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[00:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:14] <exec> 08└─Why aren't these softwares now considered public domain?
[00:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Giants Get 90 Days To Wrap Up Deals With 'Dangerous' Huawei - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:32] <exec> 08└─From a somewhat different perspective: "There is no backdoor, because Huawei doesn’t need a backdoor. It has a front door," says James Lewis, a former State Department official and director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Technology and Public Policy Program. "The UK governm...
[00:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Giants Get 90 Days To Wrap Up Deals With 'Dangerous' Huawei - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:34] <exec> 08└─the great and powerful Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain
[00:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Giants Get 90 Days To Wrap Up Deals With 'Dangerous' Huawei - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:36] <exec> 08└─AT&T, is an ISP, not a router manufacturer. Huawei is a Hardware company, like Intel, etc. Service Company: AT&T Inc. is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas.[5] It is the world's largest telecommunications company, the larg...
[00:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Giants Get 90 Days To Wrap Up Deals With 'Dangerous' Huawei - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:38] <exec> 08└─The difference is that Al Capone went through a very public trial and wasn't disappeared.
[00:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Giants Get 90 Days To Wrap Up Deals With 'Dangerous' Huawei - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:40] <exec> 08└─It looks like nobody really believes the US government on this, even the 5 eyes countries. The UK has deferred a decision on whether Huawei will get any of the 5G contract until after the election, but that will be so they don't have the embarrassment of the president of their closest ally throwing...
[00:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Giants Get 90 Days To Wrap Up Deals With 'Dangerous' Huawei - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:42] <exec> 08└─You don't think Snowden would have'disappeared'? He might have gotten a kangaroo 'trial' of some sorts if he'd been extradited, but if the US ever finds where he lives in Russia, you can bet he'd just disappear and when anyone complained, they'd just say "The Russians did it". Or he'd end up in Guan...
[00:27:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02 - 06Uber's Co-Founders Sell Millions of Shares of Stock in the Company - 223 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:50] <exec> 08└─From my own experience during the dot com days, this sort of thing doesn't happen unless the co-founders know something we don't. They are selling off to make whatever money they can before the crap hits the proverbial fan.
[00:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Co-Founders Sell Millions of Shares of Stock in the Company - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:00] <exec> 08└─It isn't clear why Kalanick and Camp sold some of their shares; neither returned a request for comment.
[00:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chess: Magnus Carlsen to Meet Top Teens in Pursuit of Record Unbeaten Run - 2061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:15] <exec> 08└─Well, like I said, I couldn't tell. :) Popular wisdom these days is that if you want your child to be a Grandmaster someday one must now start them on chess by age 4 or 5 and it needs to happen no later than the early 20s. Not quite true but enough strength in it to not make it totally false, either...
[00:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chess: Magnus Carlsen to Meet Top Teens in Pursuit of Record Unbeaten Run - 1381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:16] <exec> 08└─Kind of like this commercial for AltaVista? [youtube.com] :) (It's really grainy in my browser... but ex World Champion Garry Kasparov is giving a simultaneous exhibition playing 20 or so players at once, then stops in front of a kid... and grabs a chair and sits down. Then it shows the AltaVista se...
[00:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Sydney Shrouded in Hazardous Smog from Raging Bushfires - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:33] <exec> 08└─They didn't rake their forests like Smokey the Trump recommended.
[00:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sydney Shrouded in Hazardous Smog from Raging Bushfires - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, I meant East of Sydney of course. We are not allowed to shag sheep anymore, as they are nearly extinct here, so are protected.
[00:28:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Let’s Encrypt: An Automated Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web - 1053 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:50] <exec> 08└─I've used LetsEncrypt for several years now, for a couple of domains that I maintain. I really like them for two reasons: simplicity and price. There is one potential criticism: They make no effort to verify the ownership of a domain. If you know what a certificate means (that your data are encrypte...
[00:28:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03progo [6356] 02 - 06Let’s Encrypt: An Automated Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web - 836 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:51] <exec> 08└─My company has saved LOTS of money by using Let's Encrypt where we can, instead of traditional CAs. I can't exactly defend it, but it's a reality that the old process was not handled well by my company. We have trouble with small yearly costs, and they beget other costs: No one is monitoring a subst...
[00:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let’s Encrypt: An Automated Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:01] <exec> 08└─For me, there's a friken' mouse with sharp pointy teeth in the room that's keeping that elephant out of site to me, but alas rit's also ripping my flesh. When people adopt LE and their 'https everywhere' philosophy and best practices, I lose the ability to browse their websites on my phone, which is...
[00:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let’s Encrypt: An Automated Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:03] <exec> 08└─> What do Soylentils think of the proliferation of TLDs? Horror show, for the reasons you imply. ICANN are utterly useless cunts who should be nuked from orbit.
[00:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:24] <exec> 08└─Worse than that, I kill quite a number of animals by accident with my various farm equipment, especially the combines, each year. In addition, "ethical vegans" don't like the exploitation of animals at all, which not only means no honey or silk, but also no entomophily or zoophily crops because we a...
[00:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:25] <exec> 08└─In principle, there are legitimate concerns in this lawsuit. For people with food allergies, preparing or cooking their food where it could come in contact with foods they're allergic to, can be a very real health concern. Let's say I cook food in peanut oil. That could be a problem for people with...
[00:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:27] <exec> 08└─I think Vegan does mean that there are no traces of animal parts actually. You've got a great point about the bug protein because the rules regarding our food are actually quite fucking disgusting if you look. There are actual amounts of rat, insects, and feces allowed per tonnage of material. The F...
[00:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:29] <exec> 08└─meh, your source was better than mine. :)
[00:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Contrary View on API Copyrights - 2192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:43] <exec> 08└─That's a pretty good comparison. Even more so because while you did not mention this, Harry Potter has a huge fan-fiction community. J.K. Rowling is technically within her rights to shut it all down, but she does not. The fan fiction does not reduce the value of her work. In fact, it most likely enh...
[00:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Contrary View on API Copyrights - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:45] <exec> 08└─Because EJ is correct and the author is wrong.
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[01:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:15] <exec> 08└─We will not sell user data... We will not target ads... And when some users threshold is reached everything starts again. This happens all time. For 10 GPP per month, or 80 per year, or maybe 90EUR per year, I would get a nice hosting and decide how and when to publish. In fact, my website hosting (...
[01:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:16] <exec> 08└─"We will never sell your data." Not that I've read into the terms, but what to stop them giving it away and still legally meeting that statement?
[01:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:19] <exec> 08└─Those who do sign up are added to a waiting list
[01:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:21] <exec> 08└─You only have to look at the antisocial turf wars of Wikipedia to know this won't end well.
[01:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:23] <exec> 08└─My error, I spoke too soon. When I actually click the link to see the group I've just joined, I'm redirected to the page that tells me I'm on a waiting list. You are number 196273 on the waiting list
[01:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:25] <exec> 08└─I thought SN don't show no ads.
[01:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, their gimmick of professionalism went down the shitter years ago with their pink-haired lesbian Jews turning the place into Snopes-tier editorializing and non-stop Trump bashing. What are they advertising anyway, a more biased team of curators and a more efficient memory-hole than Facebook or...
[01:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:38] <exec> 08└─Last year my laptop died and I had to buy a new one. I couldn't find the CD with my printer driver (10-15 year old printer). Went to the website, and just about every link I clicked on older than maybe 10 years took me back to the top level drivers page (in other words, instead of 404 they had me st...
[01:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:39] <exec> 08└─No, GP is right, Intel policy doesn't allow the use of anything that is considered "outdated" for fear of security flaws causing lawsuits. Even sysvinit is banned from use due to it being "old" and "unmaintained", so, pretty much anything that hasn't gotten any new release in the last 6 months. And...
[01:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber's Co-Founders Sell Millions of Shares of Stock in the Company - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:21] <exec> 08└─The originating rats are heading for the exits. Even just a part of their shares is a fortune and they're set for life.
[01:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Let’s Encrypt: An Automated Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:25] <exec> 08└─Two things. First, always use the ".example" or ".invalid" TLDs in your examples to avoid that problem in the future. Second, because I couldn't resist, https://urlscan.io [urlscan.io] shows that name doesn't resolve and https://urlscan.io
[01:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:50] <exec> 08└─The bit about the sub that you can't eat is probably the filler that humans really don't need that much of nowadays. Why not aim for food more like the contents of subs, but without the sub? I genuinely don't think I've had a baguette or whatever in 6 months, it's easily avoidable. Obviously, I don'...
[01:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Charged Over Crypto Theft Via SIM Swapping, Death Threats - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:02] <exec> 08└─The court openly charged them with stealing cryptocurrency, while another court claims that telegram's "cryptocurrency" is a security and illegal at that.
[01:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VoltServer Adds a Data Layer to Electricity Distribution, Could Help Smart Grid Rollout - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:37] <exec> 08└─I was hoping to confuse people, I confess. Until ~5 years ago, I was only sending and receiving 50 packets a second, but that's irrelevant - the leccy company is sending out those other 100 peaks, and sucking them back in again, whether I get to see them in my flat or not.
[01:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The USPTO Wants to Know If Artificial Intelligence Can Own the Content It Creates - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:55] <exec> 08└─None of that says "people with dementia can't own intellectual property rights", which was what you implied.
[01:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The USPTO Wants to Know If Artificial Intelligence Can Own the Content It Creates - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:56] <exec> 08└─We're in quite firm agreement. I was riffing off the subject of another story from earlier today or yesterday.
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[02:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:25] <exec> 08└─Why should I pay you $100 per year so you can track me and advertise to me? I'm going to stick to Facebook... it's free as in free beer, and free as in free love.
[02:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:26] <exec> 08└─and free as in free love.
[02:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:28] <exec> 08└─Anybody want to try a link?
[02:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:30] <exec> 08└─Maybe you're a masochist?
[02:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:33] <exec> 08└─Meh, given the above recommendation and its author, may be wt.social is going to have a future.
[02:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:35] <exec> 08└─To be fair to this particular case, wikipedia never has done those things, in spite of being one of the oldest and most prominent "web 2.0"(remember when we called social media that?) sites, but then again it's also a socially controlled platform, where almost every level of control of it is open so...
[02:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:37] <exec> 08└─I read the word "rival" as "revival" somehow at first and found myself thinking, has facebook died? Then I read it properly and the surge of joy I felt left me.
[02:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:39] <exec> 08└─So, lie back, and enjoy the fucking!!
[02:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:41] <exec> 08└─So when they get a thousand times as many users they'll be able to say they're a very minor also-ran in the social media game.
[02:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:44] <exec> 08└─I'm not. But I'd like to meet some new ones. See, I ran out of them lately, still have room in my backyard (large grin)
[02:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:46] <exec> 08└─Das sexis! Women can do the fucking too. See: here [lmgtfy.com] or watch Deadpool [youtube.com] for further reference.
[02:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:48] <exec> 08└─What's with you and your obsession on the size of things? Is it because Soylentnews never grew the size of slashdot, or what?
[02:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:50] <exec> 08└─For $100 / year, I can subscribe to PornHub premium. They at least have significant expenses - not just hosting and data, but paying for content. What expenses does a social network have? And how could they approach the bandwidth and content costs of a porn site?
[02:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:52] <exec> 08└─Nothing sexis when it comes to Runaway, tho. He's past that age, all he can do is lying about. A few more years and he'll even lose his memories about sex. (large grin)
[02:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:05] <exec> 08└─If a machine that old is still in use, it has likely been updated already, just as far as the owners think necessary, or wise. I think most of us have learned (the hard way, in some cases) that you don't just update your bios because there is a new one available. If your machine works, why risk bric...
[02:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:06] <exec> 08└─Apple II, Commodore 64, and Pentium 100 - One Fucking Hundred Megahurts (with 16 MB RAM) with pluggable cache memory modules. We thought ANSI C was the language of Allah's revelation, and we were right. Pointers math and out-of-order execution turned it into a black magic nightmare, though - i.e., p...
[02:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 1622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:08] <exec> 08└─I was over at a friend's shop recently and while he was firing up a CNC he has that's about the size of a full-size van. CRT touch screen running Windows 95. It's not connected to any network -- just that machine. I recently had to buy a new video card for my main desktop -- this thing is pretty old...
[02:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber's Co-Founders Sell Millions of Shares of Stock in the Company - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:51] <exec> 08└─But even 27% is hardly 'cashing out'.
[02:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber's Co-Founders Sell Millions of Shares of Stock in the Company - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:53] <exec> 08└─They were pretending that the phone app made them a hi-tech company
[02:29:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sydney Shrouded in Hazardous Smog from Raging Bushfires - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:28] <exec> 08└─"Like many plants native to fire-prone regions, eucalyptus trees (aka gum trees in Australia) are adapted to survive — or even thrive — in a wildfire." [livescience.com] From the same article: Additionally, the eucalyptus oil that gives the trees their characteristic spicy fragrance is a flammab...
[02:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sydney Shrouded in Hazardous Smog from Raging Bushfires - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:30] <exec> 08└─Controlled burns [wikipedia.org], what Trump was talking about, has been a standard of fire control in the American West for decades. That, along with other preventative measures aimed to reduce undergrowth that builds fire potential. Recently, however, pressure from environmentalists has discourage...
[02:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let’s Encrypt: An Automated Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:00] <exec> 08└─It's pretty fair. I wish the certs lasted six months or so and having to do DNS validation if you want a wildcard cert is fucking annoying, if only mildly. Other than that, they're a lot less annoying than dealing with most any other CA.
[02:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let’s Encrypt: An Automated Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is. Even permanent users with non-elevated privs can't do fuck-all with webroots, can't open a port on 80 or 443 if you're not running a webserver already, and can't add TXT entries to your domain's zone in your DNS server if you're using DNS challenges. And they have no read access to the d...
[02:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let’s Encrypt: An Automated Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:03] <exec> 08└─Oh there are others doing the same thing. They're just not as trendy.
[02:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:30] <exec> 08└─You blaspheme the holy name of Lord Bacon! Burn him! Also I can't imagine you getting out of your house long enough to actually meet someone with a differing opinion to you.
[02:31:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:32] <exec> 08└─Make your own food from scratch. It's the only way to be sure. Wild edibles is a better culinary avenue to explore than all these contortions around meat substitutes and entomophagy. We've been adding them in as staples to our diet, and they're crazy delicious. Purslane is regarded as a weed, but it...
[02:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Contrary View on API Copyrights - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:51] <exec> 08└─Attribution [original creator, author?] in name should stay fixed forever, even in public domain works, but a license holder should never be granted attribution unless he created the work. I think the original numbers would work fine. Full rights for the 28 years, and after that, public domain. Gott...
[02:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Contrary View on API Copyrights - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:53] <exec> 08└─Considering invasive DNS mining in monopoly telecom markets, isn't that is what is happening now?
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[03:27:16] <exec> 08└─What's up with that condescending phrase? Did it become popular in grad school or something?
[03:27:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 25 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:32] <exec> 08└─and free as in free love.
[03:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:45] <exec> 08└─Well, publicly signalling on social media that you value your privacy is included in that price. (grin) Try doing that with your pornhub account and come back to tell us your experience. (large grin)
[03:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:47] <exec> 08└─Hiring data mining engineers and marketing psychologists isn't cheap you know...
[03:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:03] <exec> 08└─That's precisely what should happen when support is dropped. Then the archiving websites can post them. Copyright/patent and support should be inseparable.
[03:28:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06American Giants Get 90 Days To Wrap Up Deals With 'Dangerous' Huawei - 282 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:19] <exec> 08└─NSA strong arming tech companies? That has been proven unequivocally [wikipedia.org], in more than one instance [wikipedia.org], even if the companies involved were not directly complicit [schneier.com]. Proven far more thoroughly than these allegations against Huawei. Just sayin'.
[03:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Co-Founders Sell Millions of Shares of Stock in the Company - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:48] <exec> 08└─So yeah, the fact that upper management is doing their best to take the money and run is a good sign as far as I'm concerned
[03:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber's Co-Founders Sell Millions of Shares of Stock in the Company - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:49] <exec> 08└─MAGAAA! What would Trump say?
[03:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Co-Founders Sell Millions of Shares of Stock in the Company - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:52] <exec> 08└─Pension fund? Pension fund?!? Nobody has one of those anymore.
[03:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Co-Founders Sell Millions of Shares of Stock in the Company - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:54] <exec> 08└─Hmmm.... so the 1%-ers gobbled them already? The whole $20T [wikipedia.org] of them? That was quite fast, man.
[03:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:30] <exec> 08└─And if you look at ingredient lists of lots of things where gluten etc is unexpected, often at the bottom of the list is a section, may contain, with wheat, nuts, peanuts and such, all due to the possibilty of cross-contamination.
[03:31:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:31] <exec> 08└─It's the advertising, they just need some small print, "may contain animal products" like so many ingredient lists have, though usually wheat, nuts and such, usually due to the possibility of cross contamination. Cheap and honest.
[03:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:33] <exec> 08└─I'm very much non-vegan, but I try to only drink RO water, or filtered at the very least. There's good reasons for this: 1) municipal tap water has been found to be contaminated at times, and 2) tap water tastes terrible.
[03:31:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:36] <exec> 08└─When the bear broke into my freezer last spring, first thing he went for was my gluten free cupcakes rather then the chicken right beside them. Just goes to show what even bears prefer
[03:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:38] <exec> 08└─This is *Burger King*. Is he expecting 5-star restaurant service or something?
[03:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:40] <exec> 08└─Vegan doesn't mean absolutely no trace of animal parts in food
[03:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:42] <exec> 08└─Why did you cite that? It says humans wouldn't have evolved without meat... "The bottom line is, it is certainly possible to survive on an exclusively raw diet in our modern day, but it was most likely impossible to survive on an exclusively raw diet when our species appeared,"
[03:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Charged Over Crypto Theft Via SIM Swapping, Death Threats - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:54] <exec> 08└─SMS codes aren't 2FA.
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[04:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sound of Earth Being Wracked by a Solar Storm Is Eerily Disturbing - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:13] <exec> 08└─You guys are getting lazy ...
[04:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sound of Earth Being Wracked by a Solar Storm Is Eerily Disturbing - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:14] <exec> 08└─A hot noisy gaseous ball of orange plasma can definitely be eerie and disturbing.
[04:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sound of Earth Being Wracked by a Solar Storm Is Eerily Disturbing - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:16] <exec> 08└─It's just some old Beatles stuff
[04:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:52] <exec> 08└─"Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good" Wikipedia is far from perfect, but next to FaceBook, they're angels.
[04:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:54] <exec> 08└─Better to lose memories than mammaries I spose. Apparently the little blue pill has completely grossed out every retirement home worker since the 90s.
[04:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:56] <exec> 08└─I blame Sir Mix-a-Lot.
[04:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:58] <exec> 08└─You got social in my privacy!
[04:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:15] <exec> 08└─UUuuuUUUuuu they save 100 MEGAbytes of disk space!
[04:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:16] <exec> 08└─intel loves to remove things from their site. even whole programs! case in point, I was involved in a TV show of theirs (americas greatest makers). go try to find info on that, its even purged from archive.org. a whole TV season on TBS, a few years ago, IoT focused using an intel curie chip (ok, go...
[04:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Contrary View on API Copyrights - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:07] <exec> 08└─because we've seen other vendors break API's intentionally over the years to screw competitors
[04:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The USPTO Wants to Know If Artificial Intelligence Can Own the Content It Creates - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:54] <exec> 08└─So I can make cheap watches, stamp them with Rolex, or make handbags with Louis Vuitton on them, and as long as I don't claim to be the original, that's fine?
[04:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The USPTO Wants to Know If Artificial Intelligence Can Own the Content It Creates - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:56] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
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[05:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:02] <exec> 08└─Plus you get to see videos of people having sex instead of retarded memes and people who feel the need to post images of the text of their messages instead of just the text.
[05:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:04] <exec> 08└─There's also no reason to believe that Jimmy Wales would create a site that has almost the exact opposite philosophy of his last one.
[05:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:06] <exec> 08└─Apparently the little blue pill has completely grossed out every retirement home worker since the 90s.
[05:28:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 896 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:17] <exec> 08└─Last year my laptop died and I had to buy a new one. I couldn't find the CD with my printer driver (10-15 year old printer). Went to the website, and just about every link I clicked on older than maybe 10 years took me back to the top level drivers page (in other words, instead of 404 they had me st...
[05:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:26] <exec> 08└─Even just an ftp site. Oh yea, ftp is now depreciated. Still I can find all kinds of OS/2 software and other equally old stuff on IBM's boulder ftp server.
[05:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 1452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:28] <exec> 08└─You wanna cough up the quarter to half a million to buy a new version of the x ray crystallography machine I keep running just because "get a clue and upgrade"? The control software is specific to that era of machine and thus dos. It still does its job fine. Ditto the large number of CNC machine too...
[05:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:31] <exec> 08└─I bought my old machine for $20 about a year ago, Q8800 based, it is plenty fast enough for my needs. Just the other day I was at Intel checking out a BIOS update (already has the latest). So they're still being sold on the second hand market and are plenty good enough for casual use.
[05:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Giants Get 90 Days To Wrap Up Deals With 'Dangerous' Huawei - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:55] <exec> 08└─fighting for freedom is a federal offense.
[05:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Giants Get 90 Days To Wrap Up Deals With 'Dangerous' Huawei - 1057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:56] <exec> 08└─It's rather obvious to me that Huawei does not do anything bad to our data simply because they would be stupid to do so and they are obviously not. They are way better for my American privacy given that the US backdoored everything in sight since at least the WWII. The issue here is different. China...
[05:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chess: Magnus Carlsen to Meet Top Teens in Pursuit of Record Unbeaten Run - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:35] <exec> 08└─What's that saying about winning in the Special Olympics?
[05:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chess: Magnus Carlsen to Meet Top Teens in Pursuit of Record Unbeaten Run - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:37] <exec> 08└─The current age breakdown (as above, the earliest GM became one at age 12 years 7 months) is: 12-14: 3 15-20: 65 21-25: 117 26-30: 204 31-35: 243 36-40: 203 41-45: 188 46-50: 177 51-55: 159 56-60: 133 61-65: 77 66-70: 47 71-75: 34 76-80: 19 81-85: 12 86-90: 7 91+: 6
[05:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:05] <exec> 08└─Already there. Just checked my coupons I got in the weekly coupon mailer and the Burger King ad has this on the bottom of their ad: *For guests looking for a meat-free option, a non-broiler method of preparation is available upon request..
[05:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Contrary View on API Copyrights - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:27] <exec> 08└─It was based on the Statute of Anne, the full name of which was An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by Vesting the Copies of Printed Books in the Authors or Purchasers of such Copies, during the Times therein mentioned.
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[06:27:30] <exec> 08└─Journalism School
[06:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:04] <exec> 08└─Good. Then if this Burger King had similar, they shouldn't have a problem besides the hassle and possibility of bad publicity.
[06:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:06] <exec> 08└─So... brainfart I guess?
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[07:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:17] <exec> 08└─So... does that mean you have inferior intellect and bad looks?
[07:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:39] <exec> 08└─I had to search for WSFTP6.EXE . Old FTP client on both my WIN7 and WIN95 machines. I use those to get stuff in and out of my phones, which I have an FTP server running. There is a 25 year gap between those two programs - what's running in the computer, and what's running in the phone. Both still...
[07:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:41] <exec> 08└─Remember when you could burn a a pair of 27256 and transfer the BIOS of your liking onto the motherboard? Award? Phoenix? AMI?
[07:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:43] <exec> 08└─I can't tell you how many microcontroller things I made for my first employer, based on 65C02, and developed on a C64 Assembler . I thought the 65C02 was the only processor worth messing with, until the MC68000 showed up . Then I finally learned C.
[07:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:45] <exec> 08└─Yes, ftp just works. Unluckily it is being removed from Firefox and may have already been removed from Chrome, in the name of security. Ftp does seem to be the way that a lot of Android file managers share files and it works fine.
[07:32:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:21] <exec> 08└─But would RO water really reduce the death count of the tiny creatures? The count might be the same it's just that the dead stuff goes to the filter etc instead of you. By the way many of those tiny creatures don't really seem much stupider compared to some larger animals.
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[08:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five New Players are Now in NASA's Race to Send Landers to the Moon - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:24] <exec> 08└─Confirmed landing Starship payloads on the Moon. Using in-orbit refueling to get 100+ tons on the Moon, and some kind of crane/elevator to get the stuff out. And apparently they will not just leave them there: The largest lander, by far, of the new entrants is from SpaceX, which bid its Starship reu...
[08:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:19] <exec> 08└─for 10quids a month i'd rather lease a vps and host a personal page plus all kinds of stuff.
[08:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:46] <exec> 08└─While I believe that you believe you know what you're talking about, I'm not sure what you're talking about. There are plenty of references to that show. Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] Here is a link to a PDF about the Curie chip on Intel's site -> Cure Chip [intel.com] I was 100% for your story though!...
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[08:28:47] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Quark [wikipedia.org] Another one bites the dust... :(
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[09:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:17] <exec> 08└─I kill shits for less.
[09:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 1457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:18] <exec> 08└─Issues like this are so hard to follow. Iran in particular we effectively created the current government. Iran had a nice secular government in the 1950s. That nice secular government wasn't friendly with our oil interests, so we overthrew them by staging a CIA backed coupe. In their place we stuck...
[09:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:21] <exec> 08└─"... our oil interests ..." That is, British interest, i.e. British Petroleum, BP. You know, the guys that spewed tons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico several years ago.
[09:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:23] <exec> 08└─Instead of protesting, people should actually vote. And work within the system to make it better. Emotional outbursts do nothing, but end up in Syria-like quagmires and general bullshit all around. These are suppose to be smart people. Yet they protest like idiots for stupid, predictable reasons. Bu...
[09:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:25] <exec> 08└─Does Iran have free and fair elections? Are Iranians protesting simply because of gas prices or was it the straw that broke the camel's back?
[09:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Legere, T-Mobile's Brash "Un-Carrier" Chief, to Leave in May 2020 - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:33] <exec> 08└─If he's leaving T-Mobile, does that mean he's going to WeWork [google.com]? Can't say I ever liked the long-haired CEO look. It doesn't inspire business confidence.
[09:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five New Players are Now in NASA's Race to Send Landers to the Moon - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:41] <exec> 08└─To put 100 ton on the Moon you'll need several launches: 1 Cargo Starship + a few in-orbit fuel tankers, and all of them needs to go well, Not exactly a simple task to do either.
[09:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five New Players are Now in NASA's Race to Send Landers to the Moon - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:43] <exec> 08└─In-orbit refueling is major factor of the Starship equation. They have to get it right if they are serious about Mars, etc. IIRC SpaceX or Musk believes it will be as easy as or easier than docking Dragon with ISS. That might be a line from the presentation in September. Starship launch cost has now...
[09:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Five New Players are Now in NASA's Race to Send Landers to the Moon - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:46] <exec> 08└─Refueling in orbit is no more difficult than docking with the ISS. Exact same mechanics in play. NASA had plans for a streamlined in orbit refueling system as far back as the 70s, and it was completely viable. Reason we never got there wasn't technical, it was political. Really looking forward to th...
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[09:29:07] <exec> 08└─not much difference between 68k asm and C, though.
[09:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber's Co-Founders Sell Millions of Shares of Stock in the Company - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:57] <exec> 08└─Legally, pension funds refer to almost all deferred compensation, regardless of actual form. Colloquially, it usually refers to defined-benefit retirement plans, which are relatively rare outside of certain industries due to being phased out for defined-contribution plans, such as 401(k)s and other...
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[10:27:07] <exec> 08└─Even if the new boss is nicer.
[10:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Giants Get 90 Days To Wrap Up Deals With 'Dangerous' Huawei - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:25] <exec> 08└─Given that, kicking the can down the road - slowing China as much as possible but not going into the real hot war - is the best for me. Therefore I vote Trump.
[10:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chess: Magnus Carlsen to Meet Top Teens in Pursuit of Record Unbeaten Run - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:30:09] <exec> 08└─> And players at that level can and do study their competition's games to assess them for weaknesses (again, having GM level skills of analysis in doing so). More so, they'll have a *team* of advisers at GM level to assist them. Having said that, nowadays probably all you need is a computer and Komo...
[10:32:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:41] <exec> 08└─For people whom it matters, such as those who are gluten free, they know. For the crazy people who are doing it because of the fad or because of misplaced belief it's better for the planet they won't know and will become outraged when you question their preconceived notions and expectations.
[10:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:43] <exec> 08└─What's in a food and what the food touches when you handle it are two different things. Look at the gluten labels. There's the label for whats in the food and often a label for how the food was handled. When you're in a public place, there's the assumption that whatever you're getting may have conta...
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[11:27:23] <exec> 08└─$100 to $150 just to come out. $80 per hour. Time to learn to do it all yourself, it seems.
[11:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:35] <exec> 08└─What if there are no secular candidates?
[11:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Giants Get 90 Days To Wrap Up Deals With 'Dangerous' Huawei - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:42] <exec> 08└─You don't think Snowden would have'disappeared'?
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[12:27:12] <exec> 08└─There will be no toilet humor in the comments on this one.
[12:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:14] <exec> 08└─Spraying stairs with viscoelastic coatings should be considered an act of comedy terrorism.
[12:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:16] <exec> 08└─We don't tolerate that kinda crap here.
[12:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:18] <exec> 08└─Toilet bowls have relatively low wear and tear use profiles. How would this coating fare in a bowling alley, or on the wing of a commercial jet? You can't ice up if the ice keeps slipping off...
[12:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:20] <exec> 08└─How about catsup and mayo jars? https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Here's ice repellent: https://soylentnews.org
[12:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:30] <exec> 08└─This word 'ownership' doesn't translate quite as well to the internet as some were hoping, despite the ease with which computers are used to exert control. There is a lot of work to be done on the 'middleman' aspect of the internet, which will have to be moderated by public interest technologists li...
[12:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:42] <exec> 08└─authorities announced a sudden 50 per cent increase in fuel prices.
[12:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:44] <exec> 08└─Or controlling communications [google.com] - no matter how great your pals are at wiring stuff up. [wikipedia.org]
[12:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:46] <exec> 08└─Iran is another - protesting because price of gas goes up?? Just increase prices for transport accordingly.
[12:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 1549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:48] <exec> 08└─Yesterday, during all of this, it was the top news story on Democracy Now, that Iran has *gasp* spies and political influence in Iraq. I wanted to ask, how many spies and political influencers does Israel have in Iraq? Then this is going on, Iran's leaders have mentioned the chance of foreign interf...
[12:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:50] <exec> 08└─I'm not clicking a Google link, what does it say?
[12:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Legere, T-Mobile's Brash "Un-Carrier" Chief, to Leave in May 2020 - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:58] <exec> 08└─I want to call attention to how this industry, mobile phones, is a giant cash cow, a way to literally print money. How is it operated? Punitively against the customer? Wtf is that even. Selling the location of anyone to bounty hunters as a side stream income plan. Changing the meaning of the word 'u...
[12:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but if you take the redpill you end up an incel.
[12:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chess: Magnus Carlsen to Meet Top Teens in Pursuit of Record Unbeaten Run - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:45] <exec> 08└─Computers have proven now: strategy and tricks are useless, any mistake will result in defeat when your opponent has unlimited time/resources/processing power per move. However, (disclaimer: I'm unfamiliar with modern top level tournament play) I'd really like to see a stratified ranking system with...
[12:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let’s Encrypt: An Automated Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:38] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but that did not work. Notice the "%%" is missing from your links.
[12:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Burger King Grilled by Vegan Over Impossible Burger "Meat Contamination" - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:21] <exec> 08└─Just as there is an acceptable amount of lead and arsenic in food and drink, there is an acceptable amount of animal bits. https://www.livescience.com [livescience.com]
[12:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Charged Over Crypto Theft Via SIM Swapping, Death Threats - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:34] <exec> 08└─2FA = two factor auth So, first factor is username + password Second is to send a generated key to using email, SMS or other. How is SMS not two factor?
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[13:27:23] <exec> 08└─Yes but whenever Aristarchus "submits", the editors have to clean the bowl.
[13:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:24] <exec> 08└─Toilet bowls have relatively low wear and tear use profiles.
[13:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:34] <exec> 08└─Already, capital is hard at work to keep this from happening. If you can't buy ownership outright, you can always sue. Sue for what? Well, how about patents? Putting that capital to work.
[13:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:53] <exec> 08└─The behavior of the US and Israeli behavior is routine and of no concern, said an official familiar with a procedure.
[13:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:54] <exec> 08└─Google Amp - Here's the story. [bbc.co.uk]
[13:28:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:45] <exec> 08└─Anybody want to try a link?
[13:29:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:10] <exec> 08└─What did you think about the Fram incident? Do you trust Jimmy Wales, really, to choose an admin team that is not comprimised? If philip cross is still allowed to auto propaganda post, last I checked, that doesn't give me much faith. You cannot be 'oh just a little' propaganda, or just these people...
[13:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 3184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:11] <exec> 08└─The data can not be secured. Here is the equation. Cost $ of protecting social media data over time, t $ = xt (grows, or maybe remains constant, or maybe exponentially grows, it's a true unknown variable, could even go to 0 in the walking dead scenario) Usefulness U of social media data over time t...
[13:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sydney Shrouded in Hazardous Smog from Raging Bushfires - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:13] <exec> 08└─Controlled burns? Ah, of course, the nazi solution. You bad bad person. That isn't an option anymore. We can just send them all home.
[13:31:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Let’s Encrypt: An Automated Certificate Authority to Encrypt the Entire Web - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:48] <exec> 08└─I took that out myself.
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[14:27:13] <exec> 08└─Summary doesn't say how that compares to present technology. How many watt-hours per kg are we getting now?
[14:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:15] <exec> 08└─This company is amazing! Batteries *and* throat lozenges [youtube.com]? Wow, what will these guys think of next?
[14:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:38] <exec> 08└─With greatly powerful slippage, comes great responsibility.
[14:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:40] <exec> 08└─It's a floor wax *and* a dessert topping! [youtube.com]
[14:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:42] <exec> 08└─From time to time, I eat something I shouldn't. The results are.. explosive. Literally. Yet I already worry about splashback. Now, some yahoo wants to coat the inside of the thing, so nothing sticks! Now, instead of 'splat' and stick, it's 'splat' and 'bounce back'. The humanity!!!
[14:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:44] <exec> 08└─For one, bowling alleys use mineral oil with a bit of florescence for the USBC Bowling Association's tape reader and not wax. It runs about $100 a gallon and 16 lanes use approximately 2 cups depending upon the lane pattern. It would be terrible for a bowling alley. the oil pattern is actually meant...
[14:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:13] <exec> 08└─Mr. Hudson, My operatives at وِزارَتِ اِطّلاعات جُمهوریِ اِسلامیِ ایران inform me that you have been subjected to gross violations of your person and property by the zionist scum and their American lapdogs some time. They have reviewed your writings at thesystem...
[14:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:14] <exec> 08└─Is there another way to get the signal out?
[14:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:16] <exec> 08└─ISPs are tools of tyranny
[14:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:18] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers [wikipedia.org]
[14:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:20] <exec> 08└─13 cents per liter? What kind of unit is that? If the price is going to be translated to US currencies, why not go all the way and give price per gallon, which is 49 cents? Yes, the US ought to go metric finally, but ... inertia.
[14:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:22] <exec> 08└─RFC 1149 [ietf.org] FTW!
[14:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:25] <exec> 08└─Wow! Really? I didn't know those things could block your internet. I'll fire off a firmly worded letter to Johnson & Johnson right away, soon as the commercial comes on..
[14:29:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 173 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:32] <exec> 08└─Plus you get to see videos of people having sex instead of retarded memes and people who feel the need to post images of the text of their messages instead of just the text.
[14:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:41] <exec> 08└─and says members will be able to edit "misleading" headlines
[14:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:10] <exec> 08└─So if you have old and essentially bug-free software (no known bugs for extended time), you have to keep making pointless updates just to keep it alive?
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[14:31:04] <exec> 08└─Your premise makes no sense. First, you say "IF" they sell 100% of their stock, price = 0. Of course, that's not true. Depends on how much stock they own, how fast they sell it, market belief in the company, and 100 things more. People have sold their shares, and the company's stock barely has a bli...
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[15:27:19] <exec> 08└─"What is electricity?" for $100, Alex.
[15:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:21] <exec> 08└─Indeed, that's important information for comparison. A quick Google suggests that Tesla's Model 3 powerpacks fall somewhere around 200kWh/kg
[15:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:23] <exec> 08└─I think you added a kilo that shouldn't be there https://www.epectec.com [epectec.com]
[15:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:25] <exec> 08└─This battery technology could increase the range of current EV passenger cars from 300 miles up to 600 miles with little or no increase to battery size and weight.
[15:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:27] <exec> 08└─According to that graph, then, this is nothing special. Unless you include that the *material* could be more dense, the actual *battery cells* (with all the packaging and gumpfh to make them work) are the same density as a top-end Li-Ion cylindrical cell. There are lies, damn lies, and press release...
[15:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:29] <exec> 08└─Now the drones can fly 1 hour instead of 30 minutes. Doesn't seem like a lot but it can help in eliminating more humans or enabling a more efficient surveillance state. Also, at least another capacity/kg doubling will probably happen [cleantechnica.com].
[15:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:32] <exec> 08└─Quite right, good catch. Should be ~200Wh/kg
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[15:27:34] <exec> 08└─That's because it is "game changing". It probably "moves us one step closer" to some grandiose solution for All Mankind or something.
[15:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Computer Model Has Learned To Detect Prostate Cancer - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:41] <exec> 08└─"Usually, several people work with prostate biopsy samples, and after studying the sections, they make a collegial decision," says Yuri Kistenev, executive director of the TSU Institute of Biomedicine. "The human factor has not been eliminated, therefore, due to subjective assessment, there are erro...
[15:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:59] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I'm just doing good to keep the kids from running down the lanes and falling on their asses.
[15:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:01] <exec> 08└─Hahaha, yeah, a problem I am intimately familiar with!
[15:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:03] <exec> 08└─Holy cow! What the hell are you eating that comes out elastic enough to bounce back up and hit your ass?
[15:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:05] <exec> 08└─Flubber. Did you not see that movie?
[15:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:16] <exec> 08└─What race to the bottom? For example, the vast majority of ride hailing drivers would not be able to drive for pay at all if it weren't for those services that cut out the taxi companies.
[15:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:17] <exec> 08└─What would happen if low-wage workers came together to cut out the middleman and build their own platforms?
[15:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:45] <exec> 08└─Never underestimate the bandwidth of a pigeon full of microSD cards.
[15:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:46] <exec> 08└─Issues like this are so hard to follow.
[15:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 3335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:48] <exec> 08└─I'm starting to realize it was never democracy that has produced the results it has. It's been collections of people generally being able to put aside their differences to work together. Democracy was just a proxy for this underlying phenomena and a natural result of such. In modern times I think we...
[15:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five New Players are Now in NASA's Race to Send Landers to the Moon - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:07] <exec> 08└─Launches consistently going well is kind of central to SpaceX's business plan, and the entire point of the radical redesign, new engine, etc. for the Starship/SuperHeavy. So I doubt that will be a problem, once the early bugs are worked out. Out of curiosity I looked up Starship specs on Wikipedia -...
[15:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five New Players are Now in NASA's Race to Send Landers to the Moon - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:09] <exec> 08└─Hopefully not much worse, but not quite *exactly* the same mechanics. Refueling adds the connecting of the cryogenic CH4 and O2 propellant tanks, then actively accelerating the linked ships in order to transfer hundreds of tons of propellant. A little more involved, and at a much larger scale. And s...
[15:30:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:01] <exec> 08└─There's also no reason to believe that Jimmy Wales would create a site that has almost the exact opposite philosophy of his last one.
[15:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:10] <exec> 08└─But it prevents them from rolling out of bed at night.
[15:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:12] <exec> 08└─I asked if anybody wanted to try a link. I didn't ask if somebody wanted to try a link. (too lazy to find the 'raspberries' emo)
[15:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:14] <exec> 08└─You seem to have quite the burr under your saddle this morning jumping on everyone.
[15:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:16] <exec> 08└─$ = (1+log(x))t
[15:30:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:19] <exec> 08└─Oops. Don't know why I thought it was Google. WT:Social instead.
[15:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:49] <exec> 08└─Yesss, I understand all of that. It makes perfect sense. But, isn't that kinda tangential to the point I was making? Your machines are already updated just as far as you need them to be updated, correct? If you have a stash of thirty machines sitting in the warehouse for the day your active machine(...
[15:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chess: Magnus Carlsen to Meet Top Teens in Pursuit of Record Unbeaten Run - 4776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:04] <exec> 08└─Any mistake could mean a loss, true, and perfect play by both sides should (in theory) always lead to a draw. But remember that the computers are still applying algorithms written by humans to assess what the state of a board is and then use their speed to assess multiple boards. (It's not uncommon...
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[16:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:14] <exec> 08└─An interesting article about some beliefs of Mr. Scaruffi. Now, reality check: China graduates in excess of three times more engineers — electrical, industrial, bio-chemical, semiconductor, mechanical, even power generation — with bachelor's degrees than the U.S. university system.
[16:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:31] <exec> 08└─https://cleantechnica.com/2019/04/04/swiss-startup-innolith-claims-1000-wh-kg-battery-breakthrough/ [cleantechnica.com] This 2019 article suggests Tesla is at 250 Wh/kg, and is looking to increase that to 330 Wh/kg. 250 Wh/kg is consistent with the claim that a 500 Wh/kg battery could double electri...
[16:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:32] <exec> 08└─Well, when I look at the graph I notice it more than doubles the gravimetric energy density. So that's no small improvement, if that's combined with other possible improvements like material costs, recycling options, ... I would even call it a jump forward. However, the phrasing of those additional...
[16:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Computer Model Has Learned To Detect Prostate Cancer - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:41] <exec> 08└─If I'm going to find out I have cancer, I'm not making things pleasant for the doctor either. We're talking Taco Bell here.
[16:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:03] <exec> 08└─Toilets are not something that get replaced very often, and when they are, it is usually for aesthetic reasons, not due to them not working anymore. Even in commercial settings, they are rarely replaced outside of a remodel. Coatings of any type are usually not as durable as the material they are co...
[16:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:04] <exec> 08└─It has a 4" dump valve, twice the size of regular toilets. It's called the zombie turd flusher. Upon flipping the handle, it makes a huge gulping sound followed by a slurpping sound as everything gets sucked into a black hole.
[16:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:06] <exec> 08└─Upsidaisium?
[16:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:19] <exec> 08└─Sometimes I disagree with your hardcore market ideology because it leads you to mindlessly regurgitate memes about it without even have assing the math of the economics. But this time, you're so far up your own ideology, I can't even figure out what you think you're trying to say.
[16:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:21] <exec> 08└─Common sense looks like gibberish to you: https://www.simplypsychology.org [simplypsychology.org]
[16:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:23] <exec> 08└─Bimgo! One of the best posts on SN in a long time.
[16:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:25] <exec> 08└─The set of things called "common sense" is very frequently gibberish with no basis in reality, yes. Especially on the internet.
[16:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:27] <exec> 08└─"It doesn't look like anything at all to me"
[16:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, I cannot discern an actual assertion about reality from the series of words he put together. I can deduce he's saying there's magic free market fairies involved from the word choice, but I cannot actually figure out what he's trying to imply happened.
[16:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 2125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:59] <exec> 08└─I'd recommend reading and responding to things holistically. Makes it much easier than going line by line without context of the whole, and is like to improve your reading comprehension. The point you may have missed, in between the lines: the resources of the CIA enable unpopular groups to grab pow...
[16:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:25] <exec> 08└─I was completely unaware of the incident in question, because I don't usually follow internet drama. But upon reviewing it, what I find is an as transparent as possible documentation of a relatively lightweight ban with a open appeals process. You get nothing like that on any of the main social medi...
[16:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:26] <exec> 08└─You got that backwards. Incels are damned near exclusively Betas and most of them wouldn't take a red pill if you told them it would get them laid three times a day for life, add sixty years to their life, add six inches to their schlong, and cure world hunger. See, even SJW chicks don't get turned...
[16:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:58] <exec> 08└─there are not 'plenty of references' ON INTELs SITE. that's my point. external refs, but intel did its best to purge all refs to it, internally. when I searched using intel's own main page, I found only 2 refs and those were either dead links or incorrect links (one goes to a dot com domain that is...
[16:31:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:00] <exec> 08└─for a short time, there was this thing called MR BIOS (no no 'mister bios', lol, but MR stood for something else). you could load that bios onto asus or tyan or supermicro boards. back when running software raid was a 'thing', mr bios had that before most others, built into the bios. (I think it was...
[16:32:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chess: Magnus Carlsen to Meet Top Teens in Pursuit of Record Unbeaten Run - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:16] <exec> 08└─Often, yes. And sometimes the full team members aren't revealed, so that the other side doesn't have that information. GM Magnus Carlsen has used 4-7 Grandmaster seconds at each World Chapmionship match during and since his successful bids. It's also been said that he's leased time on supercomputers...
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[17:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:16] <exec> 08└─Yes/No. China produces excellent technologists, scientists, etc. It also leads the world in faked results. And the person in official charge of reducing that appears to be a strong practitioner of faking. https://blogs.sciencemag.org [sciencem...
[17:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:17] <exec> 08└─quantity vs. quality. Political biases could preclude the latter. How many foreigners are flocking to Chinese universities?
[17:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:19] <exec> 08└─It also leads the world in "borrowed" results
[17:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:21] <exec> 08└─A hostile takeover of TSMC via a hostile takeover of Taiwan solves the "10 years behind" problem. Think bigger, rather than myopically focusing on some puny industry sector, BBC - the world does not stay stable. We've built a world in which might makes right. The world is about equally balanced in v...
[17:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:24] <exec> 08└─I think this sort of argument is akin to trying to assess China's ability to manufacture products by looking at the cheapest shoddy knock-offs you can find, and then implying that such an issue is inherent in all Chinese manufacturing. Of course what matters is what's happening as a whole. Are they...
[17:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:26] <exec> 08└─In Chinese cultural paradigm, Qi is a legitimate concept, rooted in philosophy. Compare that to the fact many of old European universities still have plenty of theology faculties, graduating priests by the very same academic rituals as scientists and engineers, often in very same halls. https://www....
[17:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:45] <exec> 08└─so many times in the last 15 years we heard this kind of stuff. Fuel cell with hydrogen or ethanol and what not ...going to change everything. Yet Li based batteries are still there and are improving at a very slow pace but regularly. Will believe the hype when it does hit the market and survive.
[17:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03paul_engr [8666] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:46] <exec> 08└─All talk and smoke blowing, not a single fucking delivery. Will believe it when it ships.
[17:28:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 1128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:11] <exec> 08└─For one, bowling alleys use mineral oil with a bit of florescence for the USBC Bowling Association's tape reader and not wax. It runs about $100 a gallon and 16 lanes use approximately 2 cups depending upon the lane pattern. It would be terrible for a bowling alley. the oil pattern is actually meant...
[17:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:38] <exec> 08└─Really? You can't figure out that price controls lead to shortages. Interestingly, there seems to be a large number of people who share your trouble. Let's see how to take advantage of your/their confusion.
[17:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:39] <exec> 08└─The number of steps you invented to go from what he said to what you said is insane, totally unrelated statements.
[17:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:42] <exec> 08└─I'd be interested in the steps you are thinking of, which are clearly different than mine. It requires one obvious step, maybe you can call it two.
[17:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:44] <exec> 08└─the vast majority of ride hailing drivers would not be able to drive for pay at all if it weren't for those services that cut out the taxi companies.
[17:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:46] <exec> 08└─Taxi medallions cost lots of money, which sets a minimum on what can be charged while still making a profit. This creates a shortage of driving jobs for people who may be interested but unable/unwilling to buy a medallion or go through the training, etc that the medallion owners will require. It is...
[17:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:17] <exec> 08└─A good analysis, except that China will never achieve the status it craves - for the same reasons.
[17:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:19] <exec> 08└─Despite whining astronomers, Mr. Musk is making it possible, and removing the power of the thought police. Once all the satellites are up, and he has air-dropped modems across the shithole countries, things are going to get interesting.
[17:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:21] <exec> 08└─He's just being another ISP with a central office and control center. It will get even more interesting when the government tells Mr. Musk to turn the thing off. We need something a bit more bulletproof, that can't be turned off by anybody, ad hoc, multiple signal paths, etc...
[17:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five New Players are Now in NASA's Race to Send Landers to the Moon - 1654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:41] <exec> 08└─WAY further back than the 70's. It was a major mission design decision in the early 60's. Von Braun wanted to do a rendezvous mission for assembly/fueling before going to the moon, but the program decided to do it in one shot with a really big rocket. Here is a paper [si.edu] that goes in detail. Th...
[17:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five New Players are Now in NASA's Race to Send Landers to the Moon - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:43] <exec> 08└─to deliver goodies to the Moon
[17:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five New Players are Now in NASA's Race to Send Landers to the Moon - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:45] <exec> 08└─If I'm not misunderstanding you, you're implying they're planning to accelerate to get the fuel flowing? Why? I'd just assumed something simple and straight forward like a 'kinetic pump' (something like a giant syringe) would be more than enough?
[17:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five New Players are Now in NASA's Race to Send Landers to the Moon - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:47] <exec> 08└─That is an awesome read. Thanks!
[17:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:27] <exec> 08└─Seems like by the time you need to replace it you'll be able to get a Raspberry Pi that will do everything you need for $35. Depending on what you're doing, you might be good to go now with a Pi4 4GB. I'd recommend giving it a go some time, if for no other reason than those old PCs pull a whole lot...
[17:31:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06American Giants Get 90 Days To Wrap Up Deals With 'Dangerous' Huawei - 856 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, and of course you have proof that Huawei is delivering such data and in the pocket of the Chinese government. Proof that all sorts of security companies and consultants are digging for because the one that could prove it would suddenly become extremely valuable to the prestige of the proving ac...
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[18:27:07] <exec> 08└─It's interesting that this company (Licella) is making a press release on chemical recycling of plastics as if they were the only player in that space. I just survived a presentation/indoctrination attempt by BASF at my office where they were thumping their chests about having commercialized Chemcyc...
[18:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:08] <exec> 08└─Is it being recycled [decontaminated] also?
[18:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:10] <exec> 08└─This is a way of the world; authorities liberate subjects from their money, and entrepreneurs line up to help bureaucrats squander the spoils. "So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum."
[18:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:13] <exec> 08└─What might tip the balance is not the costs, but the environmental impact. We're finding plastics at the remotest parts of the oceans and EVERYWHERE we look. Right now the message is "don't worry, there is no evidence to suggest that the microplastics we ingest cause any harm." It is not too big of...
[18:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:26] <exec> 08└─Who knows what tomorrow may bring.
[18:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:48] <exec> 08└─If true then yes, it is massively game changing as it makes electric vehicles better than pretty much everything else. Massive decrease in pollution and reduced cost of transportation. Why the cynical bullshit bruh?
[18:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:16] <exec> 08└─Does Iran have free and fair elections?
[18:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:17] <exec> 08└─So I do think the CIA obviously had good intentions with all of their actions
[18:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 1151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:49] <exec> 08└─Generally I don't have positive experiences using Wikipedia. Although technical/engineering articles, especially in English and Russian versions, are relatively good and allow to obtain more knowledge with a nice bibliography, other parts are just trending as all other Internet services: They want t...
[18:30:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:58] <exec> 08└─Seriously, what's the harm in keeping them up? You could probably manage the load on that website with a 486sx
[18:31:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:24] <exec> 08└─You're not kidding. Those are typically less that 500K each. I mean ffs.
[18:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Giants Get 90 Days To Wrap Up Deals With 'Dangerous' Huawei - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:54] <exec> 08└─I don't really see evidence that Huawei is putting in backdoors, but I'm torn. I want to see US companies succeed, but there are none that have such a lead on certain technologies as Huawei. I do acknowledge that Huawei is certainly in the pocket of the government because any company that the govern...
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[19:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:16] <exec> 08└─Look at the first image. The images of Cydonia (face + pyramids) are 100x more compelling than this.
[19:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:18] <exec> 08└─Go all the way, Bigfoot is on mars! https://www.cnet.com [cnet.com]
[19:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jay [8679] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:20] <exec> 08└─Who let grandpa and his crackpot theories even speak on this, let alone write some sort of article?
[19:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:22] <exec> 08└─It's amazing. This is historic and proves once and for all that there is life on other planets! These amazing animals are right next to the canals [wikipedia.org]. If you look at the photos, you can see the gondola ferrying Dejah Thoris [wikipedia.org] to the palace at Helium too.
[19:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:24] <exec> 08└─Actually, I was wondering what the guy was trying to sell. A new book, perhaps?
[19:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:26] <exec> 08└─Please, if the internet has taught me anything, it's that you can always trust blurry images with things circled in red in ms paint to be real facts.
[19:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:29] <exec> 08└─The Entomological Society of America, according to the article. You can get much further with a crackpot theory and tenure than just a crackpot theory.
[19:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:39] <exec> 08└─The article is very light on the exact details of the process they but it is probably very similar to hydrous pyrolysis [wikipedia.org] in which case the water actually gets broken down to provide the base Hydrogen and oxygen to fill in the breaks of the polymers in the plastic as they get broken do...
[19:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:41] <exec> 08└─Of course, neither Dr Humphreys nor BASF were making claims that their processes were cost effective. Both seem to be assuming that the market for this service will appear when communities decide that it's more important to reclaim these plastics than to save taxpayer money by dumping the undesirabl...
[19:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:43] <exec> 08└─Sounds pretty similar to https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Which had demo plants in 2006. But parent company filed chap11 in 2009 says wiki. Both use heat and pressure to turn complex polymers into simpler hydrocarbons. Hopefully this company does better.
[19:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:45] <exec> 08└─What might tip the balance is not the costs, but the environmental impact.
[19:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:47] <exec> 08└─If the processes exist to recycle the material then a good way to achieve this result is to ensure that the purchase price of a product covers the costs of recycling (this can be accomplished in several different ways). This has two main benefits: first, the material can be recycled which should red...
[19:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:49] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they could use a lower quality non-potable water for this process?
[19:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we should also add liberal arts to the list of theologies and "education through sports" bright idea (noticed last weekend at Princeton)
[19:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:05] <exec> 08└─This was said overnight by some official. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] In Chinese diplomacy, this is typically the last call before a war.
[19:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:07] <exec> 08└─The Chinese can lead the world in their production and consumption of silicon chips. Just let America lead the world in their production and consumption of potato chips.
[19:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Computer Model Has Learned To Detect Prostate Cancer - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:37] <exec> 08└─If I read it correctly, this "technology" still requires my prostate to be poked with needles, or perhaps the Terrahertz Technology device gets inserted? It's not exactly clear. Wake me up when The Technology can predict prostate cancer without chopping it open and taking bits of it out.
[19:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Computer Model Has Learned To Detect Prostate Cancer - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:39] <exec> 08└─It is impossible for it to even predict any better than the current method, since they trained it to mimic whatever the doctors decided (which they call "error prone"). What it could be useful for is saving time/money since doctors don't have to meet to discuss the images.
[19:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Computer Model Has Learned To Detect Prostate Cancer - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:41] <exec> 08└─There is something seriously wrong with medical training, it isn't normal to make so many obvious mistakes.
[19:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Computer Model Has Learned To Detect Prostate Cancer - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:43] <exec> 08└─I'm asserting that they had doctors decide whether the images indicated cancer or not, then trained an algorithm using those as the gold standard even though their motivation for doing so was the doctor decisions were often inaccurate.
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[19:29:08] <exec> 08└─Dude, three words: T . . . M . . . I
[19:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 1347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:33] <exec> 08└─Different AC here, but I'd really stop think about why you were projecting some ideological rant on your discussion partner here. Your post becomes extremely ironic. The point initially made way up on this discussion chain has nothing to do with ideology. When things have barriers to entry, it means...
[19:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:34] <exec> 08└─I have, as you asked, thought about why I'm projecting an ideological rant onto others. After serious thought and consideration, it's because the words that came out of their mouths were really fucking stupid. Thank you for the suggestion.
[19:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:36] <exec> 08└─All you can do is learn to take advantage of this type of chronically wrong person. It is quite easy these days now that most have been forced into buying stocks by the monetary and fiscal policies they support.
[19:29:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 1457 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:46] <exec> 08└─Issues like this are so hard to follow. Iran in particular we effectively created the current government. Iran had a nice secular government in the 1950s. That nice secular government wasn't friendly with our oil interests, so we overthrew them by staging a CIA backed coupe. In their place we stuck...
[19:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:13] <exec> 08└─I ought not to reply to this.
[19:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:15] <exec> 08└─“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who...
[19:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's a bad example, but Walmart was actually really nice when Sam Walton ran it. He was a down to earth, nice guy. I trusted them back then. Today, it's a very different place. I doubt they deleted any data collected from back then. The point is, all things eventually change for the worse. Som...
[19:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Co-Founders Sell Millions of Shares of Stock in the Company - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:17] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't dismiss Thexalon so fast. Using the Wikipedia link you gave, $19.1T - $4.5T (for the top 200 pension people, per Wikipedia) = $14.5T. The population back at the end of 2016 (source [census.gov]) was 324 million. $14.5T / 324M = about $45,000 for every man, woman, and child. Not every chil...
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[20:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:25] <exec> 08└─Who let him off his meds?
[20:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:27] <exec> 08└─Sand Kings
[20:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:29] <exec> 08└─Can't disagree on the count of the words. Way too lazy to look them up to see if they mean anything though.
[20:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:31] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandkings_(novelette) [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] You're welcome.
[20:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:33] <exec> 08└─Uh-oh. Turns out that they were wrong about it being two words.
[20:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:36] <exec> 08└─I want some of whatever they're smoking.
[20:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:38] <exec> 08└─Insert, picture of a politician's brain, with a red circle around it. I'm having trouble finding any pictures though. Must not exist.
[20:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:40] <exec> 08└─1. The 2. Sandkings
[20:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:42] <exec> 08└─He is from Ohio? He probably got his degree because his religion allowed him to claim all his bullshit crackpottery is correct.
[20:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:44] <exec> 08└─I for one welcome our new Martian insect overlords.
[20:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:46] <exec> 08└─Mars barely has an atmosphere compared to earth. Unless you are arguing that it had a thicker atmosphere a long time ago .... ?
[20:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:48] <exec> 08└─I want some of whatever they're smoking.
[20:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:51] <exec> 08└─it might have had a thicker atmosphere when it had a molten core and a magnetic field. There was liquid water on the surface at some time in the past. Solar wind blew away whatever atmosphere it had. But there is no way yet to know if there was enough atmosphere for insects, much less single cell or...
[20:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:07] <exec> 08└─Precisely. I don't want to drain the aquifers for this. Let them figure out how to use water from the ocean.
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[20:28:09] <exec> 08└─Cynicism in that AC post aside, I do think it has been an overwhelming positive for almost all the participants on this planet that leaded gasoline and CFCs were removed. But I do think it will take that level of effort to address the plastics problem, and I'm not so sure the political will exists a...
[20:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:27] <exec> 08└─Excuse me, but I don't see how that justifies using copied photographs in different studies. I've got nothing against Qi or chi or even elan vital in a study, but that doesn't justify fraudulent evidence. (And, of course, your evidence will need to be a lot stronger. Rhine didn't make the cut.)
[20:28:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:51] <exec> 08└─There's abundant reason to doubt. Maybe for a better read of how believable this is, some info about their research budget, or the university that originated it, could help.
[20:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:53] <exec> 08└─I suppose I could do a search, but there have been enough spectacular battery tech announcements that I don't feel like bothering. Now when they actually make it public, that will be something else. Even if it's no better in other ways than existing batteries, good batteries that don't depend on a L...
[20:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:31] <exec> 08└─The UK is drowning in water most of the time, including right now. Saving some toilet flush water here will not save the crops in an East African drought.
[20:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:29:59] <exec> 08└─Taxi medallions cost lots of money,
[20:30:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:01] <exec> 08└─Tens of thousands of dollars is still a lot of money, and the reason prices dropped is due to the gig economy undercutting taxis... When I've asked you needed to memorize the streets. Also, etc includes being expected to make a certain amount of money per week, etc. Basically, wtf are you talking ab...
[20:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:03] <exec> 08└─When I've asked you needed to memorize the streets. Also, etc includes being expected to make a certain amount of money per week, etc.
[20:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:05] <exec> 08└─Different AC here. I do not propose to agree with the previous AC, but to translate, he or she is proposing: 1) Licensing costs for taxi medallions (e.g. I think they cost about $500k in NYC a few years ago before the advent of these so-called ride-sharing apps) 2) Poor people will not be able to af...
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[20:30:43] <exec> 08└─Pro-china party wins!?!? RIOT!!! Trump wins!?!? IMPEACH!!! and a few riots too, just for the hell of it, why not?
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[20:30:44] <exec> 08└─I don't know about that. I have two ISPs and neither one has ever blocked my traffic. And that's just my home Internet. The fucking tooth fairy is forever unplugging my router. Asshole! feminine hygiene products on the other hand, block up the intertubes all the time. and when they don't they cause...
[20:31:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five New Players are Now in NASA's Race to Send Landers to the Moon - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:09] <exec> 08└─And how hard is it to pull a vacuum when you are in orbit?
[20:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:52] <exec> 08└─Have to justify your job somehow, I guess. ;)
[20:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:54] <exec> 08└─In a perfect world they'd already be updated. And for the systems I mentioned, we have preconfigured spare hard drives in storage that we test from time to time (or at least the IT guys say they do. So far it's been truthful. :) ) In reality, I don't necessarily have any contact with the machine unt...
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[20:32:56] <exec> 08└─I remember poking around in the results from using the bios dump utility that came with the Sourcer disassembler. I knew there were some alternate bios-es around, but never messed with them myself.
[20:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:58] <exec> 08└─Why do you think all bug fixes introduce 1-3 new ones? It's not that software developers are bad, or software is hard, they just like job security.
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[21:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Official Monero Website is Hacked to Deliver Currency-Stealing Malware - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:16] <exec> 08└─Monero lives in the non-existant space where radically anti-establishment blockchain obsessives meet Fucking Facebook.
[21:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Official Monero Website is Hacked to Deliver Currency-Stealing Malware - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:18] <exec> 08└─They wouldn't exist, if no one cared.
[21:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Official Monero Website is Hacked to Deliver Currency-Stealing Malware - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:20] <exec> 08└─Okay, Mark Zuckerberg and some accountants at facebook care.
[21:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Official Monero Website is Hacked to Deliver Currency-Stealing Malware - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:22] <exec> 08└─Since Monero is a privacy coin you use it to "launder" bitcoins that you don't want tracked.
[21:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:49] <exec> 08└─It almost certainly had a thicker atmosphere in the past, as the solar wind has been stripping the atmosphere away. How much thicker is questionable. But if there was liquid water on the surface, then I think it must have been substantially thicker.
[21:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:50] <exec> 08└─So far we have only observed a civil servant: Scans of the 44-year-old man’s brain showed that a huge fluid-filled chamber called a ventricle took up most of the room in his skull, leaving little more than a thin sheet of actual brain tissue. “He was a married father of two children, and worked...
[21:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:52] <exec> 08└─I haven't found the full paper with all the images yet, but here's another link. [ndtv.com] that shows a different image. Oh... here we are. [dropbox.com], the motherload of images, if not the full paper; but that's as far as I care to go. I'm with the majority here who are not the least bit convinc...
[21:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:54] <exec> 08└─Lets see... probably some crackpot putting way too much interpretation into very blurry photos of what could be much more easily explained by a simple rock formation or a different kind of rock. Maybe something churned up via tectonic forces, or whatever. *opens "article"* Yup. Right. Could these pe...
[21:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:57] <exec> 08└─He is from Ohio? He probably got his degree because his religion allowed him to claim all his bullshit crackpottery is correct.
[21:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:59] <exec> 08└─If Rosomer is serious, I feel sorry for the old boy. Likely that senile ravings of this sort is why the university made him "emeritus". Even without looking at the pictures, it sure didn't pass the smell test. On Earth, took something like 3 billion years for multicellular life to evolve. If Mars ha...
[21:28:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fadrian [3194] 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 613 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:28] <exec> 08└─A hostile takeover of TSMC via a hostile takeover of Taiwan solves the "10 years behind" problem. Think bigger, rather than myopically focusing on some puny industry sector, BBC - the world does not stay stable. We've built a world in which might makes right. The world is about equally balanced in v...
[21:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:36] <exec> 08└─Is this a different one from the one that's currently a warzone? Kinda hard to make chips when you arrest all the engineers.
[21:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:02] <exec> 08└─to be fair, fuel cells exist commercially and work quite well. They aren't used in vehicles because of the difficulty in storing the hydrogen safely, the need for yet another type of fuel at gas stations (or a new type of station) and the overall weight. What is being presented in this look to be a...
[21:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:40] <exec> 08└─1,000,000 times thinner than a human's," Wang
[21:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:42] <exec> 08└─Do you not eat Mexican?
[21:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:13] <exec> 08└─Well you know wrong. Go ask a cabbie sometime. And what is this "people laugh at you" thing? It sounds like the projections of someone with low self esteem.
[21:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:15] <exec> 08└─Minimum wage and the like causes a job shortage which is reflected in unemployment or misemployment (people working jobs they are not qualified for, or working in the black market, etc). I have no idea why someone would think this causes a labor shortage.
[21:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:17] <exec> 08└─I think it's telling no one has come up with abuses associated with the gig economy. They just say they have.
[21:32:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 913 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:48] <exec> 08└─intel loves to remove things from their site. even whole programs! case in point, I was involved in a TV show of theirs (americas greatest makers). go try to find info on that, its even purged from archive.org. a whole TV season on TBS, a few years ago, IoT focused using an intel curie chip (ok, go...
[21:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Giants Get 90 Days To Wrap Up Deals With 'Dangerous' Huawei - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:38] <exec> 08└─Balderdash. (A word I get to seldom use). Back door, front door, side door, sunroof... Any such method would need a connection back to Huawei or allow the device to be compromised through the front door. Any such method would be detectable at some level by putting sniffers on other side of the suspe...
[21:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Giants Get 90 Days To Wrap Up Deals With 'Dangerous' Huawei - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:40] <exec> 08└─Should have said a connection to Huawei or some other unnamed entity (which would be the same as any other penetration attempt).
[21:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Giants Get 90 Days To Wrap Up Deals With 'Dangerous' Huawei - 2166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:42] <exec> 08└─True, tides are turning. As they always have and always will. What we can do, and are doing, is lying through our teeth about our motivations. Such actions never end well. Well, they never end, and that's the problem. We will reap what is sown. And our standing may also depend upon the support of th...
[21:33:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jasassin [3566] 02 - 06Uber's Co-Founders Sell Millions of Shares of Stock in the Company - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:57] <exec> 08└─It isn't clear why Kalanick and Camp sold some of their shares; neither returned a request for comment.
[21:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Co-Founders Sell Millions of Shares of Stock in the Company - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:09] <exec> 08└─Whatever. Sounds like nitpicking.
[21:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Co-Founders Sell Millions of Shares of Stock in the Company - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:10] <exec> 08└─the more common defined-benefit definition instead of the broader legal one.
[21:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sydney Shrouded in Hazardous Smog from Raging Bushfires - 2402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:55] <exec> 08└─The facts you've mentioned about the eucalypts are spot on. There is more to the story than you are sharing/aware of though. The last few years have had well below average rainfall. The winter, where there are often days of drizzling weather giving the ground a solid soaking and allowing fallen leav...
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[22:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:13] <exec> 08└─1. DARPA funds development of nuke-proof network 2. Porn 3. Lolcats 4. Profit!
[22:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Official Monero Website is Hacked to Deliver Currency-Stealing Malware - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:25] <exec> 08└─Care to explain what you think Monero has to do with Facebook?
[22:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Official Monero Website is Hacked to Deliver Currency-Stealing Malware - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:26] <exec> 08└─You're right, I got it mixed up with Libra.
[22:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Official Monero Website is Hacked to Deliver Currency-Stealing Malware - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:28] <exec> 08└─Woah woah woah, this is SN and if the admins have made one thing clear is that you NEVER back down even when proven wrong.
[22:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Official Monero Website is Hacked to Deliver Currency-Stealing Malware - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:31] <exec> 08└─Hey, an exhaustive investigation proved that the journal postings were removed by Russian operatives, OK.
[22:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:41] <exec> 08└─They really can make those engineers a very compelling proposal, if not one the engineers can't refuse.
[22:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:07] <exec> 08└─Get your priorities straight. Weapons first! Spycams close behind.
[22:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:48] <exec> 08└─Every day, more than 141 billion liters of water are used solely to flush toilets. With millions of global citizens experiencing water scarcity, what if that amount could be reduced by 50%?
[22:29:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:50] <exec> 08└─Not anymore! With its new super-slippery coating even "submissions" like that can't stick to it.
[22:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:25] <exec> 08└─Have you tried googling the exact phrase "the abuses of the gig economy" [ycombinator.com] because even that hyper-specific search finds results documenting them.
[22:31:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:01] <exec> 08└─So I do think the CIA obviously had good intentions with all of their actions
[22:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:06] <exec> 08└─Never underestimate the bandwidth of a pigeon full of microSD cards.
[22:31:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:08] <exec> 08└─So are anti-biotics, bath salts and the tooth fairy. And don't even get me started on feminine hygiene products!
[22:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five New Players are Now in NASA's Race to Send Landers to the Moon - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:34] <exec> 08└─https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/28/starship-refueling-spacex/ [engadget.com] In a graphic, the process is explained as "Propellant settled by milli-g acceleration using control thrusters."
[22:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:44] <exec> 08└─Can't be helped with the hot weather spell around my neck of the woods. Besides, not my fault they exposed themselves to my cranky disposition. (large grin)
[22:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:46] <exec> 08└─You got social in my privacy!
[22:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, thanks for taking me as a 'somebody' not just an 'anybody'. It gets to show that senile people may have moment of lucidity in which they recognize as true what the whole world already has known as such for quite a time.(very large grin - FYI, the weather is even hotter today [soylentnews.org])
[22:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:27] <exec> 08└─>The question is liability and culpability for backdoors then they would have not shipped the IME, and the BIOS would be updatable only after setting a physical switch, and no EFI, and no integrated radio circuitry, and the BIOS would be 100% mathematically verified, and would be openfirmware becaus...
[22:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Giants Get 90 Days To Wrap Up Deals With 'Dangerous' Huawei - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:01] <exec> 08└─No, Huawei, doesn't have an OS like Windows. They have an OS that might be good enough to replace Android sorta, in a couple years or so. Huawei has a lot more in common with Intel than it does AT&T or Microsoft.
[22:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber's Co-Founders Sell Millions of Shares of Stock in the Company - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:31] <exec> 08└─So, the answer to the 'have 1%-ers gobbled up the retirement funds' question, the.answer is positive.
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[23:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:15] <exec> 08└─34. Catgirl Porn
[23:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:17] <exec> 08└─1 - rip off paper from ACM 2 - make in non-downloadable and crowdsource 'curation' 3 - prophet
[23:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Official Monero Website is Hacked to Deliver Currency-Stealing Malware - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:32] <exec> 08└─Or the user was having a bad day, which is a lot more likely, than specifically being targeted by the volunteers who run this site.
[23:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Official Monero Website is Hacked to Deliver Currency-Stealing Malware - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:34] <exec> 08└─... Who knew? Oh yeah, cryptocurrency people.... :)
[23:27:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:46] <exec> 08└─Please, if the internet has taught me anything, it's that you can always trust blurry images with things circled in red in ms paint to be real facts.
[23:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:08] <exec> 08└─And yet he is still allowed to vote.
[23:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:09] <exec> 08└─They were replaced with electronic ones a long time ago. A simple one sufficed: It just says "What?" and "I do not recall."
[23:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:11] <exec> 08└─Thanks! Lol so blurry not quite sure how these scale properly. I'm gonna pass on this one :P
[23:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:13] <exec> 08└─No red circles, but lots of wide black marker outlines. Also large hand printed talking points. https://www.vox.com [vox.com]
[23:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:16] <exec> 08└─This is really bad. Not necessarily because an entomologist wanted to speculate about blurry rocks, but because of statements like "There has been and still is life on Mars." Too bad the rover didn't zoom in more on these spooky rocks. Also, you can't blame Phys.org for this. It's Ohio University [w...
[23:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:34] <exec> 08└─Or sewage processed to a level that it is clean for watering lawns, with sprinklers, flushing toilets, washing cars, etc.
[23:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:36] <exec> 08└─Save the aquifers. Drain the Oceans instead!!!
[23:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:38] <exec> 08└─https://cleanoceansinternational.org/ [cleanoceansinternational.org] These folks have been working on turning plastics into fuel for over a decade now. I personally know Jim Holm He is not a scam artist, he is the real deal.
[23:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:40] <exec> 08└─You want us to wash our cars with pisswater? Looks like we found the vegan.
[23:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:43] <exec> 08└─And if they do anything stupid with the water you can bet the environmentalists will be screaming about it in short order.
[23:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:04] <exec> 08└─The law of diminishing returns guarantees there will be areas of application where "three to four generations behind" technology is good enough. In China's case, all that matters is that the user will be responsible to compensate for any of the technology's shortcomings that may result in a lower so...
[23:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:31] <exec> 08└─A 198 AH AGM marine battery weighs 131 lbs (~60 kg). https://www.westmarine.com [westmarine.com] Maybe one of Musk's LI batteries will deliver storage for less weight. But it would be hard to beat 500 AH in a cou...
[23:29:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 422 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:55] <exec> 08└─How about catsup and mayo jars? https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Here's ice repellent: https://soylentnews.org
[23:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:15] <exec> 08└─With greatly powerful slippage, comes cums great responsibility.
[23:30:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:17] <exec> 08└─Seems you didn't notice the formulation comes in the form of two applicator spray cans with no excessively special conditions required for the operation.
[23:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:53] <exec> 08└─Didn't see any abuses there. Saw a lot of blowhards though. Here's a couple of examples: In London, deliveroo is one of the most visible examples of this. I see them on every road, rushing through traffic so they can make minimum wage. Sure enough, they have accidents as a result, again, something...
[23:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five New Players are Now in NASA's Race to Send Landers to the Moon - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:02] <exec> 08└─Opening a valve.
[23:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel End-of-Lifing BIOS and Driver Downloads for Dusty Hardware - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:54] <exec> 08└─You confuse liability with perfection. But I can see where to a Bot that things must either be perfect or offline.
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[23:33:55] <exec> 08└─No. If you have old and essentially bug-free software and still are claiming it is as maintained then one must still be alert to the possibility that it could be compromised. If an entity lists their products as CVE compatible (sometimes a prerequisite for enterprise-level acceptance of packages) on...
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[23:33:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, also possible. Actually, probably both reasons are correct making it a "win-win" for them (and "lose-lose" for the user whose twenty year old system still faithfully chugs along).
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[23:34:00] <exec> 08└─A quick R/L non-software issue. We have an electrical switching box manufactured over 20 years ago by G.E. as part of a larger system that was, at that time, maintained by G.E. Changes happened, and G.E. was no longer being paid money to maintain the system which needed the switchbox. Other equipmen...
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