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[00:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM and Google’s Race for Quantum Computing Takes a Mysterious Turn - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:11] <exec> 08└─Oooh, you cynic. But your cynicism is justified - D-Wave were claiming supremacy for a while despite not being a general purpose quantum processor. They backed down eventually when traditional big-box honchos said "we can anneal just as quickly as you can, and with just as low error margins", which...
[00:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Depression and Binge-Drinking More Common Among Military Partners - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we'll all need to cut our IQs in half before even beginning to understand all its intellectual complexity.
[00:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Depression and Binge-Drinking More Common Among Military Partners - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:22] <exec> 08└─Hardy-har-har.
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[01:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's The Kind Of Data Hackers Get About You From Hospitals - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:00] <exec> 08└─The researchers suggest that the Department of Health and other regulators formally collect the types of information compromised in a data breach to help the public assess the potential damages
[01:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearable Technology For Seniors Can Call The Ambulance - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:17] <exec> 08└─Ok. Then let's get rid of the double-negative and put it like: Just that "portable device on a neck strap" at all times and you'll be fine. Or dead.
[01:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearable Technology For Seniors Can Call The Ambulance - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:18] <exec> 08└─Most people of any age caused jack squat. Climate change is largely caused by a handful of very very rich people and the businesses they control.
[01:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Snapchat Reportedly Has “Project Voldemort” Dossier on Facebook's Bad Behavior - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:08] <exec> 08└─At first it was cool getting in touch with old friends and family. Catching up. Then they basically blasted me every day on their feeds reminding me why I stopped hanging with them. It has some modicum of use for following makers and hackers doing reverse engenering. But for its intended use? Not so...
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[02:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearable Technology For Seniors Can Call The Ambulance - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:23] <exec> 08└─Thanks to the Internet, you’re never really alone... even if you wish you were.
[02:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearable Technology For Seniors Can Call The Ambulance - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:25] <exec> 08└─At a guess - brewing produces copious quantities of carbon dioxide.
[02:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearable Technology For Seniors Can Call The Ambulance - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:27] <exec> 08└─Not sure if it was really Boomers or Silent Generation, but let's just stick with Boomers since they're fun to put down. Boomers were also the first generation, by and large, that couldn't leave someone to stay at home on the farm (or in the City, although that really picked up in Gen X) and watch o...
[02:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wearable Technology For Seniors Can Call The Ambulance - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:29] <exec> 08└─So easy to discard personal responsibility, right? Yeah! If you're democrat... The "Russians" did it!
[02:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla's One Million Mile Battery Hopes - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:35] <exec> 08└─Biofuels are only available because cheap oil and mechanized farming leads to huge agricultural surpluses.
[02:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Most of the Mind Can’t Tell Fact from Fiction - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:02] <exec> 08└─The story of your life, just wasted time.
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[03:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sneaky AI Cheats at Hide and Seek - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:05] <exec> 08└─Breaking rules that you should have thought of but didn't is not cheating, it's ingenuity. Ask any tax attorney.
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[05:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Tmux Tutorial - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:09] <exec> 08└─Six of one, half a dozen of the other to me. I only bother with them when I'm skeptical on the reliability of my connection or I plan on leaving the terminal window open for a long time. A tabbed terminal window covers 99.995% of the use I might ever have for one and I only have to remember five key...
[05:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tmux Tutorial - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:11] <exec> 08└─But I don't want a Tmux Tutorial! I'd rather be neck deep in systemd. Or quantum computing my way to Marakkeesh.
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[06:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tmux Tutorial - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:15] <exec> 08└─That would go against our CoC.
[06:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tmux Tutorial - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:16] <exec> 08└─Great. Now that you used the terms "tmux" and "systemd" together in the same post, we are cursed to seeing "systemd-tty" arrive in six months and being a standard part of Linux distros in 24.
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[07:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tmux Tutorial - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:29] <exec> 08└─Cap't Lennart: Systemd expansion will continue until morale improves!
[07:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Way to Turn Heat into Useful Energy - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:51] <exec> 08└─Will this be efficient enough to replace / modify car radiators with battery chargers?
[07:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Most of the Mind Can’t Tell Fact from Fiction - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but wasting a whole life on the fiction of libertarian fantasy economic theory! Oh, what a waist! No, really, khallow: what a waist.
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[08:12:41] <exec> 08└─It is the same mentality as Jewish scholars in interpreting God's perfect laws: the perfect rules were written in a particular way to forbid particular actions but allow the rest. Therefore, any loopholes in the rules that allow an action must have been put there on purpose for us to use; otherwise,...
[08:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wearable Technology For Seniors Can Call The Ambulance - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:19] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Modern watches can detect falls and call for help automatically or manually. The interesting fact is that today smartphones and smart watches have many sensors in them, and they are programmable with little effort. The majority of everyday activities can be handled by existing, mass-produced...
[08:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Depression and Binge-Drinking More Common Among Military Partners - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:48] <exec> 08└─It makes sense to compare things to the average to get relative risk. While the general population has it share of teetotaler groups, it also includes alcoholics. Therefore, it is the closest thing you can get to a baseline without having representation problems from trying to subsample groups. Sure...
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[09:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Mysterious Origins of an "Uncrackable" Video Game - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:01] <exec> 08└─http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html [catb.org]
[09:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Mysterious Origins of an "Uncrackable" Video Game - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:02] <exec> 08└─I got "some parts" wrong, but i think it is at _least_ 15 years ago i read that story, more likely 20... I was just plain text then, not in form of poetry, but whatever... I wish i saved all the old anecdotes i read in the old days of the net... They are difficult to find nowdays... Thanks =)
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[10:12:09] <exec> 08└─From the BBC link about this '..And he claimed it had been the work of a programmer who developed it while not entirely sober: “He told me it came upon him when he was drunk and whacked out of his brain.”..' Ah!, programming when drunk, that blessed altered state when all sorts of fun things can...
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[10:13:08] <exec> 08└─Yea, but it didn't post their status to Facebook(R)(TM) and Twitter(R)(TM) back then, and as everyone knows, those are the only way to communicate, so nothing in the past matters. Besides, now everyone can feel safe and secure leaving the old people alone to die by their miserable selves.
[10:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wearable Technology For Seniors Can Call The Ambulance - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:28] <exec> 08└─Can't sell Apple Watch as a medical device. And seniors won't be able to figure out how to turn the lifesaving features on.
[10:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Wearable Technology For Seniors Can Call The Ambulance - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:29] <exec> 08└─My father wouldn't wear one. 'Cause there's no button to make sure the apple watch is properly wound up.
[10:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM and Google’s Race for Quantum Computing Takes a Mysterious Turn - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:47] <exec> 08└─It wouldn't require much work at all if the quantum computer was clearly superior on a number of relevant tasks. It is easy to throw rocks at this leak -- yes, it's not even an announcement -- but if quantum computers are not bullshit, there will be a rapid increase in their capabilities once some g...
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[11:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did MS-DOS Decide that Two Seconds Was the Amount of Time to Keep the Floppy Disk Cache Valid? - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:02] <exec> 08└─"You could open the drive door and yank the floppy disk at any time." *If* there was no sensor on the drive's door or lever, then why would you even close the drive door or turn the lever for either the first or second disks? I'm pretty sure I could yank out and replace a floppy, not bothering with...
[11:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snapchat Reportedly Has “Project Voldemort” Dossier on Facebook's Bad Behavior - 1540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:44] <exec> 08└─https://www.salon.com/2019/09/19/a-strange-twitter-glitch-is-censoring-the-left-and-no-one-knows-if-its-a-bug-or-a-feature/ [salon.com] Check out this pending story that not even soylent will approve or deny. But why? Will I get an answer? Starting to wonder..... Same shiz, 'cloud platform' owners...
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[12:12:06] <exec> 08└─But wait, you don't unmount floppy drives. You just take them out.
[12:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did MS-DOS Decide that Two Seconds Was the Amount of Time to Keep the Floppy Disk Cache Valid? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:07] <exec> 08└─Why would I even touch the door latch?
[12:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Mysterious Origins of an "Uncrackable" Video Game - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:30] <exec> 08└─Do they have a college degree in that yet?
[12:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Satellite To Understand How Earth Is Losing Its Cool - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:40] <exec> 08└─You need to check in to the nearest gas chamber for a demonstration of hydrogen cyanide. No pressure.
[12:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sneaky AI Cheats at Hide and Seek - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:15] <exec> 08└─That is really scary. All those mini animations running in short loops, I figured they were GIF animations, cos, why would you use 31 full blown vimeo iframes? document.querySelectorAll("iframe").length
[12:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's The Kind Of Data Hackers Get About You From Hospitals - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:24] <exec> 08└─"sensitive ... financial information" narrows it down a lot, doesn't it? The article is talking about hospitals in the US, the nation with the most insanely expensive medical care in the world. Harder to gouge patients to the max without good financial information on them. And of course they must ke...
[12:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Hole at the Center of Our Galaxy Appears to be Getting Hungrier - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:23] <exec> 08└─You need to take a trip into the nearest black hole. Make sure to let us know what it's like.
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[13:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06D-Link DNS-320 ShareCenter <= 2.05.B10 - Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:56] <exec> 08└─CyStack's Nguyen Dang told SecurityWeek that . . .
[13:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did MS-DOS Decide that Two Seconds Was the Amount of Time to Keep the Floppy Disk Cache Valid? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:08] <exec> 08└─This is my recollection, too. Closing the latch caused a spindle to push through a hole in the center of the floppy, probably along with some other mechanical stuff.
[13:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tmux Tutorial - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:03] <exec> 08└─systemd already tried to kill screen and tmux in favor of systemd-specific bullshit: "systemd-logind will now by default terminate user processes...you can no longer start a screen or tmux session, log out, and expect to come back to it" "[The fix is] two lines: [Login]\nKillUserProcesses=no. But pl...
[13:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearable Technology For Seniors Can Call The Ambulance - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:05] <exec> 08└─But what is missed is that mobility is one of the great leveling forces of economics.
[13:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM and Google’s Race for Quantum Computing Takes a Mysterious Turn - 1495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:24] <exec> 08└─I frequently hear this presumption from a lot of tech enthusiasts that once quantum computing hits some magical threshold, there will be this rapid increase in capabilities you make reference to. I think this expectation is based on the experience of the gigantic advances in CMOS technology of the p...
[13:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM and Google’s Race for Quantum Computing Takes a Mysterious Turn - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:26] <exec> 08└─Where's the best place to look for details of this supposed 'problem' they solved?
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[14:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's One Crucial Way Tape Still Trounces SSDs and Hard Drives When It Comes to Storage... - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:55] <exec> 08└─Excellent compression... on text files, which are already a tiny portion of most people's data collection.
[14:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's One Crucial Way Tape Still Trounces SSDs and Hard Drives When It Comes to Storage... - 1375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:57] <exec> 08└─As to real costs.... Never used an HPE tape drive, although I have used several different formats in my life. A quick Google shows most drive prices are around $3000 (saw one for $1200 but other more cheaper ones were upgrade kits apparently...) $3,000 + $590 (10 tapes at that price) = $3,590 Switch...
[14:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's One Crucial Way Tape Still Trounces SSDs and Hard Drives When It Comes to Storage... - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:59] <exec> 08└─Look I was never gonna actually use all that data, I just need to trick myself to avoid suffering from diogenes syndrome.
[14:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's One Crucial Way Tape Still Trounces SSDs and Hard Drives When It Comes to Storage... - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:01] <exec> 08└─No mention of the cost of the tape drive, or the how the "plenty fast" tape has awful random access. Also interesting that they compared sequential speed to a relatively slow external SSD. At least they didn't misuse compressed capacity.
[14:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's One Crucial Way Tape Still Trounces SSDs and Hard Drives When It Comes to Storage... - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:03] <exec> 08└─If I needed more than 9 TB, not GB. :)
[14:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did MS-DOS Decide that Two Seconds Was the Amount of Time to Keep the Floppy Disk Cache Valid? - 1477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:23] <exec> 08└─The simple rule back then was "don't touch the drive while the red light is on" - because it might also have been writing. Personally, I'd prefer the Mac solution with motorized eject (and of those the early Sony variant where the eject also spring-loaded the insertion), but if that is a no-go becau...
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[14:12:25] <exec> 08└─And with the advent of the 3.5" 'hard floppy' thusly, "where the hell Clippy's corpse so I can force-eject that disk?" was born.
[14:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did MS-DOS Decide that Two Seconds Was the Amount of Time to Keep the Floppy Disk Cache Valid? - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:27] <exec> 08└─The floppy disk interface connector includes a DSKCHG signal that tells the controller if there is a disk inserted. I don't know if the original IBM PC floppy controller implemented this signal, but later ones did, so OSes know if the floppy has been opened / ejected.
[14:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Satellite To Understand How Earth Is Losing Its Cool - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:02] <exec> 08└─Propulsion by means of "squirting gas" into a vacuum does not work either.
[14:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearable Technology For Seniors Can Call The Ambulance - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:30] <exec> 08└─Drinking the brew along with pizza produces copious quantities of methane.
[14:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearable Technology For Seniors Can Call The Ambulance - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:32] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there an "as seen on TV" product that did this, like 40 years ago?
[14:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearable Technology For Seniors Can Call The Ambulance - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:34] <exec> 08└─There's an app for that!
[14:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearable Technology For Seniors Can Call The Ambulance - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:36] <exec> 08└─No, that's the Lawyer ad: Help, I've felonied and I can't get off.
[14:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearable Technology For Seniors Can Call The Ambulance - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:38] <exec> 08└─If you really care about granny, you can cover her nursing home suite in web-cams, and have the motion sensor AI alert you when she doesn't leave one spot for too long.
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[15:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:06] <exec> 08└─Don't know about the constitutionality, bit it sure looked "wrong" to me. In effect, "To make sure you can't do something that I don't like, I'm suspending all of you!" Just wrong, I say.
[15:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:08] <exec> 08└─The Supreme Court was created by Tony Blair as one part of a set of constitutional reforms to make ascendancy to the EU possible without a referendum. They have no constitutional power to nullify prorogation, and the ruling was that Boris Johnson lied to the Queen. We haven't been told how he lied o...
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[15:12:10] <exec> 08└─Worth noting that in the writing of the Magna Carta, where proroguing was formally created, this was considered a very fair deal between the King(not PM) and the Lords. "You can come together and make demands of me, but if you piss me off I can tell you to go home" Monarchy is a hell of a drug.
[15:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:12] <exec> 08└─With treason, the question is whether you get away with it or not. Isn't history filled with edicts, commands, and authority that was openly flouted? Maybe I'll go watch that movie again. 300, in which Leonidas tells a (self appointed) demigod to come and TAKE his weapons away from him.
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[15:12:48] <exec> 08└─Two wonderful features discovered a remote code execution vulnerability in the D-Link DNS-320 ShareCenter device
[15:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Did MS-DOS Decide that Two Seconds Was the Amount of Time to Keep the Floppy Disk Cache Valid? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:08] <exec> 08└─MAC is a hardware address. A Mac is a computer.
[15:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did MS-DOS Decide that Two Seconds Was the Amount of Time to Keep the Floppy Disk Cache Valid? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:09] <exec> 08└─My unhappiness with the motorized eject was disks getting stuck in defective drives / dead computers. I don't remember them having an eject hole like optical drives do
[15:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sneaky AI Cheats at Hide and Seek - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:29] <exec> 08└─If they're not rules, how can you "break" them (and why did you call them "rules" at the start of the sentence)?
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[16:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:36] <exec> 08└─I'm talking about our perception of reality. You come outside to find that your property has been vandalized. You check your security camera (which has been hacked), and you see your "neighbor" clearly trashing your property. The thing is that your neighbor was asleep in bed when the event happened....
[16:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:37] <exec> 08└─You don't have to sell me on republicanism. Monarchs are a stupid concept, and even constitutionally limited, should not exist anywhere in the world.
[16:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:39] <exec> 08└─Every form of government is a stupid concept though. Just not as stupid as the alternative.
[16:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:41] <exec> 08└─Don't look at me. I generally call for it to be neutered to where it can't be that specific flavor of asshole anymore.
[16:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:44] <exec> 08└─I think he was wrong. Societies, even tribes, create laws for a reason. Since recorded history. Just having a weapon doesn't make one right.
[16:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:46] <exec> 08└─There's nothing new under the sun. Especially this.
[16:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:48] <exec> 08└─Good point. I've identified a fault in congress units that will lead to 100% failure of government.
[16:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 1590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:50] <exec> 08└─A minority of the people voted for brexit - less than a third, IIRC. The referendum was the most amateurishly set up one I ever remember in any country/regime I can remember. For something as fundamental as that, there's no way a barely-more-than-50% proportion of a barely-more-than-60% turnout shou...
[16:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:52] <exec> 08└─You're right. But it is shocking nonetheless. How openly brazen it is becoming. Especially in our "good" democracies.
[16:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:54] <exec> 08└─The people voted to leave three years ago in an election. The problems are due to an incompetent parliament. Which unfortunately, is a bad reflection on the people that vote for them, which really is a bad reflection on majority rule in general. God save the queen The fascist regime They made you a...
[16:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:57] <exec> 08└─First of all the people voted in a NON binding referendum. So they are not obligated to give it to them at all.
[16:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's One Crucial Way Tape Still Trounces SSDs and Hard Drives When It Comes to Storage... - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:41] <exec> 08└─Did you backup the backup software that you use to manage and control the tape drive?
[16:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's One Crucial Way Tape Still Trounces SSDs and Hard Drives When It Comes to Storage... - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:42] <exec> 08└─For fun, over 1,700 MicroSD cards can fit into the volume of a 3.5" drive.
[16:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06There's One Crucial Way Tape Still Trounces SSDs and Hard Drives When It Comes to Storage... - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:44] <exec> 08└─Except that your cheap $60 LTO-7 tapes need a $3000 dollar reader to be used.
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[16:14:21] <exec> 08└─As I posted, I'm aware of and have used many times the said holes and straightened paper clips in optical drives, but I don't remember them in early Macs (and it's been far too long ago). I actually have a Mac Classic, and an original iMac, so I'll investigate them and post my findings. I just remem...
[16:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did MS-DOS Decide that Two Seconds Was the Amount of Time to Keep the Floppy Disk Cache Valid? - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:22] <exec> 08└─Sorry- in a rush- no time to read- maybe later. My concept is: the USB Flash drive manages the filesystem, which is the simplest form of a "server". But please don't make them all that way, and please allow us to choose the filesystem from the many fine ones available. You're still going to need pow...
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[17:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Wins Fight to Restrict Right-to-be-Forgotten Ruling to EU Search Engines - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:10] <exec> 08└─Yacy [yacy.net], or something similar.. Then nobody has to be concerned what the EU, or any other court says
[17:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:05] <exec> 08└─The people voted for Brexit.
[17:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:06] <exec> 08└─First of all the people voted in a NON binding referendum. So they are not obligated to give it to them at all.
[17:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:08] <exec> 08└─We will end up with Total Recall style systems where people can abduct you, fill your head with false memories, and then send you back out into the world thinking whatever they want you to believe.
[17:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:10] <exec> 08└─52% of ~70% of the UK voted for Brexit, that's 37% of the people. When it comes to voting, silence is consent. If you want to be heard, you have to speak.
[17:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:13] <exec> 08└─> Are they all becoming lawless? There is plenty of precedent for prorogation of UK parliament to prevent a distasteful law coming into effect, so the concept that this is a "new" or "lawless" thing is wrong. Actually, it is quite interesting that the judiciary felt they had the power to step in and...
[17:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Origins of an "Uncrackable" Video Game - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:14] <exec> 08└─I knew someone who knew somebody in that trade. He had a case full of PROM chips (dunno if EPROM or EEPROM) and an open circuit board with a socket with a locking lever. Chip-into-socket-lock-then-insert. Dad came home the afternoon we were playing on our 2600 and said we couldn't do it anymore sinc...
[17:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearable Technology For Seniors Can Call The Ambulance - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:07] <exec> 08└─By all means cut down on your driving, reduce your use of plastic, improve your home's energy efficiency, etc etc, but even if you manage to get to zero carbon you're still not holding a candle to a single F-35.
[17:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM and Google’s Race for Quantum Computing Takes a Mysterious Turn - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:31] <exec> 08└─But tiling of qubit cores doesn't solve the fundamental problem of entangling a large enough number of qubits to do useful problem solving-- like the kind you mention in your last sentence above, presumably citing Aaronson (whom I respect and admire, but whose work I confess to not fully understandi...
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[18:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quieter, Faster, Stronger: The Next Jet Age Is Coming - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:13] <exec> 08└─What's a few extra minutes of flight time after 3 hour security lines and waiting half an hour to taxi to the runway?
[18:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quieter, Faster, Stronger: The Next Jet Age Is Coming - 2090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:14] <exec> 08└─There are other physical contraints of note. When you get up, not to the 'sound barrier' but just sufficiently close to it, there's a rapid increase in drag and instability. So you have to match that with an increase in thrust, and you don't want to stay around the speed of sound for long, it's bett...
[18:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:29] <exec> 08└─So where does this stand in your opinion when it wasn't sold on the truth from the start, particularly when the one who sold the biggest lies about it is now the PM (or am I wrong and you guys really have been forced by the EU to standardize on only one condom size)? I don't see how you can't insist...
[18:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:30] <exec> 08└─And before the vote they were told lots of lies, and they were also told "This is just advisory. We don't need to do what you recommend if we don't want to." And it was a very narrow passage (51%?), and a lot of legal voters weren't allowed to vote. Etc. Given all the problems the only thing that vo...
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[18:13:32] <exec> 08└─his push to make people apathetic about voting ?
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[18:14:24] <exec> 08└─I have my original 386sx with MFM drive (the drive is probably broken after a slide down a shelf that collapsed), 486dx(2x33 ceramic and integrated heat sink models, plus a DX4 100!!!) Plus a variety of pentiums. The pentiums are almost still usable if you don't have to compile boost/qt/c++11 crap,...
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[18:14:34] <exec> 08└─Was that typo at the end on purpose? I considered modding that post funny.
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[19:13:39] <exec> 08└─there sure as hell wasn't a mandate for crashing out with no deal by default while parliament was prorogued
[19:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:40] <exec> 08└─Addendum: I would prefer the "NO" vote be the default, so that a non-vote would a real vote against all candidates on the ballot. That would make things a bit more honest.
[19:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:42] <exec> 08└─Actually it was well defined what that meant. It meant activating article 50, which was done on 29 March 2017. That being the case, the UK appears to have legally ceased membership in the EU on 29 March 2019.
[19:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:45] <exec> 08└─The majority as tyrant has always been a thing. Anarchy is simply the absence of authority. Rules without rulers. Voluntary cooperation is actually key in an anarchistic system.
[19:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:47] <exec> 08└─People that voted to leave plus people that did not vote, thus accepted the outcome of the election. This gives us 70% of electorate, give or take 5% as I did not check the actual numbers.
[19:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:49] <exec> 08└─"Here i stand with my bayonet, there you stand with your laws. We'll see which prevails" A. Hitler
[19:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's One Crucial Way Tape Still Trounces SSDs and Hard Drives When It Comes to Storage... - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:46] <exec> 08└─It's hard to beat cloud storage for a couple of reasons - the obvious one is they've got the economy of scale, they can stay up with and employ the most efficient technologies. The hidden advantage of cloud storage is: while all million customers sign up for X TB of storage, most of them will only u...
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[19:18:24] <exec> 08└─maybe the only mistake was that the google scientists spilled the googly beans? maybe the article got pulled, not because it was incorrect, but b/c google doesn't want any eyes/heat.
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[20:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quieter, Faster, Stronger: The Next Jet Age Is Coming - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:35] <exec> 08└─Can't we all just agree to get along and measure everything as integer multiples of eight fundamental quantum units? With a base of zero so all measurements are positive? Planck length Planck time Elementary charge mass temperature amount of substance luminous intensity intelligence It would make co...
[20:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quieter, Faster, Stronger: The Next Jet Age Is Coming - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:36] <exec> 08└─SI was invented by a totalitarian dictator. Nuff said.
[20:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Wins Fight to Restrict Right-to-be-Forgotten Ruling to EU Search Engines - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:49] <exec> 08└─If someone is famous because of their work, art, skill, performance, writing, public office, etc, then should they have a right to be forgotten? They are, after all, famous. That would seem to include any past misdeeds. On the other extreme would be revenge pr0n, for example. The victim of that is p...
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[20:14:21] <exec> 08└─I think that has been said simply as "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." [wikipedia.org] Politics makes for strange bedfellows sometimes.
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[21:12:18] <exec> 08└─1) Why are you pimping for Dell? 2) Isn't the Dell the company that provides fronts for NSA & CIA agents around the world? 3) Why is the queue of submitted articles not movng faster? I submitted an article on the suicide at Facebook and it hasn't moved. ~childo
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[21:12:43] <exec> 08└─Go home grandpa you're senility is flaring up again.
[21:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:29] <exec> 08└─I did not know this. Cheers.
[21:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:30] <exec> 08└─Law? If ever there was a better example of rule of man over rule of law than war crimes trials, I have not seen it. That's not to say he didn't deserve to be kept alive until he died of old age and used to devise ever more painful methods of torture but there is nothing remotely law-like in the tria...
[21:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:32] <exec> 08└─By constituency: 406 Leave, 242 Remain [fullfact.org]
[21:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:34] <exec> 08└─Anarchy doesn't work with more than one person for any serious amount of time. That doesn't mean paring away unnecessary authority every chance you get is a bad idea though.
[21:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's One Crucial Way Tape Still Trounces SSDs and Hard Drives When It Comes to Storage... - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:34] <exec> 08└─" still bedazzled " MY server is still bedazzled TOO! I spent HOURS Bedazzling the thing and it looks REALLY sharp, kind of like a server Barbie would have! "I kept it around anyway, because "OOooohhhhh! SHINY!!!"" Yes....yes it is....
[21:17:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Tmux Tutorial - 194 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:09] <exec> 08└─GNU screen [gnu.org] or Twin [github.com], mtm [github.com] or even Byobu [byobu.co]? Not trashing tmux here, just curious as to what Soylentils think of various different terminal multiplexers.
[21:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tmux Tutorial - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:29] <exec> 08└─Screen works great. I've gotten to where I start up screen every time I login to something over ssh, if just for the multiple sessions in one terminal window capability. It is great for long running tasks if you're concerned about dodgy connections. Also handy to login from a computer with a real ke...
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[22:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:32] <exec> 08└─How on Earth did you miss out on Henry VIII??? Had that for about 3 years! Yep, years of Vikings, Romans, Henry VIII and about a term of Normans, the Black Death and the Fire Of London.
[22:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's One Crucial Way Tape Still Trounces SSDs and Hard Drives When It Comes to Storage... - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:34] <exec> 08└─For backups I prefer on-the-fly encryption over on-the-fly compression. Besides, I don't see why other storage media couldn't offer on-the-fly compression, but I admit that I haven't read TFA.
[22:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's One Crucial Way Tape Still Trounces SSDs and Hard Drives When It Comes to Storage... - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:36] <exec> 08└─Same thing happened with Debian and systemd.
[22:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Origins of an "Uncrackable" Video Game - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:55] <exec> 08└─IIRC, that was the idea behind the "turbo" switch on some PCs from that era. It wasn't something for conserving power then boosting when you needed computational speed. It was for syncing games.
[22:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tmux Tutorial - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:37] <exec> 08└─...the shortcoming is that you would have to type your SSH login information for each of the windows you opened.
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[23:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JUUL Labs CEO Steps Down; Merger Talks Between Phillip Morris and JUUL's Parent Company Altria End - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:08] <exec> 08└─I think that the recent rush to ban flavored vapes has the potential to actually increase the amount of illness and death among the young people that use them. Consider that we have been hearing about the potential health risks to vaping for a couple of years now without any real evidence of harm. S...
[23:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JUUL Labs CEO Steps Down; Merger Talks Between Phillip Morris and JUUL's Parent Company Altria End - 2239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:10] <exec> 08└─You're making unwarranted assumptions TMB. Juul has been taking a lot of heat due to (mostly) stuff that has absolutely nothing to do with them, or their industry. That is, the bunch of folks, mostly young people, who have been injured from poorly mixed/made THC vaping mixtures causing serious pulmo...
[23:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Messaging App Kik Shuts Down as Company Focuses on Kin, its Cryptocurrency - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:20] <exec> 08└─... I think the last line on Wikipeda is telling, "By 2019 the value of Kik had fallen by 99%.[13]" That doesn't count the SEC being on their case. Translation: flash in the pan now dying. Film at 11.
[23:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dell Rolls Out New Data Protection Storage Appliances and Capabilities - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:31] <exec> 08└─2. wouldn't you rather have the NSA spying on your SN viewing than the Russians or Chinese
[23:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Wins Fight to Restrict Right-to-be-Forgotten Ruling to EU Search Engines - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:16] <exec> 08└─If ones request to be deleted is not honored, I fail to see the whole idea of copyright. It all becomes nothing more than dishonored wishlist. If you don't want people to photograph your ass, don't expose yourself in public.
[23:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:03] <exec> 08└─Meh, from here it looks more like "development stalled in 8th grade at the Hot Topic, thinks blanket knee-jerk cynicism is what the cool kids are doing."
[23:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Supreme Court: Suspending Parliament Was Unlawful, Judges Rule - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:04] <exec> 08└─Preference for Prime Minister: B. Johnson: 41% J. Swinson: 21% J. Corbyn: 18% via @Survation, 25 Sep
[23:15:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06There's One Crucial Way Tape Still Trounces SSDs and Hard Drives When It Comes to Storage... - 569 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:14] <exec> 08└─Excellent compression... on text files, which are already a tiny portion of most people's data collection. Arguably good for businesses that may have lots and lots of text-based data, except that these days most of that data is probably in one of MS Office's compressed container formats which will s...
[23:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Did MS-DOS Decide that Two Seconds Was the Amount of Time to Keep the Floppy Disk Cache Valid? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:56] <exec> 08└─I'm not aware enough to read the responses before posting my own. I'd prefer to stay away from the Mac solution of "delete all files on the disk to eject".
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