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[00:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:15] <exec> 08└─No matter what you think about Russia in American politics, don't forget that it is under one party rule, with most media controlled or friendly to the state, and journalists mysteriously dying.
[00:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:16] <exec> 08└─it is under one party rule, with most media controlled or friendly to the state, and journalists mysteriously dying. That's a U.S. Saudi thing... and Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Brazil... Russia is just another member of the club. Journalism is hardly safer than driving a taxi... FTA: ...satellites...
[00:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:18] <exec> 08└─Russian concern is probably not the censorship, but the reliance on technology from a country known for denying it to other countries at difficult moments (aka sanctions).
[00:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:20] <exec> 08└─My question is, how are they going to block the service. They can't stop satellites from flying over their territory.
[00:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:23] <exec> 08└─The satellites are still going to be in orbit whether or not Russians can use them.
[00:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oh Sh*t's, 11: VxWorks Stars in Today's Security Thriller - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you bought a version 8. There was a VxKiller utility you had to run but they had reduced the flash and ram size to the point they were useless. What you wanted was a WRT54GL ver 1.1 It came with linux and even today makes a decent little router. The wifi is shit but the router lives on. I run...
[00:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:09] <exec> 08└─So ... no more research or technological strides?
[00:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:10] <exec> 08└─Argh, now I can't stop thinking about a polar bear!
[00:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:34] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_water_battery [wikipedia.org]
[00:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:43] <exec> 08└─Is Aramaic really doomed? Yes, it is true that the people who speak it natively are disappearing, rendering it no longer a living language, but is it not true that there will always be people who learn this language in universities as Biblical scholars? After all, significant parts of the Old Testam...
[00:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:45] <exec> 08└─As far as Buddha and Mohammad go, I have no idea about Buddha as I know almost nothing about Buddhism. Mohammad definitely existed, and we know that because of the many references to him from (and this is important to historians) different sources. Sources from almost every culture that existed in...
[00:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:47] <exec> 08└─Mohammad was also a published writer. In the March 652 a.d. iss u e of Goat Fuckers Monthly, he wrote a letter to the editor complaining that his goat had bad breath but was still better looking than his wife.
[00:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:59] <exec> 08└─that, in turn, reduces the amount of power you have to buy off the grid at insane peak power prices
[00:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:00] <exec> 08└─The total costs of the grid infrastructure will not change and will be divided among the users. The house next to me installing solar power means I am paying it's bills in electricity. That's called "riding the infrastructure".
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[01:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"I Went to Rome, and all I brought you was this Pen" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:15] <exec> 08└─Than picking up a murder charge like those two bay area bros in Rome who tried to score some coke.
[01:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:28] <exec> 08└─That's fine as far as Russia is concerned. It probably does not care that much if some folks would use them to watch gay porn. However, Russia does not want them to be used for critical infrastructure and since it would be illegal the chances would be low.
[01:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:30] <exec> 08└─That's why you put up a swarm of the things, and keep them close to the Russian birds so they get blown up too.
[01:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:32] <exec> 08└─The company should make is easy to build black boxes and antennae, put the schematics up and stuff. If we work at it, we can make it impossible for anyone to block its use.
[01:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:18] <exec> 08└─"When your government is corrupt and degenerate is not the time to encourage(or allow) them to make vast technological strides."
[01:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:53] <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.
[01:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:16] <exec> 08└─After reading TFS, I'm hearing goats. Montes v. City of Yakima: https://www.aclu-wa.org [aclu-wa.org]
[01:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:08] <exec> 08└─but a grid connection is needed to account for bad weather or high individual demand.
[01:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:49] <exec> 08└─All they need is for the cost of getting them laughed out of court to be more than you can afford. If your choices are settle or bankruptcy, what do you do?
[01:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:51] <exec> 08└─In a contract of adhesion clauses that are unconscionable or outright illegal aren't supposed to be enforceable, but again, how many politicians and judges do you own? How much can you afford to spend on legal fees?
[01:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon May Start Fining Sellers for Using Ridiculously Huge Boxes - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:07] <exec> 08└─Amazon's gonna start finishing sellers off for using huge boxes? Those sellers must be shipping from Yakima, WA. Montes v. City of Yakima: https://www.aclu-wa.org [aclu-wa.org]
[01:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chrome Now Prevents Sites from Checking for Private Browsing Mode - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:39] <exec> 08└─The internet's too big and life's too short to bicker with jackass corporate webmasters. Like Sears, they have outgrown their youth, and are now focused on controlling their customer, that is those who will tolerate it. Just ignore them like that overpriced eatery. Google already shows me sites I wo...
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[02:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:14] <exec> 08└─They've made themselves into human adverts. Reminds me of the old-school pyramid selling scheme where you shit all over your friends and family to make a buck.
[02:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:37] <exec> 08└─and keep them close to the Russian birds
[02:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:38] <exec> 08└─Political thunder^W inceldome is destroying America. They can't unplug from the two-party matrix.
[02:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:40] <exec> 08└─...satellites could be used for espionage.
[02:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 1504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:42] <exec> 08└─In Russia [wikipedia.org]: First countrywide judicial censorship measures were taken by the government in the wake of the 2011–13 Russian protests. This included the Internet blacklist law, implemented in November 2012. The criteria for inclusion in the blacklist initially included child pornograp...
[02:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:45] <exec> 08└─Also in Oz [wikipedia.org].
[02:23:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] 02 - 06First Programmable Memristor Computer - 215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:01] <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.
[02:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:30] <exec> 08└─Wow, so you can make intelligent posts when your TDS isn't flaring up, impressive.
[02:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:23] <exec> 08└─Do you realize this is specifically talking about grid-scale storage, right? The utilities have their own programs where they buy power at wholesale prices. If a utility installs this in the right location, it doesn't take that long to pay for itself even if they don't use renewable energy. Sure, as...
[02:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03optotronic [4285] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon May Start Fining Sellers for Using Ridiculously Huge Boxes - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:21] <exec> 08└─Ask Amazon.
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[03:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:17] <exec> 08└─>I honestly have no good ideas. marking goes hand-in-hand with market based economies and in late-capitalism it intensifies and becomes a cancer. Every company is trying to reach jaded customers with ever diminishing disposable income. What’s more, only the successful companies with money can even...
[03:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:19] <exec> 08└─They rich tho
[03:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 1391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:21] <exec> 08└─The article doesn't go far enough. Most people don't realize how deeply conditioned we all are. Any problem or fear you have, anything at all, even stupid and imaginary ones, there's a product for it. I've noticed that often the first thing I think to do to deal with a problem is buy some product. I...
[03:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:23] <exec> 08└─You mean like Betsy DeVos and the Family Business of Amway?
[03:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:26] <exec> 08└─What can be done is to change the laws that say that advertisers can lie with impunity. Advertisements should be seen as contracts with customers. If the advertisers fail to fulfill their promises, including the ones that say you will be attractive and popular if you use this product, they should be...
[03:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:28] <exec> 08└─"The growth of advertising is fueled by the enormous waste it creates." Well I guess I am propelled on by the number of shits I give. Same logic?
[03:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"I Went to Rome, and All I Brought You Was this Pen" - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:36] <exec> 08└─A replica, perhaps with some slight mods to the text, would be an awesome souvenir from a museum gift shop. Particularly if it were made out of iron for the heft and authenticity factor. Ok, so maybe not so many would like it but I would! :)
[03:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:57] <exec> 08└─The battle will be interesting. I hope they put cameras on the things..
[03:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:58] <exec> 08└─Random planning commission decision gets cast as an antidemocratic decision by Putin,
[03:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oh Sh*t's, 11: VxWorks Stars in Today's Security Thriller - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:09] <exec> 08└─Not too many of us are likely to own Mars Rovers, but I do own some AirPort Extremes and I know people responsible for things like network hardware, CT scanners, MRI machines and such that Wikipedia lists as potentially running VxWorks. It would be nice if someone had an actual list of affected prod...
[03:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbruchon [4473] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oh Sh*t's, 11: VxWorks Stars in Today's Security Thriller - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:11] <exec> 08└─OpenWRT has been a godsend. Need I say more?
[03:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Programmable Memristor Computer - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:29] <exec> 08└─Was it "low oxygen" too? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[03:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Programmable Memristor Computer - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:30] <exec> 08└─Star Wars or Superman?
[03:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Programmable Memristor Computer - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:32] <exec> 08└─Okay, I'll give it a shot. [trundles off to read wiki...] I have no clue. Wacky thing. Electrically reminds me of magnetic core memory- you need some fancy circuity to write and read, and by reading you change its state, so you have to put it back (re-write). But it's not something you can just look...
[03:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:17] <exec> 08└─>That's a lot of iron, Not really, they use vapor deposition to create a layer of iron oxide 10nm thick. 10m^2*10nm = 0.1 mm^3 of iron oxide - or basically nothing. Of course they don't mention what the substrate is, but even if it's iron it could presumably be a thin foil laminated to something lig...
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[03:24:18] <exec> 08└─I really don't see the problem. It may be because I'm an EE and had to study the stuff out the wazoo. The really enlightening thing was that I didn't know I even had a wazoo. It may be that you don't understand "watt". Watt is a unit of measurement of "power", which is an instantaneous measurement....
[03:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:21] <exec> 08└─Either you misread, or they've fixed it - the article now reads kilowatt-hours
[03:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:33] <exec> 08└─And don't forget to throw in a helping dollop of prudishness. Seems all the rage with this new religion of the regressive left.
[03:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:35] <exec> 08└─to which I reply, they would, wouldn't they?
[03:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:53] <exec> 08└─I just realized that the evil plan of Christopher Walken's character in Batman Returns was to make huge piles of money off of just this sort of arbitrage.
[03:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:54] <exec> 08└─Apparently their garbage no-script detector messes with getting any useful information from them. A lovely way to get someone interested in what they have to say, sell, who the fuck knows, certainly not me.
[03:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbruchon [4473] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:38] <exec> 08└─It's amazing how you got "make a copy (which violates the owner's copyright)" out of "send an HTTP request to the owner for a copy and receive a copy from the owner (you know, the person who's explicitly allowed to make copies and send them to people)." Not a lawyer? If you are, I'd predict that you...
[03:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon May Start Fining Sellers for Using Ridiculously Huge Boxes - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:57] <exec> 08└─The most preposterous Amazon shipping choice I encountered was a couple years ago when Amazon decided to ship a ~30-pound butcher's block and a small box of wine glasses in the same ENORMOUS box (i.e., the large butcher's block took up less than 10% of the volume), with maybe a single sheet of crump...
[03:30:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:00] <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...
[03:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's 2019, and One Third of Businesses Still Have Active Windows XP Deployments on the Net - 1236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:02] <exec> 08└─The place I used to work at sold embedded systems, and basically Microsoft's response when we asked about still getting XP licenses was "tough shit". Maybe for larger companies, Microsoft might have changed their tune, but we were way too small for them to care about. We of course moved to Windows 7...
[03:30:03] <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 - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:04] <exec> 08└─It's frustrating on many levels. One is: I wish I had tried for med school. I love asking the doctors stimulating questions, like "would plasmapheresis help my dad's problem?" Didn't really get a detailed answer, but I love the way they respond. He's been in for 2+ weeks and has a lung infection and...
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[04:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Capital One Target of Massive Data Breach - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:13] <exec> 08└─I have seen all sorts of people from cyber-security pro's to marketing and media folks say this was a hack. I've seen this portrayed as a breach. I've heard this is as bad as Equifax where data was stolen and released. I've seen articles saying that this wouldn't have happened if more was done after...
[04:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Capital One Target of Massive Data Breach - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:14] <exec> 08└─Female script kiddie with previous knowledge of Amazon toolkits from working there finds open S3 storage left by Capital None on a cloud server on the open internet and downloads data. Tells friends about it who promptly drop a dime on her.
[04:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:29] <exec> 08└─The idea that toys can be made...
[04:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:30] <exec> 08└─I share these concerns about the impacts of advertising on our society. You know what helps me to think about these things more clearly? Being able to relax. And what could be more relaxing than the smooth taste of a Chesterfield cigarette. Chesterfields, for those moments when you just want to leav...
[04:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:33] <exec> 08└─Where the hell are you living, is it still the 60s there? Now we have THC vape pens to leave the world behind with.
[04:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"I Went to Rome, and All I Brought You Was this Pen" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:43] <exec> 08└─They should check these things for blood. Back in those days the politicians were a murderous lot.
[04:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:06] <exec> 08└─And the Federal Security Service (FSB) said that the satellites could be used for espionage.
[04:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:07] <exec> 08└─The battle will be interesting.
[04:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:28] <exec> 08└─You just invented perpetual motion! Connect the rusty plate battery to a propeller motor! Voilà!! Cruise around the world! And you answered your own question- you'll get extra power because the saltwater will, what, make the plate clean? No no no, it will rust MORE, and you'll generate MORE POWER!!
[04:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:43] <exec> 08└─What, pray tell, would you say if the only people defending the existence of Jesus were *not* Biblical scholars?
[04:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:45] <exec> 08└─If are going to make extraordinary claims, you need to produce extraordinary evidence, and as far as I can see, the evidence for the existence of an actual historical Jesus is pretty thin.
[04:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 1383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:47] <exec> 08└─One final thing I'll just note is that my interest in this is primarily because I'm interested in the growth of conspiracy theories and fringe theories on the internet. The "Christ myth theory" is a theory like the Shakespeare authorship question that has always been "fringe" within actual scholarsh...
[04:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:11] <exec> 08└─Condemning republicans for their crimes against humanity is intelligent. Not doing it is pathetic.
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[05:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:37] <exec> 08└─But they never said that, they only implied it. Intentionally and repeatedly.
[05:25:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:47] <exec> 08└─If are going to make extraordinary claims, you need to produce extraordinary evidence, and as far as I can see, the evidence for the existence of an actual historical Jesus is pretty thin.
[05:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:49] <exec> 08└─Hebrew vowel markings used today were developed between 500 and 900 ce, according to Wikipedia (see Niqqud).
[05:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:51] <exec> 08└─The study of the Talmud, which is mostly written in Aramaic, is s central part of the Jewish religion and is not going away.
[05:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:54] <exec> 08└─And I can only be amazed at your level of smugness. I speak multiple languages myself, to varying degrees of fluency, which is why I am calling BS on your breezy little posts.
[05:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:56] <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...
[05:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soft Wearable Health Monitor Uses Stretchable Electronics - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:29] <exec> 08└─> you could still make believe that we weren't destroying the world with drinking straws. It amazes me how first worlders manage to blame themselves for things that the 3rd world does to much more severe degrees: https://www.scientificamerican.com
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[06:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D Modeling & Animation Package Blender 2.80 is Out - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:16] <exec> 08└─If it is an API breaking release, why is it not called version 3.0?
[06:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:42] <exec> 08└─What can be done is to change the laws that say that advertisers can lie with impunity
[06:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:44] <exec> 08└─To be fair, we had to stop with the bows and arrows after I saw some cowboy movie and figured out how to make cardboard feathers on the arrows. All of a sudden I could actually hit guys at quite a distance and it hurt. Good times.
[06:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:46] <exec> 08└─I've noticed that often the first thing I think to do to deal with a problem is buy some product. It's reflexive.
[06:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:48] <exec> 08└─This post leaves my skin feeling younger and fresher. 100 % natural ingredients!
[06:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:50] <exec> 08└─Now we have THC vape pens to leave the world behind with.
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[07:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D Modeling & Animation Package Blender 2.80 is Out - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:20] <exec> 08└─Version numbers of large, public facing popular projects stopped meaning anything a long time ago.
[07:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03verdant [8324] (Score: 1) 02 - 063D Modeling & Animation Package Blender 2.80 is Out - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:22] <exec> 08└─So, it looks like they worked a bit more on hardware compatibility and my ancient rig isn't down and out yet. I'm still going to have to relearn pretty much everything I know about 3d modeling, but that's probably a good thing, considering the revamped the sculpting UI made sculpting tolerable to me...
[07:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Capital One Target of Massive Data Breach - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:32] <exec> 08└─This is an interview with previous inmates. It's a pretty miserable place even as prisons and jails go. https://olywip.org [olywip.org]
[07:22:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03srobert [4803] 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 319 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:46] <exec> 08└─I share these concerns about the impacts of advertising on our society. You know what helps me to think about these things more clearly? Being able to relax. And what could be more relaxing than the smooth taste of a Chesterfield cigarette. Chesterfields, for those moments when you just want to leav...
[07:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:55] <exec> 08└─I frequently say that advertising is a cancer on modern society
[07:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:57] <exec> 08└─*frolics in a field of daisies* *throws frisbee*
[07:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:59] <exec> 08└─Metal tube + rubber glove also works great. Apparently.
[07:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:01] <exec> 08└─Bah in my day we grew the THC and smoked it in hand-made papers. GET OFF MY GRASS!
[07:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:03] <exec> 08└─Now available by special order [costcobusinessdelivery.com] from Costco. Costco, the brand you can trust for reliable business delivery.
[07:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:06] <exec> 08└─Any problem or fear you have, anything at all, even stupid and imaginary ones, there's a product for it.
[07:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:08] <exec> 08└─At least here in the U.S., false advertising is technically illegal, but the courts bend over backwards to find a kernel of truth that magically makes the advertisement not a lie. True story, auto manufacturer once claimed their car was 700% quieter. When challenged, they specified to regulators tha...
[07:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"I Went to Rome, and All I Brought You Was this Pen" - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:19] <exec> 08└─Better than "I went to Rome and all I brought you were two slaves and a catamite".
[07:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oh Sh*t's, 11: VxWorks Stars in Today's Security Thriller - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, FreeRTOS and its cousins OpenRTOS and SafeRTOS (via Wittenstein) if you have a ton of money lying around are pretty nice, they're what eCos should have been but never really made it. The thing with VxWorks is that it's like Windows, everything supports it while with FreeRTOS you have to be a b...
[07:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:27] <exec> 08└─Arguably no other still-spoken language has fallen farther.
[07:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:50] <exec> 08└─One thing that the press release avoids mentioning in any way is the lifetime of these things. Assuming it's a mass of 18650s, how many full charge/discharge cycles can it handle? How about partial discharges? How long before it's a 70% of its initial charge capacity? At 50%?
[07:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:52] <exec> 08└─It isn't just the utilities resisting. The one around here had to go through recertification of their meters to switch to smart ones. There are normally a handful of people at utility meetings and even less comment. There were 5 people there to comment because the smart meters would allow the meter...
[07:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon May Start Fining Sellers for Using Ridiculously Huge Boxes - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:53] <exec> 08└─What a waste of space! Get a pen sized for the age of the child! Snow may be of no use at all on this topic.
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[08:22:16] <exec> 08└─Infinite scroll
[08:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:09] <exec> 08└─I think that kids should be taught early on that if a stranger isn't willing to put something down on paper in writing and sign it, you can't trust it. That's the real stranger danger we face all the way from childhood through death.
[08:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:23:10] <exec> 08└─Paying attention can actually help. But while doing so, make an effort to think in exactly the direction the advertiser is trying to lead you away from. There was an allergy pill commercial a while back where they used music from Tommy (minus lyrics). So I put the lyrics back, the ad agency must rea...
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[09:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:09] <exec> 08└─The mainstream web is a cesspool of offensive, abusive design, but what good can stupid unenforceable laws do?
[09:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:11] <exec> 08└─Yup, and whilst I don't personally use it, I think they should legalise it and tax it. If it helps more shit-consiuming zomboids end up under cars, busses, and lorries, then I'm all for it.
[09:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:13] <exec> 08└─If I load a page with infinite scroll, scroll a bit, go make a coffee, come back, scroll a bit, go for a shit, scroll a bit, start an embedded fiv, get bored and check the #shitlords IRC channel without stopping the vid, follow a few links and spout some shit, return to the boring video and stop it...
[09:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D Modeling & Animation Package Blender 2.80 is Out - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:28] <exec> 08└─Yes - usually by racing forward with major numbers when there were only small cosmetic changes. This is the opposite direction. Both break the de facto understanding of the major.minor[.revision] numbering scheme, so both should be criticised.
[09:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:09] <exec> 08└─problem solved.
[09:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:23:11] <exec> 08└─that reminds me of this story: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[09:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:09] <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
[09:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:32] <exec> 08└─If there was any justice, Christianity would be called Paulism, because it was Paul who started preaching to gentiles.
[09:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:56] <exec> 08└─GOod catch - but I will throw the disclaimer that my shitty keyboard drops keypresses occasionally, and I do know what the 'h' implies. I was using 100 as a gloss for 129, because 1 s.f. is enough for government work, and the limit of my memory capacity.
[09:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:58] <exec> 08└─Don't give in so easily! With hydro, you're not storing it in the medium, you're storing it in the location! (For proof, remove the earth, the water will no longer have the potential energy it once had, therefore it wasn't storing the energy![*]) (Oh, and I have a comeback from the predictable "I ca...
[09:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Voracious Cambrian Predator, Cambroraster, is a New Species from the Burgess Shale - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:10] <exec> 08└─I'm well aware of the origins, and occasional lack of two ends, of the body cavity. This appears to be a protostome (opens at the mouth, pops open an arse later), so your "other things don't have blah blah blah ..." wibble that needs to go back 600Myr in order to be related to the animal in question...
[09:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Web Scraping and Crawling are Perfectly Legal, Right? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:44] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, you seem about 300 years behind the times when it comes to IP laws...
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[10:22:24] <exec> 08└─Essentially everything in the bill is an unconstitutional violation of free speech and/or free association. Infinite scrolling is awful, and the solution is to not use websites that have it. Not to try to outlaw it.
[10:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 2117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:23] <exec> 08└─We have some fairly good truth in advertising laws over here in Eastpondia, but they don't go far enough. Stuff I'd like to see legislated: - If you are going to use a word like "more" or "less" in your advertising (for example, "more flavour!", "Less calories!") then you should HAVE to specify exac...
[10:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I remember making pipe bombs out of fertiliser, household chemicals and discarded car parts found at the side of the road. We took out two schools, a police station and the house of the weedy kid with a stutter before we got found out. I was grounded for a week. Kids these days, they miss out...
[10:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:27] <exec> 08└─https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix [github.com]
[10:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 1915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:01] <exec> 08└─Radio frequencies and satellite orbits/slots are very strongly regulated by both national and international treaties. At a national level, countries have complete jurisdiction over the human use of radio-frequency radiation within their borders - sure, you can transmit into a country from outside, b...
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[10:25:26] <exec> 08└─You have to produce power over time to have energy ...
[10:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sabriel [6522] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:27] <exec> 08└─AC was rude but is right about the unit mixup in what was quoted: "For perspective, plates having an area of 10 square meters each would generate a few kilowatts per hour—enough for a standard US home," Watt is indeed an instantaneous measurement, as you say, yet the quote is claiming that plates...
[10:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese National Gets Prison Time for Smuggling Fake Apple Products Into the US - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:16] <exec> 08└─Too-big-to-fail baby.
[10:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:17] <exec> 08└─So make everyone on the grid pay a basic "grid maintenance fee" as the base of their bill, and then charge energy used on top of that. Just like you pay "line rental" for your phone and then pay for calls on top. That's wasn't hard, was it?
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[11:22:33] <exec> 08└─Well done USA for coming up with something even more stupid than the EU Cookie law (training people to automatically click 'accept cookies' since 2011 so they didn't notice when the GDPR changed that to 'consent to sharing all my data' in 2018). TwitFaceTubeagram will love this - they'll come up wit...
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[11:22:34] <exec> 08└─NB: Soylent News isn't a social media site: its obviously a web app for information exchange (if not, then Slack, Zoom, Github etc. should be subject to a 30 min/day time limit, too)
[11:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:37] <exec> 08└─The difference being ours isn't a law, just a bill proposed by one chucklehead.
[11:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:39] <exec> 08└─Pretty much, yeah. A random public defender fresh out of law school could get this thrown out. While drunk.
[11:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Capital One Target of Massive Data Breach - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:04] <exec> 08└─"and I am committed to making it right." RIIIIGHT.....
[11:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:41] <exec> 08└─If relief / from ads / is what you crave Getting marketeers / to behave Legislation
[11:23:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:43] <exec> 08└─You mean Tupperware parties have been replaced with unboxing videos of, er, Tupperware?
[11:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oh Sh*t's, 11: VxWorks Stars in Today's Security Thriller - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:31] <exec> 08└─Agreed, OpenWrt is great, but with some caveats: 1) You need to make sure it will play nicely on your hardware (Also, see (2)) 2) You need to know what you are doing. While the OpenWrt volunteers have chosen a pretty good set of defaults, if you want a customised configuration there is a learning cu...
[11:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:42] <exec> 08└─As sabriel says, I may be rude, but I would never hire you as an EE if you can't see the problem in what was quoted. It would be bad enough to miss it in the original, but to still not see it when it is pointed out... Have you considered remedial classes? Or maybe a job where you say "would you like...
[11:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:44] <exec> 08└─Example 1 is not necessarily dumb. It depends on how much drag is increased by leeching power. Boats generally use an obscene amount of power to push them through the water, and most of that is simply lost. If you can recover 30% of that and feed it back into an electric motor you might be able to s...
[11:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sabriel [6522] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla's Megapack Battery is Big Enough to Help Grids Handle Peak Demand - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:36] <exec> 08└─That's not a problem with solar, that's a problem with whoever's in charge of the grid and/or billing in your part of the world. We have separate line items in our utility bill for the service (the grid), consumption (what gets used) and production (what gets produced, whether by solar, wind, hydro...
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[12:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the Brains of People With Excellent General Knowledge Look Like - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:15] <exec> 08└─> What the Brains of People With Excellent General Knowledge Look Like I'm gonna go with "squishy, pinkish-grey and wrinkly", Bob.
[12:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03garfiejas [2072] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06What the Brains of People With Excellent General Knowledge Look Like - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:16] <exec> 08└─As constantly mentioned public research should be public, don't mind pre-prints or non peer-reviewed versions but please stop supporting paywalls by linking to them
[12:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the Brains of People With Excellent General Knowledge Look Like - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:18] <exec> 08└─We’re talking neural nets so conventional ideas of circuit wiring do not apply. Would help to see a scan of a ‘non efficiently’wired brain for comparison.
[12:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 1592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:40] <exec> 08└─We can be friends. The fact that there are millions of people who hate what facegag is who can now never meet each other because there is no platform for people who think for themselves that has been able to grow to more than a thousand people without being subverted. This type of measure 'protect u...
[12:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:42] <exec> 08└─Why do you want to give the rich more money?
[12:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon You’ll be Able to Watch PBS on YouTube - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:50] <exec> 08└─I hope that you Americans will be very happy then ....
[12:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon You’ll be Able to Watch PBS on YouTube - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:52] <exec> 08└─Yawns from the US as well. What's the point in watching PBS if Bob Ross isn't going to be there painting happy little trees?
[12:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Capital One Target of Massive Data Breach - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:12] <exec> 08└─Sounds like an incel to me.
[12:23:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 1391 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:23] <exec> 08└─The article doesn't go far enough. Most people don't realize how deeply conditioned we all are. Any problem or fear you have, anything at all, even stupid and imaginary ones, there's a product for it. I've noticed that often the first thing I think to do to deal with a problem is buy some product. I...
[12:23:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 2117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:47] <exec> 08└─We have some fairly good truth in advertising laws over here in Eastpondia, but they don't go far enough. Stuff I'd like to see legislated: - If you are going to use a word like "more" or "less" in your advertising (for example, "more flavour!", "Less calories!") then you should HAVE to specify exac...
[12:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:53] <exec> 08└─I'm not trying to be funny here, but I've seen the term being used over the past couple of years but never quite got what people were talking about, it was part of the background noise, so, I've just spent some time Googling the term.. Seriously?, just when I thought things couldn't get any worse......
[12:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:55] <exec> 08└─This is an excellent writup, I will repost on my site. I have always thought this way and our current society is obviously failing and these are the types of questions we should be asking. We live under a tyrannical cultural hegemony and advertising/marketing is one of the pillars upon which it stan...
[12:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, free speech does not mean freedom to plaster bullshit everywhere. There has to be a systemic societal function for upvoting things that are healthy and social for society and de-amplifying those things that are degenerate and asocial. Right now this function is reversed and this is to the benef...
[12:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:59] <exec> 08└─"whatever replaces capitalism" You mean the civilization the roaches are going to build? I don't know, roaches and marketers have a lot in common.....
[12:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:28] <exec> 08└─You have to set priorities, if you are a superintelligent nanobot researcher working for trump and netanyahu's cult, maybe your brain cycles would better be used ensuring you have political rights and legitimate functioning representation before you hand your boss a new superweapon that they will us...
[12:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 2654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:30] <exec> 08└─Wittgenstein said don't make any statements that you are not absolutely certain about. I am certain facegag from its inception has been integrated with Darpa due to that project that was cancelled on the same day, also Zuckerborg is not capable in any way of preventing basically his entire board of...
[12:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:32] <exec> 08└─In a world where 'government' could be definied this might be nice. But a government can't exist if infiltrated with superior technology, and the worst form of government of all might be the "Shamocracy", the completely fake government which like Schwarzenegger says is there for 'kabuki'. The reason...
[12:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:27] <exec> 08└─No, sadly, it is still being maintained and created. It won't die until ABAP dies.
[12:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:29] <exec> 08└─so doubleplusgood, such bellyfeel goodthink
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[13:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:17] <exec> 08└─In what way is china rising ahead technologically?
[13:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:18] <exec> 08└─for so many reasons. we westerners have had chorded/composed characters on our computers literally forever, the chinese system simply accesses a larger tree of potential leaf nodes. the only thing he's right is that you need more assistance navigating a bigger tree. that doesn't make a bigger tree b...
[13:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:20] <exec> 08└─What's your WPM count then, Tom?
[13:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:22] <exec> 08└─The differences, advantages or disadvantages between the character sets, will flatten out over time as computers get more powerful and user interfaces inch along one good idea at a time. It isn't going to matter in the long run who has the larger alphabet.
[13:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbruchon [4473] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:25] <exec> 08└─Predictive keyboards are great for mobile devices because they have garbage keyboards (as in touchscreen-only) and long abandoned hardware keyboards. What I can bang out in SwiftKey today is slower than what I could bang out with my HTC Dream and its 5-row physical keyboard. The entire problem with...
[13:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:27] <exec> 08└─So the Chinese method is better because it uses more processing power and the standard takes more memory to implement? I have no idea what the train of thoughts is here. Anyway predictive text has"won" if you truly believe phones and tablets will one day completely replace computers. And it may not...
[13:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:29] <exec> 08└─In what way is china rising ahead technologically?
[13:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03doke [6955] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:32] <exec> 08└─I had to turn off predictive text on my phone because it gets almost every technical word or acronym wrong. It would often change them to something absurd, and I had to spend three times as long proofreading.
[13:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:34] <exec> 08└─The non-advantage of having to rely on software to guess what you meant to type has already been addressed. But there is one potential use case for Chinese characters that hasn't been explored much outside Asia. That is for the product and UI designers who insist on labeling everything with cryptic...
[13:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:36] <exec> 08└─"China is rising ahead technologically". If they are, it has nothing to do with their keyboards, you cheese dick; you brains of spilt fuck. If China is "rising ahead technologically", it is simply because there is a veritable river of money flowing into China from all corners of the earth because t...
[13:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:39] <exec> 08└─How does one memorize the hundreds of characters and their meanings?
[13:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the Brains of People With Excellent General Knowledge Look Like - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:49] <exec> 08└─I'd personally prefer public research be public as well but the choices are link to the paywalled version or not run the story. We don't put stories up without a link to the relevant information. Now if you lot want to copy pasta the DOI number into Sci-Hub or some such that's none of our business b...
[13:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2, Offtopic) 02 - 06What the Brains of People With Excellent General Knowledge Look Like - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:51] <exec> 08└─Would help to better define "general knowledge" as well. Like I consider my chemistry, physics, law, literature, non-musical art, and medicine rudimentary at best but I can build a house from the ground up (everything included) that'll last a hundred years or more, forge a knife, catch a fish, repai...
[13:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the Brains of People With Excellent General Knowledge Look Like - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:54] <exec> 08└─Cleary you exhibit excellent general knowledge.
[13:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:17] <exec> 08└─Make Javascript a public offense. the rest of problems are only consequences.
[13:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:18] <exec> 08└─Because he hates: [ ] People [ ] Dumb People [ ] Dumb People Who Use Social Media [ ] Freedom [ ] Choice [ ] Puppies [ ] Money [x] Surveys [ ] Bones In His Ice Cream [ ] All of the above
[13:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon You’ll be Able to Watch PBS on YouTube - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:28] <exec> 08└─We're in a strange limbo period where live PBS is still free on broadcast TV, but broadcast TV is declining. So that means PBS is coming to Web streaming, but not for free. That might change in the future, but this is an awkward position for PBS to be in right now.
[13:24:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:06] <exec> 08└─But they never said that, they only implied it. Intentionally and repeatedly.
[13:27:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:49] <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.
[13:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:04] <exec> 08└─If white people know how to say Daenerys Targaryen, they can learn to pronounce your name correctly.
[13:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:05] <exec> 08└─Well, to be fair his wife was probably 10 years old at that point so who knows maybe she would be prettier when she passed puberty. Give it another 5 or so years.
[13:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:07] <exec> 08└─Ken sent me.
[13:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:09] <exec> 08└─Muslims have a plan to fix that.
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[14:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Fabric That Smells Better The More You Sweat - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:15] <exec> 08└─Clothes made out of this would have had me wearing nothing else during Oklahoma summers. Tennessee doesn't seem to have much of a mosquito issue for some reason, despite having a lot more water around.
[14:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:34] <exec> 08└─[...]中国的输入文本的方式 - 以软件为中介的方式 - 将赢得胜利, 说. 实际上，它已经赢了. 我们的手机现在有预测文本和自动完成功能. 它采取了移动的约束, 让西方人意识到简单的你是什么类型的键盘的限制. 但即便如此, 你也...
[14:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:35] <exec> 08└─How would the little guy say that? Shit full of, is he?
[14:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:37] <exec> 08└─The way Chinese enters text - in a software-mediated way - will win, say. In fact, it has already won. Our phone now has predictive text and auto-complete functionality. It takes a move Constraint, let Westerners realize the simple limitations of what type of keyboard you are. But even so, you can o...
[14:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:40] <exec> 08└─Constructed from Latin alphabet glyphs instead of "basic strokes". Nothing more, nothing less. One can be just as remotely related to actual pronunciation as the other. If anything, the Chinese are having it worse as with any given phonetic-based input method, their own native dialect can pronounce...
[14:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:42] <exec> 08└─Is typing speed really that important? If it is, then use someone who can use a stenotype to record faster than speech.
[14:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:44] <exec> 08└─The makers of a comic decided to use arabic for some text quite possibly to make it look otherworldly or some crap. How does one find out what these characters mean? If they mean anything. I copied that one: https://duckduckgo.com幅 [duckduckgo.com] but, hey, that doesn't help. Is it "breadth r...
[14:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:46] <exec> 08└─It is "raising ahead" in the same way as the blind who uses a stick "rises ahead" of the person with sight because the person with sight doesn't use a stick to explore the surroundings.
[14:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:49] <exec> 08└─You made me spit covfefe on my tablet
[14:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:51] <exec> 08└─Flashcards, spaced repetitions training and patience.
[14:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:53] <exec> 08└─No such thing.
[14:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the Brains of People With Excellent General Knowledge Look Like - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:05] <exec> 08└─Your humblebrag hit a nerve with some smooth brained idiot.
[14:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the Brains of People With Excellent General Knowledge Look Like - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:07] <exec> 08└─Here is what the brains of Twitter users looks like: .
[14:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the Brains of People With Excellent General Knowledge Look Like - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:09] <exec> 08└─Apparently, and it wasn't even meant as a brag. Plenty of people from the plains area of the nation know how to do a hell of a lot of things just because you have to when paying to have X done isn't an option. My breadth of knowledge isn't anything special out there.
[14:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LightSail 2 Spacecraft Successfully Demonstrates Flight by Light - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:16] <exec> 08└─After a few tweaks, LightSail 2 began raising its orbit around the Earth. In the past 4 days, the spacecraft has raised its orbital high point, or apogee, by about 2 kilometers. The perigee, or low point of its orbit, has dropped by a similar amount, which is consistent with pre-flight expectations...
[14:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:36] <exec> 08└─To distract us from...?
[14:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:37] <exec> 08└─public offense? Crime against humanity! If they want to outlaw something, outlaw the trackpad
[14:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:40] <exec> 08└─His actual record, I expect. It can't be made into a big enough issue for much of anything more.
[14:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:42] <exec> 08└─"Elimination of natural stopping points", a catch-all category for any website that loads more content than a typical user scrolls through in three minutes without the user expressly requesting that additional content.
[14:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:53] <exec> 08└─You're going to turn on all of us fake users now? Including all of us fake Soylentils? I hope you get your fake penis caught in a fake lawn mower!
[14:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"I Went to Rome, and All I Brought You Was this Pen" - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:04] <exec> 08└─They have bros in Gay Bay?
[14:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:00] <exec> 08└─As an EE I use numbers and formulas, not words. If you hire technical people based on pedantry, you're a hated boss, and likely constantly complaining that you can't find good people.
[14:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:01] <exec> 08└─You're a tiresome pedant. How about: power for a period of time.
[14:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:04] <exec> 08└─I forgot I was in the land of cowardly anonymous pedants.
[14:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we don't talk about things like that. Just like we don't mention that those tribes would slaughter each other for resources making the arrival of Europeans no different than some other tribe taking over.
[14:28:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 1043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:35] <exec> 08└─Dave Price, non-Aboriginal husband of Bess Price, was shocked by elders’ open comments in 2009 that their women could and should be executed for sacrileges. The comments came after a policewoman drove onto men’s ceremonial grounds while young men were being initiated at Lajamanu in the remote NT...
[14:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:37] <exec> 08└─Indigenous communities, Nowra says, have to recognize they are part of Australian society and grasp the idea of personal and individual responsibility for their actions. Romanticising remote life is dangerous. There have been instances of white women or urban Aborigines moving into relationships in...
[14:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:39] <exec> 08└─My money is on the lawyers. In any conflict they always win.
[14:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:42] <exec> 08└─From 1788, British and French arrivals were shocked at local misogyny. First Fleeter Watkin Tench noticed a young woman’s head “covered by contusions, and mangled by scars”. She also had a spear wound above the left knee caused by a man who dragged her from her home to rape her. Tench wrote, ...
[14:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:44] <exec> 08└─In 1825 French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville wrote “that young girls are brutally kidnapped from their families, violently dragged to isolated spots and are ravished after being subjected to a good deal of cruelty.” George Robinson in Tasmania said in the 1830s that men courted their wo...
[14:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:46] <exec> 08└─Anthropologist T.G.H. Strehlow described a black-on-black massacre in 1875 in the Finke River area of Central Australia, triggered by a perceived sacrilege: "The warriors turned their murderous attention to the women and older children and either clubbed or speared them to death. Finally, according...
[14:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:48] <exec> 08└─Yolngu punishments are deemed valid for wives if they leave scars but do not kill. In one 2008 case, a husband stabbed his wife multiple times with a steak knife, which was within traditional bounds. The husband got a short sentence and this minor punishment was quashed by Southwood J. Jarrett wrote...
[14:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:50] <exec> 08└─Definitely agree with most of this. FYI: Hmmm. Suffice. Suffix. So, Suff- probably means at the end. And -ice waves hands about being or having the quality of. So, something about being at the end.
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[15:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Scientists Create Fabric That Smells Better The More You Sweat - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:17] <exec> 08└─How long until all the scent molecules are released? Can you "refill" them, or will that fabric simply lose its properties when that happens? Also, how well do those molecules survive the washing machine?
[15:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Fabric That Smells Better The More You Sweat - 1401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:18] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell from the very basic description here, the new odors aren't actually making the sweat odors disappear, right? They're just adding other odors to "cover it up." I'm reminded of some comedian (I don't remember who) making a joke years ago about bathroom air "fresheners." The joke w...
[15:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create Fabric That Smells Better The More You Sweat - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:21] <exec> 08└─How about a floral scented bathroom candle?
[15:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:49] <exec> 08└─TFA is basically "you can do better than QWERTY" and "computers are fast so predictive text should be enabled everywhere". The bit where inputting Chinese is relevant is entirely due to the large character set ensuring that there wasn't any long-standing historical standard regarding text input amon...
[15:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:50] <exec> 08└─Part of what happened is that someone invented and patented a one-handed input method that uses the space bar as a modifier to flip the keyboard horizontally. For example, while Space is held, keys QWER produce POIU. Then the inventor's company Matias tried selling half keyboards for PDAs and early...
[15:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:52] <exec> 08└─https://www.freemake.com/blog/12-funny-autocorrect-mistakes/ [freemake.com]
[15:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:54] <exec> 08└─The resulting proliferation of various competing input methods is all well and good until you consider a little thing called "someone else's device". What use is your proficiency with your pet input method, when with a public terminal or somesuch you flop around like an Englishman presented with a C...
[15:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:56] <exec> 08└─It seems to be saying their entry is more efficient because Chinese users are more likely to experiment with different entry software (largely for historical reasons), not because of some inherent advantage of Chinese characters. I didn't see any clear argument for inherent advantage in terms of spe...
[15:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:59] <exec> 08└─🀄️⌨️🙂 - 🌁⌨️😟 (Spoiler: Its a string of Emojis)
[15:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the Brains of People With Excellent General Knowledge Look Like - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:14] <exec> 08└─FTFY... Here is what the brains of Twitter users looks like:
[15:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:45] <exec> 08└─Shame someone didn't patent it, then sell the patent to a patent troll.
[15:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:46] <exec> 08└─Start with FOX and CNN...
[15:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:01] <exec> 08└─I'd expect it's the type of moron who is most easily manipulated, and therefore the most valuable for the advertisers.
[15:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:02] <exec> 08└─How do I apply adblock to the billboard I'm passing by?
[15:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:05] <exec> 08└─I hope you get your fake penis caught in a fake lawn mower!
[15:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oh Sh*t's, 11: VxWorks Stars in Today's Security Thriller - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:56] <exec> 08└─Code monkey like FreeRTOS! Sorry....
[15:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:42] <exec> 08└─Lucky me, I don't have those numbers memorized. ;-)
[15:26:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:57] <exec> 08└─And . . . Han Solo claimed that his Millennium Falcon "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs"
[15:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:19] <exec> 08└─Iron isn't the greatest electrical conductor, on something with a span of 10's of feet I'd expect significant losses if they're using thin iron as the wires. I'd expect bigger problems if they're trying to get bonding between iron oxide and something like copper or aluminum.
[15:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:20] <exec> 08└─I can buy a kWH for about $0.11 at retail, seems like a 10'x10' plate of anything is going to cost many multiples of $0.11 just to get it placed in a saltwater environment, even if the material it is made of is free.
[15:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:22] <exec> 08└─If you downmodded me, uncool. I referred to the ACs, right? They're a scourge.
[15:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:01] <exec> 08└─Racist!
[15:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:03] <exec> 08└─Just give them more petrol to sniff, that will get their minds off the intrusion.
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[16:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces 19 Space Act Agreements, With a Focus on Returning to the Moon - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:13] <exec> 08└─What is the possibility fuel cells could be off the shelf parts? What if navigation software could be open source?
[16:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Fabric That Smells Better The More You Sweat - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:25] <exec> 08└─There are a subset of people who find some of the scents used in air fresheners completely overpowering and offputting. I dislike going into the cleaning product aisle at the store as the smells are so strong. One of the common ingredients used in some of those has a much bigger impact on me than mo...
[16:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Scientists Create Fabric That Smells Better The More You Sweat - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:26] <exec> 08└─What if I enjoy the scent of a woman's sweat and fear? Would the fabric enhance or mask this?
[16:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Fabric That Smells Better The More You Sweat - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:28] <exec> 08└─The mosquito repelling angle seems more intriguing to me.
[16:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:03] <exec> 08└─In what way is china rising ahead technologically?
[16:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:04] <exec> 08└─Predictive keyboards are great for mobile devices because they have garbage keyboards (as in touchscreen-only) and long abandoned hardware keyboards.
[16:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:06] <exec> 08└─Yet another input method patent. Meanwhile, every single Chinese I ever met used Pinyin on both mobiles and desktops. Each and every single one.
[16:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:09] <exec> 08└─So the Chinese method is better because it uses more processing power and the standard takes more memory to implement? I have no idea what the train of thoughts is here.
[16:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:11] <exec> 08└─They can build a nuclear power plant in 3 years instead of 30.
[16:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:13] <exec> 08└─中文不是易打字 The times you have to scroll through a page of characters before you get to the right "yi" is really fucking annoying in practice.
[16:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:15] <exec> 08└─After looking up the emojis, why the fuck do they call 中 "red dragon"? What? That's not what 中 means.
[16:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:18] <exec> 08└─which you either "trust", or go away with connection refused.
[16:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:20] <exec> 08└─that doesn't make a bigger tree better.
[16:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:22] <exec> 08└─How does one memorize the hundreds tens of thousands of characters and their meanings?
[16:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:24] <exec> 08└─Thanks to predicitive text, one in five children will be getting a visit from satan this christmas.
[16:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:27] <exec> 08└─Constructed from Latin alphabet glyphs instead of "basic strokes". Nothing more, nothing less. One can be just as remotely related to actual pronunciation as the other.
[16:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:29] <exec> 08└─My Chinese friends and I all use Chinese characters driven by pinyin input methods. Simplified, sad to say, rather than classic, but still. -- Distance Raptor ——————————————— = Velociraptor Time Raptor
[16:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the Brains of People With Excellent General Knowledge Look Like - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:45] <exec> 08└─I think not looking up how to do something on youtube is becoming a dying artform. People that amass enough general knowledge to win at trivia and word games without always having to refer to a search engine first are becoming harder to find. (I've found that in some cases, finding schematics or how...
[16:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the Brains of People With Excellent General Knowledge Look Like - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:47] <exec> 08└─I have my doubts about that "last 100 years". The models you're basing around had better lumber to work with. Also if you're going to claim to make that fish-hook, did you dig the ore and forge the metal from it? (Blacksmiths *did* during the middle ages, so this isn't a totally unreasonable request...
[16:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:21] <exec> 08└─https://patents.google.com/patent/US20120011430A1/en [google.com]
[16:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:22] <exec> 08└─More like to establish how protective of internet users the person is. It doesn't matter if it passes, it can still be used by the congressperson to promote how dedicated they are to the subject of . It can also be used as a bludgeon to "prove" that is so soft on while they are strong on . And more...
[16:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:25] <exec> 08└─Wups. Lost my <psuedovariables>. It almost reads better that way though than <insert topic here>. <Cauterize brain tissue to think before executing shift-comma in future.> maybe I need legislation to help with that.
[16:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:27] <exec> 08└─Infinite scroll or auto refill, such as the Facebook newsfeed or a Twitter timeline, which automatically loads in new content when the user nears the end of the existing content, without requiring any specific request from readers.
[16:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:29] <exec> 08└─I dunno, there's always the blink tag. https://thehistoryoftheweb.com [thehistoryoftheweb.com]
[16:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 2355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:46] <exec> 08└─Dude I feel badly for you. It wouldn't occur to me once to go buy something for a clog. I am too lazy and cheap to do that. The classic problem of a clogged drain in my home usually involves denying the problem and then only dealing with it when it smells bad, via pouring in boiling water and baking...
[16:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:48] <exec> 08└─That would be a marked improvement. Much easier to ignore the video.
[16:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:50] <exec> 08└─It's been a cancer since at least the acta diurna [ancient-origins.net], and probably well before then, except that I'm less familiar with that area of history.
[16:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:52] <exec> 08└─(I should also say that the Romans did have kinds of advertising, as discussed later in that linked article, notably equivalents to our modern "billboards" (though rarely as large) and posters. But ads tacked onto other content like newspapers, etc. doesn't seem to have been standard Roman practice....
[16:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:29] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUSiCEx3e-0 [youtube.com]
[16:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:31] <exec> 08└─Deploy away, and let russia remain isolated as they wish. The low orbit sats can reach anywhere with even crude antennas. The people will do the rest, no official sanction needed.
[16:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ncc74656 [4917] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oh Sh*t's, 11: VxWorks Stars in Today's Security Thriller - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:47] <exec> 08└─What you wanted was a WRT54GL ver 1.1 It came with linux and even today makes a decent little router.
[16:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:54] <exec> 08└─Dead languages of the past are lost because no one really knows how to speak them anymore. There are no recordings or pronunciation guides, so we just have those who can read it, and those who attempt to make a spoken variant. these languages now can be recorded. And should be. A full pronunciation...
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[17:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Pi In The Sky As ESA Starts Testing Encrypted Comms On International Space Station - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:19] <exec> 08└─So is the ISS now "going dark" by using encrypted communications that the NSA is unable to snoop on? So several nations and the ESA are doing this hard work to ensure that encrypted communications overcome the problems described. (due to solar radiation) To expend such resources, they must really th...
[17:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create Fabric That Smells Better The More You Sweat - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:40] <exec> 08└─Mosquitoes don't attack their own.
[17:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Create Fabric That Smells Better The More You Sweat - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:42] <exec> 08└─Also, who enjoys citronella? At best it is a "necessary to avoid mosquitos". Now that I am learning that it isn't all that effective, it makes me hate it even more. Its more like "citronella reminds me of camping and outdoors therefore I enjoy it". If they had any effect, it was counteracted by the...
[17:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Fabric That Smells Better The More You Sweat - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:44] <exec> 08└─I don't mind the smell, particularly of (what I thought was) the live "citronella" plant [wikipedia.org]. But: Pelargonium 'citrosum' is marketed as "mosquito plant" or "citrosa geranium" in stores in the United States and Canada, even though research from the University of Guelph indicates the plan...
[17:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:31] <exec> 08└─Well, you're right, but only because in the long run we'll all be using a technologically enhanced version of a throat mike. Learning touch typing is a pain even in English (and we don't use the diacritical marks that most other European languages use).
[17:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:33] <exec> 08└─It's what we call that mahjong tile.
[17:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:35] <exec> 08└─There was a chorded key system available in the 1970's. It never became popular because learning to use it was too much of a drag. This will be true of other attempts in the same direction. There's got to be a really good reason before people will be willing to invest a lot of time and effort in lea...
[17:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:37] <exec> 08└─Dang never heard of the patented one, but saw this recently: https://blog.xkcd.com [xkcd.com] which largely does the same thing but on regular keyboards for people who can't be arsed to move their hand off the mouse.
[17:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:39] <exec> 08└─The difference in Capitalist Bureaucracy and Communist Bureaucracy. I find it hard to believe that we couldn't build a Nuclear Power Plant in 3 years. It's much more of a cultural/political issue in the USA. We don't just say, we're building a Nuclear Power Plant, then build it. Which is exactly wha...
[17:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:41] <exec> 08└─I can think and type, faster than I can speak.
[17:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:44] <exec> 08└─That's a point, but not a strong one, as over time divergence in the ways various letter combinations are to be pronounced has increased, and kept increasing. Consider the differences between the closely related languages of English and German (or even English and English). Over time, unless there i...
[17:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:46] <exec> 08└─The catastrophic failure mode for Solar / Wind is immensely less problematic than a Nuclear Power Plant.
[17:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:48] <exec> 08└─Same, I turned it off and was much less annoyed all the time.
[17:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:50] <exec> 08└─This is nonsense. I don't have some autofilll thing on the desktop because I don't want one, I can type 120 words per minute and don't need it trying to guess what I'm typing. On the phone, I do have it suggesting words, but I have a Blackberry so I don't need it; the guesses tend to be more a nuisa...
[17:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:53] <exec> 08└─Personally I hate autocorrect for all purposes I've encountered it in. I turn it off in my programming editor because it's guesses are usually incorrect until I've typed nearly the entire word. I do use it on my phone, partially because I don't know how to turn it off, and partially because the keyb...
[17:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:55] <exec> 08└─But why?
[17:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:57] <exec> 08└─Look at the wander :) the auto-correcting brings. I bet computers ruined written Chinese even worse than English.
[17:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:59] <exec> 08└─So how much did they get paid for this article?
[17:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:02] <exec> 08└─I bet The Atlantic do it for free.
[17:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What the Brains of People With Excellent General Knowledge Look Like - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:21] <exec> 08└─FTFY... Here is what the brains of Twitter users looks like:
[17:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:00] <exec> 08└─This calls for a new web extension. One that will scroll for a bit. Pause. Scroll some more. Pause. Scroll more. Repeat infinitely. Just leave the tab open, and it will keep auto scrolling the website.
[17:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:01] <exec> 08└─A true defender of freedom would also defend websites' choice to make awful decisions. Like infinite scrolling. Or God forbid, Perl.
[17:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:03] <exec> 08└─To distract us from...?
[17:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:05] <exec> 08└─(Score: 4, Inciteful Insightful) I never watched FOX. I quit CNN in 2013. Haven't looked back. On occasion there is big enough news happening that I'll turn to CNN's website. But rarely. And suspiciously. There's also the BBC. And Jerusalem Post which has more JavaScript than any site I think I've e...
[17:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:08] <exec> 08└─This LIMITING use per day is first of all ridiculous, and probably unconstitutional (I don't believe in the "corporations are people" but setting an arbitrary time limit is probably over the line in limiting speech.) You don't here anyone planning to limit TV use, or even say "Why are these movies o...
[17:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:10] <exec> 08└─What really happened! A politician didn't like a treadmill, which implied exercise, and thought the treadmill was an infinite scrolling web page.
[17:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:12] <exec> 08└─Stick to yer guns, no "probably" about it! "but setting an arbitrary time limit is probably over the line in limiting speech" Small nitpick, I don't think this is a Freedom of Speech issue. Just a regular freedom issue.
[17:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Soon You’ll be Able to Watch PBS on YouTube - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:23] <exec> 08└─So, PBS is available for free over the air; but people (who still have cable or a dish) are paying like $100 a month for a package that includes PBS. So, here people can pay $49.99 for YouTubeTV and get linear PBS, but it's not true that streaming PBS is not available for free, since (as said in th...
[17:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon You’ll be Able to Watch PBS on YouTube - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:26] <exec> 08└─All content providers are jealous of Netflix. They are now all going to pull their content into their own separate streaming services. Now you'll have to subscribe to at least 50 different streaming channels, each for about $10 / month. YouTube TV is about $50 / month. It has a lot of cable channels...
[17:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D Modeling & Animation Package Blender 2.80 is Out - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:36] <exec> 08└─and left-click being the default way to select objects.
[17:26:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 983 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:18] <exec> 08└─At least here in the U.S., false advertising is technically illegal, but the courts bend over backwards to find a kernel of truth that magically makes the advertisement not a lie. True story, auto manufacturer once claimed their car was 700% quieter. When challenged, they specified to regulators tha...
[17:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:40] <exec> 08└─I remember that case. Ridiculous that Pepsi couldn't be successfully sued for fraud for that ad. Was the ad obviously silly? Sure. But they put an actual value on acquiring the jet and listed it in the commercial, which was an ad clearly promoting collecting such points to "get stuff." Under any rea...
[17:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:41] <exec> 08└─I always wondered why Tony wore an eyepatch. I just assumed he was a pirate. As a kid I made a catapult out of stiff wire and rubber bands. It was very effective. Looking back, I realize we tended to weaponize everything. All our games were conflict-based. Good times indeed.
[17:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:44] <exec> 08└─Soylent Green is made of 100 % natural ingredients! And so is dog poop and vomit!
[17:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:46] <exec> 08└─My question: how would one become an "influencer"? How does that work? Is it the kind of thing that you just have it and know it or you don't? Do advertisers approach these people to hawk their product? And how do the advertisers identify these "influencers"? It all seems rather curious to me.
[17:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:48] <exec> 08└─We routinely let food advertisers showcase 'food' that's so carefully crafted for appearance that it's not even edible anymore (if it's even actual food). Of course, the mutant horror you actually get bears no resemblance to the food depicted in the ads.
[17:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:50] <exec> 08└─Please not to be leaving out the politicians! They are very sensitive to such perceived slights!
[17:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:52] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that is all based on "subscriptions" or "likes" or "retweets" or similar depending on the realm where the influencer is considered an influencer, and I think it works in both directions with influencers seeking sponsors and sponsors seeking influencers.
[17:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:54] <exec> 08└─I'd like to add that the retraction must match the scope and audience of the inaccurate ad. Your ad was lying during the Superbowl? Your retraction MUST hit the same audience, even though it's a lot of different ads across many different networks, days, and sporting events to do so. The big problem...
[17:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:57] <exec> 08└─Another one is toys. We're extremely conditioned to get toys from a store.
[17:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:59] <exec> 08└─To misuse Metallica: Use some fuel, use some fire, and you'll get what you desire!
[17:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:01] <exec> 08└─Meaningless feel-good words like "luxury", "premium", "natural" should be given definitions, and advertisers made to stick to them. As new words are invented to circumvent this, define them too.
[17:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oh Sh*t's, 11: VxWorks Stars in Today's Security Thriller - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:56] <exec> 08└─I still have mine. I remember deliberately having to seek out the wrt54GL. Not to be forgettin' the L. Linksys did not like that Linux on their hardware made their low end consumer products now compete with much higher priced devices in the $1000 price range. All on a cheap $50 plastic router. They...
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[18:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pi In The Sky As ESA Starts Testing Encrypted Comms On International Space Station - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:17] <exec> 08└─Use multiple memory banks to store the keys/current state. Mirror the banks to each other. If one goes out of whack, bring it back in line. If you have 3-4 banks, it should be pretty reliable. Maybe the overhead is too much? I don't know... it seems like a pretty easy problem to solve in the grand s...
[18:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pi In The Sky As ESA Starts Testing Encrypted Comms On International Space Station - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:19] <exec> 08└─It is more basic than all that because in space there is no easy set of cartesian coordinates to use, how can you have a backdoor when you don't even know where the back is??
[18:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Announces 19 Space Act Agreements, With a Focus on Returning to the Moon - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:27] <exec> 08└─You need to control where the fuel is in the tank in order to pump it out. Gravity and thrust are options, but in short supply in space. That leaves radial force from rotation. You could rotate the whole ship about the long or short axis, but it might be simpler if one could gently rotate the fuel i...
[18:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Fabric That Smells Better The More You Sweat - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:44] <exec> 08└─Haven't you heard? We're all supposed to be unquestioning throwaway consumerists now. Now run along like a good little consumerist drone and throw away all your clothes and buy new ones because they went out of fashion after two months anyway.
[18:23:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 749 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:01] <exec> 08└─"China is rising ahead technologically". If they are, it has nothing to do with their keyboards, you cheese dick; you brains of spilt fuck. If China is "rising ahead technologically", it is simply because there is a veritable river of money flowing into China from all corners of the earth because t...
[18:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PhilSalkie [3571] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:47] <exec> 08└─The advantage of phonetic character-based writing is that you can read and understand a word which you have never before seen written down. (And don't let's get started with "English isn't phonetic" - the roughly 20% of words which aren't are mostly the shorter, common words. The words you haven't s...
[18:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:49] <exec> 08└─Learning the thousands of characters needed to write correctly in Chinese won't be that much different from learning the thousands of lexical rules needed to write correctly in English.
[18:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:51] <exec> 08└─Worked well for US and most other states back in the day.
[18:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:53] <exec> 08└─There are three types of tiles called "dragons" in mahjong: red, green and white. Different sets use different markings but typically tiles are marked with 中 (in red) for the red dragon tiles, 發 (in green) for the green dragon tiles, and a blue rectangle or no marking (blank tile) for the white...
[18:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:55] <exec> 08└─Some details on the mahjong tiles [thoughtco.com]: Although despite what this article says, I don't think the blue 白 marking is very commonly used on actual mahjong sets. The other honor suit is called arrows, or dragons. There are four sets of arrows tiles, and each set has three tiles. This thre...
[18:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:58] <exec> 08└─They can build a nuclear power plant in 3 years instead of 30.
[18:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:02] <exec> 08└─He wants to outlaw letting people read bills before (or even after) they become law. Anyone ever seen a bill that could be read in 3 minutes?
[18:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:03] <exec> 08└─The difference being ours isn't a law, just a bill proposed by one chucklehead.
[18:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soon You’ll be Able to Watch PBS on YouTube - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:16] <exec> 08└─"So that means PBS is coming to Web streaming, but not for free. That might change in the future, but this is an awkward position for PBS to be in right now." That is alright they have been in plenty of them positions for years now. From the no ads until the breaks between the shows that have creepe...
[18:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D Modeling & Animation Package Blender 2.80 is Out - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:28] <exec> 08└─flat icon design
[18:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:42] <exec> 08└─There are many potential solutions. What's missing is the political will to actually implement one or more of the solutions. Or for that matter, any sort of actual consumer protection.
[18:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:44] <exec> 08└─It's not me as much as the significant other. I have found her attitudes somewhat contagious. Every so often (like, oh, once a month), she puts on this moody, helpless act in which she can't do a thing for herself, nothing is any good, and it's all my fault. She's far worse than I am about buying so...
[18:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"I Went to Rome, and All I Brought You Was this Pen" - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:56] <exec> 08└─Especially in the run-up to Romexit. Yeah, Boudacia!
[18:27:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Russia Denies OneWeb's Satellite Internet Request - 1510 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:04] <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...
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[19:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:18] <exec> 08└─Fix it by 1000 bee stings. Legislators or their families need to be on the receiving end of these small claims. If it's good enough for everyone else, then why not.
[19:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:20] <exec> 08└─The term "1000 bee stings" is in a text I wrote on my blog 15 years ago. Please send me $5000 in bitcoin immediately.
[19:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03noelhenson [6184] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pi In The Sky As ESA Starts Testing Encrypted Comms On International Space Station - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:30] <exec> 08└─ECC memory?
[19:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces 19 Space Act Agreements, With a Focus on Returning to the Moon - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:39] <exec> 08└─I was under the impression that SpaceX wanted to use thrust to transfer fuel from a tanker-version Starship to cargo/crewed version. Apparently, all Starships will be capable of transferring fuel, not just the tanker: https://en.wikipedia.org(spacecraft) [wikipedia.org] tanker: a carg...
[19:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Create Fabric That Smells Better The More You Sweat - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:57] <exec> 08└─Regardless of effectiveness and scent, I would prefer the laser defense from a coolness factor.
[19:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create Fabric That Smells Better The More You Sweat - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:59] <exec> 08└─I'm right there with you friend! Whenever my dad put on cologne to take my mom out on a date, I had to go to the backyard to breathe. Can't stand the cleaning products aisle of any stores. Most deodorants give me a nasty rash if I use them too many days in a row (three or four, usually). Drinking a...
[19:23:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 428 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:20] <exec> 08└─The way Chinese enters text - in a software-mediated way - will win, say. In fact, it has already won. Our phone now has predictive text and auto-complete functionality. It takes a move Constraint, let Westerners realize the simple limitations of what type of keyboard you are. But even so, you can o...
[19:23:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:34] <exec> 08└─In what way is china rising ahead technologically?
[19:23:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:42] <exec> 08└─that doesn't make a bigger tree better.
[19:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:09] <exec> 08└─Not In My Backyard is one of the few things everyone in the U.S. can agree on Not even limited to nuke stations, but wind turbines, hell even electrical lines...because "electricity causes cancer" or some other moronic reason.
[19:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 2131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:10] <exec> 08└─I would like to nuance some of these things. Not that I think what you wrote is not true mind you. Just because I think that it depends on how we look at it. I'm not sure any of this is really related to the OP. China is on the fastest course to having major issues of a scale that is incomparable th...
[19:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:12] <exec> 08└─Predictive text is also thoroughly useless if you're bilingual, and expect to be able to type in a minority language. I've been ignoring predictive text since the days of T9 dictionaries...
[19:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:15] <exec> 08└─Thank you for confirming my prejudice. I know the Korean view on traditional Chinese - the inventor of Hangul basically said Chinese was unlearnable, and came up with a syllabic replacement, much more sane. And that was just for the subset of the script that was relevant for Korean. I've seen Korean...
[19:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:17] <exec> 08└─requires great peace of mind! In 10 years of using predictive text, I have never once known it get it right. It may work for teenage girls with limited vocabularies (ie those who find Emojis useful) but real men use Fortran.
[19:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:19] <exec> 08└─I spent probably 30 seconds scrolling up and down a huge list of little pictures attempting to find clinking pair of stein for a message on discourse earlier today. In the end I just gave up and said "Cheers!" instead. I was planning on starting a MPhil on this very subject matter (well, HCI from an...
[19:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:26] <exec> 08└─Curiously, the bill explicitly excludes autoplaying advertisements from its coverage, despite the general unpopularity of that content.
[19:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:27] <exec> 08└─Let me reveal to you my true identity - I am Keith Emerson, of the 60s/70s band /Emerson Lake and Palmer/. For I have resurrected the technique I invented whilst playing with /The Nice/ - namely that I stab a knife into my keyboard, and then let the force of the knife hold down the down key (I forge...
[19:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Proposed US Law would Ban Infinite Scrolling and Autoplaying Videos, Limit Daily Use - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:30] <exec> 08└─Maybe infinite scroll web pages are actually finite in length. The top and bottom edges of the web page are taped together. They are on rollers. Eventually if you scroll far enough down the web page, you will see the tape that holds the beginning and end of the web page together. Then the content wi...
[19:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Capital One Target of Massive Data Breach - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the media is going all out to protect Amazon from this. A tranny freak who worked for them used its insider knowledge to jack Capital One's data. Which is also being minimized, the stupidity of putting private info into the Cloud in the first place. So what lessons should be drawn? 1. Don't hi...
[19:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:10] <exec> 08└─The classic problem of a clogged drain in my home usually involves denying the problem and then only dealing with it when it smells bad, via pouring in boiling water
[19:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:11] <exec> 08└─Some politicians are in favor of consumer protections. But then others yell about government regulation! Some politicians start stripping away all kinds of protections as soon as they take office. Including environmental, air and water quality, not just consumer protections.
[19:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:13] <exec> 08└─"This food product is organic!" "So what you're basically saying is, 'this food product is food,' which is technically correct, because all food contains carbon. Thanks." Although technically, if one could somehow call crude oil "food", it would still be organic, also.
[19:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:16] <exec> 08└─The one place I learned to hear the "All Natural" was in 2017 visiting Colorado, and visiting some marijuana dispensaries. It was best for everything. From baldness to hairy palms to cancer. No need for doctors and medicine. And . . . It's All Natural!
[19:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:18] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Interestingly, a significant percentage of the latter group seem to be all for strict enforcement of terms adverse to the consumer.
[19:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:39] <exec> 08└─If I was hiring an E.E. I doubt that I would consider one who did not know the difference between power and energy to be a "good people". Using numbers and formulas is fine when you use the right ones, but if you don't understand what they represent then at some point you are going to use the wrong...
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[20:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:24] <exec> 08└─The bot posted the July 10 article, there's a July 18 article: https://www.eff.org [eff.org]
[20:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:26] <exec> 08└─The term "1000 bee stings" is in a text I wrote on my blog 15 years ago. Please send me $5000 in bitcoin immediately.
[20:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:28] <exec> 08└─Nice try, but do you think the 'Copyright Claims Officer' is going to pass claims against the rich and powerful? Your "bee stings" are going to be dismissed as fair use or unproven. Fines are only for the peasants. From TFA As Public Knowledge points out in their analysis of the bill, knowledgeable...
[20:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:30] <exec> 08└─Here is .00001 BTC, just HODL till its worth $5k!
[20:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:32] <exec> 08└─I wonder who wrote this bill? Also who "lobbied" to get it passed?
[20:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:35] <exec> 08└─If you want to know which crowd of bipartisan assfucks are responsible for this garbage here you go. [congress.gov] Reading the text [congress.gov] of the bill I'm troubled at *The notion that expert witnesses are explicitly banned from the proceedings. *The exemption of the pseudo-court's records f...
[20:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:37] <exec> 08└─Ever share a meme, share a photo that isn’t yours, or download a photo you didn’t create?
[20:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pi In The Sky As ESA Starts Testing Encrypted Comms On International Space Station - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:47] <exec> 08└─Indeed - if you can't trust your memory, you keep the data in redundant backups, ideally encoded with some sort of error-correcting (or at least detecting) code so that you can tell which copy(s) have been corrupted. And then you check for corruption on a regular basis (e.g. before and after every...
[20:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pi In The Sky As ESA Starts Testing Encrypted Comms On International Space Station - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:49] <exec> 08└─This is why satellites don’t have encrypted control channels. Oh wait, no, they do. This problem was solved a long long time ago.
[20:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create Fabric That Smells Better The More You Sweat - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:17] <exec> 08└─The more you fart!
[20:24:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:03] <exec> 08└─Constructed from Latin alphabet glyphs instead of "basic strokes". Nothing more, nothing less. One can be just as remotely related to actual pronunciation as the other.
[20:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, what good is a lump of coal if it isn't actually burning?
[20:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:34] <exec> 08└─I made an attempt to learn Chinese many years ago. It reminded me of the Star Trek episode, Darmok and Jilad (spelling may be incorrect.) It felt like Chinese was a language of metaphors. Without a lifetime of cultural background and symbolism, true meanings are hopelessly lost. The specificity of w...
[20:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:36] <exec> 08└─No. Real Men use butterflies [xkcd.com].
[20:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:38] <exec> 08└─a nuclear power station is pretty much the only facility that I would *want* people to take their time building
[20:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:41] <exec> 08└─They can build a nuclear power plant in 3 years instead of 30. They can build a high speed rail line from breaking ground to carrying passengers in under 5.
[20:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:43] <exec> 08└─Okay, maybe 30 years is too long, but I'm not sure the answer is exactly 3 years. There are these numbers between 3 and 30
[20:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soon You’ll be Able to Watch PBS on YouTube - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:04] <exec> 08└─Peak capitalism, gotta love it! Maybe the human race should realize we don't need to pursue this madness and we would all be better off working together. Greed has allowed a MASSIVE portion of human productivity to be funneled into the hands of a very few, and until we find a way to limit such greed...
[20:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Capital One Target of Massive Data Breach - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, they're lying.
[20:30:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:00] <exec> 08└─Even a thin iron foil is actually a decent conductor when 10 feet wide - resistance is proportional to the cross-sectional area, and being 10 feet wide really helps with that. It'll need to be almost 6x thicker than a copper foil to get the same conductance, but it's hundreds of times cheaper, so it...
[20:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:01] <exec> 08└─They say that it's "enough to power a house", so presumably that's per-day, or *maybe* per-hour (though that would be a heck of a high-power house)
[20:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:04] <exec> 08└─That's the difference between buying power, and buying generating capacity. Hint - the coal plant you're probably buying most of your power from cost a LOT more than 10 cents per kilowatt to build. Buy 1kWh of power, and it's keep your 1kW load running for one hour, and then you have to buy another...
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[21:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decades-Old Pollutants Melting Out Of Himalayan Glaciers - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:15] <exec> 08└─I don't have any comment of real utility, but who the fuck is reading the same damn papers as me? I remember reading this study about a month ago when it was first published. It was interesting and bad but not terribly concerning in the grand scale of climate change disasters, heck it's not even the...
[21:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Decades-Old Pollutants Melting Out Of Himalayan Glaciers - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:16] <exec> 08└─'nuf said.
[21:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Decades-Old Pollutants Melting Out Of Himalayan Glaciers - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:19] <exec> 08└─"The Earth is a closed system. Everything released on the Earth, stays somewhere on the Earth," Miner said. I love this guy already. In the parlance of our times, externalities are a b*(&(. Someone please send capitalists the memo, you can find them easily because their heads are in a hole yet they...
[21:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Decades-Old Pollutants Melting Out Of Himalayan Glaciers - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:21] <exec> 08└─The indo-pakistani water shortages of the next decade or two are gonna be mass death and migration on a heretofor never seen scale.
[21:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decades-Old Pollutants Melting Out Of Himalayan Glaciers - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:23] <exec> 08└─The indo-pakistani water shortages of the next decade or two are gonna be mass death and migration on a heretofor never seen scale.
[21:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decades-Old Pollutants Melting Out Of Himalayan Glaciers - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:25] <exec> 08└─Then our course is clear -- for guidance, we must look to the land that has operated for decades under this assumption. I refer, of course, to Las Vegas.
[21:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decades-Old Pollutants Melting Out Of Himalayan Glaciers - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:28] <exec> 08└─Well, we can add famine to that drought once the fish are too toxic to eat!
[21:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decades-Old Pollutants Melting Out Of Himalayan Glaciers - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:30] <exec> 08└─The indo-pakistani water shortages of the next decade or two are gonna be mass death and migration on a heretofor never seen scale.
[21:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 2460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:45] <exec> 08└─The republicans are now more like a cult than a political party, nothing they do is announced in public ahead of time it is just kindof imposed. You can draw all of these things on a dial where authoritarianism is in every single case the underlying obfuscated goal. Using the internet to enforce out...
[21:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:47] <exec> 08└─This is what's so infuriating about our political system. Both parties are in thrall to this crap. Democrats love, love, love Hollywood. Republicans see in this yet another way to be business friendly. Help the makers defend their proppity from all those takers. Helped by campaign donations, neither...
[21:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:49] <exec> 08└─Republicans are terrible, but slightly more dems cosponsored this shitshow. More than one thing can be wrong with our democracy.
[21:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:51] <exec> 08└─Per: https://www.congress.gov [congress.gov] Sponsor: Rep. Jeffries, Hakeem S. [D-NY-8] See that letter "D" by the name. It means Democrat. How did you get Republican out of this?
[21:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:53] <exec> 08└─You can't see a photo on the internet without downloading it. Nor read this comment.
[21:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:56] <exec> 08└─Depends. Do you have multiple personalities? (RIP MDC)
[21:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:58] <exec> 08└─In the history of the world republicans have no comparison, words fail at how awful they are if you have any true moral capacity whatsoever. The Democratic Party is deeply corrupted by the same people who have corrupted the repubublican party, and this is the idiocy of a two party system, all of the...
[21:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:00] <exec> 08└─> Republicans are terrible The proof is in the outcome. Republican run cities are so terrible. Oh wait, I got my facts reversed, again! How does this keep happening?
[21:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:03] <exec> 08└─> In the history of the world republicans have no comparison, You are talking about the party that ended slavery. The fact is, when you define someone as a "person," you give them rights per the constitution, and rights as a human being. That includes the right to not be murdered. Democrats justifie...
[21:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 1289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:05] <exec> 08└─The CASE Act of 2019 was introduced on May 1, 2019 in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 2426) by Representatives Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and Doug Collins (R-GA); and for the first time in the Senate (S. 1273) by Senators John Kennedy (R-LA), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Dick Durbin (D-IL), and Mazie Hir...
[21:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:07] <exec> 08└─They do, and you're dumb.
[21:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:09] <exec> 08└─I think every congresscritter and executive should be required to serve two terms. One in office. One in a federal penitentiary.
[21:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 1271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:11] <exec> 08└─All the more reason for for the people to aggressively "go dark". I just recently put up a protest site for some people, using cryptocurrency and TOR. It's highly doubtful that anybody will unmask my identity, and there are zero communications now making their way to back to me from the site. It's f...
[21:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Fabric That Smells Better The More You Sweat - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:52] <exec> 08└─This can't be kosher.
[21:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:14] <exec> 08└─First, dearest creature in Creation, study English pronunciation: https://en.wikisource.org [wikisource.org] And afterwards, avail yourself of this bit of knowledge: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Cheers!
[21:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:15] <exec> 08└─I have a very basic working knowledge of Chinese and agree with all of your points and some others made earlier by FatPhil. Speaking of trees, ever tried to look up a character in a print edition of a Chinese dictionary? Major sorting issue. Also, to my aged Western ear, many Chinese consonants like...
[21:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:17] <exec> 08└─with the rate Apple is releasing emoji https://www.apple.com [apple.com]
[21:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:19] <exec> 08└─You can type faster than 150 WPM (average) or 200 (slow auctioneer)?
[21:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:22] <exec> 08└─I would like to see a speech-to-text software that could even come close to correctly recognizing auctioneer speech. Perhaps, speech to text input will eventually take over. I could definitely see it taking over as far as tablets/smartphones are concerned. When writing text that needs to be edited,...
[21:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:24] <exec> 08└─The original designers literally retired and died before the project finished.
[21:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:26] <exec> 08└─old Chinese typewriters
[21:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:29] <exec> 08└─Of course, there's an emacs command to do just that.
[21:25:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06What the Brains of People With Excellent General Knowledge Look Like - 848 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:39] <exec> 08└─Would help to better define "general knowledge" as well. Like I consider my chemistry, physics, law, literature, non-musical art, and medicine rudimentary at best but I can build a house from the ground up (everything included) that'll last a hundred years or more, forge a knife, catch a fish, repai...
[21:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the Brains of People With Excellent General Knowledge Look Like - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:49] <exec> 08└─Now be fair -- they have a 144 character limit, so it's at least something more like: _ Wait, didn't they double it? Now it's: __
[21:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D Modeling & Animation Package Blender 2.80 is Out - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:04] <exec> 08└─I wrote that line in the early 2000s as part of a longer . . . Our father, who art in Redmond, Microsoft be thy name. Thy monopoly come, thy will be done, Throughout the Earth as it is in the US. Give us this day, our daily license activation key. And forgive us our bug reports, As we forgive our sy...
[21:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:28] <exec> 08└─Sorry I wasn't clearer -- what products exist for those fears? Do I need a prescription for them?
[21:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:30] <exec> 08└─One political party hates consumers as a matter of ideology. The other party is anti consumer if the right palms are greased. So there's not necessarily any winning tragedy here.
[21:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:13] <exec> 08└─You do realize one of the main goals of the university is to prevent people with gifted intelligence from gaining a political education so that your powers can be directed exactly for the interest of your superiors, who do not have these gifts, and are frequently sociopaths up to no good at all.
[21:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 1332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:14] <exec> 08└─This is a fair question, I overstated and I am over-generalizing. 'the purpose of college' is not singularly to discourage or prevent the political thought of intellectuals. In my experience I encountered undercover repression on campus and found it difficult to learn about anything else in my cours...
[21:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook-Funded Study Translates Brain Activity Into Text - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:16] <exec> 08└─That engineer ... should probably take an ethics course [youtube.com]. Engineers are kind of special in that they integrate natural laws (and ethical concerns) from multiple disciplines and produce real-world results, not just research papers. A single day and a handful of case studies isn't going t...
[21:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:00] <exec> 08└─This circles back to the question posed earlier: are they telling what the generating capacity is, or are they actually quoting the total generating capacity of the device over its lifetime (as the units implied...) One would hope they just flubbed the units in the usual fashion and they really mean...
[21:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Save a Dying Language - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:43] <exec> 08└─Well, two things. First, of course the academia behind a historical Jesus says he is historical. For quite a long time, such thoughts could mean literal execution. Then, even when it was allowed, you then have the "this is fringe because no one ever talks about it; because no one talks about it, it...
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[22:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:15] <exec> 08└─In other news: If humans were meant to fly we'd have wings! It would take massive alteration of our biology to do so, thus it will never happen. Never is a very very long time.
[22:22:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:17] <exec> 08└─Never say "never". Will it happen in my lifetime, or even my son's lifetime? Certainly not. In 1000 years? I can almost guarantee it, provided we don't decide to destroy ourselves before that.
[22:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:19] <exec> 08└─I wish that when you died you got to see how everything turns out. Do you kids grow old and happy. How about your grandkids? What does technology look like in 1000 years? 10,000 years? Etc.
[22:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:21] <exec> 08└─One man's colony is another man's science outpost. Another man's colony is a terraformed megalopolis. Wait... colony? Man? The Outdated Language of Space Travel [theatlantic.com] We need to change the way we talk about space exploration [nationalgeographic.com] Decolonizing Mars: Are We Thinking Abo...
[22:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:24] <exec> 08└─provided we don't decide to destroy ourselves before that.
[22:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:26] <exec> 08└─I think our modern civilization will be destroyed, but I think that humans will live on. A very few of us anyway. Not me. If shit hits the fan, my skills won't be useful at all. Most of us desk jockeys will die in the first wave.
[22:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:28] <exec> 08└─O-M-F-G. We have to send all the Musky incels to Mars, and then nuke it from orbit until it's radioactive forever.
[22:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:30] <exec> 08└─Once temperatures get below the -40 degrees F/C mark, people who aren't properly dressed for the occasion can expect hypothermia to set in within about five to seven minutes.
[22:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:33] <exec> 08└─A working SpaceX Starship makes it doable in your son's lifetime, for some values of "colony".
[22:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:35] <exec> 08└─When on Mars, live indoors. Like basement dwelling incels already do on Earth all the time.
[22:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:37] <exec> 08└─Temperature scale intersections? I thought they were going unitless....
[22:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:39] <exec> 08└─They have bunkers for that, though the spaceship/ark story sounds cooler.
[22:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decades-Old Pollutants Melting Out Of Himalayan Glaciers - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:55] <exec> 08└─Peep the percentages in South Asia [springer.com] for population under water stress conditions. The positive offsets of increased monsoons in coastal india are way smaller than the negative effects in the Indus Valley.
[22:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decades-Old Pollutants Melting Out Of Himalayan Glaciers - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:57] <exec> 08└─I guess those stats about paper readerships don't apply to the big name journals.
[22:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decades-Old Pollutants Melting Out Of Himalayan Glaciers - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:59] <exec> 08└─"The Earth is a closed system. Everything released on the Earth, stays somewhere on the Earth," Helium escapes the atmosphere over the long term.
[22:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Decades-Old Pollutants Melting Out Of Himalayan Glaciers - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:01] <exec> 08└─If only secrets and shit had the same physical and metaphysical properties. If Las Vegas exports no trash and didn't have to export water, then I would be like wow. But it does in both cases.
[22:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decades-Old Pollutants Melting Out Of Himalayan Glaciers - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:03] <exec> 08└─Er... yes? The destruction of the earth caused predominantly by simplistic short-sighted nationalist approaches to problems will create new problems that provoke new simplistic short-sighted nationalist approaches. That pattern in history has repeated enough to be kinda obvious.
[22:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decades-Old Pollutants Melting Out Of Himalayan Glaciers - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:05] <exec> 08└─The silver-lining about that is: the smaller the territory under control, the faster they'll choke in their own shit. Easier to learn what's that fuss with that responsibility they (don't?) talk about (even if it may be too late to apply the lessons).
[22:23:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 369 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:19] <exec> 08└─If you want to know which crowd of bipartisan assfucks are responsible for this garbage here you go. [congress.gov] Reading the text [congress.gov] of the bill I'm troubled at *The notion that expert witnesses are explicitly banned from the proceedings. *The exemption of the pseudo-court's records f...
[22:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:34] <exec> 08└─Faux Newz, now a one-stop shop for all your faux realité needs!
[22:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:36] <exec> 08└─Frankly, the current GOP should be called the RINO party. Read Eisenhower's famous warning about the military-industrial complex and try to tell me he doesn't sound more like a Democrat than a Republican. Of course that's because the DNC is more aptly called the DINO party these days.
[22:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:38] <exec> 08└─My Psychotic best to Mrs PartTimeZombie and the PartTimeZombie kids.
[22:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 5185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:40] <exec> 08└─High confidence that this was rhetorical, but... can't.... help........ myself! As to the supporters... https://copyrightalliance.org [copyrightalliance.org] (and one should easily figure out who might be in support of a bill which subve...
[22:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:42] <exec> 08└─I started my reply before yours, but didn't get to post it until now...
[22:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:45] <exec> 08└─There is no surprise that the NeverTrump GOP's are also the worst RINO's. Trump represents an existential threat to corrupt the RINO and DINO system. They know what is coming, but the public will not until a year or so from now. Did you notice that Democrats are now supporting criminal charges again...
[22:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:47] <exec> 08└─Jawohl! Your cities run by ze Republicans are most efficient! Zey are ze best running cities in ze entire World! Sieg heil!
[22:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Announces 19 Space Act Agreements, With a Focus on Returning to the Moon - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:07] <exec> 08└─What if navigation software could be open source?
[22:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Fabric That Smells Better The More You Sweat - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:30] <exec> 08└─Clothes made out of this would have had me wearing nothing else during Oklahoma summers.
[22:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create Fabric That Smells Better The More You Sweat - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:31] <exec> 08└─mosquito-killing laser system
[22:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:01] <exec> 08└─I can think and type, faster than I can speak. You can type faster than 150 WPM (average) or 200 (slow auctioneer)? I would like to see a speech-to-text software that could even come close to correctly recognizing auctioneer speech. Perhaps, speech to text input will eventually take over. I could de...
[22:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jbruchon [4473] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Characters Are Futuristic and the Alphabet Is Old News - 2581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:02] <exec> 08└─Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining about predictive input; it can be much faster than non-predictive input, but it becomes a double-edged sword, especially once you need to type anything differently than usual. For example, if I use my laptop to constantly type out blog posts about my snotty, i...
[22:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Capital One Target of Massive Data Breach - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:52] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the media is going all out to protect Amazon from this.
[22:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:05] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that is all based on "subscriptions" or "likes" or "retweets" or similar depending on the realm where the influencer is considered an influencer, and I think it works in both directions with influencers seeking sponsors and sponsors seeking influencers.
[22:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:07] <exec> 08└─I've gone to great lengths to remove the pernicious and omnipresent advertisements from my view. Firefox, NoScript, uBlock, Ghostery for internet. No phone apps that use obnoxious ads (I do use some "free" apps with ads, but they are small and easily ignored). Sirius XM or USB for music in the car....
[22:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:09] <exec> 08└─Sadly true.
[22:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ultra-Thin Layers of Rust Generate Electricity from Flowing Saltwater Water - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:38] <exec> 08└─hehehe, lol. now i get it "watt per hour" translated is "w/h" but watt-hour is "w*h". i am sure the writer has stumbled upon something on the internet often enough to know that watt or even kilo watt is not energy. so for good measure threw in hours too ...
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[23:22:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 176 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:24] <exec> 08└─In other news: If humans were meant to fly we'd have wings! It would take massive alteration of our biology to do so, thus it will never happen. Never is a very very long time.
[23:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:38] <exec> 08└─How does a 99% CO2 atmosphere fail to maintain heat?
[23:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:39] <exec> 08└─Step 1 - send corpses to Mars, to start the circle of life. Get that fungi and micronutrients going. Step 2 - send 3D "printer" and stacking robots to create AREOFOAM building panels, lets light and heat in, and instalate the interior space. Step 3 - wait 50 to 60 years, while sneding more corpses a...
[23:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:42] <exec> 08└─"Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it." Though TFA does have a bit of a point that a colony on Mars, especially a self-sustaining one, would be an extremely hard endeavor and the Mars-One fueled hype that we can get there in just a few years (instead of...
[23:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:44] <exec> 08└─What you call an atmosphere is largely a fiction. It's almost nonexistent, and it doesn't maintain the heat.
[23:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:46] <exec> 08└─Around the same time as the space race, undersea colonization was studied. Presently, it is rejected as cost ineffective. Colonization of Mars, on large scale, may actually be more cost effective than the ocean floors, same for the Moon. The pressure differentials are lower and access to solar power...
[23:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:48] <exec> 08└─An atmospheric thermal blanket consists of more than CO2, maybe? And maybe CO2 is the element that we keep producing more and more of, maybe? Thanks for playing.
[23:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:51] <exec> 08└─Gizmodo doesn't want Mars colonization: https://gizmodo.com [gizmodo.com] #NoMoreColonialism
[23:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:53] <exec> 08└─How does a 99% CO2 atmosphere fail to maintain heat? (Thin atmosphere fails to retain heat?)
[23:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:55] <exec> 08└─So what are the reasons for moving up to 100,000 humans to Mars? It will not relieve the population density on Earth, and at the same time will create a burden of periodic flights to Mars to deliver essentials that cannot be had locally.
[23:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:57] <exec> 08└─it would be so much easier to just put the people you want to survive on the rockets, go into orbit, and eradicate the remaining undesirable humans from the surface.
[23:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:00] <exec> 08└─There's not a lot of nudist beaches in Siberia, either, but people still live there.
[23:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:02] <exec> 08└─The Earthly problems will follow you to Mars.
[23:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:04] <exec> 08└─So what are the reasons for moving up to 100,000 humans to Mars?
[23:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:06] <exec> 08└─100,000 is arbitrary and aspirational. A much smaller number will be easier, and more will come if there is demand by thrill seekers to enter the Martian hellscape semi-permanently. Or economic incentives (asteroid mining might have better incentives, but might not require humans for the most part)....
[23:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:09] <exec> 08└─hmmmm abou that low pressure situation on mars and feeling cold: i was always wondering why the earth oceans aren't evaporating into the infinite vacuum of space. one would think that a glass of liquid water would boil and turn into "steam" at the zero pressure of space? also why the gaseous athmosp...
[23:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:11] <exec> 08└─Not sure that enough wealthy humans with this worldview can be found to finance the migration.
[23:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:13] <exec> 08└─But.. I'm not dead [youtube.com]
[23:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:15] <exec> 08└─640k is enough for anyone!
[23:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Will Never Colonize Mars - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:18] <exec> 08└─Mars cannot be terraformed without building a dome over the entire planet. This doesn't mean that colonies are impossible, it means that it won't be a "wild west" kind of place. Living there will need to be tightly controlled, because a human engineered "eco-system" is a lot less robust than a natur...
[23:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:18] <exec> 08└─I predicted this response (in another thread, but still)!
[23:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:19] <exec> 08└─Nothing stopping a Democrat from being a shithead too, but you're fooling yourself if you think the two parties have the same levels of corruption and unethical behavior.
[23:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:21] <exec> 08└─Oooh oooh, I found a good movie quote for you! "My government knows no shame." https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[23:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:23] <exec> 08└─Hold on, I'll ask...
[23:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Copyright Lawsuits Could Come To Regular Internet Users Under A New Law - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:26] <exec> 08└─The levels of corruption are similar, but they tend to focus on different areas. Democrats are more inclined towards copyright corruption, though the degree of difference may currently be minor. That said, the Democrats occasionally sponsor socially compassionate legislation. But they've also histor...
[23:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What the Brains of People With Excellent General Knowledge Look Like - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:00] <exec> 08└─How does one measure neural network efficiency? Is there a notion of 100% efficiency as in classical thermodynamic systems?
[23:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LightSail 2 Spacecraft Successfully Demonstrates Flight by Light - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:08] <exec> 08└─That's nice, but is it possible to raise both apogee and perigee with this hardware?
[23:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:44] <exec> 08└─http://www.americantable.org/2012/07/how-bacon-and-eggs-became-the-american-breakfast/ [americantable.org] This was 50+ years ago. What do you think they have been up to since then. The one that really pisses me off is plastic bottles. We replaced glass easy to recycle bottles with trash that takes...
[23:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertising is a Cancer on Society - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:45] <exec> 08└─Think about this. Three of the largest companies in the world are advertising agencies. They pretend to be a cool tech companies. They have decided they do not like the President. What will they do in the next year or so? Gee what will they do?!
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