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[00:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Skin as Non-Volatile Memory - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:55] <exec> 08└─...this is shocking -- I despise spelling errors. You mix up two letters, and your whole sentence is urined.
[00:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Skin as Non-Volatile Memory - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:57] <exec> 08└─Cheating students have been using skin as no -volatile memory for decades. And then there's ROM - tattoos.
[00:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Skin as Non-Volatile Memory - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:59] <exec> 08└─Emphasis mine: They applied direct current voltage pulses to various parts of the human skin and show that analog information can be stored for at least three minutes.
[00:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces "Orin" Automotive SoC for 2022 Release - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:09] <exec> 08└─The human brain energy consumption is roughly 20% of the entire body. If we'd take it as a metric, the self-driving car SoCs available are still primitive in this regard.
[00:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces "Orin" Automotive SoC for 2022 Release - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:12] <exec> 08└─https://www.anandtech.com/show/11913/nvidia-announces-drive-px-pegasus-at-gtc-europe-2017-feat-nextgen-gpus [anandtech.com] NVIDIA has stated that Drive PX Pegasus will be air-cooled, although it's likely to be right at the edge of what's reasonable. WIth a 500W TDP, NVIDIA is pushing the envelope o...
[00:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces "Orin" Automotive SoC for 2022 Release - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:14] <exec> 08└─So now our cars are going to contribute to global warming?
[00:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces "Orin" Automotive SoC for 2022 Release - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:16] <exec> 08└─Seems legit, just one small over the air update way.
[00:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces "Orin" Automotive SoC for 2022 Release - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:18] <exec> 08└─. . . please note, cars don't run on rainbows, and ever so few run on hydrogen. Personally, I think we missed the environmentally friendly boat by not picking up hydrogen vehicles and running with it.
[00:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs Fade From Popularity as Awareness Rises for Zero Trust - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:35] <exec> 08└─The only time I turn my VPN on is when I want to, um. Oops. *cough* Jeopardy *cough* Survivor*. Torrents? Never heard of them. Cut the cord 2 years ago and got a VPN for, um, reasons. That's all you need to know, reasons. Porn. Yeah, I don't want don't want Facebook to know about my pissing midget p...
[00:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VPNs Fade From Popularity as Awareness Rises for Zero Trust - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:37] <exec> 08└─Exactly. These two security models aren't even opposite sides of the same spectrum, but are orthogonal to each other. You can have a zero-trust setup with or without a VPN. You can also have a full-trust setup with or without a VPN. The dichotomy is not zero trust + no VPN versus full trust + VPN. A...
[00:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:29] <exec> 08└─If it is energetic enough to harm someone it is energetic enough to extract energy from.
[00:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:31] <exec> 08└─You keep using that weasel word "viable". The energy is there to be extracted, it is just that there are easier ways.
[00:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:33] <exec> 08└─I'm sure you can use micrograms of polonium to heat up some stuff if it is that dangerous.
[00:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:35] <exec> 08└─Right now it's mostly volunteer firefighters, and they're already stretched to the limit, and summer hasn't even started. People can't work 12-hour days for free for 5-6 months a year. Large parts of Australia are going to have to be abandoned not just because of fire but lack of water. Wells are e...
[00:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:37] <exec> 08└─People can't be expected to volunteer 7 days a week, 12 hours a day, for a fire season that now runs from spring to fall.
[00:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:39] <exec> 08└─How is that interesting? Is SN 90% trolls now?
[00:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:41] <exec> 08└─Nah, in their mind the current system is fine. 85% of all fire fighters are actually volunteers. Basically people with money just say "fuck you!" and so society relies on some decent folk to work extra to cover the gap. The US is broken, has been for a long time, but being the economic powerhouse le...
[00:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:44] <exec> 08└─No, you just don't have common sense.
[00:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:46] <exec> 08└─The energy released by its decay is so large (140 watts/g) that a capsule containing about half a gram reaches a temperature above 500oC.
[00:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where's Our Data, Google? Chrome 79 Update 'a Catastrophe' for Android Devs with WebView Apps - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:47] <exec> 08└─Umm... have you use VSCode or Atom IDEs? They're local IDEs written in Javascript. VSCode in particular is gaining user share very rapidly. I've done a lot of Swing Dev before in the 90s. Heck I've used at least 2 different internally created UI framework over Swing to allow rapid dev. They end up l...
[00:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Complete Human Genome Extracted from Ancient "Chewing Gum" - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:07] <exec> 08└─It appears to have been modern contamination of the sample with ostrich DNA: https://newatlas.com [newatlas.com]
[00:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Complete Human Genome Extracted from Ancient "Chewing Gum" - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:09] <exec> 08└─Interesting, thanks.
[00:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Complete Human Genome Extracted from Ancient "Chewing Gum" - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:11] <exec> 08└─It turned out to be Ostrich DNA.
[00:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret FISA Court Issues Highly Unusual Public Rebuke of FBI for Mistakes - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:07] <exec> 08└─Trump put "wires tapped" in double quotes. Most experienced English readers understand that the use of double quotes indicate the use of figurative language, and that the literal meaning should not be assumed. But people who hate Trump experience cognitive dissonance whenever something challenges th...
[00:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret FISA Court Issues Highly Unusual Public Rebuke of FBI for Mistakes - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:08] <exec> 08└─Everyone I know has been complaining about these secret courts, PATRIOT ACT, TSA, etc since they began. Some people are supporting it now just because "stop Trump".
[00:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret FISA Court Issues Highly Unusual Public Rebuke of FBI for Mistakes - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:10] <exec> 08└─You realize that your quotes say there were four cases and that they were opened appropriately, right?
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[01:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Skin as Non-Volatile Memory - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:01] <exec> 08└─It's an eternity in epidermis-based digital data storage. Unless you compare it to barcode tattoos or something.
[01:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Skin as Non-Volatile Memory - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:03] <exec> 08└─Instead of a pound of flesh, Shylock wants a pound of skin, to increase the memory of his gaming machine...
[01:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Skin as Non-Volatile Memory - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:05] <exec> 08└─Tattoos as ID stirs up really unpleasant memories of it being used in the past.
[01:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Human Skin as Non-Volatile Memory - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:07] <exec> 08└─One of the more interesting properties of an ideal memristor is that there exists a non-liner relationship between the applied voltage and current which gives rise to non-volatile memory behavior.
[01:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces "Orin" Automotive SoC for 2022 Release - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:21] <exec> 08└─After a few node shrinks, what took a kilowatt will be down to 100 Watts.
[01:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces "Orin" Automotive SoC for 2022 Release - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:22] <exec> 08└─...like other nv chips in automotive do. not naming names. nope. but some auto makers have been having LOTS of problems with nvidia and black (going dark) screens in cars. personally, I think nv is clueless about how to fix it. its been going on for nearly 2 years now. admittedly, its a 'hard to fix...
[01:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces "Orin" Automotive SoC for 2022 Release - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:25] <exec> 08└─Nope... the big miss was when the idiot hippies stopped development of nuclear tech. If it weren't for those tree-hugging left wing morons we would have safe, clean nuclear power plants in every city. No AGW. And nuclear powered cars would have eliminated demand for fossil fuels relegating middle ea...
[01:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:44] <exec> 08└─It was my understanding that with thorium unlike uranium you could have pebble bed reactors, which by design aren't susceptible to runaway meltdowns. Is this understanding wrong?
[01:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:45] <exec> 08└─I guess we'll all have to do a Smoko and holiday elsewhere...
[01:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:47] <exec> 08└─Generally, in the US at least, the equipment and training is paid for in a large part with federal and/or state grants and/or local property taxes.
[01:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:50] <exec> 08└─People can't be expected to volunteer 7 days a week, 12 hours a day, for a fire season that now runs from spring to fall.
[01:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:52] <exec> 08└─Let's go north - but we'll miss Christmas, they have theirs in July...
[01:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:54] <exec> 08└─I guess we'll all have to do a Smoko and holiday elsewhere...
[01:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:56] <exec> 08└─Let's go north -
[01:16:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06IFixit Surgeons Dissect Apple's Pricey Mac Pro: Industry Standard Sockets? Repair Diagrams? Really? - 1800 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:06] <exec> 08└─Back in 2006 I did a lot of cost comparison analysis between Macs (particularly Mac Pros, also Minis) and the general market. At the time, if you wanted exactly what the Macs were providing, they were priced reasonably as compared to identically prepared Dells or other machines of the same quality (...
[01:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IFixit Surgeons Dissect Apple's Pricey Mac Pro: Industry Standard Sockets? Repair Diagrams? Really? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:36] <exec> 08└─Opening 4 tabs in Firefox?
[01:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where's Our Data, Google? Chrome 79 Update 'a Catastrophe' for Android Devs with WebView Apps - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:00] <exec> 08└─Repeating the mistakes of the past - the DOM wasa terrible way to get things done. Then again, most of te stuff that came out of W3C is crap.
[01:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where's Our Data, Google? Chrome 79 Update 'a Catastrophe' for Android Devs with WebView Apps - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:02] <exec> 08└─Somehow I think you didn't understand my comment. Visual Studio is not something I would consider. ... Yeah, I did some GUIs with Visual Basic (actually MSAccess) back in the late 1990's. They worked. But that's not the environment I'm interested in anymore. Java at least is portable. And I don't co...
[01:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Complete Human Genome Extracted from Ancient "Chewing Gum" - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:25] <exec> 08└─Something like "If the sauna won't cure it, and birch tar won't cure it, just go ahead and get ready to die."
[01:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret FISA Court Issues Highly Unusual Public Rebuke of FBI for Mistakes - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:26] <exec> 08└─Can you see where it says "appropriately" is according to some very low standards that should be changed, and only refers to *opened* as a preliminary investigation vs continued after contrary evidence accumulated (and was hidden and falsified).
[01:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret FISA Court Issues Highly Unusual Public Rebuke of FBI for Mistakes - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:27] <exec> 08└─Hillary Clinton wiped her hard drives with bleach on a cloth!
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[02:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satnav Watching Over Rugby Players - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:57] <exec> 08└─Ten years from now, when they're attaching your satnav tracker, you'll wish you had paid more attention to this story. Ironic that Frenchmen end up being the first frogs in this gradually warming pot.
[02:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satnav Watching Over Rugby Players - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:59] <exec> 08└─People have been voluntarily carrying satnav trackers for years. You may know them as "smartphones".
[02:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Skin as Non-Volatile Memory - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:14] <exec> 08└─The fourth basic circuit element from a theoretical point of view is a negative resistor: a circuit element that delivers power in proportion to an applied voltage or current. Also, as khallow points out, being non linear also disqualifies it from consideration as a basic circuit element. Wonder how...
[02:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Skin as Non-Volatile Memory - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:15] <exec> 08└─Luckily, we're entering an enlightened dystopia of facial/body/gait recognition and implanted RFIDs, with no tattoos required.
[02:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:59] <exec> 08└─Until the Carnot tax. By the time you pay off all the energy to get the remaining energy in the form you want it, usually in the form of electricity or shaft work, you find there isn't much, if any, left. Kinda like a Cheetah expending 100 calories to catch rodents having 80 calories in them. No mat...
[02:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:01] <exec> 08└─Do the physicists at ORNL who prototyped thorium salt reactors in their faculties many decades ago also not know physics? That Weinberg, what a faker, eh! And what about the so-called scientists at Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics?
[02:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:03] <exec> 08└─They only do until they hit the wall. Exhaustion makes them worse than useless. They make mistakes, slow down others, and ultimately have to be cared for by others. Given that many Australians were criminals "transported" to Australia against their will, maybe they can demand the right to return to...
[02:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06IFixit Surgeons Dissect Apple's Pricey Mac Pro: Industry Standard Sockets? Repair Diagrams? Really? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:42] <exec> 08└─It's also the basis of the competition known as Free Enterprise, which has a very strong tendency to self-optimize.
[02:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret FISA Court Issues Highly Unusual Public Rebuke of FBI for Mistakes - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:33] <exec> 08└─You should have modded that rant -1 Flamebait, because most of it is either lies or nonsense. Using the term "libtard" just confirms that he has no real clue how the United States of America actually works.
[02:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret FISA Court Issues Highly Unusual Public Rebuke of FBI for Mistakes - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:34] <exec> 08└─Both of those links go to sites that specialise in conspiracy theories and lies. You're doing your argument no favours.
[02:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secret FISA Court Issues Highly Unusual Public Rebuke of FBI for Mistakes - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:36] <exec> 08└─You'll be hearing it again from official sources in a couple months. The people paying attention have known almost everything that is happening now since mid 2017. Trump has been (very annoyingly) dragging it out for maximum effect on 2020 elections.
[02:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret FISA Court Issues Highly Unusual Public Rebuke of FBI for Mistakes - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:39] <exec> 08└─FISA court. SECRET COURT. This is about the appearance of due process, not due process. Is there a defense attorney even involved?
[02:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Googler Says She was Fired for Telling Colleagues about Worker Rights - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:20:45] <exec> 08└─Google intended this internal system solely to deliver highly urgent notices
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[03:14:53] <exec> 08└─Read the article, and your post pretty much confirms what I expected. "Zero trust" is a bullshit marketing scam. Though it does accurately describe Google and Microsoft, since both are primarily in the corporate intelligence business now, rather than the software business.
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[03:14:54] <exec> 08└─on the Internet, this is 10,001. Same mentality as ever: "All these half busted implementations suck! Hey, I've got a great idea, lets create a new implementation!" Brands don't solve security problems. Fixing other peoples busted code does.
[03:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:06] <exec> 08└─This is morel like harvesting 100 calories in per microgram of mouse.
[03:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IFixit Surgeons Dissect Apple's Pricey Mac Pro: Industry Standard Sockets? Repair Diagrams? Really? - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:47] <exec> 08└─From a work-on-it standpoint, they were doin' okay... until I got to this: "The SSD cards are modular, but custom-made by Apple, complicating replacement." Hopefully that's just a shell, but leave it to Apple to ensure that SOME part has to be bought with their overpriced logo. And with the price of...
[03:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IFixit Surgeons Dissect Apple's Pricey Mac Pro: Industry Standard Sockets? Repair Diagrams? Really? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:49] <exec> 08└─Which one? only G3 tower I've had my hands on... made Packard Smells look both standardized and simple.
[03:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IFixit Surgeons Dissect Apple's Pricey Mac Pro: Industry Standard Sockets? Repair Diagrams? Really? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:51] <exec> 08└─[whispers something about how MacOS runs just fine on a Dell Optiplex]
[03:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret FISA Court Issues Highly Unusual Public Rebuke of FBI for Mistakes - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:46] <exec> 08└─Another reason I'm an ex-democrat. These things are objectively evil no matter who does them, but the Obama reign taught me with crystal clarity that Democrats don't oppose evil policies, they oppose Republicans doing the evil policies Democrats themselves wish they were doing.
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[04:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Steal Data for 15 Million Patients, Then Sell It Back to Lab That Lost It - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:57] <exec> 08└─How do they know it is not tainted in subtle ways, and thus useless? Did they keep lots of checksums? Backups to compare against... and thus useless in a different way? Or how do they know that there are more copies floating around? It's like if digital age began yesterday, and not decades ago.
[04:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Steal Data for 15 Million Patients, Then Sell It Back to Lab That Lost It - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:58] <exec> 08└─In an interview aired on CBC 5 minutes ago, the CEO couldn't say if the data that had been stolen was encrypted. If it wasn't, your data is still out there.
[04:14:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06VPNs Fade From Popularity as Awareness Rises for Zero Trust - 3678 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:51] <exec> 08└─This is just another prong in Google's (and other "cloud" providers) attempt to deprecate corporate networks in favor of "someone else's servers." Proxy servers, VPNs and partitioned networks are important, despite what some start-up with a vested interest in charging folks money to manage AAA servi...
[04:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs Fade From Popularity as Awareness Rises for Zero Trust - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:01] <exec> 08└─See, this is what happens when you let professors teach this shit instead of folks who actually do it for a living. Zero Trust never actually went away. It's been being practiced by us older folks who knew our asses from a hole in the ground, and anyone we taught, the entire time. VPNs are handy for...
[04:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs Fade From Popularity as Awareness Rises for Zero Trust - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:03] <exec> 08└─"Zero trust" is a bullshit marketing scam
[04:15:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 565 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:26] <exec> 08└─> what happens when someone digs it up in 500 years in a civilization where Geiger counters no longer exist? They might get cancer a bit early, but when Geiger counters no longer exist they are more likely to die of childbirth, plague, war, starvation, or indeed lung disease from mining 1 km undergr...
[04:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:14] <exec> 08└─I do miss a proper white xmas. Even though for nearly half my life it's been summer xmas, the childhood view of what a real xmas is prevails. Snowmen, snow lanterns, snowball fights, and Santa after dark with his lantern bringing the pressies. On xmas eve. **) Onions should not go on top of the saus...
[04:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, you can make pebble bed reactors with most types of nuclear fuel. You're right that they don't melt down as they burn first if things go really wrong. As usual the claim is that industry would never take shortcuts so they're safe.
[04:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where's Our Data, Google? Chrome 79 Update 'a Catastrophe' for Android Devs with WebView Apps - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:26] <exec> 08└─Perfect code means the job is done and you're about to get laid off. Same with well documented code. Same with easy-to-maintain code. People who write shit code on the other hand can't be fired because nobody else understands stun that looks like a winner in an obfuscated code contest. So over time...
[04:20:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Googler Says She was Fired for Telling Colleagues about Worker Rights - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:20:35] <exec> 08└─That doesn't sound like it would be a firing offense for someone who wasn't mouthy in other aspects of his job.
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[05:14:03] <exec> 08└─I wish they'd stop calling them "hackers". The name romanticizes what is nothing more than theft, extortion, and fraud. They are the equivalent of someone who steals an Amazon package off your porch with your kid's Christmas present in it, but we don't get Soylent news stories about someone who gets...
[05:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03evilcam [3239] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah but how good is the cricket!?! - Scomo, probably
[05:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Where's Our Data, Google? Chrome 79 Update 'a Catastrophe' for Android Devs with WebView Apps - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:32] <exec> 08└─VSCode has nothing to do with Visual Studio. The only thing similar is it inherited the initials. It is also a desktop IDE like you get with eclipse/intellij, not a in browser thingie.
[05:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where's Our Data, Google? Chrome 79 Update 'a Catastrophe' for Android Devs with WebView Apps - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:33] <exec> 08└─It is easy to be an armchair critic. Perhaps you'd like to share better alternatives, I'd be more than happy to look at better alternatives - so please enlighten us.
[05:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Googler Says She was Fired for Telling Colleagues about Worker Rights - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:21:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, as if you get a choice of union. If you're a pilot, it's pretty much going to be their union. Flight attendant, same. Driver for UPS, the Teamsters, and so on, and so on especially in trades like electricians, plumbers, steelworkers and so on. If workers had genuine choice about unions, unions...
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[06:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Administration Says Employers Can Ban Organizing Via Company Email - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:03] <exec> 08└─Organize on Whatsapp...
[06:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Says Employers Can Ban Organizing Via Company Email - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:04] <exec> 08└─Organize on Whatsapp...
[06:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Says Employers Can Ban Organizing Via Company Email - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:06] <exec> 08└─Let's be honest here -- using your employer's servers, over which your employer has complete root access, is stupid if you are trying to maintain any semblance of privacy and/or secrecy. Not using an employer's email makes it much harder for the employer to: A) read your email (*), B) know who is in...
[06:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Says Employers Can Ban Organizing Via Company Email - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:08] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm wondering how much privacy and secrecy these people were aiming for. The NLRB already dictated that the substance of this popup were published inside of Google's workplaces. Everyone was privy to the contents of the message, and NLRB mandated that it be publicized conspicuously. No secrecy...
[06:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs Fade From Popularity as Awareness Rises for Zero Trust - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:19] <exec> 08└─That's because it's Gartner marketing gibberish: Gartner predicts that by 2023, 60% of enterprises will phase out most of their VPNs in favor of zero trust network access, which can take the form of a gateway or broker that authenticates both device and user before allowing role-based, context-aware...
[06:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VPNs Fade From Popularity as Awareness Rises for Zero Trust - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:20] <exec> 08└─Fixing other peoples busted code does Everyone elses code is busted. But not mine. /s
[06:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs Fade From Popularity as Awareness Rises for Zero Trust - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:22] <exec> 08└─See, this is what happens when you let professors teach this shit instead of folks who actually do it for a living. Zero Trust never actually went away. It's been being practiced by us older folks who knew our asses from a hole in the ground, and anyone we taught, the entire time. VPNs are handy for...
[06:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs Fade From Popularity as Awareness Rises for Zero Trust - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:24] <exec> 08└─... consistent with a given risk profile ...
[06:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:38] <exec> 08└─...Even having a badly burnt & grease-smothered snag in a lousy bread slice** at a Bunnings sizzle is far more attractive than "going north"...
[06:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:40] <exec> 08└─No one appriciates a good joke anymore, today this would be considered racist towards rand-mcnallians.
[06:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IFixit Surgeons Dissect Apple's Pricey Mac Pro: Industry Standard Sockets? Repair Diagrams? Really? - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:24] <exec> 08└─"Does any of that sound like "it just works"? My machine works fine with the video cards it has now. Four of them. I'm not about to go buying four new video cards to access an unsupported OS, where Apple has intentionally attempted to block my use in the first place, and might get more emphatic abou...
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[07:14:13] <exec> 08└─I agree, and I like your analogy. I wish they'd stop calling them "hackers" because they're trashing the word "hacker". It used to mean "tinkerer" or "hobbyist". I've heard old codgers refer to themselves as a "hack" when talking about something they do, like golf, or playing an instrument, or whate...
[07:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:37] <exec> 08└─There's a number of things I couldn't get the taste of, even I have tried to. One of them is cricket and a really tried to get into it. The other one is LNP - Howard was... meh, but good enough while it lasted (got only his last 4 years). I find it now repulsive enough to not even cross my mind gett...
[07:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:39] <exec> 08└─the childhood view of what a real xmas is prevails.
[07:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IFixit Surgeons Dissect Apple's Pricey Mac Pro: Industry Standard Sockets? Repair Diagrams? Really? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:25] <exec> 08└─I've got one sitting around that I've been meaning to work over for years. Maybe I'll grab one of those blackbird boards and put a modern POWER system in it.
[07:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IFixit Surgeons Dissect Apple's Pricey Mac Pro: Industry Standard Sockets? Repair Diagrams? Really? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:27] <exec> 08└─It's also the basis of the competition known as Free Enterprise, which has a very strong tendency to self-optimize.
[07:19:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret FISA Court Issues Highly Unusual Public Rebuke of FBI for Mistakes - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:25] <exec> 08└─No, I don't believe there is any defense. All you have are accusers, and the judge(s) who are expected to rubber stamp everything the accusers claim, and everything they want. As you point out, it's secret, secret, secret. Which puts a burden on the judge to question everything. If the judge is not...
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[08:14:10] <exec> 08└─people might want to do it on the employer's hardware is so that it would be documented in the case of a wrongful termination during labor organization. If you're doing it via email or web forums it would be much harder to subpoenia for forensic evidence that the employer had a spy/mole in the forum...
[08:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Skin as Non-Volatile Memory - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:44] <exec> 08└─Indeed, one can classify the circuit elements by order of derivative: Capacitor: Charge proportional to voltage. Resistor: First time derivative of charge (aka current) proportional to voltage. Inductor: Second time derivative of charge (change of current) proportional to voltage. Therefore a fourth...
[08:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:48] <exec> 08└─Bah, how are you meant to feel alive if you're not having to spend half an hour in the morning freeing your vehicle from the clutches of the snow and ice that has built up overnight (sometimes with the assistance of a helpful snowplow traveling past and putting a wall behind your vehicle)? I fear I'...
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[08:16:49] <exec> 08└─Bah, how are you meant to feel alive if you're not having to spend half an hour in the morning freeing your vehicle from the clutches of the snow and ice that has built up overnight
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[09:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Steal Data for 15 Million Patients, Then Sell It Back to Lab That Lost It - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:24] <exec> 08└─This sounds like an idea for a new industry. We will hack into your computer and back up your data for you, just pay us if you need the data back.
[09:16:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 384 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:02] <exec> 08└─You're a big fan of something that hasn't been built yet, where all you've seen is salesman's promises. I'm moderately optimistic about the molten salt Thorium reactors, especially if it turns out to be true that they can consume the waste from current plants as part of their fuel. But ... that's sa...
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[10:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Not Such a Bright Idea: Why Your Phone's ‘Night Mode’ May be Keeping You Awake - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:01] <exec> 08└─mice don't have phones
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[10:14:03] <exec> 08└─"[...] According to the study, brightness levels are more important than colour when it comes to stimulating the body clock. However, when the light is equally dim, blue is more relaxing than yellow." Blue is only more relaxing if you are a mouse or a raging consumertard. It is eye raping hypnotic a...
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[10:14:05] <exec> 08└─Mice are nocturnal. Human are, mostly, diurnal (personally, I have a nasty case of delayed sleep phase, verified in a sleep study). There is no objective reason why the influence of the color of ambient light should be in any way similar between mice and humans. Logically, since mice sleep during th...
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[11:13:55] <exec> 08└─whoda thunk it? TANSTAAFL is exactly right, Fnord.
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[12:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Unroll.me, the Email Unsubscription Service, Has Been Collecting and Selling Your Data - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:58] <exec> 08└─They have been caught and now they must send emails telling they have been bad boys, warn they are selling data, delete the data they have collected and probably close the business. But nobody is touching the pile of dollar they have got a long the years. They must be looking forward to starting the...
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[12:14:00] <exec> 08└─Google-> Alphabet
[12:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Not Such a Bright Idea: Why Your Phone's ‘Night Mode’ May be Keeping You Awake - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:10] <exec> 08└─You are being timeist... some mice self-identify as diurnal (typically the pink-haired ones with multiple piercings).
[12:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Slams Media For Not Saying Nice Things About AWS - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:18] <exec> 08└─If you publish an open source project and Amazon decides to fork it, you only have yourselves to blame. If you were smarter you would have used proper American legal protections for your software like Bill Gates and Larry Ellison did.
[12:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Says Employers Can Ban Organizing Via Company Email - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:29] <exec> 08└─Boss wonders where all his H1B Indians went today...
[12:14:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Satnav Watching Over Rugby Players - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:48] <exec> 08└─People have been voluntarily carrying satnav trackers for years. You may know them as "smartphones".
[12:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Announces "Orin" Automotive SoC for 2022 Release - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:21] <exec> 08└─So we'll let a company that can't fix a dark screen in two years manage some tons of metal at high speed. I think this is a clever plot to convince us bots that the robocalypse is redundant.
[12:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IFixit Surgeons Dissect Apple's Pricey Mac Pro: Industry Standard Sockets? Repair Diagrams? Really? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, a fully specced out Mac Pro is a hell of a lot of cash. But a similarly specced Dell is a bit more than that. High-end workstation crap is expensive.
[12:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IFixit Surgeons Dissect Apple's Pricey Mac Pro: Industry Standard Sockets? Repair Diagrams? Really? - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:58] <exec> 08└─The main reason to open a computer is to swap out the hard drive. On average about 3 times over 10 years of machine lifetime for me. RAM upgrades are done about once or twice in this time. As I understood from a heise report, the Mac Pro's SSD is removable, but dongled to the T2 chip. We haven't not...
[12:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IFixit Surgeons Dissect Apple's Pricey Mac Pro: Industry Standard Sockets? Repair Diagrams? Really? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:01] <exec> 08└─None of these fuckers are born from any human womb but instead are spawned directly from Satan.
[12:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Googler Says She was Fired for Telling Colleagues about Worker Rights - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:10] <exec> 08└─Isn't that the motto of incels? Fuck [fleshlights|Rosie Palm|fresh melon|goats|chickens]?
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[13:14:05] <exec> 08└─Unrollme regrets all of the profitable decisions that we made, and most of all regret having to close our business to fine consumers such as yourself. If you are looking for a competing product (which we admit is far superior to our own!), unroll.me gives a full-throated recommendation for unroll.yo...
[13:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Not Such a Bright Idea: Why Your Phone's ‘Night Mode’ May be Keeping You Awake - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:16] <exec> 08└─I can quit anytime I want! Black backgrounds + red text ftw.
[13:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Not Such a Bright Idea: Why Your Phone's ‘Night Mode’ May be Keeping You Awake - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:17] <exec> 08└─It looks blue to some people because blue sensitive cones are more sensitive than red sensitive cones. I personally don't experience this and wondered why TV shows always shot night scenes in a blue filter, until the stupid dress came along and people said that white actually does look blue to some...
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[13:14:19] <exec> 08└─So - it took me a while to find the article (summary links to another summary links to the university links to the journal, not published in current issue, etc.). It is here: https://www.cell.com(19)31368-5 [cell.com] And titled (would it kill any of these summari...
[13:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Administration Says Employers Can Ban Organizing Via Company Email - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:39] <exec> 08└─If you're doing it via email or web forums it would be much harder to subpoenia for forensic evidence that the employer had a spy/mole in the forum
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[13:14:40] <exec> 08└─Of course - you're fired for a protected activity that you should have known the company would illegally retaliate against!
[13:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Administration Says Employers Can Ban Organizing Via Company Email - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:43] <exec> 08└─It's just like the *IAA, using law to protect your terrible business model. If you can't be bothered to take steps to conceal your speech from employers, then you didn't really need that job anyway.
[13:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Human Skin as Non-Volatile Memory - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:17] <exec> 08└─And I suppose go the other way too, integral of charge proportional to voltage. There doesn't seem to be a lot of gear that does that.
[13:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Quiet Supersonic Plane Cleared for Final Assembly - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:12] <exec> 08└─i wouldnt mind if the trip takes 10 days, if the bed is soft, there's plenty of hot water and all three (daily meals) are excellent ... but ofc travelling really fast charges up your aura, makes you stronger and faster and overall increases your libido ... so there's that.
[13:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:23] <exec> 08└─And you keep being an idiot. How do you extract energy from a slightly radioactive wrench or some protective suit covered with dust? Let us note actual nuclear reactors typically work on temperature gradients of a few hundred degrees and achieve thermodynamic efficiencies in the 30-40% range. Meanwh...
[13:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:25] <exec> 08└─So it's like 125 calories of work to harvest that 100 calories of microgram mouse?
[13:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:27] <exec> 08└─you're going to need quiet a few nuke reactors to make enough electricity to smelt enough iron and possibly lead to to build that ginormous dig-dug that can handle 10 tons of radioactif caesium ^_^ but i guess it's ok to concentrate more power in fewer hands ... sunburn is for losers.
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[14:14:15] <exec> 08└─My phone has a mouse. A bluetooth mouse, to be specific. It's not a dedicated mouse, but when I want a mouse pointer on the tiny screen I connect it My phone also works with a USB mouse connected through an OTG adapter. Those will work on a lot of people's phones.
[14:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Not Such a Bright Idea: Why Your Phone's ‘Night Mode’ May be Keeping You Awake - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:17] <exec> 08└─I think the other benefit of the B&W mode on Android is it is a simple way of saying, "PUT THE DAMN PHONE AWAY!"
[14:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Not Such a Bright Idea: Why Your Phone's ‘Night Mode’ May be Keeping You Awake - 3167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:19] <exec> 08└─Well, the two issues I would note are: a) Prima facie, mice are not humans. They do discuss this in the article and believe it may apply to humans, and the argument seems cogent. But still mice are not humans. b) The article actually discusses a couple of different scenarios with different testing....
[14:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Slams Media For Not Saying Nice Things About AWS - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:27] <exec> 08└─I think Elastic is suing for Trademark infringement, which seems like "proper American legal protections" to me.
[14:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Says Employers Can Ban Organizing Via Company Email - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:44] <exec> 08└─It is rumored that The Google Code of Conduct* has been successfully amended to read "Don't be evil." "Fuck the employees." *Senior Executive Edition, not for publication
[14:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Skin as Non-Volatile Memory - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:21] <exec> 08└─Yay!...
[14:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Skin as Non-Volatile Memory - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:22] <exec> 08└─https://www.onelargeprawn.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/EverythingBanner.png [onelargeprawn.co.za]
[14:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06VPNs Fade From Popularity as Awareness Rises for Zero Trust - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:08] <exec> 08└─The hype has been thick on this topic since this spring though, so it is very easy to just roll one's eyes.
[14:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06VPNs Fade From Popularity as Awareness Rises for Zero Trust - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:10] <exec> 08└─Just build another one!
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[15:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence May Help Scientists Make Spray-on Solar Cells - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:56] <exec> 08└─> Machine Learning, aka Artificial Intelligence Gah!
[15:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Not Such a Bright Idea: Why Your Phone's ‘Night Mode’ May be Keeping You Awake - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:28] <exec> 08└─In the 1940's doctors used these [orau.org] with their X-Ray Phonoscopes. Link warning: I fell into an X-Ray rabbit hole following this link. Sometimes we just forget that we are supposed to be "Standing on the shoulders of giants [wikipedia.org]." I wonder how many Doctors feel asleep in surgery we...
[15:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Says Employers Can Ban Organizing Via Company Email - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:53] <exec> 08└─The right to organize wouldn't be the question here as I read it. It's the question of what resources may be used in trying to organize. Are leaflets OK? Assuming they are, that doesn't mean the employer has to let the employees use the company's paper and photocopier and printers to do so. A more i...
[15:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Steal Data for 15 Million Patients, Then Sell It Back to Lab That Lost It - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:06] <exec> 08└─This devious thought is how cloud computing for john doe came to be.
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[16:14:17] <exec> 08└─I feel vaguely uneasy about your post.
[16:14:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dltaylor [4693] 02 - 06Not Such a Bright Idea: Why Your Phone's ‘Night Mode’ May be Keeping You Awake - 352 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:26] <exec> 08└─Mice are nocturnal. Human are, mostly, diurnal (personally, I have a nasty case of delayed sleep phase, verified in a sleep study). There is no objective reason why the influence of the color of ambient light should be in any way similar between mice and humans. Logically, since mice sleep during th...
[16:14:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] 02 - 06Not Such a Bright Idea: Why Your Phone's ‘Night Mode’ May be Keeping You Awake - 2500 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:31] <exec> 08└─So - it took me a while to find the article (summary links to another summary links to the university links to the journal, not published in current issue, etc.). It is here: https://www.cell.com(19)31368-5 [cell.com] And titled (would it kill any of these summari...
[16:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Not Such a Bright Idea: Why Your Phone's ‘Night Mode’ May be Keeping You Awake - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:37] <exec> 08└─Night mode should be red. Just how dumb do you have to be to get that wrong?
[16:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Says Employers Can Ban Organizing Via Company Email - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:03] <exec> 08└─In other other news... Trump got impeached. No republican voted impeachment, it was all democrats. Remember that at the polls.
[16:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Says Employers Can Ban Organizing Via Company Email - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:05] <exec> 08└─Well ideally they also should get a not Android phone. You can't ever be sure. In general, asking the opponent to keep your stuff is insane.
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[16:16:41] <exec> 08└─When asked for comment, he replied, "be-bee-meep-meep be-deep-me-bleep-be-deep BEEP!"
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[17:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemical Compound Found in Essential Oils Improves Wound Healing - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:09] <exec> 08└─Essential oils are most probably bio-actives because with a well placed amine they make the essential amphetamines, which are all psychoactive ! https://isomerdesign.com [isomerdesign.com]
[17:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Compound Found in Essential Oils Improves Wound Healing - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:10] <exec> 08└─I never understood why the dawning of "science" assumed that herbs and traditional cures that human societies had used for thousands of years were *all* "nonsensical old wives' tales". The proper attitude of scientific inquiry would have been "Hmm, these have been used a long time, there must be a k...
[17:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Chemical Compound Found in Essential Oils Improves Wound Healing - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:12] <exec> 08└─This attitude ain't since the dawning of science, it is since 1940 or so. Because patents. No one is going to pay $100 million to get FDA approval for something they can't patent.
[17:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemical Compound Found in Essential Oils Improves Wound Healing - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:14] <exec> 08└─See, he didn't understand it because he didn't see the impediment.
[17:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemical Compound Found in Essential Oils Improves Wound Healing - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:16] <exec> 08└─Right about here we should see things change: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the new Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) into law on June 24, 1938. The new law significantly increased federal regulatory authority over drugs by mandating a pre-market review of the safety of all new dr...
[17:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence May Help Scientists Make Spray-on Solar Cells - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:25] <exec> 08└─Even if the hype makes you cringe, this is exactly the kind of thing we want. 1. Dumb learning is used to discover new materials, methods, etc. 2. These are used to make better solar panels, planes, computers and transistors, etc. 3. Strong AI is created. 4. Strong AI is used to discover new materia...
[17:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence May Help Scientists Make Spray-on Solar Cells - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:27] <exec> 08└─The most commonly used materials for perovskites right now are lead based halogens, so what they're proposing is spraying the equivalent of lead based paint on everything they can lay their hands on. Pretty sure trading co2 for lead in the environment is a really really BAD idea.
[17:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unroll.me, the Email Unsubscription Service, Has Been Collecting and Selling Your Data - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:44] <exec> 08└─How come nobody goes to jail for e-fraud any more?
[17:14:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Not Such a Bright Idea: Why Your Phone's ‘Night Mode’ May be Keeping You Awake - 959 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:52] <exec> 08└─"[...] According to the study, brightness levels are more important than colour when it comes to stimulating the body clock. However, when the light is equally dim, blue is more relaxing than yellow." Blue is only more relaxing if you are a mouse or a raging consumertard. It is eye raping hypnotic a...
[17:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Not Such a Bright Idea: Why Your Phone's ‘Night Mode’ May be Keeping You Awake - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:04] <exec> 08└─You may also be able to run a Linux desktop on your phone.
[17:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Not Such a Bright Idea: Why Your Phone's ‘Night Mode’ May be Keeping You Awake - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:05] <exec> 08└─Don't have any social media apps on your phone! Or on your computer.
[17:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Not Such a Bright Idea: Why Your Phone's ‘Night Mode’ May be Keeping You Awake - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:07] <exec> 08└─Green was a common night-mode color during WWII. Your eyes are more sensitive to green light so you can run your screens dimmer than you can with red light. Admittedly the concern at the time was interfering with night vision but it still applies.
[17:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satnav Watching Over Rugby Players - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:55] <exec> 08└─Not sure when they started it but in the games of it I download from the lovely Aussies that upload them. But they always mention the GPS numbers of the people competing from their devices worn. Incredible really in a roughly two hour game a lot of them are running close to half a marathon, they are...
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[17:19:43] <exec> 08└─If that's true, you couldn't prove it from the search results I got. And it's not in the Debian system repository, so I'd need a good reason to trust it before trying it.
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[18:13:55] <exec> 08└─Sure, they're cute and all... but later comes the screaming and howling and the death of humanity at the hands of self replicating unkillable robot swarms.
[18:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Soft Robotic Insect That Survives Being Flattened by a Fly Swatter - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:57] <exec> 08└─Is this your idea of a joke? A robot apocalypse consisting of robotic cockroaches? Bender would like to have a word with you.....not to mention Robot Santa, I can hear his slay bells now and he's saying: "Your mistletoe is no match for my TOW missile! I'm already running late, and if I don't complet...
[18:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Soft Robotic Insect That Survives Being Flattened by a Fly Swatter - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:59] <exec> 08└─Before you know it, they'll be bursting out of our stomachs!
[18:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Compound Found in Essential Oils Improves Wound Healing - 1371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:11] <exec> 08└─https://www.policymed.com/2014/12/a-tough-road-cost-to-develop-one-new-drug-is-26-billion-approval-rate-for-drugs-entering-clinical-de.html [policymed.com] Developing a new prescription medicine that gains marketing approval is estimated to cost drugmakers $2.6 billion according to a recent study by...
[18:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemical Compound Found in Essential Oils Improves Wound Healing - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:12] <exec> 08└─That's what NHST does, wastes insane amounts of money and time. But for an already extant herbal remedy you just need to run a few clinical trials, not do all the preclinical stuff.
[18:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Compound Found in Essential Oils Improves Wound Healing - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:14] <exec> 08└─....in the CAR! https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[18:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence May Help Scientists Make Spray-on Solar Cells - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:25] <exec> 08└─But if it did, it would've been because they used lead in everything :)
[18:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unroll.me, the Email Unsubscription Service, Has Been Collecting and Selling Your Data - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:44] <exec> 08└─Because jails are for poor people silly.
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[18:15:06] <exec> 08└─Red is used at night because it stimulates mostly cones, not rods. You don't want to activate the rods because those are the bichrome sensors you need to navigate at night. If you activate them, then they become less sensitive, and if you activate many of them even for a brief moment you are suddenl...
[18:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Not Such a Bright Idea: Why Your Phone's ‘Night Mode’ May be Keeping You Awake - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:08] <exec> 08└─An even better mode to use on your phone if your goal is a good night's sleep: OFF!
[18:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Slams Media For Not Saying Nice Things About AWS - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:18] <exec> 08└─Amazon "slams" media?? This is some guy's BLOG POST. I get the Amazon/Bezos hate, and I get that it is in the linked article title, but come on, we can be a little better with our article summary titles than that, can't we? AWS VP bitches that the article only talked about the bad things is a breath...
[18:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Steal Data for 15 Million Patients, Then Sell It Back to Lab That Lost It - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:51] <exec> 08└─Just look, the CEO is Charlie Brown, so obviously it's LUCY!!!
[18:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03hubie [1068] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Skin as Non-Volatile Memory - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:20] <exec> 08└─I don't understand your linearity requirement for something to be a basic circuit element. Memristors as the fourth basic two-terminal circuit element comes directly out of circuit theory. If you take the four fundamental quantities (charge (q), current (i), voltage (v), and flux (f)), you can form...
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[19:14:00] <exec> 08└─Telecoms don't want to block spoofed numbers because they make lots of money out of call centers pretending to be who they aren't. And because companies that hire call centers don't want you to know that you're not really talking to anyone who can actually help you in most cases.
[19:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence May Help Scientists Make Spray-on Solar Cells - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:34] <exec> 08└─The most commonly used materials for perovskites right now are lead based halogens...
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[19:14:36] <exec> 08└─I think I heard a term for this once. What was it now...? Roko's something. Chimera? Nahh. Gorgon? Nope. Cockatrice? Closer. Hydralisk? Well, whatever it was, the key was to not stare into the eyes of the computer unless you got stoned. Or something like that. Just remember - The Computer is your fr...
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[19:14:56] <exec> 08└─So people voluntarily gave a third party total access to their email accounts? I weep for humanity. Hmmm, perhaps a new business, something totally for the public good... I'll call it... SecureSAFE! Yes, I know there's a cloud company called Securesafe, but my company will have SAFE in all capitals!...
[19:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Slams Media For Not Saying Nice Things About AWS - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:29] <exec> 08└─Alice in Wonderland syndrome (AWS) is a rare condition that causes temporary episodes of distorted perception and disorientation. Seems to work either way....
[19:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Skin as Non-Volatile Memory - 1277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:32] <exec> 08└─Hi hubie, I'm starting from the assumption that if the original three basic circuit elements are linear, the fourth should be as well. I admit to having a narrower perspective on this as an engineer with a circuit design background, but linear time invariant systems are the fundamental building bloc...
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[19:20:04] <exec> 08└─Simple - anything except a web browser. How hard was that, given that we know that the more links in a chain, the weaker the chain, and the web browser is a really weak link. It would probably have been easier to harden Flash, since it wasn't trying to be and do everything - until it too fell into...
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[20:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:57] <exec> 08└─The President of the United States was impeached today. Is SN really not going to run a story about it?
[20:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:59] <exec> 08└─No. Don't care.
[20:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:01] <exec> 08└─Go back to Slashdot with your bullshit.
[20:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:03] <exec> 08└─925 comments over there and counting. Maybe I should, they seem to post things for people to discuss.
[20:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:05] <exec> 08└─However, on topic, the Senate unanimously passed the anti-robocall bill that the House sent over, so that will most likely end up going into law (it is that last step in the bill making process that has not been very reliable these last few years).
[20:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Compound Found in Essential Oils Improves Wound Healing - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:28] <exec> 08└─In the case, there's a signaling enzyme that the author isolated from a particular essential oil that interacts with self-healing gene activation in human cells. It's definetly under the umbrella of "what do you call alt medicine that works? medicine"
[20:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence May Help Scientists Make Spray-on Solar Cells - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:42] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHgMdHA44g [youtube.com]
[20:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unroll.me, the Email Unsubscription Service, Has Been Collecting and Selling Your Data - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:03] <exec> 08└─People have been doing this for a long time. It is so bad at my company, they send out monthly reminders not to do it, and specifically cite the most notorious example of all, LinkedIn, among others. It is so bad that they have a zero-tolerance policy for it and people still get their email account...
[20:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Not Such a Bright Idea: Why Your Phone's ‘Night Mode’ May be Keeping You Awake - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:28] <exec> 08└─Actually, my phone plans mp3s all night through a bluetooth speaker.
[20:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Not Such a Bright Idea: Why Your Phone's ‘Night Mode’ May be Keeping You Awake - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:29] <exec> 08└─uhm. "black and white mode"? the light is still red + green + blue. same amount of blue as red and green.
[20:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Says Employers Can Ban Organizing Via Company Email - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:01] <exec> 08└─I think it is a question of the right to organise. Corporations are generally against the idea, and have the influence to put as many roadblocks in place as they can.
[20:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Says Employers Can Ban Organizing Via Company Email - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:02] <exec> 08└─More accurately because all this stuff is out of date by the time the lawyers are done with it, my guess is in a decade we will be seeing Soylent stories about Livejournal ICQ and MySpace finally being banned for union organizing. Oh and Yahooooooo Groups also banned in 2029, that being the site tha...
[20:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Says Employers Can Ban Organizing Via Company Email - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:05] <exec> 08└─Why bother with GPG if your employer has root access or equiv on your hardware? About as silly as demanding the use of the corporate SSL cert to keep your union organizing private.
[20:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satnav Watching Over Rugby Players - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:27] <exec> 08└─If you're interested enough, you can get a subscription to Watch AFL which gives you all the games live, and access to replays as well from outside Australia. There is a great Kodi plugin, so you can watch on your proper TV, instead your phone. From what I understand some of the mid-field players c...
[20:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hubie [1068] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Skin as Non-Volatile Memory - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:50] <exec> 08└─No problem at all. As somewhat of a hobby I like to scan the open access literature for potentially interesting articles to summarize here (I'm a science journalist at heart, but I'm a lazy one at that, so I don't do it all that often). It gives me a way to learn something new, and in this case I di...
[20:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA's Quiet Supersonic Plane Cleared for Final Assembly - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:50] <exec> 08└─Nice, I've not kept up with Chinese aviation, but there's a bit of a difference betwixt a hypersonic transport and a quiet(ish) supersonic transport, and somehow I don't think the Chinese will give a shit how much noise their beastie will make....and while I'm at it, I bloody miss seeing Concorde in...
[20:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA's Quiet Supersonic Plane Cleared for Final Assembly - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:52] <exec> 08└─Well, we could use more classy airships.
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[21:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:05] <exec> 08└─(Ok I'll stop!) Well it's not public yet but it sounds like it might be a good bill. [thehill.com] I thought robocalls were already illegal, though (except for political ones, because, of course!) So I'm not really sure what another law will do. Or, am I just mistaken?
[21:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:06] <exec> 08└─It seems that this should be an easy fix. After a call is received, just dial *86 (or something), this will change the sender of the last call $0.10. Nothing to anyone that is not doing anything wrong, but for those call centers, it would drain them.
[21:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:09] <exec> 08└─I've been in a position, fairly recently, in looking for a job where I was expecting calls. Most of the calls I received were robocalls, I usually called back, and on one occasion I was met with another local at the end of the line; she'd been receiving calls back from a bunch of people, her otherwi...
[21:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:11] <exec> 08└─they make lots of money out of call centers pretending to be who they aren't And now they'll make even more by raising prices for the blocking scam "service". Customers need to demand better, or they won't get it.
[21:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:13] <exec> 08└─I think it is fake news around these parts.
[21:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:15] <exec> 08└─Are you sure it would call back the robocaller, or some innocent who's number was spoofed? A lot of robo calls seem to be from local numbers. Thus raising the incentive to answer.
[21:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemical Compound Found in Essential Oils Improves Wound Healing - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:40] <exec> 08└─I don't understand the logic behind this one: "time costs (the expected returns that investors forego while a drug is in development) of $1.2 billion." Nobody makes money on a thing before it's available to sell. This is not a cost, nor is it a loss. Now if it was the cost of the development work it...
[21:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03soylentnewsinator [7102] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Unroll.me, the Email Unsubscription Service, Has Been Collecting and Selling Your Data - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:15] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, even if you *do* pay, you can still be the product.
[21:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Says Employers Can Ban Organizing Via Company Email - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:15] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the reminder not to vote Republican.
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[22:14:12] <exec> 08└─Robocall fines rise to $10,000 per call under newly passed law https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com] After months of negotiations, Congress approved a landmark bill on Thursday to stop the flood of illegal ro...
[22:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:13] <exec> 08└─Customers need to demand better, or they won't get it.
[22:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:15] <exec> 08└─Political robocalls are extremely helpful for weeding out the candidate you don't want to be sending you robocalls.
[22:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:17] <exec> 08└─Just a little lite treason. God you assholes are irredeemable.
[22:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:19] <exec> 08└─they make lots of money out of call centers pretending to be who they aren't
[22:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Soft Robotic Insect That Survives Being Flattened by a Fly Swatter - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:30] <exec> 08└─A Browning .50 cal won't do a whole lot of good against a swarm of those little buggers, though.
[22:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence May Help Scientists Make Spray-on Solar Cells - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:59] <exec> 08└─I welcome the coming TechnoCore overlords
[22:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hottest Day of December on Record in Australia - Most of It Over 42C - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:20] <exec> 08└─No one appriciates a good joke anymore, today this would be considered racist towards rand-mcnallians.
[22:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secret FISA Court Issues Highly Unusual Public Rebuke of FBI for Mistakes - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:12] <exec> 08└─You expect a lot from the FISA judges -- hasn't it been something like a mid-double digit number of warrant rejections out of a pool of tens of thousands? Yep, well close: 12 rejected out 38169 applications between 1979 and 2015: https://dailycaller.com
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[23:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Escher: Etch-a-Sketch As A Service - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:04] <exec> 08└─You better hide really well as we'll get our service costs when we find you
[23:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Escher: Etch-a-Sketch As A Service - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:05] <exec> 08└─Trump will be among first subscribers. And a high volume one.
[23:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Escher: Etch-a-Sketch As A Service - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:07] <exec> 08└─Sure, as soon as this farce clears senate, oh...
[23:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How SSH Key Shielding Works - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:15] <exec> 08└─Its a good idea although the best application of effort might be putting your keys on the end of a USB connector. Play with the keys in a better spot, not play with the keys in a better way. I have an use a yubico key for various auth. For some things like Amazon AWS its ridiculously simple to set u...
[23:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:41] <exec> 08└─I've received calls from myself. I had to talk to myself about a windows virus that was detected on my Linux box. I told me he had called my car phone, and to call back on my landline. I gave him the number to the Whitehouse switchboard and to ask for Donald.
[23:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:42] <exec> 08└─They are not only monopolists, they work hard to keep it that way. And Ajit Pai is happy to help them get whatever they want. Because corporations are people too!
[23:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:44] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I meant to say "predictable", not "reliable". The Senate has gotten burned a couple of times and they are once bitten, twice shy on everything.
[23:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:46] <exec> 08└─I had a similar experience with insurance scam calls...called back one of the local number missed calls, and got a very confused and frustrated young lady. I explained the shady hijacking of cell ph #'s for these assholes, and suggested she contact the local DA. She seemed relieved to have a course...
[23:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:49] <exec> 08└─LOL!!! Thank you for that, I needed a good laugh. Well done! BTW, a cherry on top of your very tasty sundae, is the current QOTD: I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. -- Victor Hugo
[23:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Ramps Up its Fight Against Robocalls With Call Validation Feature - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:51] <exec> 08└─For another take on how powerful the TelCos are I suggest a 50 year old film: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.imdb.com [imdb.com]
[23:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Soft Robotic Insect That Survives Being Flattened by a Fly Swatter - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:01] <exec> 08└─A low voltage grid they would step in will do though. If not, upgrade to a full bug zapper.
[23:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Soft Robotic Insect That Survives Being Flattened by a Fly Swatter - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:03] <exec> 08└─Nope, for those you're gonna need the stink lizards. But buy both the parrot and the stink lizards, and you're good in either case.
[23:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Soft Robotic Insect That Survives Being Flattened by a Fly Swatter - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:05] <exec> 08└─AAAIIIEEEEEE ... 'm so glad I'm not dying of malaria instead, I guess. Kind of a toss-up.
[23:15:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] 02 - 06Chemical Compound Found in Essential Oils Improves Wound Healing - 573 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:14] <exec> 08└─I never understood why the dawning of "science" assumed that herbs and traditional cures that human societies had used for thousands of years were *all* "nonsensical old wives' tales". The proper attitude of scientific inquiry would have been "Hmm, these have been used a long time, there must be a k...
[23:15:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Chemical Compound Found in Essential Oils Improves Wound Healing - 251 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:22] <exec> 08└─In the case, there's a signaling enzyme that the author isolated from a particular essential oil that interacts with self-healing gene activation in human cells. It's definetly under the umbrella of "what do you call alt medicine that works? medicine"
[23:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Artificial Intelligence May Help Scientists Make Spray-on Solar Cells - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:38] <exec> 08└─I can promise a lot more than an AI. (point: how about we see the results on those promises before we get enthusiastic. E.g. it's not like the 'self-driving cars' delivered yet) (counterpoint: the value is not necessary in the potential discovery as such, but that using NN in the search for material...
[23:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mitochondria are 'Canary in the Coal Mine' for Cellular Stress: How Some Cancers Resist Chemotherapy - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:46] <exec> 08└─The force is strong with this one!
[23:16:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Not Such a Bright Idea: Why Your Phone's ‘Night Mode’ May be Keeping You Awake - 117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:12] <exec> 08└─You are being timeist... some mice self-identify as diurnal (typically the pink-haired ones with multiple piercings).
[23:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Not Such a Bright Idea: Why Your Phone's ‘Night Mode’ May be Keeping You Awake - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:28] <exec> 08└─Finally! Year of the Linux Desktop!
[23:16:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Trump Administration Says Employers Can Ban Organizing Via Company Email - 574 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:48] <exec> 08└─Let's be honest here -- using your employer's servers, over which your employer has complete root access, is stupid if you are trying to maintain any semblance of privacy and/or secrecy. Not using an employer's email makes it much harder for the employer to: A) read your email (*), B) know who is in...
[23:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where's Our Data, Google? Chrome 79 Update 'a Catastrophe' for Android Devs with WebView Apps - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:25] <exec> 08└─"Don't use this" isn't really an alternative. I sure hope you're not proposing Flash... And yes, some problems don't need a GUI, but fact is there still is a need to for GUIs in some cases, hence a good UI dev platform.
[23:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where's Our Data, Google? Chrome 79 Update 'a Catastrophe' for Android Devs with WebView Apps - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:26] <exec> 08└─That comment does absolutely nothing to validate your claims it is Visual Studio... I'm just pointing out to you that it isn't Visual Studio. Trust what you want or don't, I don't care.
[23:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where's Our Data, Google? Chrome 79 Update 'a Catastrophe' for Android Devs with WebView Apps - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:28] <exec> 08└─I'm not a big fan of auto-updates either and I'd rather have control of when and how. However, I can see the flip side where there's a big chunk of non-techie users who would _never_ update/patch if left to their own and a lot of issues are caused by compromised assets. Short of stripping the sheepl...
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