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[00:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:07] <exec> 08└─Watching that video, you can see that this guy has full confidence and control over that board. As one who has tried and failed to build flying electric rigs in another life, I dare to say that this board packs an impressively scary amount of energy and good feedback loops to behave that way. Give...
[00:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:09] <exec> 08└─Franky Zapata? I loved his album "Apostrophe" and the Mothers of Invention were a pretty good backing band too. Nice to see he has a new career.
[00:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:11] <exec> 08└─Macron has a military parade: How nice.
[00:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:13] <exec> 08└─Macron doesn't have a military parade. France has a military parade. Every year.
[00:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:15] <exec> 08└─is way more cool and practical https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] And if you are thinking they will let you flyboard cities, you are wrong; not going to happen.
[00:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford Study Suggests Dark Matter is Lighter and More Elusive than Previously Thought - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:31] <exec> 08└─How do you define a shade?
[00:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford Study Suggests Dark Matter is Lighter and More Elusive than Previously Thought - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:32] <exec> 08└─follow me around on my next beer fueled chili bender. i'll be able to take care of all your dark matter needs.
[00:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Says there is No Market for VR Gaming - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:21] <exec> 08└─Arcan is already doing exactly this, but people would rather complain about X and Wayland. I agree with the guy in the article - VR /gaming/ is a dead end. The only tag that turns me off more than "VR only" is "visual novel" (the constant shitting on the reputation of all the epic roguelikes by allo...
[00:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Model of Stonehenge Reveals How Voices Would Have Carried in Original Ancient Monument - 1824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:06] <exec> 08└─I agree that it's wrong to say the purposes of these monuments is a complete mystery. We can make some shrewd guesses. However, keeping idle hands busy doesn't make much sense. Even today with all the modern conveniences we have, people constantly complain of a lack of time. It's more helpful to thi...
[00:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Model of Stonehenge Reveals How Voices Would Have Carried in Original Ancient Monument - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:07] <exec> 08└─Most people overestimate progress and underestimate primitive life. You are giving an example saying: Even today with all the modern conveniences we have, people constantly complain of a lack of time.
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[00:26:55] <exec> 08└─This comment thread is beyond lame. How about some real discussion, for example, here's an assertion I agree with: In a corporatist system of government, in which there is no meaningful separation of corporate power and state power, corporate censorship is state censorship. " rel="url2html-31137">ht...
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[01:22:14] <exec> 08└─Same guy sells tethered flyboards, the tether is a hose with high pressure water pumped up to the board, you connect to a jet ski jet pump (which stays floating on the water): https://zapata.com [zapata.com] So he got his flight training relatively cheaply, before transitioning to the...
[01:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford Study Suggests Dark Matter is Lighter and More Elusive than Previously Thought - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:32] <exec> 08└─Dark matter is souls. Doesn't interact except through gravity. Metaphysics: Matheson's What Dreams May Come and ST:TNG s01e06 (beware unsexy Riker) with Interstellar, so we can include love as a fundamental force (unless we can unify love and gravity to one force). Use theosophy or Sailor Moon Stars...
[01:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford Study Suggests Dark Matter is Lighter and More Elusive than Previously Thought - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:34] <exec> 08└─directly quoting the https://iopscience.iop.org [iop.org] I suspect the authors themselves understand the real nature and function of the ever-changing dark matter theory pretty well.
[01:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford Study Suggests Dark Matter is Lighter and More Elusive than Previously Thought - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:36] <exec> 08└─verb; To screen from direct light.
[01:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Study Suggests Dark Matter is Lighter and More Elusive than Previously Thought - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:38] <exec> 08└─Modded TROLL!?! PROVE ME WRONG! What in my statement is wrong? Please correct me!
[01:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Study Suggests Dark Matter is Lighter and More Elusive than Previously Thought - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:41] <exec> 08└─Who wrote that...redundantised Mad magazine writers?
[01:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06`Agent Smith' Infects 25 Million Android Devices Globally; Makes WhatsApp, Opera and SwiftKey Clones - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:51] <exec> 08└─then the users would be better off running Windows. It does at least mostly prevent that, for about two decades now. What abominable stupidity have made Android be so behind?
[01:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FBI Plans More Social Media Surveillance - 1768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:59] <exec> 08└─The problems with mass surveillance are bigger than what law enforcement has done and may do again. For instance, the Red Scare and McCarthyism of the 1950s originated from the fearmongering that the likes of the infamous Senator McCarthy engaged in. Racism has of course been an ongoing problem sinc...
[01:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The FBI Plans More Social Media Surveillance - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:01] <exec> 08└─I often wonder how things might have gone down if Occupy Wall Street had definitive work for law enforcement, instead of viewing the police as merely tools of the enemy.
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[02:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Mobilizes on Cyber Threats to Electric Grid - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:04] <exec> 08└─ "looking for Congress to designate “some liability protection” in regards to cyberattacks " “to protect these systems, it’s going to cost something.” Translation: "We were too cheap to fix this known problem, now YOU have to pay for it, and if you loose power, it's not our fault"
[02:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Mobilizes on Cyber Threats to Electric Grid - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:05] <exec> 08└─Of course. Profits are private, but losses are socialised.
[02:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Congress Mobilizes on Cyber Threats to Electric Grid - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:07] <exec> 08└─Pull the network cable out of the socket.
[02:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Mobilizes on Cyber Threats to Electric Grid - 1531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:09] <exec> 08└─When I had the old electric service replaced/upgraded, shortly after I bought my house ~10 years ago, I asked about wiring for a generator to run part of the house (boiler, lights, etc). Rather than get an expensive transfer switch, the nice electrical contractor offered a special cover for the new...
[02:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:24] <exec> 08└─Trump has a military parade: Reeee!
[02:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06`Agent Smith' Infects 25 Million Android Devices Globally; Makes WhatsApp, Opera and SwiftKey Clones - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:58] <exec> 08└─Time for Android antivirus? Quick! Start a company, spread fear uncertainty and doubt, and corner the market so you can sellout to a company with deep pockets who would rather buy you out instead of trying to compete!
[02:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Says there is No Market for VR Gaming - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:38] <exec> 08└─Oculus? Isn't that the company that sends data to Facebook?
[02:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Says there is No Market for VR Gaming - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:40] <exec> 08└─Porn. Civil engineering. House sales. Porn. Search and rescue training. Education. History. Geography. Sex ed. Landscaping. Minority report detective UI for a modern police farce. Porn. Holiday travel shop advertising. Porn. Phonecalls. Better than face time. Porn. Cooking shows where .. Oh, screw i...
[02:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Says there is No Market for VR Gaming - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:42] <exec> 08└─Long and hard bridges PropertySex Search and smash Landscaping down under Futuristic Minority Report porn Holiday-themed porn Videophone sex Naked cooking shows, hot oil
[02:23:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] 02 - 06European Satellite-Navigation System Galileo Experiences Outage - 112 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:56] <exec> 08└─Where's the plan B? It isnt robust if it doesn't work when a single point of failure renders most of it useless.
[02:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Assange Defense Account Suspended By Twitter - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:38] <exec> 08└─filled with molten lava,
[02:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Assange Defense Account Suspended By Twitter - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:39] <exec> 08└─"Identity Christian"? Posting from inside one of the US's fine correctional centers? For when you are so racist you can't handle that your Rabbi is Jewish.
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[03:22:05] <exec> 08└─lolwut This is where the financial elite are taking us? I need to order a Yubikey or similar before those are illegal. Maybe a few. All transactions the beast doesn't like are declined as fraudulent. Rise of cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin instead of bottle caps?
[03:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Mobilizes on Cyber Threats to Electric Grid - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:16] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine living in a country where the electricity supply is so unreliable that I would need to go to any of that expense and bother.
[03:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:32] <exec> 08└─I don't know man, he's armed and controls the airspace. Cops are definitely going to want these.
[03:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:34] <exec> 08└─What are we going to name those ones with wheels that were miss named hoverboards?
[03:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford Study Suggests Dark Matter is Lighter and More Elusive than Previously Thought - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:57] <exec> 08└─On a scale where white = 0 and Black = 10, Dark Matter Goes to Eleven!!
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[04:22:21] <exec> 08└─Why not?
[04:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Mobilizes on Cyber Threats to Electric Grid - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:22] <exec> 08└─Then ensure there is no connection between the control systems [inductiveautomation.com] and the internet. Then go and get anyone who thinks onneting them to the internet was a good idea in the first place and fire/tar-and-feather/shoot them. And do the same to anyone who suggests it in the future A...
[04:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Mobilizes on Cyber Threats to Electric Grid - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:24] <exec> 08└─When I had the old electric service replaced/upgraded, shortly after I bought my house ~10 years ago, I asked about wiring for a generator to run part of the house (boiler, lights, etc). Rather than get an expensive transfer switch, the nice electrical contractor offered a special cover for the new...
[04:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Mobilizes on Cyber Threats to Electric Grid - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:27] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine living in a country where the electricity supply is so unreliable that I would need to go to any of that expense and bother.
[04:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Congress Mobilizes on Cyber Threats to Electric Grid - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:29] <exec> 08└─My guess: a sudden attack of lack of imagination. Among the probable causes: a long enough state of hypo-alcoholemia will trigger one in mostly anybody.
[04:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Mobilizes on Cyber Threats to Electric Grid - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:31] <exec> 08└─And/or wind [yourhome.gov.au]
[04:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford Study Suggests Dark Matter is Lighter and More Elusive than Previously Thought - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:12] <exec> 08└─You mean Sailor Moon Sailor Stars. For scientific work, it's important to get the names correct. :D
[04:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zoot [679] (Score: 1) 02 - 06European Satellite-Navigation System Galileo Experiences Outage - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:32] <exec> 08└─Depending on the sat-nav chip they have installed, cell phones and other devices might also be making connections with the Russian (Glonass) and Chinese (Beidou) networks.
[04:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mini-Model of Stonehenge Reveals How Voices Would Have Carried in Original Ancient Monument - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:55] <exec> 08└─Another thing, Stonehenge has been repeatedly rebuilt and remodeled over the millennia, most recently in the 1920s [fishki.net] (ignore the conspiracy-theory commentary, just look at the photos). So when they used a "model of Stonehenge", which version was it, given that we have only a vague idea of...
[04:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Use Bacteria to Produce Graphene - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:25] <exec> 08└─an oxygen tolerant gram-negative anaerobic metal reducing protobacterium
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[05:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:05] <exec> 08└─We can get paper ballots if the demand is strong enough.
[05:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:07] <exec> 08└─We can get paper ballots if the demand is strong enough.
[05:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:09] <exec> 08└─But it's okay, it already is.
[05:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:11] <exec> 08└─If your voting machine uses software you're doing it wrong.
[05:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:13] <exec> 08└─Won't happen in California, wouldn't want to disenfranchise all those illegal motor voters they signed up when they gave drivers licenses to criminals.
[05:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa's Vision for the Future of Payments is Password-Free - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:22] <exec> 08└─"Passwords can be incredibly frustrating. You forget them and they can be stolen." True, but they have one advantage that biometrics lack: passwords can also easily be changed. The same is not true for biometrics. I don't know if Boye-Moller is also aware that biometrics can also be stolen, and once...
[05:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Mobilizes on Cyber Threats to Electric Grid - 1838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:40] <exec> 08└─My dad waxes pedantic over "gas" vs. "gasoline". Reason I mention that: I strongly recommend a genset which runs on gas- natural (methane) or propane. A guy I occasionally work for has a small office building with a 15 KW propane-powered generator. It has had to run for days at a time. I don't know...
[05:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Mobilizes on Cyber Threats to Electric Grid - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:41] <exec> 08└─Mmmhhh... I'll let aside the noise, a 24m tall tower doesn't... mmm... sound enticing. I don't know, the one-in-a-100-years winds tend to be more like one-in-a-10-years lately. From the linked: Wind speed increases, and turbulence decreases, with height. Below the height of 20m the friction between...
[05:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:00] <exec> 08└─Any current drone could be armed easily and provide similar capability while being way safer for the cop. Check this out https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[05:23:01] <exec> 08└─Only marketers and dickheads called those two wheel things hoverboards.
[05:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Says there is No Market for VR Gaming - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:20] <exec> 08└─Essentialy, if you like the Oculus Go at all, or could see that it could be great.
[05:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Says there is No Market for VR Gaming - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:22] <exec> 08└─The problems of ... tethering for power are all that's holding it back at this point.
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[06:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:02] <exec> 08└─auction of space exploration artifacts set to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.
[06:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:03] <exec> 08└─Some bean counter looked at the numbers and found it more cost effective that way.
[06:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:15] <exec> 08└─California is seriously lax in cleaning up their voter rolls and Ballot harvesting is the fraud of the day here. https://dailycaller.com [dailycaller.com]
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[06:22:17] <exec> 08└─I prefer the hand crank slot machine voting booth.
[06:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03slob who just suffers in silence [8148] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:19] <exec> 08└─That liberal rag </sarcasm>, the San Diego Union Tribune writes: "There have been no credible reports of “ballot harvesting” being employed illegally or systematically to amount to election fraud. " Further down in the same article: “To say we were caught flat-footed by this is just not true,...
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[06:22:29] <exec> 08└─It's funny that everyone thinks biometrics are a good idea because they're "futuristic" and used in sci-fi, and also every sci-fi show that has ever used them involves someone breaking the biometric "authentication" through the use of some absurdly easy, low-tech method like knocking out the guard a...
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[06:23:08] <exec> 08└─I do totally agree that it sucks for war, any drone with computer-enhanced controls could perform better. But for state-police and crowd control stuff, it does makes sense if it is secure enough ; it is far more human-friendly. I do totally imagine french gendarmerie nationale (equivalent of US Mars...
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[07:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:05] <exec> 08└─I was under the impression that the original tapes had been lost or recorded over.
[07:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:06] <exec> 08└─Should we worry less about preserving older recordings in general? If they're *completely* digitized at the highest resolution extractable, isn't such media just an artifact of physical recording technology at the time? I mean, if it was recorded directly to an Exabyte cartridge, what are the reason...
[07:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:08] <exec> 08└─If they're *completely* digitized at the highest resolution extractable,
[07:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:10] <exec> 08└─Pournelle's Iron Law has long since destroyed NASA. Granted, they have a few small probes out there, but for large missions? They're building launchpad after launchpad for the SLS, but they don't have (and likely never will have) the SLS itself. NASA has become a jobs program, plus a Congressional p...
[07:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:13] <exec> 08└─*Cries in 128kbps MP3*
[07:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:27] <exec> 08└─when they gave drivers licenses to criminals Republican redistricters.
[07:23:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] 02 - 06French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade - 432 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:02] <exec> 08└─Watching that video, you can see that this guy has full confidence and control over that board. As one who has tried and failed to build flying electric rigs in another life, I dare to say that this board packs an impressively scary amount of energy and good feedback loops to behave that way. Give...
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[07:23:15] <exec> 08└─Pig-eon shooting!
[07:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06`Agent Smith' Infects 25 Million Android Devices Globally; Makes WhatsApp, Opera and SwiftKey Clones - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:51] <exec> 08└─Some banking "apps" already have antivirues in 'em. Have a nice day.
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[08:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:18] <exec> 08└─What is the highest resolution extractable from analog film, exactly?
[08:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:20] <exec> 08└─It is not analogue film, but analogue tape recording. The maximal resolution is whatever the technology of that time managed to write.
[08:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:22] <exec> 08└─This shows one of the huge advantages of capitalism. When a company is eaten by Pournelle's Iron Law: they either clean house, or they go out of business. Government agencies never get cleaned up; they just get more and more inefficient.
[08:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:24] <exec> 08└─*Screeches in 64 Kbps Opus*
[08:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:26] <exec> 08└─with a credibility that no digital copy can ever gain.
[08:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:42] <exec> 08└─with a submission, via IRC, for systemd.
[08:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa's Vision for the Future of Payments is Password-Free - 1811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:52] <exec> 08└─Biometrics are no good for this. The reason they fail is because there are actually 2 parts to consider. Identifcation and authorization, or as many say, something you have and something you know. The first step is identification and biometrics are "ok" at this but not great. For smaller groups such...
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[08:22:54] <exec> 08└─consensus ad idem, ugh I need to not post before coffee.
[08:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Study Suggests Dark Matter is Lighter and More Elusive than Previously Thought - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:59] <exec> 08└─You'll be telling me next that the strength of the interactions are 1728x weaker than previously thought?
[08:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Says there is No Market for VR Gaming - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:57] <exec> 08└─But is Fallout 4 VR a more compelling game than its non-vr counterpart? That is the main sticking point for me right now, the VR is still a novelty like the motion controls from Wii were at first. The Zelda game for Wii was actually less fun to play than the Gamecube version, after the fun of motion...
[08:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Says there is No Market for VR Gaming - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:58] <exec> 08└─Foveated rendering is the way forward.
[08:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Says there is No Market for VR Gaming - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:00] <exec> 08└─Except porn, your list isn't big enough yet: https://www.facebook.com [facebook.com] Or https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] (a bit into it)
[08:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Satellite-Navigation System Galileo Experiences Outage - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:29] <exec> 08└─I just read the latest article I could find [insidegnss.com] on the outage. It has apparently been down for six days now. The article notes that the Galileo organization itself is not providing any information - it's all coming from inofficial sources. Then this interesting note from one of their so...
[08:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03slob who just suffers in silence [8148] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top Assange Defense Account Suspended By Twitter - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:04] <exec> 08└─Why makes more sense.
[08:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Assange Defense Account Suspended By Twitter - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:05] <exec> 08└─The answer to 'why' is actually trivial. 1. Nothing is better than sex 2. Masturbation is better than nothing. The 'can do it with either hand' only add to the efficiency and/or robustness of the second.
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[09:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:04] <exec> 08└─Ebola is going to be discovered to be like anything else, 85% of people will have minor or even no symptoms and develop immunity. A small percent will have deadly complications. The UN and governments will use it as a an excuse to seize more power while also promoting policies that encourage its spr...
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[09:22:05] <exec> 08└─Fear porn
[09:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:08] <exec> 08└─Place you bets, how many white people need to die for someone to start searching for vaccines?
[09:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:32] <exec> 08└─> What is the highest resolution extractable from analog film, exactly? The tape recording's resolution is almost certainly just grotty old NTSC straight off an Ampex, nothing more. Information content? Mix the pixel clock with Shannon's Law if you desperately want a number, but it will be a mostly...
[09:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visa's Vision for the Future of Payments is Password-Free - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:01] <exec> 08└─The reason they fail is because there are actually 2 parts to consider. Identifcation and authorization, or as many say, something you have and something you know.
[09:23:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:31] <exec> 08└─Macron has a military parade: How nice.
[09:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top Assange Defense Account Suspended By Twitter - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:10] <exec> 08└─Agenda-related surveillance and censorship will not change and still will be enforced. It may be even larger due to lack of regulations.
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[10:22:04] <exec> 08└─85% chance of symptoms inadequate to justify a trip to the doctor, not staying alive. I mean I've had food poisoning that I'm sure could have killed me via dehydration if I hadn't been in an air conditioned home with plenty of access to water and sanitation.
[10:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:06] <exec> 08└─I love you, Ebola-chan.
[10:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:08] <exec> 08└─85% chance of symptoms inadequate to justify a trip to the doctor
[10:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:10] <exec> 08└─https://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/873026 [medscape.org]
[10:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:12] <exec> 08└─I bet under 300. 236 is the number of confirmed infection in US for the 2015-16 Zika epidemic [wikipedia.org]. Notice how all the vaccine research started in 2017 [wikipedia.org] and all the notable trials are US based, even if "as early as August 2014, physicians in Natal in northeastern Brazil beg...
[10:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:14] <exec> 08└─It's not mutual :(
[10:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:17] <exec> 08└─Ah zika, the virus for which there is n reliable blood test (to distinguish from eg dengue fever) that is supposedly responsible for the fake disease of microcephaly (micrencephaly is the real disease, microcephaly just means your head is smaller than 2 sd below the average as a baby which usually d...
[10:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:42] <exec> 08└─Who even uses house phones anymore? The only calls are telemarketers now.
[10:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visa's Vision for the Future of Payments is Password-Free - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:12] <exec> 08└─I think, that like calling algorithms "AI", this is all about stock price. "Look!", cries the CxO, "Biometrics!". Stock price rises, millions are to be had for those with options, and actual security is not really part of the equation. It's all about "feels good".
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[10:23:53] <exec> 08└─You don't get it: This is a mobile individual infantry transportation unit, not an airborne weapons platform, although IMHO it should have a secondary purpose as an unmanned one. So, basically, it is not for controlling an area with fire, it is about *seizing* it. It will be used on tactical level t...
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[10:25:19] <exec> 08└─...but for the people who give the best profits when discriminated. So no company will make a soup from hen which lays gold eggs.
[10:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Says there is No Market for VR Gaming - 2765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:20] <exec> 08└─Oculus, HTC, and others are working on it. It seems like each company's headsets are advancing in features despite potential patent issues. Theoretically, monitors or laptops could support foveated rendering if they are capable of tracking the eyes as well as the distance of the head/eyes to the scr...
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[11:22:19] <exec> 08└─Reality is trolling, reality is flamebait.
[11:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:20] <exec> 08└─Place you bets, how many white people need to die for someone to start searching for vaccines?
[11:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:22] <exec> 08└─Zika cant be dusty guished from dengue fever: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Microcephaly vs micrencephaly: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Only 10% of fetuses diagnos...
[11:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:25] <exec> 08└─85% chance of symptoms inadequate to justify a trip to the doctor...
[11:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:27] <exec> 08└─I hate to interrupt the sucker betting, but the search has already started [archive.org] (the article dates from 2010, predating the larger epidemics). It's a hard problem. Who knew?
[11:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:29] <exec> 08└─The point is that is a 90% fatality rate of people who are already sick enough to go to the hospital... There is some strong selecting bias going on behind that number. When they check for Ebola antibodies something like 10% the population in Africa tests positive, indicating they were previously ex...
[11:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX and NASA Investigation Identifies Cause of Crew Dragon Explosion - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:37] <exec> 08└─Not only do they have a new test case, they found what the root cause was. Ever safer it seems.
[11:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:58] <exec> 08└─Well, actually, yes: I am tempted by "true capitalism". However, the interactions with the government are critical: - First, the government must be prevented from playing favorites. Otherwise, you get "Corporate Cronyism" instead of Capitalism. - Second, the government must play a regulatory role, t...
[11:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:00] <exec> 08└─- in monopoly/oligopoly cases, 'capitalistic bureaucracy' is indistinguishable from 'governmental bureaucracy' - remember that 'we don't have to care we're the phone company'?
[11:23:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06Visa's Vision for the Future of Payments is Password-Free - 775 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:24] <exec> 08└─"Passwords can be incredibly frustrating. You forget them and they can be stolen." True, but they have one advantage that biometrics lack: passwords can also easily be changed. The same is not true for biometrics. I don't know if Boye-Moller is also aware that biometrics can also be stolen, and once...
[11:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mini-Model of Stonehenge Reveals How Voices Would Have Carried in Original Ancient Monument - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:27] <exec> 08└─They don't have to know the properties of an alien/Atlantean voicebox. They merely need to know the properties of an alien/Atlantean voicebox at 12 times its normal frequency. Duh. Don't you read the summaries?
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[12:22:04] <exec> 08└─If this road block is sustained since the first time I read about it, they've got more staying power than the 99% protesters.
[12:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:28] <exec> 08└─You sir are an autist of the first order.
[12:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:29] <exec> 08└─Trying to help but then spreading the misery
[12:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:32] <exec> 08└─Common sense is "autist" now?
[12:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX and NASA Investigation Identifies Cause of Crew Dragon Explosion - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:40] <exec> 08└─It's annoying for Crew Dragon to be delayed because it is a dead end. 2020: Likely first manned flight of Crew Dragon, although it could slip further. 2021: Starship begins replacing Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy for satellite launches. 2023: As currently planned, Starship sends artists on a trip around...
[12:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:03] <exec> 08└─Cronyism is a given, because who's going to stop it?
[12:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:19] <exec> 08└─Do they use those in Vegas?
[12:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visa's Vision for the Future of Payments is Password-Free - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:33] <exec> 08└─Our company has RSA SecurID dongles. Not that expensive, easy to deploy, replace, and increases security sufficiently for most purposes.
[12:24:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:05] <exec> 08└─Macron doesn't have a military parade. France has a military parade. Every year.
[12:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06`Agent Smith' Infects 25 Million Android Devices Globally; Makes WhatsApp, Opera and SwiftKey Clones - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:54] <exec> 08└─I just cannot even imagine using an app on a mobile device that is connected to my bank account. Bank. Account. Think about that. My money. I see that as no different to leaving my wallet open on the counter or table. Open for anyone to see who cares to look. Easy to steal from by anyone swift enoug...
[12:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06`Agent Smith' Infects 25 Million Android Devices Globally; Makes WhatsApp, Opera and SwiftKey Clones - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:56] <exec> 08└─Well, my phone has enough RAM for Windows, but I'm not sure about CPU. Maybe it could run Windows 95? Start me up? If you start it up I'll never stop.
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[12:25:46] <exec> 08└─Can we try that without video and not on Facebook?
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[13:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Way a Single Neuron Processes Information is Never the Same - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:05] <exec> 08└─as brilliantly demonstrated by the current POTUS: one neuron, totally random behavior.
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[13:22:07] <exec> 08└─..."neuromorphic" computing isn't?
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[13:22:09] <exec> 08└─Randomly just got Democrats to rally behind the squad? [axios.com]
[13:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Way a Single Neuron Processes Information is Never the Same - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:11] <exec> 08└─If inputs are processed by an array of neurons, randomness implements some kind of fuzzy logic.
[13:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:19] <exec> 08└─I've seen that movie [imdb.com]. It was okay, but then, I was in the mood for a chic flick at the time.
[13:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:22] <exec> 08└─Once you block a road, you are now a rioter, have broken the law, and deserve to be run over.
[13:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:24] <exec> 08└─Imai Winchester, a teacher from Oahu who was among the protesters chained to the road, said he arrived at about 3 a.m. local time.
[13:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:26] <exec> 08└─People are crazy. Some are so certain of their SJWness they will try to destroy others property and commit terroristic acts to prove their point like the idiot who tried to burn down an ICE detention center in Washington and received instant justice. Or the rioters beating up people and destroying p...
[13:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:52] <exec> 08└─I hate to interrupt the sucker betting
[13:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX and NASA Investigation Identifies Cause of Crew Dragon Explosion - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:01] <exec> 08└─> 2023: As currently planned, Starship sends artists on a trip around the Moon. > Starship will make Crew Dragon utterly obsolete Another reading - Crew Dragon is a risk mitigation for delays in Starship; which implies SpaceX sees significant risk in the proposed schedule. One might also imagine tha...
[13:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:25] <exec> 08└─I am not sure it's really impossible to fake an analog recording. You can get the old equipment and tapes, feed it a high res fake, fake the passing of time with proper demagnetization/xtalk/noise. back to topic, now they can show me whatever, too late. All I remember seeing of the moon mission befo...
[13:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 1555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:27] <exec> 08└─These are probably the best available for the moon walk, but the signal path is pretty long. Sotheby's is selling them as a first generation recording, and they are because they are not a re-recording. (Unless there was a tape delay somewhere in the signal chain?) But the recording was done after mu...
[13:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:29] <exec> 08└─Unregulated capitalism with a weak government will just mean the stronger corporations are effectively in power...
[13:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:31] <exec> 08└─Well, actually, yes: I am tempted by "true capitalism".
[13:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:33] <exec> 08└─By arms power. Granted, they'd be called gangs or mobs, but the behavior won't be much different from a multinational corporation.
[13:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:35] <exec> 08└─Where does NASA auction their surplus? I'd like to follow that.
[13:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:38] <exec> 08└─Remember AT&T was a government enforced monopoly for half a century.
[13:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:55] <exec> 08└─Paper ballots are definitely a bare minimum for a possibly secure election system. But I think they might be including parts that are going to always be computerized: printing the ballots and handling the voter rolls. Attacking those is less direct than changing the vote totals, but they're still an...
[13:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:56] <exec> 08└─Newsflash: paper ballots are vulnerable to hacking too, and the number of people with the skill and experience to do so is much larger.
[13:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:59] <exec> 08└─First, I haven't seen a substitute for paper ballots, only improved methods for using them, so there should be a paper trail even if the W7 system is compromised. If there is not, the W7 is the least of the problems. Second, W7 is only a problem if it is hooked to the Internet, but for an election s...
[13:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03loic [5844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:01] <exec> 08└─Please cut the FUD. These machine are usually build on Windows Embedded POSReady 7 which is a special version of Windows with a different end of support date. So surely, it is not perfect, but it still has 2 years of support.
[13:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:03] <exec> 08└─All hail the Orange Clown!
[13:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa's Vision for the Future of Payments is Password-Free - 1335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:18] <exec> 08└─Your fingerprints can be surgically altered... though, if you're going that far, you'd probably rather just get a programmable RFID chip implanted instead. What they're talking about is "good enough" security for the masses. The real security is the same as cash: you hold on to the card. That covers...
[13:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa's Vision for the Future of Payments is Password-Free - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:19] <exec> 08└─The real question is: are these daily transactions for a $4 latte, or $250K wire transfers for a home purchase. We bought a boat recently for a little over the $10K threshold - and you might not believe the hoops that were required to execute that transfer of funds. Even when you work with a dealer...
[13:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:02] <exec> 08└─Do not want. Feels like the whole world is going that unfortunate way.
[13:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Says there is No Market for VR Gaming - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:33] <exec> 08└─Oculus has a big blind spot. They don't seem to understand that some people want to be able to do VR in a chair instead of a 3 meter square on the floor. That, combined with eye-aching poor resolution, disappointed me with our Rift. My daughter still likes it, but it makes up only about 15% or her t...
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[14:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 365 Banned in German Schools after Privacy Violations - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:02] <exec> 08└─An entire generation raised using LibreOffice (and other great open source software) in their learning would be a nice start.
[14:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Way a Single Neuron Processes Information is Never the Same - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:13] <exec> 08└─If inputs are processed by an array of neurons, randomness implements some kind of fuzzy logic.
[14:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Way a Single Neuron Processes Information is Never the Same - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:14] <exec> 08└─> To date traditional learning algorithms (such as those currently used in A.I. applications) assume that neurons are static units that merely integrate and re-scale incoming signals. Show me one person who assumes actual neurons are just like the nodes in a neural network.
[14:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:52] <exec> 08└─Funny how these accusations revolve around outgroup membership. First, it was the gays, now it's the autists. You must be a Republican.
[14:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:54] <exec> 08└─There's also the risk of the natives slaughtering everyone associated with Ebola: The infected, the cured, their family members, the medical staff.
[14:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX and NASA Investigation Identifies Cause of Crew Dragon Explosion - 1284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:04] <exec> 08└─>U.S. could end its involvement with ISS. So no more Crew Dragon launches needed, unless private customers like Bigelow [space.com] step up. Unless of course some other countries would like to ship passengers to the ISS in a well-certified vehicle. >Starship will make Crew Dragon utterly obsolete. A...
[14:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:35] <exec> 08└─Wild guess, TPB?
[14:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 1681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:37] <exec> 08└─I still use a house phone. There are numerous cases where a smart phone is either useless or unnecessary. There are still many areas where no usable signal can be obtained, yet telephone lines already exist. There are people who cannot use a smart phone; some people with disabilities cannot hold or...
[14:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:39] <exec> 08└─Second, the government must play a regulatory role, to prevent companies from abusing monopoly positions. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with a company having a monopoly, as long as it does not abuse that position to squash potential competition.
[14:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:41] <exec> 08└─And you think a monopoly that wasn't enforced by the government will act less bureacraticky?
[14:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:04] <exec> 08└─only a problem if it is hooked to the Internet
[14:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06`Agent Smith' Infects 25 Million Android Devices Globally; Makes WhatsApp, Opera and SwiftKey Clones - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:44] <exec> 08└─"Trojan"
[14:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Satellite-Navigation System Galileo Experiences Outage - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:04] <exec> 08└─Idle 3D printers are the devil's plaything.
[14:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Satellite-Navigation System Galileo Experiences Outage - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:05] <exec> 08└─Verify specifically if bot has one or more probes which may have inserted into incorrect locations of Galileo 7.
[14:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mini-Model of Stonehenge Reveals How Voices Would Have Carried in Original Ancient Monument - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:30] <exec> 08└─I'll have what this troglodyte is having...
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[15:22:05] <exec> 08└─Then it will find a loophole to continue doing business.
[15:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Way a Single Neuron Processes Information is Never the Same - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:18] <exec> 08└─Unlikely given that just 16 hours before, Pelosi was attacking them for daring to have any values whatsoever, which is an unforgivable crime in congress.
[15:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:30] <exec> 08└─Since we're being pedantic, the word "riot" requires violence (in the sense that you are trying to apply it -- a sufficiently hilarious peaceful demonstration could be called a riot in another sense). It doesn't seem relevant to this story, since the protesters weren't rioters in this case, but it s...
[15:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:31] <exec> 08└─yeah.... by the time they actually take action they no longer deserve the pejorative SJW, idiot...
[15:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:34] <exec> 08└─Good. Please cut your own throat the next time you break the law. I predict you will survive about 12 hours, maybe less.
[15:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:36] <exec> 08└─Ghandi and Dr. Martin Luther King both deserved to be murdered, according to our neighborhood ACs.
[15:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:38] <exec> 08└─Hey, that's some nice projection you got there! Just a reminder that Rightwing terrorists killed more people than those radical Muslims you're so terrified of. [theatlantic.com]
[15:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:40] <exec> 08└─Generally we call this sort of non-violent law-breaking "civil disobedience,"
[15:22:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:57] <exec> 08└─Place you bets, how many white people need to die for someone to start searching for vaccines?
[15:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 1471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:09] <exec> 08└─A lot of people in this thread are confusing rates. Incidence rates don't mean a whole lot in terms of an outbreak, and mortality rates don't mean a whole lot more. Prevalence rates might mean more, and those numbers are not easy to come by as the better rates would show the actual prevalence to the...
[15:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:10] <exec> 08└─Now the fatality rate is 50%, down from 90%. As they improve surveillance you will see this continue to drop further as more and more less severe cases get included.
[15:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX and NASA Investigation Identifies Cause of Crew Dragon Explosion - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:21] <exec> 08└─There was a reason NASA had the Gemini program and did not go straight to Apollo. Starship doesn't actually exist yet. SpaceX needs to fly actual people into actual space and work with the systems before it builds what would easily be its most complicated spacecraft to date. Crew Dragon isn't terrib...
[15:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:19] <exec> 08└─One doesn't have to run faster than the lion, only faster that the competition. The article was about W7 being old and out of support. To address this, one should only have to make it work as well as the 'new' stuff/junk. Paper is the ultimate protection for this issue. Granted, a VPN would not prot...
[15:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa's Vision for the Future of Payments is Password-Free - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:36] <exec> 08└─The other step is authorization and this MUST be something you know. That is important because [...] Without these two steps [...] you cannot be sure [...] they really are attempting to complete the transaction.
[15:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:19] <exec> 08└─The fail mode of this seems to be, pretty disastrous. Unlike, an airplane, where you have a chance to bail out, you're ranging from reasonably safe fall / minor bruises to paraplegic/death pretty quickly. Really cool, but there's a reason there was one guy. Who would in all likelihood be best descri...
[15:26:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Says there is No Market for VR Gaming - 301 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:32] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I want to create window managers in VR. I don't want to be tied to monitors anymore, or keyboards for that matter. They get a neural interface going, enough to operate a keyboard and mouse, and I can use VR with that to interact with my systems. That would be a heck of a lot more preferable...
[15:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Says there is No Market for VR Gaming - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:51] <exec> 08└─What is required is some method of playing all games in VR in a manner that actually works. 3D movies come and go as a fad, but there's no doubt that any movie, to a greater or lesser degree can be shown in 3D. The fact that VR games rarely overlap with non-VR games (exceptions include The Forest, P...
[15:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Satellite-Navigation System Galileo Experiences Outage - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:22] <exec> 08└─> There was always lots of emphasis on international cooperation, on distributing the tasks among all of the participants Also great dedication to paperwork - lots of receipts for every expenditure, which presumably someone is tracking. Lots of pseudo-"contracts" which involve writing regular report...
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[16:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06T-Mobile Quietly Reported a Sharp Rise in Police Demands for Cell Tower Data - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:10] <exec> 08└─The recent murder of Mackenzie Lueck in Utah [oxygen.com] was investigated initially via cell records. It placed her with the murderer in the park, and then placed him in the remote location where he stashed her burnt remains. No wonder police are using this technique more.
[16:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 365 Banned in German Schools after Privacy Violations - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:19] <exec> 08└─I will never, ever, understand why anyone would want some "cloud" shit like Office 365. But I do understand why Microsoft wants everyone to have it. In part so they can spy on people just like this. The other part, of course, is getting money forever without ever adding features. As I understand it,...
[16:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03CheesyMoo [6853] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 365 Banned in German Schools after Privacy Violations - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:21] <exec> 08└─is big pain in the ass for these big institutions. I wouldn't want to be an IT worker in one of these offices or large institutions that is shifting from traditional, on-prem software that you can install and then secure/lock-down the computer, to these cloud installs that are constantly phoning hom...
[16:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 365 Banned in German Schools after Privacy Violations - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:23] <exec> 08└─"Personally its easier to keep one of my work machines air-gapped ..." As a water resources engineer I find the term "airgapped" to be an interesting metaphor for an isolated computer.
[16:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Way a Single Neuron Processes Information is Never the Same - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:37] <exec> 08└─The analysis was performed using cells from the Blue Brain's virtual rodent cortex.
[16:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Way a Single Neuron Processes Information is Never the Same - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:39] <exec> 08└─its a really really complex simulation, that simulates physical geometry of neurons, neurotransmitters and all kinds of messenger molecules. Thats why its extreeeeemely computation intensive. To do the same thing with a real brain is rather hard/not yet possible, cos act of measuring signal in a neu...
[16:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:57] <exec> 08└─Our neighborhood ACs deserve to be ignored, according to anyone seeking reasoned discourse.
[16:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:59] <exec> 08└─I honestly haven't read enough about this story to have a side. I personally like the idea of huge telescopes, but don't wish to force them on others. If the protesters are holding a view that is a minority in their locality I'm on the other side, but if the local populace is mostly opposed to the t...
[16:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03XivLacuna [6346] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah let's not include 09/11/2001 in those muslim numbers, especially since some people believe the US or the Jews actually did it. The left is mostly incompetent when it comes to killing because they've been poisoned their whole lives by BPA and soy in everything. They lack the logical intelligence...
[16:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:16] <exec> 08└─Then there are houses built with reinforced concrete that act like Faraday cages.
[16:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:17] <exec> 08└─The highest resolution on analog film is limited by the graininess of the film.
[16:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:43] <exec> 08└─In an electronic voting system, how do recounts work? Aren’t you guaranteed to get the same result? I agree that paper ballots are the only way to go.
[16:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Mobilizes on Cyber Threats to Electric Grid - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:20] <exec> 08└─During the ice storm in Montreal, the gas stations shut down because they had no electricity to pump the gas from the underground storage tanks.
[16:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Says there is No Market for VR Gaming - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:17] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't you need to render in hig rez the distance the eye might move in the time it takes you to render the next frame? You don't want to be repeatedly saccading onto fuzz.
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[17:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:04] <exec> 08└─We need to send in US imperialism quick!! Ermagherd! We have to save them from the Moooooooooooooooslems! And make sure the right US puppet assumes power, no matter how many electoral irregularities! Send in Diebold! They'll know what to do.
[17:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile Quietly Reported a Sharp Rise in Police Demands for Cell Tower Data - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:12] <exec> 08└─I have little doubt that it works as a good source of corroborating circumstantial evidence. And I believe that appropriate warrants are probably issued. But my faith in US police is at an all time low, and I feel like there has to be an angle where this kind of semi-wide dragnet is ripe for abuse.
[17:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Quietly Reported a Sharp Rise in Police Demands for Cell Tower Data - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:14] <exec> 08└─The fact that this data is being collected and stored for any significant length of time at all is abusive in and of itself, regardless of what the data is used for. Just like with the NSA's mass surveillance. We need to stop focusing on exactly how they're using the data (almost always difficult to...
[17:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile Quietly Reported a Sharp Rise in Police Demands for Cell Tower Data - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:16] <exec> 08└─It's definitely being abused and we've seen it abused. You're not likely to put the genie back in it's bottle, though.
[17:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile Quietly Reported a Sharp Rise in Police Demands for Cell Tower Data - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:18] <exec> 08└─It'd be better if I could cite specifics of those abuses, how it falls outside due process, and how that impacts us regular people. It's hard enough fighting authoritarianism when you have explicit well-defined facts on your side.
[17:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 365 Banned in German Schools after Privacy Violations - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:30] <exec> 08└─Yes. Schools, which are supposed to promote education and independence, should never use proprietary software, except perhaps to teach students how to reverse engineer it. Proprietary software is the antithesis of both education and independence; it denies users their freedoms, thus making them depe...
[17:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 365 Banned in German Schools after Privacy Violations - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:31] <exec> 08└─It's even more fun when one tries to use a feature you've used for years but they updated the software last week without telling you and now it's a different mechanism to get the functionality you needed. It's happened to me quite a bit.
[17:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 365 Banned in German Schools after Privacy Violations - 2037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:33] <exec> 08└─You've never heard of it? It's an old term -- think SCADA networks or say nuclear power plant and other 'critical' function computers that would experience a significant degree of 'bad' should they be compromised over a remote connection. "Airgap" used to mean "I disconnected the network cable" and...
[17:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 365 Banned in German Schools after Privacy Violations - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:35] <exec> 08└─The irony of the ribbon interface is that LibreOffice now has the standard familiar pull down menus, and Microsoft Office does not.
[17:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 365 Banned in German Schools after Privacy Violations - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:38] <exec> 08└─LibreOffice is working on a cloud hosted version. Fortunately, a school, if they so desired, could host it on their own servers. Although I don't think it is quite ready yet. This makes Chomebooks (and similar devices) even more attractive to education. Nothing wrong with "cloud" hosting, as long as...
[17:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:13] <exec> 08└─holding a view that is a minority in their locality
[17:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:44] <exec> 08└─Actually I'm only a Republican in the fiscal sense. I'm liberal socially. So I guess that makes me a Libertarian.
[17:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 1111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:45] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily. The current fatality rate of this outbreak is 50%. It may also be that medicine is able to respond to the disease more effectively and learning how to prolong the life. It may be that populations are getting smarter and responses are getting tighter (for example, in the TFA here it...
[17:24:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JNCF [4317] 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:06] <exec> 08└─I was under the impression that the original tapes had been lost or recorded over.
[17:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:59] <exec> 08└─POS Ready? Egads! What marketing drone let this out the door.
[17:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:01] <exec> 08└─FUCK! I know, let's buy machines almost out of date, then pay the vendor (MS) more money to update it! I'm brilliant! (Microsoft, please hire me now). Gods people are fucking dumb. Stupid is as stupid does.... stupid stupid stupid.
[17:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:03] <exec> 08└─Still more secure than anything else. The system has to be transparent to everybody, not just the technological mystics. I'm not asking for anything more.
[17:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa's Vision for the Future of Payments is Password-Free - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:21] <exec> 08└─Why? I bought a 10K campervan last year and I just went to the bank, got a bank draft for 10K and walked out 10 mins later.
[17:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Congress Mobilizes on Cyber Threats to Electric Grid - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:42] <exec> 08└─According to the NSA and cybersquirrel1.com, the biggest threat to the electrical grid is still squirrels. "I don't think paralysis [of the electrical grid] is more likely by cyberattack than by natural disaster. And frankly the number-one threat experienced to date by the US electrical grid is squi...
[17:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Satellite-Navigation System Galileo Experiences Outage - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:13] <exec> 08└─Holy critical mass, Batman! We must keep the 3D printers away from the plebeians!
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[18:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Quietly Reported a Sharp Rise in Police Demands for Cell Tower Data - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:11] <exec> 08└─Collecting bulk records and then using illegally obtained info to then investigate people. If you like freedom then you can't give it away by pretending like these humans with badges are super-special and will only ever use such information when it is 100% guaranteed to be a guilty person. The entir...
[18:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile Quietly Reported a Sharp Rise in Police Demands for Cell Tower Data - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:13] <exec> 08└─It seems like you're probably arguing against a position not only didn't take, but openly oppose.
[18:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile Quietly Reported a Sharp Rise in Police Demands for Cell Tower Data - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:15] <exec> 08└─Why does the headline say the opposite of the summary? Wouldn't "T-Mobile Quietly Reported a Small Decline in Police Demands for Cell Tower Data" be more accurate and less clickbaity? Last year the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that this data was protected and required a warrant before a company is force...
[18:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Quietly Reported a Sharp Rise in Police Demands for Cell Tower Data - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:17] <exec> 08└─The AOL keyword you are looking for is "Parallel Construction". It is the use of unacknowledged evidence to guide investigation so that a case can be made solely on legal evidence.
[18:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile Quietly Reported a Sharp Rise in Police Demands for Cell Tower Data - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:19] <exec> 08└─My supposition would be though, that they'd get a "limited" warrant for only the cell towers in the area of interest of a case, and only during the period of interest. That doesn't necessitate parallel construction, a judge would sign off on that. Even a non-crooked judge.
[18:22:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Microsoft Office 365 Banned in German Schools after Privacy Violations - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:27] <exec> 08└─An entire generation raised using LibreOffice (and other great open source software) in their learning would be a nice start.
[18:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 365 Banned in German Schools after Privacy Violations - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:38] <exec> 08└─That post by srobert seems to have whooshed right by you. As a retired facilities project engineer, I groked his joke and had a good laugh. "Airgap" is an old (much older than network systems) plumbing term referring to a physical separation between potable water supply and sewage.
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:14] <exec> 08└─You are thinking of the wrong movie. See this one [imdb.com] instead. A bunch of primitive savages are trying to block a corporation that wants to strip mine their planet for valuable unobtainium in exchange for providing education and medicine.
[18:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:16] <exec> 08└─How do the protesters arrange to get time off from theirs jobs? They must save up their holidays for these things or are independently wealthy. /sarcasm
[18:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:18] <exec> 08└─Las Vegas Gunman Was a Trump Supporter, Happy With President Because Stock Market Was Doing Well [newsweek.com]
[18:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:20] <exec> 08└─According to your citation, 50 people were killed in 2018 which were attributed to right wing extremists. Other than the Tree of Life murders, the others were tenuously attributable with the right wing. Let's look at the big picture, why don't we? In Chicago alone, six were murdered and 63 injured i...
[18:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03doke [6955] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:23] <exec> 08└─How useful will this telescope be? Some people are worried about the growing constellations of satelites, ie Starlink, adversely affecting ground based astronomy. Could they reduce the image quality to the point of making the telescope not cost effective? https://www.nationalgeographic.com
[18:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:25] <exec> 08└─Bullshit non-argument. There is no proof or indication he was aligned with any "right wing" groups or beliefs. There has never been any clear motive discovered for his actions.
[18:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:27] <exec> 08└─It turns out that you don't have to be a white nationalist or an Islamic radical to be a terrorist. The most deadly terrorist since 9/11 didn't subscribe to any particular ideology at all. He was just generally angry and wanted to kill people - much like the violent incels and most of the foot soldi...
[18:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:29] <exec> 08└─I was rebutting the unsubstantiated claim that the Las Vegas gunman was a liberal. How many liberals do you know that own 47 guns and like Trump?
[18:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:32] <exec> 08└─https://gohawaiitours.com/go-hawaii/why-casinos-in-hawaii-prohibited/ [gohawaiitours.com]
[18:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:34] <exec> 08└─Since I don't know anybody at all with 47 guns, I'd say zero. The second part of the question becomes moot.
[18:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 1914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:36] <exec> 08└─In its general form that's a super tough question I like to dance around without addressing directly, TBH. I get why letting the immigrant population, the relatives of violent invaders, control local policy seems problematic. I also see how not allowing current residents an equal say seems problemat...
[18:23:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 9 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:45] <exec> 08└─Fear porn
[18:24:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:35] <exec> 08└─This shows one of the huge advantages of capitalism. When a company is eaten by Pournelle's Iron Law: they either clean house, or they go out of business. Government agencies never get cleaned up; they just get more and more inefficient.
[18:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:57] <exec> 08└─"Unregulated capitalism with a weak government will just mean the stronger corporations are effectively in power and most won't prioritize the interests of the normal citizens." Which is what we all seem to have today.
[18:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:58] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that these are broadcast format tapes, not in the original "slow scan" format that the footage was transmitted from the Moon in. Having undergone both frame rate and resolution conversion, these are still not up to the original quality, but they might be the best quality versions...
[18:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:27] <exec> 08└─Whose demand, tho'?
[18:25:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Congress Mobilizes on Cyber Threats to Electric Grid - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:53] <exec> 08└─Of course. Profits are private, but losses are socialised.
[18:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Says there is No Market for VR Gaming - 2469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:28:06] <exec> 08└─http://vrguy.blogspot.com/2016/04/understanding-foveated-rendering.html [blogspot.com] If you have a peak saccade velocity of 900°/s or 0.9°/ms, the focus can't move very far in 1 frame. https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org [semanticscholar.org] Since rece...
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[19:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06New Face of the Bank of England's £50 Note is Revealed as Alan Turing - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:07] <exec> 08└─It's a piece of paper programmed to convince you and others that it has actual value, which is already pretty impressive.
[19:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Face of the Bank of England's £50 Note is Revealed as Alan Turing - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:08] <exec> 08└─The new barcodes are actually refracting the stable EM wavelengths to trigger seratonin dumps in the mammalian brain. Next level cyberpunk!
[19:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Face of the Bank of England's £50 Note is Revealed as Alan Turing - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:10] <exec> 08└─I mean, it's gonna be a post-brexit pound, not sure anyone actually believes it'll be worth anything.
[19:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:19] <exec> 08└─Infants and the immune-compromized rely on herd immunity to keep them safe.
[19:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:21] <exec> 08└─Whenever a news piece about infectious diseases appears, a stinking anti-vaxer little piece of shit is never far behind...
[19:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06T-Mobile Quietly Reported a Sharp Rise in Police Demands for Cell Tower Data - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:38] <exec> 08└─force them to stop collecting it in the first place. Good luck with that. How are you ever going to verify they've stopped? Only by accident, or a leak, or if it's used against you. But until then you will never know what they collect. The microphone is always hot.
[19:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06T-Mobile Quietly Reported a Sharp Rise in Police Demands for Cell Tower Data - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:39] <exec> 08└─Counting the abuses does nothing. To fight authoritarianism, look into the soul of The People®, not the police they support and the government they elect.
[19:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 365 Banned in German Schools after Privacy Violations - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:57] <exec> 08└─Students here ate the google shit up when it first came out; many being able to collaboratively work on a document at the same time was (and is) rather cool.
[19:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:45] <exec> 08└─The potential harm is exaggerated. Plus the field of view is not wide.
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[19:24:18] <exec> 08└─All those things could also be going on. But we know for certain that only the worst cases have been getting reported.
[19:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX and NASA Investigation Identifies Cause of Crew Dragon Explosion - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:30] <exec> 08└─Nobody said Crew Dragon can't succeed. But Crew Dragon is a bit of an afterthought and hackjob that can't even do the propulsive landings that were previously planned. Starship on the other hand is designed from the start with the purpose of putting a large amount of people onto the surface of Mars....
[19:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX and NASA Investigation Identifies Cause of Crew Dragon Explosion - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:32] <exec> 08└─Safety is not an afterthought. SpaceX's mission success rate is better than Delta, better than the Shuttle (but what isn't), better than Apollo. The only thing that is different about SpaceX is that they admit their mistakes and they don't hide their risks under umpteen layers of bureaucracy. That i...
[19:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:11] <exec> 08└─That's at the bottom of the Time quote: Other, clearer recordings were likely reused or erased at NASA in the early 1980s.
[19:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:41] <exec> 08└─Transparency is ideal. Then we get into the right to vote anonymously, which throws a wrench in the whole thing. You can never have perfect transparency in combination with perfect anonymity.
[19:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:43] <exec> 08└─Still, paper ballots are human legible through the entire chain. You don't even need electricity to continue the process. Paper ballots are by far the best option, without exception.
[19:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa's Vision for the Future of Payments is Password-Free - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:02] <exec> 08└─Seller wanted a wire transfer into his account - we could have written him a $17K check as easily, but he was committed to the wire transfer idea. Half way through he mentioned that it was a big pain the last time he did it, too.
[19:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:48] <exec> 08└─Reee is a meme that's supposed to represent excitedness and overreaction. In this case it appears that the poster thought that people were overreacting to the military parade.
[19:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Study Suggests Dark Matter is Lighter and More Elusive than Previously Thought - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:14] <exec> 08└─And the alternative theories that explain observed reality to a similar level of accuracy, but have also have managed to predict something are...? Take your time, I'll wait. There are some interesting alternative theories out there, but so far not one of them has managed to outperform dark matter. A...
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[19:28:26] <exec> 08└─I guess I need to normalize on your version of "hype." I've played VR games and some are very compelling and the experience is simply not achievable on a 2D monitor. There are definite niches and a lot of UI standardization that need to be worked out. Like FPS games using the teleport method of move...
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[19:28:27] <exec> 08└─^ not just Oculus, and hopefully every game will give the option of sitting/standing and supporting all control setups.
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[20:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06New Face of the Bank of England's £50 Note is Revealed as Alan Turing - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:18] <exec> 08└─Ceci n'est pas Alan Turing.
[20:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Face of the Bank of England's £50 Note is Revealed as Alan Turing - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:19] <exec> 08└─HODL BRITCOINS
[20:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Face of the Bank of England's £50 Note is Revealed as Alan Turing - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:21] <exec> 08└─Is there a point where we're expected to commit suicide? Good thing Brexit 1776 went well for us 'muricans, I don't really want to off myself.
[20:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Face of the Bank of England's £50 Note is Revealed as Alan Turing - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, old commenters get proceased into biofuel that runs the servers; Soylent News is people!
[20:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Face of the Bank of England's £50 Note is Revealed as Alan Turing - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:26] <exec> 08└─The Reichspfund, soon to be filling patriotic wheelbarrows all over England.
[20:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Face of the Bank of England's £50 Note is Revealed as Alan Turing - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:28] <exec> 08└─seratonin dumps in the mammalian brain. Um, I think that occurs somewhere else. However, it can trigger a temporary dopamine rush...
[20:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:39] <exec> 08└─stfu, you little suck up bitch.
[20:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:41] <exec> 08└─Why do I keep arguing with myself?! I look like such a tool when I do this...
[20:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:43] <exec> 08└─Ebola does show a 67% mortality rate versus measles' 2% mortality rate.
[20:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:46] <exec> 08└─But seemingly only in the case where the mother has natural immunity (i.e. caught measles as a child sans vacination). It seems that part of the reason behind recent cases of repeated "boosters" is that the vaccine induced immunity fades over time, and each booster is less effective. Thereafter the...
[20:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:48] <exec> 08└─The maternal antibodies wane faster from vaccinated mothers, which means they should move up the age of vaccination.
[20:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 365 Banned in German Schools after Privacy Violations - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:25] <exec> 08└─i came to post much the same except i would add that it is adding insult to injury to use extorted tax dollars to buy software that the extortion victims wouldn't even have rights to/own.
[20:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 365 Banned in German Schools after Privacy Violations - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:26] <exec> 08└─yeah, and you can do that with FOSS now. pretty sure Nextcloud has this feature.
[20:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 365 Banned in German Schools after Privacy Violations - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:29] <exec> 08└─even better if a school would have the guts to buy the chromebooks or other 2nd hand and teach the kids to clean the scum off before using them.
[20:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:18] <exec> 08└─you are such a wholesome asshat!
[20:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX and NASA Investigation Identifies Cause of Crew Dragon Explosion - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:06] <exec> 08└─Mostly, Crew Dragon exists because that is what NASA wanted to buy. They didn't ask for a giant spaceship that can go to Mars, so SpaceX built what they asked for. It's noteworthy that SpaceX is staying completely out of the LOP-G debacle. They probably believe that Starship will make LOP-G obsolete...
[20:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:18] <exec> 08└─with $14.15 million of mostly federal funds helping counties buy brand-new electoral systems
[20:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Election Systems Use Vulnerable Software - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:19] <exec> 08└─Paper ballots are by far the best option, without exception.
[20:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Congress Mobilizes on Cyber Threats to Electric Grid - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:01] <exec> 08└─Outback Australia is just a short drive from New Zealand. For certain definitions of short.
[20:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade - 1477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:28] <exec> 08└─Thank you. It's tradition in some other countries, whereas in America we're not set up for that. It's not a tradition that we have. It has been transparent from the beginning that Trump, as a sociopathic narcissistic strong-man, would want to celebrate himself with military weapons representing *his...
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[21:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Aerogel Insulation Could Assist Mars Colonization - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:06] <exec> 08└─Density(and thus mass) being very small is great for shipping to mars, what with the Tsiolkovsky equation being such a big deal. But! Getting physically large volumes into space is also hard due to the aerodynamics of rocketry. Also it's fragile, and acceleration seems like launch turbulence could b...
[21:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Aerogel Insulation Could Assist Mars Colonization - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:07] <exec> 08└─What do they do with the Aerogel to allow heat to flow inbound but not outbound? Does the translucentness allow it to be used as a greenhouse or is there something else going on here?
[21:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Aerogel Insulation Could Assist Mars Colonization - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:09] <exec> 08└─The same thing they do with glass that allow heat to flow in, but not out. Both allow visible forms of radiation to come in, but block the flow of not-visible radiations, like infrared. So, yes, a greenhouse, exactly.
[21:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Aerogel Insulation Could Assist Mars Colonization - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:12] <exec> 08└─is closer to 99% vacuum on Mars. Vacugel? But as the source article says "In future work, it will be important to investigate the ease with which traditional silica aerogel manufacturing techniques17 can be adapted to conditions on Mars. "
[21:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Aerogel Insulation Could Assist Mars Colonization - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:14] <exec> 08└─Oh that was my question, I missed that line of the paper. Since you answered my question, I can answer yours. I think the air is just at STP, and they're 99.8% air by volume, so at martian pressures, the weight would be lower, but it would still be 99.8% air, just... less air in the air?
[21:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aerogel Insulation Could Assist Mars Colonization - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:16] <exec> 08└─just... less air in the air?
[21:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06New Face of the Bank of England's £50 Note is Revealed as Alan Turing - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:32] <exec> 08└─The pattern of 1's and 0's in decimal is his birth date
[21:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Face of the Bank of England's £50 Note is Revealed as Alan Turing - 1646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:34] <exec> 08└─More deserving then some old King or Queen (no phun intended) as per normal (the queen is on one side of all bills). That said I still find it somewhat annoying that it seems Turing gets all the credits, he is pretty much the only one they ever mention, and then they immediately play the 'gay-card'...
[21:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:49] <exec> 08└─That is an IMPORTANT distinction. God and the devil are arguing about you, and you are given the choice of catching one of ten different diseases. First has 100% mortality rate, working down to measles, which only has a 2% mortality rate. My answer would be, "Everyone wants to go to heaven, but I do...
[21:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:51] <exec> 08└─Antibiotics do not work against viruses. Antivirals might, although as of 2009 there weren't any that meet ideal parameters for measles [nih.gov] - not an "ideal drug" mind you, just one that meets the conditions for good deployment. Oh, and what happens to the maternal antibodies when the infant st...
[21:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:53] <exec> 08└─Not sure if you're being sarcastic or don't recognize the false equivalency.
[21:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:55] <exec> 08└─Haha. I always find it interesting how many so-called "believer" are scared to death of dying, while so many non-believers actually welcome it when the symptoms of an incurable illness (or its treatments, like chemo) become too much to bear. For a bunch of people convinced they're part of their invi...
[21:23:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06T-Mobile Quietly Reported a Sharp Rise in Police Demands for Cell Tower Data - 230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:05] <exec> 08└─It'd be better if I could cite specifics of those abuses, how it falls outside due process, and how that impacts us regular people. It's hard enough fighting authoritarianism when you have explicit well-defined facts on your side.
[21:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 365 Banned in German Schools after Privacy Violations - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:35] <exec> 08└─I call dibs on the potable water supply!
[21:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 365 Banned in German Schools after Privacy Violations - 1406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:37] <exec> 08└─Or, like Office 365 - the security options for the cloud environment are a SEPARATE LICENSE available to enterprise or premium accounts. Your ability to restrict access is fairly limited without it. You can't, for example, block someone in a foreign country from installing Office on your license wit...
[21:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:00] <exec> 08└─Time to stop pastors visiting then, as a risk reduction.
[21:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:36] <exec> 08└─I don't give a shit if it's legal :) If you're going to give me the opportunity to fly on something akin the Silver Surfer's board, or the Green Goblins' hovercraft, I'm going to fly that thing through the city at least once.
[21:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Inventor Sails on his Flyboard Above Champs-Elysees During Bastille Parade - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:37] <exec> 08└─Just go all out and pack a few of those green grenades [youtube.com].
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[22:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10, Three Years Later: Why this is as Good as it Gets - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:06] <exec> 08└─... it's time to investigate Linux.
[22:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10, Three Years Later: Why this is as Good as it Gets - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:08] <exec> 08└─What's Windows and why are there 10 of them? And why can't I get better? I WANT better, cos I hate shit! GIMME BETTER! ----this announcement sponsored by the people who don't give a shit about Windows and use Linux: a BETTER OS.
[22:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Windows 10, Three Years Later: Why this is as Good as it Gets - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:10] <exec> 08└─It's all downhill from here.
[22:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10, Three Years Later: Why this is as Good as it Gets - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:12] <exec> 08└─Windows XP (and other versions prior to 10) were at least purportedly gamma releases. Windows 10 is perpetual alpha. It can never "get as good as it gets".
[22:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10, Three Years Later: Why this is as Good as it Gets - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:14] <exec> 08└─Or Mac. Seriously, who thinks eating Bill Gates' shit can be anything close to "how good it can get"?
[22:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10, Three Years Later: Why this is as Good as it Gets - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:16] <exec> 08└─Addendum: It's not perpetual beta software because beta implies a feature freeze, which the very concept of "feature updates" invalidates. It's untested alpha material.
[22:22:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Aerogel Insulation Could Assist Mars Colonization - 487 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:24] <exec> 08└─Density(and thus mass) being very small is great for shipping to mars, what with the Tsiolkovsky equation being such a big deal. But! Getting physically large volumes into space is also hard due to the aerodynamics of rocketry. Also it's fragile, and acceleration seems like launch turbulence could b...
[22:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aerogel Insulation Could Assist Mars Colonization - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:31] <exec> 08└─My initial though was "Wouldn't the UV degrade it?", but since the summary said "most aerogel is largely silica", that seems unlikely. And it also seems reasonably likely that it would be made on site. Otherwise multiple panes of glass might be a better option (with the glass made on site). It seems...
[22:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Aerogel Insulation Could Assist Mars Colonization - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:34] <exec> 08└─if the temperature increased by 150F, that would be 83C
[22:22:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06New Face of the Bank of England's £50 Note is Revealed as Alan Turing - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:43] <exec> 08└─It's a piece of paper programmed to convince you and others that it has actual value, which is already pretty impressive.
[22:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Face of the Bank of England's £50 Note is Revealed as Alan Turing - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:53] <exec> 08└─An Aristarchus post not mentioning Trump, some right wing conspiracy, racism or Nazis. Surely this must be a sign of the apocalypse ... checks original submission ... never mind all is normal, no need for alarm.
[22:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:13] <exec> 08└─The main complication of measles is bacterial pneumonia. Measles itself is not dangerous, only the complications.
[22:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office 365 Banned in German Schools after Privacy Violations - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:56] <exec> 08└─"Nothing wrong with "cloud" hosting, as long as you can control your own cloud." Great now all I can hear is Mick Jagger in my head.
[22:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03D2 [5107] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Original Apollo 11 Moon Landing Footage is Up for Auction - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:14] <exec> 08└─Copyright protection starts anew the moment that the tape owner does *anything* between original and copy. Digitization. Remastering. Editing. Adding commentary. Adding any footage or titles. Hiring John Madden to draw loops and arrows all over the screen, or the MST3K guys to do their schtick. This...
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[23:22:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Daily Stormer Publisher Should Pay Woman More Than $14 Million, Judge Recommends - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:04] <exec> 08└─Let's just admit there is no free will. We are chimps that haven't been housebroken. Fock!
[23:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Daily Stormer Publisher Should Pay Woman More Than $14 Million, Judge Recommends - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:05] <exec> 08└─No shit, some of you chimps are so dumb you incite a mob to harass and potentially harm innocent people. You can spew all the hateful shit you want, just don't cross the line into actionable phrases. If the KKK and other shitwits can walk the line then so can a bunch of whitebread snakes with tire m...
[23:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Daily Stormer Publisher Should Pay Woman More Than $14 Million, Judge Recommends - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:07] <exec> 08└─The whole lot of neo-nazi assholes are just total cowards. Proven time and again, that is why they were attracted to an ideology of hate. Bring others down to lift yourself "up". Pretty sad, and no surprise this idiot is on the run.
[23:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Daily Stormer Publisher Should Pay Woman More Than $14 Million, Judge Recommends - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:10] <exec> 08└─Racist SLPC complaining about racist Daily Stormer, news at 11.
[23:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10, Three Years Later: Why this is as Good as it Gets - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:22] <exec> 08└─I was gifted an iPad last Christmas. I spent 4 days trying to figure out how to use it, hitting roadblocks with sluggish updates and user account often not being found. It now sits next to the unused Win10 PC. I started with a TRS-80/basic, went to DOS, Win3.1, 95, 98, XP, 7, skipped 8, and finally...
[23:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10, Three Years Later: Why this is as Good as it Gets - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:23] <exec> 08└─If you are one of us who believes that your computer should belong to you, Windows has never been "as good as it gets", nor will it ever be. If you are one of those who can't be arsed to understand the most basic concepts of computing, then you will always rely on someone else to keep your machine r...
[23:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10, Three Years Later: Why this is as Good as it Gets - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:26] <exec> 08└─That's not saying much. its still poo.
[23:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10, Three Years Later: Why this is as Good as it Gets - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:28] <exec> 08└─windows will continue until morale improves
[23:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Windows 10, Three Years Later: Why this is as Good as it Gets - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:30] <exec> 08└─All I've got for Win10 is a little bitty meh. There are still some things (Autodesk products, for instance) that are worthwhile and only available via Windows. Of course there are "better" games in the mainstream market OS, but there are enough "good enough" games in Linux for me to waste the rest o...
[23:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10, Three Years Later: Why this is as Good as it Gets - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:32] <exec> 08└─If you are one of us who believes that your computer should belong to you
[23:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10, Three Years Later: Why this is as Good as it Gets - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:35] <exec> 08└─Wonder what happens if you submit an OS to this site [ratemypoo.com]..
[23:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows 10, Three Years Later: Why this is as Good as it Gets - 2649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:37] <exec> 08└─At Joe, re: a yoke of their own choosing. I disagree with that *one* part of your post. Everything else I give a giant ThumbsUp to, but that one part makes me shake my head. Not *everybody* chooses Windows because they want it, but because we *have* to. I use a screen reader from Freedom Scientific...
[23:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Luke [175] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10, Three Years Later: Why this is as Good as it Gets - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:39] <exec> 08└─The Win10 machines I have something to do with all have 'shutup10' run on them, and I separately run a custom powershell script to remove any remaining telemetry, store, and update crap. This is necessary because we run software that will only operate with specific builds of 10 and I've found over t...
[23:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10, Three Years Later: Why this is as Good as it Gets - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:41] <exec> 08└─You seem to be explaining the company philosophy. I can explain my own company's philosophy. Avoid liability, at all costs. For that reason, all of their machines are Windows, and administered by a third party. Pretty much everything is subcontracted out, so that when things go bad, it can be blamed...
[23:22:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Aerogel Insulation Could Assist Mars Colonization - 217 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:51] <exec> 08└─The same thing they do with glass that allow heat to flow in, but not out. Both allow visible forms of radiation to come in, but block the flow of not-visible radiations, like infrared. So, yes, a greenhouse, exactly.
[23:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:34] <exec> 08└─Explain this "false equivalency" please. Disease A has a high mortality rate, disease B has a much lower mortality rate. Which would you rather have?
[23:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:36] <exec> 08└─It's not an either-or. It can be "neither", you know. But apologies, you're right that it's not false equivalence. It's false dichotomy.
[23:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Haven't met a lot of dying people, have you.... It's pretty scary no matter your faith beliefs. But you're more than welcome to die, we won't miss you.
[23:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:40] <exec> 08└─Good. You're aware that obtaining a viral disease puts the body at risk for other comorbidities as your immune system is thus compromised. Therefore not acquiring the disease at all is a good thing. Which is why vaccination. Funny that, you avoid getting the parent disease there is no need for furth...
[23:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:42] <exec> 08└─OK, neither. So, you are hypothesizing a world without disease? We're going to stamp out measles, malaria, ebola, AIDS, cancers, all of it? All within the next six months, or the next six generations? Sorry, ain't happening. We aren't even close to wiping out cancer. You can make valid arguments tha...
[23:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measles is Killing More People in the DRC than Ebola-and Faster - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:44] <exec> 08└─I am aware of much more than you... I can tell you are an idiot who learns from wikipedia.
[23:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Way a Single Neuron Processes Information is Never the Same - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:41] <exec> 08└─Honestly, AC, your quick summary here is more informative than the entire article.
[23:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Protesters Block Road in Attempt to Halt Thirty Meter Telescope Construction - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:17] <exec> 08└─https://www.dailywire.com/news/16980/ramadan-terror-death-count-joseph-curl [dailywire.com] Counted how exactly? https://www.sikhnet.com [sikhnet.com] Do some reading. Learn from history.
[23:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:53] <exec> 08└─> As you say, it might also be because surveillance is catching other cases sooner No, that poster isn't factually based. If someone who has had contact gets the vaccine fast enough, their mortality odds drop to about 50% from a > 90% lethality. It's not that surveillance is catching more that would...
[23:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:54] <exec> 08└─Part of the problem is local mindset. These folks have had terrible expriences with colonizers pulling the "just trust us and do what we say" card and are suitably mistrustful of any injection. Religious beliefs (needing to drink from a cup pressed to the lips of the dead) also compound it. The loca...
[23:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebola Outbreak: First Case Discovered in DRC's Goma City, Home to 2 Million People - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:56] <exec> 08└─Oh also - the vaccine is not perfect. It is only considered potent for about 12mo, and doesn't confer complete immunity. Source: I'm probably the only poster here who's actually handled the vaccine. Certainly most posters on the ebola stories don't seem to have done even a casual read of the literat...
[23:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford Study Suggests Dark Matter is Lighter and More Elusive than Previously Thought - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:01] <exec> 08└─But which version, the one where the three fundamental Kou particles just *dress* like men when they're untransformed, or the one where they actually turn into men in civilian form? That has implications for the theory!
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