...
[03:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:06] <exec> 08└─did you rtfs?
[03:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:31] <exec> 08└─You left out "El Reg" https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk]
[03:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:19] <exec> 08└─I quit facebook years and years ago exactly because it made me dumber. Photo after photo after photo of long ago ex-girlfriend and her cats, and what she ate for lunch, and the cute thing her sister's kid did. I couldn't take it anymore. My real friends and I still use email. Occasionally text and p...
[03:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:21] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of a book I happened upon about 20 years ago entitled How the News Makes Us Dumb. I haven't looked at it in decades, so maybe it isn't as good as I remember -- but it not only argued that news media mostly was obsessed with meaningless trivia on most days, but that the very need to contin...
[03:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah...too much info pushes out important stuff in your brain. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[03:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:24] <exec> 08└─Let's just say I've grown up over the centuries... :)
[03:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 1442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:25] <exec> 08└─Okay, I'll agree with some of what you said, but in other cases you seem to miss the forest from the trees. Such as sexual abuse -- you seem surprised by the Southern Baptists... why? There's never been good stats showing that the incidence of abusers in the Catholic Church is worse than any other d...
[03:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:27] <exec> 08└─In other words, you've got nothing but a snarky throwaway line. The Christian Church has been reborn more than once. The Roman Catholic Church is not the last word in Christianity. (Posted by a different AC)
[03:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:30] <exec> 08└─You're replying to a troll, but the AC is correct at least in the idea that one could choose whatever frame of reference one wants as a "center." Heliocentrism strictly isn't completely correct as the solar system actually all moves roughly around the center of mass that includes all planets and oth...
[03:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:04] <exec> 08└─Search for the research of Hans Rosling. The two things you can do to have the biggest impact on population growth are: 1. Give women washing machines for their laundry. 2. Give them western television programming. Seriously, look it up. Easy to do, low cost. A hell of a lot cheaper and...
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[03:38:06] <exec> 08└─Less poverty? Sure, and better education is a part of that mix, and a great predictor of reduced population fertility when the education is extended to women specifically. More aid? You're going to have to be one hell of a lot more specific about this. Lots of aid has been shown to be counterproduct...
[03:39:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:54] <exec> 08└─Only wash your hair with real poo!
[03:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:31] <exec> 08└─You're asking the wrong questions. What is the carbon footprint of one pound of animal protein, compared with one pound of the equivalent in terms of nutrition (complete protein/balanced amino acid) sources, with allowances for the animals replacing machinery functions? There's an example of a more...
[03:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Company Tencent Buys a 5% Stake in Reddit - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:12] <exec> 08└─This is it for reddit. The redesign is already harder to use. User uploaded video sites are always cesspools. I used to have a youtube plugin to replace the comments with any reddit discussions about the video. I have to admit reddit is likely to make lots of good viral videos right before it bites...
[03:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:14] <exec> 08└─I wonder when our cars will start issuing tickets to drivers for traffic infractions. Speeding, stop signs, erratic driving, relaying location to law enforcement if they are interested in getting a slice of the fine. Otherwise, the vehicle simply shuts down and calls the tow truck. Americans will bu...
[03:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:16] <exec> 08└─They already do! Around here, I see homeless lining up at food banks for rations of food, all made by machine.
[03:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:18] <exec> 08└─You know. The same folk that buy $100 sunglasses.
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[04:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T is Putting its Fake 5G Logo on iPhones Too - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:53] <exec> 08└─Arguing for one bullshit against another bullshi just leads to gorilla ship fest. Lawyers' delight.
[04:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T is Putting its Fake 5G Logo on iPhones Too - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:54] <exec> 08└─I said a slip slop a-slippy a-slippy to the slip slip slop you don't stop to settle, with the scritch-scratch scribble, signing with a scribble Til the fine print of the contracts we've beat. Now what you read has legal force although the words seem braille And me, the judge, and my briefs will try...
[04:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:06] <exec> 08└─Heinlein pulls you right into the story. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) The main characters are pretty well developed (Mike, Manny, Prof and Wyoh), but other characters aren't so well defined. Stu's motivations are nebulous, especially given the backstory he was given. While som...
[04:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:42] <exec> 08└─When was the Oxford comma invented?
[04:34:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03choose another one [515] 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:54] <exec> 08└─It's perhaps more that anything "online" is merely replication, and replication is not backup.
[04:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03warsen [7321] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:08] <exec> 08└─Umm no, well not always. I admit I don't know much about *enterprise* backup, but at the individual level at least there are excellent tools like borgbackup that can be both online (you do need a server on which you can install borg I suppose), and encrypted, and maintains history. And that's pretty...
[04:36:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 253 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:31] <exec> 08└─Galileo was friends with the Pope (Urban VII), but then took the Pope's arguments from a personal discussion they had and put them in the mouth of a character called "Simplicio" (the Simpleton) for one of his books. That is when all the trouble started.
[04:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:29] <exec> 08└─Ah, a similar thing has happened to me, but I am still a Samian, by birth, and an astronomer, by practice (though, I still need more practice).
[04:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:31] <exec> 08└─Ockham's Razor has a well known reality bias, and Reality has a well known liberal bias, and Liberals have a well known Heliocentric bias. But it is not just the math. Consider, posit that the Earth does not move. This means not only does the sun orbit the earth once a day, the rest of the Universe...
[04:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:33] <exec> 08└─Pascal's Provincial Letters [adelaide.edu.au] are full of Jesuit foibles, highly amusing in some cases, and used by William Jefferson Clinton to great effect. (Doctrine of "mental reservation".) But some [wikipedia.org]do not like them [nd.edu]. But on the other hand, the Jesuit order was formed to...
[04:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:35] <exec> 08└─It was a theory that was at least 1800 years old at that stage
[04:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:37] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, "the Christian Church" has been "reborn" so many times that we now have thousands of One True Faith(s) TM, nearly all of them warmly damning all the others to eternal hellfire. Which is about the last kind of situation you'd expect if the actual Truth with a capital T had been revealed to al...
[04:39:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 801 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:38] <exec> 08└─Use Mother dirt [vice.com] "Why does my horse roll around in its own filth all day?" It was a pretty weird question to be asked on a date, but it ended up changing David Whitlock's life. That was 12 years ago, and Whitlock hasn't bathed since. Driven by the burning ambition to find an answer to his...
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[05:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Expanding its Chip Design Efforts, Hiring Engineers from Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:52] <exec> 08└─Bengaluru, an up-and-coming semiconductor site in the capital of the south Indian state of Karnataka
[05:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T is Putting its Fake 5G Logo on iPhones Too - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:02] <exec> 08└─Trumps slowly rottin Into something that looks like cheese.
[05:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:15] <exec> 08└─... wouldn't want to be ya!
[05:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:17] <exec> 08└─Agree about Stu, he did just seem to jump right in, but on the other hand he may have really believed that Manny saved his life at the trial. Also, the idea that low gravity can extend life expectancy significantly doesn't seem to fit with what we've learned about living outside a planetary magnetic...
[05:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 1508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:19] <exec> 08└─Heinlein repeatedly has computers "come alive" via, essentially, magic. I.e., the explanation isn't one. (I will grant that human interaction is likely to be necessary if you want the computer to act like a human, however.) You don't turn a massive computer, even one equipped with Siri/Echo/etc. sty...
[05:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:20] <exec> 08└─Unless they were doing all of this and the hacker just logged directly into the backup server and wiped it from there...
[05:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:22] <exec> 08└─"There are those who think they backup, and then there are those who actually test their backups" - unknown
[05:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe they were both first. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[05:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:39] <exec> 08└─If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed. -- Mark Twain
[05:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:50] <exec> 08└─So as an exercise, calculate the velocity of a galaxy that lies, on a radius from the Earth, of 13 Billion light-years, and traverses that circumference in twenty four hours. Possible? Mathematically, perhaps.
[05:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:51] <exec> 08└─(Oh, I should qualify all of that to say that obviously various relativistic effects won't be observed with such apparent motion compared to things actually in motion at speeds like that. I'm more asserting this reference frame business from a Newtonian perspective, which is more relevant when talki...
[05:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:53] <exec> 08└─The complexity of timing and the number players involved, including friends in high places, suggests there is more to the story than we know from discoverable history. Not every decision is written down. It's safe to say Galileo was harassed by the Church either way.
[05:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Navy Needs 2 Tons of Storage Devices Burned to Ash - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:20] <exec> 08└─You greatly underestimate how hard it is to destroy something completely. Try reducing an old Nokia phone not even to ash, but to pieces smaller than 5mm. Use whatever you like and take as much time as you need.
[05:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most Americans Don't Realize What Companies Can Predict from Their Data - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:42] <exec> 08└─My favorite story is a coworker who thought google tracking him and suggesting departure times to arrive places on time given current traffic was a great thing. Then one thursday he got an alert that he usually goes to a given pub every week at 5 and due to traffic he should leave a little early if...
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[06:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Expanding its Chip Design Efforts, Hiring Engineers from Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:51] <exec> 08└─"up-and-coming semiconductor site" Is it known for its chip designers or fabs?
[06:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Expanding its Chip Design Efforts, Hiring Engineers from Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe the author of the article didn't recognize it by it's de-westernized official name, but if you feel the need to explain what and where Bangalore is in a tech article, in a way that suggests you haven't heard of the city before, maybe you shouldn't be taken seriously writing about technology.
[06:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Expanding its Chip Design Efforts, Hiring Engineers from Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:55] <exec> 08└─Actually, does the town have reliable power grid for fabs? Perhaps they will just do design works and contract an outside fab?
[06:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:30] <exec> 08└─They finished the quest with PDF/A, but even then they couldn't stop and now there are 4 versions of that as well.
[06:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:53] <exec> 08└─various relativistic effects won't be observed with such apparent motion compared to things actually in motion at speeds like that.
[06:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:54] <exec> 08└─OMG! Athanasius is fighting aristarchus on cosmology! Do you think that is air you're breathing? His neural-kinectics are way over the line!
[06:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:56] <exec> 08└─And still aristarchus submissions find their way to the Index Rejectorum, the modern equivalent for SoylentNews of the Index Prohibitorum of the Church Universal and Triumphant. SN has become the Catholic Church! Oh my Gawd! That means the Might Buzzard is at least Cardinal, even though that is a l...
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[07:33:49] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[07:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Expanding its Chip Design Efforts, Hiring Engineers from Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:00] <exec> 08└─Is it known for its chip designers or fabs?
[07:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:54] <exec> 08└─>> implying serious OP [wikipedia.org] Come on... Only someone with severe brain damage or mental retardation would unironically spout the same kind of arguments as the ones in the OP.
[07:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:55] <exec> 08└─Oh no... Somebody made a dick joke‽‽‽ Quick, someone call Adria Richards [knowyourmeme.com] to get the person who wrote the joke fired!!!
[07:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:06] <exec> 08└─Absolutely _all_ the vast majority of the world would need to obtain complete nutrition other than completely plant foods would be Cultured Milk, so as to obtain Vitamin B12. After quite a lot of reading on my part, discussion with a B12-Knowledgeable Soylentil, my strictly Vegan cousin as well as a...
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[08:33:57] <exec> 08└─Good. And squishy soft. Excellent characteristics in a spider imoho
[08:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Horned Tarantula is a Softie - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:58] <exec> 08└─Okay! Four khallows! But good khallows.
[08:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T is Putting its Fake 5G Logo on iPhones Too - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:18] <exec> 08└─I left a bottle of milk in the fridge for a week. It turned into something lumpy that smells better than trump's current karma
[08:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:34] <exec> 08└─I've read the book several times but wasn't able to get through it this time either in paper form or as an audio book. The characters were mostly quite engaging but I realize I must have skimmed or ignored the pontification the first times through. It was too much this time and I had to stop. Howeve...
[08:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:36] <exec> 08└─Ah, Foundation, the mind screw that never ends. Let's not go there shall we.
[08:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:38] <exec> 08└─I used to read Time Enough For Love once a year, or parts of it at least. I quite liked the hard science aspect of Moon, but the ending never really clicked for me.
[08:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:40] <exec> 08└─Could that be a type of sarcasm? Pontificating over something then blatantly keep rubbing it in that life just does not work that way?
[08:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:52] <exec> 08└─These bastards had a PhD student arrested for showing publicly how hosed their tech was. The day after he gave a talk at the hacker conference, a Russian software engineer is arrested by the FBI for allegedly cracking e-book security. [cnet.com] I would not trust them as far as I could throw a Sony...
[08:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:45] <exec> 08└─Mmmm, I dunno. Tried to back myself up once and all I got were three ungrateful brats.
[08:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:46] <exec> 08└─At least only mutable through human intervention.
[08:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Story Behind the Instant Classic “Bezos Exposes Pecker” Headline - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:16] <exec> 08└─- bezos - what - got your naughty pics - no wai i will give in, let it blow, at least i will retain my integrity that way *reads newspapers the day after* groan
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[09:33:58] <exec> 08└─Soft and squishy khallows, or the standard fluffy khallows?
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[09:33:59] <exec> 08└─Instead of a Black Widow, try an Australian Reback spider. Or swap out the Brown Recluse for the Violin Back spider, also called the Brown Violence spider. No fake horns here, actual venom. But not like the stupid Marvel movie.
[09:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:39] <exec> 08└─I got my copy back in fourth grade, about '75. I was the kid in the back of the classroom with this book tucked inside a history book 'cause I had already read That cover-to-cover...twice. Picked out something new every time I read it. I'm not sure my folks would have approved had they known what I...
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[09:34:41] <exec> 08└─I agree. No pictures, no tentacles, too many words.
[09:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:43] <exec> 08└─> Ah, Foundation, the mind screw that never ends. It does end, it just ends in a very messy attempt to tie most of his earlier his books in together - something which was unnecessary, inevitably unsatisfactory and (for me) degrades the earlier works. I wish Asimov had never written it. But we're tal...
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[09:34:45] <exec> 08└─I realize I must have skimmed or ignored the pontification the first times through. It was too much this time and I had to stop. However, what really put me off more than the politics was the emphasis on scams and grifts. On the one hand, he blathers about everyone pulling their own weight yet the m...
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[09:34:47] <exec> 08└─> I used to read Time Enough For Love once a year, or parts of it at least. And which parts would that be? Only once a year? - yeah right.
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[09:34:50] <exec> 08└─> You don't turn a massive computer, even one equipped with Siri/Echo/etc. style interfaces, into an intelligence just by interacting with it. Actually we don't know how you turn a computer into and intelligence, interaction may be the key. We also (notwithstanding various "kid raised by wild animal...
[09:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:52] <exec> 08└─Don't recall what year that was, exactly,
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[09:35:29] <exec> 08└─℉ ℃ K
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[10:33:51] <exec> 08└─Higbee & Associates is a particularly notorious copyright troll that demanded $1,700 from my friend's left-wing activism group for - yes, it's _that_ ignorant - displaying on the activist's website a DEEP LINKED photo that is actually hosted at nytimes.com. My friend contacted a public interest atto...
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[10:34:28] <exec> 08└─Sprint is suing for false advertising over this. Of the 4 major carriers this is the funniest option. They did try harder than AT&T though. Wimax definitely wasn't 4g but at least it was the fastest thing around and unique to Sprint at the time.
[10:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:55] <exec> 08└─Alternative translation: I'm making a joke, but didn't think of Poe's law.
[10:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:09] <exec> 08└─del C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader\acroread.exe After all, no self respecting linux/unix person still uses Adobe Products. While the original post would likely work on Mac, many of those users are even less likely to know even how to even get a command prompt compared the windows crowd.
[10:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:11] <exec> 08└─Isn't rm -rf more idiomatic? For a second I thought you were deleting France.
[10:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:13] <exec> 08└─Adobe sucks donkey balls. Adobe is worse than Flash, especially Adobe Flash Player. Adobe once raped my dog.
[10:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 3165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:08] <exec> 08└─I'll begin with the most important. I hacked your device and then got access to all your accounts... Including xx@xxx.net. It is easy to check - I wrote you this email from your account. Moreover, I know your intim secret, and I have proof of this. You do not know me personally, and no one paid me t...
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[10:36:09] <exec> 08└─How would snapshots have survived a disk formatting? Off-site replication would have helped, however; given that the server in Europe was not affected, mirroring the data there should have been sufficient.
[10:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:46] <exec> 08└─there were good scientific reasons to doubt the heliocentric theory in Galileo's time
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[11:34:59] <exec> 08└─A better sequel was Donald Kingsbury's "Psychohistorical Crisis", which had the Foundation series' serial numbers filed off, so to speak. Hari Seldon was, for example, never mentioned by name.
[11:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:01] <exec> 08└─The way Heinlein has computers become alive is as reasonable as handwavy "Hyperspace" drives.
[11:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:03] <exec> 08└─Because a fair portion of it is in Aussie.
[11:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:05] <exec> 08└─The human genetic code will fit on a CD. Somewhere in there is the instructions to build an AI. It may require later environmental information inputs and a lot of intellectual interaction, but the basic construction instructions are in there. Less than 700MB.
[11:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Extinction of Insects Underway - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:31] <exec> 08└─Do you actually think that meatbags are chaotically bringing extinction to themselves? IMHO, instead, the pit of hell has these circles, starting from above: thirst for money -> for wealth -> for power -> for control (hello there satan). The circle of those that already obtained money, wealth and po...
[11:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:00] <exec> 08└─I've also heard from older men that hair loss can be exacerbated by frequent washing. Some people I've known have switched from daily to weekly hair washing and actually reversed the beginnings of a receding hair line.
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[12:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosemi Launches USB 3.1 Gen 2 Hybrid Active Optical Cable: Up to 50 Meters of USB - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:50] <exec> 08└─and let slip the data on glass...
[12:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosemi Launches USB 3.1 Gen 2 Hybrid Active Optical Cable: Up to 50 Meters of USB - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:51] <exec> 08└─Until you remember that it's 50 meters of fiber usb cord. That shit will stop working as soon as the first fool not paying attention trips over it and puts a kink in the fiber. Might be nice for some cheap and fast Ethernet-over-USB though?
[12:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosemi Launches USB 3.1 Gen 2 Hybrid Active Optical Cable: Up to 50 Meters of USB - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:53] <exec> 08└─50.0 m/(299792458 m/s) = 167 nanoseconds. Probably a bit more than that but that's sort of the lower limit.
[12:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning Comes to Biochemistry - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:07] <exec> 08└─All these algorithms are brute force - with constraints from existing protein structures (xray, nmr, etc). "Deepmind" is a marketing division of Google to buy their stuff - impressive they pointed it at the problem - not sure how much it helps. "deepmind" is *really* useful if you have a mountain of...
[12:36:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:08] <exec> 08└─It would be funny if someone came forward claiming to have sent multiple ransom notes/warnings, and all of those emails were binned by VFEmail's spam filter.
[12:36:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:19] <exec> 08└─"There are those who think they backup, and then there are those who actually test their backups" - unknown
[12:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:25] <exec> 08└─I hate when people use labels like that. It's an insult to twats and fucking.
[12:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 1444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:45] <exec> 08└─On that topic, if you haven't read or watched videos from Alfie Kohn about the way education should work, it's worthwhile. He didn't pioneer any of the ideas he presents, he's just collecting and explaining other people's work. One of the examples he gives is having a third grade class design a zoo...
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[13:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Xiaomi E-Scooter Remotely Hackable - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:49] <exec> 08└─What I want is the for the hackers to spoof a scooter, such that you can exploit some sloppy decoding in the crappily-written phone app, and pwn the scooter-owners phone. Spoofed master taking over slave units is old hat, I want spoofed slaves taking over the master.
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[13:33:59] <exec> 08└─At a refractive index of ~1.5 it would be about 2e8 m/s (or about 250 ns for 50m). But you need to look at round-trip too. For optimal transfers, you will need some good windowed protocols.
[13:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosemi Launches USB 3.1 Gen 2 Hybrid Active Optical Cable: Up to 50 Meters of USB - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:01] <exec> 08└─you got mail. it's stored on a floating atoll ...
[13:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Expanding its Chip Design Efforts, Hiring Engineers from Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:36] <exec> 08└─because the more chip designs there are, the more programmer jobs there are. why would we focus on solving problems, when we can instead spend society's time and energy on solving the same problem in several different ways? we have all the time in the world, right?
[13:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Expanding its Chip Design Efforts, Hiring Engineers from Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:37] <exec> 08└─you must be one of those lone survivors from that alien (mono-culture-chip-powered) mothership we saw Xplode in the original "independence day" ...
[13:35:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 307 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:02] <exec> 08└─Agree about Stu, he did just seem to jump right in, but on the other hand he may have really believed that Manny saved his life at the trial. Also, the idea that low gravity can extend life expectancy significantly doesn't seem to fit with what we've learned about living outside a planetary magnetic...
[13:35:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03choose another one [515] 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 366 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:10] <exec> 08└─> Ah, Foundation, the mind screw that never ends. It does end, it just ends in a very messy attempt to tie most of his earlier his books in together - something which was unnecessary, inevitably unsatisfactory and (for me) degrades the earlier works. I wish Asimov had never written it. But we're tal...
[13:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:20] <exec> 08└─You'd need a repair technology that would quickly fix leaks and recapture volatiles that had escaped. You *might* be able to justify that with nano-tech, but I'm not sure...and in any case he didn't.)
[13:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:22] <exec> 08└─Well, it's not exactly a thin book. As time went by I spent less time reading, more time online, gaming, etc. So, yeah, I'd only read the story about the twins, or a chapter or so. It's called Life. Be in it.
[13:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:56] <exec> 08└─the truth is what the majority believes and thus people were tied to stakes and lit on fire...
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[14:33:59] <exec> 08└─Might be nice for some cheap and fast Ethernet-over-USB though? It's not nice and won't be cheap. Run some cat5 for 50m, it'll cost you about $10. If you want 10G, run a 50m fibre, it'll still be cheaper than this.
[14:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Dollar’s Global Roles: Where Do Things Stand? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:08] <exec> 08└─Euro, Yuan, Bitcoin? What about silver or gold?
[14:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The U.S. Dollar’s Global Roles: Where Do Things Stand? - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:10] <exec> 08└─I ordered some PCBs from manufacturing houses in Shenzhen, from Euroland. They all seem to prefer US Dollars by PayPal (but accepted my classic wire transfer). Strange enough. Thinking about it, the Chinese could easily set up a payment factoring shop in Europe that does a direct-to-yuan conversion...
[14:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning Comes to Biochemistry - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:19] <exec> 08└─If you want to read about things that burn, go BOOM Definitely read the FOOF post, along with some of the comments.
[14:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Horned Tarantula is a Softie - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:30] <exec> 08└─Redback, perhaps?
[14:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:28] <exec> 08└─Heinlein repeatedly has computers "come alive" via, essentially, magic. I.e., the explanation isn't one. (I will grant that human interaction is likely to be necessary if you want the computer to act like a human, however.) You don't turn a massive computer, even one equipped with Siri/Echo/etc. sty...
[14:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:29] <exec> 08└─> Ah, Foundation, the mind screw that never ends.
[14:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:45] <exec> 08└─I doubt insurance fraud. It doesn't sound like the point of the project was ever to make money.
[14:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:07] <exec> 08└─Wait . . . isn't this slashdot? What are you saying?
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[15:33:58] <exec> 08└─'full control of the scooter' I for one, welcome our new AI scooter overlords. May they clog the traffic of others too lazy to pedal.
[15:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosemi Launches USB 3.1 Gen 2 Hybrid Active Optical Cable: Up to 50 Meters of USB - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:12] <exec> 08└─i can't believe that a serial connection is running over fiber. we've come a long way since rs-232 connectors were the common denominator across consumer platforms.
[15:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosemi Launches USB 3.1 Gen 2 Hybrid Active Optical Cable: Up to 50 Meters of USB - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:13] <exec> 08└─Cough, TOSLINK [wikipedia.org] 1983, cough, cough.
[15:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Dollar’s Global Roles: Where Do Things Stand? - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:23] <exec> 08└─China knows very well that it must make trade with the west easy and painless. One such way to do that would be to drop a dump-truck load of money onto the driveways of a few choice PayPal execs. Another would be to... uh... "entertain" them.
[15:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Machine Learning Comes to Biochemistry - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:33] <exec> 08└─It's amazing how easy it is to kill a living creature with some molecules.
[15:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Horned Tarantula is a Softie - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:46] <exec> 08└─How long until they make a sex doll out of this concept?
[15:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Expanding its Chip Design Efforts, Hiring Engineers from Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:00] <exec> 08└─Yep, fragmentation IS good. Just ask anyone using this type of grenade. But seriously. I had long dreamed of a day when we wouldn't be locked into a single chip architecture. I remember decades ago in computer science where computer architecture was an actual subject that was taught as a requirement...
[15:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T is Putting its Fake 5G Logo on iPhones Too - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:13] <exec> 08└─please send this to weird al yankovich. he'll do it justice. just in case you didn't know, here's amish paradise: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[15:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T is Putting its Fake 5G Logo on iPhones Too - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:14] <exec> 08└─Weird Al's response to anyone who tells him "Here's a song you should write" is "No, there's a song you should write!" As for the quality or lack thereof, I was writing it quickly, late at night, with the goal of getting a few lulz, nothing more. I seem to have succeeded at that.
[15:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T is Putting its Fake 5G Logo on iPhones Too - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:16] <exec> 08└─Arguing for one bullshit against another bullshi just leads to gorilla ship fest.
[15:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:52] <exec> 08└─FWIW, the story you are thinking of is “Gentlemen, Be Seated”, which is collected in The Green Hills of Earth.
[15:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:53] <exec> 08└─Don't know why you want to be an ass - you're not very good at it. Maybe you should set your sights lower. You might be a good callous.
[15:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:56] <exec> 08└─Thanks!
[15:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:58] <exec> 08└─It's been over a decade since I read it. (from an ancient socialist thing called "a public library") While I enjoyed it, I was very skeptical of a society that was basically anarchy. Everyone armed. Anyone could kill anyone at any time, but you could be sure revenge would ensue. It seems more like...
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[15:36:00] <exec> 08└─Repeatedly? Granted it's been a while since I've read the entire Heinlein library, but I don't remember *any* other narratives that contain a "computer" that becomes self-aware other than TMIAHM. Please do enlighten me.
[15:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:17] <exec> 08└─No need to take such drastic action. This is 43 bugs down, leaving only ten billion remaining to be fixed.
[15:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:18] <exec> 08└─It was time for Adobe to DIE DIE DIE back when the Dmitry Sklyarov [wikipedia.org] incident occurred in 2001-2002. People tend to forget. But this was so unbelievably outrageous that everyone needs to remember. Executive Summary: * Adobe sells its eBook system * proclaims how secure it is * security...
[15:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:20] <exec> 08└─Long ago, I was a classic Mac developer and Apple fanboy. In about August 1987 I attended a MacWorld in Boston. I saw this amazing product called VideoWorks II [wikipedia.org]. With it you could create animations and color. It was amazing what could be done with it. And you have to remember this was...
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[15:37:19] <exec> 08└─Another instance of trusting someone else's machine that failed. But very sad for the owner. Could my machine have been better? Maybe not, even though that would require targeting me specifically and not my mail provider. But doing local POP instead of IMAP and backing up my data locally what would...
[15:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:21] <exec> 08└─Who needs backups? Follow the practice [techcrunch.com] of the industry leader Microsoft.
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[15:38:59] <exec> 08└─There's good reason the Church will never be allowed to live Galileo down. Many of their members are still at odds with scientists today. Then it was Galileo, now it's Darwin. I suppose they always will be getting themselves tangled up in pointless holy wars. The organization by its very nature has...
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[16:34:16] <exec> 08└─We've also taken big steps back. Twisted pair has been used for decades. Greatly increases the range by canceling out the interference that adjacent wires can produce in one another. It's why Ethernet can handle 100m, while USB can't swing more than a piddly 5m, if USB 2. (USB 3 is limited to just 3...
[16:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Dollar’s Global Roles: Where Do Things Stand? - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:27] <exec> 08└─How important is it to have the lead currency, when by now the US controls access to the huge US market, physical access to the western hemisphere, and has full control authority over SWIFT, which banks use to transfer funds?
[16:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Adobe Fixes 43 Critical Acrobat and Reader Flaws - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:17] <exec> 08└─I hate when Adobe Flash player tries to sneak Mcafee antivirus on your computer by default. I guess their thinking is that they can use the antivirus to offset the fact that their software is such a vulnerability? But the thing is Mcafee itself is more of a vulnerability and system hog than it is a...
[16:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 5582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:19] <exec> 08└─It sort of looks to me like he'd been paid financially, or with continued freedom, to hand over everything to some authority and paste selected verse from a provided script. I was thinking that if he accepted the carrot, he knew he'd be labeled a fool or similar from the various social media cloud i...
[16:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:21] <exec> 08└─I am pretty sure my hosting provider keeps backups of my VM in case I should remotely brick it. Has his hoster been asked about their backup measures? They may not want to answer if the government was involved, but it would be good journalism to ask.
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[17:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Björn Brembs on Scholarly Publishing: New Should Not Trump True - 1675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:50] <exec> 08└─The day after the announcement, the LA Times ran a front-page story that he'd won the Prize for explaining how the sun shines. "Wasn't that Einstein?" This was an example of a very poor explanation being interpreted by a very non-scientific reporter. I expect that that poor explanation was Caltech's...
[17:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Björn Brembs on Scholarly Publishing: New Should Not Trump True - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:52] <exec> 08└─Those "prestigious" rags that are publishing nonsense papers about pseudoscience won't stay "prestigious" for long, if they don't clean up their acts. How long can they stay in business, when half or more of their research papers can be picked apart by high school seniors and college freshmen?
[17:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Greenland May Have Another Massive Crater Hiding Under its Ice - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:00] <exec> 08└─fucking reinventing unix m$ style!
[17:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Xiaomi E-Scooter Remotely Hackable - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:10] <exec> 08└─I see those scooters being ditched all over the place. I welcome anyone to hack those pieces of shit and make them their own, instead of them being impounded by police (which is cheaper to recover than hiring people to collect them). There's cheap kits on ebay to do that.
[17:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosemi Launches USB 3.1 Gen 2 Hybrid Active Optical Cable: Up to 50 Meters of USB - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:25] <exec> 08└─When I worked making optical combiners/splitters (you can't just screw two or three cables together under a shared screw terminal) as a demo I saw fiber tied in a tight knot and still perform fine. And this was single mode, very small core fiber.
[17:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The U.S. Dollar’s Global Roles: Where Do Things Stand? - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:38] <exec> 08└─Good question. If the dollar loses its primacy, alternatives to SWIFT become a lot more attractive, so right there is one thing. If the dollar loses its primacy, the US debt becomes a lot trickier to handle, thus affecting the US military budget and dominance. That's a pretty big deal. If the dollar...
[17:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The U.S. Dollar’s Global Roles: Where Do Things Stand? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:39] <exec> 08└─Gold is a terrible currency. https://www.theatlantic.com [theatlantic.com] etc
[17:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Dollar’s Global Roles: Where Do Things Stand? - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:41] <exec> 08└─EUR: was a serious contender until the European debt crisis (Greece) GBP: Brexit CNY: China's controls over the currency is not conducive to a reserve currency. This could change in the future. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] JPY: Deflation worri...
[17:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Dollar’s Global Roles: Where Do Things Stand? - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:44] <exec> 08└─Once they set it up, you will keep some of the Chinese currency. (This is, BTW, on a small scale, a way to being a reserve currency). However, this road has huge economic consequences. For example, China would have to print more money than their citizens need so you can keep some. This means budget...
[17:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Expanding its Chip Design Efforts, Hiring Engineers from Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:20] <exec> 08└─An Indian Fab has been talked about for years but nothing commercially competitive has materialized. There were plans for a plant in Prantij, but I haven't heard anything beyond initial announcements years ago. There is a single fab in Chandigarh dedicated to ISRO, although I'm unsure if they have a...
[17:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Expanding its Chip Design Efforts, Hiring Engineers from Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:21] <exec> 08└─"on a device that is different from phones, laptops and tablets." Rpi is a lobotomized phone.
[17:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:17] <exec> 08└─So I'd say yes, there is at least some reason to say other RAH novels had similar concepts. Many people seem to either only like the early period or late period RAH. If you didn't care for his later works (approximately starting with I Will Fear No Evil), then I wouldn't expect you'd recall any of t...
[17:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:19] <exec> 08└─I was a bit skeptical about the spontaneous unexpected emergence of the AI. It would be as if Google just suddenly "woke up". A purpose built machine suddenly becoming unintentionally sentient about everything, not just it's particular domain specialization.
[17:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:21] <exec> 08└─Yes, but that makes it "Science Fantasy" rather than "Science Fiction". I'll agree that most stuff labeled "science fiction" that shouldn't just be labeled "space opera" is science fantasy, but there are degrees and degrees. Campbell never lived up to his own definition/requirement that a science fi...
[17:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:23] <exec> 08└─No. That may be a necessary ingredient, but there are known factors necessary that aren't extant in a system used for running an office or administration. E.g. it's got to be self-willed enough to make decisions that those in charge don't like. (Just because the original designers like the result do...
[17:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:09] <exec> 08└─Now, there is no need to start cussing.
[17:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:10] <exec> 08└─He suicided. He told people to kill him as soon as they met him.
[17:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quitting Facebook Might Make you Happier, but Dumber: Study - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:13] <exec> 08└─post-poning doing some code because I got past the fun part of it.
[17:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 1496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:37] <exec> 08└─Re: B12. Yes, it's important. Yes, you can get it from non-animal sources, including bacterial cultures and some fungi. I didn't raise the point because it's a relatively minor issue in terms of carbon footprints, which is where this started. For the brits and colonials in the audience, Marmite has...
[17:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Change the Way You Wash your Hair to Help Save the Environment - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:38] <exec> 08└─... and the point to this stream-of-consciousness ramble was what exactly? Something about flushing toilets leading to nuclear armageddon and lots of scared russians, I think.
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[18:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Björn Brembs on Scholarly Publishing: New Should Not Trump True - 1573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:58] <exec> 08└─Trump is not True, therefore that which is New may be Correct. Joke aside, I wasn't aware that publication in a peer reviewed journal ever constituted proof of anything in regards to reliability. Instead publication is that simply somebody-or-somebodies making a statement. Publication is and always...
[18:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Björn Brembs on Scholarly Publishing: New Should Not Trump True - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:00] <exec> 08└─Reproducing experiments should be a standard part of the undergraduate curriculum.
[18:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Greenland May Have Another Massive Crater Hiding Under its Ice - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:08] <exec> 08└─Are we sure it's not the Aliens and there landing zones? Aliens vs Predator happened around there somewhere didn't it ...
[18:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi E-Scooter Remotely Hackable - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:19] <exec> 08└─If everybody who hates the scooters walks around with an app that disables them within bluetooth radius, it won't take long for them to vanish from the streets.
[18:34:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06Cosemi Launches USB 3.1 Gen 2 Hybrid Active Optical Cable: Up to 50 Meters of USB - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:26] <exec> 08└─and let slip the data on glass...
[18:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosemi Launches USB 3.1 Gen 2 Hybrid Active Optical Cable: Up to 50 Meters of USB - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:37] <exec> 08└─USB specifications has mandatory differential twisted pair. Won't find many cables to use neither a twisted pair nor the mandatory wire gauge though. Then actual USB length problem most people have is due to the voltage drop.
[18:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosemi Launches USB 3.1 Gen 2 Hybrid Active Optical Cable: Up to 50 Meters of USB - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:40] <exec> 08└─Under 5cm bend diameter (1 inch bend radius for the challenged), off-the-shelf fiber will not like you and losses will happen exponentially as the radius shrinks (light leaks, plus core damage). Sure, you can make a knot, but that fiber won't ever work the same. Reliability depends on your optical b...
[18:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosemi Launches USB 3.1 Gen 2 Hybrid Active Optical Cable: Up to 50 Meters of USB - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:42] <exec> 08└─Ah, my mistake. USB does indeed have twisted pair. It was the RS-232 serial port standard, with those ribbon cables, that was too cheap to use twisted pair.
[18:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The U.S. Dollar’s Global Roles: Where Do Things Stand? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:57] <exec> 08└─It's a terrible currency unless you're the person who controls the gold mines.
[18:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T is Putting its Fake 5G Logo on iPhones Too - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:49] <exec> 08└─They are secretly importing Huawei equipment while unleashing the US government on them to prevent their competitors to do so. The secret ingredient is indeed panda-processed bamboo.
[18:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:35] <exec> 08└─No. No. No. It was NEVER a reasonable assumption. It was merely an assumption necessary for the story to work, which is a very different thing. If you want a more reasonable scenario that was fictional, look at "A Logic Named Joe". It was written by Murray Leinster in 1946. It still wouldn't work, b...
[18:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:36] <exec> 08└─Actually, for Google to suddenly "wake up" would be much more reasonable. A LOT of intelligence is basically pattern matching. But for Google to wake up and be either decently human or a decent human would be astounding. Basic goals and motivations are built-in, complex, immutable, and invisible. No...
[18:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:38] <exec> 08└─I don't think you realize the degree of the problem. Even when everything is carefully maintained with current technology you get leaks to a degree that is nearly intolerable. You're going to need something a lot better than just bubbles and self-sealing tires. You're, at minimum, going to need an e...
[18:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:40] <exec> 08└─Winter stark tree-limbs Denuded, awaiting death Spring brings too many leaves
[18:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:43] <exec> 08└─Yes. And I don't mean to be too critical. After all, I did enjoy reading it.
[18:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06James Clerk Maxwell Telescope Discovers Flare 10 Billion Times More Powerful than Those on the Sun - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:30] <exec> 08└─Apparently, just before chocolate [leonidas-chocolate.com]
[18:37:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe someone using his services needed to destroy some information and figured wholesale destruction was the best option?
[18:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:10] <exec> 08└─Maybe it was just a replication. Ask your mom.
[18:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Wipe US Servers of Email Provider VFEmail - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:12] <exec> 08└─Alternative explanation : He was tired of it, couldn't hand it to anyone, and just nuked it all, blaming "hackers" and a lack of offline backups, to avoid having people pestering him endlessly for continued access to their data. Gets to be a victim and close shop after 20 years of a thankless job. A...
[18:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:54] <exec> 08└─Bot's neural net is incapable of processing double negatives or contractions.
[18:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:55] <exec> 08└─It is astronomy not cosmology. You need a better wizard, can't even load a proper dictionary.
[18:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:57] <exec> 08└─He is a self-described catfisher, and odd as it may seem he does seem to treat his libergation pretty well. Douche he may be, but a principled douche nonetheless.
[18:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Truth About Galileo and His Conflict With the Catholic Church - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:00] <exec> 08└─unless Einstein was wrong that C is not an actual constant . . . are you seriously suggesting that?
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[19:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Björn Brembs on Scholarly Publishing: New Should Not Trump True - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:05] <exec> 08└─And for all of us that have already graduated, let's replicate this experiment: Nominate Hillary again for president in 2020, and observe that she loses again to Trump.
[19:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Björn Brembs on Scholarly Publishing: New Should Not Trump True - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:06] <exec> 08└─I wasn't aware that publication in a peer reviewed journal ever constituted proof of anything in regards to reliability.
[19:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Björn Brembs on Scholarly Publishing: New Should Not Trump True - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:08] <exec> 08└─Runaway the Peerless! Smarter than your average PhD! Knows that all those eggheads are full of it, and Trump is president! Runaway!
[19:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Björn Brembs on Scholarly Publishing: New Should Not Trump True - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:10] <exec> 08└─That's no experiment! It is madness! But I guess that is what passes for science in Republican circles these days. Madness.
[19:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Greenland May Have Another Massive Crater Hiding Under its Ice - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:20] <exec> 08└─Wrong pole, I think.
[19:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Greenland May Have Another Massive Crater Hiding Under its Ice - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:22] <exec> 08└─These are just bubbles that formed under the ice and pushed down the earth. Crack open a hard boiled egg and there is always a crater-like region.
[19:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Xiaomi E-Scooter Remotely Hackable - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:33] <exec> 08└─Of course we still have laws that protect consumers if a vehicle is a hazard to the user or others, forcing the importer to recall or fix the vehicle, right???
[19:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosemi Launches USB 3.1 Gen 2 Hybrid Active Optical Cable: Up to 50 Meters of USB - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:53] <exec> 08└─RS-422 and RS-485 were the balanced cable standards that made use of twisted pair. For low speed short range signalling between a terminal/computer and a modem, unbalanced signalling was fine and simplified the cabling that already needed to carry quite a few other ancillary signals like RTS/CTS/DTR...
[19:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosemi Launches USB 3.1 Gen 2 Hybrid Active Optical Cable: Up to 50 Meters of USB - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:55] <exec> 08└─Won't be cheaper when you have to buy new NICs to use it. 10Gb Ethernet is crazy expensive, and fiber NICs are too.
[19:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Dollar’s Global Roles: Where Do Things Stand? - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:12] <exec> 08└─Interesting points. 1) Why build an alternative to SWIFT? It works well enough. 2) The US dollar is part of this package, the other is being an assertive leader to our satellites and making them buy our military hardware. 3) Less valuable, but at ~300m first world consumers, impossible to ignore, an...
[19:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Dollar’s Global Roles: Where Do Things Stand? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:13] <exec> 08└─https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5660750c210000c9005ac2cf.jpeg?ops=crop_0_28_630_386,scalefit_720_noupscale [huffingtonpost.com]
[19:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Dollar’s Global Roles: Where Do Things Stand? - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:15] <exec> 08└─Here is how it works: 1) The money supply is *always* increasing. They target a magic number (made up by some australian dude) of 2% per year. 2) The "new money" is given to special corporations called "Primary Dealers" [wikipedia.org]. 3) The primary dealers get to spend (eg, literally or use as co...
[19:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Expanding its Chip Design Efforts, Hiring Engineers from Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:53] <exec> 08└─Chips that send data to Google? What other reason would Google want to make chips? Every other thing they do is about surveillance. Why not this?
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[20:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:47] <exec> 08└─Hollywood, movie creators, music creators, news creators, book authors, etc, ALWAYS over-value the content. They don't realize that online digital platforms, whether news reading, apps, streaming, digitally delivered mp3s, or whatever, cost ACTUAL MONEY to build and operate. And then on top of that,...
[20:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:48] <exec> 08└─And everybody overestimates the willingness of the consumers to subscribe to 20 different $10/month services.
[20:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:50] <exec> 08└─No thanks. I'd rather have my tonsils extracted through my ears.
[20:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:53] <exec> 08└─I'm not a fan of either Apple or publishers, but it's hilarious to watch Apple make these people squirm. 50%? Apple is smoking crack again trying to take hard earned money away from people that really make it money. No different than the App stores being the programmer's version of the NBA; Only so...
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[20:34:23] <exec> 08└─Hopefully you are joking
[20:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xiaomi E-Scooter Remotely Hackable - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:35] <exec> 08└─Xiaomi recently opened one of their "Mi-Stores" in a mall near me, and it is incredibly half-arsed. There are a bunch of their products looking lovely laid out on tables, and about half of them have a price on them at any given time. They had one of their scooters last time I walked past, so I wen...
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[20:34:58] <exec> 08└─Good lord you guys are nerds! I mean that in the kindest way possible, in case you weren't sure. ;-)
[20:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosemi Launches USB 3.1 Gen 2 Hybrid Active Optical Cable: Up to 50 Meters of USB - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:59] <exec> 08└─Not really- I see plenty of used 10GB Ethernet cards on ebay for $20-40, and new starting at $50. Obviously much more than a 100 or 1GB NIC, but if you need the speeds, you're probably doing something involved and expensive anyway. 10GB switches get pricey- I see a 5-port Netgear for $390, but you m...
[20:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Horned Tarantula is a Softie - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:42] <exec> 08└─The fovea on a spider is a depression in the center of the carapace.
[20:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:04] <exec> 08└─I don't think you realize the degree of the problem. Even when everything is carefully maintained with current technology you get leaks to a degree that is nearly intolerable. You're going to need something a lot better than just bubbles and self-sealing tires. You're, at minimum, going to need an e...
[20:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:06] <exec> 08└─But for Google to wake up and be either decently human or a decent human would be astounding. Basic goals and motivations are built-in, complex, immutable, and invisible.
[20:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:08] <exec> 08└─I always took Stu (and indeed the entire book) as a semi-proxy for the American Revolutionary War, with Stu being somebody like Pierre L'Enfant [wikipedia.org], or one of the other French noblemen who threw their resources into supporting the cause of US Independence. As such, I never worried too mu...
[20:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tmib [906] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:10] <exec> 08└─I absolutely love this book! Granted it is hard to get into at first but I found that you stick with it you will start to think the way that it is written, and then it becomes almost second nature.
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[21:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:50] <exec> 08└─What I am wondering is if there will be quantity and quality in it, will there be enough and will it be cheap or will this turn into some hipster diet where they can eat their locally produced crops and things made from it. You could probably always find room and space for it in the urban environme...
[21:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:51] <exec> 08└─We'd have to have a good reason why normal farming is no good. Given that, we might switch to artificial lighting with crops stacked up high, and that can be done with moderately-priced land. Invasive bugs and fungus could go it. We might decide to seal the crops indoors for protection. If we did th...
[21:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:53] <exec> 08└─We'd have to have a good reason why normal farming is no good.
[21:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 1251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:55] <exec> 08└─Agricultural areas outside of the city are best for growing agricultural products. Hardly a surprise. Doing the same in a city is much more expensive. Some may grow a few stalks in a free space of their apartment and call it urban agriculture, but it's not sufficient even for the grower. If she want...
[21:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:58] <exec> 08└─My former fair city had a substantial urban farming and gardening program going. And while it might not have produced a ton of food in terms of sheer quantity, it did make a substantial difference in what kinds of food were available. For instance, this community garden [google.com] is right smack d...
[21:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:00] <exec> 08└─Questions: when I was young, you didn't plant food near roads or alleys, because of leaded gas. Is that lead still there? Are there other urban environmental chemicals which might be problematic, nowadays? In the smoggiest days in Beijing, would tomatoes in that air be just as fit to eat afterwards?
[21:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:10] <exec> 08└─Apple makes an iTonsillectomy device that extracts your tonsils through your doohickey.
[21:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:12] <exec> 08└─It will essentially be the publishers working for Apple's profits, and being relegated to live on the scraps. 'publishers' are the middle-men AUTHORS are the people who would be screwed twice.
[21:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:14] <exec> 08└─All Google wanted was to aggregate the stories and show summaries or intros and collect some data and ad revenues before the click-through. Once users are on the publisher's site the publisher gets all the revenue generated from that point. Many news organizations balked at this and wanted better co...
[21:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service - 1761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:16] <exec> 08└─Uh huh. So you think 50% of all of the profits is remotely fucking reasonable? There's profit, and then there's raping the content creators. Like somebody else pointed out, this is raping the rapers. With shit like this, the content creators see pennies [youtu.be]. There's no way you can convince me...
[21:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:18] <exec> 08└─Considering that a digital subscription to my local newspaper is $12 per month itself, I can't see how this would be viable. Especially with Apple taking half.
[21:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:21] <exec> 08└─I don't give much of a second thought that on my Kindle Fire tablet there's always about 1/12th screen space taken up with a blurb for whatever is hot at the Washington Post, and I'm happily invited when I click it to subscribe to the Post. I just let it sit and ignore it. I think Apple is just tryi...
[21:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Approval for 1 Million Starlink Ground Stations, Faces Pentagon Audit - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:29] <exec> 08└─Custodianship of the airwaves (and space, for that matter) is supposed to be on the grounds that it serves the public. Does putting what will eventually be 12,000 pieces of space junk and one million ground stations serve the public interest that much? I'm not saying that it doesn't, but that seems...
[21:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Björn Brembs on Scholarly Publishing: New Should Not Trump True - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:44] <exec> 08└─Thought so. After all, I wasn't the one who wrote this up in an abstract: "With the credibility of science increasingly under siege, how much longer can we afford to reward novelty at the expense of reliability? Here, I argue for replacing the legacy journals with a modern information infrastructure...
[21:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Greenland May Have Another Massive Crater Hiding Under its Ice - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:56] <exec> 08└─I can't believe how lucky they are to discovers this before they sold off all that sand to fill up the hole.
[21:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:39] <exec> 08└─Repeatedly? Granted it's been a while since I've read the entire Heinlein library, but I don't remember *any* other narratives that contain a "computer" that becomes self-aware other than TMIAHM. Please do enlighten me.
[21:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:41] <exec> 08└─The thing I never understood was that early reveal that "Manny is female!" They make a big deal of it, but then it turns out to have no bearing or influence on the story... and indeed was entirely neglected. I always took it to be an early draft idea which got missed during the later revisions and e...
[21:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:43] <exec> 08└─Manuel Garcia O'Kelly-Davis and Wyoming Knott.
[21:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:45] <exec> 08└─It's been a great many years since I read my way through most of Heinlein's works, but IIRC Gay Deceiver, the ship's computer in The Number of the Beast, might suit your request.
[21:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 1336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:48] <exec> 08└─The problem is "acts just like a bratty child" is a description of a fully human motivational system. If you want a current analog of the problem I'm talking about consider https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com] . That's...
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[22:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03doke [6955] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:55] <exec> 08└─An urban mushroom facility would get shut down over complaints about the odor. The "mushroom compost" (ground up dirt, straw, and farm animal feces) needs to be sterilized before planting, or you get random other species of fungus mixed in. The sterilization is done by heating the dirt to about 100C...
[22:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:57] <exec> 08└─In the smoggiest days in Beijing, would tomatoes in that air be just as fit to eat afterwards? They'll produce a nice smoky flavored barbecue sauce.
[22:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:59] <exec> 08└─It probably depends a lot on the specific plant. Some soak up way more heavy metals than others, and where they store them is different too. If all that lead goes into the already poisonous leaves of the tomato, does it even matter?
[22:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:01] <exec> 08└─The solution is to get rid of all the bad stuff in food and put indigestible plastic harvested from the city landscape in there instead.
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[22:34:24] <exec> 08└─SpaceX does have a de-orbit plan: https://www.engadget.com [engadget.com]
[22:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Björn Brembs on Scholarly Publishing: New Should Not Trump True - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:41] <exec> 08└─Do you ever have points that aren't blatant propaganda points? I mean it is a well known fact that 87% of Republicans are racist, so I guess who am I to talk? Even Big Bertha agrees!
[22:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Björn Brembs on Scholarly Publishing: New Should Not Trump True - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:42] <exec> 08└─Driven by hate they plow forward. Learning nothing they shackle themselves to the wall. "BUILD IT HIGHER," they cried until the whole thing came crashing down; thus solving numerous issues which historians lumped together into the simple moniker "The Problem" of the 21st.
[22:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Greenland May Have Another Massive Crater Hiding Under its Ice - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:55] <exec> 08└─Why is that?
[22:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosemi Launches USB 3.1 Gen 2 Hybrid Active Optical Cable: Up to 50 Meters of USB - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:31] <exec> 08└─I can’t believe I even remember this stuff!
[22:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosemi Launches USB 3.1 Gen 2 Hybrid Active Optical Cable: Up to 50 Meters of USB - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:32] <exec> 08└─I'm impressed.
[22:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Dollar’s Global Roles: Where Do Things Stand? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:52] <exec> 08└─Typos I just noticed: "before prices have dropped [risen]" "prices of [have] adjusted somewhat"
[22:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Dollar’s Global Roles: Where Do Things Stand? - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:54] <exec> 08└─1) If you're the USA, no reason. If you're not the USA, then the fact that the USA calls the shots is reason enough. 2) Yes, but weakening the package matters to the USA. 3) True, but from a position of decreasing relative strength. This still matters to the USA.
[22:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:46] <exec> 08└─Regarding the epoxy balloons, are you sure that was Heinlein? I remember something like that but don't remember it being Heinlein. I do remember epoxy and a plate patch being used in "Farmer in the Sky" (as well as Bill's scout uniform shirt) for emergency repair in a strike that breached Bill's com...
[22:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:48] <exec> 08└─You don't turn a massive computer, even one equipped with Siri/Echo/etc. style interfaces, into an intelligence just by interacting with it.
[22:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:50] <exec> 08└─Wye Knott?
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[23:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Try and Reach Opportunity One Last Time, Calling It Quits After That - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:52] <exec> 08└─Let it rest in peace for as many years as it will take to terraform Mars, invariably resulting in its destruction, either accidentally by drunk idiots, or on purpose by a developer trying to build a condo in a prime spot. Human nature vs human achievements...
[23:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Try and Reach Opportunity One Last Time, Calling It Quits After That - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:53] <exec> 08└─Have they tried turning it off and on again? Still it's pretty good for something to last about 180 months when the prediction was three.
[23:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06NASA to Try and Reach Opportunity One Last Time, Calling It Quits After That - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:55] <exec> 08└─Mars Rovers reminds me of the Disney cartoon movie about the garbage compacting robot. One day when we finally reached Mars, we'll dig up the machines, and build a monument for them. If we manage to stick around long enough/
[23:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA to Try and Reach Opportunity One Last Time, Calling It Quits After That - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:58] <exec> 08└─I should have wrote, the Disney-Pixar production of Wall-e. I am a nerd with, perhaps, unhealthy attachment to "things" (craft/built things) in comparison to people/family, but even I was surprised how the animation could draw so much empathy for a rusty metallic "machine" character.
[23:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:14] <exec> 08└─There is no added lead in gas since 1995.
[23:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security in Us Cities - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:15] <exec> 08└─Don't you mean "Improve Food Security in Our Cities"
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[23:34:29] <exec> 08└─All Google wanted was to aggregate the stories and show summaries or intros and collect some data and ad revenues before the click-through. Once users are on the publisher's site the publisher gets all the revenue generated from that point. Many news organizations balked at this and wanted better co...
[23:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Create "Netflix for News" Subscription Service - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:34] <exec> 08└─If the Rapers start treating "big tech" more reasonably, and stop acting like it is everyone else's job to police the internet for their copyright infringement, maybe I would have more sympathy for them. They should stop acting like "big tech" is the enemy, stop acting like the internet should be tu...
[23:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Approval for 1 Million Starlink Ground Stations, Faces Pentagon Audit - 1306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:44] <exec> 08└─The FCCs area of concern is about efficient* spectrum use. (and the ability of ISPs and cable tv providers to screw everyone) Somebody else cares about space junk. I doubt any current satellites get launched without having a plan in place how they will be de-orbited when their operational life is up...
[23:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Approval for 1 Million Starlink Ground Stations, Faces Pentagon Audit - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:46] <exec> 08└─Orbit. The existing sat-phone satellites are at a much higher altitude, which increases the latency of communication. The whole point of Starlink is that the satellites will be low enough that the latency is comparable to cable, which makes them usable for a lot of home internet uses (particularly g...
[23:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Seeks Approval for 1 Million Starlink Ground Stations, Faces Pentagon Audit - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:48] <exec> 08└─Actually, as far as I can tell nobody cares about space junk, or nobody with the balls to do anything about it, which is the problem. 170 million pieces of junk under 1 cm, and 670,000 between 1 and 10 cm, only 12,000 more doesn't seem like much. But then with only around 29,000 larger objects and 1...
[23:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Björn Brembs on Scholarly Publishing: New Should Not Trump True - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:06] <exec> 08└─This was an example of a very poor explanation being interpreted by a very non-scientific reporter.
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[23:36:07] <exec> 08└─Good question. If the dollar loses its primacy, alternatives to SWIFT become a lot more attractive, so right there is one thing. If the dollar loses its primacy, the US debt becomes a lot trickier to handle, thus affecting the US military budget and dominance. That's a pretty big deal. If the dollar...
[23:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Dollar’s Global Roles: Where Do Things Stand? - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:17] <exec> 08└─Why do countries need to deal with US dollars at all? The main reason is that in the 1970s, Saudi Arabia (through some clever finagling by american agents [bloomberg.com]) was tricked into only selling their oil for USD, and it wasn't long before all OPEC sales were in USD. Venezuela started to trad...
[23:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Expanding its Chip Design Efforts, Hiring Engineers from Intel, Nvidia, and Qualcomm - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe Google wants to hire Indian engineers in India instead of Silicon Valley, so Sergei won't lose another pair of loafers to street shit.
[23:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T is Putting its Fake 5G Logo on iPhones Too - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:14] <exec> 08└─They did this for 4G too. I wonder why 3GGP didn't trademark 5G, or trademark an official 5G logo.
[23:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 1773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:17] <exec> 08└─The explanation is pretty much irrelevant, even if there was a solid one. Manny never had one, he only speculated that there was a critical number of logic connections to be made and then consciousness can form while remaining very careful to not insist that was the way it must have happened. Earth...
[23:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 1380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:19] <exec> 08└─Very interesting. I generally take a dim view of fantasy. Especially when it is perceived as science fiction. Now there is the stuff where "science fiction", or really technology, is just a back drop. Like Star Wars. It's not really meant to be taken seriously. The heroes and villians could be a Wes...
[23:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:21] <exec> 08└─I was affected by the loss of Mike as well. It wasn't just that Mike had become people and now was gone, but rather that Manny missed his friend. Heinlein managed to communicate that it hurt Manny that Mike wasn't there anymore, and while Manny wasn't lonely he certainly missed his friend.
[23:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:23] <exec> 08└─The writer wants to be an ass because the writer is a pimple who gets enjoyment out of trolling you, and you just fed him or her. That's about it.
[23:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:25] <exec> 08└─Oh there were bits of Russian and Chinese in there too, but Australian English is the source of a lot of it. The very first chapter is titled "The Dinkum Thinkum" IIRC - that's pure Aussie slang. Cobber, sheila, chop, the dialogue is full of Aussie slang.
[23:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 1520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:27] <exec> 08└─I do not accept your definitions of fantasy vs. science fiction. Life is like that sometimes. As such, I agree that I disagree with you. You can do the same if you like. I am a little curious as to what you thought of the story. so far, you've posted on this topic seven times without discussing the...
[23:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:30] <exec> 08└─And by the way, I read A Logic Named Joe many years ago (and more recently two or three years ago) and as I recall, it wasn't all that different from Heinlein's Mycroft. IIRC, in both scenarios, they kept piling on more and more hardware, applications, data processing and external input/stimuli. In...
[23:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club - Discuss: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Start Reading: Fiasco - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:32] <exec> 08└─Actually, an AC helpfully provided the name of the story [soylentnews.org]. It is by Heinlein (as I remembered) and is entitled Gentlemen, Be Seated [wikipedia.org]. That said, the idea of using epoxy-filled balloons wasn't originated by Heinlein and I'm sure it's been used many times by a variety o...
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