#comments | Logs for 2019-07-28

« return
[00:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[00:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872126
[00:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Australia Bank (NAB) Admits 13K Customers' Data Uploaded to Data Service - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:17] <exec> 08└─How do I tell if my bank gives my information out?
[00:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Immune Therapy Takes A 'BiTE' Out Of Brain Cancer - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:35] <exec> 08└─Except Pastafarianism... they're the only sane ones.
[00:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:25] <exec> 08└─Well, so long as she does it gently!
[00:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:27] <exec> 08└─Ah crap, she already included that word in the sentence. Insufficient coffee. The parent comment would be deleted, if SoylentNews had such a feature.
[00:32:10] <exec> count new = 4
[00:32:10] <exec> count top = 0
[00:32:10] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[01:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[01:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872131
[01:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmic Ray Update: New Results From the Moon - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:32] <exec> 08└─When he gets back to the moon before Nasa, China, EU, Japan, just how buttmad are you going to be?
[01:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Immune Therapy Takes A 'BiTE' Out Of Brain Cancer - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:43] <exec> 08└─Let me noodle on that for a while.
[01:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:37] <exec> 08└─Looking like a doofus is almost as good as a pun. +1 Funny for you as well.
[01:31:47] <exec> count new = 3
[01:31:47] <exec> count top = 0
[01:31:47] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[02:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[02:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872135
[02:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:14] <exec> 08└─While you still can you should go to see Tāne Mahuta the largest and oldest Kauri that survives. It may be as old as 2,500 years. Kauri dieback disease is going to get it though, and all Kauri on the mainland will be dead within a few years. Just a little something to brighten up your day.
[02:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Australia Bank (NAB) Admits 13K Customers' Data Uploaded to Data Service - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:25] <exec> 08└─So, those people who live payday to payday, with zero reserve, are actually the smart ones? If they have already drained their accounts immediately after being paid, then the hackers have nothing to work with?
[02:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Ray Update: New Results From the Moon - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:35] <exec> 08└─I think most of the buttmad aimed at Musk is related to some combo of Tesla, Hyperloop, Neuralink, OpenAI, Boring Company, the "pedo guy" saga, dank weed, and his other eccentricities. Or just playing the contrarian since so many people are worshiping/fellating Musk online. If you are actually mad b...
[02:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cosmic Ray Update: New Results From the Moon - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:36] <exec> 08└─Isn't there any kind of radiation or energy out there that will give us super powers or something?
[02:22:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:54] <exec> 08└─Quite the unprecedented event [soylentnews.org]...
[02:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:13] <exec> 08└─Agreed. We have "once in a century" floods around here. Even allowing for the weird byzantine processes: If a person expects to live more than half a century, and the event happens once a century, then that person can EXPECT to witness this once in a century event during his lifetime.
[02:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:53] <exec> 08└─From the summary: The audio is not linked to an Apple ID
[02:25:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03black6host [3827] 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:39] <exec> 08└─This is how life goes: You get older, they take away your floppy drives. To make up for it, other things get floppy. It sucks :)
[02:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:37] <exec> 08└─$ ls -l /dev/fd0* ls: cannot access '/dev/fd0*': No such file or directory
[02:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe your old computer is too old to have USB? If you cannot find an old server, maybe it got sealed inside a wall . . . https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk]
[02:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:41] <exec> 08└─Wow! Impressive project. Your post gave me personal insight. I did more electronics projects as a kid. I started working as a tech at 17, went full-time until college at 23, and now only do small things here and there. Now I realize why- I've gotten paid to solder 8000 pins! I guess that takes some...
[02:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:43] <exec> 08└─If it ain't broke, then fix it 'till it is.
[02:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:45] <exec> 08└─I shoulda added, maybe ls -l /dev/fd*, but if dev 0 ain't there, ... But some distros / kernels might use a different system altogether. Which distro + kernel version? And you can't just turn off the floppy seek in BIOS, but leave floppy on? But maybe you don't use floppies anymore...
[02:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:48] <exec> 08└─Cialis is a yellow pill.
[02:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:50] <exec> 08└─Thank you, I was meaning to post similarly. And maybe the driver is pretty stable, and would only need mods to accommodate some new parameter, or driver definition somethingoranother.
[02:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06N Korea's Kim Says New Missile Launch Was Warning To South Korea - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:37] <exec> 08└─Depends who he's running against. There's worse out there. Democrats still have plenty of opportunity to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
[02:32:11] <exec> count new = 14
[02:32:11] <exec> count top = 2
[02:32:11] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[03:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[03:21:10] <exec> last cid = 872160
[03:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blames Internet Cafés for Underwhelming Steam Hardware Survey Stats - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:15] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter what the polls say. I think AMD is at least equal to Intel, and maybe superior. I know that the AMD corporation is superior to Intel. Maybe I should log into Steam a few thousand times a day, to boost AMD stats? Or, a few thousand times per minute. Surely, there's a script for that...
[03:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:23] <exec> 08└─"News has arrived from around the world. The humans are running out of water." "Then you know what must be done. For the good of the forest." "For the good of the forest." "The wrath of the Lich(en) King" -- Summer, 2020.
[03:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Australia Bank (NAB) Admits 13K Customers' Data Uploaded to Data Service - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:34] <exec> 08└─Which is why many companies that issue checks to the general public do so from an account with an out of the way bank that blocks outgoing ACH and only gets filled to the extent needed to cover the checks outstanding.
[03:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Ray Update: New Results From the Moon - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:46] <exec> 08└─If you were born on the Krypton, then yes. Mere humans from earth? Forget it.
[03:23:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:10] <exec> 08└─We just have to change to green renewables like wind and solar that can't be shut down by the vagaries of weather!
[03:25:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 392 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:33] <exec> 08└─At my company, we still have terminals (real ones, namely VT220s), they still work with Linux, and we still use them to issue the odd shell commands to our Dell servers without having to open the air-conditioned server room from the room next to it. They've been paid for 35 years ago, and a RS232-US...
[03:26:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 654 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:05] <exec> 08└─Like you, I still have working 5.25" and floppy drives and blank spare disks for both. I have a working Z80 system that is still usable (for some definitions of 'usable'). I have backed up all my software to more modern devices but the Z80 uses 5.25" disks and a cassette recorder for data! The entir...
[03:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:53] <exec> 08└─inxi CPU: 2x 6-Core AMD Opteron 8439 SE (-MCP SMP-) speed: 2815 MHz Kernel: 4.18.0-20.2-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 Up: 2d 6h 04m Mem: 8930.0/24107.3 MiB (37.0%) Storage: 223.57 GiB (75.4% used) Procs: 361 Shell: bash 5.0.0 inxi: 3.0.30 I've liked the Liquorix kernel since I discovered it. :^)
[03:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:55] <exec> 08└─I have a USB floppy drive that so far has destroyed no disks (occasionally used for a floppy boot, tho I have some old disks that need reading) ... but the drive inside is a Teac, which may make a difference. Or it may be your OS and its drivers are the culprit. I've noticed that this USB floppy dri...
[03:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:57] <exec> 08└─I've got a similar collection... tho I did thin things down when I moved, and only kept the Teacs (and whatever was in random PCs of uncertain heritage). Have yet to see a Teac FDD fail, even under hard and regular use; have seen a few dead Sonys and a whole lot of dead Mitsumis. So was pleased to n...
[03:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:59] <exec> 08└─The really scary thing is ... we have data on floppy disks that are older than most of the people posting here...
[03:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:01] <exec> 08└─So, about the USB FDD controllers... is that distinct from the drive itself? Mine is a no-name but has a Teac FDD inside... have not had occasion to read odd disks with it. (It is much faster than an onboard controller, tho..) BTW for everyone who takes a notion to read old floppies on a Windows sys...
[03:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:04] <exec> 08└─Teac for 3.5", Fujitsu for 5.25" Never seen a deader of either. Seen deaders of other brands. Dunno about Mac FDDs but some CDROMs of similar vintage used a teeny tiny belt to open the tray. Belt dries out and breaks, no more tray open... tho could probably fix it with a suitable rubber band. The wa...
[03:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:06] <exec> 08└─There were vast reliability differences among floppies. 1.44mb were pretty good; 720k were horrible. 360k were very stable; 1.2mb not so much. (This is perhaps a little better than anecdotal, since it's the result of reading several hundred of each, all of similar history and vintage. Well, some of...
[03:32:20] <exec> count new = 11
[03:32:20] <exec> count top = 3
[03:32:20] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[04:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[04:21:10] <exec> last cid = 872177
[04:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Blames Internet Cafés for Underwhelming Steam Hardware Survey Stats - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:20] <exec> 08└─Every XBOX and Playstation 4 is AMD. Steam is irrelevant.
[04:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06AMD Blames Internet Cafés for Underwhelming Steam Hardware Survey Stats - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:22] <exec> 08└─That script is monopolized by intel.
[04:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blames Internet Cafés for Underwhelming Steam Hardware Survey Stats - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:24] <exec> 08└─I agree with your opinion of AMD an Intel. AMD is by far the best processor. I wouldn't bother logging into Steam. To me that is a waste of Time and bandwidth.
[04:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blames Internet Cafés for Underwhelming Steam Hardware Survey Stats - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:26] <exec> 08└─Does that even work? Most games are like 40+ gigs. Do these cafes have something like a gigibit internet?
[04:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blames Internet Cafés for Underwhelming Steam Hardware Survey Stats - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:28] <exec> 08└─How do they know? As far as I can tell Steam doesn't reveal how they collect the data or anything about the methodology. They don't release actual numbers, they don't even tell you the size of the population surveyed, how many opted out, which people opt out and which stay in, etc. The list of poten...
[04:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:38] <exec> 08└─There seems to be a presumption that the other trees can choose to support, or stop supporting the trunk. The idea that the trunk's roots continue to supply the superorganism with nutrients would explain everything, and remove the possibility of choice. So long as the net flow of nutrients is positi...
[04:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:40] <exec> 08└─Is the "zombie tree" actually Winston Peters?
[04:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmic Ray Update: New Results From the Moon - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe. But most of it will just shorten your life, some of it in rather horrible ways. Care to roll the dice and see which one you get?
[04:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:41] <exec> 08└─It won't help as much as you think. Power lines are also derated in hot weather, so even if you could generate the power from unicorns and mung beans you couldn't get it to its destination. Heat affects every part of the grid, not just one specific type of generation facility.
[04:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:23] <exec> 08└─And you miss the point too. He was writing scathing critiques of authoritarianism. The party wasn't left or right it was simply about power.
[04:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:25] <exec> 08└─Lenny's predecessor... https://duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com]
[04:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:22] <exec> 08└─Buy Sony diskettes, and this problem goes away. Never had to reformat new disks, and rarely had one fail. (Also, don't use Mitsumi floppy drives.) Was same with QIC80 tapes. They had to be formatted for your drive. and 40-50 bad blocks was considered normal. But my Sony tapes never had more than 8 b...
[04:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:24] <exec> 08└─I live my life by that motto. ...There are whole categories of heavy equipment I'm not allowed to touch anymore...
[04:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:26] <exec> 08└─I recently had to use an *ancient* version of Linux to solve a problem, and docker made it simple. I'm assuming some variant of the technology works with VM's. So not sure I'm worried yet...!
[04:32:37] <exec> count new = 14
[04:32:37] <exec> count top = 0
[04:32:37] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[05:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[05:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872194
[05:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06AMD Blames Internet Cafés for Underwhelming Steam Hardware Survey Stats - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:24] <exec> 08└─All cafes are Internet cafes nowadays. You can't have a conversation for all the noise of everyone either fucking with a computer or a phone.
[05:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Immune Therapy Takes A 'BiTE' Out Of Brain Cancer - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:08] <exec> 08└─except perhaps the Jains.
[05:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:35] <exec> 08└─Nuclear power plant fails catastrophically. Worst case scenario: Dozens of people are killed on the spot; hundreds more die later a horrible, painful death; thousands of people are displaced from their homes permanently, they lose everything, communities are destroyed, lives are ruined; hundreds of...
[05:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:19] <exec> 08└─That is true. There were those sheep bleating out slogans of the ruling elite and drowning out dissent, implicating the press/media in authoritarianism.
[05:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:20] <exec> 08└─It would be helpful if you provided more than zero pieces of evidence for any claims that you make, if you expect people to believe you. (Or not, if religion is any indication.)
[05:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:21] <exec> 08└─"What you really wanted of course was an 8in hard one"
[05:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:22] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't know, Danny Boy. I know, you've seen them in the ads, right? Your friends use them. Yeah, that's it.
[05:32:37] <exec> count new = 7
[05:32:37] <exec> count top = 0
[05:32:37] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[06:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[06:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872209
[06:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Discovery May Make Liver Transplants Obsolete - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:16] <exec> 08└─Alcoholics of the world rejoice ...
[06:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blames Internet Cafés for Underwhelming Steam Hardware Survey Stats - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, I think AMD did catch up, but were far far behind for a long time. AMDs drivers were horrible, and their chips were not designed well for thermal dissipation or power regulation. They would let asus and other motherboard manufactures do anything with their chip sets, meaning anything to save 1c...
[06:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:41] <exec> 08└─Tāne Mahuta
[06:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:42] <exec> 08└─Is there any evidence that superorganisms have severed links in the past?
[06:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Australia Bank (NAB) Admits 13K Customers' Data Uploaded to Data Service - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:54] <exec> 08└─Oh that is so depressing
[06:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:46] <exec> 08└─I guess you think it would be fine to discharge water that cooks the fish downstream? If nuclear reactors can't operate within the law during the summer, that's a serious deficit.
[06:31:29] <exec> count new = 6
[06:31:30] <exec> count top = 0
[06:31:30] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[07:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[07:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872215
[07:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Discovery May Make Liver Transplants Obsolete - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:19] <exec> 08└─Wait, does this mean I can start drinking again?
[07:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:46] <exec> 08└─I saw that documentary with the dragons and gold and rings and small people and so forth it didn't under any case give me any drive to visit NZ anytime soon maybe I'll just go to the beach
[07:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:47] <exec> 08└─Can we "withhold nourishment" from the "parasites" in our society?
[07:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Australia Bank (NAB) Admits 13K Customers' Data Uploaded to Data Service - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:00] <exec> 08└─I do this with my personal banking. The account I pay from is a separate account. I transfer funds into the account before money is paid out of it. They may have the bank account number, my name, and other details but if it is drain it only has a few hundred in it at any time although of course they...
[07:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Ray Update: New Results From the Moon - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:14] <exec> 08└─This is why we are seeing climate change folks.
[07:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:39] <exec> 08└─Well, this and the previous articles on the same subject are pretty good evidence. But, if you want to live in denial, that's ok.
[07:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:29] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0kHf_5s3J8 which also has a part II. Of course, there's always the classic /Sugar: The Bitter Truth/, which covers the health-related aspects more.
[07:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid 2019 OK Flies by Earth on July 25 - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:58] <exec> 08└─The asteroid was discovered 26 hours before closest approach. That would be enough time for people to be warned to take shelter and maybe evacuate if a precise impact location is predicted. But it would help to have established procedures for the warning.
[07:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:43] <exec> 08└─CP/M is the default used to interface with the disk drives etc. But as an alternative I can boot into a command line and use assembler and the routines provided by an on-board ROM which is limited to interfacing to the keyboard and the cassette player/recorder. It has a memory of 64k RAM now, but st...
[07:31:37] <exec> count new = 9
[07:31:37] <exec> count top = 0
[07:31:37] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[08:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[08:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872226
[08:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Discovery May Make Liver Transplants Obsolete - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:22] <exec> 08└─Not yet.
[08:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 2719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:52] <exec> 08└─Something is expending energy to push sap up through this tree, in a very un-evolutionary un-selfish kindof way, from the perspective of individual trees. It sure looks a lot to me like the other trees care about this tree, but if that were the case then trees would have feelings and we would have g...
[08:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06National Australia Bank (NAB) Admits 13K Customers' Data Uploaded to Data Service - 1595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:06] <exec> 08└─Your bank gives your information out. In every test where it has mattered in the united states for my entire adult life, the banks have failed the test and been doing the exact worst possible things they could be doing. Their ability to get away with this seems to be tightly linked to their ability...
[08:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Ray Update: New Results From the Moon - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:21] <exec> 08└─I'm quoting from the summary but: "Note to astronauts: 2019 is not a good year to fly into deep space. In fact, it’s shaping up to be one of the worst of the Space Age." “The overall decrease in solar activity in this period has led to an increased flux of energetic particles, to levels that are...
[08:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:52] <exec> 08└─Almost all MIDI instruments that used floppies for instrument banks etc. have a "floppy driver emulator". Usually a literal hardware replacement for a floppy drive, indistinguishable from a real floppy drive, that uses microSD cards to actually hold the data (and changing discs is done from an LCD p...
[08:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Hits Johannesburg Electricity Supply - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:57] <exec> 08└─Energy supply in South Africa is already very unstable. There is nobody who depends on electricity supply for life support that doesn't have some kind of backup energy supply such as generators and battery backup. Literally, anybody who did would be dead
[08:29:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Hits Johannesburg Electricity Supply - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah seriously, we're used to it. Keep in mind winter is a pretty loose term round here. Currently experiencing lows of 6 degrees C and highs of 24
[08:31:26] <exec> count new = 7
[08:31:26] <exec> count top = 0
[08:31:26] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[09:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[09:21:10] <exec> last cid = 872234
[09:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:56] <exec> 08└─It sure looks a lot to me like the other trees care about this tree, but if that were the case then trees would have feelings and we would have good reason to hug them and the world would turn upside down, maybe we'd see more hugging of things besides flags and tanks and handheld computing devices.
[09:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 3446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:52] <exec> 08└─The pseudocode goes something like this: For Scan [satellite map] within [microphone pickup radius] of [device] for [human] with [IQ] over 1xx or [Power Level] over 1000. If True, Activate Microphone. Record for [chunk size], stop recording, save, start recording. Compress data. T...
[09:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe they should consider donating hardware then.
[09:31:30] <exec> count new = 3
[09:31:30] <exec> count top = 0
[09:31:31] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[10:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[10:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872239
[10:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Blames Internet Cafés for Underwhelming Steam Hardware Survey Stats - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:38] <exec> 08└─I have a strong feeling most others had similar experiences.
[10:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:55] <exec> 08└─That would eliminate the progressives, and thin the ranks of more common liberals. I'm glad you thought of this!
[10:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Australia Bank (NAB) Admits 13K Customers' Data Uploaded to Data Service - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:10] <exec> 08└─When you find out your account is drained because someone obtained a judgment against you.
[10:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:07] <exec> 08└─I guess you think it would be fine to discharge water that cooks the fish downstream?
[10:28:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Floppy Disk Orphaned By Linux - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:01] <exec> 08└─How many still have write rings laying around?
[10:31:33] <exec> count new = 5
[10:31:33] <exec> count top = 0
[10:31:34] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[11:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[11:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872249
[11:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Competition Commission Recommend Changes to Stop Anti-Competitive Behaviour - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:14] <exec> 08└─Maybe they will finally make it law that users get root access to their devices by default.
[11:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:21] <exec> 08└─Well, shit. I was hoping for a Russian chip like this. The Chinese might very well sell gathered information on US citizens to the US government but the Russians would probably keep it for themselves unless it was harmful to the US government.
[11:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:24] <exec> 08└─Clock is meaningless without knowing IPC and TDP.
[11:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Discovery May Make Liver Transplants Obsolete - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:34] <exec> 08└─Champagne, champagne for everyone !!! [youtube.com]
[11:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Discovery May Make Liver Transplants Obsolete - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:36] <exec> 08└─Consider it research.
[11:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmic Ray Update: New Results From the Moon - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:38] <exec> 08└─Everything humans do has some effect on the climate, but the sun is still far more influential.
[11:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmic Ray Update: New Results From the Moon - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:39] <exec> 08└─Because solar cycle 24 was exceptionally weak, and cycle 25 is expected to be even weaker: http://www.sidc.be [www.sidc.be]
[11:24:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 252 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:31] <exec> 08└─You can also build a Lenny [toao.net] machine to keep on spewing junk. Would that get you banned from Siri or Alexa or google? That could be an interesting test. How much junk do you need to send to the cloud before the cloud comes raining down on you.
[11:31:18] <exec> count new = 7
[11:31:18] <exec> count top = 1
[11:31:18] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[12:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[12:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872260
[12:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Competition Commission Recommend Changes to Stop Anti-Competitive Behaviour - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:16] <exec> 08└─The intent is to bring Australia in line with the protections the US and Europe have for user privacy.
[12:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 1525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:25] <exec> 08└─While China's chip industry lags far behind the West, Google's AI investment in China, specifically in Singapore, and it's willingness to work with their totalitarian government while simultaneously refusing to work with the US has become a flashpoint for realistic charges of treason. Google/Alphabe...
[12:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:28] <exec> 08└─Google doesn't design or fabricate cpus, wtf are you talking about?
[12:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:30] <exec> 08└─Not really. It all depends on what you're looking to use the chip for. IPC don't mean a whole lot to me except when I'm transcoding video and TDP don't mean shit to me ever unless it requires herculean cooling methods.
[12:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:32] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_processing_unit [wikipedia.org] As to the rest, the hobbit will have to weigh in.
[12:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:35] <exec> 08└─Google's AI investment in China, specifically in Singapore
[12:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:37] <exec> 08└─Light on details, likely proprietary, and not coming to the home user. But it's still good news.
[12:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Blames Internet Cafés for Underwhelming Steam Hardware Survey Stats - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:03] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter what the polls say. I think AMD is at least equal to Intel, and maybe superior.
[12:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Quantum Phenomenon Helps To Understand Fundamental Limits Of Graphene Electronics - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:35] <exec> 08└─Does anyone else get the feeling we live in a quantum reality.
[12:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:14] <exec> 08└─Indeed, my most cited academic paper was posted on K5.
[12:31:33] <exec> count new = 10
[12:31:34] <exec> count top = 0
[12:31:34] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[13:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[13:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872273
[13:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hong Kong’s Protestors Are Hindering (and Hijacking) the Tools of Surveillance - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:15] <exec> 08└─With filters now standard on these type of devices does this actually work? Surely a paintball spray would be more effective.
[13:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Competition Commission Recommend Changes to Stop Anti-Competitive Behaviour - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:24] <exec> 08└─https://www.cnet.com/news/gdpr-google-and-facebook-face-up-to-9-3-billion-in-fines-on-first-day-of-new-privacy-law/ [cnet.com] Google, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp have been hit with privacy complaints within hours of GDPR taking effect Friday -- complaints that could carry fines of up to $9.3 b...
[13:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:39] <exec> 08└─There are absolutely no backdoors in this hardware. None. The government of China guarantee it. On your life.
[13:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:41] <exec> 08└─That is not a CPU.
[13:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:43] <exec> 08└─Battery life doesn't mean shit to you?
[13:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:45] <exec> 08└─What is the point of making it 16 bit? To reduce memory usage?
[13:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:47] <exec> 08└─looking for a OrangePI now with it installed. $75 ?
[13:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:31] <exec> 08└─What about the ones that come by boat?
[13:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:32] <exec> 08└─Did anyone else read that properly first time?
[13:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:45] <exec> 08└─NO IT WAS THE BLACK VESTS sorry, i shout when i get excited
[13:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It’s Official: US Government Approves T-Mobile/Sprint Merger - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:36] <exec> 08└─You're asking the equivalent of "why can the federal government interfere when there exists a WTO".
[13:31:31] <exec> count new = 11
[13:31:31] <exec> count top = 0
[13:31:31] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[14:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[14:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872286
[14:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Competition Commission Recommend Changes to Stop Anti-Competitive Behaviour - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:23] <exec> 08└─lol. it's a billboard in your pocket with a camera and keylogger watching all your moves, financed with advertisment monies. the os might be called android but it turns a regular human user into a real one. never will the user get real complete control over the device... it negates its existance.
[14:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Competition Commission Recommend Changes to Stop Anti-Competitive Behaviour - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:25] <exec> 08└─creating an independent ombudsman, a new specialist arm named the "ACCC digital platforms branch" for proactively investigating anti-competitive conduct, upgrading the Privacy Act, improve handling of fake news, and allow users to select their default search engine and browser on Android.
[14:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Competition Commission Recommend Changes to Stop Anti-Competitive Behaviour - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:27] <exec> 08└─I read the executive summary and list of recommendations. It doesn't really do anything for consumer rights. The list has an item recommending a stronger DMCA-like law that would result in more people's stuff getting illegitimately taken down from Youtube, by fraudulent copyright claims. They want t...
[14:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Competition Commission Recommend Changes to Stop Anti-Competitive Behaviour - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's a start for GDPR. But the EU has always been pro consumer and pro privacy when compared to the US. The US is anti privacy, pro corporation and pro law enforcement (at the expense of Constitutional rights).
[14:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:48] <exec> 08└─Nope. I despise laptops because of the tiny screens and shitty keyboards, tablets are like computers but without actually being useful, and phones are like tiny, less useful tablets that can also make phone calls and send/receive texts.
[14:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:50] <exec> 08└─Sixteen core CPU. Sixty-four bit.
[14:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:52] <exec> 08└─OP didn't say "CPU".
[14:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:54] <exec> 08└─But they did say "This is why google is under investigation". Where "this" refers to this Alibaba CPU.
[14:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:38] <exec> 08└─You'd be surprised. As a P.C. tech I fix a lot of shit. I've seen one of these in a shrinks office. I asked the guy: "How many microphones are in here?", he replied "none of course I take my clients privacy very seriously." Of course there is something like 7 mics in just one of these units, not cou...
[14:31:35] <exec> count new = 9
[14:31:36] <exec> count top = 0
[14:31:36] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[15:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[15:21:10] <exec> last cid = 872300
[15:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Competition Commission Recommend Changes to Stop Anti-Competitive Behaviour - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:37] <exec> 08└─Speak for yourself. Cell radio aside because that can't be helped, mine does what I allow it to and nothing else.
[15:22:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 236 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:57] <exec> 08└─Nope. I despise laptops because of the tiny screens and shitty keyboards, tablets are like computers but without actually being useful, and phones are like tiny, less useful tablets that can also make phone calls and send/receive texts.
[15:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:02] <exec> 08└─So it can run SNES ROMs natively.
[15:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:48] <exec> 08└─Great, now I can't unsee that in the headline.
[15:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:03] <exec> 08└─Indeed, but it could be an indication of future problems. Of the 19 sites in total, only 5 are cooled by seawater. The other sites are located [world-nuclear.org] inland, and cooled by river water which, if we have a trend here, might face an increasing number of shutdowns as the [riverwater] temper...
[15:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:52] <exec> 08└─Google and Amazon and Microsoft have lots and lots of evidence. The hard part is getting a copy. Unless they store it on AWS.
[15:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:53] <exec> 08└─Bringing the fine art of parallel construction right to your front door.
[15:26:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 544 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:22] <exec> 08└─All sorts of things, not just one system, and many of them intercnnected. Leptin insensitivity, insulin insensitivity, sugar overload, liver damage due to fructose and/or alcohol consumption, hormonal mimics in the water, lack of magnesium and potassium in the diet and reduced levels of same in prod...
[15:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It’s Official: US Government Approves T-Mobile/Sprint Merger - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:59] <exec> 08└─Nobody I know likes Sprint. Their network is by far the worst in the country. They use custom bands and make compatibility with other phones a nightmare, too. Hopefully if T-Mobile eats them, this will get fixed. It's hard for me to be worried because Sprint is so terrible that I don't feel like any...
[15:31:21] <exec> count new = 7
[15:31:21] <exec> count top = 2
[15:31:21] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[16:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[16:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872309
[16:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hong Kong’s Protestors Are Hindering (and Hijacking) the Tools of Surveillance - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:24] <exec> 08└─Curious as to what kind of filters you’re referring to. If they’re designed to prevent damage to the camera, I bet that could work. Still, I’d guess that while you have the laser shining into the lens, the camera won’t give a useable output. Doesn’t seem practical without a mounting clamp...
[16:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hong Kong’s Protestors Are Hindering (and Hijacking) the Tools of Surveillance - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:25] <exec> 08└─my theory is that government plans ahead. but when hks lease was up and returned to china the government wasnt able to plan ahead. thus minions born during the handover time had no future planned for them and now the economy cannot absorbe them, keep them busy making money for growing the next gener...
[16:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:05] <exec> 08└─A Chinese company now nipping at the heels of AMD and Intel Or am I missing something?
[16:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:06] <exec> 08└─Chinese manufacturers know their chip fabs are a decade or more behind the West so they are turning instead to a technique companies like nvidia are using by integrating bleeding edge AI circuitry with their low end RISC-v processors. That bleeding edge AI tech is coming from Google and its tech the...
[16:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:08] <exec> 08└─I'm still dreaming of someone doing a chip with something like the integer side of the 6809 expanded to 64 bits and the associated shitload of registers those bits in an instruction word would enable — the addressing modes alone were bloody fabulous. Add a robust FPU and memory management, cache,...
[16:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:11] <exec> 08└─Google was unable to operate directly inside China. They established Singapore as their asian hub but roughly 90% of the staff at that location is from mainland China.
[16:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:13] <exec> 08└─They are still very very far from nipping at Intel or AMD's heels but they have the backing of the communist chinese government along with the IP that Google is essentially handing over to them coupled with whatever technology they can steal from the West to start to close the gap. China rarely deve...
[16:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Blames Internet Cafés for Underwhelming Steam Hardware Survey Stats - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:40] <exec> 08└─How is that an AMD problem? Intel allows other manufacturers make Intel compatible boards aswell. You are barking up the wrong tree here.
[16:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blames Internet Cafés for Underwhelming Steam Hardware Survey Stats - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:41] <exec> 08└─Seems like a useless metric because it doesn’t really reflect reality. With all the tracking that goes on, Steam has no way of distinguishing logins from the same platform? Very odd.
[16:23:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 221 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:50] <exec> 08└─"News has arrived from around the world. The humans are running out of water." "Then you know what must be done. For the good of the forest." "For the good of the forest." "The wrath of the Lich(en) King" -- Summer, 2020.
[16:23:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03choose another one [515] 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 299 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:59] <exec> 08└─It sure looks a lot to me like the other trees care about this tree, but if that were the case then trees would have feelings and we would have good reason to hug them and the world would turn upside down, maybe we'd see more hugging of things besides flags and tanks and handheld computing devices.
[16:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:18] <exec> 08└─as much as i like nuclear to fail, the situation in europe happening now is because of the hippies and greens demonstrating in the pre internet 70s and 80s. the hot weather doesnt hurt the european nuclear reactors at all. they were designed pre-green movement. however, the river water that goes in...
[16:31:31] <exec> count new = 10
[16:31:31] <exec> count top = 2
[16:31:31] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[17:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[17:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872321
[17:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:10] <exec> 08└─Can one of the experts here give a summary quantitative comparison of this to the top-of-the-line offerings from AMD and Intel? Or is such a comparison useless because it’s RISC?
[17:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:11] <exec> 08└─As TFS says, not enough details. It's likely to be worse than x86 though.
[17:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:01] <exec> 08└─the kauri pine tree's neighbors are keeping the foliage free stump alive. But why?
[17:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zombie Tree Kept Alive by 'Superorganism' - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:03] <exec> 08└─If you can't tell where the line is dividing two things, maybe you are looking at a single thing?
[17:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fennec [7053] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:20] <exec> 08└─Sure, it does not mean there is nothing to do, nuclear needs to be phased out and replaced by wind and solar.
[17:31:38] <exec> count new = 5
[17:31:38] <exec> count top = 0
[17:31:38] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[18:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[18:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872330
[18:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:17] <exec> 08└─Is Google also spying on everything these people do? It's great that handicapped people overcome their handicaps. Super, that tech companies are offering them options, with which to beat those handicaps. I love it. But, is there a sinister side to all of this? "Hey, Bob, you realize that we have a c...
[18:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:19] <exec> 08└─why even post anything to benefit these spyware hocking corps? how about fuck them instead?
[18:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:21] <exec> 08└─Paralyzed people can't fight back. Google Attacks Paralyzed People With Surveillance Devices
[18:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 1320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:23] <exec> 08└─same way now. 9/11 didn't change things, it just cemented what the random 'Drug War' locker checks and post-Columbine school surveillance society ingrained into the youngins and what the older people have decided 'isn't a problem within their lifetimes, so why should we fight it like we did in the 6...
[18:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:25] <exec> 08└─It would be easy to take advantage of a stunted expectation of privacy, wouldn't it?
[18:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:27] <exec> 08└─Are you suggesting that punching "Glassholes" in the face made sense at all? You have no expectation of privacy out in public. Maybe you would celebrate police punching "camtards" at a protest.
[18:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:30] <exec> 08└─Stop being a whiny incel and turn on the spy speaker.
[18:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:32] <exec> 08└─so we have to monitor you 24/7/365
[18:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hong Kong’s Protestors Are Hindering (and Hijacking) the Tools of Surveillance - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:47] <exec> 08└─If you get one of those high-power lasers from Wicked Lasers, I'll bet there isn't any filter that can prevent that from frying the camera. Remember also, the optics on a camera lens serve to focus a light beam onto the sensor, which is comparatively small. So the total power of the laser over its b...
[18:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hong Kong’s Protestors Are Hindering (and Hijacking) the Tools of Surveillance - 1282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:49] <exec> 08└─It would be great to use some of the free (as in freedom) tools available for license plate recognition, face recognition, etc. and crowd source a huge surveillance network to keep track of cops, politicians, rich oligarchs, etc. -- anybody who promotes surveillance of normal plebs. With the rate th...
[18:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian Competition Commission Recommend Changes to Stop Anti-Competitive Behaviour - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:04] <exec> 08└─*sigh* Regulation of content (censorship) is prohibited... wait.. it's not? Then we have to make it impractical.
[18:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:37] <exec> 08└─they do develop and design the logic and processes behind their AI systems
[18:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:38] <exec> 08└─OTOH, "Out of Order execution" isn't exactly a benefit. It may be how you achieve a benefit, but in and of itself it means you need to verify carefully for things like Spectre vulnerabilities.
[18:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:40] <exec> 08└─yeah, it's sad you had to even explain that. i would have thought it was obvious what happened by the info you provided.
[18:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:42] <exec> 08└─chinese spyware instead of american spyware?
[18:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Australia Bank (NAB) Admits 13K Customers' Data Uploaded to Data Service - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:49] <exec> 08└─With that TLA anyone is surprised that they NAB you?
[18:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Immune Therapy Takes A 'BiTE' Out Of Brain Cancer - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:20] <exec> 08└─"The biggest barrier they still face in their efforts to bring the research into human clinical trials is financial support, the investigators say." no profit in cures. only slowly poisoning people to death over months/years at high prices will do. relatives need to start killing pharma execs after...
[18:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:55] <exec> 08└─Also happened in 2003. Problem ain't the heat though -- that's just flash-bang reporting. The problem is the continuing relative drought, which started last year around April/May and has continued since. Places here have had agricultural water use limitation rules active since May. We've gone into t...
[18:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:56] <exec> 08└─In short: rivers are just large volumes of water to be used for industry, and nothing else.
[18:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:58] <exec> 08└─Wind doesn't blow all the time, and not enough to be usable in many locations. Solar doesn't work half the time (it's called "nighttime"). So unless you have a really great storage system able to store GW-hours of power, they won't provide power all the times you need it. Nuclear is a good baseload...
[18:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:00] <exec> 08└─My guess is that nuclear plants are generally more expensive, so they tend to build them bigger (this is the case in America, at least). So instead a bunch of smaller plants scattered all around on various different rivers, you have just a few big-ass nuclear plants, so the output heat is more conce...
[18:32:07] <exec> count new = 21
[18:32:07] <exec> count top = 0
[18:32:07] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[19:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[19:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872361
[19:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:26] <exec> 08└─Leap day is going to be known as Soylent day from now on.
[19:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:27] <exec> 08└─How is it these companies aren't just handing these Alexa's and Mini's out for free to everybody? I'd think that over the lifetime of these personal assistants they would make back the $10 it costs to make and ship them, plus a whole lot more. I'm surprised that getting people used to these devices...
[19:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:30] <exec> 08└─That is all those things are good for.
[19:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:32] <exec> 08└─Those fuckers are fifth-columnists of the worst degree. Let's hope they all die.
[19:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:34] <exec> 08└─Depends on where you live.
[19:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:40] <exec> 08└─There is a reason Intel hasn't be able to develop GPUS that are competitive with NVIDIA and AMD. The knowledge does not just transfer from one type of processor to the next.
[19:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:41] <exec> 08└─Intel makes low tier gpus. They cannot compete with NVIDIA and AMD.
[19:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:44] <exec> 08└─We'll see next year.
[19:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Blames Internet Cafés for Underwhelming Steam Hardware Survey Stats - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:12] <exec> 08└─Lots of articles and comments have been written using these stats. Now there will be more skepticism going forward. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com] h...
[19:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hot Weather Cuts French, German Nuclear Power Output - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:59] <exec> 08└─LOLOLOL WAAAAT? Hey crazy boy, time to get back on your meds.
[19:32:08] <exec> count new = 10
[19:32:08] <exec> count top = 0
[19:32:08] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[20:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[20:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872383
[20:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hong Kong’s Protestors Are Hindering (and Hijacking) the Tools of Surveillance - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:51] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im_k3h5yfWY [youtube.com] Here's video of a ~6W handheld laser putting small burn marks in a camera sensor, at point blank range. I doubt the protesters have anything that powerful, and they are using the pointers over a longer range. But maybe it can blind the sensor...
[20:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hong Kong’s Protestors Are Hindering (and Hijacking) the Tools of Surveillance - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:52] <exec> 08└─lern2rite
[20:31:52] <exec> count new = 2
[20:31:52] <exec> count top = 0
[20:31:52] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[21:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[21:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872389
[21:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Count Sound Particles With Quantum Microphone - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:13] <exec> 08└─"phonons are easier to manipulate and have wavelengths that are thousands of times smaller than light particles." is this statement correct? I would assume that light, with frequencies in the order of terahertz, would have wavelength many orders of magnitude lower than sound wave. I think the potent...
[21:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:33] <exec> 08└─First they fleece the people most keep to part with their earned gold. That will help create feeling of value. Only later will they be distributed and then finally required.
[21:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:35] <exec> 08└─"Our brand new $EVILGADGET just saved a baby! That means you HAVE to buy one! $EVILGADGET is so good! Just look at that happy smiling baby girl that is not a giant bloodstain because someone used $EVILGADGET! (although they could have saved her a million different ways and ours was the stupidest) Wh...
[21:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Like Film Editors and Archaeologists, Biochemists Piece Together Genome History - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:43] <exec> 08└─Archaeology is an interesting comparison, given how bad the archaeologists track record is for guessing what ancient people were up to. "Another ancient idol! By Jove, we have quite the site here. The museum society will have to respect me now!"
[21:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:56] <exec> 08└─It's only "evidence" if you already accepted the hypothesis as true. A flood only "proves" the existence of God if you already accept that God flooded the Earth. A microphone recording sometimes (i.e., when triggered) only "proves" that it records all the time if you already accept that it records a...
[21:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five or More Hours of Smartphone Usage Per Day May Increase Obesity - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:51] <exec> 08└─Are you that one AC who has a permanent stick up his arse about hypothesis testing?
[21:31:58] <exec> count new = 6
[21:31:58] <exec> count top = 0
[21:31:58] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[22:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[22:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872404
[22:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:14] <exec> 08└─Unless they know how to trace it with their NSA pals.
[22:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:15] <exec> 08└─Nobody's supposed to know you have it. I mean, it has no use outside the crypto bat-cave, and its club members...
[22:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:18] <exec> 08└─Cryptocurrency untraceable? Haha funny meme.
[22:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:20] <exec> 08└─This is news to people? Unreported income gets taxed. News at 11.... Geeze some peoples kids.
[22:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Count Sound Particles With Quantum Microphone - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:29] <exec> 08└─When we do the "double-slit" experiment, what is a phonon to do? So much for stereo. Looks like I'm going to have to buy the "White Album" again.
[22:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Physicists Count Sound Particles With Quantum Microphone - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:31] <exec> 08└─And all that coil whine means my computer is working harder?
[22:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Physicists Count Sound Particles With Quantum Microphone - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:33] <exec> 08└─Looking for Schrödinger's Paul? Turn me on, dead man. Turn me on, dead man...
[22:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:55] <exec> 08└─Because asking money raises the perceived value, making people want one. It's "Here, have a free listening device, because we're an altruistic company" vs "If you save up a bit, you too can afford one of these personal assistants".
[22:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Will Give 100,000 Home Minis to People With Paralysis - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:57] <exec> 08└─Only later will they be distributed and then finally required.
[22:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Hong Kong’s Protestors Are Hindering (and Hijacking) the Tools of Surveillance - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:18] <exec> 08└─Thanks A/C, but your theory shows a startling ignorance of Hong Kong and China and is wrong.
[22:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Australian Competition Commission Recommend Changes to Stop Anti-Competitive Behaviour - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:34] <exec> 08└─Default root access is a terrible idea. Imagine all of the people you know. Your boss, coworkers, friends, family, people on the bus, in the coffee shop. Imagine that all of their phones had default root access. Imagine all of the stuff they do on their phones, the apps they install, the websites th...
[22:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Competition Commission Recommend Changes to Stop Anti-Competitive Behaviour - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:36] <exec> 08└─Oh gods, I would be so busy.
[22:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:16] <exec> 08└─...Google's AI investment in China, specifically in Singapore,...
[22:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alibaba Announces a 16-Core RISC-V CPU - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:17] <exec> 08└─You're missing something... nips are Japanese not Chinese.
[22:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Discovery May Make Liver Transplants Obsolete - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:29] <exec> 08└─I don't have an Il Papa for you, but I do have a bottle of Don Papa rum.
[22:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MyOpinion [6561] (Score: -1) 02 - 06Cosmic Ray Update: New Results From the Moon - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:45] <exec> 08└─This idea of air against the void is prohibited by the second law of thermodynamics. 'space' is the distance between physical objects, not a physical place where one goes to. Be intellectually honest, and instead of flagging this post as "troll" practically demonstrate the existence of a pressurized...
[22:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Siri Records Fights, Doctor's Appointments, and Sex (and Contractors Hear It) - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:28] <exec> 08└─Ok, just remember, the microphone is on, whether you deny it or not.
[22:30:41] <exec> count new = 17
[22:30:41] <exec> count top = 0
[22:30:41] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[23:21:10] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[23:21:11] <exec> last cid = 872429
[23:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03vzlemtinsjdqaeig [8315] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:20] <exec> 08└─Bat-caves are cool. Unless they actually have bats in them. https://www.kentucky.com [kentucky.com]
[23:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:21] <exec> 08└─You have something against people with rabies? The ADA would like a word with you out in the alley.
[23:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IRS Reminds 10,000 Taxpayers That Cryptocurrency is Subject to Taxes - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:23] <exec> 08└─Trump! Trump! Trump!
[23:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Physicists Count Sound Particles With Quantum Microphone - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:34] <exec> 08└─That is somewhat correct, the wavelength of a phonon is always going to be lower that of a photon at the same frequency. Normally when we talk about the wavelength we talk about the one used for light witch is based in the speed of light in vacuum and actually it's a simplified vision of it, but whe...
[23:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hong Kong’s Protestors Are Hindering (and Hijacking) the Tools of Surveillance - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:19] <exec> 08└─tea, opium and silver ... nuff said
[23:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Hong Kong’s Protestors Are Hindering (and Hijacking) the Tools of Surveillance - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:20] <exec> 08└─https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Brother_(Doctorow_novel) [wikipedia.org]
[23:30:41] <exec> count new = 6
[23:30:41] <exec> count top = 0
[23:30:41] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********