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[14:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding a New Way to Fight Late-Stage Sepsis by Boosting Cells' Antibacterial Properties - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:37] <exec> 08└─In critically ill patients, vitamin C deficiency is frequently observed. After almost one century of in vitro-experiments and animal models, there is an abundance of plausible data for the protective effects of vitamin C against oxidative-stress-mediated cell damage and organ dysfunction in sepsis a...
[14:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Moon Lost its Magnetic Field 1B Years Ago After its 'Internal Dynamo' Ended, Study Finds - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:45] <exec> 08└─If you don't, dynamo dies.
[14:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Unveils a Concept Entertainment System on Wheels that You Can Drive - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:53] <exec> 08└─It's a real product at least. Although showing a concept car at CES is certainly an interesting idea. Intel is showing off a bunch of "smart city" nonsense (we REALLY don't need that). Seems like the "consumer electronics" part of CES has gotten lost.
[14:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sony Unveils a Concept Entertainment System on Wheels that You Can Drive - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:55] <exec> 08└─Selling hardware at rock bottom prices and then making money on add ons, enforcing proprietary connectors and protocols, let's face it, SONY has always be basically an automaker. All it needed to do is finally to design a car.
[14:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched US Government Website Gets Pwned by Pro-Iran Script Kiddie - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:02] <exec> 08└─This time not by Boeing, maybe.
[14:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Unpatched US Government Website Gets Pwned by Pro-Iran Script Kiddie - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:05] <exec> 08└─This time not by Boeing, maybe.
[14:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Unpatched US Government Website Gets Pwned by Pro-Iran Script Kiddie - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:07] <exec> 08└─The same kind of pics that circulated since Trump retired from the nuclear deal I guess. It is undisputable that the USA is the bully of the neighborhood, but you have to pick only one: - feeling outraged at an unwarranted attack - burn flags and taunt the prez "casino owner... Come and get us... We...
[14:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Unpatched US Government Website Gets Pwned by Pro-Iran Script Kiddie - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:09] <exec> 08└─There's TDS and then there is the above comment. Hey dipshit, how do you explain Iran firing a buk missile at a civilian passenger plane within its own airspace?
[14:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Unpatched US Government Website Gets Pwned by Pro-Iran Script Kiddie - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:11] <exec> 08└─Presumably the same way the US did when they did a similar thing? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Unpatched US Government Website Gets Pwned by Pro-Iran Script Kiddie - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:13] <exec> 08└─By depositing my slimy, smelly nutsack deep inside your rectal cavity, and letting it fester until it becomes a significant force unlike any the world has ever seen before...
[14:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Unpatched US Government Website Gets Pwned by Pro-Iran Script Kiddie - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:15] <exec> 08└─the USA is the bully of the neighborhood,
[14:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Unpatched US Government Website Gets Pwned by Pro-Iran Script Kiddie - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:17] <exec> 08└─It's not an Iranian plane. https://edition.cnn.com [cnn.com] The Boeing 737 jet, operated by Ukraine International Airlines,
[14:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unpatched US Government Website Gets Pwned by Pro-Iran Script Kiddie - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:20] <exec> 08└─I don't need to pick sides because from the outside, both sides show an element of evil.
[14:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Unpatched US Government Website Gets Pwned by Pro-Iran Script Kiddie - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:22] <exec> 08└─had not had its code updated since 2012
[14:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched US Government Website Gets Pwned by Pro-Iran Script Kiddie - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:24] <exec> 08└─I miss the days when (aside from the CIA) the US was often seen as the good guy. Where those days real, or was that just want I learned in school?
[14:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched US Government Website Gets Pwned by Pro-Iran Script Kiddie - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:26] <exec> 08└─It was just what you learned in school, and were fed by the media. Basically every country is ruled by an elite which wastes the lives of its peasants in meaningless conflicts. These elites have far more in common with each other than with their 'citizens'. They may not be literally lizard people, b...
[14:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:34] <exec> 08└─They no longer teach geography in school. It became "social studies". I had a really old teacher who would give us blank maps to fill in states and countries, nobody else did that. Now I imagine social studies have been replaced by something to do with social justice.
[14:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:37] <exec> 08└─Seriously. It does look like the entire country is in flames.
[14:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:39] <exec> 08└─And.. the much larger African fires are not mentioned by the fake news at all. There are literally fires that span the east-west axis of Africa right now.
[14:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:41] <exec> 08└─Population is much smaller and population density much more constrained. Just simple division tells us there is one aussie per 100 footy fields, whereas people in the ‘states only get 5 football fields of space. Not accounting livable land mass.
[14:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:43] <exec> 08└─Even the people I know who took geography or relatively well-informed were taken aback by it. I think it is because of two reasons. The first is that the standard projection used on maps is the Mercator projection. That has the well-known effect of making landmasses closer to the poles appear larger...
[14:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:45] <exec> 08└─You get news when Australia burns because Australia is considered a "western country". You also get news and boycotts when Indonesia burns because they produce palm oil - a huge competitor to soybean oil (which doesn't get as much boycotts even though the Amazon is being cleared and burned to plant...
[14:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:48] <exec> 08└─Geography education isn't specifically to blame, even if it's notoriously terrible in the US. It's the lack of sense of curiosity that is ultimately to blame. Tables like https://en.wikipedia.org have existed for ever, not just on the internet but in r...
[14:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:50] <exec> 08└─If that is when I "get news", when is it that you "get news"? And how do they differ? Make a journal out of it.
[14:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:52] <exec> 08└─https://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/alarming-us-map-of-australian-bushfires-explained-20131025-2w6vi.html [smh.com.au] NBC's controversial graphic ignored the finer details on the fire hotspots map. Dr Lewis said their choice of display "wasn't really appropriate". He explained that "each fir...
[14:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:54] <exec> 08└─The two largest tracts of occupied territory left on earth. Last remnants of the British imperialist colonial fuck up
[14:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:56] <exec> 08└─good to hear that canada was returned to the native americans then. and brazil. and mexico. and chile and argentina. and the other ones (no, I never liked learning stuff by heart, so I don't know all of the countries in the Americas).
[14:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:58] <exec> 08└─Except you can't live in most of Australia [outback-australia-travel-secrets.com]
[14:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:01] <exec> 08└─why do you call it a fuck up? this tiny little island gathered treasure from all over the world and their language and culture are important almost everywhere. you can call it racist, violent or evil, but they succeeded in their purpose of improving conditions within the UK, remaining a superpower f...
[14:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:03] <exec> 08└─citation needed. seriously though, can you provide a link?
[14:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:05] <exec> 08└─You have a fair point, but so does the thread grandparent. You can't expect people to make any kind of smart choice in politics(or anything, really) if they don't even understand where they are on a map.
[14:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:07] <exec> 08└─https://www.downtoearth.org.in/video/climate-change/why-is-the-world-on-fire--68671 [downtoearth.org.in] Another AC. This says "Australia tops the 10 countries with highest fire alerts between December 1, 2019, and January 2, 2020, with 0.521 million alerts. However, the remaining nine countries are...
[14:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:09] <exec> 08└─Another reason that the fires appear joined up is that much of the gaps between them are already burnt out. Those are still homes destroyed, unique fauna and flora lost. It isn't less important just because it happened yesterday. So NBC's picture might show the total damage, but not accurately displ...
[14:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:11] <exec> 08└─Australia became officially autonomous in both internal and external affairs with the passage of the Statute of Westminster Adoption Act on 9 October 1942. The Australia Act 1986 eliminated the last vestiges of British legal authority at the Federal level. [wikipedia.org]
[14:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:13] <exec> 08└─Teaching geography in school is the most likely *cause* of this problem, because they almost certainly use the Mercator projection where you can see the US is indeed much bigger than Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:15] <exec> 08└─Thank you for this informative retort. I wish more of my comments received such responses.
[14:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:18] <exec> 08└─no it's not bigger. the US is below the great lakes. when has it become ok to confuse North America with the USA? and yes, I am ignoring the ridiculously distorted Alaska, because this overlay also ignores the ridiculously distorted Alaska.
[14:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:20] <exec> 08└─The reference in the previous post has such a huge problem with comma placement, it is impossible to parse the numbers. However, it is always worth seeing more Americans realize that America is not that big in real life. (And Texas is smaller than Chuck Norris supporters imagine).
[14:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:22] <exec> 08└─oh. thank you for the correction. so Australia was only lost ~70 years ago.
[14:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:24] <exec> 08└─but they succeeded in their purpose of improving conditions within the UK, remaining a superpower for at least 70 years after the empire was gone
[14:53:25] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03kazzie [5309] 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 729 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:27] <exec> 08└─I'd add to this the fact that the US is adjacent to Canada, which is further north, and looks even bigger in a Mercator projection: the continent of North America looks huge compared to Australia, and half of a huge thing is still going to be pretty enormous. Australia on the other hand, is surround...
[14:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:29] <exec> 08└─https://www.euronews.com/2019/08/29/should-we-worry-more-about-the-wildfires-in-africa-or-in-the-amazon [euronews.com] Scholes points out that while fires are extremely damaging to the biodiversity of a tropical forest like the Amazon, "the savannahs have to burn, it's part of their evolution, they'...
[14:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:31] <exec> 08└─Because knowing random factoids such as how large a certain country is compared to some other country is almost completely useless. We should focus on encouraging critical thinking skills and understanding, rather than mindless rote memorization of facts that just aren't that important to begin with...
[14:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:33] <exec> 08└─You can't expect people to make any kind of smart choice in politics(or anything, really) if they don't even understand where they are on a map.
[14:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:35] <exec> 08└─Speaking of improving conditions, the Brits even got rid of slavery much earlier than the USA. Ironically many of the US citizens fought for "independence" because they were afraid their slaves would gain their independence if the US remain under British rule.
[14:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:37] <exec> 08└─I am reminded of Ronald Reagan's world map. California alone is about twenty times the size of Australia :- https://www.davidrumsey.com [davidrumsey.com]
[14:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:40] <exec> 08└─Lastly, maybe the other colonial masters were better but it's kinda funny that the British can have the cheek to start something called the "Commonwealth Games" AND many of their ex-colonies actually bother to participate...
[14:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:42] <exec> 08└─But you can play footy over most of it. I mean, except the great dividing range, is pretty flat.
[14:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:44] <exec> 08└─You're mostly right, but mindless rote memorization of facts that just aren't that important to begin with.
[14:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:46] <exec> 08└─The second cause I think is at play here is most people don't hear about Australia very much
[14:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:48] <exec> 08└─Obviously Australia is smaller because they're measuring it in kilometers.
[14:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:50] <exec> 08└─There are literally fires that span the east-west axis of Africa right now.
[14:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 1587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:52] <exec> 08└─I know those facts you listed, but it does not matter that I know those facts because I am not in charge of foreign policy of any country, much less America's. I can laugh at politicians who are in charge of foreign policy screwing up those facts, but it still doesn't matter that I know they screwed...
[14:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:55] <exec> 08└─> So if someone doesn't know exactly how large every country is, they can't, say, have an informed opinion about universal healthcare? If we back off from your extreme statement to something like this: "about how large most countries are", then I'd say, Yes, anyone without a general sense of the rel...
[14:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:57] <exec> 08└─I think you can, but only the aborigines figured out how.
[14:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:59] <exec> 08└─Large swathes of Canadian territory effectively remain in native hands today. Large chunks of the BC interior. Lower Alberta from Lethbridge all the way east to Kenora, ON, are heavily native. Regina, Saskatchewan, is full of native influence. The Maritimes, too, are quite dominated by MicMacs and o...
[14:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:01] <exec> 08└─1942? I've read that the disaster at Gallipoli in WWI got the ball rolling for Australian and New Zealand independence, but 20 years is not exactly prompt action.
[14:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:03] <exec> 08└─Well, Britain stood at the most sanitized and profitable apex of the triangle trade. They conveniently ignored the suffering and oppression their standard of living depended on in exactly the same way that modern Europeans, Americans, Japanese, and other first world nations do. How many woke iPhone...
[14:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:05] <exec> 08└─Sure, but your comparing football fields to football fields and those aren't the same thing!
[14:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:07] <exec> 08└─It's broken up into three now, but there used to be a cattle station (Ranch) in Western Australia that was bigger than Texas. Literally. One farm, and it was bigger than the whole state of Texas.
[14:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Stuck an E-ink Display on a Laptop Lid Because Why Not? - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:16] <exec> 08└─Looks more promising than this [soylentnews.org]. But: e-ink display "on which users can create illustrations and diagrams with the integrated Lenovo Precision Pen"
[14:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lenovo Stuck an E-ink Display on a Laptop Lid Because Why Not? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:18] <exec> 08└─This is the future of product differentiation, how many LEDs (or eInk stuff) can you stick on the outside without exceeding the norms of tastefulness.
[14:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Lenovo Stuck an E-ink Display on a Laptop Lid Because Why Not? - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:20] <exec> 08└─"receive essential notifications when the lid is closed allowing them to stay focused during meetings" i.e. "permit you to get distracted by other things even when you're signalling to others that you aren't being distracted by other things"
[14:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Stuck an E-ink Display on a Laptop Lid Because Why Not? - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:22] <exec> 08└─Full screen refresh is terrible, but this only needs to update dirty rectangles. It'll probably be better than an Apple Newton, a Psion series 3, or a PalmPilot. And members of those families of products have been pretty usable for scribbled input (Palm V in particular was great).
[14:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Stuck an E-ink Display on a Laptop Lid Because Why Not? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:24] <exec> 08└─Yes, it could be used for both purposes.
[14:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Stuck an E-ink Display on a Laptop Lid Because Why Not? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:26] <exec> 08└─Will it run with Linux?
[14:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Stuck an E-ink Display on a Laptop Lid Because Why Not? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:28] <exec> 08└─We'll have to ask the guinea pigs who buy this.
[14:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:36] <exec> 08└─Don't use linux its will make you an outsider and hard to spy on. Use window only it is for normal conforming people.
[14:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:39] <exec> 08└─No changes in odor found.
[14:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:41] <exec> 08└─Was just about to troll that people with the patience to fuck with modern Linux are most likely fiddling with other ways to game the system, including grinding bots and 1-click headshots. But I do have a question: is it even legal for them to have pages like this one [lutris.net]? You don't think Ca...
[14:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:43] <exec> 08└─This "boycott" won't make a difference at all anyway, since the vast majority of the addicts known as "gamers" are mouth-drooling morons who will gladly slurp up the abusive, proprietary garbage that these companies produce on a regular basis, and even staunchly defend the abuses like rabid cultists...
[14:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:45] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, you're really correct. And I wouldn't call them "mouth-drooling morons"; I have coworkers like this who are otherwise smart engineers, but when it comes to games, they complain about the game companies' abusive tactics (like releasing a new game every year, even though it isn't any be...
[14:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:47] <exec> 08└─I wonder how long before cheating is another computer, with camera / video capture hardware and "fake" mouse and keyboard, controlling the gaming computer. Because tactics wise, it seems programs are already beating human players, or will do soon. 5 years? 10? And then what companies like EA will do...
[14:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:49] <exec> 08└─I think it's fair enough that EA bans people from their servers when they detect 'unusual environments or behaviours' around their games. It would be very difficult for them to tell the difference between legitimate use of an emulator/environment and something designed to provide an advantage to the...
[14:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:51] <exec> 08└─So you think that stopping cheating is more important than not falsely banning people who use non-proprietary operating systems? I don't agree with you that the ends justify the means. No one should be buying these broken, locked-down, proprietary games in the first place, though. And cheating is an...
[14:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:53] <exec> 08└─Yes. Stopping cheating is more important that letting people use the game in a way that the designer did not intend. I have no issue with people running games on non-proprietary operating systems. I just recognise that it would be difficult for a game developer to tell the difference between a hack...
[14:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:56] <exec> 08└─Don't worry buddy, it'll hurt!
[14:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:58] <exec> 08└─You can't boycott them when they already preemptively boycotted you off their server first.
[14:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:00] <exec> 08└─Let me steel man you before working out whether you're worth fighting: you appear to be saying that https://lutris.net is illegal whilst having no complaint about https://en.wikipedia.org despite the fact that the form...
[14:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:02] <exec> 08└─Well, I can join the boycott by not buying the game that I wasn't interested in anyway.
[14:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:04] <exec> 08└─Yes. Stopping cheating is more important that letting people use the game in a way that the designer did not intend.
[14:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:06] <exec> 08└─Those cheating detection methods are very unsophisticated and hackish and can get lots of false positives for various reasons. There wasn't confirmation from EA that it was caused by linux right? Most likely it's just some flaw in anti-cheat that can manifest in windows systems too but perhaps rarel...
[14:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:09] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you're describing mouth drooling morons....no? Even smart people can be stupid.
[14:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:11] <exec> 08└─If you were going to buy an EA game after their abysmal track record, you deserve what you get anyway.
[14:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:13] <exec> 08└─So you think that stopping cheating is more important than not falsely banning people who use non-proprietary operating systems? Yes. Simply because it's not about fairness, it's about profit. Why do you hate capitalism?
[14:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:15] <exec> 08└─EA most definitely became decadent. Now they're solely reliant on cash cow franchises. That's because whole company is ruled by marketing. Most of enthusiastic employees have already escaped to unrelated startups. So you can't expect anything interesting from EA unless you're already hooked on one o...
[14:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:17] <exec> 08└─If you were going to buy an EA game after their abysmal track record
[14:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:19] <exec> 08└─The proper response would be for EA to fix their cheat-detection system so that it gives valid results on Linux.
[14:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:21] <exec> 08└─It might be more a matter of mental energy. Everybody only has so much on a daily basis. If you spend your day plotting the landing of the next Mars probe, do you really want to roll home at the end of it and pore over the fine print of your insurance policy? So it's easier than we might suppose for...
[14:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find New Way to Sustainably Make Chemicals by Copying Nature's Tricks - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:29] <exec> 08└─This sounds like the next step beyond using yeast to make morphine. If it works and is cheaper than the environmentally unfriendly methods, it will be scaled up massively.
[14:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find New Way to Sustainably Make Chemicals by Copying Nature's Tricks - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:32] <exec> 08└─https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/11/15/things_i_wont_work_with_nitrotetrazole_oxides [sciencemag.org] Can't find the top level link, but Derek is a great writer and is well worth reading even if you aren't a chemistry schlub. To be honest, not seeing the connection from the story...
[14:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find New Way to Sustainably Make Chemicals by Copying Nature's Tricks - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:34] <exec> 08└─Meh. Affordable with backyard chemistry [youtube.com] (note: may require a big backyard in the Australian outback for safety)
[14:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find New Way to Sustainably Make Chemicals by Copying Nature's Tricks - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:36] <exec> 08└─azidoazide azide in action [youtube.com] too (Derek is a common-sensical wimp. Australia teaches you the real sense for danger [reddit.com])
[14:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find New Way to Sustainably Make Chemicals by Copying Nature's Tricks - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:38] <exec> 08└─Most scientific ideas/papers have a derivative source. Which is fine. Anyway a close cousin of this is most citric acid aka vitamin C comes from some microbes eating some rando carbs I can't remember. And it was originally discovered and deployed a century ago by some fungus that under weird living...
[14:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Backdoors and Breaches Incident Response Card Game Makes Tabletop Exercises Fun - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:46] <exec> 08└─No price indicator. No way to order a copy. There is a printable "how to play", but no cards to print (should have been doable if they wanted to). I guess you have to show up at one of these events and "get lucky" or something. Room and plans for many expansions. OK so they are just like D&D then .....
[14:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Backdoors and Breaches Incident Response Card Game Makes Tabletop Exercises Fun - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:48] <exec> 08└─OK there was a link (more info at the bottom), where you give them all your info and they get back to you later. So are they trying to scam you out of your info or launch a kickstarter (or both) ...
[14:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Backdoors and Breaches Incident Response Card Game Makes Tabletop Exercises Fun - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:50] <exec> 08└─Seriously, they purposefully picked a name that´s offensive. Sure, they´ll get some publicity from the name, but try walking around the office suggesting you get together with a few other co-workers for some «breaching and penteration testing of their back doors» and see how that goes. Thought...
[14:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Backdoors and Breaches Incident Response Card Game Makes Tabletop Exercises Fun - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:52] <exec> 08└─Both. It´s the internet age. It´s always a scam for your info and a scam for money - if not yours, than investors. Thought of the day: Trust both business and the government to do the right thing - but only after they´ve tried everything else.
[14:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Backdoors and Breaches Incident Response Card Game Makes Tabletop Exercises Fun - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe that is part of the game. The first lesson.
[14:55:56] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Backdoors and Breaches Incident Response Card Game Makes Tabletop Exercises Fun - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:57] <exec> 08└─Let's let the market decide what the right thing is, rather than the perpetually offended.
[14:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Backdoors and Breaches Incident Response Card Game Makes Tabletop Exercises Fun - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:59] <exec> 08└─Nothing [youtube.com].
[14:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Backdoors and Breaches Incident Response Card Game Makes Tabletop Exercises Fun - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:01] <exec> 08└─At least they didn't call it Backdoors and Breeches...
[14:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Disagree) 02 - 06Grad Student Arrested Trying to Smuggle Specimens to China - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:09] <exec> 08└─American universities rely on Chinese-moneyed grad students to do research slave labor, Just like real estate markets reply on Chinese money/ Cyprus is instructive - they rely on Russian Mafia money for their economy, and they are effectively a Russian colony.
[14:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Grad Student Arrested Trying to Smuggle Specimens to China - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:11] <exec> 08└─The Chinese are going to cure cancer before the US. DEFCON 5!
[14:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Grad Student Arrested Trying to Smuggle Specimens to China - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:14] <exec> 08└─That's not the problem, curing cancer is secondary and incidental. The problem is they are gonna produce the meds at low prices then reduce the obscene amount big pharma extract from US health care.
[14:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grad Student Arrested Trying to Smuggle Specimens to China - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:16] <exec> 08└─Nah, India will do that. https://www.bloomberg.com [bloomberg.com] https://www.pharmamanufacturing.com [pharmamanufacturing.com] https://www.statnews....
[14:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Grad Student Arrested Trying to Smuggle Specimens to China - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:18] <exec> 08└─India has been injected with the first dose [bbc.com] of [theguardian.com] "pacifier" [nytimes.com], more to follow. The treatment is hoped to keep them busy and reduce their development speed [wikipedia.org].
[14:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grad Student Arrested Trying to Smuggle Specimens to China - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:20] <exec> 08└─You mean that helping people out isn't completely altruistic? *shock* *gasp*
[14:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grad Student Arrested Trying to Smuggle Specimens to China - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:22] <exec> 08└─The fuck is wrong with the FBI? If I were the Governor of Massachusetts(?) I'd give this dude a pardon and be like, go on and cure cancer with all the lab research you did here.
[14:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Grad Student Arrested Trying to Smuggle Specimens to China - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:24] <exec> 08└─I mean that helping people out is secondary (and an unfortunate liability) to extracting as much money from them as possible _-yawn-_
[14:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grad Student Arrested Trying to Smuggle Specimens to China - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:26] <exec> 08└─Do you really think the TSA is going to catch a few glass vials with goo in them? No, this guy was on a watchlist somewhere.
[14:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grad Student Arrested Trying to Smuggle Specimens to China - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:29] <exec> 08└─Of course, he was chineese.
[14:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grad Student Arrested Trying to Smuggle Specimens to China - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:31] <exec> 08└─I doubt the governor of MA has any power to pardon - it's probably a federal crime. Like it or not, government-funded research belongs to the government, and they are definitely concerned about systematic, organized theft of research and materials.
[14:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Grad Student Arrested Trying to Smuggle Specimens to China - 1330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:33] <exec> 08└─'When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals or actions, just tell several carefully crafted lies and bribe government officials as necessary.' - Confuscious "Success depends upon previous bribery, and without such bribery there is sure to be failure." - Confuscious "...
[14:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grad Student Arrested Trying to Smuggle Specimens to China - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:35] <exec> 08└─Ah, so you're saying this is a federal grant issue. Seems odd to give noncitizens federal grants. Then again we're building roads and airports in foreign countries that will never be used by us citizens.
[14:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:44] <exec> 08└─Hard to get them back in the box.
[14:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:47] <exec> 08└─Because this worked so well, back when the US restricted the export of encryption software. Seriously, the rest of the world just laughed. Once the algorithms are out there (and those are - often as not - developed outside the US), the software is irrelevant. Of course, one wouldn't expect politicia...
[14:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:49] <exec> 08└─Well, AI is different in degree. It's even more complex. Just try to print an AI program in PERL on a t-shirt. But it would still fit in a book. And you're also right that it's often developed outside the country. I think Japan and China are two of the top players. China may be ahead on image recogn...
[14:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:51] <exec> 08└─The standard issue genie re-bottler holds 20 5.56×45mm NATO rounds in its magazine. But more seriously, do move all your academic code off of US-based GitHub, if you want to still collaborate on it internationally in 5 years.
[14:56:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:53] <exec> 08└─A classifier node is basically one for loop. A neural net is just a bunch of those linked together, a 10 line script to provide feedback to weights, and a giant pile of training data. A generative adversarial network is just two of those. Absolutely shirtable.
[14:56:54] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:55] <exec> 08└─Just try to print an AI program in PERL on a t-shirt.
[14:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Codesmith [5811] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:57] <exec> 08└─As a Canadian, this is so much bullshit. We are under outside of North America export constraints due to our agreements with the US, but most US vendors will not sell controlled products to Canada because of export constraints. Win freakin' win.
[14:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:59] <exec> 08└─Like the khazar jews in israel stole everything nuclear bomb-related and also sold the technology off to anyone willing to pay for it, just steal it and use it as your own. But unlike nuclear technology, A.I related software continues to be updated. The proposed restriction applies only to civilian...
[14:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:02] <exec> 08└─Just try to print an AI program in PERL on a t-shirt.
[14:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:04] <exec> 08└─I too remember downloading PGP from a non-US server the last time America forgot that the rest of the world can do maths too.
[14:57:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:06] <exec> 08└─Executive Order 13026, signed by President Bill Clinton, ended the encryption export controls. [govinfo.gov]
[14:57:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:08] <exec> 08└─Executive Order 13026, signed by President Bill Clinton, ended the encryption export controls. [govinfo.gov]
[14:57:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 1214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:10] <exec> 08└─Hell, how many kids violate copyright, or don't pee in the pool? Who farted in the elevator? Sure, it's one thing to pass a wishlist and call it law, detecting violations are a completely different animal. Especially if children are involved in any way. With the acceptance of computers being routine...
[14:57:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:13] <exec> 08└─We do the same. Ever since I got into this field, it's been about building on the works of my predecessors. Fixing bugs, refining processes, making a better one, designing it for mass replication, with the intent that anyone who wants some can have them...as many as he wants. That's my main hurdle r...
[14:57:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Puerto Rican Natural Wonder, Punta Ventana, Collapses Amid 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:21] <exec> 08└─Even higher magnitude quakes have hit nearby at 6.4. Per the USGS [usgs.gov], The preliminary location of this earthquake is within about 12 km of the January 6, 2020, M 5.8 earthquake. Over the past several weeks, hundreds of small earthquakes have occurred in this same region, beginning in earnest...
[14:57:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Puerto Rican Natural Wonder, Punta Ventana, Collapses Amid 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:23] <exec> 08└─My personal view is it would cease to be a "natural wonder" if it was repaired artificially, but that might not stop it being the tourist-draw it previously was. Some metal girders dressed with bits of the rock that fell, I wonder how feasible that would be as a repair in that coastal environment. W...
[14:57:24] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Puerto Rican Natural Wonder, Punta Ventana, Collapses Amid 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake - 993 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:25] <exec> 08└─You're touching on something that huge debates surrounding it and constant political squabling within certain organizations. The US Park services call it the "untrammeled" debate based on the language used in the 1964 Wildnerness act. Where the literal meaning of untrammeled is somewhat obvious: "un...
[14:57:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Puerto Rican Natural Wonder, Punta Ventana, Collapses Amid 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:27] <exec> 08└─It's not merely a matter of putting the pieces back together, though: Rocks tend to break apart when they fall a sufficient distance, and are big and heavy and hard to force to be in a particular place. The odds of getting it looking like what it once did are pretty slim. This came up a while ago wh...
[14:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puerto Rican Natural Wonder, Punta Ventana, Collapses Amid 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:30] <exec> 08└─I think we should model it after what the "first nations" peoples did. In the past, they had major cities but by the time Europeans arrived most of them were living lightly on the land (a good deal of that was due to European disease that caused populations and settlements to collapse, but I digress...
[14:57:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puerto Rican Natural Wonder, Punta Ventana, Collapses Amid 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:32] <exec> 08└─Can't sustain the present world population that way. Not even a quarter of it. Might be nice as a utopian ideal, but as a thing to imagine happening this century, not great.
[14:57:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Puerto Rican Natural Wonder, Punta Ventana, Collapses Amid 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:34] <exec> 08└─Are you kidding? They couldn’t even repair the electric grid when that fell
[14:57:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puerto Rican Natural Wonder, Punta Ventana, Collapses Amid 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:36] <exec> 08└─by the time Europeans arrived most of them were living lightly on the land (a good deal of that was due to European disease that caused populations and settlements to collapse
[14:57:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puerto Rican Natural Wonder, Punta Ventana, Collapses Amid 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:38] <exec> 08└─I sometimes wonder if billions of people could move into advanced tree houses as well as earth-sheltered dwellings in the side of hills. Pollution and transportation would obviously still have a negative impact on the ecosystem but it would be massively better than replacing it with urban concrete....
[14:57:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puerto Rican Natural Wonder, Punta Ventana, Collapses Amid 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:40] <exec> 08└─What would the rock weigh? hundreds or even thousands of tons. And it's friable, or it wouldn't have shattered so badly. So repair is, while possibly technically doable, not really practical. And repairing natural wear and tear... well, I'm not sure I like that idea much. But I think it could still...
[14:57:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Puerto Rican Natural Wonder, Punta Ventana, Collapses Amid 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:43] <exec> 08└─Build them all out of stone and iron/steel. Use them to create new land/habitat whether for humans or animals. Use that new land to slowly spread while taking into consideration the ecosystems you are entwined with.
[14:57:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Puerto Rican Natural Wonder, Punta Ventana, Collapses Amid 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:45] <exec> 08└─if billions of people could move into advanced tree houses
[14:57:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puerto Rican Natural Wonder, Punta Ventana, Collapses Amid 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:47] <exec> 08└─Are you saying we're all screwed then? Because isn't that pretty much what's already happening? Why not replace the regular cities with eco-cities. Every building to have a reinforced flat roof with a wild woodland roof garden. Build them all within the same height range with bridges for wildlife to...
[14:57:54] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 187 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:55] <exec> 08└─It's been giving us the evil eye for quite some time and we've just barely determined that it's actually trying to kill us?!?! https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:57:57] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:57] <exec> 08└─"Our simulations show that Jupiter is just as likely to send comets at Earth as deflect them away [...]"
[14:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:00] <exec> 08└─They are very carefully and deliberately aimed at Earth.
[14:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:02] <exec> 08└─If you'd read up on this, you would know that Jupiter always aims for the ladies on Earth.
[14:58:03] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 271 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:04] <exec> 08└─Planetary Mechanics at West Point? And the conclusion is that we are being attacked? Sometimes the "search for a budget-justifying enemy" goes a bit too far. It's like the CIA's early experiments with LSD in the Fifties: give a spy hallucigens, and guess what they see?
[14:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe Jupiter is just a dick. Like that neighbor that tosses their dog's crap into your yard.
[14:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:08] <exec> 08└─Jupiter has heard our prayers, and is trying to send the Sweet Meteor of Death to cleanse the Earth.
[14:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:11] <exec> 08└─Goats. Oh, was it a rhetorical question?
[14:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:13] <exec> 08└─Jupiter is a BIG player - with no particular agenda for or against the Earth. I think over the long time scale, Jupiter probably has cleared a lot of junk out of the inner solar system, either sucking it up, capturing it as a moon, or flinging it out. Over the shorter timescale, when Jupiter flings...
[14:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:15] <exec> 08└─Grazier's latest foray into the subject involves a pair of companion papers [...] "Actually, I wouldn't say that it's in jeopardy—I would say that it has been laid to rest." Grazier told Gizmodo in an email.
[14:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:17] <exec> 08└─give a spy hallucigens, and guess what they see?
[14:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:19] <exec> 08└─give a spy hallucigens, and guess what they see?
[14:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:21] <exec> 08└─Don't leave us hanging.... what happened next?!
[14:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:23] <exec> 08└─That's when I realized it was 5 PM and woke up. Time to go home.
[14:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roo_Boy [1762] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:26] <exec> 08└─"You can have a comet! You can have a comet! And you can have a comet! You can all have a comet!"
[14:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:28] <exec> 08└─Ok then. As long as you're all right.
[14:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:30] <exec> 08└─Jews called peter are nice people.
[14:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:32] <exec> 08└─Send the new Space Farce in to assassinate a Jupiter General.
[14:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:34] <exec> 08└─I think we have to send some nukes to jupiter in response. You know, to make them stupider.
[14:58:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:36] <exec> 08└─"Some astronomers believe that Jupiter, instead of protecting Earth from dangerous comets and asteroids, is actively flinging objects into the inner solar system." That's because we used to be allies but with all the recent political tensions between us Jupiter is sending a warning that we do not wa...
[14:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:38] <exec> 08└─Immanuel Velikovsky lol
[14:58:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06AMD Announces Ryzen 4000-Series Mobile Chips, 64-Core Threadripper Release Date, and More - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:47] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, Intel announced that Olympic athletes could jump far. Also, AMD showed the best CPU Intel has available (dual xeon platinum 8280) was slower than the 3990x despite using twice the power and costing 5x as much.
[14:58:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06AMD Announces Ryzen 4000-Series Mobile Chips, 64-Core Threadripper Release Date, and More - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:49] <exec> 08└─Say... that 64-core unit costs considerably less than a new, base-model Mac Pro. Likely ya could build quite a machine with it and still stay under that cost... ..interesting... 😊 -- (√(-shit))² Shit just got real
[14:58:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Ryzen 4000-Series Mobile Chips, 64-Core Threadripper Release Date, and More - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:51] <exec> 08└─The low-power "U" parts have 4-8 physical cores?! It's a great time to be alive!
[14:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06AMD Announces Ryzen 4000-Series Mobile Chips, 64-Core Threadripper Release Date, and More - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:53] <exec> 08└─It's amazing isn't it? The laptop I'm using has 8GB of RAM, which is completely unremarkable of course, but try telling the me from 1999 that I would have access to that much RAM. I may have been using an 8GB HDD at the time.
[14:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Ryzen 4000-Series Mobile Chips, 64-Core Threadripper Release Date, and More - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:55] <exec> 08└─Bit of a travesty that Apple did not switch to Threadrippers. Sure, there's inertia and tweaks that have to be made, but it's x86.
[14:58:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06AMD Announces Ryzen 4000-Series Mobile Chips, 64-Core Threadripper Release Date, and More - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:57] <exec> 08└─https://jcmit.net/mem2015.htm [jcmit.net] It's too bad that the great stagnation of 2012-present happened. Otherwise we might be talking about $1/GB RAM. Prices are set to rise again [linuxreviews.org], continuing the historic stagnation trend. Little incidents [anandtech.com] like this don't help....
[14:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Ryzen 4000-Series Mobile Chips, 64-Core Threadripper Release Date, and More - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:00] <exec> 08└─The Ryzen 7 4800U looks like it will be a monster. I would still skip it since it won't have AV1 hardware decode, Navi/RDNA graphics could be added next year, and it's being indicated that Zen 3 will not be just a slight performance bump like Zen+ was. Even without a core count increase, there could...
[14:59:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Ryzen 4000-Series Mobile Chips, 64-Core Threadripper Release Date, and More - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:02] <exec> 08└─Intel had something or other [anandtech.com]. Oh, I guess there will be a Thunderbolt 4 [anandtech.com].
[14:59:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Ryzen 4000-Series Mobile Chips, 64-Core Threadripper Release Date, and More - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:04] <exec> 08└─$1 per GB would be great. Haven't there been several prosecutions for price fixing?
[14:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06AMD Announces Ryzen 4000-Series Mobile Chips, 64-Core Threadripper Release Date, and More - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:06] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing [wikipedia.org] https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk] https://www.extremetech.com [extremetech.com]...
[14:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Ryzen 4000-Series Mobile Chips, 64-Core Threadripper Release Date, and More - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:08] <exec> 08└─Overpriced and behind the curve again... and the new Mac Pro's been out what, a few weeks or so. Personally, I'd be interested in some mid-towers, a'la the mini but with slots for multiple graphics cards, upgradable memory, drives. Eight cores or better, hyperthreaded would be nice... but not requir...
[14:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Announces Wi-Fi 6E for Devices Operating in the 6 GHz Band - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:16] <exec> 08└─I wonder how and whether this will be followed up in other countries. I also wonder how my laptop's wifi will fare in Europe. And while I'm at it, I wonder how my Nexus 5 phone, and the Librem 5 or Pinephone I'm thinking of using next will fare elsewhere. And at home in Canada. -- hendrik
[14:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Announces Wi-Fi 6E for Devices Operating in the 6 GHz Band - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:18] <exec> 08└─If the router isn't Wi-Fi 6E, the laptop should behave like regular Wi-Fi 6 and the 6 GHz band will be ignored. If you bring a Wi-Fi 6E router to Europe... bad things will happen?
[14:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Announces Wi-Fi 6E for Devices Operating in the 6 GHz Band - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:20] <exec> 08└─This will prevent interference due to low power levels and substantial building losses.
[14:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Announces Wi-Fi 6E for Devices Operating in the 6 GHz Band - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:22] <exec> 08└─The lack of FCC giving a shit made me want to start a pirate radio station. The last person I recall getting busted was running an FM station from a storage locker for two months straight before they showed up. It's been a while but listening to the CB band with an RTL-SDR was good fun. Some guy was...
[14:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Announces Wi-Fi 6E for Devices Operating in the 6 GHz Band - 1521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:25] <exec> 08└─To be honest, you really have to expect a future where there are no quiet frequencies at all. It's not unimaginable that, to squeeze everything out, apart from a few specialised and strictly enforced frequencies (e.g. military), everything else will become a free-for-all with something akin to DFS a...
[14:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Exoplanet Life Detection Method for James Webb Telescope - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:33] <exec> 08└─Note: the absence of oxygen doesn't mean absence of life; life (even on the surface) based on other chemistries (like chlorine and/or arsenic [discovermagazine.com]) is possible.
[14:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06New Exoplanet Life Detection Method for James Webb Telescope - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:35] <exec> 08└─Launch the James Webb Space Telescope.
[14:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Exoplanet Life Detection Method for James Webb Telescope - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:37] <exec> 08└─Or sulphur. Or thermosynthesis instead of photosynthesis. Both have occurred on Earth.
[14:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New Exoplanet Life Detection Method for James Webb Telescope - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:39] <exec> 08└─And if the launch fails, let me hope that it won't cost as much to immediately build a second one, since we shouldn't have to re-do the design.
[14:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06New Exoplanet Life Detection Method for James Webb Telescope - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:41] <exec> 08└─Heck, life on Earth survived for almost a billion years without oxygen before photosynthesis evolved. In fact the introduction of oxygen poisoned almost all life on earth to extinction - what survives today are the descendants of the species that were able to survive such a corrosive pollutant, or e...
[14:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Exoplanet Life Detection Method for James Webb Telescope - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:43] <exec> 08└─Why build one when you can build two for twice the price?
[14:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Exoplanet Life Detection Method for James Webb Telescope - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:45] <exec> 08└─Note: the absence of oxygen doesn't mean absence of life; life (even on the surface) based on other chemistries (like chlorine and/or arsenic) is possible.
[14:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A New Type of Green Laser - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:54] <exec> 08└─Green lasers have come a long way from the days (70's) when they were argon lasers in a sintered berylium casing. But even back then they were already used for image projection. At the Mathematical Centre in Amsterdam, it could display on a ground-glass screen, a photochromic film, or regular photog...
[14:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A New Type of Green Laser - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:56] <exec> 08└─Apparently, the quality and power of lasers that "ordinary" people can get their hands on has skyrocketed, even in the past 5 years or so. The used market is your friend. Don't shoot your eye out.
[14:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Type of Green Laser - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:58] <exec> 08└─Bad marketing term. But it would be nice to see good laser projectors become dirt cheap. Optical storage innovation has slowed down but maybe holographic storage is in our future.
[14:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A New Type of Green Laser - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:00] <exec> 08└─Back in the 70's, that was rumored to be the most powerful laser in the Netherlands. Not safe to look at. The technicians used special goggles that filtered out the laser's frequency. One mentioned that his goggles once started melting when he had his head in the wrong place by accident. The filter...
[15:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Type of Green Laser - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:03] <exec> 08└─Now do endothermic quadrupeds!!!
[15:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Type of Green Laser - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:05] <exec> 08└─A colleague was working on a pulsed research laser a couple of decades ago and put his arm in the beam by accident. He has a nice series of scars all down his arm - knowing the pulse frequency one can calculate the speed with which he retracted his arm...
[15:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Type of Green Laser - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:07] <exec> 08└─Pass me the lasers, I need to burn my eyes out to see the poetry.
[15:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A New Type of Green Laser - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:09] <exec> 08└─Looks like the beginning of the post was deleted by accident. Let me provide the missing context. I was talking about an argon laser at the mathematical centre in Amsterdam. Its casing was sintered beryllium. It was used for projecting on a ground-glass screen, a photochromic film, and regular photo...
[15:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Type of Green Laser - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:11] <exec> 08└─Finally, one thing that guns are safer than!
[15:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Type of Green Laser - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:13] <exec> 08└─...Vogon University. That's some pretty bad poetry.
[15:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Type of Green Laser - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:16] <exec> 08└─If it rhymes, it's a poem. Now I have to scratch my scrotum.
[15:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06A Fast Radio Burst Tracked Down to a Nearby Galaxy - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:24] <exec> 08└─A repeating fast radio burst source localized to a nearby spiral galaxy
[15:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Fast Radio Burst Tracked Down to a Nearby Galaxy - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:26] <exec> 08└─When we do, will they have religion?
[15:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06A Fast Radio Burst Tracked Down to a Nearby Galaxy - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:28] <exec> 08└─Reading an alien civilization's version of Wikipedia (translated into a human language) would be fascinating.
[15:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06A Fast Radio Burst Tracked Down to a Nearby Galaxy - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:30] <exec> 08└─Ok, listen. Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is.
[15:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Fast Radio Burst Tracked Down to a Nearby Galaxy - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:32] <exec> 08└─I was thinking the same thing. If the galaxy was a nearby spiral galaxy (which tend to be big BTW), then why wasn't it named? Well, half a billion light years isn't nearby.
[15:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Fast Radio Burst Tracked Down to a Nearby Galaxy - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:35] <exec> 08└─You'll need a babel fish...
[15:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Astronomers Find Wandering Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:43] <exec> 08└─I guess I'm less surprized than the authors. If all stars above a certain mass are destined to become black holes, then some of these are going to occur in the periphery rather than at the center of the galaxy. Newton's inverse square law still applies and they will circle according to their mass an...
[15:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Find Wandering Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:45] <exec> 08└─I think the problem is that dwarf galaxies are not as fully formed and stable as most bigger galaxies.
[15:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Astronomers Find Wandering Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:47] <exec> 08└─But you won't get 400k solar mass black holes that way. Thermodynamically, such a galaxy should settled down to have a more or less circular symmetry with the black hole at the center. I think rather that it demonstrates that these dwarf galaxies either have yet to settle down after disruption by m...
[15:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Find Wandering Massive Black Holes in Dwarf Galaxies - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:49] <exec> 08└─dwarf galaxies are not as fully formed and stable as most bigger galaxies
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[15:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding a New Way to Fight Late-Stage Sepsis by Boosting Cells' Antibacterial Properties - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:43] <exec> 08└─Wow, I looked at what this treatment is: vitamin C lipid nanoparticles that deliver antimicrobial peptide and cathepsin B (AMP-CatB) mRNA.
[15:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding a New Way to Fight Late-Stage Sepsis by Boosting Cells' Antibacterial Properties - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:45] <exec> 08└─Trump cut off funding for this crucial research that would help minorities so it had to be done in china.
[15:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Lost its Magnetic Field 1B Years Ago After its 'Internal Dynamo' Ended, Study Finds - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:53] <exec> 08└─I thought it said 18 years, which would be quite the story.
[15:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moon Lost its Magnetic Field 1B Years Ago After its 'Internal Dynamo' Ended, Study Finds - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:56] <exec> 08└─You are not alone. I thought "1B" identified specific mag field rather than 1 billion (years ago).
[15:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unpatched US Government Website Gets Pwned by Pro-Iran Script Kiddie - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:22] <exec> 08└─Read again, the choice is not yours to pick sides, it's Arab's. They either follow up on their macho stance and stop complaining, or they stop their flag burning and act as victims. The state that strikes you after you burn its flag is at war with you and in wars you kill the enemy. They even took t...
[15:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unpatched US Government Website Gets Pwned by Pro-Iran Script Kiddie - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:23] <exec> 08└─Iraq has already picked sides. Their first response to the death of the Iranian general was "all American military has to leave the country", followed by "all foreign military must leave". Forgetting that the Iranian general was a foreign soldier in the first place. But you're right, playing the vic...
[15:52:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 658 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:35] <exec> 08└─Even the people I know who took geography or relatively well-informed were taken aback by it. I think it is because of two reasons. The first is that the standard projection used on maps is the Mercator projection. That has the well-known effect of making landmasses closer to the poles appear larger...
[15:53:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 236 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:00] <exec> 08└─I am reminded of Ronald Reagan's world map. California alone is about twenty times the size of Australia :- https://www.davidrumsey.com [davidrumsey.com]
[15:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:16] <exec> 08└─"They're one step from the greatest information resource humanity has ever had access to..." Oh, I do talk to myself sometimes, yes... (with apologies to the writers of Dr. Who)
[15:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Stuck an E-ink Display on a Laptop Lid Because Why Not? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:30] <exec> 08└─I think it is for taking notes in meetings without looking like you are checking email/twitface
[15:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Stuck an E-ink Display on a Laptop Lid Because Why Not? - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:31] <exec> 08└─E-ink doesn't have a refresh rate, and can actually change substantially fairly quickly. It's the controller and driving matrix that determines refresh speeds - and e-ink readers are typically heavily optimized for low energy consumption and price, and typically only update one line (or even one pix...
[15:53:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 337 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:45] <exec> 08└─So you think that stopping cheating is more important than not falsely banning people who use non-proprietary operating systems? I don't agree with you that the ends justify the means. No one should be buying these broken, locked-down, proprietary games in the first place, though. And cheating is an...
[15:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:05] <exec> 08└─That's probably because he signed it in 1996!
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[16:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Software Nasties Slip into Google Play, Exploit Make-Me-Root Android Flaw for Maximum Pwnage - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:42] <exec> 08└─Dear Google, Seriously. You need to fix the Play store malware situation. Among your top level categories, add a new one: Malware This would make finding and navigation easier for users.
[16:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finding a New Way to Fight Late-Stage Sepsis by Boosting Cells' Antibacterial Properties - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:52] <exec> 08└─Jesus Christ alt-med wackos are fucking insane. Vitamin C isn't a fucking antibiotic, has never worked as an antibiotic, doesn't magically make your immune system better. And [nejm.org] of [sciencedirect.com] course [bmj.com] they've studied it's direct application for numerous diseases, with next t...
[16:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Lost its Magnetic Field 1B Years Ago After its 'Internal Dynamo' Ended, Study Finds - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:02] <exec> 08└─Not alone. I was reading it as 18 to and wondering what the hell happened in 2002 and why it wasn't bigger news or if I somehow had forgotten it already.
[16:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moon Lost its Magnetic Field 1B Years Ago After its 'Internal Dynamo' Ended, Study Finds - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:04] <exec> 08└─hmmm ... anyone know where cosmic "lost and found" is located? our moon seems to have "lost" its magnetic field. ofc, if it where a "ability" that it lost then it's not something physical, eh?
[16:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Unveils a Concept Entertainment System on Wheels that You Can Drive - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:14] <exec> 08└─also if it could scrap road-kill from the surface and autonomously repair potholes it encounters ... that would be some awesome Digital Road Management!
[16:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched US Government Website Gets Pwned by Pro-Iran Script Kiddie - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:35] <exec> 08└─mama mia! this needs to go on a t-shirt: fireman standing on a globe, left hand a blow torch and right hand a firehose. color(s) on fire helmet is left to reader :)
[16:53:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:16] <exec> 08└─Obviously Australia is smaller because they're measuring it in kilometers.
[16:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:28] <exec> 08└─Decades ago when I saw a version of Ronald Regan's world map, it had a spot in the icy north labeled "Palestinian Homeland (proposed)".
[16:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lenovo Stuck an E-ink Display on a Laptop Lid Because Why Not? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:44] <exec> 08└─The usual answer: Probably yes, but good luck getting all the hardware to work satisfactorily.
[16:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Stuck an E-ink Display on a Laptop Lid Because Why Not? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:46] <exec> 08└─"receive essential notifications when the lid is closed allowing them to stay focused during meetings"
[16:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Stuck an E-ink Display on a Laptop Lid Because Why Not? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:48] <exec> 08└─Will it run with Linux?
[16:54:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 815 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:03] <exec> 08└─Yes. Stopping cheating is more important that letting people use the game in a way that the designer did not intend. I have no issue with people running games on non-proprietary operating systems. I just recognise that it would be difficult for a game developer to tell the difference between a hack...
[16:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:17] <exec> 08└─JSON is much more gooder with no Microsoft odors.
[16:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:19] <exec> 08└─How about let's train an AI to do your cheating for you.
[16:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 1557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:21] <exec> 08└─Phoenix666 hit on a pretty insightful comment, a couple posts below. At a certain point, you just want your entertainment to be easy. Figuring out how to get random x game to run can be a chore on Linux. Now, if you confine yourself to only games that work well on Linux, that hurdle will be a lot ea...
[16:54:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Backdoors and Breaches Incident Response Card Game Makes Tabletop Exercises Fun - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:45] <exec> 08└─At least they didn't call it Backdoors and Breeches...
[16:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Backdoors and Breaches Incident Response Card Game Makes Tabletop Exercises Fun - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:47] <exec> 08└─At least they didn't call it . . . The Blue Scream of Death
[16:55:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 338 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:16] <exec> 08└─Because this worked so well, back when the US restricted the export of encryption software. Seriously, the rest of the world just laughed. Once the algorithms are out there (and those are - often as not - developed outside the US), the software is irrelevant. Of course, one wouldn't expect politicia...
[16:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:16] <exec> 08└─Sure, and when it flings half of them back at us, we'd deserve it.
[16:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:18] <exec> 08└─It all depends on the trajectory (not always an 'orbit' but close enough) of the object, its mass, and its position relative to Jupiter. Some get flung in-orbit, some get flung out-orbit. If it's really "just as likely" to send them to the inner system then it isn't a shield nor a sniper. It's just...
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[16:56:36] <exec> 08└─i need a portable device that spit out 2 x 1080p @>= 90Hz ... so i can schlepp it and my VR googles around the world ^_^
[16:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Announces Wi-Fi 6E for Devices Operating in the 6 GHz Band - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:49] <exec> 08└─wah! "Unfortunately, even though there are no currently unlicensed users of the 6 GHz band,..." pluuuse, there are better ways to exercise the brain then deciphering double negatives. "Unfortunately, even though there are currently only licensed users of the 6 GHz band,..." yes?
[16:57:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Type of Green Laser - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:20] <exec> 08└─Please respect these hallowed halls step outside to scrape your balls
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[17:51:57] <exec> 08└─Hear! Here! Vit C is not stored, and any not being used will be excreted in the urine. Thus a steady supply of it is needed, especially when you are sick and not eating and drinking as normal. An excess is literally pissed away. rts008
[17:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finding a New Way to Fight Late-Stage Sepsis by Boosting Cells' Antibacterial Properties - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:58] <exec> 08└─Don't the "immune cells" (whatever that means in the context of the vastly complex immune system) have to have an HLA match to the patients that are receiving them? Normally this takes weeks when doing a stem cell donor registry search. Who is the donor? TFA (phys.org!) doesn't say. Is it the patien...
[17:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding a New Way to Fight Late-Stage Sepsis by Boosting Cells' Antibacterial Properties - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:00] <exec> 08└─Vitamin C isn't a fucking antibiotic, has never worked as an antibiotic
[17:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Lost its Magnetic Field 1B Years Ago After its 'Internal Dynamo' Ended, Study Finds - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:11] <exec> 08└─That person who keeps posting stuff about "moon was turned to glass in solar flare" should comment...
[17:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Lost its Magnetic Field 1B Years Ago After its 'Internal Dynamo' Ended, Study Finds - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:13] <exec> 08└─"Dynamo hum, dynamo hum, where's that dynamo coming from?"
[17:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:36] <exec> 08└─Four tweets, one from a person self labeling as a canuck, i.e., Canadian, means that all Americans are retarded. What a load of crap. A) Twitter/Facebook both excel to the nth degree, at amplifying the worst of us. B) This is just another "man on the street" type of BS article designed merely to gen...
[17:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:38] <exec> 08└─My point is that the British Empire did become disgusted by slavery, but specifically the hell-hole conditions in which slaves were transported across the seas. William Wilberforce and his fellow campaigners were able to get more outrage at this than the mere keeping of slaves.
[17:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:40] <exec> 08└─the fire icons are not representative of the area of its wildfire I've seen various overlay maps of this type over the past few days and they all use single size fire icons a better metric for me is when someone says that the area of the burn is the size of some specific US state
[17:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:42] <exec> 08└─We've had Social Studies in Canada for decades now. I'll admit it's badly named and could use a new one. It's History, Geography, Economics, Political Science, Critical Thinking, and some other odds and ends, all rolled in to one. I had a really old teacher who would give us blank maps to fill in st...
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[17:54:01] <exec> 08└─5 years from now, the added e-ink screen will just work as intended. Then, it will be deprecated.
[17:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:33] <exec> 08└─Except, they don't support Linux.
[17:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:35] <exec> 08└─>At a certain point, you just want your entertainment to be easy. thats why i dig mame
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[17:54:47] <exec> 08└─still need to find that cobalt atom somewhere for that B12 to be squirted out. next we need to grow bigger caterpillars ...
[17:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puerto Rican Natural Wonder, Punta Ventana, Collapses Amid 5.8 Magnitude Earthquake - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:03] <exec> 08└─This is not self-hatred. It's simple fact. I know that a lot of Berkeley types like to run that point in to the ground, but I'm not that kind of person. There's a difference between bringing it up once in a while, and bringing it up all the time. It's not possible for you to portray me as the self-h...
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[17:56:34] <exec> 08└─probably the dog can secretly talk and knows how to call his friends at the k-9 unit ...
[17:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jupiter is Flinging Comets Toward Earth - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:36] <exec> 08└─it seems that the area from jupiter to the sun is smaller then from jupiter to ... uhm .. infinity?
[17:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Announces Wi-Fi 6E for Devices Operating in the 6 GHz Band - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:08] <exec> 08└─AM radio is already pretty much dead.
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[18:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:45] <exec> 08└─the FCC hasn't done much of anything to protect customers from bogus rental fees.
[18:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:46] <exec> 08└─and to clear rights of way...
[18:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:48] <exec> 08└─And the IRS shouldn't have assault rifles and tanks, but they do.
[18:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:50] <exec> 08└─Since spectrum is a limited resource, isn't another job of the FCC to allocate it in a way the serves the pubic interest?
[18:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:52] <exec> 08└─What does that have to do with the sale or distribution of wireless routers by ISPs? Key fobs for cars involve wireless spectrum too, that doesn't mean it's the FCC's job to make sure Carmax gives you two of them with your purchase.
[18:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Software Nasties Slip into Google Play, Exploit Make-Me-Root Android Flaw for Maximum Pwnage - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:02] <exec> 08└─The malicious apps were Camero, FileCrypt, and callCam, so check if you still have them installed.
[18:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Software Nasties Slip into Google Play, Exploit Make-Me-Root Android Flaw for Maximum Pwnage - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:04] <exec> 08└─What a concept! 'been doing that since 2010. But I suppose this insightful advice is a well kept secret.
[18:53:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 498 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:15] <exec> 08└─https://www.smh.com.au/environment/weather/alarming-us-map-of-australian-bushfires-explained-20131025-2w6vi.html [smh.com.au] NBC's controversial graphic ignored the finer details on the fire hotspots map. Dr Lewis said their choice of display "wasn't really appropriate". He explained that "each fir...
[18:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Stuck an E-ink Display on a Laptop Lid Because Why Not? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:17] <exec> 08└─It's so you can stay focused on the laptop, not the meeting.
[18:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:51] <exec> 08└─I've dabbled in Linux gaming, but never gave it a shot on my main rig. DOSBox is a great tool for playing ancient DOS games on modern hardware, including that 10 yr old laptop in the closet. There are also quite a few game specific projects like Exult and OpenRCT2 that bring great games to the reach...
[18:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:53] <exec> 08└─MAME sits on that moral gray area that all Abandonware sits on, though.
[18:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:55] <exec> 08└─And a similar phenomenon likely occurred 5,000 years ago when people changed around the rules of Senet such that everyone had to get new tokens. (Of course, back then one could just make one's own....)
[18:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:57] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it is more important to you. Is it important to those who actually play the games and want to win? They are under no compulsion to change or release their software under a free license. You are under no compulsion to purchase it. So who exactly has the problem?
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[19:51:43] <exec> 08└─I'm really not sure why we need a new/specific law on this. Looks like it could just go under "fraudulent charges" as the company knew about it and did nothing to correct it. ...not to mention they made the fraudulent charge mandatory.
[19:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:44] <exec> 08└─So, if they just relabel the charge "Random Bullshit", or fold it into the basic tariff, then it would be O.K. I'd be fine with that, if I had actual meaningful choice in ISPs. As it is, I don't think we'd do much worse by nationalizing the system and providing broadband "free of charge" to every ho...
[19:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:46] <exec> 08└─I was going to do a "Welcome to the 1990's"-type post where I found out what date the UK/EU introduced similar laws but it appears our ISPs (UK at least) have never been able to restrict things like that. It comes under standard competition and consumer law, and for the entirety of the broadband era...
[19:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:48] <exec> 08└─The existing laws failed to stop it though. Reducing your argument to absurdity, why not have just one single law, like "You must not do bad things."? That should cover everything, shouldn't it?
[19:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:50] <exec> 08└─To show you how beaten down a broadband consumer I am, I would gladly be ripped off by an ISP if I could just get one to serve my rural area. I'm only about 20 miles from a major research university here in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but nobody, and I mean nobody, offers anything like broadband where...
[19:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding a New Way to Fight Late-Stage Sepsis by Boosting Cells' Antibacterial Properties - 2519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:13] <exec> 08└─Moertel 1985: This paper calls 10 grams of water soluble vitamin C once a day "high dose". Severely ill people need hundreds of grams split up over the course of the day. This is evidenced by the ability for sick people to absorb more vitamin C than healthy people: https://i.ibb.co
[19:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding a New Way to Fight Late-Stage Sepsis by Boosting Cells' Antibacterial Properties - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:15] <exec> 08└─An excess is literally pissed away.
[19:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finding a New Way to Fight Late-Stage Sepsis by Boosting Cells' Antibacterial Properties - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:17] <exec> 08└─I'm no "alt-med" person, let along wacko. But is there harm in taking extra vitamin C? And consider that some people might need more vitamin C than others, and maybe in some diseases and/or conditions, vitamin C helps the healing process?
[19:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Lost its Magnetic Field 1B Years Ago After its 'Internal Dynamo' Ended, Study Finds - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:31] <exec> 08└─The dynamo properties of Wensleydale are notoriously inferior to Stilton [fandom.com].
[19:52:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Unpatched US Government Website Gets Pwned by Pro-Iran Script Kiddie - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:53] <exec> 08└─the USA is the bully of the neighborhood,
[19:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:59] <exec> 08└─the area of the burn is the size of some specific US state
[19:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:01] <exec> 08└─No, pretty much only the edges are on fire. Of course, that does make me wonder where the vegetation is too sparse to support fire.
[19:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:03] <exec> 08└─The version I linked to does show that - on Svalbard by the look of it, or maybe simply on the icecap.
[19:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find New Way to Sustainably Make Chemicals by Copying Nature's Tricks - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:14] <exec> 08└─...citric acid aka vitamin C...
[19:56:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:04] <exec> 08└─Just try to print an AI program in PERL on a t-shirt.
[19:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:11] <exec> 08└─You are underestimating the complexity of the process. And I don't know by how much, merely that it's significantly.
[19:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:14] <exec> 08└─There's huge fucking hardware requirements when you start talking about the 50 layers used in ResNet-50 operating in reasonable time, but the overall code structure is remarkably compact.
[19:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 1132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:16] <exec> 08└─There's certainly a lot of generalized structural similarity, but there are also a large number of specialized functions. Most of the code will use identical modules, but some will require specialized modules, and those will need to be integrated into the rest of the code. Perhaps I'm overestimating...
[19:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:18] <exec> 08└─Well, now you're starting to get unfair. Those t-shirt encryption perl scripts aren't dumping all of TLS with its socket management, streams, error resiliency, key validation, certificate lookup, and the host of complex infrastructure around encryption. They're shifting some bits and doing some math...
[19:57:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Announces Wi-Fi 6E for Devices Operating in the 6 GHz Band - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:42] <exec> 08└─You're kidding right? I can only be bothered to look for things I can find stats on for the UK, but 50% of all radio broadcast listening in the UK is via DAB. FM is the vast, vast majority of what remains. And it's a tiny market now. Hell, more people listen to radio through tuning their TV to a dig...
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[20:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ditching Coal in the US is Saving Lives, Helping Crops - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:43] <exec> 08└─Natural gas is producing it's own kinds of hell, and our commitment to the absolute cheapest solution is real dumb and displacing the same amount of coal with actual renewables would have cost a penny or two on the dollar more.
[20:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ditching Coal in the US is Saving Lives, Helping Crops - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:45] <exec> 08└─"older coal plants" "aerosols formed by sulfur dioxide" These were coal plants without modern emissions control equipment. Well duh, that's why we banned that shit. The carbon dioxide is of course good for growing crops.
[20:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, me too. Every time I have dealt with an ISP where I live, they try to give me a free modem for signing a 12 month contract with them, which does not seem unreasonable. They then want to charge $15 for a courier fee for the modem, which is also fair in my view. When I tell them I will be usin...
[20:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:04] <exec> 08└─Talk to these guys.... They can help you with that tree line problem. https://www.rohnnet.com [rohnnet.com]
[20:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:06] <exec> 08└─But it would help to go after corporate executives personally for fraud that they oversee. This piecemeal BS is a distraction.
[20:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, but my point is that this here is a consumer issue, nothing to do with RF allocation, totally out of the FCC's jurisdiction. Their job is to keep the channel open. The trade commission can deal with pricing.
[20:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Moon Lost its Magnetic Field 1B Years Ago After its 'Internal Dynamo' Ended, Study Finds - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:48] <exec> 08└─It's the cheap knock-off hamsters. Bad hamsters, bad dynamos.
[20:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:20] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the Wong Ranch, which occupies the entire western hemisphere of Mars, in about a thousand years.
[20:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:21] <exec> 08└─Lower population densities, minimal fixed-site camps, lots of walking to the next source of food and water..
[20:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Announces Wi-Fi 6E for Devices Operating in the 6 GHz Band - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:56] <exec> 08└─You're kidding right?
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[21:51:43] <exec> 08└─Gonna be so saaaad!
[21:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ditching Coal in the US is Saving Lives, Helping Crops - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:44] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yl_K2Ata6XY [youtube.com] This guy seems to agree... sort of. The trouble is that all this CO2 is making our plants... fat (well, carb, but still). Essentially, there is so much carbon in the air that they are making all the carbs, but the other nutrition gets diluted...
[21:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:06] <exec> 08└─Same rules apply. The guy who wins the election tells the IRS what to do also. And don't litter [epa.gov]!
[21:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:07] <exec> 08└─You need TiSP... https://archive.google.com [google.com]
[21:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:09] <exec> 08└─I can't get my ISP to stop sending me new routers, last year they sent me three. They don't charge for them, or well I guess they are included in the monthly fee. They are not even very clear on why they do it. I guess some of them are for security reasons and such. Half the time tho I don't even bo...
[21:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:11] <exec> 08└─I'm only about 20 miles from a major research university here in the Blue Ridge Mountains Virginia Tech?
[21:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Software Nasties Slip into Google Play, Exploit Make-Me-Root Android Flaw for Maximum Pwnage - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:22] <exec> 08└─They already have that category, it defaults to it every time you launch Google Play.
[21:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Software Nasties Slip into Google Play, Exploit Make-Me-Root Android Flaw for Maximum Pwnage - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:24] <exec> 08└─One could, if the basic utilities Google provides is of certain quality. I find the file manager and music player is pretty crappy, especially Play Music. Can't comment about the photography app as I don't use it much. These malware are basic utility apps.
[21:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moon Lost its Magnetic Field 1B Years Ago After its 'Internal Dynamo' Ended, Study Finds - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:56] <exec> 08└─I read it as 0x1B, or 27 years ago...
[21:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sony Unveils a Concept Entertainment System on Wheels that You Can Drive - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:06] <exec> 08└─Yea, they need to include a road kit.
[21:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Unpatched US Government Website Gets Pwned by Pro-Iran Script Kiddie - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:28] <exec> 08└─or they could be doing some much needed back burning to prevent apocalyptic fires like Australia is now finding out.
[21:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:32] <exec> 08└─In a democracy, the people are responsible for who is running the show. And if those people are ignorant (of whatever, not necessarily geography), they are easier to control. For example, that politician that you know is an ignorant twat and don't want in office is being kept there because too few p...
[21:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:33] <exec> 08└─You confuse entitlement and capability. Any human being is entitled, whether they're capable is another matter.
[21:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:31] <exec> 08└─I think the subset of gamers that will staunchly defend the abuses like rabid cultists is vocal - obnoxiously vocal - but a minority. Most gamers know the system sucks. But if your friends are playing Battlefield and you want to play a game with graphics and multiplayer like Battlefield with your fr...
[21:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Backdoors and Breaches Incident Response Card Game Makes Tabletop Exercises Fun - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:00] <exec> 08└─Is that the sound one makes when they slip in the backdoor?
[21:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wi-Fi Alliance Announces Wi-Fi 6E for Devices Operating in the 6 GHz Band - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:13] <exec> 08└─Here where I am in the U.S., AM stations outnumber FM ones. But even in major metropolises, there are quite a number of AM stations, about one for every two FM stations, according to my sampling of major cities. Given the extra range of AM stations and the lower population density in many parts of t...
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[22:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Devices Allegedly Use Qihoo 360 Spyware to Phone Home to China - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:41] <exec> 08└─Someone forward this to every Senator, House, and Congress person (AND TRUMP!!!) IMMEDIATELY!!! PLEASE! They will have a field day! If you thought Huawei was bad.... HOLY SHIT! WTF!!!!!?????!!!????????!?!?!?
[22:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Samsung Devices Allegedly Use Qihoo 360 Spyware to Phone Home to China - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:43] <exec> 08└─Originally heard about the samsung one from this thread, which also covers bit similar features for cosmo communicator and geminiPDA(you want hw keyboard phone? probably no longer after this? then again you will be able to run debian and sfos on it eventually, which should render this an android ran...
[22:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ditching Coal in the US is Saving Lives, Helping Crops - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:54] <exec> 08└─Intuitively, it makes sense that pollution reduces crop yields. But always nice to have evidence. The problem is, as always, getting the elites who think their interests align with coal burning to heed this and all the other research, and embrace real movement away from coal, not just say one thing...
[22:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ditching Coal in the US is Saving Lives, Helping Crops - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:55] <exec> 08└─If you are forced to eat worse food or stay hungry because food costs more. If you are forced to freeze in your home because heating costs more. If you are forced to stew in your skin because air conditioning costs more. If you cripple yourself by biking because fuel, and a car itself, cost more. If...
[22:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ditching Coal in the US is Saving Lives, Helping Crops - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:57] <exec> 08└─What lie? From the article: "One of the interesting things she found was that the opening of new plants wasn't correlated with any statistically significant changes. She suggests that this is likely the result of the fact that the newer plants adopt the latest pollution-control technology" Prob is,...
[22:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ditching Coal in the US is Saving Lives, Helping Crops - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:00] <exec> 08└─> If you are forced to freeze in your home because heating costs more. Do you have any appreciation for how stupid inefficient residential heating is? More than 2 centuries ago, no less a person than Benjamin Franklin complained about the stupidity of the fireplace, yet today we still build them abo...
[22:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ditching Coal in the US is Saving Lives, Helping Crops - 1278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:02] <exec> 08└─These days most people focus on the CO2 that fossil fuels add to the atmosphere. There are other reasons, too: Coal mining is brutal; whether shaft mining, which is hell on Earth for the coal miners, or mountain top removal, which is as awful as it sounds, or strip mining, which is also as awful as...
[22:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ditching Coal in the US is Saving Lives, Helping Crops - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:04] <exec> 08└─On the basis of general methodology the use of special mediator in this case is statistically inappropriate.
[22:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ditching Coal in the US is Saving Lives, Helping Crops - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:06] <exec> 08└─Mountain top removal sounds great. It is basically simulating the glacial cycle and possibly delaying the next ice age by releasing minerals into the soils we have depleted.
[22:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:31] <exec> 08└─Sure, laws need to be specific. But then how EXACTLY is it legal for someone to charge a fee for something that was never sent? Can I just magically start charging everyone some fee for something I never sent? KA-CHING! How specific does law have to be to forbid that kind of random asshattery? I wou...
[22:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finding a New Way to Fight Late-Stage Sepsis by Boosting Cells' Antibacterial Properties - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:00] <exec> 08└─Typo: "Red blood cells will then *oxidize* dehydroascorbate back to the more water soluble ascorbate"
[22:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:54] <exec> 08└─In a democracy, the people are responsible for who is running the show.
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[23:51:41] <exec> 08└─Assuming it's true, spread the news, and Samsung will take it out. Samsung ain't no Huawei. Samsung pretty much pulled their operation out of China - they have been pouring investment into Vietnam.
[23:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Devices Allegedly Use Qihoo 360 Spyware to Phone Home to China - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:43] <exec> 08└─Assuming it's true, spread the news, and Samsung will take it out.
[23:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Ditching Coal in the US is Saving Lives, Helping Crops - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:02] <exec> 08└─Or, maybe, you instead become healthier from all that exercise you're getting from biking.
[23:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Ditching Coal in the US is Saving Lives, Helping Crops - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:03] <exec> 08└─Do you have any appreciation for how stupid inefficient residential heating is?
[23:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ditching Coal in the US is Saving Lives, Helping Crops - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:05] <exec> 08└─Burney found that tens of thousands of deaths had been avoided by replacing coal plants. As an added bonus, the productivity of nearby farms increased as well.
[23:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ditching Coal in the US is Saving Lives, Helping Crops - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:07] <exec> 08└─The scientists merely showed them that they could indeed trace every pollutant in the river back to its source, picking out the one plant that emitted it even when it was surrounded by a dozen others that might be the source. The owners got the message, and cleaned up their acts.
[23:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ditching Coal in the US is Saving Lives, Helping Crops - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:10] <exec> 08└─Expensive energy harms human health too
[23:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ditching Coal in the US is Saving Lives, Helping Crops - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:12] <exec> 08└─Once you get older, biking becomes a challenge and can easily kill you.
[23:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ditching Coal in the US is Saving Lives, Helping Crops - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:14] <exec> 08└─Coal mining is brutal;... the process to win it from the Earth destroys human beings and watersheds wholesale before a nugget of it is even burnt
[23:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:40] <exec> 08└─New line of work perhaps? 1. Obtain limitless supply of NEW routers 2. Open an Ebay account 3. ???? 4. Profit! :)
[23:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Finally Prohibits ISPs from Charging for Routers they Don’t Provide - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:41] <exec> 08└─isn't another job of the FCC to allocate it in a way the serves the pubic interest?
[23:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Bushfire Map Superimosed Over America Sows Disbelief - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:04] <exec> 08└─Not in New Zealand. Full independence was granted with the Statute of Westminster in 1931 and adopted by the New Zealand Parliament in 1947. However, the 1907 royal proclamation of Dominion status has never been revoked and remains in force today.
[23:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EA Boots Linux Gamers Out of Multiplayer Battlefield V, Penguinistas Demanding Crippling Boycott - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:04] <exec> 08└─No, cheating is a small issue compared to freedom in computing.
[23:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US to Restrict Export of AI Technology for Image Analysis - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:19] <exec> 08└─Well, if you restrict it to actual visual image processing, and don't consider object recognition as significant, then yeah, you could do it, but you everyone else already has that capability, and has had it for decades.
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