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[00:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flu Vaccination Linked With Lower Risk of Early Death in Patients With High Blood Pressure - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:57] <exec> 08└─If the vaccine works (this or any other) then it should be linked to lower early death rates in all groups. Men, women, blacks, whites, Latinos, Asians, conservatives, liberals . . .
[00:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyundai Shows Off Exoskeleton Robot to Help Assembly Line Workers - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:04] <exec> 08└─Hyundai shows off robotic assembly robot training system. After all, you gotta train the robot's machine learning system before it can replace you.
[00:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hyundai Shows Off Exoskeleton Robot to Help Assembly Line Workers - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:07] <exec> 08└─It's time to make a DIY exoskeleton that can support hauling big weapons, or thick steel armor. Before the government bans everything. Lightweight and unpowered is nice but a battery can let you do much more for a short time. Like mow down a group of hostiles.
[00:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:22] <exec> 08└─He's sorry that nothing will happen. He's ESPECIALLY sorry he'll NEVER see jail time.
[00:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, at least pick a target that's worth the trouble [boeing.com]. Zuckerberg is just a drunken clown you don't invite to your kid's birthday [youtube.com]. This crap is regular theater.
[00:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:26] <exec> 08└─I can understand the cynicism here, but please actually take the time to check Ron Wyden's history. Between Net Neutrality, Stingray, Warrent-less eavesdropping, security of personal electronics at borders, and numerous other things, I think he's repeatedly demonstrate he is knowledgeable about tech...
[00:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:28] <exec> 08└─The way to punish him is to switch from Facebook to Instagram.
[00:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:15] <exec> 08└─Nothing has been resolved and the region has been horribly destabilized, which is what happens with all of these wars of aggression.
[00:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:16] <exec> 08└─I have to agree with AC on that one, with the proviso that the mideast hasn't been "stable" since the fall of the Ottoman. Whatever stability Iraq had was due to Hussein's iron fist and ruthlessness, and we removed that.
[00:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:18] <exec> 08└─Yes. Almost half the country can't afford a $400 emergency. Very, very few can afford a $1,000 emergency. So many are having trouble even affording car payments. The stock market and GDP being up only tells you that the mega-rich are doing better. People who think the economy is great for ordinary p...
[00:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:20] <exec> 08└─No, but what you can expect is, US based companies hire US workers, who spend money in the US, which then circulates in the US. As opposed to sending money overseas, where the money then circulates in China, India, Korea, or wherever. Every dollar removed from circulation within the US cuts into you...
[00:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:11] <exec> 08└─The USA has a written constitution and to Americans that is all important. Many European constitutions are unwritten
[00:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Real-Time Maps Warn Hong Kong Protesters of Water Cannons and Riot Police - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:23] <exec> 08└─https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/20/business/hong-kong-business-extradition.html [nytimes.com] https://www.cnn.com [cnn.com] Billion dollar deals have already fallen flat. Protesters are not placated. Further escalation could cause the...
[00:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Allowlist, Not Whitelist. Blocklist, Not Blacklist. Microsoft Lops Off Offensive Words - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:26] <exec> 08└─It was Eisenhower's wife, Mamie. She wore pink dresses all the time. Originally, she was somewhat mocked for that choice, but then she became First Lady. Naturally, that meant that all the women wanted to copy America's Royal Family de jure. And just like that, pink was the girl's color. And because...
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[01:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flu Vaccination Linked With Lower Risk of Early Death in Patients With High Blood Pressure - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:51] <exec> 08└─Too bad data about Americans weren't available, so the study used only data on those damn'd Danish 'socialists'. Runaway has now a good excuse to stay clueless, people like him weren't considered.
[01:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flu Vaccination Linked With Lower Risk of Early Death in Patients With High Blood Pressure - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:53] <exec> 08└─Nope... the mechanism is pretty specific. Vaccine causes autism, autism lower blood pressure, lower blood pressure reduces death.
[01:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flu Vaccination Linked With Lower Risk of Early Death in Patients With High Blood Pressure - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:55] <exec> 08└─Conservatism is still the same NEW Counter- Anti-Culture
[01:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flu Vaccination Linked With Lower Risk of Early Death in Patients With High Blood Pressure - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:57] <exec> 08└─Change the model, change the coefficients. Add in another variable, or include an interaction, etc and the 18% decrease becomes an 18% increase. Its an arbitrary value.
[01:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flu Vaccination Linked With Lower Risk of Early Death in Patients With High Blood Pressure - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:59] <exec> 08└─I would have their degrees revoked for being too dumb and lazy.
[01:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyundai Shows Off Exoskeleton Robot to Help Assembly Line Workers - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:09] <exec> 08└─Like mow down a group of hostiles.
[01:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyundai Shows Off Exoskeleton Robot to Help Assembly Line Workers - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:11] <exec> 08└─Why? Surely you're not at war with the old guy that lives over the back fence? Why would you need to haul big weapons, or thick steel armor? What is it you're so frightened of?
[01:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hyundai Shows Off Exoskeleton Robot to Help Assembly Line Workers - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:13] <exec> 08└─The motherfucker's an AC, what you expect?
[01:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:33] <exec> 08└─Please! How 'bout Boeing?
[01:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:35] <exec> 08└─If you tar all politicians as "they are all the same," then don't be surprised if they all actually act the same, and in a way you don't agree with.
[01:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:37] <exec> 08└─IUnless the $$$ flows to me there aren't enough $$$ in the world to make a fine enough to pay for his company violating my privacy... ... iMHO, it's time we push back on what is/should be his freedom of movement.
[01:34:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 843 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:19] <exec> 08└─"All the right moves to improve the US economy"? He's done about the only thing a president can to tank the economy that will take effect during his tenure! Not smart, really; you're supposed to time-delay it so your successor gets the blame. Poor Bush Sr. (only the truly unreasonable blame Obama fo...
[01:34:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 229 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:20] <exec> 08└─This sweaty fat degenerate is failing at absolutely everything, and convinces his believers that he's a great success. Be on the lookout for the official graph of the US-China trade (im)balance to be altered with a black sharpie.
[01:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:27] <exec> 08└─it's why they were granted a tax exempt status.
[01:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:29] <exec> 08└─Oddly enough, Iraq has been relatively quiet since the "Caliphate" was eradicated. The sources of terrorism at this point are primarily those backed by Iran. Iran was such a nice place back in the 70's.
[01:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:31] <exec> 08└─Debt? Almost no one in the US cares about the debt. Only a few of us crazy people ever even think about it. In point of fact, every single president who has held office since I was born has increased the national debt, not by some slim margin, but by doubling and tripling. The US gave up caring abou...
[01:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:33] <exec> 08└─You can't be serious. CHINESE companies are paying the Trump Tax. No worries, though, because China is subsidizing those companies, just as it has been subsidizing Chinese companies for the past three decades. That is all part of the Assassin's Mace. We are engaged in assymetrical warfare with China...
[01:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:35] <exec> 08└─Around half of Americans can't afford a $400 emergency, and almost none can afford a $1,000 emergency. Medical bankruptcies - which don't even exist in other first world countries - are one of the leading causes of bankruptcy. Many people are underemployed, and the vast majority of job gains have be...
[01:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:37] <exec> 08└─I didn't realize that Americans have stopped eating. Yeah, the farmers will all go bankrupt now, for sure. Of course, obesity should become a thing of the past!
[01:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:40] <exec> 08└─Quiet and stable are quite different things. How many of us remember the book district of Baghdad, prior to the US invasion? That is long gone. As bad as Hussein was, he offered the stability to support a unique district where everything imaginable was available in the book district. Today, the city...
[01:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:31] <exec> 08└─One country has "drop-bears" and the other does not. Rather like how Kansas or Arkykansas has Runaway1956, but not both. (BTW, etymologically, "austra" means "south", from the Latin "austral".)
[01:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:33] <exec> 08└─"Many" European countries lack a written constitution? The only one I can think of is the UK. Which are the others? Any country which has had a revolution or become independent since about the Napoleonic Wars should have one; it was standard practice since then.
[01:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:35] <exec> 08└─I guess it's not, if they ever figure out how to effectively monetize their data I would expect all these kind of sites to consolidate.
[01:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cannabis May Hold Promise to Treat PTSD but Evidence Lags Behind Use - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:08] <exec> 08└─You won't completely wipe the memories but you can greatly reduce the impact and stop the self-reinforcing that is a major part of PTSD. Of course, it's all a bit fuzzy and situation dependent. That's why the need for a trusted friend. It's like LSD research, people having trips in company with happ...
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[02:32:50] <exec> 08└─Got nothing to add, except to note that it's a good fucking summary, others should emulate this post.
[02:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyundai Shows Off Exoskeleton Robot to Help Assembly Line Workers - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:14] <exec> 08└─what you expect?
[02:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hyundai Shows Off Exoskeleton Robot to Help Assembly Line Workers - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:16] <exec> 08└─I'm no friday, fool.
[02:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:39] <exec> 08└─Your pals come after you. Sure, FB can pay off this guy this time, but then that will give many others the same idea and they too will come with their hands out, threatening jail time. Then some will compare notes and find out that Bill got half of what Bob got, and he'll get pissed and call for hea...
[02:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:41] <exec> 08└─>'Cause you do make it sound like it's the voters who make politicians act as assholes. Isn't it though? We keep re-electing politicians who act like assholes. That's a pretty clear statement that we deem personally profitable behavior as acceptable in our employees.
[02:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Mission Readies Tiny Chopper for Red Planet Flight - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:50] <exec> 08└─According to many sources such as this one https://mathscinotes.com [mathscinotes.com] mars atmosphere pressure is compartible to earth one at 30-60 km. The record helicopter ever achieved on earth is 12,442 meters https://www.google.com
[02:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:42] <exec> 08└─zhen bu hao a!
[02:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:43] <exec> 08└─We are probably in a recession already. The US has been contemplating negative interest rates . Europe has been issuing negative interest bonds for a while now (and people are buying them, so must think things will get worse). Iceland just started issuing negative interest mortgages! Institutional s...
[02:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:45] <exec> 08└─so, the chinese companies pay the tariff (so you say). you really think they won't raise prices to compensate? seriously??
[02:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:48] <exec> 08└─We are engaged in assymetrical warfare with China, and Trump's tariffs are our first shot back at them in our own foot
[02:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:50] <exec> 08└─Except the Japanese have not really agreed to what Trump has said they did.
[02:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:45] <exec> 08└─That is not how the EU works, despite what Fox News tells you.
[02:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:47] <exec> 08└─Presumably they could refuse, unless your tab is so huge they send it off to collections, and then the collector would have to accept cash. We should ask EF about this.
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[03:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flu Vaccination Linked With Lower Risk of Early Death in Patients With High Blood Pressure - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:11] <exec> 08└─Actually you want them to have the degrees and proudly display them.
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[03:33:25] <exec> 08└─Hmmmm this guy seems unstable. Should we be calling this one in folks? Keep on your toes in case he decides to go "Walmart".
[03:33:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 23 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:32] <exec> 08└─Let's keep it real, eh?
[03:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:51] <exec> 08└─Isn't it though? We keep re-electing politicians who act like assholes.
[03:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:56] <exec> 08└─a strategy that's working as the economy on Main Street is doing great
[03:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:54] <exec> 08└─The UK is not regaining sovereignty with Brexit. The clue is in how Rupert Murdoch spent tens of millions of his own money to help push Brexit along. Do you think he did that out of concern for the ordinary Briton?
[03:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but we're keeping the littul kittons.
[03:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:57] <exec> 08└─That is the difference between a debt - cash must be valid and a purchase - vendor can refuse to sell for any reason, including not accepting cash. It seems a bit murky where the goods/services are provided before asking for payment but in those cases either the vendor should make it clearly part of...
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[04:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:53] <exec> 08└─Better yet, don't have anything to do with either.
[04:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but in the U.S. (at least so far), you don't have to give them your name, address, phone number or email addy. I have a bunch of these cards just for the discounts, and have never once given out my personal info. I grab a new one every few months just to throw stuff like facial recognition off...
[04:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Real-Time Maps Warn Hong Kong Protesters of Water Cannons and Riot Police - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:10] <exec> 08└─The whole idea of protests of this sort,
[04:39:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06President Trump Tweets Picture of Sensitive Satellite Photo of Iranian Launch Site - 276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:59] <exec> 08└─'Crooked Hillary Clinton and her team "were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive, highly classified information.' Not fit!" - Donald J Trump, Jul 5 2016 Plus a million other examples of his deep concern about revealing sensitive information, here. [time.com]
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[04:42:43] <exec> 08└─I saw a reply from Freeman, but didn't notice that the GP reply was not the reply from Freeman. Mea culpa, substitute "you" with "Freeman" in the above post.
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[05:33:00] <exec> 08└─The rounded windows of airplanes are made such to prevent concentration of stress at the corners. The watches' crystal, however, is nearly square, with minimal radiuses of corners. I would even suspect that the glass was rounded to reduce the cost of the watches' aluminum case.
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[05:34:01] <exec> 08└─I could direct you to some excellent genetic programming examples of iterated prisoner’s dilemma that tend to indicate this is essentially damn near certainty in probability... Nah.
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[05:37:06] <exec> 08└─"mead" https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[05:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:08] <exec> 08└─Ah...no, there is political quibble there about there being a difference between "statue" (passed by congress) and "constitutional" (implied in the foundation of our democracy). Congress can pass laws (statues), but there there is no guarantee the law will hold up under scrutiny of a competent Supre...
[05:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real-Time Maps Warn Hong Kong Protesters of Water Cannons and Riot Police - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:22] <exec> 08└─Do you mean the 49 year old of the 50 year treaty?
[05:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real-Time Maps Warn Hong Kong Protesters of Water Cannons and Riot Police - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:23] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krD4hdGvGHM [youtube.com]
[05:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Real-Time Maps Warn Hong Kong Protesters of Water Cannons and Riot Police - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:25] <exec> 08└─If boycotts weren't big enough to really hurt, US states wouldn't be freaking out and passing anti-boycott laws to punish businesses who don't want to do business with Israel (BDS). Boycotts are why pretty much nobody under 40 knows what apartheid means. They work.
[05:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slack Plunges After Posting First Earnings Report Since Going Public - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:09] <exec> 08└─I wonder if their drafts "feature", which rearranges your sidebar when you start a message has anything to do with this. Everyone in my org hates it, as do many others it appears. https://twitter.com [twitter.com] is basically everyone asking how to disable it, wit...
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[06:33:07] <exec> 08└─My first thought was wondering why you'd want that to be your address unit, as opposed to the sector. But then I remembered the Flash Transition Layer. Modern solid-state drives don't actually store the data where they say they do because with sector-based file systems (which is most of them), that...
[06:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Deepfake' App Causes Fraud And Privacy Fears In China - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:17] <exec> 08└─The real question is: does a face swapping algorhithm in China even need to alter one pixel?
[06:35:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 383 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:10] <exec> 08└─I've been productively working continuously for almost four decades. I don't need any sympathy. I think my life is pretty improved already. You seem to miss my point that corporations will create the absurd situation I describe -- for their own profit. No matter how easy it is to see that it could r...
[06:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets Picture of Sensitive Satellite Photo of Iranian Launch Site - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:22] <exec> 08└─The link you provide pertains to the Secretary of Homeland Security, not Secretary of State. That said, it appears that the Secretary of State has ultimate authority when it comes to documents classified by the Department of State, though not for documents classified by other departments. This seems...
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[07:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:52] <exec> 08└─Can't even have a suspect anymore? If I made a list of suspected convince store thieves, and had store security stop them before they leave to check for stolen goods, that is illegal?
[07:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthquake Study Casts Doubt on Early Warnings but Hints at Improved Forecasting - 1752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:59] <exec> 08└─2009_L'Aquila_earthquake - Prosecutions [wikipedia.org] Boschi had called a major earthquake "unlikely", while not entirely excluding the possibility. De Bernardinis had informed the public that there was "no danger".[10] The prosecutors cited a scientific opinion that the low-level tremors ahead of...
[07:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:14] <exec> 08└─LBA has always been an abstraction (spare sectors, physical structure etc). Even in the Head/Cylinder/Sector-days this addressing got abstracted because outer cylinders could hold more sectors than inner ones (software compatibility through hardware changes). Maybe such drives can also be efficient...
[07:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:34:09] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/search.pl?tid=&query=Ron+Wyden&author=&sort=1&op=stories [soylentnews.org] Ron Wyden is not a friend of FB. He is more of a friend to this site than Zuck's. Unfortunately, his ideas often die on the vine.
[07:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:16] <exec> 08└─It's all greek to me.
[07:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:17] <exec> 08└─I think I may have passed a statue the other day. God it hurt!
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[08:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:59] <exec> 08└─If you do that in your store, it's probably fine. The people can always tell you to f-off, and go to another store. It's kinda hard to tell the government of your country to f-off. That list is notorious for being inaccurate: if you have the same name as some bomb-maker in Iraq, you might well land...
[08:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:01] <exec> 08└─It's kinda hard to tell the government of your country to f-off.
[08:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:03] <exec> 08└─No it's not illegal because in that example, you aren't the government and there isn't a discriminatory motive. Plus this is both more and less than having a suspicion. It is more because you are the government curtailing people's rights based on data with no sort of review or oversight. It is also...
[08:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:25] <exec> 08└─Finally, someone understood the simple fact so-called SSD is not a block device, but a funny memory.
[08:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I know about ZBR, and CHS 1023/255/63 limits, and internal controllers mapping before any of that was even a concern. But, this could be a good file system support underneath. Just map directly like you suggest. Heck, I know many pieces of software that already store files like this in databas...
[08:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hyundai Shows Off Exoskeleton Robot to Help Assembly Line Workers - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:54] <exec> 08└─Where is your closest one?
[08:37:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 491 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:11] <exec> 08└─If Brussels commands that all payments must be tracked Austria will have had a hand in making that decision because they are an EU member. The UK is not regaining sovereignty with Brexit. The clue is in how Rupert Murdoch spent tens of millions of his own money to help push Brexit along. Do you thi...
[08:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:34] <exec> 08└─Cash is from the bce, is unpayable by design debt. If you want to put something in the Constitution codify a social credit algorithm to determine how much cash is needed and gave the state issue it. Plus have people been given the option to pay taxes with different media than cash. Plus remove the p...
[08:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:36] <exec> 08└─Austria is an odd place, backed up by the comment in TFA: “In Austria, attitudes change slowly,”
[08:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Allowlist, Not Whitelist. Blocklist, Not Blacklist. Microsoft Lops Off Offensive Words - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:57] <exec> 08└─We've always been at war with Eastasia.
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[09:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:28] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering if these could be accessed more directly by key-value database systems like M/MUMPS/YottaDB.
[09:34:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fishscene [4361] 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:08] <exec> 08└─This is the first sane thing I've heard in the news about Facebook in a long time.
[09:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:27] <exec> 08└─agreed. You will notice however that even in this relatively intelligent and informed space, not a single person addressed any of my questions about the tremendous ramifications of this moment for tech and law. This affects everybody, yet all these people want to do is tell fart jokes. I was expecti...
[09:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:38] <exec> 08└─Latin, you ferkin Anglish sprechen barbarian! Oh, how the liberal arts have fallen!
[09:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:40] <exec> 08└─Over here I've run into stores at night,
[09:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:42] <exec> 08└─Call it North Australia or something...
[09:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:44] <exec> 08└─along with a facial recognition indexed video of the customer spending that bill
[09:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Slack Plunges After Posting First Earnings Report Since Going Public - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:43] <exec> 08└─drive by non-contributer throwing half-assed dismissive slurs - check
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[09:40:05] <exec> 08└─nanometers? The "nano" prefix comes from the Greek word νάνος, which means dwarf. Pretty offensive word for those of less than average height! Thousand millionths of a metre is the correct term. (Billionths is inappropriate a) because it is ambiguous, as it could refer to either long or short s...
[09:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets Picture of Sensitive Satellite Photo of Iranian Launch Site - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:01] <exec> 08└─If the buck doesn't stop at the US President, then whose desk does it stop at?
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[10:33:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 813 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:07] <exec> 08└─If you do that in your store, it's probably fine. The people can always tell you to f-off, and go to another store. It's kinda hard to tell the government of your country to f-off. That list is notorious for being inaccurate: if you have the same name as some bomb-maker in Iraq, you might well land...
[10:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:10] <exec> 08└─Making lists and putting people on them is unamerican, it's actually one of the most nazi things you can even possibly do. It is nice to see an actual federal judge partially acknowledge this. But this is so far behind the times. The entire country is on a list, and they have marked it up in discret...
[10:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:12] <exec> 08└─Making lists and putting people on them is unamerican, it's actually one of the most nazi things you can even possibly do.
[10:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:38] <exec> 08└─Don't make me laugh.
[10:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hyundai Shows Off Exoskeleton Robot to Help Assembly Line Workers - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:08] <exec> 08└─Howdy, Robinson!
[10:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyundai Shows Off Exoskeleton Robot to Help Assembly Line Workers - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:09] <exec> 08└─No God either
[10:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Tweets Picture of Sensitive Satellite Photo of Iranian Launch Site - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:18] <exec> 08└─So can the Secretary of State!
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[11:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Back to School: With Latest Attack, Ransomware Cancels Classes in Flagstaff - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:02] <exec> 08└─...I would love someone to report what operating system was powering the servers that were compromised. Seems relevant.
[11:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flu Vaccination Linked With Lower Risk of Early Death in Patients With High Blood Pressure - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:02] <exec> 08└─You're right that there are specific mechanisms. Vaccination story posted, antivaxxer (or troll... can't figure which) comes out of woodwork, idiot must post incorrect information.
[11:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flu Vaccination Linked With Lower Risk of Early Death in Patients With High Blood Pressure - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:03] <exec> 08└─What's your alternative to null hypothesis testing? Every time anything even remotely involved with statistics is posted here you come by to piss and moan about it. So what's your solution? Enlighten us.
[11:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:09] <exec> 08└─No, but as an Australian (not an Austrian), if this proposal actually gets up I think we should invite Austria to annex our vast & beautiful land ... as they seem to have far more sensible politicians than we do.
[11:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:10] <exec> 08└─For the confused, here's a helpful graphic [onlinefromaustria.com] to function as an aide-memoire.
[11:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, those kidney stones are a bitch, 2mm long and it feels like the Statue of Limitations is trying to break out of your insides.
[11:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Natural Ways of Cooling Cities - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:57] <exec> 08└─Or you could build them in the Catlins in New Zealand, which has plenty of natural cooling [stuff.co.nz]. Five minutes after that photo was taken, the sheep in it were 8km downwind.
[11:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Allowlist, Not Whitelist. Blocklist, Not Blacklist. Microsoft Lops Off Offensive Words - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:38] <exec> 08└─Well fuck, we'll just have to re-name it. Hmm.....oh, wait...err...Oh I know! Huge explosive flag waving k-BOOM corn! I just know there's going to be something bad there as well...... There always is...
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[12:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:00] <exec> 08└─Interesting that some google results indicate about 300 ish gun deaths per year and 30 ish bicycle deaths per year, so its quite believable that a gun-grabber culture would start going after bicycles next.
[12:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:01] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, here comes a tax on everyone not rich enough to have a car. I bet they set the license fee at some ridiculous amount, probably higher than the value of a used bicycle. Next up, pedestrian licenses!
[12:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:03] <exec> 08└─They will soon require a license to walk. There are many more pedestrian deaths than anything else. Walking is a hazardous occupation and must be meticulously controlled. A step-by-step registration is being considered as well, so that a proper taxation on street usage and wear may be calculated. Fr...
[12:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:06] <exec> 08└─Oh, it's more interesting than that. From the CDC: In 2015 in the United States, over 1,000 bicyclists died [cdc.gov] and there were almost 467,000 bicycle-related injuries.
[12:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:08] <exec> 08└─It’s more likely the revenue will come in a more subtle way like it does from cars: fines. Bikes are not likely a good source of speeding ticket revenue, but all of those other violations are ripe for ticketing. There are currently no fines for parking a bike in the wrong place (that I know of), b...
[12:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:10] <exec> 08└─Anyone walking should be assumed to be the target of a manhunt. Authorities have the right to detain them until they can prove they are not a criminal and are not carrying any criminal tools like guns, knives, or lockpicking devices like credit/id cards.
[12:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:12] <exec> 08└─Quit the race already, Warren Wilhelm Jr.! https://www.vanityfair.com [vanityfair.com]
[12:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:14] <exec> 08└─How about something like this: https://www.ecowatch.com [ecowatch.com]
[12:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Back to School: With Latest Attack, Ransomware Cancels Classes in Flagstaff - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:23] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, I wonder what operating system, and only what operating system, was affected? Routine maintenance? Software as a dis-service?
[12:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Back to School: With Latest Attack, Ransomware Cancels Classes in Flagstaff - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:25] <exec> 08└─We have had to break the connection from the Internet to our school sites
[12:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flu Vaccination Linked With Lower Risk of Early Death in Patients With High Blood Pressure - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:26] <exec> 08└─I'm not that commentator but the alternative is called science. Maybe you have heard of it? You look at some observations, come up with an explanation for what you see, derive a prediction from that explanation, then compare that prediction to new data collected by multiple independent parties. Idea...
[12:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hyundai Shows Off Exoskeleton Robot to Help Assembly Line Workers - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:44] <exec> 08└─Bears and packs of wolves.
[12:36:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:39] <exec> 08└─Who says Trump can't have a positive impact on the environment? Damping down US-China trade can be more beneficial to global CO2 emissions than any climate accord.
[12:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:33] <exec> 08└─Best FTFY ever! (All less than four lett word.)
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[13:33:07] <exec> 08└─Kevlar armor would be required.
[13:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:09] <exec> 08└─there were 252 murders committed with rifles of any sort. So, bicycles are already more dangerous than assault rifles.
[13:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:11] <exec> 08└─I bicycle context, some studies show that wearing helmet may reduce serious head injures up to 70%. On the other hand, other studies show that some people wearing helmets are prone to suffer more serius accidents due to a false sense of protection by overestimating helmet protective performance.
[13:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:13] <exec> 08└─Here's a real helmet paradox for you: in countries where people cycle en masse (Netherlands, Denmark...), nobody wears a helmet and nobody dies. How's that possible? Hint: it's not a paradox. The need for a helmet stems from trying to cycle in an intensely bicycle-unfriendly country.
[13:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:16] <exec> 08└─That's the trick, right? Kill 'em slowly, one at a time, so nobody notices. You can kill 100 people a day in car wrecks. Where's the outrage? But crash a single 737? Oh lordy!
[13:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Back to School: With Latest Attack, Ransomware Cancels Classes in Flagstaff - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:26] <exec> 08└─The big brother monitoring stuff they didn't even have when I was a kid is now a critical part of operations much like having a working water main or sewers has been.
[13:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Back to School: With Latest Attack, Ransomware Cancels Classes in Flagstaff - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:28] <exec> 08└─Linux isn't a magic bullet here. Weak passwords, unchanged defaults, idiotic sysadmin moves like not keeping up on patching, or surfing the Internet on a server, can all play a role in this. Of course, backups are never done in these scenarios. And that shows the problem is low-skilled or overworked...
[13:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Back to School: With Latest Attack, Ransomware Cancels Classes in Flagstaff - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:31] <exec> 08└─Did you also have to walk uphill both ways, grandpa?
[13:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:48] <exec> 08└─I'm impressed with your memory. Yes, I did leave, although for a more prosaic reason. Still, the difficulties of packing up and leaving should not be underestimated, especially if you have a family.
[13:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:50] <exec> 08└─Why are there so many russian trolls arguing against democracy in this thread? The FBI protects our freedomes, let them make their lists.
[13:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:44] <exec> 08└─as they seem to have far more sensible politicians than we do. And they have more experience in annexation of territory.
[13:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Natural Ways of Cooling Cities - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:31] <exec> 08└─wat about the sewage system? maybe a well maintained sewage system that drains fast and is extensive helps keep the humidity down 'cause there are no puddles for the sun peeping from behind the rain clouds to evaporate? also, in the dry season, sewage (gray water) systems are hollow, dark and probab...
[13:40:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] 02 - 06Allowlist, Not Whitelist. Blocklist, Not Blacklist. Microsoft Lops Off Offensive Words - 637 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:28] <exec> 08└─First they came for the programmers with their white and black lists, I laughed at the incredulity. Then they came for the hardware engineers with their slaves and masters, And I stood dumbfounded shaking my head. Then they came for the pilots with their Cockpits and sticks. I facepalmed and thought...
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[14:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:04] <exec> 08└─Check youtube.com for proof otherwise.
[14:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:31] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the helmets most cyclists wear are known to be useless. Hits to the crown of the head are rare compared with the sides or front. The issue is that cyclists don't take responsibility for the things they can, like actually knowing the rules of the road. Licensing is more or less go...
[14:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:33] <exec> 08└─The need for a helmet stems from trying to cycle in an intensely bicycle-unfriendly country. The need for a helmet stems from trying to cycle in an intensely unfriendly and angry country where vehicles are used as weapons.
[14:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:35] <exec> 08└─No, the need for a helmet stems from the fact that falling over is dangerous. Literally just falling over and hitting a curb is enough to cause serious brain damage. People have an incredibly unrealistic view of the risks of sucking. And assuming that what seems to be ok there is ok is foolish. They...
[14:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:37] <exec> 08└─Bikes are an excellent source of revenue for most types of traffic violations. Especially roadrage inducing failure to keep up with traffic and failure to signal.
[14:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:39] <exec> 08└─epstein can't be held in jail, entire justice system and true nature of the nation of israel called into question, which affects the chain of trust in virtually the entire tech, media and military sector crackdown on bicycling regulations sure are reaching for other stories to make hay about, aren't...
[14:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 2139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:42] <exec> 08└─I know Bill de Blasio well. He was our City Councilman for 12 years before he became Mayor through a fluke. His house is a block away from our house in Park Slope, Brooklyn. I know his wife and kids, I have been to local fundraisers of his (long ago, before he really showed his true colors). He was...
[14:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:44] <exec> 08└─Also require the police to treat bike theft the same as auto theft. 20years for steeling a bicycle if your over 18. Under 18 gets you 2 years working for the local soup kitchen.
[14:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:46] <exec> 08└─Go back to russia.
[14:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03helel [2949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:48] <exec> 08└─How, precisely, does one come to fall over and hit the curb? From my observations even the average four year old will land on their feet after a bicycle/bicycle crash.
[14:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:50] <exec> 08└─Bike riding is more dangerous than riding in a car even in the Netherlands: Disturbing news this morning: more people died on a bike than in a car in the Netherlands in 2017. A total of 206 people died on bicycles and 201 in cars. This is the first time that ever happened. The figure for cycling dea...
[14:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:53] <exec> 08└─But crash a single 737? Oh lordy!
[14:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Back to School: With Latest Attack, Ransomware Cancels Classes in Flagstaff - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:05] <exec> 08└─It's a lot cheaper to get a Windows Admin than a Linux Admin. Your average first grade classroom is full of them. What could be a better education than having to clean up the mess the adults make?
[14:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03gozar [5426] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Back to School: With Latest Attack, Ransomware Cancels Classes in Flagstaff - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:06] <exec> 08└─There is no way that non-working water or sewers would have stopped my school from holding classes. Air conditioning - kidding aren't you? Not only did our school not have it, but our maths teacher, an ex-army major, ordered all windows to be opened wide even when there was snow outside; he boasted...
[14:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Back to School: With Latest Attack, Ransomware Cancels Classes in Flagstaff - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:09] <exec> 08└─So glad the federal agencies that suck up hundreds of billions of our tax dollars are out there preventing this sort of thing.
[14:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:29] <exec> 08└─An American judge made a ruling that did not summarily strip away Constitutional rights? I thought they only made the other kind nowadays.
[14:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hyundai Shows Off Exoskeleton Robot to Help Assembly Line Workers - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:33] <exec> 08└─Aliens. https://alienanthology.fandom.com [fandom.com]
[14:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:04] <exec> 08└─I reckon you'll need to demonstrate that the voters transformed them politicians from decent people into assholes to show a cause-effect relationship. Well, there is Pavlov's famous experiment. B.F. Skinner provides other examples on the effects of conditioning. And then there's Milgram, etc... They...
[14:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:27] <exec> 08└─This bar only accepts Gold Pressed Latinum.
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[15:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:59] <exec> 08└─The methodology seems strange. If I'm eavesdropping on someone, I'm doing my very best to IGNORE the sounds of pets in the background. While nosy bastards are training AI to do a lot of potentially intrusive things, I've not heard of an AI trained to identify how many, and what kind of pets you migh...
[15:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:01] <exec> 08└─I think this is the classic can't prove a counterfactual thing
[15:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:03] <exec> 08└─Citing youtube as a source for anything, even if you can direct people to a specific video, is a sign of extremely deficient critical thinking. The only exception I'm willing to consider is as a primary source that someone said something, and even that's prone to deceptive editing. Any youtube analy...
[15:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:05] <exec> 08└─Primary Source: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[15:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:07] <exec> 08└─It really was a terrible study that seems to, possibly intentionally, ignore that algorithms listen for human words to decide what ads to display in response to the input. Animal sounds will be ignored.
[15:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:09] <exec> 08└─But the FBI/CIA/NSA is ready to offer their services if you say the "wake words".
[15:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:17] <exec> 08└─UNIX freaks could never understand the glory of the platform. In my 20's, I was a system administrator on Univac U90/30, one of the last specimen. Now, let me continue to keep silencing...
[15:33:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 2139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:42] <exec> 08└─I know Bill de Blasio well. He was our City Councilman for 12 years before he became Mayor through a fluke. His house is a block away from our house in Park Slope, Brooklyn. I know his wife and kids, I have been to local fundraisers of his (long ago, before he really showed his true colors). He was...
[15:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:50] <exec> 08└─Remember the joke about Bill Clinton? Arkies wanted him in the White House so they could get him the hell out of Arkansas. A pundit claimed this morning that a small group of New Yorkers are pushing hard to get De Blasio elected, so they can get him out of New York. Whatever, I think De Blasio is th...
[15:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:52] <exec> 08└─What false sense of protection? I'd landed on my head and shrugged it off so many times because of my helmet.
[15:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:54] <exec> 08└─Not where you are but one time I nearly crashed into another cyclist who was illegally running a red light. Our two relatively tiny bikes nearly collided in the massive multi lane intersection as that spandex wearing race bike-de-franc cocksucker took a blind leap of faith right in front of me. For...
[15:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:56] <exec> 08└─Next, license those dangerous tricycle riders!!
[15:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:59] <exec> 08└─I had a cyclist in those stupid shoes fall in front of my car because he couldn't get free in time. Our you hit a bad patch of pavement and get tossed over. Or you get your tire caught in a groove and flipped. It's not hard to fall off a bike if you're traveling at low speeds. A typical biking head...
[15:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:01] <exec> 08└─Ethiopian pilots only make $60 per day: https://www.pilotjobsnetwork.com [pilotjobsnetwork.com]
[15:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Back to School: With Latest Attack, Ransomware Cancels Classes in Flagstaff - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:16] <exec> 08└─Any "administrator" who can't plan around internet down time needs to be sent back to school himself. No, no, that's wrong. The jackass needs to be fired, and sent to work digging ditches. He lacks all of the most basic education that we were hoping he would pass on to our kids. As soon as he has be...
[15:34:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 1088 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:33] <exec> 08└─Making lists and putting people on them is unamerican, it's actually one of the most nazi things you can even possibly do. It is nice to see an actual federal judge partially acknowledge this. But this is so far behind the times. The entire country is on a list, and they have marked it up in discret...
[15:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:38] <exec> 08└─You've mentioned it before. Not too hard to remember. Have you freed yourself from US taxes yet?
[15:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:40] <exec> 08└─Well, I still don't have my freedome, so they aren't protecting me very well.
[15:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:42] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget the Supremes. They've made some decisions in recent years reinstating second amendment rights to citizens of Washington D.C. And, NYC is working overtime, trying to figure a way to avoid the Supremes reviewing their draconian gun laws. There is hope, if we can avoid a liberal presi...
[15:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:45] <exec> 08└─Making lists and putting people on them is unamerican, it's actually one of the most nazi things you can even possibly do.
[15:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:47] <exec> 08└─freedomes
[15:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:49] <exec> 08└─It depends on who is writing the cheque.
[15:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:51] <exec> 08└─Can't even have a suspect anymore?
[15:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthquake Study Casts Doubt on Early Warnings but Hints at Improved Forecasting - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:00] <exec> 08└─A localized resonance effect. Caused by paint stores. Non IoT, non synchronized, unfortunately timed use of paint shakers.
[15:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:20] <exec> 08└─It would have been better if it was finished off with one of Phoenix666's witticisms.
[15:36:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fluffeh [954] 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 182 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:04] <exec> 08└─I think we are keeping it real: And in tomorrow's news, Senator Ron gets heavy campaign support from Facebook and they also promise to "be better at that security and privacy stuff".
[15:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Deepfake' App Causes Fraud And Privacy Fears In China - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:43] <exec> 08└─They're not concerned about Fraud or Privacy, unless it could possibly be used against the state (Read: People in Power).
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[16:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:53] <exec> 08└─> roughly the same amount of information Pi
[16:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:54] <exec> 08└─Back in the decades immediately following the invention of movies and TV, there was a widely accepted maxim that, in the US, Northerners spoke much more quickly than Southerners. This persisted as late as the 1970s, but mostly among the older generation who did not grow up glued to the broadcast net...
[16:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:56] <exec> 08└─It takes Italians nine syllables to say the same thing Germans can say in five syllables. Risolvilo di nuovo Tony (vs) Gebrochen.
[16:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:58] <exec> 08└─I can understand British English, New York English, Southern English, and West Coast English (me)... but I couldn't understand a single word from a back woods hillbilly from somewhere near the Ozarks. It wasn't a French accent like New Orleans, wasn't Southern drawl like Georgia, it was English like...
[16:33:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VanessaE [3396] 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:08] <exec> 08└─I think this is the classic can't prove a counterfactual thing
[16:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:15] <exec> 08└─1. That's not what a Primary source [wikipedia.org] is. 2. I think the rest of the content that channel produces [youtube.com] more or less proves my point about youtube videos being inherently untrustworthy medium.
[16:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:17] <exec> 08└─I think we need a study on soylentnews readers ability to read the summary.
[16:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:19] <exec> 08└─Re-read the summary. Carefully this time.
[16:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:21] <exec> 08└─What is untrustworthy about it?
[16:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:23] <exec> 08└─The fact that they're click bait hell videos? The fact that they claim to do clearly technically impossible things?
[16:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All - 1094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:33] <exec> 08└─I can understand how fixed record formats were useful. No need to parse. As each punched card line of text is read in, each field of information appears in certain column positions. A typical program, which is really part of a larger business process, may read in punched cards records from multiple...
[16:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:35] <exec> 08└─According to Wiki, Co-60 has a half life of 5.2713 years. That's significantly shorter than C-14 (5730 years) but better than most modern languages which burn out after 15 minutes of fame.
[16:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:37] <exec> 08└─Your last sentence shows one reason CSV is such a terrible format. This arises when the delimiter characters occur in the data too. The answer? Don't use a delimiter character that appears in the data. Thus: pipe char delimited format. You still have the problem of how to encode newlines in your dat...
[16:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:17] <exec> 08└─And how much can they buy for $60 in Ethiopia? (It's like complaining that Chinese salaries are low in USD.)
[16:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:18] <exec> 08└─And how much can they buy for $60 in Ethiopia? 40 acres and a mule?
[16:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:21] <exec> 08└─Should Skateboarding require a license? If we're going to decriminalize skateboarding, then shouldn't a license be required? Right now, just anyone can go into one of these questionable stores that sells skate boards and related criminal paraphernalia, wheels, helmets, etc. And don't even get me sta...
[16:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:23] <exec> 08└─If the fines were dedicated to improving bike infrastructure then sure let's do it. The first thing would be to get rid of bus lanes. There is literally no point in these. The only ones using them are bicycles and oversize SUVs doing 50 mph in a 30 zone to overtake the other drivers. Convert the bus...
[16:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:25] <exec> 08└─If "your soft drinks, your fritos, your beans" externalize health costs onto other people then you do need to start picking some of that up.
[16:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:27] <exec> 08└─By hitting a patch of black ice on an early morning day in late fall and having your rear wheel slide out from under you suddenly, causing you to crack your head on the pavement. I was awfully glad to be wearing a helmet and even then I had a concussion. As to bicycle/bicycle (or anything else), I r...
[16:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:29] <exec> 08└─Pedestrians should be required to be licensed as well, while requiring turn signals to be worn on their ears. Their shoes should require registration and insurance. Fat pedestrians should be required to wear "WIDE LOAD" signs front & back. Hey Bill de Blasio, FUCK YOU, you butt-tarded dipshit! How t...
[16:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:31] <exec> 08└─I've fallen off a bike literally twice in 10 years. If you are falling off "so many times" then you are doing it wrong.
[16:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:34] <exec> 08└─The problem is that these "licenses" are actually the tools thieves use to break into someones house: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] So if you make people carry those, then you will need to arrest them anyway. Same problem with cash and credit card, both are used by crimin...
[16:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:36] <exec> 08└─We call these guys ninjas because you never see them coming. Ideally they have no lights because that adds too much weight.
[16:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:38] <exec> 08└─No, the reason we run stop signs is because you lose all your momentum and end up going through the intersection at 2 mph while you try to accelerate. Also visibility is 10x better on a bicycle and you can usually see if the other lanes are all clear. Lastly - cars will 9/10 not go if they see a bic...
[16:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:40] <exec> 08└─Ahhh, we've found a member of the CTRL-Left here!
[16:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:42] <exec> 08└─When Miami opened their MetroRail, they required a "Bikes on Trains" permit if you wanted to take a bike on the trains.... $12, one time, got you a photo ID and an educational packet that basically said: don't be a jackass. I assume if you had trouble comprehending the packet they might take your ID...
[16:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:44] <exec> 08└─Literally just falling over and hitting a curb is enough to cause serious brain damage.
[16:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:47] <exec> 08└─Sorry, cost to replace a car is 50 times greater than a bicycle. Thus, the harsher punishment. You don't get to throw somebody in jail for stealing your teddybear you've had since childhood, either. It's based on cost of replacement.
[16:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile Metro Stores Sell Used Phones as New, Charge “Fake Taxes,” NYC Says - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:09] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much ill gotten revenue T-Mobile got from this? Apparently they were not sharing enough of it with authorities. It this a thing throughout T-Mobile, or simply a regional thing? Or limited to a particular chain of stores?
[16:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:33] <exec> 08└─ftfy: phree-dumbs
[16:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:34] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget the Supremes.
[16:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:36] <exec> 08└─Why are there so many russian trolls arguing against democracy in this thread?
[16:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:39] <exec> 08└─Making lists and putting people on them is unamerican, it's actually one of the most nazi things you can even possibly do.
[16:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:08] <exec> 08└─It seems to be missing a department.
[16:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:10] <exec> 08└─Humor is subjective. It would be even funnier if an SSD device offered a SQL / DDL interface.
[16:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:12] <exec> 08└─Also, it's posted by janrinok, so...
[16:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flu Vaccination Linked With Lower Risk of Early Death in Patients With High Blood Pressure - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:29] <exec> 08└─If you use log-log graph paper and a sufficiently fat magic marker, any graph can be drawn as a straight line.
[16:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flu Vaccination Linked With Lower Risk of Early Death in Patients With High Blood Pressure - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:30] <exec> 08└─Someone with a degree in "social justice" would protest being called dumb and lazy. (google for: degree in social justice)
[16:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyundai Shows Off Exoskeleton Robot to Help Assembly Line Workers - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:51] <exec> 08└─What is it you're so frightened of?
[16:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyundai Shows Off Exoskeleton Robot to Help Assembly Line Workers - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:52] <exec> 08└─Keep on your toes in case he decides to go "Walmart".
[16:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hyundai Shows Off Exoskeleton Robot to Help Assembly Line Workers - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:55] <exec> 08└─It is nice to add exoskeletons to humans to improve productivity comfort profits. The next logical improvement would be to remove the humans from the exoskeletons.
[16:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:26] <exec> 08└─<no-sarcasm> As much as I despise Facebook (and Twitter too!) and Zukerberg, I would have to ask: Did Zukerberg break any laws that have a jail time penalty? Outrage is one thing. But the administration of justice according to law and procedure is another. </no-sarcasm> Just give Facebook and Zukerb...
[16:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:27] <exec> 08└─I have never been on Facebook. But I bet I'm in their database. I am in pictures with people who are on FB. Once one of those pictures gets tagged with the name of the people in the picture; and once there are enough such pictures to logically deduce which face goes with the names in the description...
[16:38:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:42] <exec> 08└─Currently we're engaged in evening out the imbalance with China while at the same time other nations are profiting from increased trade with the US.
[16:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:52] <exec> 08└─They have to accept dollars. They do not have to accept it in the particular form of physical paper or coins under federal statutes. Some states have additional laws, so YMMV. This gets brought up from time to time when someone tries to pay a large denomination debt in pennies to be a pain in the bu...
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[17:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:11] <exec> 08└─9 syllables per second is what they apparently average 39 bits per second to (5-8 bits per syllable), and then suggest this is twice as fast as Morse Code. Wonder how they made the leap between bits/syllables to words per minute. 20 words per minute (fast sending and receiving) is not really compara...
[17:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:12] <exec> 08└─As court reporting student I wish this information would be more widely accepted. To pass the national test and officially be a reporter, one has to be able to take a five minute Q&A dictation at 225 words per minute with 95% accuracy. If you want to be extra fancy, there's a certification for being...
[17:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:15] <exec> 08└─Florida Crackers have their own dialect as well - it's English, but not like any you've heard elsewhere.
[17:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:17] <exec> 08└─My ex could transmit volumes at 0 bps.
[17:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:19] <exec> 08└─Court reporters have to deal with lawyers shouting over each other simultaneously...
[17:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:21] <exec> 08└─That's 0bps in the audible channel, I assume she was communicating with you visually... or by smell?
[17:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:24] <exec> 08└─I have rarely had a few similar experiences in my life. Someone speaking English. But certain words / phrases were impossible to parse. One example (while working pumping gas during college decades ago, this thing called 'full service'). What I think I heard: "do you have any candy smaps?" What was...
[17:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:26] <exec> 08└─School teachers say: Put your pencils down, turn your paper over. (but what if your exam paper is a mobius strip? what are you supposed to do?)
[17:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:28] <exec> 08└─<no-sarcasm> Ever notice how various disciplines have their own jargon? software dudes plumbers engineers lawyers NASA -- especially NASA. Everything is an acronym. Does use of such jargon improve information transmission rate? That would seem to be its purpose. I have noticed this before in long ja...
[17:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah.. if someone is so obsessed about some commercial product that they are talking about it to people like some shitty TV ad, then I'm quite sure they will have done at least some of googling the product, liking the product on facebook, posting about it on facebook or instagram, or going to pages...
[17:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All - 1409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:58] <exec> 08└─There are so many solutions. And they've all been implemented somewhere. Some of them were inherited from conventions in various BASIC language implementations. To have a double quote within double quotes, use two double quotes in a row. "12"" drill" Use some type of escape character such as backsla...
[17:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:00] <exec> 08└─From 2010 to 2016 new web frameworks were created and died every day. Hipsters.
[17:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:57] <exec> 08└─A skateboarding license could be a twenty pound engraved metal block. Carrying this license around might make skateboarding difficult to impossible.
[17:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:58] <exec> 08└─Ethiopian pilots only make $60 per day https://www.pilotjobsnetwork.com [pilotjobsnetwork.com]
[17:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:00] <exec> 08└─but they don't have enough cops to deal with pervasive motor vehicle traffic violations. double-parking, red light running, etc. in the first place. These are more problematic for every road & sidewalk user. just sayin'.
[17:35:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:02] <exec> 08└─$12 for less than $1 basically, other $11 going to the company providing the resources and training that just so happens to be ran by the brother in law of some jackass who championed this?
[17:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:05] <exec> 08└─$60 per day is the per diem rate. That's what they get for travel expenses. It is not their salary.
[17:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:07] <exec> 08└─And what about when bikers run red lights or go the wrong way up a one-way street?
[17:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 2009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:09] <exec> 08└─Quite sensible. Bicycles here will routinely go like 30MPH down the sidewalk, even in areas with loads of businesses with driveways (so they think when someone is turning they're going to look like 1/4 mile up and down the road for them, instead of the few dozen feet for someone going human walking...
[17:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:00] <exec> 08└─You can have a suspect. What you can't have is a list of people you treat as suspects without having any evidence that they're doing something illegal. Especially a list that's completely secret, and people can be put on by a lot of people for no real reason at all, e.g. "You broke up with my sister...
[17:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:34] <exec> 08└─<no-sarcasm> I did notice who it was posted by. But the post seemed entirely reasonable. All of the posts seem to be missing a department. </no-sarcasm> Perhaps there is some hack or malware that has stolen all of the departments and holding them for ransom?
[17:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:35] <exec> 08└─<no-sarcasm> How about an SSD that offers a SQL / DDL interface? How about an SSD that offers a file server style API ? (eg, you don't know, don't care what underlying file system is used within the SSD, the interface to it is more like NFS or CIFS or some such) I thought it important here to use no...
[17:38:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 277 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:51] <exec> 08└─You're going to pretend to care about the debt now? President Trump’s $4 Trillion Debt Increase [crfb.org] U.S. National Debt Hits Record $22 Trillion [npr.org] It wasn't until after the election that there was a consistent upward trend in both manufacturing and employment,
[17:39:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Trump's 15 Percent Tariff on Chinese Goods Kicks in - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:05] <exec> 08└─The fact is that during the 8 years under Obama, the US lost jobs month over month and $8 trillion (with a T) was added to the national debt.
[17:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Debate in Austria Over Enshrining use of Cash in the Constitution - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:17] <exec> 08└─law enforcement has exemptions to this for their cameras
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[18:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:01] <exec> 08└─It doesn't work, yet; it's still someone's research project at Google; it will be canceled six months after it's officially released. Tell me again, why should I care?
[18:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:02] <exec> 08└─It doesn't work, yet; it's still someone's research project at Google; it will be canceled six months after it's officially released.
[18:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:05] <exec> 08└─I think you overestimate how much a small embedded system can do to support high level language conveniences.
[18:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:07] <exec> 08└─... basically C at this point. No thanks, I'll stick with C.
[18:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:27] <exec> 08└─Nope, just different syllables and rates, but still ~39 bits per second...if the article is right.
[18:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:28] <exec> 08└─Take your fork handle and stuff 'em.
[18:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:31] <exec> 08└─So, the three syllables " D R D " do not communicate more efficiently than "the Department of Redundancy Department"? The real question is: what is information? When you say: e equals m c squared, that can be shorthand for a tremendous volume of well known proofs, implications, etc.
[18:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:33] <exec> 08└─In such conversations, the speech didn't seem to slow down as jargon laden sentences were spoken. I would have to think this optimization (or compression?) gets some increase in information density?
[18:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:35] <exec> 08└─That's my point. How much (pre-shared) information is "referenced" as I spout off the following acronyms or jargon: AOC SLS SJW MECO RegEx Variac Boot Compander Log-log plot Joule
[18:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:37] <exec> 08└─Link shorteners... Also: Shaka, when the walls fell: https://www.theatlantic.com [theatlantic.com]
[18:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:39] <exec> 08└─Does this research take into account nonverbal cues? I'm curious if that could be an unaccounted for element...
[18:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:00] <exec> 08└─The amount of yellow and moonspeak are a start. And all of the english words that show up are pure clickbait. I don't know what the fuck that channel is about, but its about getting clicks and not giving any useful information.
[18:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:01] <exec> 08└─On the rare times I see ads (usually when on mobile), they are nearly always for things I have already purchased. All google can extract from me during my browsing habits is the make of car I drive, the model of my favorite camera, and that I am obsessed with telescopes. 90% of ads I see are for the...
[18:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:03] <exec> 08└─Rather, to seek to DISprove the conspiracy theories themselves
[18:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:17] <exec> 08└─The answer? Don't use a delimiter character that appears in the data.
[18:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:19] <exec> 08└─Normal people will catch themselves without hitting their head. Usually when that happens from standing, it's because of inebriation or neurological problems. Most other people might break their wrist, but they won't hit their head.
[18:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:21] <exec> 08└─This is a really disingenuous headline. I thought it sounded a bit over the top so I decided to look into it a bit more. [politico.com] During the same press conference, another reporter asked de Blasio about requiring bikes be registered with the city, since the motor vehicles they share the road w...
[18:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Back to School: With Latest Attack, Ransomware Cancels Classes in Flagstaff - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:38] <exec> 08└─Seems relevant.
[18:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:13] <exec> 08└─Why are you arguing against democracy in this thread? The FBI is violating the constitution making their lists.
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[19:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:51] <exec> 08└─Before you know it they'll be predicting hurricanes hitting Alabama!
[19:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:53] <exec> 08└─Lotta 5G signals in the open ocean?
[19:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:55] <exec> 08└─It's only Huawei equipment that will ruin weather, that's why Trump banned them. Otherwise they will not be able to see the Chinese hurricanes hit Alabama! God bless our fearless leader!!
[19:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:57] <exec> 08└─No one even wants this crap, it is being foisted upon people like with the "smart tvs". No doubt this is where the trillions of missing taxpayer dollars are going.
[19:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:59] <exec> 08└─Sort of. Radio line of sight with a sufficient tower can extend over 30 miles off shore. If your receiver is on shore they don't really have to extend off shore, either.
[19:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:10] <exec> 08└─I think you underestimate how much research and work will be done to support more productive developer time. "small" "embedded" systems today are bigger than mainframe cpus were in the early 1970's. Once upon a time, when machines cost millions of dollars, and developers cost $20 K / year (in, say 1...
[19:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:12] <exec> 08└─Because Google is trying to ram Go down the throat of every system developer, since the more abstraction layers they bury us in, the less of us filthy commoners will understand how our computers actually work, making sure it is much harder to remove whatever baked-in malware or spyware big tech plan...
[19:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:14] <exec> 08└─You clearly don't understand what "small embedded system" means. I'm talking about microcontrollers that cost a dollar or two, not a stripped down PC target. Are a scripter by chance, the kind of programmer who never *really* knows what his machine is doing? That's not embedded programming.
[19:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:41] <exec> 08└─That's a great example. Human ingenuity improving spoken communication efficiency when both parties are assumed to have a shared knowledge base. Also consider this example, I think from an early BYTE magazine article on general AI: P1: Hungry? P2: How about McDonalds? P1: Where are my keys? P2: On t...
[19:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:43] <exec> 08└─When I was in HS, working at a grocery store in a small town in Vermont, I was facing shelves one day when a guy came up to me and we had this conversation: Guy: "Do you have any ass?" Me: "WHAT!!!???" Guy: "Ass, do you have any ass?" Me: [totally shocked look on my face] Guy: "Ass -- you know, you...
[19:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:45] <exec> 08└─39 b/s seems really slow or underutilized when the receiver has a bandwidth of around 15 kHz. So what’s the bottleneck? Is it limited by how fast the oral musculature can accurately make sounds? Is it limited by the speech recognition systems in the brain? I note also that the paper distinguishes...
[19:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:47] <exec> 08└─It would be interesting to see a human language designed for optimal information flow. I wonder how much junk we have in grammar could be eliminated.
[19:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:49] <exec> 08└─9 syllables per second is what they apparently average 39 bits per second to (5-8 bits per syllable), and then suggest this is twice as fast as Morse Code. Wonder how they made the leap between bits/syllables to words per minute.
[19:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:51] <exec> 08└─...deal with lawyers shouting over each other simultaneously... at 225 or more words per minute. Which is partly why you can still earn a good living as a court reporter in the age of voice recognition software. It still can't compete.
[19:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:14] <exec> 08└─So, basically you are racist against indians.
[19:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:29] <exec> 08└─Different AC, but one thing we did when we had to pass weird Unicode data and large text values, we used a control character as our delimiter.
[19:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:30] <exec> 08└─there is no excuse for using CSV if you have a choice. ftfy.
[19:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 3076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:35] <exec> 08└─Every other vehicle that uses the roads has a license for its use. When I was younger my school had "bike days" every spring. When I was given my first bike I attended that event. Some of the local police and school staff turned the parking lot into a bike training area, and there were some paramedi...
[19:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:36] <exec> 08└─Maybe there is word we could use for this type of news?
[19:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:38] <exec> 08└─As long as Albany doesn't try to extradite anybody upstate, that should be fine.
[19:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I remember the Bastille day massacre in Nice. A guy armed with a truck killed 86 people in minutes.
[19:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senator Wants Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Potentially Face Prison Term - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:21] <exec> 08└─'Cause you do make it sound like it's the voters who make politicians act as assholes.
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[21:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Specks In Space Could Be The Key To Finding Martian Life - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:52] <exec> 08└─India's Chandrayaan-2 just left a brown skid mark on the moon.
[21:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Specks In Space Could Be The Key To Finding Martian Life - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:54] <exec> 08└─flubbed and subbed
[21:33:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:02] <exec> 08└─Before you know it they'll be predicting hurricanes hitting Alabama!
[21:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:08] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure the Caribbean Islands (including USVI, Puerto Rico, etc.) are also getting 5G.
[21:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:10] <exec> 08└─Dicks out for 6G.
[21:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:12] <exec> 08└─There are a bunch of different hurricane modeling algorithms and they diverge tremendously. They diverge so much as to cast suspicion on or discredit the lot of them. After a hurricane has gone horribly off track compared to yesterdays model they don't throw the model out, they feed the model today...
[21:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:15] <exec> 08└─What do the Cruise ships use?
[21:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:17] <exec> 08└─I envision cell phone networks will keep ramping up the power until the entire planet turns in to one giant cell phone. All because every retard thinks cell phones are cool.
[21:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:19] <exec> 08└─Really, our hurricane modeling is crap
[21:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:21] <exec> 08└─What does the planet use? Not 5G as of 2019.
[21:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:24] <exec> 08└─Umm, 2019-1980=39, So why not spin that headline up to 40 years? Or was the 30%/30yr synergy too good a marketing opportunity to give up on?
[21:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:26] <exec> 08└─The results of "looking out the window" Hurricane forecasting: 1935 At a news conference on September 5, Hopkins asserted that there was no negligence traceable to FERA in the failed evacuation of the camps as the Weather Bureau advisories had given insufficient warning. He also dispatched his assis...
[21:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:28] <exec> 08└─Which is rather the point... do we want to be rolling 5G out before we even know the full impact on storm forecasting ability? FWIW, looks like cruise ships currently use WiFi for data and voice only cell bands - probably a good idea for them to stay that way instead of rolling out 5G onboard...
[21:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:30] <exec> 08└─Good point.
[21:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:33] <exec> 08└─Search for "noaa nasa 5g report" This has been going on since spring I still can't find the Nava/NOAA study report that started this on line anywhere other than a bad Google cached page that corrupted all the diagrams.
[21:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:35] <exec> 08└─https://www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Navy%2024Hz%205G%20Spectrum%20Impacts.pdf [senate.gov] should have been NAVY NOAA report
[21:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:37] <exec> 08└─g's go to 11. 11g, bishes!
[21:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:39] <exec> 08└─Think about what would happen to visible spectrum weather images if you started pointing searchlights at weather satellites on every block of a populated area. You desensitize the imaging array. What they are trying to detect is the AMBIENT changes in microwave energy absorbed by water vapor Now, th...
[21:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:42] <exec> 08└─Cell phones are, indeed, cool... and it's a great thing that the mass population has embraced them. On the other hand, like they used to say about electronic calculators back in the 1970s: you need to know how to function without those things, and know when they're telling you the wrong answer. And...
[21:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:56] <exec> 08└─Are a scripter by chance, the kind of programmer who never *really* knows what his machine is doing? That's not embedded programming.
[21:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:57] <exec> 08└─Go is the future. You hate change because you are toxic.
[21:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:59] <exec> 08└─The article is not about a Xeon or something that drives Waymo cars. It is about weak and slow R-Pis that are thermally challenged on top of their other limitations. The best compiled language for them is C, a well known low level language that lets you control every allocation. People write very ti...
[21:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:02] <exec> 08└─Are a scripter by chance, the kind of programmer who never *really* knows what his machine is doing? That's not embedded programming.
[21:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:04] <exec> 08└─No, these boards do not have garbage collection "built into the hardware". One is based on one of Atmel's (now Microchip) Cortex M0+ CPU. The Java based board is based on ??? has sticker hiding the actual part number (boo!) and I'm too lazy to find it out.
[21:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:06] <exec> 08└─C is not too large and heavy. It is extremely close to the hardware. How tiny can it be? Tiny enough to run on 8051 CPUs. That's pretty small! In embedded world with C there is usually only a memory block copy and a memory block zeroing before main() function runs your application. Well, in addition...
[21:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:39] <exec> 08└─Girl to cashier: Can I have a poke? Cashier: ? Girl to cashier: A bag. A poke is slang for a bag.
[21:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:41] <exec> 08└─couldn't understand a single word from a back woods hillbilly from somewhere near the Ozarks
[21:34:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EvilSS [1456] 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 75 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:56] <exec> 08└─I think we need a study on soylentnews readers ability to read the summary.
[21:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:06] <exec> 08└─In order for Google to not be using open microphones to tailor advertising to us they would have to literally not do what they said they would do. The how and the why is contained in a Google paper from 2006 called Mass personalization: social and interactive applications using sound-track identific...
[21:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:08] <exec> 08└─I think I've made this incredibly clear, I'm racist against youtubers
[21:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:10] <exec> 08└─They measured battery use also, so it is decent evidence (not proof) that the basic systems don't constantly eavesdrop. This say nothing about systems with various apps installed, of course, and many of those apps are not removable.
[21:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:12] <exec> 08└─I REALLY wish it were possible to edit things after a post. I wrote the post, wasn't satisfied, so I went back and edited it. But now the text says "This say", where it should say "This says". Fixing one thing borked another.
[21:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Shows Android and Apple Phones Not Eavesdropping - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:14] <exec> 08└─OK. But consider that I get ads from companies where I have purchased products, not from other companies selling similar products. To me this indicates that the leak of information was from the company where I bought the stuff. It seems quite foolish. I bought a pair of shoes, liked it, so I bought...
[21:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:30] <exec> 08└─Were useful? How about are useful? Just a couple of years back I was working on a government agency project that would get information from school districts all over that state. Our input format for data to be sent in was fixed record formatted lines of text. This was because it was the lowest commo...
[21:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL Turns 60: Why It Will Outlive Us All - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:31] <exec> 08└─The thing I hated most about CSV was when it was used in a flat text file to specify records that were mostly default with just a few changes. Also, you didn't have a key/value pair so your only clue to what was being changed was the position, which is really hard for a human to deal with. Example:...
[21:36:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 401 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:35] <exec> 08└─This is a really disingenuous headline. I thought it sounded a bit over the top so I decided to look into it a bit more. [politico.com] During the same press conference, another reporter asked de Blasio about requiring bikes be registered with the city, since the motor vehicles they share the road w...
[21:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:40] <exec> 08└─At least he has specific policy ideas that he can be judged on. In contrast, I suspect Bernie's plans would require heavy taxes that would be sprinkled over various items that might drive up health care costs. I mean, it's only responsible that expensive (from a health care cost perspective) lifesty...
[21:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:43] <exec> 08└─I saw a six-year-old pedal into a corner going too fast (on a dedicated bike path), and the inside pedal hit the concrete. This lifted the back tire off the ground long enough for the bike to slide out from under her. Her head hit the ground hard; she did not land on her feet. But perhaps to your po...
[21:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:45] <exec> 08└─That could be used as a bludgeon. It is a weapon of crime.
[21:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:47] <exec> 08└─Skateboarding is not a crime! I read that on a sticker somewhere...
[21:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:49] <exec> 08└─Maybe if they didn't "grind" and damage hand rails (by riding the metal part of the board down the hand rail), and damage other public metal and stone, especially marble, then I wouldn't have a problem with them being on my lawn.
[21:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Back to School: With Latest Attack, Ransomware Cancels Classes in Flagstaff - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:07] <exec> 08└─But it is ever so much easier and efficient to simply ignore contingency plans and budget for appropriate backups! "Efficient" in this sense meaning that if you have 500 school districts and only 1 of them gets a virus or suffers a catastrophic event with loss of irreplaceable data, then it is a les...
[21:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:43] <exec> 08└─The FBI fights against Trump (ie, russia). When Jessie Smollet got in trouble for fighting racisim who did he turn to for help? Michelle Obama who tried to get the case transferred to the FBI.
[21:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:45] <exec> 08└─too many layers of nonsensicalness in that post to even know where to begin
[21:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:47] <exec> 08└─As the (U.S.) Constitution has been mentioned here several times already, I will take the opportunity to remind y'all that the Constitution does not apply if you are within 100 miles of the border or "point of entry". That is, at least as far as the fine folks at Customs and Border Protection are co...
[21:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:21] <exec> 08└─SQL / DDL would be too complex for something like a disk. Last thing I want is my unaudited and maybe never updated disk controller software parsing something as complex as SQL. Same with the file-server API, hardware should be as dumb as possible. Adding something like NFS, CIFS or whatever adds co...
[21:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Key-Value SSD Prototype - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:23] <exec> 08└─Don't see why not. Many database and NoSQL systems already have raw partition support, since many times they'd be the only file on the file system anyway. Makes sense to similarly extend to this sort of store, especially since this has native partition support.
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[22:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:47] <exec> 08└─Converted an abandoned mental hospital into DHS HQ (GSA and DHS)
[22:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03catholocism [8422] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:49] <exec> 08└─How is funding basic science wasteful again?
[22:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:51] <exec> 08└─How is funding basic science wasteful again?
[22:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:53] <exec> 08└─Easy points can be scored with "ordinary" people by mocking esoteric research topics. "Who cares about frog calls?" "What sort of weirdo studies frogs at all? Why aren't they researching something that matters?"
[22:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tiny Specks In Space Could Be The Key To Finding Martian Life - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:03] <exec> 08└─An announcement was made that the parachute deployed OK but didn't slow the lander sufficiently. The backup cluster of 128 C6-7 Estes engines failed to ignite due to an igniter that fell out.
[22:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:31] <exec> 08└─Replies that anger the Libtard Propaganda Mafia always get downvoted as Troll. Common sense is outlawed since it might offend the sensitive.
[22:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:33] <exec> 08└─My bet: The author/summarizer remembers the 80's and prefers not making themselves (or many of us) feel older ...
[22:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03catholocism [8422] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:27] <exec> 08└─Unless the jargon is well mapped by both parties it still takes time to unpack. I read AOC, and in my head I speak the words each letter represent. A word like schadenfreude however is pretty instant for me. Even then however, the form of the meaning is transmitted, but its full body still takes tim...
[22:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:28] <exec> 08└─Does this research take into account nonverbal cues? I'm curious if that could be an unaccounted for element...
[22:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:29] <exec> 08└─How do beans externalize health costs, aside from niche cases like long elevator rides?
[22:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03catholocism [8422] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:27] <exec> 08└─To be perfectly honest, our society would be better off if the supremes bothered to protect the rights given by every other amendment first, rather than the current form of putting the second amendment above and before all others. You don't need to own a gun in a well ordered society, but without th...
[22:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flu Vaccination Linked With Lower Risk of Early Death in Patients With High Blood Pressure - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:22] <exec> 08└─Methodology, Mr. Troll. What specific method of statistical analysis would you replace null hypothesis testing with?
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[23:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:03] <exec> 08└─Whatever the outcome of the grant, one thing is certain, at the very least. Before we send $150,000 in American taxes abroad to teach English and IT skills, we should first consider our own country’s situation. The most recent American Community Survey run by the Census Bureau determined that 8.5...
[23:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:04] <exec> 08└─Heaven forbid people found out how, say, Air Conditioning was invented. "OMG you wasted all my money helping those gard dang furners?"
[23:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:06] <exec> 08└─Only forty-eight billion in improper Medicare spending? Damn, now I really want us some single-payer, government-run healthcare!
[23:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:09] <exec> 08└─Here here! A properly run private insurance plan would have found a way to deny such silly things, such as a prosthetic that's actually comfortable. A splintering wooden peg was good enough for Ahab, it's good enough for grandpa.
[23:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:11] <exec> 08└─What's old is new again.
[23:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Dr. Rand Paul Releases Summer 2019 Edition of ‘The Waste Report’ - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:13] <exec> 08└─This jackoff is gonna talk about waste after voting in favor of Trump's tax cut for corporations that added $2 trillion to the debt and continues to make the deficit balloon. Fuck him and fuck his stupid hair and I hope another one of his neighbors kicks the shit out of him. https://www.nytimes.com
[23:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tiny Specks In Space Could Be The Key To Finding Martian Life - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:24] <exec> 08└─They should have used multiple parachutes. The Moon is a harsh, breathtaking Mistress.
[23:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 3831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:54] <exec> 08└─Your comment is bullshit and belongs at -1. I hope the moderators will mod you down where you belong. Forecast skill has improved substantially over time, greatly reducing the errors at longer lead times. I'll just point you to NHC's statistics [noaa.gov] for track errors. Forecast tracks are based...
[23:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 2244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:56] <exec> 08└─Much like the OP, your comment is bullshit. Both deserve troll mods. Stating that forecast errors couldn't have been much worse 30 years ago is demonstrably false. The NHC forecast track errors [noaa.gov] prove this. Forecast errors for lead times of 24 hours were more than twice as large 30 years a...
[23:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:58] <exec> 08└─Whenever I see the name Ajit Pai, another name comes to mind: Martin Shkreli. I feel like both of these people were cast from the same mold.
[23:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hurricane Tracking Technology is About to Regress 30 Years - 3278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:00] <exec> 08└─I know you're joking and I appreciate the humor in your comment. Drawing on an NHC forecast graphic with a sharpie was really stupid. The 120 hour NHC forecast cone never extended into Alabama except maybe overlapping a tiny corner of the southeast part of the state in one forecast. Doubling down on...
[23:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:21] <exec> 08└─Basically C... without undefined behavior...
[23:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:22] <exec> 08└─Small embedded systems come with either no OS or a very stripped down one that mostly is a task scheduler. When it comes to understanding the system, I meant embedded programmers know what the software system is doing. Also you have a closer understanding of the hardware and control of timing issues...
[23:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TinyGo Brings Go To Arduino - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:24] <exec> 08└─The fact that you bring up x86/ARM/POWER CPUs in reference to **small embedded systems** just reinforces that you are totally ignorant about the field. You just don't know what it is.
[23:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:02] <exec> 08└─For me, the limiting factor is definitely my ability to parse the incoming stream. I note this often in TV ads. They get some motormouth going in the background. Takes him about two seconds to lose me. I have to consider it like people who expect me to sign a contract with fine and poor contrast pri...
[23:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:02] <exec> 08└─Jelly beans
[23:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:04] <exec> 08└─Should Skateboarding require a license?...
[23:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill De Blasio Eyes License Requirement for Bike Riders - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:06] <exec> 08└─Have you priced good bicycles? Not Wall-E-World. We sold many bikes in the $5k range all the time. About once every two years a $15k to $30k bike would sell. Cops don't care how much it cost. They just want to take a report and go eat dinner. #lockupbicyclethieves Stealing bicycles is the way to go...
[23:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Metro Stores Sell Used Phones as New, Charge “Fake Taxes,” NYC Says - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:32] <exec> 08└─One for each ghetto? This sounds like exactly the sort of selling that's meant to take advantage of poor, underprivileged, uneducated afro-americans.
[23:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Judge Rules FBI Terrorism Watchlist Unconstitutional - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:06] <exec> 08└─I see things quite differently. The right to self defense enables you to protect all your other rights. Oppressive regimes revoke the right to bear arms BEFORE they start on the right to free speech, the right to travel freely, the right to work, the right to be secure in your own home, etc etc etc.
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