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[00:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Promoting Red Meat, Sugar Failed to Disclose Industry Ties—Again - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:47] <exec> 08└─If this guy can do anything to halt the evil vegans, he deserves to be well paid.
[00:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Researcher Promoting Red Meat, Sugar Failed to Disclose Industry Ties—Again - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:49] <exec> 08└─So what are the actual results of his study and if they're in question, where is the scientific critiques? I guess nobody has any, because they're just strawmanning the guy's sponsors.
[00:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Promoting Red Meat, Sugar Failed to Disclose Industry Ties—Again - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:51] <exec> 08└─It is easy to foil a vegan. Get them drunk then take them to a kebab shop.
[00:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Promoting Red Meat, Sugar Failed to Disclose Industry Ties—Again - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:53] <exec> 08└─If his results were so convincing, why hide his sponsors?
[00:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Researcher Promoting Red Meat, Sugar Failed to Disclose Industry Ties—Again - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:55] <exec> 08└─I guess nobody has any, because they're just strawmanning the guy's sponsors.
[00:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Promoting Red Meat, Sugar Failed to Disclose Industry Ties—Again - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:57] <exec> 08└─Thanks. Saved me a job. Some people on this site don't seem to understand industry-funded propaganda when they see it. Oh well, at least those liberals are getting owned.
[00:52:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 320 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:09] <exec> 08└─Perhaps enough someones are buying into the newer tractors that they're still making serious bank off them, and its only the small farms that can't afford them. That's it in a nut shell. Small farmers just don't have the capital to nudge the market. For big ag, it's better to make them go bankrupt a...
[00:52:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 1500 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:12] <exec> 08└─I can think of a few reasons: 1. It is very capital intensive to set up a complete new factory for factories. Especially in the western world. And if you do by some miracle manage, you have to compete with behemoths which a lot more financial and legal clout than you have. 2. A lot of of the existin...
[00:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:26] <exec> 08└─Because farmers don't have large budgets, and are very busy. This isn't true with the corporate farms, but they don't have as much trouble with tractors having DRM. As for why nobody else is doing so... the people don't buy tractors regularly, so they depend on brands they recognize as quality. How...
[00:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:27] <exec> 08└─Our newest is a 2002, it was an "advanced luxury model" at the time, and it's about to get sold because it's flaking out too much. 1999 didn't seem to be too bad - our 1999 pickup truck has some gremlins in the seat belt control module - fairly easily controlled, and the ECU does weird stuff just af...
[00:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:29] <exec> 08└─Our 2002 is a Mercedes - as for reliable? The wiring harness in those years was absolutely atrocious: thin wires carrying high current (for example to the halogen headlamp bulbs) with insulation that self-destructed in less than 10 years. The stunt that has us looking for a replacement was a battery...
[00:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:32] <exec> 08└─Why aren't they financing domestic fabrication of low cost simple reliable tractors?
[00:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:34] <exec> 08└─I would say they started to go downhill round 2001
[00:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:36] <exec> 08└─> Sarcasm? Common perception :-P Saying that, those companies are trading on the momentum of their legacy and "brand". Loads of people still associate them with quality and reliability, even though IMO that has not been the case for the last 18 years. Every time I sat in one of them they always fel...
[00:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:38] <exec> 08└─You can always unbolt the EFI and strap on carburetors and a mechanical spark distributor...
[00:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:40] <exec> 08└─1. It is very capital intensive
[00:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:42] <exec> 08└─German cars are seen as reliable in Europe because they are usually made in Germany or some other European cars. German cars in the U.S. are made in Mexico or "assembled" in the U.S. with imported parts. If you actually check the prices for used cars in the U.S., the prices of ones that come from Ge...
[00:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:45] <exec> 08└─They feel like a VW with a badge slapped on them
[00:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 1079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:47] <exec> 08└─Fun to be around?! Not at all what my father and grandfather thought. Horses are a bit unpredictable and dangerous. Most of the time, yes, they're well behaved. But, you never know when the stupid things are going to spook and go nuts. If panicked badly enough, they will do crazy stuff like charge f...
[00:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:49] <exec> 08└─If you disconnect the battery on a USA-spec car the computer will "reset" and you will have to drive some distance (50-70 miles??) before the emissions system self-tunes to the car. In that interval the car probably won't pass any emissions testing (required in my state for the annual inspection). A...
[00:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:51] <exec> 08└─VW has a nice trick. The “radio” is main computer with GPS input. So it is the NTP for the whole car. If you pull or it fails the car shuts down. Can not control the timing of the injectors.
[00:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half of the Websites Using WebAssembly Use it for Malicious Purposes - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:11] <exec> 08└─How is this different to back in the days when folks install random desktop apps downloaded from ICQ or even before then random media people hand around in school/college/office/magazines?
[00:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half of the Websites Using WebAssembly Use it for Malicious Purposes - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, my response to the headline was "Wow, that's much lower than I expected."
[00:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half of the Websites Using WebAssembly Use it for Malicious Purposes - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:14] <exec> 08└─Opening the browser and typing in a URL or clicking on a link is an action.
[00:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Mathematical Model to Describe Spaghetti Noodle Curling When Cooked - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:30] <exec> 08└─In truth it's Intelligent Bending. You know, the Flying Spaghetti Monster cares about every single noodle.
[00:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Mathematical Model to Describe Spaghetti Noodle Curling When Cooked - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:32] <exec> 08└─I cook spaghetti in a pan which is just large enough in diameter to accept a bundle laying flat. It doesn't really change shape until I come along and stir it. I can't think of any other pasta that does change shape when cooked. Were they placing the spaghetti so it was inclined and propped against...
[00:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer Mortality Continues Steady Decline, Driven by Progress Against Lung Cancer - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:06] <exec> 08└─It's not the stigma.
[00:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer Mortality Continues Steady Decline, Driven by Progress Against Lung Cancer - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:07] <exec> 08└─Colonoscopies cause cancer (anything that damages tissue and triggers the need for cell division causes cancer). Have fun! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov]
[00:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Man with 5.5-Inch (14cm) Horn Growing on His Back Slipped “Through the Net,” Docs Say - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:33] <exec> 08└─In 1954, while the NIH was testing the first commercial polio vaccines, Eddy's job was to test the vaccines from five different companies.[5] Testing the vaccines on 18 monkeys, she and her team discovered that the inactivated vaccine manufactured by Cutter Laboratories contained residual live polio...
[00:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man with 5.5-Inch (14cm) Horn Growing on His Back Slipped “Through the Net,” Docs Say - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:35] <exec> 08└─Yea, he's lucky he didn't travel to Wuhan China where all sorts of beasties are on the menu!
[00:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:52] <exec> 08└─That $11k goes further than you might think. Heck, let's cut that to less than half, $5k for example. It's an average. You know how many people go an entire year without seeing a doctor? A lot, especially in their 20s and 30s. It's not such a hot idea, but even if you lump in a bunch of people who g...
[00:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Poverty in Children Causes Smaller Brains Throughout Life - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:48] <exec> 08└─Then explain Trump
[00:59:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Devices Allegedly Use Qihoo 360 Spyware to Phone Home to China - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:14] <exec> 08└─Nice, but: Cosmo: OS: Currently supporting Android OS. *Planned support for Sailfish, Linux Debian and Linux Kali. Gemini: OS: Android OS 7.11 upgradable to 8.1 as standard. User installable Sailfish, Linux Debian and Linux Kali. So, not pre-installed. Cosmo will support user installable but not yet...
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[01:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Promoting Red Meat, Sugar Failed to Disclose Industry Ties—Again - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:55] <exec> 08└─Eat the kebab then use the skewer to stab the vegan?
[01:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Researcher Promoting Red Meat, Sugar Failed to Disclose Industry Ties—Again - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:56] <exec> 08└─Research shows water kills faster than cigarettes when inhaled.
[01:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researcher Promoting Red Meat, Sugar Failed to Disclose Industry Ties—Again - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:58] <exec> 08└─Eat the kebab then use the skewer to stab the vegan?
[01:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Promoting Red Meat, Sugar Failed to Disclose Industry Ties—Again - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:00] <exec> 08└─And we go bitching about Chinese research. Also, Texas A&M football is garbage, embarrassment to Texas and SEC.
[01:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:42] <exec> 08└─I did both. Hell are farm equipment was mostly out of 1920. Bucking sleigh to bring the hay to the barn. House pull rake and side cutter that both worked by the wheels turning by the tractor. Hay chopper and saw that was powered by 12 inch belts on a pullley/pro was on side of 1950 international...
[01:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 2504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:44] <exec> 08└─> Actually European chumps I know swear by VW (still, at least some of them) as the standard of "German engineering" and reliability, basically the Toyota of Europe. They were, until the (T)FSI era. Those engines are awful. Already leaking oil through their piston rings after 3 years. VW owns Audi a...
[01:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:46] <exec> 08└─Oh, it's torture all right, but maybe that's their thing?
[01:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 1437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:48] <exec> 08└─Unixnut, you just stated the exact reasons I purchased what was then a 20 year old Ford E350 7.3L IDI diesel van off Craigslist, then spent three times it's purchase price fixing it up. It has an old-school purely mechanical diesel engine, made by International Harvester in it. It also needed some T...
[01:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:50] <exec> 08└─It may not be possible to make new tractors similar to the 40-year-old ones because of new regulations that those designs would not comply with.
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[01:53:13] <exec> 08└─What advancement? Users are losing control of their hardware and it's being handed over to third parties instead. That's not an advancement. Those third parties that build the websites, build the OS, build the applications, and even the hardware vendors themselves are colluding to ensure that all th...
[01:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Mathematical Model to Describe Spaghetti Noodle Curling When Cooked - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:31] <exec> 08└─Model reality using only assholes.
[01:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Mathematical Model to Describe Spaghetti Noodle Curling When Cooked - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:33] <exec> 08└─Spoon? You savage!
[01:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rupert Pupnick [7277] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Mathematical Model to Describe Spaghetti Noodle Curling When Cooked - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:35] <exec> 08└─Slow news day at phys.org
[01:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:55] <exec> 08└─Nope, that's a strawman. I really am more scared of what harm ignorant people can do than most disease. As a last resort I guess why not, but until then you won't find me there.
[01:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:57] <exec> 08└─Look on the bright side, at least some of it is under the control of the Military-Industrial Complex.
[01:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Animal Life Thriving Around Fukushima - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:30] <exec> 08└─Those weren't monkeys, they were humans who'd gone ferral.
[01:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Animal Life Thriving Around Fukushima - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:32] <exec> 08└─So is carousel just like ZPG was? One in, one out. In my experience, NPG is more fun. So far.
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[02:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:48] <exec> 08└─I think we're in trouble [gstatic.com]
[02:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:50] <exec> 08└─carburetors and a mechanical spark distributor
[02:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half of the Websites Using WebAssembly Use it for Malicious Purposes - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:15] <exec> 08└─But a JS or WebAssembly ad piece isn't an action.
[02:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer Mortality Continues Steady Decline, Driven by Progress Against Lung Cancer - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:11] <exec> 08└─Do this simulation: 1) Get four quarters, call them A, B, C, D 2) Flip coin A until you have observed heads and record how many flips it took 3) Repeat step 2 for coins B:D 4) Record the *max* number of flips for that round 5) Repeat steps 2-4 until you have enough to see the distribution of max fli...
[02:55:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:41] <exec> 08└─Cutting edge drugs are a tiny portion of overall health costs. Many drugs are discovered by universities and charity funded labs.
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[03:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:50] <exec> 08└─People all worried about Iran starting WWIII when they can't even keep from shooting down their own planes. China has been 1939 Germany all along: secretly building island bases, getting countries dependent on their economy, taking over australia and parts of africa. All under everyone's noses, incl...
[03:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Promoting Red Meat, Sugar Failed to Disclose Industry Ties—Again - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:09] <exec> 08└─You mean kebab shops cook up vegans in foil?
[03:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:58] <exec> 08└─I bought a Chinese trailer from Harbor Freight - it suited my needs at the time, but I ended up keeping it longer than I planned. Problem 1: the paint peeled off within 12 months and the rust started Problem 2: Chinese sized axles and bearings - not US standard sizes, repair / replacement costing in...
[03:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:59] <exec> 08└─If I bought a Chinese tractor I think I might invest in an immediate strip and repaint - but I'd be very much more worried about details like quality of wiring, insulation, fasteners, etc.
[03:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:01] <exec> 08└─I remember there were some transmission issues too: https://www.caradvice.com.au [caradvice.com.au] https://www.caradvice.com.au
[03:53:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Half of the Websites Using WebAssembly Use it for Malicious Purposes - 375 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:13] <exec> 08└─And... if you could mine cryptocurrency using javascript, they would - but why bother when WebAssembly is X faster? So, because WebAssembly runs faster we should ban it? Why not just make everybody run Windows 10 and then bog it down so slow that everything, malware included, is too frustrated to ru...
[03:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Mathematical Model to Describe Spaghetti Noodle Curling When Cooked - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:46] <exec> 08└─Without this research, you can't realistically cook spaghetti in VR.
[03:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer Mortality Continues Steady Decline, Driven by Progress Against Lung Cancer - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:24] <exec> 08└─Then you'd expect to find similar decrease in heart disease, accidents, and respiratory diseases, the other major sources in all-cause mortality, and you don't. The relative drop is unique to cancer.
[03:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:11] <exec> 08└─What we're seeing here is a failure of the dogmatic supply-and-demand mantra chanted by all these soulless psychopaths who've made Mammon their Lord and savior. There is a concept called "elasticity of demand," which is roughly a measure of how much demand for a given good or service changes with th...
[03:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:12] <exec> 08└─Because dealing with the insurance company is that much worse... and that is usually what they get in the end anyway. The price *you* see is just the start of negotiations between the hospital and insurance company. Do people just give away tens of thousands of dollars each year without looking into...
[03:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03unhandyandy [4405] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Evidence Shows That the Key Assumption Made in the Discovery of Dark Energy is in Error - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:12] <exec> 08└─"Your preconceived notions require that cosmological constant is 0" No, my preconceived notion is that we haven't overlooked 68% of the universe over the 10000 years of recorded history. That notion may be wrong, but it requires more evidence to set it aside than has been produced.
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[04:51:47] <exec> 08└─Some would prefer to survive intact for 2600 years, long after their brain rot in oblivion. I'm looking at you, khallow; but it's not gonna happen.
[04:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:56] <exec> 08└─China appears to have forgotten why the UN was formed in the first place. Japan learned a hard lesson in 1945.
[04:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:58] <exec> 08└─And their concentration camps would make Hitler blush
[04:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:00] <exec> 08└─Those camps in Xinjiang are voluntary vocational training centers [cnn.com]. Get it right!
[04:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:11] <exec> 08└─I get the strong idea the people buying these status cars are signalling they are rich beyond comprehension. Whereas I look at them kinda like having to ask Dad for the car keys, knowing he will want to know exactly where I am going and what I did. And he might allow me to drive it. I do not like ha...
[04:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half of the Websites Using WebAssembly Use it for Malicious Purposes - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:36] <exec> 08└─You wrote "wonton" and "beans" and now I'm hungry. I'm sure you've written an awesome post and I'll read it later.
[04:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:26] <exec> 08└─You're not getting the point. The inflated chargemaster pricing is what hits you if you do not have applicable insurance (or better put "membership in a discount plan the provider accepts"). The insurance companies will negotiate flat rates per code that 1) they will pay and 2) can be passed to the...
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[05:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:40] <exec> 08└─If I was choosing the windowing option I'd make a big note, memo, or email saying "fix this within 20 years or else". Yet here we are. There's really no excuse for this.
[05:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:42] <exec> 08└─Every time an issue or bug like Y2K or Y2K.02 creates panic, it's an opportunity for the Jews to profit. 1) Artificially create panic or turmoil so people sell stocks 2) Buy those stocks at cheap, deflated prices 3) Once the panic is over, pump and dump 4) Profit at the expense of anyone who sold st...
[05:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:44] <exec> 08└─"Windowing, even during Y2K, was the worst of all possible solutions because it kicked the problem down the road,"
[05:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:01] <exec> 08└─This shouldn't be shocking to anyone with a clue. Darkies are unable to control their violent tendencies. Here we have the chinks going attacking another group of darkies. While I understand that Indonesia doesn't like the chinks niggering some of their territory, civilized people would resolve this...
[05:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Promoting Red Meat, Sugar Failed to Disclose Industry Ties—Again - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:21] <exec> 08└─It's a very serious matter to fail to properly report conflicts of interest. In this case, it was done with a very clear profit motive. It's unfortunately all too common for researchers to commit fabrication, falsification, plagiarism, and other serious research misconduct like this. Whether it's to...
[05:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:14] <exec> 08└─You know exactly the answer to your question. If there's no DRM or planned obsolescence, the kikes running the economy don't get paid enough. If American manufacturing businesses were placed back under the control of blue collar Americans rather than Jewish elites like the Rothschilds, you might get...
[05:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half of the Websites Using WebAssembly Use it for Malicious Purposes - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:40] <exec> 08└─According to you, 90% of JavaScript is used for malicious purposes and the other 10% for dumb purposes. Yet you're using a site, SoylentNews, that uses JavaScript. Is SoylentNews using JavaScript for malicious or dumb purposes? Inquiring minds (far smarter than yours) want to know!
[05:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 1290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:30] <exec> 08└─Very true. The real purpose of the US healthcare system is to enrich the kikes running the insurance and pharmaceutical companies. It's why doctors overprescribe medicine and run needless tests, because they are also Jewish and get kickbacks from other kikes who will do anything to sustain their bus...
[05:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty in Children Causes Smaller Brains Throughout Life - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:29] <exec> 08└─You should read up about Canada's residential schools, https://duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com] turns out Christians can be pretty good at putting people in hell.
[05:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Lander Releases Data, High-Resolution Images of the Moon - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:59] <exec> 08└─Energy takes on rather a different meaning on the moon when you're hitting 260 degree 2 week long days with literally 0 atmosphere and have effectively unlimited unowned land to work with. Lots of cool things you simply cannot do on Earth. If we could agree to work together instead of immediately ra...
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[06:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:37] <exec> 08└─Just do a global find/replace to change "20" to "40". Revisit again in 20 years. More seriously, I was tasked with identifying a solution for a green-screen system that had no real-estate left for a 4-digit year. Our answer was to conduct a lookup against a 100-row database table that mapped a long...
[06:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:38] <exec> 08└─hold on. you have no space for a 4-digit year, but you have space for a table of 100 4-digit years?
[06:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:40] <exec> 08└─Probably mean on the display itself there is no room. But if you are using a system and language that can make database lookups, makes me wonder why you don't just format it that way.
[06:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:43] <exec> 08└─Wow that's ugly. 100 rows that's to be manually changed. Not DailyWTF grade but keep at it and you'll get there. If you always want it increased every year, you can just have "threshold = CURRENTYEAR + OFFSET". Where CURRENTYEAR is automatically set at a specific time (e.g. 5am) each day (in case th...
[06:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06How a Chunk of Human Brain Survived Intact for 2600 Years - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:51] <exec> 08└─Hi! Some would prefer to survive intact for 2600 years, long after their brain rot in oblivion.
[06:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Chunk of Human Brain Survived Intact for 2600 Years - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:53] <exec> 08└─Of course, some of us avoided being buried, and our more tightly packed and rational brains are still functional, and obviously refuting the khallow multiple times a week. Brain rot is not a physical process, it is an ideological one.
[06:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:05] <exec> 08└─Overall, China tends to avoid direct conflict, but for some reason they are obsessed with ocean territory around them.
[06:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:17] <exec> 08└─Or an aftermarket fuel injection system. And some of them use GM PCMs. I'm fixin' to build a programming interface...
[06:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, the same way I support laws that (hopefully literally) make sure muggers' hands are bound. Put another way, their right to swing their fists ends at my nose.
[06:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:21] <exec> 08└─Read the analogy again. It's definitely THEIR thing.
[06:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:35] <exec> 08└─Knee and hip replacements are free in Canada, though there's usually a long wait, Lasik isn't covered but the prices seem pretty reasonable, at least from their ads, doing an eye seems to be about the cost of a good pair of glasses.
[06:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:36] <exec> 08└─$22,000 a year buys one fuck of a lot of medical. I've probably charged our medical system about a $1000 over 50 years, including a couple of hospital visits, my wife a bit more from when we had a child. Most people are healthy enough that they only need to visit the doctor a couple of times a year...
[06:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:56:38] <exec> 08└─I should add that medical is a Provincial thing, the feds chip in but they sure don't cover everything, I think currently 20-30%
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[07:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bmimatt [5050] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:55] <exec> 08└─In these cases we are probably talking flat files, with "sysadmin" hand+hard coding the year on Jan 1, while drunk. What a tragi-comedy this is, is unbelievable. These 'systems' should be called shitstems.
[07:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:17] <exec> 08└─Their planning is 60 years, 200 years. Not 4 years or just till the next election. I have been trying to alert people for the past 20+ years but they still think I'm mad. The day of reckoning approaches. And who will pay? The guilty politicians who led us into this mess? No - it will be your kids, b...
[07:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Promoting Red Meat, Sugar Failed to Disclose Industry Ties—Again - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:37] <exec> 08└─"liberals are getting owned" Christ in a cracker! Are we back to slavery already??
[07:52:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 649 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:58] <exec> 08└─Steal their land is no joke. Land here goes between 9 and 10 arms-length, but it isn't uncommon to see desperation prices between 4 and 5 or even less on quick sales or auction. People are beating the shit out of their land with corn on corn or continuous corn to try an make a profit in the short te...
[07:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:53] <exec> 08└─"Knee and hip replacements are free in Canada, though there's usually a long wait". In the U.S., the wait times aren't as long, unless you're poor, in which case, you should probably kill yourself.
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[08:51:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Thunderbolt 4 Connector is Simply a Rebranded Thunderbolt 3 - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:39] <exec> 08└─Why won't they stop lying? In my experience people who won't stop lying eventually start believing their own lies and go insane.
[08:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:54] <exec> 08└─ok. so "real-estate" refers to actual pixels on display. I understand. but why not keep the full year internally, and simply display year modulo 100? or is it such a dumb system that they have to fake modulo with a lookup table?
[08:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:17] <exec> 08└─other than obvious resource issues, south china sea has always been positioning for hard takeover (keepever) of formosa.
[08:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:34] <exec> 08└─At least that is all you had. I mentioned on a different story having to have my mechanic come out and do something with his scan tool and a procedure off of Alldata before I could start my car. At least the radio remembered the time and presets.
[08:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:36] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they used broken and not trained horses. When the horse sees you, other people, and its partner as companions in a herd, rather than an obstacle to be avoided, they react very differently. Plus draft animals are much colder than the much hotter riders, which makes them much harder to pro...
[08:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:38] <exec> 08└─My three thoughts. A lot of those Chinese tractors, especially at the cheap end, don't really compare to the agricultural tractors that the mid-tiers put out, let alone the top ones. For example, a 1 year warranty? My tractor came with 5. You'll have a hard time convincing farmers to do China anythi...
[08:53:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Half of the Websites Using WebAssembly Use it for Malicious Purposes - 1307 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:56] <exec> 08└─While I do value human attention higher than money, I worry about the wonton use of large amounts of energy, however cheap, in exchange for a small amount of human attention. Not strictly an attention issue, but... a friend of my Uncle's won a $14M lottery, so naturally he bought whatever boat struc...
[08:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah... that seems about the right one.
[08:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Lander Releases Data, High-Resolution Images of the Moon - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:27] <exec> 08└─The first buildings on the moon won't necessarily require filtrating the regolith after materials, just using the it as a filler in some polymer (epoxy resins look like a good candidate, they cross-link. Likely the regolith will contain enough radicals to even kickstart the polymerization) - a ton o...
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[09:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Thunderbolt 4 Connector is Simply a Rebranded Thunderbolt 3 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:49] <exec> 08└─Because it works in today's society? I mean, you've got a pathological liar as your elected president.
[09:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:06] <exec> 08└─If I was choosing the windowing option I'd make a big note, memo, or email saying "fix this within 20 years or else".
[09:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:07] <exec> 08└─Once while I was working as a data architect, I had a contract programmer request a table be made that consisted of each valid date for the next twenty years along with what day of the week each day actually was. We had a nice chat.
[09:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Chunk of Human Brain Survived Intact for 2600 Years - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:17] <exec> 08└─I always wondered what happened to Spock's brain.
[09:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Researcher Promoting Red Meat, Sugar Failed to Disclose Industry Ties—Again - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:53] <exec> 08└─Annals issued a correction on the review last week, updating the review's accompanying disclosure forms.
[09:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:53] <exec> 08└─Manufacturers hands are in no way bound. This issue derives from manufacturers lobbying government to interpret the law in a way that is detrimental to society. The first-sale doctrine is, arguably, at the very heart of capitalism. You buy it, you own it. You can now sell it. Without it, those who o...
[09:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half of the Websites Using WebAssembly Use it for Malicious Purposes - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:20] <exec> 08└─Great, so your solution to webassembly is to stop using the internet?
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[10:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Thunderbolt 4 Connector is Simply a Rebranded Thunderbolt 3 - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:43] <exec> 08└─According to this article [heise.de] at Heise (in german), Thunderbolt 4 is simply USB 4 with all optional features included.
[10:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:00] <exec> 08└─The developers probably did exactly that. Then the technical debt was studiously ignored for 20 years because management whated whizz-bangs.
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[10:59:10] <exec> 08└─> over the 10000 years of recorded history. That is an insane point of view, are you a troll? We overlooked physics for about 9600 years of recorded history. We overlooked any theoretical understanding of gravitation for about 9700 years of recorded history. We overlooked any theoretical understandi...
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[11:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paul Krugman's No Good, Very Bad Internet Day - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:43] <exec> 08└─Did someone named Paul Krugman order a small child with extra cheese?
[11:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paul Krugman's No Good, Very Bad Internet Day - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:45] <exec> 08└─If his blog byline "conscience of a liberal" didn't sound the pedo klaxon, I don't know what did tbh.
[11:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Thunderbolt 4 Connector is Simply a Rebranded Thunderbolt 3 - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:01] <exec> 08└─No, no, you've got it all wrong, they saw how successful the telco's "5G" marketing campaign was ("it's 4G, but one louder") and decided to do the same with Thunderbolt.
[11:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:20] <exec> 08└─Pet peeve: in an effort to save memory
[11:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:05] <exec> 08└─Yup. My dad got a 1998 5-series and it needed neverending fixing, including some bugs like the steering wheel randomly lowering itself down to the lowest position that the BMW service guys never managed to fix. There's a car buying guide here that tracks service records of most cars on the road and...
[11:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half of the Websites Using WebAssembly Use it for Malicious Purposes - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:34] <exec> 08└─SN works fine without javascript.
[11:58:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Animal Life Thriving Around Fukushima - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:02] <exec> 08└─Jesus, FatPhil, do you know how long it's taken us to coax those hikikomori out of their rooms? And here you go, blowing their cover! Poor show, Old Man, poor show!
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[12:51:43] <exec> 08└─I have never been fooled by a direct call from "Windows technical support", or a phishing email I received. But I was fooled by others' confusion. A contact of my mother's passed on a prank email that claimed a legit system file was actually a virus and should be deleted immediately. She obviously b...
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[12:51:44] <exec> 08└─No wa no how am i clicking links n this article ;)
[12:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:44] <exec> 08└─Their planning is 60 years, 200 years. Not 4 years or just till the next election. I have been trying to alert people for the past 20+ years but they still think I'm mad.
[12:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:46] <exec> 08└─And their concentration camps would make Hitler blush
[12:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half of the Websites Using WebAssembly Use it for Malicious Purposes - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:38] <exec> 08└─I have js blocked on my computers - but you may have noticed that I spend quite a bit of time here. Javascript is most certainly not required.
[12:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Poverty in Children Causes Smaller Brains Throughout Life - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:32] <exec> 08└─Have they tried to differentiate between poverty and watching Fox as causes for the smaller brains? The two often go hand in hand, so it'd be interesting to see which is the bigger influencing factor.
[13:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06PGP Keys, Software Security, Git, and Much More Threatened by New SHA1 Exploit - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:22] <exec> 08└─You would also need to do all that in close to real time, which can't happen for any of the attacks on SHA-1 or even the older, even more broken MD5.
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[13:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:42] <exec> 08└─Gah! Ryan Abbott is either an idiot, or looking for media attention, or both.
[13:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:44] <exec> 08└─This is actually good. Beacuse, I predicted that and I count on it. I expect beginning of automated software synthesis in very near future, in a scale of years. It is actually my own main direction of research. And what I really hate is the current legal paradigm about software: both necessity of li...
[13:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, but next time they will submit an AI generated patent and simply put their own name on it without mentioning the AI. Problem solved, or is it?
[13:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:48] <exec> 08└─It is a pretty trivial workaround.
[13:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paul Krugman's No Good, Very Bad Internet Day - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:58] <exec> 08└─[famous person] [scam] [internet] something or other.
[13:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Paul Krugman's No Good, Very Bad Internet Day - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:00] <exec> 08└─Most users won't notice. If you change the password, they'll start getting error messages and may shut down the account. Changing the password from a new IP address may also trigger an intrusion detection flag. In contrast, just allowing it to keep working and sending spam in the background means th...
[13:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Chunk of Human Brain Survived Intact for 2600 Years - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:47] <exec> 08└─He was probably one of the first "Highlanders". "There can be only one!"
[13:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Chunk of Human Brain Survived Intact for 2600 Years - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:48] <exec> 08└─"Structural proteins... were more tightly packed in the ancient brain". This demonstrates conclusively that people have been getting dumber over time, culminating in millennials. A complete unfolding of the brain's structure proteins would explain why millennials build production systems with Javasc...
[13:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How a Chunk of Human Brain Survived Intact for 2600 Years - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:51] <exec> 08└─some of us avoided being buried, and our more tightly packed and rational brains are still functional
[13:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Chunk of Human Brain Survived Intact for 2600 Years - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:53] <exec> 08└─Replace Trumps brain with this one: see if he gets smarter!
[13:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:09] <exec> 08└─Their planning is 60 years, 200 years.
[13:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:10] <exec> 08└─The four stories shown in the google news "World" section are Iran/US out of Iraq, Royal family nonsense, Iran shot down a plane, and Australia is on fire. I’d just like to say thanks to whichever AC submitted this one. My shorts are a little browner now, thanks to you.
[13:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Mathematical Model to Describe Spaghetti Noodle Curling When Cooked - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:24] <exec> 08└─As the summary states, they put it in a pot. Indeed, as far as I remember, your post is the first time I've heard of anyone cooking them in a pan. Not that anything is wrong with doing so, it's just that I've never heard of anyone doing it. Since spaghetti are too long to lie flat even in a large po...
[13:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cancer Mortality Continues Steady Decline, Driven by Progress Against Lung Cancer - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:03] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't that I don't understand your gross simplification.
[13:58:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Animal Life Thriving Around Fukushima - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:35] <exec> 08└─> a narrow plume of much higher radiation extending Just to be clear, even the narrow plume hour is still not terribly radioactive. About 10 times normal annual dose in US (including e.g. medical procedures/etc).
[13:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Animal Life Thriving Around Fukushima - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:36] <exec> 08└─If we want to have any wildlife left in another 100 years, we're going to need more exclusion zones than just the nuclear accident sites.
[14:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Evidence Shows That the Key Assumption Made in the Discovery of Dark Energy is in Error - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:05] <exec> 08└─What happens after you drop the rock? You get all of the same answers from "what" without the baggage of being stuck in a recursive loop.
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[14:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:55] <exec> 08└─This is a solution to a different problem. Machines do not need to submit anything to some funny human institution to evolve themselves. They just need to share and discuss their discoveries and creations. Just proper communication protocols could facilitate that.
[14:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:57] <exec> 08└─"there was no human inventor." I can't believe that current copyright laws already anticipate for AI intellectual property. Could the "human inventor" requirement have been added to prevent animals from obtaining copyrights?
[14:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:59] <exec> 08└─For AI works / products there should be an official "prior art" department run by humans. if a AI "invents" something it can report it there and it thus automatically becomes un-patentable, since AI did it first and it itself cannot patent it ^_^
[14:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:01] <exec> 08└─More likely "Hey I found this rock with useful properties, I'm gonna patent it, and sue anyone else who digs one up"
[14:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Paul Krugman's No Good, Very Bad Internet Day - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:14] <exec> 08└─Why didn't the perps' system immediately change the password and lock him out of his own account?
[14:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Krugman's No Good, Very Bad Internet Day - 1335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:16] <exec> 08└─'Despite his field expertise, Krugman is a prime candidate for such attacks, given his public presence and previously demonstrated unease with technology. [...]So it's critical that people with some technical know-how and experience educate family members and people in their communities about these...
[14:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paul Krugman's No Good, Very Bad Internet Day - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:18] <exec> 08└─tourists get scammed a lot, but this rule stops a lot of them: if someone approaches you, for any reason, it is probably a scam.
[14:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:53] <exec> 08└─unicode got all those "smiling brown icecream" emoticons, i am sure they can make one (or more) where a single char is "200", "201" and "202" ...?
[14:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:55] <exec> 08└─Consider that the ñ was invented as a way to write two "n"s in one place thus saving paper, I think you might be wrong.
[14:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a Chunk of Human Brain Survived Intact for 2600 Years - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:10] <exec> 08└─Having to live for 2600 years as a disembodied head. How does one survive that long? and without the body attached?
[14:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:30] <exec> 08└─That's a lie. Where are the gas chambers and mass graves? They would be visible by satellite.
[14:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:31] <exec> 08└─US military is deployed in more 150 countries. Look in the mirror.
[14:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:33] <exec> 08└─Probably because the UK Navy kicked their ass in the Opium Wars. These wars (how they lost Hong Kong) and the period after are their "never again" lessons.
[14:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:35] <exec> 08└─How else are they going to beat their military chests? Maybe it strengthens their hand in other domains. If you do this for us, we'll be nice in the South China Sea.
[14:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:37] <exec> 08└─the strategy would be to sell the "energy rich" waters very very expensive (blood!) and once the chinese feel victorious and start investing in extraction infrastructure, the "free world" pulls out the secrit weapon and gets it all in one fell swoop?
[14:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Promoting Red Meat, Sugar Failed to Disclose Industry Ties—Again - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:59] <exec> 08└─Is the cigarette lit before you inhale it? I can't imagine a lit cigarette in the lungs being at all healthy.
[14:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:02] <exec> 08└─Same with Pyrex state-side, Pyrex containers are now just regular glass, so all that "pyrex doesn't shatter with temperature changes" is just plain false, and has been for over 30 years.
[14:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:03] <exec> 08└─One of these days the manufacturer of the machines and/or robots that manufacture the tractors will be DRM protected and the tractor manufacturer will complain they can't fix their assembly line. Then they will lobby for the right to repair. Ha!
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[15:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYC Broadband Plan Calls for Fiber Everywhere, with ISPs Sharing Network - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:41] <exec> 08└─It would be great for NYC to have real broadband. It is infrastructure necessary for 21st century commerce and life. I would bet against its happening, though. Lawyers and selfish political fiefdoms will immediately attack, trying to get a slice of the public largesse. Powerful companies like Google...
[15:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:56] <exec> 08└─Probably its about this: http://wafflesatnoon.com [wafflesatnoon.com]
[15:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:58] <exec> 08└─Chinese Court Says AI-Generated Content Is Subject To Copyright Protection [techdirt.com] Tencent personnel used the Dreamwriter AI to draft the article and when the plaintiff published the article on its website, it stated that the article was automatically written by the Tencent Dreamwriter AI. Th...
[15:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:00] <exec> 08└─Would that be fraud?
[15:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:02] <exec> 08└─So there will be a new "job" position available. Someone that claims, or gets assigned, the invention before the proper paperwork is assigned. Once filed and the process is completed it gets transferred back to whomever (or whatever).
[15:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:04] <exec> 08└─I expect beginning of automated software synthesis in very near future, in a scale of years.
[15:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Krugman's No Good, Very Bad Internet Day - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:20] <exec> 08└─Your natural disposition can also help you avoid, or predispose you to, scams. If you distrust strangers you have a better shot at avoiding scams. If you're naturally trusting, you're much more likely to get taken advantage of. Of course, if you're the former it can constrain your usual relationship...
[15:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06New Guideline Discourages Testosterone Treatment for Older Men, Except to Treat Sexual Dysfunction - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:27] <exec> 08└─no evidence that long-term testosterone supplementation improves — or damages — health
[15:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Guideline Discourages Testosterone Treatment for Older Men, Except to Treat Sexual Dysfunction - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:29] <exec> 08└─The new recommendation was decided after researchers reviewed 38 randomized, controlled testosterone treatment trials, which ranged from 10 to 798 male participants from the U.S., Europe, Asia and Australia between 1997 and 2018. The studies tracked men from less than 12 months up to three years.
[15:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Guideline Discourages Testosterone Treatment for Older Men, Except to Treat Sexual Dysfunction - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:32] <exec> 08└─So it is exactly as effective as homeopathy.
[15:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Guideline Discourages Testosterone Treatment for Older Men, Except to Treat Sexual Dysfunction - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:34] <exec> 08└─It's not working because they're not using Bull Shark Testosterone [fandom.com]. My pal Brucie can hook them up.
[15:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Thunderbolt 4 Connector is Simply a Rebranded Thunderbolt 3 - 1828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:45] <exec> 08└─How can usb become more integrated? It is a connector to external devices. Then, as an archivist, I thought hm. If intel has a big backdoor and the ime can run this whole other system, and you can put wifi on a chip, and image a room through passive emf radar tricks, then this 'intergration' could m...
[15:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel's Thunderbolt 4 Connector is Simply a Rebranded Thunderbolt 3 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:47] <exec> 08└─They are being punished with record profits.
[15:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:09] <exec> 08└─I was about to flag the neurons I filled with COBOL to fix Y2K last time for deletion.
[15:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Chunk of Human Brain Survived Intact for 2600 Years - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:26] <exec> 08└─He might not be smarter but he'd probably scratch his crotch less.
[15:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 1555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:51] <exec> 08└─I would say there are a few parties that were dragged kicking and screaming to the UN and both Israel and China come to mind. Much of the United States population welcomes the idea and is enthusiastic for the good parts, but the US cultural hegemony(much of which is sadly traitorous israelis) reject...
[15:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:52] <exec> 08└─Nah, I'm already past military age. It'll be the millennials that will have to fight this one.
[15:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:55] <exec> 08└─"勿忘国耻" as inscribed on statues and monuments in China.
[15:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:57] <exec> 08└─As a good MSM believing NPC, you should be aware that Hungary's Orban and Poland's Morawiecki are also on the list of democratically elected leaders that we should hate, and we should just let our betters decide for us.
[15:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:23] <exec> 08└─I might invest in an immediate strip and repaint - but I'd be very much more worried about details like quality of wiring, insulation, fasteners, etc.
[15:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:25] <exec> 08└─Time is money
[15:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:27] <exec> 08└─maybe i dont understand much mechanics but as a n00b i would assume that a tractor is not a device that needs more electronics INSIDE. rather, i assume it would need a super computer to design and build so you have a device you can throw into the dirt and it will run with no maintenance for 20 years...
[15:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half of the Websites Using WebAssembly Use it for Malicious Purposes - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:57] <exec> 08└─webpages are like books in a library. books with colors are maybe websites with css? books that pop-up are maybe websites with javascript and books written with poisonous water soluble ink are probably websites with webassembly?
[15:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Half of the Websites Using WebAssembly Use it for Malicious Purposes - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:59] <exec> 08└─If you really are missing the point by saying that, then perhaps you're best left as part of the example of why things are worse today than they were back then.
[15:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Mathematical Model to Describe Spaghetti Noodle Curling When Cooked - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:23] <exec> 08└─more interesting would be the correct shape of the paste for the most surface for sauce to adhere to? i buy "spirals" @ 7 min (that's 13 real min in reality). that's SI minutes btw.
[15:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Mathematical Model to Describe Spaghetti Noodle Curling When Cooked - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:24] <exec> 08└─With this new scientific formalism, can we now finally rehabilitate spaghetti code? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer Mortality Continues Steady Decline, Driven by Progress Against Lung Cancer - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:04] <exec> 08└─Well, it is just the armitage-doll model which many people have managed to understand. So it is probably that you are trained in genomics which in my experience is a very unscientific field. It is a bunch of memorizing arbitrary "facts" instead of thinking scientifically.
[15:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Animal Life Thriving Around Fukushima - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:37] <exec> 08└─They already cover well over than 5% of the Earth's total surface
[15:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Animal Life Thriving Around Fukushima - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:39] <exec> 08└─My assumption was that Carrousel was a reference to the 1976 movie Logan's Run. There should be a survey of PETA members to determine how many would volunteer to be ground up into animal feed.
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[16:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Ring Fired at Least Four Employees for Snooping on User Videos - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:51] <exec> 08└─We're not spying on you, it's off unless you turn it on. I'm so glad this hypothetical situation could never actually happen.
[16:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYC Broadband Plan Calls for Fiber Everywhere, with ISPs Sharing Network - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:00] <exec> 08└─I'm sure New York would love to have this. Unfortunately there's a long history of companies taking the money and not delivering [duckduckgo.com].
[16:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 1998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:21] <exec> 08└─Yes, probably AI will soon exceed our own inventiveness. I couldn't guess whether that's 20 years or 100 years out, but it's coming. For decades now, we've been using computers as engines to perform searches that would be impractical for humans to do. For instance, the amount of calculating that mus...
[16:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:22] <exec> 08└─If it doesn't, I predict MausCo will transfer all its copyrights to MausCoAIBot
[16:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:24] <exec> 08└─As any tester will tell you, it is not possible to test every input for any reasonably complex piece of code. Passing unit tests is not enough.
[16:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:26] <exec> 08└─> inherited from middle age culture, by holding to ancient standards of hierarchical society and privilegia. I don't know about patents; but copyright became widespread in the UK in the 18th century following successful lobbying by Tonson, a middle class publisher. So substantially after the end of...
[16:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:29] <exec> 08└─Here's the scenario that I see constantly that could have happened. Developer has tight deadline and has to choose a quick fix to something. Developer enters a bug into their bug system describing the right approach, with relevant details, risks, etc. Bug is placed into backlog to prioritize at a la...
[16:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 2127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:31] <exec> 08└─Back in the day (early 1980s), I worked on a number of programs written in the UCSD p-System. At that time, we scoffed at the idea that these programs would be around anywhere near the turn of the millennium. The cool thing about the p-System was that our code could run on multiple systems -- and th...
[16:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 1093 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:33] <exec> 08└─There was this COBOL programmer around the time of Y2K. He realized that Y2K was going to be a disaster on a cataclysmic scale. So he put himself into hibernation with a timer set to wake him up a couple years after Y2K when everything would be presumably fixed. He wakes up and finds out that due to...
[16:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:17] <exec> 08└─That particular point might have been out of scale, but the sentiment is correct. China is Nazi Germany in the late 1930's. They have been gearing up for a confrontation with the West (and their allies Japan and South Korea) for decades; anyone who has been reading Congressional whitepapers on the s...
[16:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:19] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is, the Deep State is good and we should just let it do whatever it wants because voters don't know what's good for them? That is telling. Thank you for being honest with us. You heard it here, folks. Democracy sucks and citizens should not be allowed to elect leaders who chang...
[16:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:21] <exec> 08└─No, the long-term strategic thinkers the Chinese are feared to be are so masterful that they got their asses kicked for several centuries in a row by what were mice from the other side of the world. Concessions were forced on them by the French. By the French. That's gotta just be fucking humiliatin...
[16:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:23] <exec> 08└─And the ever popular sign at the entrance of the park in the treaty port of Shanghai that read, "No dogs or Chinese allowed." It's a myth, but every mainlander cites it.
[16:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:25] <exec> 08└─Seconded. I let my subscription to Stratfor lapse a while ago, but perhaps it's worth renewing. We can't rely on the mainstream media to report important news anymore.
[16:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:28] <exec> 08└─They're avoiding direct conflict because they have not yet had the means to defeat the United States and its allies. That will change.
[16:55:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 270 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:11] <exec> 08└─Yes. Sometimes allowing people to do whatever they please does not lead to the greatest amount of freedom, such as when companies dump toxins into water supplies, or do other things which harm people. A far greater number of people would have freedom if DRM were banned.
[16:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:57] <exec> 08└─Emissions standards (and the need for FI/Engine management to meet them). And service lock-in profits. It's a win-win situation for the manufacturers.
[16:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:59] <exec> 08└─Here in Ontario anyway, 2wd tractors like the one shown in the article aren't particularly sought-after. OTOH, 4wd tractors hold their value very well and it's hard to find a used one for a good price. I'm not sure when really, but about 20 years ago most manufacturers switched to mostly 4wd tractor...
[16:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:01] <exec> 08└─It depends on the tractor you're buying. A $25k 30hp compact utility tractor will be relatively simple. A $500k tractor is going to have GPS-assisted auto-steer, complex telematics, communication with implements so that it knows, for example, to change the seeding or fertilizing rate based on its lo...
[16:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Mathematical Model to Describe Spaghetti Noodle Curling When Cooked - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:57] <exec> 08└─I prefer radiatori or campanelle for that. Maybe the authors of the study can do a follow-up to establish it rigorously.
[16:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cancer Mortality Continues Steady Decline, Driven by Progress Against Lung Cancer - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:38] <exec> 08└─God help you if you dare actually know the central dogma of biology.
[16:57:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cancer Mortality Continues Steady Decline, Driven by Progress Against Lung Cancer - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:40] <exec> 08└─The good (?) news is that you only need to look at the data from any other developed nation in the world to get an answer to your question. I'll give the Americans credit for one thing though, and that's being good at data collection. There's a lot of really good data gathered and published by Ameri...
[16:58:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] 02 - 06Man with 5.5-Inch (14cm) Horn Growing on His Back Slipped “Through the Net,” Docs Say - 536 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:01] <exec> 08└─This is literally a chapter in the greatest success story in medicine, you couldn't find a better counter example to your own point. Yes, there was a contaminated batch in the 1950s (can't read the paywalled article, but it is well documented), but the vaccine worked, the solution was correct. And o...
[16:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man with 5.5-Inch (14cm) Horn Growing on His Back Slipped “Through the Net,” Docs Say - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:08] <exec> 08└─If he lived in India he could make a tidy living as a reincarnation of a Hindu god.
[16:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man with 5.5-Inch (14cm) Horn Growing on His Back Slipped “Through the Net,” Docs Say - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:10] <exec> 08└─Advantage #34 to not living in Nigeria?
[16:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:40] <exec> 08└─preeeetty sure alot of healthcare costs in the usa would go down if people would stop putting in carpets and removing their shoes when entering their dwelling. i cannot understand why people like to walk anywhere and bring that anything sticking to their soles into their houses? there's a awesome sc...
[16:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there's a difference between doctors and nurses. I was talking about nurses.
[16:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:44] <exec> 08└─Anybody with enough drive can go to nursing school. Nobody gets to skip nursing school. Seems to me the problem would be laziness, not stupidity.
[17:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Animal Life Thriving Around Fukushima - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:25] <exec> 08└─i supppose if you're pro-human then nukes are bad. if you're anti-human, then nukes are good! one could also argue that people are evacuated from radiation zones because we don't want proof that it's bad. dying people tend to complain if subjected to premature death but i doubt that anything flouris...
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[17:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Ring Fired at Least Four Employees for Snooping on User Videos - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:50] <exec> 08└─Were they fired for . . . * Snooping ? * Getting Caught at snooping ?
[17:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Ring Fired at Least Four Employees for Snooping on User Videos - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:51] <exec> 08└─I don't like, but I'm not very concerned about a handful of nosy employees that watch personal videos. As I am not concerned about a bank employee watching my financial position just out of curiosity. Those cases are inevitable in large companies. I'm concerned about employees paid by Amazon to desi...
[17:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon's Ring Fired at Least Four Employees for Snooping on User Videos - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:53] <exec> 08└─If only four employees got fired, then its for getting caught. I can garren-fucking-tea that more than 4 employees are snooping.
[17:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon's Ring Fired at Least Four Employees for Snooping on User Videos - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:55] <exec> 08└─Princess Jasmine: Are we in trouble ? Aladdin: Only if we get caught.
[17:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:27] <exec> 08└─I suffered similar catatonic states when reading a Haskell language code from Haskell libraries on Hackage, until I understood the real culprit of it, by reading the true code: Haskell language itself is but a hierarchy of four funny interpreters stacked on top of each other: full pure Haskell built...
[17:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paul Krugman's No Good, Very Bad Internet Day - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:45] <exec> 08└─As a naturally trusting person I am sad at the cynic the world has turned me into, and I hope to one day become more trusting once again.
[17:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paul Krugman's No Good, Very Bad Internet Day - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:46] <exec> 08└─I take exception with him being famous.
[17:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Krugman's No Good, Very Bad Internet Day - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:48] <exec> 08└─FTFA :- It's not clear whether the call to Krugman was a targeted scam or if he was simply the target of an arbitrary robocall scam .... Krugman is a prime candidate for such attacks, given his public presence
[17:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Guideline Discourages Testosterone Treatment for Older Men, Except to Treat Sexual Dysfunction - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:59] <exec> 08└─But it makes her happy.
[17:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Guideline Discourages Testosterone Treatment for Older Men, Except to Treat Sexual Dysfunction - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:00] <exec> 08└─Hey, a useful comment on an internet discussion board? You must be new. Thanks for digging up that bit of info. Kind of silly that they'll prescribe testosterone for reduced libido but not for muscle gains. All the libido in the world doesn't help if nobody wants to have sex with you. ...I'm being s...
[17:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06New Guideline Discourages Testosterone Treatment for Older Men, Except to Treat Sexual Dysfunction - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:03] <exec> 08└─They cherry picked low dosage studies to the point they couldn't even find evidence for muscle increase let alone adverse side effects and then concluded since they can't assess the risks and found so little benefits outside sexual function, it's better to err on the side of caution and stick with t...
[17:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Thunderbolt 4 Connector is Simply a Rebranded Thunderbolt 3 - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:17] <exec> 08└─Because it works many times, and when it doesn't work, it is not punished, not even in its reputation. So, why not keep on trying? It is a safe bet, you may not win, but you can't lose.
[17:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:43] <exec> 08└─Which is why I often mark infelicities with TODO comments in the source code.
[17:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:35] <exec> 08└─Like we are not getting enough anti-China stories. I'm sure that if this site had existed in 2003, there would have been daily stories about WMD in Iraq.
[17:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:36] <exec> 08└─Not burning them, no. Can't profit from the organ harvesting if you do that.
[17:57:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cancer Mortality Continues Steady Decline, Driven by Progress Against Lung Cancer - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:48] <exec> 08└─Look, if you cannot understand the armitage-doll model (that cancer is due to accumulation of some kind of error) there is something wrong with how you have been trained.
[17:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man with 5.5-Inch (14cm) Horn Growing on His Back Slipped “Through the Net,” Docs Say - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:18] <exec> 08└─The "triggering image" wasn't even the first image on the article's page. It was down a bit farther. They didn't even show it after it was removed . . . which would have been cool. A bit more information would have been nice too, was it hard like a scab, hard like a finger nail, or just kind of a so...
[17:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:52] <exec> 08└─But those are usually pretty obvious. The ones who think they're smart tend to sway the less critical thinkers who admire the air of confidence more than the actual content. People will even admire a terrible person for "sticking to their guns" or "takes a lotta balls." Ironically you can see that i...
[17:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:54] <exec> 08└─You know you're a racist fuckwad when you say "middle class whites" instead of the simpler "middle class." I'll leave you to sort out your own subconscious biases, since I'm sure you would protest that you're not a racist.
[17:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:56] <exec> 08└─Do you know how to get a strong immune system? Also, do you know how weird you'd have to be to get sick from your floor? I get your point, but I don't think it plays out in reality. Unless you're a carpet muncher, and not the good kind.
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[18:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon's Ring Fired at Least Four Employees for Snooping on User Videos - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:04] <exec> 08└─Really good last point, I wouldn't be too surprised if the CEO requested a small number of essily fired people just for that reason alone!
[18:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Ring Fired at Least Four Employees for Snooping on User Videos - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:06] <exec> 08└─I would give you a funny mark, but I've recently become increasingly jaded with regards to Disney.
[18:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Ring Fired at Least Four Employees for Snooping on User Videos - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:08] <exec> 08└─I think the entire Ring system is flawed. There should be a lot more personal privacy protections in place, so things like this can never happen. I think their company motto / practice aligns a lot more with this quote from the lord of the rings than it does with consumer protection. One Ring to rul...
[18:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYC Broadband Plan Calls for Fiber Everywhere, with ISPs Sharing Network - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:18] <exec> 08└─NYC has a massive contract with Verizon FiOS to do this when I lived there. Never materialized, even though I theoretically lived in a “served” neighborhood. Verizon’s definition of “served” was that fiber ran nearby in the street past your building. No effort to provide actual connectivit...
[18:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYC Broadband Plan Calls for Fiber Everywhere, with ISPs Sharing Network - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:20] <exec> 08└─I was looking for example stories that have been posted here, but I just gave up after my initial search didn't get me what I wanted.
[18:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paul Krugman's No Good, Very Bad Internet Day - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:05] <exec> 08└─Aye the older I get the more I realize that 20% of the population is employed in straight up scammery.
[18:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Thunderbolt 4 Connector is Simply a Rebranded Thunderbolt 3 - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:34] <exec> 08└─> you've got a pathological liar as your elected president. which, after removing redundancy becomes > you've got a president.
[18:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:01] <exec> 08└─The purpose of shorthand isn't to save paper but to make writing faster. Two digits is easier and faster to write than four.
[18:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Codesmith [5811] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Chunk of Human Brain Survived Intact for 2600 Years - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:18] <exec> 08└─OK, boomer.
[18:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:55] <exec> 08└─How did parent get modded up so high? Green Party shills running the site now?
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[19:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:51] <exec> 08└─l i n e s ?
[19:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:53] <exec> 08└─Wow, RTFA in hopes for some bullet points on why systemd maybe is good. Nope! "kernel [devs] agreed that systemd is the proper solution" and "It solves a problem". What problem? Doesn't say! Maybe Kroah-Hartman explained, but if so, the author of the article didn't include it. Score another "win" fo...
[19:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:55] <exec> 08└─The problem, is that there was no systemd. Now there is, problem solved!
[19:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:57] <exec> 08└─2 lines are my limit.
[19:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:59] <exec> 08└─Greg K-H is apparently the "kernel maintainer" the subheadline referred to. He's not a neutral party: he's done some coding on systemd and defended systemd during an infamous incident when Linus chewed out Lennart on LKML (justifiably, in my view). Although in one bit of good news, according to TFA...
[19:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NYC Broadband Plan Calls for Fiber Everywhere, with ISPs Sharing Network - 1809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:24] <exec> 08└─I think you can believe both sides. Verizon wanted buildout costs from center street to the building and exclusive access and the building owners wouldn't accede to that and therefore wouldn't allow access. You can also believe that NYC contracted with Verizon to put FiOS lines into the public condu...
[19:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:49] <exec> 08└─Very interesting ideas. Can you refer me to some of your research?
[19:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paul Krugman's No Good, Very Bad Internet Day - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:11] <exec> 08└─Just follow the rule: "if someone approaches you, for any reason, it is probably a scam." If YOU approach someone, its probably OK.
[19:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Krugman's No Good, Very Bad Internet Day - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:12] <exec> 08└─Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations prohibit telemarketers from using automated dialers to call cell phone numbers without prior consent. Automated dialers are standard in the industry, so most telemarketers are barred from calling consumers' cell phones without their consent.
[19:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:09] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't be too sure of that. There's also making reading faster, by cramming more text on a page. Also happens to save paper. I do not know, but I surmise that all the wide and short letters were rotated 90 degrees to make them tall and narrow, so they could get more text on a line. 'A' and 'B' w...
[19:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Chunk of Human Brain Survived Intact for 2600 Years - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:28] <exec> 08└─Highly doubtful, most people by modern standards would call all civilized cultures from 2600 years ago barbarians. Let alone, actual barbarians from 2600 years ago.
[19:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a Chunk of Human Brain Survived Intact for 2600 Years - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:30] <exec> 08└─Simple answer, it didn't. The brain may not have decayed in a normal fashion, but that doesn't mean there was any activity in that hunk of flesh.
[19:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:08] <exec> 08└─This is much more interesting than your typical US/China story. This is about China and a sovereign country with skin in the game as it were with regards to the South China Sea.
[19:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:09] <exec> 08└─Probably because of the movie 'Fist of Fury' with Bruce Lee....
[19:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:11] <exec> 08└─If you notice, it is not much different from what the USA do, by the way! Even USA "concentration camps", both the immigrants and refugees, AND the prisons ( remember that USA have the higher Incarceration rate per capita in the world and even higher number of prisoners than China: https://en.wikipe...
[19:55:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Researcher Promoting Red Meat, Sugar Failed to Disclose Industry Ties—Again - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:23] <exec> 08└─I guess nobody has any, because they're just strawmanning the guy's sponsors.
[19:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:44] <exec> 08└─> German cars are seen as reliable in Europe because they are usually made in Germany or some other European cars. OTOH, French, Italian and British cars have a terrible reputation for reliability...
[19:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half of the Websites Using WebAssembly Use it for Malicious Purposes - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:17] <exec> 08└─And the fact that a technology might exist is not automatically a reason to adopt it. Just because one can does not mean one should be allowed to. (And nor does it mean that one should be automatically prohibited from it). But one element that is important is the obfuscation. You present an interest...
[19:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Mathematical Model to Describe Spaghetti Noodle Curling When Cooked - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:44] <exec> 08└─Why?
[20:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: More Than a Third of USA's Healthcare Costs Go to Bureaucracy - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:32] <exec> 08└─One of the tenants of our healthcare system is everyone is treated the same, at least in theory. In practice, besides any prejudices (conscious or unconscious) that Doctors might have, coverage can depend on where you live, with fast growing communities probably the worse here and the rich can alway...
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[20:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cogent Cut Off from ARIN Whois for Scraping Net Engineers' Contact Details and Sliding them to Sales - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:46] <exec> 08└─Engineers are sneaky bastards. No one should have the ability to learn where spammers get their information. Off with their heads! Off with the engineer's heads! The NERVE! Not even engineers can be permitted to stand in the way of profit!
[20:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cogent Cut Off from ARIN Whois for Scraping Net Engineers' Contact Details and Sliding them to Sales - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:48] <exec> 08└─Personally experience this recently.. got a new resource allocation from ARIN and literally within a day or two of it being published in WHOIS had Cogent cold calling us for new service when we've never dealt with them in my org.
[20:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:00] <exec> 08└─A valid metric of what? Are lines of code even a valid, real and interesting metric? Does it even say anything interesting? Are more lines better then few lines? Or are fewer lines better then more lines? What if I write code where I just push a lot of things onto one line instead of spreading it ac...
[20:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:01] <exec> 08└─A valid metric of what? A metric shit-load of systemd! Did you not read the OP?
[20:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:04] <exec> 08└─Are lines of code even a valid, real and interesting metric? And the good news is ... After more than 100 years, 80 column card images are still the leading tool in software production.
[20:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:06] <exec> 08└─vs 1304 LOC: https://github.com [github.com] Given that most of the code in the Linux kernel package is for a wide variety of drivers, what would be a good estimate for the number of lines of code that the average user exercises?
[20:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 1429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:08] <exec> 08└─"Are lines of code even a valid, real and interesting metric?" Well, it is a metric, as in something objectively measurable. So valid, and real. Interesting is at least partly subjective. "Are more lines better then few lines?" No, all other things being equal, few lines are better than more, but th...
[20:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:10] <exec> 08└─>> what would be a good estimate for the number of lines of code that the average user exercises? This one would get a lot of exercise: systemd >> /dev/null
[20:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:12] <exec> 08└─Do you feel a million lines for an init system is excessive? I sure do. Why is it changing my resolv.conf? What does DNS have to do with sequencing programs during boot?
[20:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:14] <exec> 08└─Are lines of code even a valid, real and interesting metric?
[20:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:17] <exec> 08└─So you worked for Paula Bean [thedailywtf.com]?
[20:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Ring Fired at Least Four Employees for Snooping on User Videos - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:31] <exec> 08└─I frankly don't like either. Stay the fuck out of my home if you're a giant corporation.
[20:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Ring Fired at Least Four Employees for Snooping on User Videos - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:33] <exec> 08└─+1 because Bezos, above all else, desires power.
[20:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon's Ring Fired at Least Four Employees for Snooping on User Videos - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:35] <exec> 08└─Nope, no giant corporation here, just an innocent door-to-door tentacle selling personal data and tentacookies for our cephalopod-scout troop.
[20:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NYC Broadband Plan Calls for Fiber Everywhere, with ISPs Sharing Network - 1459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:46] <exec> 08└─In Japan there is a fibre optic network known as FLET'S, owned and operated by NTT, however, you are no more obligated to use their Internet service while using their fibre any more than you were obligated to use the phone company's own Internet service in the days of dial-up Internet. I believe the...
[20:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:13] <exec> 08└─That's what end users are for.
[20:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:15] <exec> 08└─Brazen spam attack by "human owners of AIs" was thwarted at the moment, but now they'll use human proxies for the next wave of patent-spam. The only workable solution is, anything "invented" by an "AI" - which right now is a weaselword for a dumb data-cruncher - should become UNpatentable, for the o...
[20:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paul Krugman's No Good, Very Bad Internet Day - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:38] <exec> 08└─It's a lot easier to scam someone who's mind is going.
[20:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel's Thunderbolt 4 Connector is Simply a Rebranded Thunderbolt 3 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:08] <exec> 08└─https://www.anandtech.com/show/15030/intel-announces-q3-fy-2019-earnings-record-results [anandtech.com]
[20:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:38] <exec> 08└─Windowing is NOT just 20 years. Microsoft has it built in to date routines for 50 years. Lansa has it built in to date routines for 70 year. Both are external changeable without recompile. I did mine in 1980 for 266yr period from 1/1/1971 to 100000 days in the future & 100000 days in the past. 5 dig...
[20:55:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:18] <exec> 08└─US military is deployed in more 150 countries. Look in the mirror.
[20:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:39] <exec> 08└─Fuckin' sissy. The millenials are going to need role models. Get your ass out there and become an instructor!
[20:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:40] <exec> 08└─Dunno the answer to your question, but JMichael appears to be going full-on Ethanol Fueled. Can't help wondering it Hudson is maybe an EF alter-ego.
[20:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:15] <exec> 08└─So I buy 2 cheap Chinese tractors for more than the mid-tier or even expensive one costs here, and still have less features, less access to parts, less experience on it by myself and my mechanic, and I take a crap shot on how long the random brand will be supported. Some solution.
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[21:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maggotbrain [6063] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Cogent Cut Off from ARIN Whois for Scraping Net Engineers' Contact Details and Sliding them to Sales - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:51] <exec> 08└─Had to take a peek in to see how the crusty 'ol network operators were handling this news on NANOG. Seems the ARIN has blocked all Cogent registered IP addresses [nanog.org] (not those customers who are only announced from Cogent) from access. Good for them. Cogent thread [nanog.org] As usual, there...
[21:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cogent Cut Off from ARIN Whois for Scraping Net Engineers' Contact Details and Sliding them to Sales - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:52] <exec> 08└─I'm increasaingly pissed at the percentage of sites that don't properly include technical contact information in their WHOIS database entries. Anonymous registrations aren't actually fucking legal, and many of the cheap anonymizer front corps do not provide sufficient information for remediation of...
[21:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:13] <exec> 08└─Slackware still has no systemd. This year will be my 25th anniversary as a Slackware user. Thanks Pat.
[21:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:15] <exec> 08└─Despite the inconsistency between "Everybody who has ever worked at that level in the operating system has agreed that systemd is the proper solution," and "Android doesn't use it because they use other things," (either it the proper solution or one of many). There are three problems it solves: Not...
[21:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:17] <exec> 08└─Looks like the systemd team still has some work in fron of them though.
[21:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:19] <exec> 08└─If Linux had been designed as a micro kernel... By the way, does anyone remember mkLinux?
[21:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:22] <exec> 08└─LOC can be a bad metric when it's used as an incentive. IIRC, it was infamously used at IBM or some other well-known place for a while until they realized what a bad idea that was. Programmers were doing exactly what you might think--comment padding, early line breaks, garbage code, #if 0 blocks, et...
[21:53:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 1998 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:11] <exec> 08└─Yes, probably AI will soon exceed our own inventiveness. I couldn't guess whether that's 20 years or 100 years out, but it's coming. For decades now, we've been using computers as engines to perform searches that would be impractical for humans to do. For instance, the amount of calculating that mus...
[21:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:20] <exec> 08└─Just like text output of Angband, WoW, or whatever other game is derivative of its code and text resources. I.e. not public domain, which is all that matters.
[21:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:22] <exec> 08└─So if I make a program that generates billions of possible music note and timing combinations based on things are generally acceptable as music by human standards. I as the author of that code can now safely claim derivative works for every work. Now anyone that writes some music is pretty much guar...
[21:54:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mykl [1112] 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 564 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:24] <exec> 08└─Just do a global find/replace to change "20" to "40". Revisit again in 20 years. More seriously, I was tasked with identifying a solution for a green-screen system that had no real-estate left for a 4-digit year. Our answer was to conduct a lookup against a 100-row database table that mapped a long...
[21:54:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 1093 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:39] <exec> 08└─There was this COBOL programmer around the time of Y2K. He realized that Y2K was going to be a disaster on a cataclysmic scale. So he put himself into hibernation with a timer set to wake him up a couple years after Y2K when everything would be presumably fixed. He wakes up and finds out that due to...
[21:55:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06China Initiates Conflict with Indonesia in the South China Sea - 901 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:32] <exec> 08└─That particular point might have been out of scale, but the sentiment is correct. China is Nazi Germany in the late 1930's. They have been gearing up for a confrontation with the West (and their allies Japan and South Korea) for decades; anyone who has been reading Congressional whitepapers on the s...
[21:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researcher Promoting Red Meat, Sugar Failed to Disclose Industry Ties—Again - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:08] <exec> 08└─Some people on this site don't seem to understand industry-funded propaganda when they see it.
[21:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:22] <exec> 08└─So you're demanding to make sure the manufacturers hands are bound that they cannot make demands.
[21:57:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Popularity of Older Tractors Boosted by Avoidance of DRM - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:23] <exec> 08└─So I buy 2 cheap Chinese tractors for more than the mid-tier or even expensive one costs here, and still have less features, less access to parts, less experience on it by myself and my mechanic, and I take a crap shot on how long the random brand will be supported. Some solution.
[21:57:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Half of the Websites Using WebAssembly Use it for Malicious Purposes - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:53] <exec> 08└─I have js blocked on my computers - but you may have noticed that I spend quite a bit of time here. Javascript is most certainly not required.
[21:57:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half of the Websites Using WebAssembly Use it for Malicious Purposes - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:57] <exec> 08└─Well of course you have to consent. To be honest I thought that "with consent" was the obvious default, so I didn't include it in my original post. Perhaps I should have, but it never occurred to me to do it without consent. Your CPU/power cycles are yours to share (or not). I envisaged sites that w...
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[22:51:51] <exec> 08└─https://i.pinimg.com/originals/44/26/fa/4426fa5d2b882816716f1193e1205535.jpg [pinimg.com]
[22:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 062019 Was the Year When Windows 10 Conquered the Desktop - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:52] <exec> 08└─so shit that was forced on people has replaced shit that was pushed on people and people are used to shit, so yay, shit. Excluding corporate computers (the vast majority), I'd expect private ownership of Apple computes is a much bigger percentage. These days, should they include android and apple on...
[22:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cogent Cut Off from ARIN Whois for Scraping Net Engineers' Contact Details and Sliding them to Sales - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:03] <exec> 08└─Sounds good to me. Although it would be better to move that stuff to the dark web.
[22:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cogent Cut Off from ARIN Whois for Scraping Net Engineers' Contact Details and Sliding them to Sales - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:05] <exec> 08└─No one is installing tor to read social media outrage clickbait articles.
[22:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cogent Cut Off from ARIN Whois for Scraping Net Engineers' Contact Details and Sliding them to Sales - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:07] <exec> 08└─Anonymous registrations aren't actually fucking legal
[22:52:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 328 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:16] <exec> 08└─Wow, RTFA in hopes for some bullet points on why systemd maybe is good. Nope! "kernel [devs] agreed that systemd is the proper solution" and "It solves a problem". What problem? Doesn't say! Maybe Kroah-Hartman explained, but if so, the author of the article didn't include it. Score another "win" fo...
[22:52:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03epitaxial [3165] 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:27] <exec> 08└─Do you feel a million lines for an init system is excessive? I sure do. Why is it changing my resolv.conf? What does DNS have to do with sequencing programs during boot?
[22:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:36] <exec> 08└─I'm going to have to download the systemd source code and have a look at it. It sounds like Linux is entering its Baroque period and will soon die under its own complexity. What will rise from the ashes?
[22:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:38] <exec> 08└─No, counting lines of code is not a viable metric.
[22:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:40] <exec> 08└─she talked a big game for a few months but never produced any working code. She got fired, turned out none of her code was usable.
[22:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:42] <exec> 08└─Slackware still has no systemd. This year will be my 25th anniversary as a Slackware user.
[22:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Half of the Websites Using WebAssembly Use it for Malicious Purposes - 3010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:14] <exec> 08└─> While I do value human attention higher than money, I worry about the wonton use of large amounts of energy, however cheap, in exchange for a small amount of human attention. The entire human development has been built on laziness (and looking at the rest of life on earth, they follow the same pat...
[22:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Man with 5.5-Inch (14cm) Horn Growing on His Back Slipped “Through the Net,” Docs Say - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:55] <exec> 08└─Try to find a link for "Tub Girl".
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[23:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 062019 Was the Year When Windows 10 Conquered the Desktop - 1841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:51] <exec> 08└─Microsoft has forced Windows 10 on everyone because they want to invade your privacy (and possibly sell your data to advertisers) with telemetry and forced ads in the start menu, while removing useful functionality like Windows Media Center. Microsoft forces unwanted updates on users, delivers a gar...
[23:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 Was the Year When Windows 10 Conquered the Desktop - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:52] <exec> 08└─"-- A loud disciple of Ethanol-fueled" FTFY
[23:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 Was the Year When Windows 10 Conquered the Desktop - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:54] <exec> 08└─Anons: Loud, proud, but still trapped way in the back of the closet.
[23:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 Was the Year When Windows 10 Conquered the Desktop - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:56] <exec> 08└─54.62%. After being on the market for four years. "Conquered?" It may have the majority, but as the extreme level of people dragging their feet and refusing to "upgrade" from Windows 7 to Windows 10 should show that the only reason it managed to do so was because they rammed it down the throat of th...
[23:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 Was the Year When Windows 10 Conquered the Desktop - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:59] <exec> 08└─I tried... I mean I tried really hard.. to switch from Windows 7 to Linux. Too much grief trying to figure out how to get things to run so I grudgingly upgraded to Windows 10. If Poettering's mother had done the right thing and had an abortion, 2019 could have been the year Linux overtook Windows.
[23:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 Was the Year When Windows 10 Conquered the Desktop - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:01] <exec> 08└─It reached a market share of 54.30% in November and ended 2020 with a personal record of 54.62%.
[23:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 Was the Year When Windows 10 Conquered the Desktop - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:03] <exec> 08└─Will the Terminator sent back to kill Poettering's mother run on systemd?
[23:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cogent Cut Off from ARIN Whois for Scraping Net Engineers' Contact Details and Sliding them to Sales - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:16] <exec> 08└─Tens of thousands of people would, and many more as the surface web continues to deteriorate. But you don't need to install anything to read an article: https://www.tor2web.org [tor2web.org]
[23:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cogent Cut Off from ARIN Whois for Scraping Net Engineers' Contact Details and Sliding them to Sales - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:18] <exec> 08└─Engineers are sneaky bastards. No one should have the ability to learn where spammers get their information.
[23:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:49] <exec> 08└─looks like there are many slackers around... me it is around 26 years :D
[23:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AI Denied Patent by Human-Centric European Patent Office - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:50] <exec> 08└─IP won't be abolished because it is pushed for by big corporate interests with deep pockets. That's not to say that all IP is bad though. I do agree that IP for inventions and 'novel ideas' is generally bad. The idea that one special person can come up with an idea or invention that no one else woul...
[23:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Y2K Still Alive - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:13] <exec> 08└─One of my friends used to do that kind of work. He said that when the consulting firm he worked for had a tight deadline in the lead up to Y2K, their design of choice was to move the window to 1940-2039. Their thinking was that the 2038 bug would rear its head before then and require a proper rewrit...