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[00:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:18] <exec> 08└─Can we gay-marry him? We should trust those who fire those who would try to impose their archaic and batshit crazy religious values on the rest of us.
[00:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 3426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:21] <exec> 08└─I would certainly exclude rar from consideration, for being too proprietary. And tar is storage only. tar is frequently used in conjunction with bzip2, xz, and one that isn't on that list and should be: gzip. xz, bzip2, and gzip compress single files only, which is why they are often used with tar....
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[00:34:22] <exec> 08└─I saw you fail against apk https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] and none of your bs worked. Huge fail for you. The biggest being the end of it where you try blame apk for stalking you but you are quoted years before showing you do a...
[00:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:25] <exec> 08└─Oh I don't know about that. I looked at this from all over this site today and must laugh at your numerous blunders against apk https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[00:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:27] <exec> 08└─You're autistic.
[00:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:22] <exec> 08└─When it's time to run "Dirty" any dishes remaining in "Clean"
[00:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:51] <exec> 08└─Not really, its a press release to get PR to appeal to parent age (grandparent age) people
[00:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:19] <exec> 08└─This would be true of any write once optical media or any OTPROM type memory. I do wonder why optical tape hasn't taken off for backup.
[00:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:20] <exec> 08└─but also think that means their language is "modern", whatever that means.
[00:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:22] <exec> 08└─I wrote a monte carlo simulation for estimating the worst-case measurement error of an electronic circuit given a bunch of input parameters in C++ and showed it to a coworker who jokingly replied, "Why are you messing around with C++? Everyone knows math is done in spreadsheets." I did a lot of MATL...
[00:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Investigates Breach At U.S. Govt IT Contractor - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:48] <exec> 08└─Let me comment on food only and not really for this particular list. It is typical for young google employees to share apartments in NYC. It is also typical when 3 independent entities share a two bedroom - one per each bedroom with shared living room and one in *kitchen*. The point is that there is...
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[01:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Second Interstellar Object Discovered - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:08] <exec> 08└─They just discovered it, and they're still working out it's path. So - are they really sure that it's an interstellar visitor? What if it's just a new class of comet with a super elongated orbit? That is, it's just now returning to the vicinity of the sun, after xxxx years out there in no-man's land...
[01:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Second Interstellar Object Discovered - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:09] <exec> 08└─They are still looking at it but are reasonably confident this thing is interstellar. The important part is that we caught this one before closest approach. Also, it appears to be very large compared to 'Oumuamua.
[01:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Second Interstellar Object Discovered - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:11] <exec> 08└─I feel for astronomers. Further observations needed is the mantra they live by. The fact is, we know almost nothing about space. There may well be 50 interstellar objects hurtling through our solar system every day, and we either don't see them or misinterpret them. The fact is, we don't even know...
[01:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:26] <exec> 08└─I bet you've heard this before: If the product is free then you are the product. I believe that more today than I ever have in my life.
[01:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:27] <exec> 08└─But will Mozilla only allow it for certain sites though. Can't let users be too free, what if they commit wrong think or aid terrorists?
[01:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:29] <exec> 08└─Are commercial VPNs (PIA, Nord, etc.) in the business of blocking certain sites? I haven't used any. Mozilla's VPN will block homophobic sites.
[01:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:42] <exec> 08└─Based on human's joints and heart problems, we are probably form a planet with Mars's gravity of the surface. Based on our problems with sun tan, we are probably from a red dwarf star. It makes sense as the combination is likely the most common in the galaxy. Besides, we may simply be from Mars - it...
[01:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:44] <exec> 08└─Once life exists somewhere, it fills all the niches all right. The idea was fist formulated by Vernadsky https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] in his biosphere concept. The question is if the other star systems belong to the same biosphere or have their own unique one.
[01:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:38] <exec> 08└─That's the thing. Most of the time a filesystem backup will suffice. Sometimes the file isn't there or that copy is corrupt. But most of the time the restore is due to far fingering the file. Obviously, you still need off-site backups as well, but you don't usually need them.
[01:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 1752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:39] <exec> 08└─The problem I've found with that strategy exclusively, is that it's all but impossible to accurately anticipate *everything* that you'll end up wanting to go back to look at decades later. You'll get most of it, but will inevitably have "if only I had kept..." moments. The solution though is relativ...
[01:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:42] <exec> 08└─bzip2 and xz use completely different algorithms. Bzip2 does a run-length encoding, then a Burrows–Wheeler transform (BWT), then move-to-front (MTF) transform, then another run-length encoding, then Huffman coding, then it picks the best Huffman tables for that result, then does encoding of Huffma...
[01:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:38] <exec> 08└─I already explained this to you last time.
[01:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:39] <exec> 08└─That's why I drew in some black holes in the box. Shh! The sheep is sleeping.
[01:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Described Electric Eel Has Strongest Voltage Yet Measured - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:05] <exec> 08└─They go through a lot of grad students.
[01:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Investigates Breach At U.S. Govt IT Contractor - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:05] <exec> 08└─That's where the jobs are. Perhaps more importantly, that's where oppotunities are. One meet people who could help one to get out of this shithole. Myself, I am moving to midwest for now and out of the country eventually.
[01:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret Service Investigates Breach At U.S. Govt IT Contractor - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:06] <exec> 08└─I do believe that we - former middle class - are scewed about 5x in income. A large two bedroom appartment whithin walking distance to one's job in NYC should cost about 2 early salaries after taxes.
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[02:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Possible Second Interstellar Object Discovered - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:04] <exec> 08└─... because ʻOumuamua was just the first scout.
[02:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:22] <exec> 08└─Whatever the purpose, the convenience of bundling services is far outweighed by the implications of facilitating the collection and use of my personal info. That's true for internet/tv etc., vpn, web browsers as well. I don't mind paying a bit more for each service, it's ok, I think my data is worth...
[02:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:23] <exec> 08└─Stick with plain http. Believing that anything is secure from spying is just wilfull ignorance at this point. A false sense of security is worse than no security, especially since history shows that stuff that couldn't be cracked at the time becomes trivial in the future.
[02:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:25] <exec> 08└─I know, right? How dare he have beliefs different than yours! Fuck off, fascist.
[02:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:41] <exec> 08└─Based on our problems with sun tan
[02:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:42] <exec> 08└─Not water
[02:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:44] <exec> 08└─On Earth where ever we find water we also find life.
[02:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:41] <exec> 08└─At some point you realize that stuff that's gone isn't the end of the world. Pictures? I've got my memories, and that's better. And if I ever get senile, pictures won't help, and my advanced medical directive kicks in and I die, so I'm not gonna worry about it. Their there were a fire, my prioritie...
[02:34:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:43] <exec> 08└─I think you spelled "batshit crazy " wrong.
[02:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:45] <exec> 08└─My experience with btrfs was Write Once, Read Never.
[02:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:47] <exec> 08└─I use btrfs as my near-line backup aggregator drive at home, and as my development filesystem at work. It has been generally good to me except when my home drive got corrupted. Not btrfs' fault, since the root cause was a burnt bit in the RAM, but flying without ECC is risky. Recovered the data from...
[02:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:49] <exec> 08└─I got burned when Debian (my *former* OS before I found happiness with Devuan) brought in SystemD through an upgrade, which blew away a backup set that I had mounted in a directory on /tmp. Fuck SystemD.
[02:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:51] <exec> 08└─ZIP up the junk if you wish. ZIP is pretty much universally compatible. RAR is a little more recoverable if the file gets truncated, and nearly as widely readable. But the important files? Oh hell no. Never ever not EVER compress them as your only backup/archive. Or otherwise, if you can avoid it: I...
[02:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:53] <exec> 08└─Writers need to learn basic HTML. There's fuck all they can create in any word processor that can't be done in HTML and you can read and write it in any text editor on the planet.
[02:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:52] <exec> 08└─Strange that every other field of sociology doesn't suffer from such problems.
[02:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:54] <exec> 08└─I'm most familiar with it in the context of chemistry. This is a very limited context because it only really describes the entropy of gasses in terms of particle motion, but such descriptions are usually much easier to fully grok than some 30 million variable universal formula. dU = T*dS - p*dV U I...
[02:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:56] <exec> 08└─Were you there?
[02:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Described Electric Eel Has Strongest Voltage Yet Measured - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:22] <exec> 08└─This is a higher power! Must be god.
[02:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:55] <exec> 08└─PyCharm can be a bit overwhelming for new users. One of the things I see people who are trying to learn Python and jump into PyCharm struggle with is how PyCharm sets up all kinds of virtual environments behind the scenes with every project, and if you aren't used to Python's versioning headaches th...
[02:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MATLAB vs Python: Why and How to Make the Switch - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:56] <exec> 08└─I have 2 python t-shirts.
[02:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Prohibition Tossed a Wet Blanket on America’s Inventors - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:28] <exec> 08└─In our theories of capitalism (or whatever you might want to call the system), competition is greatly over-hyped, while cooperation does not get the deserved attention. I believe that cooperation, even in the most cut throat environments, is way more important.
[02:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Prohibition Tossed a Wet Blanket on America’s Inventors - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:29] <exec> 08└─But NASCAR was born. Innovation in automotive technology because moonshine.
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[03:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:06] <exec> 08└─In a sane world: I guess it's a bad idea to do stuff just because dickwads with the divine mandate of jerb creator from GOP Jeebus can be impersonated over the phone. In clown world: ban AI.
[03:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:08] <exec> 08└─The furor over that non-even-a-deepfake Pelosi video gives us an idea of what's coming. Once we get close to publicized strong AI, people will be killed by SWAT teams for running the wrong code.
[03:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:55] <exec> 08└─I accept your peer review as correct.
[03:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:57] <exec> 08└─No ethanol required. Just energetic events like lightening strikes along with H2, O2, and other compounds that could combine to generate OH-.
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[03:35:04] <exec> 08└─7z is open source too. Which pretty much has all of them and its just as easy to use as tar. I came to also recommend par2. It is showing its age though. As it does have upper limits on the total archive sizes you can use. So you end up having to play carve your data up game to get the par's right.
[03:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 1430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:05] <exec> 08└─Actually there are a whole bunch of structures HTML is awkward at; RTF is better at complex formatting, and equally hand-editable (I sometimes do this for money). And even then, there are a few structures WordPerfect does that nothing else can reasonably do. But point is all of these (and old Word ....
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[03:35:07] <exec> 08└─Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Filter error: Please take your trolling someplace else.
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[03:35:09] <exec> 08└─Everything you say is fine. RIght up until you lose a bit of that 7z file. You want something like par2 in the mix too. The downside is it uses up quite a decent amount of extra space on top of your archive file. Extra backups, plus raid, plus some extra encode metadata ontop should get you pretty m...
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[03:35:11] <exec> 08└─This is basically what I use. Maximally xz-compressed squashFS image burnt to 25GB blu-ray (for capacity vs cost). Consider the sector-size of blu-ray (2048) and suppose how many blocks might be lost on a disc (runs of 5000? totals of 150 000 blocks?) Choose the par2 parameters accordingly, and crea...
[03:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:14] <exec> 08└─Interesting you say those things, because other than the dogs, those are pretty replaceable. Hopefully your dogs would be the ones saving you if there was a fire.
[03:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:15] <exec> 08└─Keep your hands inside your cloak when speaking publically!
[03:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:16] <exec> 08└─Are you taking into account the energy cost? Dishwashers are like 1 kW. It is much easier and cheaper to just wash your dishes.
[03:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Marist Mindset List for the Entering College Class of 2023 - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:47] <exec> 08└─How does "hypergamy" even mesh with incels? We want hypergamy, right? Everybody gets laid! Or are we talking about trucel theory? The black pill?
[03:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret Strength of Gnashing Teeth - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:29] <exec> 08└─Dude, this is one of those overlooked areas of material science that could revolutionize a lot of things. Sea shells are hard, but unlike our porcelain and glass, they don't shatter. About the best we have been able to do is the car windshield, in which a layer of plastic mostly holds the pieces in...
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[04:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board to Sell for as Low as $39 - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:32:52] <exec> 08└─Rock Pi X Model B 4GB vs. Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 4GB $75 / $55 LPDDR3-1866 / LPDDR4-3200 4kp30 / 4kp60 + 4kp30 The big difference is the x86 CPU, which will support more applications and might be faster. But it is an old, weak Atom. iGPU [notebookcheck.net] does not support 4Kp60 output, if that mat...
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[04:32:54] <exec> 08└─Wrong link. https://en.wikichip.org [wikichip.org] What's with the 2 GB max memory support?
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[04:33:09] <exec> 08└─thought he was speaking on the phone with his boss
[04:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03oumuamua [8401] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Possible Second Interstellar Object Discovered - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:20] <exec> 08└─She was complaining about the chaos at Cassiopeiae so I told her she should come here, nice stable system, quiet neighborhood. She was reluctant at first until I told her she could grab a free Tesla on the way in.
[04:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:40] <exec> 08└─My thought is that this 'free' VPN is probably fine for when you just don't want your ISP following you around, like for torrents. But for anything where privacy is life or death? I don't think so...
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[04:35:12] <exec> 08└─Agreed, 7z native compression is significantly better -- if you want to spend the cpu time. I prefer tar -j because archival and compression are a single step and helps me stay within par2's file count limitation. As I wrote, I feel my recommendation is a good solution overall given my requirements.
[04:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:14] <exec> 08└─When I was a young pup of sixteen I remember seeing ads for sale in the back of my dad's Popular Mechanics magazines for the miraculous Pogue carburetor. Of course as a poor kid making minimum wage, struggling to keep the tank filled and a bit mechanically inclined, i was sorely tempted to order a s...
[04:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:16] <exec> 08└─Several friends of mine back then worked in local computer stores. The return rate / failure rate was so bad they stopped ordering them switching to Seagate and other brands. Seagate had a bad reputation for some of its drive types, but nothing like the Deathstar. You expected minimum quality for lo...
[04:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:18] <exec> 08└─It's called "tape". https://www.overlandstorage.com [overlandstorage.com]
[04:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Secret Service Investigates Breach At U.S. Govt IT Contractor - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:51] <exec> 08└─That's where the jobs are.
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[05:33:03] <exec> 08└─Atom: 32-bit processor? Epic Intel fail?
[05:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board to Sell for as Low as $39 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:04] <exec> 08└─the intel atom x5-Z8300 is 64-bit
[05:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Unveils B330 Inflatable Module Mock-Up - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:12] <exec> 08└─Must have these in KSP2.
[05:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Unveils B330 Inflatable Module Mock-Up - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:14] <exec> 08└─I can sell you a bouncy castle. Just don't let kids on it,
[05:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:25] <exec> 08└─Or all three. I don't believe this story at all.
[05:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Second Interstellar Object Discovered - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:37] <exec> 08└─There are already a bunch of comets with extremely long orbits that have eccentricities near, or in some cases even exceeding 1 (that means they're parabolic or slightly hyperbolic rather than elliptical). These comets go out more than a light year into space, basically as far as a thing can go and...
[05:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:59] <exec> 08└─I started paying for email when Google started screwing with the interface. Its easily worth the small amount per year. A VPN can be $3 per month, Nord I am looking at you, with a decent service Are people such tight arses? Its one coffee per month.
[05:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:00] <exec> 08└─Pick the wrong, compromised VPN and you could draw more attention to yourself.
[05:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:03] <exec> 08└─That's it! I am starting a program to make Buzzard marriage illegal! Because of God and libertarianism and AR15a! Hope you're happy now! (Includes marriage to catfish.)
[05:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:05] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews blocks some VPNs, as some Soylentils know from experience. Does that answer your question?
[05:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:07] <exec> 08└─This link should switch you back to the old GMail interface (yes, the new one sucks): https://mail.google.com [google.com] Me, I have umpteen mailboxes with my hosting, so all I use GMail for is Google crap, like Youtube notifications. Figure I might as well keep all the snooping confi...
[05:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital Announces 20 TB Hard Drives - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:45] <exec> 08└─Of course I know the history. The problem is that drive failures from over a decade ago should not cause you to boycott WD today. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Plenty of people swear they will never use a WD or Seagate drive again because MUH DRIVE FAILURES, and they are...
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[06:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four-Year Probe Finds Foxconn's Apple 11 Factory 'Routinely' Flouts Chinese Labour Laws - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:02] <exec> 08└─in order to get you your phone at that price, humans had to be abused beyond what chinese labor law allows. China is a totalitarian system, everyone there is a slave but a handful of people. Effectively then the system you are a part of, with that phone, is a slavery system. Dont let the borders, n...
[06:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Unveils B330 Inflatable Module Mock-Up - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:22] <exec> 08└─There are x million empty hotel rooms and x+1 million homeless people, a guy who made money from making rooms that are empty most of the time, is building empty rooms for space with the extra money and has so much extra money that he is effectively a branch of the national space program. No. The sto...
[06:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:33] <exec> 08└─"Open the bank vault doors, Dave..."
[06:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Second Interstellar Object Discovered - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:47] <exec> 08└─... because ʻOumuamua was just the first scout.
[06:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 1081 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:13] <exec> 08└─You forgot the /sarcasm tag. Because, surely you're not saying that information's value is constant over time, and that there's nothing like oh say credit card transaction nonces, which would be useless to replayers or later decoders. Oh... oh wait. You think https is a false sense of security for t...
[06:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:15] <exec> 08└─I mean, this is the beta. A free beta is common in video games and other industries too; it's how you say "look we know this isn't perfect but hey play with it and we'll use your feedback and your bugreps and your crash logs." They'll charge for it once it's out of beta, and while it's in beta there...
[06:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:37] <exec> 08└─Based on our problems with sun tan, we are probably from a red dwarf star.
[06:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:51] <exec> 08└─The Xz format is inadequate for long-term archiving [nongnu.org]: There are several reasons why the xz compressed data format should not be used for long-term archiving, specially of valuable data. To begin with, xz is a complex container format that is not even fully documented. Using a complex f...
[06:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:53] <exec> 08└─Works for me. Did you try the ones here: https://github.com [github.com]
[06:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:55] <exec> 08└─Disagree. HTML is totally overkill for simple writing. Markdown is absolutely sufficient for most writing tasks. On the other hand, if you do need advanced features, HTML is too limited. Use LaTeX in that case.
[06:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:57] <exec> 08└─FWIW, later versions of tar support far more compression standards. Depending on the oldest OS you support, you could get better compression rates on new files by changing that switch. I believe "-J" for xz is supported by most Linuxes and BSDs, for example.
[06:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:59] <exec> 08└─If I were designing such a horrible file format, I'd do something like zip each file individually, then TAR the mess together.
[06:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:04] <exec> 08└─So that is a lack of your understanding - not a failure of the story. Less than 24 hours after being posted it is the second most commented story of the day. There are lots of intelligent and insightful comments that try to explain things. Try reading them and seeing if it helps...
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[07:33:24] <exec> 08└─This is a story that should be told to anyone that considers biometrics a good password replacement. Biometrics can be used for userids... they are horrible replacements of passwords. This is proof that voices can be reproduced. There are plenty of stories about how Apple's FaceID/unlock can be dupe...
[07:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, I know. The problem is that without the header, you can't find where each file starts, nor decompress it. So this hypothetical format lets me see that, so I could at least trawl through it looking for that PK marker to tell where each individual ZIP starts, then copy it out and extract it. As s...
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[07:35:46] <exec> 08└─Thanks; for some reason that refused to come up.
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[08:32:51] <exec> 08└─"Sell, sell! For God's sake, Sell! We are all gonna be ruined!"
[08:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board to Sell for as Low as $39 - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:13] <exec> 08└─Not trolling, I'm genuinly interested. Is this simply information for builders of phone/tablets? Is it a serious proposition that I use this for my desktop? Up to now I was under the impression these cheap minicomputers were useful for tiny robots or standalone machines supposed to handle relatively...
[08:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:59] <exec> 08└─First statement cannot be true, why? See first statement.
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[09:32:53] <exec> 08└─This is another high point for system failure, like after whatever extinction event they will look back and say 'this is how stupid their system was, it encouraged stupidity in the population because it was more profitable to do stupid things than smart ones.' Even if you predict a tweet and auto-tr...
[09:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061 Billion Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:00] <exec> 08└─WIN CASINO GAMES WITH THIS ONE WEIRD TRICK they never gonna hack me
[09:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four-Year Probe Finds Foxconn's Apple 11 Factory 'Routinely' Flouts Chinese Labour Laws - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:08] <exec> 08└─check out the ball-less who come by and disagree but don't know how to use their words. Oh, and had you asked me four years ago, I would have predicted this and you apparently would have believed absolute lies. The silence of other people about this, in a f*cking ocean of iphones in a western civili...
[09:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board to Sell for as Low as $39 - 2161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:19] <exec> 08└─The latest RPi's and similar can support a desktop if you only use it for web browsing, email and an office suite of applications. However, they are not really up to compiling large programs or managing a business in my opinion. Some will say otherwise, but it depends very much how much grunt power...
[09:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:21] <exec> 08└─How does one find out in a manner that does not involve jackboots or blood loss or court appearances?
[09:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:22] <exec> 08└─If you want your ISP not to snoop around just vote with your wallet and find an ISP which doesn't. Simple. That's this "free market", isn't it? :)
[09:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:24] <exec> 08└─The thing with Mozilla CEO is simple: I don't give a f..k what he's doing after work if he's doing his work great. He may hang fascist factory supervisors, or he may burn communists in his ashtray, that's rather law enforcement's job than mine. If someone mixes work and after-work, it is just saying...
[09:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:06] <exec> 08└─The problem is that without the header, you can't find where each file starts, nor decompress it.
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[10:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Volfefe': A Volatility Index for the Trump Era by JPMorgan - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:00] <exec> 08└─This is just the end result of letting governments and central banks meddle in the markets. What we have is much closer to communism/fascism than capitalism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[10:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061 Billion Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:08] <exec> 08└─Is this bad? I mean, this sounds bad. But then again I always thought Stagefright was game over but the Android phone botnet armageddon failed to materialize.
[10:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061 Billion Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:10] <exec> 08└─This is bad if you are the target of a nation state. Do you work for the EFF? Travel to China? etc.? Then you may have exposed yourself and others to risk. Joe Rural who never leaves town has little exposure from this.
[10:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board to Sell for as Low as $39 - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:31] <exec> 08└─Thank you. I'm surprised that streaming videos can work, but I guess it's the hardware acceleration that's doing it. In principle these are more powerful than typical desktops 20 years ago, and if they are as resilient then I would personally see them as desktop computers in many settings.
[10:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:58] <exec> 08└─> Besides, we may simply be from Mars - it fits our biology as well. Only if you regard breathing as optional.
[10:35:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 3426 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:49] <exec> 08└─I would certainly exclude rar from consideration, for being too proprietary. And tar is storage only. tar is frequently used in conjunction with bzip2, xz, and one that isn't on that list and should be: gzip. xz, bzip2, and gzip compress single files only, which is why they are often used with tar....
[10:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:21] <exec> 08└─or you haven't noticed what's happened to storage prices, storage device sizes and transfer speeds in the last decade (same could have been said 10 and 20 years ago)
[10:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Secret Strength of Gnashing Teeth - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:44] <exec> 08└─What about gorilla glass or bullet proof glass. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Also it should be noted that care needs to be taken to ensure the material is clear, transparent, and doesn't distort the light. If you have different materials mixed with different refrac...
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[11:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:52] <exec> 08└─This makes sense in the context of non-standard algebra. Eg, the probability of you getting your paycheck was 1.3 and the probability of the company keeping it was -0.3, so p = 1, while p + p = 3. If you can't handle modern finance that is your problem.
[11:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:53] <exec> 08└─The question is: Why were they even able to withdraw money from the employees' bank accounts. It was not part of their contract, and therefore they should not have been given the permission. And clearly the bank should not have allowed them to withdraw money without explicit permission by the accoun...
[11:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:56] <exec> 08└─how did Mr Mann, CEO of MyPayrollHR, also CEO and owner of its holding company, ValueWise, manage to get the $35 million out of Pioneer Savings Bank? ...and why was anyone prepared to use the Pioneer Savings Bank instead of the regular, Cachet controlled, holding account? If it was changed in the pa...
[11:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome Browser Also Testing DNS-Over-HTTPS - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:03] <exec> 08└─https://archive.fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/dns_over_http/ [fosdem.org]
[11:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Chrome Browser Also Testing DNS-Over-HTTPS - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:06] <exec> 08└─At first I thought HTTPS security must be broken for them to do this, but it doesn't have to be. If they get to choose which DNS servers are used, they still get to see every domain request that you do.
[11:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome Browser Also Testing DNS-Over-HTTPS - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:08] <exec> 08└─Good point. I see different Chrome builds coming like "chrome-for-china-x.y.z-x64", "chrome-for-eu-x.y.z-x64" etc.
[11:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome Browser Also Testing DNS-Over-HTTPS - 1534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:10] <exec> 08└─So, as my ISP has a Netflix box to serve up content directly, if I use Firefox's DNS-over-HTTPS (which uses CloudFlare's 1.1.1.1), Netflix's DNS servers won't see the query coming from my ISP's default recursive DNS servers, and so won't hand out those local direct content server box IPs, potentiall...
[11:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome Browser Also Testing DNS-Over-HTTPS - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:12] <exec> 08└─Didn't you see that Google's DoH test won't change your DNS if you're using your local ISP's servers--unless your ISP is one of those listed DoH providers in which case DoH DNS won't change anything for you except encrypting your requests over the wire to your provider?
[11:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061 Billion Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:30] <exec> 08└─This is bad if you are the target of a nation state.
[11:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 061 Billion Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:32] <exec> 08└─Just because this particular attacker only used it against high profile targets doesn't mean it can *only* be used against high profile targets (or that those targets somehow don't matter). Now that the cat is out of the bag, it can potentially be used against anybody, for anything. The question is...
[11:34:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Unveils B330 Inflatable Module Mock-Up - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:03] <exec> 08└─Paraphrase "We can't do anything until we have fixed humanity." Does this not doom us all to failure? > once everyone on earth was cared for and dynamics were stabilized I don't think that is possible. Try to do this impossible task and don't do anything else until the impossible task is done? Furth...
[11:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:45] <exec> 08└─Strangely I couldn't find a newer one. Thank you.
[11:37:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 1251 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:05] <exec> 08└─If we're talking about hard science we need to use the fucking hard science definition of entropy. Which isn't "disorder". It's a co-related concept to enthalpy that measures the distribution of enthalpy across possible states. The second law of thermodynamics describes the statistically true tenden...
[11:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Tri-Camera iPhones Trigger Trypophobia - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:23] <exec> 08└─Maybe its an eye contact thing where I can have a staring contest with a tiger having two eyes but have anxiety if a large number of eyes are looking and even worse maybe baked into the instinct if there's an odd (ish) number then I'm missing what some predator (or, maybe delicious prey on the hoof)...
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[12:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:55] <exec> 08└─The money in the bank isn't yours. Neither is any stock you think you own. All the no-coiners are going to find this out when they start doing bail-ins. Cede technically owns substantially all of the publicly issued stock in the United States.
[12:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:57] <exec> 08└─The only way someone could think this is offtopic is if they fundamentally misunderstand how the world works.
[12:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:59] <exec> 08└─Direct deposit is basically check processing without the check. It's possible for an originating bank to reverse a deposit that they've made, just like it's possible for a check to bounce and the funds to be removed from the depositor's account. In this case they sent a malformed reversal request th...
[12:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:01] <exec> 08└─It's possible for an originating bank to reverse a deposit that they've made,
[12:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome Browser Also Testing DNS-Over-HTTPS - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:13] <exec> 08└─Didn't you see that Google's DoH test won't change your DNS if you're using your local ISP's servers...
[12:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome Browser Also Testing DNS-Over-HTTPS - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:14] <exec> 08└─Hmm, Google could also provide different versions based on location. But that could easily be proven using a VPN, by switching server locations. Unless they keep a list of VPN server IP addresses.
[12:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061 Billion Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:36] <exec> 08└─Is there anyone surprised by the reveal?
[12:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Four-Year Probe Finds Foxconn's Apple 11 Factory 'Routinely' Flouts Chinese Labour Laws - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:45] <exec> 08└─Lol, butthurt at a non-downmod.
[12:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board to Sell for as Low as $39 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:59] <exec> 08└─But now I see a solution for 4K display... are they trying to replace appleTV/roku similar?
[12:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board to Sell for as Low as $39 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:01] <exec> 08└─x86 generically refers to x64 processors now.
[12:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board to Sell for as Low as $39 - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:03] <exec> 08└─https://libreelec.tv/ [libreelec.tv] https://blog.codinghorror.com [codinghorror.com] https://retropie.org.uk [retropie.org.uk] The Raspberry Pi 4 and this thing absolutely are viable desktops. But the GPU and media decode capabilities allow them to tr...
[12:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Unveils B330 Inflatable Module Mock-Up - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:14] <exec> 08└─The B330 and other inflatable modules offer a great solution for adding living space and storage on space stations, spaceships, and surface bases. There will be demand for these uses, not necessarily space hotels. Humans will not ruin other planets in this solar system because they start out ruined....
[12:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Second Interstellar Object Discovered - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:40] <exec> 08└─The alluring musky space couch and/or back seat cuddle puddle is irresistible to the interstellar lady objects.
[12:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 2617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:57] <exec> 08└─Oh, I know bzip2 very well. Why do you think I chose the handle I use? :) xz is the update that gzip needed. bzip2 was created in the 1990s, and could use an update. Now that we have so much more memory than we did then, the Burrows-Wheeler Transform could be done with much larger blocks than bzip2...
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[13:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:05] <exec> 08└─It's all done electronically, and I doubt anyone watches any more than a big-box store catches most retail theft. But also, how many people read a TOS? Or any contract, or addendum, or rider, or "oh by the way, you have to keep your end of this contract, but we expressly reserve the right to change...
[13:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:06] <exec> 08└─Causation and correlation are codependant variables with a negative inverse co-relation.
[13:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:08] <exec> 08└─Yes, 2 + 2 = 5 for very large values of 2.
[13:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 2368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:11] <exec> 08└─No, this is much bigger. Modern finance is so complex that we need probabilities outside the standard 0-1 range and correlations outside the standard -1 to 1 range to understand it: Similarly, probabilities less than 0 and greater than 1 were long considered non-sensible. However, these ex- tended p...
[13:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:13] <exec> 08└─The money in the bank isn't yours.
[13:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:15] <exec> 08└─We are reading a story about the bank taking away the money people thought was theirs. It has happened to me before too. If you want an example for what it will look like, look at greece/cyprus bail-ins: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] And look...
[13:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:17] <exec> 08└─The money in the bank is yours so long as the laws are still functioning. And if the laws aren't functioning, then your Bitcoins are far less valuable than my food, water, guns, ammo, good relationships with my neighbors, heating fuel, and (in a longer term scenario) arable land. I'm not trading thi...
[13:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:19] <exec> 08└─The money in the bank is yours so long as the laws are still functioning. And if the laws aren't functioning, then your Bitcoins are far less valuable than my food, water, guns, ammo, good relationships with my neighbors, heating fuel, and (in a longer term scenario) arable land.
[13:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome Browser Also Testing DNS-Over-HTTPS - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:32] <exec> 08└─So how is this supposed to work with intranet addresses which won't be resolved by external DNS?
[13:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Second Interstellar Object Discovered - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:54] <exec> 08└─I'll make the obvious, but not obligatory Rendezvous With Rama [wikipedia.org] reference. Could this be our first interaction with intelligent life, 'cause there's bugger all down here on Earth? Rendezvous With Rama might be a good book club choice too. It's certainly a good read. What ever happened...
[13:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Possible Second Interstellar Object Discovered - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:56] <exec> 08└─I got lazy so I didn't post it yet. You are the first one to notice.
[13:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:29] <exec> 08└─You don't! It's a wonderful system of trust.
[13:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:17] <exec> 08└─Something like a turbo encabulator? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[13:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:18] <exec> 08└─You're conflating "end of the world" and "good/want to have". Surely, it's not the end of the world if gone, yet many people want pics, emails, and do read some of them, even if you do not. And.. parent poster seems to be concerned, which may indicate historical annoyance at having something gone MI...
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[14:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Abandons Touchless Chrome Browser for Feature Phones - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:56] <exec> 08└─Right now feature phones are used in emerging markets (as noted in the posting) but also by older people who don't want a smart phone. The thing is, there are some in first world economies who are looking at the ever increasing cost of data plans and trying to find alternatives. While the current ge...
[14:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Abandons Touchless Chrome Browser for Feature Phones - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:58] <exec> 08└─That's bad. You cannot use touch in many environments. Underwater, for example. Not even in rain. Those children are getting more and more stupid all the way down to collapse of technology.
[14:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Abandons Touchless Chrome Browser for Feature Phones - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:00] <exec> 08└─You can find cheap smartphones (better form factor than feature phones for web browsing) and cheap data plans, and add an adblocker to stop a lot of the waste. Navigation apps are probably the killer app for many people, and you can download offline maps if you have enough storage.
[14:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tbuskey [6127] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Abandons Touchless Chrome Browser for Feature Phones - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:02] <exec> 08└─I know I have a few friends who are now in the 50s that were early adopters of the iPhone (having had a blackberry through work) that have discovered their iPhones work just fine with no data plan and diligent use of free wifi at their favorite coffee shops and restaurants.
[14:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Abandons Touchless Chrome Browser for Feature Phones - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:04] <exec> 08└─Google: People must touch the Android. App devs: Mah cod! Mah sole!
[14:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Google Abandons Touchless Chrome Browser for Feature Phones - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:06] <exec> 08└─Better form factor? I dug out my old LG flip phone to show a neighbour because he was fed up with his complicated smartphone. It's amazing how much better the flip phone is as many tasks than an iPhone 6. And a lot smaller. With 500 hours of standby time. And an fm radio that works all day, no stre...
[14:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:28] <exec> 08└─This story doesn't prove I'm wrong: The legal entity and person that stole the money in this case are on the hook for repaying it, and in the meantime the banks are on the hook for allowing the reversal of deposits that didn't happen.
[14:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:30] <exec> 08└─they can actually withhold your paycheck completely and you have to beg for it back at a state agency, and they are under no legal compulsion to give it to you unless you challenge the law at the supreme court. That is close enough to slavery to me that I dont see the distinction. It is legal not to...
[14:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:32] <exec> 08└─Any article like this that mentions the corporation and not the names of the people on the board, owners and investors, is helping them get away with it this time and next time. A legal fiction did not do this, people did. And if we want to have trust, we also have to have a record of who these scum...
[14:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:34] <exec> 08└─"On the hook" meaning if the people who got screwed can pay the lawyers more they will get some of their money back... eventually.
[14:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:36] <exec> 08└─That's a smart move. Maybe I should do the same. Basically, just set up a proxy account who's sole function is to receive money and dump it elsewhere. If there's anything withdrawn out of it, it's automatically fraud.
[14:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:38] <exec> 08└─"Besides that, what possible advantage can there be to having your payroll company be able to withdraw money from your account? That is literally insane, I would never give that right to anyone, ever, in any circumstance, for this very reason." None at all and I really fail to see how they got the p...
[14:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome Browser Also Testing DNS-Over-HTTPS - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:53] <exec> 08└─It's supposed to phone home to google first so they can build a profile of your internal network. This can then be leaked to hackers or turned over to governments that "request" it from Google. I'm not stupid. I took history classes all through high school. The one thing you DON'T do is give up your...
[14:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 061 Billion Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:15] <exec> 08└─Is the article helpful enough to identify if a particular SIM card is vulnerable, and/or has been compromised?
[14:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 061 Billion Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:17] <exec> 08└─More generally, billions of users willingly carry a surveillance and dataraping device in their pockets, and they're being put under surveillance and dataraped by a variety of governmental and private actors, unsurprisingly.
[14:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 061 Billion Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:19] <exec> 08└─Lazy and probably accurate answer: assume yes. If not, you're being shafted in many other ways anyway with your cellphone. So yes.
[14:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03messymerry [6369] (Score: 1) 02 - 061 Billion Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:21] <exec> 08└─Arrrr the supremely annoying telcos going to issue replacement fixed SIMs? Methinks not... dot dot dot ;-D
[14:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board to Sell for as Low as $39 - 1234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:47] <exec> 08└─SBCs have evolved into many applications. As you point out, TV/Roku is one of the most popular, along with emulators and retro gaming on the television. With the CPU being derived from mobile phones most of the features are relatively free: the SOC has onboard graphics capable of outputting 4k to re...
[14:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board to Sell for as Low as $39 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:48] <exec> 08└─I thought eMMC storage was soldered to the PCB. What is the socket?
[14:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Unveils B330 Inflatable Module Mock-Up - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:01] <exec> 08└─These are almost fair questions, I don't dismiss them entirely. But you are wrong. Our planet is a a disease right now, anyone who wants to spread to a different planet is in such extreme denial of this that whatever they are going to do on a different planet is just going to extend the nightmare. T...
[14:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:01] <exec> 08└─I got a one time payment of $20 (or was it $40) for a lifetime with SVPN. Though it is a bit unsettling when it displays how much time I have left (Subscription: Lifetime (7543 days), I guess I only have 20 years left on this blue marble.
[14:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:02] <exec> 08└─I started paying for email when Google started screwing with the interface. Its easily worth the small amount per year.
[14:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:04] <exec> 08└─Where can I donate or how can I contribute to this program?
[14:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:06] <exec> 08└─Not unless they've been used to spam us we don't. Now shitty karma for the VPN's ipid may cause you to be unable to post but that's down to other users thinking you suck, not staff.
[14:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 2749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:09] <exec> 08└─My bank is close enough that I can hit up the cash machine any time I want. The only secrets in my life are my passwords. Everything else is an open book, no thanks to certain people posting all sorts of shit about me online, so I don't get upset over not having secrets. On the other hand, I like t...
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[14:37:57] <exec> 08└─Human memory is unreliable even if old age is somewhere far away in the future, though.
[14:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:59] <exec> 08└─LaTeX is too complex and more or less code. Plain text is where it is. Borrow simplest formatting (bold/italic/headings) from Markdown and call it a day.
[14:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, done enough trawling hex to be aware. My eyes are used to binary. The other problem with a regular zip is even if you can find the body parts, absent an intact header you don't have the info to unpack them.
[14:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:03] <exec> 08└─My personal preference would be for all things TeX to die in a fire. It's almost, but not quite, as enjoyable as the PDF format. I'll stick with HTML and do anything especially funky in an image file.
[14:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:09] <exec> 08└─I always thought they are the peep-holes for the turtles to take a peep when they are tired of carrying the universe (the all-the-way down thing). They use black shields just so we are not scared. (Once they made a mistake and that is how we know about the turtles).
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[15:32:54] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] caugh...
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[15:32:56] <exec> 08└─Because researchers know what three-letter DNA sequence encodes each amino acid, they can then determine the DNA sequence for the protein.
[15:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Google Abandons Touchless Chrome Browser for Feature Phones - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:10] <exec> 08└─Blowhard big talker (but no action) barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] caught in lies quoted stalking others by unidentif...
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[15:33:38] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[15:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 1805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:39] <exec> 08└─Generally yes, do it. Even better is to make sure the bank does not cover or insure overdrafts, or make sure you can remove that protection. And don't keep money in another account in the same bank. I found out once that my bank did automatic overdraft covering and covered something they should not...
[15:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome Browser Also Testing DNS-Over-HTTPS - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:56] <exec> 08└─it is bad bad form for ANY content distribution network to rely on the user-queried DNServer to provide location. sure, for the content provider it saves computing time but they should really check the geo location of the content requesting IP themselfs. whatever dnserver is configured by user shoul...
[15:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Google Chrome Browser Also Testing DNS-Over-HTTPS - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:57] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] caugh...
[15:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Volfefe': A Volatility Index for the Trump Era by JPMorgan - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:08] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[15:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Volfefe': A Volatility Index for the Trump Era by JPMorgan - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:10] <exec> 08└─/. misses you.
[15:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 061 Billion Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:27] <exec> 08└─Oh, c'mon, the scare-bar only claims one billion vulnerable, out of what, like five billion SIM cards in use worldwide? And, actually compromised, that's going to be even less.
[15:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Four-Year Probe Finds Foxconn's Apple 11 Factory 'Routinely' Flouts Chinese Labour Laws - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:38] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[15:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board to Sell for as Low as $39 - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:57] <exec> 08└─eMMC storage is soldered to the board. Either, it will have an optional eMMC model or they will all have eMMC soldered to the board. Could be misleading marketing speak, I guess. Unless, they plan on releasing a DYI kit for it or something weird.
[15:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board to Sell for as Low as $39 - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:59] <exec> 08└─Would this work with Windows 10? Seems like it would barely function, if it even supports Windows 10. It might allow for some x86 Windows games to be run via WINE on an x86 linux distribution, but seems like that would have very limited support too. If all I'm down to is choosing what board to use a...
[15:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board to Sell for as Low as $39 - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:01] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[15:35:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Unveils B330 Inflatable Module Mock-Up - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:13] <exec> 08└─every generation has to learn everything again, not just school stuff. we are living in a "lull" moment in time. screens infront everwhere. the big ideas in the past, like apollo, i am sure, helped some kids in hard families to HOPE. misery can be infectious and hope can be a cure ... big picture id...
[15:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Unveils B330 Inflatable Module Mock-Up - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:15] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[15:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:28] <exec> 08└─Someone hacked into the EBS system at a TV station and broadcast a zombie apocalypse... "The dead are rising from their graves..."
[15:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:29] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[15:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Possible Second Interstellar Object Discovered - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:46] <exec> 08└─Which explains why we’re seeing a second one so soon after ’Oumuamua. The Ramans do everything in threes.
[15:35:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Possible Second Interstellar Object Discovered - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:48] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[15:36:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03black6host [3827] 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 135 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:02] <exec> 08└─I bet you've heard this before: If the product is free then you are the product. I believe that more today than I ever have in my life.
[15:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:26] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[15:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:49] <exec> 08└─I always laugh when I hear or read that phrase.
[15:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:50] <exec> 08└─Doh! Not enough caffeine. proton-electron
[15:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:22] <exec> 08└─now to be found only through some distros' repos; not even the Github code mirror has it. https://packages.debian.org [debian.org] This is actually the version featuring the multithreaded implementation, so is much faster on todays' multicore hardware. The mirror of original pr...
[15:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:24] <exec> 08└─https://packages.debian.org/source/sid/dvdisaster [debian.org] https://web.archive.org [archive.org]
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[16:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:52] <exec> 08└─We don't want people learning about the $21 trillion missing dollars: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Or the legalization of Propagandizing the American public: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Or the government making it law that it needs to falsif...
[16:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:53] <exec> 08└─Here's the thing, though. If your actual source for that information is youtube, I'm gonna assume you're full of shit. I don't care if it's true, I'm never gonna engage with anyone making argument via idiot ranting at screen.
[16:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:55] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[16:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:58] <exec> 08└─I'm never gonna engage with anyone making argument via idiot ranting at screen.
[16:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Genetic Information Extracted From 1.77-Million-Year Old Rhinoceros Tooth - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:13] <exec> 08└─it's the art of fighting reading dna without fighting reading dna.
[16:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Abandons Touchless Chrome Browser for Feature Phones - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:21] <exec> 08└─Yes, that is why we need to impeach Drumpf before he invades Iran.
[16:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Abandons Touchless Chrome Browser for Feature Phones - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:22] <exec> 08└─Try finding a phone plan in the US with a smart phone but no data plan. Just calls/text and WiFi data.
[16:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Abandons Touchless Chrome Browser for Feature Phones - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:24] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[16:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:54] <exec> 08└─Another proxy I use: I don't have a credit card (too many reasons to list) but I do have a major debit card I use to buy online. It's a little annoying, but I prefer lower risk. Credit cards have much better protections, but I don't have that.
[16:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome Browser Also Testing DNS-Over-HTTPS - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:15] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[16:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Volfefe': A Volatility Index for the Trump Era by JPMorgan - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:24] <exec> 08└─If you're investing based on Trump's tweets, you might improve your odds by using the zodiac instead. At least that is pretty consistent over long periods of time. Not to mention, there are thousands upon thousands of zodiac specialists waiting for you to call, for advice in love, money, and whateve...
[16:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Volfefe': A Volatility Index for the Trump Era by JPMorgan - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:25] <exec> 08└─Something is wrong with you, boy. Are you lusting for some tranny dick, or what?
[16:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Volfefe': A Volatility Index for the Trump Era by JPMorgan - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:28] <exec> 08└─May as well go to Walmart and get your Magic Eight Ball.
[16:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Volfefe': A Volatility Index for the Trump Era by JPMorgan - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:30] <exec> 08└─Nahhhh, the new Magic Eight Balls are made in China. They only respond when you roll the bones of your ancestors around in a skin bag.
[16:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Volfefe': A Volatility Index for the Trump Era by JPMorgan - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:32] <exec> 08└─Planet orbits don't affect the market. The words and actions of the President of the fucking United States, do.
[16:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061 Billion Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:52] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[16:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 061 Billion Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:52] <exec> 08└─That's still 1 out of 5 or 20% of all SIM cards. Is this an old bug or a current "feature"? From the linked article: While researchers say that the S@T protocol is used by mobile operators in at least 30 countries whose population adds up to over a billion people, in an email to Threatpost, the GSMA...
[16:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four-Year Probe Finds Foxconn's Apple 11 Factory 'Routinely' Flouts Chinese Labour Laws - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:02] <exec> 08└─Stop making me use my moderation points on Spam modifications, because you feel it's your obligation to make sure everyone knows just how you feel about a random person on the internet.
[16:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Four-Year Probe Finds Foxconn's Apple 11 Factory 'Routinely' Flouts Chinese Labour Laws - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:03] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[16:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four-Year Probe Finds Foxconn's Apple 11 Factory 'Routinely' Flouts Chinese Labour Laws - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:05] <exec> 08└─In order to get you your phone, your lithium batteries, your PC, your 42" TV, your Laptop, your router, your sugar, your Nike trainers, your clothes, your coffee, your ... (you name it) at that price, humans must be abused in countries where everyone there is a slave but a handful of people. Probabl...
[16:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Unveils B330 Inflatable Module Mock-Up - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:40] <exec> 08└─Sorry, that's not good enough for JTHUD. If billionaires aren't giving away hot meals or avenging the death of Epstein, they're playing with worthless TOYS and TRASH and need to DIE.
[16:36:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:02] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[16:36:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03oumuamua [8401] 02 - 06Possible Second Interstellar Object Discovered - 213 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:07] <exec> 08└─She was complaining about the chaos at Cassiopeiae so I told her she should come here, nice stable system, quiet neighborhood. She was reluctant at first until I told her she could grab a free Tesla on the way in.
[16:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:52] <exec> 08└─*sigh* sumethings already wrong (with the internet) if the VPN server is not running at your home but rather a meta gateway to access the internet. tbh, i would rather have a free email with limited space, which my ownz email server can poll every 30min or so, fetch the data to local storage and del...
[16:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:54] <exec> 08└─*sigh* Everybody's a comedian...
[16:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:56] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[16:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:21] <exec> 08└─maybe with the right "press" that doesnt rely on relativity we can make stabiler nucleons with s quarks or energetic proton and neutrons (deltas)? you know, instead of a "atom smasher", we can "somehow" coax them nucleons with a more "soft approach" into them so-called short lived states of matter t...
[16:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:55] <exec> 08└─Ah, playing the “moving the goalpost” game. Anyway, there are only a few compression methods, so just try decompression with each of them in turn until you get a working file. But what is the probability that the file header is completely destroyed, but the immediately following file data is kep...
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[17:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:58] <exec> 08└─No. I fucking don't. Of course I don't. There are countries that have reasonably functional TV news, but the US is not one of them. There's nothing at all informative about a panel show of 5 politically hyperbiased(not always strictly partisan per se) people "analyzing" one sentence of one public fi...
[17:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:59] <exec> 08└─Spam modded to hell again. At this rate you're going to exhaust Tor exit nodes in a few weeks. Keep spewing your moronic drivel and we'll keep modding it into oblivion. Why don't you go play with your hosts file or something instead?
[17:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:01] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[17:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:03] <exec> 08└─Google AI became psychotic quite some time ago, one of the reasons G+ was disbanded. It failed to meet planned goals, went astray. However, since my credentials and profile pic originated in G+ is still used on YouTube, I deduce the whole technology and analytic backend is still the same. So, an eff...
[17:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:05] <exec> 08└─you're just a partisan censor lying as to your reasons, as usual. same as mozilla. they are only worried about people being "misguided" b/c they are in bed with the gatekeepers.
[17:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:08] <exec> 08└─Didn't they use to be a browser developer?
[17:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Genetic Information Extracted From 1.77-Million-Year Old Rhinoceros Tooth - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:18] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[17:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Genetic Information Extracted From 1.77-Million-Year Old Rhinoceros Tooth - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:20] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[17:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Abandons Touchless Chrome Browser for Feature Phones - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:37] <exec> 08└─Yes. Better form factor than feature phones for web browsing.
[17:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Google Abandons Touchless Chrome Browser for Feature Phones - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:38] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[17:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Abandons Touchless Chrome Browser for Feature Phones - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah probably not useful. Inexplicably, my Dad has a flip phone (he had no problem using all sorts of scientific equipment as a research scientist, but won't learn how to even read a text...) This thing came with a browser, but it appears to be the Android "Browser" browser (The one that shipped up...
[17:33:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 309 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:49] <exec> 08└─The question is: Why were they even able to withdraw money from the employees' bank accounts. It was not part of their contract, and therefore they should not have been given the permission. And clearly the bank should not have allowed them to withdraw money without explicit permission by the accoun...
[17:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:12] <exec> 08└─the us military can't defeat the taliban. (no offense to the military, but they have constraints, etc) i don't think they can defeat 140 million americans armed to the teeth. also, the whole military won't fight their own people. your scenario only works when the shit hasn't hit the fan and it's jus...
[17:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:14] <exec> 08└─Whereas there have been multiple instances of people's Bitcoin being stolen by the management of the exchange they stuffed it in, and now it's just plain gone, lawyers or no lawyers. I'll take the option of lawyers and civil courts, as well as regulators like the OCC and FDIC, over everyone attempti...
[17:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:16] <exec> 08└─yes, cowardly media whores never name names.
[17:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:18] <exec> 08└─You obviously do not understand bitcoin. You can store it like a bearer bond if you want, or memorize a seed and store it mentally. If you give it to someone else to keep for you then that is between you and them.
[17:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four-Year Probe Finds Foxconn's Apple 11 Factory 'Routinely' Flouts Chinese Labour Laws - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:25] <exec> 08└─Stop making me use my moderation points on Spam modifications, because you feel it's your obligation to make sure everyone knows just how you feel about a random person on the internet.
[17:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hwertz [8141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four-Year Probe Finds Foxconn's Apple 11 Factory 'Routinely' Flouts Chinese Labour Laws - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:26] <exec> 08└─So companies in China use "perma temps" too? Only thing surprising here is that China has a standard only allowing 10%. I am actually surprised at how common it is here for places to use massive amounts of "temps", given the HUGE amount of money the temp agency takes for themselves (i.e. overhead fr...
[17:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board to Sell for as Low as $39 - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:48] <exec> 08└─LibreELEC got a new update [libreelec.tv] today. Labeled as version 9.1.501 on the Raspberry Pi 4. People were previously using ExaGear to get x86 applications and games running on the ARM Raspberry Pi 3. That software has been discontinued but there will probably be something else like that in the...
[17:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03doke [6955] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bigelow Aerospace Unveils B330 Inflatable Module Mock-Up - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:05] <exec> 08└─I can't find any details about the construction. How it will resist punctures from micrometeorites and space debris? What about radiation? The BEAM expansion photos suggest it has some sort of "plates" on the outside? https://blogs.nasa.gov [nasa.g...
[17:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:21] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[17:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:21] <exec> 08└─"if the beginning of a file is corrupted, basically the complete file is gone." See, that's exactly what I've been griping about. Perhaps not well stated but that's the gist of it.
[17:39:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 1447 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:38] <exec> 08└─When you buy socks for your feet, buy a bunch of pairs that are identical. Don't just buy one of a particular style, but buy about a dozen pairs. On topic: Socks disappear into block holes. In a reverse Hawking Radiation like phenomena. Only one sock disappears behind the event horizon. The other so...
[17:40:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:29] <exec> 08└─Not only do I eat different food from the same plates, I quite frequently eat the same food from vastly different plates. I think the original idea is excellent. (I already do the sock thing.)
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[18:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Cubed Wombat Poop, Why Your Left Scrotum Runs Hot, Among Ig Nobel Winners - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:47] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[18:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cubed Wombat Poop, Why Your Left Scrotum Runs Hot, Among Ig Nobel Winners - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:49] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dlkpBABDU8 [youtube.com]
[18:32:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 225 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:58] <exec> 08└─Here's the thing, though. If your actual source for that information is youtube, I'm gonna assume you're full of shit. I don't care if it's true, I'm never gonna engage with anyone making argument via idiot ranting at screen.
[18:33:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 579 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:02] <exec> 08└─No. I fucking don't. Of course I don't. There are countries that have reasonably functional TV news, but the US is not one of them. There's nothing at all informative about a panel show of 5 politically hyperbiased(not always strictly partisan per se) people "analyzing" one sentence of one public fi...
[18:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:09] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[18:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 4370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:11] <exec> 08└─After wiping my history, here's a run down of https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] (copy-pasted and gorked via script): 01. Olivia Culpo Tries To Beat Gordon Ramsay In A Breakfast Pizza Cookoff | Scrambled - Gordon Ramsay - 1.3M views 1 day ago 02. Sommer Ray and I Become Gym BFFs...
[18:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:13] <exec> 08└─I have been happy with YouTube recommended. Mostly your page fills with channels you frequent, which is useful for finding the latest ones, and videos you have already watched are not shown. Then you get videos from channels substantially similar to ones you watch. Finally, YouTube will sneak in vid...
[18:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:16] <exec> 08└─Really, I keep seeing and hearing about all these people with crazy, awful recommendations. My Youtube feed is mostly car racing and tech stuff. The closest thing to really mucking up my recommendations was watching a video about mountain biking, and now there's a bunch of cycling videos on my feed,...
[18:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:18] <exec> 08└─It may have changed, but last time I looked PBS Newshour came close. Also last time I looked CBS wasn't too bad.b Then again, my biases could just be showing and I haven't give Where I'd lay the blame is the concept that news has to run 24/7. While everything is important to someone there really isn...
[18:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Genetic Information Extracted From 1.77-Million-Year Old Rhinoceros Tooth - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:29] <exec> 08└─OK, but that's not the real problem. The real problem is that they aren't sequencing the genome, but only fragments from it. So much of the information isn't there to recover. You'd need to go all Jurassic Park, and presume that a modern rhino's genes could fill in form the missing ones, and that's...
[18:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Abandons Touchless Chrome Browser for Feature Phones - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:50] <exec> 08└─CAT phone touch screens operate under water just fine, and so does the rest of the phone. Take it diving and use its IR camera to spot hidden fish. Maybe you should buy a quality phone instead of a fashion accessory? They put their money into product development instead of advertising.
[18:34:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 454 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:11] <exec> 08└─The money in the bank is yours so long as the laws are still functioning. And if the laws aren't functioning, then your Bitcoins are far less valuable than my food, water, guns, ammo, good relationships with my neighbors, heating fuel, and (in a longer term scenario) arable land. I'm not trading thi...
[18:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:26] <exec> 08└─I used to work at one of the big 4 banks doing due diligience about 15 years ago, even if the name of ownwr is not in the article we would have found this and flagged it even back then if they ever tried to do any business with our bank. Though that is not the real issue, real issue is I have found...
[18:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 2030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:27] <exec> 08└─Yea, that's the way it's supposed to work. I had a fraudulent charge from NewEgg once. I did have an account there, but did not order those items. They were shipped to another state. Also, the charge was not on my NewEgg account, but it WAS using a credit card that NewEgg had on file with my account...
[18:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Google Chrome Browser Also Testing DNS-Over-HTTPS - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:47] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[18:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06'Volfefe': A Volatility Index for the Trump Era by JPMorgan - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:05] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[18:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06'Volfefe': A Volatility Index for the Trump Era by JPMorgan - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:06] <exec> 08└─Not really. What they're saying is "People will take Trump's tweets seriously, and this is the likely result...", That's a defensible position to take. They aren't claiming the tweets actually reflect reality, merely that they will have an effect on reality because of people's reaction to them. Now...
[18:35:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061 Billion Mobile Users Vulnerable to Ongoing ‘SimJacker’ Surveillance Attack - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:26] <exec> 08└─Blowhard lazy unskilled big talker (but no action in provable work done by "it") barbara hudson fails on C and C++ inferiority to P a s c a l on string processing security + speed advantage https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] also...
[18:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four-Year Probe Finds Foxconn's Apple 11 Factory 'Routinely' Flouts Chinese Labour Laws - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:42] <exec> 08└─How bad do you need to be to violate CHINA'S labor laws!?!?!?!
[18:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four-Year Probe Finds Foxconn's Apple 11 Factory 'Routinely' Flouts Chinese Labour Laws - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:44] <exec> 08└─Can't come to bed. Someone is wrong on the internet! https://www.xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[18:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Four-Year Probe Finds Foxconn's Apple 11 Factory 'Routinely' Flouts Chinese Labour Laws - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:46] <exec> 08└─Pretty bad, I'd say. Also, it's not exactly, New News. As they seem to have systemic problems, running all the way back to 2010, if not before. Pretty near, the entire line of iPhones have been made using what is quite likely to have been unethical and/ or illegal means of production. Foxconn, which...
[18:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rock Pi X Intel Cherry Trail Board to Sell for as Low as $39 - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:08] <exec> 08└─It's for Gnu+Linux nerds (and delusional and masochist windows users) who like to try and make stuff with it...but yes, a tv box is one obvious use case.
[18:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fabricated Voice Used in Financial Fraud - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:41] <exec> 08└─From the summary: "The CEO of a U.K.-based energy firm thought he was speaking on the phone with his boss, the chief executive of the firm's German parent company" So can you remind me why you are bringing up "GOP Jeebus?" Also, you are correct. In a sane world, it is a bad idea to do a major financ...
[18:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox Announces a VPN (Virtual Private Network) Service - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:42] <exec> 08└─well, that's fucking gay.
[18:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:09] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, we just forgot about "the planet" at some point of industrialization and then simply moved on. https://www.space.com [space.com]
[18:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:10] <exec> 08└─Lets not forget the classic "Particle of the Week" :) I think my all time favorite, and legendary, is the quote “Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow” :D
[18:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:12] <exec> 08└─you forgot to mention "Aqua regia" as well I hadn't heard of the piranha solution before, thanks for the infobit :)
[18:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Water Detected on Super Earth Exoplanet in Habitable Zone - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:15] <exec> 08└─Most of my recollections of Particle Of The Weak would begin from Star Trek: The Next Generation. They started it.
[18:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:50] <exec> 08└─But the point is that this is not a property of the zip archive format (and has nothing to do with headers), but a general property of compressed files, and thus would also be true for your claimed “better” format (which actually is basically equivalent to zip, as far as you specified it).
[18:39:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:52] <exec> 08└─Or some other G/F/S heirarchical set up, so that newer things can't immediately nuke prior known good. I'm using zpaq for archiving a continually-changing part of my website, which is append only. However, I'm, in parallel, using git to just store each new updated version, and at the moment git (aft...
[18:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:54] <exec> 08└─One thing to remember is that the time to back up is the time to compress and decompress - if you don't decompress it, you don't know you have a backup. But yes, decompression is always quicker than compression, so it's itsy-bitsy.
[18:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:56] <exec> 08└─The weird thing I notice is how people still talk about bz2. It (the BWT) was a lovely idea, but the missing sweet spot between buttfuck simple gzip and properly fancy algorithms (partial match/context switchers) was so small that bz2 is almost never the compressor to use.
[18:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:06] <exec> 08└─Actually, dishwashers use less energy (and less water) than washing by hand. Assuming you wash your dishes by had properly, of course. And of course assuming you actually fill your dishwasher, instead of turning it on when partially filled.
[18:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:07] <exec> 08└─Try this one that I remember from years gone by: The vegetable part of my stomach is full, but the french fry part of my stomach is empty.
[18:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:10] <exec> 08└─Hangars? As in buildings? I think you mean: Hangers. As in closet / clothes hangers. Or what I once in my youngster daze called "hookers" because of the characteristic hook. That doesn't work so well in certain situations. What, only three? I'm going to call the front desk and demand they send at le...
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[19:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota is Trying to Figure Out How to Make a Car Run Forever - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:57] <exec> 08└─They already acknowledge the limitations in that it's as forever as, say, the Mars rovers which require good sunlight, no obscuration of the panels, run days and time based on how much charge was gotten. And to be able to supplement from the mains, even better. Yet nothing lasts forever, as sooner o...
[19:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Toyota is Trying to Figure Out How to Make a Car Run Forever - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:59] <exec> 08└─You guys almost caught up this time! But again, Slashdot ran it first. [slashdot.org]
[19:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cubed Wombat Poop, Why Your Left Scrotum Runs Hot, Among Ig Nobel Winners - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:09] <exec> 08└─Wombats do square poop as a typical aussie fuck you to the nancy-boy biologists.
[19:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:33] <exec> 08└─Yep. Unrecommended YouTube has in fact become television. Must have elastic bands holding your shoes on and those swollen hand blues. Because you have 31 channels of shit on YouTube to choose from.
[19:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:35] <exec> 08└─Right, and there at least used to be a kind of half assed dividing line between pundits and news. But nowadays they'll bring on oliver fucking north to provide "military expertise" in the middle of a news segment. The whole thing is a useless train wreck, and there's a reason why people who watch ca...
[19:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:37] <exec> 08└─Nah, I'm pretty sure they made thunderbird, the world's most popular email client.
[19:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:40] <exec> 08└─I mean my reasons are that youtube fucking sucks and anyone who thinks its good needs a good asskicking.
[19:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:42] <exec> 08└─You're just another wet blanket. Keep one around for a while, and it starts to stink.
[19:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:44] <exec> 08└─Your honor, I think the defense has made all the case the prosecution requires for this one.
[19:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:46] <exec> 08└─How about you focus on making your browser suck less and stop chasing SJW rabbit holes? Thanks.
[19:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:55] <exec> 08└─Fool. You forgot to carry the "1".
[19:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:57] <exec> 08└─To be fair, apparently the laws aren't functioning. Just ask the people who saw a month's pay yanked back as if it was never theirs. Of course, you're correct that Bitcoins have no intrinsic value whatsoever.
[19:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:59] <exec> 08└─This never seems to work the other way. For example, how likely is it that the people who are now screwed can call up the bank and say their payments to the cable company were in error, please yank those back and have any action taken?
[19:35:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome Browser Also Testing DNS-Over-HTTPS - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:19] <exec> 08└─so mozilla and google's plan to fix dns is to further centralize it? oh lordy!
[19:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Volfefe': A Volatility Index for the Trump Era by JPMorgan - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:38] <exec> 08└─Get a fucking life, dude. Nobody cares.
[19:40:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:20] <exec> 08└─I think I said that earlier. If object is a bulletproof archive, don't compress by any means whatsoever. And what I was going for is making a horrible format (.DOCX) slightly less horrible, assuming the guts remain a gaggle of XML and CSS; it would still suck. Personally I'd get rid of the whole thi...
[19:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:32] <exec> 08└─Closets are for hangers, winners use the door.
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[20:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota is Trying to Figure Out How to Make a Car Run Forever - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:54] <exec> 08└─80s toyotas will likely last a century with minimal maintenance, as long as the body doesn't rust out. Modern toyotas, not so much. Still, I applaud their big-vision far-sighted approach.
[20:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Toyota is Trying to Figure Out How to Make a Car Run Forever - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:55] <exec> 08└─What's Slashdot?
[20:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota is Trying to Figure Out How to Make a Car Run Forever - 1586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:58] <exec> 08└─It's kinda hard to get information on EV battery lifetimes, but crowd-sourced data indicates that it's as long or longer than a gas engine: https://electrek.co [electrek.co] EV battery packs don't die due to longevity in the sense of "It worked yesterday, b...
[20:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota is Trying to Figure Out How to Make a Car Run Forever - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:00] <exec> 08└─So, let's see. A Prius is approx 457 cm long by 175 cm wide, making for about 8 m^2 of upward surface area. Assuming that the Prius is on an appropriate angle to maximize sun exposure, and an average solar panel output of about 125 W/m^2 with about 4 hours of usable sun a day, gives about 4 kWh of e...
[20:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Cubed Wombat Poop, Why Your Left Scrotum Runs Hot, Among Ig Nobel Winners - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:10] <exec> 08└─Dear moron, Spamming this site doesn't make us think any less of whoever this "Barbara Hudson" is. We're only concerned with the quality of posts, not who posts them. Yours are spam and will continue to be modded that way, unless of course, you decide to make a useful contribution. All you are accom...
[20:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Cubed Wombat Poop, Why Your Left Scrotum Runs Hot, Among Ig Nobel Winners - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:12] <exec> 08└─Don't be too hard on him, he probably has an abnormally small pee pee.
[20:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cubed Wombat Poop, Why Your Left Scrotum Runs Hot, Among Ig Nobel Winners - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:15] <exec> 08└─Actually, I am more curious to know why my left scrotum runs hot.
[20:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cubed Wombat Poop, Why Your Left Scrotum Runs Hot, Among Ig Nobel Winners - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:17] <exec> 08└─I'm curious as to why you have more than one.
[20:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:47] <exec> 08└─I can always tell when I am not logged in to YouTube. If the feed is filled with random crazy bullshit, pop singers, and promos for network TV... I am not logged in.
[20:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:49] <exec> 08└─Spin off the SJW division. If not, both the factions die.
[20:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:51] <exec> 08└─When was the last time? Post 2013 the propaganda has been turned up.
[20:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:53] <exec> 08└─Cycling is literally what hitler told people to do after taking peoples guns and telling them to be vegetarians
[20:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Genetic Information Extracted From 1.77-Million-Year Old Rhinoceros Tooth - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:06] <exec> 08└─Of course, it depends on your purposes.
[20:34:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 539 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:50] <exec> 08└─Any article like this that mentions the corporation and not the names of the people on the board, owners and investors, is helping them get away with it this time and next time. A legal fiction did not do this, people did. And if we want to have trust, we also have to have a record of who these scum...
[20:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:06] <exec> 08└─That is how our financial system works. Any company with access to your bank account and routing number can empty out your account. The banks will be able to reverse all the charges, no employee will have to take the hit for this; but they will make it as bit of a hassle for the victims as possible,...
[20:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:08] <exec> 08└─I got the same runaround from a bank for weeks until posting about it on social media. Problem fixed and money returned that day after a call from a bank manager an hour later. Apparently name and shame is the only way to get corporations to give any shits.
[20:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:10] <exec> 08└─Bank error is never in your favor. You will never collect $200 from it.
[20:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Chrome Browser Also Testing DNS-Over-HTTPS - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:31] <exec> 08└─People, do you understand any program could use its own resolving mechanism internally, and there is no way for the network to enforce anything else?
[20:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:38] <exec> 08└─As an outside observer, I still don't get what your point is. Part of the problem, I think, is that you have an idea of what the PKZIP specifies, but don't actually know, or that you have insufficiently specified how your version is different from zip. Zip files have individual headers located at th...
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[21:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life, the Universe, and Math: 42 Proven to be the Sum of 3 Cubes - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:56] <exec> 08└─These are not the same cubes that come out of wombats.
[21:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life, the Universe, and Math: 42 Proven to be the Sum of 3 Cubes - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:58] <exec> 08└─Which editor greenlighted this "story"?
[21:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Life, the Universe, and Math: 42 Proven to be the Sum of 3 Cubes - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:00] <exec> 08└─Gaslighted? While 42 was a good joke, the sum of three cubes is not. Why didn't the summary simply include the three cubes? Even within a spoiler tag.
[21:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life, the Universe, and Math: 42 Proven to be the Sum of 3 Cubes - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:02] <exec> 08└─"the sum of three cubes is not" What's the point? With the modern computing power, you can brute-force it. But whatever, Did it actually reveal something more profound?
[21:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life, the Universe, and Math: 42 Proven to be the Sum of 3 Cubes - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:04] <exec> 08└─If you don't pay mathematicians to work on problems like these, they'll help the NSA break encryption instead.
[21:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota is Trying to Figure Out How to Make a Car Run Forever - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:17] <exec> 08└─The comments look worse than the 2-3 real ones on here. SlashNOT.
[21:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota is Trying to Figure Out How to Make a Car Run Forever - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:18] <exec> 08└─Here's an idea. Rather than post here that Slashdot ran it first, post on Slashdot that it is NOT run over here yet.
[21:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota is Trying to Figure Out How to Make a Car Run Forever - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:20] <exec> 08└─If it doesn't work, then try it at scale. Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these! But seriously, if you can average 50 km / day for 4 days into 5 days then it is 25 miles / day for 5 days. In my case, I have a super grueling commute to work that wastes ten minutes of my day! Twice a day! And it has gone...
[21:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cubed Wombat Poop, Why Your Left Scrotum Runs Hot, Among Ig Nobel Winners - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:34] <exec> 08└─Why does the left testical run hot? I noticed that about my own nads, and want the answer. No link.
[21:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cubed Wombat Poop, Why Your Left Scrotum Runs Hot, Among Ig Nobel Winners - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:36] <exec> 08└─It's a northern hemisphere thing. Here in Aussie land its the other way around!
[21:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:11] <exec> 08└─Not logged in and no browser history, you mean. It does recommendations based on watch history, probably stored in cookies. I get relevant recommendations even on systems I don't log in on.
[21:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:13] <exec> 08└─Agreed. ikanreed is sentenced to PMITA prison.
[21:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Abandons Touchless Chrome Browser for Feature Phones - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:48] <exec> 08└─but won't learn how to even read a text...
[21:35:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:32] <exec> 08└─Bob: "I work in The Cloud." Mike: "Who pays you?" Bob: "The cloud." Mike: "What if the pay-cloud suddenly disappears?" Bob: "Luddite! you worry too much." Mike: "Hey look, your payroll company ran off!" Bob: "Holy shit, I'll lose my house! Where will I live?" Mike: "In the cloud, of course." Bob: "F...
[21:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Volfefe': A Volatility Index for the Trump Era by JPMorgan - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:13] <exec> 08└─Sell what? Stocks? The USA? Greenland? The wall? Sharpies? Fake tanning cream?
[21:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Which Compression Format to Use for Archiving? - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:56] <exec> 08└─You aren't understanding my point because I misread yours. In contrast bzip2 can need as much as 8M. xz is in many ways an update of gzip, using the same basic method but with a number of improvements to increase compression, and it takes advantage of the much greater capacities of current computers...
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[22:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Life, the Universe, and Math: 42 Proven to be the Sum of 3 Cubes - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:10] <exec> 08└─If you round X&Y and plug it in a GPS you get Antarctica. If Z is altitude... Oh shit!
[22:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota is Trying to Figure Out How to Make a Car Run Forever - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:27] <exec> 08└─-Wait for a sysadmin to die (an optional step, technically) -cremate the body and put in jar (which is a bit ironic for who dealt with Java) -tie jar to the transmission -instead of the gas pedal whisper "systemd" -jar spins and car jumps forward. Remember to have a good set of brakes. Use "lennart...
[22:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota is Trying to Figure Out How to Make a Car Run Forever - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:28] <exec> 08└─Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden, it — ah, but stay, I’ll tell you what happened without delay, Scaring the parson into fits, Frightening people out of their wits, — Have you ever heard of...
[22:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cubed Wombat Poop, Why Your Left Scrotum Runs Hot, Among Ig Nobel Winners - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:46] <exec> 08└─Hard can be used in sentences that aren't dirty. There's nothing dirty about a Big Hard Di_k or a small Floppy Di_k for example. Anyone can assume we are safely talking about computer storage unless we also discuss a Mi_ro SD _ard, or SSD drives.
[22:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Cubed Wombat Poop, Why Your Left Scrotum Runs Hot, Among Ig Nobel Winners - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:47] <exec> 08└─If these cubes are uniformly sized, and therefore stackable, they could be used for construction materials. Such as for a border wall.
[22:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cubed Wombat Poop, Why Your Left Scrotum Runs Hot, Among Ig Nobel Winners - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:50] <exec> 08└─You're all correct. I should have said he has an abnormally micro-soft pee pee. Please excuse my SJW mistake.
[22:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cubed Wombat Poop, Why Your Left Scrotum Runs Hot, Among Ig Nobel Winners - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:52] <exec> 08└─I can just imagine next year's ig-nobels, where some scientist tapes thermometers to a bunch of volunteer nads.
[22:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cubed Wombat Poop, Why Your Left Scrotum Runs Hot, Among Ig Nobel Winners - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:54] <exec> 08└─I think it has to do with the angle of the dangle restricting airflow to one side. The laws of thermodynamics states P>L=H(L)T.
[22:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cubed Wombat Poop, Why Your Left Scrotum Runs Hot, Among Ig Nobel Winners - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:56] <exec> 08└─You said "storage." That's dirty!
[22:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cubed Wombat Poop, Why Your Left Scrotum Runs Hot, Among Ig Nobel Winners - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:58] <exec> 08└─You said "dirty." That's dirty!
[22:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:36] <exec> 08└─What happened around 2013 to make this propaganda spin up? Not just in the US, but also in Western Europe.
[22:35:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 1220 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:26] <exec> 08└─It's all done electronically, and I doubt anyone watches any more than a big-box store catches most retail theft. But also, how many people read a TOS? Or any contract, or addendum, or rider, or "oh by the way, you have to keep your end of this contract, but we expressly reserve the right to change...
[22:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:56] <exec> 08└─So the problem is that the US are still stuck deeply in the past? Here in Europe, nobody would even consider writing a check these days (actually, I'm not even sure if you still can).
[22:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:58] <exec> 08└─And that is different than cash? The issue here is that people gave other people money to move around and it appears to have been stolen somewhere in the moving around process. At least here there is some hope of getting the money back, unlike bitcoin exchanges. Secondly, a person can use their cash...
[22:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:00] <exec> 08└─Maybe. When I want cash I go to my bank, ask for a counter check, write in my name, account number, amount, and make it out to cash. Then they give me cash and only my bank has the check -- anyone at the bank is supremely capable of messing with any account they want so I don't see that as excessive...
[22:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:02] <exec> 08└─Good call. The smart thing to do is horde bottle caps.
[22:36:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google Chrome Browser Also Testing DNS-Over-HTTPS - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:13] <exec> 08└─Didn't you see that Google's DoH test won't change your DNS if you're using your local ISP's servers...
[22:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome Browser Also Testing DNS-Over-HTTPS - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:24] <exec> 08└─I've had to go this route as I've spotted google's code trying their own servers rather than the system configured
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[23:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skin-Crawling Discovery: 'Body Farm' Scientists Find Corpses Move - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:51] <exec> 08└─So, what they are also saying, in addition to better estimation of time of death, is that the position that the body is found in is not necessarily the position at death. This also would be very beneficial from a forensic point of view.
[23:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skin-Crawling Discovery: 'Body Farm' Scientists Find Corpses Move - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:53] <exec> 08└─They wrapped the mummies to keep them in one place. Rather than having them in their sarcophagus doing the Hokey Pokey - "You put your left foot in, you put your left foot out, you put your left foot in and you shake it all about..." Could also be how legends of the undead started, and stories of...
[23:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skin-Crawling Discovery: 'Body Farm' Scientists Find Corpses Move - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:55] <exec> 08└─So the people who supposedly know exactly what invisible molecules a invisible chemical is interacting with in your body didn't even know this.
[23:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life, the Universe, and Math: 42 Proven to be the Sum of 3 Cubes - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:07] <exec> 08└─I though this was a repost, but this one [soylentnews.org] was about 33.
[23:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Life, the Universe, and Math: 42 Proven to be the Sum of 3 Cubes - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:09] <exec> 08└─"brute force it" Nope. That's the most idiotic thing I've seen since 42 Jump Street[*]. The search space is the square of the middle number, for pity's sake. Naive residue filters will reduce the search space by a small constant factor. Mathematicians in several different fields (number theory and c...
[23:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cubed Wombat Poop, Why Your Left Scrotum Runs Hot, Among Ig Nobel Winners - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:50] <exec> 08└─"Waaah, waaah" like a frusted petulant child you are: LMAO - got your goat easily, lol - keep "ReAcTinG"... it's been a REAL PLEASURE showing you all how helpless you are to stop me IF I choose to keep this up. Shouldn't have SHOT YOUR PIEHOLE OFF @ me "martyb" you stupid little punk. That's right....
[23:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:29] <exec> 08└─Back in 2014, I watched some videos on Brendan Eich resigning as Mozilla CEO. YouTube recommendations then lead me down a bizarre rabbit hole of absolute nutjobbery such as men who identify as women. WTF is this bullshit and what can Mozilla do to ensure impressionable people are not exposed to such...
[23:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:30] <exec> 08└─You'll have to watch the real news on youtube to find out (NDAA 2013 legalized targeting the American public with propaganda) .
[23:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Wants to Use People's Stories to Shame YouTube Into Being Better: #YouTubeRegrets - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:32] <exec> 08└─Ugh yes, he is exhausting them. But let the righteous modding continue! I can grab an account if necessary.
[23:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:56] <exec> 08└─The government can inflate away the value of your cash to zero.
[23:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:57] <exec> 08└─My take is the parent posted someone's sensitive info and the moderation was a puerile attempt to sweep it under the rug, quickly, before too many people see it. However, to do so invites the Streissand Effect.
[23:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NY Payroll Company Vanishes With $35 Million - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:59] <exec> 08└─Any article like this that mentions the corporation and not the names of the people on the board, owners and investors, is helping them get away with it this time and next time.
[23:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are We All Wrong About Black Holes? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:40] <exec> 08└─It is like looking at a titanium sphere, three feet thick and seven feet in diameter, at the bottom of the deep ocean, from a satellite in orbit of Uranus, and asking what's going on inside.
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