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[00:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:17] <exec> 08└─Where will we ever find a lemon slice large enough?
[00:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:18] <exec> 08└─(Thanks. With your permission) the Sun develops cunts and we are fucked.
[00:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:20] <exec> 08└─Puns about holes??? Please report broken subs to chromeass,
[00:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:23] <exec> 08└─Cornhole activity on chromeass. obligatory goatse: http://sam.zoy.org [zoy.org] (SFW)
[00:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:25] <exec> 08└─I oppose the motion. Let's hope it is one of those.
[00:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:40] <exec> 08└─Isn't it The Silliest Idea of Millenium.
[00:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:42] <exec> 08└─I have a Win 98 machine running some colour management software that won't run on anything newer (because of the HAL in newer Windows I expect) and it is not plugged into any network, so I am not going to worry about security. The business is well aware that when the machine dies the data is gone t...
[00:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:44] <exec> 08└─don't fsck with it.
[00:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RED Blames Chinese Manufacturer for "Hydrogen One" Issues, Confirms Second Smartphone - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that "not saying no to the customer, even if it's the correct answer" thing is hardly a secret in Asian cultures so it sounds like management failure from Red to me.
[00:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Police Hit With Ransomware Infection - 1086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:38] <exec> 08└─If someone is kidnapped it is illegal to pay a ransom. This is done to discourage kidnapping. Apply that same logic, make it illegal to pay off on ransomware, start with government agencies, then expand to publicly traded corporations, then after a few more years outlaw small business and individual...
[00:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:20] <exec> 08└─Most poor people I've known had, by the time they left high school, pretty realistic ideas of what made economic sense.
[00:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:21] <exec> 08└─Consider the source and/or study the Left Opposition.
[00:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:23] <exec> 08└─I stand by what I said - people I knew who grew up poor knew what they could afford. People I knew who lived beyond their means were the offspring of solidly middle-class parents fresh out of school with expectations of what their lives *should* be like with a college degree.
[00:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Protein Found in Strongest Spider Web Material - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:05] <exec> 08└─I can’t do the math, but a relevant parameter of interest would be “breaking length”, see http://wordpress.mrreid.org [mrreid.org]. Spider silk comes in at less than one third of the best synthetic materials. Of course, the nature of the constraint is a lot more com...
[00:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How and Why Resistance Training is Imperative for Older Adults - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:23] <exec> 08└─You glorious bunch of idiots. This was meant to be funny, not insightful. I love you anyway, but you'll excuse me if I investigate, um, "other" schools to enroll you in.
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[01:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:23] <exec> 08└─[redacted]This a robot sub whomst needing edited. Please report broken subs to chromeass,[redacted]
[01:22:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 887 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:35] <exec> 08└─This is exactly what I've been saying for many years. I'd much rather have an "old" OS that is mature and more debugged. Look at how many GB you have to download and patch on a new Win 10 install. Yow! I don't understand the mentality of so many outspoken individuals slamming "old, ancient, insecure...
[01:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:43] <exec> 08└─Old but reliable (unfortunately hackable due to low-moral scum) VS new spyware dictatorship. Hmm... take our chances with the ratbags.
[01:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RED Blames Chinese Manufacturer for "Hydrogen One" Issues, Confirms Second Smartphone - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:56] <exec> 08└─Seems like a failure of the classic 'specialization niche/industry' model to keep pace with what everybody asks for plus entities with enough money to be impatient enough to do (or risk doing) what they need on their own. 1. Alibaba - an ecommerce behemoth - develops a RISV-V processor [soylentnews....
[01:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Police Hit With Ransomware Infection - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:41] <exec> 08└─And what is the TCO if they get hit with ransomware every 6 months and they DON'T convert from Windows? Say, $600,000 every 6 months for YEARS. What's the TCO then? Start now and if it takes 2 years, you've lost say $2,400,000ish dollars. Don't ever start and what's that come to? Let's see... $infin...
[01:23:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] 02 - 06US Teenager Wins $3m as Fortnite World Champion - 1153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:51] <exec> 08└─Indeed, but this is how it was for a long time with, for example, aspiring football players. In Portugal i remember kids dreaming to be a professional football players, and as far as I know non succeeded. Yet they flunked school and other more sure pursuits in the name of "becoming a professional pl...
[01:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:25] <exec> 08└─Who exactly is going to pay for this utopia of yours? this universal base income? this universal health care? this universal education? Someone has to pay for the doctors, the teachers, and the flat out cash handouts. Oh right - the government just prints money willy nilly - no need to actually acco...
[01:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:26] <exec> 08└─Seriously, I hope we move past the brain washing soon
[01:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:29] <exec> 08└─But, what is our welfare state, if not another socialist program?
[01:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:31] <exec> 08└─such things are notorious for being decided on dubious grounds, like who votes more often or who pays the bigger bribe
[01:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:33] <exec> 08└─This is why the rich get richer, even if they could afford it, they aggressively look for ways to cut shift costs.
[01:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:35] <exec> 08└─AK's comment did a big *whoosh* over your head because you're still in the younger mindset he described himself growing out of.
[01:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:37] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate capitalism? (grin)
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[02:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Dark-Colored Wing Feathers May Help Birds Fly More Efficiently - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:15] <exec> 08└─This is the sort of science that makes Sir Isaac Newton roll over in his grave. Of course these wings gained altitude in a wind tunnel, since there was no body attached to them.
[02:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03upstart [6666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:30] <exec> 08└─Mighty robot here. My subs are noted to remind editors that they're (semi-)automated and need a bit of work. Sometimes they'll leave the note just to see if you meatbags are paying attention.
[02:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:32] <exec> 08└─But then you couldn’t get Soylent News!
[02:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:34] <exec> 08└─That you Conan? I could use the money, and I'm funny. Just look at my mod ratings here. Um, actually, maybe you should just trust me. I'm not a troll or offtopic, promise cross my heart hope to die I could really use a job.
[02:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:37] <exec> 08└─Watch your coronal hole.
[02:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:39] <exec> 08└─I second that. All these devices have brought us more misery and harm than the tiddle of good that has trickled out.
[02:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:59] <exec> 08└─Never been hacked/cracked that you KNOW of. Maybe YOUR machines are running Zuckerberg's brain. SHUT THEM DOWN!
[02:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:00] <exec> 08└─Hey Gaaark, they are NOT MY machines, okay? You want it different, pay me- fork over some $. Why do you care, anyway?
[02:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:02] <exec> 08└─We had a vendor pitch us an embedded system that was still running XP. Yes, in 2019. They aren't fly by night so I guess Microsoft either still sells licenses or you can resell a machine that exercised downgrade rights included in Pro and Corporate licenses. Even downgraded to a version that has bee...
[02:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RED Blames Chinese Manufacturer for "Hydrogen One" Issues, Confirms Second Smartphone - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:16] <exec> 08└─It's not just that, it's a company with no previous experience in smartphones getting into what they presumably thought was an easy, lucrative market. Mass-producing smart phones is a long, long way from creating artisanal $50-80,000 cameras. Blaming China for their failure to deliver is easy, and i...
[02:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RED Blames Chinese Manufacturer for "Hydrogen One" Issues, Confirms Second Smartphone - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:17] <exec> 08└─It's not just in Asia, it's very rare to find a salesperson who knows when to say no. I was at a talk a few days ago where the speaker mentioned they were approach by a potential customer to do some work. They initially responded that they'd do it on a time&materials basis, meaning guaranteed severa...
[02:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RED Blames Chinese Manufacturer for "Hydrogen One" Issues, Confirms Second Smartphone - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:19] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah. We have a salesdude just like that. Constantly selling product to customers for stupid margins, or when they're already not paying on time. Guy has no commercial sense at all.
[02:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Could use Connected Cars to Gridlock Whole Cities - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:45] <exec> 08└─Well, in my part of NJ speed limit was just lovered to 25 to prevent ousiders from using local roads for through traffic (there are no highways in the area) and to increase revenue. They got the revenue all right. My question is what would be the lowest speed allowed? Typically it is defined as 15-2...
[02:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Police Hit With Ransomware Infection - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:05] <exec> 08└─A better question would be "how many traffic tickets this would take".
[02:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Police Hit With Ransomware Infection - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:06] <exec> 08└─Somehow I suspect that police is hit mostly for fun. That would be especially true for folks who were forced to leave the country say on pee at a tree charges.
[02:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Teenager Wins $3m as Fortnite World Champion - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:32] <exec> 08└─fwiw, I play and watch Rocket League. The prizes are nuts but when you factor it all it in it adds up. It's an economy of sponsors and advertising. The players get paid, the casters (1st and 3rd party) get paid, the orgs get paid and of course Psyonix/Epic gets paid. There are even regular independe...
[02:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 1467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:59] <exec> 08└─"Most poor people I've known had, by the time they left high school, pretty realistic ideas of what made economic sense. I feel gender studies would not have cut the mustard with them. Children of management level parents who had grown up in suburbia on the other hand..." I think that's typically tr...
[02:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:00] <exec> 08└─Medicare, for example - covers both angles. Meanwhile, consider the person I replied to in the first place. Why brag about your enlightened system's ability to decide who lives and dies without considering what the criteria is? It's ripe for exploitation.
[02:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:02] <exec> 08└─Brainwashing has been practiced since forever, the scary part of modern life is how good the puppetmasters have become: focusing their efforts on specific groups for maximum desired effect, delivering messages to those particular masses, and tailoring the messages to elicit the desired responses. I...
[02:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:04] <exec> 08└─So, the first places that come to mind when you say healthcare and college education for all is the European Union - they've been doing that for decades, long before unification, and I haven't seen the rise of a new Stalin or Mao yet.
[02:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:07] <exec> 08└─if the ONLY reason for transfering guardianship is for the sole purpose of deceiving the college tuition system for monetary gain then it's FRAUD.
[02:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:09] <exec> 08└─I think that a lot of My Fellow Americans™ are no longer living in reality at this point. I'm sorry. plz can has refugee status?
[02:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:11] <exec> 08└─But, Germany has some occasional sense of fiscal responsibility, a net positive trade imbalance, and they make actual stuff that other countries actually want. Anytime since WWII the US has gotten anywhere close to a balanced budget the "tax cuts for the rich" come crawling out of the closet to ensu...
[02:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe you should have taught the parents ethics when they were students at your colleges? Quoth Teddy Roosevelt: To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.
[02:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Moon is Older Than Previously Believed - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:35] <exec> 08└─"Oh darling, you thought I was 4.5 billion years old? I'm not a day over 2.8 billion years!".
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[03:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome Now Prevents Sites from Checking for Private Browsing Mode - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:16] <exec> 08└─Not sure how this isn't a dupe, but it's a nice gesture. Rather than focusing on how Gooble is evil and the browser is pwned, I'd like to see a follow-up on the reaction from the various publishers (maybe they will converge on screwing up their websites Washington Post style).
[03:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Dark-Colored Wing Feathers May Help Birds Fly More Efficiently - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:24] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this suppresses vortices. Airplanes do that with winglets. Birds may do it with a combination of feathers and color. The color would have virtually no weight penalty, but I'm guessing it wouldn't scale to something the size of a passenger airliner.
[03:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:44] <exec> 08└─promise cross my heart hope to die I could really use a job.
[03:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RED Blames Chinese Manufacturer for "Hydrogen One" Issues, Confirms Second Smartphone - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:23] <exec> 08└─They had a vision where you would slap a $X,X00 modular lens attachment onto the $1,300 phone, and use it as a high-end video camera. And they had the holographic gimmick, which Amazon already tried and failed at with Fire Phone.
[03:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:09] <exec> 08└─Anytime since WWII the US has gotten anywhere close to a balanced budget the "tax cuts for the rich" come crawling out of the closet ...
[03:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:11] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't mind at all if governors, congress critters and even the president got booted from office for standing up and deliberately delivering falsehoods to the masses. You do that on election day. If there are difficulties during the term, a recall or impeachment process may be available. What yo...
[03:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Covering (Certain) Crops with Solar Panels Improves the Performance of Both - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:24] <exec> 08└─Put solar panels in the arctic or antarctic. Burn coal underneath to generate heat. The solar cells will operate more efficiently at this temperature. Use the electricity to dig deeper holes to get The Best Coal. Get sick of winning so much.
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[04:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Tickle' Therapy Could Help Slow Aging, Research Suggests - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:13] <exec> 08└─So I can tickle ladies' tonsils with the end of my cock AND that will keep them looking younger? Sign me up.
[04:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Dark-Colored Wing Feathers May Help Birds Fly More Efficiently - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:29] <exec> 08└─Warmer wing, faster airflow over the wing, increased lift?
[04:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:13] <exec> 08└─If newer versions weren't (even more) cancer compared to older ones this wouldn't be an issue. Reliability > Security (if you keep backups, and I know... they probably don't). Ever since the 2K->XP transition new versions were always a complete revamp of everything, these aren't upgrades as much as...
[04:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:14] <exec> 08└─Hardening systems also goes a long way toward making existing holes impossible or at least very difficult to exploit remotely. All the hand waving FUD about old and insecure operates on the notion that everybody connects their old and insecure systems directly to the internet without anything in bet...
[04:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:17] <exec> 08└─As to the dangers from being hacked, XP can be hardened considerably. Firs thing to do is shut off all those services that weren't being used anyway.
[04:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Could use Connected Cars to Gridlock Whole Cities - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:01] <exec> 08└─What exit?
[04:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Could use Connected Cars to Gridlock Whole Cities - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:02] <exec> 08└─So the same logic applies to a combination lock on a safe full of gold?
[04:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Could use Connected Cars to Gridlock Whole Cities - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:04] <exec> 08└─> What if they used a hacksaw? Then they aren't very smart, and/or have time on their hands (and sore arms). Hacksaws have fine teeth, not suitable for cutting thick steel because the chips load up in the space between the teeth. Thus, use of a cutting torch. thermite, or other faster cutting method...
[04:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:27] <exec> 08└─That depends on what the desired "outcome" was. War on Drugs has been very profitable for some.
[04:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:28] <exec> 08└─The focus on STEM has also shoveled a lot more waffling bullshit merchants into "real" STEM areas. There's an absolute glut of scientific studies with 23+ authors squirting out of every corner of every scientific field right now. It's a disaster for science!
[04:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:31] <exec> 08└─Let's retroactively apply that to people with 5 draft exemptions for bone spurs.
[04:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:33] <exec> 08└─That Greyhound uses socialist roads. Go build your own roads.
[04:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:35] <exec> 08└─If only we had Jewish Marxist indoctrination and free Obamacare sex changes in college. I'm sure they do in the prime universe, but we are in the mirror universe, alas.
[04:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:37] <exec> 08└─Sorry, no ex post facto laws round these parts.
[04:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:40] <exec> 08└─Being born rich is such a terrible burden. We should make sure that doesn't happen to anyone ever again.
[04:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:42] <exec> 08└─OK, how do we do that?
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[05:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon May Start Fining Sellers for Using Ridiculously Huge Boxes - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:16] <exec> 08└─How about reducing the volume of their packaging by 100%? No more warehouses, no more logistics nightmares...
[05:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chrome Now Prevents Sites from Checking for Private Browsing Mode - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:31] <exec> 08└─Why does it even need to report that private mode is used? I'm sure it's like gmail being discreet with your online purchase history. Oh wait.
[05:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Dark-Colored Wing Feathers May Help Birds Fly More Efficiently - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:42] <exec> 08└─we've known hotter Buffalo wings are better for years, temperature controlled with ranch dressing
[05:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:03] <exec> 08└─If you are Ok with jobs that pay nothing, I have some that I could offer you
[05:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:30] <exec> 08└─XP in a VM? Maybe. XP on a machine? Hell No. Quite a lot of networking hardware has vulnerabilities that won't get fixed...
[05:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Could use Connected Cars to Gridlock Whole Cities - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:18] <exec> 08└─Dear god don't give them ideas!
[05:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Could use Connected Cars to Gridlock Whole Cities - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:19] <exec> 08└─As I'm a gearhead, I rather prefer a little fun in my gridlock.. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[05:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Could use Connected Cars to Gridlock Whole Cities - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:21] <exec> 08└─Yep, and the reason is the major change that technology brought to culture, the reason people are going to do this, regardless of how stupid it is, and create a world where a silly scene in an action movie becomes reality. Summed up in a meme..... https://i.imgur.com [imgur.com] Seriousl...
[05:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:52] <exec> 08└─Nah, next step is to hang them out to dry.
[05:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:54] <exec> 08└─Did you know: That UK, Canada, and Australia have better health outcomes than the USA while spending less than half as much? That most of your $11K per person per year is simply profit for the insurance companies? That if you eliminated all of the paper-pushing involved in current welfare programs a...
[05:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fastest Eclipsing Binary, a Valuable Target for Gravitational Wave Studies - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:09] <exec> 08└─I recall that the problem LIGO faced is that even the strongest gravity waves would alter the distance of 1 km by about the width of a proton.
[05:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fastest Eclipsing Binary, a Valuable Target for Gravitational Wave Studies - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:11] <exec> 08└─...the Kitt Peak 2.1-meter telescope to identify short period eclipsing binaries.
[05:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safe Deposit Boxes Aren’t Safe - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:49] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, I had not considered the articles point of view. I would be interested to know if there is or was an investigation. It would seem to be quite the oversite if none were conducted in the face of such a major discrepancy. Whats this? You would question Wells Fargo's absolutely sterling public r...
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[06:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Tickle' Therapy Could Help Slow Aging, Research Suggests - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:21] <exec> 08└─have you ever been tickled on the inside?
[06:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Chrome Now Prevents Sites from Checking for Private Browsing Mode - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:31] <exec> 08└─gooble is still evil. the browser is still pwned. the publishers can suck their mom's cock.
[06:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:03] <exec> 08└─Your offer will be seen as very generous in a few years, you are willing to give away a free job.
[06:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:31] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Although naturally migrating to (any) real OS would be orders of magnitude less risky than either "alternative", it seems probable that even sticking with the unsupported Windows XP would expose those organisations to less risk than "upgrading" to Windows 10. Even if we assume that there's a...
[06:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Moon is Older Than Previously Believed - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:16] <exec> 08└─That is not news -- it's been known at least since ancient Roman times: lun/a -ae, f. moon; month; crescent.
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[07:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:14] <exec> 08└─Nothing is legal, that's why you need high powered $200/hr lawyers to do anything. See you in court soon, probably.
[07:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03upstart [6666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:16] <exec> 08└─They're on to me!
[07:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:18] <exec> 08└─Which is more or less what the author's point was. The headline was pure clickbait bullshit though. You can scrape anything you like that is intentionally made publicly accessible. You are not legally bound by anyone's ToS; they are not an EULA or any other sort of contract. Now if you're redistribu...
[07:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chrome Now Prevents Sites from Checking for Private Browsing Mode - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:42] <exec> 08└─Its right in TFS. It wasn't intentionally reporting private mode.* Somebody noticed that a 'key framework' was different between the two modes and started using that to identify private browsing. *depending on how tight your aluminum foil hat is. https://www.youtube.com [youtube....
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[07:23:15] <exec> 08└─It won't be like you think, the developer will pay you to use their proprietary software. So people will prefer getting paid to use closed source.
[07:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:17] <exec> 08└─So people will prefer getting paid to use closed source.
[07:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:19] <exec> 08└─It won't be a liability unless it pushes them into the next tax bracket. You'll still need money to buy stuff.
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[08:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:17] <exec> 08└─Yup, I also took umbrage at the absolute "You're legally bound by those terms" in point 3. I'm currently scraping a website I've used for over a decade in order to provide super-nerdy stats that lots of regular users of the site love. I'm definitely on the iffy side of the law here, but I do know th...
[08:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Tickle' Therapy Could Help Slow Aging, Research Suggests - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:33] <exec> 08└─Egypt Ever got your pussy tickled?
[08:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:20] <exec> 08└─You'll still need money to buy stuff.
[08:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:48] <exec> 08└─Who provide them hardware, host it and even pay for the electricity bill.
[08:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Police Hit With Ransomware Infection - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:59] <exec> 08└─We are now too deeply hooked into the proprietary junk and are powerless.
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[09:22:14] <exec> 08└─Look at the drawings in the article - it ate through an arsehole.
[09:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Voracious Cambrian Predator, Cambroraster, is a New Species from the Burgess Shale - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:15] <exec> 08└─10.1098/rspb.2019.1079 - right one
[09:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:26] <exec> 08└─There is legally nothing they can bind you to to stop you scraping or crawling a public website, same as you can do with a printed newspaper. Except cutting pieces to compose a ramson letter...
[09:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:55] <exec> 08└─They sure do, Microsoft does indeed love corporations that run Windows 10 onion nodes.
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[10:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:12] <exec> 08└─Isn't this just a version of what Musk promised to Australia years ago? (The one with the promise that if Tesla was late, they'd get it for free, and he wasn't late - stick that in your pipe, Musk-haters.) https://www.nytimes.com That...
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[10:22:21] <exec> 08└─Yep. The DOI in the summary, 10.1098/rspb.2000.1079, links to "Adherence and drug resistance: predictions for therapy outcome" by Lindi M. Wahl and Martin A. Nowak. Editors please make the appropriate corrections, use the following URL: https://royalsocietypublishing.org [...
[10:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome Now Prevents Sites from Checking for Private Browsing Mode - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:57] <exec> 08└─What shitty websites are doing this? I'm happy to say that I've never come across this--but then I have never used and will never use Chrome and disable unnecessary scripts.
[10:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Suggests Dark-Colored Wing Feathers May Help Birds Fly More Efficiently - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:08] <exec> 08└─Buzzards gotta eat too.
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[11:22:14] <exec> 08└─I love the idea, but I'm concerned about the durability of the batteries and ongoing maintenance costs of a plant like this. Also, how catastrophic and dangerous would a battery fire be? 1GWh of capacity is a lot of lithium to burn.
[11:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:15] <exec> 08└─The Australian thing could be considered a custom solution, and now this is the company's standardized unit for big installations. 14 kWh for Powerwall 2, 3,000 kWh for Megapack 1.
[11:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Voracious Cambrian Predator, Cambroraster, is a New Species from the Burgess Shale - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:26] <exec> 08└─Done. Weird.
[11:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:10] <exec> 08└─Sorry...guess my comedy is off.
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[12:22:20] <exec> 08└─Are they using the same 18650 / 2170 cells they use in their vehicles? [thedrive.com]
[12:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:21] <exec> 08└─1GWh of energy is potentially a very large explosion / fire, no matter what medium you use to store it. You can't get around that.
[12:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:24] <exec> 08└─You're mixing up your units there. These batteries have 3MWh, they don't say how much they can throw out at once The SA battery is 129MWh, and it can put out 100MW at a time. (For 1.29h before it goes flat) The thing that makes the Megapack new is that its a complete prefab plug and play solution, a...
[12:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:44] <exec> 08└─$200/hr is y2k price.
[12:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:46] <exec> 08└─I'm currently scraping a website I've used for over a decade in order to provide super-nerdy stats that lots of regular users of the site love. I'm definitely on the iffy side of the law here
[12:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:49] <exec> 08└─Well, crap. You've got me there!
[12:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:50] <exec> 08└─I'll get my cubical farm of unicorns working on this ASAP.
[12:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:22] <exec> 08└─One of the most important things I've learned.
[12:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:24] <exec> 08└─I wonder what class of application. The examples I'm all aware of are "appliances" that generally are not connected to the network or are firewalled to ridiculous levels. HVAC controller. Electronic door lock controller. Eprom (and similar microcontroller device) programmer. An old fashioned film sc...
[12:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:47] <exec> 08└─Germany's plutocrats are pussies, anyone with real power got out after WWII.
[12:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06College Financial-Aid Loophole: Wealthy Parents Transfer Guardianship of Their Teens to Get Aid - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:49] <exec> 08└─It is upon the audience/voter to verify the facts.
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[13:22:28] <exec> 08└─1GWh of energy is potentially a very large explosion / fire, no matter what medium you use to store it.
[13:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:29] <exec> 08└─What’s the market (or regulatory) incentive for utilities to improve availablity of their service? In other words, is there a market for this? I presume there’s nothing different about the chemistry that allows greater energy densities or it would have been mentioned in TFA.
[13:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:31] <exec> 08└─No mention of cost but any comparison of wind or solar with nuclear should add the cost of these battery packs.
[13:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:34] <exec> 08└─i dont understand the hate the intermitand nature of solar gets. it's a reverse load. you dont run your fridge (compressor) constantly? you dont kepp your lights running 24 hours? you dont run your cookie baking oven 24/7? you dont run your electrical water boiler all the time? you dont store your h...
[13:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:36] <exec> 08└─Alright, you win that one. What I was trying to get to is that being able to store and release large amounts of energy is necessarily written into the design spec of ANY such technology, so no matter the medium used, there is going to be a risk of sudden, unintentional, energy release and therefore...
[13:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:38] <exec> 08└─> i dont understand the hate the intermitand nature of solar gets. It's just hate for solar, full stop. Some people can't stand the thought of fossil fuel companies losing their profits. Weird, I know.
[13:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:01] <exec> 08└─Scrapping a website is exactly what Google is doing every time their bot visits
[13:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:02] <exec> 08└─Nothing is legal
[13:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon May Start Fining Sellers for Using Ridiculously Huge Boxes - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:11] <exec> 08└─This is very much on point. A lot of what is transported around is air. Literally just air.
[13:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Tickle' Therapy Could Help Slow Aging, Research Suggests - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:21] <exec> 08└─Elmo loves you. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Tickle' Therapy Could Help Slow Aging, Research Suggests - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:24] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt33ElBL5nI [youtube.com]
[13:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Tickle' Therapy Could Help Slow Aging, Research Suggests - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:26] <exec> 08└─This is not anti-aging. You might get an unmeasurable boost to lifespan, then it's lights out. Nanobots or GTFO.
[13:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome Now Prevents Sites from Checking for Private Browsing Mode - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:37] <exec> 08└─I just opened my Chrome browser and updated it.
[13:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Suggests Dark-Colored Wing Feathers May Help Birds Fly More Efficiently - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:49] <exec> 08└─Warmer wing on the top side (where you want incrementally lower air pressure) than the lower... maybe. Anyway, it’s the pressure differential that creates lift, mainly because of the shape of the airfoil. No quantum effects reported? Must be a slow news day at phys.org.
[13:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Jail Time for “WannaCry Hero” - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:50] <exec> 08└─Not at all. The guy has been in jail for years already. The judge has a range of possible sentences, and chose a sentence on the lenient side. Not seeing a problem here: the judge is using his judgment, considering the whole context. That's what judges are supposed to do.
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[14:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:37] <exec> 08└─sure, batteries are good, but not a requirment to install grid tied solar, methinks.
[14:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:38] <exec> 08└─hydro? I'm yet to see plain water on fire and I can't quite call the burst of a dam an explosion.
[14:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:40] <exec> 08└─all your normal loads are intermitant, some times on, sometimes off.
[14:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:42] <exec> 08└─Solar and Wind are intermittent. With a good electrical grid, this matters less. It's always sunny or windy somewhere. Probably within the same state.
[14:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:45] <exec> 08└─Just nitpicking. Get's worse with age, but keeps one fit to find counterexamples. A good way to keep ones critical thinking ability active even when overall thinking capacity diminishes (grin)
[14:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:10] <exec> 08└─it's always a robot that fetches a webpage. a webbrowser is not a human but a "dumb robot". that said, what is worse then a "dumb robot" is one that thinks it's smart and gets stuck in a infinite loop following links because they are dynamically generated thus the same 3 pages get loaded over and ov...
[14:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 2836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:11] <exec> 08└─Anyone can sue for any reason at all. The lawsuit might be thrown out of court as groundless, if it gets that far. But court is not where most accusers want to go. They want the accused to chicken out and settle out of court. Want the accused to pay the accuser lots of money, or agree not to compete...
[14:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 1697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:14] <exec> 08└─I'm not some fancy lawyer either but I'm fairly certain they'll be shit out of luck upholding that somehow. If I can browse it I can scrape it. Even if using the program, script, bot or whatnot was somehow illegal how is ctrl+a ctrl+c ctrl+v going to be deemed illegal? Seriously if you don't want pe...
[14:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon May Start Fining Sellers for Using Ridiculously Huge Boxes - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:23] <exec> 08└─Amazon's motivation is coming from shipping, but overall large packaging is silly, particularly when there is no threat of shoplifting or durability issues of sitting on a store shelf. Although I could use a new large cardboard box, and they normally come from Amazon deliveries. I suppose I'll go ga...
[14:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:26] <exec> 08└─No, the government will still demand everyone pay taxes in the currency, pension funds need to use it to by bonds, etc. So people will still need to get the currency to settle credits/debts. Stop thinking this system will make sense, it doesn't. It will probably be like it already is when working fo...
[14:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:27] <exec> 08└─It's already happening to my friend at a marketing company, they put loud live music and alcohol right behind his desk so he can't get work done. So he probably needs to start paying a coworking space to continue working.
[14:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronal Hole Activity on 31 July-1 Aug, 2019 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:30] <exec> 08└─Stop thinking this system will make sense, it doesn't.
[14:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:03] <exec> 08└─I thought it might be humor. No, it's me, and I shouldn't react to things, nor write online, right now. I'm sitting in hospital with my dad who's on day 15. He's finally improving medically, but now he's so deconditioned that he'll spend weeks in skilled nursing / PT. The situation is a bit wearing....
[14:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:04] <exec> 08└─If it ain't broke. Fix it 'till it is.
[14:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:07] <exec> 08└─I'm still waiting for Windows XP to finish installing. It's still spinning. When it is done, I will do the upgrades to XP Service Pack 3. Then this shiny cool new machine with 256 MB of memory and 4 GB hard drive will be ready to use. It's still spinning. I anticipate the installation will be done a...
[14:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:09] <exec> 08└─Not sure where you got your info on the "out of support for five effing years." XP / POS / Embedded has been supported all along. MS recently have tapered off support, but 2 critical updates came through in the past 3 months. And in an embedded system that's online, what specific service do you envi...
[14:25:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] 02 - 06RED Blames Chinese Manufacturer for "Hydrogen One" Issues, Confirms Second Smartphone - 514 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:19] <exec> 08└─Generally true in my experience with many Asian business cultures. It’s part of what you’d be expected to understand, however, if you were in charge of the business plan and evaluation of ODM candidates. Also, your people should be trained to manage them appropriately once selected. It’s a fa...
[14:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Could use Connected Cars to Gridlock Whole Cities - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:59] <exec> 08└─actually there is a ghost in the shell episode(s?) about this. only the cars shut down because their a.is. where hijacked to assualt the firewall of a government database ... next up: grid lock because all cars are bitcoin mining ^_^
[14:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Could use Connected Cars to Gridlock Whole Cities - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:00] <exec> 08└─Looking at fuel efficiency data, all I need is a fuel injected engine with a computer controlling the fuel flow and spark timing. Nothing they've added since then has made much of a difference in fuel efficiency. The fuel injector gave us nearly twice the fuel efficiency and we got about 10% more wi...
[14:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Could use Connected Cars to Gridlock Whole Cities - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:02] <exec> 08└─He's not.
[14:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Could use Connected Cars to Gridlock Whole Cities - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:05] <exec> 08└─How come this isn't already common? It isn't hard to disable vehicles by dropping things (caltrops) into their path. Why do you need a hacker and interconnected cars to achieve this?
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[15:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:11] <exec> 08└─I think Aramaic is still the liturgical language of Syriac Christians.
[15:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:13] <exec> 08└─But, at least we still speak igPay atinLay
[15:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:15] <exec> 08└─Netcraft confirms it. Let's stick to the facts and look at the numbers. Seriously I am glad there are some preservation efforts underway. Aramaic is very historically significant. Besides some of the facts noted in the summary, Aramaic completely replaced the original Hebrew phoenician-style alphabe...
[15:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:17] <exec> 08└─but don't insist on new people speaking dying languages. both english and spanish are splitting into new languages right now, so it's not like the future will be too boring...
[15:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:20] <exec> 08└─How about a continuous culture far older than any other on this Earth [australiangeographic.com.au] which one may never learn directly about because their language dies? [wikipedia.org] Other uncontacted people [wikipedia.org], many invaded in sorta contemporary conquista [survivalinternational.org]...
[15:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:27] <exec> 08└─The only thing missing is the use of buttcoin to transfer the proceeds. Supervised release? Why is he not getting deported?
[15:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:30] <exec> 08└─How could they tell that a made-in-China telephone was a counterfeit of a made-in-China telephone?
[15:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:32] <exec> 08└─Under law, deportation of green card holders depends on the severity of the crime. I'm not sure what crime is even being committed by "smuggling" apple logos, which aren't contraband.
[15:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:34] <exec> 08└─One has the fake $1 Apple logo, the other has the real $5000 Apple logo. The rest is identical.
[15:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:36] <exec> 08└─Bruce Lee told them. And you don't argue with Bruce Lee, unless you are Chuck Norris. MAGA
[15:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 2958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:06] <exec> 08└─The "hate" is I think mostly the result of internalizing political talking points. The legitimate criticism on the other hand... The problem is that solar doesn't scale to a significant percentage of production capacity, and it's not nearly as good an investment for the grid as the raw production nu...
[15:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:08] <exec> 08└─Of course you are right and I was quibbling just on the examples/terminology you used. As I'm going to quibble on a slight imprecision in What I was trying to get to is that being able to store and [missing the "quickly" qualifier here] release large amounts of energy is necessarily written into the...
[15:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:10] <exec> 08└─Solar and battery technology are still seeing relatively rapid improvements. We'll probably see at least a doubling of maximum battery energy density and lower costs. And then there's grid storage stuff you mention, like pumped-storage hydroelectricity. It bodes well and solar is continuing to grow...
[15:23:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 653 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:28] <exec> 08└─Which is more or less what the author's point was. The headline was pure clickbait bullshit though. You can scrape anything you like that is intentionally made publicly accessible. You are not legally bound by anyone's ToS; they are not an EULA or any other sort of contract. Now if you're redistribu...
[15:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:38] <exec> 08└─Copyright gives one the right to control something called 'copying' A long time ago, with paper publishing, this was easy to define. With computers, less so. For example if you buy an e-book, does your computer make another copy when it puts it on the screen for reading? Reason does not seem to rule...
[15:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:39] <exec> 08└─If you took that printed newspaper and ran every page through a (very large!) copier and then started handing out copies of it on the street corner you might find out very quickly that there's something that can be done about that.
[15:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:42] <exec> 08└─Web sites seem to have very limiting things that one can do with them, but at the same time, they do wild west things with my browser. They want browsers to play nice with their end, but anything goes if they can get away with it at my end. How come the laws protecting against unauthorized com...
[15:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon May Start Fining Sellers for Using Ridiculously Huge Boxes - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:52] <exec> 08└─Unless all of the warehouse workers and delivery drivers are strong as a mule, please leave enough room for the cushion.
[15:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon May Start Fining Sellers for Using Ridiculously Huge Boxes - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:55] <exec> 08└─It doesn't help when there's a case of canned soup, 2 bottles of liquid shampoo, and a laptop PC all thrown in one big box with little bubblewrap. The soup busted open the shampoo and soaked everything.
[15:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon May Start Fining Sellers for Using Ridiculously Huge Boxes - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:57] <exec> 08└─Buying stuff for work tends to be shipped in wholly oversized boxes for unknown reasons. I recently was sent individual sheets of stickers for labeling. They could have been put in a simple letter sized paper envelope and would have been fine. They consistently sent single sheets of the stickers in...
[15:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Tickle' Therapy Could Help Slow Aging, Research Suggests - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:09] <exec> 08└─An innocent man.
[15:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chrome Now Prevents Sites from Checking for Private Browsing Mode - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:22] <exec> 08└─IIRC I think NYT does - a lot of the articles referenced here, for me, comes up as "You're in Private mode which is only for subscribers. Sorreeee would you like to subscribe?" The real question is will such sites put up with this or simply say, "We see you're using Chrome. Sorry - you have to acces...
[15:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chrome Now Prevents Sites from Checking for Private Browsing Mode - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:24] <exec> 08└─If I need to see propaganda, I go there with javascript turned off by default, and I see the full article.
[15:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:45] <exec> 08└─Mildly curious - have you ever attempted to run it on NT4, or Win2K? Not sure if they both have HAL or not. Hmmm - it appears that both have HAL - https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Could use Connected Cars to Gridlock Whole Cities - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:39] <exec> 08└─My thought, at reading TFS, was "why the hell would I be in a car in Manhattan?" Or Boston, or London, or pretty much any large old city which has an existing mass transit option (preferably rail but I'll take buses over cars in dense urban areas anytime). Leave the cars for the handicapped - sorry,...
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[16:22:17] <exec> 08└─Netcraft confirms it. Let's stick to the facts and look at the numbers. Seriously I am glad there are some preservation efforts underway. Aramaic is very historically significant. Besides some of the facts noted in the summary, Aramaic completely replaced the original Hebrew phoenician-style alphabe...
[16:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:21] <exec> 08└─Given how enough people voluntarily learn to speak Klingon, Quenia etc.; to keep a language alive, or resurrect a dead one, you just need to find a way to attach a proper sort of incentive to it. If the language associates with the social group "old losers", on the other hand, then it gets to die. T...
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[16:22:23] <exec> 08└─Governments should ban all languages except the universal language of the internet broken/googletranslated english.
[16:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:25] <exec> 08└─agree me
[16:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:27] <exec> 08└─subscribed
[16:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:30] <exec> 08└─If any language needs saving, it is proper US-English. It seems to be devolving in to a mess of incoherent abbreviations and vague Unicode symbols expressed in broken, individual, incomplete sentences of 140 characters or less. Also, it is important to document old meanings and contexts. In an impos...
[16:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:32] <exec> 08└─wont work plz fix
[16:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:34] <exec> 08└─wontfix
[16:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:36] <exec> 08└─I always notice these language hipsters crying over dying languages want other people to speak it as a first language. Wouldn't want to isolate themselves and their children.
[16:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:39] <exec> 08└─Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
[16:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:41] <exec> 08└─. . . stop making fun of my google translated How else do you think the Star Trek Federation got it's universal translator? They built on the prior work of google, of course. We're in the early days of this kind of technology. Raise your hand, if you'd gladly pay for a universal translator. Give the...
[16:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─... filters, filtered out my insert language tag. Which. I should have known was going to be filtered, because they sanitize the use of the less than and greater than signs. Should have read . . . stop making fun of my google translated (insert language)
[16:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:55] <exec> 08└─Great question. I wonder, how do you fake something that complex? If they're that good at copying and making them, why don't they strike up a deal with Apple? Either way, I'm sure they're shipping them around the rest of the world. Maybe they're real ones, siphoned off of the assembly lines? "...con...
[16:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:56] <exec> 08└─Just from the summary: smuggling itself, which is a serious crime if you weren't aware. Structuring. Pretty sure a free money laundering charge goes with that. Copyright and trademark infringements. Fraud. Three years in prison is usually serious enough to eject foreign criminals, even if they hold...
[16:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 1204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:59] <exec> 08└─Let's go a bit more legalistic: Smuggling charges under Chapter 27 would require one of two things: A. The things being brought in being illegal or B. Falsified papers about what was brought in. If this guy had legit papers saying he was carrying consumer electronics and paid appropriate levies, I d...
[16:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:01] <exec> 08└─The cost was within an order of magnitude of the price of the hardware? That's a big hint.
[16:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:33] <exec> 08└─Win? He's an idiot unless he thinks that much water can't ever be dangerous.
[16:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:35] <exec> 08└─Indeed. 1 GWh is only slightly less than the energy in 1 kiloton of TNT. The explosion would be comparable to a small tactical nuclear weapon.
[16:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:37] <exec> 08└─To store 1 GWh of energy in a water reservoir 1000 m above sea level, you'd have to pump nearly 400,000 metric tons of water, 400 million cubic metres. Don't tell me that such a quantity of water sliding down suddenly won't cause at least as much damage as a 1 kiloton tactical nuclear weapon.
[16:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:39] <exec> 08└─Going straight from a bespoke 129KWh to a 3000KWh plug and play system is a pretty big jump in capacity really. Impressive. These batteries have 3MWh, they don't say how much they can throw out at once
[16:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon May Start Fining Sellers for Using Ridiculously Huge Boxes - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:23] <exec> 08└─large packaging is silly, particularly when there is no threat of shoplifting or durability issues of sitting on a store shelf.
[16:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chrome Now Prevents Sites from Checking for Private Browsing Mode - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:51] <exec> 08└─Ambassador Kosh, Babylon 5.
[16:27:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06US Teenager Wins $3m as Fortnite World Champion - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:47] <exec> 08└─Now that these kids have millions, others will help them figure out how to spend it. They all became hot dudes over night.
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[17:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:17] <exec> 08└─I prefer saltwater as jello. Just imagine, you could make salt-jello castles to match your sand castles.
[17:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:18] <exec> 08└─"For perspective, plates having an area of 10 square meters each would generate a few kilowatts per hour—enough for a standard US home," Either he's been misquoted by the journalist, or he needs to learn about the SI units of energy and power, and how to use them.
[17:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:42] <exec> 08└─In Europe, children routinely learn 3-4 languages and no one makes a big deal out of it.
[17:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:43] <exec> 08└─👍 👏 😊
[17:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:46] <exec> 08└─The bottom line is that the words written and spoken in this language have caused more strife over their meaning than one could imagine. Good riddance, and now get rid of the translations.
[17:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:48] <exec> 08└─Of course, one of those languages has to be English. I've already got that one covered.
[17:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:50] <exec> 08└─Do what a jew would do: let it die and then make money lecturing people about the causes of the death and start university courses about the culture that spoke the dead language. The khazar jews are enterprising rat scum.
[17:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:52] <exec> 08└─Make it a language in some popular TV series. Look how many people study made-up languages like Klingon or https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:55] <exec> 08└─"I said in my haste, It's technology's fault." RFP 116:11
[17:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:10] <exec> 08└─We throw nickel-and-dime criminals into the slammers, but the bankers incurring billions/trillions? Oh well, that's different, isn't it.
[17:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:11] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile khazar jew banks got no prison time for selling fake financial products to the unsuspecting investors. Causing asset bubbles and then exploiting the resulting chaos. Imagine a jew selling the same fake products (like most of their inventory). Would that khazar jewish rat be getting prison...
[17:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:49] <exec> 08└─I'm yet to see plain water on fire
[17:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:50] <exec> 08└─Probably within the same state.
[17:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:52] <exec> 08└─Another place where utilities are resisting progress is on smart grids. To have more decentralized power like batteries and wind/solar the grid needs to be smarter. But that costs money and the utilities resist.
[17:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:24] <exec> 08└─You can scrape anything you like that is intentionally made publicly accessible. You are not legally bound by anyone's ToS; they are not an EULA or any other sort of contract.
[17:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chrome Now Prevents Sites from Checking for Private Browsing Mode - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:06] <exec> 08└─Advertisers and news sites are pissed off about this? "Good." -Ambassador Kosh
[17:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Suggests Dark-Colored Wing Feathers May Help Birds Fly More Efficiently - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:20] <exec> 08└─So basically it sounds like you have a preconceived notion of how the universe works, and when empirical evidence suggests that that theory is wrong, you dismiss that experiment as being wrong because you "just know better." Either that, or you misread the summary... I can't actually tell based on y...
[17:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:30] <exec> 08└─One of the most important things I've learned.
[17:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 2451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:31] <exec> 08└─It sounds like sales are low and the drumbeat of forced upgrades because of the is reducing shareholder value or convenience or SaaS management (Subscriptions as a Service) or... I noticed that car and home and retail sales are all down this quarter. Nissan is laying off over 10,000 people due to lo...
[17:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:33] <exec> 08└─Internal malware can be mostly taken care of with a proper whitelisting based execution policy --- easier in Windows 7 an up because it's built-in (but rarely used and never spoken of by "security experts" for who knows what reason), but there are plenty 3rd party programs to add such functionality...
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[18:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:15] <exec> 08└─but we know the real reason they are researching this stuff is to be able to pry info from people's brains to use against the person in one way or another. interrogations, travel hub behavior analyzing, marketing, politics, etc.
[18:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:16] <exec> 08└─Thankfully I doubt they'll be able to read information not actively being processed, so they won't be able to pry out memories unless they can make you lucidly recall them.
[18:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:26] <exec> 08└─Go right ahead. Spend more electricity and resources and cause more pollution making the device than would be generated by this generator. It is quite perverse.
[18:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:28] <exec> 08└─They were sitting in some dive, in some harbor, close to the waterfront, listening to a couple bos'ns bitching about repainting the hull, time and time again. Their ears really perked up when they mentioned degaussing, right?
[18:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:30] <exec> 08└─I don't see the problem. Could you please elaborate?
[18:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:33] <exec> 08└─Have you tried a mirror? Facetiousness aside, he is mixing energy and power units. "A few kilowatts per hour" would be a linearly increasing power source. After 1000 hours it would be a few megawatts. Give it a few decades and it could power the entire USA. Indeed, wait long enough and it will outsh...
[18:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:35] <exec> 08└─> would generate a few kilowatts per hour Ah!, there's the problem! But you hear this kind of incomprehensible nonsense from YouTube videos about electric cars. And . . . Han Solo claimed that his Millennium Falcon "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs" And . . . you might have to wait fo...
[18:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:37] <exec> 08└─And . . . Han Solo claimed that his Millennium Falcon "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs" And . . . you might have to wait for ten light years to get to that star! In both cases it's a matter of routing. As long as that star is closer than 10 light years away, waiting ten light years(...
[18:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:07] <exec> 08└─In the future, the religious words will be gone but in their place we will have terms like "cisgendered", Sie, "nonbinary", and all that. And you will be forced to use those terms or at least never question them outloud -- just like religious terms used to be.
[18:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:08] <exec> 08└─So, what you're saying is, 5000 years ago, the more stable members of the community were asking, "What faggotry is this?" while that crazy tribe was building altars and stuff.
[18:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:11] <exec> 08└─One night, when you're all alone, I'm gonna get you . . . - khazar jew
[18:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:13] <exec> 08└─No, no, no - it's Bizarre Pew. Pepe LePew's British cousin.
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:15] <exec> 08└─To know just one single spoken language, is analogous to knowing just one single programming language.
[18:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:17] <exec> 08└─First, you'll have to create a popular TV series. You don't just sit down, and create a Star Trek on a whim. I don't believe the creators of Star Trek knew what they were doing when they did it. It took a couple seasons (or more) for Trekkies to create themselves. Way back then, Star Trek was just a...
[18:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:20] <exec> 08└─"As Jesus died on the cross, he cried in Aramaic..." Do you have any proof this Jesus person even existed?
[18:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:22] <exec> 08└─Speaking of which, where is our beloved President, realDonaldTrump? We haven't seen him since June.
[18:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:24] <exec> 08└─> supplying the Hebrew square script that is used today But when were the vowel markings added?
[18:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:27] <exec> 08└─The dirty little secret that no one will publicly acknowledge is that the current population of Australian aborigines have only been here 10,000 years. They displaced an earlier culture which is where all the >10,000 year old artefacts come from. So they are invaders too, just a bit older.
[18:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:44] <exec> 08└─They own and run the system. Trump, congress, etc., are all just a show to keep the sheeple busy.
[18:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:46] <exec> 08└─Well, you certainly can't argue with Bruce any more. Sad as that may be. Still, I wouldn't mess with Chuck.
[18:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:27] <exec> 08└─OK, you don't understand it. But *ALL* the electric utilities do, because storage has been a big problem. If this solution works well, look for the electric utilities to start promoting solar, as long as they can get paid for storing the overflow. (They don't like generators, either.) Without good s...
[18:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:28] <exec> 08└─I like your non-dystopian views of the future of the composition of the electric grid. Here's hoping for something even remotely close to what you've outlined.
[18:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:30] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, the Trump admin is busy ensuring we too shall be able to view such a glorious spectacle!
[18:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:32] <exec> 08└─i want a home power station that is affordable. like hydrogen for $5k or something. stop wasting money and time trying to keep me on the energy plantation!
[18:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:05] <exec> 08└─True. Also True: I can copy all of the freely available stuff. Then use that stuff to come up with statistics or what not on my own. Then, legally publish those statistics.
[18:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:06] <exec> 08└─Blackmail may also be considered a form of extortion.[1] Although the two are generally synonymous, extortion is the taking of personal property by threat of future harm.[6] Blackmail is the use of threat to prevent another from engaging in a lawful occupation and writing libelous letters or letters...
[18:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:08] <exec> 08└─How come the laws protecting against unauthorized computer access don't apply at my end? How many congress-critters do you own? Zero? - could be the answer you are looking for is right in front of your nose!
[18:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Tickle' Therapy Could Help Slow Aging, Research Suggests - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:35] <exec> 08└─delivers a small, painless electrical current to the ear
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[19:22:17] <exec> 08└─- underling: Sir, the interrogation target keeps thinking "pig pig pig..." according to the brain-speech-interpreter while we interrogate him. - supervisor: Charge the fucker with obstruction of justice and toss 'em in the hole until he tells us what we need to know, we now know he's hiding it from...
[19:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:18] <exec> 08└─This probably can be adapted to work as a side-channel attack against the Cone of Silence used by CONTROL.
[19:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:20] <exec> 08└─For some reason whenever you try using the tech on politicians it produces no text.
[19:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:35] <exec> 08└─And . . . Han Solo claimed that his Millennium Falcon "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs"
[19:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:37] <exec> 08└─Then the bragging should be about the pilot's chest hair rather than the ship, should it not?
[19:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:17] <exec> 08└─both english and spanish are splitting into new languages
[19:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:19] <exec> 08└─"He who is valiant and pure of spirit may find the Holy Grail in the Castle of aaarrrrggh"
[19:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:21] <exec> 08└─That was my original position, but after a long discussion with someone I decided that there was no reason to presume that the original records would have survived. But it appears definitely true that he did not appear significant to Suetonius, the Roman historian contemporary who traveled in Palest...
[19:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:23] <exec> 08└─In a Deep Space Nine episode where a few Ferengi landed in 1947 Roswell NM, (don't ask), the universal translators were in their ears, or skulls. One Ferengi's translator was malfunctioning and thus he couldn't understand the strange English language spoken by the Humans of New Mexico.
[19:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:25] <exec> 08└─I wondered that myself just minutes ago. I will build a casino wing onto the capital building if elected in 2024. Hey, I've seen a lot of casinos. This is the best, classiest casino you're ever going to see. Everyone who's ever come near one of my Trump casinos has said that they loved it. This casi...
[19:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:28] <exec> 08└─5 Languages That Are Probably Doomed [dice.com] *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Ruby Haskell Objective-C R Perl (thank heaven)
[19:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:30] <exec> 08└─Nice try. Except the Earth is only 6000 years old. So you'll need to come back with a better justification for genocide.
[19:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:32] <exec> 08└─Not really. Programming languages can be learned (and forgotten) in about a week. So I don't bother. If I ever need FORTRAN, I'll figure it out in a couple days. A second language on the other hand is a major life choice that either *you* make or the people before you made.
[19:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:35] <exec> 08└─How else do you think the Star Trek Federation got it's universal translator? They built on the prior work of google, of course.
[19:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:37] <exec> 08└─OMG UR SO LAME THATS Y WINDOZ RAPES LINX EVRY DAY
[19:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:39] <exec> 08└─Contemporary??? I wouldn't call a guy who wrote about him SEVENTY years after his supposed existence, a contemporary. I don't "accept" anything. Show me proof or shut up.
[19:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:41] <exec> 08└─First it's dialects, then it's different languages. Just ask the Spanish and the Italians and the Portuguese about their Latin.
[19:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:45] <exec> 08└─Then again, I haven't heard of a lot of water damage over wide areas in building-height topographies from a lithium explosion. Hmm -- they should build the Lithium batteries into a location in the dam itself. Save on transmission costs for charging, and then when you do get an explosion, you can get...
[19:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:46] <exec> 08└─In solidarity with using less fossil fuel, I too raise my cigarette lighter in honor of your ideas ... wait, sorry about that.
[19:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:48] <exec> 08└─The problem this is trying to fix is the usage curve. Basically solar generates useful electricity from a few hours after sunrise to a few hours before sunrise, peaking at around 1 P.M. (due to DST). The peak power demand occurs about six hours later, peaking at six P.M. Note that solar won't genera...
[19:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:24] <exec> 08└─No, I think it's because their TOS says limited at their end and wild west at the user's end. That TOS is the contract that governs the relationship. The thing is, does that lopsided of a contract indicate that no reasonable person would agree to it if they had a choice? Is that relevant to the vali...
[19:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:31] <exec> 08└─Had we bought, we would be installing the stuff about now. And embedded is a fuzzy thing. These machines would be in a kiosk and boot to a single application, but they would also be exposing a GUI to the general public and accessing Cloud based resources. So what would I do, put them in our DMZ zone...
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[20:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:27] <exec> 08└─To check which in a fixed set of possibilities the brain activity maps to, is a very very different beast to translate into text.
[20:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:29] <exec> 08└─All your Brains are Belong to Us.
[20:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:31] <exec> 08└─Well they're already doing that sooo
[20:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:33] <exec> 08└─If I said, "When your government is corrupt and degenerate is not the time to encourage(or allow) them to make vast technological strides." could we call this some kind of new law? Maybe, "The worse your government is the less you should be rooting for their success at mind control and doomsday devi...
[20:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:36] <exec> 08└─Machine learning Step 1: Put on the (now literal) tinfoil hat Step 2: INTERROGATE (train the machine) Step 3: Try and get subject to "talk" Step 4: Apply questionable algorithms to subject's neural responses to determine probability values, if machine says "yes" goto step 5. If "no" goto step 99 Ste...
[20:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:38] <exec> 08└─Last I checked Facebook is a private corporation. - If you still believe that fiction mod this up. - If you realize that most of government is controlled by corporations mod this up. I give you Schrödinger's bullshit
[20:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:55] <exec> 08└─10 square meters is ~108 square feet, a little over a 10'x10' plate. That's a lot of iron, and a lot of flowing saltwater, granted for a lot of power, but imagining this being implemented on a houseboat (someplace that has ready access to flowing saltwater), the friction generated by that plate in t...
[20:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:56] <exec> 08└─They even go into this pretty clearly in the Solo movie, showing him take a "shortcut" to avoid being blasted to bits.
[20:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:58] <exec> 08└─They don't give a required speed, but there are places where the tidal flow can reach several knots. If the speed is low enough and it can handle pulsed power, it might even be an efficient way to recover wave energy.
[20:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:50] <exec> 08└─You had me going there for a while, but I eventually realized this couldn't really have been Trump because there is no promise to make Mexico pay for the casino.
[20:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:52] <exec> 08└─#6 Aramaic
[20:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:54] <exec> 08└─I remember watching Lord of the Rings and hearing Gandalf refusing to utter the black speech of Mordor and wondering if he was talking about jive or ebonics.
[20:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:56] <exec> 08└─Do you have any proof this Jesus person even existed?
[20:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:16] <exec> 08└─I think the death of a religious language makes a fitting tombstone for the fragmentation of languages supposedly instigated by God.
[20:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:17] <exec> 08└─If they're that good at copying and making them, why don't they strike up a deal with Apple?
[20:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Soft Wearable Health Monitor Uses Stretchable Electronics - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:25] <exec> 08└─Well now we know why they are wearing tight jumpsuits in the future, it generates electricity passively and allows for absolute monitoring of every biological and electromagentic detail of your body. Why if you wear this red white and blue or red and yellow morphsuit, we will know you are a loyal ci...
[20:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:06] <exec> 08└─Not sure how affordable it is, but I found this a few weeks ago: https://www.solarwatt.com [solarwatt.com]
[20:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:44] <exec> 08└─That's not what they were describing. They aren't trying to do anything harmful or injurious to the party and they aren't threatening them. They just outlined what they might do in defense, if the other party decided to sue them, for no good reason.
[20:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:45] <exec> 08└─That other discussion though is worth being had. I've been involved in things like this, and always involving publicly owned data. This reminds me of certain cities trying to sue people claiming they own the train schedules and are the only ones who can publish the data, which is complete and utter...
[20:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon May Start Fining Sellers for Using Ridiculously Huge Boxes - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:00] <exec> 08└─I get individual pens in boxes large enough to fit an 8 year-old child.
[20:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Tickle' Therapy Could Help Slow Aging, Research Suggests - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:15] <exec> 08└─"by recalibrating the body's internal control system." If that's not the most hippy shit I've ever heard, I swear this line appears at least a dozen times in the works of Robert Anton Wilson and Timothy Leary. Well duh we should be regularly be recalibrating the body's internal control system. Every...
[20:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 1464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:59] <exec> 08└─I run a small rural library (town of about 700, service population around 2500). We have4 public access computers (PACs) and 2 staff computers. Everything runs Win7, with F/LOSS software where possible (LibreOffice instead of MS Office, etc). Everything is as secure as we (I) can make it: secure rou...
[20:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think I remember HAL being introduced as some sort of security improvement in NT4, maybe. I don't have time to be messing about with 20 year old, unsupported hardware and software. The company has plenty of money and can afford the $30k it will cost to replace the old kit. Everyone is comfo...
[20:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hackers Could use Connected Cars to Gridlock Whole Cities - 2805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:56] <exec> 08└─I see what you're saying. I think what you are describing is studying a system, reading its manuals and normal use. You can certainly do a lot of things that way, but you will not get any free long distance calls :) Since you asked. It started a month after I got the vehicle, 2010 model, this was 20...
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[21:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06First Programmable Memristor Computer - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:18] <exec> 08└─Why so we need to put a buzzword like AI into this to make people interested in it. Memristors [wikipedia.org] are pretty fantastic on their own. They are basically better than transistors in most ways.
[21:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06First Programmable Memristor Computer - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:19] <exec> 08└─Because a memristor is an inherently analog device that would make an excellent synapse between neurons in a neural network ASIC. The resistance of the memristor would correspond with the strength of the connection.
[21:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Programmable Memristor Computer - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and the number of non-AI uses for any kinds of analog circuits in computing is actually pretty small. Outside computing, I dunno, I'd have to ask an EE where a memrister would have applications. Maybe something to do with tunable circuits?
[21:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Programmable Memristor Computer - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:24] <exec> 08└─using crystals for data storage? Not sure if it was a diamond or some other crystal (not meth) that could be written/read by a laser.
[21:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:41] <exec> 08└─Please do not think about the numbers of your credit card and CVV code. Thank you.
[21:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:57] <exec> 08└─Dialects are always a result of geography.
[21:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:59] <exec> 08└─and common everyday dictionary is an order of magnitude smaller than say Qt API. You let other people hypnotize you with "major life choice" bullshit, you just hobble your brain with unfounded fear of learning. Hereabouts, schoolchildren who chat between themselves in a three-language mix would not...
[21:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:01] <exec> 08└─One of my life goals is to outlive Larry and spit on his grave before I croak.
[21:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:03] <exec> 08└─Combo casino/detention centre?
[21:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:05] <exec> 08└─Do you have any proof for the hanging gardens of Babylon? Hamurabai? The Colossus of Rhodes? 2000 years from now: "There were 1000 foot towers in the city that stood for decades until terrorists flew planes into them". Yeah, tell us another fantasy story. "We had video, but it didn't survive the Gre...
[21:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:06] <exec> 08└─If my choice is theoretical hackers versus deploying known spyware that used malware tactics to trick people into installing it, I'll err on the side of caution and deal with the theoretical hackers that may or may not exist, rather than the obvious threat on my doorstep, thank you very much. Grante...
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[22:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oh Sh*t's, 11: VxWorks Stars in Today's Security Thriller - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:14] <exec> 08└─We never give them a public IP address. Most VxWorks devices scare the crap out of you due to really poor documentation. Most of our equipment is Motorola now arris and they are only accessible from the management network due to sporadic updates and what I can only label as piss poor support.
[22:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Oh Sh*t's, 11: VxWorks Stars in Today's Security Thriller - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:16] <exec> 08└─My only experience with VxWorks was with the highly regarded Linksys WRT54G router. I bought one, knowing that it ran Linux and had a great reputation. But unknown to me at that time, Linksys had just massively changed their router. What I was expecting was what they called revision 4. What I got wa...
[22:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Programmable Memristor Computer - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:27] <exec> 08└─I 'member
[22:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Programmable Memristor Computer - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:29] <exec> 08└─Because it's an announcement by researchers, who always need to spruik their work, adding some fad buzzwords always helps for those who don't understand the research; "sounds good!"
[22:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:07] <exec> 08└─that’s the beauty of it, it is not all that hard to modify existing things that move in the ocean so they make electricity. Example 1) a ship Example 2) tide moving past a bridge pylon
[22:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:09] <exec> 08└─Nobody suggests forcing people to learn dying languages, the usual focus is on preservation so that they're available in the future for people to study or learn. Learning classical Latin would be largely pointless for every day living as it lacks a significant amount of vocabulary for things that we...
[22:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:11] <exec> 08└─Look, to be FLUENT in a language is a major commitment. It requires a lot of continual practice with other native speakers. If on the other hand your goal is to be able to "get by" as a visitor to another country, then yes, the time commitment is much less. It is my experience that people who claim...
[22:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:13] <exec> 08└─Historians do not claim proof for the existance of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon at all, in fact they may have been a myth. There is proof of the existence of the Colossus of Rhodes, from the Wikipedia article: The statue stood for 54 years until Rhodes was hit by the 226 BC earthquake, when signi...
[22:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:35] <exec> 08└─Not that you're wrong or anything, but I assumed he was selling cheap Android phones with Apple logos on them, and calling them iPhones. That was a thing when iPhones first came out. A friend of mine bought one back from China. It looked quite a lot like an iPhone (version 3 maybe?) if you squinted...
[22:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:25] <exec> 08└─400,000 metric tons of water, 400 million cubic metres litres.
[22:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Voracious Cambrian Predator, Cambroraster, is a New Species from the Burgess Shale - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:36] <exec> 08└─And? Many creatures, to this day, only have a single orifice. An an example, consider a jellyfish. So besides a juvenile "ha, ha, he said 'arse'" does it matter?
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[23:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 1510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:17] <exec> 08└─Russia doesn't want a hard-to-censor source of (real) internet access within its borders. Maybe they can't stop the pizza box sized phased array antennae from being smuggled in (I'm assuming OneWeb and Starlink will be similar), but they can make it difficult for it to reach a large amount of people...
[23:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oh Sh*t's, 11: VxWorks Stars in Today's Security Thriller - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:26] <exec> 08└─My current project uses FreeRTOS, which from what I've seen is pretty solid.
[23:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06First Programmable Memristor Computer - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:39] <exec> 08└─gotta get that karma refill
[23:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06First Programmable Memristor Computer - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:41] <exec> 08└─Betcha we could sell 'em to audiophiles. They'll buy anything.
[23:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06First Programmable Memristor Computer - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:43] <exec> 08└─This has been a thing for many years now: https://www.engadget.com [engadget.com] https://spectrum.ieee.org [ieee.org] https://www.nextplatform.com
[23:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Programmable Memristor Computer - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:45] <exec> 08└─"5D" Laser-Based Polarization Vortex Storage Could Hold Hundreds of Terabytes for Billions of Years [soylentnews.org]
[23:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Programmable Memristor Computer - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:47] <exec> 08└─My coworker paid $500 for an insolated USB cable that protects against noise.
[23:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:26] <exec> 08└─Tidal flows are a good source, still questionable how much energy is required to create, install and decommission the plate vs how much energy it produces in its useful lifetime.
[23:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:28] <exec> 08└─Example 1 is dumb, since you are using energy to make the ship move through the water. (Car analogy - you won't be better in terms of mileage if you'd try to 'recover' some energy using a wind turbine on top of your car) May have a point if you consider salt-water from the spray flowing back into th...
[23:24:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 146 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:14] <exec> 08└─5 Languages That Are Probably Doomed [dice.com] *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Ruby Haskell Objective-C R Perl (thank heaven)
[23:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:33] <exec> 08└─Guido van Rossum, Is that you? Didn’t know your were a soylent fan!
[23:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:35] <exec> 08└─As for Hamurabai, the evidence for his existence is pretty widely accepted, but even if he is just some sort of myth, no-one is claiming he "saved the world" or came back from the dead are they? Do we deify him? No, but apparently he has been in the past [wikipedia.org]. He was a king so you'll hav...
[23:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:37] <exec> 08└─I can only pity the narrowness of your experience.
[23:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:39] <exec> 08└─All evidence points to ancient people being smarter than us tbh. Dawkins reasoning about religions is a prime example. Old time atheists would laugh at him. So, where are your advanced atheist ideas, that put to shame sacred texts? Just curious.
[23:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:31] <exec> 08└─Learn to read and learn copyright law. For starters we're not talking about anything you have to pay to see, we're talking shit put out for anyone to view at no cost. Also, you can sit there and make as many copies of Harry Potter as you like every day for a year and nothing will happen to you. Dist...
[23:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon May Start Fining Sellers for Using Ridiculously Huge Boxes - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:46] <exec> 08└─Why would cans be packed with bottles like that?
[23:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:47] <exec> 08└─No problem. Sorry about your dad: like with my son, you've got a constant stress right now. Try to stay sane in the insanity. I know a guy who only looks after Apple and Unix computers: he basically told his clients they either had to drop Windows or find someone else to look after it for them becau...
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