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[00:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:05] <exec> 08└─When you buy from Amazon you get a no-questions asked moneyback guarantee. When you buy from Microsoft, you get forced updates. Do we really want our soldiers relying on a system that could stop in the middle of a battle for an update?
[00:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:07] <exec> 08└─Rey Skywalker.
[00:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:09] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they have an actual legal strategy or if they're just hoping he randomly admits to it on TV.
[00:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:11] <exec> 08└─But the real question is why the story headline makes a Star Wars pun but picture is of Star Trek!!!!
[00:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neurodegenerative Diseases May be Caused by Transportation Failures Inside Neurons - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:18] <exec> 08└─We will never have to worry about neurodegenerate democrats trying to elect #CrookedHillary again.
[00:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertisers Want Exemption From Web Privacy Rules That, You Know, Enforce Privacy - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:36] <exec> 08└─considering their track record on this issue. It's gonna be funny when they end up on the shit end of the stick. Try and explain to a judge how all that hypocritical shit they said, really was just in error, and that they didn't know that their software did all the evil shit that they made it do by...
[00:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertisers Want Exemption From Web Privacy Rules That, You Know, Enforce Privacy - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:38] <exec> 08└─My tv is not connected to the net, advertisers still buy ads. My radio isn't connected to the net, advertisers still buy ads.
[00:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertisers Want Exemption From Web Privacy Rules That, You Know, Enforce Privacy - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:40] <exec> 08└─I don't use IE much, but AFAIK, you've always been able to open Internet Options from IE or control panel, click "Privacy" tab, click "Sites" button, and there's a "Remove All" option. Otherwise they're just text files in a folder, in Win7 it's: C:\Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\...
[00:15:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Appalbarry [66] 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 266 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:22] <exec> 08└─These fires are not an "every year" thing, and have become more and more severe after repeated droughts. The current government has been challenged on their repeated refusal to acknowledge that climate change is a significant factor in the changing weather patterns.
[00:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:57] <exec> 08└─A game in which two or more players compare knives; the player with the largest knife is the winner. However, any player may choose to use a spoon instead of a knife. Any spoon beats any knife, but a player with a spoon is disqualified if another player recognizes and announces his or her use of a s...
[00:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:58] <exec> 08└─I can grammar, thanks, when I want to, but for this no. I'ts a news article. Not a submission at school for marks. Feel free to become an editor to fix my horrible sub-missions. Heaven knows I try. Keep talking about it though, don't hold it back anymore. Your opinion is warranted and needed, so we'...
[00:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:00] <exec> 08└─The smart path would be to build large fire breaks near(ish) the populated bits and not fuck with any fires outside them
[00:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:02] <exec> 08└─You forgot sharkwithfrikkinlaserbeamnados.
[00:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:04] <exec> 08└─How does more precipitation mean more fires in Australia?
[00:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:07] <exec> 08└─Experts are also linking it to massive buildup of fuels in the areas affected.
[00:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:09] <exec> 08└─sharkwithfrikkinlaserbeam...
[00:16:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Debian Developers Take to Voting Over Init System Diversity - 1237 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:36] <exec> 08└─Security through obscurity is, indeed, not a bad thing. It's not enough by itself, but it is a tool in the toolbox. Just running a server on an unusual port eliminated virtually all attacks. So why not take advantage of that? Linux is the same: The mass consumer usage of Windows and Mac markets attr...
[00:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debian Developers Take to Voting Over Init System Diversity - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:55] <exec> 08└─If it weren't for the black magic that systemd programmers got from their RedHat overlords, I'd think you are lying. It is literally the opposite on the machine I checked. On the one hand, I wonder what sort of trick was used to reverse dependencies like that. But on the other hand, I'm not sure I d...
[00:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debian Developers Take to Voting Over Init System Diversity - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:57] <exec> 08└─Really not trying to be snarky or trolling about it, but I thought this was what Devuan was meant to be - an alternate built on Debian which doesn't use systemd. I'm obviously missing something.
[00:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debian Developers Take to Voting Over Init System Diversity - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:59] <exec> 08└─E: banish the guy who fucked this all up to begin with? There should be a poll on SN about this. Or at least a thread soliciting advice on options to add to the vote. Maybe wrap it up and send it to them with a bow afterwards.
[00:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debian Developers Take to Voting Over Init System Diversity - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:01] <exec> 08└─That's why I'm voting for "Boaty McBoatface" If they don't get the result they want, they'll just implement their own John Scott [thehockeynews.com] rule.
[00:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Debian Developers Take to Voting Over Init System Diversity - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:03] <exec> 08└─All votes in Debian use a Condorcet method. After using procedural maneuvers, they restricted the original vote in 2014 to read as follows: We exercise our power to decide in cases of overlapping jurisdiction (6.1.2) by asserting that the default init system for Linux architectures in jessie should...
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[01:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:22] <exec> 08└─The whole thing is stupid shit. Military data should be on military owned machines, under military control, with military patrolling the fences. All failures are blamed on the military, all successes are credited to the military. Of course, I have nothing but contempt for the whole cloud concept, bu...
[01:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:23] <exec> 08└─Hasn't worked that way in many decades. The military wants to only employ people in their core competencies of killing people, breaking things, and patching up their injured folks. Everything else is contracted out. It's a good thing, too, or else you'd be paying military retirement after only 20 of...
[01:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:25] <exec> 08└─Better to pay soldier's pensions, than civil service pensions. Contractors? They take their pensions up front. Have you ever really compared pension plans for the military, compared with the civilian world, including civil service? Oh, a little secret about military retirees. A large percentage of r...
[01:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:28] <exec> 08└─But... Amazon has the cheapest servers custom made for the task from China. It cuts out the MITM that M$ offers
[01:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neurodegenerative Diseases May be Caused by Transportation Failures Inside Neurons - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:37] <exec> 08└─This is getting kind of tiring, I'm already eating fiber, anti-oxidants and a variety of other "super foods. I guess we need to know what are the precursors to PI31? Are there organic foods I can eat that include them?
[01:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neurodegenerative Diseases May be Caused by Transportation Failures Inside Neurons - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:39] <exec> 08└─No, no. The right reaction isn't to actually eat them yourself. It's to over-promote them and sell them to the suck... I mean, health conscious consumers. Yeah. That's the ticket.
[01:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:28] <exec> 08└─I personally do not care about articles bent on shaming rather than informing. If I am disposing of a hard drive (or more likely giving it away), I will boot the machine with a CD/DVD with https://dban.org [dban.org]DBAN, and run different algorithms on it for a few days. I'm not saying it is the...
[01:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:26] <exec> 08└─How does more precipitation mean more fires in Australia?
[01:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:27] <exec> 08└─Why are you quoting something about temperature record when we are talking about bushfires (ie, precipitation)? And yes, UV-driven photochemistry is not thought to be the mechanism... it is ionization due to cosmic rays. Your response is total nonsense.
[01:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, there are obviously more/worse droughts during the solar minimums in Australia. Seriously... I don't know why I keep returning to this site.
[01:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:32] <exec> 08└─Quoted from your links.
[01:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:34] <exec> 08└─No there aren't.
[01:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documents Show U.S. Officials Misled Public on Afghanistan War - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:49] <exec> 08└─They have had brief periods of (relative) stability, but it's always been transient. Remember the story of the Bactrian gold, held in a vault with individual keys held by seven people (some reports say five) whose identities weren't recorded and designed to collapse and be buried if attempts were ma...
[01:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Orders All Foreign Software Removed From Use - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:57] <exec> 08└─The Pogo comic once had a checkers game in which the checkers were cookies. You tended to lose if you ate your own cookies.
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[02:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:18] <exec> 08└─Even if he does, I dont see the problem. Would you hire on someone who is known to hate you and is willing to do anything to obstruct you when there is another candidate available? Seems an absolutely reasonable decision.
[02:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:20] <exec> 08└─Hide in plan sight. Too many servers to sort thru to find the mil ones. Then you have to compromise them.
[02:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertisers Want Exemption From Web Privacy Rules That, You Know, Enforce Privacy - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:52] <exec> 08└─Umm, that's exactly why they called them cookies in the first place. As a way to make them sound less creepy
[02:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertisers Want Exemption From Web Privacy Rules That, You Know, Enforce Privacy - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:53] <exec> 08└─Tell that to P&G or Unilever [businessinsider.com]. They both cut back significantly on digital ads because the metrics weren't there. If you use google or amazon, you've seen targeted ads. Not very effective, are they? Showing you stuff you already bought ... yep, that's really money well spent.
[02:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertisers Want Exemption From Web Privacy Rules That, You Know, Enforce Privacy - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:55] <exec> 08└─Actually it was a homage to an old text-based program that kept saying "Gimmie cookie!" until you typed in "cookie." People kept trying to get it to stop by typing in all sorts of stuff, because they overthought things.
[02:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:27] <exec> 08└─Man, it's all about that volcano disposal. HDD in, lava out.
[02:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:28] <exec> 08└─Depending on the budget, you could also aim for the Sun, but there are options in between. ie: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[02:16:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:06] <exec> 08└─Aren't the cosmic rats killed by high-energy mewons?
[02:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:32] <exec> 08└─Here's some satellite comparisons, and you can see the current smoke from space: https://www.weatherwatch.net.au [weatherwatch.net.au]
[02:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:34] <exec> 08└─That's a funny name. I'd have called them chuzz wozzas.
[02:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, why are you quoting irrelevant stuff from the links instead of the stuff related to precipitation and the mechanism via which it is supposed to work? I mean this is nuts.
[02:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:38] <exec> 08└─Yes there are, that why there is always an exceptionally bad bushfire during the solar minimum (as seen in the links above).
[02:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'I Was Addicted to Exercise' - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:44] <exec> 08└─that exorcise is a disease?
[02:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'I Was Addicted to Exercise' - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:46] <exec> 08└─Are you Obama Bin Lacking...
[02:20:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Photo Proves How The Hellfire Missile That Uses Blades Instead Of Explosives Works - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:25] <exec> 08└─or their testicles.
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[03:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brooklyn Gets New York's Biggest Battery Park from Italy's Enel - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:03] <exec> 08└─So, the Jews were somehow involved. I wonder if this project was funded by American taxpayers with money sent to Israel. Well, either way, when it comes to the Orthodox, the expenses are offloaded onto others who have no dog in the fight.
[03:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:21] <exec> 08└─Do we really want our soldiers relying on a system that could stop in the middle of a battle for an update?
[03:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:23] <exec> 08└─It's a good thing, too, or else you'd be paying military retirement after only 20 of service to all those new soldier-programmers. You think the defense budget is big NOW?
[03:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:25] <exec> 08└─Even if he does, I dont see the problem. Would you hire on someone who is known to hate you and is willing to do anything to obstruct you when there is another candidate available? Seems an absolutely reasonable decision.
[03:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:27] <exec> 08└─Very recent performance comparison of VPS providers. Money quote, "I didn't think it was possible to get slower than Amazon Lightsail's disk IO, but Azure managed to somehow." https://toys.lerdorf.com [lerdorf.com] . MS has orders of magnitude worse uptime than the next worst up...
[03:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:29] <exec> 08└─Um that should be the case, just because cloud vendors are building it using their cloud stack, doesn't mean it is the same public cloud hosted solution that is shared tenancy with corporates and the consumers. Typically it is as you mentioned in military facilities, on their hardware with patrollin...
[03:14:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Advertisers Want Exemption From Web Privacy Rules That, You Know, Enforce Privacy - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:45] <exec> 08└─Burglars want exemption from laws against burglary.
[03:14:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Advertisers Want Exemption From Web Privacy Rules That, You Know, Enforce Privacy - 205 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:46] <exec> 08└─The recommended term is, 'Asset Relocation Specialists'. The term 'burglar' was deemed prejudicial by the members of the profession, and negatively impacted growth in the industry, and societal acceptance.
[03:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertisers Want Exemption From Web Privacy Rules That, You Know, Enforce Privacy - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:03] <exec> 08└─I have a hunch that if the law goes into effect without being neutered first, the data fiends will come up with an alternative scheme that accomplishes their goals without violating the letter of the law, and browser developers will help them implement it.
[03:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Advertisers Want Exemption From Web Privacy Rules That, You Know, Enforce Privacy - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:04] <exec> 08└─They can bypass Google and offer simple text or display ads, untargetted, to advertisers for less than what they would get after Google takes their cut. There was a time when the Internet's idea of "targeted advertising" was to place banner ads on sites that your target audience read. No reason not...
[03:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertisers Want Exemption From Web Privacy Rules That, You Know, Enforce Privacy - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:06] <exec> 08└─Extending the topic a bit, but has it ever been studied what economic effects an outright advertising ban (or a severe limitation) would have? I gave it a quick search, and found a 1986 paper by Susan L. Holak and Srinivas K. Reddy, also one from 2017 by The Economist Intelligence Unit and Instituto...
[03:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:43] <exec> 08└─Oh really? I remember learning about Australian brush fires as a kid in school decades ago, half a world away. Arson was the culprit back then.
[03:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:44] <exec> 08└─Experts are all linking it to climate change. Commenters here are not experts, just saying before you jump in and refute it.
[03:19:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] 02 - 06World's First Human Composting Site to Open - 23 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:16] <exec> 08└─Do with it as you wish.
[03:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Photo Proves How The Hellfire Missile That Uses Blades Instead Of Explosives Works - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:37] <exec> 08└─Any 14yr and older male is _defined_ to be a combatant, and therefore a legitimate target per the US rules of engagement. Sick fucking shit. Would love to see all those in charge who approved of this shit be sent to Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, etc., for trial and punishment. Set a precedent like that,...
[03:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documents Show U.S. Officials Misled Public on Afghanistan War - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:08] <exec> 08└─the sensible thing to do would have been to go in, thrash the Taliban, and then declare victory and leave.
[03:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documents Show U.S. Officials Misled Public on Afghanistan War - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:09] <exec> 08└─We should have learned something from the USSR getting their asses kicked in Afghanistan.
[03:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documents Show U.S. Officials Misled Public on Afghanistan War - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:12] <exec> 08└─we get to watch Greta Thunberg whining on TV
[03:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Documents Show U.S. Officials Misled Public on Afghanistan War - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:14] <exec> 08└─Little powers do not destroy big powers, big powers destroy themselves.
[03:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia Banned from World Sporting Events Due to Doping, to Include Olympics and World Cup - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:50] <exec> 08└─I spoke to someone from Russia and when he first came to the U.S. he was amazed at how we have a presumption of honesty compared to Russia. We assume people are honest until proven otherwise. For instance when you go to a local fast food restaurant the drink dispenser is openly accessible for custom...
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[04:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryuk Ransomware Decryptor Is Broken, Could Lead to Data Loss - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:24] <exec> 08└─This totally borks their business model. Who's going to pay if there's no guarantee of full recovery. My guess is heads are going to roll. Now, that all being said, let me point out that this venture is no different than any other commercial venture. The only side is that if they screw up, and are c...
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[04:14:25] <exec> 08└─Sorry, what I meant by that is that Dow picked up the good stuff and left the bad behind. They skated. I know there were some sacrificial execs from Union Carbide.
[04:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryuk Ransomware Decryptor Is Broken, Could Lead to Data Loss - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:27] <exec> 08└─Just how is a ransomware attack different than say, a fire taking out your server? These are known contingencies. Their existence must be considered when designing the system. I consider the PHB about as foolish as one who ventures on a road trip with no spare tire.
[04:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brooklyn Gets New York's Biggest Battery Park from Italy's Enel - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:36] <exec> 08└─Funny, I thought large batteries were "battery packs", but now these are "battery parks" -- where is the dividing line? Whatever, they still need almost 200 more of these to reach the goal of 3,000 MW of energy storage. Thanks for adding the disambiguation line at the end of tfs, I was thinking that...
[04:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:58] <exec> 08└─Odo or do not: there is no Janeway.
[04:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, you'd think they would have learned: they're back teaching sailors how to steer by the stars again because "shit happens". Why invite more shit into your life? Keep it local so that the shit is localized rather than system wide.
[04:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:01] <exec> 08└─GitLab migrated to Azure in exchange for free hosting and saw immediate, significant decreases in performance and reliability; after the free hosting deal expired they migrated to GCP and saw immediate, significant increases in performance and reliability.
[04:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neurodegenerative Diseases May be Caused by Transportation Failures Inside Neurons - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:13] <exec> 08└─> Over time, this causes degeneration of nerve fibers and ultimately cell death. If I get rich (selling to suckers), will that help stave off this degeneration? Or will getting rich make me a degenerate??
[04:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 October 2018 Update Users are Being Forced to Upgrade – Ready or Not - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:28] <exec> 08└─Just be glad you did not buy a Microsoft Phone!
[04:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Human Composting Site to Open - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:00] <exec> 08└─What are the other alternatives that are widely available to cremation? Plain old burial has rather high costs too, both financial and ecological. The former costs are definitely higher, as embalming, a plot of land in a cemetery, and a coffin are at least an order of magnitude more expensive than c...
[04:20:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Human Composting Site to Open - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:01] <exec> 08└─Go hell if you don't follow their religion or literally Hitler if you don't comply with leftist desires. Left is just as fanatical as the religious.
[04:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documents Show U.S. Officials Misled Public on Afghanistan War - 2135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:46] <exec> 08└─They did, long before. Read about the 2014 Ukrainian Revolution [wikipedia.org] which set the stage for all of this. Essentially Ukraine has two very different groups within it. Ethnic Russians and ethnic Ukrainians. The two groups don't tend to get along well in no small part because of WW2. Russia...
[04:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Documents Show U.S. Officials Misled Public on Afghanistan War - 1352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:48] <exec> 08└─And on China, I think I made it clear that I fully agree with you. What you said applies to most every nation on this planet. Things like NATO are not done out of the goodness of our heart. It gives the US immense political control of Europe because of the dependency relationship it creates. This is...
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[05:14:12] <exec> 08└─What if it was 2.5 Kelvin? Would that be warmer than absolute zero? Asking for a friend.
[05:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:54] <exec> 08└─This is second-hand information, so it's OK to doubt it, but: It's not just Microsoft. All sorts of tech contracts are being let that require that the soldiers who need the stuff working *NOW* aren't allowed to fix it when it breaks, and also don't have a large supply of spares. Often the contract s...
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[05:14:56] <exec> 08└─I think the thing is that when everything's working well, using remote services is a lot better. The problems only show up when you're ... hmm. "under fire" doesn't work for the Navy or the Air Force. Both of them encounter problems without being under fire. Like a cruiser that needs to reboot in th...
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[05:15:08] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but that thing about anti-oxidants was someone overreading the results of a few experiments. The anti-oxidants actually *do* prevent a few problems, but dosage is a critical problem, and most people with healthy diets don't need them. Also, too many anti-oxidants interferes with the body's in...
[05:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neurodegenerative Diseases May be Caused by Transportation Failures Inside Neurons - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:10] <exec> 08└─I'm rather sure, even without reading their study, that some neurodegenerative diseases are caused by transportation failures. I'm also rather sure that they aren't all caused that way. I also don't think that "All neurodegenerative diseases have a common thread: the appearance of protein clumps in...
[05:16:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 159 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:15] <exec> 08└─Had to ddg for "drop bear". Not disappointed at all. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Any efforts pending to save those deadly monsters?
[05:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Human Composting Site to Open - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:02] <exec> 08└─2,000 to 3,000 pounds of soil? At one sitting?
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[06:14:13] <exec> 08└─Well according to TFA, 2.5 Kelvin would in fact be warmer than (or as-warm as) 4 Kelvin...
[06:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Horse Ridge Chip Controls Qubits - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:14] <exec> 08└─...security vulnerabilities in this chip? Does anyone have the low-down?
[06:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryuk Ransomware Decryptor Is Broken, Could Lead to Data Loss - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is bad judgment, really bad judgement. Running M$ Windows in 2019 is no different than stocking your garage with large piles of oily and gasoline-soaked rags splashed with linseed oil next to the spare lumber and gas cans. You may like it, you may feel that it is convenient, at least in the...
[06:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:00] <exec> 08└─You mean Mary. Mary Sue.
[06:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:11] <exec> 08└─Spare sectors are another way to possibly leak some data. Need controller access but on an old drive some sectors may have been swapped with a spare and still be readable.
[06:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:20] <exec> 08└─And NZ is full of sheep, so must be full of shepherds.
[06:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's First Human Composting Site to Open - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:20:07] <exec> 08└─Thanks to the laws in my state, to be cremated requires embalming and a full-sized coffin to be burned in (one guy even had the law citation ready to go when I pushed back, which I double-checked later). When I was price-shopping, burial in the cheapest cemetery only added $300 to the total price co...
[06:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Documents Show U.S. Officials Misled Public on Afghanistan War - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:23:50] <exec> 08└─Be aware that the "Liberal" media knowingly and shamelessly spread those lies for 18 years. The Post and the Times and CNN and all the other mass media outlets were just as big a part of the scheme as the government. All contrary viewpoints were tagged as conspiracy theories. I don't suppose we'll e...
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[07:14:16] <exec> 08└─My point exactly. Could we have more actual scientists, or mathematicians, on the editorial staff of SoylentNews? Gaffs like this are why I am embarrassed to submit articles on the alt-right!
[07:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brooklyn Gets New York's Biggest Battery Park from Italy's Enel - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:35] <exec> 08└─Alright, Ethanol_fuckled, we get it: your father was a Jew. But since jewishness is matrilineal, you are not, and so you became an anti-Semite. You're not the first. There is Miller, Horowitz, Badanhof, and many others. So who was your father? Was his name Naughtius Maximus? Stationed in the Jerus...
[07:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03notrandom [5820] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:14] <exec> 08└─Welp, i'm a webmaster/sysadmin and also a client of the hosting industry. I had to deal with many more idiotic sysadmins and support personnel than with stupid clients... =/
[07:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:24] <exec> 08└─How about here [talltimbers.org]? Authors mention a half century of aggressive wildfire control combined with huge fires at the end of the period. The response to those fires led in turn to the present regime of controlled burns. There are three ways long term fire, aggressive fire suppression leads...
[07:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:25] <exec> 08└─...Maybe there are no experts, just a bunch of activists who are claiming to be experts.
[07:17:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Debian Developers Take to Voting Over Init System Diversity - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:36] <exec> 08└─It was probably "C Dump systemd." But that would be admitting the change was a mistake.
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[08:14:39] <exec> 08└─Again the same mistake. MW is power unit. MWh is the correct unit for energy. Or are we to believe that the rate of energy that the battery provides is larger than most power producers of the world?
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[09:14:10] <exec> 08└─And, it seems, all this has an effect on the general level of erudition. Mercenaries, from Merchant, Mercantile, a matter of business; cf., whoremongering.
[09:15:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Advertisers Want Exemption From Web Privacy Rules That, You Know, Enforce Privacy - 403 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:45] <exec> 08└─They can bypass Google and offer simple text or display ads, untargetted, to advertisers for less than what they would get after Google takes their cut. There was a time when the Internet's idea of "targeted advertising" was to place banner ads on sites that your target audience read. No reason not...
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[10:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:09] <exec> 08└─No mention of how much sweet oxymoney they received before cutting the ties. Hundreds of millions? Billions? Considering it's been going on for 40-something years it should be a fairly substantial amount. They didn't seem to have minded so much until the it became a PR problem.
[10:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Horse Ridge Chip Controls Qubits - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:32] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe their quantum computer also quantizes temperature, with a temperature quantum of 4K. ;-)
[10:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Horse Ridge Chip Controls Qubits - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:33] <exec> 08└─My Pirate computer runs on Rrrrr bits (and sharks with light sabers).
[10:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ryuk Ransomware Decryptor Is Broken, Could Lead to Data Loss - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:44] <exec> 08└─Just restore from backup?
[10:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brooklyn Gets New York's Biggest Battery Park from Italy's Enel - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:55] <exec> 08└─"Battery packs" will burn down your house when they short out. "Battery Parks" will burn down your entire neighborhood. Enough of a line?
[10:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brooklyn Gets New York's Biggest Battery Park from Italy's Enel - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:57] <exec> 08└─It will probably replace several hundred acres of carbon eating trees for a net negative impact on carbon reduction.
[10:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertisers Want Exemption From Web Privacy Rules That, You Know, Enforce Privacy - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:04] <exec> 08└─Advertisers are also buying ads on newspapers. And ads on newspapers are physically unable to interrupt.
[10:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertisers Want Exemption From Web Privacy Rules That, You Know, Enforce Privacy - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:05] <exec> 08└─How could it possibly be illegal /not/ to allow something to happen on your computer(*), which is private property?
[10:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertisers Want Exemption From Web Privacy Rules That, You Know, Enforce Privacy - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:08] <exec> 08└─Give them a pi hole instead. That way the site's instructions won't work.
[10:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:41] <exec> 08└─“No, I didn't obtain an illegal copy of the floppy. I'm just keeping a backup floppy for a friend. You know, it is important to store backups off-site. Why I installed the program on my computer? Well, it is important to test backups to ensure they actually work.”
[10:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:42] <exec> 08└─From the article: "he used recovery software" Not sure in which universe that can be interpreted as "he did not recover it" (with or without quotation marks around 'recover').
[10:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:44] <exec> 08└─The volcano method is more secure, because you can closely guard the disk until it actually is thrown into the volcano. While if you send it into the sun, your adversaries have the option to use a faster spacecraft to retrieve your hard disk before it reaches the sun.
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[11:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Of Phoenix Reaches $191 Million Settlement With FTC, Including Debt Relief - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:21] <exec> 08└─What about the previous decade of students? This is only for those people who enrolled from October 2012 through the end of 2016 – the period in which the FTC says prospective students might have been duped.
[11:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Horse Ridge Chip Controls Qubits - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:34] <exec> 08└─Hey now, that's in the actual FA, not editorialized. If we never linked to something with stupidity in the articles, we'd have a rather barren feed.
[11:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Horse Ridge Chip Controls Qubits - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:36] <exec> 08└─Or maybe their quantum controls are of ultra high definition...
[11:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertisers Want Exemption From Web Privacy Rules That, You Know, Enforce Privacy - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:11] <exec> 08└─TV ads pause the program so you can go pee. Then there's magazine and newspaper ads which do not track and most people skim past. Then there's billboards where people are actually supposed to be looking at the road and other cars rather than the billboards.
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[12:14:09] <exec> 08└─That's just your guess about this. You have no idea what was the situation in Tufts U wrt the university population and their opinion of Purdue Pharma before the Sackler controversy.
[12:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:11] <exec> 08└─It's more than just the Sacklers, Universities have always been happy to take money from drug dealers (the Sacklers), pedophiles (Epstein), and who knows what else, their money's as good as anyone's until the publicity gets too severe. It's kinda disturbing when large investment funds, not exactly w...
[12:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Roadmap Shows Plans for "5nm", "3nm", "2nm", and "1.4nm" Process Nodes by 2029 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:18] <exec> 08└─I"m still waiting for them to ship Gemini Lake in quantity.
[12:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brooklyn Gets New York's Biggest Battery Park from Italy's Enel - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:04] <exec> 08└─How do you figure that? Jews aren't mentioned anywhere in TFA that I saw. East New York is a neighborhood far to the east and is mostly black and Latino, I believe. Most people pass through it only when they take the North Conduit Blvd route to JFK.
[12:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brooklyn Gets New York's Biggest Battery Park from Italy's Enel - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:05] <exec> 08└─I'm glad they're doing projects like this. I would think they'd place them in Queens first, because they've had a lot of brownouts in the summers [patch.com] over the last decade.
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[12:15:07] <exec> 08└─One thing I'm wondering about is the elevation of their chosen site. A lesson they learned after Hurricane Sandy was that putting backup generators and fuel tanks in the basement is a problem when it floods. East New York is adjacent to Jamaica Bay, so I'm not sure it sits high enough on the shoulde...
[12:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:35] <exec> 08└─https://archive.is/5II5U [archive.is] But because it keeps coming up I made these too: https://archive.is [archive.is] https://archive.is [archive.is] https://archive.is [archive.is] https://archive.is [archive.is] https://archive.ph [archive.ph] https://archive.ph
[12:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:06] <exec> 08└─I read a funny anecdote by an American expat in Beijing who decided it was healthier for his lungs to give up jogging there, except the poor air quality was man-made by the coal-burning power plants the wise Communists placed in the middle of the city.
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[13:14:07] <exec> 08└─As long as I get to keep my Oxford comma, I'm happy :P
[13:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe, maybe not. You tend to be benevolent instead of inquisitive with the guy who gives you money. It is interesting to note that the behavior of removing all ties with a perceived malefactor is decried as bigotry when the author is Christian, tolerated and encouraged in all the other cases.
[13:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:19] <exec> 08└─Drug dealers and pedophiles want to give away their money? BRB, registering a charity.
[13:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Roadmap Shows Plans for "5nm", "3nm", "2nm", and "1.4nm" Process Nodes by 2029 - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:27] <exec> 08└─What quantity? Here's 1: https://slickdeals.net [slickdeals.net] https://en.wikipedia.org(Gemini_Lake) [wikipedia.org]
[13:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Horse Ridge Chip Controls Qubits - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:51] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, it's just aristarchus being a wounded animal. A quantum jackass.
[13:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brooklyn Gets New York's Biggest Battery Park from Italy's Enel - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:19] <exec> 08└─Maybe they'd stop getting it wrong if they used the real SI unit 'Joule' instead of MWh. Bonus - you get really large numbers that way. If we take the article at its word, they have a max 4.8 MW of power available, and the battery itself has a capacity of 16.4 MWh. That's 3 hours, 25 minutes of runt...
[13:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:20] <exec> 08└─In high-school I learned that "appeal to authority" is a logical mistake. That mistaken appeal is the whole basis for people who are marching on the street about CO2.
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[14:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:33] <exec> 08└─Greenwashing for Humanity! "Kid, take the money and do something good with it"
[14:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:34] <exec> 08└─I don't blame this "family" one bit. This is 100% the fault of the doctors prescribing this stuff. If we got rid of prescriptions it would be 100% the fault of the people taking the drugs.
[14:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Roadmap Shows Plans for "5nm", "3nm", "2nm", and "1.4nm" Process Nodes by 2029 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:45] <exec> 08└─Intel has shown zero ability to stick to their roadmaps since 2016, that's 4 years now!
[14:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Roadmap Shows Plans for "5nm", "3nm", "2nm", and "1.4nm" Process Nodes by 2029 - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:47] <exec> 08└─ASML, the sole provider of extreme ultraviolet lithography tools, was supposed to deliver them as early as 2007. With EUV, Intel actually has a chance of getting back on track. Although Intel's competitors will not be standing still.
[14:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Roadmap Shows Plans for "5nm", "3nm", "2nm", and "1.4nm" Process Nodes by 2029 - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:49] <exec> 08└─Okay, so I'm assuming they are copper atoms (which isn't right). A copper atom is about 2.3*10^-10 (or 0.23 nm) in diameter. That's pretty insane. Reference: https://www.chegg.com
[14:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:10] <exec> 08└─well, if the m$ gets militarized, i suppose there's going to be stuff you won't be able to do anymore ... like maybe trying to hack *.mil from a windows two-dozzen? or the such ...
[14:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertisers Want Exemption From Web Privacy Rules That, You Know, Enforce Privacy - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:54] <exec> 08└─hmmm .. maybe i would reserve some space on my website for product manufacturers that give away free stocks of themselfs. obviously the math is rather simple to calculate how many stocks one could give away instead of purchasing space from google. anyways ... with the free stock in hand my web visit...
[14:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:31] <exec> 08└─yeah 'tis is funny. one would assume that HDD manufacturers "know best" and would have a device for sell, that is maybe 3xAAA battery powered sits on the desk and you can slot-in a 3.5" and press the big red "erase" button? but noooo ... it is nigh impossible (time wise) to erase them, so junk 'em a...
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[15:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:05] <exec> 08└─Only $13 million invested yet this could have far reaching effects in countries with poor access to birth control
[15:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cards Against Humanity Writers Are Battling an AI to Keep Their Jobs, and You Can Watch - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:13] <exec> 08└─They should add a third team - one that edits the output of the AI. My guess is that this team would do the best in terms of both quantity and quality. It's also what the future of work will most likely look like, rather than a human-only or machine-only work environment. Of course, this still means...
[15:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jtmach [1481] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cards Against Humanity Writers Are Battling an AI to Keep Their Jobs, and You Can Watch - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:15] <exec> 08└─UPDATE: The writers sold 2% more packs, so their jobs will be replaced by automation later instead of right now. Happy Holidays.
[15:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cards Against Humanity Writers Are Battling an AI to Keep Their Jobs, and You Can Watch - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:17] <exec> 08└─Seems there's an awful lot of things against humanity. So, in the future, humans are reduced to dumb breeding stock only slightly more intelligent than domesticated cattle, while AI does all our thinking and labor for us. Eventually, of course, the machines figure out that we're useless, and the uni...
[15:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:30] <exec> 08└─100% the fault of the doctors prescribing this stuff.
[15:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:32] <exec> 08└─Doctors being mislead by kickbacks? Doctors are supposed to be able to judge the evidence for themselves, if all they can do is parrot the corporate/government line then they serve no purpose. Guess what? People can already get any drug they want "like candy". These laws aren't stopping anyone. Most...
[15:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Roadmap Shows Plans for "5nm", "3nm", "2nm", and "1.4nm" Process Nodes by 2029 - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:44] <exec> 08└─They are marketing names for far in the future nodes so who knows what it really means. But we can expect several density increases and efficiency benefits from Intel, TSMC, Samsung, or others. Everything could benefit, but smaller nodes could enable new form factors. We already have smartglasses an...
[15:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Roadmap Shows Plans for "5nm", "3nm", "2nm", and "1.4nm" Process Nodes by 2029 - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:46] <exec> 08└─"if that 1.4nm is indicative of any actual feature" The "X nm" nomenclature hasn't corresponded to any feature for about a decade. There was an agreement that a 29% reduction in the linear scale denoting the technology wasn't convincing the punters that the density had doubled. (0.71*0.71 = 0.5), an...
[15:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Roadmap Shows Plans for "5nm", "3nm", "2nm", and "1.4nm" Process Nodes by 2029 - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:48] <exec> 08└─If you do the math on the node numbers, you would expect density to double: 142 / 102 = 1.96 102 / 72 = 2.04081632653 Intel's new CEO blamed the company [pcgamer.com] for pursuing a 2.7x transistor density increase on the "10nm" node, instead of 2x. Intel likes to tout transistors per mm2 [soylentne...
[15:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Advertisers Want Exemption From Web Privacy Rules That, You Know, Enforce Privacy - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:50] <exec> 08└─Your not. The law is a lot like source code. It is what you don't say that matters. Where the two differ, is that you can say things in source code that don't compile in English. There is no world where English majors with law degrees anticipate the machinations of software engineers.
[15:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:28] <exec> 08└─I think you're right that the standard is something like that. My point is that it's a standard that was created when hard drive implementation details were very different than they are now, and data could be readily recovered by inserting the platters in a drive that would read the gaps between tra...
[15:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:30] <exec> 08└─DBAN - Darrel's(?) Boot And Nuke. Burn it onto a CD, boot the computer off it, and select how secure an erase you want to apply to the hard drives. Not quite a standalone box, but you can use any old computer you happen to have lying around. There might even be a Raspberry Pi version which would all...
[15:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:32] <exec> 08└─Well... I suppose if you squint just right making a self-breaking resolution is kind of like not breaking it yourself?
[15:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:34] <exec> 08└─That's a *huge* problem with SSDs, which may have a significant portion of their entire size as spare cells not directly accessible to the computer. I don't think it's possible for hard drives though - hard drives don't exclude bad sectors, the file system does. So long as you're ignoring the file s...
[15:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:47] <exec> 08└─Where are you getting the idea there is more precipitation in Australia during the minimum? There is obviously less, making it drier.
[15:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:48] <exec> 08└─It wasn't just the lack of venom. They were very tasty.
[15:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:51] <exec> 08└─If the solar cycle effect exists, it is minor compared to the El Nino / La Nina (ENSO). When it's El Nino, South America gets extra rain and AU gets less. La Nina, the other way around. Having said that, if a 0.01% change in atmospheric composition is going to be the end of civilization then I guess...
[15:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 October 2018 Update Users are Being Forced to Upgrade – Ready or Not - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:03] <exec> 08└─I know, my media server PC is running Linux Mint. :)
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[16:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barcode Co-Inventor George Laurer Dies Aged 94 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:01] <exec> 08└─Does he have a body tag at the morgue?
[16:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:09] <exec> 08└─Gates Foundation actively working to reduce mortality in third world countries while sterilizing woman in first world nations. This will not end well for humanity, but it's going to be awesome for the globalists like Gates.
[16:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:11] <exec> 08└─The second link states: Compliance is an even bigger problem in the third world, so we're working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on using this with things like antimalarials.
[16:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:13] <exec> 08└─deliver a steady drip of contraceptive hormones in the body of a pig for up to 29 days.
[16:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:16] <exec> 08└─I hear they have to fuck pigs in a lot of countries just to stay in business :)
[16:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:18] <exec> 08└─Voluntary birth control is a far cry from sterilization. Please cite where the Foundation is actively sterilizing anyone. Many women opt for voluntary sterilization after a couple of births. Many men opt for it to not leave a trail of unwanted children. Both are voluntary actions that have been occu...
[16:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:20] <exec> 08└─It must be interesting finding volunteers. "Hey we've got a new version of The Pill that we want to test...but it may not work." I would think that it's usually a binary switch for people, whether they absolutely do not want to get pregnant, or they want kids.
[16:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cards Against Humanity Writers Are Battling an AI to Keep Their Jobs, and You Can Watch - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:30] <exec> 08└─Moo. Moooo! Moooo, mooo, moo; moo. Also, moo.
[16:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:47] <exec> 08└─I've been thinking about my will and what should happen if a charity I thought was worthy to receive a chunk of my estate decides to figuratively spit in my dead face because I expressed 20th century views or something. I'm considering having my executor send them a letter that the money they reject...
[16:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:48] <exec> 08└─Exactly. The Sacklers have a business, and their goal is to raise sales. It is the government's and doctor's job to ensure proper application of a drug with strong potential for abuse.
[16:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:50] <exec> 08└─Spend some of it on cryopreservation of your entire body. Then you'll have a slim chance to carry your 20th century views into the 22nd century.
[16:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:52] <exec> 08└─It's a thing of beauty!
[16:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ryuk Ransomware Decryptor Is Broken, Could Lead to Data Loss - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:39] <exec> 08└─You may be interested to know that instead of a spare tire, or even a donut, car makers just give you a can of fix a flat.
[16:16:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 419 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:14] <exec> 08└─The whole thing is stupid shit. Military data should be on military owned machines, under military control, with military patrolling the fences. All failures are blamed on the military, all successes are credited to the military. Of course, I have nothing but contempt for the whole cloud concept, bu...
[16:17:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:36] <exec> 08└─I was making regular backup copies of the floppy disk, but right now our photocopier is broken.
[16:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:00] <exec> 08└─Look at the Smart output on a spinning drive, there's "Reallocated Sector Count" as one of the more important attributes, along with "Reallocation Count" and Pending Sector Count". This happens at the hardware level as the manufacture knows there might be a weak spot on the drive. I've had drives wh...
[16:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:01] <exec> 08└─Self breaking resolutions are better than resolutions that require manual effort to break. Easier to deploy. More complex to construct.
[16:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:03] <exec> 08└─The hard disks had been made available on the Internet auction site by a male employee of Broadlink Co., which was commissioned by Fujitsu Leasing to wipe the data from replaced hard disks. The employee was in charge of wiping the data, but he instead pilfered a number of the disks and posted them o...
[16:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:06] <exec> 08└─I suppose at the master level you construct resolutions that preemptively break next year's resolution? Or perhaps retroactively break last years?
[16:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:08] <exec> 08└─So there is, I had forgotten abut that. A nightmare from a performance and security perspective, but I suppose once they start showing up in any quantity the drive is likely destined for the waste bin in the near future anyway. Not that I don't have a few such drives still in service years later, bu...
[16:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:10] <exec> 08└─Well at least he didn't sell it to China or similar... :)
[16:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:27] <exec> 08└─More on this. Where are you getting the idea there is more precipitation in Australia during the minimum?
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[17:13:59] <exec> 08└─Quasi related, but since I saw this within an hour of seeing this SN post, I thought I would share. Generate QR codes as text (unicode characters). The text looks like a QR code. Command line tool: https://github.com [github.com] In the clod: http://asciiqr.com [asciiqr.com]...
[17:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Barcode Co-Inventor George Laurer Dies Aged 94 - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:01] <exec> 08└─In the clod
[17:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barcode Co-Inventor George Laurer Dies Aged 94 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:03] <exec> 08└─Great, I can look forward to text based QR code spamming as well now... XD
[17:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barcode Co-Inventor George Laurer Dies Aged 94 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:05] <exec> 08└─Does he have a body tag at the morgue?
[17:14:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 502 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:17] <exec> 08└─Voluntary birth control is a far cry from sterilization. Please cite where the Foundation is actively sterilizing anyone. Many women opt for voluntary sterilization after a couple of births. Many men opt for it to not leave a trail of unwanted children. Both are voluntary actions that have been occu...
[17:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:19] <exec> 08└─All natural, called "periods".
[17:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:21] <exec> 08└─Q: What do you want to be when you grow up, Andy? A: I don't know, but I don't want to be a pig fucker like my daddy!
[17:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:24] <exec> 08└─Voluntary birth control is a far cry from sterilization.
[17:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:26] <exec> 08└─Nah, the pitch is different form that. Try this one instead: * Same drug as current pill you're already on * More convenient than a once-a-day dose * During trial period hormone levels will be monitored periodically to ensure correct dosage is achieved (can warn patient if effectiveness is compromis...
[17:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cards Against Humanity Writers Are Battling an AI to Keep Their Jobs, and You Can Watch - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:37] <exec> 08└─They could airlift in a drop shipment of Oxford Commas if you run out and need emergency resupply. Otherwise, Oxford Commas might become available for short term or long term lease.
[17:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cards Against Humanity Writers Are Battling an AI to Keep Their Jobs, and You Can Watch - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:39] <exec> 08└─in the future, humans are reduced to dumb breeding stock only slightly more intelligent than domesticated cattle, while AI does all our thinking and labor for us. Eventually, of course, the machines figure out that we're useless, and the universe would be a better place without us
[17:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:59] <exec> 08└─For your purposes look into DMSO.
[17:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:01] <exec> 08└─Thats your choice, just don't ask me to pay for you to take 10-100x overpriced treatments with more dangerous side effects.
[17:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:03] <exec> 08└─Is this your doctor? https://img.bhs4.com [bhs4.com]
[17:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:05] <exec> 08└─I don't know what treatments you are thinking of. I take several inexpensive drugs. I had tried one modern and very expensive drug. It did help, but the way it screws with my immune system was not worth it. After a few years of on-again off-again with that drug, I finally threw in the towel. I would...
[17:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:07] <exec> 08└─No
[17:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Roadmap Shows Plans for "5nm", "3nm", "2nm", and "1.4nm" Process Nodes by 2029 - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:21] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, it's Intel, so we can expect the numbers to be manipulated or faked when they start selling them. And a whole **** of new exploits.
[17:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Roadmap Shows Plans for "5nm", "3nm", "2nm", and "1.4nm" Process Nodes by 2029 - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:23] <exec> 08└─I have no plans to buy Intel. If they pull something out of their hat and manage to leapfrog AMD in perf/$, I'll just wait a few months for AMD to make a comeback or cut prices. Then there's ARM (got 2x RasPi4B), RISC-V and otherz.
[17:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Of Phoenix Reaches $191 Million Settlement With FTC, Including Debt Relief - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:32] <exec> 08└─There should be criminal fraud charges, but like the real estate bubble, the education bubble won't result in any real punishment. Their motto should have been "a fake education for the same cost as a real education, but we'll help you with the loan paperwork."
[17:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Of Phoenix Reaches $191 Million Settlement With FTC, Including Debt Relief - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:35] <exec> 08└─There is a University of Phoenix in Phoenix. I drive past it every day. 4035 S Riverpoint Pkwy, Phoenix, AZ
[17:20:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Debian Developers Take to Voting Over Init System Diversity - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:44] <exec> 08└─You want option zero - find another career. Tech is no longer about either innovation or empowering users, hasn't been since unicorn money infested it.
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[18:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:53] <exec> 08└─But perhaps most surprisingly, four years after the procedure, samples of Long's semen show only his donor's DNA.
[18:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:55] <exec> 08└─Uh, he said "bone". Heh heh.
[18:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:57] <exec> 08└─"Chris Long Bone"
[18:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:59] <exec> 08└─Hopefully investigators understand that sperm and semen are different things.
[18:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:01] <exec> 08└─You must have not checked the SPOILER.
[18:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barcode Co-Inventor George Laurer Dies Aged 94 - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:13] <exec> 08└─The next major advance will be the automated sequence of 1. instant message you the text of a QR code 2. get your phone's camera to scan it Without human intervention.
[18:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barcode Co-Inventor George Laurer Dies Aged 94 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:14] <exec> 08└─A QR code for age 94 isn't bad. That's a lot of birthdays.
[18:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:33] <exec> 08└─The original pill trials had no trouble attracting participants and were performed in Puerto Rico to avoid anti-contraceptive laws in Massachusetts and the difficulty of keeping track of the subjects, making the isolated island the perfect place to conduct the studies. Participants had to meet four...
[18:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:12] <exec> 08└─DMSO is the original, safest, and most effective NSAID. It works for like 80% of people, whenever the main problem is due to secondary inflammation vs simple totally destroyed joints. So unless you tried that first you have no idea what you are missing.
[18:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:14] <exec> 08└─You're not arguing in good faith to leave out the "drug company representatives telling them that it's not addictive" part. You must be so bored now that your former corporate masters have filed for chapter 11. Why don't you go find some honest work? And no, you can't work for me.
[18:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:16] <exec> 08└─I would never take advice from a doctor who believed what a drug company said about their product... Why would you listen to someone like that??? They should lose their license.
[18:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Of Phoenix Reaches $191 Million Settlement With FTC, Including Debt Relief - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:42] <exec> 08└─Modded offtopic? Reporting typos is offtopic? Welcome to SoylentNews!
[18:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Of Phoenix Reaches $191 Million Settlement With FTC, Including Debt Relief - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:43] <exec> 08└─Central offices, not a campus. Nothing in there but accountants.
[18:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:55] <exec> 08└─The contracts are budgeted by the govt who also writes up the requirements. Tell me how eliminating contractors from the equation fixes this. Get rid of them, and you will still have bloated budgets and crazy requirements.
[18:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:57] <exec> 08└─All I can say is I am surrounded by former military drawing their pension and now also making big bucks in private industry, frequently at defense contractor companies. Defense contracting companies seem almost designed around these double dippers.
[18:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Advertisers Want Exemption From Web Privacy Rules That, You Know, Enforce Privacy - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:43] <exec> 08└─I suspect it's less confusion and more big fat lie. It sounds so much more reasonable to ask to let ads display to fund a website than "Please drop all defenses so we can dart and tag you like a bear and unleash the unholy hordes of hell upon your defenseless browser. We will, of course, disavow all...
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[19:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:05] <exec> 08└─I read it, it says he had a vasectomy. That is like bombing all the bridges to enemy territory in order to deny access to your own spermen troops, meanwhile the transplanted spermen are like paratroops airdropping in through the bloodstream.
[19:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:07] <exec> 08└─You are NOT the father! On a more serious note, this guy might have the golden ticket for child support claims. He can go hog wild!
[19:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:09] <exec> 08└─>Hopefully investigators understand that sperm and semen are different things. Since sperm is a component of semen, and sperm contains DNA, I'm not sure what the point of this comment is. Also, why the heck is the arguably most important detail from the click-bait headline hidden behind a spoiler? L...
[19:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:11] <exec> 08└─From TFA . . . Three bone marrow transplant experts consulted by the NYT all agreed that it would be impossible for the procedure to result in a recipient producing sperm containing their donor's DNA.
[19:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:13] <exec> 08└─I thought it amusing to put the crucial detail, which solves the puzzle, in a spoiler. The editors didn't change it.
[19:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:15] <exec> 08└─Luke, I am your father.
[19:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barcode Co-Inventor George Laurer Dies Aged 94 - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:29] <exec> 08└─That was kinda fun. I went to your 'in the clod' link. Entered the intro to Marshall Brains story "Manna." Generated HUMONGOUS QR Code. Read it back with QR reader. Holy shit! It worked! I actually thought something that big would bork it.
[19:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barcode Co-Inventor George Laurer Dies Aged 94 - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:31] <exec> 08└─Old bar bet. "I bet you $10 I can tell you how many birthdays you've had." "Bullshit, you're on." "One, all the rest are anniversaries of that singular birthday." (Wakes up in hospital two hours later)
[19:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:50] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you can enlighten me on the practical difference between voluntary birth control and voluntary sterilization. They mean the same thing - make it easy and convenient in first world nations to avoid having children while simultaneously encouraging rapid breeding in third world nations. Then tu...
[19:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:51] <exec> 08└─For one. I disagree with your conclusion*..but that isn't even relevant here. I was responding to The Gates Foundation accusation of sterilizing western women. Reducing the burden of humanity on the world is a good thing. But it takes cooperation amongst the entire world to achieve. That will never...
[19:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:53] <exec> 08└─Oh, I forgot. Voluntary birth control is reversible at will as it is not mandatory.
[19:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:56] <exec> 08└─Reminder for the casual reader about how the "failure rate" is measured: 7 conceptions per year per 100 couples exclusively using that method for the entire year = 7% failure rate If the failure rate were on a per-use basis then 7% would be entirely unacceptable for the majority of couples. Also not...
[19:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cards Against Humanity Writers Are Battling an AI to Keep Their Jobs, and You Can Watch - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:09] <exec> 08└─To be fair, cards against humanity is a painfully easy thing to write. Write a base joke that relies entirely on irreverence for humor(i.e. any dead baby joke), put the setup on the black card, put the punchline on the white card, repeat 60 times, ship it.
[19:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cards Against Humanity Writers Are Battling an AI to Keep Their Jobs, and You Can Watch - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:10] <exec> 08└─Sniff ... John Henry would be proud :'-}
[19:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cards Against Humanity Writers Are Battling an AI to Keep Their Jobs, and You Can Watch - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:13] <exec> 08└─What we want is the AI to produce a Cards For Humanity game. That way AI can work harder and better towards helping humanity, and the original creators can keep up with humanity's core competency, inhumanity to itself. Win-win!
[19:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cards Against Humanity Writers Are Battling an AI to Keep Their Jobs, and You Can Watch - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:15] <exec> 08└─That's a ridiculous scenario. In the *future*? Eh, I guess I might as well reserve my slot on Team Morlocks now -- you know, get in on the undergound floor.
[19:15:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 662 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:24] <exec> 08└─It's more than just the Sacklers, Universities have always been happy to take money from drug dealers (the Sacklers), pedophiles (Epstein), and who knows what else, their money's as good as anyone's until the publicity gets too severe. It's kinda disturbing when large investment funds, not exactly w...
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[20:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:58] <exec> 08└─Buyers are going bananas over these.
[20:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:59] <exec> 08└─I'm going to shit in my hand and throw it at a blank canvas hanging on the wall. The title of my artwork shall be called "Shit" and the starting bid is $150,000. I might take it up a notch by eating a pound of black licorice, two big macs, and having a ruptured hemorrhoid to give it some color.
[20:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:01] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artist's_Shit [wikipedia.org] more or less already done.
[20:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:04] <exec> 08└─"Is this a money laundering scheme?" It IS an art gallery, so signs point to yes.
[20:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:06] <exec> 08└─It's the endless stream of wannabes imitating him, badly.
[20:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:08] <exec> 08└─Needs "+1, Depressing" mod.
[20:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:26] <exec> 08└─Yes. Vasectomies do that.
[20:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:27] <exec> 08└─So they didn't check for donor spermen?
[20:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 1177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:06] <exec> 08└─I agree with everything you've said, except for this ending well for globalists like Gates. Globalists benefit from open borders, but it's quite easy to see what happens if you import a bunch of culturally incompatible, low education individuals into first world nations. You basically create a surge...
[20:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:08] <exec> 08└─"Reducing the burden of humanity on the world" is a phrase you will only hear them say in developed countries. In undeveloped countries they instead work hard to make sure the population skyrockets by providing free food, housing, and medical care, but never contraception. It's a well thought out p...
[20:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:10] <exec> 08└─Thank you for adding that explanation. I had not thought about explaining the nature of such. One note I got from reading the entire transcripts was about condoms. Using non-water soluble lubricants (oils) can cause condoms to break down, causing both breakage and permeability. I would also expect s...
[20:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:12] <exec> 08└─You are entitled to your opinion. But I feel your reasoning to be inaccurate. Large families are necessary for subsistence farming due both to the large amount of work and mortality rate. Once past the subsistence level, populations historically tend to level off and reduce as it's no longer a survi...
[20:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cards Against Humanity Writers Are Battling an AI to Keep Their Jobs, and You Can Watch - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:30] <exec> 08└─Drat, beat me to it. I'd mark you as +1 insightful, but I'm just an AC, so I can only reply to show my agreement.
[20:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cards Against Humanity Writers Are Battling an AI to Keep Their Jobs, and You Can Watch - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:31] <exec> 08└─This is clever marketing. Either way, the intent is to sell cards. And buyers have an interesting story to tell their friends whenever they get the cards out, which is important to millennials.
[20:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:00] <exec> 08└─It seems to me the A/C you're arguing with is using the Libertarian magical thinking of "Voluntary Contracts" and you're living in the real world.
[20:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:01] <exec> 08└─I would never take advice from a doctor who believed what a drug company said about their product...
[20:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:03] <exec> 08└─Where did you get that? The people on this sites are literally nuts, they just make up strawmen out of thin air, argue with them, then vote each other up.
[20:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:06] <exec> 08└─Use critical thinking and ask questions to see if the doctor has used critical thinking... How old are you?
[20:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Of Phoenix Reaches $191 Million Settlement With FTC, Including Debt Relief - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:34] <exec> 08└─Not when I attended there in the 90s. They may have changed things around, as online education wasn't really a thing yet (they were one of the early pioneers of it). Back then one attended classes at campuses they rented out in office complexes. I took most of my courses in Mesa, but had two or thre...
[20:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Of Phoenix Reaches $191 Million Settlement With FTC, Including Debt Relief - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:36] <exec> 08└─The point being that they engaged in the advertising and tactics that they were actively cooperating with businesses and that a degree from there was an inside track to get a job at those companies happened during that period. That they work with major corporations to help shape the curriculum is no...
[20:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brooklyn Gets New York's Biggest Battery Park from Italy's Enel - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:20] <exec> 08└─How do you figure that?
[20:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:54] <exec> 08└─Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
[20:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:55] <exec> 08└─So you'd rather pay the pension for people who retire at age 40, and then live another 50 years? You're paying a pension for them that is 2.5 times longer than the amount of time they served. Civil servants you pay a pension for them when they retire at 67 (or whatever floating year it is), and them...
[20:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:57] <exec> 08└─3 things go away with the elimination of the contractors: - An army of salespeople whose sole job is to butter up the government people and convince them to buy more stuff. - A lot of shareholders who get nice dividends and/or capital gains increases on the taxpayer dime. - A whole management struct...
[20:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:59] <exec> 08└─The way it works is the military wants "capability" (usually new, or advertised as new) in some area. This year, it's cyber security. Then they decide how big a chunk they will push Congress to give them. Congress wants to bring home the bacon to their constituents, so they are all for spending if t...
[20:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:50] <exec> 08└─In statistics, the phrase "correlation does not imply causation" refers to the inability to legitimately deduce a cause-and-effect relationship between two variables solely on the basis of an observed association or correlation between them.
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[21:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:11] <exec> 08└─The art world is one big scam. I wouldn't be so mad about it if it weren't for the tax breaks that the rich manage to get out of it. This video is instructional [youtube.com]
[21:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:12] <exec> 08└─Not laundering [youtube.com], per se.
[21:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:14] <exec> 08└─A fool and his money are soon parted. I wonder how many buyers are going to be upset when the banana they purchased starts to rot.
[21:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:16] <exec> 08└─Those are Italian food rations.
[21:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 1130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:18] <exec> 08└─There seems to be something in the human psyche that tends to extremism. Leftists/progs, when they only talk amongst each other, get crazier and crazier, thinking that they can change human nature and make socialism actually work. On the right wing, it's no better: certain subgroups in the US are se...
[21:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:21] <exec> 08└─They should send a can of it to this guy. [youtube.com]. I'm not suggesting that he actually eat it, just that it would be a delightfully absurd mashup.
[21:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:41] <exec> 08└─Yes. Vasectomies do that.
[21:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:42] <exec> 08└─The art world is one big scam. I wouldn't be so mad about it if it weren't for the tax breaks that the rich manage to get out of it. This video is instructional [youtube.com]
[21:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:45] <exec> 08└─Sorry, posted to the wrong topic! Please downmod appropriately
[21:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:47] <exec> 08└─In which case the paternity test would show it was his child. because the sperm would be his, carried by the doner's semen
[21:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03slashnot [8607] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Barcode Co-Inventor George Laurer Dies Aged 94 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:03] <exec> 08└─I suppose his gravestone/headstone will simply read: ||||||||||||||
[21:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cards Against Humanity Writers Are Battling an AI to Keep Their Jobs, and You Can Watch - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:50] <exec> 08└─And buyers have an interesting story to tell [...] which is important to millennials.
[21:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:23] <exec> 08└─He's missing having to rub stuff on his skin, the taste of garlic, and the possibility of exposing his children (if he has them) to a substance that can harm their developing nervous systems. He's also missing the difficulty of controlling dosing with a topical vs. the dose control of a pill, the po...
[21:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Burns Turning Sydney into Smog Covered Scene from Hell - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:04] <exec> 08└─..."appeal to authority" is a logical mistake. That mistaken appeal is the whole basis for people who are marching on the street about CO2.
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[22:14:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:04] <exec> 08└─"Is this a money laundering scheme?" It IS an art gallery, so signs point to yes.
[22:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:13] <exec> 08└─I don't know, there's times when I look at Andy Warhol's stuff and think Valerie Solanas might have had the right idea for the wrong reasons. There's some of Warhol's work in the modern section of my local art museum, and I find it among the least interesting pieces there.
[22:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:15] <exec> 08└─Just Eat It [theguardian.com].
[22:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:17] <exec> 08└─The movie "Gummo" featured a scene with bacon taped to a bathtub wall. That was 1997. Bananas and duct tape isn't even trying hard. https://screenqueens.files.wordpress.com [wordpress.com]
[22:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:20] <exec> 08└─Good artists actually have some skills and are humble enough to keep in mind when they are bullshitting rich people, which is its own skill.
[22:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, some of the things people call "Art" are bizarre. Duct Taping a Banana to a wall and calling it art, requires large helping of bravado.
[22:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Of Phoenix Reaches $191 Million Settlement With FTC, Including Debt Relief - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:52] <exec> 08└─Mod parent up and mod summary incorrect. There is in fact a Phoenix Main campus and classes are held there also.
[22:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's pretty much the way it has always been. It depends upon what the malfunction is as to at what level/where the repairs can or must be carried out at, ranging from Field-level to Depot. Depot is the highest level, and means it's sent to the repair depot responsible to be forwarded to manu...
[22:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon's $10BN Jedi Decision 'Risky for the Country and Democracy,' Says AWS CEO Jassy - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:14] <exec> 08└─Will Mary meet Rey? Will Microsoft get the contract? Will AWS get the contract after all? These questions, and many others, will be answered on the next episode of Soap [wikipedia.org].
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[23:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moscow Cops Sell Access to City CCTV, Facial Recognition Data - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:02] <exec> 08└─#1 Become a Russian Citizen #2 Go to Russian School #3 Train as Police Officer for Glorious Mother Russia! #4 ??!? (Apparently, this otherwise obscure step, is sell secure access to all Russian CCTVs) #5 Profit! err.. Success!
[23:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evil Corp Hackers Charged for Stealing Over $100 Million - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:09] <exec> 08└─Evil Corp is quite the name to give one's organization. You'd think, that the Russian government would have some misgivings about working with a group named that. At what point, is government sanctioned hits on international banks, a cause for war? Sure, you may not be lobbing missiles at your neigh...
[23:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:35] <exec> 08└─How much is it worth, if you eat the banana, but leave the peel?
[23:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bananas Taped to a Wall at Art Basel Miami Beach Are Selling for $120,000 Each - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:37] <exec> 08└─Someone ate a $120,000 banana that an artist had taped to a wall [cnn.com]
[23:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06After Bone Marrow Transplant, Man’s Semen Contains Only Donor’s DNA - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:01] <exec> 08└─Geez, that explanation was very good. It would have really helped if that was in the summary and not hidden in a SPOILER tag. What's up with that?
[23:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Once-a-Month Birth Control Pill Is Coming - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:45] <exec> 08└─Gates Foundation actively working to reduce mortality in third world countries while sterilizing woman in first world nations. This will not end well for humanity, but it's going to be awesome for the globalists like Gates.
[23:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cards Against Humanity Writers Are Battling an AI to Keep Their Jobs, and You Can Watch - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:06] <exec> 08└─Wrong. Unfortunately. You're thinking of /Cards Against Humanity/, the card game invented by 8 young white males. OK, at least one jew in that team, which is why they managed to defend themselves from criticism after including the possibilities for combos like "What gives you intollerable gas?" "Naz...
[23:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cards Against Humanity Writers Are Battling an AI to Keep Their Jobs, and You Can Watch - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:07] <exec> 08└─And presumably, in order to compare the game-worthiness of the cards you have to buy both to actually test them. Double the sales! Happy christmas you cynical marketting wonks.
[23:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:41] <exec> 08└─There's a reason why DMSO isn't first-line. But whatever. Nevermind the MD, listen the the AC instead?
[23:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:43] <exec> 08└─Critical thinking! Of course, I should have thought of that. I should also remember to ask if my doctor thinks maybe the rep from the drug company might have been lying.
[23:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tufts University to Dissolve Relationship With Family Behind OxyContin Amid National Opioid Epidemic - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:45] <exec> 08└─Where did you get that?
[23:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Buyer of Used Hard Disks Gets 27TB of Government Data - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:09] <exec> 08└─This sentence is a non-self-breaking non-resolution of itself.
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