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[00:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Admits It Has Enacted Zero Civil Liberties Protections Regarding Surveillance Doorbell - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:09] <exec> 08└─Amazon is simply doing what every corporation without a charter stating its ethical boundaries does: take advantage of its consumers to the full extent allowed by existing law. The failure here is first and foremost with the politicians, followed by the technologists who should have been advicing th...
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[00:48:11] <exec> 08└─No one was surprised.
[00:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Verizon's New 5G Coverage Maps Show Just How Sparse the Network Is - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:26] <exec> 08└─If you find any antennae, do your neighborhood a favor and wrap them in tin foil.
[00:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lose Money on Repairs, Apple? an Absurd Claim, Say Critics - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:45] <exec> 08└─Any faux affluent individuals try and pretend they are hip by owning Apple products. It's been that way since the 1990s, outside of a few desktop publishing professionals for whom it made sense.
[00:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moscow Bans Sale of Gadgets Without Russian-Made Software - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:16] <exec> 08└─And given the way many American celebrities have been cozying up to Communist leaders and the way our government has been cozying up to both communist and fascist policies our parents, grandparents, and great grandparents fought and died to keep from coming to our lands... Well.
[00:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moscow Bans Sale of Gadgets Without Russian-Made Software - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:17] <exec> 08└─Bless your heart.
[00:51:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:22] <exec> 08└─I find that Chrome's ability to zoom in on pages is really helpful for those of us with deteriorating eyesight. Unfortunately, both SoylentNews and Slashdot are coded in a way that screws that up. The page notes that we are zooming, and then "helpfully" shrinks all the columns to counteract that.
[00:51:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:23] <exec> 08└─That's pretty atypical trolling for him, really. He's usually either better at it or more over the top.
[00:51:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:26] <exec> 08└─Jews get old too, you racist scum!
[00:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:28] <exec> 08└─He's usually either better at it or more over the top.
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[01:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Admits It Has Enacted Zero Civil Liberties Protections Regarding Surveillance Doorbell - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:12] <exec> 08└─from the one-ring-to-rule-them-all dept.
[01:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Admits It Has Enacted Zero Civil Liberties Protections Regarding Surveillance Doorbell - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:13] <exec> 08└─Why should the government spend its hard-earned tax dollars building a nationwide surveillance network if private industry is just going to copy it.
[01:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Admits It Has Enacted Zero Civil Liberties Protections Regarding Surveillance Doorbell - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:15] <exec> 08└─I don't want to live in a world where the government is expected to protect you from everything and people are never required to think for themselves. Now if companies are lying about what they're doing with the data that's different and should be illegal.
[01:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon's New 5G Coverage Maps Show Just How Sparse the Network Is - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:31] <exec> 08└─Can't stop the signal..
[01:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Moscow Bans Sale of Gadgets Without Russian-Made Software - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:24] <exec> 08└─Right in the economics :(
[01:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Moscow Bans Sale of Gadgets Without Russian-Made Software - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:25] <exec> 08└─Having said that, I reckon their stated reason is quite reasonable. They want too reduce reliance on foreign software and boost their own software engineering capability. I can see lots of reasons why they would want to do that. It's much more plausible than what we're all thinking here.
[01:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Moscow Bans Sale of Gadgets Without Russian-Made Software - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:27] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I don't see what is so horribly wrong about this ban except such a simplistic mandate would be quite insufficient.
[01:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moscow Bans Sale of Gadgets Without Russian-Made Software - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:29] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is it wouldn't surprise me if those that pass these anticompetitive laws use the very foreign products that they themselves prohibit.
[01:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Shutting Down its Cloud Printing Service - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:48] <exec> 08└─Try sharing a printer with Windows 10 on a LAN. It's fucking ridiculous.
[01:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:39] <exec> 08└─Why are you lashing out like a toddler today?
[01:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Story Submissions: Draw a Line or Play it by Ear or... - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:29] <exec> 08└─Wait? Someone who doesn't know who DoubleClick.net [wikipedia.org] are? They've been a favourite for a 127.0.0.1 entry in /etc/hosts for a very, very long time.
[01:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03yuhong [6517] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Story Submissions: Draw a Line or Play it by Ear or... - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:31] <exec> 08└─What is hard to find is when they merged the DoubleClick data with other data like AdWords (from 2000).
[01:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03yuhong [6517] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Story Submissions: Draw a Line or Play it by Ear or... - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:33] <exec> 08└─No, I don't do ads on my blog, but the entire point of the essay/overview is about the history of Google advertising.
[01:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Story Submissions: Draw a Line or Play it by Ear or... - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:35] <exec> 08└─Fair point. I guess much of the knowledge has come from steady perusal of sites like SN and Slashdot over the years, with no one place/article that has the full story.
[01:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03yuhong [6517] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Story Submissions: Draw a Line or Play it by Ear or... - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:37] <exec> 08└─I really wish the press would cover the topic.
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[02:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:01] <exec> 08└─Millenia
[02:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:02] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, they'll get it right when they repost in a few days.
[02:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:04] <exec> 08└─killed somewhere between 40 percent and 60 percent of the European population
[02:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:07] <exec> 08└─That's what you think. Our editors are highly trained to cmn32480's exacting standards of speeling.
[02:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Admits It Has Enacted Zero Civil Liberties Protections Regarding Surveillance Doorbell - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:18] <exec> 08└─Apparently we are weaving the rope that will be used to hang us…
[02:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Lose Money on Repairs, Apple? an Absurd Claim, Say Critics - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:55] <exec> 08└─Remember when Michael David Crawford was alive and coding exclusively for Apple products used by faux affluent individuals to try and pretend they are hip? Those were the days.
[02:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Lose Money on Repairs, Apple? an Absurd Claim, Say Critics - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:57] <exec> 08└─I find it absurd that Apple would argue that they are losing money on repairs, when their repair prices - like everything else they sell, are obviously set at carefully chosen price points. If it really was a repair service, the quoted costs would be something like (price of parts) + (cost of labor)...
[02:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moscow Bans Sale of Gadgets Without Russian-Made Software - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:35] <exec> 08└─on my computer, I would just take it to get repaired at Best Buy.
[02:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former USS Fitzgerald CO Benson to Retire as Commander Next Month - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:33] <exec> 08└─Please add at least the following link to previous SoylentNews coverage of the debacle of the colliding ships: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] It took me a while to remember what this was all about. And I wonder what happened to Cmdr. Alfredo J. Sanchez, the...
[02:51:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 250 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:23] <exec> 08└─...f you're my age you have no doubt run into more than a few web sites that are just plain useless, either because you can't read the text, or because they were designed using assumptions that those of us over forty years of age don't find useful...
[02:51:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 690 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:27] <exec> 08└─What you do is why I think older tech folks have an advantage over the young'uns. They don't know how to adjust for such road bumps, but we've always had to as we built the stuff from scratch. When I encounter issues like you mentioned, if uMatrix doesn't nuke it automatically then I open firebug an...
[02:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:47] <exec> 08└─I have to agree. Sometimes watching a video really is the best way to learn how to do something, like taking apart something that's complicated - such as modern electronics that are not meant to be taken apart. It can be really handy to see exactly where and how to jam the putty knife into the thing...
[02:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:49] <exec> 08└─This. It's why consumers buy on price and not quality. Price is the only metric that is reliably true.
[02:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Story Submissions: Draw a Line or Play it by Ear or... - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:44] <exec> 08└─One issue I guess would be that it's of a technical nature and thus not readily digested. Another would be that they might just not be aware of it. If some geeky person or other actually collected all the information and submitted to <paper of choice> as a scoop, there might be some traction.
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[03:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:16] <exec> 08└─From the article: The bacteria Yersinia pestis, which causes the plague, is thought to be responsible for up to 200 million deaths across human history.
[03:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 1621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:18] <exec> 08└─It's fairly simple, really. Deadly diseases tend to wipe out their hosts too quickly to go global, in a hunter-gatherer eon. Which most of them were. There were occasional plagues but they killed themselves off, leaving ghost-lands for future generations to move into. And the stories they left were...
[03:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:20] <exec> 08└─Live fast, die young, leave a hedonist corpse.
[03:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits It Has Enacted Zero Civil Liberties Protections Regarding Surveillance Doorbell - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:32] <exec> 08└─How exactly are single thinking individuals going to protect themselves from Amazon? You yourself may refuse to buy a 1984 doorbell. But if half your neighborhood does, you are swept up in the surveillance dragnet, no matter how enlightened an individual you are. And if you try to do something about...
[03:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon's New 5G Coverage Maps Show Just How Sparse the Network Is - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:49] <exec> 08└─Faraday says you're wrong.
[03:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lose Money on Repairs, Apple? an Absurd Claim, Say Critics - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:12] <exec> 08└─Exactly... If they can charge you for a new $2500 MacBook instead of just plugging the video cable back in or replacing a $100 battery or whatever, they will certainly make more money.... :facepalm:
[03:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow Bans Sale of Gadgets Without Russian-Made Software - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:50] <exec> 08└─"users expressed concerns about the quality of the Russian alternatives, in comparison to international brands such as Windows" In the words of Steve Martin (paraphrased, "Excuuuuuse...me?" Since when is Windows a 'quality' product? A product marketed well that has sucked the life out of computers e...
[03:50:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Google is Shutting Down its Cloud Printing Service - 1100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:00] <exec> 08└─This is something that should not exist. Printing to remote printers was something that was solved back in Windows For Workgroups 3.11. But it seems the ability to print is something that has gotten more convoluted since then. I've had to handle a lot of snail-mailed in correspondences lately, and I...
[03:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Shutting Down its Cloud Printing Service - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:11] <exec> 08└─We recommend that over the next year, you identify an alternative solution and execute a migration strategy.
[03:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:06] <exec> 08└─Geocities? myspace? no, my friend, I was thinking back to the days of mosaic. that was hard to read.
[03:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:08] <exec> 08└─Responsive zoom isn't magnify. It is designed to keep the relative page flow while proportionally increasing the size of the content. If you want a magnification, then you need to set the browser to not change your viewport size on zooming.
[03:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:10] <exec> 08└─I am not older than dirt. there are others more venerable than I am. but my first computer was a TRS-80s that used a cassette deck. my grandmother bought the first IBM PC and taught herself to program before she taught us. my grandfather brought home a special treat for us kids one day: the first co...
[03:55:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sulla [5173] 02 - 06US Warships Sail in Disputed South China Sea Amid Tensions - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:13] <exec> 08└─The United States accuses China of militarizing the South China Sea and trying to intimidate Asian neighbors who might want to exploit its extensive oil and gas reserves.
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[04:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:11] <exec> 08└─"Coolpad Group Limited formerly known as China Wireless Technologies Limited is a Caymans-incorporated holding company." Coolpad is a Caymans company, see, and Caymans is not China. Gimme FCC moneys.
[04:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:13] <exec> 08└─The big Tel-Cos are just pocketing the USF money without providing the services called for. ATT, Verzion, T-Moblie etc all really don't need the extra cash as they are already rich from sucking the blood from consumers, so they don't really need any taxpayer money. Plus they can just use any equipme...
[04:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:15] <exec> 08└─Stick it to the big four by using a dirt cheap MVNO instead. That way you still get phone service which one of the telcos is obligated to provide you but you're not paying directly into their bloated advertising budget.
[04:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:28] <exec> 08└─Without modern medicine, the current global pandemic would be quite a bit more serious.
[04:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:30] <exec> 08└─To me, one of the most impressive stories out of the bird flu back around 2003 was that apartment building where basically everybody in it contracted the flu - apparently the plumbing had an unwanted but nonetheless present connection between the sanitary sewer and the drinking water....
[04:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:32] <exec> 08└─Ethanol-HIV-fueled should be dead from AIDS long ago.
[04:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:34] <exec> 08└─He's a journalist and Presbyterian minister. You can read him at TruthDig [truthdig.com].
[04:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:36] <exec> 08└─I prefer the swine flu from 2009. I was working with a lot of Chinese people back then who all ate pork and who all spread swine flu to everyone around them. Swine flu was entertaining to have because it felt so different from the common flu. I remember doing a lot of dry heaving while I had it.
[04:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:38] <exec> 08└─It's not quite that simple, and the primary host for plague is various rodents, not humans. And the rodents are a lot less damaged by the plague than humans are. Another factor, of course, is population density. Denser populations allow more contagious diseases to spread without worrying about wheth...
[04:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:40] <exec> 08└─I did mention both the rodents, and the carriers, though of course you're right; the intersection between the two is particularly important and I didn't mention that. "Denser populations allow more contagious diseases to spread without worrying [quite so much] about whether they are killing off thei...
[04:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Admits It Has Enacted Zero Civil Liberties Protections Regarding Surveillance Doorbell - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:54] <exec> 08└─"Amazon is simply doing what every corporation without a charter stating its ethical boundaries" We shouldn't allow such a thing to exist. Seriously. It should be a legal requirement, if you're a US Corporation, that you support free speech and privacy actively in your day to day operation.
[04:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits It Has Enacted Zero Civil Liberties Protections Regarding Surveillance Doorbell - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:56] <exec> 08└─I'm already hung, could I get an exemption please and thank you?
[04:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits It Has Enacted Zero Civil Liberties Protections Regarding Surveillance Doorbell - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:58] <exec> 08└─I mean, Amazon sold a whole bunch of doorbells, then acted like a total ding-dong about it. I could see that coming up the driveway.
[04:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Admits It Has Enacted Zero Civil Liberties Protections Regarding Surveillance Doorbell - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:00] <exec> 08└─Ding-ding-ding.
[04:49:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Lose Money on Repairs, Apple? an Absurd Claim, Say Critics - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:49:29] <exec> 08└─The old saying had to be updated for the digital economy.
[04:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow Bans Sale of Gadgets Without Russian-Made Software - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:50:18] <exec> 08└─users expressed concerns about the quality of the Russian alternatives, in comparison to international brands such as Windows and Google
[04:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:35] <exec> 08└─Well, I can say that I put up with some nasty graphics in the past too. But I have a bit more trouble with that stuff today.
[04:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:36] <exec> 08└─I think it was one of Stanislaw Lem's stories where he made the point, "A robot can tell you the temperature to any number of decimal places. But only a human can tell you that it's cold."
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[05:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:11] <exec> 08└─Letting my mind drift a little. FCC Tells US Telcos: You Won't See Another Dime From Us Until ... You prove you've laid fiber to the curb for every neighborhood you service Inexpensive 1.5MBps internet is available to poor people at a capped price, with the signup link on your main webpage You provi...
[05:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:13] <exec> 08└─The funny part of this is if the Chinese would just agree to give Trump a win on a trade deal, this whole concern about Huawei and security would simply disappear. None of this is about keeping us safe. It's all theater.
[05:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:15] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure you won't see Huawei kit at the Pentagon anytime soon. Except for their equivalent TAO unit where they hack the stuff.
[05:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:17] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to that $10 dry loop DSL internet that was in that spectrum takeover deal?
[05:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:19] <exec> 08└─Inexpensive 1.5MBps internet is available to poor people at a capped price, with the signup link on your main webpage
[05:48:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06Amazon Admits It Has Enacted Zero Civil Liberties Protections Regarding Surveillance Doorbell - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:50] <exec> 08└─Apparently we are weaving the rope that will be used to hang us…
[05:51:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:46] <exec> 08└─Bad backgrounds have always been a problem. Unfortunately, it's harder to select all the text with a keyboard shortcut on a mobile device.
[05:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:32] <exec> 08└─yep -- I use my phone for browser stuff as an absolute last resort only when immediately necessary -- often times I'll think "oh I should look into X" and when I get home or back to my office, I'll fire up a browser and do the search.
[05:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 1374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:34] <exec> 08└─I think we've all probably gone to youtube to learn how to do something (for me, plumbing -- I've saved many thousands of dollars) and it obviously has its place, but it seems the modern information aesthetic is to glom everything together. I quit using Gmail years ago because it was so hard to use...
[05:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:36] <exec> 08└─Gosh that was hard. I couldn't decide on funny or insightful -- the line about buffering cracked me up. I went for insightful because it comes with karama, but what I really want -- have always wanted -- is the "insightfunny" mod.
[05:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:38] <exec> 08└─Wow -- you had sound!!
[05:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:40] <exec> 08└─And more than two colors (where one was black)?
[05:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EPA's Anti-Science ‘Transparency’ Rule Has a Long History - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:10] <exec> 08└─If the standards of "proof" become stringent enough, you can't "prove" a positive either, because this kind of science is not math. Burden of proof is just a phrase. It means whoever wants to emit chemicals into the environment should be responsible for safety tests that meet whatever standard the g...
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[06:48:24] <exec> 08└─What if you told the NRA that people would be able to buy more guns online if they could actually get online (and have money left over to spend on the guns)?
[06:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:26] <exec> 08└─I worked for McDonnell Douglass / Boeing back in the old days. There were parts of the plant in Huntington Beach where we weren't allowed to go due to the Chinese employees. They stole everything they could get their hands on down to the paint colors. Take a look at the green paint on their towers a...
[06:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RDP Loves Company: Kaspersky Finds 37 Security Holes in VNC Remote Desktop Software - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:50:58] <exec> 08└─I'm going with "no" for three reasons. First is that yum doesn't update automatically by default, so if you have to ask then you've probably not enabled it or should, at least, assume you haven't. Second is this part of TFS, "All have now been patched, save for the bugs in TightVNC 1.x which were pr...
[06:51:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former USS Fitzgerald CO Benson to Retire as Commander Next Month - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:22] <exec> 08└─He screwed up the timetables and was a few years early. It could happen to anyone.
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[07:48:25] <exec> 08└─These days if they want Boeing software they will just need to undercut the Indian sweatshop programmers to get the offshore development program to write it, and keep a copy..
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[08:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Niobium Used As Catalyst In Fuel Cell - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:08] <exec> 08└─Given that 98% of Niobium is mined in Brazil, worldwide use of such fuel cells is not expected - Brazil could ask any price for the material, supplies of which they control. Furthermore, it's not wise to waste the rare metal on trivial things like batteries.
[08:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Story Submissions: Draw a Line or Play it by Ear or... - 1506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:41] <exec> 08└─We might publish it ourselves - once it is finished and no longer a draft. If you follow the suggestions that I made a few posts back then it could be a very good choice. But remember your audience - people here are usually much more tech savvy than the general public. Bear in mind 'double click' me...
[08:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03yuhong [6517] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Story Submissions: Draw a Line or Play it by Ear or... - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:43] <exec> 08└─Mostly spam comments. I assume that most SoylentNews readers are tech savvy, this is not Slashdot.
[08:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EPA's Anti-Science ‘Transparency’ Rule Has a Long History - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:20] <exec> 08└─It's all about the climate data. Every climate change study out there adjusts the data. This would mean that they either: - use the raw data and explain their adjustments, - get called out for their study having errors, or - they get ignored by the EPA.
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[09:48:08] <exec> 08└─From https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Steam-methane reforming is a mature production process in which high-temperature steam (700 °C–1,000 °C) is used to produce hydrogen from natural gas. Methane reacts with steam under 3–25 bar pressure in the presence of a c...
[09:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Budweiser Brewer Makes First Beer Delivery With Nikola Semi Truck - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:09] <exec> 08└─Beer itself is technically climate-unfriendly, as cows or horses are. Electric beer trucks are insufficient solution to this problem. Obviously, the fermentation process produces ethanol C2H5OH, and carbon dioxide CO2. All those climate activists should stop drinking beer, effective immediately and...
[09:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Budweiser Brewer Makes First Beer Delivery With Nikola Semi Truck - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:12] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that beer farts are the environmentally-unfriendly aspect of drinking beer? Now that's hard to believe, tell me the last time you were in a bar and it smelled like a sewage treatment plant. I've been in lots of packed, cramped little bars during peak business hours and have never smel...
[09:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Niobium Used As Catalyst In Fuel Cell - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:20] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_battery [wikipedia.org]
[09:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:48:57] <exec> 08└─The plague is alive and well [azcentral.com] in Flagstaff, Arizona. When I lived there as a tiny kid it was always all over the news, but not in reality enough of a big deal to give a fuck. It wasn't till years later after living somewhere else where I learned about the Black Death and had that "a-h...
[09:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Verizon's New 5G Coverage Maps Show Just How Sparse the Network Is - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:32] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately at millimeter-wave frequencies, developing useful faraday-cages with short lead-times and low cost becomes very problematic. Aluminum foil, however, is cheap and with at least 3dB (from the perspective of 5G, easily as much as 100% reflection) of reflectivity. Furthermore, wrapping foi...
[09:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Unveils "Cybertruck" - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:57] <exec> 08└─Ethanol, I usually disagree with and don't like many of your comments, but you deserve a +1 on this one, because you mentioned Stunts! Kudos.
[09:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Unveils "Cybertruck" - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:58] <exec> 08└─I'd be interested in the next year's model. After they've had a heap of customer feedback, reviews etc. And fixed them, as well as the bugs. It is a piece of art though. I always had a level of disappointment for Tesla because they are a bit of a disruptor in the market, but their cars look just lik...
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[10:48:14] <exec> 08└─It's a completely different carbon cycle. The stuff in the ground has been sequestered for millions of years and unless we pull it up and burn it will stay there. The stuff in grain is in active circulation. That is a separate loop. However, climate change will put an end to the availability of gra...
[10:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Budweiser Brewer Makes First Beer Delivery With Nikola Semi Truck - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:15] <exec> 08└─The same argumentation of yours is valid about cows, but clearly that does not stop the activists from agitation.
[10:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Budweiser Brewer Makes First Beer Delivery With Nikola Semi Truck - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:18] <exec> 08└─Now, if they pay extra to sequester the CO2 somewhere, that might be news.
[10:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:05] <exec> 08└─We do NOT change quoted sources. Otherwise we are responsible for whatever is being stated, and that could lead us into all sorts of legal problems.
[10:49:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Amazon Admits It Has Enacted Zero Civil Liberties Protections Regarding Surveillance Doorbell - 614 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:18] <exec> 08└─How exactly are single thinking individuals going to protect themselves from Amazon? You yourself may refuse to buy a 1984 doorbell. But if half your neighborhood does, you are swept up in the surveillance dragnet, no matter how enlightened an individual you are. And if you try to do something about...
[10:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google is Shutting Down its Cloud Printing Service - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:04] <exec> 08└─Because, you know, it's not a "page" any more, its a fucking retarded "app" with ever changing dynamic content that can't be captured for printing unless I capture the screen and print that
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[11:48:22] <exec> 08└─Yep. The same problem applies to the debate about cows, though there is a different between methane and plain CO2. In general, there is a lot of noise out there instead of fact-based debate. Like with many other topics, people make up their minds and then ignore any data to the contrary. If they ste...
[11:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 2533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:15] <exec> 08└─The NUMBER ONE reason I loath doing the weekly "security" update on my stuff is because I don't want to have to re-learn how to use the thing after they've randomly and mysteriously changed the user interface, or hidden, or "gesturized" some functionality I need. Especially if it's something I use i...
[11:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:17] <exec> 08└─Right, your generation just made them President.
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[12:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moscow Bans Sale of Gadgets Without Russian-Made Software - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:48] <exec> 08└─Russia is basically USSR2.0 at this point. We'll see where it goes after mr Pi finally dies.
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[12:50:49] <exec> 08└─Iterate, grow? Since those “anti-sanction” laws passed we eat shittier food that costs more and more. It just doesn't work. Why would a company spend resources on any improvement when you can pocket all the money, produce shit that everyone will have to buy anyway, and as a bonus you get to move...
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[12:50:51] <exec> 08└─They already do. Telegram was supposed to be banned, except they can't effectively enforce it, and everyone in a fucking State Duma use it anyway, lol.
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[12:50:54] <exec> 08└─Easy: let students (or ex-Delphi programmers) do all the work for food, pocket the money. Bribe whoever necessary with a part of that money. Done.
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[13:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Budweiser Brewer Makes First Beer Delivery With Nikola Semi Truck - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:29] <exec> 08└─You assume Budweiser is beer - when in reality it's closer to donkey piss.
[13:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Budweiser Brewer Makes First Beer Delivery With Nikola Semi Truck - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:30] <exec> 08└─I am very aware the American so called Budweiser is a foul and fake beer with a stolen trademark. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] We call it Budvar for centuries, as shortening of Budějovický var since the middle age. Budweiser is just a name given to it b...
[13:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Budweiser Brewer Makes First Beer Delivery With Nikola Semi Truck - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:32] <exec> 08└─Beer's enjoyable - I'm sure Greta wants to ban it already.
[13:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Budweiser Brewer Makes First Beer Delivery With Nikola Semi Truck - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:34] <exec> 08└─Stop worrying about little things like chemistry - these guys have changed the laws of physics: - 6X6 100% Electric drive - Never plug-in – Turbine charges batteries automatically while driving
[13:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Niobium Used As Catalyst In Fuel Cell - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:45] <exec> 08└─No such political upheaval is needed. If the price of any rare earth element rises, a whole bunch more mines become profitable, and will quickly open or reopen.
[13:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Admits It Has Enacted Zero Civil Liberties Protections Regarding Surveillance Doorbell - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:42] <exec> 08└─They also saw you coming up the driveway, and weren't the slightest bit worried about it.
[13:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Shutting Down its Cloud Printing Service - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:28] <exec> 08└─gawd i wish there were a tesla truck for printers: square metal shiny box with all paper INSIDE. a top that can be lifted to scan/copy and TWO connections: one AC in plug and a ethernet. the maker is just a simple, maybe a icon of a printer in bright yellow. it is a LASER. we can discuss how many bu...
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[13:51:29] <exec> 08└─if you really really need a manufacturer name call it "192.168.0.1” and print it in yellow bold-italic IMPACT font across the front. "what you need today sir?" "a printer. "wat model" "teh 192.168.0.1(tm)" ...
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[14:48:07] <exec> 08└─Theatre.
[14:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tenants Call For Better Laws after Stopping Facial Recognition from Moving In - 1392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:13] <exec> 08└─So, fear of surveillance outdid fear of theft and burglary. Or, was it the hassle factor? What really puts the lie to these schemes, is, why can't they simply use unobtrusive monitoring of entrances with plain old security cameras, instead of putting everyone through the hassle of pausing and posing...
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[14:48:15] <exec> 08└─Gates and fences stop almost no intruder, but they do make it a lot clearer who is an intruder and who is not - those pizza delivery guys who are being hassled are pretty close to "intruder class." As a matter of practical reality: a neighborhood I lived in in Miami installed an entry gate, no techn...
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[14:48:33] <exec> 08└─While mostly agreeing with your point, it should be noted (in all fairness) that if the hydrogen were produced by cracking H2O with solar or wind (or even nuclear) derived power that these vehicles would indeed approach a zero-emissions condition. If left to the invisible hand of the market, though,...
[14:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:24] <exec> 08└─Point was "thousands worldwide" ain't exactly a pandemic or even an epidemic. Not even if it's the plague or smallpox. It's more of a nothingburger.
[14:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:25] <exec> 08└─Think I'll opt for old age.
[14:49:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:27] <exec> 08└─By that metric, Leprosy was kind of a nothingburger even before it was treatable... it is interesting to wonder what causes these flareups in human susceptibility to plague, seems like it would be more than living conditions, but maybe there's a critical threshold where it transitions from an annoyi...
[14:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:30] <exec> 08└─Oh it's interesting enough, it just doesn't warrant the clickbait naming.
[14:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits It Has Enacted Zero Civil Liberties Protections Regarding Surveillance Doorbell - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:48] <exec> 08└─Some folks see it as corporate overlords treating them like shit, some see it as an opportunity to make a buttload of money providing a non-shitty alternative. The former are sheep. Don't be a sheep.
[14:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon's New 5G Coverage Maps Show Just How Sparse the Network Is - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:07] <exec> 08└─There's some truth to that. As long as you can stream a vid, you don't need much higher bandwidth, and HSDPA has enough bandwidth for that.
[14:51:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moscow Bans Sale of Gadgets Without Russian-Made Software - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:14] <exec> 08└─You misspelled Mercer.
[14:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Shutting Down its Cloud Printing Service - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:39] <exec> 08└─This is why I copy-paste useful stuff into a openoffice document or similar, and never use the web browser's save page features. Shouldn't be necessary, but hey. For the really obnoxious sites which block right-click, copy-paste, or whatever other fancy protection mechanisms they can come up with, y...
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[15:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Symantec, McAfee Patch Privilege Escalation Bugs - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:12] <exec> 08└─Every Indian copypasta coder copies the same vulnerabilities into every software. And if you think open source can fix the problem, you're wrong in two ways. Richard Stallman originally set out to create a one world monoculture of GNU as the only operating system for everything where everyone runs t...
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[15:49:06] <exec> 08└─FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[15:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:07] <exec> 08└─Moscow Bans Sale of Gadgets Without Russian-Made Software https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[15:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:34] <exec> 08└─Clickbait is here to stay, it's like the demon spawn of junk mail and TV advertising. I wonder how long it will be before there are algorithms which can filter the click bait from the content presented in your searches?
[15:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:36] <exec> 08└─This is the reason there are expensive regulations requiring the installation of back-flow valves several places where you really don't need them.
[15:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:38] <exec> 08└─I'll take the meteor strike; the rest is at best redundant, thanks.
[15:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:40] <exec> 08└─Nah... the plague was always around but would only cause epidemics during times of mass scurvy. People really underestimate what the discovery that citrus protected against scurvy did for humanity.
[15:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:42] <exec> 08└─The Roman Republic/Empire is well known for its water and sewage systems, and public baths. Christianity rejected what it viewed as corrupt and immoral Roman culture, including bathing. As Christianity came to dominate the Empire, this was an open invitation to catastrophic contagious diseases.
[15:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former USS Fitzgerald CO Benson to Retire as Commander Next Month - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:33] <exec> 08└─It's the Navy, Eth. I don't think gays are a new thing in their ranks. No disrespect, just admitting a fact that has been acknowledged for centuries, usually in a joking way.
[15:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former USS Fitzgerald CO Benson to Retire as Commander Next Month - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:34] <exec> 08└─Since our never-ending Middle East wars, operational tempo has increased quite a bit. It's not hard to look this up.
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[16:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:12] <exec> 08└─Sorry, baby, I didn't know there was anal incest porn on that sd card, honest.
[16:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:14] <exec> 08└─Mpv installed and a 1 line bash script would do. Unless systemd, in which case the author of a system configuration with a fixed and repeatable outcome deserves a medal.
[16:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tenants Call For Better Laws after Stopping Facial Recognition from Moving In - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:31] <exec> 08└─How many times now, I wonder, has a gate critically delayed emergency responders from reaching those in need, thereby causing unnecessary deaths?
[16:49:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain normal [2205] 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 344 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:07] <exec> 08└─The big Tel-Cos are just pocketing the USF money without providing the services called for. ATT, Verzion, T-Moblie etc all really don't need the extra cash as they are already rich from sucking the blood from consumers, so they don't really need any taxpayer money. Plus they can just use any equipme...
[16:49:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 715 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:09] <exec> 08└─Letting my mind drift a little. FCC Tells US Telcos: You Won't See Another Dime From Us Until ... You prove you've laid fiber to the curb for every neighborhood you service Inexpensive 1.5MBps internet is available to poor people at a capped price, with the signup link on your main webpage You provi...
[16:49:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 486 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:16] <exec> 08└─I worked for McDonnell Douglass / Boeing back in the old days. There were parts of the plant in Huntington Beach where we weren't allowed to go due to the Chinese employees. They stole everything they could get their hands on down to the paint colors. Take a look at the green paint on their towers a...
[16:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:21] <exec> 08└─well said. You might like this thing I made yesterday, I think it is pretty clear our inability to get 8 billion dollars worth of better internet is indicative of a certain pattern we are seeing all over. https://archive.is [archive.is] This is also a sign that thesesystemsarefailing.net (like...
[16:49:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03black6host [3827] 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 152 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:32] <exec> 08└─From the article: The bacteria Yersinia pestis, which causes the plague, is thought to be responsible for up to 200 million deaths across human history.
[16:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:53] <exec> 08└─How does this explain why the plague would only be a problem every now and then vs always?
[16:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:55] <exec> 08└─Have some personal responsibility doooood!
[16:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Admits It Has Enacted Zero Civil Liberties Protections Regarding Surveillance Doorbell - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:15] <exec> 08└─Your freedom ends where mine begins. My freedom ends where yours begins. I wouldn't go around violating natural laws of others if I did not want my property vandalized. Same applies to their 5g tower, or if they want to beam a kw of microwaves through my bedroom. The actual boston tea party worked,...
[16:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon's New 5G Coverage Maps Show Just How Sparse the Network Is - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:35] <exec> 08└─The viewpoint of this is that we should be begging for it, like how dare they not give us our 5g? We need these incompetent oligarchs beaming crap into our houses asap! We must have the right to have our subscription prices raised! The reverse psychology here is getting pretty transparent, and from...
[16:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow Bans Sale of Gadgets Without Russian-Made Software - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:43] <exec> 08└─People interested in control are often completely uninterested in efficiency until they get to the rotating knives section of the apartment complex design.
[16:52:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02 - 06Google is Shutting Down its Cloud Printing Service - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:01] <exec> 08└─> This is something that should not exist. Well, yes. Google is fixing that.
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[17:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:10] <exec> 08└─If the video is DVD quality, maybe you can get away with Raspberry Pi Zero? I'm interested to see if they end up selling a new version of the Zero in the next few years.
[17:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:12] <exec> 08└─Millennials believe a one line bash script is black magic, so it's no wonder this trivial project is news.
[17:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Symantec, McAfee Patch Privilege Escalation Bugs - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:22] <exec> 08└─The Indian President would meet with Satan himself if he would 🅱less the IT industry.
[17:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Symantec, McAfee Patch Privilege Escalation Bugs - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:24] <exec> 08└─Richard Stallman is just a pedophile in league with Satan.
[17:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:55] <exec> 08└─"So the main way people survived the plague is by living in small scattered groups that couldn't pass the disease on." No, no, no. No. If that were true, the Siberian/American/Australian/Andaman/etc. aboriginals would be the majority now.
[17:50:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon's New 5G Coverage Maps Show Just How Sparse the Network Is - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:36] <exec> 08└─nice infographic. thanks
[17:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lose Money on Repairs, Apple? an Absurd Claim, Say Critics - 3934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:01] <exec> 08└─I played this game from 2005 to 2011 or so in various jobs. I ran the repair departmnet for the maxprts network out of columbia mo for a time. We were a 'ship to' for independent techs. I was responsible for our stores repairs and shipping parts to the remote independent techs who used our shipto fo...
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[18:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:09] <exec> 08└─I have a kid that's going to be needing a car. So I floated the idea of pre-ordering one and handing down the hybrid, and it actually was approved. Unexpected, but now I have to decide if I really want to do it.
[18:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Symantec, McAfee Patch Privilege Escalation Bugs - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:29] <exec> 08└─Trying to build security software on an insecure operating system is like trying to build a house on a foundation of quicksand.
[18:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Symantec, McAfee Patch Privilege Escalation Bugs - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:31] <exec> 08└─Build a houseboat for the epic win.
[18:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tenants Call For Better Laws after Stopping Facial Recognition from Moving In - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:41] <exec> 08└─Sudden imposition of "real legal security" in those neighborhoods could have serious consequences for . . . the effective security/stability of the neighborhoods.
[18:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Budweiser Brewer Makes First Beer Delivery With Nikola Semi Truck - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:00] <exec> 08└─This is already being done: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:31] <exec> 08└─and stop spending extorted tax money on closed source US shit too. public money should have to go to public tech or stop stealing.
[18:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:06] <exec> 08└─Well thought out regulations balance the cost of a $20 installation of a $5 backflow preventer on every one of 100 million outside garden hose attachments against the real incidence of system depressurizations causing siphon-backflows of bacteria laden water into the potable water supply system agai...
[18:51:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lose Money on Repairs, Apple? an Absurd Claim, Say Critics - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:12] <exec> 08└─You may or may not know but there was an attempt to make planned obsolescence MANDATORY in the US. Thankfully it failed.
[18:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:33] <exec> 08└─I just looked at the Chrome settings, and could find anything like that.
[18:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:35] <exec> 08└─"I just looked at the Chrome settings, and could find anything like that." I just looked at the Chrome settings, and could NOT find anything like that. My vision is bad and my proofreading also sucks!
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[19:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:08] <exec> 08└─If you really want to piss off your high school kid that much, give him a Toyota Prius.
[19:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:10] <exec> 08└─... when Tesla goes bankrupt? Looks like some fools just gave the company $14.6 million to piss away.
[19:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:12] <exec> 08└─Cyberfools would gladly pay $100 to suck the musk out of Elong's dick.
[19:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:14] <exec> 08└─most people probably ordered the truck before the broken windows incident - the links in the ore Most of the stories gushing about the truck didn't mention the glass problem. So most of the pre-orders are probably just people seeking bragging rights who will ask for their money back after Christma...
[19:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:26] <exec> 08└─Based on my experience with tablets and similar computers such as the BeagleBone, Raspberry Pis, particularly older models, could have problems doing sustained video playback. Maybe the Pi 4 is powerful enough to handle it. Even so, it almost certainly has to use hardware decode, and that means MPEG...
[19:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:37] <exec> 08└─Or they could just fly their planes directly into the ground and avoid the middleman...
[19:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google is Shutting Down its Cloud Printing Service - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:28] <exec> 08└─On the bright side, even for people and businesses that don't care about Google's full frontal assault on privacy this is still a great reason to avoid Google services. It's a running joke now: if Google launches a service that isn't absolutely central to their business model, they're probably going...
[19:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The EPA's Anti-Science ‘Transparency’ Rule Has a Long History - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:14] <exec> 08└─they do explain the data adjustments. In every single study. You would know this if you bothered to read them yourself instead of sucking lies straight from the Kochs that drive climate denial.
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[20:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Testing Under Ice Rover - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:08] <exec> 08└─NASA is bullshit. Nobody is ever going back to the Moon. Enceladus and Europa are science fiction fantasies on the far side of never ever.
[20:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:21] <exec> 08└─Seems like the money should go into escrow.
[20:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 1278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:22] <exec> 08└─Real truck users care about a lot more than this coy ankle-flashing crap. What's the turning radius? Never mind towing, what's hauling capacity like? If it's ballpark one tenth of towing, that's seriously unimpressive. Even one fifth of towing is really not good. What's the bed configuration? Does i...
[20:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:24] <exec> 08└─you ask all these questions, but still buy F-series and Dodge Ram-style vehicles, where the answers are not great. There will always be one thing that one vehicle doesn't do as well as some other vehicle. strawmen are useful for justifying purchases, though.
[20:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:27] <exec> 08└─I'm not going to be sympathetic when the credit card company has to make the refund.
[20:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:29] <exec> 08└─A refundable $100 to reserve one sounds like a trick to push up the order numbers and also the share price. I expect there are 12 year olds ordering them, plus wannabe hipsters seeking bragging rights but who will ask for their money back when the fuss dies down. In fact I might order a couple of hu...
[20:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:31] <exec> 08└─So many questions, no answers seen yet.
[20:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:33] <exec> 08└─Are these real truck drivers also true scottsman?
[20:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:35] <exec> 08└─Those are all good questions careful customers ought to ask. Many people who buy trucks don't actually use them for heavy duty, practical use. (It doesn't make any sense to me, either)
[20:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:37] <exec> 08└─Eww misogynerd truck. Only guys with real trucks get laid.
[20:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:40] <exec> 08└─BMW and Mercedes didn't take the Model S seriously until it ate their lunch. All of a sudden, they're scrambling to produce EVs. Ford and GM rely on their pickups to keep the lights on. Is the strange design of the Cybertruck meant to lull the competitors into a false sense of security while they bu...
[20:49:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Niobium Used As Catalyst In Fuel Cell - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:42] <exec> 08└─We have already witnessed noobium used as catalyst in those cells decorated with Windows.
[20:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:05] <exec> 08└─I find it humorous that I got an "ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED" for your first link and an "ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID" on the other domain name. These systems are failing, indeed.
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[21:48:09] <exec> 08└─I bet that the water is not void of air under the ice. With no mode of "swimming;" will it just fall into the abyss and float on the surface of the water until it get blown out a whale hole into space. What happens when the boring part opens up a whale hole and lets all the gas out? Everything gets...
[21:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Testing Under Ice Rover - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:10] <exec> 08└─I guess the "Bouyant Rover for Under-Sea Exploration" or BRUSE was rejected. Sorry, couldn't find a C word for bodies of water.
[21:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:33] <exec> 08└─People who drive trucks for their commute instead of work have small dicks, so they need the macho buffs to get laid. Rolling coal gives an extra +2.
[21:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:35] <exec> 08└─My understanding is they were throwing the balls at the truck all day with the glass remaining intact and were advised not to do it during the demo since the glass had already been hammered on pretty hard. It seems plausible, I don't think the windows breaking in the demo proves there is a problem w...
[21:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:37] <exec> 08└─its non-refundable.
[21:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:39] <exec> 08└─Unexpected, but now I have to decide if I really want to do it.
[21:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:42] <exec> 08└─Have some personal responsibility doooood!
[21:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:43] <exec> 08└─Point was "thousands worldwide" ain't exactly a pandemic or even an epidemic. Not even if it's the plague or smallpox. It's more of a nothingburger.
[21:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:13] <exec> 08└─Just put out a feeler to a friend of mine, apparently there has been a couple bugs sitting open for 10 years about that on the bug tracker. Apparently, their position is that people can use the built-in OS tools to accomplish magnification or hack around it by passing a bunch of command-line options...
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[22:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Testing Under Ice Rover - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:13] <exec> 08└─I wonder whether this will melt the ice and contribute to the flooding of my home in NYC.
[22:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:40] <exec> 08└─If you really want to piss off your high school kid that much, give him a Toyota Prius.
[22:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:41] <exec> 08└─I have to agree. I'm fed up with Musk's bullshit. Here I was committing to a fully refundable 100 deposit and then found out that the window can't handle having a 2in steel ball thrown at it. #classaction
[22:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:43] <exec> 08└─I have a kid that's going to be needing a car. So I floated the idea of pre-ordering one
[22:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:45] <exec> 08└─I would say the vast majority of people who drive pickup trucks don't use them for heavy duty practical use. The F-150 is the best-selling car in the US, which would mean the most widely-practiced profession in the US is builder or taxi-driver for migrant workers. That's tongue-in-cheek obviously, i...
[22:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:48] <exec> 08└─All of these have been answered you just didn't try because you can't see past your fanboy vision of what a truck should be. Don't get me wrong, I love my F150 but this Tesla Thing has it beat in some areas. Turning radius - look how close the wheels are to the front of the vehicle. It will be more...
[22:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:50] <exec> 08└─At the same point, what options did people have when they legislated station wagons out of existance? What vehicles are out there that will transport two parents, two or three kids, a dog, and all of their stuff? Minivans cost the same as trucks and get the same gas mileage, or at least my 2012 cara...
[22:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:52] <exec> 08└─I did think it looked a little familiar [amazon.com].
[22:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:54] <exec> 08└─At the same point, what options did people have when they legislated station wagons out of existance?
[22:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 2070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:56] <exec> 08└─OK, let's get more real. It seats six. In theory. But looking at the slope of the roof, what is the real world headroom on that? I don't care if I can fit three working dudes in the front and three midgets in the back. From the pictures on the site, those headrests are practically up against the rea...
[22:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:08] <exec> 08└─My feelings exactly. They, um, took a Pi, put it in a box and, um, plugged it together. This is what happens when you hand out trophies to kids for participating. If I really wanted something like this I'd just buy one of about umpty bazillion purpose-built media players with vastly more capabilitie...
[22:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:24] <exec> 08└─You're either crazy, or maybe not loony enough [engadget.com].
[22:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Humans Survived the Plague for Millennia - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:03] <exec> 08└─Scourge would be fine as well but even epidemic isn't remotely accurate unless it's all in one town.
[22:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Samantha Wright [4062] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:33] <exec> 08└─I think you'll find that robots have found an immense amount of success by aggregating humans' opinions of whether or not it's cold, and using that data to report a comparable judgement. You may want to let go of that particular chestnut.
[22:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Samantha Wright [4062] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:35] <exec> 08└─Video tutorials aren't the product of a UX-driven decision. The explanation is actually embedded in your post: 5 minutes + 5 minutes = 10 minutes, a critical threshold that determines how many advertisements YouTube is willing to show during your video. If a given YouTube channel's creator makes a l...
[22:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:37] <exec> 08└─My website, which I only aoccasionally do anything with, is mostly headings, links, ans plaintext. Easy for a reader to adjust character size and window width as it please her. Is this the way the web was originally intended to work? -- hendrik
[22:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:39] <exec> 08└─A student once asked me. "Don't you have more than one shirt?" I replied, "I have lots of shirts. But when I see something I like, I buy lots of it, because who knows when it will be available again?"
[22:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Samantha Wright [4062] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 2615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:41] <exec> 08└─The example you mentioned (TIAA [tiaa.org]) is a lot better than you think, and seems to have some deliberate ADA compliance embedded in it. Under Firefox, hit View > Page Style > No Style; a very thoughtful "skip to main content" link will take you past the somewhat-broken oversized SVG elements in...
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[23:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Eyes: How Robots Will See In The Future - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:10] <exec> 08└─Of course Elon Musk doesn't think Tesla cars need Lidar, because common as dirt smartphones don't have Lidar, and Musk is in the business of selling a self driving electric car made of off the shelf parts with an off the shelf smartphone for a brain. Smartphones have cameras, thus Tesla cars will on...
[23:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Testing Under Ice Rover - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:22] <exec> 08└─Quick! Phone NASA and tell them about your incredible insight that they will never have thought of! I'm pretty sure they were going to send this billion dollar device half-way across the solar system without putting any thought into it at all.
[23:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Testing Under Ice Rover - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:23] <exec> 08└─Why do you bother coming to this site if you have no interest in reading about technology? Maybe you should go back to Gab, or where ever it is the edgy kids are hanging out these days.
[23:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Testing Under Ice Rover - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:25] <exec> 08└─I have no doubt Al Gore is already working on it.
[23:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Testing Under Ice Rover - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:27] <exec> 08└─Technology? SoylentNews has nothing to do with technology. SoylentNews is old people ranting about right-wing politics and nothing else. NASA exists because of the Sputnik Crisis, and the Moon Landing was a political stunt. It will not be repeated because the political pissing contest that was the S...
[23:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Testing Under Ice Rover - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:30] <exec> 08└─Owww... you put me in my place! I feel like xhit now. Do you have a phone number? I'll call. You have any better ideas? Anything else to put forward about this? Why don't you comment on the story instead of trying to make your stupidity look good.
[23:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Testing Under Ice Rover - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:32] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIs00QjiJZQ&list=RDVIs00QjiJZQ&index=1 [youtube.com]
[23:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Testing Under Ice Rover - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:34] <exec> 08└─You clearly have abnermal thoughts.
[23:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:09] <exec> 08└─At least for them the specs are available, in detail, up front, right down to headroom and legroom. Make the compromise you dislike least, then customise the details. Here we have guesstimates, marketing promises and irrelevances like throwing metal balls at windows.
[23:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:11] <exec> 08└─Naah, that one's completely different! It has a gun turret on it, while the otherwise identical Tesla one doesn't.
[23:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:13] <exec> 08└─Turning radius doesn't just depend on wheelbase. It also depends on steering geometry. Turning circle (wheels as well as body) should be a listed feature. Bed configuration: damn straight it's unfortunate. Seating: the pictures I see show very questionable headroom. Maybe the pictures are deceptive....
[23:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:15] <exec> 08└─Hint: You will end up with either a crack that quickly crosses the windshield, or a shattered side/rear window. While I dislike the way the glass broke (complete visibility compromise through the affected window), the fact that it doesn't shatter inwards can be seen as a safety feature for the major...
[23:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:17] <exec> 08└─There are indeed questions still to be answered - but many of yours were already answered in the unveil Here's a few: 3,500lb payload capacity for all models, as compared to the 2,000-3,300 capacity of the various F-150 models. Enough to haul the yard of gravel that would crush a lower-end F-150 Bed...
[23:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:19] <exec> 08└─>... would you be seen driving a station wagon? Happily. My dick works just fine without any sort of vehicle-altitude-posturing. I use my 2001 Saturn LW wagon to throw bicycles and all kinds of other stuff in the back. Once a year there might be something too big to fit and I have a friend with a pi...
[23:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:22] <exec> 08└─The strange design probably has more to do with the fact that you can't easily stamp the 3mm ultra-hard steel exoskeleton panels into complex bi-directional curves like you can the thin sheet-metal mounted on a typical vehicle's internal frame. You might be able to get one-directional curves without...
[23:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:24] <exec> 08└─I'm with you on most of that. But, gloves? I can't stand gloves. If forced to wear them, the first thing I do when I get in a vehicle, is to discard the gloves. You and I can agree to disagree on gloves, but take a look at Elon. He's not the guy who wears gloves. He doesn't know, doesn't care, about...
[23:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06146,000 Preorders for Tesla's Cybertruck in 48 Hours - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:26] <exec> 08└─Station wagons still exist. However, they are a lot "taller" now and called SUVs. And they are still gas guzzlers too!!!
[23:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Foolproof Raspberry Pi Media Player - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:39] <exec> 08└─RPi4 should decode pretty much anything thrown at it, once whatever OS it's using (e.g. Raspbian or LibreELEC) has been updated. The lack of AV1 hardware decode on anything is annoying. It missed the window for RPi4, and I doubt it's coming to Ryzen 4000 APUs (Zen 2 + Navi?) in January. Unfortunatel...
[23:50:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06FCC Tells US Telcos: Buy Chinese Kit And You Won't See Another Dime From Us - 220 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:42] <exec> 08└─The funny part of this is if the Chinese would just agree to give Trump a win on a trade deal, this whole concern about Huawei and security would simply disappear. None of this is about keeping us safe. It's all theater.
[23:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lose Money on Repairs, Apple? an Absurd Claim, Say Critics - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:40] <exec> 08└─Did they say they have an absolute right for profits? Is there a law saying they don't have a "right to profit"? The way the US laws work is that you have every possible right unless specifically told otherwise by a "legal constraints imposed on their business". That is, they're not lying if they're...
[23:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Samantha Wright [4062] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:08] <exec> 08└─Here's a source for that [experian.com]. A few caveats you might want to consider: successful scams of victims aged 65+ are so much more profitable than those of victims aged 18-24 that despite being about half as frequently reported, more money is made from them overall (assuming a population of 10...
[23:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creating Online Environments That Work Well For Older Users - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:09] <exec> 08└─I want an "unzoom". Half the damned pages that come up are optimized for a phone when I'm always using a laptop: huge Gd'ed text, huge Gd'ed images.. uugh. Get off my lawn but shovel the snow in the driveway first.
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