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[00:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:04] <exec> 08└─IoT more like internet of the forgotten. Hold onto your hats kiddos its going to get much worse. But at least my remote control knows my location!
[00:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keeping Heavy Metals Out Of Beer And Wine - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it sure wouldn't be the same. Less heavy metal from the filters and more nutrients from the yeast being left in. I've had more than my share of unfiltered beer and the visual impression of clarity is the only arguable benefit of filtering.
[00:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sophisticated New AI Performs Better When It Can Sleep And Dream - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:53] <exec> 08└─If I wanted my sex robots to sleep, I would have gotten married instead.
[00:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sophisticated New AI Performs Better When It Can Sleep And Dream - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:55] <exec> 08└─And just like artificial intelligence is artificial, so their analogue of sleep is an analogue of it. Maybe it should be "artificial sleep" to not confuse it with actual sleep.
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[00:34:57] <exec> 08└─Sex robot rapes master for 256 hours straight.
[00:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sophisticated New AI Performs Better When It Can Sleep And Dream - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:59] <exec> 08└─RNNs of all stripes are finicky and once you get to a certain point you really cannot train them anymore or they get worse, not better. This is called overfitting. They get perfect with the training data and then begin to suck terribly at the real world. I didn't see anything at all to indicate how...
[00:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Physics of Large-Scale Crowd Control - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:13] <exec> 08└─Crores and crores of people taking a dip in the river Ganga on some days, making the event a hot spot for possible mishaps that could put thousands at risk.
[00:35:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02 - 06"My Left Shoe Won't Even Reboot": Faulty App "Bricks" Nike Smart Sneakers - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:36] <exec> 08└─Not all that long ago, this story would only have been a dystopian fantasy joke. Now it is real and we all are the joke.
[00:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Legislator Introduces Bills to Give His State its Own Science - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:17] <exec> 08└─Q. If a ship floating in the ocean is sunk, does the average height of the ocean go up, down, or say the same? A. It goes down. So the logical conclusion is that if we sink enough ships we should be able to empty the ocean. The kind of guy we’re dealing with here is the kind of guy that sees that...
[00:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Legislator Introduces Bills to Give His State its Own Science - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:18] <exec> 08└─Oops hit submit instead of preview. And a corollary to the above. If you throw a rock off a ship into the ocean, the height of the ocean also goes down. So for every rock that falls in off the land, we can drop one off the side of a ship to compensate. Much less drastic than sinking ships. Maybe we...
[00:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Montana Legislator Introduces Bills to Give His State its Own Science - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:21] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that Montana, like other states, caved in to the Reagan administration extortion when the passed the Double Nickel speed limit in the first place, under threat of losing all Federal highway funds.
[00:37:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06China Social Credit System Restricts 17.46 Million People from Traveling by Air or Train - 484 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:56] <exec> 08└─Well, there's another way to look at this, the US has a prison population of 2.2 million, or 1/159 - so, this "social discredit" system in China affects about 1/79 Chinese, or roughly twice as many per-capita, but... much more efficiently than housing, feeding and guarding them. These discredited Ch...
[00:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Social Credit System Restricts 17.46 Million People from Traveling by Air or Train - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:17] <exec> 08└─Those commies are so much like US...
[00:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Social Credit System Restricts 17.46 Million People from Traveling by Air or Train - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:18] <exec> 08└─I know this decade has looked a lot like the 30s, but I didn't realize we had gotten to the point of normalizing a situation by removing millions of people yet.
[00:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Social Credit System Restricts 17.46 Million People from Traveling by Air or Train - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:20] <exec> 08└─Talking about Winnie the Pooh.
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[01:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:00] <exec> 08└─Even at its shittiest, IoT wasn't supposed to mean Imminently Out-of-control Tankers ...
[01:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:02] <exec> 08└─at it's loading/unloading dock. Just think of how that would gum up the works, and what it would cost not only in cleanup, but lost opportunity, what with all the other container ships floating in line that assumed that ship would be out of the way in 24 hours. I remember way back in the 80s when co...
[01:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:04] <exec> 08└─That's terrist talk. 20 years in the slammer.
[01:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:06] <exec> 08└─Really, this is considerably less dramatic than the scenarios thought up by the readers of Bruce Schneier's blog [schneier.com] a few years ago. I mean, container ships are one thing, but these folks envisioned activities like crashing satellites into major cities, rendering every car in America ino...
[01:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:08] <exec> 08└─Randomize the weight of the freight in the container yard. Let the ships get loaded not-heaviest-first, and there will be too much at the top, causing them to tip over while in port. These systems are connected by a wire, so they're obviously vulnerable! Woo! sigh.
[01:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Terahertz Wireless Makes Big Strides In Paving The Way To Technological Singularity - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:42] <exec> 08└─This must be the 6G technology that Trump is talking about.
[01:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sophisticated New AI Performs Better When It Can Sleep And Dream - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:03] <exec> 08└─You should add a third one
[01:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sophisticated New AI Performs Better When It Can Sleep And Dream - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:04] <exec> 08└─255 hours. Remember, everything starts at zero.
[01:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sophisticated New AI Performs Better When It Can Sleep And Dream - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:06] <exec> 08└─Infinite overflow.
[01:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"My Left Shoe Won't Even Reboot": Faulty App "Bricks" Nike Smart Sneakers - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:33] <exec> 08└─Bricked Shoe Of Dumb.
[01:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"My Left Shoe Won't Even Reboot": Faulty App "Bricks" Nike Smart Sneakers - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:34] <exec> 08└─Only for those that hate america.
[01:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"My Left Shoe Won't Even Reboot": Faulty App "Bricks" Nike Smart Sneakers - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:36] <exec> 08└─Dare I ask why your computers are so dirty? :P And if they are so dirty, why don't you CLEAN them? Ew. Don't you WANT to see when something needs cleaning? It's odd that so many people own white cars and don't seem to have a problem with those even when leaving them sitting outside. Bright shiny met...
[01:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana Legislator Introduces Bills to Give His State its Own Science - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:31] <exec> 08└─This is incorrect. It was a "different" Republican. States Rights!
[01:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana Legislator Introduces Bills to Give His State its Own Science - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:33] <exec> 08└─Deseret News, eh? Well the Heavenly Father knows we could not sell Utah, so Montana makes sense. Maybe two-for-one sale, throw in Wyoming!
[01:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grand Canyon Tourists Exposed for Years to Uranium Ore Radiation in Museum Building - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:29] <exec> 08└─... *Cancels trip to Grand Canyon, and super-suit purchase order*
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[02:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:09] <exec> 08└─...penetrate and ravage delicate public and privately owned computer systems, infecting them with viruses, and stealing materials for their own ends. These people, they are terrorists.
[02:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:10] <exec> 08└─The simple fact that On-Star hasn't been hacked to suddenly disable every GM car in America is still amazing to me. Maybe we just don't have that many enemies ... let's make a few more.
[02:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:13] <exec> 08└─Niggers did this. By God, They will pay!
[02:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:15] <exec> 08└─That's just the Evil Afghan Iraqi Syrian Venezuelan Terrorists lulling you into a false sense of security by presenting absolutely no evidence of their existence for many years. And of course, if they don't attack after we pour lots of money into security equipment and private personnel that just ha...
[02:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keeping Heavy Metals Out Of Beer And Wine - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:26] <exec> 08└─I dunno... she gooks pretty lood to me. *Hic*
[02:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Molecules Reverse Memory Loss Linked to Depression, Aging - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:36] <exec> 08└─Or could be this is not so new? https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[02:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sophisticated New AI Performs Better When It Can Sleep And Dream - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:14] <exec> 08└─Not to mention what they are describing used to be called pruning. But that would not get the news headline I guess... Too boring.
[02:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Social Credit System Restricts 17.46 Million People from Traveling by Air or Train - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:39] <exec> 08└─Expats are very familiar with this, it was the slogan for the district most foreigners lived in: “Civilized Chaoyang, Magnificent With Me”, with the cutest little mascot to go with it: https://yourenotfromaroundhere.com [yourenotfromaroundhere...
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[03:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neptune Gets a New Moon, Thanks Hubble - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:00] <exec> 08└─*muses* Excluding the Sun and gas giants where you really can't tell, wasn't EVERYTHING in the solar system largely shaped by numerous impacts. I wonder why it's special that Neptune's system got a pasting?
[03:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:17] <exec> 08└─Couldn't've been. Was incels.
[03:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:19] <exec> 08└─Sexn't
[03:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keeping Heavy Metals Out Of Beer And Wine - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:31] <exec> 08└─Heavy metal is an integral part of beer [youtube.com]!. Beer, beer I want beer from beer I get really drunk Beer, beer I need more beer so much I pass out Beer, beer I want beer from beer I get really drunk Beer, beer I need more beer so much I pass out
[03:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Terahertz Wireless Makes Big Strides In Paving The Way To Technological Singularity - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:58] <exec> 08└─It probably won't be useful as a WiFi replacement, but maybe useful for LOS links at locations where running fiber is difficult or too costly?
[03:35:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Sophisticated New AI Performs Better When It Can Sleep And Dream - 180 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:05] <exec> 08└─Bender: [in his sleep] Kill all humans, kill all humans, must kill all humans... Fry: Bender, wake up! Bender: Wh-uh? I was having the most wonderful dream. I think you were in it.
[03:36:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03urza9814 [3954] 02 - 06"My Left Shoe Won't Even Reboot": Faulty App "Bricks" Nike Smart Sneakers - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:38] <exec> 08└─If you want to reboot them, you clearly need to buy the smart boots, not the smart sneakers. How can you expect to REboot them when they were never boots to begin with??
[03:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"My Left Shoe Won't Even Reboot": Faulty App "Bricks" Nike Smart Sneakers - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:51] <exec> 08└─No, new Nikes start at ~$100 (unless you're getting the basic solid-color non-line-brand, those are ~$50), and the more expensive ones might cost this much. There's definitely an extra charge for the technology.
[03:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grand Canyon Tourists Exposed for Years to Uranium Ore Radiation in Museum Building - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:47] <exec> 08└─Neither does any cable news network by that standard. You get better odds of truth and unbiased reporting off a randomly selected YouTube video about the day's events than you do off any news network.
[03:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces the Galaxy Fold, a Phone-Tablet Hybrid Device - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:08] <exec> 08└─Same phone, same time frame. Battery replaced once. Same general experience all around really. I didn't get the overnight drain, but i always charge it overnight, it just insta-powers off randomly when the battery gets too low (30% at first, now it's more like 70 or 80% and i wind up just starting u...
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[04:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Molecules Reverse Memory Loss Linked to Depression, Aging - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:49] <exec> 08└─with daily treatment You're a customer for life. It passes the 1st big pharma test!
[04:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Social Credit System Restricts 17.46 Million People from Traveling by Air or Train - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:54] <exec> 08└─Also, no need to feed the trolls - a Chinese imprisonment rate 25x the rate of non-African American imprisonment would imply only 1/21,000 non-African Americans are imprisoned, or a total of less than 15,000 non-African Americans imprisoned. I believe Florida alone exceeds that number. Sure, old whi...
[04:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grand Canyon Tourists Exposed for Years to Uranium Ore Radiation in Museum Building - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:53] <exec> 08└─But if you undergo a CT, the doctors obtain your informed consent that they are going to irradiate you.
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[05:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keeping Heavy Metals Out Of Beer And Wine - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:36] <exec> 08└─Real beer is clarified by simply allowing the yeast to fall to the bottom of the container and tapping the liquid just above the layer of yeasty beer. Filters not required, just time.
[05:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"My Left Shoe Won't Even Reboot": Faulty App "Bricks" Nike Smart Sneakers - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:58] <exec> 08└─What operating system is it running?
[05:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"My Left Shoe Won't Even Reboot": Faulty App "Bricks" Nike Smart Sneakers - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:59] <exec> 08└─Come on, guys.. 70-ish comments on a post about mass-produced, "smart" Nikes with power "laces", and not one person referenced BttF (aside from them not looking like the movie version)?
[05:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"My Left Shoe Won't Even Reboot": Faulty App "Bricks" Nike Smart Sneakers - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:02] <exec> 08└─Does not tying shoelaces really qualify for the use of the word "awesome"? Maybe you should learn to tie shoelaces properly, and I'm not being sardonic. First, you should make sure you're tying a square knot and not a granny knot. They look similar, but the latter will come loose and the former will...
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[06:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Activating Tooth Regeneration In Mice - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:02] <exec> 08└─They might like to peek in my DNA? Inherited from my father who had a similar problem, I'm missing four of my second set of teeth. There was nothing below/above to push out those baby teeth. One of the baby molars was tough, lasted until I was about 55 years old. The others came out sooner and were...
[06:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neptune Gets a New Moon, Thanks Hubble - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:10] <exec> 08└─It could be about the timing. There were plenty of collisions early in the life of the solar system, but things have settled down. Yet you still get events like Neptune apparently capturing Triton, or the formation of Saturn's rings, a transient phenomenon that could be mostly gone in 100 million ye...
[06:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neptune Gets a New Moon, Thanks Hubble - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:12] <exec> 08└─527 ice hockey rinks in diameter
[06:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:31] <exec> 08└─Finally, it is now possible to commit piracy from the Internet.
[06:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keeping Heavy Metals Out Of Beer And Wine - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:45] <exec> 08└─does it become death metal?
[06:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Keeping Heavy Metals Out Of Beer And Wine - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:47] <exec> 08└─No, it's not that. You are inherently bad, the drink only makes you feel the reality.
[06:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keeping Heavy Metals Out Of Beer And Wine - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:49] <exec> 08└─and the visual impression of clarity is the only arguable benefit of filtering.
[06:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Physics of Large-Scale Crowd Control - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:55] <exec> 08└─What is this rational man you speak of? I know of no such creature.
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[07:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:03] <exec> 08└─Well, there goes one of my prime candidates for the Great Filter. 3 billion years on earth between single cells and multicellular vs 1 year in the lab. I wonder what the difference was.
[07:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:04] <exec> 08└─Lack of food in Earth's oceans? Not much predating and defending can be done, if both are near death from starvation.
[07:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:07] <exec> 08└─The alge may have already had some of the necessary mechanisms or dormant genes to make the transition easier.
[07:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:09] <exec> 08└─it's darwin theory going down the drain. Darwin discovered the mechanism, and used occam's razor to imply that mutations were impersonally random and natural selection did the job over million years. Now you can maybe postulate a random set of mutations that take into account the presence of a threa...
[07:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:11] <exec> 08└─i was writing the same things and already replied basically that if it looks like a broader awareness and quacks like a broader awareness it probably is a broader awareness rather than some randomly ingrained behavior that becomes hidden, and triggered by markers comes out again. 4 billion years see...
[07:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neptune Gets a New Moon, Thanks Hubble - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:27] <exec> 08└─If there is a Planet 9, does that make Neptune less special? Planet 9 would have an even larger Hill sphere, would it not?
[07:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:48] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it work even better to switch the engines to full power about a mile out, then steer it straight into the dock? You'd probably hold things up for longer than a simple sinking.
[07:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:49] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackers_(film) [wikipedia.org]
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[08:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:08] <exec> 08└─I wonder what the difference was.
[08:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neptune Gets a New Moon, Thanks Hubble - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:26] <exec> 08└─Why use something like normal SI units when we can measure things in hockey rinks, golf carts or gerbil penises?
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[09:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-Celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:12] <exec> 08└─Yeast has evolved and de-evolved multi-cellular structures. Hence, it is possible to trigger these latent capabilities. [scifare.com] Likely that is true of this algae as well, which is how they evolved something so complex in so little time. Which doesn't alter the fact that this is a really cool d...
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[09:34:14] <exec> 08└─Happy Birthday, Runaway1956! May many more cells join you, until you have functioning brain, or at least a rudimentary nervous system.
[09:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Montana Legislator Introduces Bills to Give His State its Own Science - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:27] <exec> 08└─Republican science
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[10:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FarFarOut: A Solar System Object at Around 140 AU - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:03] <exec> 08└─What is the largest distance an object could have to the sun while still being part of our solar system? Well, a first guess would be about 2 light years, as that is half the distance to the next star, but I don't expect that it is that simple.
[10:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-Celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:18] <exec> 08└─Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-Celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism
[10:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keeping Heavy Metals Out Of Beer And Wine - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:14] <exec> 08└─...but you can't keep beer out of heavy metal!
[10:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultraviolet Light Could Provide a Powerful New Source of Green Fuel - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:06] <exec> 08└─"Why is this whiskey so expensive?" "It's from a really old fart."
[10:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flaw in mIRC App Allows Attackers to Execute Commands Remotely - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:54] <exec> 08└─I haven't used mIRC for over a decade, but I remember being bitten by remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in it back then. Good to see that the developers are keeping old traditions alive.
[10:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grand Canyon Tourists Exposed for Years to Uranium Ore Radiation in Museum Building - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:40] <exec> 08└─Quite a good number of errors for somebody arguing from pedantic positions like "but you didn't make that distinction." No, sunlight is light. You refer to gamma rays as radiation.
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[11:34:22] <exec> 08└─there is no way
[11:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-Celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 3957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:23] <exec> 08└─People never seem to consider: Just because one out of a billion algae evolved to become multi-cellular "in response" (not really, it's random) to a particular threat does not mean that that evolution was otherwise advantageous. They may have survived the predation, but now they are not necessarily...
[11:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-Celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:25] <exec> 08└─I don't see how the difference can be unclear to anyone. You think 3 billion years ago a lot of algae was bumping into a lot of food and paramecium? the lap is a close-quarters cesspool of algae, it's food, and it's predator. now dump that petri dish into a lake and see how long it takes. much less...
[11:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-Celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:28] <exec> 08└─honest question here. there seems to be several runaway accounts - is it the same guy? I'm afraid to shit on any one of those runaway accounts since I can't remember which one of them keeps saying the dumbest shit. or is it all of them saying the dumbest shit? i finally remembered who the boat guy w...
[11:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Activating Tooth Regeneration In Mice - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:37] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypodontia#Cause [wikipedia.org]
[11:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:09] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that's the movie referenced from the Dept. line. Of course I cannot completely exclude the possibility that Angelina Jolie also starred in another movie covering that scenario, which I'm not aware of.
[11:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Keeping Heavy Metals Out Of Beer And Wine - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:28] <exec> 08└─and this is exactly the fucking point. there's mercury in tuna too - so what - it does no damage unless you eat a pound of tuna every day. "Chronic dietary exposure to high levels of arsenic, lead and cadmium can endanger health." maybe if someone has chronic dietary exposure to high levels of alcoh...
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[12:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:04] <exec> 08└─I was a member of my high school's yearbook staff back in the day. That their _only_ SLR camera was on the blink led to my offer to repair it myself. "But you _won't_ be able to use it!" "That's OK. I like to fix things." Even so I really _did_ hope to use it myself. I took that entire camera apart...
[12:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FarFarOut: A Solar System Object at Around 140 AU - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:12] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[12:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FarFarOut: A Solar System Object at Around 140 AU - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:15] <exec> 08└─The Heliopause is quite-reasonably regarded as the _real_ surface of the Sun: It's where the Solar Wind is swept away by the Interstellar Wind. However. The real _limit_ to the Solar System would be reasonably the point at which a comet would be more-likely to fall into the gravity well of some _oth...
[12:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-Celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, to be honest, I thought that too. Cross species gene transfers mean that a lot of single cell beasties have genes they are not at present using.
[12:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:16] <exec> 08└─Numerous dead-simple - a _child_ could have fixed Every Last One Of Them - led to a Canadian offshore oil rig to capsize in the North Atlantic, taking with it all those aboard. They _knew_ well in advance they would all die soon. The immediate cause of its so-capsizing was that both of its ballast t...
[12:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"My Left Shoe Won't Even Reboot": Faulty App "Bricks" Nike Smart Sneakers - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:58] <exec> 08└─A couple hours ago I had the unfortunate problem of running like Hell when I ever so ill-advisedly _flushed_ a clogged toilet. The Mind, as I am wont to say, Simply Reels.
[12:41:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] 02 - 06The Number of Known U.S. Hate Groups Keeps Surging, Largely Thanks to Young, White men - 974 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:07] <exec> 08└─To add to the point deimtree makes above, I'm a white cis heterosexual male in tech and I'm economically fine. But I have two white cis heterosexual male relatives with college degrees that have been struggling with all kinds of economic and medical bill problems for the past fifteen years. Fifteen...
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[13:34:11] <exec> 08└─They named it the same as what I call my wife.
[13:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-Celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:32] <exec> 08└─Excuse me but "even though several lines of evidence suggested that much of the accumulation was beneficial, rather than neutral" doesn't strike me as a counterpoint.
[13:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-Celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:34] <exec> 08└─There's only one. He's just very hated and occassionally very stupid, but sometimes not quite stupid.
[13:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Activating Tooth Regeneration In Mice - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:44] <exec> 08└─Cool, thanks. Didn't realize this was common enough to have a name. As noted further down the Wiki article, the orthodontist (twice) was expensive (and painful at times), but eventually fairly successful. (AC GP)
[13:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:18] <exec> 08└─A phased array of masers: use them to melt just America's Spy Satellites A while back I rang up the United States Secret Service. They are _always_ happy to talk, and IIRC, have a 24-hour Toll Free Number. After making crystal-clear that "I am here to _help_," I described in Lucid Detail two nightma...
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[14:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create "Hachimoji" DNA and RNA With Four Additional Bases - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:58] <exec> 08└─Who's going to be the very first to inject this stuff into a _human_ stem cell? To unleash a Hashimoji _virus_? I advance the following hypothesis: Elon The Cylon. You read it here first, folks!
[14:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Right to Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:06] <exec> 08└─Right to repair should be a thing, everywhere, but even more important is some incentive to not sell time-bombs to the public. Like early '70s US made automobiles, or recent consumer electronics. Non-replaceable batteries with short overall lifetimes. Lead free solder which cracks with age and/or gr...
[14:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Right to Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:08] <exec> 08└─TFS doesn't mention that this isn't the Canadian federal government talking about this, but rather the Ontario legislature. Anyway, private member's bills basically never pass, especially not ones introduced by opposition members to a majority government, like this one.
[14:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Right to Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:10] <exec> 08└─Having the right to repair means little when the manufacturer makes use of parts not available on the market and fabrication methods that can't be replicated by hand. And it's not some theoretical concern: The SMT components on smartphones boards take a microscope and a lot of special equipment to r...
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[14:34:20] <exec> 08└─About one-half to one light year for a stable orbit, although there's no hard limit. Over the millions of years that anything that distant would take to complete an orbit, the entire Solar System moves relative to other stars. So the limitation isn't really the distance to the nearest star, but how...
[14:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FarFarOut: A Solar System Object at Around 140 AU - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:22] <exec> 08└─Correct about the Hill sphere. I want to add that without the influence of other objects, there is no limit on orbital distance. If the entire universe had just 2 bodies, they could orbit each other no matter how far apart they were. They could be a million light years apart, and be in a very, very,...
[14:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FarFarOut: A Solar System Object at Around 140 AU - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:24] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they were inspired by an old children's show, Far Out Space Nuts?
[14:34:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-Celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 413 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:36] <exec> 08└─Yeast has evolved and de-evolved multi-cellular structures. Hence, it is possible to trigger these latent capabilities. [scifare.com] Likely that is true of this algae as well, which is how they evolved something so complex in so little time. Which doesn't alter the fact that this is a really cool d...
[14:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-Celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:46] <exec> 08└─Runaway is a submarine sandwich you dropped on the ground, where it picked up some grit, mud, and chunks of gravel before you picked it up and kept chewing on it. So, like most here.
[14:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keeping Heavy Metals Out Of Beer And Wine - 1536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:49] <exec> 08└─Some might remember that a few years back there were panicked articles about trace amounts of psychoactive medicines like zanax in our water supply. Everybody was in a tizzy for a few days about it. My wife, an intelligent, educated person with a Master's degree, ran up to me and said "We have to bu...
[14:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"My Left Shoe Won't Even Reboot": Faulty App "Bricks" Nike Smart Sneakers - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:17] <exec> 08└─"My left shoe won't even reboot." writes another.
[14:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultraviolet Light Could Provide a Powerful New Source of Green Fuel - 1988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:46] <exec> 08└─In the long term maybe. In the medium term its another pathway in the methanol economy. Most methanol comes from extensive processing of natgas today, although in theory its an option for coal to liquid via making "towne gas" as an intermediary. methanol is a horrible general public joe6pack fuel, v...
[14:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultraviolet Light Could Provide a Powerful New Source of Green Fuel - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:48] <exec> 08└─Its toxic and smelly so the existing infrastructure of open tanks and pumping hoses has to go away into something more like CNG/propane airtight stuff. Given the toxicity I would not want to breathe anywhere near the exhaust of vehicles without working cat convs. Using yuckier fuels means we're goin...
[14:41:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02 - 06The Number of Known U.S. Hate Groups Keeps Surging, Largely Thanks to Young, White men - 384 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:20] <exec> 08└─The "privileged caricature" is a Harvard-educated white male in an expensive suit who can get a high-paying job from one of his family's friends with a handshake on the golf course. So simply because he is a "cis white male" you project that image on some poor redneck who is struggling to keep his t...
[14:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Grand Canyon Tourists Exposed for Years to Uranium Ore Radiation in Museum Building - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:20] <exec> 08└─Quite a good number of errors
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[15:34:04] <exec> 08└─so when can i have my own personal "5th element" ^_^
[15:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create "Hachimoji" DNA and RNA With Four Additional Bases - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:06] <exec> 08└─there could be an alternative to DNA-based life, as we know it on Earth
[15:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:17] <exec> 08└─It's 12 months compulsory warranty down under. Even then they try to dodge out of it.
[15:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:19] <exec> 08└─_are_ you sure that _the_ "nut" _was_ tightened? cause it _looks_ like _it_ is a bit _loose_ so happy! have learned to communicate in _underscores_
[15:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:21] <exec> 08└─They will argue that the battery is replaceable. It just requires a trained technician 15 to 25 minutes and a set of special tools and a specific set of instructions to do so without harming the device.
[15:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:23] <exec> 08└─Thank you for recognizing the _importance_ and _power_ of the _u_n_d_e_r_s_c_o_r_e_. We here at the Underscore Manufacturers Association of America, UMAA (pronounced: "Um, Ah"), feel the underscore is _underutilized_. _Your_ post _underscores_ our message of its importance. _Thank_ _You_ _!_
[15:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Right to Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:25] <exec> 08└─GIT ON DEEZ NUTZ! https://pbs.twimg.com [twimg.com]
[15:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FarFarOut: A Solar System Object at Around 140 AU - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:39] <exec> 08└─People in the future will cringe at this era of dumb names
[15:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-Celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:04] <exec> 08└─Isn't there a rather large leap between multicellular structures like slime mold to an almost-organism that eats and reproduces in consistent units like Portuguese Man of War and then to increasingly more consistent units?
[15:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Neptune Gets a New Moon, Thanks Hubble - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:25] <exec> 08└─Why use something like normal SI units when we can measure things in hockey rinks, golf carts or gerbil penises?
[15:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Teckla [3812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Molecules Reverse Memory Loss Linked to Depression, Aging - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:21] <exec> 08└─Don't worry about forgetting it exists. It'll be too expensive for you to afford and/or require a special doctor's prescription that'll be extremely difficult to get anyway.
[15:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Terahertz Wireless Makes Big Strides In Paving The Way To Technological Singularity - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:39] <exec> 08└─I'll sit this out until I can get 7G
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[16:34:10] <exec> 08└─My understanding for why the eggheads expect other life to be carbon-based is because other atoms don't allow for the same degree of complexity as carbon does. It's not merely an assumption that nitrogen or silicon or something else kinda similar couldn't do the same thing, it's that they've tried c...
[16:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create "Hachimoji" DNA and RNA With Four Additional Bases - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:11] <exec> 08└─Here's a reason: convergent evolution [wikipedia.org].
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[16:34:42] <exec> 08└─Cringey McCringeFace
[16:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-Celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:07] <exec> 08└─Algae have always been known to form clustered colonies. Just read the Wikipedia article.
[16:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Molecules Reverse Memory Loss Linked to Depression, Aging - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:24] <exec> 08└─look up gamma hydroxy butyrate (or GHB or some of its analogues). you will find that it had a lot of medical capability; a problem is the lack of patenting a naturally occuring molecule with theraputic potential. and so after vilification and its subsquent removal as an over-the-counter supplement,...
[16:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Terahertz Wireless Makes Big Strides In Paving The Way To Technological Singularity - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:42] <exec> 08└─Ah, this is true. Wireless interconnect amongst the chips would be ideal. You wouldn't even need a motherboard anymore, or a more basic system would have the hard drives connected by wireless. Just put them up near the case.
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[16:38:42] <exec> 08└─Hey now -- placebo is a powerful thing. You can't bottle up pills of placebo--unless the consumer is ignorant of how the product works, like the entire homoepathy market. Those people right there are why gwenneth paltrow is a genius--she's rich due to being able to exploit the gullibility of young w...
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[17:34:13] <exec> 08└─We can't imagine other life, so Sci-fi is rather lacking in alien life forms.
[17:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create "Hachimoji" DNA and RNA With Four Additional Bases - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:15] <exec> 08└─There are a few options. Silicon and Nitrogen/Boron can both form complex structures similar to carbon and are found in abundance, but if life on other words is like ours, it tends towards the simpler route. Carbon is just so damn versatile when it comes to what it can do.
[17:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create "Hachimoji" DNA and RNA With Four Additional Bases - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:17] <exec> 08└─When it comes to movies/TV there is also a practical reason to consider: Money. Even today CGI isn't exactly cheap. I recall the SG1 producers once talking about how expensive it was every time they had the Asgardians on screen, and that's why they limited the use of the species.
[17:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Create "Hachimoji" DNA and RNA With Four Additional Bases - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:19] <exec> 08└─no need to worry. thors sister took care of that.
[17:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FarFarOut: A Solar System Object at Around 140 AU - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:50] <exec> 08└─> People in the future will cringe at this era of dumb names The close future people, those who text borked English and emoji all day ? Sure...
[17:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-Celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 1745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:16] <exec> 08└─Except evolution doesn't happen through the accumulation of random mutations. The initial gene mutations are random, but accumulation only occurs for those mutations that confer a survival advantage to the organism. Individuals with a mutation that gives them an advantage prosper and spread that adv...
[17:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neptune Gets a New Moon, Thanks Hubble - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:39] <exec> 08└─Yes. If Planet Nine exists in an orbit many times beyond Neptune's, it could end up having hundreds of moons due to its large Hill sphere. Or not if material is sparse there. But Neptune has a large influence on the Kuiper belt due to its proximity to it. It is crowd control for a group of icy bodie...
[17:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neptune Gets a New Moon, Thanks Hubble - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:40] <exec> 08└─> The new moon is dubbed Hippocamp, after the fish tailed horses from Greek Mythology For those of us who speak latin-derived languages, Hippocamp(e)(us) means seahorse.
[17:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:05] <exec> 08└─Seriously I fell like I've seen this movie before.
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[17:36:07] <exec> 08└─Jam up the Panama or Suez canal. Plenty of locks on major waterways too.
[17:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Terahertz Wireless Makes Big Strides In Paving The Way To Technological Singularity - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, let's just broadcast all the data, gotta do your duty and make it easier for the NSA and the black hat sitting in the parking lot.
[17:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terahertz Wireless Makes Big Strides In Paving The Way To Technological Singularity - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:59] <exec> 08└─That's a good argument for a grounded chassis, but it's not an argument for an internal bus. And you'd need lots of power supplies if you didn't plug the chips into a motherboard. But imagine using it as an approach to constructing true 3D (or even n-dimensional) systems. Some of the signal would pr...
[17:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Terahertz Wireless Makes Big Strides In Paving The Way To Technological Singularity - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:01] <exec> 08└─The metal case makes a pretty good Faraday cage. On the other hand you could just throw the chips into a cardboard box, give them some power, and it's off to the races. And if the signal makes it out to the parking lot, then all my other concerns about the range are alleviated
[17:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Terahertz Wireless Makes Big Strides In Paving The Way To Technological Singularity - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:03] <exec> 08└─This may not be a "3D chip", but it could be an enabler for 3D systems. Or even 4D, though that requires tinkering with frequencies more. Part of the question is "How directional can it be made? Under what constraints?", but this is a way around the heat problem that 3D circuits have always had.
[17:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sophisticated New AI Performs Better When It Can Sleep And Dream - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:27] <exec> 08└─If you do it that way the two AIs won't learn the same things. Perhaps investigate how dolphins manage to sleep only half their brain at a time.
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[17:39:05] <exec> 08└─Most of these guys barely made it out of the basement, and now you expect them to tie their own shoes?
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[17:39:06] <exec> 08└─You did note the "try"? And, yes, underwear is one of the places I noticed elastic wearing out quickly. These days I supplement the "elastic" with a shoelace tied around the top. Ugh!, and it's a nuisance, but it works better than the elastic after the elastic has been washed a couple of times.
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[17:39:08] <exec> 08└─Ok. For something to wear in races, and replace often, I can see them. Or perhaps they use a good grade of elastic. (I know that such used to exist, because a decade or so ago that was the only kind I encountered.)
[17:39:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Ultraviolet Light Could Provide a Powerful New Source of Green Fuel - 1230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:20] <exec> 08└─I've been banking on the electric car replacing the gasoline powered car. But the combustion engine could get a new lease on life with an economical way to create fuel from biomass. From personal experience, the all electric car is vastly superior, with the one big exception of the limited range and...
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[18:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Hackers Use Compromised Banks as Starting Points for Phishing Attacks - 1262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:03] <exec> 08└─I've seen enough bad email messages from banks that leave me doubting they have any clue at all about online security. They're full of links, for customer convenience of course. But to me, that screams that it is an attack. Once or twice I even called to make sure an email that looked suspicious rea...
[18:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create "Hachimoji" DNA and RNA With Four Additional Bases - 1874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:20] <exec> 08└─SG-1 had some pretty decent effects. Some of it looks goofy, other bits stand up well. Obviously they were cost-conscious. Many alien planets looked like the alien forests of Vancouver. Ship sequences were reused. Etc. And it still ended up being a pretty expensive show to make ($1-2 million per epi...
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[18:34:36] <exec> 08└─Lead free solder which cracks with age and/or grows tin whiskers.
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[18:35:19] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but you shouldn't accept the wiki page as an authoritative report on the experiment. It's been simplified for public consumption, and was probably written by either an intern or a reporter. Other reports on the experiment that I've seen earlier explained what kind of "convergent" beneficial m...
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[18:35:21] <exec> 08└─Not quite. Most retained mutations are "neutral drift", meaning that in the current environment they have no effect. Some of them even only affect the likelihood of future mutations (some codons are more chemically stable that others that have the same transcription into amino acids). Now when the e...
[18:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-Celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:23] <exec> 08└─You're making things too linear. Evolution is a massively parallel process. The man-o-war is closely related to jellyfish, as we are closely related to sharks (perhaps closer, I'm not sure, but it's a separate path of evolution). The question of "Weren't some of the ancestors of these algae as multi...
[18:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Terahertz Wireless Makes Big Strides In Paving The Way To Technological Singularity - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:07] <exec> 08└─The case /might/ make a good cage for a signal with a frequency this high, but it sure as hell isn't stopping WiFi. Given that the transmitters will in all likelyhood be black boxes, there's really no way of knowing exactly what is being transmitted and to whom without some very expensive equipment.
[18:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Terahertz Wireless Makes Big Strides In Paving The Way To Technological Singularity - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:08] <exec> 08└─Given that the transmitters will in all likelyhood be black boxes, there's really no way of knowing exactly what is being transmitted and to whom without some very expensive equipment. Then we should assume everything is being transmitted and recorded and stop worrying about it. We have the same too...
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[19:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create "Hachimoji" DNA and RNA With Four Additional Bases - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:27] <exec> 08└─Right. Also, some other compounds can form and be varied and complex, similar to carbon, but the energy required to form/break them up is higher. Or the reactions happen at much slower rates. Or they only form well in the presence of fairly rare solutions. Carbon-based life wasn't just a random roll...
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[19:34:28] <exec> 08└─Fascinating. Scary. Really kind of amazing to see this done. Also, this is how monsters are created!
[19:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:45] <exec> 08└─When I cracked the screen on my 2 year old Nexus 5, the cost to replace the screen on my phone ($70) was more than the cost to buy a used Nexus 5 on the open market ($60)... Along with all this regulation, let's also make a regulation that the parts required to assemble a finished consumer device be...
[19:34:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06FarFarOut: A Solar System Object at Around 140 AU - 1599 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:56] <exec> 08└─About one-half to one light year for a stable orbit, although there's no hard limit. Over the millions of years that anything that distant would take to complete an orbit, the entire Solar System moves relative to other stars. So the limitation isn't really the distance to the nearest star, but how...
[19:36:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:11] <exec> 08└─Finally, it is now possible to commit piracy from the Internet.
[19:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hackers Could Wreck Container Vessels - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:19] <exec> 08└─In a world where Demolition Man is on the fast-track to reality, the gods give us Hackers as well. I am for some reason, irrationally pleased. Next up: Robocop. Let's make 80s-90s sci-fi the 2020's reality.
[19:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keeping Heavy Metals Out Of Beer And Wine - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:40] <exec> 08└─Did I read it correctly, in that the filtering material they use introduces the heavy metal contamination? I was exposed to antimony and other heavy metals in my youth in a job cleaning and maintaining silicon furnaces. also beryllium dust and other evil shit. required monthly blood tests. Kind of w...
[19:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Molecules Reverse Memory Loss Linked to Depression, Aging - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:54] <exec> 08└─It'll be too expensive for you to afford
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[19:39:23] <exec> 08└─That right there is every marketer's ideal audience
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[20:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists 'Flash-Freeze' Crystal Of 150 Ions - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:59] <exec> 08└─In actual fact, some experiments were done with proteins in the 70's looking for quantum effects. Quite simply, the size of some complexes is large enough that the atom "visibilty" (i.e. the apparent location limited by Heisenberg theorem.) So this is a nice experiment - we can probably do a lot mor...
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[20:34:01] <exec> 08└─Heck... All they had to do was have my wife look at it. Colder than a witches tit in a brass bra.
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[20:34:10] <exec> 08└─ah, so they figured out how to make a golbmen sax version 2.0 container or even a moody rating from a computer ar home? pretty cool thrust chain issues O.O'
[20:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Create "Hachimoji" DNA and RNA With Four Additional Bases - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:28] <exec> 08└─actually "bad puppets" or mechatronics are in a way still more realistic then bad CGI. the computer has to start from "nothing". so every cgi iteration needs to improve on itself to become more realistic. with puppets, they come from reality and we can see it and we kindda know that because if that...
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[20:34:30] <exec> 08└─ah, also young obi wan didnt like acting with imaginary co-actors that would only show up after he had done all his acting and maybe thats why some people didnt like the star wars origin episodes? acting towards a puppet is\was easier for some actors -vs- thin air ... or maybe obi wan was still high...
[20:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create "Hachimoji" DNA and RNA With Four Additional Bases - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:32] <exec> 08└─It depends on the temperature range you're working on. At any particular range there aren't many good information storing linear molecules that are both stable enough, and unstable enough. And there are so many variables that it's hard to envision an alternative working system. You can bet, though,...
[20:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Create "Hachimoji" DNA and RNA With Four Additional Bases - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:34] <exec> 08└─theres a movie about that: misunderstood monsters. take your pick. some need a scream but laughter works too and theres another about a personified swiss mountain holiday retreat villain fighting against a zoo keeper with limited but transportable (and expandable) resources
[20:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create "Hachimoji" DNA and RNA With Four Additional Bases - 1720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:37] <exec> 08└─Well we are now entering into the machine learning era where you can copy someone's movements (motion capture) without fancy suits, create photorealistic people that never existed, and other absurdities. Just the last 1-2 years has made a huge difference in the field. This video came out 3 hours ago...
[20:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create "Hachimoji" DNA and RNA With Four Additional Bases - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:39] <exec> 08└─Some productions, including parts of the Star Wars prequel trilogy IIRC, use stand-in actors that are completely replaced by CGI later. Depending on how you do it, you can have your human Obi Wan reacting to a real guy in a body suit who is off camera, and then render a CGI model where necessary, or...
[20:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FarFarOut: A Solar System Object at Around 140 AU - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:13] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see it called TommyChong-THC1 Or, Cheechy-Chong as my mother called them. ;)
[20:36:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Subsentient [1111] 02 - 06Keeping Heavy Metals Out Of Beer And Wine - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:46] <exec> 08└─does it become death metal?
[20:36:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03r1348 [5988] 02 - 06Keeping Heavy Metals Out Of Beer And Wine - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:49] <exec> 08└─...but you can't keep beer out of heavy metal!
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[21:33:59] <exec> 08└─I always tell myself "upgrade when 4x". Almost there....;-) Thing is, what is the ratio of M2/SSD to spinning rust for a good system?
[21:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba and Showa Denko Produce 18 TB MAMR Hard Drives - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:00] <exec> 08└─I always tell myself "upgrade when 4x". Almost there....;-)
[21:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba and Showa Denko Produce 18 TB MAMR Hard Drives - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:02] <exec> 08└─You definitely want to get NVMe instead of something on a SATA bus. SSD memory is faster that SATA III so all SATA SSD are roughly the same speed. NVMe are on the much faster PCIe bus. I just put a 1Tb crucial p1 in my laptop. It is 4x faster than any SATA drive despite being kind of middle of the r...
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[21:34:42] <exec> 08└─I think it is more likely that there is only one kind of life around which migrated from one place to another. That's because the probability of self creating is just way too low for a single planet. Life migrates and does it often at different development levels. Let's look at humans here. We have...
[21:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Create "Hachimoji" DNA and RNA With Four Additional Bases - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:43] <exec> 08└─Well, monsters that have a dependency on chemicals they can't get from a diet outside the lab.
[21:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:02] <exec> 08└─I remember when RadioShack used to sell games and such with this red 'cellophane' crap over the screws: if you tried to open the thing, it would wreck the cellophane and they'd know you screwed with it. So I screwed with it. When they stopped doing the cellophane thing, I thought it was because we w...
[21:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Keeping Heavy Metals Out Of Beer And Wine - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:57] <exec> 08└─I did say arguable. I agree with you but they sell a ton of that stuff so someone must agree with them.
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[22:34:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Right to Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada - 811 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:50] <exec> 08└─Right to repair should be a thing, everywhere, but even more important is some incentive to not sell time-bombs to the public. Like early '70s US made automobiles, or recent consumer electronics. Non-replaceable batteries with short overall lifetimes. Lead free solder which cracks with age and/or gr...
[22:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:01] <exec> 08└─Really? On Thursday, Coteau introduced a private member's bill in provincial parliament
[22:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Watched in Real Time as a Single-Celled Algae Evolved into a Multicellular Organism - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:49] <exec> 08└─what the fuck is wrong with eating a sandwich that's been dropped on the floor? what are you - some kind of a girly-man little pussy? gravel is solid dietary fiber and sharpens your teeth. on a side note - i was on a morphine drip for a month. if you forget to take the stool softener, gravel cuts yo...
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[23:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Ditches the Ray-Tracing Cores with Lower-Priced GTX 1660 Ti - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:01] <exec> 08└─There's a huge market for a 1080 replacement, especially the 1080Ti. RTX on the non-$1000 cards isn't adequate enough in speed to actually use so it's just taking up space and driving up costs. A ton of people have been waiting for this announcement.
[23:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Use Compromised Banks as Starting Points for Phishing Attacks - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:27] <exec> 08└─IT in the adult world is not giving cause for embarrassment relative to your peers. For banks, that means following whatever recommendations a recognized board of experts puts out, such as password requirements, aging, security questions etc. Though I prefer my encoded answers to security questions...
[23:35:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Right to Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:09] <exec> 08└─Lead free solder which cracks with age and/or grows tin whiskers.
[23:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Right to Repair Legislation Is Officially Being Considered In Canada - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:13] <exec> 08└─uh? yes. really. "provincial parliament" refers to parliament of the province of Ontario; which is not the federal government. Am I missing something?
[23:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neptune Gets a New Moon, Thanks Hubble - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:23] <exec> 08└─I bet they would if it was flat and covered in ice, eh.
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