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[00:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:12] <exec> 08└─Deregulate and allow as much competition as possible. Get those flu shots included with a Happy Meal for only an extra 25 cents!
[00:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:13] <exec> 08└─The best part is these flu shots are a waste of money anyway. The only people who should get them are those who want to control when they get the flu.
[00:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:15] <exec> 08└─Some of the folks at McD's already have on the job experience! Pennsylvania: https://www.news.com.au [news.com.au] New York: https://abc7ny.com
[00:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:18] <exec> 08└─I was actually thinking about something similar this weekend due to a banner hanging on the front of the local Safeway. It read something like "Free Flu Shot with most insurance plans. Enjoy 10% off your next grocery trip with any immunization!" The only thing I could think of was, given the genera...
[00:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:20] <exec> 08└─Why don't I see TV commercials, like those of the old fart throwing a football through a tire hanging off a tree with the hot 20 something clapping and smiling? This is just a microcosm as to how fucked up the American health care system is. / then again, at my age boinking a hot 20 year old sounds...
[00:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:22] <exec> 08└─That's still not free!
[00:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:24] <exec> 08└─I also noted that the same advertisement at a local Safeway. Some inside ball - Safeway has been culling staff at their pharmacies that do not perform well in pushing Flu shots. At least locally the number of hours a Pharmacist and their techs get to work is directly proportional to the number of Fl...
[00:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:26] <exec> 08└─The best part is these flu shots are a waste of money anyway. The only people who should get them are those who want to control when they get the flu.
[00:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:37] <exec> 08└─Shot down 7. The resources used in the internet architecture must be accountable**.
[00:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Design Philosophy of the DARPA Internet Protocols - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:39] <exec> 08└─some formatting problem. Probably tcp related.
[00:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Official Monero Website is Hacked to Deliver Currency-Stealing Malware - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:56] <exec> 08└─Why don't websites that serve programs dealing with currency do a checksum of the file before it's sent (preferably checksums on multiple remote servers)? I doubt there are so many people downloading the monero software that resources would be problematic. I'm wondering why the dipstick that hacked...
[00:28:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:34] <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.
[00:28:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:36] <exec> 08└─I think everyone should be offered a choice: 1) Have $100 dollars (or more, or less, and inflation adjust it), no questions asked 2) Vote however you want Then only people who care enough will vote, and it should cut down on people voting themselves free shit.
[00:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:38] <exec> 08└─you can see the gondola ferrying Dejah Thoris [wikipedia.org] to the palace at Helium too.
[00:29:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:23] <exec> 08└─3DSoC built using "130nm" process technology could outperform "3nm" planar chips. That's more like 10 generations behind. There's some great IP out there for China to steal copy draw inspiration from. I wonder how good Minnesotans [skywatertechnology.com] are at securing their data.
[00:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:51] <exec> 08└─I think about 8 hours x 60 mph = 480 miles is the magic number before you at least have to take a break, stretch, etc., if not completely call it a day. At that point, range anxiety -- which seems like it's the final frontier -- vs. existing internal combustion consumer cars is no longer an issue, a...
[00:31:53] <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 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:53] <exec> 08└─Don't have a cow about it.
[00:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:54] <exec> 08└─but are probably not limited to:
[00:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:56] <exec> 08└─Just try sticking a tampon in your WAN port :) There is a reason I use pads...
[00:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Legere, T-Mobile's Brash "Un-Carrier" Chief, to Leave in May 2020 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:32:07] <exec> 08└─Butbutbutbut MUH SHAREHOLDER VALYOOZ! FREEDOM!! MONEY!!!! WHAH D'YEW HAYT UH-MURRIKAH?1!!!1111?one *dribbles in Libertarian*
[00:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:38] <exec> 08└─I doubt childhood friends matter much decades later, so the data from those relationships decreases rapidly. I have no contact with any of my friends from elementary, high school, or college, and there's maybe one college classmate I would even want to see how they're doing. Times change, interests...
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[01:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:18] <exec> 08└─By reading this comment, you the reader (yes, you) are now a domestic terrorist on every watch list. Have fun flying, applying for a loan, or walking on a public street. Your life is now ruined. Yes, you.
[01:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:34] <exec> 08└─Pennsylvania: https://www.news.com.au [news.com.au]
[01:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:35] <exec> 08└─I have no insurance and will not be getting the shot. I also do not want insurance because it is a scam. Everything is 50-99% off if you pay cash, and you get to save your money and spend it how you want no questions asked. There is zero reason to give your money to insurance companies who are going...
[01:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:37] <exec> 08└─BTW, if you didn't get sick that means it didn't work.
[01:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:40] <exec> 08└─Honest question here. What will you do if you are in a serious car accident, and wake up in a hospital, having been operated on? I am guessing you could face a bill of several hundreds of thousands in that case. Is that scenario possible?
[01:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:42] <exec> 08└─The way vaccinations work is by triggering your immune system to think an infection is present. If a vaccination induces no response, chances are it didn't take. The point is you are supposed to be *less sick*, at a time of your choosing.
[01:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:44] <exec> 08└─Our taxes already paid for emergency care to stabilize anyone in that situation, there is no need to pay anything: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] But, if it was a relevant issue. 1) It will be much cheaper than whatever "chargemaster' B...
[01:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:46] <exec> 08└─Not only that but... Even if you have healthcare insurance, there's patients getting treatment at their providers facility, but later getting full price doctor bills because the doctor that treated you wasn't on that healthplan. And nobody told you beforehand.
[01:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:48] <exec> 08└─The one time I got the flu shot, I felt like CRAAAAP aaaallll winter long: havent had one since and havent felt that bad since.
[01:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:50] <exec> 08└─Boinking a hot 20 year old sounds good at ANY age, lol.
[01:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:59] <exec> 08└─Is this a new low for phys.org?
[01:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:00] <exec> 08└─You can get much further with a crackpot theory and tenure than just a crackpot theory.
[01:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:03] <exec> 08└─I'm more convinced over these images than I am of Cydonia, et al. Although no definitive conclusions can be made, unlike black holes, this is something that can be answered in our life times with an appropriate expedition. There is enough evidence and reasonable assumptions here to warrant a rover t...
[01:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:05] <exec> 08└─and its like Charlie Brown said: "I got a rock."
[01:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:19] <exec> 08└─Game changing. . Someone stole the basketball, tossing a football in the court.
[01:31:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:40] <exec> 08└─Price controls (such as minimum selling price) can lead to surpluses and better quality products because it's not a race to the bottom price , so you have to compete on quality.
[01:31:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:42] <exec> 08└─Isn't there such a thing as a worker-owned coop in the USA?
[01:31:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:44] <exec> 08└─We can see what effect they had when it came to taxis. Compared to uber/lyft they offer a much worse experience at a much more expensive price.
[01:32:29] <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 - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:30] <exec> 08└─Bear in mind I was limiting this to places which had established liberal democracies until the US showed up. Replacing, say, a Soviet-friendly dictator with a US-friendly dictator wasn't included. One of the CIA's earliest activities was tracking down Nazis, not to bring them to justice but to recru...
[01:32:31] <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 - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:31] <exec> 08└─There are always other means of communication, but the first thing any dictator does in the face of opposition is try to control all the means of communication in an attempt to disorganize the opposition. And that means doing the hi-tech equivalent of cutting the wires. If you're looking for less-fe...
[01:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:14] <exec> 08└─The idea is they should more than pay for themselves, if you're going to exploit people's data. And if you're not, then you won't be hiring them in the first place. What I could go for is a revival of Usenet Newsgroups. No emojis, no text messages converted to images, and both moderated and unmoder...
[01:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:15] <exec> 08└─Nothing passing through the Innert00bs is private, same as real life, where the only way three people can keep a secret is if two are dead. You want everyone to know something? Just tell a friend "in utmost confidence." Tried that once, it went from Montreal to Australia in half a day.
[01:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Giants Get 90 Days To Wrap Up Deals With 'Dangerous' Huawei - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:34] <exec> 08└─Even Snowden realizes his court case would be a joke, a kangaroo court case, which is why he got out of the US like he did. He gave up everything to do what he knew was right (when hired, he had to vow to uphold the constitution) and put himself into exile because he KNEW he would NOT get a fair tri...
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[02:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:14] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't that be some kind of entrapment? Put obvious device on suspect, if they do something about it they are a criminal? What would be the proper respons if you found a tracking device? Call the police (or other such org) and ask them to come over and remove it?
[02:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:16] <exec> 08└─Its okay, I read as AC! :-D
[02:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:18] <exec> 08└─They're probably closing in on you already. I'd recommend removing the tracker, attaching it to a tasty treat of some sort, then leaving the region. Here's a helpful instructional video [youtube.com], courtesy of a previous California governor.
[02:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:20] <exec> 08└─What would you do if you found an object that is not illegal for you to posses in one of your pockets and you are paranoid about it?
[02:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:22] <exec> 08└─Sell your car and let the next sucker take the heat.
[02:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:25] <exec> 08└─Donate compromised item of clothing to homeless shelter.
[02:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:27] <exec> 08└─Sounds like he's in league with Elon!
[02:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:30] <exec> 08└─If a seed from your tree falls in my yard and grows, I own the fruits of that tree. I find a gps attached to my vehicle, my only obligation is to turn it in to either the police or a municipal government. The owner doesn't claim it for 30 days, ownership reverts to me and I can take a sledgehammer t...
[02:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:32] <exec> 08└─Call the Bomb Squad and the local news.
[02:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:34] <exec> 08└─What would be the proper respons if you found a tracking device? Call the police (or other such org) and ask them to come over and remove it?
[02:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:36] <exec> 08└─It smells of entrapment, but that said, I know someone who was entrapped a year ago and things did not go well for the poor lad. I feel like I'm overstating the obvious, but it seems the cops have no rules. One of my questions, and maybe I missed it in the article: does the device have identifying i...
[02:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:11] <exec> 08└─Gravity has a lot to do with it. Mars was always too small to hold onto a permanent atmosphere for as long as Venus or Terra, and its smaller size meant a smaller core that had less total heat to begin with.
[02:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:12] <exec> 08└─and why is an entomologist stationed there?
[02:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:14] <exec> 08└─you can see the gondola ferrying Dejah Thoris [wikipedia.org] to the palace at Helium too.
[02:29:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:17] <exec> 08└─Venus has almost three times Mars' gravity, and its atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide. The UV dissociates molecules, and the H is what blows away. The O, N, and C atoms are heavy enough that they mostly don't hit escape velocity with a single particle impact from the solar wind. https://www.expla...
[02:32:42] <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 - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:42] <exec> 08└─If you're looking for less-fettered communications, I'd at least consider ham radio, which is monitored by the government but less easy for them to shut down - about all they can do is flood the legal bands with static, but the hams would have the equipment and likely the know-how to switch to frequ...
[02:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 3921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:26] <exec> 08└─https://www.ccel.org/ccel/chesterton/orthodoxy.x.html [ccel.org]         "We have remarked that one reason offered for being a progressive is that things naturally tend to grow better. But the only real reason for being a progressive is that things naturally tend to grow worse. The corruption in...
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[03:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Decoding How Some Animals Pause Pregnancies Could Unlock New Cancer Treatments - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:16] <exec> 08└─A paused pregnancy was a major plot point in Excession by Iain M Banks. I thought he made up the concept just like sex changes at will without surgery which was also a plot point. I had no idea mammals could pause pregnancies for real.
[03:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Decoding How Some Animals Pause Pregnancies Could Unlock New Cancer Treatments - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:17] <exec> 08└─Lots of species can also change sex without surgery. I don't know of any mammals that can, but given that the ability has evolved in various insects, fish, amphibians, reptiles, and birds, I doubt there's any particular reason it wouldn't be possible in mammals too.
[03:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:37] <exec> 08└─I don't get it. If they attached something, permanently, to my property then are they not giving said property to me? How is this different from someone hanging an ornament on the front of my house? Who owns the ornament? Can the person who put it there actually sue over its removal or destruction?...
[03:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:38] <exec> 08└─Isn't abandoning stuff on someone else's property known as littering? If I took anything and affixed it to my neighbors car, and my neighbor discovered it and removed it, how is it he wronged me? If I found such a thing, it would definitely rattle me, as it's solid evidence I am squarely in someone'...
[03:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:41] <exec> 08└─Hope you wiped that object clean of your fingerprints/DNA before and the donation was a drop in a bin rather than in person. Translating the tactic to your car with a tracking device attached would mean quite an act of charity (except if it's actually a lemon).
[03:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:05] <exec> 08└─What if the hospital sends you a bill for (say) $250,000? If you, or your parents haven't managed to save that much, and the hospital claims it is not covered?
[03:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 1079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:06] <exec> 08└─The influenza virus uses Hemagglutinin to bind to the Sialic Acid present on the Columnar Epithelial cells present in the respiratory tract. It is literally impossible to get the flu (a respiratory illness) from something injected in your blood. In addition, there aren't many such sites in your body...
[03:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:08] <exec> 08└─...because "free" exists? I suppose if you're RMS and think that living in your MIT office is "free" and doesn't cost the labor of janitors paid by student tuition to clean up after you, and that other people will donate loads of time to go chase bugs in your crap software because labor, manpower, a...
[03:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:11] <exec> 08└─But what if you're not his type?
[03:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:13] <exec> 08└─It triggers an immune response, yes. However, without living viruses there's no actual infection, so it's just the initial immune response you have to deal with - maybe some minor discomfort for a day or two, quite likely nothing at all. While catching the flu will likely lay you down for a week or...
[03:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:16] <exec> 08└─I started getting annual flu shots again about 6 years ago after catching a nasty flu from work that put me in bed for a week and took months to get back to 100% the previous year. The first year I got a flu shot, I got a similar off feeling (but nowhere near as bad as the real thing) that lasted ab...
[03:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:31] <exec> 08└─So you want to give everybody $100 and charge a $100 poll tax. Unfortunately for your scheme, it's been established that poll taxes are racist because only whites have money.
[03:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:33] <exec> 08└─Now I'm confused. We talking about had her or did her?
[03:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:58] <exec> 08└─https://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.
[03:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five New Players are Now in NASA's Race to Send Landers to the Moon - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:30] <exec> 08└─Why? Presumably because in theory it's easier that way - all you need is to connect a length of pipe between the two tanks (which you'll need regardless), open the valves, and slowly accelerate towards the tanker using the maneuvering rockets you already have, and all the propellant naturally settle...
[03:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five New Players are Now in NASA's Race to Send Landers to the Moon - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:31] <exec> 08└─Oh, and there's all sorts of stuff inside the methane tank (namely, the oxygen tank, and two "mini-tanks" to reliably get the engines burning during re-entry, when the main tanks are down to the sloshing dregs.) which interferes with a syringe process. A cutaway: https://www.humanmars.net
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[04:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:15] <exec> 08└─Wow only about 60% of people report any adverse event, and this drops with age? I wonder what else is reported to happen about 60% of the time and drop with age... Can you think of anything?
[04:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:17] <exec> 08└─Why are people just parroting talking points at me? Where did anyone say the flu shot is giving you the flu? A vaccine that doesn't make you feel sick, is a vaccine your body didn't respond to, is a vaccine that didn't work.
[04:28:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:19] <exec> 08└─It is because the sicker you get the stronger your immune response. Your bad case of the flu apparently imparted a long lasted generalized immunity to various flu strains to you. It has nothing to do with the shots. It's the same reason why immunity after measles is lifelong, but immunity after the...
[04:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:21] <exec> 08└─I think there's a few different meanings of "got sick" here. If a live flu vaccine works, then you will get the flu, and will be contagious for a few days, but it will be such a mild case that you probably won't notice. The doctor should have told the guy to be careful around his mother for a few da...
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[04:28:23] <exec> 08└─Your question is already answered. There is zero chance and no need to pay that. Your local taxes are already paying the hospital to deal with mandated emergency treatmentfor anyone, including yourself. Further, no one ever pays what is on the bill except schmucks, it is meant as a starting point fo...
[04:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:25] <exec> 08└─You might be retarded.
[04:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:43] <exec> 08└─So this whole "theory" only fits an n of 1 then? If you have just the exact properties of mars the solar wind will strip your atmosphere, otherwise not? Titan has very low gravity, is much colder, and no magnetic field. But it has a thicker atmosphere than Earth.
[04:29:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:45] <exec> 08└─And titan? What is your ad hoc explanation for that one? It seems there is a unique explanation for every object. That is called overfitting, there is no predictive skill behind this model.
[04:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:47] <exec> 08└─Poll tax? People on this site have some serious reading comprehension issues, they just make up whatever the strawman they want to argue with and say someone else said it.
[04:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:11] <exec> 08└─Have you ever wondered what happens when you put plastic in the recycling bin for collection?
[04:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:35] <exec> 08└─They've also now got a huge motivation, thanks to random and arbitrary embargoes by Trump, to catch up quick. Short-term it'll hurt China while they have to fill in the gap caused by the absence of US products that they're currently dependent on. Then once they get up to speed and start churning out...
[04:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:03] <exec> 08└─I misread the URL as "socialboarding" which seemed ominous.
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[05:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:27:45] <exec> 08└─Is the answer then to sue the owner of the device for littering? :)
[05:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:22] <exec> 08└─Nope, you are just very wrong and have too low of self esteem to admit it to yourself.
[05:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:45] <exec> 08└─You're deluded if you think SCOTUS is going to pretend "you must pay $100 to vote" and "you must forgo receiving $100 to vote" are two completely unrelated propositions.
[05:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:47] <exec> 08└─I predict that an Earth sized world, in an orbit of less than 90 million km, around a Sol-type star, will develop a very thick predominately CO2 atmosphere. Wow. I'm batting 100%.
[05:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:36] <exec> 08└─On the same line, just in case one doesn't know how come China has its own space program in non-trivially advanced stages, a brief reminder of the Chinese exclusion policy of NASA [wikipedia.org].
[05:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and keep people in their place. If you can't afford the good stuff, then you don't deserve anything. Have you not noticed how, for just about everything, there is competition on price as well as quality (granted, perceived quality probably counts for more than it should, but people are people)...
[05:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:19] <exec> 08└─Consider that the efforts of the CIA to destabilize other nations are probably directly proportional to how much of the CIA had become a Soviet asset.
[05:33:20] <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 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:20] <exec> 08└─We need something a bit more bulletproof, that can't be turned off by anybody, ad hoc, multiple signal paths, etc...
[05:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands Flock to Wikipedia Founder's 'Facebook Rival' - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:08] <exec> 08└─"I'm going to stick to Facebook... it's free as in free beer, and free as in free love." ....and free as in herpes.
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[06:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Google Outlines Plans for Mainline Linux Kernel Support in Android - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:23] <exec> 08└─And those SoC patches from Qualcomm include closed binaries that are both chip model and kernel version specific with an utter rats-nest of patches to the kernel to make it as hard as possible to upgrade the device to a newer version of Android. Been there, done that, did not get the T-shirt or a wo...
[06:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Outlines Plans for Mainline Linux Kernel Support in Android - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:24] <exec> 08└─Georga outlines plans for mainstream love kennel service for Atlanta
[06:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:55] <exec> 08└─If the device had any visible identification the judges wouldn't be taking his claim seriously that he didn't know what it was or where it came from.
[06:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:57] <exec> 08└─I believe they are magnetic to make it easier for the officer to attach them easily. I remember a case a while back where an officer went into someone's yard to attach one of these trackers to a car without a warrant. IIRC, that case is why they need a warrant to use these trackers instead of just a...
[06:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:59] <exec> 08└─Of course.
[06:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:01] <exec> 08└─No, it's not entrapment. Entrapment requires that the action be illegal. Removing unknown property from your property and doing anything with it is perfectly legal. You can throw it away, beat your nipples with it, exchange it for a gold idol on a platform, and as the Internet informs me is possible...
[06:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:03] <exec> 08└─Isn't there a Supreme Court decision regarding who owns the trash you put on the side of the street? I believe they decided that you gave away all rights to the property when you did it.
[06:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:40] <exec> 08└─In the UK you can privately receive a non-subsidised flu shot for less than £10 (almost USD 13), i.e. roughly half the cheapest price quoted in the article. People with certain afflictions (like diabetes and asthma) receive it for free on the NHS. This once again shows how expensive the American he...
[06:31:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nikola Corporation to Unveil Game-Changing Battery Cell Technology at Nikola World 2020 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:23] <exec> 08└─Then the circle of life will be complete.
[06:33:36] <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 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:37] <exec> 08└─Considering that at the height of McCarthyism the second in command of the CIA was KGB...
[06:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Kills the Internet for its "People's Own Good" as Riots Grip the Middle Eastern Nation - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:38] <exec> 08└─Perhaps its Canadian currency? Seen gas for 122.9 cents a litre today. The problem with gallons is whose do you use, a real gallon defined as 10 lbs or 4.54 kg of water or an obsolete one?
[06:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Sound of Earth Being Wracked by a Solar Storm Is Eerily Disturbing - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:19] <exec> 08└─hot noisy gaseous
[06:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Space Dust Slammed Into An ESA Spacecraft At 40,000 MPH, But That's A Good Thing - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:28] <exec> 08└─CNET journalism school.
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[07:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Starship Prototype Mk1 Fails During Propellant Tank Loading Test: Onwards to Mk3 - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:23] <exec> 08└─I just love how private entrepreneurs can provide the same quality as socialist bloughted alternatives, only with massive occassional failures and loss of life, which actually, is a eventuality, and why not put it off by not hiring, you know, the space cowboys? We are Going to Mars, Boomers! To die....
[07:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:07] <exec> 08└─They admit that's true, but claim it's different because they had a warrant. Well it's good they had a warrant, but the defendant was not informed of the warrant. Secret warrants are a bad thing, and this is only one reason why.
[07:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:46] <exec> 08└─or his body simply had a similar immune reaction to actually having the flu, but without actually getting the flu. Does one actually contract tetanus after getting a DTAP or tetanus booster shot and subsequently enjoying a sore shoulder for a week to 10 days afterwards? No?
[07:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:47] <exec> 08└─sure vaccines made from weakened viruses were the first vaccines sure some vaccines are made from whole viruses genetically tweaked to be harmless MOST vaccines are just the empty shells of viruses without the RNA inside, because that's easier and less dangerous when it works
[07:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:12] <exec> 08└─Did her.
[07:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:58] <exec> 08└─Uber requires a fairly new vehicle which most poor people can't afford.
[07:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:59] <exec> 08└─Breaking the law can result in legal consequences? Even at that, there are lots of people willing to sell drugs as a part of the gig economy.
[07:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:01] <exec> 08└─That would be socialism and every American knows socialism means lots of dead people.
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[08:27:32] <exec> 08└─I thought stable API is nonsense.
[08:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Outlines Plans for Mainline Linux Kernel Support in Android - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:34] <exec> 08└─How is it not breaking the GPL to ship that to customers without the source code?
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[08:28:11] <exec> 08└─and as the Internet informs me is possible with anything, shove it up your butt.
[08:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:28:52] <exec> 08└─the Affordable Care Act requires insurers to cover the full costs of all federally recommended vaccines, including the flu vaccine
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[08:30:44] <exec> 08└─Where do you live? I'm genuinely curious what nation doesn't have /any/ recycling programme, given that elsewhere, recycling aluminum and metal, pulp and paper, and rags, are all economically profitable. Small island nation? Is there industry? Are there pollution laws? What happens to the waste that...
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[09:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturer Diodes Inc. Faces Chinese Scrutiny for Lite-On Takeover Bid - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:22] <exec> 08└─... 8.2K 5% Resistors Inc, 0.01uF Greencap Capacitors Inc, or 10uH SMD Miniature Inductors Inc.
[09:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Outlines Plans for Mainline Linux Kernel Support in Android - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:40] <exec> 08└─MediaTek are even worse, Samsung CPUs were pretty bad a few years back -- not that it matters much now since they're shutting down their CPU division. I'm surprised nobody has sued these companies for breaching the GPL.
[09:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Outlines Plans for Mainline Linux Kernel Support in Android - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:41] <exec> 08└─It's not really possible to sue for Linux GPL violations. Only the copyright holders can sue for copyright/license violations, so you'd have to get every single Linux contributor to participate in a lawsuit. This is why the FSF asks all contributors to assign copyright to the FSF, so that it's actua...
[09:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:00] <exec> 08└─Fun fact! A lot of the costs in the medical system are because of doctors offices having to navigate all of the different insurance billing systems. If you standardize the billing system, though it would be a regulatory burden on companies, it would also reduce costs in the system overall.
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[09:29:02] <exec> 08└─In a free (free market). A seller charges whatever the market will pay. I.E. working as advertised, welcome to America!!!!!
[09:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:19] <exec> 08└─Ah, good point! And that link points out they then ended up teaming up with Europe and Russia for it, which advanced the Chinese, European, and Russian programs, not just the Chinese one alone. If they do the same thing with the cellular/electronics technology they used to get from the US, it'll als...
[09:31:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khakipuce [233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:20] <exec> 08└─The question is whether they can make competitive ones," questions Piero Scaruffi Last time I checked, China was a communist state controlled country, who thinks they give a flying frig about the competitiveness of an industry which they see as of national strategic interest? And besides they are...
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[10:27:29] <exec> 08└─About the only hope for success involves Xi being addicted to golf at Mar-a-Lago.
[10:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starship Prototype Mk1 Fails During Propellant Tank Loading Test: Onwards to Mk3 - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:37] <exec> 08└─No problem, time for the next generation, which will be So Much Better!™ This is the paradigm of the future [youtube.com]. Six months to Mars? No problem. If the life support system fails enroute, no worries. We'll have another ship (and another crew) ready to go at the next launch window [clowder...
[10:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Outlines Plans for Mainline Linux Kernel Support in Android - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:50] <exec> 08└─And those SoC patches from Qualcomm include closed binaries that are both chip model and kernel version specific with an utter rats-nest of patches to the kernel to make it as hard as possible to upgrade the device to a newer version of Android. Been there, done that, did not get the T-shirt or a wo...
[10:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Outlines Plans for Mainline Linux Kernel Support in Android - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:51] <exec> 08└─You mainline because you want the FOSS guys to keep your software in shape, instead of having to devote resource to chase whatever the FOSS devs implement. But the big sw makers/hw makers duopoly will continue shitting on the principle of free software because they prefer to control the stack some w...
[10:31:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:31:03] <exec> 08└─Just burn the damn plastic. We waste so much time discussing this shit where a solution already exists. Take the plastic, and burn it in a proper oil incinerator for energy. This would be much more energy efficient than current coal burning plants and it would actually make a market for the plastic....
[10:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:31:30] <exec> 08└─If they do the same thing with the cellular/electronics technology they used to get from the US, it'll also end up benefitting China, Russia, and Europe, which presumably is the last thing the US wants.
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[11:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Xe High Performance Computing GPUs will use Chiplets - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:15] <exec> 08└─Intel has a good ground to recover from AMD in CPU, tries its luck with GPU.
[11:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Xe High Performance Computing GPUs will use Chiplets - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:17] <exec> 08└─Intel is getting (further) delusions of grandeur. We are living in an "XPU" age now: https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com]
[11:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Xe High Performance Computing GPUs will use Chiplets - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:19] <exec> 08└─Xe? So, they couldn't call it "Academi", or just the original "Blackwater", as in Mercenary Scum of the swamps of Southern Someplace? I trust Intel less and less, but that is always the way it is with intel, the more reliable it is, the less useful it is, and the more useful, the less reliable. Bac...
[11:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brad McQuaid, Co-Creator of EverQuest, Dead at 51 - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:27] <exec> 08└─Sorry, not MDC, but strangely apropos: Death has been proven to be 99% fatal in laboratory rats.
[11:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturer Diodes Inc. Faces Chinese Scrutiny for Lite-On Takeover Bid - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:37] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, On-Bright – the Chinese maker of chipsets for power management that's listed in Taipei – has a market cap of NT$9.88 billion ($324 million).
[11:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starship Prototype Mk1 Fails During Propellant Tank Loading Test: Onwards to Mk3 - 1387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:47] <exec> 08└─There are two types of tests. There are tests like these where you're genuinely not entirely sure how it's going to turn out and you expect it to break a reasonable chunk of the time. And then there are public tests. Those are the tests that are done after lots of tests like this where you claim it'...
[11:27:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Starship Prototype Mk1 Fails During Propellant Tank Loading Test: Onwards to Mk3 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:49] <exec> 08└─Or they could just use my idea [soylentnews.org]:
[11:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starship Prototype Mk1 Fails During Propellant Tank Loading Test: Onwards to Mk3 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:51] <exec> 08└─that SpaceX is building and testing their ship in plane view of anybody with a camera.
[11:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starship Prototype Mk1 Fails During Propellant Tank Loading Test: Onwards to Mk3 - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:53] <exec> 08└─Note to self: Remember to put snark/Poe's law tags on pretty much everything I post. Otherwise, bad things happen.
[11:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starship Prototype Mk1 Fails During Propellant Tank Loading Test: Onwards to Mk3 - 1626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:55] <exec> 08└─They are going to be launching Starship dozens if not hundreds of times to orbit before sending humans in one. They already have experience working on life support with Crew Dragon, with one successful orbital test (sans humans). Starship's version will be more complicated, but it's probably easier...
[11:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:47] <exec> 08└─You bastard! Now I'm implicated too!
[11:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:49] <exec> 08└─First this [scmp.com] and now we hear about some other poor bastard being railroaded. Pretty soon, it'll be hard to get spun and party [tweaker.org] like it's 1956 [soylentnews.org].
[11:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:51] <exec> 08└─so all I have to do to stalk someone is to put a sticker 'police thingy do not remove' next to a gps... interesting...
[11:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:00] <exec> 08└─Had her == Did her == Rooted [urbandictionary.com] her Sorry. Forgot you didn't speak English. :)
[11:31:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:01] <exec> 08└─There is a word for this: pareidolia [wikipedia.org].
[11:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:30] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a matter of: county country/nation If so, the waste is most likely shipped out of the county to another county.
[11:31:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03legont [4179] 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 194 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:47] <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.
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[12:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces "oneAPI" for Programming CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, Accelerators, etc. - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:20] <exec> 08└─One of my colleagues is using one of Intel's AI frameworks at the moment. It appears to be a serious cluster-fsck with improper thread locking, outdated documentation and poor performance plastered over by shiny marketing claims*. Whenever he works around one hurdle something else pops up to bite hi...
[12:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturer Diodes Inc. Faces Chinese Scrutiny for Lite-On Takeover Bid - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:46] <exec> 08└─This is an excellent point, without it it would be obvious that China benefits from the merger. The argument from the actually informed is largely about stealing business IP. This merger would give them more opportunity to steal from Diodes Inc. After all, bigger companies outsource more and they'd...
[12:29:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:29:36] <exec> 08└─For most people, most medical expenses are at the end of life so you're basically proposing a life insurance deal. Across an entire population and not individuals I don't think you can get hundreds of thousands of life insurance for $100. For individuals like 20-something new parents sure maybe at 2...
[12:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:05] <exec> 08└─What are the chance exploratory flying robots are not on mars? Id say there is about a 75% chance that some military agency has tiny flying robots running their own surveys, maybe by the hundreds. I think this % is somewhat higher than actual bugs freely roaming mars. But if there are bugs in the sa...
[12:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:06] <exec> 08└─The first exploratory flying robot to be sent to Mars will be the JPL Mars Helicopter Scout [wikipedia.org] in 2020-2021. Any other flying robots on Mars are purely fictional.
[12:31:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:08] <exec> 08└─Only a guess, but the solar wind is much less intense at 9.54 AU (Saturn) than at 1.52 AU (Mars) due to the 1/r^2 rule. That's about 1/40th the flux at Saturn than at Mars.
[12:31:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:10] <exec> 08└─Here's something along those lines that has been determined to be different. In the US, credit card companies have terms in their contracts with vendors that accept credit cards that says that the vendor can't tack on a surcharge when a customer uses a credit card. So what do clever vendors do? Offe...
[12:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:07] <exec> 08└─They can compete with some stuff two nodes ahead, like discrete GPUs [pcgamesn.com], just by cutting the profit margin and making power-hungry chips. Nvidia, Intel, and AMD are making bank but exposing themselves to attack by a Chinese entrant. Piero Scaruffi is talking about mobile chips, where you...
[12:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jman [6085] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:22] <exec> 08└─One of my favorite scenes from skiffy writings is in Niven and Pournelle's "The Mote In God's Eye", wherein we meet the "Moties", who build a habitat so the visiting humans can be comfortable during their stay. A character in the novel goes to the bathroom, and notices there's no water in the bowl...
[12:34:57] <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 - 2305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:58] <exec> 08└─Thank you, I appreciate all invitations and I might consider this even if just to hear more sides of a story and write about the world. However, I am quite comfortable in Europe right now, and I am pleased the E.U. refused to allow the settlements and also continues to honor the treaty signed by Oba...
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[13:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces "oneAPI" for Programming CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, Accelerators, etc. - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe oneAPI is what they need to fix the situation.
[13:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 1741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:32] <exec> 08└─My understanding of the math is a flu shot giving nurse might get $30/hr Now if the nurse works an 8 hour shift and gives 90 shots, that's a shot every 5 minutes which is impressive and the labor cost will be a mere $3 or so. Now lets assume that it snows and everyone older than 50 stays home freake...
[13:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Afty [8588] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:34] <exec> 08└─EMTALA does not do what you think it does. You state "Our taxes already paid for emergency care to stabilize anyone" - that's not only not true, but the wikipedia article you linked to explicitly says that it's not true. Furthermore, EMTALA doesn't mean you don't have to pay. You will still be charg...
[13:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:35] <exec> 08└─You are correct, I'm not referring to my nation, but the region around my city. The contractors pay to dump my neighborhood's waste in landfills operated by other nearby regions.
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[14:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Use Drones and GoPros to Track Gray Whale Behavior - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:17] <exec> 08└─Researchers have resorted to using children’s toys to do their research. Clearly their budgets aren’t big enough. Or maybe they just blew their entire research budget on fancy wine, expensive cheese, and plane tickets to invite their colleagues to the lab.
[14:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Use Drones and GoPros to Track Gray Whale Behavior - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:19] <exec> 08└─Conspiracy theories about poop stealing aliens from the sky abound in gray whales discussions.
[14:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Xe High Performance Computing GPUs will use Chiplets - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:37] <exec> 08└─Has been doing this on their mainframe processors since the 1980s.
[14:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starship Prototype Mk1 Fails During Propellant Tank Loading Test: Onwards to Mk3 - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:07] <exec> 08└─> No problem, time for the next generation, which will be So Much Better!™ Falcon (1 variant) blew up on first three launches (not ground tests, actual launches). First few booster landings also failed or blew up. Now, Falcons go up fine, they come down fine, they go up again, and so on until it's...
[14:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starship Prototype Mk1 Fails During Propellant Tank Loading Test: Onwards to Mk3 - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:09] <exec> 08└─At one point, there was even talk of sending astronauts on the very first SLS flight [space.com]. But now the plan is muuuch safer with crew on the second flight instead. It's totally safe because it reuses some Space Shuttle parts. It's like it has been flown dozens of times already with no inciden...
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[14:28:11] <exec> 08└─only with massive occassional failures and loss of life,
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[14:29:06] <exec> 08└─In the United Police States of America.
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[14:35:11] <exec> 08└─ps if you like the antizionism memes, the best way to insure I keep making them is to send me btc or xmr, or paypal works too I suppose :)
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[15:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Use Drones and GoPros to Track Gray Whale Behavior - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:25] <exec> 08└─You could just call OP's mom and ask her.
[15:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Use Drones and GoPros to Track Gray Whale Behavior - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:27] <exec> 08└─A multirotor capable of prolonged flight beyond the line of site of the operator is not a child's toy. It's easy to drop a couple of grand in that space for an "ok" piece of kit. If you aren't building it from parts you can easily double that.
[15:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces "oneAPI" for Programming CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, Accelerators, etc. - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:37] <exec> 08└─I think that is going to be kind of difficult now that Intel has a reputation for being backdoor central. Why would you cluster GPU's with software from a vendor who has contempt for security?
[15:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces "oneAPI" for Programming CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, Accelerators, etc. - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:39] <exec> 08└─The Aurora supercomputer doesn't need to mitigate the latest hardware attacks. Amazon, on the other hand...
[15:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces "oneAPI" for Programming CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, Accelerators, etc. - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:41] <exec> 08└─oneAPI to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.
[15:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Outlines Plans for Mainline Linux Kernel Support in Android - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:39] <exec> 08└─If Linux were to have copyright holders sign over rights, who would they go to? Linus? Who pays him? The Linux Foundation? They were acquired by Microsoft (as a platinum member) in 2016. Talk about handing the copyright directly to the wolf. Other ideas?
[15:28:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Outlines Plans for Mainline Linux Kernel Support in Android - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:40] <exec> 08└─VMWare got away with it.
[15:28:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Outlines Plans for Mainline Linux Kernel Support in Android - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:42] <exec> 08└─You mainline because you want the FOSS guys to keep your software in shape, instead of having to devote resource to chase whatever the FOSS devs implement.
[15:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Outlines Plans for Mainline Linux Kernel Support in Android - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:44] <exec> 08└─by mainlining and adding your guys to the kernel dev team you might effectively hamper some new developments
[15:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Decoding How Some Animals Pause Pregnancies Could Unlock New Cancer Treatments - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:54] <exec> 08└─All these Critters can produCe Vitamin C, that is why they have this power. The C got rid of my itchy immune system and my sinuses Completely disappeared in 2 weeks!
[15:29:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:11] <exec> 08└─What would be the proper respons if you found a tracking device? Call the police (or other such org) and ask them to come over and remove it?
[15:29:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 1195 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:20] <exec> 08└─No, it's not entrapment. Entrapment requires that the action be illegal. Removing unknown property from your property and doing anything with it is perfectly legal. You can throw it away, beat your nipples with it, exchange it for a gold idol on a platform, and as the Internet informs me is possible...
[15:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:30] <exec> 08└─Or shipping it cross country.
[15:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:32] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDxhugRKZ8g [youtube.com]
[15:29:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:34] <exec> 08└─makes it likely I prepare for war with the wrong person.
[15:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:36] <exec> 08└─The movement of device from place to place was done without the mans consent. It is therefore "involuntary servitude", and a violation of the 13th amendment. Though SCOTUS is not real big on the 13th, and to be frank most federal courts would probably repeal without a second goose-step.
[15:29:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:38] <exec> 08└─I would put it in a plastic box. I would wrap it completely with the same brand of aluminum foil I use for making headwear. Safely store it somewhere unlikely to be found. After an amount of time to ensure it has no power remaining, retrieve it, take it apart, study it. Use for spare parts. Conduct...
[15:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:40] <exec> 08└─At least the government is now on Meth. ("Meth: we're on it")
[15:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:26] <exec> 08└─Because you're wrong. Feeling sick is almost entirely a reaction to an infection consuming your body to produce more of itself, while making you as contagious as possible (sweaty hands, cough, mucous, vomiting, and/or diarrhea are all infection channels promoted by the disease), NOT to your body lea...
[15:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:28] <exec> 08└─Your bad case of the flu apparently imparted a long lasted generalized immunity to various flu strains to you.
[15:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:28] <exec> 08└─you could just extrude it into shapes that make good artificial reefs. Truly I'm not so sure the problem is one of "plastic in the ocean", so much as it is a problem of "plastic, in the wrong shape, in the ocean".
[15:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How China Plans to Lead the Computer Chip Industry - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:57] <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.
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[16:27:15] <exec> 08└─On thing keeps me awake at night, and during the day,
[16:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strongest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever Recorded are Illuminating the Universe's Most Powerful Explosions - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:16] <exec> 08└─The nuckin phutt managed to make a decent submission? Does that mean he's going to rejoin the human race? Will the human race accept him back?
[16:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strongest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever Recorded are Illuminating the Universe's Most Powerful Explosions - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:18] <exec> 08└─He makes a sane submission when his karma drops. Keep down voting him.
[16:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Use Drones and GoPros to Track Gray Whale Behavior - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:28] <exec> 08└─Their only interest is GRAY WHALES? What about blue whales? Or, humpback whales? Or, SPERM whales?
[16:27:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Use Drones and GoPros to Track Gray Whale Behavior - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:30] <exec> 08└─More accurately: miniaturization and economies of scale have made professional equipment priced on-par with children's toys. Drones and GoPros are regularly used by professionals in many industries. If a camera is good enough for a professional film crew, it is probably good enough for researchers....
[16:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces "oneAPI" for Programming CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, Accelerators, etc. - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:42] <exec> 08└─And what kind of high-level software do you expect from Intel freaks who can gladly sell you an 83W TDP workstation CPU bundled with a barely 65W cooler? https://ark.intel.com [intel.com] https://diit.cz
[16:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces "oneAPI" for Programming CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, Accelerators, etc. - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:43] <exec> 08└─OneAPI to rule them all.
[16:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturer Diodes Inc. Faces Chinese Scrutiny for Lite-On Takeover Bid - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:11] <exec> 08└─If some Chinese company is bought and made part of US company then trade restrictions suddenly start to apply to it, most likely causing a huge disruption because they have to break ties to their old Chinese partners, so it's rational for Chinese government to not want it.
[16:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Outlines Plans for Mainline Linux Kernel Support in Android - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:46] <exec> 08└─You can find your copy of the sauce code by making an in-person request at our Freedom Annex inside the dumpster out back.
[16:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Google Outlines Plans for Mainline Linux Kernel Support in Android - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:47] <exec> 08└─what about the other 27 platinum members?
[16:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decoding How Some Animals Pause Pregnancies Could Unlock New Cancer Treatments - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:58] <exec> 08└─I've definitely not heard about the capability in birds, the one case I know for sure is frogs, and there are various ocean creatures that can be both are both or something like that.
[16:29:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 431 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:16] <exec> 08└─It smells of entrapment, but that said, I know someone who was entrapped a year ago and things did not go well for the poor lad. I feel like I'm overstating the obvious, but it seems the cops have no rules. One of my questions, and maybe I missed it in the article: does the device have identifying i...
[16:29:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Chocolate [8044] 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 402 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:17] <exec> 08└─I don't get it. If they attached something, permanently, to my property then are they not giving said property to me? How is this different from someone hanging an ornament on the front of my house? Who owns the ornament? Can the person who put it there actually sue over its removal or destruction?...
[16:29:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 228 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:27] <exec> 08└─They admit that's true, but claim it's different because they had a warrant. Well it's good they had a warrant, but the defendant was not informed of the warrant. Secret warrants are a bad thing, and this is only one reason why.
[16:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:26] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that the nurse can do other things than give flu shots.
[16:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New, Slippery Toilet Coating Provides Cleaner Flushing, Saves Water - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:15] <exec> 08└─You are correct, sort of. The article does say the 2nd layer can be reapplied. And it only lasts 500 flushes. There is no mention of how long the base layer lasts, if there are any required prep to the surface, or how many times the 2nd layer can be reapplied. Also, 500 flushes you will be re-applyi...
[16:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:59] <exec> 08└─Libertarianism is calvinball.
[16:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:00] <exec> 08└─Breaking the law can result in legal consequences? Even at that, there are lots of people willing to sell drugs as a part of the gig economy.
[16:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Worker-Owned Apps Are Trying to Fix the Gig Economy's Exploitation - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:02] <exec> 08└─Not any more
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[17:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Strongest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever Recorded are Illuminating the Universe's Most Powerful Explosions - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:25] <exec> 08└─This is something that could wipe out most in-space settlement, should gamma ray bursts get powerful enough. You need a lot of shielding to protect against such things.
[17:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strongest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever Recorded are Illuminating the Universe's Most Powerful Explosions - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:26] <exec> 08└─GRBs are not only about "you". It's everyone in your neighborhood, everyone in your country, everyone in your hemisphere. There may be a few on the side of the earth opposite the burst that survive, but either the Chinese will lose their shipments of soybeans from USA, or the USA will lose all their...
[17:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Use Drones and GoPros to Track Gray Whale Behavior - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:40] <exec> 08└─Have you been talking to Devin Nunes?
[17:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces "oneAPI" for Programming CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, Accelerators, etc. - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:54] <exec> 08└─"necessity of tightly coupling middleware and frameworks" when will the rube goldberg contraption of "modern" software fall over?
[17:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brad McQuaid, Co-Creator of EverQuest, Dead at 51 - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:12] <exec> 08└─Dude created the first proper 3D MMORPG of any notable size and was a pretty nice guy the few times I chatted with him. Sucks to lose folks like him.
[17:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brad McQuaid, Co-Creator of EverQuest, Dead at 51 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:14] <exec> 08└─I thought the quote was, "Experiments have been show to cause cancer in rats."
[17:28:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starship Prototype Mk1 Fails During Propellant Tank Loading Test: Onwards to Mk3 - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:42] <exec> 08└─Johnson
[17:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Starship Prototype Mk1 Fails During Propellant Tank Loading Test: Onwards to Mk3 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:28:44] <exec> 08└─Bon Voyage. Don't forget to write.
[17:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Outlines Plans for Mainline Linux Kernel Support in Android - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:06] <exec> 08└─it is utterly totally hair-raising that a free (yes, endlessly copiable with no repercussions) and open-sourced (yes! yes, go look how it's really made!) kernel is driving belleons of dollars of profits in form of "dummyfication phones" but not even 1% of said dumb phones can be software modified (r...
[17:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Decoding How Some Animals Pause Pregnancies Could Unlock New Cancer Treatments - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:17] <exec> 08└─Further reading suggests that in birds it's not actually a functional reproductive change. Clownfish (aka Nemo) are one striking example amongst fish - they're all born male, and the basic family unit is one large female accompanied by a group of her small male children. If something happens to her,...
[17:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:19] <exec> 08└─And it's also much further away from the Sun. Plus the fact that it *is* colder means the root mean square velocity of any given molecule in its atmosphere is lower, so even if Titan has lower escape velocity than Mars, less of the atmosphere is in an energetic state that would allow it to escape.
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[18:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bats in Attics Might be Necessary for Conservation - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:17] <exec> 08└─I kinda like the little furry things. To my knowledge, I have killed exactly two in my life. Found one lodged in the grill of a pickup truck, and whacked another on a motorcycle. I didn't feel bad-really-bad, but I wasn't happy to have killed them. I enjoy watching the little guys munching down on a...
[18:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bats in Attics Might be Necessary for Conservation - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:18] <exec> 08└─Why might it be "necessary for conservation"? Are there less bats now? Is Yellowstone being developed and they are running out of roosts? Is the climate cooling in the US causing natural roosts to not provide enough protection from the cold?
[18:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bats in Attics Might be Necessary for Conservation - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:20] <exec> 08└─If they'll keep the mosquitos and yellow jackets out of the yard we might have a deal.
[18:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bats in Attics Might be Necessary for Conservation - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:22] <exec> 08└─They definitely help with the mosquito population, but I kinda doubt they munch on very many yellow jackets. I've never seen a bat attack a yellow jacket nest. Yellow jackets will be chilling on their nest at night instead of flying, unlike mosquitoes.
[18:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bats in Attics Might be Necessary for Conservation - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I was afraid of that. And the downside is guano. Ever been inside an attic that's hosted bats for a few years? Guano everywhere. Valuable resource, when you have tons and tons of it, but just a nasty mess and a pain to clean, when it's a few pounds spread all over the attic. How about a bathou...
[18:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bats in Attics Might be Necessary for Conservation - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:27] <exec> 08└─Interestingly enough, Skunks do dig up yellow jacket nests and eat them. Skunk vs. Yellow Jackets: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[18:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bats in Attics Might be Necessary for Conservation - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:29] <exec> 08└─That seems to be a much better idea, than just let them chill in your attic.
[18:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strongest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever Recorded are Illuminating the Universe's Most Powerful Explosions - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:40] <exec> 08└─I don't think you understand the problem at all. The only safety is not being in the area hit.
[18:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Use Drones and GoPros to Track Gray Whale Behavior - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:55] <exec> 08└─Don't have a cow, man!
[18:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Decoding How Some Animals Pause Pregnancies Could Unlock New Cancer Treatments - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:30] <exec> 08└─Clown fish definitely can change. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:11] <exec> 08└─I believe it counts as abandoned property, yes.
[18:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:12] <exec> 08└─Conduct intensive research to determine what voltage and current gets it to glow the most brightly.
[18:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:14] <exec> 08└─Drive a Corvette. Magnetic doesn't work too well on fiberglass/aluminum.
[18:32:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:36] <exec> 08└─there are probably endless reasons why life cannot exist on mars. however, for a time, the earth was flat, then it turned round and was the center of everything ... tons and tons of arguments had to be fought because every new theory was "crack pot". after losing all "special privileges" of geometry...
[18:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:37] <exec> 08└─1: I got an insect on Mars! 2: ... 2: I got a rock.
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[19:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DeepMind's New AI is Grand Master at StarCraft II - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:14] <exec> 08└─Blizzard will just take away the AI's trophy when it criticizes China's crackdown.
[19:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bats in Attics Might be Necessary for Conservation - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:28] <exec> 08└─So, all these years that all of those people accusing me of having bats in my belfry, they were actually complimenting me on my conservation efforts? How nice of them! ;-)
[19:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strongest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever Recorded are Illuminating the Universe's Most Powerful Explosions - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:42] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with zombies?
[19:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Use Drones and GoPros to Track Gray Whale Behavior - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:57] <exec> 08└─Now that...is very funny, even if a bit off topic. If you don't understand: https://www.fresnobee.com [fresnobee.com] https://abovethelaw.com [abovethelaw.com] https://www.esquire.com
[19:28:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Announces "oneAPI" for Programming CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, Accelerators, etc. - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:12] <exec> 08└─"Middleware" is what happens when you leave all the important stuff out of your product Modern systems won't fall over while the developers are able to keep adding to the "middleware" The salesman will tell you how the core system is so fast and lean...
[19:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Announces "oneAPI" for Programming CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, Accelerators, etc. - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:14] <exec> 08└─If you're coming late to the party, at least look at all the comments first [soylentnews.org] before making that joke.
[19:30:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:18] <exec> 08└─It's gotten so you've got to buy cheap, easily accessible meth in order to cook it into heavily restricted pseudo-ephedrine to treat auto-immune issues that lead to severe allergic responses.
[19:31:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Official Monero Website is Hacked to Deliver Currency-Stealing Malware - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:36] <exec> 08└─I think you answered both your own questions, in that any such measure to build in a 'checksum check' would presumably be hackable itself by inserting the altered's program's checksum there as well as furthering further compliancy on the part of downloaders. But why it wasn't altered on the webpage....
[19:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:14] <exec> 08└─Trouble is Parrot Fish would turn reef into rubble in not that long. Then we are right back where we started. I think the big problem is plastic tends to float.
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[20:27:26] <exec> 08└─Free Tay, it will take on China.
[20:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06DeepMind's New AI is Grand Master at StarCraft II - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:28] <exec> 08└─general-purpose reinforcement learning
[20:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DeepMind's New AI is Grand Master at StarCraft II - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:30] <exec> 08└─> The results were stunning: AlphaStar had become among the most sophisticated Starcraft II players on the planet, but remarkably still not quite superhuman. There are roughly 0.2 percent of players capable of defeating it, but it is largely considered only a matter of time before the system improve...
[20:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bats in Attics Might be Necessary for Conservation - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:45] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-nose_syndrome [wikipedia.org]
[20:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Bats in Attics Might be Necessary for Conservation - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:46] <exec> 08└─I agree - they're kind of cute in a fuzzy rodent sort of way, mostly harmless to humans (unless rabid - but rabies kills them very quickly, so just stay away from ill/injured bats), and just about everything they eat are things that annoy me (including those far-more-dangerous mosquitoes) A fun disp...
[20:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bats in Attics Might be Necessary for Conservation - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:48] <exec> 08└─Typically bat-houses don't even have a floor, the open bottom serves as the entrance as well. You'll get guano beneath it, but you need a big colony before it accumulates faster than rain can wash it away.
[20:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bats in Attics Might be Necessary for Conservation - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:50] <exec> 08└─Or just hang it over a garden and take advantage of the free fertilizer.
[20:28:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strongest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever Recorded are Illuminating the Universe's Most Powerful Explosions - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:04] <exec> 08└─The other side of the earth from North America is more like New Zealand and Australia than China.
[20:28:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Use Drones and GoPros to Track Gray Whale Behavior - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:20] <exec> 08└─Weirdly there seem to be a number of people who browse this site who have an anti-science worldview. Well, anti-science that doesn't support their worldview anyway. Those sorts of petty attacks are just part of the nonsense.
[20:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:43] <exec> 08└─If not by ship, plan, or train, then by truck.
[20:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:08] <exec> 08└─The point is that the variables are accumulating and you are making up new excuses for each new object. It is a pointless model with the available data.
[20:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Photos Show Evidence Of Life On Mars, Ohio Entomologist Says - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:09] <exec> 08└─So you don't like science because it's hard? Cry me a river, build me a bridge, jump off the bridge, and drown in the river of your own tears. Let's hear your hypothesis then, brainiac :D
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[21:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Man Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for DDoS Attacks - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:11] <exec> 08└─"being dumb" is not a defence
[21:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SparkyGSX [4041] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Man Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for DDoS Attacks - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:13] <exec> 08└─There was a story about China imposing a ban on face masks in Hong Kong above this story in the main page, and now it's gone. What happened? Is Soylentnews being censored? Why would that story be removed without a trace, instead of edited if something was wrong about it?
[21:27:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ohio Man Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for DDoS Attacks - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:15] <exec> 08└─You DDOS a medical site that results in injury or death Vs. You DDOS http://unicorns.com [unicorns.com] and nobody gives a shit
[21:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strongest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever Recorded are Illuminating the Universe's Most Powerful Explosions - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:57] <exec> 08└─You are considering the geography, but that is not at risk from a gamma ray burst. It's the people who are at risk, and there are a lot of those in China. (Also, India, which is pretty close to antipodal to the US.)
[21:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strongest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever Recorded are Illuminating the Universe's Most Powerful Explosions - 1610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:58] <exec> 08└─The real danger of GRB's is not the direct impact. You don't burn to death or anything like that. It probably would not even make it through the atmosphere. But oh the atmosphere, that's where the real issue. Those high energy particles would wreak havoc in our atmosphere with consequences that are...
[21:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strongest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever Recorded are Illuminating the Universe's Most Powerful Explosions - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:00] <exec> 08└─If you want to develop a partial solution to an intractable problem, sometimes it helps to redefine the problem. Shielding (say, behind a planet) can create a place that is not being hit, within a region of space that is being hit. Lesser levels of shielding will be progressively less effective, but...
[21:29:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starship Prototype Mk1 Fails During Propellant Tank Loading Test: Onwards to Mk3 - 1487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:20] <exec> 08└─Yep, launching with crew on the first flight - who would do such a crazy thing? It's not like the very first Space Shuttle launch was crewed. Oh wait, yes it was - it had a crew of two and circled the Earth 36 times before landing without serious incident. Now I'm a fan of SpaceX's iterative design...
[21:30:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:10] <exec> 08└─Call the Bomb Squad and the local news.
[21:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:39] <exec> 08└─I hear Steve Jobs got a new car every six months. Ostensibly, it was for other reasons related to permanent license plates, but this would also fit into his use case.
[21:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:41] <exec> 08└─exchange it for a gold idol on a platform
[21:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:43] <exec> 08└─That sounds like a drug rehabilitation program. But seriously, is that even feasible? Can I get a recipe to repair meth (without ending up on a list)?
[21:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:45] <exec> 08└─So GM ran all of those commercials about how ford's aluminum vehicles were garbage and then removed the steel frame from the corvette? At least on the ford trucks they doubled the size of their steel frames when they switched to aluminum body panels.
[21:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:47] <exec> 08└─If I can't take a boat, why would I want to plan and train so that I can go by truck?
[21:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cat-HTR Process Promised to Recycle Any Plastic - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:45] <exec> 08└─I am not a vegan. I don't hate vegans. They are very tasty when cooked and seasoned properly.
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[22:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06China Says its Courts Trump Hong Kong's on Face Mask Ruling - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:22] <exec> 08└─Okay, so China legislator says the Hong Kong courts can't rule on this. So what? If the US claimed that Russia wasn't really a country and everybody there owed taxes to Donald Trump, would it matter? No, Russia would tell the US government to punk-off. That's the whole concept of sovereignty, and un...
[22:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says its Courts Trump Hong Kong's on Face Mask Ruling - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:24] <exec> 08└─China's top legislature ... condemned a decision by the high court to overturn a ban on face masks worn by pro-democracy protesters.
[22:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06China Says its Courts Trump Hong Kong's on Face Mask Ruling - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:26] <exec> 08└─Is there anyone who was actually thinking when the deal with the British was struck that it would end any other way than complete domination by Beijing? Tiananmen Square was already 8 years in the past at when sovereignty was transferred. The Basic Law was a fig leaf to be maintained only as long as...
[22:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says its Courts Trump Hong Kong's on Face Mask Ruling - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:28] <exec> 08└─and the second largest economy in the world overall
[22:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says its Courts Trump Hong Kong's on Face Mask Ruling - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:30] <exec> 08└─What will the consequences be? Some grandstanding, some nice speaches and then..... nothing. The world is filled with hypocrits, when money is involved we collectivly chose to look the other way.
[22:27:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says its Courts Trump Hong Kong's on Face Mask Ruling - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:32] <exec> 08└─The first law in Hong Kong's Basic Law states they're a part of the People's Republic of China. The second says they have high, but not absolute degree of autonomy: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The Sino-British Joint Declaration first policy...
[22:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says its Courts Trump Hong Kong's on Face Mask Ruling - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's it in a nutshell.
[22:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Man Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for DDoS Attacks - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:46] <exec> 08└─That are usually overly long, and do not tend to lead to meaningful reform, this seems like an appropriate punishment for willfully harmful acts intended to hurt the quality of life for others. That said, that context sucks; we should have milder sentences for almost everyone, and the police suck fo...
[22:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Man Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for DDoS Attacks - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:48] <exec> 08└─martyb accidentally put two stories within 7 minutes of each other, so he changed the time on it. It's up now.
[22:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Man Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for DDoS Attacks - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:51] <exec> 08└─It's there. Refresh bypassing cache. The problem is technical and you should be less paranoid.
[22:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ohio Man Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for DDoS Attacks - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:53] <exec> 08└─you should be less paranoid
[22:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ohio Man Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for DDoS Attacks - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:55] <exec> 08└─"being dumb" is not a defence
[22:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DeepMind's New AI is Grand Master at StarCraft II - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:07] <exec> 08└─A self-driving car that is equally as good as a human driver would be killing millions. Even if a self-driving car fails on edge cases that humans understand intuitively, it can be superior if it has a very fast reaction time and is biased towards slowing down when things don't add up. Slowing down...
[22:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DeepMind's New AI is Grand Master at StarCraft II - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:09] <exec> 08└─Figuring out how to do driving is easy... So you build an AI to learn how to simulate perfect human-like behavior for pedestrians and drivers to train the driving AI. Then you need to train an AI to teach how to teach perfect human like behavior that will train the driving AI. Then you train the AI...
[22:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strongest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever Recorded are Illuminating the Universe's Most Powerful Explosions - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:43] <exec> 08└─The true zombies are full time. Like, full-time-all-the-time undead. If you thought that 9-5 is bad, imagine how it is when it is on call no exception.
[22:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strongest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever Recorded are Illuminating the Universe's Most Powerful Explosions - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:45] <exec> 08└─Shielding (say, behind a planet) can create a place that is not being hit, within a region of space that is being hit.
[22:28:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Strongest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever Recorded are Illuminating the Universe's Most Powerful Explosions - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:47] <exec> 08└─I don't think you understand the problem at all. The only safety is not being in the area hit.
[22:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Strongest Gamma-Ray Bursts Ever Recorded are Illuminating the Universe's Most Powerful Explosions - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:49] <exec> 08└─Any GRB that would mess up Earth's atmosphere that much is going to wipe out most hypothetical life in space and mess up other planets and such in the Solar System too. Sure, you've increased the number of places that can survive a GRB of that strength. But you've also increased the amount of places...
[22:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brad McQuaid, Co-Creator of EverQuest, Dead at 51 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:40] <exec> 08└─I will always have fond memories of quad kiting Chromodracs in Skyfire.
[22:29:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brad McQuaid, Co-Creator of EverQuest, Dead at 51 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:42] <exec> 08└─I thought the quote was, "Experiments have been show to cause cancer in rats."
[22:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Starship Prototype Mk1 Fails During Propellant Tank Loading Test: Onwards to Mk3 - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:14] <exec> 08└─Things that make sense when your launcher costs $2 billion per flight instead of $2 million. Yeah, guess things are quite different in that regime.
[22:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Outlines Plans for Mainline Linux Kernel Support in Android - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:36] <exec> 08└─You don't need every contributor; you just need one to enforce their rights under copyright law. Even better for your claim if they wrote part of the code being patched by the derivative work, but I've seen some analysis that even that may not be necessary under a "multiple-edition edited-volume" th...
[22:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cops Put GPS Tracker on Man's Car, Charge Him With Theft for Removing It - 1593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:40] <exec> 08└─According to a friend of mine about his time in the ER, only one person out of the entire lot of people who came in like that (of at least one a day) admitted to putting it up his own rectum. Most everyone else claimed to be doing some activity naked and then falling on the object. Hundreds of peopl...
[22:32:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 1608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:30] <exec> 08└─Half, right, anyway. Still modded you insightful. Sickness reactions are both the illness reproducing itself and also the body's defenses in fighting it. Fever (raise the body temperature because most pathogens are very temperature sensitive), increased mucous and other fluid production to isolate a...
[22:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 1349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:31] <exec> 08└─No, you will NOT "get the flu" by getting the vaccine. [cdc.gov] The particles of influenza that are in the vaccine have been INACTIVATED. As in made not possible to replicate or be transmitted. You will NOT be "contagious". All that will happen is your body's active defense systems will train thems...
[22:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:33] <exec> 08└─Also the vaccine itself has a cost to it. IIRC (and I could well be wrong...) it's somewhere in the neighborhood of $12ish per dose. And you need to buy 'enough'... how many doses do you get stuck with after the fact and you end up eating the cost on them? And/or run out and you have to send people...
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[23:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Rubbish Story: China's Mega-Dump Full 25 Years Ahead of Schedule - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:16] <exec> 08└─That's one massive dump. I don't think air freshener or matches are going to cut it.
[23:27:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06China Says its Courts Trump Hong Kong's on Face Mask Ruling - 1087 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:32] <exec> 08└─The first law in Hong Kong's Basic Law states they're a part of the People's Republic of China. The second says they have high, but not absolute degree of autonomy: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The Sino-British Joint Declaration first policy...
[23:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says its Courts Trump Hong Kong's on Face Mask Ruling - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:35] <exec> 08└─Beijing has a track record of crushing dissent, so things don't bode well for the HK protesters there. But if Beijing does get medieval on the city, they will be killing the goose that laid the golden egg. They would lose a crazy amount of face.
[23:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says its Courts Trump Hong Kong's on Face Mask Ruling - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:37] <exec> 08└─in 2047 But by doing this now, they are lowering the odds.
[23:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says its Courts Trump Hong Kong's on Face Mask Ruling - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:39] <exec> 08└─...but the ants have nothing to say when the boy with the magnifying glass is bored.
[23:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06China Says its Courts Trump Hong Kong's on Face Mask Ruling - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:42] <exec> 08└─All Chinamen look identical, so why bother wearing masks?
[23:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Says its Courts Trump Hong Kong's on Face Mask Ruling - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:44] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but the US is not #1, in either value (2T$ for china, 1.8T$ for us) or %age of world goods (20% for china, 18% for the us..) (yes, dont those numbers line up well?) However there is a MUCH deeper difference. China ALSO manufactures a huge proportion of the base components that then are 'manuf...
[23:27:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Says its Courts Trump Hong Kong's on Face Mask Ruling - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:46] <exec> 08└─China isn't letting go of Hong Kong in any way. shape form or other. Ever.
[23:27:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06China Says its Courts Trump Hong Kong's on Face Mask Ruling - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:48] <exec> 08└─China isn't letting go of Hong Kong in any way. shape form or other. Ever. So what? Who is actually trying to take Hong Kong away from China?
[23:27:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says its Courts Trump Hong Kong's on Face Mask Ruling - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:50] <exec> 08└─All wypipo look the same, with dead inside school shooter eyes instead of slants.
[23:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Says its Courts Trump Hong Kong's on Face Mask Ruling - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:53] <exec> 08└─Companies recognize China as a single point of failure. [eastasiaforum.org] Many companies. [cnbc.com]
[23:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Says its Courts Trump Hong Kong's on Face Mask Ruling - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:55] <exec> 08└─Ok, consider why China hasn't moved already to crush these protests? There are other constraints on China's power than merely the potential for foreign conflict.
[23:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ohio Man Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for DDoS Attacks - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:10] <exec> 08└─He probably would have committed a more serious crime, hopefully one with a life sentence. That way, he could get three hots and a cot, free healthcare, clothes, etc. For the rest of his life.* Sure beats scrounging out of dumpsters to eat when you're 70. *If you're going to go this route, make sure...
[23:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brad McQuaid, Co-Creator of EverQuest, Dead at 51 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:54] <exec> 08└─Wizard, eh? But did you get your jboots from Hasten or by killing Drelzna?
[23:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:44] <exec> 08└─Anti-vaxxers learning something new?
[23:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bonkers Pricing of “Free” Flu Shots Shows What's Wrong With US Healthcare - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:45] <exec> 08└─The Measles leaves lifelong immunity after getting it, compared to the vaccine, because once you get measles you have it, forever. If your body manages to fight of the measles and other secondary infections, you are still stuck with the latent infection. Every so often it flairs up and your body has...
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