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[00:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times Falls for “Obesity Probiotic” Hype - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:47] <exec> 08└─Yet another fad that did not help the Runaway1956 to shed a bit off the old tare?
[00:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:09] <exec> 08└─Mr. Bezos certainly did lose something here, even if it's not voting rights. Hint:
[00:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:10] <exec> 08└─Sock puppeting and downmodding your sock puppet. Cute.
[00:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:12] <exec> 08└─My mistake. You didn't downmod your sock puppet. My bad.
[00:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:15] <exec> 08└─FYI... https://www.thoughtco.com [thoughtco.com]
[00:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:17] <exec> 08└─But seriously, how many ... solid gold toilets ... does one person need? Or want, for that matter?
[00:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:19] <exec> 08└─Maybe not the lid though; that can still be some kind of nice, hygenic, easy-to-clean nonporous plastic. The rest of it, yes, solid gold. One is enough. I totally wanted to visit the Guggenheim when they had the solid gold toilet exhibit up. https://www.huffpost.com
[00:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:21] <exec> 08└─He has lost nothing that he will ever notice. It really makes no difference if he has $20 billion or $30 billion. He even kept the voting rights for the shares he had to give her.
[00:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:24] <exec> 08└─Bezos is rich and wants to fuck barely legal girls. What else is there?
[00:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behold, the Most (Intentionally) Poorly Designed Website Ever Created - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:23] <exec> 08└─Thanks! I'm collecting as many workarounds as I can for this problem. It seems modern executive types are doing their darndest to frustrate anyone who stumbles on to their website. But then, I know I am just a customer. I rank nowhere near the importance of a marketing seminar leader. we have a in
[00:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behold, the Most (Intentionally) Poorly Designed Website Ever Created - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:25] <exec> 08└─but an attack copter does not have healing hands :(
[00:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behold, the Most (Intentionally) Poorly Designed Website Ever Created - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:27] <exec> 08└─The point of their website is to create something that purposely doesn't follow the conventions commonly used on the modern web. Everything you list is crap that every other mainstream website seems to do nowadays. Of course, they could have also accomplished their goal by creating a simple, clean,...
[00:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:48] <exec> 08└─I sort of agree with both sides here. Although Sausage refers to a long tube stuffed with some sort of product - it is generally meat. But Sausage doesn't have to mean Beef, Or Lamb, or Pork. I have no problem with veggie sausages - but I do agree that they should be labelled correctly. Over here, a...
[00:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:49] <exec> 08└─Come on people, this is called advertising and marketing. If you don't like it, move to your communist hole.
[00:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:52] <exec> 08└─Let's go by countries that consume milk and their overall success. US (including Anglos) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> everyone else.
[00:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grab and Throw: South Korea Makes Flower Vase Fire Extinguisher - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:47] <exec> 08└─Form or function, pick one.
[00:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grab and Throw: South Korea Makes Flower Vase Fire Extinguisher - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:48] <exec> 08└─And Bluetooth, Penny; everything is better with Bluetooth [hackaday.com]
[00:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antioxidants May Encourage Lung Cancer Spread Rather than Prevent It - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:23] <exec> 08└─Fucking scientists should just make up their minds about what is healthy and then call it a day, instead of changing their minds every two years.
[00:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Futuristic Sounds to Make Electric Buses Safer Hit Wrong Note - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:56] <exec> 08└─It's a joke, note the composer name is bomb-pop-off (think sorta Wagner, Mahler, and Bruckner all rolled into one), and I don't think anyone's ever set the eruption of Vesuvius to music :-). Alternatively, you could blast Diamanda Galas, but I think the goal is to still have people left on the stree...
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[01:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times Falls for “Obesity Probiotic” Hype - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:00] <exec> 08└─Or: New York Times thinks Obesity Probiotic company will fleece investors for billions and would like some of that sweet, sweet ad money. OK then. Not a very good headline, but a feasible hypothesis.
[01:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New York Times Falls for “Obesity Probiotic” Hype - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:02] <exec> 08└─They didn't fall for it, note how the headline is phrased, Betteridge's Law in action. In fact the real crap is Arse Technica's reporting of it. The NYT "story" is at best a short footnote, it's very sceptical, "a small pilot study suggests", "The finding is significant, but it has to be confirmed i...
[01:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:31] <exec> 08└─Like... why would one care? It's inconsequential for all people in the world, except probably less than 100 of them. We could have had a nice a 'nice' aristarchus submission [soylentnews.org] instead, the subject of that one is significant for at least a double number of people.
[01:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:33] <exec> 08└─He still has more money and less ex-wives than The Donald.
[01:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:35] <exec> 08└─No woman ever earned a billion dollars
[01:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:02] <exec> 08└─I've made dynamic spinning systems with unequal length arms - smooth as silk - you'll just need to establish the center of spin at the center of mass, or in the case of the system I made, put (the right amount) more mass on the shorter arm. Just to go for the semantically obvious: rigid wouldn't be...
[01:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Six Fingers can Offer Major Dexterity Advantages - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:18] <exec> 08└─Isn't that the norm in places like rural Arkansas?
[01:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:04] <exec> 08└─vegan haggis
[01:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Codesmith [5811] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Falsified Records for 787 Jet Sold to Air Canada - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:38] <exec> 08└─After how Boeing pissed in Bombardier's cornflakes with regards to the C series jet, I'm pretty sure that they won't be getting any christmas presents from Canada this year.
[01:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grab and Throw: South Korea Makes Flower Vase Fire Extinguisher - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:03] <exec> 08└─When I bought my fire extinguisher (~5 years in to owning my house...) I balked at the $40 for the "Fancy" one, so just got the $20 one for the kitchen. How many people will pay $100 for a designer fire extinguisher?
[01:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chuck E. Cheese Mouse Gets Roasted by Cryptocurrency Enthusiasts - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:59] <exec> 08└─OK, so now he's converted his BTC into Gemini dollars. Then what? Is it something like: 1. Mine BTC. 2. Convert BTC to Gemini dollars. 3. ???? 4. Profit!
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[02:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:39] <exec> 08└─the person who invented/discovered the "zero" did humankind a service worth a billion dollars, at least. curiously enough nobody had that much money at the time ...
[02:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, it does makes a difference when he has been selling off $1 billion of stock per year to help fund Blue Origin. It's a long road to New Armstrong.
[02:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:43] <exec> 08└─Of course when Lauren Sánchez decides she wants half he will be giving up something.
[02:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:45] <exec> 08└─Bezos is rich and wants to fuck barely legal girls.
[02:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:47] <exec> 08└─She was writing the Amazon's business plan while he was driving them to Seattle. The whole idea was probably hers. He got off way to easy. She should have get at least 75%.
[02:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:16] <exec> 08└─If we can get those "apartment house size nuclear reactors" going
[02:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:18] <exec> 08└─Picture the wheel-shaped ships from films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and ...
[02:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:20] <exec> 08└─We could have had a years-decades headstart on this.
[02:23:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03melikamp [1886] 02 - 06Behold, the Most (Intentionally) Poorly Designed Website Ever Created - 459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:33] <exec> 08└─This "web"site is a mere javascript app, and appears blank in actual web-browsers, just like all the other fatally broken sites out there. Perhaps we can distinguish between these two cases: pages that use conforming *html and are the part of what is originally called WWW, versus pages that load jav...
[02:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behold, the Most (Intentionally) Poorly Designed Website Ever Created - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:56] <exec> 08└─To be clear, for the one person that doesn't understand satire, that this is not an instructional website.
[02:24:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] 02 - 06Having Six Fingers can Offer Major Dexterity Advantages - 294 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:20] <exec> 08└─The brain is an incredibly adaptive system, especially when given the opportunity to begin adaptation at birth. If the musculature for the sixth finger is functional, why would you expect any other outcome? It’s like “discovering” that brains born in China are remarkably good at Chinese.
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[03:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:03] <exec> 08└─They've been selling Veggie Burgers in California since the early 1990s, at least. Funny that it hasn't even been an issue in the Deep South until just now.
[03:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:05] <exec> 08└─From the opening of TFA: FDA (totally not in thrall to Big Dairy): we're going to ban calling almond milk "milk"; Mississippi State legislature (totally not in thrall to Big Ag): hold my beer.
[03:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:07] <exec> 08└─Yep, I've always known then as veggie burgers here is Australia. I don't see why that's confusing.
[03:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:09] <exec> 08└─Oh, one last thing -- I don't know whether being "absurd" is enough to question legality in this case. According to federal law and federal court rulings, states have pretty broad regulatory authority. There are lots of absurd laws on the books. So I'm not sure how this will go legally...
[03:22:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:32] <exec> 08└─In general, no human ever earned a billion dollars, only leached it from the working class.
[03:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:55] <exec> 08└─the person who invented/discovered the "zero" did humankind a service worth a billion dollars, at least.
[03:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:56] <exec> 08└─he also has more than enough money
[03:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:58] <exec> 08└─Why the hell did he ever get married?
[03:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:01] <exec> 08└─And yet look what you can do with only 3 billion https://www.crunchbase.com [crunchbase.com]
[03:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:03] <exec> 08└─...no matter how you get it
[03:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:05] <exec> 08└─It's a joke, look for one 2020 presidential candidate even mentioning the fed besides Trump (who mentions it in a completely wrong way). Interesting, none offer any monetary policy at all (once again except Trump, who wants to continue or even accelerate what was going on under Obama). But printing...
[03:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Drake_Edgewater [780] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blind Chileans 'Listen' for the Solar Eclipse - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:20] <exec> 08└─We saw the total eclipse in Vicuña, Chile. The effect on the birds was amazing. The temperature dropped, but i did not feel too much cold. The sky was completely clear. It was a fantastic experience.
[03:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:38] <exec> 08└─"... we could compromise on WIMP-burger?" If I can pay for it on Tuesday.
[03:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06That This AI Can Simulate Universes in 30ms is Not the Scary Part - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:53] <exec> 08└─Assuming the neural net AI has access to the same level of hardware as the "researcher", the way it works can't be known in principle. It takes an order of magnitude or two more computing power to analyze neural net than to run it. Yes, similar to wetware.
[03:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Futuristic Sounds to Make Electric Buses Safer Hit Wrong Note - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:46] <exec> 08└─They should have had limited the noise produced by other sources. For example, one could introduce a law limiting noise per passenger per mile relative to what bus currently achieves with a log term goal of lower than the bus.
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[04:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Excel Workbook and Worksheet Protections Easily Removed - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:14] <exec> 08└─Nobody should be. As much as I like to gloat about Micro$oft's fuckups, this is taking a format that wasn't designed for security, just for protection against accidental modification, and removing that protection. Sort of like sticking over the write protect notch in a cassette.
[04:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Excel Workbook and Worksheet Protections Easily Removed - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:16] <exec> 08└─A non-story, indeed. WTF, S/N, slow news day or what?
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[04:22:18] <exec> 08└─Perhaps what is surprising is the extent to which people rely on these mechanisms for file security and don't know how easy they are to bypass.
[04:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:29] <exec> 08└─I don't see why that's confusing.
[04:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:30] <exec> 08└─Mike McCormick, president of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation: "This bill will protect our cattle farmers from having to compete with products not harvested from an animal."
[04:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:32] <exec> 08└─Although unless the vat-grown or plant-based producers can get themselves subsidized in the same fashion that the farmers have I wonder if they will be able to compete on price anyway.
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[04:22:35] <exec> 08└─Mississippi politicians are easily confused and easily bought.
[04:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:37] <exec> 08└─What do you call coconut milk?
[04:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:29] <exec> 08└─Sex is forbidden after 50.
[04:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:31] <exec> 08└─Blue Origin alone could eat up $100bn in startup costs.
[04:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:33] <exec> 08└─And that has what, exactly, to do with who's bumping uglies with Mackenzie Bezos? Or who Jeff Bezos is banging?
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[04:23:35] <exec> 08└─I second that motion. Hmm, damn. Portland's off my list of cities to bug out to. Seattle is looking ok so far but need to give it a longer look. Want to get somewhere on the west coast before SHTF at the very least.
[04:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:37] <exec> 08└─Does IOER have anything to do with it?
[04:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:09] <exec> 08└─The "apartment size" is meant to mean "of a size sufficient to power an apartment building", i.e. a lot smaller than needed to power a nuclear sub. They also aren't intended to need much on-going supervision.
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[04:24:11] <exec> 08└─The "apartment size" is meant to mean "of a size sufficient to power an apartment building", i.e. a lot smaller than needed to power a nuclear sub. They also aren't intended to need much on-going supervision.
[04:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:13] <exec> 08└─According to Harry Harrison, Hornblower's definition was - "A boat is something that is picked up and put on a ship."
[04:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:15] <exec> 08└─The space-shuttle external tanks reached 99% of orbital velocity, and usually had sufficient left over fuel to make it the rest of the way. There were serious proposals to use them to build a space-station. It would have been a huge station, for very low cost. NASA said no for pointy-haired reasons....
[04:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Behold, the Most (Intentionally) Poorly Designed Website Ever Created - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:52] <exec> 08└─My favourite has always been this [pinimg.com] one.
[04:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behold, the Most (Intentionally) Poorly Designed Website Ever Created - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:54] <exec> 08└─That sure is a bad design. Needs to have his "latest tweets" at the top.
[04:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Six Fingers can Offer Major Dexterity Advantages - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, i wondered about that too. I play the piano, and type 80+ wpm,k and my 4th and 5th fingers aren't entirely independent. For example, if i make a 'claw' with my fingers splayed and partly bent. Its all but impossible to straighten out, or completely curl in my 4th finger without my pinky follow...
[04:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:25] <exec> 08└─Your answer also demonstrates that... people give you a hard time on this website.
[04:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:27] <exec> 08└─I sort of agree with both sides here.... ... Over here, all sausages are actually described by the type of meat they contain (as well as other flavours generally such as "Pork and Herb Sausages" or "Italian Style Beef Sausages") so I've no issue with "Soybean Sausages". Don't try to sell me plant ba...
[04:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:29] <exec> 08└─I've had an aluminum pot like the $14 version since the early 1990s -- still works flawlessly.
[04:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06If You Thought Quantum Mechanics Was Weird, You Need to Check Out Entangled Time - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:18] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, after I die, someone will discover whether or not I watched those cat videos!
[04:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chuck E. Cheese Mouse Gets Roasted by Cryptocurrency Enthusiasts - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:27] <exec> 08└─https://gemini24.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/209113906-What-are-the-transfer-limits- [zendesk.com] I presume the ???? bit is withdraw the money over a few days in up to 100k amounts from Gemini to a US bank of your choice?
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[05:22:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, not surprised at all. If you actually try to use the protections on the versions of multiple office suites I have on hand, all warned me not to mistake protections for actual security. But then again, I'm also not surprised since I have worked with the ECMA specification and none of the protec...
[05:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Excel Workbook and Worksheet Protections Easily Removed - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:11] <exec> 08└─Or to what extent formats aren't loaded down with DRM yet.
[05:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Excel Workbook and Worksheet Protections Easily Removed - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:13] <exec> 08└─multiple office suites I have on hand, all warned me not to mistake protections for actual security.
[05:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Excel Workbook and Worksheet Protections Easily Removed - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:15] <exec> 08└─This just in! If you can read it, you can edit it.
[05:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 1717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:31] <exec> 08└─Coconut "milk" is like most of the other products -- it is an engineered juice/extract from a vegetal source. I assume you're not talking about coconut "water" or coconut "juice" (i.e., the actual liquid found in coconuts, which is NOT called "coconut milk"). Anyhow, as I said, I can see both sides...
[05:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:29] <exec> 08└─Look at the title. Why is this the "most expensive divorce in history"? That this is the case is a symptom of the problem.
[05:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:31] <exec> 08└─So the creation of ~$2 trillion dollars likely primarily used to pump the stock market has nothing to do with how rich Jeff Bezos was?
[05:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behold, the Most (Intentionally) Poorly Designed Website Ever Created - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:46] <exec> 08└─You are just a customer. You rank nowhere near the importance of an investor.
[05:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behold, the Most (Intentionally) Poorly Designed Website Ever Created - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, I run Palemoon. No it's not Firefox. No. It's not out of date. Yes, disabling your site functionality due to a browser version check blows. I am looking at you, DynaTrace.
[05:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behold, the Most (Intentionally) Poorly Designed Website Ever Created - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:49] <exec> 08└─http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/shame.htm [gp.co.at] Try a mirror?
[05:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:24] <exec> 08└─I was given a stainless steel one of these many years ago. Makes great coffee. When the gasket went tits up I bought a cheap silicone cake pan for $3 and cut a new one out of it. You might have to use two layers because the pan is thinner, but it works great. Food grade, high temp silicone and it's...
[05:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:25] <exec> 08└─Why do highschool kids need coffee? OK maybe grade 12 but geeez
[05:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:27] <exec> 08└─When the gasket went tits up I bought a cheap silicone cake pan for $3 and cut a new one out of it.
[05:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:29] <exec> 08└─The silicone gasket has now lasted much longer than the original rubber one. At least six years, and still looks perfect. I also didn't really notice until the new gasket went in, but the rubber was starting to taint the coffee slightly. The first cup was like "whooh, that's much better".
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[06:22:12] <exec> 08└─I'm reading the AnandTech comments and there's some argument over Fallout and ZombieLoad patches not being available yet, which -could- hurt Intel's performance. Otherwise, Intel's comparable chips still perform favorably, although not due to IPC, but clock speeds that are a few hundred MHz faster....
[06:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's 8-core Ryzen 7 3700X and 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X Reviewed - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:13] <exec> 08└─Another interesting bit: https://www.anandtech.com [anandtech.com] Web Tests Analysis Overall, in the web tests, the new Ryzen 3900X and 3700X perform very well with both chips showcasing quite large improvements over the 2700X. We’re s...
[06:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Excel Workbook and Worksheet Protections Easily Removed - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:28] <exec> 08└─365, 2019, and my personal copy of 2016 all warned for me, but I could see if I can get my hands on older/other ones. Curious what version you used to save said file. I double checked the specifications, and I was looking at an older version (plus there are various differences between older versions...
[06:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:45] <exec> 08└─"So where do patrons of Soylent Words-Related-to-Current-Happenings fall on this one?" I come down firmly on the side of "Pass the popcorn."
[06:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:47] <exec> 08└─Plants take a lot fewer resources to grow than animals, especially when considering the caloric value or even the mass of the resulting food.
[06:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:49] <exec> 08└─What does Hamburg say on the matter? Their name, their choice.
[06:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:51] <exec> 08└─Cultured/lab-grown meat is a new thing, though. U.S. Cattlemen's Association Wants an Official Definition of "Meat" [soylentnews.org] Regulation Coming to Lab-Grown Meat [soylentnews.org]
[06:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:53] <exec> 08└─Way, way back I remember asking a teacher or professor why we didn't have English as the official language in the USA. The reply, in part, involved the undesirable notion that if we had such a thing then the government would be involved in endorsing or even enforcing grammar and such. I was told thi...
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[06:25:10] <exec> 08└─Wrong site... You're looking for this one. https://thedailywtf.com [thedailywtf.com]
[06:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:47] <exec> 08└─The last one I have came with a "native" silicone gasket. 3 years and still going well. Can't remember what type was the previous one, highly likely a vulcanized rubber.
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[07:22:18] <exec> 08└─I never knew they were just zip files with the extension changed. I doubt I would ever have been curious enough to check. Funny the random new things you learn each day.
[07:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Excel Workbook and Worksheet Protections Easily Removed - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:20] <exec> 08└─Curious what version you used to save said file.
[07:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:42] <exec> 08└─Mostly with you, but; ""Burger" comes from "hamburger," supposedly named after the town of Hamburg in Germany. (It has nothing to do with ham.) So, "burger" is NOT identifying anything specifically as meat-based necessarily." Nope, it comes from "Hamburger Steak" i.e. steak in the style of a Hamburg...
[07:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:44] <exec> 08└─Don't care... on the one hand, I'm for free speech etc. So if they get to keep calling those things burgers I won't complain too much. But honestly I do find it objectionable to refer to something with no hamburger at all as a burger, or no actual mystery meats as a hotdog. Just call it a veggie pat...
[07:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:46] <exec> 08└─Renaming hot dogs.
[07:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:48] <exec> 08└─To the conservatives of Mississippi I say, "Why are you hitting yourselves?".
[07:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:50] <exec> 08└─I could see why they might worry about confusion... if places did indeed list their veggie burgers as veggie burgers, there's no confusion. But, I've been to several restaurants recently that now among their several burgers list the Impossible Burger as an option, with nothing obvious indicating tha...
[07:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:50] <exec> 08└─Divorce is the result of interest rate policies? That's a new one for me, but if you want to believe that, go right ahead. Who am I to try to disabuse you of your delusions?
[07:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:51] <exec> 08└─So the creation of ~$2 trillion dollars likely primarily used to pump the stock market has nothing to do with how rich Jeff Bezos was?
[07:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:54] <exec> 08└─I second that motion. Hmm, damn. Portland's off my list of cities to bug out to. Seattle is looking ok so far but need to give it a longer look. Want to get somewhere on the west coast before SHTF at the very least.
[07:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:56] <exec> 08└─And with reserve requirements of only 10% that means $300 billion in new dollars can be created by these banks each year. Why is no one mentioning this?
[07:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:58] <exec> 08└─Wow. You're really bitter aren't you? Did some mean lady do bad things to you? Poor baby! I guess the upside is that you're posting here instead of taking your anger and bitterness out on women with violence. Or are you just taking a break from rape and murder to post here?
[07:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:34] <exec> 08└─Depends. If you're aiming just for Earth orbit, then yes, PV will work fine. If some day you aim at travelling to the outer solar system, then PV will not work. The sun simply is not bright enough at that distance.
[07:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:36] <exec> 08└─Someone is going to point out that 300 meters is HUGE!! And, that we don't build anything like that.
[07:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:38] <exec> 08└─g = w^2 r g ~ 10 m/s^2 w = 2*pi*17/60 s^-1 ~ 1.7^2 r = g/w^2 ~ 3 m
[07:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:40] <exec> 08└─Oops, the 1.7^2 should have been 1.7/s^2.
[07:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:42] <exec> 08└─Err, I should drink some coffee … of course it must be /s (without the ^2).
[07:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:45] <exec> 08└─If some day you aim at travelling to the outer solar system, then PV will not work.
[07:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behold, the Most (Intentionally) Poorly Designed Website Ever Created - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:28] <exec> 08└─I don't know about your browser, but mine doesn't show it completely blank. It shows a big red bar on the top with the word "Yes" in its center, below that a hyperlink to a Google Analytics JavaScript file, and at the bottom left a logo link. Also, what do you complain? It is an intentionally badly...
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[08:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Black Holes - No Supernova Required - 2429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:03] <exec> 08└─I thought this was settled years ago. Black holes come in different types depending on their origin and this is mostly a function of mass. The black holes in the range of 10 to 100 solar masses are all stellar remnants, the result of the normal story we tell ourselves about stars that die and are to...
[08:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Early Black Holes - No Supernova Required - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:05] <exec> 08└─The other kind are the super massive black holes. They started life as quantum black holes that existed at the moment of the big bang and then were upscaled by inflation. They provided the seeds by which galaxies formed in what otherwise would have been a smooth and uniform universe.
[08:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Black Holes - No Supernova Required - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:07] <exec> 08└─Publish nice stories nobody can confirm or refute and being right or wrong is inconsequential at human civilization scale.
[08:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Black Holes - No Supernova Required - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:09] <exec> 08└─Yes I know there is some debate, but those theories listed in wikipedia fail to take into account quantum effects. Overcoming the EM/weak boundary condition involves a ton of energy and none of this is being accounted for in these models. It is combining the EM/weak into the electroweak force that g...
[08:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's 8-core Ryzen 7 3700X and 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X Reviewed - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:19] <exec> 08└─I'm still hoping for a Threadripper 3. If that comes out, it's time to upgrade the workstation :)
[08:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:01] <exec> 08└─In an industry with low profit margins**, it is a matter of great importance. If you want to blame something for the 'frivolity in the grand scheme of things', blame capitalistic chronyism (I'd go as far as blaming capitalism, but again I have this hunch the 'pure capitalism' is as utopian as pure c...
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[08:24:45] <exec> 08└─what's the radius required for 17RPM to generate 1G? I'm feeling lazy, but pretty sure it's gonna have to be bigger than a Gravitron.
[08:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Behold, the Most (Intentionally) Poorly Designed Website Ever Created - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:30] <exec> 08└─They usually don't use fancy controls, but these supplied by browser, so it looks even worse.
[08:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:09] <exec> 08└─Salute - you win.
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[09:22:15] <exec> 08└─There are a few current theories as to how supermassive black holes form, and what you've described isn't one of the mainstream ones. Spacetime has been shown to be much too flat to produce primordial black holes in appreciable quantities, largely thanks to cosmic inflation. If you bring up the Paul...
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[09:22:25] <exec> 08└─March: AMD: 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper in 2019 [anandtech.com] AMD’s 2nd Gen EPYC (codenamed Rome) and 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper processors have a lot in common. EPYC will have eight 7nm Zen 2-based chiplets to provide up to 64 cores and an IO die. We expect the 3rd Gen Ryzen Threadripper to be b...
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[09:22:27] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that, I hadn't seen the last one. A 64-core would be sweeeeeet for many of my workloads (currently only using a dual Xeon-10-core).
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[09:22:29] <exec> 08└─For games it seems Intel's 9700K is still mostly faster than the AMD's (less than 1% slower than the 9900K for a USD114 difference). Probably would still be faster after all the microcode security patches. The last I checked those patches tended to affect the IO performance while not really affectin...
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[09:22:45] <exec> 08└─*snicker*
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[09:22:47] <exec> 08└─Amazing. Its in the spec. and people claiming to be rational, even intelligent, walk around with delusions -- the popping of which they find oh so worthwhile to share! ... now where's that xkcd cartoon ... just one in the 10,000 who learned that something today. it'll be cool to watch how long it ta...
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[09:23:15] <exec> 08└─It's because lab based 'meats' and others are becoming increasingly misleading with their labeling. For instance would you think an "Impossible Burger" or "Beyond Burger" do you think these clearly indicate that the product is the product of corporate labs working to produce a product that resembles...
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[09:23:16] <exec> 08└─I don't think this is a fair take on two points. First, let's consider champagne. The reason that most champagne in the US is called sparkling wine is because only champagne made and bottled in France is legally allowed to be called champagne. Incidentally, there was a local wine in Champagne, Switz...
[09:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Six Fingers can Offer Major Dexterity Advantages - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:31] <exec> 08└─I play the piano...
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[09:27:28] <exec> 08└─Sausage refers to the thin tubular casing. You can grind up anything and put it in and it's still a sausage. Steak is a bit more iffy, it used to refer to a cut of beef, but now they have pork, lamb, turkey, etc. steaks. So long as they call it "whatever" steaks I'm okay with it. Calling it chicken,...
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[10:22:47] <exec> 08└─If you can see some information on your computer screen then you already have a full copy of it, any restrictions to editing are fake or misleading. It's just like having a paper printout of the document in your hands (your computer) and being told that you can't draw on it, it's locked. Summary of...
[10:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Excel Workbook and Worksheet Protections Easily Removed - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:48] <exec> 08└─Unless there is a full implementation of trusted boot, signed applications and DRM (including the screen). I am convinced that such a future is encroaching on us and will not be avoidable entirely even under Linux unless you do not have to interact with the real world. Then I will hack my display to...
[10:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Excel Workbook and Worksheet Protections Easily Removed - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:50] <exec> 08└─Isn't there an option 4? 4. Use FUD to convince people that they can't edit a file. My employer, for instance, would call unlocking an .xml file "hacking", and fire the guilty party. Which isn't really much different from the physical paper copy you mentioned. "Oh, you can't make marks on that!" You...
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[10:23:02] <exec> 08└─Mike McCormick, president of the Mississippi Farm Bureau Federation: "This bill will protect our cattle farmers from having to compete with products not harvested from an animal."
[10:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:20] <exec> 08└─Lets call them Frankfurters. Of course this can only last until Angela Merkel insults or embarrasses Donald Trump (again) at which point we will call them "Freedom Dogs."
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[11:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:07] <exec> 08└─As a user I have to say this is a good thing. It gives control and privacy to the users. As an admin I hate it. For exactly the same reasons.
[11:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Black Holes - No Supernova Required - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:25] <exec> 08└─Even with a big ass model of the whole universe since t=0 where everything fits is produced, all you have is a model. The prediction power would also be interesting to have, and eventually you can get to it, but all you have still is a model. It starts from some rationalizations (that initial energy...
[11:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Behold, the Most (Intentionally) Poorly Designed Website Ever Created - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:02] <exec> 08└─> Yes, I run Palemoon. > Yes, I run Pale Moon. FTFY.
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[12:22:10] <exec> 08└─The martyb (sic) descendants may even have enough time to learn to capitalize the first letter of their given name and surname ;P
[12:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:18] <exec> 08└─Further, a secondary feature of DNS-over-HTTPS is that the protocol works at the app level. Apps can come with internally hardcoded lists of DoH-compatible DNS resolvers where they can send DoH queries.
[12:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:20] <exec> 08└─As an admin I hate it. For exactly the same reasons.
[12:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:22] <exec> 08└─Apps can come with internally hardcoded lists of DoH-compatible DNS resolvers
[12:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Black Holes - No Supernova Required - 6343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:41] <exec> 08└─You are confused. You state that spacetime would be too flat to produce blackholes due to cosmic inflation, yet you support this theory which says the opposite. I believe you are confusing the dark energy inflation of the current epoch, i.e. cosmic inflation with the inflationary epoch in the fracti...
[12:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Black Holes - No Supernova Required - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:43] <exec> 08└─Bot is an example of a Boltzmann brain https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[12:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Excel Workbook and Worksheet Protections Easily Removed - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:18] <exec> 08└─Sad..... Have you no curiosity?
[12:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:50] <exec> 08└─When I went to California (from the Deep South) for the first time in 1992, it was confusing for about 20 seconds, then I asked a California Native just to be sure before making a terrible mistake, and he confirmed the strangeness: no, it's not a burger with veggies on it...
[12:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:56] <exec> 08└─he will have to take up golf.
[12:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:57] <exec> 08└─it's almost like that's more money than a single person can effectively manage and that the money hurt all of his most important relationships, if not outright turning him into a monster where he not only thought he could be disloyal but get away with it. No wonder he wants to build a spaceship and...
[12:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:42] <exec> 08└─It's an entirely different effect, which has its own name. Relabeling it because of how you're using it, doesn't make sense. And I'm sure you're being purposefully obtuse, you know precisely what I mean by actual artificial gravity.
[12:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:43] <exec> 08└─I think part of the reason was .. it might highlight how silly the shuttle was for some missions. The shuttle was great for many things. The arm it had, the ability to capture and then work on satellites, specialized modules .. all that was great, even with the silly design changes and cuts prior to...
[12:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:46] <exec> 08└─This is why I don't do math for random strangers on the internet, particularly when the board doesn't allow editing... So, I'm interpreting your gibberish to mean a radius of ~3m would give ~1g for 17rpm - that is pretty impressive, 17rpm at 3m radius is about 4 miles per hour, roughly a fast walk a...
[12:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:48] <exec> 08└─If you're foolish enough, take a ride of a Gravitron and while you're at 24RPM try rotating your head, like tuck your chin into your chest. The effect is... unpleasant.
[12:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:50] <exec> 08└─You could have "elevators" to travel between the ends.
[12:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Futuristic Sounds to Make Electric Buses Safer Hit Wrong Note - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:25] <exec> 08└─... have a pleasant female voice repeat "Mind the bus" over and over? "Mind the gap" [wikipedia.org] seems to work. (Do lifts not say that anymore? I heard that phrase seemingly in every lift I took in the UK back in the mid-1980's).
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[13:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:09] <exec> 08└─Guy is trying to sell copies of his book.
[13:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:10] <exec> 08└─Dear editor, many of us have seen the original, please wait a bit longer until you re-publish stories. For those who haven't, the argument is as follows. It only works for things where we have a starting point that lies in the past. For example, the current US presidency that is, say, 36 month in. A...
[13:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:13] <exec> 08└─is the guy who wrote the book 'Big Secrets' and sequels 30 years ago. He published the alleged secrets of Scientology, explained the Russian 'woodpecker' radio station and the clever and amazinhg but not-quite-psychic techniques of Kreskin. The books were great reads before the web enabled everybody...
[13:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:15] <exec> 08└─There is a 99,999999% chance he is wrong, but if he is right... well there is nobody left to tell it to. Seriously, if a field of science that is able to make predictions of this kind it's biology or human sciences. All astrophysisics can tell if there is a 100% chance hit with something from space...
[13:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:17] <exec> 08└─There is a 99,999999% chance he is wrong
[13:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:19] <exec> 08└─The Berlin Wall will stand at least 2 and 2/3 more years but no more than 24 more years. With predictions like this, I can predict that humanity will last at least 200/300 years, but no more than 2400 years. Call me in year 4119 to tell me if I was right.
[13:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 2515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:21] <exec> 08└─Gott's reasoning is too simplistic, and this article seems intended to provoke discussion about humanity's future. There's no reason, in principle, that humanity is going away any time "soon", as in, the next 1000 years. That is, no external reason. The sun has fuel enough to burn for perhaps anothe...
[13:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 1799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:24] <exec> 08└─There's a similar statistical doomsday argument from the field of anthropics. The reasoning goes that assuming the human population grows or at least is maintained into the future, then if humanity has a long future there will statistically be many more human individuals existing in our future than...
[13:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:26] <exec> 08└─Gott is just an amateur psychohistorian, barely takes any variables into account. Seldon was the true master.
[13:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:28] <exec> 08└─Another danger is easy living that allows us to dumb down, and we do so.
[13:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:30] <exec> 08└─Shirley you mean Sheldon Cooper. Who TF knows nowadays who that Seldon is supposed to be?
[13:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 1419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:33] <exec> 08└─Your 99.999999% chance he's wrong is wrong. The accuracy of prediction could be as high as 50%. The nature of the math isn't imprecise or inaccurate, if you randomly start observe a phenomenon with a duration, the most likely case is that you're currently observing the middle of it. There are lots o...
[13:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:43] <exec> 08└─Lots of apps have already started hard coding the DNS servers they use. Google in particular is bad about this... it keeps you from ad filtering via something like a pi-hole and it lets them know every site you're looking at. You can fix that on your router, only given you know how and that you have...
[13:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:44] <exec> 08└─The inefficiency of additional HTTP + encryption overhead makes me want to puke.
[13:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 2196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:46] <exec> 08└─It gives end user's more *security*; the ISP can't tamper with DoH replies as easily as non-DNSSec secured DNS replies (not that too many apps throw a warning on a bad DNSSec validation), but does it really give the end user all that much extra privacy though? My feeling is a lot of people see DoH i...
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[13:22:49] <exec> 08└─Look, the inefficiency of a hierarchical DNS and multiple roundtrips to different servers with recursive queries makes me want to puke. Like, why can't I make a single query and get the answer straight away?
[13:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:51] <exec> 08└─This is actually a problem.
[13:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:53] <exec> 08└─The time for alternate DNS roots has arrived.
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[13:23:26] <exec> 08└─I suppose that's reserved for the smartphone market these days, but... I can play Steam games on my 15W NUC7i5 that graphically rival the (admittedly 10+ year old) PS3. Would anyone else be jazzed to get this level of performance in a passively cooled NUC sized package? I don't care if cooling fans...
[13:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03garrulus [6051] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AMD's 8-core Ryzen 7 3700X and 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X Reviewed - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:27] <exec> 08└─My next Arma III rig will have a 3600X
[13:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Excel Workbook and Worksheet Protections Easily Removed - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:51] <exec> 08└─Anywhere from three to 12 copies, with each copy destined to fill some other person's in-basket.
[13:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Excel Workbook and Worksheet Protections Easily Removed - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:52] <exec> 08└─Q. for the Quaker -- do you ever sit around in a small group and quake (bodies shaking or shuddering)? Couldn't find a quick reference, but I seem to remember this was part of the history of the sect.
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[13:24:25] <exec> 08└─As c0lo has hinted, it's libertarian for big business, authoritarian against the littler guy. Whoever makes the most money gets the most liberty. Then they lobby to get their liberties written into new laws. The irony. That's the trouble, too little regulation in a society and only the bullies will...
[13:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times Falls for “Obesity Probiotic” Hype - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:35] <exec> 08└─NYT says that probiotics are far ahead of Bernie Sanders in polls. The survey was carried among NYT employees.
[13:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:33] <exec> 08└─No, not divorce, the record expense of the divorce. You seem to have serious reading comprehension problems. Possibly a bot.
[13:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheSage [133] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:22] <exec> 08└─A radius of 3m at 17 rpm gives 3 * 2 * pi * 17 meter per minute which is roughly 20 km/h - the speed of a reasonably fast bicycle.
[13:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:23] <exec> 08└─This is why I don't do math for random strangers on the internet
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[13:26:33] <exec> 08└─Still better than Lotus Notes.
[13:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Six Fingers can Offer Major Dexterity Advantages - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:53] <exec> 08└─So, the Japanese are onto something with tentacle porn?
[13:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:51] <exec> 08└─In the UK it cant be called a sausage unless it contains a minimum of 42% meat content for pork or 30% for other types of meat. You can call it a banger (slang for sausage), meat tube or whatever else with less meat content.
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[14:22:21] <exec> 08└─He continued: “These states have never told undocumented people
[14:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:23] <exec> 08└─Due process? Fuck you, you got a legal document! Privacy? Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you wanted to drive somewhere. Secure in your persons and effects? AND you want to prove who you are? It's part of what makes the American immigration enforcement regime so fucking stupid. Because it's a 110% victim-l...
[14:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:25] <exec> 08└─Don't sign your post, traitorous bastard. I know you've voted again and again for people who violate your rights in order to catch your imagined enemies, but your title you should an accurate description of your post, something like "I hate immigrants more than I like due process", not a description...
[14:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:45] <exec> 08└─we are becoming more and more able to detect and fend them off if any should be headed our way
[14:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:46] <exec> 08└─approximately 25% of the population consists of suckers for demagogues, coupled with a vicious, cutthroat competitive nature.
[14:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wodan [517] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:48] <exec> 08└─But the earth really is at the centre of the visible universe!
[14:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:50] <exec> 08└─... much more probable that we as individuals would have found ourselves born among that greater population... it's more probable that humans will have a short future and / or a drastic reduction in population.
[14:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:53] <exec> 08└─I can’t find an explicit presentation of this “equation”, just vague appeals to Baye’s Theorem. Drake showed us his equation. Show us this one.
[14:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:55] <exec> 08└─C'mon guys, it's not 2012 anymore. Does he think he's going to get a movie deal for this or something?
[14:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:57] <exec> 08└─Why so specific, do you have information the author doesn't? They only narrowed it down to between 12 and 18,000 years.
[14:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:59] <exec> 08└─>within the next 760 years That's a very conservative estimate for the progress of the [4th directive triggered]
[14:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:02] <exec> 08└─> that it's much less probable that insects are conscious than the chance that we just got very, very lucky just happening to be born as humans instead of insects. This strikes me as egotistical. Worse than egotistical, it's based on a huge baseless assumption. Namely, that the vast majority of pote...
[14:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:04] <exec> 08└─and, a picture is worth a thousand words https://copywritingisdead.files.wordpress.com [wordpress.com]
[14:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:06] <exec> 08└─+1 Adorable.
[14:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation that (Supposedly) Predicts the end of Humanity - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:08] <exec> 08└─There's also the possibility that human civilization ceases in a good way by evolving to the next, better thing, that a current human would not call "human".
[14:23:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 202 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:18] <exec> 08└─Further, a secondary feature of DNS-over-HTTPS is that the protocol works at the app level. Apps can come with internally hardcoded lists of DoH-compatible DNS resolvers where they can send DoH queries.
[14:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:28] <exec> 08└─This seems quite easy to set up server-side. I can see advantages for avoiding filters and metadata snooping. Here's a good guide for Debian/Ubuntu: https://www.aaflalo.me [aaflalo.me]
[14:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:30] <exec> 08└─I was thinking the same thing - establishing a secure connection to the "phone book" does offer some substantial protection against domain redirection and some other issues, but it wouldn't seem to do anything to stop the "phone company" from knowing who you "call" - they still have to know that, be...
[14:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:32] <exec> 08└─If you're an admin, say for a school, library, etc., you'll employ a filtering engine that will trap the DoH traffic and either block it, provide the DNS yourself but log it, redirect it, whatever. Or maybe I'm missing something?
[14:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:34] <exec> 08└─DNS over HTTPS? Really? DNS protocol on an SSL socket isn't good enough for you? You have to add all the crap of HTTPS on top of it instead? This is good as a stopgap measure, but should NEVER be allowed to become the standard.
[14:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:36] <exec> 08└─We have seen sneaky resolution or DNS done before [petri.com]. Didn't go down well then. Won't go down well now.
[14:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:39] <exec> 08└─An admin of a school or workplace could apply a policy over machines forcing this "feature" to be disabled. Same way Chrome now allows admins to set and lock settings options. As an extension Chrome now also allows for disabling plugins unless on a whitelist. Firefox is sure to follow.
[14:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:41] <exec> 08└─You search for "fuck off" has come back with 1,438,323 related results from fb.com and msdn.com. Search with us again!
[14:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:43] <exec> 08└─How would the intermediary be able "provide the DNS itself but log it" if it doesn't have the certificate to authenticate the HTTPS session to the client browser? It wouldn't be able to see what's requested, would it? The most trapping/logging that could be performed was that Client X asked for HTTP...
[14:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Excel Workbook and Worksheet Protections Easily Removed - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:43] <exec> 08└─it'll be cool to watch how long it takes for the poster to start calling hirself a security-researcher.
[14:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Excel Workbook and Worksheet Protections Easily Removed - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:44] <exec> 08└─Not really a Quaker, just making a bad joke. It could be something like you suggest; see https://www.etymonline.com [etymonline.com]
[14:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:18] <exec> 08└─"Hi, I'd like an Impossible-" "Don't say it. There's a cop right behind you." "Huh?" Glances around. "Look, I just want to order an Impossible-" "SHH! Don't say the 'B' word. That's an arrestable offense." "What?" "The 'B' word. If it's not meat and you use the 'B' word, you're going to jail." "Is t...
[14:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New York Times Falls for “Obesity Probiotic” Hype - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:29] <exec> 08└─virtual +1 hilarious because if i don't laugh i'll cry 2020 will be the first time i haven't voted in a federal/state election. biden i just can't even
[14:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:19] <exec> 08└─3 masts and a full bowsprit makes it a ship.
[14:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:20] <exec> 08└─This is one of those "derp" moments. I got to thinking about ropes, cables, and chains, then went on to "anchor chain". That led into a series of thoughts, and I ended back at a somewhat spherical spinning object with a chain holding the two halves together. So, it doesn't matter much whether the tw...
[14:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:50] <exec> 08└─Treachery and age,ya know... :)
[14:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:51] <exec> 08└─Considering that most appliances are now made in China, and how poorly Chinese rubber is vulcanized (this seems to be why tires now flake and crack at the tender age of 5 years, rather than lasting indefinitely... conversely I've seen US-made tires over 50 years old and still 100% intact) I'm not su...
[14:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:53] <exec> 08└─Consider how little milk is actually in a latte. If kids drank 'em all day long, it still would be perhaps half as much as if they drank whole milk. If this is going to save "big dairy", they need to hire a different economist. If people are drinking less milk... consider how milk tastes today compa...
[14:29:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:56] <exec> 08└─My communist hole is now a Starbucks.
[14:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:58] <exec> 08└─I remember when vending machines were first allowed in my school -- that was in 1972. Before that, if you wanted to suck down soda you had to go off campus, which was generally not allowed except for lunch, nor could you tote around a soda bottle (it would be confiscated). But vending machines pay t...
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[15:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:11] <exec> 08└─Can I offer you a napkin? You're frothing.
[15:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:12] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't I be? You're a fucking monster, and have the termidity to complain about the way your evil happens to bounce back on your life, and blame the people you're hunting for it. You're willing to give up every single thing we hold dear in order to prosecute, en masse, a group of people whose cri...
[15:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:15] <exec> 08└─Drivers licenses document that a state has granted permission to operate a vehicle. They do not shield from law enforcement agencies investigating crime.
[15:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheFool [7105] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:17] <exec> 08└─Presumably, some of you remember the Real ID Act [wikipedia.org]. It was passed in the hysteria around 9/11, and one of the things it mandated was that all state DMVs have a remotely accessible database of photos. Prior to that, this database didn't have to be remotely accessible, it didn't have to...
[15:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:19] <exec> 08└─Speaking of human rights violations - didn't O'Crazio Cortez vote AGAINST money for the invaders at the border? I keep telling you that shutting down the border is the most humane thing you can do for the invaders. But, no, you prefer to believe that it's more humane to allow them to wander across t...
[15:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:21] <exec> 08└─On one hand, I really don't like the possible invasion of privacy issue here. On the other hand, these are undocumented illegal residents. Who Very likely don't have insurance and won't be purchasing insurance for the vehicle they drive. You don't want to be arrested and deported by ICE? Do it the l...
[15:22:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03epitaxial [3165] 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:30] <exec> 08└─Guy is trying to sell copies of his book.
[15:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:54] <exec> 08└─It only works for things where we have a starting point that lies in the past. For example, the current US presidency that is, say, 36 month in. Assume that the current time is random within the starting point and the end-point. Then we can assume that with 95% probability we are not in the first 2....
[15:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:55] <exec> 08└─Only until I can take a vacation on the Moon.
[15:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:58] <exec> 08└─I fully support your arguments. My calculation was for the purpose of illustration only. The assumption of randomness is usually problematic and I interpret this whole Gott-idea as tongue-in-cheek.
[15:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:00] <exec> 08└─What about shifting magnetic poles?
[15:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 1135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:02] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell from TFA, Gott simply pulls a number out of his ass for multiples of time that the wall would exist and then thinks that by dropping an area bar and taking a fraction of it that would be the confidence interval of his prediction. Now he can do the same thing for the existence of...
[15:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:27] <exec> 08└─Your idea is a good decade out of date. These days half of the Internet resolves to a cloudflare IP. Large masses of customers resolve to any one IP and it randomizes regularly to make keep up with it difficult. That is part of the design, to make IP blocking impractical. This new wrinkle makes DNS...
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[15:23:28] <exec> 08└─Captive networks (schools, Universities, corporate fleets, etc) have long inserted a local root cert allowing their filters and proxies to break https on a routine basis. Because they must, to meet a multitude of legal requirements and for sound business reasons. My problem is I don't want to do tha...
[15:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:31] <exec> 08└─You're blaming the tool. If you don't like apps that use this tool, ban the apps.
[15:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 1203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:33] <exec> 08└─you are wrong, alas. this is/was a hack, no a crack (because evil), to quickly statisfy the people making by selling ads on behalf of ... well others. muchos grandos monies is involved and if it involves turning the intertubes into sewage pipes it WILL happen! with dnsoverhttps all simple solution o...
[15:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:35] <exec> 08└─This is DNS-Over-Cloudflare. The company is the equal villain as Google. Does the same thing as Google, running malware on user's computers, blocking access to those who don't have their malware present and being American company is another part of state-level surveillance. Now we're giving it power...
[15:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Early Black Holes - No Supernova Required - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:55] <exec> 08└─Every abstraction has an ultimately arbitrary definition, except for the hypothetical ones generating ours, which lie outside the concepts of arbitrary and definition themselves. BTW What we call necessary is a NECESSARY rationalization which ends up with the abstraction we pertain to. So the boltzm...
[15:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Excel Workbook and Worksheet Protections Easily Removed - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:36] <exec> 08└─2. It's possible to "lock" content AND make it _harder_ for people to edit it. Eg embed it as an image rather than text or use DRM (defeatable with eyeballs or cameras).
[15:24:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 192 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:44] <exec> 08└─From the opening of TFA: FDA (totally not in thrall to Big Dairy): we're going to ban calling almond milk "milk"; Mississippi State legislature (totally not in thrall to Big Ag): hold my beer.
[15:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:10] <exec> 08└─Total BS. Coconut "water" is EXACTLY what coconut milk is. No "engineering" required.
[15:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:12] <exec> 08└─UGH, I realize hate the idiots that feel the need to do these fake, conversational skits. You're not funny. You never were.
[15:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:14] <exec> 08└─If you don't know what the "Impossible Burger" is, you have clearly beaten the marketing campaign to interfere with your reasoning process. You're more dangerous to capitalists than Jesus (and worse, not a target market). Serving you an incorrect menu item is the least of their worries.
[15:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:24] <exec> 08└─How about because it was never *his* money to begin with. He hadn't made it before they were married, and as a married couple it was *their* money - the whole point of a traditional marriage (even back when women were chattel) is that it's a partnership to allow mutual support and specialization of...
[15:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:25] <exec> 08└─If you think giving up the single life is a sacrifice instead of a boon, you're never going to be happily married.
[15:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:27] <exec> 08└─It's sad that they fell apart and I hope the kids are okay. Oh, and money stuff.
[15:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:20] <exec> 08└─Actually, so long as it stays in freefall the depth of the gravity well probably doesn't matter except to fuel costs - nothing in the solar system, except maybe the gas giants, has a deep enough well to generate tidal effects strong enough to be an issue for something designed to accelerate. It's la...
[15:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:22] <exec> 08└─You just need two 3 metre pods and a tether.
[15:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 1929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:24] <exec> 08└─>As much as I like what Musk is doing, that BFR is a joke. Not hardly. It's small in the grand scheme of things, surely, and I believe he's already mentioned that he's planning to do another order of magnitude step up in the future. But trying to build such a huge rocket today *would* be a joke. Bec...
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[15:29:58] <exec> 08└─Wow -- your school was ahead of the curve! I was in HS in the 80s.
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[16:22:08] <exec> 08└─So he replaced a tube amplifier with modern digital technology? I hope no audiophile watches his video. ;-)
[16:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Updating a Vintage Radio With a Pi - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:10] <exec> 08└─https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/roberts-r300-reinvention/ [raspberrypi.org] (I think this one is duplicated below, but this one was featured on the raspberry pi blog.) https://www.instructables.com [instructables.com] https://lifehacker.com
[16:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Updating a Vintage Radio With a Pi - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:12] <exec> 08└─What? He didn't paint it black and fill it to the rim with burn-our-your-retina blue LEDs or rainbow-LED lit fans?
[16:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Updating a Vintage Radio With a Pi - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:14] <exec> 08└─Fun, random things! Star Trek - Tricorder Prop https://www.raspberrypi.org [raspberrypi.org] Doctor Who - K9 Prop https://www.raspberrypi.org [raspberrypi.org] Robotic Fish https://www.raspberrypi.org [r...
[16:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Updating a Vintage Radio With a Pi - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:17] <exec> 08└─http://www.jmargolin.com/patents/radio.htm [jmargolin.com] Jed Margolin digitally modeled an AM radio receiver, might be something fun to run on the Pi in the old radio cabinet. To quote from his page, A realistic illusion of listening to an actual AM radio is produced by providing a number of audio...
[16:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:32] <exec> 08└─More money for concetration camps! That's what we're missing! Fuck you and die. No really. Your death would benefit the world so much. If you're rebuttal is that the 3.6 billion annually we're handing private prison interests specifically for immigration related detainees(many of whom have committed...
[16:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:34] <exec> 08└─Termidity? Humid for a specific time period? Death song? I don't get it.
[16:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:36] <exec> 08└─You are beyond stupid.
[16:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:38] <exec> 08└─Your hatred is making the rounds. Lots of liberals have caught it in recent years.
[16:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:40] <exec> 08└─I don't disagree with you on the privacy side, but illegal immigration is not victimless. For example, real wages of construction workers in LA are about five inflation adjusted dollars lower today than in the 70s, and while the article tries to make it about racism somehow, the business math is cry...
[16:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:42] <exec> 08└─One is MUCH scarier than the other, you really shouldn't be conflicted. For the party of limited government you sure are timid about thst gov body snatching people and going all "papers ease." It is depressing for the rest of us to watch the country slide into fascism with every hallmark just right...
[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:44] <exec> 08└─Obvious shit, but the Left has gone full retard, so they need it pointed out to their law breaking asses.
[16:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:47] <exec> 08└─The "MUCH" scarier thing you're talking about is already happening. I'm not even sure, it's something we don't want law enforcement to be able to do. Yes, more technology, means things like facial recognition are possible, but that doesn't mean it has to be used for bad things. More effectively catc...
[16:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:49] <exec> 08└─That'd be not bullshit if there was a strong correlation between wages and latinx population. if you'll forgive some original synthesis [governing.com] between these two sources [wikipedia.org] I plugged them into excel, the 2016 numbers have a positive correlation. More latinx people, the higher th...
[16:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:51] <exec> 08└─"Oh, I just want to do a little ethnic cleansing, u mad bro?" Like I said, of course I'm mad, you're a terrible fucking person and unambiguously deserve to die.
[16:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:28] <exec> 08└─foundation series by asimov, i think. also what about the other 1000 gott like people standing in front of the berlin and whos predictions were wrong? nobody talks about them ... in any case theres a 50-50 per cent chance someone alive today will predict the exact date humankind will demise just rig...
[16:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:30] <exec> 08└─>> Who TF knows nowadays who that Seldon is supposed to be? I would Hari a guess at >80% of this site's readers.
[16:23:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:40] <exec> 08└─Apps can come with internally hardcoded lists of DoH-compatible DNS resolvers
[16:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:01] <exec> 08└─In the specific case of Cloudflare it's even worse than that. A given blocked site might resolve to a handful of IPs within Cloudflare's IP space, but in practice it seems that *any* of Cloudflare's IPs that are working as a reverse proxy will work for *any* site Cloudflare are acting as front-end h...
[16:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:02] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the information!
[16:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's 8-core Ryzen 7 3700X and 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X Reviewed - 1163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:39] <exec> 08└─the x570's all seem to have tiny fans on the chipsets. that's a big read FAIL to me ;( I will try using the new cpus with the x470 or b450; likely will skip the 570 and its stoopid noisy failure-prone (yes, it will fail, eventually) fan. odd that the new chips are power efficient but the chipset is...
[16:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:44] <exec> 08└─You do realize that some of the idiots that felt the need to do these fake conversational skits were Monty Python? All in the top 100 funniest people ever? And even they had their moments where their efforts fell flat. That not everything attempted is awesome is a horrible excuse [zenpencils.com] to...
[16:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:46] <exec> 08└─Don't worry we can grind him up and still call it "burger."
[16:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:48] <exec> 08└─I think they should legally be required to call them a food substance that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike hamburger.
[16:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 1333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:56] <exec> 08└─Let me be the one to poke holes this time: angular momentum is conserved, so as you play out the cable your rate of spin slows, and alternately, reeling in the cable causes your rate of spin to increase. Just as when an ice skater pulls in their arms to go from a slow spin into a fast tight one, and...
[16:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:57] <exec> 08└─lucky there's no fixed definition.if you need to know, for me a ship is primarly propelled by wind. a boat is not. ofc a boat can turn into ship and vice versa. also i dont know why they're sleeping along the radius instead of the circumfence of the centrifuge. lying down along the radius will just...
[16:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:00] <exec> 08└─it seems silly to research artificial gravity for space travel. the reason is simple: distances are HUGE. we want to get there fast. thus research should be about better engines; more g's are better. i fear we will discover a drive that works most efficient when it itself is subjected to >10g. the p...
[16:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm just pedantic and made the assumption that, like DS9 of Star Trek, the space station(Space Station V) had station keeping thrusters and/or movement capability allowing it to count as "ship" in a technical sense.
[16:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:37] <exec> 08└─I graduated from HS in 1972. Things were just starting to loosen up, but didn't hit Montana as hard as say, California. Looking at kids today, I think we need to return to school uniforms and nuns armed with rulers, and kick out commercial everything.
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[17:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:40] <exec> 08└─You really are being the stereotypical "liberal" harpy. He said nothing about more money for the prison camps. He says build the damn wall to keep them out. And I will go further to say to push them back across the border. Let 'em wait on the other side if it's so important to come here. You people...
[17:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 1656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:41] <exec> 08└─You're making shit up, all on your own now. Do you, or do you not, believe in the rule of law? I've stated many times that each and every congress since about 1954 is guilty of negligence. Each of them has had the duty to overhaul immigration, and each of them has failed to do so. Instead, both part...
[17:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:21] <exec> 08└─My capitalistic 0.1 percent masters have made it so I can cross a half a day's foot travel in only 10 minutes to visit a store that contains more food, goods, and services than I could consume in an entire lifetime and I can pay for more than I need working less than eight hours per day in an air co...
[17:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:23] <exec> 08└─It probably is tongue-in-cheek, but manages to appear tantalizingly close to being a workable theorem, at least to me with my limited mathematical knowledge. Slightly offtopic: I found it especially interesting because I've been thinking lately about a discussion I had with an AC in my journal [soyl...
[17:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:25] <exec> 08└─they made a nice job turning you into a slave with no memory
[17:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:27] <exec> 08└─You're just one of the lucky ones. Enjoy it while it lasts.
[17:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:29] <exec> 08└─The martyb (sic) descendants may even have enough time to learn to capitalize the first letter of their given name and surname ;P
[17:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's 8-core Ryzen 7 3700X and 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X Reviewed - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:37] <exec> 08└─AMD mobos tend to be cheaper and you get a bundled cooler with the CPUs.
[17:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's 8-core Ryzen 7 3700X and 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X Reviewed - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:38] <exec> 08└─The 7/7 date was chosen to emphasize "7nm", but it fell on a Sunday. That's probably why you saw limited availability. Today could be considered the real launch day. As hot as the X570 chipset it, you don't need to buy one if power and heat are your concerns. You can use existing AM4 motherboards, a...
[17:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:47] <exec> 08└─Frankenfurters
[17:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, at 24 rpm, you are sitting at about 3G. Lots of things are going to be uncomfortable / disorienting. I'm suggesting that it would be reasonably comfortable at 1/2G @ 4 rpm.
[17:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:02] <exec> 08└─The one I was thinking about was considerably more powerful than that, and wasn't from NASA. I think it was about 1 Megawatt, but it was definitely experimental. I think the USArmy is involved in a couple of other projects for mobile, low-maintenance, nuclear reactors, but all I've seen is PR withou...
[17:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:04] <exec> 08└─Runaway's idea could work if you kept a flywheel module at the hub to temporarily 'bank' your angular momentum. Might save some fuel on the spin-up/spin-down cycles if you anticipate having to reel the halves in and out a lot for some reason.
[17:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:06] <exec> 08└─That's not all together clear. The further away you get, the larger your receptor area needs to be, though, and at some point you'd need an auxiliary mirror to make it work. But those large receptors make mobility a problem. Another approach to consider is a generator system in lower solar orbit. (Y...
[17:29:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Having Six Fingers can Offer Major Dexterity Advantages - 490 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:13] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised anyone was allowed to be left with such a difference. I'd expect any random person that were born like this would find their extra finger sliced off in the name of being "normal". Brain scans and anatomical MRI scans revealed that the extra fingers are controlled by a dedicated brain s...
[17:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Having Six Fingers can Offer Major Dexterity Advantages - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:38] <exec> 08└─I'd expect any random person that were born like this would find their extra finger sliced off in the name of being "normal".
[17:29:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06Big Dairy is Trying to Get Teens Hooked on Lattes to Boost Milk Sales - 29 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:46] <exec> 08└─One medium soy latte, please.
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[18:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Most Boring man Puts 3 Million People to Sleep Every Night - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:07] <exec> 08└─Best submission in a long time!
[18:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Most Boring man Puts 3 Million People to Sleep Every Night - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:08] <exec> 08└─I dunno, it seems to be a snooze fest.
[18:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Most Boring man Puts 3 Million People to Sleep Every Night - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:10] <exec> 08└─The act of imagining what is being told to you relaxes you and helps you to sleep, doesn't need to be particularly boring. Listening to a tv program is better than a radio program, as you have to fill in more stuff. Or do like advanced beings and implement some suspend routine.
[18:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Most Boring man Puts 3 Million People to Sleep Every Night - 2531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:13] <exec> 08└─According to the transcripts, this guys drivel is pretty sleep inducing - far less interesting than anyone actually trying to tell you anything. From the latest story: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls and friends beyond the binary, and all my patron peeps. Thank for keeping the show going, patro...
[18:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Most Boring man Puts 3 Million People to Sleep Every Night - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:15] <exec> 08└─Sounds like 95% of the YouTube videos out there in which the first 10 minutes are pure self-promotion by way of extended introduction.
[18:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Updating a Vintage Radio With a Pi - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, what an idiot. I fixed an old 1950s Zenith tube radio a few years ago. It had a bad volume pot. Finding one that was even close to the right spec's wasn't easy. I had to add another circuit board of resistors to the stacked pot to compensate for being slightly off spec. It sounds very differen...
[18:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Updating a Vintage Radio With a Pi - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:28] <exec> 08└─Count me in. Stuffing a pi into an old case is about as authentic as converting it into a toaster. You can do it, but why would you?
[18:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Updating a Vintage Radio With a Pi - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:30] <exec> 08└─Let's check the URL... because Hackaday.
[18:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Updating a Vintage Radio With a Pi - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:32] <exec> 08└─This kind of thing goes way back -- wow, somehow I managed to dredge up "Mini ITX" -- this is from 2003 and though a replica radio, I'm sure someone somewhere just ripped out the guts of an old 30s radio to do the same: https://www.mini-itx.com [mini-itx.com]
[18:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2, Troll) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:00] <exec> 08└─"More money for concetration camps!" A deeply offensive, and utterly false, implication. Concentration camps were places where people were worked to death when not outright slaughtered. ICE detainment centers are places where people are held temporarily, not put to hard labor but given food and shel...
[18:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:02] <exec> 08└─"Do you not believe in rule of law, that's why mass arrests are violating every single citizens rights are necessary" Fuck off. You don't want to believe you're an evil fuck, fine. I can't make you have a conscience. I know you can invent technicalities that ease your mind from confronting your crav...
[18:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:04] <exec> 08└─Do you think I want to hear your "well this ethnic minority we rounded up without due process, crammed into overcrowded, unsafe,, inhumane, and unsanitary conditions that have led to numerous deaths aren't yet systemically killing them" bullshit? No, I want you to die, and leave the world to decent...
[18:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:06] <exec> 08└─You've got it backwards, but hey Gaslight Obstruct Project works so well for a reason.
[18:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:08] <exec> 08└─If I understand you correctly, you assert that the importation of cheap labor willing to perform unionized positions for non-union pay, is not a relevant factor in union busting.
[18:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:11] <exec> 08└─"I can't answer for you, but I believe in the rule of law. The law says it's illegal for those people to swarm across the border like they do. That makes them CRIMINALS." Actually, you're wrong on that. That's not a CRIMINAL offense, it's a status offense, an administrative matter, not a criminal on...
[18:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:13] <exec> 08└─Runaway seems to be the useful idiot instead of the careful planted agent. His posting behavior certainly seems to maximize division but he has enough depth to make me go with the first option.
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:15] <exec> 08└─And, what I know about you is, you are a hateful person, who is happy to wallow in his ignorance. Go read that alternet story. Then, start writing your representatives, and DEMAND that immigration be overhauled. I don't care much whether your bleeding heart wants to see twenty million LEGAL immigran...
[18:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:18] <exec> 08└─Since union jobs require legal citizens then no, illegal immigration does not hurt unions. Only certain businesses that can fly under the radar can afford to use such labor. I'm sure it is some amount of a factor but I highly doubt it is significant and there are better solutions than violating peop...
[18:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:20] <exec> 08└─A technicality, really. A lawbreaker is a lawbreaker - it's only a matter of the seriousness of the infraction. When a person wanders into the country in violation of the law, you might expect that he has no respect for any other laws. 40% are criminals, the remaining 60% are lawbreakers who have no...
[18:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:22] <exec> 08└─His larger point is more to the arguments made by the "you have nothing to worry if you have nothing to hide" crowd, which is about as un-American as you can get. We fought a war and declared our independence from this kind of stuff.
[18:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:24] <exec> 08└─Believe it or not, the world doesn't revolve around what you want to hear. "well this ethnic minority we rounded up" Wow, they're just going out "rounding up" people based on their ethnicity? Shocking, horrible! And again, totally false. That's not what's happening at all. No one at the border cares...
[18:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:27] <exec> 08└─*wooooosh* I think calling you a sheep person would be the most accurate thing I've done today. Your logic just boggles the mind.
[18:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:29] <exec> 08└─Awww Mr. SockPuppet is upvoting his stupid shit again. Fertilizer of hatred, guess it can't survive without a human to carefully tend to its black blossoms.
[18:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:31] <exec> 08└─That's a very hard line to take on status offenses, and I suspect one you'd think was absurd and crazy if it were applied to you. You've never forgotten to renew your registration, or your drivers license? You've never gone walking and wound up somewhere you weren't supposed to be? You would want to...
[18:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:33] <exec> 08└─I plugged them into excel, the 2016 numbers have a positive correlation. More latinx people, the higher the average pay. You're lying your ass off.
[18:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:36] <exec> 08└─No, really, I don't care. You're scum. There's no "well technically" you could possibly form that would excuse your evil.
[18:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:38] <exec> 08└─Actually, it's the same sort of hard line that the typical officer takes when he pulls you over. He sees an expired tag on your car, he stops you, asks for your license, registration, and insurance, gets on his computer, and searches nationwide for warrants, arrests, convictions, etc ad nauseum. Tha...
[18:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 1532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:22] <exec> 08└─That one withstands at least 10 seconds of serious thought. Ugh the caveman*, in the year 3 million BC, could have performed the test and predicted the imminent demise of protohumanity (if a passing black monolith had taught him about numbers greater than "lots"*). A citizen of Ancient Babylon could...
[18:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:24] <exec> 08└─The accuracy of prediction could be as high as 50%.
[18:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:26] <exec> 08└─That's a lot of words to arrive at some very suspect conclusion. Yes, it's a hypernaive statistical method. But if you were trying to estimate the duration of a random event, strictly based on one piece of evidence(how long since the same single event started), this is the correct method to do so. A...
[18:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:28] <exec> 08└─So what is the secret of the woodpecker station?
[18:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:30] <exec> 08└─As you say, not a good or useful argument. Still, I think is predictions are a bit optimistic. I would say that humanity, as we know it, will end within 50 years, certainly by the end of the century. I decline to say whether this will be a good or a bad thing. Also the mode of ending, as some are ca...
[18:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:33] <exec> 08└─[*] The name of these publications do include the word "the" and should, therefore, be capitalized: The New York Times and The New Yorker, respectively.
[18:24:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 1213 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:58] <exec> 08└─Captive networks (schools, Universities, corporate fleets, etc) have long inserted a local root cert allowing their filters and proxies to break https on a routine basis. Because they must, to meet a multitude of legal requirements and for sound business reasons. My problem is I don't want to do tha...
[18:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Early Black Holes - No Supernova Required - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:24] <exec> 08└─We don't know if those quantum black holes exist or not. They are sometimes called Planck particles because they have the Planck mass and their Schwarzschild radius is the Planck length. (Unusually for a Planck unit, the Planck mass is human-comprehensible, about the mass of a small speck of dust)....
[18:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's 8-core Ryzen 7 3700X and 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X Reviewed - 1834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:43] <exec> 08└─Some fans [thetechlounge.com] are quieter than others. The cooling situation is probably better than what it was a decade ago. Apparently, up to 28W chips [anandtech.com] can be cooled passively. Drop from the 35-45 Watt TDPs that you see on some chips (mostly desktop APUs), and you could at least r...
[18:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's 8-core Ryzen 7 3700X and 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X Reviewed - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:44] <exec> 08└─"Back in the day" (2005) I was betting on AMD to get a sizeable new chunk of the market based on their much lower power yet competitively performing new chips. Then the Eye of Intel opened on low power concerns and blasted my AMD stock options into oblivion.
[18:28:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03https [5248] 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:02] <exec> 08└─If you think giving up the single life is a sacrifice instead of a boon, you're never going to be happily married.
[18:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 1201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:06] <exec> 08└─You don't need beanstalks. Beanstalks are a great idea, but only for planets with gravity significantly weaker than Earth. In our gravity the materials need to be too strong, and only if we develop electrically enhanced bonds would they be able to carry much more than their own weight. (And then wha...
[18:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:08] <exec> 08└─I agree that it would be less dramatic at 1/6 the strength, but... I wonder how many MORE astronauts are going to have serious problems keeping their lunch down if their ride is a perpetual low grade tilt-a-whirl?
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[19:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06China is Ramping up its Media Abroad – and Not Just in Chinese - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:22] <exec> 08└─China is the biggest threat to western liberal values. They need to be contained. But I fear it might be too late.
[19:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06China is Ramping up its Media Abroad – and Not Just in Chinese - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:24] <exec> 08└─Isn't this what all the cool countries do? They try to make their own news outfits go global. They don't do it cause they believe you are missing out on the news, they do it to try and sell their point of view and preferences. Russia has several (RT.com is probably the most common), every European n...
[19:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Ramping up its Media Abroad – and Not Just in Chinese - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:26] <exec> 08└─Right, Voice of America has been around for as long as I can remember.
[19:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Ramping up its Media Abroad – and Not Just in Chinese - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:28] <exec> 08└─This has been going on for several years now, and it's even more worrisome how they've infected the banking system. Posting this again, it's old but clearly more people need to read it: https://medium.com
[19:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Ramping up its Media Abroad – and Not Just in Chinese - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:30] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. Millennials are the biggest threat to western liberal values.
[19:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Most Boring man Puts 3 Million People to Sleep Every Night - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:43] <exec> 08└─My eyelids got droopy just scrounging up the following link. The guy's voice alone is incredibly soothing. "You can create any kind of illusion in your world" (Bob teaches how to pain landscapes) https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] If you happen to be a painter, though, it migh...
[19:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Most Boring man Puts 3 Million People to Sleep Every Night - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:44] <exec> 08└─It's a happy little soylenter.
[19:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Most Boring man Puts 3 Million People to Sleep Every Night - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:46] <exec> 08└─Let's add a happy little reply that will live right over here.
[19:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Updating a Vintage Radio With a Pi - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:02] <exec> 08└─Like I said on the Hackaday website, One man's trash is another man's treasure. If the parts he removed were servicable, then others restoring this radio would be glad to have them. Nothing gets wasted... Geez! Stop with the angst about a little adventurous mods. Lots of people do it, myself include...
[19:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Updating a Vintage Radio With a Pi - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:04] <exec> 08└─He also replaced the radio tuner with canned MP3s. Though it was only an AM tuner... so maybe the MP3s can compete on quality?
[19:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Updating a Vintage Radio With a Pi - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:06] <exec> 08└─If you really want the true old style radio experience, you really need to get rid of the PLL based synthesized tuning which limits you to tuning across the band in discrete steps. Maybe if the step size is really small, it won't make a difference to you if you're not hardcore, but you will definite...
[19:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:52] <exec> 08└─"He sees an expired tag on your car, he stops you, asks for your license, registration, and insurance, gets on his computer, and searches nationwide for warrants, arrests, convictions, etc ad nauseum." And when he finds nothing else amiss, he returns your papers, reminds you to get that taken care o...
[19:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:54] <exec> 08└─*sigh* I hope you don't consider yourself a liberal, you are giving it a bad name. We have the right to send them back. I wish we had the guts to do it! Let them ask nicely, and we will consider their request. Climb the wall and make a break for it, back you go! Don't be such a passive aggressive we...
[19:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:56] <exec> 08└─:-) You know, the repulsiveness of your series of posts here make for excellent campaign material for Trump and the Party. Are you a double agent? For the GOP? You sure sound like it! If you are, keep up the good work!
[19:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:58] <exec> 08└─More latinx people, the higher the average pay.
[19:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:00] <exec> 08└─Being called repulsive by concentration camp advocates just tells me I'm still a human being.
[19:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:02] <exec> 08└─What the ever loving fuck is wrong with your incredibly fucked up brain? No you clearly don't understand me at all, because the retarded spew coming from your shitty maw has jack and shit to do with the statistics I posted, you vile, retarded monkey of a person. Goddamn I cannot fathom what it's lik...
[19:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:05] <exec> 08└─Because false positives never happen, right?
[19:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:07] <exec> 08└─Yep, which is why every single innocent citizen who committed no crime is also being scanned, and the records already show the feds have been witholding evidence of large numbers of false positive matches on this exact program. Good job. You sure showed those damned illegals by giving away our right...
[19:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:09] <exec> 08└─No, not really. The a fairly robust actual predictor of number of people of latin origin in a state is: whether the state was once part of the country Mexico. I know you have to invent a racist fiction for every goddamn thing or else possibly confront the fact that you are a racist. But don't take p...
[19:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:11] <exec> 08└─But that doesn't address the issue of employers switching away from union labor. As was quoted in the LA Times article above: Of course, an influx of immigrants who would work for less made it easier for builders to quickly shift to a nonunion labor force, Milkman said. The share of immigrants in c...
[19:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:02] <exec> 08└─How are you going to define "better" so that this is a currently defensible argument? It's quite possible that those who live in that future civilization would deem it better, but can you define "better" in such a way that we would also deem it better? EVERY utopian fantasy I've ever read has assume...
[19:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's a hypernaive statistical method.
[19:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:06] <exec> 08└─Also, just to be clear -- I was not at ALL trying to pick a fight with you in my initial post on this thread. If anything, I was trying to add a more subtle criticism to the list of qualifications for this theory you already started. I only posted it below yours as it seemed one of the most appropri...
[19:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:38] <exec> 08└─Alternate roots? You must be joking. I can't get my mother to understand the difference between single clicks and double clicks, nor can I get her to understand that left clicks and right clicks do different things. The only way she could install an alternate root is if one of those stupid "cursor p...
[19:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Excel Workbook and Worksheet Protections Easily Removed - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:48] <exec> 08└─Not the GP, but that is technically only making it "harder" to edit. Beside the obvious of just retyping it into a new version, you could, theoretically, tamper with the message and still have a good signature. Different algorithms have different sensitivity to this, of course, but it is a distinct...
[19:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:43] <exec> 08└─Plastic lid?? Cheapskate!
[19:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:49] <exec> 08└─Everyone knows a rotating wheel type space station will fill the role of artificial gravity. Just because no one has actually built one, doesn't make it fiction.
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[20:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Libra Cryptocurrency Scams Already Active Ahead Of 2020 Launch - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:31] <exec> 08└─Are the ones who pose as Elon Musk, John McAffee and Trump in the replies to their tweets offering "free bitcoin". There's something about recognizing where the easily scammed people reside and who they trust that make me nod and go "Yes, anonymous scumbag, I see where you're coming from"
[20:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Libra Cryptocurrency Scams Already Active Ahead Of 2020 Launch - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:32] <exec> 08└─Fools and their not-money will soon be parted.
[20:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Ramping up its Media Abroad – and Not Just in Chinese - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, imagine the outrage if the US just constantly exported state propaganda to every corner of the world for a century. [cqpress.com]
[20:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Ramping up its Media Abroad – and Not Just in Chinese - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:46] <exec> 08└─And that's just the propaganda we publicly admit to. Back in 2006 the DOD released the "Information Operations Roadmap" which basically suggested the US was doing every single thing we accused Putin of doing vis-a-vis fake news sites in basically every country of strategic interest.
[20:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06China is Ramping up its Media Abroad – and Not Just in Chinese - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:49] <exec> 08└─Come on, the US is a much bigger threat to "western values". I've been to China just a couple weeks ago, the only substantive difference is, as a white guy, I was the one "randomly" stopped by police and asked for ID.
[20:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China is Ramping up its Media Abroad – and Not Just in Chinese - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:51] <exec> 08└─Millennials aren't creating a huge police surveillance state [nytimes.com] and implementing and enforcing a "social scores" [businessinsider.com]. Nor are they creating brainwashing "reeducation" prisons [wikipedia.org]. But that's ok. Keep on getting worked up by right-wing agitprop media men telli...
[20:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Updating a Vintage Radio With a Pi - 1343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:23] <exec> 08└─Get a decent SDR and some good software, and you'll never want to listen to an analog radio again unless you're a masochist at heart. SDR software offers perfectly smooth tuning, any bandwidth you want, any slope to the bandwidth edges you want, any kind of EQ you want, enormous, consistent tuning r...
[20:23:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheFool [7105] 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 848 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:38] <exec> 08└─Presumably, some of you remember the Real ID Act [wikipedia.org]. It was passed in the hysteria around 9/11, and one of the things it mandated was that all state DMVs have a remotely accessible database of photos. Prior to that, this database didn't have to be remotely accessible, it didn't have to...
[20:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:21] <exec> 08└─I cannot think of a more certain way go guarantee that undocumented people drive unlicensed and uninsured than arresting all the ones who follow the legal processes.
[20:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:23] <exec> 08└─You posted no "statistics". You posted something of a chart, which displays the fact that some states have a higher cost of living than other states. You posted no statistics in regard to the number of illegal aliens living in California in the 1970's, and the prevailing wages then, compared to the...
[20:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:25] <exec> 08└─You're not black, shut the fuck up. "You didn't post statistics, you just posted a pair of tables of organized structured data" Instead, I would like you to seriously consider eating a baker's dozen bullets.
[20:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:27] <exec> 08└─They really are bending over backwards because they've been sold the "illegal immigrants are raping murderous bastards who drain the economy and that is why your life sucks Mr. Conservitard." Don't sweat it, until these idiots are run off a cliff like the lemmings they are they won't understand. It...
[20:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, I suppose clowns are human. Maybe the President can build you clowns your own solidarity camps so you can develop a deeper empathy for the enemy.
[20:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:31] <exec> 08└─and he doesn't like being called out, awwwwww how many accounts you pupeteering these days?
[20:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:34] <exec> 08└─Aye I agree with you 100%. As a legal alien I do not enjoy as much right to privacy as citizens in the US, and as I grew older I realized that I have no right to "righteous indignation" when forced to do certain things, which only seem reasonable. Although I must say that some things while dealign w...
[20:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:36] <exec> 08└─I know, right? When do we get around to disbanding the police force so we can all be SAFE?
[20:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:38] <exec> 08└─I can not think of a better way to encourage ID theft than to allow illegal immigrants to live here.
[20:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:40] <exec> 08└─That's because you're a moron who cannot think at all.
[20:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:43] <exec> 08└─You are unhinged. My friend recently got to pay 5 grand out of pocket cause an illegal rear-ended her car and tried to run. They caught him, but the insurance company said to persue him through the courts to recoup her out of pocket costs. Yeah good luck with that! She is a legal immigrant from Guat...
[20:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I guess I appreciate all that. The problem is trying to outdo the doomsday argument with is a bit like trying fill out the drake equation. You can stick some assumptions in there, but really, you don't know what it takes to start or stop another civilization. Not really. Other discussions I'm...
[20:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:38] <exec> 08└─LOL [humanprogress.org]
[20:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:40] <exec> 08└─Come now! The prediction is based on the fact that humanity exists. The probability of the existence of humanity is therefore 1. The probability of humanity ceasing to exist, if humanity did not exist, =0. Therefore, the probability of humanity ending, once it in fact exists, is >0. This is such a p...
[20:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:13] <exec> 08└─The problem with that is that is that, according to the spec., DoH is done over HTTPS (i.e. as a GET or POST request to a magic path) on the default port of 443. The implications of that are that it is impossible to filter DoH without MiTM the HTTPS connection (and all that implies, including that y...
[20:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Excel Workbook and Worksheet Protections Easily Removed - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:24] <exec> 08└─That's why digital signatures exist. Here is the info, and here's the cryptographic proof that its the info I intended to give you, i.e. that nobody changed it. Of course it imposes a burden on the consumer to verify that signature. A burden apparently so onerous that nobody ever does it.
[20:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:06] <exec> 08└─It's about money. The Monsanto model was to create a seed that they could claim intellectual property rights on, and then interweaving with the government to gradually begin to enforce a transition to their patented inventions. As but one example, Monsanto worked with the government to offer major f...
[20:29:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:21] <exec> 08└─You two should get a divorce.
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[21:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Libra Cryptocurrency Scams Already Active Ahead Of 2020 Launch - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:25] <exec> 08└─"Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image..." (c)
[21:22:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06China is Ramping up its Media Abroad – and Not Just in Chinese - 660 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:33] <exec> 08└─Isn't this what all the cool countries do? They try to make their own news outfits go global. They don't do it cause they believe you are missing out on the news, they do it to try and sell their point of view and preferences. Russia has several (RT.com is probably the most common), every European n...
[21:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Ramping up its Media Abroad – and Not Just in Chinese - 2372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:42] <exec> 08└─Have you looked at the US fertility rates among well educated liberal individuals? Many of these individuals are millennials and they are literally going extinct. This is happening at the same time that people of low education, low income, and high religiosity are continuing to reproduce like there'...
[21:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Ramping up its Media Abroad – and Not Just in Chinese - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:45] <exec> 08└─No, trumptards are the biggest threat to western liberal values. And by trumptards, I mean every voter who makes his choice based purely on emotion, or herd mentality, or tribalism, or just to piss-off the "other side", or for the lulz, or because he's ignorant, uneducated, gullible, or brainwashed,...
[21:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:28] <exec> 08└─the jews were not slaughtered and there were no lampshades made of their skin. that was and is a psyop.
[21:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:30] <exec> 08└─yep. we either enforce the borders and have a country or we don't. "enforcing the border" does not mean letting them in and giving them a court date.
[21:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:32] <exec> 08└─They aren't trying to convince you, they are trying to make it appear as if their world view has more supporters than it really does. Then again I wouldn't put it past quite a few of the prolific users around here to mod up that kind of posting. Runaway's unhinged replies make it clear that they wil...
[21:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:34] <exec> 08└─excel? stupid fuck confirmed.
[21:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:36] <exec> 08└─replying to yourself is stooooopid
[21:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:38] <exec> 08└─You're a dumb shit, re-read your first post eh? Funny how once you get triggered you fall back on the propaganda style responses and forget your own point!
[21:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:41] <exec> 08└─The correct response would be to investigate such employers and levy some hefty fines that make sure they hire legal employees. Ramping up border police does not help as so many studies have shown. Instead of taking the authoritarian punitive approach perhaps it would be better to realize that the U...
[21:24:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 2515 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:56] <exec> 08└─Gott's reasoning is too simplistic, and this article seems intended to provoke discussion about humanity's future. There's no reason, in principle, that humanity is going away any time "soon", as in, the next 1000 years. That is, no external reason. The sun has fuel enough to burn for perhaps anothe...
[21:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:39] <exec> 08└─Uh... We're not proving civilization doesn't exist or is possible to exist. We're discussing entirely hypothetical ways of estimating black swan events. Or broadly the durability of civilization. Like in a very informal sense those relate to existence in a pretty intuitive way. But in a strict syll...
[21:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:40] <exec> 08└─>81% guess from me!
[21:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Enable DNS-Over-HTTPS (DoH) in Firefox - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:15] <exec> 08└─Or you could just use DNS-over-TLS (or DTLS), which is supported out-of-the-box by most DNS servers (or could be put behind stunnel with relative ease); especially when you compare it to having new-and-untested servers doing a new and untested tunneled protocol on a three deep stack.
[21:26:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] 02 - 06Early Black Holes - No Supernova Required - 2429 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:28] <exec> 08└─I thought this was settled years ago. Black holes come in different types depending on their origin and this is mostly a function of mass. The black holes in the range of 10 to 100 solar masses are all stellar remnants, the result of the normal story we tell ourselves about stars that die and are to...
[21:26:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06Early Black Holes - No Supernova Required - 1930 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:33] <exec> 08└─There are a few current theories as to how supermassive black holes form, and what you've described isn't one of the mainstream ones. Spacetime has been shown to be much too flat to produce primordial black holes in appreciable quantities, largely thanks to cosmic inflation. If you bring up the Paul...
[21:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:24] <exec> 08└─And he outed himself about it after the Saudis threatened to release it instead. The result being that his wife was in a good position to claim half or more if they didn't have a prenupt due to the breach of the contract of marriage. So yeah the settlement she's getting is the least he can do after...
[21:29:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos and MacKenzie Bezos Finalize Most Expensive Divorce in History - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:26] <exec> 08└─They now have all stainless public toilets (Sonoma, CA has one that also UV sanitizes between uses.) A stainless toilet seat and a solid gold toilet would give you the best of both worlds. However, you might want to look into dissimilar metal issues because either the Steel, Gold, or the non-plastic...
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[22:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Genetic Algorithm for Traffic Control Optimization - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:22] <exec> 08└─...by using bio-inspired functions such as individual mutation, crossover, and selection of best individuals to carry on the best genes of a population—in our case, best signal phases," [researcher Tuo] Mao said. "We thought that GAs would be a fantastic solution to solve this problem and decided...
[22:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Libra Cryptocurrency Scams Already Active Ahead Of 2020 Launch - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:32] <exec> 08└─Make thousands a month investing in Chuck E. Cheese tokens!
[22:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Ramping up its Media Abroad – and Not Just in Chinese - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:50] <exec> 08└─走路時白色。
[22:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Most Boring man Puts 3 Million People to Sleep Every Night - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:05] <exec> 08└─Bob teaches how to pain landscapes
[22:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Most Boring man Puts 3 Million People to Sleep Every Night - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:06] <exec> 08└─The Joy of Commenting
[22:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Updating a Vintage Radio With a Pi - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:28] <exec> 08└─I have been looking for an antique radio for exactly this purpose, because I can turn a non-functional* but potentially nice looking piece of equipment into something that will be of use to me. One problem I am facing is that they are hard to find in any condition really. I did see several in a jun...
[22:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:45] <exec> 08└─Hate. Pure hatred. And, you presume to lecture me on racism and other silly shit. Whatever.
[22:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:46] <exec> 08└─As a legal alien, welcome! Yeah, I'm sure it's a pain in the arse, dealing with immigration people. Like the TSA, I'm quite sure it attracts people who desire authority. There are probably plenty of freaks working in the system.
[22:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:48] <exec> 08└─Re-read my own post? You're referring to the bit about a doctor, and a prescription? Uh-huh. And, you're going to deny that I have quite literally "triggered" Mr. Ikanread? Except, he's gone over the top, and is literally frothing at the mouth. In fact, he's admitted as much. So - you had some kind...
[22:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 2221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:51] <exec> 08└─Racist? That's your most intelligent response, go to racism? So, because somewhere / sometime there has been racism, and you state "racism", therefore everything you believe and rant and tirade on on about is universal truth, correct? You're so upset you aren't even a little rational. I feel badly f...
[22:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:53] <exec> 08└─Go easy on Ikanread -- he or she is 19-24yo, out of his/her safe space, and obviously triggered by being asked to defend his/her ideas in a logical fashion.
[22:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:55] <exec> 08└─You are right on part 1, not trying to convince Ikanread of anything, but wrong on part 2. People are modding Ikanread down because arguments along the lines of "swear, cuss, insult, cuss, swear, insult" -- aren't arguments, they're mere expressions of childish rage. Also, I am not Runaway.
[22:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:57] <exec> 08└─You're right, I should have paid more attention, I thought you were directing some anger at a politician in your initial post for advancing spy tech legislation because he was FRAUGHT with anxiety about illegal immigrants. Turns out you're just stupid as ever and should really look into the whole "l...
[22:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:00] <exec> 08└─That's rough for your friend but they have drawn the wrong conclusion. Building a wall won't fix the fact that your insurance system is broken. Where I live, if an uninsured party damages my car, my insurance company fixes the car and then goes after the uninsured party for costs. (In fact, my car g...
[22:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:00] <exec> 08└─Yep. Stopped reading when I saw the line "my latest book". Then again it saved me time. I hate when I an article, then get to the bottom and it says something about their latest book. It was just an ad the whole time.
[22:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:01] <exec> 08└─Are we actually agreed that civilisation does exist though?
[22:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:04] <exec> 08└─"Ooooh he's tryyyying!"
[22:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:06] <exec> 08└─No, the range is 0%. There is only a finite number of people who will have ever read Asimov or heard of Seldon, and over an infinite time range the ratio of those who have been exposed to those who haven't can therefore only climb. My logic is about as good as Gott's here, so I feel 95% confident th...
[22:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's 8-core Ryzen 7 3700X and 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X Reviewed - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:24] <exec> 08└─x470 and b450 work fine, although you might need a BIOS update, which means you want a "flashback" motherboard (one that can update its own firmware) unless you already have an old CPU to do the update with. There's basically no performance difference between x570 and x470. It is mostly to enable PC...
[22:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:37] <exec> 08└─They can't take our Freedogs!
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[23:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06House Bill Targets use of Pentagon Networks for Child Pornography - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:17] <exec> 08└─1,000 Tor nodes flicker out.
[23:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06House Bill Targets use of Pentagon Networks for Child Pornography - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:19] <exec> 08└─I do not know. I assume Child pr0n is already illegal in the US?
[23:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Bill Targets use of Pentagon Networks for Child Pornography - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:21] <exec> 08└─A new law allows the politicians to pontificate and get attention. "Look at me! I'm against child porn. Look at me!"
[23:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Libra Cryptocurrency Scams Already Active Ahead Of 2020 Launch - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:39] <exec> 08└─https://calibre-ebook.com/about [calibre-ebook.com] Personally I use Sumatra for this purpose, but my SO is a very happy user of Calibre.
[23:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Ramping up its Media Abroad – and Not Just in Chinese - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:59] <exec> 08└─Did you hear that? It's the sound of millions of Jews thinking, "finally, somebody else is going to take some heat on that one".
[23:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Ramping up its Media Abroad – and Not Just in Chinese - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:00] <exec> 08└─http://www.newschinamag.com/newschina/aboutus.do [newschinamag.com] I wonder if this magazine is one of the state controlled media? Their blurb doesn't sound like it, and (in past years), it's been very critical of corruption in China as well as the lack of national rule of law (still a lot of local...
[23:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China is Ramping up its Media Abroad – and Not Just in Chinese - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:02] <exec> 08└─At their request, I took my young boys to see the sequel movie "A Dog's Journey." It unfortunately didn't have a lot to do with dogs. It was a romance/coming of age story about a girl instead. They race-packed the movie hard to where every single bad person in the movie was white. Every male suitor...
[23:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Most Boring man Puts 3 Million People to Sleep Every Night - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:20] <exec> 08└─Wonder if Bob has been to Aspirin, Colorado?
[23:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Most Boring man Puts 3 Million People to Sleep Every Night - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:21] <exec> 08└─We need a "Funny Dad Joke" category.
[23:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Most Boring man Puts 3 Million People to Sleep Every Night - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:23] <exec> 08└─How exactly does one pain a landscape? Show the mountains pictures of geological study approval forms?
[23:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Most Boring man Puts 3 Million People to Sleep Every Night - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:26] <exec> 08└─Challenge accepted. Have I explained to you what Hawthorn need to do to improve their forward 50 entries? Also, how a lack of a reliable big man in their forward line means playing Luke Bruest further down the ground limits the number of shots on goal they're getting? I am starting to bore myself...
[23:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:11] <exec> 08└─That's because you have chosen to pay your insurance company to take care of collision damage, regardless of who caused it. If another person is liable, of course they will go after someone they can recover money from. Collision insurance is expensive and optional, it primarily covers damage you cau...
[23:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:13] <exec> 08└─You need a good ol' Puerto Rican pop to the mouth!
[23:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:15] <exec> 08└─Next he'll find out that Excel files are just zip archives.
[23:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:17] <exec> 08└─Wow, firstly, thank you. I wasn't trying to be so hard- didn't know I was that good! I usually shy away from these discussions. I hate that people get so polarized and narrow-minded and knickers all bunched up. And I especially hate that much of the problem is based in media bias, lies, half-truths,...
[23:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:20] <exec> 08└─Huh. I'm not sure I've met a 'Rican internet tough guy before. I've met some in pretty tough 'Ricans in person, but not on the nets! So, whatcha gonna do - email that pop to the mouth to me?
[23:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:23] <exec> 08└─My capitalistic 0.1 percent masters have made it so I can cross a half a day's foot travel in only 10 minutes to visit a store that contains more food, goods, and services than I could consume in an entire lifetime and I can pay for more than I need working less than eight hours per day in an air co...
[23:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:25] <exec> 08└─This sounds very familiar. I swear I read it in a book years ago...
[23:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Math Equation That (Supposedly) Predicts the End of Humanity - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:27] <exec> 08└─...when Doomsday was the domain of TV preachers and other various religious zealots, and scientists were calm and rational.
[23:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:57] <exec> 08└─You're more dangerous to capitalists than Jesus (and worse, not a target market).
[23:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:59] <exec> 08└─Have you figured out why the humans are omnivorous, though?
[23:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:01] <exec> 08└─Which will cascade into laws legislating exactly which products can and can't be called "Freedom Dogs."
[23:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mississippi Bans Calling Plant and Cultured-Meat Patties 'Burgers' - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:03] <exec> 08└─Depends if they contain dog.
[23:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 3012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:27] <exec> 08└─You're preaching to the choir here, I'm a huge fan of skyhooks and pinwheels, especially around the major planets (my understanding is that skyhook typically refers to the rotating cable, while pinwheel more often refers to the ultimate full-circle extension of the idea). Not least of all because of...
[23:31:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Gravity Breaks Free From Science Fiction - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:31:28] <exec> 08└─My argument was mainly against his "reel them in, *then* slow them down" - that's a recipe for liquefication. If you do both at the same time it's not a problem, but you're back to having to balance the dynamic instabilities which I don't think is actually a problem except as you approach zero rotat...
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