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[00:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This is One Way Toyota Plans to Shuttle People Around During the 2020 Olympics – - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:09] <exec> 08└─I'm sure Toyota can afford this short production run of Olympic vehicles. But if anyone wants to do something similar at less cost there are many neighborhood electric vehicles (NEVs) available for low speed use, for just one example see the GEM line, originally designed by Chrysler and then sold to...
[00:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DOJ to Approve T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Despite 13 States Trying to Block It - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:17] <exec> 08└─Would you rather they each fail and get gobbled up by AT&T and Verizon, or join forces to have a chance to compete against them... and join in a battle against the the consumer?
[00:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DOJ to Approve T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Despite 13 States Trying to Block It - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:20] <exec> 08└─Pretty much, if Sprint and T-Mobile can't compete, the answer is to break AT&T and Verizon up. 4 carriers is already too few. Moving to a system where there's only 3 is just going to cause even more problems. As it stands, the customers have limited options if they don't like the terms of the carrie...
[00:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DOJ to Approve T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Despite 13 States Trying to Block It - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:22] <exec> 08└─t-mobile claims the motivation for the merger is that they need the spectrum licenses to compete. How about we do away with licensing spectrum to the highest bidder, and force all the telcos to share spectrum? That would also allow mom & pop rural telco to operate, and serve those folks that att, ve...
[00:24:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 556 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:27] <exec> 08└─...is President Trump. Trump and Jared Kushner need to stop using apps like Telegram to communicate with people like Saudi Arabia Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and probably Putin as well. While I agree with the prior poster about securing your papers and property with encryption being a constitut...
[00:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:15] <exec> 08└─Where, pray tell, do you live that is so special?
[00:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Trump Administration Protested when Kenya Halted Construction of a Coal-Fired Power Plant - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:43] <exec> 08└─Coal is the cleanest, least costly option
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[01:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is One Way Toyota Plans to Shuttle People Around During the 2020 Olympics – - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:12] <exec> 08└─From the single image provided, and the limited text in TFA, you really don't learn much. Good idea, but it's hard to tell how chintzy, or how high quality this "vehicle" is. Low speed? Are they going to run it as-is, without doors? Alright, I guess. But, they better put some wheels under it, unless...
[01:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is One Way Toyota Plans to Shuttle People Around During the 2020 Olympics – - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:13] <exec> 08└─The Gems are at least a finished product. They actually look pretty good.
[01:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This is One Way Toyota Plans to Shuttle People Around During the 2020 Olympics – - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:16] <exec> 08└─Nuclear olympics should deploy nuclear vehicles.
[01:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ to Approve T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Despite 13 States Trying to Block It - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:26] <exec> 08└─I. Love. You! Yes! Open and spread competition instead of reducing it! Brilliant, huh!? Why can't the politicians see that? Oh...right. All they can see is the lobbyists money. Reducing competition is good for executives, shareholders and the rich...who cares about what is right.
[01:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Integrates with Foxtel, Healing the Splintered Australian Streaming Offerings - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:47] <exec> 08└─Why are you asking me?
[01:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VLC: Vulnerability Not Found - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:13] <exec> 08└─Well to allay the fears and screaming from the looneybin assylym known as UserLand, VLC was in the updates on my distro. Storm has passed, calm down and enjoy the teacup again.
[01:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rats Infest Sydney Triggering Plans to Eradicate Them - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:34] <exec> 08└─Stop funding vaccinations for rats.
[01:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Updated] Windows Insiders' Rings Hit by Surprise Microsoft Emission - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:56] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. This will be the Year of the Windows XP Desktop.
[01:25:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:15] <exec> 08└─IIRC, it was Clinton when encryption first became classified as a munition.
[01:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:29] <exec> 08└─A class III license is very difficult, but not impossible to obtain. Jesse James, the motorcycle builder turned gunsmith even builds them legally. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] 1:52 for machine gun.
[01:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:30] <exec> 08└─Given, there exists encryption schemes that the AG can't break. Assume the AG can invent a scheme that is secure but can also be opened only with a proper court order. (Big leap of faith in many directions, but give him this crazy assumption for a few milliseconds.) This will give the AG access to l...
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[02:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches First Private Rocket Capable of Carrying Satellites - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:13] <exec> 08└─iLawsuit?
[02:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches First Private Rocket Capable of Carrying Satellites - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:15] <exec> 08└─I swear I'm going to open a damned taco stand called iTaco. I'm getting in on the ground floor here folks! Any backers? :)
[02:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is One Way Toyota Plans to Shuttle People Around During the 2020 Olympics – - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:26] <exec> 08└─You don't always need a skirt for a ground effect vehicle. A skirt allows for better ground clearance and requires less horse power, but I've seen plenty of GA vehicles that didn't have a skirt. But it looks to me like it just has smaller wheels like a golf cart, look at the humps in under the front...
[02:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ to Approve T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Despite 13 States Trying to Block It - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, unfortunately the "Mom and Pop" ISP's that might spring up won't be able to supply the levels of "campaign contributions" that the ruling class have become so fond of.
[02:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Integrates with Foxtel, Healing the Splintered Australian Streaming Offerings - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:58] <exec> 08└─Why would Foxtel think that this move would change anything? Why pay $90 per month just to see as many ads as can be slotted into each channel of utter garbage? If a customer wants Netflix then they probably already have it, independently of Foxtel. But in all probability they do not want Foxtel. Bu...
[02:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:40] <exec> 08└─The Shire.
[02:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:41] <exec> 08└─Where I live is not that special, it is just that most Western democracies don't have the level of corruption that the US has. We also tend to have more political parties, so they help to keep each other in check. You guys should try it, it's not perfect but it's better than what you have.
[02:26:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Can Persist In The Environment - 1195 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:08] <exec> 08└─Also, I would note from previous reading on the subject that it's not just people urinating out drugs that is causing problems with antibiotics in water supplies. Antibiotics are massively overused in the food industry, for example, to keep livestock healthy (even when they're not sick, or as an alt...
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[03:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06This is One Way Toyota Plans to Shuttle People Around During the 2020 Olympics – - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:28] <exec> 08└─they have wheels, and no doors. more photos/renderings here [toyota.co.uk] related (and some prototype) vehicles here [toyota.co.uk] they are small, electric milk carts, crossed with people-mover style golf carts, like these [yamahagolfcar.com] Toyota is already making vehicles like these. So are ot...
[03:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Picture Perfect: How JPG EXIF Data Hides Malware - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:52] <exec> 08└─I do, and her meatloaf was more dangerous than any gun.
[03:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Picture Perfect: How JPG EXIF Data Hides Malware - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:53] <exec> 08└─We use disable_functions() [php.net] to neuter serval things, including eval().
[03:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03evilcam [3239] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Integrates with Foxtel, Healing the Splintered Australian Streaming Offerings - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:04] <exec> 08└─I can't wait to pay AU$100/mo for Netflix...
[03:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:47] <exec> 08└─You'd have more of a point if Bareback's administration didn't dream up the exact same thing.
[03:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:48] <exec> 08└─Easy, he can jail them for using unlawful encryption. The content of the encrypted message is irrelevant.
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[04:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches First Private Rocket Capable of Carrying Satellites - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:18] <exec> 08└─followed by iFart, no doubt.
[04:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches First Private Rocket Capable of Carrying Satellites - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:19] <exec> 08└─iLawsuit?
[04:25:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:05] <exec> 08└─When is it politically correct to suggest that perhaps the existing white house administration should be voted out?
[04:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:54] <exec> 08└─They enjoy being miserable and abhor revolution. They're redcoats.
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[05:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:12] <exec> 08└─You'll always have sunlight. But WTF? Who wants to live on the moon?
[05:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:14] <exec> 08└─Seems like it would be easier to just build around the lunar poles and not worry about being in complete darkness for 2 weeks at a time.
[05:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Tech's Ant-Sized Micro-Robots Move Through Vibration - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:22] <exec> 08└─That's not so much a robot as it is a small piece of material that (like other small inanimate things) moves around aimlessly when subjected to vibrations.
[05:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Tech's Ant-Sized Micro-Robots Move Through Vibration - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:24] <exec> 08└─This is just a fancier version of the Bristlebot [evilmadscientist.com] (video [youtube.com]).
[05:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Tech's Ant-Sized Micro-Robots Move Through Vibration - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:26] <exec> 08└─I'm confused. Do the tiny robots move because whatever they're on is vibrating from sound waves (ultrasound, whatever)? If so, it wouldn't matter if there was a battery small enough as there would be no mechanical type contraption to power. Really, I read the article and I'm stymied as to how these...
[05:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Tech's Ant-Sized Micro-Robots Move Through Vibration - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:28] <exec> 08└─In all fairness, I must confess the reader may be left just as confused as I was : )
[05:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches First Private Rocket Capable of Carrying Satellites - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:39] <exec> 08└─"The sector is currently dominated by SpaceX and Blue Origin in the US." Has Blue Origin ever had a paying customer?
[05:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ to Approve T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Despite 13 States Trying to Block It - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:04] <exec> 08└─Force them to share the spectrum how? I'm all for open solutions where the government manages a complex system that's vulnerable to the tragedy of the commons for the benefit of its citizens rather than trying to capitalismify it by creating de jure monopolies. But such plans often hinge critically...
[05:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Picture Perfect: How JPG EXIF Data Hides Malware - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, many cities have a problem with feral cats, and recommend that people have them spayed. Though they usually aren't as big as servals....
[05:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC: Vulnerability Not Found - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:57] <exec> 08└─Java itself is a gigantical dependency of otherwise small applications that depend on it.
[05:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC: Vulnerability Not Found - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:58] <exec> 08└─Wait... I know this one! Just rewrite VLC in JavaScript and execute it in browser. No static or dynamic linking, the app is always updated if newer than browser cache versions are found in the cloud. See? No problems. (large grin)
[05:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Hot to Handle? Raspberry Pi 4 Fans Left Wondering If Kit Should Come With a Heatsink - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:20] <exec> 08└─Even the 3 got pretty hot, which is why I run mine in an alu case with a metal pillar over the CPU that turns the case into a heatsink. Shipping the 4 without serious heatsinking is just nuts (although admittedly par for the course for a vendor who runs ethernet over a USB bridge, power via a micro...
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[06:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:17] <exec> 08└─It's a prime number
[06:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:27] <exec> 08└─Or, what is the average temperature a few meters down?
[06:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:29] <exec> 08└─Then build electric grid over 6 or 8 branches that are heading toward the equator. that way 3 to 4 branches will be suppling power to the 3 to 4 branch that in the dark. Keep branching and cross connecting as it heads to equator from both poles. In some ways it will be rail lines crossing America,...
[06:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:31] <exec> 08└─You don't want to bring batteries, cause they are to large and heavy, but you are somehow going to be build dwellings and a colony? Priorities? That said if you are building a colony why not also bring say a nuclear power reactor/plant that doesn't care about if it's dark or not unlike solar panels,...
[06:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches First Private Rocket Capable of Carrying Satellites - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:53] <exec> 08└─It's the People's Republic of China? How can any Chinese company really be private?
[06:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches First Private Rocket Capable of Carrying Satellites - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:54] <exec> 08└─Interstellar Glory Space Technology
[06:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC: Vulnerability Not Found - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:14] <exec> 08└─Use the source, Luke...erm, Danny.
[06:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC: Vulnerability Not Found - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:15] <exec> 08└─Yes they are because the deps are compiled in. Look at golang static builds for instance. You can deploy what appears at first glance to be a service without any external dependencies, but then find out you're vulnerable because the day you compiled you roped in some package with a vulnerability som...
[06:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC: Vulnerability Not Found - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:17] <exec> 08└─I realize you're joking, but erm that's not just a joke it's a real project that exists... https://github.com [github.com] Works pretty well too! There's also this... https://www.radiantmediaplayer.com [radiantmediaplayer.com] And even a few articles on the subject... This one...
[06:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rats Infest Sydney Triggering Plans to Eradicate Them - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:38] <exec> 08└─The word "eradicate" is someone's fantasy. All you can do is keep the rat population within some reasonable bounds. Even that is difficult: you don't really want to spread poison all over your city. Rats are, unfortunately, very clever and very determined critters. You know those closed waste bins m...
[06:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:39] <exec> 08└─But it says not one damn thing about the government guaranteeing you that you have a right that your possessions can be made to not be searchable nor that they can't be seized.
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[06:27:41] <exec> 08└─I just modified my 3d printed sled. It already has a fan option (20mm or 30mm) just had to switch around the USB2 and Ethernet ports and update for 2 mini hdmi and USBC plug. Will be releasing to thingaverse once I PI4 arrives and I can verify the alignments. Airflow is great since the box is open...
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[07:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:18] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, 2^29 milliseconds is 149 hours and eight minutes, give or take a few seconds. 29 bits may seem a strange number, but it's nothing unusual in the world of embedded devices. Several Intel (ex-Altera) FPGAs use a 29-bit watchdog counter, for example.
[07:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 3013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:20] <exec> 08└─Hmmm I've seen this behavior before. 149 hours is 536,400 seconds, but what is the value in milliseconds? What's the range of a signed 32 bit integer? And why signed? Because who has time to really remember that counters should only ever count upwards and do a little range checking, or type out that...
[07:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:22] <exec> 08└─double is neither integral, nor unsigned. At least not on any system/language I've ever worked on (and it's been a few by now). Other than that, sadly true.
[07:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:24] <exec> 08└─Haha, good catch! I'm tired and writing from memory.
[07:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:26] <exec> 08└─Congratulations; your comment is interesting, insightful, informative, and on topic. What are you doing posting on SN?
[07:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DOJ to Approve T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Despite 13 States Trying to Block It - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:23] <exec> 08└─Bandwidth that's used isn't wasted. If people use the bandwidth it's being used. It may be wasted to a monopolistic corporation that wants to monopolize it but it's useful to those using it. As far as tragedy of the commons, that's just a fake term that monopolists made up to justify monopolizing ba...
[07:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ to Approve T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Despite 13 States Trying to Block It - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:25] <exec> 08└─Topic on hand: How many psychologists does it take to change a light bulb? *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Just one. But the light bulb has to want to change.
[07:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06VLC: Vulnerability Not Found - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:21] <exec> 08└─I realize you're joking,
[07:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:44] <exec> 08└─and throw away the key.
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[08:22:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kazzie [5309] 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 262 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:24] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, 2^29 milliseconds is 149 hours and eight minutes, give or take a few seconds. 29 bits may seem a strange number, but it's nothing unusual in the world of embedded devices. Several Intel (ex-Altera) FPGAs use a 29-bit watchdog counter, for example.
[08:22:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 3013 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:25] <exec> 08└─Hmmm I've seen this behavior before. 149 hours is 536,400 seconds, but what is the value in milliseconds? What's the range of a signed 32 bit integer? And why signed? Because who has time to really remember that counters should only ever count upwards and do a little range checking, or type out that...
[08:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:30] <exec> 08└─s/t
[08:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:32] <exec> 08└─I'm confused. According to Wikipedia, 32-bit integers that are signed have a range of "From −2,147,483,648 to 2,147,483,647, from −(2^31) to 2^31 − 1." So why would 536,000,000 (give or take) be the magic number for it to hit that error? I don't really have to worry about that stuff in Python,...
[08:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:35] <exec> 08└─Must be building karma so his Viagra spam gets on the front page Journal list. Or maybe there is an overflow bug he saw in the moderation system with just the right combination that he is hoping to exploit to spread his Viagra spam. *FDA disclaimer: Viagra spam is not to be consumed by children, wom...
[08:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:37] <exec> 08└─Fair point, the math is a bit off there. The general gist certainly applies though. If we assume an unsigned 32bit integer is used somewhere, say for a timer counter. Said counter is running off an 8kHz crystal. It will wrap around to zero after 149.13 hours. If the counter was stored in a signed 32...
[08:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:48] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilopower [wikipedia.org] NASA's Kilopower Nuclear Reactor Exceeds Expectations in Tests [soylentnews.org]
[08:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rats Infest Sydney Triggering Plans to Eradicate Them - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:54] <exec> 08└─Stop the ratism. Rats want simply to integrate in our food chain. It's not like once settled they demand us to cover our females and respect their barbaric customs.
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[09:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:31] <exec> 08└─Now imagine you're a low paid coder in say India or China and you're building this really cool system and for your efforts you are being paid almost enough to buy a box of crackers in the USA, but hey that's rent and food for the next week there.
[09:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:32] <exec> 08└─536,400 seconds, but what is the value in milliseconds? If you can't multiply a number by 1,000 you have no business commenting on complex software
[09:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:34] <exec> 08└─Roy and Moz approve: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[09:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:36] <exec> 08└─WTF is the sampling timer doing turning 0?
[09:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:49] <exec> 08└─Looks like it's only the north lunar pole which has a few spots of permanent sunlight (at least in the lunar 'summer'). solar power would be the natural choice there, maybe with micowave beamed energy to other locations... http://www.astronomy.com [astronom...
[09:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Integrates with Foxtel, Healing the Splintered Australian Streaming Offerings - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:05] <exec> 08└─This is a huge step forward in healing the fractured market in Australia
[09:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Can Persist In The Environment - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:38] <exec> 08└─Nice straw bot we got here. It is funny that you put me on the spectrum of American politics which is faulty as any other. Free market does not exist so I cannot be for a deregulated one. Once you drop all laws the law of the stronger remains.
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[10:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:15] <exec> 08└─A suggestion... Can you guys stop posting article after article after article that is paywalled? I have zero interest to pay $15CAD to view 2 articles a month from techcrunch. The idea is laughable. At the rates I've been seeing the last 2 weeks, with all these paywalled articles, I'd be paying $500...
[10:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:17] <exec> 08└─Doesn't look [about] paywalled to me.
[10:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:19] <exec> 08└─RU 4 realz? Try to get past the opening statements on that page.
[10:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:21] <exec> 08└─This is the first time I've ever seen a paywalled article on TechCrunch. "Extra Crunch". I guess TechCrunch will be sold for pennies in a couple of years.
[10:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:47] <exec> 08└─WTF is the sampling timer doing turning 0?
[10:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, inventing colorful stories from mishmashed memories is tiresome. Like fitting an square peg int type in a double round hole. In actual real life stories that kind of lapsus just don't happen.
[10:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:02] <exec> 08└─Seems like it would be easier to just build around the lunar poles and not worry about being in complete darkness for 2 weeks at a time.
[10:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:04] <exec> 08└─Build a pumped storage mechanism using the height difference between the moon's surface and the bottom of a big crater. Of course, you won't be pumping water around in the moon's (non) atmosphere, but you could use moon dust. A big Archimedes screw could pump dust upwards when power is plentiful. A...
[10:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC: Vulnerability Not Found - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:51] <exec> 08└─No it doesn't. You can statically link LGPL'd things as long as you provide (at least) the .o / .a files from your build so that someone else can statically link against a different version.
[10:29:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK's Terrorism Warning Threats Updated - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:22] <exec> 08└─The IRA (and its various splinter groups) were never fighting for a leftist cause. They were fighting to kick the British out of Ireland and unite the whole island under one flag. That's the only agenda that inspired them to commit violence and it's not a left vs right agenda, it's purely a national...
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[11:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:24] <exec> 08└─Australia sees We’re sorry. Extra Crunch membership is currently only available for readers in the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, and Spain, but we are actively looking to launch in other areas.
[11:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:26] <exec> 08└─the US has a 5 year plan, but it takes 7 years to implement and will probably be the wrong thing in the end?
[11:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:28] <exec> 08└─It's surely a bad thing in the beginning, so 7 years instead of 5 is not a bug, it's a feature.
[11:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stock Trading Firm Robinhood Stored User Passwords in Plaintext - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:35] <exec> 08└─>giving your money to an org called Robinhood security is a process and somebody failed step 0
[11:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stock Trading Firm Robinhood Stored User Passwords in Plaintext - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:37] <exec> 08└─The latest funding round valued the company at $7.6 billion.
[11:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:00] <exec> 08└─What are you, nutty? We're reading a story about it happening to an international airline manufacturer, and you say it doesn't happen! ROTFL
[11:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 1319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:02] <exec> 08└─I was maintaining/porting the software for a device (regulated market, too). Since its inception in the 80s, it had the issue that it couldn't cross midnight, because the time slices it scheduled its operation in were based on past midnight. To comply with regulations, such stuff gets documented, bu...
[11:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:04] <exec> 08└─because the 2^23 time slices a single float could hold
[11:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:06] <exec> 08└─It's Moss... Maurice Moss https://giphy.com [giphy.com]
[11:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:08] <exec> 08└─Wow, way to miss the boat completely. Yes, bullshit. If you actually were to any of these countries, you'll soon realize that food costs the same everywhere. Heck, some poor places have food more expensive than in US while still only making $200 or $300 per month. Now tell that to the elitists in Am...
[11:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sshelton76 [7978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:11] <exec> 08└─It's like 3 AM when I posted, the math isn't going to be exact and doesn't need to be. It's just something I encountered once and seemed relevant. 140 to 160 hour reboot cycle it's going to be milliseconds accumulating in an int somewhere. The rest is how I know that :)
[11:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:26] <exec> 08└─But WTF? Who wants to live on the moon?
[11:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:27] <exec> 08└─You don't want to bring batteries, cause they are to large and heavy, but you are somehow going to be build dwellings and a colony? Priorities?
[11:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:30] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2uTFF_3MaA [youtube.com]
[11:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:44] <exec> 08└─With real fire.
[11:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:45] <exec> 08└─Cameras are already focused on the population - what needs to be ensured is that they are deliberately focused ON public servants, not away from them. Otherwise, in my opinion, these "public servants" are having the public serve them, instead of them serving the public.
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[12:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stock Trading Firm Robinhood Stored User Passwords in Plaintext - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:34] <exec> 08└─"When you set a password for your Robinhood account, we use an industry-standard process that prevents anyone at our company from reading it."
[12:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the absolute value will return 0 at the exact same point than the original one did. So what?
[12:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:06] <exec> 08└─But are binary milliseconds like in ram or decimal ones like storage marketing use to boost product size? And after formatting those milliseconds how much time really you have left?
[12:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches First Private Rocket Capable of Carrying Satellites - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:49] <exec> 08└─I like Fish Taco! ;) Side track: https://m.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[12:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Integrates with Foxtel, Healing the Splintered Australian Streaming Offerings - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:41] <exec> 08└─Game of Thrones.
[12:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Integrates with Foxtel, Healing the Splintered Australian Streaming Offerings - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:43] <exec> 08└─It's still currently possible to get Netflix in Australia for $10 per month.
[12:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Integrates with Foxtel, Healing the Splintered Australian Streaming Offerings - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:45] <exec> 08└─A lot of customers have both and many have ditched Foxtel for Netflix in the last couple of years. Now that GoT has ended Foxtel is not as attractive.
[12:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:44] <exec> 08└─After the bad thing happens, sure. but as an investigative tool, given steganography, how will he know they are using illegal encryption. His arguments for needing it fall apart for after the fact use.
[12:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Can Persist In The Environment - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:21] <exec> 08└─> the government is deliberately polluting water to regulate wells nah the government is about pushing an agenda and fighting the other side while pretending to have a different agenda. Who makes and undoes politicians? media. Who owns media?
[12:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK's Terrorism Warning Threats Updated - 1480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:54] <exec> 08└─Just cause someone is Nationalistic doesn't mean they can't also be left-wing. One doesn't conflict with the other. While on the surface it might have seem like they where all just about kicking the British out of Ireland their ideology goes somewhat deeper then that. Both Sinn Fein (their public po...
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[13:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:17] <exec> 08└─Yo, journalists, "their highest ever temperatures" does not jive with records that go back less than two hundred years unless you have even more radical young-earth-creationist ideas than churchy folks.
[13:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, records were broken by quite a margin. The heat also led to a number of fires, which are very unusual around here - we've had our share of farming machinery burning down previously, but it's decidedly more marked this year, with a number of e.g. forest fires - and this smack in the middle of te...
[13:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:39] <exec> 08└─Same here in the Netherlands. I can't be bothered to try a US VPN endpoint, it's too hot around here.
[13:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:41] <exec> 08└─Please! Tell me Mao!
[13:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 1869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:43] <exec> 08└─I mean decentralization of the core of the network. Right now, the core of the Internet is run by a small group of very large companies and managed through peering agreements. Most of those companies are based in the USA (or have a pretty strong presence there). This is part of what gives the USA so...
[13:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stock Trading Firm Robinhood Stored User Passwords in Plaintext - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:54] <exec> 08└─Billions in value, and apparently too cheap to spend enough to hire a competent IT security team. Or they hamstrung their team with stupid requirements-- that sometimes happens. But plaintext passwords? That's like not putting on pants before going outside. These days, you have to work at it to get...
[13:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stock Trading Firm Robinhood Stored User Passwords in Plaintext - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:56] <exec> 08└─I wondered if it was some crappy newbie dev that put in code to grab the passwords as some kind of idiotically naive debugging / diagnostic function. For that to be in place on a live system though, is even more horrifying. Maybe those customers described a problem with the system and the n00b grabb...
[13:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stock Trading Firm Robinhood Stored User Passwords in Plaintext - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:58] <exec> 08└─For what I said to work though, they'd have to ask the customer to change their password, assuming their logger wasn't already in place.
[13:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 3234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:30] <exec> 08└─Aircraft avionic equipement sends data around the system using a data bus. There are several proprietary busses that are commonly used and it doesn't really matter which one is used, but I believe Airbus use [aviationtoday.com] the Mil-Std-1553 [wikipedia.org] variant. When sending data via a bus th...
[13:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:31] <exec> 08└─Not ragging on you, I just got curious about the number discrepancy and when I looked at it an 8kHz multiplier fell out of it. Which, on top of milliseconds of course makes it an 8MHz clock, which is rather common for middle-of-the-range mcus. Seems eminently plausible to me. Pretty sure anyone who...
[13:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:51] <exec> 08└─It's where the majority of the water/ice is anyhow at the (poles) so this does make the most sense.
[13:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Integrates with Foxtel, Healing the Splintered Australian Streaming Offerings - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:14] <exec> 08└─Wait. $90 per month? With ads? WTF? Have it all $58* Sport + Drama + Entertainment per month on a 12 month plan + 6 months of Netflix on us
[13:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC: Vulnerability Not Found - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:49] <exec> 08└─Can Python, NodeJS, and God forbid Perl actually: 1. be as large of a download 2. be as large of an install 3. have the largest number of files on disk 4. have the biggest on disk pawprint and most importantly 5. use as much memory . . . . . . as Java ? IMO, Java has them all beat.
[13:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:18] <exec> 08└─I believe it is proper to capitalize the title of a book, movie, music, or other work.
[13:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:20] <exec> 08└─Thank you.
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[14:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:17] <exec> 08└─...encouraging humans to cultivate their creativity.
[14:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:18] <exec> 08└─Intel Scales Neuromorphic Loihi to 64 Chips, 8 Million Neurons [tomshardware.com]
[14:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:28] <exec> 08└─You are the idiot who is incapable of understanding there is more that one explanation for "the climate is changing". Also, local weather is not climate. The global trend is downward from the Obama peak: http://www.drroyspencer.com [drroyspencer.com]
[14:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:30] <exec> 08└─Bleh... nothing the next generation can't fix.
[14:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:32] <exec> 08└─Everything happening has been strengthening the case that there is a coming grand solar minimum: > Recall that a Grand Solar Minimum initially manifests not so much in lower average temperatures, but greater climate variability including floods as well as heat waves and droughts; the drop in global...
[14:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:35] <exec> 08└─What forecast says it is going to get worse? It is already Friday and temperatures have already dropped and were not predicted to exceed Thursday's. The forecast for the weekend and next week is for temperatures in the mid 20's.
[14:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:37] <exec> 08└─The Democrat forecast.
[14:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:39] <exec> 08└─No! there is no time! Tax on CO2 now! that'll show the Chinese. BTW the Chinese are building empty cities in Africa. Maybe the natural outcome of this climate change is a glaciation and they have already the spot ready for their population. As for us we will tax the heaters and we'll be fine. Before...
[14:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:41] <exec> 08└─The article sounds like it's from wednesday evening. Indeed, thursday was worse, now that peak is past... even if it's still more than hot enough now (friday).
[14:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:44] <exec> 08└─Those are normal temperatures for where I live. 100+ with 90% humidity. The last few weeks its been around 10 to 15 degrees under our normal temps. It getting down in the 70's at night and normally its never drops below 80. I know this doesn't prove anything about global warming but It sure is nice...
[14:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 1533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:05] <exec> 08└─This has been done for 30+ years with HAM radio. In fact, there was a bit of kerfuffle recently, with some of their address space being repurposed (some say stolen/taken over)! https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://www.arrl.org
[14:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:07] <exec> 08└─Got to over 45C yet or still in the balmy 40-ies range?
[14:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 2202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:09] <exec> 08└─With questionable to outright illegal peering across national borders. It's the only way the network stays independent. it will be expensive. it WILL have security problems. It will need its own network ranges and in/outproxies to the 'public' internet. Once we have people start committing to this,...
[14:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stock Trading Firm Robinhood Stored User Passwords in Plaintext - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:21] <exec> 08└─This is so basic. Never. NEVER store plaintext passwords. Always. ALWAYS use ROT13.
[14:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stock Trading Firm Robinhood Stored User Passwords in Plaintext - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:23] <exec> 08└─Passwords can be protected by two very secure forms of encryption. 1. ROT13 2. EBCDIC
[14:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:56] <exec> 08└─> 149 hours is 536,400 seconds, but what is the value in milliseconds? Given all the attempts here to try to fit this into some kind of integer overflow, I'll go a different direction. Maybe they've looked at when the overflow would occur, looked at all of the flight schedules, and picked a standard...
[14:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:58] <exec> 08└─Naw, maybe 149 hours is the time when the Garbage Collector would kick in to free up memory. Causing a system hang because a blocking collector is used. (ducks, hides under desk)
[14:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:18] <exec> 08└─Or, what is the average temperature a few meters down?
[14:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches First Private Rocket Capable of Carrying Satellites - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:43] <exec> 08└─No, but they do have a contract to launch a series of OneWeb satellites sometime in 2021.
[14:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches First Private Rocket Capable of Carrying Satellites - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:44] <exec> 08└─That's highly dependent on the rules of the country, with regards to company names, and whether that company also does business in the USA. I'm going with, China doesn't care about Apple's USA trademarks and it's entirely possible that the private company doesn't do business in the USA. In 2002, App...
[14:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches First Private Rocket Capable of Carrying Satellites - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:46] <exec> 08└─The government hasn't made it theirs, yet. "Pray they do not alter it further."
[14:24:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06This is One Way Toyota Plans to Shuttle People Around During the 2020 Olympics – - 338 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:57] <exec> 08└─they have wheels, and no doors. more photos/renderings here [toyota.co.uk] related (and some prototype) vehicles here [toyota.co.uk] they are small, electric milk carts, crossed with people-mover style golf carts, like these [yamahagolfcar.com] Toyota is already making vehicles like these. So are ot...
[14:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is One Way Toyota Plans to Shuttle People Around During the 2020 Olympics – - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:59] <exec> 08└─LOL, great photos in those links. Especially the pizza mover vehicle! When you're sitting through a long day of Olympics, you gotta have some pizza to munch on! https://d1r57ja1amoclf.cloudfront.net [cloudfront.net]
[14:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is One Way Toyota Plans to Shuttle People Around During the 2020 Olympics – - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:01] <exec> 08└─Once you drive a Toyota, you'll never stop! [wikipedia.org]
[14:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ to Approve T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Despite 13 States Trying to Block It - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:18] <exec> 08└─Dear Santa: No company should be allowed to be BOTH an ISP and a provider of streaming content. Each ISP should be a provider of Big Dumb Pipes. Full Stop. No snooping, inspecting packets, manipulating the contents of connections, playing games with DNS, etc. Just be the biggest, most bestest Big Du...
[14:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC: Vulnerability Not Found - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:23] <exec> 08└─If restarting doesn't work, then the solution is to re-install Windows. Yes. Seriously. Reboot. Power Cycle. Then Reinstall. That was the mantra for all Windows tech support problems in the early 2000s.
[14:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC: Vulnerability Not Found - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:24] <exec> 08└─You realize the CLang compiler generates LLVM. There are projects [v8.dev] that compile LLVM to run in the browser. No need to rewrite VLC. Maybe. If they can get the runtime libraries to have GUI support for the browser. There was another project that ran an entire VM, which could boot a Linux, in...
[14:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC: Vulnerability Not Found - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:26] <exec> 08└─Really? I just don't feel this is something so totally out of proportion, would you mind checking it again? Excluding the docos (docs and man) and legals, here's what my java-11 installation looks like: *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) /usr/lib/jvm/java-11-openjdk-amd64$ ls bin co...
[14:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Updated] Windows Insiders' Rings Hit by Surprise Microsoft Emission - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:11] <exec> 08└─Yes, you didn't update your /etc/apt/sources.list to point to the new distro's repositories so "apt-get dist-upgrade" did nothing. Also, "apt-get" is depricated, simply use "apt".
[14:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06[Updated] Windows Insiders' Rings Hit by Surprise Microsoft Emission - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:12] <exec> 08└─https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_update-insiderplat_pc/insider-build-18947-information-and-how-to/3c371d12-e61b-4152-93e9-0975a2643208 [microsoft.com]
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[15:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:19] <exec> 08└─the vast majority of humans who have little to no notable creativity.
[15:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:20] <exec> 08└─> ... a country with 100 million Elon Musks. Dystopia for sure! Among other problems, the Musk clones would have to compete with each other for government money to support their grand plans.
[15:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:22] <exec> 08└─But not something you can buy from their store. You have to be a "research partner"
[15:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:39] <exec> 08└─*RECORDED* highest ever temperatures FTFY. and in the Netherlands and UK this goes back actually a bit over 200 years.
[15:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:40] <exec> 08└─Yea it's just the energy being redistributed more unevenly. This is the opposite of what CO2 should do since radiation is so much faster than convection. CO2 should lead to a more uniform distribution.
[15:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:42] <exec> 08└─This is definitely not normal for The Netherlands. In an average year you can count the amount of days with temperatures above 30 degress on a single hand. Yesterday (Thursday) we broke the record of Wednesday again with a peak of 40.7 degrees.
[15:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:45] <exec> 08└─*RECORDED* highest ever temperatures FTFY.
[15:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:47] <exec> 08└─Colder here, central northern Europe -- Scandinavia, then last year. Mid to high 20's all week -- dropping to 15-20 during the nights. Only the humidity makes it suck really, high 80's to mid 90's % all day every day -- I guess that is the price for living on the coast.
[15:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:49] <exec> 08└─The Chinese are investing more in clean energy than the USA is. More clean energy innovation is happening in China than the USA. Remember the days when China and India would buy power plants from the west? Now they are working on next generation fission plants. India is working on Thorium reactors....
[15:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:14] <exec> 08└─Part of the problem is the housing. You insulate, and care greatly about insulation / air tightness, when it's -40C then +40C almost yearly. Or even just very hot, or just very cold. https://www.nrcan.gc.ca
[15:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:03] <exec> 08└─You're right. No one would ever be stupid enough to farm out work to the retarded monkeys in India.
[15:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:05] <exec> 08└─So, lemme get this straight. About once a week, the watchdog takes a little siesta? Well, that's good to know before breaking and entering. Now, can you tell us when the dog is asleep?
[15:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:07] <exec> 08└─in a double round hole.
[15:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:27] <exec> 08└─While, I get that it's a popular idea. I'd guess that most people aren't thinking of it as the next wild west. Sure, the wild west was tamed, but lots and lots of people died accomplishing the feat. We've barely had a single incidence of death on the road to the moon. As opposed to the trail being l...
[15:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Launches First Private Rocket Capable of Carrying Satellites - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:55] <exec> 08└─Some names just seem odd, from a cultural perspective, as well as translations can leave something to be desired. See, pretty much, any original Asian language anime, that's been translated. Sure, there are some high quality exceptions, but those are the ones that prove the rule.
[15:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ to Approve T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Despite 13 States Trying to Block It - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:26] <exec> 08└─It's reasonable to say that the supposed tragedy of the commons that the phenomenon was named for is a fake thing that basically represented 18th century propaganda, but the conceptual abstract version of it is real as hell in cases like climate change. The net effect of sensible individual incenti...
[15:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ to Approve T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Despite 13 States Trying to Block It - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:27] <exec> 08└─Du jour is french for "of the day." De jure is latin for "in a purely legal sense." It is a contrast term to de facto, meaning "in reality."
[15:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VLC: Vulnerability Not Found - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:35] <exec> 08└─Thank you! That is very interesting. Java runtime: fewer but larger files. NodeJS: many smaller files I suspect NodeJS cannot compete with Java on performance. The Java runtime runs java bytecode. It starts out interpreted. Continuous dynamic profiling identifies functions using disproportionate cpu...
[15:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:09] <exec> 08└─Well if "on a computer" is enough to make a patent unique, than "on the Internet" must mean it's not speech /s
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[16:22:15] <exec> 08└─kessler syndrome kessler syndrome kessler syndrome kessler syndrome! KESSLER SYNDROME!! KESSLER SYNDROME!! I love how completely fucked we are
[16:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:16] <exec> 08└─Troupes de espace marine.
[16:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:18] <exec> 08└─Gravity (2013) syndrome
[16:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:21] <exec> 08└─We've got a bit to go, before kessler syndrome is a real problem. Though, really, anyone capable of launching a rocket into space has the potential to cause serious problems.
[16:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:23] <exec> 08└─Maybe the United States Space Force can help...
[16:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:25] <exec> 08└─Seriously, Marines?! Are they mariners? Is this a division of the Navy?
[16:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:37] <exec> 08└─TFA: What are the operations being performed on? What's an operation? Under what circumstances are these operations being performed? How does the timing....
[16:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:39] <exec> 08└─It's weaksauce anyway. These things need to be scaled up vertically. Make a chiplet with 10,000 layers of neuron-imitating transistors, then include 64-96 of those, and you're close to "human brain", at least going by the numbers in the article.
[16:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:41] <exec> 08└─I don't know, the brain power of a cat is pretty impressive, if your numbers are indeed right. It's several hundred times the brain power it takes to win national office in the US.
[16:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─"Just imagine a country with 100 million Elon Musks." Yack!! You did that to me before I'd finished my first cup of coffee. Though perhaps Musk is to be somewhat preferred over the kind of people who use their creative energy figuring how to con the marks out of their hard earned money in order to b...
[16:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:46] <exec> 08└─Government money? From my perspective, Musk has been conning the big money fund and investment fund managers.
[16:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:48] <exec> 08└─It's several hundred times the brain power it takes to win national office in the US. Well if you're so much smarter, lets see you do it...
[16:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:50] <exec> 08└─the kind of people who use their creative energy figuring how to con the marks out of their hard earned money in order to buy bigger yachts, play more rounds of golf in exotic locations and build huge phallic symbols in over crowded cities Yeah, I'd estimate that the US has about 3 million of these...
[16:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:13] <exec> 08└─This is definitely not normal for The Netherlands..
[16:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:15] <exec> 08└─Funnily enough, in the language of my people "Scotland" comes from our word for "Land of the melting skinks".
[16:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:17] <exec> 08└─And a few billion years ago everything was molten lava...... Reminding people of geological timescales in order to downplay climate change just makes you look stupid.... Nowhere in the geological timescales you mentioned has the climate been this dynamic. It is now changing on human timescales (whet...
[16:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 5651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:44] <exec> 08└─I've done as you've stated, about the antenna and friends and so on. It's an Intranet, though. Anyone trying to poke into it will find the links are not only encrypted, but we've got IPSec VPNs running as well. We're not going for transmission speed records, but we do value our privacy beyond what c...
[16:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:45] <exec> 08└─UNIX-to-UNIX Copy worked great, and it's still around.
[16:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:47] <exec> 08└─Holding hostage is not the right metaphor. They are just buying time in order to invent something more devlish. "Lords over" kindof works. "Outright controls via secret plots" is perhaps the closest short description I can write. "Mysterious Inter-Agency Panel Ponders Adding New Words to Dictionary...
[16:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Stock Trading Firm Robinhood Stored User Passwords in Plaintext - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:03] <exec> 08└─1) What "industry-standard process" stores passwords in plain text? None. They make it sound as though they use an industry standard process to store passwords, but they are only referring to "reading" the password.
[16:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:42] <exec> 08└─What the actual AD [europa.eu] says is that when the initial AOT was issued that they advised that resets must occur and then issued a follow-up requiring repetitive ground power cycles, but it says now there is a patch available. The patch is included on new production planes and, "issued the SB fo...
[16:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOJ to Approve T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Despite 13 States Trying to Block It - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:05] <exec> 08└─Mod me -1 D'oh!
[16:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rats Infest Sydney Triggering Plans to Eradicate Them - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:38] <exec> 08└─There has to be a way to harness these organisms that somehow survive on nutrients in the near environment that no one notices even go missing. What if I told you this is a form of free energy? Build a giant wheel underground where all the sewers come together, and scrap drop food from restaurants o...
[16:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attorney General William Barr Demands Backdoored Encryption - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:49] <exec> 08└─You can't have light without the dark, you can't have smart without stupid.
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[17:22:33] <exec> 08└─Are they mariners?
[17:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:52] <exec> 08└─I'm from western NY State, near the big Tesla solar cell / solar-roof-tile plant in Buffalo -- built for Musk with something approaching $1B of NY State money. Currently it's not doing very well, the Tesla residential solar business has been bad for the last year or so. And the local news says they...
[17:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:54] <exec> 08└─Obviously it isn't a 1-1 comparison (because the animals have to do things like 'see' and 'move' and your computer can focus everything on an area), but I always like to keep this in my back pocket: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] 8000 neurons is 72...
[17:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:56] <exec> 08└─They are saying: 128-core chip = 130,000 neurons 64x chips = 8.32 million neurons 768x chips = 99.84 million neurons 16,384x chips = 2.13 billion neurons (hard limit?) It would be pretty weird for an architectural limit to stop you from getting to 100 billion or human scale. Needless to say, just be...
[17:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:21] <exec> 08└─Nowhere in the geological timescales you mentioned has the climate been this dynamic.
[17:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:23] <exec> 08└─I've reached over the half century mark, and I can remember at least a couple of occasions at roughly this time of year where it was hot enough for the tarmac on the roads and pavements to melt here, and can remember one year having to save a number of birds suffering from heat exhaustion...I've yet...
[17:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:25] <exec> 08└─Those are normal temperatures for where I live. 100+ with 90% humidity.
[17:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:27] <exec> 08└─The climate is relatively stable right now. Look up the Maunder Minimum, the Younger Dryas Event, etc.
[17:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Self-Driving Startup AutoX Expands Beyond Deliveries and Sets its Sights on Europe - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:35] <exec> 08└─Too lazy to make into a submission, adding to this article: https://www.autonomousvehicleinternational.com [autonomousvehicleinternational.com] If you own a Mercedes with the correct options, you can us...
[17:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:58] <exec> 08└─You're not missing anything. Don't bother with the VPN. I'm in the States, and you get about 1/2 paragraph (with same amount of info as the summary here on soylentnews). If you scroll past that, it almost immediately jumps to the techcrunch.com home page. After about the 3rd try with the back button...
[17:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:00] <exec> 08└─Seems like it might be time to lay cable now, get permission later. I'm not even joking. If the gov't is uselessly slow about something like this, then fuck 'em. This isn't like starting up some new radio transmissions where it's may interfere with anything.
[17:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:54] <exec> 08└─I don't know. . . By your calculation the system crashes at exactly 149 hours, and they take it right up to the wire and tell customers to reboot at the last possible mS? You may be right, but I'd like to think that where air travel is concerned they'd leave a little breathing room. Rebooting at 100...
[17:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:56] <exec> 08└─why would silly Americans want Dragons or Dragon Dragons in their code?
[17:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Launches First Private Rocket Capable of Carrying Satellites - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:45] <exec> 08└─Because China is neither a communist nor socialist state? It practises single-party authoritarian capitalism, just like the US.
[17:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This is One Way Toyota Plans to Shuttle People Around During the 2020 Olympics – - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:00] <exec> 08└─Talk about old news, did you own one of those Toyotas? I inherited a 2009 Toyota recently and I know it had the throttle-by-wire pedal-assembly replaced back at that time. The original owner (close family friend) reported that the pedal felt better after the recall (but it never stuck, just felt "hi...
[17:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rats Infest Sydney Triggering Plans to Eradicate Them - 1093 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:51] <exec> 08└─In the course of my struggle, I learned that rat dogs were historically used in London. Of course they weren't feral, but trained by handlers. When you suggest putting these dogs back to work in places like DC though, it offends modern sensibility. OTOH, people are perfectly willing to put their foo...
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[18:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:51] <exec> 08└─"but we're going to put machine guns on satellites."
[18:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:53] <exec> 08└─the french need to hang macron in the street for letting the country be taken over by desert rats. the algerians have been rioting for days. i don't know what the french are doing. hiding in their chateaus?
[18:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:55] <exec> 08└─The increasing irony of the US, which gets into conflict after conflict where the only outcome is more of what they intended to stop, making fun of French military history just keeps increasing. What's the last actual war we actually won? And no kill-stealing from stalin.
[18:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:57] <exec> 08└─I hear these space weapons are for shooting down all the yellow balloons.
[18:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:19] <exec> 08└─I couldn’t get much past the grandiose opening sentences, so didn’t RTFA.
[18:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:20] <exec> 08└─Musk knows how to work both the public and private financial sectors. Wish it were easier to get him out of my 401k.
[18:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:22] <exec> 08└─fixed sized words would do it. e.g. "2.13 billion" looks suspiciously like 2^31, 31 bits.
[18:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:25] <exec> 08└─Not only that, but who is going to buy up all that creative output? You NEED couch potatoes in today’s economy.
[18:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:54] <exec> 08└─If you are looking at averages over tens of thousands of years you wouldnt see the last 100 either... you make no sense.
[18:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:56] <exec> 08└─if they used superior units, they'd have one extra digit for even higher temperatures.
[18:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:29] <exec> 08└─you're the only one clicking on the link. boo, to you! :)
[18:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:27] <exec> 08└─Commercial aircraft don't rollover, that's military. Oh you meant .... :-p
[18:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 1819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:50] <exec> 08└─Any manned space program today is going to be stupid expensive, as is anything based on SLS. Falcon Heavy could be a bit more affordable, but it's far from ideal. With Starship, cost per head can be dramatically reduced. Gigantic payloads can be put in LEO or on the Moon (in-orbit refueling required...
[18:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:51] <exec> 08└─Living on the moon would be like living in a trailer on a construction site. The first thing you will need to open is a saloon/casino/brothel.
[18:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:54] <exec> 08└─Bunch of people do. They have no idea... But, whatever, just take lots of condoms and lube...
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[19:22:15] <exec> 08└─"There is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North Korea." -- President Donald J Trump, June 12, 2018
[19:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:16] <exec> 08└─Whaddya gonna do?
[19:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:19] <exec> 08└─How about another pointless, bloody, long, aimless land war in Asia. The last 5 we fucked up have taught us how to do it right
[19:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:41] <exec> 08└─Σύνδρομο Πλάνητες
[19:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:43] <exec> 08└─Blinding the enemy? Sounds like they want equipment to shoot at China's QUESS [wikipedia.org]. Maybe in the EU we should instead develop our own quantum key exchange capability.
[19:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:45] <exec> 08└─Eh, the French have been "rioting" against Macron since last year. There's a lot of "rioting" going on right now. Macron Renuncia!
[19:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powering the Brains of Tomorrow’s Intelligent Machines - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:11] <exec> 08└─Needless to say, just because they say it's X neurons doesn't mean you can suddenly create a "strong AI" at any of these levels. It may be a highly flawed simulation of neuronal and synaptic activity that can't produce "consciousness" or whatever the "secret sauce" of "intelligence" is.
[19:23:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 377 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:33] <exec> 08└─The Chinese are investing more in clean energy than the USA is. More clean energy innovation is happening in China than the USA. Remember the days when China and India would buy power plants from the west? Now they are working on next generation fission plants. India is working on Thorium reactors....
[19:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:44] <exec> 08└─Hello, Belgian here. We have a new record of 40.6 Celcius since today in Kleine Brogel. Fun detail is that Kleine Brogel is a military airport (where our US nukes are hidden and most of our F-16, and soon F-35s are located). I guess this is also why it's one of the measurement points for our nationa...
[19:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:45] <exec> 08└─Don't you understand? Measurements of temperature must not be done with Mercury or other scientific instruments is not accurate. Measurement of temperature must be done by looking at melting rubber and tarmac. That is much more accurate. At least to climate change deniers. Doh! By the way, in the ot...
[19:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:48] <exec> 08└─Humans are really bad at handling both the concept of geological timescales and the fact that we're living in a 'dynamic' biosphere.
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[19:25:43] <exec> 08└─Looks like it's only the north lunar pole which has a few spots of permanent sunlight (at least in the lunar 'summer'). solar power would be the natural choice there, maybe with micowave beamed energy to other locations...
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[19:26:48] <exec> 08└─so we all know what the problem is, but they know we know. they just don't care because we never do anything about it. they only respect power. the people need to assert theirs for things to change.
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[20:22:23] <exec> 08└─Whaddya gonna do?
[20:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:24] <exec> 08└─At this point I think the lines have been drawn. Anyone supporting Trump at this point is fully invested, everyone else already realizes how terrible he is. It is an "us vs. them" situation for conservatives and they apparently don't care how terrible their politicians are as long as they "win". Bra...
[20:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:26] <exec> 08└─Yet another mark against fustakrakich, the Angel of Apathy. He doesn't want to actually fix anything, he just wants to demoralize people.
[20:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Launches CRS-18 Using Twice-Flown Booster, Starhopper Finally Flies - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:34] <exec> 08└─Starhopper's powerful Raptor engine appears to have started a significant fire, placing SpaceX's Starhopper pad in a precarious position per the fire's apparent adjacency to full liquid oxygen tanks.
[20:23:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:41] <exec> 08└─*RECORDED* highest ever temperatures FTFY.
[20:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:56] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but each individual incident is weather, not climate. It's the collection that is climate. It's rather like the difference between the speed of a gas molecule and the temperature of the gas. That said, the collective weathers definitely indicate a hotter climate. But it's still wrong to point...
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[20:23:58] <exec> 08└─I thought it was Indonesia that was working on Thorium plants. https://www.nextbigfuture.com [nextbigfuture.com]
[20:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:00] <exec> 08└─Sup bird brain, in here being stupid? Oh good. You're my rock buzztardo!
[20:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:02] <exec> 08└─Forecast isn't worth shit anymore. Something changed in the last six months, and they changed their models/science. Weather.com used to spot-freaking on when it came to the temperatures. If it said 84 at 3pm, I could reliably measure 83-85 walking outside. Always consistently within +/- 2 degrees fr...
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[20:24:04] <exec> 08└─I expect that there actually are a few such places. But they'd be really unusual. You'd need not only shallow seas near the equator, but also just the right surrounding land masses and wind patterns. And you'd need to measure at the right time of day. (And I really doubt that *anybody* lives there.)...
[20:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:35] <exec> 08└─Oops, I meant that as a joke, but guess I was not obvious enough in the disclaimer (or took into consideration a good chunk of people would not read it). Also, "flamebait" as the mod? Not sure that is what I think of when I think of that term. Flamebaiting is more like, "Of course he would say that,...
[20:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:02] <exec> 08└─252 Kelvin == -21.15 degrees Celsius . Pretty cold, but handleable with decent insulation.
[20:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Bricks Could Keep the Lights On and the Heat Up in Lunar Colonies - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:03] <exec> 08└─The majority of the surface ice. It's not at all clear that there aren't ice caverns all over the moon. But, of course, it's also not clear that there are. Nobody's explored enough. They'd be subsurface, probably by more than 6 feet, and covered either with rock or a very thick layer of vacuum-creme...
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[21:22:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giant Dinosaur Bone Uncovered in France - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:08] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to that "amazingly preserved" T-Rex tissue that was somehow still living millions of years after the animal died?
[21:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:21] <exec> 08└─This is what your posts amount to: Trump in 2020!
[21:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:23] <exec> 08└─You have to consider that people vote for him because he's so terrible.
[21:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:25] <exec> 08└─You just won't listen. People voted for him because they thought Hillary was worse. If the democrats would just run a decent person as candidate then Trump would lose in 2020. Not going to happen though, is it. Hands over your ears la la la la la la I can't hear you Orangeman Bad la la la why you ra...
[21:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:27] <exec> 08└─You're not supposed to wait for the democrats to do a damn thing. There is a reason they don't oppose the GOP. If the voters won't vote for somebody else, they are just shit out of luck.
[21:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Launches CRS-18 Using Twice-Flown Booster, Starhopper Finally Flies - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:36] <exec> 08└─We're gonna see a lot more flames during this test program. Like that scary fireball on July 16. And later, Super Heavy will put out about 2x the thrust of Saturn V.
[21:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Launches CRS-18 Using Twice-Flown Booster, Starhopper Finally Flies - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe SLS should get in on the fireball action.
[21:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Launches CRS-18 Using Twice-Flown Booster, Starhopper Finally Flies - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:41] <exec> 08└─Yes please. Pulled pork.
[21:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:01] <exec> 08└─Why, oh why, oh why didn't they name them Space Cadets ?
[21:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:03] <exec> 08└─I fail to see how France's space weapons can protect their satellites? Wouldn't it be relatively easy to take out their satellites? Shoot several independent projectiles at it that intersect it at differing points in its orbit. Or fire a weapon in the opposite (east to west) direction to have a high...
[21:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:05] <exec> 08└─No medical web sites mention kessler syndrome, [wikipedia.org] so maybe there is no cure.
[21:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:07] <exec> 08└─The last time I checked launching 10-20 grams of lead or other dense material at roughly 1000 meters per second accelerated the launch platform in the opposite direction. Who's calculating the new orbit? With every single shot you will need to calculate the new orbit of the launch platform. That's q...
[21:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:13] <exec> 08└─By me they said there would be a hurricane and there was half an inch of rain. A week earlier they gave no warning and there was 7 inches of rain in a few hours that lead to flooding. Weather forecasting has been taking over by political appointees pushing agendas.
[21:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:45] <exec> 08└─Even more retarded - letting the same monkeys INTO other countries and allowing them to TAKE OVER "services"...
[21:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DOJ to Approve T-Mobile/Sprint Merger Despite 13 States Trying to Block It - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:18] <exec> 08└─T-Mobile is fine. Sprint on the other hand is in big fucking trouble. They picked the wrong tech in 2005 and 1995 and are on the wrong side of the FCC auctions. Get away from a highway and it has terrible coverage. This is their problem summed up nicely customer wise. A guy I know had 6 lines with...
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[22:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Ransomware Hits Johannesburg Electricity Supply - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:13] <exec> 08└─There are people who will die if they go without power for too long. They tend to also have mobility issues too, since even portable oxygen equipment tends to be bulky. The last I checked, extortion is a felony, and if someone dies due to the commission of a felony the perpetrator is guilty of capit...
[22:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Giant Dinosaur Bone Uncovered in France - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:20] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to that "amazingly preserved" T-Rex tissue that was somehow still living millions of years after the animal died?
[22:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Corelli's A [1772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Dinosaur Bone Uncovered in France - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:23] <exec> 08└─was delicious!
[22:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:39] <exec> 08└─To be fair, nowhere in the summary do they say the new weapon is nuclear.
[22:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:41] <exec> 08└─US analysts suspect North Korea may have developed 12 nukes since first Trump-Kim summit [washingtonexaminer.com]
[22:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:43] <exec> 08└─If that were true Clinton would have won in 2016. Afterall, there was a paid army of trolls reminding us about how terrible she was on a daily basis.
[22:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:45] <exec> 08└─Get a real politician who will work with governmental resources such as the intelligence community and State Department to adjust to the threat presented instead of a tweeting scared little boy in an old man's body as President?
[22:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:47] <exec> 08└─anybody but Trump in 2020
[22:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:50] <exec> 08└─I can go find my posts on this very site from early 2016 saying Trump was going to win because you idiots wouldn't stop your juvenile and incoherent ranting about him. The stuff about Clinton did not even come close. Every fucking unrelated thread had some moron who couldn't help themselves advertis...
[22:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:52] <exec> 08└─We have at least 37 more years of Trump to look forward to. It's Donald Trump for 5 more years until 2024, then Ivana Trump 2024-2032. Next Donald Trump Jr. in 2032-2040, and Eric Trump in 2040-2048. Finally Barron Trump in 2048-2056.
[22:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:54] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, the barrista is investigating the origins of all that.
[22:24:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aim [6322] 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 879 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, records were broken by quite a margin. The heat also led to a number of fires, which are very unusual around here - we've had our share of farming machinery burning down previously, but it's decidedly more marked this year, with a number of e.g. forest fires - and this smack in the middle of te...
[22:24:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pe1rxq [844] 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 366 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:18] <exec> 08└─And a few billion years ago everything was molten lava...... Reminding people of geological timescales in order to downplay climate change just makes you look stupid.... Nowhere in the geological timescales you mentioned has the climate been this dynamic. It is now changing on human timescales (whet...
[22:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:35] <exec> 08└─The Netherlands must be very, very focused on Climate Change. What will they do if sea levels rise? If Greenland melts, that will raise sea levels by 2 meters. They can't just make all the dikes 2 meters taller, can they? They will have to leave. What is their plan? The even scarier nation is Bangla...
[22:25:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 5651 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:02] <exec> 08└─I've done as you've stated, about the antenna and friends and so on. It's an Intranet, though. Anyone trying to poke into it will find the links are not only encrypted, but we've got IPSec VPNs running as well. We're not going for transmission speed records, but we do value our privacy beyond what c...
[22:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:08] <exec> 08└─That was tried back in the late nineties. The company was shut down for it. A sizable chunk of Google's fiber backbone was laid by that company.
[22:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:08] <exec> 08└─Ok. That makes more sense. I was thinking of a tick rate of one per some standard or base 10 unit of time. Any other rate didn't occur to me. But yes 2^32 events divided by 8000 events per second is equal to 149 hours, 7 minutes, 50 seconds, and 114/125ths (7296 events). Given that, the explanation...
[22:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus A350 Software Bug Forces Airlines to Turn Planes Off and On Every 149 Hours - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:09] <exec> 08└─stackoverflow which at least in this case was a remarkably prescient name
[22:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This is One Way Toyota Plans to Shuttle People Around During the 2020 Olympics – - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:21] <exec> 08└─It's got a steering wheel, though, so I guess we'll have to find someone who's got five kids to feed... [youtube.com]
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[23:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Hits Johannesburg Electricity Supply - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:13] <exec> 08└─Adding insult to injury, there is this headline from Jo-burg: https://ewn.co.za [ewn.co.za] Power cuts due to overloaded grid in the current cold weather (but still above freezing). Another article from the same sour...
[23:22:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 17 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:31] <exec> 08└─Whaddya gonna do?
[23:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:47] <exec> 08└─Really? You still believe that's why she lost?
[23:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:48] <exec> 08└─FTFY: Anonymous sources make up fake news. [washingtonexaminer.com]
[23:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06France Pursuing Space Weapons to Protect Satellites - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:23] <exec> 08└─A ton of coarse sand launched into an elliptical polar orbit will put this space race to an end. For good.
[23:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:32] <exec> 08└─Don't waste time arguing with climate change denying trolls. A discussion of our options would be much more interesting and pertinent. From what I read, it sounds bad. First, I'm guessing we are stuck. We can't stop the ice sheets from melting. If we could somehow magically reduce the CO2 level to 1...
[23:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:33] <exec> 08└─They can't just make all the dikes 2 meters taller, can they?
[23:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, in fact every region of the world could be individually cooling while the earth is warming in aggregate: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] So even lower temperatures everywhere would not disprove global warming.
[23:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:38] <exec> 08└─Mod parent up... looks like #CrookedHillary downmodded him.
[23:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:40] <exec> 08└─the massive problem of relocating to higher ground. I fear moving to higher ground will be the only option we will have... I keep asking myself, what more can I do about it, now?
[23:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Records Tumble as Europe Swelters in Heatwave and the Forecast Isn't Any Better - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:42] <exec> 08└─What forecast says it is going to get worse? It is already Friday and temperatures have already dropped and were not predicted to exceed Thursday's.
[23:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How US National Security Agencies Hold the Internet Hostage - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:16] <exec> 08└─Far from my mind to blame the Dutch people; and the typical house in Australia still have a crappy insulation (but, yes, better than a 200yo house). What I was trying to convey: the new "normal" in regards with one what would expect from the temperatures around the year.
[23:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stock Trading Firm Robinhood Stored User Passwords in Plaintext - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:32] <exec> 08└─But only ROT13 can be converted back to plaintext without paying a royalty to IBM.
[23:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rats Infest Sydney Triggering Plans to Eradicate Them - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:23] <exec> 08└─If eradication is possible anywhere it would be in Australian cities. The native "bush rat" [wikipedia.org] has stopped the spread of introduced rats into wilderness areas (as has happened in New Zealand where no native rodents exist). The bush rat outcompetes introduced rats, but can't survive in o...
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