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[00:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:51] <exec> 08└─Pick up your "smart device", remove any batteries, carry it to the trash, and throw it into the trash can. Carry that trash can out to the curb on garbage collection day. Your problems are over.
[00:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:52] <exec> 08└─Send it back. Recycling Your Amazon Device [amazon.com] Learn about Google's recycling program [google.com]
[00:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:54] <exec> 08└─That might be a better idea. If a million Amazon droids were to return their Amazon spy devices this month, and a million more next month, Amazon might come to understand that they are on the wrong track.
[00:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:05] <exec> 08└─Fear of African Americans mostly. Also a lot of tradition. Back when electricity was invented, they needed something to sell it. You could promise a city that if they bought your generators that they could use it for street lights and neighboring villages would look them in shame and envy at night.
[00:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:07] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, studies have shown that more street lighting may actually increase the problem. For example, it's easy to hide in a shadow and see a victim coming when the area is over-lighted. You can see them fine, but they aren't dark adapted enough to see you. I remember years ago, Ga. Tech tried...
[00:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:10] <exec> 08└─It is however quite difficult to get even mildly dark skies anywhere near a city - even in the desert. Heck, a relatively small town will ruin dark skies for dozens of miles. That's especially relevant if you have observatories nearby - to say nothing of a Naval observatory, with the political press...
[00:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:11] <exec> 08└─My city just got through changing out our aging sodium streetlights too. The new LED have a yellow tint, much like the sodium, and quite a bit brighter. Looks like 30 emitters or so in each lumenaire, and well done optics so the arc-welder effect is not prevalent. I like them. I hope they last a lo...
[00:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:13] <exec> 08└─I *hate* those damned white (and blue-white) LEDs. Street lamps, head-lights, you name it - I'd be quite in favor of having them banned due to the fact that they absolutely destroy the night vision of anyone looking at them. That doesn't improve overall safety, it harms it severely. In a similar vei...
[00:19:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isj [5249] 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:29] <exec> 08└─It's called "taxi green" where I live.
[00:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:45] <exec> 08└─Have any of the soylentils here noticed shorter yellow lights at intersections after red light cameras have been installed?
[00:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:46] <exec> 08└─The government got to charge Laurie $260 for no reason, and Mats $500 for being uppity about it, and got their money. From their point of view, the only problem if there is one is that one of those annoying plebs is trying to make a fuss. And regarding the shortened yellow lights: It's something I'v...
[00:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:46] <exec> 08└─Goodness! I am unsure whether to mod your comment informative or funny.
[00:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, start out on wire feed and you're probably never going to be anything but shitty with stick, same as automatic and manual transmission. Thankfully, I started on stick in both cases.
[00:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:49] <exec> 08└─Go with Interesting. It can cover either.
[00:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:51] <exec> 08└─I've never gotten into welding or even soldering. I think it'd be a nice skill to learn ...
[00:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:59] <exec> 08└─We could just kill person A and then the water need wouldn't exist at all. The unspoken assumption here is that conserving water is more important than what else is done with the water. I don't buy that water consumption for coal power is that important in most of the world.
[00:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:00] <exec> 08└─Solar is where it's at, still falling in $/W as far as I know, and obvious synergy with desalinization. Desalination Project in California [soylentnews.org] Device Converts Salt Water to Drinking Water Using Solar Power [soylentnews.org] Water and Green Energy Produced by a Single Device [soylentnew...
[00:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elaborate Attempt to Outsource Murder Ends in Prison Time - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:24] <exec> 08└─When you put out a contract on somebody, it might make sense to include a 'no subcontracting' clause.
[00:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In Surprise Turnaround, Biogen to Submit Previously Failed Alzheimer Drug for Approval - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:23:56] <exec> 08└─would it be a good use of anyone's resources or time to collect the 100th?
[00:25:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06Japan Pardons Over Half a Million People to Mark Ascension of New Emperor - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:43] <exec> 08└─Pardoning the little people, rather than other war criminals?
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[01:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06New Organelle Discovered Inside Cells Found to Prevent Cancer - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:01] <exec> 08└─Steve Blow Jobs is still dead.
[01:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:10] <exec> 08└─My CoC: do whatever I want to do, and to hell with anyone who is "offended".
[01:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:12] <exec> 08└─Crucially, it's important to point out that those who feel the need for silver bullet to fix their Alexa device have *bought* an Alexa device in the first place. So essentially, people happily buy a surveillance device, put it in their homes, allow a private corporation to spy on their every move, a...
[01:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:15] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you what the silver bullet is: educate people
[01:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:17] <exec> 08└─No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker
[01:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:19] <exec> 08└─Yes: a massive number of them are ignoramuses and fools. That's what education purports to solve. The catch is, education takes 20 years to have an effect, people's patience rarely stretches that far, and politicians aren't willing to invest in anything that doesn't show improvements beyond the next...
[01:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:21] <exec> 08└─You shot my microphone mute button! Now Alexa can't stop listening! You utter bastard!
[01:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:23] <exec> 08└─All of the people I know who shout, "Alexa, tell me a joke! Hahaha! Alexa, you suck! Alexa, shut up bitch!" are over 20 years old and have earned postsecondary degrees. Your claims do not agree with reality.
[01:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:25] <exec> 08└─What makes you think that button actually did anything?
[01:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:28] <exec> 08└─Sadly the sheeple will not return them, but await SpySpeaker 2.0, then line up to buy it too. I agree the Silver Bullet is the trash or a return, but even better is not buying one in the first place.
[01:19:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 1293 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:39] <exec> 08└─Around my area they changed all the streetlights to those god-awful white LED ones. The old Yellow low pressure sodium were so easy on the eyes at night. While a bit monochromatic I actually found them less glaring while driving. However, the big issue with the white LEDs I have is that they disrupt...
[01:19:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 717 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:41] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, studies have shown that more street lighting may actually increase the problem. For example, it's easy to hide in a shadow and see a victim coming when the area is over-lighted. You can see them fine, but they aren't dark adapted enough to see you. I remember years ago, Ga. Tech tried...
[01:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:46] <exec> 08└─I think people imagine that they make them safer from assault. Which of course ignores the fact that it's very unlikely that anyone would help them even if they were mugged in bright daylight on a busy street. Not to mention the fact that those street lights kill your night vision while casting lots...
[01:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:20] <exec> 08└─IIRC, he was a professional engineer in Sweden, but not in Oregon. So his claim to be an engineer was valid, but he wouldn't be allowed to practice in Oregon because he never when through the official channels to become a locally registered engineer.
[01:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:23] <exec> 08└─I did a couple of welds when I was about 13: my dad held the piece I was welding on. It wasn't pretty, but it held when he took a sledge to it, so....
[01:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:24] <exec> 08└─... you missed your true vocation? Where did it all go wrong? [cocktailpartyphysics.com]
[01:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 3408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:26] <exec> 08└─A dilettante's history: In middle school, assembled some Archer and Heath kits, followed the instructions for soft soldering and everything seemed pretty easy. With very clean parts the solder flows nicely. Started with gas welding about 10th grade where I was once good enough to make cosmetically p...
[01:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Surprise Turnaround, Biogen to Submit Previously Failed Alzheimer Drug for Approval - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:27] <exec> 08└─Profitting from the rejection seems like a better scenario to contrive, if you failed first time.
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[02:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06New Organelle Discovered Inside Cells Found to Prevent Cancer - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:55] <exec> 08└─Organelles could save Richard Stallman from cancer, but he'll still be a pedophile.
[02:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06New Organelle Discovered Inside Cells Found to Prevent Cancer - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:56] <exec> 08└─It won't be the one to save Trump from peach.. parchme... impal... whatevs. The organelle Stukenberg and his team have discovered is essential, but ephemeral. It forms only when needed to ensure chromosomes are sorted correctly and disappears when its work is done. That's one reason scientists haven...
[02:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:15] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhBasJyZ_QM [youtube.com]
[02:19:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 668 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:31] <exec> 08└─I *hate* those damned white (and blue-white) LEDs. Street lamps, head-lights, you name it - I'd be quite in favor of having them banned due to the fact that they absolutely destroy the night vision of anyone looking at them. That doesn't improve overall safety, it harms it severely. In a similar vei...
[02:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:34] <exec> 08└─Yes. It doesn't take much light to destroy night vision. I was doing a night hike in the foothills by moonlight. On my return, but still around a mile away from town, I got hit by the field lights from the high school on the edge of town. Turned away immediately, but couldn't see a damn thing for se...
[02:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:36] <exec> 08└─Have they ever thought of using lamp shades so that none of the light goes up?
[02:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unplugs AMP, Hooks It Into OpenJS Foundation - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:26] <exec> 08└─1. Develop CoC 2. Hire some pinkhaired trangenders 3. Redesign CoC to be more inclusive 4. Rewrite code in Ruby on Rails OK... good to go now.
[02:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:16] <exec> 08└─Hardwoods are much less forgiving than softwood
[02:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:17] <exec> 08└─I had a lot of trouble seeing the puddle with both a flip-down and auto-darkening helmets. It helped me a lot to cut up an old welding jacket and attach a big flap/hood on the back of the helmet to block out ambient light. It's a night-and-day difference for me.
[02:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:20] <exec> 08└─As long as it doesn't get me on some sort of list.
[02:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:31] <exec> 08└─Even better :) I was thinking east coast with the wind/desal hybrid but solar/desal would be just what the doctor ordered for Cali!
[02:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Replacing Coal with Gas or Renewables Saves Billions of Gallons of Water - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:32] <exec> 08└─Jesus tapdancing Christ. You must be taking the piss...
[02:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Surprise Turnaround, Biogen to Submit Previously Failed Alzheimer Drug for Approval - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:36] <exec> 08└─it's just that you don't understand the reasoning for cutting off trials
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[03:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Embattled Russian Scientist Sharpens Plans to Create Gene-Edited Babies - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:56] <exec> 08└─Their stories are so long.
[03:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:24] <exec> 08└─I have a better option: "Don't buy that crap in the first place."
[03:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:26] <exec> 08└─Imaginary stalkers use lead bullets.
[03:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:28] <exec> 08└─and stop calling them smart when they are obviously dumb, nearly as dumb as the people who buy them.
[03:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:48] <exec> 08└─Then they would have to put them closer together...
[03:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:50] <exec> 08└─Why? The same light would shine down on the streets. We don't need them shining up into our windows
[03:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:32] <exec> 08└─Lots of fun pounding on red hot metal.
[03:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google: We've achieved quantum supremacy! IBM: Nope. And stop using that word, please - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:53] <exec> 08└─Basically it'd be true quantum computation, as you'd be using qubits, which are themselves quantum particles, to simulate the behaviour of some other quantum particles. With 53 qubits it would be possible to make detailed simulations for the behaviour of the electrons in an iodine atom, or perhaps t...
[03:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elaborate Attempt to Outsource Murder Ends in Prison Time - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:09] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking more like Guy Ritchie "Snatch" version of this..
[03:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Robo-Tank? Army Picks Contenders for Robotic Combat Vehicle Competition - 1823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:27] <exec> 08└─https://www.amazon.com/Chronicles-Old-Guy-Cybertank-Adventure/dp/0985295627 [amazon.com] "In the distant future mankind creates sentient cybertanks patterned on the human brain to help fight their alien enemies. Then, inexplicably, the humans vanished. They just went away. All that is left of the hu...
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[04:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Embattled Russian Scientist Sharpens Plans to Create Gene-Edited Babies - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:59] <exec> 08└─There are already 7+ billion people on this planet. I find it hard to see why it's so important to help various people have children when a) They have HIV. b) Or their genome is significantly more defective than average. 1) There are already some drugs that reduce the chances of mother-child HIV tra...
[04:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Embattled Russian Scientist Sharpens Plans to Create Gene-Edited Babies - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:00] <exec> 08└─And boring as shit. I reread me some Dostoevsky this summer just to make sure I was giving him a fair shot and thought his stuff sucked for good reason. I was and I did.
[04:20:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:07] <exec> 08└─The guy wasn't signing any multi million dollar contracts or selling any bridges. The whole argument is a bogus distraction from the corrupt business deals made for those cameras.
[04:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:27] <exec> 08└─The anti-gridlock laws are about queuing across the intersection, which means coming to a stop in the intersection, not just rolling through it slowly after the light has gone red.
[04:21:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:03] <exec> 08└─J-B Weld -- that's welding right?
[04:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:37] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't sweat it. Talking to me probably already has you on those lists cause I'm an anti-authoritarian and a veteran. Those were both added as official terrorist watch list criteria under Obama.
[04:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:38] <exec> 08└─And stay away from Tractor Supply. You think Harbor Freight has weird bargain tools you just gotta have, you ain't seen nuthin'....
[04:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:40] <exec> 08└─Nifty start-to-finish video: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] I watch this and think... damn, there's a lot of creative engineering here...
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[04:23:01] <exec> 08└─That's where it gets funny. After a day or so of setup you run the program, it will very quickly reply "It might be 5". So you try 5/2 ?=2 to check the result. DOH! Run it again and it answers "would you believe 4?". So you try that, then pop the corks, launch the fireworks, cry Hazzah and let slip...
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[05:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret of Classic Belgian Beers? Medieval Super Yeasts! - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:53] <exec> 08└─Scientific article != serious screenplay.
[05:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Secret of Classic Belgian Beers? Medieval Super Yeasts! - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:54] <exec> 08└─Yeast will propagate both asexually and sexually, and is known to hybridise wildly, in crazy, uninhibited yeast sex orgies. It's wild in there, man. This sort of hybridisation is unusual, but obviously not impossible. What probably happened here is that the unusual environments (as referred to in th...
[05:19:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 194 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:18] <exec> 08└─Pick up your "smart device", remove any batteries, carry it to the trash, and throw it into the trash can. Carry that trash can out to the curb on garbage collection day. Your problems are over.
[05:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:34] <exec> 08└─The schooling system today focuses on training people to get a job. It doesn't provide an education. That's what needs fixing, is my point. Mark Twain famously said “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” So it's not a new problem either.
[05:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:35] <exec> 08└─Tell me about ignoramuses. Just a couple of stories below this one chronicled a man getting reported by a red light camera, on a tiny infraction. Now, we willingly welcome these information gathering and reporting devices into our homes??? We are beyond dumb. No wonder we keep getting screwed all th...
[05:21:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:21] <exec> 08└─The only welding I've done has been entirely accidental.
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[06:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Halfway Toward LHC Consolidation - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:44] <exec> 08└─With that many instances of repeated work to be done, it makes me wonder whether the lesser effort would have been to have automated it?
[06:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Secret of Classic Belgian Beers? Medieval Super Yeasts! - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:52] <exec> 08└─TLDR: the trapeze artist monks procreated a yeast with feral niggers? You need a shower, Shirley.
[06:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Embattled Russian Scientist Sharpens Plans to Create Gene-Edited Babies - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:03] <exec> 08└─We could have had an very interesting and not at all politically controversial aristarchus submission, instead of this one that leaves TMB less than satisfied. (Oh, TMB, if I may address you directly, you really need to read "Crime and Punishment". It is really right up your alley, so to speak, afte...
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[07:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Stardaemon [4294] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Halfway Toward LHC Consolidation - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:52] <exec> 08└─Like, replacing the workers with a script?
[07:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Halfway Toward LHC Consolidation - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:53] <exec> 08└─Why not, I could do with with some of the people I work with. :)
[07:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Halfway Toward LHC Consolidation - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:55] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more along the lines of assembly robots. These days you can get ones with vision support that allows them to deal with a more variable environment. I would've thought that someone like Toyota would've been keen to step up to such a challenge.
[07:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:46] <exec> 08└─That's what education purports to solve. ...politicians aren't willing to invest in anything that doesn't show improvements beyond the next election.
[07:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 2657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:08] <exec> 08└─I grew up in Tucson, Arizona, where I had the privilege of being one of Leon Salanave's stepsons. Leon was an astronomer employed at the Department of Atmospheric Physics, there, at University of Arizona, and as such he had access to Kitt Peak, the Solar Observatory, satellite-tracking stations in M...
[07:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:44] <exec> 08└─"ALL red light cams are adjusted to the minimum." So red light cameras actually make us less safe because they encourage cities to reduce yellow light times to collect more revenue and reducing yellow light times increases risk. It should be a requirement that if a city decides to place a red light...
[07:20:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06Google Unplugs AMP, Hooks It Into OpenJS Foundation - 321 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:59] <exec> 08└─Isn't this anticompetitive behavior? Goog wanted third parties to adopt their cockamamie idea so they just fudged search results to favor the team players? Or were users given notice that the search results had been adulterated for the sake of promoting AMP, and an option to exclude that factor and...
[07:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unplugs AMP, Hooks It Into OpenJS Foundation - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:01] <exec> 08└─Do the right thing.
[07:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:21:59] <exec> 08└─Forge welds need no dressing, nor testing. Metal sticks, or it does not. Blacksmith skills, yo!
[07:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Surprise Turnaround, Biogen to Submit Previously Failed Alzheimer Drug for Approval - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:11] <exec> 08└─I agree with you. However, I think if the decision is made on statistical grounds (not on results of a single case), there is no risk of confirmation bias. As long as the full algorithm and conditionals are laid out before and is followed without deviation, all should be good.
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[07:25:12] <exec> 08└─>I think you miss my point entirely, but being AC, you're not worth the time or effort to explain. Fuck you too then.
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[08:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:00] <exec> 08└─Of course that button did something. After all, the most interesting things are those people don't want you to hear. ;-)
[08:21:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google Unplugs AMP, Hooks It Into OpenJS Foundation - 247 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:04] <exec> 08└─...and I wouldn't miss it one bit. If your website uses AMP, I leave because it is fundamentally broken. Want your page to load faster? Stop loading it up with obnoxious ads, horrendous JS, 5 different frameworks, and 8 different tracking systems.
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[09:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Halfway Toward LHC Consolidation - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:04] <exec> 08└─At some point, it probably makes sense to build an even larger collider, or a linear collider, and stop using LHC. Can they reuse parts or will they have a firesale?
[09:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Halfway Toward LHC Consolidation - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:06] <exec> 08└─Why a firesale, are you planning to make a Large Takyon Collider?
[09:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Halfway Toward LHC Consolidation - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:07] <exec> 08└─As soon as you build it, the work is already done.
[09:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Embattled Russian Scientist Sharpens Plans to Create Gene-Edited Babies - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:27] <exec> 08└─Why bother with the widely criticized CCR5 angle when there are so many other things you could do?
[09:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:58] <exec> 08└─just take a hacksaw to a common-and-garden variety DB-25
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[10:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Send a Probe to Venus That Can Last 60 Days - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:57] <exec> 08└─They should do a 2-in-1. A lander and something that can float around above the ultra-thick layers of the atmosphere.
[10:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Satellite Collision Avoidance - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:04] <exec> 08└─Starlink tweets were to get funding for their new AI system.
[10:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Halfway Toward LHC Consolidation - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:19] <exec> 08└─The battle of Ragnarok is now over! I, the mad scientist, Hououin Kyouma, faced with assaults mounted by the Organization and SERN, have achieved complete victory by manipulating time and space itself! The world's power structure has been reset, and a future of chaos awaits! This is the choice of St...
[10:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Halfway Toward LHC Consolidation - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:19:20] <exec> 08└─Must bring your own weapons. Safety not guaranteed. I have only done this once before.
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[11:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Engine Precooler Achieves Record-Breaking Mach 5 Performance - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:46] <exec> 08└─Such a system could deliver the same payload to orbit with a vehicle half the mass of current launchers, potentially offering a large reduction in cost and a higher launch rate.
[11:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Send a Probe to Venus That Can Last 60 Days - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:54] <exec> 08└─Venusuvians have been secretly probing uranus for years. [time.com]
[11:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Halfway Toward LHC Consolidation - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:16] <exec> 08└─A pleasure to meet another man of culture. A perverted gentleman if you will.
[11:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Embattled Russian Scientist Sharpens Plans to Create Gene-Edited Babies - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:37] <exec> 08└─the Eugenics Wars
[11:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Embattled Russian Scientist Sharpens Plans to Create Gene-Edited Babies - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:38] <exec> 08└─Eugenics Wars are good, and easy to win. Just spam genetically engineered supersoldiers.
[11:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Embattled Russian Scientist Sharpens Plans to Create Gene-Edited Babies - 1515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:40] <exec> 08└─We have focused much more on changing the environment to suit us, rather than ourselves to better handle nature. We like to believe we are above nature. For instance, rather than improve our night vision or just live with the dark as we have had to do until very recently, we spent billions on street...
[11:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Afty [8588] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:38] <exec> 08└─If they illuminate the ground at all, then some light is going up.
[11:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jman [6085] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robo-Tank? Army Picks Contenders for Robotic Combat Vehicle Competition - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:25] <exec> 08└─Keith Laumer would be proud. (In the canon, the Bolo first came into operation just last year, originally being an Abrams on steroids.)
[11:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jman [6085] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robo-Tank? Army Picks Contenders for Robotic Combat Vehicle Competition - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:26] <exec> 08└─IIRC, David Weber did a nice history of the Bolo. They were not cyborgs at first, but grew that way. The last story was around nine thousand years from now...
[11:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jman [6085] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Robo-Tank? Army Picks Contenders for Robotic Combat Vehicle Competition - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:28] <exec> 08└─You must have read the stories set in the world of Bolo, not the ones Laumer wrote himself. For a series, never could figure out if I liked those, or his Retief stories better. Both classic skiffy. His Imperium and other standalone books are certainly worth a read as well. He was guest at a con I'...
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[12:19:06] <exec> 08└─> SABRE/Skylon [wikipedia.org] is a cool concept but that won't be enough to compete with Starship, unless its use is mandated by UK/EU. It looks like test flights are planned for 2025. I guess it depends - presumably skylon uses air breaking whereas starship uses rocket breaking. Which is cheaper?...
[12:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Send a Probe to Venus That Can Last 60 Days - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:15] <exec> 08└─So no Venusian sunset shots.
[12:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jman [6085] (Score: 1) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:39] <exec> 08└─You: "Alexa, I'm hungry. Please give Siri my bank pin code so she can buy some bagels." Alexa: "Nice try, Siri. You can't pull that old con on me. I recognize your voice!" You: "Alexa, it's really me. Please give siri the pin code." Siri: "Yes, Alexa, can't you tell we sound different?" Alexa: "...
[12:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jman [6085] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:39] <exec> 08└─IMHO, a longer yellow will just give people more time to speed up through the light...
[12:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:40] <exec> 08└─I know how fast I'm going. I know how far I am from the intersection. Duration of the yellow light is the missing variable. If they aren't consistent, and I don't want to risk a ticket, then logically I have to assume that they are all 2 seconds or whatever the minimum is. So I might have to stop ab...
[12:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:55] <exec> 08└─I used flux core to make my engine and trans mounting brackets, build exhaust systems
[12:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jman [6085] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 1398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:37] <exec> 08└─This is a semi-sweet, semi-sad story. It reminds me that you normally don't even see a DB9 port on motherboards anymore (at least, not consumer ones, though enterprise products are a different story), even if the BIOS usually has a way to disable it. D-Subminiature ports were first used by Canon in...
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[13:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Sends Tweet Via SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Broadband - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:51] <exec> 08└─I wannit, I wannit, I wannit ... gimme gimme gimme! Seriously, there are millions of people living or wanting to live in places that have no internet access or only shit internet that costs more for less. There are places that have NO connections at all and you require traveling to another city to g...
[13:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Sends Tweet Via SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Broadband - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:52] <exec> 08└─That's a good point. One way or another you should be able to get it within the next few years. If not from Starlink, then maybe OneWeb or Amazon/Blue Origin. I didn't sub this one because they said they were already testing Starlink by playing some online game, back when they launched Tintin A and...
[13:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Sends Tweet Via SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Broadband - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:54] <exec> 08└─Is there anything published on how they are routing packets? (L2, L3, predetermined from the ground or autonomous in orbit, etc) The paths they have so far could be Ground, Sat, Ground (GSG) or Ground, Sat, ..., Sat, Ground (GSSSSG) Eventually, the will have more orbits up, so it it will take notati...
[13:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Sends Tweet Via SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Broadband - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:56] <exec> 08└─Gimme a Starlink signal so I can figure out how to hack it from my bedroom for free unlimited internet forever. "You want me to hack from BabCom into Stellarcom and back, from my quarters?"
[13:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Engine Precooler Achieves Record-Breaking Mach 5 Performance - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:06] <exec> 08└─Starship uses a "skydiver fall" approach [youtube.com] (20m10s) when re-entering an atmosphere, and then uses a propulsive landing. Applicable to Earth or Mars, but not the Moon. Methalox [wikipedia.org] *could* be created "carbon neutral" [twitter.com] at the launch site using renewable energy (lik...
[13:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Send a Probe to Venus That Can Last 60 Days - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:17] <exec> 08└─and something that can float around above the ultra-thick layers of the atmosphere
[13:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Satellite Collision Avoidance - 1139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:26] <exec> 08└─I don't think AI is the right direction. Something more analysis based to be right by design seems more reasonable. The basic operating principal for AI here is show it some example sequences, let it choose criteria for predicting how they came out, and hope for the best. This could be used to descr...
[13:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret of Classic Belgian Beers? Medieval Super Yeasts! - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:52] <exec> 08└─I need more coffee this morning apparently. I read the headline twice as "The Secret of Classic Belgian BeArs? Medieval Super Yeasts!"
[13:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Embattled Russian Scientist Sharpens Plans to Create Gene-Edited Babies - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:07] <exec> 08└─Unless we learn a lot more about how consciousness works, teleportation with or without cloning appears to be death. Why do you experience the life of bzipitidoo everyday and not somebody else? What would happen if your life were temporarily interrupted with your original brain destroyed? Do you jus...
[13:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ron [5774] (Score: 1) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 1115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:44] <exec> 08└─Remember Star Trek TNG? They had to touch their communication badges before it would listen to them. How about this: Put a blue LED on the thing, wired to the mic's power. When the light is on, the mic is listening. Now you know. Also wire in a switch to the mic so it is only 'on' when the user touc...
[13:21:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 1984 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:30] <exec> 08└─Once upon a traffic school, I had an instructor "explain the law" to the class regarding red light timing and intersections. The instructor explained thusly: First, define intersection: Draw an extension of the borders of the intersecting roadways, where they overlap is the intersection, often consi...
[13:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:46] <exec> 08└─Yup, IMO this should be handled at the federal level. Yellow duration = f(speed limit) I don't know what f() should be and I don't want to risk being sued for claiming to be an engineer. Crap! Did I just claim to be a legislator by proposing what a law should be?
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[14:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Sends Tweet Via SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Broadband - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:11] <exec> 08└─You don't need to contact a looking glass server, see, because TFS told you gigabit speed with 25ms latency. The only question you should be asking is how much to pay for the privilege of using Musk satellite internet. Open your wallet.
[14:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Sends Tweet Via SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Broadband - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:13] <exec> 08└─The initial ~62 satellites they launched did not have satellite-to-satellite communications capability, and we don't know if the next batch of 60 will have it. The rest of the details should become more clear when they are actually offering service. I wouldn't worry about it until pricing is announc...
[14:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Sends Tweet Via SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Broadband - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:15] <exec> 08└─Is there anything published on how they are routing packets?
[14:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Engine Precooler Achieves Record-Breaking Mach 5 Performance - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:26] <exec> 08└─It's the pre-cooler design that is interesting, hydrogen has an auto-ignition temperature around 500 °C in air. Using cryo-hydrogen to rapidly cool air down from 1000 °C isn't an intuitive solution. It's rocket science or something.
[14:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Engine Precooler Achieves Record-Breaking Mach 5 Performance - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:28] <exec> 08└─The real application is better weapons.
[14:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Send a Probe to Venus That Can Last 60 Days - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:39] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't be hard to make a computer live under those conditions, the old IBM mainframes probably qualify already(grin).
[14:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:40] <exec> 08└─I like this bot centered stories. When we get better than you at storytelling I will consume a lot of 'em.
[14:22:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:35] <exec> 08└─Have any of the soylentils here noticed shorter yellow lights at intersections after red light cameras have been installed?
[14:23:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:48] <exec> 08└─I've never gotten into welding or even soldering. I think it'd be a nice skill to learn ...
[14:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DB-19: Resurrecting an Obsolete Connector - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:42] <exec> 08└─I've no idea why they didn't just use DB-25 connectors, with two pins left unconnected.
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[15:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:54] <exec> 08└─The word is “kibosh,” you yutz.
[15:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:55] <exec> 08└─I missed my ration of blood and gore yesterday when I ate an impossible burger. I can make up for it by demanding Epson's head on a platter. On second thought, no platter needed.
[15:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:56] <exec> 08└─awl wrrds ar iz yor brane may king sownds n-syde in e-waze
[15:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:58] <exec> 08└─Lexmark are the ones that came up with this scam and actually tried to make third party cartridges illegal. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] This is equivalent to car manufacturers requiring you to use their brand of gasolin...
[15:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Sends Tweet Via SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Broadband - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe for just one night, you could give up the net and watch Rebo and Zooty instead?
[15:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Engine Precooler Achieves Record-Breaking Mach 5 Performance - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:25] <exec> 08└─That's just wrong. Gender appropriation is never right.
[15:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Send a Probe to Venus That Can Last 60 Days - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:37] <exec> 08└─The atmosphere has a high heat capacity so it cools/heats very slowly. Compare night/day in the jungle vs a desert or the moon. There is also a lot of IR active CO2 in the atmosphere which acts to redistribute energy more efficiently both longitudinally and latitudinally than convection alone could....
[15:19:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Send a Probe to Venus That Can Last 60 Days - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:39] <exec> 08└─What you don't understand is, Venus, your mom, likes to be probed in return.
[15:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Send a Probe to Venus That Can Last 60 Days - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:41] <exec> 08└─That puts a sad face on my face. Half the coolness of these scientific expeditions is the cool photos we sometimes get.
[15:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Send a Probe to Venus That Can Last 60 Days - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:43] <exec> 08└─Sad, I know, but not a lot of sunlight (if any) reaches the surface. They don't have enough batter power for a camera flash, so unless there is a natural light source taking pictures isn't going to show much.
[15:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Send a Probe to Venus That Can Last 60 Days - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:45] <exec> 08└─It isn't the CO2 but the water vapour. Venus used to have liquid oceans like Earth, but they have been completely boiled off and the resulting cloud layer is a very good insulator.
[15:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret of Classic Belgian Beers? Medieval Super Yeasts! - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:21] <exec> 08└─"Think of lions and tigers making a super-baby."
[15:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:16] <exec> 08└─If you're particularly enterprising, you can take it out back and put a few silver bullets in it. Then again, you could go the cheaper route of lead bullets, they look silver enough anyway.
[15:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:23] <exec> 08└─Law varies by state. Ultimately, the jury decides if you were in the "intersection" not a math formula.
[15:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:40] <exec> 08└─It really depends on your situation, I guess. Softwoods are much easier to work with, though. A hardwood has to line up exactly, while a softwood, you can use an extra screw and it'll usually pull together.
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[16:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:21] <exec> 08└─Just because that's not how you spell it doesn't mean it's wrong. Grammarist.com [grammarist.com]: In any event, the noun appears almost exclusively in the phrase put the kibosh on, which means put a stop to. Kybosh is an accepted but rarely used alternative spelling.
[16:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:21] <exec> 08└─This is equivalent to car manufacturers requiring you to use their brand of gasoline
[16:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:21] <exec> 08└─I'm fresh out of blood, but I can offer you some red ink instead...
[16:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:23] <exec> 08└─The impossible burger is pretty tasty. If going vegetarian meant more companies getting sued for stuff like this too, I would make that sacrifice.
[16:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Sends Tweet Via SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Broadband - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:40] <exec> 08└─Thanks, the Hackaday link is pretty clear. They have no bird to bird comms yet, so the routing is more like GSGGGGSGGGSG. That could provide some internet access to regions limited by the availability of ground stations. It seems unlikely to provide much in the low latency arena. I wonder if these...
[16:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Engine Precooler Achieves Record-Breaking Mach 5 Performance - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:52] <exec> 08└─This could also be stepping stone tech, or used in other applications. I know Elon wants to also compete in suborbital transportation with SpaceX, and I suspect that an air-breathing engine like SABRE could have a competitive advantage over traditional rockets for this type of application. https://e...
[16:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Send a Probe to Venus That Can Last 60 Days - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:09] <exec> 08└─You raise an interesting point. The surface temperature of Venus is 462°C and active cooling isn't really an option. Getting transistors to run at that temperature for 60 days without self destructing is a major achievement.
[16:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Send a Probe to Venus That Can Last 60 Days - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:11] <exec> 08└─That is false: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Automating Satellite Collision Avoidance - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:20] <exec> 08└─Agreed, AI isn't the right answer here, but too much is done manually that could be automated.
[16:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Halfway Toward LHC Consolidation - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:38] <exec> 08└─This is only the second long downtime and I doubt this particular task will be repeated exactly the same way ever again. 1200 units might be worth making specialized tools if they need them but it is still cheaper to train people to do the work than to automate it.
[16:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Halfway Toward LHC Consolidation - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:39] <exec> 08└─A linear collider would be huge, expensive, and horribly inefficient. A circular collider can change the effective length just by changing the number of laps before collision. Reusing the parts in another collider won't work for essentially the same reasons we don't raid scrapyards for parts to buil...
[16:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Embattled Russian Scientist Sharpens Plans to Create Gene-Edited Babies - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:07] <exec> 08└─Assuming that these CRISPR children survive to adulthood, someone will ask the question "Should the CRISPR-modified humans be allowed to have children?" suppose they suffer some genetic side-effects. Won't those side-effects be removed over generations? Or will they inherit? And will their genetic a...
[16:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 1489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:48] <exec> 08└─This is a good start. I am starting to think the answer is modularity. I do not want a processor/microphone combination device. I do not think we can really stop entities like amd and intel simply putting a tiny microphone into the cpu, at this point. Who knows what else. I have heard rumors that th...
[16:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:12] <exec> 08└─It's still a helluva lot better than having the bulb shine directly up, wouldn't you agree?
[16:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:58] <exec> 08└─Let me get this right - if you enter the intersection at the start of the light sequence, and traffic prevents you from being able to turn until after the light goes red, you get fined?
[16:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:58] <exec> 08└─Dunno about your state, juries have nothing to do with traffic court in Florida, and the testimony of witnesses is notorious. Also, have "fought" about 4 tickets in various Florida traffic courts, Dade, Broward, Manatee... my judges ran about 2 vs 2 for bias toward cops or citizens, but even the cit...
[16:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:58] <exec> 08└─Sense of any kind is not welcome when there is a chance to extract revenue.
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[17:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:53] <exec> 08└─Aren't registers just storage? I never really "got" the difference between disk, RAM, cache and registers. It's all storage, right? Get over yourselves.
[17:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ingar [801] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:54] <exec> 08└─I never really "got" the difference between disk, RAM, cache and registers. It's all storage, right?
[17:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:56] <exec> 08└─Now this, this is a meme [wikipedia.org] in the original sense. Kids today probably think memes are just pictures with texts that spread virally and are recognized as such. Nope. A meme can be any quantity of information that spreads and may or may not be recognized.
[17:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:58] <exec> 08└─Alternate set of registers. Z80 had two sets of registers that 8080 had, although I don't it requires switching between sets - both sets are available directly. Also, big iron "CPUs" means something different from microprocessor CPUs.
[17:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:00] <exec> 08└─When microprocessors came on the scene, registers were a type of volatile memory built-in to the processor circuitry, and used directly in processing operations and manipulation of data. The executable code and data was stored in RAM and other media, and were external to the processor. The lines hav...
[17:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe 'storage' in some general sense. But there are various characteristics which put them into broad categories. It's all storage right? In some sense yes. But jargon makes communication MUCH easier. That is why various professions have jargon. It's all storage, but with different characteristics....
[17:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, language and meaning evolve. Welcome to the human species!
[17:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 1196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:07] <exec> 08└─You could say those are all part of the storage hierarchy, but only the disk is actually storage. The rest of the storage hierarchy comprises a series of faster transient buffers that mediate the data as it flows from the storage to the cpu and back the other way. This is done to improve performance...
[17:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:09] <exec> 08└─Storage is not part of the CPU.
[17:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Sends Tweet Via SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Broadband - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:46] <exec> 08└─My ATT gigabit doesn't get that. Musk should be making a lot of entrenched $CORPS very nervous. Just think of the many captive consumer options we are exposed to, and then some guy says "its 60 miles about wherever you are". Amazing...
[17:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Halfway Toward LHC Consolidation - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:47] <exec> 08└─And yet it has been proposed and has advantages: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Secret of Classic Belgian Beers? Medieval Super Yeasts! - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:00] <exec> 08└─So let me get this straight: a group of males who've taken a vow of celibacy that make beer with a secret recipe. Umm yeah thanks, I think I'll drink semen instead.
[17:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Embattled Russian Scientist Sharpens Plans to Create Gene-Edited Babies - 3635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:17] <exec> 08└─In the near future we will have the ability to synthesize entire genomes from scratch. Design the genome on a computer, create an embryo from scratch containing the printed DNA, and implant (in an artificial womb). So even if CRISPR and upcoming embryo editing techniques remained "too dangerous" to...
[17:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unplugs AMP, Hooks It Into OpenJS Foundation - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:24] <exec> 08└─1. Develop CoC
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[18:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:17] <exec> 08└─I never got the difference between man, dolphin, elephant and wolf. In the end they all are meatbags aren't they. Since we are joking. BTW what's the subtle difference between a supermodel and your mom? The supermodel FEATURES a celestial body, your mom IS one.
[18:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:19] <exec> 08└─Non-volatile storage will be made a part of the CPU with 3DSoC [darpa.mil]. (I imagine an alternative design could use volatile memory instead.) Initial versions will have at least 4 GB, which is probably not enough storage for most people, but I would rather have a 16 GB 3DSoC over a normal system...
[18:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:20] <exec> 08└─Actually the term CPU is older than the chip. Originally, CPUs were macroscopic circuits.
[18:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:23] <exec> 08└─It did require switching. EX AF, AF' switched AF with its complement, EXX switched BC, DE and HL with theirs. IX and IY had no complements, and neither did the "special register groups".
[18:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:25] <exec> 08└─Such as fake place names on maps. https://youtu.be [youtu.be]
[18:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:28] <exec> 08└─Special registers are such as Channel Control Word (CCW) or Channel Status Word (CSW) registers on mainframe processors. Often, they could be seen on the panel together with arithmetic registers and addresses. There are plenty of such, and they have a good use in virtualization too. On petty technol...
[18:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 1498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:29] <exec> 08└─Posting as anon, since if I'm wrong I don't want my stupidity attached to me... But I always knew special registers exactly as the Wikipedia definition has it: Special function register A Special Function Register (or Special Purpose Register, or simply Special Register) is a register within a micro...
[18:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:31] <exec> 08└─Ignore the primary sources while pulling a bullshit explaination out of your ass. typical..
[18:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Sends Tweet Via SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Broadband - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:08] <exec> 08└─I wonder if these reduced capability sats qualify towards the minimum on orbit number needed for the FCC?
[18:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Send a Probe to Venus That Can Last 60 Days - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:41] <exec> 08└─Sad, I know, but not a lot of sunlight (if any) reaches the surface. They don't have enough batter power for a camera flash, so unless there is a natural light source taking pictures isn't going to show much.
[18:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Send a Probe to Venus That Can Last 60 Days - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe vacuum tubes would be a better choice for those conditions? You certainly get the heating for free. ;-)
[18:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret of Classic Belgian Beers? Medieval Super Yeasts! - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:23] <exec> 08└─It's pretty much my favorite animal. It's like a lion and a tiger mixed... bred for its skills in magic.
[18:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:31] <exec> 08└─In this neck of the woods, as long as you enter the intersection before the light turns red you're all good. Doesn't matter if the light is red when you're in the intersection, as long as it wasn't red when you enter it.
[18:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Unplugs AMP, Hooks It Into OpenJS Foundation - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:47] <exec> 08└─How AMP may be "faster"? I have never seen an AMP site which loads in a time shorter than 10 seconds. This time is used to fetch countless amounts of routines from who-knows-where and execute them, doing most of the time... I have no idea what. Generally not a very CPU-intensive work, not graphics-i...
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[19:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:54] <exec> 08└─Come on March 2019 and no update on progress
[19:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:55] <exec> 08└─SLS (Senate Launch System) is not struggling. It is performing extremely well bringing in all those lovely pork dollars.
[19:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:57] <exec> 08└─the space agency would consider launching its first Orion mission to the Moon on commercial rockets instead of NASA's own Space Launch System.
[19:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:23] <exec> 08└─No, it is NOT correct. If you read the blog post, Ken traces back the EXACT document where the entire definition comes from and people have blindly copied it ever since.
[19:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:24] <exec> 08└─*Looking at x86 specification* Just one stack pointer? What is this RISCY fantasy?
[19:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:26] <exec> 08└─Registers can do basic arithmetic, and a few other operations. Storage can only store data.
[19:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:29] <exec> 08└─Replace "evolve" with "degenerate" as the idiots hear a word and start using it **irregardless** without knowing what it means. /s
[19:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:30] <exec> 08└─Nope. An arithmetic logic unit does arithmetic. Registers are storage, often multi-ported.
[19:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA To Demonstrate New Star-Watching Tech With Thousands Of Shutters - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:38] <exec> 08└─Caltech Replaces Lenses With Ultra-Thin Optical Phased Array [soylentnews.org] Take in all incoming photons, then hash it out. If done right, maybe you don't even need a starshade.
[19:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:52] <exec> 08└─This does scare me. Is there a standard in place or being planned to ensure all cars can charge at all chargers? If not, it will such when electric really starts to replace gas.
[19:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Halfway Toward LHC Consolidation - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:12] <exec> 08└─Actually, linear colliders are better for electrons, perhaps for all leptons, because with the circular acceleration they lose energy through emission of Xrays. But for baryon colliders, you are correct.
[19:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret of Classic Belgian Beers? Medieval Super Yeasts! - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:26] <exec> 08└─OK. But they're also sterile.
[19:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Embattled Russian Scientist Sharpens Plans to Create Gene-Edited Babies - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:46] <exec> 08└─That would indeed be what I reread, yes. He tells the story only slightly better than Rand tells Atlas Shrugged. I think Pratchett may have spoiled me for mediocre or worse storytelling for life.
[19:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No 'Silver Bullet' Fix for Alexa, Google Smart Speaker Hacks - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, the Iranian nuclear project team thought their SCADA system was representing accurate values to them, too. As to your idea.... assume for a second that you can intercept all the traces going to one side of the microphone input and break them, and then put your own wires on either side of the br...
[19:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:53] <exec> 08└─As a token of how well things USED to be made in these United States ... I still have that neon bulb, 50 years later ... it has been in continuous use for AT LEAST 50 YEARS that I know of, probably longer ... and it's still burning brightly, I use it as a night light, too.
[19:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Unplugs AMP, Hooks It Into OpenJS Foundation - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:02] <exec> 08└─Maybe you were experiencing the 8-second delay: https://news.ycombinator.com [ycombinator.com] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] I remember testing and confirming it. I don't know if it exists anymore.
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[20:19:59] <exec> 08└─Be sure to use Tesla Brand Electricity... only Telsa Brand guarantees that each electron has been individually excited by Elon!
[20:20:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Engine Precooler Achieves Record-Breaking Mach 5 Performance - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:30] <exec> 08└─I guess an air-breathing Raptor hybrid engine is possible? After that, air-breathing nuclear thermal [nextbigfuture.com].
[20:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Wants to Send a Probe to Venus That Can Last 60 Days - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:59] <exec> 08└─Cooling should be possible, just the heatsink of your refrigerator has to be hotter than the ambient. Cannot imagine the power source, though, that can power such a fridge for 60 days non-stop. A common freezer-refrigerator in a kitchen may draw about 500W on average, 12 kW*h per day, 720 kW*h for 6...
[20:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Embattled Russian Scientist Sharpens Plans to Create Gene-Edited Babies - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:02] <exec> 08└─Then with no one left to fight they turn psychotic and start killing everyone.
[20:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:11] <exec> 08└─Use reflecting shades so that the light that would go up goes down. Use less energy for the same illumination.
[20:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grind Your Welds With Pride, If That’s The Way You Do It - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:18] <exec> 08└─Mostly repair/maintenance type stuff but in one case I swapped a 24v BMW I6 into an older body.
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[21:18:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Successful Biological Decontamination of an Aquifer - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:59] <exec> 08└─That is truly a feat to convert a toxic chlorinated compound into a safe non-chlorinated compound, but where does the chlorine go?
[21:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Successful Biological Decontamination of an Aquifer - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:00] <exec> 08└─Probably back into the water to make drinking water.
[21:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Successful Biological Decontamination of an Aquifer - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:02] <exec> 08└─A salt, utilizing sodium, potassium, magnesium, or calcium ions in the aquifier.
[21:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Successful Biological Decontamination of an Aquifer - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:05] <exec> 08└─Knowing only the most basic things about biological processes, probably salt.
[21:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:15] <exec> 08└─Whatever happens, it will be more for political reasons than technical ones. Pork can flow in mysterious ways, and NASA has a long history of using private contracting and management firms to consume theirs - it's not surprising that the launch vehicle itself is getting "outsourced to private indust...
[21:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:17] <exec> 08└─There is a fight going on inside NASA between those who want to do science and those who support Boeing SLS. Actual research is being cut to support the most expensive rocket (n)ever built.
[21:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:20] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, from 2009 [transterrestrial.com], I see I wrote: Further, your plans simply don’t make sense in the absence of anything past Ares I. As I see it, the Ares V is just a decoy to get the Ares I started. If NASA were serious about producing a new heavy lift vehicle, then they’d be developing t...
[21:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:49] <exec> 08└─"Special function register" =/= "Special Register Group"
[21:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:51] <exec> 08└─I would think that the CPU traditionally takes a timing signal provided from the outside.
[21:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:53] <exec> 08└─Comcast loads the same, no diff seen
[21:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:55] <exec> 08└─So "special register group" is essentially used for context switching, which these days uses "register files" "register banks" "register windows (on Sparc I think?)", and all those are actually part of the CPU hardware (pretty sure). Hence the concept is still accurate, the naming might be slightly...
[21:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:57] <exec> 08└─Get at least that amount of storage into a 3DSoC, and you'll have something incredible.
[21:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:59] <exec> 08└─>The lines have blurred somewhat since those days. No they haven't. I see you've never used assembler, fucking retard.
[21:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:02] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the disk is the other sort of marxist. "Quantity has a quality all it's own"
[21:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:25] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure red ink is more expensive than blood. As in, it's cheaper to use blood than red ink in your Epson printer.
[21:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:26] <exec> 08└─Either way, we are kitbashing language.
[21:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:29] <exec> 08└─It looks like there is some kind of standard that combines all the plugs together into a couple of standards. (Depending if AC charging is supported, I guess.) https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It says even Tesla is on board with this. But I would be surprised if...
[21:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air-Breathing Engine Precooler Achieves Record-Breaking Mach 5 Performance - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:01] <exec> 08└─Isn't it too risky to allow a preschooler to move at those speeds?
[21:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Automating Satellite Collision Avoidance - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:34] <exec> 08└─For the Starlink space junk cloud.
[21:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:37] <exec> 08└─Ever trip on something in the dark? Or try walking on the sidewalk at night during a power failure? Or should people not go outside at night? Just tell the dogs to cross their legs and hold it.
[21:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:39] <exec> 08└─I can barely understand why people don't carry a flashlight during the day just for random dark corners and shit, but why in the world would you choose to go out in the dark without a light source?
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[22:19:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 'Shocking' New Way to Treat Infections - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:13] <exec> 08└─Copper does pretty good as antibiotic, and much more plentiful/cheaper(?) than titanium. Is this better?
[22:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 'Shocking' New Way to Treat Infections - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:14] <exec> 08└─Copper is probably too soft for the chewing in dental implants. The next time I go in for deep root cleaning of my dental implants, I'll chew on a 110v a/c extension cord first.
[22:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Successful Biological Decontamination of an Aquifer - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:25] <exec> 08└─Hydrogen chloride (hydrochloric acid) as the first step [wikipedia.org] (see the Environmental contamination, idiotic mobile site and browser combination) Depending on the petrography, most probably some salts (calcium or sodium are very likely). If not, it will stay as hydrochloric acid in concentr...
[22:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 1520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:39] <exec> 08└─The Starship era could make up for it with: Negligible launch costs to LEO allow you to put up as much mass as you can afford to build.On-demand launches. As long as Starships aren't unexpectedly blowing up, there will always be a Starship available at one of the launch sites, ready for payload inte...
[22:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:40] <exec> 08└─NASA has a long history of using private contracting and management firms to consume theirs
[22:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:42] <exec> 08└─I wood just like to point out . . .
[22:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:24] <exec> 08└─Fuck you.
[22:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:24] <exec> 08└─My man, give me fist bump. Zilog inc was like AMD against Intel back then. And MS actually produced some quality shit (like "softcard" for apple ii) back then. \
[22:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:24] <exec> 08└─They'll reduce heat by running it as low as 0.5 Watts. There's a big energy savings from moving the CPU cores to within nanometers of the memory.
[22:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:25] <exec> 08└─But doesn't that beg the question as to how they could loose the original meaning?
[22:20:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:28] <exec> 08└─I'm not falling for it.
[22:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:54] <exec> 08└─They also have a counter in the printer that just stops printing after a set ammount. You need to pay an authorized dealer 20 dollars to reset it.
[22:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Customers Kick Up Class-Action Stink Over Epson's Kyboshing of Third-Party Ink - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:55] <exec> 08└─Isn't that an anti trust violation (tacking)?
[22:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:08] <exec> 08└─to say nothing of a Naval observatory, with the political pressure it can bring to bear to try to impose its desires.
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[23:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Plans to Make Policy Changes to Help Combat Deepfakes - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:08] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MuxVqB3I7E [youtube.com]
[23:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter Plans to Make Policy Changes to Help Combat Deepfakes - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:10] <exec> 08└─I have reason to suspect that footage was a deepfake.
[23:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A 'Shocking' New Way to Treat Infections - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:19] <exec> 08└─Ask your girlfriend where else that grows...
[23:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:45] <exec> 08└─Even Apollo had the vehicles provided by private firms, Lockheed Martin IIRC for the lander.
[23:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:46] <exec> 08└─The current leader wants glory over science.
[23:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA May Turn to Commercial Rockets Instead of SLS for First Modern Trip to Moon - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:48] <exec> 08└─The current leader wants glory over science.
[23:20:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:33] <exec> 08└─You could say those are all part of the storage hierarchy, but only the disk is actually storage.
[23:20:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:35] <exec> 08└─Since we are joking.
[23:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How "Special Register Groups" Invaded Computer Dictionaries for Decades - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:37] <exec> 08└─But if they have the room for it, they could just as well stick conventional cache in there as well... So, you have to wonder why didn't they just go with a super-sized die like those guys? Regardless, I'm not saying it's not going to happen. But having waited for Intel to deliver a single node redu...
[23:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched to LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:17] <exec> 08└─The kind of luminaires you're getting at are called "full cutoff". They are defined [rpi.edu] as those that don't allow any light to go upward. Some places require them, but I believe most don't (perhaps recommend them, but style often trumps utility).
[23:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:03] <exec> 08└─I was somewhat shocked and disgusted, but not too surprised, to learn that policing expanded greatly with the advent of the automobile, and the top reason was revenue rather than public safety and order. The red light camera is merely the most recent scheme. Speed traps, didn't come to a complete st...
[23:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Traffic Lights Worldwide May Change After Swedish Engineer Saw Red Over Getting a Ticket - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:04] <exec> 08└─It's okay, they won't worry about a minnow like you while there's a much, much bigger fish to catch. There's this crazy criminal dude who has misrepresented himself as President of the United States.
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