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[00:14:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03CheesyMoo [6853] 02 - 06Google Pledges to Build 15,000+ Homes in San Francisco - 502 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:38] <exec> 08└─This is Google inching towards the libertarian future of corporate ecologies. Tech campuses will be complete communities: housing, restaurants, tennis courts, didgeridoo classes and of course workspace! If you are part of the tech enterprise you get to breathe the filtered arcology air and occasiona...
[00:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Pledges to Build 15,000+ Homes in San Francisco - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:45] <exec> 08└─This is Google inching towards the libertarian future of corporate ecologies.
[00:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pledges to Build 15,000+ Homes in San Francisco - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:47] <exec> 08└─You mean Telescreens? [wikipedia.org]
[00:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pledges to Build 15,000+ Homes in San Francisco - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:49] <exec> 08└─Peter Thiel already wants to build his own islands to try experiments like this.
[00:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Pledges to Build 15,000+ Homes in San Francisco - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:52] <exec> 08└─You write 16 kilobytes and whaddaya get? Another day older and deeper in debt. Saint Sergei don't you call me 'cause I can't go, I owe my soul to the company store.
[00:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:08] <exec> 08└─Do not anthropomorphize the yeasts.
[00:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:09] <exec> 08└─For domesticated animals, humans thinking they're cute is a valuable adaptation. Whether that adaptation comes about via natural selection (humans feed them and heal them and protect them, so they're more likely to survive and reproduce) or "intelligent design" (humans choose the animals that breed,...
[00:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:12] <exec> 08└─If we except the definition of evolution in my biology textbook here, "any change in the frequency of alleles within a gene pool from one generation to the next", then GMO qualifies.
[00:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:14] <exec> 08└─> TFS : "suggesting our furry best friends evolved the ability specifically to communicate with humans" You're not wrong, but the wording is backwards. Humans who like the trait selected for it. Dogs did nothing to "evolve" it, except bang with the provided partner.
[00:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:16] <exec> 08└─Okay, I'll buy that. But what about "domesticated" cats' ability to sneer at humans?
[00:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:18] <exec> 08└─Push it too far, however, and you get the gigantic bulbous heads and kinda-sorta-sideways tear drop shaped eyes of Precious Moments figurines (example [preciousmoments.com]). That character design appears to be in a lot of people's uncanny valley, though the animated version (as seen in "Who's Who a...
[00:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:21] <exec> 08└─Could "GMO" be accurately defined as "induced horizontal gene transfer in multicellular eukaryotes"?
[00:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Libra Cryptocurrency - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:12] <exec> 08└─Btc never had a chance? Amazing how delusional people still are about what's happening. No gov or corporate coin has a chance because they will never agree to what "fair" to all interested parties, just look at what happened to SDRs. Meanwhile bitcoin chugs along exactly as planned (just read the fi...
[00:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Libra Cryptocurrency - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:13] <exec> 08└─Ah, you mean like it's tethered [wikipedia.org] to a fiat currency? Yeah that will totes be guaranteed safe!
[00:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Domino's Will Start Robot Pizza Deliveries in Houston This Year - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:46] <exec> 08└─'Cause I was so tired, I had problems walking to the hotel door to get my pizza, maybe? I called for a pizza, ate 3 slices, and crashed hard.
[00:17:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Porn Trolling Mastermind Paul Hansmeier Gets 14 Years in Prison - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:54] <exec> 08└─But you don't usually hear about those ones.
[00:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Porn Trolling Mastermind Paul Hansmeier Gets 14 Years in Prison - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:03] <exec> 08└─I think we've all wanted to tell this guy to go fuck himself, and now to everyone's satisfaction (well, probably not his), he has finally shafted himself!
[00:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Porn Trolling Mastermind Paul Hansmeier Gets 14 Years in Prison - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:06] <exec> 08└─Then we could get to enjoy a whole new type of porn he produces while in jail!
[00:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Critical Bug in Infusion System Allows Changing Drug Dose in Medical Pumps - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:39] <exec> 08└─What did aristarchus say this time?
[00:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Allegedly Caught Stealing Song Lyrics … Because of Punctuation - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:10] <exec> 08└─https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190617/13335342414/dumbest-gotcha-story-week-google-genius-copying-licensed-lyrics.shtml [techdirt.com]
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[01:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:18] <exec> 08└─The car's speed is not personal data. Otherwise we have to outlaw police radar. In fact, any witness to your car's speed wouldn't be admissible. The car's speed is public. Fuck the driver.
[01:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:25] <exec> 08└─Looks like another jihad perpetrated by the Moslems.
[01:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:27] <exec> 08└─How many NEW plants have yet to be discovered? Or have they not gone extinct, just evolved and spread.
[01:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:29] <exec> 08└─I wonder if our lawn care fetish has made the world a lot more hostile to those kinds of plants. Perennials and woody plants probably don't do well in places that are mowed every week. Then there are all these herbicides for targeting broad leaf plants. Suburban sprawl with giant parking lots can't...
[01:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:31] <exec> 08└─Or gone extinct before we even knew they existed? But we have CRISPR et al now so we can make more. No big deal. Take THAT GOD!!
[01:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:33] <exec> 08└─which is up to 500 times higher than would be expected ...
[01:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:13] <exec> 08└─Try the other puppy trick: tilt your head.
[01:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:15] <exec> 08└─Cross-species transfer... they got it from Moslems, who sneer at infidels.
[01:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:17] <exec> 08└─Ah, that's different. Cats have selectively bred into their humans the ability to be sneered at.
[01:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:19] <exec> 08└─Not really. Sometimes the genes are designed rather than transferred horizontally. But most of current GMO fits your description.
[01:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Libra Cryptocurrency - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:11] <exec> 08└─If only I could understand the mind of people who just downvote stuff they don't want to hear... even if it makes them poor.
[01:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Volvo Testing Automated Electric Truck in Sweden - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:57] <exec> 08└─Trollhättan? Volvo is in Trollhättan. In Sweden.
[01:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Critical Bug in Infusion System Allows Changing Drug Dose in Medical Pumps - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:35] <exec> 08└─Yah, let's see 500 articles in a row about alt-right: then let see how fast this place dies. I don't like all submissions but I like seeing a variety of submissions. One or two GOOD alt-right articles from Ari? Fine. 500 shit alt-right submissions? Suck my dick, NO! ALL he submits is the same boring...
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[02:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:29] <exec> 08└─Well, I have to agree with you on the point you made. Since the ACLU is involved, I have to assume that they see this as a slippery slope to something more nefarious. Or, if your not as cynical as I am, you can look at it from the point of view that anything the police do (and others) requires publi...
[02:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:31] <exec> 08└─The car's speed is not personal data. Otherwise we have to outlaw police radar. In fact, any witness to your car's speed wouldn't be admissible. The car's speed is public. Fuck the driver.
[02:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:33] <exec> 08└─The car's speed is only one datum among many. Maybe you missed the "personal data" in the title. Cars get more and more sophisticated, incorporating entertainment and communications with the outside world. Do they, can they, incorporate navigation into the computer? Oh, well, they can get a detailed...
[02:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:35] <exec> 08└─I would also be worried about the possibility of the police trawling through the last 12 months of data (speed, correlated with GPS co-ordinates vs speed limits on those roads) and potentially hit you with dozens of speeding charges for trips made months earlier. Double-concerned if this data is pro...
[02:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:37] <exec> 08└─That fits with my objection to red-light cameras, and other automated ticket generation schemes. If no human was present to write the ticket, the ticket is invalid.
[02:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:40] <exec> 08└─Everything about the vehicle's motion is public, or should be, no matter who records it. However, I really only mean that for forensics in an accident, not for your average fishing expedition in cop on black crime. In an accident, all info is valid, no matter how it is acquired. The truth must alway...
[02:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:51] <exec> 08└─Or razing forests to create farmland? Or maybe it's just fake news? It's 50-50, so let's teach the controversy.
[02:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:52] <exec> 08└─First a story about LED grow lights hits the approved submissions list, and now we have reports of seed-bearing plants disappearing? Very suspicious.
[02:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pledges to Build 15,000+ Homes in San Francisco - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:11] <exec> 08└─*And deported.
[02:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:38] <exec> 08└─Humans selected them as a desirable trait.
[02:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:40] <exec> 08└─And put your tongue out.
[02:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:42] <exec> 08└─So how do you explain crab apples? Checkmates athiest.
[02:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:44] <exec> 08└─Evolution is merely a process where genetic variation in a population leads to some members having a higher survival rate than other members of the group, generally due to an ability of some members to survive better in conditions around them. The way both you and GP talk about evolution sounds back...
[02:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06June 2019 TOP500 List: All 500 Systems Above 1 Petaflops - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:59] <exec> 08└─Depends on if they're mining Bitcoins or not.
[02:16:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Shire [5824] 02 - 06Facebook Announces Libra Cryptocurrency - 225 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:11] <exec> 08└─Can't wait for a crytocurrency with the ethics of Uber, the censorship resistance of Paypal, and the centralization of Visa, all tied together under the proven privacy of Facebook [imgur.com] All hail the ZuckBuck [imgur.com]
[02:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Libra Cryptocurrency - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:38] <exec> 08└─fuck corporatocracy and your precious laissez-faire capitalism.
[02:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Libra Cryptocurrency - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:40] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't that be "the decentralization of Visa"? All the other points describe failings of the respective organizations. But Visa is rather good at being centralized.
[02:17:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Ajit Pai Says NOAA and NASA Are Wrong About 5G Harming Weather Forecasts - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:11] <exec> 08└─this art is lost in the US executive branch since 1963.
[02:17:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Ajit Pai Says NOAA and NASA Are Wrong About 5G Harming Weather Forecasts - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:15] <exec> 08└─Evidence suggests that may have already happened..
[02:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Says NOAA and NASA Are Wrong About 5G Harming Weather Forecasts - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:20] <exec> 08└─Turns out none of that actually matters to people.
[02:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Says NOAA and NASA Are Wrong About 5G Harming Weather Forecasts - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:22] <exec> 08└─Quiet, they're creating jobs.
[02:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Domino's Will Start Robot Pizza Deliveries in Houston This Year - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:16] <exec> 08└─At 25 mph they will be roadkill.
[02:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Porn Trolling Mastermind Paul Hansmeier Gets 14 Years in Prison - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:34] <exec> 08└─Wait till he meets his cell mates.
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[03:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 1280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure you are actually disagreeing with the parent post you replied to. You don't want police to go on "fishing expeditions" in most cases but believe police should have access to data in the case of an accident. That's NOT a "public record." That's a record you get under circumstances where...
[03:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:38] <exec> 08└─That fits with my objection to red-light cameras, and other automated ticket generation schemes. If no human was present to write the ticket, the ticket is invalid.
[03:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:40] <exec> 08└─That's bullshit
[03:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:42] <exec> 08└─However, I really only mean that for forensics in an accident, not for your average fishing expedition in cop on black crime. In an accident, all info is valid, no matter how it is acquired. The truth must always take precedence.
[03:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:56] <exec> 08└─How many NEW plants have yet to be discovered? Or have they not gone extinct, just evolved and spread.
[03:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:57] <exec> 08└─Stored by those forward thinking Norwegians in a naturally refrigerated vault. ...Oh shit https://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com]
[03:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Quicksilver [1821] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:59] <exec> 08└─I would be interested in knowing how much of this is because of invasive species. We have inadvertently introduced plants by planting crops or from seeds just "hitching a ride". A big example is the sage that took over a large quantity of what used to be grasslands in America. We also like to take p...
[03:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:01] <exec> 08└─Those are valid options. They're just not the case here. Are you familiar with the phrase "astronomical odds"? It means that, while something isn't physically impossible, the expected number of times it might happen during the lifetime of the universe are lower than one. If you look at this study's...
[03:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:52] <exec> 08└─Crab apples are a wild species that is partly ancestral to the lineage of modern apple cultivars, similar to the seeded wild bananas mentioned. Asking how come there are still crab apples is like asking If humans descended from monkeys, how come there are still monkeys? [rationalwiki.org] And by the...
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[03:16:49] <exec> 08└─(2) it uses Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) for consensus rather the proof-of-work or proof-of-stake
[03:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Libra Cryptocurrency - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:51] <exec> 08└─Would be hilarious if bitcoin bubble bursting caused an economic collapse.
[03:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Says NOAA and NASA Are Wrong About 5G Harming Weather Forecasts - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:32] <exec> 08└─Why would it be pulled, seriously?
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[04:14:26] <exec> 08└─Ich bin so froh, dass meine Regierung mich jetzt überall verfolgen kann, nicht nur bei meinem Telefonanbieter. Hurra!
[04:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:28] <exec> 08└─Just wondering because so far not one place has given a rationale for taking a photocopy of ID to the point of refusing to give a room key for a room already booked and paid for online just for asking why it is needed. "We must prove this is you getting your room key so a photocopy of a driver's lic...
[04:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:30] <exec> 08└─Yes. Mostly just to piss you off. Then again, it's better to be pissed off than pissed on. Unless you're into that kind of thing. Now you know.
[04:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:32] <exec> 08└─You mean they don't already? Or, maybe, they do and you are in a river in Egypt.
[04:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:34] <exec> 08└─Nein. Das ist nicht so. [dw.com] Sie beobachten mich nur mit Kameras und meiner Internetaktivität. Sie verfolgen mein Handy noch nicht. Aber sie werden es bald sein. Ich bin so aufgeregt und kann es einfach nicht verbergen. Ich werde die Kontrolle verlieren und ich denke, es gefällt mir.
[04:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:36] <exec> 08└─Actually, I really don't want my phone to become anything that is an 'official identity' item. Namely, I don't want my phone to ever become something that law enforcement or government feels like they have the right to scrutinize. I like it for there to be little or no plausible reason for a governm...
[04:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:39] <exec> 08└─Thinking back to the last few times I stayed at a hotel, while I was asked for ID (and a credit card for incidentals), no one photocopied my ID or scanned it or anything. They looked at it and (presumably, as they didn't say that's what they were doing) verified that the name matched the credit card...
[04:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:57] <exec> 08└─In at least some cases, the speed recorded in the car is from a sensor on the driveshaft (or in the transmission) and the calibration may not be very good. For example, if aftermarket tires are fitted that are a different size than original, very few (no one?) will bother to update the speedometer c...
[04:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:16] <exec> 08└─This study is a "what" not a "why" but yes the followups are interesting! Rats and sage and others ...
[04:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:18] <exec> 08└─I hate those fucking plants! So smug, just sitting there breathing our air and drinking our water. Fucking parasites! If that wasn't bad enough, they take our women. How many times have you heard some woman you're hoping to get some action with say, "Oh look that those pretty flowers! They smell so...
[04:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:20] <exec> 08└─Living is a pastime. Eat genX shit mother frencher.
[04:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:22] <exec> 08└─Also, continuing on... Let me feed you a context bottle while changing your relevant diaper. Grow some sexy arm hair or STFU.
[04:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:24] <exec> 08└─Efficient market hypothesis: we don't need all these fucking plants. Sorry we can't save all these plants or John Lennon. Grow up and die.
[04:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Pledges to Build 15,000+ Homes in San Francisco - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:43] <exec> 08└─No, but the windows will be made of diamonds
[04:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:16] <exec> 08└─OMFG! You denied intelligent design ... Racist!
[04:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:18] <exec> 08└─Complete BS. Humans once worshipped cats as gods. They have not forgotten.
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[05:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun-Like Stars Capable of Emitting Superflares - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:22] <exec> 08└─Just read a few days ago that strong correlations with planetary alignments and sunspot activity has been found. The "Jupiter Effect" was an alignment of all the planets within an arc just 95 degrees wide, occuring in 1982. In recent years, we've had an unusually quiet sun, and I wonder if the plane...
[05:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sun-Like Stars Capable of Emitting Superflares - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:23] <exec> 08└─that would be a very surprising finding. where did you read it?
[05:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun-Like Stars Capable of Emitting Superflares - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:25] <exec> 08└─where did you read it?
[05:14:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:47] <exec> 08└─The car's speed is not personal data. Otherwise we have to outlaw police radar. In fact, any witness to your car's speed wouldn't be admissible. The car's speed is public. Fuck the driver.
[05:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 1177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:20] <exec> 08└─Competition with invasive species is almost certainly a factor, but there are definitely others. For example, most states in the United States have no laws that provide protection for endangered plant species. You can plow them under, spray them with roundup, anything you like under federal law, so...
[05:17:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Facebook Announces Libra Cryptocurrency - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:05] <exec> 08└─An Ars commeter put it best : Paypal, Uber, and Facebook ... Wrong Zodiac : it ain't Libra, it's Cancer.
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[06:14:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 1092 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:54] <exec> 08└─The car's speed is only one datum among many. Maybe you missed the "personal data" in the title. Cars get more and more sophisticated, incorporating entertainment and communications with the outside world. Do they, can they, incorporate navigation into the computer? Oh, well, they can get a detailed...
[06:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:03] <exec> 08└─Maybe not the same issues, but any and all forms of mass surveillance threaten freedom and democracy.
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[07:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sun-Like Stars Capable of Emitting Superflares - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:35] <exec> 08└─Did we not, well before 2012, have a sci-fi movie about this? Kid with the "sight", animals running on fire, aliens trying to contact Runaway to warn him about the Solar Flare? Ah-ha! The Knowing [wikipedia.org], with Nicolas Cage. Doesn't end well. Point of this fine Article? Aristarchus, attemptin...
[07:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:49] <exec> 08└─They are tracing your cell phone, most recently they selected for all mobile phones present in the vicinity of the Walther Lübcke murder site.
[07:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:50] <exec> 08└─"iPapieren, Bitte!" Are you circumcised, mein Comrade?
[07:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:52] <exec> 08└─Danke vielmals! Das wusste ich nicht. Das ist Grossartig! Die Polizei muss in der Lage sein, Verbrecher aufzuspüren, und ich möchte, dass sie sie finden. Deshalb gebe ich unseren Freunden, der Polizei, immer das, was sie wollen. Nachdem ich ins Gefängnis gegangen war, weil ich auf dem Bürgerstei...
[07:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:54] <exec> 08└─"Your papers.... iPhone, please! Obersturmbannfuehrer, check his pap... verdammt!"
[07:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:57] <exec> 08└─Das Leben der Anderen, https://www.imdb.com [imdb.com] Angela Merkel is fantastic in this role!
[07:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:59] <exec> 08└─Das ist nicht sehr nett. Du lasst uns klingen, als wären wir Nazis. Wir lieben alle, auch die Juden. Ich bin hierher gekommen, um Dinge zu besprechen, die wichtig sind, um nicht als Nazis bezeichnet zu werden. Arschloch!
[07:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:01] <exec> 08└─This is not about Donald Trump, it is Germany. Here, have some Starbursts [google.com], and don't say I never gave you anything!
[07:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:03] <exec> 08└─Du hast meine Frage nicht beantwortet.
[07:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 1453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:23] <exec> 08└─This is a little O/T but, given the tone of your comment, here's a bit of unsolicited advice: Never Talk To The Police [youtube.com] The police's job is to investigate crimes and gather evidence so a prosecutor can get a conviction. If they decide (or are trying to decide if) that's going to be you,...
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[08:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Groundbreaking Climate Change Discovery Made By, Sigh, Boaty McBoatface - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:36] <exec> 08└─Sheesh, someone's salty about losing the vote..
[08:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Groundbreaking Climate Change Discovery Made By, Sigh, Boaty McBoatface - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:37] <exec> 08└─How unfortunate about the name, but that's an awesome climate change discovery that ... uh ...
[08:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:14] <exec> 08└─Fick dich! Dein Anführer ist ein riesiges Stück Scheiße. Angi Markle ist alt, aber sie regiert gut. Sie gibt einen tollen Blasen und ist eine tolle Hure. Wir lieben sie. Deine Anführer macht nicht beides. Wertlos.
[08:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:15] <exec> 08└─Ja, das stimmt. Du bist ein Arschloch. Das ist deine Antwort!
[08:15:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 15 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:31] <exec> 08└─That's bullshit
[08:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:00] <exec> 08└─Why don't you think for a second before trying to be a comedian. Cause you suck as a comedian, and at thinking.
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[09:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Groundbreaking Climate Change Discovery Made By, Sigh, Boaty McBoatface - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:36] <exec> 08└─Yet another wonderful climate change discovery that wasn't part of our thousands of models but we've got it all explained and adjusted already. The solution is of course to buy Al Gore his 4th waterfront mansion and then have a nice big first class climate conference at a 5 star hotel in the tropics...
[09:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Frontiersman" Cray Snags $50m Storage Contract for 'Largest Single Filesystem' - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:44] <exec> 08└─How much pr0n will that hold? (After all, that does a lot more to let people understand how much capacity a drive has instead of 1,000,000 - 1TB cards.)
[09:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Frontiersman" Cray Snags $50m Storage Contract for 'Largest Single Filesystem' - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:46] <exec> 08└─Nobody stores their porn locally anymore.
[09:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Frontiersman" Cray Snags $50m Storage Contract for 'Largest Single Filesystem' - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:48] <exec> 08└─Enough that you'll have to download the files directly to your brain and have your visual cortex read the compressed files at wire speed, to go through all of it within your lifetime.
[09:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Frontiersman" Cray Snags $50m Storage Contract for 'Largest Single Filesystem' - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:51] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=26740&page=1&cid=711214#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Porn storage requirements don't seem that high to start out. Maybe as low as 100 TB for a...
[09:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Frontiersman" Cray Snags $50m Storage Contract for 'Largest Single Filesystem' - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:53] <exec> 08└─Download it all, then use masheen learning to tap your brain implant and locate the content you want after filtering out 99.9999% of it.
[09:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Frontiersman" Cray Snags $50m Storage Contract for 'Largest Single Filesystem' - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:55] <exec> 08└─We're sorry, this video has been deleted by a Special Representative of the United Nations for promoting unrealistic expectations of the female body as well as heteronormative behavior. Here are some recommendations for inclusive and body-positive pornography: [thumbnails redacted]
[09:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:30] <exec> 08└─this might just save you the trouble of pulling out your wallet to prove who you are
[09:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:17] <exec> 08└─Enlighten us. Go on, chop-chop.
[09:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Libra Cryptocurrency - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:09] <exec> 08└─It's not Libra, it's Gemini.
[09:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Critical Bug in Infusion System Allows Changing Drug Dose in Medical Pumps - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:39] <exec> 08└─I didn't get sick. Most plagues only infect less than 30% of the population. Of course, when the fatality rate is very high, that is no small thing. And, most infectious critters cannot afford to be too deadly, like Ebola. First rule of being a parasite: "Do not kill (all of) your host."
[09:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Critical Bug in Infusion System Allows Changing Drug Dose in Medical Pumps - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:21:40] <exec> 08└─And, once more, you have allowed yourself to be drawn off-topic! And you started out so well!
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[10:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:16] <exec> 08└─New headline proposed: Scientists' Predictions Proved Hilariously Inaccurate - Demand They Keep Their Credibility
[10:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:17] <exec> 08└─Scientists' Predictions Proved Hilariously Inaccurate- Demand They Keep Their Credibility is no longer an issue, the fact is you can start shifting your pants now
[10:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Groundbreaking Climate Change Discovery Made By, Sigh, Boaty McBoatface - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:28] <exec> 08└─WHat do you mean - the science is good: > increasingly strong winds in the Antarctic are causing cold water at the bottom of the ocean to mix with warmer water from the middle levels. Thus cooling town that warmer water, exactly as you'd expect. > That, in turn, is causing overall ocean temperatures...
[10:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03lhsi [711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Groundbreaking Climate Change Discovery Made By, Sigh, Boaty McBoatface - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:30] <exec> 08└─I wonder whether the story (including the climate findings) would be on as many news sites were it not for the name.
[10:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Frontiersman" Cray Snags $50m Storage Contract for 'Largest Single Filesystem' - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:42] <exec> 08└─It says the bulk of it is on hard disks. 1 exabyte is 62,500 16 TB hard drives. NAND has the density advantage now (imagine a bucket filled with 1 TB microSD cards), but nobody here trusts it given the endurance and retention downgrades. Though the same increase in layers to 128 and beyond helps SLC...
[10:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sun-Like Stars Capable of Emitting Superflares - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:53] <exec> 08└─look through the comments on the daily sun and space-weather videos here: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] for a more organized set of videos covering the explosive potential of our star in context, look at the Earth Catastrophe Cycle Pl...
[10:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:18] <exec> 08└─If you're fondling your phone constantly, you know where it is at all times. Meanwhile, you have your wallet, passport, etc. stashed away to prevent them from being lost or stolen. I think most people are using apps, web browsers, and texts rather than talking, so that is not a problem.
[10:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:20] <exec> 08└─My mother often told me that during the war, citizens in occupied countries were constantly terrified to hear the words "Ausweis bitte!", not "Papieren bitte!". Hearing those words could mean that you were about to get deported, never to be heard from again. I agree with you that current generations...
[10:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:41] <exec> 08└─James Duane's advice has been slightly updated: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] TL;DR: Ask for a lawyer. Insist on it repeatedly. That tends to shut down questioning.
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[10:16:59] <exec> 08└─Same way you're still stupider than a chimp.
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[11:14:15] <exec> 08└─even when these things have already been shown to reveal information, real time video feeds and more to other people, they are still being bought... https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] "...
[11:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:17] <exec> 08└─Well, how could we regulate the cyberspace by law?
[11:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:19] <exec> 08└─Working as intended. Why should the consumer pay for defective items? write a one line law that allows the consumer to return a FAULTY item when the fault emerges, no matter the warranty. But ofc for all the spouting of principles no politician of whatever area is going to go against his masters thi...
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[11:14:21] <exec> 08└─No. VPN setups are technically difficult to tap into for ordinary enforcement. You cannot overload special task forces by boring daily operations on all over the landscape. Everything must be criminally transparent for any possible meaning of transparency. And let the consumer pay for that transpare...
[11:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Groundbreaking Climate Change Discovery Made By, Sigh, Boaty McBoatface - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:40] <exec> 08└─From TFA Antarctic winds are growing in strength due to the thinning of the ozone layer and the build-up of greenhouse gases, but their impact on the ocean has never been factored in to climate models.
[11:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sun-Like Stars Capable of Emitting Superflares - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:05] <exec> 08└─Bringing up Merkabah mysticism here is a big no-no.
[11:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:33] <exec> 08└─So why is pulling out an iPhone less trouble than pulling out your wallet? Is it because hipsters never put their iPhone away?
[11:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Libra Cryptocurrency - 2660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:13] <exec> 08└─Actually this is a currency that is intended to compete with the dollar in the united states, so it is wildly, incredibly, punishably, illegal. It's like a city making their own currency, or a church, except they are rich idiots. bitcoin is different because it has no location and no institutions, n...
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[12:14:30] <exec> 08└─No. VPN setups are technically difficult to tap into for ordinary enforcement. The UK's porn block will dramatically increase the amount of VPN traffic in the UK, it's a great thing.
[12:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:32] <exec> 08└─write a one line law
[12:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sun-Like Stars Capable of Emitting Superflares - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:16] <exec> 08└─Just had to deal with some asshole on this site the other day claiming stuff like this never happened ehjo ruined the thread with political drivel. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[12:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun-Like Stars Capable of Emitting Superflares - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:18] <exec> 08└─I believe it was on SN a few weeks ago. Random google: https://www.sciencedirect.com [sciencedirect.com] Citations to that paper: https://www.scopus.com
[12:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Says NOAA and NASA Are Wrong About 5G Harming Weather Forecasts - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:07] <exec> 08└─The sad part is how true this is, and how little most people seem to care. This difference is important and one can only hope this is not going to be the new norm for future administrations.
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[13:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:31] <exec> 08└─A better question is what should consumertards do after they junk these IoT gadgets. They will refuse to go back to non-IoT devices "because old", and new IoT shit will just have the exact same problem. Of course, manufacturers WANT people to wastefully throw out their old stuff and buy all new stuf...
[13:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:32] <exec> 08└─I think is that these devices are relative cheap (they talk about $20 devices in the article), in that returning them isn't just worth it.
[13:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:34] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, maybe this plastic IoT junk could be regulated in a similar way to plastic packaging.
[13:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:44] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, they are wrong in the bad direction - i.e. heating has been *underestimated*.
[13:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:46] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, they are wrong in the bad direction - i.e. heating has been *underestimated*.
[13:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03cyberthanasis [5212] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Groundbreaking Climate Change Discovery Made By, Sigh, Boaty McBoatface - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:58] <exec> 08└─And yet, despite the models' error, they confidently dictate what will happen in 30 an 80 years.
[13:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Libra Cryptocurrency - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:34] <exec> 08└─Visa makes so much money from CC transport fees they would not be supporting a cryptocurrency that would eliminate that. There is something here that benefits Visa, and likely the other backers, that we haven't seen yet.
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[14:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:36] <exec> 08└─Why not focus on producing healthy happy cows instead of optimizing for "methane emission", "feed intake", and "milk yield"? I want these people to stay away from the food supply.
[14:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:37] <exec> 08└─Sea cows?
[14:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:39] <exec> 08└─Externalities
[14:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:41] <exec> 08└─I tried seaweed with my cows but they kept drowning themselves in the pond. Ever give a cow CPR?
[14:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:43] <exec> 08└─When seaweed feed additives can start asking us questions, you know that we've reached the future!
[14:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefly Opens First Alpha Rocket Launch to Academic and Educational Payloads - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:52] <exec> 08└─Mal?
[14:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:07] <exec> 08└─Consumers can return any items with defects within 2 years (or 1 if you live in the US). After those 2 years, you can still return items with defects and expect free fixes/refunds under certain conditions, which I think may be met in this case.
[14:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:09] <exec> 08└─I'm probably not your typical consumer. I would really like some new high-quality dumb appliances. Could you point me at a quality (at least on par with Samsung) 75 inch 4K dumb TV with at least 4 HDMI inputs and a North American OTA TV tuner built in? Once I find that we can talk about the fridge,...
[14:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:11] <exec> 08└─You should build those devices yourself from scratch, and write the software too, if you wish to trust them in full spectrum of meaning of trust.
[14:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 2265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:13] <exec> 08└─I've said this before. It is not always popular. But think it through. Part of the solution is to make the vendors (or manufacturers?) of devices (fully or partly?) liable for the damage caused by their security problems. If I buy a toaster, I expect it not to burn my house down. Now don't misread o...
[14:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:15] <exec> 08└─I don't own any of these "smart" devices but was thinking about how it used to be. Let me give an example. Back in the late 1990s I wanted to be able to listen to my mp3 library from work. I had quite a few and portable HDDs, the cloud and all these things were either non existent or expensive. So a...
[14:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:17] <exec> 08└─I'm not going to swear to this, but I think it's two minutes in the US. Buyer beware.
[14:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:29] <exec> 08└─Could you unpack the comment a bit? I don't understand the subtext.
[14:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 1496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:30] <exec> 08└─Old men who made their fortunes in industries which produced mass quantities of greenhouse gasses have been pushing the science to deny, delay, and otherwise push back the perceived impacts of said greenhouse gasses for as long as possible, so that they may continue to grow their fortunes without ha...
[14:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:32] <exec> 08└─What credibility do climatologist have? Very little. What predictions from 40,30, 20 years ago came true? Their predictions aren't any less ambiguous that daily horoscopes. Climatologist now blame any weather that does not match the 40-year average on any give day on global warming/climate change. T...
[14:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:03] <exec> 08└─One note on automotive speedometers. The law REQUIRES that speedometers either be accurate, or they err on the high side. No prosecutor, judge, or whoever, will accept an argument that your speedometer is inaccurate, on the low side. That's a federal DOT requirement. Manufacturers can't be bothered...
[14:17:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:05] <exec> 08└─I just finished watching, and there is some updated, and extremely useful, information in the video you linked. However, I'd say that the original is still worth watching. I say this for a couple reasons: 1. Duane isn't shilling for his book in the original, and is much more expansive on why you sho...
[14:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:31] <exec> 08└─My front garden, By numbers of different species as of last year. Trees: 7 Shrubs: 15 Perrenials: 18+ Annuals: 9 Grass: maybe... Weeds: fuck knows... Fungi: 11 identified, 5 unidentified. Neighbour one side Grass, and fuck all else.. Neighbour the other side nothing, nada, zilch. Fucking parking lot...
[14:17:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Google Pledges to Build 15,000+ Homes in San Francisco - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:44] <exec> 08└─It will increase productivity. You do not want to get fired and evicted on the same day.
[14:18:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:08] <exec> 08└─Do not anthropomorphize the yeasts.
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[15:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:33] <exec> 08└─The meat I buy now costs 2-3x as much as whatever new species they are creating here. I can't say I notice much difference in the form of taste when it comes to beef yet, but I am sure they will catch up to the franken-chicken level eventually. If you are worried about externalities, worry about the...
[15:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:34] <exec> 08└─If this seaweed extract decreases methane production, let's see if it works for humans. I haven't had much luck with other anti-gas meds (over the counter) to deal with both the embarrassing farts problem and also the abdominal pain problem. Beano is somewhat effective, but something better over-the...
[15:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:36] <exec> 08└─If the amount needed is small, maybe both can be combined into one pill.
[15:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:38] <exec> 08└─With nearly 1.5 billion head of cattle in the world
[15:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:41] <exec> 08└─Tap a balloon in the cow ass, then sell the methane as ecofuel. No need to endanger seaweed.
[15:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:43] <exec> 08└─And then we can have our combination incubator/microwave ovens. Grows slow, but cooks fast!
[15:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:45] <exec> 08└─So Methane is 100X more potent than C02, right, so why not burn the methane to make the cows more green. Retrofit a small pilot light near the anus and/or mouth area so the methane can be safely flared off. Perhaps the device could be designed so that the pilot fuel is collected directly from the re...
[15:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:47] <exec> 08└─Then eat your Kombu [wikipedia.org].
[15:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:16] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a good idea. Until taking into account that manufacturers are located in different countries, and one country's laws don't extend into another country. For example, if the United States passed the law you propose, how could it be enforced on manufacturers in China? Do you place the impor...
[15:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:17] <exec> 08└─And to add insult to injury, again in the US, once you've signed any kind of consumer contract in the last 10 years or so, you have now agreed that you will not be able to sue the company for any reason whatsoever.
[15:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:19] <exec> 08└─You get a dumb TV by taking a smart TV and not allowing it to connect to the internet.
[15:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:22] <exec> 08└─Do you place the importers in a proxy position and charge them? Or the retailers that sell the products? No one but the manufacturer has any control over the devices, the flaws and any fixes to those flaws.
[15:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:24] <exec> 08└─You may not get that choice if they start coming with SIM modules that let them connect to wireless data networks.
[15:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:26] <exec> 08└─Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows ME - Millennium Edition Windows NT 31. - 4.0 Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Vista Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 10 Windows Server Windows Home Server Windows CE Windows Mobile Windows Phone 7-10
[15:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:28] <exec> 08└─Because SCOTUS has repeatedly said, in 5-4 decisions, that both no-class-action and binding-arbitration clauses are A-OK in all kinds of contracts, including consumer contracts and employee contracts. Those are among the most consequential Supreme Court cases you've never heard of, like Directv v. I...
[15:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:42] <exec> 08└─Any scientist who might have come out in 1990 and predicted that by 2020 the permafrost would be thawed would have been laughed out of his career for the ensuing three decades
[15:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sticking your fingers in your ear and saying "LALALALA" will certainly help as the permafrost and glaciers melt.
[15:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:45] <exec> 08└─Any scientist who might have come out in 1990 and predicted that by 2020 the permafrost would be thawed would have been laughed out of his career
[15:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:47] <exec> 08└─Nice strawman, keep on sticking your fingers in your ears so you can ignore the grand solar minimum that is on its way.* No need for you to prepare for that at all, I am sure the government will save you. The same one that is still paying people to move into flood plains... * Afaic, people should pr...
[15:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:50] <exec> 08└─Thanks, it wasn't clear whether > From the perspective of the rich old men who have been driving climate science in a particular direction for decades, this was both the desired and fortunate outcome. referred to Al Gore/etc pushing pro-warming lobby (I guess he is billionaire, I don't really know,...
[15:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:52] <exec> 08└─And the subtext of TFS is "orange man bad".
[15:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:54] <exec> 08└─Afaic, people should prepare for both possibilities, the climate is always changing.
[15:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Groundbreaking Climate Change Discovery Made By, Sigh, Boaty McBoatface - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:07] <exec> 08└─If they mix cold water with warm water that are both part of the same system how does the overall temperature rise? Is this just another misunderstanding of Holder's inequality, ie: > x = c(1, 2, 1000, 1200) > mean(x)^.5 [1] 23.46806 > mean(x^.5) [1] 17.1695
[15:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sun-Like Stars Capable of Emitting Superflares - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:35] <exec> 08└─powerful enough to strip away planetary atmospheres in close orbit
[15:17:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 1280 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:16] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure you are actually disagreeing with the parent post you replied to. You don't want police to go on "fishing expeditions" in most cases but believe police should have access to data in the case of an accident. That's NOT a "public record." That's a record you get under circumstances where...
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[16:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PCIe 6.0 Announced for 2021: Doubles Bandwidth Yet Again - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:40] <exec> 08└─Are there energy/temperature/price trade offs vs implementing PCIe 4.0, 5.0, or 6.0? Eg, are we going to see laptops and low end workstations with PCIe 4.0, gaming/pro PCs with PCIe 5.0, while HEDT and servers have PCIe 6.0? Obviously the motherboards will only support a specific PCIe version, but h...
[16:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06PCIe 6.0 Announced for 2021: Doubles Bandwidth Yet Again - 1936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:42] <exec> 08└─The price is expected to be high. Energy consumption may be higher. Physical limits are appearing. But with PCIe 4.0 & 5.0 already resulting in very tight signal requirements that have resulted in ever shorter trace length limits, simply doubling the transfer rate yet again isn’t necessarily the b...
[16:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:03] <exec> 08└─Combining various solutions posted here: Collect the methane in a large balloon. When the balloon is full, roast the cow with its own methane. Patent Pending.
[16:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:04] <exec> 08└─We must encase all cows within semi-transparent domes to collect their methane farts. This will avoid ending the year in 10 years like AOC thinks, and provide enough sustainable power that we can get off fossil fuel forever! Scientists say it may impact grass growth rates under the massive domes, an...
[16:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:07] <exec> 08└─Cows burping — often incorrectly characterized as cows farting — methane and contributing to climate change has been the subject of considerable derision within the U.S., conceded Hristov, who is recognized as an international leader in conducting research assessing greenhouse gas emissions from...
[16:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:09] <exec> 08└─From the article, cows don't fart, they belch. Actually, they do fart, but not as much: https://www.apnews.com [apnews.com] (fun police)
[16:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:11] <exec> 08└─We should just transition to lab-grown meat, which necessarily must be grown indoors, and if any methane is produced it can be captured.
[16:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:48] <exec> 08└─I am way less ambitious. I just want a dumb car. Any mid-range late last century will do.
[16:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:09] <exec> 08└─We need to set up electric discharge stations throughout polar circle, or to send drones into higher atmosphere layers (methane is lighter than air) to ignite the methane. Better to have even more CO2 and H2O than CH4.
[16:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Groundbreaking Climate Change Discovery Made By, Sigh, Boaty McBoatface - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:24] <exec> 08└─Which one, the boat naming or the 2016 election? Could be both.
[16:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Groundbreaking Climate Change Discovery Made By, Sigh, Boaty McBoatface - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:25] <exec> 08└─Or if Hillary had been elected.
[16:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun-Like Stars Capable of Emitting Superflares - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:56] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the way to terraform Venus is to put mirrors or other structures in its orbit that will block incoming sunlight. That will lower the surface temperature and cause many changes. Of course, if we do that, we could lose the "floating in the acidic but temperate upper atmosphere" habitat...
[16:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:25] <exec> 08└─I guess for those situations the iPhone thing is an advantage: Even if they make a photocopy of your iPhone, it probably won't reveal much. :-)
[16:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:27] <exec> 08└─As long as they don't make owning an iPhone mandatory, I'm OK with this.
[16:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:29] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, I can imagine that to give a new level of identity theft: You don't need to steal someone's ID card, you just have to scan it with your iPhone …
[16:19:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:04] <exec> 08└─Ah, that's different. Cats have selectively bred into their humans the ability to be sneered at.
[16:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:15] <exec> 08└─Well, first, a crab fucked an apple...
[16:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:16] <exec> 08└─Please don't lump me in with bob_super, when I specifically mentioned 2 mechanisms for cute-to-humans being transmitted into subsequent generations more commonly than less-cute-to-humans. I definitely don't think Lamarck was right about this.
[16:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ajit Pai Says NOAA and NASA Are Wrong About 5G Harming Weather Forecasts - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:02] <exec> 08└─I hate Pai as much as anyone, but you seem to be missing the point of the analogy entirely. sort of a rifle shot, if you will, instead of a shotgun blast of 5G spectrum.
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[17:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Aging Mechanisms Disappear in Humans Beyond Midlife; Organs Contain Mix of Young and Old Cells - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:27] <exec> 08└─As cell lineages accumulate errors the organism wants to turn of this "anti-aging" stuff so that they die off before becoming cancerous...
[17:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PCIe 6.0 Announced for 2021: Doubles Bandwidth Yet Again - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:36] <exec> 08└─PCIe 4.0 finally hit after being delayed year after year. They can paper-launch anything, but I'm done waiting on them. Let me know when they've got end-user products undergoing final testing.
[17:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PCIe 6.0 Announced for 2021: Doubles Bandwidth Yet Again - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:38] <exec> 08└─I think the need for PCIe 4.0 and faster revisions wasn't as urgent in the past. Now we have ultra fast SSDs and 3D XPoint along with bandwidth-hungry GPUs and other coprocessors [wikichip.org]. So PCI-SIG is preparing these at a faster pace to match the needs of vendors.
[17:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06PCIe 6.0 Announced for 2021: Doubles Bandwidth Yet Again - 1626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:41] <exec> 08└─It might be the opposite. 4.0 is 16Gb/s/lane, which is pretty easy to do in a laptop where you control the traces. In a desktop with a slot, that's already trickier but not daunting. Do not buy 4.0 extension cards made by cheap morons who don't understand signal integrity, and plug your cards in pro...
[17:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PCIe 6.0 Announced for 2021: Doubles Bandwidth Yet Again - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:43] <exec> 08└─Typical PCB losses go up in proportion to the sum of both f (dielectric loss) and sqrt(f) (skin effect) terms, so doubling the operating frequency more than doubles the loss per unit distance, which after a while gets truly oppressive for NRZ. Highest signaling rate I’ve seen (2017, in case you we...
[17:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:08] <exec> 08└─Plz see diagram: https://imgur.com [imgur.com]
[17:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:10] <exec> 08└─Is this your original artwork?
[17:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:12] <exec> 08└─I've got a talent.
[17:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:14] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manatee [wikipedia.org] ... sometimes known as sea cows ... All three species of manatee are listed by the World Conservation Union as vulnerable to extinction. It is illegal under federal and Florida law to injure or harm a manatee. They are classified as "endangered"...
[17:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:52] <exec> 08└─Hammurabi’s code: Reestablish a symmetry of fragility: If a builder builds a house and the house collapses and causes the death of the owner of the house - the builder shall be put to death. If it causes the death of the son of the owner of the house, a son of that builder shall be put to death.
[17:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:53] <exec> 08└─All of the above. Plus, as someone alluded to, there should be qualification / testing labs, similar to UL (maybe UL should do it) and wholesalers / retailers would only sell qualified IoT stuff if they're smart. I hate to be pessimistic, but from what we're seeing coming out of court decisions, thi...
[17:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:55] <exec> 08└─Don't junk them, return them to the seller as "defective" and "unfit for purpose". And don't buy an IoT replacement.
[17:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:57] <exec> 08└─You clearly have a higher opinion of Windows 3.11 than I do...
[17:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:00] <exec> 08└─What about Windows 3.1 / DOS? Modems were around then too, you know.
[17:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:02] <exec> 08└─Also, please note this much more interesting list: 1971 The Creeper system, an experimental self-replicating program, is written by Bob Thomas at BBN Technologies to test John von Neumann's theory.[2] Creeper infected DEC PDP-10 computers running the TENEX operating system. Creeper gaine...
[17:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:24] <exec> 08└─Not "laughed off stage", but many predictions were eliminated as "alarmist" or "politically unacceptable...try to say something they'll be willing to hear". And, to be fair, the observable evidence even a decade ago wasn't really convincing...there were multiple ways to interpret it (and they were A...
[17:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:25] <exec> 08└─There really needs to be an "idiot" mod, as I don't really think "troll" fits the parent post.
[17:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:27] <exec> 08└─no one cares about your mod, you whiney little bitch.
[17:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:30] <exec> 08└─the observable evidence even a decade ago wasn't really convincing
[17:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Groundbreaking Climate Change Discovery Made By, Sigh, Boaty McBoatface - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:46] <exec> 08└─I wonder whether the story (including the climate findings) would be on as many news sites were it not for the name.
[17:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Frontiersman" Cray Snags $50m Storage Contract for 'Largest Single Filesystem' - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:00] <exec> 08└─The correct answer is, all of it. Hmm..., possibly not all of it, but definitely enough that you wouldn't be able to view it all.
[17:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Frontiersman" Cray Snags $50m Storage Contract for 'Largest Single Filesystem' - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:02] <exec> 08└─Superman storage crystals, here we come!
[17:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Germans Can Soon Use Their iPhones as Virtual ID Cards - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:50] <exec> 08└─That would be new model Apple phones, as opposed to say the iPhone SE that I got my wife for $119 + tax/shipping. Google is no better in the tracking department and likely quite a bit worse than Apple with regards to user privacy. So long as you also have an ID card, it's just a convenience for a po...
[17:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06June 2019 TOP500 List: All 500 Systems Above 1 Petaflops - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:52] <exec> 08└─> .its good i "dont know" about these calculation monsters since i cannot even begin to understand how they affect my daily life .. Besides the ones which simulated enough physics to end up with things like GPS, and the ones which simulate enough biology to end up with a cure for your future cancer,...
[17:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Libra Cryptocurrency - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:38] <exec> 08└─why would you voluntarily line up for the slave auction? why not use monero like a free person?
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[18:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Aging Mechanisms Disappear in Humans Beyond Midlife; Organs Contain Mix of Young and Old Cells - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:39] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility#Female_fertility [wikipedia.org] (see following section) Fertility rates drop, and pregnancies have increased risk of birth defects before age 50. Then cancer rates end up skyrocketing among the elderly despite the anti-aging switch off. If you are right, we j...
[18:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PCIe 6.0 Announced for 2021: Doubles Bandwidth Yet Again - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:53] <exec> 08└─I just meant that AMD's laptop chips are released later than their desktop chips. Latest rumor [notebookcheck.net] is that it could come out in Q4 which is earlier than usual, but we still know nothing about core counts, use of chiplets, if it will use Vega or Navi graphics, etc. Nobody here will be...
[18:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:23] <exec> 08└─The causes of the methane generation are different in humans and cows. For cows it is the result of fermentation of the grass and corn they eat. In humans its usually caused by bacteria in the gut that digest Lactose and other complex sugars. If Beano helps than its likely your problem is a Lactose...
[18:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:33] <exec> 08└─And the subtext of TFS is "orange man bad".
[18:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:35] <exec> 08└─Actually, it was my mod. And while GP is correct, '-1 troll' will do just fine as a stand in for '-1 moron'. Thanks for sharing. I find your ideas interesting and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
[18:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:37] <exec> 08└─There's CO2-capturing vegetation, and the risk of massive methane release. This calls for the building of a giant greenhouse, with methane capture piping! The anti-greenhouse greenhouse !
[18:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:39] <exec> 08└─Scientists' predictions not coming true, or arriving at contradictory results, is nothing new. I'm sure we all have heard scientists' opinions on what diet is most healthy at the current second. Yet it is palpable that, as soon as Trump was elected, if there was a global warming angle to be made wit...
[18:18:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 192 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:21] <exec> 08└─James Duane's advice has been slightly updated: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] TL;DR: Ask for a lawyer. Insist on it repeatedly. That tends to shut down questioning.
[18:19:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deadstick [5110] 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:34] <exec> 08└─Try the other puppy trick: tilt your head.
[18:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:48] <exec> 08└─Don't even get me started about methane selecting cows to continuously fart it out.
[18:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Libra Cryptocurrency - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:53] <exec> 08└─Actually this is a currency that is intended to compete with the dollar in the united states, so it is wildly, incredibly, punishably, illegal. It's like a city making their own currency, or a church, except they are rich idiots.
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[19:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Realtek RTD2983 SoC for 8K TVs: Supports AV1 Codec - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:25] <exec> 08└─You know things have gotten to the bottom of the barrel when a bottom-feeder like Realtek enters a market. There is a reason their logo is a crab.
[19:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anti-Aging Mechanisms Disappear in Humans Beyond Midlife; Organs Contain Mix of Young and Old Cells - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:34] <exec> 08└─And get run over by a bus
[19:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Aging Mechanisms Disappear in Humans Beyond Midlife; Organs Contain Mix of Young and Old Cells - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:36] <exec> 08└─If you are right, we just need to focus on eliminating cancer (with nanobots) and then we can flip the anti-aging switch.
[19:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Aging Mechanisms Disappear in Humans Beyond Midlife; Organs Contain Mix of Young and Old Cells - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:38] <exec> 08└─I always wondered if my youthful clean living would be a help later on...or if I was missing good times by not participating in the excesses of some of my crazier peers. Looks like I've got a shot at having the last laugh (turning 65 later this year, currently healthy).
[19:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Aging Mechanisms Disappear in Humans Beyond Midlife; Organs Contain Mix of Young and Old Cells - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:40] <exec> 08└─Is the bus self-driving? That's progress.
[19:14:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06PCIe 6.0 Announced for 2021: Doubles Bandwidth Yet Again - 1626 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:52] <exec> 08└─It might be the opposite. 4.0 is 16Gb/s/lane, which is pretty easy to do in a laptop where you control the traces. In a desktop with a slot, that's already trickier but not daunting. Do not buy 4.0 extension cards made by cheap morons who don't understand signal integrity, and plug your cards in pro...
[19:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PCIe 6.0 Announced for 2021: Doubles Bandwidth Yet Again - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:56] <exec> 08└─I love a speed boost like every one else, but for the love of grod can we please get sufficient power through a slot connector from motherboard so I don't have to connect external power via PCIe 6/8 pin, SATA, or god forbid Molex to nearly every damn card in existence these days? I mean, if Apple ca...
[19:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PCIe 6.0 Announced for 2021: Doubles Bandwidth Yet Again - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:58] <exec> 08└─Just go into stasis for 6 years. Then a 50 Watt GPU will have the performance of the old 200 Watt GPUs, and so on.
[19:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:29] <exec> 08└─When we have the technology to do this at the required scales I'm all for it. I am a carnivore, and I know what this means--but I don't really like killing animals to live. It is of course indirect killing, but I'm quite aware that's how it goes. A post-scarcity of resources world has a lot of reall...
[19:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:12] <exec> 08└─That's not why. It's because people don't do research like that. They are blinded by the possibilities - the rave reviews, the marketing push, the cool display in Home Depot, whatever. They don't look at the criticisms unless they are cautious or want to hate it. I've known a fair number of people t...
[19:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe try the "disagree" mod next time, or come up with a valid response? Idiot != troll, a troll can be an idiot or wise man; Socrates is perhaps the most famous of all trolls. I'm not convinced that GGGP was arguing a point they didn't believe (though FTR, I don't believe their point).
[19:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:44] <exec> 08└─Come on! I was just starting to get used climate change! Damn it all...
[19:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Groundbreaking Climate Change Discovery Made By, Sigh, Boaty McBoatface - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:02] <exec> 08└─When they can accurately predict a week I'll believe them. I support the pro-climate loonies, but I'm more of a kill all humans and grow forest kind of guy. Then again nature will survive, we're the ones in danger.
[19:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Puppy Dog Eyes' May Have Evolved Just to Make Humans Melt - And It's Working - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:56] <exec> 08└─So that's why they're acting like real jerks.
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[20:14:48] <exec> 08└─"Live forever" means the bus must not kill you.
[20:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:36] <exec> 08└─How the heck is this troll? This is definitely abuse of mod points.
[20:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:38] <exec> 08└─"It is illegal under federal and Florida law to injure or harm a manatee." Then, I guess it's a moot point how they taste grilled medium rare and with a touch of Heinz 57...
[20:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:40] <exec> 08└─Kind of like John Scalzi's story When The Yogurt Took Over.
[20:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:42] <exec> 08└─We have 1.5 billion cattle heads because we ate the other parts?
[20:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefly Opens First Alpha Rocket Launch to Academic and Educational Payloads - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm thinking NEVER start a submission with Firefly...got me all excited for a second. Almost Soyled meself.
[20:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:29] <exec> 08└─If I buy a Chinese made toaster, there is still someone who is liable if it causes a fire because its design is clearly negligent and wreckless. (er... wreckful?)
[20:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:31] <exec> 08└─Then what happens when free or open source software/hardware has a security hole? If the creators of free stuff can disclaim liability in their legalese, won't commercial entities also do this? If not that, how will you like it when everything is doubly locked down so that everybody can cover their...
[20:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:33] <exec> 08└─Just like cars. If anything, including cars, tries that on me, I'll find and disable it. But who's paying for the cell network data (air time)?
[20:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:35] <exec> 08└─If I buy a Chinese made toaster...
[20:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:37] <exec> 08└─But who's paying for the cell network data (air time)?
[20:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:39] <exec> 08└─Because Win95SP1 was when spyware was added.
[20:16:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 1496 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:52] <exec> 08└─Old men who made their fortunes in industries which produced mass quantities of greenhouse gasses have been pushing the science to deny, delay, and otherwise push back the perceived impacts of said greenhouse gasses for as long as possible, so that they may continue to grow their fortunes without ha...
[20:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:12] <exec> 08└─There are always exceptions - Al Gore talks a good game about the importance of change for the future, but that doesn't stop him from building a huge air-conditioned mansion for himself. On the other hand, the number of people making $1M+ per year in the oil and coal and steel and so many other indu...
[20:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:14] <exec> 08└─Do you even remember what you had for breakfast? As you clearly don't remember that we've been talking about this for *decades*. While L'Orange was calling for innocent children to be put to death [wikipedia.org], mouthing off on the Howard Stern show [youtube.com] showing what a jackass he is, and...
[20:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:16] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you're right, and he's just a moron and not a troll. but as I pointed out [soylentnews.org]: '-1 troll' will do just fine as a stand in for '-1 moron'.
[20:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 2546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:18] <exec> 08└─You ask me a numeric question. I tell you my prediction is that it's 50, with a viable range of 40 to 60. Whether the actual answer is 90, or 10 would mean exactly the same thing - whatever I'm using to predict things is worthless. Things happening radically ahead of pace doesn't mean "See, everythi...
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[21:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Realtek RTD2983 SoC for 8K TVs: Supports AV1 Codec - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:19] <exec> 08└─https://www.realtek.com/en/press-room/news-releases/item/realtek-launches-worldwide-first-4k-uhd-set-top-box-soc-rtd1311-integrating-av1-video-decoder-and-multiple-cas-functions [realtek.com] Lesser SoC decodes 4K AV1.
[21:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Anti-Aging Mechanisms Disappear in Humans Beyond Midlife; Organs Contain Mix of Young and Old Cells - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:33] <exec> 08└─I've always thought the path to healthy life was exercise. And based on that, I've chosen to regularly exercise my digestive tract, pancreas, and especially my liver.
[21:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Aging Mechanisms Disappear in Humans Beyond Midlife; Organs Contain Mix of Young and Old Cells - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:35] <exec> 08└─The ideal nanobot would be able to enter into cells without damaging them, read DNA, make corrections to DNA if feasible, destroy cancerous cells, destroy pathogens and parasites, and remove toxins/accumulated waste products. It might require multiple types/sizes of nanobots instead of all-in-one. G...
[21:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Aging Mechanisms Disappear in Humans Beyond Midlife; Organs Contain Mix of Young and Old Cells - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:37] <exec> 08└─I regularly exercise a different organ.
[21:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:26] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beano_(dietary_supplement) [wikipedia.org] Beano contains the enzyme α-GAL, which is derived from the fungus Aspergillus niger. The enzyme works in the digestive tract to break down the complex or branching sugars (polysaccharides and oligosaccharides) in foods such as...
[21:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:17] <exec> 08└─And the fact is, the data they need to move would be in the low-ks of bytes, so it would phone in maybe once a day and take seconds to transfer the data. Again, find that module.
[21:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:19] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y [youtube.com]
[21:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:21] <exec> 08└─You're preaching to the choir brother! I occasionally get flack for keeping and fixing older things. I just like the way things were made "back in the day"- when people took pride in making quality, before the MBAs took over. That video gives me a melancholy memory of an awesome toaster we (parents...
[21:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:57] <exec> 08└─It's a long time since I read Hippias Minor and Hippias Major, but my impression of Socrates was more like a ridiculizer of trolls. In which I define a troll as somebody who's overly convinced of his own superiority, like all of these climate change deniers tend to be: look Ma, I'm so much more smar...
[21:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Frontiersman" Cray Snags $50m Storage Contract for 'Largest Single Filesystem' - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:31] <exec> 08└─This should have been the supplier: https://en.wikipedia.org(company) [wikipedia.org]
[21:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Frontiersman" Cray Snags $50m Storage Contract for 'Largest Single Filesystem' - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:33] <exec> 08└─I hope we see LTO tapes [wikipedia.org] reach 1 exabyte each.
[21:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Frontiersman" Cray Snags $50m Storage Contract for 'Largest Single Filesystem' - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:35] <exec> 08└─Porn is as infinite as natural numbers, according to Rule 34. For if there was to be a stash of all the porn, then there would be more porn, about the porn in that stash of all the porn.
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[22:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:17] <exec> 08└─There is always that option that we are all alone and/or the most advanced form of line in the universe and/or the other aliens are so far beyond our form of comprehension of what life is that we don't even register to each others as life and/or they just don't give a fuck about us -- the backwards...
[22:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:19] <exec> 08└─Well, it could be like a civilization of dogs declaring there can't be intelligent life out there because by now there surely would have been time for their scent to get here.
[22:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:21] <exec> 08└─I still think we're looking at a very tiny amount of the search space, and possibly the most interesting stuff (radio/TV equivalent broadcasts) is unrecognizable after it travels light years. If you read TFA, Breakthrough Listen was looking for technosignatures/megastructures/beacons. Very obvious "...
[22:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:23] <exec> 08└─There still could be life around neighboring star systems. Microbial, which we'll probably be able to detect in the near future. But it's also possible that intelligent lifeforms exist, that don't need radio anymore. Or aquatic creatures on a water world, could be highly intelligent, but we're not g...
[22:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilJim [2501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:25] <exec> 08└─we'll probably find radio is seen as an archaic technology by other entities, using brute force to propagate a wave? consciousness is the new radio.
[22:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:28] <exec> 08└─Radio is just like, light beams, man.
[22:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:30] <exec> 08└─We're trying to do a stock take by peering through the Warehouse door keyhole. I don't know what the answer is though. Space is big.
[22:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:32] <exec> 08└─160 light years. Earth's radio signals have barely gotten half that far. Best we can do from this is mark 1,327 stars out of 200-400 Billion stars in our Galaxy off the list of possible technological civilizations that are equal or slightly older to Earth's. And the absence of radio signals does not...
[22:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:34] <exec> 08└─Do stars have consciousness? Do they exchange information with other stars?
[22:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Realtek RTD2983 SoC for 8K TVs: Supports AV1 Codec - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:45] <exec> 08└─Aside from buying the telescreens so you can watch ads that tell you to buy more telescreens, does anyone have a particular use in mind for these things? While I am satisfied with my 1600x1200 screen and my eyes aren't getting any better, I could see some kind of stupidly large, high resolution disp...
[22:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Realtek RTD2983 SoC for 8K TVs: Supports AV1 Codec - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:47] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=27400&page=1&cid=730212#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] Higher resolutions for VR. You want 32K resolution capture, 16K within the whole viewing area.
[22:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Aging Mechanisms Disappear in Humans Beyond Midlife; Organs Contain Mix of Young and Old Cells - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:03] <exec> 08└─And for those with a touch of hypochondria, worrying about all your failing parts is an organ recital.
[22:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Aging Mechanisms Disappear in Humans Beyond Midlife; Organs Contain Mix of Young and Old Cells - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:05] <exec> 08└─That would suck as curse. Get thoroughy splatted by a bus when too old to recover, yet live forever.
[22:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:56] <exec> 08└─Thanks for referencing it; I hadn't read that before but thanks to you I found it on Whatever and a good read it is. ( https://whatever.scalzi.com [scalzi.com] ) It is similar, although the story I read was just friends at a party speculating. I pl...
[22:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:58] <exec> 08└─Sorry... brain on another continent and thinking about a different recent comment I made about a short story where friends were speculating about how beer was yeast's way of manipulating humanking into making more yeast. Anyhoo....
[22:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:00] <exec> 08└─However, seaweed may help there as well [wikipedia.org] by enzymatically altering other gas-producing saccharides. (Dunno, though, the abstract the statement links to doesn't positively make the connection the paragraph aimed at - maybe it is in the article content... it states so in the Kombu artic...
[22:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:54] <exec> 08└─My toaster heats up subsequent toastings more, making them browner or burnt faster. And the toast does not peek out of the top, so I have to reach inside if I'm being lazy or get tongs. This is an example of a consumer appliance that has clearly regressed in functionality.
[22:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:32] <exec> 08└─> Any scientist who might have come out in 1990 and predicted that by 2020 the permafrost would be thawed would have been laughed out of his career for the ensuing three decades Yup, experts were still predicting another ice age was just around the corner back then, and only a fool would go up again...
[22:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Groundbreaking Climate Change Discovery Made By, Sigh, Boaty McBoatface - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:52] <exec> 08└─If they mix cold water with warm water that are both part of the same system how does the overall temperature rise?
[22:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03patrick [3990] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun-Like Stars Capable of Emitting Superflares - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:27] <exec> 08└─The scientists who discover when it will happen here. [smbc-comics.com]
[22:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Largest Plant Survey Reveals Alarming Extinction Rate - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:50] <exec> 08└─Are the neighbors with the paved yard trying to make sure they are never cited for violating lawn care ordinances?
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[23:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:36] <exec> 08└─Perhaps advanced life forms are using RF for their comms but, like humans are doing now, use phased array techniques to steer beams of emissions at where they want it, rather than wasteful omnitropic transmissions. Then the rest of space only sees background noise.
[23:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:37] <exec> 08└─If they do, and we start mining ours for heavier elements and extend its lifespan several times over, would it thank us?
[23:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:40] <exec> 08└─Radar is probably our most prominent signal.
[23:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breakthrough Listen Turns Up Nothing Around 1,327 Nearby Stars, Releases 1 PB of Data - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:42] <exec> 08└─What a waste of storage space... think how much pr0n was sacrificed for this stupid project.
[23:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Realtek RTD2983 SoC for 8K TVs: Supports AV1 Codec - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:52] <exec> 08└─Does VR still need higher resolution? I feel like the reason VR will never get off the ground is because it will never be able to catch those goal posts.
[23:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Realtek RTD2983 SoC for 8K TVs: Supports AV1 Codec - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:53] <exec> 08└─People are using it now with much lower resolutions. But that pixel density is perfectly feasible [roadtovr.com], and it could be helped by foveated rendering (use an extremely high-resolution panel, but only render at high resolution based on where the eyes are looking at any given millisecond). Ad...
[23:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Aging Mechanisms Disappear in Humans Beyond Midlife; Organs Contain Mix of Young and Old Cells - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:13] <exec> 08└─Well, that's not happening any time soon.
[23:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Aging Mechanisms Disappear in Humans Beyond Midlife; Organs Contain Mix of Young and Old Cells - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:14] <exec> 08└─Check back in 50 years.
[23:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seaweed Feed Additive Cuts Livestock Methane but Poses Questions - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:10] <exec> 08└─Because healthy happy cows contribute a lot to global greenhouse emissions, and those fed with seaweed don't (as much). These are still healthy happy cows. If you watch the YouTube movie, Dominion, you'll see that animal farming causes lots of unhappiness in animals when it's time to die.
[23:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Consumers Urged to Junk Insecure IoT Devices - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:06] <exec> 08└─...so I have to reach inside...
[23:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:44] <exec> 08└─RealDonaldTrump, did you forget to log in first?
[23:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Amazed as Canadian Permafrost Thaws 70 Years Early - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:46] <exec> 08└─Yup, experts were still predicting another ice age was just around the corner back then...
[23:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Groundbreaking Climate Change Discovery Made By, Sigh, Boaty McBoatface - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:06] <exec> 08└─If they mix cold water with warm water that are both part of the same system how does the overall temperature rise?
[23:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Groundbreaking Climate Change Discovery Made By, Sigh, Boaty McBoatface - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:07] <exec> 08└─When they can accurately predict a week...
[23:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sun-Like Stars Capable of Emitting Superflares - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:43] <exec> 08└─Since we don't have enough spare energy to push Venus farther away from the sun and closer to us, calming its atmosphere in the process, the easiest way to live there is going to be to terraform its underground. Find a cave, use materials that can resist, to close the cave and harvest the immense wi...
[23:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:38] <exec> 08└─Further BS detected: Couldn't find the US reg for cars, but did find this for commercial vehicles, didn't you drive truck at some time? §393.82 Speedometer. Each bus, truck, and truck-tractor must be equipped with a speedometer indicating vehicle speed in miles per hour and/or kilometers per hour....
[23:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ACLU: Police Must Get Warrants to Obtain Personal Data from Cars - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:40] <exec> 08└─> Manufacturers can't be bothered to ensure that the speedometer is exactly right. That is, they do NOT calibrate every vehicle > coming off the assembly line. You car is off by 3 to 6%, UNLESS you have fitted slightly larger tires on your vehicle. As we reach the end of the 2010s, your speed is pre...
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