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[00:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:51] <exec> 08└─Apple desktop shit is so locked down and fucked compared to what it was 10 years ago that even Linux on the desktop is preferable.
[00:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:52] <exec> 08└─That's not how Apple revived and made a bank. Why would Apple want to be the walmart of PC industry?
[00:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:54] <exec> 08└─Apple was a footnote in the desktop sector back when and they're still one now. They're making their fat wads of cash on phones, tablets, and the app store.
[00:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:56] <exec> 08└─" It's a relatively safe assumption to think that at least some tens of thousands of these PCs could now be replaced by an iPad, or even a Mac. "
[00:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:59] <exec> 08└─Says who? Not me, you drunk fuck.
[00:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:01] <exec> 08└─When I worked for them, I got an ancient RS/6000 AIX box, 20 MHz POWER1, because we were the Unix team. Then, when they forced everybody onto Bloatus Notes they placed an Aptiva running Windoze (additionally) on everybody's desk who wanted one. Just for fucking email. I used the shitty AIX front end...
[00:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:03] <exec> 08└─AIX, the vogon poetry of unix. Now they run redhat. My condolence to Linux. Let's fight the good fight till ...
[00:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Patches Firefox Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:15] <exec> 08└─Exactly why I run my browser in a disposable VM that gets relaunched every morning. If Mozilla reallocated 10% of their diversity budget on security engineers we wouldn't have these problems.
[00:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 and Server 2008 End of Support: What Will Change on 14 January? - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:44] <exec> 08└─Must not be using it right. Have you tried turning it off and back on?
[00:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 and Server 2008 End of Support: What Will Change on 14 January? - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:46] <exec> 08└─I've had many crashes with Win7, but I think it's a driver that's not quite compatible. Wish they'd have made one. That said, 15-ish years ago I blamed crashes on Windows (98, XP...) and discovered bad capacitors. Changed them out and crashes stopped.
[00:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Bill Would Ban Cell Phone Use by Anyone Younger Than 21 - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:19] <exec> 08└─Well, that's just my personal opinion, there are a lot of things in this world that I think should be different, but it's not like I can change.... umm... I'm talking to you, but you have your face buried in a cell phone... oh, cat videos... that is so important... by the way, you know we are standi...
[00:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mysterious Drone Swarms in 3 States Prompt FAA, FBI Investigation - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:36] <exec> 08└─The number of drones involved, combined with what seems to be very methodical and co-operative flight plans, implies a considerable amount of organization that would be beyond all but the largest of activist-style groups.
[00:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:13] <exec> 08└─David Koch was the better of the two; it's too bad Charles didn't go first. David at least did some pretty cool philanthropic stuff, like funding natural history museum exhibits in NY and DC. I don't know of anything that Charles ever did.
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[01:51:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 145 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:49] <exec> 08└─" It's a relatively safe assumption to think that at least some tens of thousands of these PCs could now be replaced by an iPad, or even a Mac. "
[01:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:53] <exec> 08└─I thoght Apple was the Oracle of the PC industry?
[01:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:56] <exec> 08└─Linux to Explode in users as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL
[01:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:58] <exec> 08└─AIX, the vogon poetry of unix.
[01:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:00] <exec> 08└─Well, Macs weren't part of the equation for me. Too expensive. However, I did find myself getting a new PC last year and I got it with Win 10. I have Win 7 that I could have put on it but I chose not to. So, for me, no gunpoint needed. I held off though, for a long time. Thought about going to Linux...
[01:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Patches Firefox Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:13] <exec> 08└─The US and other CERTs are a good place. If you don't mind Twitter or scripting it, you can use https://twitter.com [twitter.com] for most of them or https://twitter.com [twitter.com] for the bigger ones. Another alternative is their newsletter https://cve.mitre.org
[01:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Patches Firefox Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks - 1711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:15] <exec> 08└─Browser? Because I've been having a talk with outside developers for a couple of years, but nobody is willing to invest in properly forking Mozilla, either financially or developmentally without enough community support and commitment to make it worthwhile. If enough people were interested, I have a...
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[01:52:46] <exec> 08└─Power supply capacitors?
[01:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Bill Would Ban Cell Phone Use by Anyone Younger Than 21 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:19] <exec> 08└─Just ban Facebook and they'll kill themselves.
[01:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:14] <exec> 08└─And yet, though that era was known as the "Dark Ages" (of Europe-- other parts of the world were not backsliding at that time), I think the term "Early Middle Ages" has become preferred, because even though a lot of Roman tech was lost, and literacy and record keeping hit a nadir, technology was bei...
[01:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:15] <exec> 08└─Sorry, this is blatantly false. Birth rates aren't declining because people don't have money, otherwise we wouldn't have so many children in poverty in the US. The simple fact is that, as standards of living rise, and people get access to reliable contraception, they willingly have fewer children. T...
[01:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:17] <exec> 08└─He digs up a lot of fossils. It's not his fault the people who buy them burns them.
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[02:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Species-Saving Galapagos Giant Tortoise Diego can Take a Rest - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:50] <exec> 08└─Otherwise the headline would have read: "Pink haired tortoise species extinct, last male Diego spent final decade designing transgender bathrooms".
[02:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Species-Saving Galapagos Giant Tortoise Diego can Take a Rest - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:51] <exec> 08└─So he's basically the Ghengis Khan of tortoises....nice!
[02:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:09] <exec> 08└─AIX, the vogon poetry of unix.
[02:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:11] <exec> 08└─What, will the botnets install Linux?
[02:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Patches Firefox Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:27] <exec> 08└─And what would keep your foundation from existing to line your pockets? I only use browser software where the developer's interests are clearly aligned with the users, so it's Lynx for me.
[02:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Update Children's Online Privacy Law - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:41] <exec> 08└─Shove some hairy dicks in their faces. It builds character.
[02:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Update Children's Online Privacy Law - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:43] <exec> 08└─COPPA 2.0 will hasten the death of YouTube and benefit the Russian and Chinese replacements waiting in the wings.
[02:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 and Server 2008 End of Support: What Will Change on 14 January? - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:03] <exec> 08└─That's probably what the GP post was referring to. Those are known to be a frequent cause of system instability and failure. Unstable power == unstable system. A bad capacitor in a power supply can lead to unacceptable levels of power supply voltage ripple that can cause intermittent system crashes,...
[02:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Bill Would Ban Cell Phone Use by Anyone Younger Than 21 - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:38] <exec> 08└─Feed a dog human food and they will literally act like they are cracked out, jumping all over the place and biting everything up, and they will attack you if you refuse to share your McDonalds with them.
[02:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Bill Would Ban Cell Phone Use by Anyone Younger Than 21 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:39] <exec> 08└─with who knows how many extra sautered-on doodads
[02:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mysterious Drone Swarms in 3 States Prompt FAA, FBI Investigation - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:58] <exec> 08└─1) If this is a government mapping thing, then all they have to do is say that. There may be good reasons why the mapping is best done at night so they should include that explanation. Maybe it's a thermal map of some kind and night time provides the best contrast. 2) If it is the government testing...
[02:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mysterious Drone Swarms in 3 States Prompt FAA, FBI Investigation - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:59] <exec> 08└─The news loves the mystery... I agree: more than one three letter agency already knows all about them, and they are most likely being run by some government or military concern to have gone on this long without explanation in the news.
[02:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:41] <exec> 08└─I already covered that in another comment. Applying the 500% in C. elegans to humans is clickbait or a conversation starter.
[02:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Technology Can't Fix Algorithmic Injustice - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:45] <exec> 08└─does the person in photo A look like it might be the person in photo B? [theverge.com]
[02:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019 Was the Year When Windows 10 Conquered the Desktop - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:44] <exec> 08└─50% of the time (still an improvement over the past when it was 100%), when something doesn't work in Linux you search and find this kind of thing: ...CUPS provide most of the major drivers and you can list the available drivers by command, # lpinfo -m Under RHEL5, all the PPDs (PostScript Printer D...
[02:57:58] <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 - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:58] <exec> 08└─whoosh? [wikipedia.org]
[02:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:59] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you are thinking of a BSD kernel running BSD userland? EG: OpenBSD!
[02:58:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:01] <exec> 08└─When I first heard about Debian dropping (official) support for GNU/kFreeBSD I was puzzled since I thought it was a really good insurance policy agains monoculture problems...
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[02:58:03] <exec> 08└─and 5.1 stereo capability.
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[03:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Update Children's Online Privacy Law - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:45] <exec> 08└─Exactly. That's the main issue I have with this: That companies are allowed to conduct mass surveillance on everyone over a certain age, when they shouldn't be allowed to do so at all.
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[03:52:46] <exec> 08└─Well I'm in my fifties, but what if I identify as a 12 year old otherkin?
[03:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Update Children's Online Privacy Law - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:48] <exec> 08└─Then you can have cyber sex with children and anybody who claims otherwise is a bigot.
[03:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 and Server 2008 End of Support: What Will Change on 14 January? - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:08] <exec> 08└─The capacitor plague affected a lot of things, but in computers the big problem wasn't in the power supply, but on the motherboard itself. (Pedant note: these motherboard capacitors were involved in "supplying power", but the "power supply" in a desktop PC is a separate box inside the main unit.) Th...
[03:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 3027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:45] <exec> 08└─Life extension (slowing aging) is not exactly the same as anti-aging. One time boosts using genomic and lifestyle changes is not the end goal, repair of aging-related damage is the goal. Like repairing and maintaining a car. Put enough work in and replace parts as needed, and it could last for centu...
[03:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:46] <exec> 08└─But when aging vs diseases of aging are compared... turns out the people who live the longest also are sick the least, and the extremely long-lived are the healthiest. So extending life (reasonably, not hundreds of years) and improving health are probably one and the same. This is where I should not...
[03:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ron [5774] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:49] <exec> 08└─Odd fact -- all mammal species tend to live the same number of heartbeats. Faster heartbeat, shorter life. Slow heartbeat, long life. Mouse, elephant, coyote, giraffe, lemur... all about the same number of lifetime heart beats. All mammals, except for humans. Humans get to thump their pump about thr...
[03:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why is a 22GB Database Containing 56 Million US Folks' Personal Details on the Open Internet? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:06] <exec> 08└─Or is it in China because it leaked via some backdoor we don't know about??
[03:56:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 062019 Was the Year When Windows 10 Conquered the Desktop - 168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:26] <exec> 08└─The Ferengi clearly were intended to represent Jews, and Star Trek made no attempt to hide this. No, the Ferengi were intended to represent late 20th-century Americans.
[03:58:08] <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 - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:08] <exec> 08└─The monoculturalists have unfortunately won at Debian. "Oh noes, if we don't use SystemD we can't have Gnome, and if we can't have Gnome some people won't use us and our ratings will fall!" (Sounds like a Windoze bundling agreement from the 90s). Incidentally, why do you prefer the BSD kernel over L...
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[04:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Species-Saving Galapagos Giant Tortoise Diego can Take a Rest - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:02] <exec> 08└─I know you are making a joke at the expense of the "T" in LGBT, but more broadly: non-heterosexual relations have been observed in dozens of species [wikipedia.org], including some reptiles. Homophobia and transphobia has only been identified in one species.
[04:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 1981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:22] <exec> 08└─Pine is ok, but Pine Is Not Elm. I wrote some of that ancient AIX code when we were moving away from the AS/400. I had six RS/6000s doing distributed tasking on work I was forbidden to discuss outside the office. We didn't have email -- security risk. At home, I ran OS/2 until IBM killed it. Today,...
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[04:53:18] <exec> 08└─Power supply capacitors?
[04:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Bill Would Ban Cell Phone Use by Anyone Younger Than 21 - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:55] <exec> 08└─If you say so. Personally the pocket-load far exceeds the cognitive load - but then I choose what I put on it carefully. I have no notifications except for alarms, calendar notifications, and communication directed at me personally. And most of those notification sounds are selected to be easy to ig...
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[05:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:51] <exec> 08└─I just drink chilled unsweetened black tea, almost never plain water. I could switch to green tea but it's more expensive and I don't remember it tasting as good. Can we trust a Chinese institution hyping up green tea?
[05:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:53] <exec> 08└─Women who carry a little extra weight tend to live longer than the men who comment on that extra weight.
[05:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:55] <exec> 08└─kill tea drinker
[05:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:57] <exec> 08└─There is always a caveat, I need milk in my tea. It's what makes it a civilized drink and not just flavored water -- or if you wanna be all racist about it you need the white to keep the black tolerable. That said green (and yellow) tea is disgusting and have the taste of hay or grass. Red is fine,...
[05:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Species-Saving Galapagos Giant Tortoise Diego can Take a Rest - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:08] <exec> 08└─I thought they had unisex shells to start with?
[05:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Species-Saving Galapagos Giant Tortoise Diego can Take a Rest - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:10] <exec> 08└─In a heavy 4-qt. saucepan, bring turtle meat and water to a boil. Skim off foam. Chop 1 onion and set aside. uncovered, for 10 minutes. Add chicken broth, eggs, lemon juice and meat. Simmer for 5 minutes or until heated through. Garnish with parsley if desired.
[05:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Species-Saving Galapagos Giant Tortoise Diego can Take a Rest - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:12] <exec> 08└─Homophobia and transphobia allowed that species to dominate the planet.
[05:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:32] <exec> 08└─Given that the Average Joe (and Jane) out there consider a computer as another commodity like a toaster or microwave oven, the chances of THEM waking up and moving to Linux are near zero. They most likely scenario is that they might proceed down one or more of these paths: * do nothing and run Win7...
[05:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:34] <exec> 08└─And... Find out Windows 10 doesn't work with their printer/scanner/motherboard/ or something else. And that it took 2 days to install and now takes 30 minutes to finish booting.
[05:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:36] <exec> 08└─I have a 2011 system with Win7. It will be tossed eventually, but as long as it still works, I don't care.
[05:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:38] <exec> 08└─As much as I agree with you and your sentiment... Corporations love everything being locked down so that users can only do what they allow. While a minus in my humble opinion, this makes corporate management drool. The only thing that would give corporations pause is the super high cost to buy apple...
[05:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06House Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Update Children's Online Privacy Law - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:13] <exec> 08└─Does anyone provide their real age to youtube?
[05:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Update Children's Online Privacy Law - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:15] <exec> 08└─No, once you turn 13 you lose all rights to online privacy. If the bill passes, then once you turn 16 you'll lose all such rights.
[05:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Update Children's Online Privacy Law - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:17] <exec> 08└─Consider alternatively. Sites like Faceplant, TikTok, online forums, just about everywhere say "You're not welcome to use this site if you're under 13 years of age, unless you have a parent sign and return this form." They do actively remove accounts of such underaged people -- and this law is the r...
[05:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06House Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Update Children's Online Privacy Law - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:19] <exec> 08└─https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/business-blog/2019/11/youtube-channel-owners-your-content-directed-children [ftc.gov] YouTubers are now afraid of getting fined $42,530 per video if the FTC determines it is improper content for kids. If you label it as kid content, features will be disabled and...
[05:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 and Server 2008 End of Support: What Will Change on 14 January? - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:41] <exec> 08└─Yes, awesome post. I replied before reading yours. I think I've seen more power supply (the metal box) caps go bad than motherboard. But yes, many otherwise good PCs were trashed, and I'm pretty sure it was Dell who ended up replacing tons of PCs due to the caps, but it plagued all manufacturers. I...
[05:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:44] <exec> 08└─...Incidentally, why do you prefer the BSD kernel over Linux?...
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[06:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:55] <exec> 08└─If you think green tea tastes bad you haven't been getting the good stuff. Unfortunately the good stuff is expensive, so I mostly stick to my favorite Irish breakfast blend. The Twinings bags seem expensive but they're so concentrated you can steep them twice and get a good 16oz cup out of each use.
[06:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:56] <exec> 08└─I like Irish Breakfast too -- strong and dark like coffee without being cloying the way coffee often is. I've been drinking Taylors though because it is a little less expensive and I drink 3-4 pints per day. However, when I make a pint, I use two tea bags. Nothing worse than weak tea. Anyway, no hea...
[06:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:58] <exec> 08└─Tea, earl grey, hot.
[06:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:01] <exec> 08└─"Baby, does this dress make me look phat?" "Oh hell yes it does baby, give me a slow 360 mmmhmmm." Hasn't gotten me killed yet, though I'll say I've gotten rather a large number of inexplicably hostile responses. In what strange and terrifying parallel universe does that response provoke violence? >...
[06:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Species-Saving Galapagos Giant Tortoise Diego can Take a Rest - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:13] <exec> 08└─Homophobia and transphobia has only been identified in one species.
[06:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Species-Saving Galapagos Giant Tortoise Diego can Take a Rest - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:14] <exec> 08└─He definitely deserves the moniker Chingis Diego, at least!
[06:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Species-Saving Galapagos Giant Tortoise Diego can Take a Rest - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:17] <exec> 08└─This sounds reasonable, but it needs some citations for sure. "and some queerbashing or straightbashing occurs." Like here. How are ape observers seeing male on male aggression between cetaceans conclusively identify it as queerbashing or straightbashing specifically?
[06:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:41] <exec> 08└─Sorry to hear about your recent gayness. Not.
[06:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:22] <exec> 08└─Thats what I thought. 1) Why/how do these worms usually die? 2) What differences are there in life cycle and behavior? I sounds loke they just selected for maladapted worms.
[06:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:24] <exec> 08└─Imagine the Koch brothers doing 5000% more harm.
[06:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:26] <exec> 08└─Would it get people to think longer term?
[06:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:29] <exec> 08└─How are you going to "prove it " in humans? Here is a tip, most "side effects" of chemo drugs are probably life extending. Nausea and loss of appetite -> Caloric Restriction. Anemia -> Less iron toxicity. Etc. There has never been a single clinical trial that controlled for these effects, everyone j...
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[07:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03XivLacuna [6346] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Takata Airbag Recall Rears its Ugly Head Again, this Time for 10M Cars - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:52] <exec> 08└─I'd rather use harness seat belts rather than have an explosive device pointed at my face. Removing airbags will also allow parents to keep their small children in the front seat where they are less likely to forget them and have them roast during hot weather. Airbags have been a design failure ever...
[07:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Takata Airbag Recall Rears its Ugly Head Again, this Time for 10M Cars - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:53] <exec> 08└─The chemistry gets blamed, but it actually was a superior chemistry. The problem was a combination of contamination and poor physical design. Ammonium nitrate, which was used in the Takata inflators, is relatively non-toxic. (you could eat a small amount without trouble) The resulting gasses are rel...
[07:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:09] <exec> 08└─Can we trust a Chinese institution hyping up green tea? If you are worried about your green tea phoning home, you have read too much Google!
[07:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:10] <exec> 08└─I can't rule that out, I have mostly had the green stuff that my friends that were born in Hong Kong drinks. Since they drink it and seem to enjoy it I assumed it was at least ok or good enough. I still think it tasted like grass. That said I'm not to snobby about it -- Twinings or Lipton Earl Grey...
[07:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 1510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:12] <exec> 08└─Green tea tastes *clean.* It should be almost tasteless. But it certainly shouldn't taste *bad*. The same goes for white tea. The first time I tasted jasmine it did put me off a bit, it's not my favorite taste, but it still doesn't taste bad. Irish breakfast is a lovely black blend, stout and hearty...
[07:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vermont Bill Would Ban Cell Phone Use by Anyone Younger Than 21 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:30] <exec> 08└─They already do it through 18. Just make it K-15 (Kindergarten - 15th grade) and disaster is averted.
[07:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Bill Would Ban Cell Phone Use by Anyone Younger Than 21 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:32] <exec> 08└─That way by the time I'm 80 I can keep using one. Sounds fair. Right?
[07:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:40] <exec> 08└─Really? I don't think what our already overpopulated world needs is for everyone to live a lot longer, effectively multiplying the population!
[07:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:42] <exec> 08└─I haven't heard of any proposal for geoengineering that didn't have the possibility of making things *much* worse, and the nations haven't been adhering to the (insufficient) reductions that they have already agreed to. Some have, but I'd need to look closely before I'd be certain that they weren't...
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[08:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:06] <exec> 08└─More precisely: Drinking tea => being insufferable pricks => nobody wants you in around in the afterlife => live longer
[08:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:08] <exec> 08└─No mention of caravan? That's the good stuff! https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Jasmine is one of my favorites, it needs no sweetener. I don't guess I've ever tried Lapsang Souchong, I'll have to get some.
[08:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:49] <exec> 08└─You can lock down the users on Linux too. The difference is that the administrator on Linux has full control.
[08:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 Was the Year When Windows 10 Conquered the Desktop - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:57:40] <exec> 08└─I wonder how a nice set of Jewish lips feel wrapped around my bent, shriveled cock. Maybe I can get them to do some literal brown nosing, if you know what I mean. I bet their giant nose would make a good dildo. Bet they could make me see stars of David. Oy Vey! Yes please.
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[09:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:47] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised that no one has mentioned David Sinclair. https://genetics.med.harvard.edu [harvard.edu] He's a geneticist who rather strongly believes that the cause of aging is damage to the cellular mechanism that guides cell division in accordance with ones DNA. He thi...
[09:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:48] <exec> 08└─Really? I don't think what our already overpopulated world needs is for everyone to live a lot longer, effectively multiplying the population! Now it would be nice if people would maintain quality of life longer when they get old, instead of retiring when they're already deteriorating.
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[10:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:14] <exec> 08└─Many people don't like the grassy "green leafy" taste of Japanese green tea, which surprise surprise is made out of green tea leaves. Someone I know said he didn't like green tea for that very reason, so I said "you must really 'love' fresh sugar cane juice then". Sure enough he hates that stuff too...
[10:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:57] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile Desktop Linux is clearly going to miss this opportunity as well. What were their gains after Vista? Or Metro UI? Seems like they made Desktop Linux worse each time (e.g. "let's give desktops a phone UI too just like Microsoft" or worse). It's so bad I suspect the people involved in Desktop...
[10:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 and Server 2008 End of Support: What Will Change on 14 January? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:00] <exec> 08└─It is remarkable that Windows 7 is reaching end of support on January 14 2020 while maintaining something approaching 27 per cent market share among Windows users
[10:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Bill Would Ban Cell Phone Use by Anyone Younger Than 21 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:40] <exec> 08└─it is a black box that does magic for people who could not explain what a transistor is
[10:55:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 815 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:13] <exec> 08└─If your society depends on aging (disease) to weed the rich out, you're utterly failing to curtail the rich, something that is unlikely but not impossible. And a Koch brother or three dying doesn't actually solve anything since there will always be more budding oligarchs to fill in the void. Maybe t...
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[11:51:50] <exec> 08└─Mormons on Mars. Should have seen this coming. They got they from the Arabic Pennisula, a slightly lost tribe of Israel than the Nephrites and Lamanites and Stalagtites. But, you know, Jesus appeared to them to, so as not to make them some kind of Seer-Stone cult, but instead real Conservative Trump...
[11:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Takata Airbag Recall Rears its Ugly Head Again, this Time for 10M Cars - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:59] <exec> 08└─Race drivers wear helmets and neck braces for a reason. That harness isn't going to stop you from breaking your neck.
[11:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:02] <exec> 08└─You could avoid Lotta Snots at IBM if you wanted. I did for years, you just had to keep a 3270 emulator around to do the stuff via 1970s mainframe code that they'd barely managed to make partially work some of the time on Snots.
[11:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:04] <exec> 08└─I've actually moved several of my friends&family support network to Ubuntu. I gave them the choice of Windows 10 and Ubuntu and they said they wanted to stay with Windows, so could I install the Ubuntu thing for them please. I'm not making that up.
[11:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 and Server 2008 End of Support: What Will Change on 14 January? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:06] <exec> 08└─I often wonder why I even use a virus scanner
[11:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux in 2020: 27.8 Million Lines of Code in the Kernel, 1.3 Million in Systemd - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:22] <exec> 08└─Some of it may be skewed by the fact that the minimum you can write for systemd are 40 lines (1,000 words in the US I believe).
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[12:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:24] <exec> 08└─Try teabagging her when she least expects it and report back the results, if you're able. Some have had positive results using the power of the teabag, while others.....
[12:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 and Server 2008 End of Support: What Will Change on 14 January? - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:13] <exec> 08└─i don't want that win X stuff on my gaming rig. i am seriously considering putting steamOS on it ... soon. tho i don't surf much on that box, maybe youtube and nvidia websites via firefox ESR, there *might* be ways to nuke win7 users in april when borderland 3 comes to steam? not via a flaw in the g...
[12:54:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Vermont Bill Would Ban Cell Phone Use by Anyone Younger Than 21 - 660 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:20] <exec> 08└─"The use of cell phones while driving is one of the leading killers of teenagers in the United States" It is already illegal for ANYONE to use cell phones while driving, in some places (not that a pesky law will really ever stop consumertards). If that is not the case in Vermont then perhaps they co...
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[13:51:55] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_sulfate#Physical_properties [wikipedia.org] Sodium sulfate has unusual solubility characteristics in water.[13] Its solubility in water rises more than tenfold between 0 °C to 32.384 °C, where it reaches a maximum of 49.7 g/100 mL. At this point the solubility...
[13:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Takata Airbag Recall Rears its Ugly Head Again, this Time for 10M Cars - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:05] <exec> 08└─Might be low toxicity chemistry but that hardly matters if the container is shattered--shards from the housing are what injure people. As an armchair engineer, I wonder if the container could be modified so that even damp Ammonium nitrate (a bigger bang than the original design expected) would not d...
[13:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Takata Airbag Recall Rears its Ugly Head Again, this Time for 10M Cars - 2058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:07] <exec> 08└─I had the same thoughts about early design airbags, which were "one size fits all" -- powerful enough to stop an adult...and too powerful for small/light people/children. Smaller people also typically sit closer to the steering wheel, so get a bigger hit from the airbag. I kept my 1992 car (no airba...
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[13:56:09] <exec> 08└─Or it was just made up by Catholic monks to make the facts fit their dogma. They took historical accounts of the same events from different perspectives and placed them sequentially to fill it in until they got the "right" year. Also politics seems to play a role, every noble lineage in Europe trace...
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[14:51:49] <exec> 08└─Magical thinking? I know people who are too quick to make links, infer causal connections, where there is really only coincidence. I don't even try to argue with them any more, at least, not from a negative side. I might try throwing a different hypothetical connection at them, one that is more plau...
[14:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astroboffins Discover Sun Surfs on 9,000-Light-Year Gas Wave -- Acts as Milky Way's Stellar Nursery - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:56] <exec> 08└─I wonder if an existing star that passes through a gas cloud can inhale enough gas to significantly increase its size, maybe move up a class? It's too easy to think of things as generally fixed and unchanging, or at the least so slowly changing as to be effectively unchanging. Stars can change by a...
[14:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Takata Airbag Recall Rears its Ugly Head Again, this Time for 10M Cars - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:17] <exec> 08└─That harness isn't going to stop you from breaking your neck.
[14:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Takata Airbag Recall Rears its Ugly Head Again, this Time for 10M Cars - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:18] <exec> 08└─designed to protect an unbelted adult male
[14:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Takata Airbag Recall Rears its Ugly Head Again, this Time for 10M Cars - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:20] <exec> 08└─The problem as I see it is an attitude that vehicles will be purchased, financed for 5 maybe 7 years, sold on the used market, driven another 3 to 5 years and disposed of. "Oh, our modules are going bad after 10 years, dear me, let's just replace them with the exact same thing - nobody keeps cars fo...
[14:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 1242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:42] <exec> 08└─Can't be bothered to read the study, but I want to know if they controlled for the total amount of fluid consumed? And, if the gp dies from tea overconsumption, is that due to over-hydration (hyponatremic)? Seems to me that if you don't drink enough (under hydrated) that in itself may cause long ter...
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[15:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astroboffins Discover Sun Surfs on 9,000-Light-Year Gas Wave -- Acts as Milky Way's Stellar Nursery - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:57] <exec> 08└─Almost anything is possible when you consider the number of stars in the galaxy or universe. But binary pair interactions are going to be much more common and easier to spot.
[15:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:42] <exec> 08└─As far as green tea goes, I prefer the yinhao (loose leaf) variety over the powdered matcha. The latter is useful for making green confectionary though.
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[16:51:59] <exec> 08└─I also though about pseudoscience but I have read the article behind that article: https://www.mdpi.com [mdpi.com] and the work seems plausible. That being said it's not like you can act on that knowledge as some novovirus strains have affinity with the other blood types and it's...
[16:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:53] <exec> 08└─I find the taste of green tea to be horrible. I try it again every few years, but the last few times I've barely choked down half a cup and feel ill to my stomach - to the point of vomiting. I also find the taste of black tea and most breakfast teas to be pretty bad. So I drink coffee instead, black...
[16:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 3226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:38] <exec> 08└─So much truth is out that should be used to make better decisions, so many insights about privacy, and what the internet is, and it has come out rapidly over the last 3 years. Affecting both microsoft and apple, and both having a lot to do with foreign companies, spyware, spy agencies, spy companies...
[16:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06House Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Update Children's Online Privacy Law - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:18] <exec> 08└─I will take it into consideration. You say I share more ideas than you expect? That it jolts you out of a stupor in the morning, with a 'waking up' effect? Music to my ears. I ere on the side of the meme, saying too much meme, faster rather than wait and see. It is part of this project because ther...
[16:58:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 062019 Was the Year When Windows 10 Conquered the Desktop - 406 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:00] <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...
[16:58:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KritonK [465] 02 - 062019 Was the Year When Windows 10 Conquered the Desktop - 233 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:31] <exec> 08└─Before Windows 10, I had dual-boot computers, running Windows about 75% of the time. When Windows 10 came out, I switched to Linux full time, and never looked back. So, thank you Windows 10, for helping me switch to a proper desktop!
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[17:51:50] <exec> 08└─bitch-fest about a function generator you can't buy any more at lest it was a technical submission here, for a change
[17:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astroboffins Discover Sun Surfs on 9,000-Light-Year Gas Wave -- Acts as Milky Way's Stellar Nursery - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:07] <exec> 08└─I thought The Register closed up shop and I'd never have to hear the word boffin again unless talking about bird. Was it some other site that closed? If so, I'm fucking annoyed.
[17:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astroboffins Discover Sun Surfs on 9,000-Light-Year Gas Wave -- Acts as Milky Way's Stellar Nursery - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:09] <exec> 08└─It was the The Inquirer [soylentnews.org] wot closed up shop. Also: get rekt, nerd.
[17:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astroboffins Discover Sun Surfs on 9,000-Light-Year Gas Wave -- Acts as Milky Way's Stellar Nursery - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:11] <exec> 08└─That's millennial talk for "we massaged the data until it fit our preconceived theory". Also, irony alert in the statement: "Only within the last year or two have we obtained super accurate distance to these stellar nurseries"... if you can't define a short time period within 100%, why should anyone...
[17:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:56] <exec> 08└─Hmm, never noticed green tea costing more. Give Tea Guys [teaguys.com] a try. Looks like most black and green varities are $14 for 4 oz. Give sencha or jasmine a try. Honey lemongrass is one of my favorites. If you want something different from green or black, try the Wu Yi oolong.
[17:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:58] <exec> 08└─Russian Caravan is soo good. Perhaps you're a redeemable after all. :-)
[17:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Species-Saving Galapagos Giant Tortoise Diego can Take a Rest - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:14] <exec> 08└─When earth goes belly up, I hope the aliens select me for the breeding program
[17:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Species-Saving Galapagos Giant Tortoise Diego can Take a Rest - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:15] <exec> 08└─I hope you have an oviposition and inflation fetish.
[17:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah like my parents are going to run out and buy 2k worth of equipment! No they bought the cheapest PC they could find that worked for them. They use it to surf the net and quickbooks once a year. Also just run the win10 upgrade util. It still works. Used it a couple of weeks ago on a win7 box. Sav...
[17:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 and Server 2008 End of Support: What Will Change on 14 January? - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:53] <exec> 08└─If you managed to avoid getting forcibly upgraded to Windows 10 then you've already shown yourself to be a computer expert Most of the ones I have come across there was some driver that was blocking it. Usually something with some USB drive or other. Last one was a wireless usb drive. Just run the u...
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[17:54:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, there are power supply caps on the MB near the power supply plug. I've also seen surface mount resistors burn out in that area.
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[18:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Circuit Notes: A Budget Function Generator - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:58] <exec> 08└─If you read TFA he's not only saying "don't do this", but also answering "why not".
[18:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Circuit Notes: A Budget Function Generator - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:00] <exec> 08└─For high frequency sine and square waves, DDS and function generators are the quick-and-dirty solution. Glitches, spurs, and image frequencies show up all over the place. PLLs are cleaner.
[18:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rare Salt Formations Appear Along Utah's Great Salt Lake - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:27] <exec> 08└─*tips hat*
[18:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:08] <exec> 08└─> Can we trust a Chinese institution hyping up green tea? Good point but not for the reason you’re thinking of. The more important reasons: The Chinese diet is completely different from the Western diet, so the results may not carry over. For instance most Chinese avoid Sugar they actually dislike...
[18:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:09] <exec> 08└─In what strange and terrifying parallel universe does that response provoke violence?
[18:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:11] <exec> 08└─Irish Breakfast is where its at. Even if you forget and leave the bag in too long it doesn't get bitter or astringent. I tried PG Tips once and its trash. Later in the mornings or afternoon I might have a cup of coffee.
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[19:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Blood Type May Influence Your Vulnerability to Norovirus, the Winter Vomiting Virus - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:07] <exec> 08└─The meme pushed by the cruise line industry is horseshit, that passengers get sick on a cruise line due to their lack of sanitation and the Norovirus. It conveniently covers up cruise line problems with inadequate temperature control and kitchen staff sanitation. The passengers hardly have physical...
[19:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DaTrueDave [3144] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Blood Type May Influence Your Vulnerability to Norovirus, the Winter Vomiting Virus - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:09] <exec> 08└─Depending on the effectiveness and the cost. If the cost to me (maybe after insurance) were $20 or less (on par with the flu vaccine up until that was fully subsidized the last few years), and it would reduce the likelihood of infection upon exposure by 75%, I'd buy one of these vaccines every time...
[19:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Species-Saving Galapagos Giant Tortoise Diego can Take a Rest - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:30] <exec> 08└─Where can I read more about Flipper's adventures in buttfucking?
[19:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Species-Saving Galapagos Giant Tortoise Diego can Take a Rest - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:32] <exec> 08└─What about the onion?
[19:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Species-Saving Galapagos Giant Tortoise Diego can Take a Rest - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:34] <exec> 08└─You know how that's done in practice, right? They use an electro-ejaculator [google.com] to collect semen. It's a dildo with electrode strips on it, and they stick it up your ass and cattle-prod your prostate with a high-voltage electric shock. And no, the animals don't much enjoy it, from what I've...
[19:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 and Server 2008 End of Support: What Will Change on 14 January? - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:13] <exec> 08└─If and when Microsoft chooses to start making their dev tools (visual studio in particular) Windows 10 only then I'll be headed over to Linux. Running Windows 10 is, in my opinion, just an unacceptable option. It being spyware is already close to a nonstarter, but really puts it over the edge is opa...
[19:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mysterious Drone Swarms in 3 States Prompt FAA, FBI Investigation - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:13] <exec> 08└─More to the point, if the government doesn't know who is doing it, why haven't they shot them down yet? You think a country would normally allow unknown aircraft to fly organised patterns across their territory? No, unknown aircraft are forced down if they do not respond. UAVs, having no humans on b...
[19:56:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 895 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:27] <exec> 08└─I don't believe for a minute that extending our lives that much will be that easy. But if it can be done, what a massive change in human societies that would be If everyone could live 4 or 5 centuries. Would it get people to think longer term? Age discrimination in IT is well known by the age of mer...
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[20:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Your Blood Type May Influence Your Vulnerability to Norovirus, the Winter Vomiting Virus - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:07] <exec> 08└─Blood type is the classification of the antibodies and antigens in your blood. So this headline boils down to "presence/absence of antibodies may affect resistance to disease". Is water wet?
[20:52:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:57] <exec> 08└─More precisely: Drinking tea => being insufferable pricks => nobody wants you in around in the afterlife => live longer
[20:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:10] <exec> 08└─They are quite honest about the applicability of their findings: In addition, tea consumption is part of a cultural heritage, and its health effects might be confounded by other eating and drinking patterns, for example, consumption of other flavonoid-rich foods or beverages like coffee. Thus, our r...
[20:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:11] <exec> 08└─Geez, I hope not. ;^)
[20:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:04] <exec> 08└─"super high cost"? Mercedes vs Kia is super high cost. A machine that maybe costs $500 over a competitor is a piddling amount to pay for usability, especially when a corporate slave will use it the next five years.
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[21:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bandage Material Helps Stop Bleeding Without Adhering to the Wound - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:47] <exec> 08└─ETHANOL FUELED?!?! EF has just been removed from my persistent pests list, and placed on my lesser heroes list!!!! Oh, wait. Sorry. undo undo We'll try again some other decade.
[21:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Takata Airbag Recall Rears its Ugly Head Again, this Time for 10M Cars - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:48] <exec> 08└─Technology has improved since 2006... My current car (a 2019) and the one before that (a 2011) had sensors that inferred the mass on the passenger seat and enabled the passenger airbags accordingly. As I don't drive a luxury car I think that this feature is pretty standard, nowadays.
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[22:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bandage Material Helps Stop Bleeding Without Adhering to the Wound - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:49] <exec> 08└─I just ifconfig'd him down, a long long time ago. in fact, unsigned long time ago.
[22:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Circuit Notes: A Budget Function Generator - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:04] <exec> 08└─Well it goes without saying that if you know what a "spur" is and if you're concerned with image rejection, you're gonna spend a few hundred to tens of thousands on a proper synth. And another few hundred at least on a scope that can capture glitches. A basic bitch synth, hell, an arbitrary waveform...
[22:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:21] <exec> 08└─That is racist and builds on the belief that people are not equal. If you believe that this study doesn't apply to Westerners, you might as well admit that negroes are more likely to commit crimes.
[22:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:14] <exec> 08└─For large corporation, scale that by a few thousand users... umm no it is not insignificant.
[22:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:16] <exec> 08└─Umm it is actually getting pretty popular in my neck of the woods. Activity based work place is getting very popular in my organization. Folks work from home or any floor in any office, we have quite a few in the city. So everyone have to carry their laptops constantly. We all get issued a medium ra...
[22:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:18] <exec> 08└─You sound like one of those 80 year-old pants-shitting globalist board members who needs to either retire or fuck off and die already.
[22:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:20] <exec> 08└─Yes it is. Compared to the cost of maintaining an employee (user), $500 per user over 5 years is a drop in the bucket.
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[22:54:22] <exec> 08└─" Linux isn't lost yet. "
[22:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:24] <exec> 08└─Linux was great, and Ubuntu lead the way. Then some Jews decided that the adoption of Ubuntu, being a free product, would have killed their big moneymakers and would have dropped the value of that lucrative Microsoft and Apple stock in their portfolios and trillions of offshore dark-money. So they k...
[22:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Patches Firefox Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:41] <exec> 08└─Don't like newer firefox browsers. The de-populated tool bar, lost buttons to disable/enable javascript and cookies has me wanting older firefox browsers. Ninety-nine percent of the time I browse with javascript and cookies disabled. The Internet is a much more pleasant and safer place that way. IMO...
[22:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 and Server 2008 End of Support: What Will Change on 14 January? - 2472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:34] <exec> 08└─>To be fair, even good caps used in switching supplies have a fairly limited lifetime spec. Personally I'm not thrilled with it. IIRC there was a story here on SN about someone who figured out how to make switching supply caps last much longer by using non-electrolytic caps along with electrolytics....
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[22:55:36] <exec> 08└─>And all kinds of wall-warts, line-lumps, etc. Personally, I wouldn't even bother fixing these any more, unless it's already a switching PS and you can get the replacement caps cheaply and easily. If it's something older, I'd rather replace it with a newer switching adapter. Those old wall-warts wit...
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[23:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:53] <exec> 08└─Are these the Obamaphone's I've heard of? How do I get a free phone? I'll reflash it with my own Android.
[23:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Malware Found Preinstalled on US Government-Funded Phones - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:55] <exec> 08└─Question is how much of a kickback did the Chinese give to Obama to allow this?
[23:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Circuit Notes: A Budget Function Generator - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:20] <exec> 08└─It's actually a really good analysis of how not to design a piece of electronics. I didn't follow the "where to buy it" link but went straight to the good stuff and kept muttering about "typical cheap Aliexpress junk" as I read it, until I saw it was off Tindie. However, it's fully representative of...
[23:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Blood Type May Influence Your Vulnerability to Norovirus, the Winter Vomiting Virus - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:32] <exec> 08└─Why don't you try megadosing vitamin C? I mean you seem willing to throw money at questionable health claims anyway... Give it a go.
[23:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Blood Type May Influence Your Vulnerability to Norovirus, the Winter Vomiting Virus - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:33] <exec> 08└─The Spanish flu was bad because were malnourishment due to war weakened everyones immune system and the patent on aspirin had just expired so doctors were "soaking" their patients in it, leading to salicylate poisoning (which has the symptoms of the flu). It was common to give doses at the time that...
[23:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Blood Type May Influence Your Vulnerability to Norovirus, the Winter Vomiting Virus - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:36] <exec> 08└─Do the antigens used to determine blood type have anything to do with norovius?
[23:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Tea Drinkers Live Longer - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:45] <exec> 08└─Real matcha, the powdered stuff, is expensive but a little goes a long way (1/2 tsp for a 2-cup sized mug). It tastes great, too, like green tea ice cream (without the sweetness, of course). You need the traditional bamboo whisk, which is stupid expensive also, but essential to getting the best tast...
[23:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple's Chance to Grow as Half a Billion Windows 7 PCs Hit EOL - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:44] <exec> 08└─Hah if only I can afford to do so - still putting kids through school unfortunately.
[23:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Bill Would Ban Cell Phone Use by Anyone Younger Than 21 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:38] <exec> 08└─I favor a ban on cellphone use by anyone with an IQ under 100.
[23:57:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:53] <exec> 08└─So basically you want one substance that will help with diseases involving degenerating connective tissue and inflammation?
[23:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biologists Identify Pathways That Extend Lifespan by 500% - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:54] <exec> 08└─So he's going to cure aging but can't even keep his certs up to date?
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