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[00:12:24] <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 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:24] <exec> 08└─Interesting. I think he should have absolutely said fuck off but I'm a bit surprised to see you agree.
[00:16:24] <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... - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:25] <exec> 08└─At a prior employer a single tape set for a full was 250 tapes across multiple tape libraries. We frequently had a tape with read errors in a set when we tried to restore. But, what you describe indicates something seriously wrong. Our off-site tapes were stored by Iron Mountain in environmentally c...
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[01:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Numbers Limit How Accurately Digital Computers Model Chaos - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:10] <exec> 08└─That would work for representing any given location of any given thing, but I'm assuming there is a huge (probably exponential) cost to doing operations that way. Basically, there a lot of smart people in computer science (not to be confused with "programming"), and in physics. I'm sure if it were t...
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[01:12:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you can easily argue that nature has rules, but you can't argue very well that we understand all the rules.
[01:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Numbers Limit How Accurately Digital Computers Model Chaos - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:14] <exec> 08└─This is a longwinded way of saying that math has rules that we understand.
[01:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Numbers Limit How Accurately Digital Computers Model Chaos - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:16] <exec> 08└─Rule zero of numerical modelling: there is no simpler computer that can simulate nature more precise and faster than the nature itself. Consequences: 1. any simpler (than nature) computer will use an approximation model**. 2. at best, using a model can (theoretically) result in faster but imprecise...
[01:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Mysterious Origins of an "Uncrackable" Video Game - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:50] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the Bendix G15-D. Also a main memory is a drum machine. Only all the registers were on the drum, too. The contents of the drum were constantly being read and rewritten as the drum revolved, so it functioned as a delay line -- the delay being one drum revolution. Well, not quite, becaus...
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[02:12:10] <exec> 08└─"password."[sic - I suspect the '.' wasn't part of it, -- Ed.]
[02:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Messaging App Kik Shuts Down as Company Focuses on Kin, its Cryptocurrency - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:51] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kik_Messenger#Controversies [wikipedia.org] It had a reputation for child pornography and exploitation.
[02:16:45] <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... - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:45] <exec> 08└─This was the early 1990s, if you consider cardboard and some packing paper insulation, then yes. Thing was, the error rate was high (maybe not 1/10) even at the local sites without the mailing step. The damn things were flaky - new from the package, backed up one day and restored the next. We weren'...
[02:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tmux Tutorial - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:51] <exec> 08└─It is great for long running tasks if you're concerned about dodgy connections
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[03:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Numbers Limit How Accurately Digital Computers Model Chaos - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:27] <exec> 08└─> Or, we could just say that the human mind is fallible, thus all of his calculations will be fallible. Any yet there you are, making metaphysical assertions about metaphysical fallibilty. Best shut the uck up, eh?
[03:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Numbers Limit How Accurately Digital Computers Model Chaos - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:29] <exec> 08└─Or consider a box with no particles in it. Boom! The universe suddenly appears. Shit happens that isn't in your model.
[03:17:46] <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? - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:46] <exec> 08└─Those are good possibilities. I was thinking of a higher-level of abstraction where the USB stick acts like a simple Flash drive, but in fact virtualizes the block device, and internally stores however it wants to, but now I'm not sure why bother doing all of that... unless there was another mechani...
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[03:17:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not suggesting hacking- I mean real product development (grown-ups). I'm just saying it might be a good idea for someone in that market, or someone who wants to try that. I like your "sync" and LED ideas. Wish I could start a company! You'd get your cut. :) Maybe just a "sync" button on the thin...
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[03:17:50] <exec> 08└─BTW, not sure if you still run any MacOS Classic machines, but one interesting site: https://www.macintoshrepository.org [macintoshrepository.org]
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[04:12:06] <exec> 08└─Hmm, I must have missed that section of the AP Stylebook.
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[05:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Match dot-con? FTC: Cyber-Lonely-Hearts 'Lured Into Forking out to View Bot Spam' - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:51] <exec> 08└─Match has been pulling crap like this for over a decade. They keep old accounts active. They have their employees play at being eligible singles. When your account has just expired, that's when you get mystery messages one of which could be the future love of your life, but almost certainly isn't. Y...
[05:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Million+ IoT Radios Open to Hijack Via Telnet Backdoor - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:09] <exec> 08└─"sic" just indicates that the passage is as written. It isn't particular to grammar.
[05:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quieter, Faster, Stronger: The Next Jet Age Is Coming - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:50] <exec> 08└─I fail to see how is this one even funny - otherwise is totally a lie [wikipedia.org]. Do you care enough to explain?
[05:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did MS-DOS Decide that Two Seconds Was the Amount of Time to Keep the Floppy Disk Cache Valid? - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:56] <exec> 08└─Used to do similar with Apple II floppies except it was only the write protect hole that needed punching. You could pick up a plastic punch pretty cheap to make the square hole or carefully use a regular punch.
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[06:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Unleashes a Bunch of New Echo Devices, Including Glasses and a Ring - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:17] <exec> 08└─It's mine... my precioussss....
[06:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Unleashes a Bunch of New Echo Devices, Including Glasses and a Ring - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:18] <exec> 08└─One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Seattle where Bezos' shadow lies.
[06:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Numbers Limit How Accurately Digital Computers Model Chaos - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:57] <exec> 08└─It's our god given right to waste CPU cycles. We'll use BigNums, and we'll do it in a virtual machine written in JavaScript.
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[06:12:59] <exec> 08└─They should try to invent a better value representation for their projects. Floating point is a compromise between many competing factors. Sure, everything will be an approximation, but you may be able to find better approximations for specific needs. Maybe a logarithm based approach? For example, t...
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[06:17:24] <exec> 08└─Permanent storage of 24-7 HD video from every security camera on site? That's not value, that's feeding unhealthy paranoia.
[06:17:26] <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... - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:26] <exec> 08└─We're already at a point where about 200 TB could be put in an SSD. Not sure if 2.5" or 3.5". So the microSD example is less than an order of magnitude off. 144-layer NAND [anandtech.com] is almost here, which can boost the die capacity to something like 1.5 Tb, or shrink the size of a 1 Tb die in t...
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[07:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: 60% of Major US Firms Have Been Hacked in Cloud - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:56] <exec> 08└─...identify aberrations, and act quickly.
[07:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Unleashes a Bunch of New Echo Devices, Including Glasses and a Ring - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:16] <exec> 08└─They have two rings of power. This one and the doorbell one.
[07:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Messaging App Kik Shuts Down as Company Focuses on Kin, its Cryptocurrency - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:23] <exec> 08└─Yet another successful SoylentNews FrontPage article that no one cares about? Even those who are loosing their asses (freeing their donkeys) are loath to comment, out of justified embarrassment. Could we not have had a very nice, any other submission? Signed: aristarchus
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[08:12:02] <exec> 08└─Like the case for IoT, the S in the cloud stands for security.
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[09:12:01] <exec> 08└─Passwords work for me.
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[10:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FIDO2: The Dream Of Password-Free Authentication On The WWW - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe we could fix that by not locking website functionality behind loging in? Put RSS buttons back on youtube channels and µblogs, let people order by email for specialty shops you probably will only buy from once like mattress shops.
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[11:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FIDO2: The Dream Of Password-Free Authentication On The WWW - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:11] <exec> 08└─I will let you send your credit card number in plain text. Best of luck!
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[11:12:13] <exec> 08└─For anyone who's not familiar, FIDO2 would be authorization with a hardware token, instead of a password. For those who think passwords are the best solution, let me just ask: how do you get into your house? You could install a pin-pad next to the door, and use a password. However, most people carry...
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[12:12:16] <exec> 08└─Passwords aren't working for me. :-( I don't need them when sshing here and there. Why should I need them anywhere else? If you're worried about lizard firmware on authentication devices, there's the SoloKey Hacker for example. Compile and load up your own firmware. Any other open authentication dev...
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[12:12:18] <exec> 08└─Javascript, Brendan Eich's contribution to computing.
[12:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Million+ IoT Radios Open to Hijack Via Telnet Backdoor - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:11] <exec> 08└─Using telnet, are they out of their minds? Weak passwords with hardcoded credentials, nowadays should be used securely over vulnerable sshd implementation.
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[12:13:12] <exec> 08└─I was googling for a direct AP Stylebook quote that I believed would contradict you, but according to their twitter they've dropped "sic" altogether. https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
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[13:13:43] <exec> 08└─It all depends on the stability of your chaotic oscillator. For oscillators that diverge, or are very very close to diverging, any tiny difference may make a very significant change in the observed pattern - the difference between modelling with floats and doubles certainly can do that. On the other...
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[14:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uncovering the Hidden Intelligence Of Collectives - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:07] <exec> 08└─This news was publised yesterday by other news sources. There must be twenty or thirty stories in the queue that this hopped right over. Clearly there is some behind-the-scenes politics going on and it's not a straightforward first-in, first-out kind of queue. Keep that up and I will quit reading th...
[14:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Warning For 23 Million YouTube Creators Following ‘Massive’ Hack Attack - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:16] <exec> 08└─According to tFA and the embed YouTube on that page, all the channel owners clicked a phishing link in an email that appeared to be from other channel owners and they entered their usernames and passwords. This then begs the question, if they all had 2FA enabled how did the baddies get control of th...
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[14:13:11] <exec> 08└─I made a free account there 10 years ago and keep getting notifications that I have new visitors that sent me messages or signed my guestbook. Of course you have to pay to view them and when you do they didn't even go to the same school and you have no idea who they are.
[14:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Match Dot-Con? FTC: Cyber-Lonely-Hearts 'Lured Into Forking Out to View Bot Spam' - 3665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:13] <exec> 08└─I agree with pieces of what you say: The more human interactions are disrupted, the easier it is to be sold something you didn't need and would not have wanted if you'd only had some real relationships. However, where you have it wrong is that it was ever a smart idea to initially try to get a woman...
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[14:14:14] <exec> 08└─Chaos is often modeled with feedback oscillators, so you've got an infinite chain of operations, and, yes, it is very important to keep in the "sweet spot" of your numerical representation - most chaotic oscillators I've ever worked with keep their numbers in the range of ~ +/- 10.0 to +/- 0.1, rega...
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[14:14:15] <exec> 08└─don't strike down with great vengeance and furious anger those that don't go shepherding all the way, 'cause good can be still good without being perfect and nobody is perfect anyway.
[14:19:52] <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? - 2755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:52] <exec> 08└─I'll just say: ever hear of a screen sharing product called Timbuktu? (think VNC) Just a few years back, I got an email to join some of the old developers from long ago for a "wake" for that product, which was finally dead. It was a fun reunion. I wrote that code from August 1987 to Dec 1 1987 when...
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[15:11:57] <exec> 08└─Arresting crooks is all right and protecting from thieves. What about also fixing fhe bloody systems which obviously are so shitty as to affect millions? Come on JP, pour some juice into getting proper programmers who build real security.
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[15:13:19] <exec> 08└─I agree with pieces of what you say: The more human interactions are disrupted, the easier it is to be sold something you didn't need and would not have wanted if you'd only had some real relationships. However, where you have it wrong is that it was ever a smart idea to initially try to get a woman...
[15:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Match Dot-Con? FTC: Cyber-Lonely-Hearts 'Lured Into Forking Out to View Bot Spam' - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:20] <exec> 08└─That is one awful title. Is "Match Dot-Con" some kind of conference? Is "Cyber-Lonely-Hearts" the name of a group of programmers, concept album, or some trendy software? Does the fork still comply with GPL? No, it's actually a cluster of made-up cutesy headline-speak that makes zero sense without re...
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[15:13:22] <exec> 08└─This. Capitalism cannot replace real community. I heard on the radio yesterday that community is people you don't have to pay to care about you. The context was special-needs housing projects, but I instantly thought that the entire concept applies to everyone. Mutually beneficial relationships are...
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[15:13:40] <exec> 08└─It's long past time for a poll. Some would also suggest dancers to go with the poll.
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[15:13:42] <exec> 08└─Amazon unveils a couple new Ring cameras that cost less than $100 [arstechnica.com] Plus, a connected dog tag (yep) that uses Amazon's new wireless IoT protocol. Alongside the deluge of Echo devices [arstechnica.com] Amazon announced during its autumn hardware event on Wednesday, the company unveile...
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[15:13:56] <exec> 08└─If you can't understand how to set up sshd, then at least run telnet on a non standard port so that nobody would ever be able to find it. (note I did NOT use any <no-sarcasm> tags.)
[15:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Numbers Limit How Accurately Digital Computers Model Chaos - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:33] <exec> 08└─Or, you know, use ternary computers
[15:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Numbers Limit How Accurately Digital Computers Model Chaos - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:34] <exec> 08└─Applicable: https://dilbert.com [dilbert.com]
[15:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Numbers Limit How Accurately Digital Computers Model Chaos - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:36] <exec> 08└─Hard to know from inside this particular box/no box universe.
[15:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Numbers Limit How Accurately Digital Computers Model Chaos - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:38] <exec> 08└─One complaint is that accuracy is bunched toward the middle: toward zero. Using a different mapping, that accuracy can be spread out further in the "number spectrum", giving more toward the edges. That may take a 2-level logarithm instead of 1. I can't propose anything specific yet, but I'm confiden...
[15:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Did MS-DOS Decide that Two Seconds Was the Amount of Time to Keep the Floppy Disk Cache Valid? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:21] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more of preventing too much wear on the stick.
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[16:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prehistoric Baby Bottle Discovery; Infants Fed Animal Milk 5000 Years Ago - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:54] <exec> 08└─Asked the wife, "When did they invent the baby bottle?" Actually, I figured that she would throw a date at me - the woman is really smart, and she loves trivia. But, instead, I got, "How would I know?" "Would you believe 5000 years ago?" She just took it in stride, and accepted that it might be so....
[16:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Warning For 23 Million YouTube Creators Following ‘Massive’ Hack Attack - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:28] <exec> 08└─But, my gas goes into solution, in the atmosphere.
[16:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Match Dot-Con? FTC: Cyber-Lonely-Hearts 'Lured Into Forking Out to View Bot Spam' - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:35] <exec> 08└─Lots of good points in this thread. Maker spaces and the whole "maker" movement seem like a modern search for community--another place to look? Personally, I have my own shop, so never felt the need to visit a maker space, but maybe I should try one to expand my local circle of friends a bit? As it...
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[16:13:37] <exec> 08└─OkCupid is badly broken. I had a lot of luck with it years ago by messaging the women that visited my page. But now you can't message anybody unless you both opt in and as a result, rather than getting a response half the time, I don't bother at all with the site. The problem with these sites more t...
[16:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Million+ IoT Radios Open to Hijack Via Telnet Backdoor - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:13] <exec> 08└─The AP Stylebook is pretty much a standard styleguide for American journalism; it's known as "the journalist's bible" in the States. While I don't like it when this site phrases things in American-centric ways, such as saying "our government" instead of "the US government" in a summary, the spelling...
[16:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Numbers Limit How Accurately Digital Computers Model Chaos - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:59] <exec> 08└─I would ordinarily write payment = 10.0
[16:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Numbers Limit How Accurately Digital Computers Model Chaos - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:00] <exec> 08└─They gave me the title "Principal", twice now - the first time they did that, I had them change it to "Principle" because, you know, I've got principles, not a bunch of unruly kids running around. This time Principal fits, so I let it stay.
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[18:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Prehistoric Baby Bottle Discovery; Infants Fed Animal Milk 5000 Years Ago - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:17] <exec> 08└─People have been drinking milk for thousands of years with fit (not fat) bodies. If you think some modern food should replace it, I think the burden of proof is on you, not on the milk people. As for milk being carb heavy, all I can say is you are better off avoiding the more "processed" varieties,...
[18:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Prehistoric Baby Bottle Discovery; Infants Fed Animal Milk 5000 Years Ago - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:19] <exec> 08└─5000 years ago is well into the neolithic. In fact it's in the Bronze age. Call us when you discover a real Cimmerian milk bottle, still flecked with the enemies blood.
[18:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Prehistoric Baby Bottle Discovery; Infants Fed Animal Milk 5000 Years Ago - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:21] <exec> 08└─If it's available food, humans ate it when they could. Even if it's something modern humans think is kinda squicky, like locusts and other insects. So yes, they drank milk of whatever animals they had domesticated and had a good way of milking, e.g. horses, goats, and sheep. Pre-agriculture, starvin...
[18:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russian National Confesses To Biggest Bank Hack In US History - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:32] <exec> 08└─"The sophistication and scale of the hacks led US investigators to initially suspect the campaign was sponsored by the Russian government or the government of another well-resourced country. " as if these windows-using pigs have any idea of wtf is going on.
[18:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Second Interstellar Object Confirmed, Named 2I/Borisov - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:42] <exec> 08└─The orbit is unambiguously hyperbolic. Comets from the Oort cloud have an eccentricity of nearly 1. These are nearly parabolic, as would be expected for objects that are almost, but not quite, coming from outside the Sun's sphere of influence. A few have eccentricities slightly over 1. Depending on...
[18:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Numbers Limit How Accurately Digital Computers Model Chaos - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:40] <exec> 08└─For money, I don't want more precision. I just want the right amount of precision, and an exact, not approximate, representation. Something that can exactly represent ten dollars and ten cents. Not approximately, but exactly. It is amusing how money has been represented by integers since as long as...
[18:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's One Crucial Way Tape Still Trounces SSDs and Hard Drives When It Comes to Storage... - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe so. Maybe even so back in the 1990s. But not cost effectively.
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[19:12:06] <exec> 08└─I think the Kissinger summary was something to the effect: "If you have power, but don't use it, you're just wasting resources on acquiring the power in the first place."
[19:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abnormal Gut Bugs Tied to Worse Cognitive Performance in Veterans With PTSD and Cirrhosis - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:14] <exec> 08└─Did you even bother to the summary, much less RTFA. Just have a look at the last sentence in the summary.
[19:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FIDO2: The Dream Of Password-Free Authentication On The WWW - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:47] <exec> 08└─I never mentioned "security companies". But since you did... The big problem with Security as a Service is verification. If you know so little about security that you want to outsource it to someone else that does, how are you supposed to verify the service you receive? For that matter, how does one...
[19:14:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Amazon Unleashes a Bunch of New Echo Devices, Including Glasses and a Ring - 156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:44] <exec> 08└─One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Seattle where Bezos' shadow lies.
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[20:12:11] <exec> 08└─I listened to a long interview with Kissinger a while ago that crossed a wide array of topics. One of the more interesting things was him bragging about keeping Nixon in the Vietnam war for longer than he wanted. Nixon had wanted to pull out as quick as possible as he saw the war as unwinnable and s...
[20:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dale [539] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taiwan Weighs Options after Diplomatic Allies Switch Allegiance - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:12] <exec> 08└─Anyone that is in Taiwan that doesn't want to live under Chinese should be working on relocating to somewhere they'd like more than China now. This isn't any different than video game company mergers. It is only a matter of time before they are consumed and brought into the fold fully.
[20:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taiwan Weighs Options after Diplomatic Allies Switch Allegiance - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:14] <exec> 08└─Just a matter of time.
[20:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uncovering the Hidden Intelligence Of Collectives - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:04] <exec> 08└─The intelligence is still well hidden. But it's not hard to understand the theory of its existence. Whatever there is is still overwhelmed by primal urges, which shows more strongly in the crowd, where the individual can put aside personal responsibility and be free!
[20:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Warning For 23 Million YouTube Creators Following ‘Massive’ Hack Attack - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:21] <exec> 08└─This then begs the question,
[20:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Million+ IoT Radios Open to Hijack Via Telnet Backdoor - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:21] <exec> 08└─I maintain that no such reference need be made or adhered to for such a small population, barring consistent issues with confusing news posts. I maintain that it's right to make clarifying edits even when the AP styleguide, or any other, would prefer to preserve confusion. I claim that it is very mu...
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[21:12:23] <exec> 08└─...sells all its atomic bombs to Taiwan. It'd be a win for everybody except China, and that'd be a good thing.
[21:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dale [539] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taiwan Weighs Options after Diplomatic Allies Switch Allegiance - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:24] <exec> 08└─I didn't mean to imply that it was easy or lightly taken. I am simply saying that if they find the thought of being like mainland China is not what they want for themselves and/or their family/decendents it would be wiser to leave now than to wait for the gates to close. If I was taken as it being e...
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[22:11:55] <exec> 08└─78 rpm - tinny chipmonks 45 rpm - teenybopper attention span 33 1/3 rpm - (lp) long playing, last long time
[22:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GlobalFoundries Develops "12LP+" Fabrication Process - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:57] <exec> 08└─So, "LP" is Low-Power, and "LPP" is Low-Power Plus", and "LP+" is Low-Power Plus", too?
[22:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taiwan Weighs Options after Diplomatic Allies Switch Allegiance - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, the goal has always been peaceful reunification. before HongKong blew up, they could have pointed to it as an example that worked.
[22:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taiwan Weighs Options after Diplomatic Allies Switch Allegiance - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:27] <exec> 08└─The people who benefited from that shift of power would disagree with your position. All 3 million of them (the 1%).
[22:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Security Warning For 23 Million YouTube Creators Following ‘Massive’ Hack Attack - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:43] <exec> 08└─He is not really a YouTuber. His main platform was Twitch, but Microsoft likely paid him $1 million or more to switch to Mixer. https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com] Even if Mixer fails and Ninja's career takes a...
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[22:13:44] <exec> 08└─Is it the final solution?
[22:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Second Interstellar Object Confirmed, Named 2I/Borisov - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:36] <exec> 08└─If you want to intercept an interstellar object to capture it or prevent it from hitting Earth, you would need very sensitive telescopes that could image it years in advance, so you could launch a mission years in advance. ESA's upcoming comet mission will be launched with no target in mind: https:/...
[22:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Second Interstellar Object Confirmed, Named 2I/Borisov - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:38] <exec> 08└─Goodness! I never knew there was that much passion amongst the astrology astronomy crowd. Apart from that whole Pluto thing a few years ago, of course.
[22:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Numbers Limit How Accurately Digital Computers Model Chaos - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we might be dead or alive, until someone look at us.
[22:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03wArlOrd [2142] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quieter, Faster, Stronger: The Next Jet Age Is Coming - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:11] <exec> 08└─I'm reminded that passengers are called "self loading cargo" for a reason
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[23:12:06] <exec> 08└─Or is it just populated with marketing idiots now?
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