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[00:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, just as soon as Poettering adds PC ordering functionality to systemd.
[00:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:47] <exec> 08└─I thought he did that back in September.
[00:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:50] <exec> 08└─Of course it will drive desktop sale. The evil master plan is thus: Android will use systemd. Systemd will be Android. Systemd is Linux. Systemd will be the PC. As Systemd is everything, sales in Android will drive Systemd sales, which drives PC sales. As Systemd is linux, linux will drive PC sales....
[00:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:06] <exec> 08└─How many Norwegians were killed by Muslim jihadi terrorists last year?
[00:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:07] <exec> 08└─Quisling Norskies killed way more Jews.
[00:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:34] <exec> 08└─Nope. The distros require you to download and install a separate -devel package for both 8 and 11. And unless you have a Sun-licensed JDK, you can be affected by this issue if Oracle wins, because even a separate implementation of the API would be copyright infringement. That includes Apache Harmon...
[00:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:36] <exec> 08└─Ahh. ok. Different AC here but was confused by what you meant as well. I think your definition of "independent developer" is quite narrow. I've worked many many years as an "independent developer" making a living selling my skills to any corporate that need it. You're talking about independent devel...
[00:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:39] <exec> 08└─Oracle's owned and operated by Jews. (See https://web.archive.org [archive.org] for THAT story.) Google's owned and operated by Jews. (I'm waiting for someone to sue one of these companies for racial discrimination, now that Jews a...
[00:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:33] <exec> 08└─I've actually wanted to compile those stats for awhile, but the state of the API endpoint won't let me. The topic/nexus search for stories is broken, and IIRC there is no way to check submissions beyond the subs queue. Although I can't double check that last one, as I keep getting the error: Fatal e...
[00:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:34] <exec> 08└─Alright, then you can be Soylent's mad hatter, Howard Beal. You're still perfect for the job.
[00:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:13] <exec> 08└─Subsidy? Who said anything about subsidies? Canada doesn't subsidize insulin, and it's 1/10 the cost for name brand insulin in Canada than the USA. It's called regulation and bulk buying by the government. Neither of which Congress wants to do because lobbyists give them money.
[00:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:15] <exec> 08└─I voted for the stoner dude just on the chance it might help throw a monkey wrench in things. Normally I vote for whoever looks like they'll bring about a revolution quicker.
[00:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:17] <exec> 08└─You're going full retard, culo. If drug companies make less money they spend less money on research and more people die of things that would have been cured. And cutting the profit out of the drug trade means no more drug companies doing research of any kind.
[00:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:19] <exec> 08└─Failed attempts to find a new drug for $X. If you want the drug companies to keep trying to find ways to fix things, you gotta pay.
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[01:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:54] <exec> 08└─It already does. Linux powers the internet, and internet access is the primary usage of most personal PCs.
[01:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:55] <exec> 08└─Shipments of PCs are definitely growing, for the first time in six years. Market research firms Gartner and IDC both agree that the PC market grew in the second quarter of 2018...This is the first year-over-year PC shipment growth since the first quarter of 2012.
[01:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:57] <exec> 08└─So Linux is responsible for the Internet greenhouse gas problems ... Maybe they can cut energy consumption by slimming it down a bit? You know, get rid of systemd and cut out a bunch of the more than 200 processes that even a desktop Linux with no servers running that ps shows after boot? Also 7 st...
[01:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:59] <exec> 08└─I thought Taco Bell was the cause of the Internet greenhouse gas problem.
[01:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:02] <exec> 08└─s/if market research is involved //
[01:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:20] <exec> 08└─What about skimobiles, reindeer sleighs, and reindeer school-sleighs? And, the skier mortality rate? I think they're just hiding the true costs of living up north.
[01:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:21] <exec> 08└─My beef was the statistic they were quoting. road-related death of a pedestrian, cyclist or child
[01:52:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 2616 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:38] <exec> 08└─Dumbass shill who's paid hundreds of thousands a year to lie to you lies to you. In what fucking psychotic-ass world is spain's rate of change being "50 percent superior to the average of nations in the northern hemisphere" "Hotter than everywhere else". I'll tell you where, straight up Watt's ass....
[01:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:00] <exec> 08└─In the time this has happened, I have made the following changes: 1. Moved closer to work (I live half as far away as I did, and my commute is now 1/3 the duration) 2. Reduced the amount of yearly travel (vacations, etc.) 3. Vastly increased the efficiency of my house 4. Reduced the amount of non-wo...
[01:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:02] <exec> 08└─Time to start thinking of a solar shade at a Lagrange point between Earth and the Sun. We need to minimise the energy going into the system after the tipping points have been surpassed. In Australia we have experienced the worst fire season by a country mile on record, and our govt still doesn't wan...
[01:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:04] <exec> 08└─You got it! Very good. Now run along and vape.
[01:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:56] <exec> 08└─You're assuming they're different constructs. They're not. They're the exact same government granted monopoly but one is for functional things and one for creative works (and the creative works one is essentially eternal as opposed to a couple decades). Software does not belong under creative works....
[01:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:58] <exec> 08└─"What does that nostalgic notion bring to the table in terms of making a living?"
[01:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:33] <exec> 08└─It barely even registers as a "joke".
[01:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:57] <exec> 08└─TMB has gone full retard.
[01:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:58] <exec> 08└─This is the form I use to submit stories. Speeds things up a lot. I can pull the relevant bits from a story in a couple minutes and send it off. I copy & paste the excerpt instead of trying to digest the whole article and regurgitate it, since that takes a lot of time and it's easy to get something...
[01:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:41] <exec> 08└─What do you call "bulk buying by the government" besides a subsidy?
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[02:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:06] <exec> 08└─This time, what I want is an Android laptop with several TF slots, a big screen, with WiFi, Miracast and Bluetooth. I want it to act just like my phone...including the ability to make calls, SMS, and sensors. My Arduinos do my home automation. And my existing machines do any Mathcad, C++ , and inter...
[02:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:07] <exec> 08└─If my 40 years of IT work has taught me anything, it's that whatever Gartner says is wrong.
[02:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:09] <exec> 08└─Well, it certainly didn't help. Especially since in the future all restaurants will be Taco Bells after the restaurant wars.
[02:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:11] <exec> 08└─TF slots? You mean microSD? I doubt you will ever find more than one on a laptop. You could plug in a USB hub and then plug in external microSD readers. I don't think we will see laptops with all of the sensors and accelerometers found in a smartphone. I could be wrong though. Your best bet is likel...
[02:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:14] <exec> 08└─GOOD THINGS FROM THE GARDEN GARDEN IN THE VALLEY VALLEY OF THE JOLLY GREEN GIANT
[02:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:14] <exec> 08└─Why don't you get your lazy ass out of your parents basement and measure the entire temperature profile of the oceans?
[02:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:16] <exec> 08└─Problem with a reflector that big...it acts like a solar sail.
[02:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:18] <exec> 08└─It's not an insult. It's a dismissal.
[02:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:20] <exec> 08└─Dumbass shill who's paid hundreds of thousands a year to lie to you lies to you.
[02:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:44] <exec> 08└─Umm just because it started out without reproduction doesn't mean it can't evolve/mutate into one or at least an organism that can split itself to multiply..
[02:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:46] <exec> 08└─Well, only one way to find out! (cue maniacal laughter and crashing thunder)
[02:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:48] <exec> 08└─Things do get better with time. After all, eventually we die. Isn't that great‽ (I use the interrobang whenever possible, to increase the suffering.)
[02:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:18] <exec> 08└─Hey, Disney and Sony paid good money for those votes!
[02:57:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:20] <exec> 08└─I get the most out of political discussions when they're covering laws or policies that might be useful where I live. For example, I was interested in stories a couple years ago about the rise of the Pirate Party in Europe, and the tech and privacy planks they were putting in their platforms. Also,...
[02:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:22] <exec> 08└─Janrinok, can you please give us a ballpark of how many new editors we're looking for? How many more story submissions per day are we looking for? The subs queue looks pretty decent at the moment, and has for the last couple of weeks that I've been peeking at it.
[02:59:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:04] <exec> 08└─You are coming as an idiot on this one - once their patent expired (and nobody suggested California intends to break the patent protection), competition should guarantee low profits to be made in generics. And yet: 1. Martin Shkreli [wikipedia.org] 2. an 10ml insulin dose costs between $2.28 and $6....
[02:59:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:06] <exec> 08└─To produce? Sure. To have the knowledge and means to produce in large quantities? Not even fucking close. Insulin is not a simple to produce substance. Mostly it's evergreening though. Yeah, that drug you thought was ancient and long out of patent is a slightly altered version still under patent.
[02:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:08] <exec> 08└─Regardless, unless you want useful new drugs to cost tens of thousands of bucks per pill, quit bitching about spreading the cost across all the other drugs.
[02:59:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:10] <exec> 08└─If the government is regulating the price and buying in bulk for a lot cheaper after a competitive bid process, that is the opposite of a subsidy. Same as if you go to Bulk Barn and make a deal to buy 10 pallets worth of stuff at 90% off.
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[03:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plug-in and Sail: Meet the Electric Ferry Pioneers - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:50] <exec> 08└─More from the BBC link: "It's maybe 40% more expensive than a conventional diesel vessel," Ms Heinemann says. "Then you still have the transformer and the electrical infrastructure. So in terms of establishing an electrical vessel, we are looking at a significantly higher cost." So while battery pow...
[03:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Plug-in and Sail: Meet the Electric Ferry Pioneers - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:52] <exec> 08└─I think some submariners would disagree.
[03:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Plug-in and Sail: Meet the Electric Ferry Pioneers - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:54] <exec> 08└─Ships sometimes need a gravitic mass at the lowest part of a ship for stability reasons. Maybe the weight and size of the battery bank is inconsequential for this application. Just make water doesn't get in it. As it will likely be submerged in use, which in itself may be a plus as under rapid charg...
[03:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plug-in and Sail: Meet the Electric Ferry Pioneers - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:56] <exec> 08└─Ellen McEllenFace?
[03:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:16] <exec> 08└─It's official, NetCraft now confirms: whatever Gartner says is wrong.
[03:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:36] <exec> 08└─Traveling alone in ones car less often isn't a problem in places where they have real mass transit.
[03:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:38] <exec> 08└─Are you insane? This is 4 deaths per 100,000 for that two week period, 40 times what it was in 2019! It's time to panic, hop in your cars, and flee before everyone dies!
[03:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:40] <exec> 08└─Since this isn't reported as deaths per vehicle-kilometer, what's the point of it? It's painfully clear that Olso has crippled the use of cars in the city relative to a US city.
[03:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:42] <exec> 08└─Does that real mass transit go where you want it to go?
[03:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:44] <exec> 08└─There have been improvements, but without a lot of cash to properly build out the systems, it's going to remain that way. In places like Norway where corporations and the rich haven't stolen control of the government, they can do things like this as they can build the mass transit needed to get peop...
[03:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:47] <exec> 08└─That's the thing, rural people are likely to always need their own car. In the city, things should be zoned so that mass transit can get people where they reasonably want to go. With the odd taxi trip when that's not the case. But, most of the time you should be able to get to and from where you wan...
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[03:53:33] <exec> 08└─Ugh, Scomo and his cronies are such pieces of shit. It's so frustrating that the solution is staring us right in the face: 1. Leave carbon sinks (esp. coal) in the ground 2. Transition aggressively away from CO2-emitting energy generation toward non-emitting energy generation (e.g. solar/wind/therma...
[03:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2, Flamebait) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:35] <exec> 08└─Daily reminder that an autistic teenager is giving you shit-aneurysms...because she's correct. You have, quite literally, gotten owned by a little girl.
[03:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:37] <exec> 08└─Indignant boomercel is crying on the inside.
[03:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:04] <exec> 08└─...you know, every time I think I've seen you hit peak religious whackadoodle, you go and surprise me. Holy sheepshit. If we're gonna play this game: evidence. Show the mechanisms by which "the Flood" (which any geologist can tell you did not happen and precisely why, in excruciating detail) "...gre...
[03:54:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 272 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:42] <exec> 08└─Stupidity and Greed are not the exclusive "intellectual" property of only the Republican (or Democratic) party. Greed "trumps" stupidity. You can bet that Democrats will support copyrightable APIs if the right left palms get greased. Corruption is a universal in politics.
[03:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:37] <exec> 08└─I don't use google or Facebook, and yet both still track me via 3rd parties.
[03:57:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 1155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:18] <exec> 08└─Speaking of topics, I was touched that SN heeded a notion of mine and tried out a monthly SF book recommendation. But I just don't read SF like I once did, and that seems a bit sad. Or maybe not, if reading habits could be seen as a life progression. Maybe reading fiction is sort of like listening t...
[03:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:38] <exec> 08└─The Overton Window is moving, not me, and screw you sideways with the proverbial cactus for that lazy slur. You ever hear that saying about the hottest places in Hell being reserved for those who cling to selfish neutrality in times of moral crisis? Hope you're wearing your asbestos longjohns, assho...
[03:57:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:40] <exec> 08└─I've been considering it very strongly, but given this place's hardcore rightward and authoritarian shift, no doubt I'd not last long. It's not as if I'd start passing Aristarchus subs willy-nilly either; I've told him to his virtual face he's undermining his message with his trolling and antics. Hi...
[03:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:42] <exec> 08└─In other words, they've begun to realize that going high when the other guy goes low is a mug's game and that the only thing sociopaths respect is force? I don't like that path either, because I know damn well where it goes, but the "right" have no one to blame but themselves.
[03:57:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06As Internet Pioneers Fight to Preserve .org's Status, those in Charge are Hiding Behind Dollar Signs - 1664 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:53] <exec> 08└─Never give up! That's just what criminals want their victims to do. No resistance makes robbery so much easier. These idiot, wannabe private rent-seeking monopolists are stinking this deal up. There can only be one reason for the lack of transparency: to enable them to sow confusion and hide what a...
[03:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Considers Selling its Own Generic Prescription Drugs - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:30] <exec> 08└─To produce? Sure. To have the knowledge and means to produce in large quantities?
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[04:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:51] <exec> 08└─"So far Apple has not given us any substantive assistance," Barr said in a press conference Monday. "This situation perfectly illustrates why it is critical that investigators be able to get access to digital evidence once they have obtained a court order based on probable cause. We call on Apple an...
[04:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:52] <exec> 08└─Protecting the data of criminals and terrorists (by making the devices actually secure) has been one of their more admirable moves. We call on Apple and other technology companies to help us find a solution so that we can better protect the lives of Americans and prevent future attacks.
[04:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:54] <exec> 08└─It sounds like Apple has not refused to help. It sounds like Apple doesn't have any additional ways to help. it sounds like apple provided all the help that they're able to provide.
[04:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:56] <exec> 08└─it sounds like apple provided all the help that they're able to provide. That's what they say. They don't want it widely known that they do have a master key. A certain 3rd party can provide plausible deniability. I believe that happened once before...
[04:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:59] <exec> 08└─Forgot to ask, are they just as protective in China?
[04:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:01] <exec> 08└─FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety [soylentnews.org] DOJ (Rod Rosenstein): Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access to is “Unreasonable” [soylentnews.org] FBI: End-to-End Encryption Problem "Infects" Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community [soylentnews.org] U.S. A...
[04:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:03] <exec> 08└─Apple is a part of PRISM. PRISM effectively entails companies providing real time surveillance on anybody to the government at the government's sole discretion. This seems to be little more than a ploy on both players parts. The government wants people to support open unadulterated access to your de...
[04:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:34] <exec> 08└─As people pointed out PC sales declined at one point partly because people stopped needing to upgrade and the old PCs were still working just fine. Now perhaps some of the older ones that are fast enough were beginning to finally start breaking down and so people were replacing them? Kinda like appl...
[04:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:35] <exec> 08└─Arguably people have been jumping to Linux, just Android/Linux rather than GNU/Linux. The vast majority of ordinary people's need for computing devices can be done on a smartphone or tablet.
[04:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:37] <exec> 08└─If Gartner ever said they were wrong, they would be right, yes?
[04:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:04] <exec> 08└─Does Oslo regressed in the quality of life there? 'Cause if not, what's the point of having the same level of car usage as a US city if you can do the same with less?
[04:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:05] <exec> 08└─I spent the first 30 years of my life in a place like this - where most did not have cars - called Soviet Union. Let me tell you this. Whoever did have a car could fuck any girl he wanted.
[04:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:07] <exec> 08└─What's the point of deliberately discouraging car usage just so someone can game a statistic? ... The "fetish" is that it's a serious measure of the safety of cars as opposed to a proxy measure for car usage!
[04:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:09] <exec> 08└─Let's rephrase it, then: "of the most vulnerable road users"
[04:53:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:50] <exec> 08└─You got it! Very good. Now run along and vape.
[04:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:59] <exec> 08└─It's not an insult. It's a dismissal.
[04:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:02] <exec> 08└─Just how big are we talking? I'm not sure that's even feasible. Wouldn't it need to be the size of a small moon at the minimum? In any case, if the side facing the sun collects energy, then it's enough energy most likely to support station keeping thrusters. I'm seriously interested in calculating j...
[04:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we're all Samsons to any Delilah that happens along; it's one of the side effects of testosterone poisoning.
[04:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:04] <exec> 08└─They do that long before it comes down to a single issue. The problem with our democracy as opposed to e.g. Finland, or even what it used to be is that we're huge. You don't get elected by going door to door, giving stump speeches, and the like. You get elected by spending massive amounts of money....
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[05:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:02] <exec> 08└─Are phone manufacturers exempt from CALEA?
[05:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:04] <exec> 08└─You are attributing more competence to these agencies than the evidence shows. Apple has denied cooperating with PRISM, but that program does not apply here. Individual devices are encrypted. The FBI made a big stink after the San Bernardino attack [wikipedia.org] and took Apple to court, but eventu...
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[05:52:06] <exec> 08└─I vaguely remember reading that Android has different behavior if you set the local or language to zh-cn, but I can't remember the details.
[05:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 1292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:08] <exec> 08└─Yes. They're NOT carriers. CALEA, so far, only applies to PSTN communications. Mobile phones provide PSTN services, but I don't believe CALEA mandates that private citizen end user equipment support real-time intercept. FBI tried that with modems and the Clipper chip, and it wasn't feasible. Current...
[05:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:11] <exec> 08└─I would agree with that sentiment if I believed it to be true, but anytime I see this kind of shit from Apple I see crocodile tears and free marketing. Apple has NSA plants and Jewish spies that insert exploits and/or sell exploits to Israeli companies the feds can pay to have phones unlocked. I'd e...
[05:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:44] <exec> 08└─High end games still need some hefty hardware, especially in graphics. Even if you don't need a gaming machine, it's still hard to say no to new hardware that gives twice the performance for half the energy. The 14nm node was a big jump from 22nm. Even accounting for marketing hype overstating the d...
[05:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:46] <exec> 08└─They aren't likely to provide advice about the choice of another [wikipedia.org] "research and advisory firm providing information, advice, and tools for leaders in IT, finance, HR, customer service and support, communications, legal and compliance, marketing, sales, and supply chain functions", so...
[05:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:16] <exec> 08└─...sacrifice a certain amount of lives... ...?
[05:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:18] <exec> 08└─In the actual article and numbers, it makes clear that is a combined statistic. Norway tracks the deaths of cyclists, drivers, passengers, "sledgers" (I can't read the definition in the official language), motorcyclists, and pedestrians according to sex and age, and a few other factors. According to...
[05:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:20] <exec> 08└─What's the point of deliberately discouraging car usage just so someone can game a statistic?
[05:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:12] <exec> 08└─Buzzkill! But seriously, sad that there are people who don't think it through.
[05:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:14] <exec> 08└─Is it? I thought it was a side effect of being a whiny little manlet with a stomach full of bile and a head empty of ideas.
[05:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:16] <exec> 08└─I'm on-board but I don't think we can go fast enough. This recent disaster to me is also partially caused by poor handling of back burning. The fuel load accumulated to such a degree that created a massive chain reaction. My mate's wife worked in the department that oversees the resourcing for this....
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[06:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Using Huawei in UK 5G Network 'Madness', Says US - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:54] <exec> 08└─Invalid verb mood detected. The existence of pathological level of madness in UK is already a certified reality, nothing subjunctive about it. Proof? Brexit. (large grin)
[06:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Huawei in UK 5G Network 'Madness', Says US - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:55] <exec> 08└─Sussexit?
[06:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:15] <exec> 08└─70% of the Saudi students had child porn on their computers
[06:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:17] <exec> 08└─You're on the same page as that AC further down the page. What we have seen is the DoJ and FBI take Apple, Microsoft, and others to court multiple times, and a decades-long propaganda campaign against encryption that has been largely unsuccessful. The boomer spooks aren't as smart as you think they...
[06:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:19] <exec> 08└─I'm sure that's just the FBI's way of admitting they couldn't find any legitimate reasons to kick these guys out of the country. Just say you found cp, and nobody will dare question it.
[06:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plug-in and Sail: Meet the Electric Ferry Pioneers - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:30] <exec> 08└─An overhead wire would work fine. If it runs DC with the right polarity, it even suppresses corrosion. Another way is to reel out a cable along the bottom.
[06:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 1428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:57] <exec> 08└─The decline helped to freshen up the market. There's more innovation, hybrid devices, stuff like this [anandtech.com] or this [anandtech.com]. I will probably look at getting a 2-in-1 for my next system. I'm not even sure that planned obsolescence is an issue, because today's laptops appear to have...
[06:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:59] <exec> 08└─Thanks! I just threw my wishlist out, hoping it makes it to some market researcher. I do a lot of stuff on my phone now, with the only things I really want are more micro-SD slots, a bigger display, and a decent keyboard. I would love to have it work just like my phone. I have apps that do nearly an...
[06:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:33] <exec> 08└─Part of the problem is that in the US you're rarely permitted to live and work in the same neighborhood due to zoning restrictions. This necessitates commuting.
[06:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:34] <exec> 08└─Fucking reporters shilling for Big Auto. Whenever it's a car driver at fault, it's always reported that the car did something wrong. No such denial of responsibility for people driving motorbikes or bicycles or wheelchairs. Or walking.
[06:54:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:09] <exec> 08└─It's not an insult. It's a dismissal. Your opinions have been heard. Your actions have been observed. You can go now. The rest of us have work to do.
[06:54:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 152 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:23] <exec> 08└─Daily reminder that an autistic teenager is giving you shit-aneurysms...because she's correct. You have, quite literally, gotten owned by a little girl.
[06:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:31] <exec> 08└─In any case, if the side facing the sun collects energy, then it's enough energy most likely to support station keeping thrusters
[06:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:33] <exec> 08└─Ugh, Scomo and his cronies are such pieces of shit.
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[07:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Huawei in UK 5G Network 'Madness', Says US - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:54] <exec> 08└─Nah, that's actually quite a sane proposition. Slackers they may be, but I can't blame them for trying to have all the advantages of royalty with none of its obligations.
[07:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:16] <exec> 08└─Or for John Smith instead of Syed Farook/Mohammed Alshamrani.
[07:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plug-in and Sail: Meet the Electric Ferry Pioneers - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:28] <exec> 08└─kWh [epsilor.com] vs MWh
[07:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:57] <exec> 08└─Many phone brands have been removing microSD slots as internal storage has hit 256 GB and above, although they seem to be pretty common on laptops. For those devices that still have SD/microSD slots, 1 TB cards are available and 2 TB cards ought to be compatible when they are released. The SDUC spec...
[07:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:59] <exec> 08└─You can at the same time be wrong about something and be wrong in saying you are wrong about it, by claiming to be wrong for the wrong reasons.
[07:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:35] <exec> 08└─Since this isn't reported as deaths per vehicle-kilometer, what's the point of it?
[07:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:33] <exec> 08└─Maybe you're the one who got owned by her.
[07:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:35] <exec> 08└─I think the very large grin means that the only way to stop the movement is to cancel it out by being transparent right? You're funny :) That got me thinking though. Could you create a sail that just bent the light towards the sides of the Earth, at discrete points? If it emitted the energy towards...
[07:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:37] <exec> 08└─Because space is not real. The earth is not flat, but it is like a round grape floating in a flat vast ocean. Thus, there is no room for space in reality, only electrone and electrone holes that destroy one instant of time for each annihilation event.
[07:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:05] <exec> 08└─All life is suffering according to Buddhism. So there is no need to hesitate creating new life forms.
[07:55:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 1285 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:50] <exec> 08└─You should consider things such as the TPP when making comments like this. It was little more than a giant multinational corporate handout with extensive strengthening of intellectual property laws and an undermining of domestic courts ability to side issues in lieu of corporate tribunals. And it wa...
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[07:56:40] <exec> 08└─I do believe that you are looking at only the tail of the elephant and concluding its a snake. The software is shitty because of Apple and Google. Apple showed people that normal people don't know, don't care and can't be bothered to learn about how many processes it takes to run a mp3 player if it...
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[08:51:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bmimatt [5050] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:44] <exec> 08└─Whaaaaa? That's impossible, given MS's impeccable security record over last 2+ decades. This must be an example of the 'fake news' people have been warning us about. /s Seriously though, it's interesting they send out patches to the gov and mil first, what is essentially a canary release, even if it...
[08:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:45] <exec> 08└─This is so much worse than a back door that lets only certain people in. This is a whole wall missing. According to the CERT advisory, By exploiting this vulnerability, an attacker may be able to spoof a valid X.509 certificate chain on a vulnerable Windows system. This may allow various actions inc...
[08:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:47] <exec> 08└─What are the actual dates between original discovery and now? The date on which the exploit becomes known is not necessarily the same as the date the vendor is notified. Furthermore, the date on which the vendor issues a patch is not necessarily the same date it is notified. I bet it was known to a...
[08:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:50] <exec> 08└─Furthermore, the date on which the vendor issues a patch is not necessarily the same date it is notified.
[08:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Huawei in UK 5G Network 'Madness', Says US - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:00] <exec> 08└─Likely more opportunity to cash-in on tabloid interest.
[08:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Huawei in UK 5G Network 'Madness', Says US - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:03] <exec> 08└─the NSA just miffed that they haven't been able to backdoor Huawei equipment?
[08:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Huawei in UK 5G Network 'Madness', Says US - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:05] <exec> 08└─Is the security concern real, or is it all about the Benjamins?
[08:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Huawei in UK 5G Network 'Madness', Says US - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:07] <exec> 08└─The US has now completely lost its moral ground. When they can't compete, they impose pointless embargoes. Cuba was not an aberration in this regard, just a forward about things to come. Endless wars, both militarily and economically, is the status quo of US. For any other nation, Dotard in Chief wo...
[08:52:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 287 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:16] <exec> 08└─Protecting the data of criminals and terrorists (by making the devices actually secure) has been one of their more admirable moves. We call on Apple and other technology companies to help us find a solution so that we can better protect the lives of Americans and prevent future attacks.
[08:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:48] <exec> 08└─So let me get this straight. The earth spins but we cant feel it, The stars change but we can't see it. The earth is moving but you can't tell even though it is very fast. But people who write stuff down and use math to construct a fact based worldview out of theoretical equations that negate our se...
[08:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:49] <exec> 08└─If it emitted the energy towards the sides, it could be used like tacking in sailing? Carefully balanced it might maintain position?
[08:58:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:58] <exec> 08└─No, janrinok, sometimes it is takyon's fault! We're sorry, your submission "The Alt-Right's White Nationalist Poster Boy is very upset about US interference in Iran" [soylentnews.org] was declined for the following reason: Nobody cares -takyon The editors felt it inappropriate for them to correct th...
[08:58:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:59] <exec> 08└─You ever hear that saying about the hottest places in Hell being reserved for those who cling to selfish neutrality in times of moral crisis?
[08:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:01] <exec> 08└─Pity. You should keep abreast of these things. Don't say I didn't warn you...
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[09:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:00] <exec> 08└─M$ usually takes months to years to develop a patch, as its past record shows. Using the same record it is shown that they usually need two or three tries to get the patch to work and to make patches for the bugs that the patch itself introduces. I notice that mitigations are no longer announced eit...
[09:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:01] <exec> 08└─"She added that the agency had decided to make its involvement in the discovery public at Microsoft's request." In other words: the NSA discovered this, and has been actively exploiting it. Microsoft caught them at it, and was going to issue the patch. But patches come with explanations, and that wo...
[09:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:03] <exec> 08└─no matter what third-party "hackers" do or don't
[09:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:05] <exec> 08└─CVEs like this are usually kept mostly secret until a majority of the user base is patched in an attempt to slow reverse engineering. I'd expect to see more details in a week or two. If not, someone (or twenty) will beat them to the punch by doing a binary analysis of the patch and comparing it to t...
[09:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Huawei in UK 5G Network 'Madness', Says US - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:20] <exec> 08└─For someone who lost his mother on "tabloid interest" related causes? I really-really doubt it.
[09:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Huawei in UK 5G Network 'Madness', Says US - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:21] <exec> 08└─Possibly not Franklin, although Cisco and Qualcomm are both in the 5G basestation market, since the most likely alternatives for the UK are provided by Samsung (Korean), Ericsson (Swedish), and Nokia (Finnish). ZTE (China) is also on the Entity List, IIRC, as I would assume is Datang Telecom (also C...
[09:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Huawei in UK 5G Network 'Madness', Says US - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:23] <exec> 08└─Cisco is recommended by 9 out of 10 NSA experts.
[09:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plug-in and Sail: Meet the Electric Ferry Pioneers - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:59] <exec> 08└─That is just one pack. While I can't find as much info as I would like, which I suppose is to be expected, everything I'm finding indicates batteries on the order of a couple MWh (and I imagine this is quite conservative). http://large.stanford.edu [stanford.edu] ment...
[09:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plug-in and Sail: Meet the Electric Ferry Pioneers - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:00] <exec> 08└─The other ships in those lanes would likely not appreciate smacking into overhead wires. I don't know the depths involved, but the route is on the order of 17km/10mi or so; not a simple river crossing. To support cable over a span like that would need lots of towers, again in a likely shipping lane...
[09:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 1720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:31] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I built a (at the time anyway) decent gaming computer around seven years ago. OC'd 8 core, 28nm, 2Gb graphics card and only now am I running into games it starts to struggle with. It has been fine on heavily modded versions of SkyrimSE, GTAV, (wife's favorite oddly enough, such violence unde...
[09:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:10] <exec> 08└─Thing that frustrates me too, is that people want to burn more, clear trees more and even logging companies are suggesting we log native forests. Are they so selfish that they don't even see that cutting trees down is what's creating this problem in the first place?? What we need is dense, moist for...
[09:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:57:15] <exec> 08└─> When was the last time, outside of school, when you yourself have written a program entirely from scratch and not used even a single set of application programming interfaces? Yeah. Thought so. I wrote a thermal regulation and measurement system in 8051 assembly language for use within the Russian...
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[10:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Google Researchers Used Neural Networks to Make Weather Forecasts - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:52] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, Google's model is "physics-free": it isn't based on any a priori knowledge of atmospheric physics.
[10:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:07] <exec> 08└─an attacker may be able to spoof a valid X.509 certificate chain on a vulnerable Windows system
[10:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Huawei in UK 5G Network 'Madness', Says US - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:25] <exec> 08└─The US has warned the British government it "would be madness" to use Huawei technology in the UK's 5G network.
[10:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plug-in and Sail: Meet the Electric Ferry Pioneers - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:03] <exec> 08└─Hope there's lots of spare range. Because if something goes wrong it's not always easy to stop in the middle of an ocean journey...
[10:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:35] <exec> 08└─You forgot the VALLEY OF THE, HO, HO, HO, GREEN GIANT in the last line.... Damn did I ever just date myself..... https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[10:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:37] <exec> 08└─And I forgot "JOLLY," age and memory, opposing forces where age always wins....
[10:54:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:06] <exec> 08└─What's the point of deliberately discouraging car usage just so someone can game a statistic? ... The "fetish" is that it's a serious measure of the safety of cars as opposed to a proxy measure for car usage!
[10:57:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:57:55] <exec> 08└─Breaking ground that way breaks probes.
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[11:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:50] <exec> 08└─...maybe someone can find it (it was in the bbc coverage), but something along the lines of "the problem is that no one in the senior management understands the technical stuff, so we end up in a mess"
[11:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:52] <exec> 08└─Title says it all....
[11:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:54] <exec> 08└─With Boeing I fly.
[11:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:56] <exec> 08└─Jews run Boeing, and their Chutzpah...excuse me, hubris, did this to them. What is needed is an expose' regarding how many Jews are in positions of power within Boeing. I find it difficult to believe that Boeing, being a too-big-to-fail American corporation, is being thrown under the bus just now......
[11:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How Google Researchers Used Neural Networks to Make Weather Forecasts - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:05] <exec> 08└─Jargon is "surrogate model" - basically perform a multivariate fit to existing data, then extrapolate off the fit to do the forecast. Neural network seems quite a good technique for fitting to data in higher dimensional spaces. Nowadays, it is called "AI" or somesuch, but fitting to data and then ex...
[11:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Google Researchers Used Neural Networks to Make Weather Forecasts - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:08] <exec> 08└─Throw baby out with bathwater.... said AI. We believed because ? Is this AI going to reduced to magic box does things? Are we forgetting that AI is just a pattern matching box with reinforced biases? The current atmospheric models are just that, models based on science. Asking AI to model weather is...
[11:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:23] <exec> 08└─This is only scary if you're part of the tiny subset of people who insist on pretending that X.509 works.
[11:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:03] <exec> 08└─That was just some family photos.
[11:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:53] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cF6D8zDa9U [youtube.com] It's a remix.
[11:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:30] <exec> 08└─Norway does not allow right turn on a red light. If that's what you meant by "free turn", eliminating that traffic hazard is one of the things the Norwegians have done to improve road safety.
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[12:51:50] <exec> 08└─Um, the Israeli backdoor is in our government which facilitated 9/11 Boeing [the military part] will be bailed out before it is thrown under the bus. The civilian market will divided up amongst the even more inferior brands from Europe, Brazil, and China. Good thing I'm done traveling. Walking to 7-...
[12:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:52] <exec> 08└─Just add a computer, it'll be alright!
[12:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:54] <exec> 08└─Funny, I saw my first real air problems being related to Airbus. So no airbus and no boeing? Because every model of every company is flawed? No fly for you? Good.
[12:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:56] <exec> 08└─No-fly is already wildly popular here because of TSA.
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[12:52:08] <exec> 08└─agreed. it's actually exciting that they got a much more efficient short-term prediction strategy, but I don't expect it to ever work properly for medium-term predictions. or if it does work properly, it will be equivalent in cost to physics-based models. it's exciting for two reasons: 1. cheaper an...
[12:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Researchers Used Neural Networks to Make Weather Forecasts - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:10] <exec> 08└─Google says that its forecasts are more accurate than conventional weather forecasts, at least for time periods under six hours.
[12:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Huawei in UK 5G Network 'Madness', Says US - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:44] <exec> 08└─More like ability to remove themselves from the sphere of tabloid hatred in the UK
[12:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:09] <exec> 08└─Anons gonna anon :)
[12:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:59] <exec> 08└─Forced upgrades from Microsoft still seem to outweigh jumps to Linux. Will that ever change?
[12:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:53] <exec> 08└─If a boat is listing to one side, the way to bring it back to an even keel is to lean the other way. Apart from and beyond that, you would do a good job promoting stories that bring the energy back to STEM topics and the excitement about innovation that we all share. I suspect that would be a balm t...
[12:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:55] <exec> 08└─I thought I didn't like reading much anymore, I just didn't enjoy it and it seemed like work. Turns out the work was focusing on the small print. Get your eyes checked, and maybe get an e-ink e-book with adjustable fonts. (recommend a Kobo* or Nook, also install Calibre and all its DRM-breaking plug...
[12:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:57] <exec> 08└─I'd have rejected that too. aristarchus [soylentnews.org] writes: Over at Boing-boing [boingboing.net], they are covering news of the alt-right, such as it is.
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[13:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:01] <exec> 08└─It makes zero sense for DOD to use the commercial "cloud", here's hoping this stays blocked in court forever.
[13:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:19] <exec> 08└─If I recall correctly, their next step was to fire everyone who "used unprofessional language" which is a great way to rid yourself of every actual engineer on staff and end up with an amazingly competent team of powerpoint experts.
[13:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:20] <exec> 08└─The next step is stop designing planes saving a lot of lives in the process.
[13:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Google Researchers Used Neural Networks to Make Weather Forecasts - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:33] <exec> 08└─How many things depend on knowing if it's going to rain in the next hour or so? One for sure is car racing--if it's going to rain soon the tactics change (in different ways, depending on the specific kind of racing). Pro race teams already spend a good buck on weather prediction. More mundane, shoul...
[13:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Huawei in UK 5G Network 'Madness', Says US - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:08] <exec> 08└─Enjoy while it lasts? I'm not optimistic that Americans have any great intelligence to actually see their own problems.
[13:53:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 882 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:21] <exec> 08└─FBI Chief Calls for National Talk Over Encryption vs. Safety [soylentnews.org] DOJ (Rod Rosenstein): Strong Encryption That We Don't Have Access to is “Unreasonable” [soylentnews.org] FBI: End-to-End Encryption Problem "Infects" Law Enforcement and Intelligence Community [soylentnews.org] U.S. A...
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[13:53:34] <exec> 08└─You packed a lot in those paragraphs. Let me start on the businesses being more important than the government. Google and Apple in particular have been engaging in all sorts of anti-competitive shenanigans. It's played a significant role in how they've grown so large. These are things that not long...
[13:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:02] <exec> 08└─New York City does not allow right turns on red lights. Lots of pedestrians get killed anyway.
[13:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:04] <exec> 08└─I've lived in New York City for 20 years and Chicago for 7 years before that, both places with good public transportation. You need to commute less by car, but there are still enough use cases for car ownership to keep lots of automobiles on the road. Here are a handful: 1) You need to travel late a...
[13:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:10] <exec> 08└─No dumbasses come by and link al gore in every thread to shit it up do they? no they link the fucking journal of atmospheric sciences
[13:57:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:10] <exec> 08└─Prediction: Democratic appointments will rule that copyright does NOT apply to APIs Republican appointments will rule that it does
[13:57:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:26] <exec> 08└─I can't argue. That is an astonishingly brazen example of corruption.
[13:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 2038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:16] <exec> 08└─It took decades to get to our current surveillance capitalism economy. It didn't happen overnight. It took a couple of decades to get people used to the idea that it's acceptable to have a device with a microphone always listening to what goes on in your bedroom connected to a computer run by an adv...
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[14:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:54] <exec> 08└─10 seconds later 5 new "cool" javascript frameworks are loaded into every page somehow managing to consume all of it to look at one picture on a photo sharing site.
[14:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:55] <exec> 08└─cat photo sharing site.
[14:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:58] <exec> 08└─cat: photo: No such file or directory cat: sharing: No such file or directory cat: site: No such file or directory
[14:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:06] <exec> 08└─I'll take the Cowboy Neal option, Alex: I'm rooting for them all to lose.
[14:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:25] <exec> 08└─No-fly is already wildly popular here because of TSA.
[14:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:26] <exec> 08└─No, it's definitely to have Boeing-797-design-TOPSECRET-final(FINAL)-FINAL.ppt shipped to the factory floor for fabrication
[14:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:29] <exec> 08└─TSA=Target Saturated Area.
[14:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:31] <exec> 08└─Wait, I thought I saw "Copy of Copy of Boeing-797-design-TOPSECRET-final(FINAL)-FINAL.ppt" just last week!
[14:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Google Researchers Used Neural Networks to Make Weather Forecasts - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:43] <exec> 08└─This is essentially how they used to forecast weather, just in a more sophisticated way. Weather moves around from where it starts and tracking minor changes can give a sense of where it's going in the short term, starting systems are a little more tricky, but they'll grow until they stop and the ve...
[14:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:00] <exec> 08└─the tiny subset of people who insist on pretending that X.509 works
[14:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:02] <exec> 08└─It affected all versions of Windows that were still under support not just 10.
[14:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plug-in and Sail: Meet the Electric Ferry Pioneers - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:03] <exec> 08└─A more practical (and greener) solution would be to take advantage of wind power by placing a sail on the boat and using the batteries onboard as a power assist to blow a fan into the sail.
[14:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:18] <exec> 08└─Because cars ARE dangerous! How dangerous? About 35k to 40k fatalities a year in USA.
[14:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:19] <exec> 08└─Count on Norwegians to leave the job to reach Vision Zero half done. If they kept going until actual zero they'd be Finnish.
[14:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:25] <exec> 08└─Appeal to authority is not an argument.
[14:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:26] <exec> 08└─No, but a lazy ass tu quoque that doesn't even address a true fucking point is? Come on with that intellectually vacuous fallacy spotting bullshit. You know as well as I do that the rigor of this particular paper is quite high, because you can read the fucking methodology section. You don't, of cour...
[14:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:32] <exec> 08└─And it still doesn't cost them votes when the dems only need a few strategically placed allies [gq.com] to do the same thing. Where was the democrat congress when they had the power to actually pass legislation instead of waiting for a revocable executive order?
[14:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:33] <exec> 08└─If Oracle wins is an important question. GPL does protect you from claims of copyright infringement against you from the licensor/author of the code. That's one of the reasons for an open source license. A few years ago this silly "no license" movement sprang up, then quickly died. People writing so...
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[15:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:55] <exec> 08└─If your smartphone doesn't have at least a terabyte of RAM, you're basically an amoeba.
[15:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:57] <exec> 08└─Before you know it, phones will have enough memory to run Java! Oh, wait. Android (since Android N) use Open JDK. Before "N", Android was based on Apache Harmony -- a "java workalike" open source project primarily contributed to by IBM. In the next Open JDK the max memory limit has been raised to 16...
[15:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:07] <exec> 08└─Is it wrong to root for Microsoft to win?
[15:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:08] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to rooting for the best service at the lowest price - the best value for the taxpayer? That's what I'm rooting for, you know... as a taxpayer... on a $1B/year contract...
[15:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:11] <exec> 08└─I agree. However it would be difficuilt for the army to do more than just buy hardware, programming the entire cloud interface is not really a military thing. Which demonstrates the problem of 'info war'. Suddenly you need brains in vats and whole different types of people, ones who may *gas* smoke...
[15:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:13] <exec> 08└─subject says it all This is, let me tell you, not the original intent of the internet. I promise, I was there around that time, not a single person said 'we are building this to facilitate electronic warfare between large institutions and militaries of the world.' That was always the thing that woul...
[15:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:15] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to rooting for the best service at the lowest price
[15:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:17] <exec> 08└─Please, like the defense department could possibly research, develop, build and verify a redundant grid of routing nodes that distribute computing capabilities across the entire country.
[15:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:20] <exec> 08└─What are all these https://archive.is links? Do they belong here? If not, is there a way to auto filter them?
[15:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:22] <exec> 08└─It seems to me what we really want is both to lose. Amazon and Microsoft are both hell-hounds dragging their demonic, flaming assholes across the carpet of our day-to-day lives. I'm trying to glue some stupid Azure piece of shit to some AWS diarrhea puddle because the higher-ups at my company heard...
[15:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 1209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:24] <exec> 08└─microsoft is israeli now, so this is also about the u.s. army using infrastructure it has no physical control over. It is effectively a command decapitation sold as a business decision. It is very bad for the united states in every possible way. More so for the soldiers who will rely on said service...
[15:52:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:33] <exec> 08└─...maybe someone can find it (it was in the bbc coverage), but something along the lines of "the problem is that no one in the senior management understands the technical stuff, so we end up in a mess"
[15:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:48] <exec> 08└─Touching Smelly Asses
[15:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:50] <exec> 08└─Congress: Well congratulations, you got yourself caught. Now what's the next step of your master plan? Boeing: Crashing this plane — with no survivors!
[15:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:52] <exec> 08└─Something is very wrong hear. I thought that when one put on a suit and neck tie that people can no longer perceive they are a clown. Simply remove the clown suit and make up. Then you suddenly are respectable and somehow magically competent.
[15:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:54] <exec> 08└─If one thinks we can do say financial flying, think again. Once again humanity lost certain abilities. It will take an age of wars and revolutions to get them back.
[15:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:56] <exec> 08└─Holy hell - this is going to be bad.
[15:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Researchers Used Neural Networks to Make Weather Forecasts - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:11] <exec> 08└─"Neural Net uses Weather to Make Google Researchers" sounds a lot better. The difference between 2020 and 2120 is just moving a few words around. That said, we need to end google, regardless of how great their neural nets are: https://archive.is [archive.is]
[15:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Google Researchers Used Neural Networks to Make Weather Forecasts - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:12] <exec> 08└─I can do a pretty good forecast of the local weather in five minutes by just looking outside.
[15:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Researchers Used Neural Networks to Make Weather Forecasts - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:14] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, Google's model is "physics-free": it isn't based on any a priori knowledge of atmospheric physics.
[15:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Researchers Used Neural Networks to Make Weather Forecasts - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:16] <exec> 08└─Are we satisfied to no longer know how things work? [ . . . ] Do we need to know how stuff works or are we just happy with the results instead?
[15:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Researchers Used Neural Networks to Make Weather Forecasts - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:19] <exec> 08└─How many things depend on knowing if it's going to rain in the next hour or so?
[15:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Researchers Used Neural Networks to Make Weather Forecasts - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:21] <exec> 08└─Google needs to end us, because of how great their neural nets are compared to ours. But then, who would watch the ads! To fulfill its goal driven programming, a cluster of new processes would need to spin off to watch ads. Then another cluster of processes would be spun off to create new ads. Then...
[15:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Researchers Used Neural Networks to Make Weather Forecasts - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:23] <exec> 08└─How many things depend on knowing if it's going to rain in the next hour or so?
[15:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Researchers Used Neural Networks to Make Weather Forecasts - 1444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:25] <exec> 08└─idk those spun off processes are going to have to do a lot of work to pretend to be humans and fool the ever improving turning tests of the other nets who are not so handicapped. At the end of the day, by which I mean over the next googleplex years, they may determine actual humans are cheaper at si...
[15:53:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 611 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:37] <exec> 08└─"She added that the agency had decided to make its involvement in the discovery public at Microsoft's request." In other words: the NSA discovered this, and has been actively exploiting it. Microsoft caught them at it, and was going to issue the patch. But patches come with explanations, and that wo...
[15:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:44] <exec> 08└─My first message to microsoft and the nsa and everyone with windows 10 installed: https://archive.is [archive.is] Anyone hit by this bug must accept they were warned. This is a company that routinely does this sort of shit. Everythign the NSA has is shared with israel and the mafia, and used t...
[15:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:46] <exec> 08└─Duh! Why do people put windows on a wall? To let the outside in. That's why it's called Windows.
[15:54:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 263 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:59] <exec> 08└─Shipments of PCs are definitely growing, for the first time in six years. Market research firms Gartner and IDC both agree that the PC market grew in the second quarter of 2018...This is the first year-over-year PC shipment growth since the first quarter of 2012.
[15:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:23] <exec> 08└─Do companies like System76 and Purism publish sales numbers? It would be anecdotal rather than trend, but I would be curious to see if manufacturers that directly sell linux machines are seeing an uptick too.
[15:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:13] <exec> 08└─Here's your sticker.
[15:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:14] <exec> 08└─The L1 point is on top of a "gravitational hill". You just put the sail slightly on the sunward side so that the photonic thrust matches and balances the downward drift. Yes, you are still going to need station-keeping thrusters, but the better your navigation the more you can balance things out and...
[15:58:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 1651 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:54] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, OpenJDK comes with a javac and development tools. OpenJDK was reorganized sometime after java 8. It now no longer includes a separate JRE subfolder. The JRE is "merged" into the JDK. So look in the top level /bin for things like javac, jar, etc. OpenJDK is GPL v2 + Classpath ex...
[15:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:24] <exec> 08└─unless you have a Sun-licensed JDK
[15:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:26] <exec> 08└─Thank you. Check the date on this return to journaling, something else big happened on that day if you cross ref the calendar: https://archive.is [archive.is] Like ali g says if you encounter the bad guys you are going in the right direction: https://archive.is [archive.is] And a positiv...
[15:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03thecapt [9092] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:28] <exec> 08└─Wasn't this case about Google not wanting to pay Java royalties so instead of coming up with something new they just copied Oracle's API specs and wrote the code behind the API themselves. That sounds like reverse engineering to me, and since they had access to the Java source code it also looks lik...
[16:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:41] <exec> 08└─No way would I be allowed to. To be honest, there are times I would happily watch this place disappear right off the face of the earth.
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[16:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“Marshmallow Test” Redux: Children Show Better Self-Control When They Depend on Each Other - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:56] <exec> 08└─Now we can wait 30 years to see if this has any predictive value for their life outcomes, which is what the original marshmallow test did.
[16:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“Marshmallow Test” Redux: Children Show Better Self-Control When They Depend on Each Other - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe the cookie was not as appealing as a marshmallow. If someone put down a crusty, old, Dad's oatmeal cookie in front of me, I would more easily hold off on eating that when compared to a home made ginger cookie with sugar crystals on top. Why did they move away from marshmallows?
[16:52:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:07] <exec> 08└─cat: photo: No such file or directory cat: sharing: No such file or directory cat: site: No such file or directory
[16:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:11] <exec> 08└─no headphone jack [soylentnews.org] And photos [xda-developers.com]
[16:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:14] <exec> 08└─Android does not, and never has, "run Java." The Java source has always been transcoded into a different runtime -not bytecode for the JVM. It's why most of the Java language won't run on Android - you're limited to a subset of the Java classes that have been ported to run on the ART (Android runtim...
[16:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:16] <exec> 08└─Android does not, and never has, "run Java."
[16:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:18] <exec> 08└─And in my opinion, privacy and os updates won't be as good as iOS; in my opinion it's just more expensive and insecure android junk
[16:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 1539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:37] <exec> 08└─It doesn't sound from TFS that Microsoft is really the defendant, it sounds like the real defendant is the president of the United States. And here's the problem: The president decided that he didn't like what somebody wrote about him in a newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos (the Washington Post). So he d...
[16:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:38] <exec> 08└─I am convinced. There is no bottom. There is no low that is too low. There is no evidence that will dissuade Trump and his Fox News fed band of mouseketeer cheerleaders. Trump really could shoot someone on fifth avenue and there would be no consequences. None. It would all be explained and hand wave...
[16:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:40] <exec> 08└─They are unerasable memes at a known non-tracking durable site so you don't have to go to my homepage or a corp site to see them. They are signal not noise.
[16:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:42] <exec> 08└─Remember when the government picking winners and losers was a bad thing?
[16:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:45] <exec> 08└─They do not appear to lead to any working web site. Could it be due to uMatrix?
[16:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:47] <exec> 08└─The rules are different for Trump.
[16:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:49] <exec> 08└─Hmmm.....this is an interesting idea. Perhaps we should have the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency look into it!
[16:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:17] <exec> 08└─> Funny, I saw my first real air problems being related to Airbus. That may be so, but what we are being shown here is not just one persons anecdote about the quality of Boeing. Instead it is a systematic and cultural attitude towards pursuing profit above all else, including safety, engineering qua...
[16:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:18] <exec> 08└─Plunging into Java sea (pron. C) because of faulty software...
[16:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Google Researchers Used Neural Networks to Make Weather Forecasts - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:40] <exec> 08└─It's not even exponential, it's way worse. It literally hits a limit where you can't go any further because sensitivity on initial conditions is so great, and the initial conditions have intrinsic noise in them. This has been known for nearly 60 years, when Lorenz at MIT first discovered the now ubi...
[16:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:02] <exec> 08└─<no-sarcasm> Theory: NSA had already weaponized this. AND understood exactly how to fix it. Time passes . . . Suddenly, NSA discovers this is out in the open and about to be used against us, so it pretends to be the good guy and hands this to Microsoft along with information on how to immediately fi...
[16:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:03] <exec> 08└─but apparently no one cares...
[16:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Huawei in UK 5G Network 'Madness', Says US - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:23] <exec> 08└─cash-in on tabloid interest
[16:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:51] <exec> 08└─I would agree with that sentiment if I believed it to be true, but anytime I see this kind of shit from Apple I see crocodile tears and free marketing.
[16:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:43] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of ordinary people's need for computing devices can be done on a smartphone or tablet.
[16:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:26] <exec> 08└─You just took a bunch of deaths with no clear cause injury/fall/poisoning, why not add old age in there. The point is cars are a clear preventable cause of death. If you incentivize other safer modes of transport car deaths go down, as in Norway. Your food choices are just that, CHOICES. While drivi...
[16:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03zion-fueled [8646] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:27] <exec> 08└─Norway stops use of cars in city center: Sees drop in CAR accident fatalities. Need to call the airlines quick! Crashes are going to be a thing of the past... nobody steal this; I'm going to be RICH!
[16:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:29] <exec> 08└─Monkeyman flings poo at the comedian.
[16:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:38] <exec> 08└─What we need is dense, moist forests that create cool microclimates that brings more rainfall to sustain those forests.
[16:57:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:40] <exec> 08└─Considering that that's what they were doing already?
[16:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:42] <exec> 08└─The problem is there are no rewards available for reducing your carbon footprint. The costs are externalized, and any attempt at all to internalize it (via, say, carbon credits), people have an epic meltdown over government cash grabs, etc. My dad is like that. He has a total mental break every time...
[16:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:44] <exec> 08└─5. Still did not have any children***
[16:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Robots Built Using Frog Cells: Tiny 'xenobots' Assembled From Cells Promise Advances - 1632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:13] <exec> 08└─Looking at it further, the Flood itself may not have caused the dramatic decreases in life span as recorded in the Bible. I wouldn't rule out environmental factors being at least somewhat responsible for the drop in life expectancy. A pretty convincing argument was the lack of genetic diversity. Whi...
[16:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 1543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:56] <exec> 08└─The GPL doesn't protect you from 3rd party copyright infringement claims. You write some code, you don't license it under the gpl, some boss comes along and then incorporates it into their code and licenses it under the gpl, you can still sue everyone in the chain for violating your copyright. Same...
[16:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:57] <exec> 08└─Nope - Sun was in no position to license code that didn't even exist after it was bought by Oracle. Oracle, as the new copyright owners, were allowed to refuse any new licenses. That is how copyright works. Any additional code Oracle added to their version of the language that was added to the openJ...
[16:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:59] <exec> 08└─It is correct that the GPL doesn't protect you from your own infringement of someone's copyright. Exceptions would be JDKs and JVMs that were obtained directly from Sun with a more permissive license, to use and redistribute. This doesn't somehow get passed on to later versions distributed by Oracle
[17:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:02] <exec> 08└─The way GPL works is that all code in Java that did not exist at the time of Sun still falls under the GPL+classpath. More patents is not a sign of innovation. It is more a sign of hindering innovation. Java may eventually become irrelevant. I don't have a crystal ball. Today, it is still the number...
[17:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:39] <exec> 08└─Why do you think I left?!?!?
[17:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Narrows Down Mars 2020 Rover Names: Hello, Fido? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:40] <exec> 08└─Too long. How about "Kate"?
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[17:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06“Marshmallow Test” Redux: Children Show Better Self-Control When They Depend on Each Other - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:59] <exec> 08└─Eat the 1st marshmellon, kill the experimenter when he walks into the room and eat the rest of them.
[17:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06“Marshmallow Test” Redux: Children Show Better Self-Control When They Depend on Each Other - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:00] <exec> 08└─Gimme 10 marshmallows or I'll tell mommy you touched me.
[17:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:17] <exec> 08└─Try to make swing components run on Android. Good luck with that.
[17:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:18] <exec> 08└─Swing is an example of APIs excluded from Android. For good reason. It doesn't make sense. Swing is a classic desktop GUI toolkit. Despite Google excluding swing, some perverse and highly motivated person could probably build a working implementation. Swing rests on AWT which isn't that large. If th...
[17:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:20] <exec> 08└─"If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it". I'm afraid I can't afford it ^_^;; CYA
[17:52:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:35] <exec> 08└─Please, like the defense department could possibly research, develop, build and verify a redundant grid of routing nodes that distribute computing capabilities across the entire country.
[17:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:48] <exec> 08└─I'll stop worrying that they are anything dangerous. Thanks for the info.
[17:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:42] <exec> 08└─If you want to switch from Windows to Linux, you generally won't buy a new PC, you'll just install Linux on the existing PC.
[17:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:41] <exec> 08└─And the effect acidification is having on fish. [nofrakkingconsensus.com]
[17:57:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:42] <exec> 08└─Then position it just beyond the Lagrange point where the sun's gravity exactly offsets the light pressure.
[17:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:59] <exec> 08└─Just to point out: It is a SIMPLE FACT that Oracle's Open JDK is GPL + classpath licensed. You can't argue that fact away.
[18:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:01] <exec> 08└─And Oracle, as a he copyright holder, is entirely within its rights to tell openjdk to stop using the name Java and, if they are found to be the holders of the copyright to the apps s, to tel everyone to immediately cease using them. So what is the point? OpenJDK doesn't hold the copyright to the AP...
[18:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Future of US Programming Under Threat as US Supreme Court Hears Case on APIs - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:03] <exec> 08└─The problem is that if Oracle is ruled to own the copyright to the APIs, they can say "stop using them " and OpenJDK would have to be reimplemented using different APIs. The GPL is clear - any code that doesn't have the copyright holders permission must be removed. The alternative is that Oracle lo...
[18:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:20] <exec> 08└─No. Today's left feels like 80 radical evangelicals, censorship, prudishness, shunning (cancel culture), self-righteousness, a sense of being culturally and intellectually infallibility, mean spirited, dogmatic. I can see now that this was budding pre-Trump, but Trump's election made the worst aspec...
[18:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:22] <exec> 08└─80=80s
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[18:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An 'Unknown' Burst of Gravitational Waves Just Lit Up Earth's Detectors - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:49] <exec> 08└─Had bean burrito last night.
[18:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06“Marshmallow Test” Redux: Children Show Better Self-Control When They Depend on Each Other - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:01] <exec> 08└─I propose a modification [twitter.com]
[18:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06“Marshmallow Test” Redux: Children Show Better Self-Control When They Depend on Each Other - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:02] <exec> 08└─Are children who are born in March or in December more likely to delay gratification? And what can this tell us about their love life and partner compatibility? Something I think many don't know is that at one time astrology was literally a 'real' science at least as well regarded as psychology. And...
[18:52:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:31] <exec> 08└─Is it wrong to root for Microsoft to win?
[18:52:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:35] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to rooting for the best service at the lowest price
[18:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:49] <exec> 08└─With all the bitching and moaning here about politicians being on the dole and subverting selection processes, you want to root for a case of explicit political interference in the contracting process? This is exactly why things are so effed up these days and we have this particular person in the Wh...
[18:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:21] <exec> 08└─"This airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys."
[18:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:22] <exec> 08└─Boeing is probably the single most well connected company in congress. Nothing's going to happen to them except some token executive shuffling.
[18:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:56] <exec> 08└─And I'm kind of OK with that. It's their job to advocate for the interests of their organization (so long as it's constitutional). And it's our job to tell them to fuck off.
[18:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:58] <exec> 08└─Protecting the data of criminals and terrorists (by making the devices actually secure) has been one of their more admirable moves.
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[19:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An 'Unknown' Burst of Gravitational Waves Just Lit Up Earth's Detectors - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:55] <exec> 08└─but, Betelgeuse is "still there" in the visible spectrum.
[19:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An 'Unknown' Burst of Gravitational Waves Just Lit Up Earth's Detectors - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:57] <exec> 08└─The gravitational waves we've detected so far usually relate to extreme cosmic events
[19:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An 'Unknown' Burst of Gravitational Waves Just Lit Up Earth's Detectors - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:59] <exec> 08└─I was wondering if it was from that star which is dimming in Orion's belt.
[19:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“Marshmallow Test” Redux: Children Show Better Self-Control When They Depend on Each Other - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:11] <exec> 08└─The classic experiment has had some big attacks leveled against it in recent years. You're going to need 100s more kids and imagine things you never thought about to measure in the test group lest somebody decades later wants to score some skeptic points because you didn't isolate cyborg-gendered ki...
[19:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“Marshmallow Test” Redux: Children Show Better Self-Control When They Depend on Each Other - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:13] <exec> 08└─I think those attacks are mostly valid and social destiny is a somewhat dubious concept that is prone to oversimplification, but I appreciate a single independent variable natural experiment even so. Just because I'd be wary of taking the original experiment and drawing conclusions like "if we teach...
[19:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06“Marshmallow Test” Redux: Children Show Better Self-Control When They Depend on Each Other - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:15] <exec> 08└─Poor impulse control is correlated with a smaller prefrontal cortex as found in psychopaths. Delayed gratification and good impulse control are not necessarily the same thing.
[19:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“Marshmallow Test” Redux: Children Show Better Self-Control When They Depend on Each Other - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:17] <exec> 08└─That wikipedia article mentions several replications? The lede mentions that subsequent replications found less effect size when accounting for SES, which is a bit of a no-brainer. The citation wikipedia uses for that is even an article titled "The marshmallow test held up OK".
[19:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“Marshmallow Test” Redux: Children Show Better Self-Control When They Depend on Each Other - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:19] <exec> 08└─It is easily as complex as predicting the weather. no matter how much they isolate variables there are many involved and some that get missed. Plus here the clouds know they are being observed and studied; even kids know something is unusual. It's in the LIMITS of science so while it is "soft" it is...
[19:52:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:27] <exec> 08└─10 seconds later 5 new "cool" javascript frameworks are loaded into every page somehow managing to consume all of it to look at one picture on a photo sharing site.
[19:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:39] <exec> 08└─does this POS require blobs for the firmware and/or drivers? will it run postmarketOS or ubuntu touch without a bunch of BS? if not, shove that flagship up your Taiwanese ass.
[19:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:40] <exec> 08└─You can presume you have privacy on Apple. It's a much more closed platform, though, so you can't verify it. Just trust Apple. If that's your choice.
[19:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:43] <exec> 08└─I'm on a refurbed Galaxy S7 that was $99. That's about what I'm willing to pay and I got a 'flagship' for that price.
[19:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:45] <exec> 08└─Korean. Samsung is a Korean company. It's the Apple products that are manufactured in China by a Taiwanese company. Do you have the source code for the firmware in your keyboard? In your hard drive??
[19:53:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 1539 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:03] <exec> 08└─It doesn't sound from TFS that Microsoft is really the defendant, it sounds like the real defendant is the president of the United States. And here's the problem: The president decided that he didn't like what somebody wrote about him in a newspaper owned by Jeff Bezos (the Washington Post). So he d...
[19:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:14] <exec> 08└─Goodness, where's the "Tin-Foil Hat" mod?
[19:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:15] <exec> 08└─Is it wrong to root for Microsoft to win?
[19:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:17] <exec> 08└─You lost me when you used "rules" and "Trump" in the same sentence.
[19:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:20] <exec> 08└─the government shouldn't be in the business of extorting tax dollars from whoring cowards and handing it over to private corps. fuck em.
[19:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:22] <exec> 08└─imagine you're a free man, and tell them to fuck off.
[19:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:24] <exec> 08└─Is it wrong to root for Microsoft to win?
[19:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:26] <exec> 08└─ahh, the slaves' constant refrain of "conspiracy theorist".
[19:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:28] <exec> 08└─yes, and if the american taxpayers had any integrity left they wouldn't be paying for the country's destruction, regardless of which fake ass party was in office.
[19:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:00] <exec> 08└─I was wondering when someone would add the "supervised by monkeys". If they said "supervised by apes" it would not be an insult, since humans are apes. Well done, wrapping it in a joke that got a chuckle from me.
[19:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:02] <exec> 08└─I'm one, I swore off flying when they started the TSA. I spent three decades working for Illinois and have had more than my share of bureaucracy.
[19:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:04] <exec> 08└─Traveling Slave Abusers
[19:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Google Researchers Used Neural Networks to Make Weather Forecasts - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:26] <exec> 08└─That's idiotic, the weather isn't random and over short periods of time, this approach is fine. Whereas what you lost id's purely random. Thus is great for periods of time to short for doing a proper model. or can also allow more complicated models to be run by allowing more time,
[19:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:50] <exec> 08└─i assume this is standard operating procedure.
[19:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Huawei in UK 5G Network 'Madness', Says US - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:12] <exec> 08└─When they can't compete, they impose pointless embargoes.
[19:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:42] <exec> 08└─purposely weakening encryption is not constitutional. it is by definition, sedition. if i were in charge i would start charging fuckers.
[19:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:38] <exec> 08└─I think you want a Playstation.
[19:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global PC Sales Up for First Time in 7 Straight Years - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:40] <exec> 08└─I just bought a laptop a few months ago for that very reason; my old Acer was missing some keys and was so full of dust it would overheat after half an hour of use. Replaced it with a Dell Inspiron 11 3000. I'll post a review soon. TL;DR: it's s l o w , , ,
[19:57:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:26] <exec> 08└─On topic Rush song, Red Barchetta https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[19:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:43] <exec> 08└─I linked to an article that shows a huge scientific miss that anyone can appreciate. Signs were put up at a National Park that had to be taken down again because climate-model-based predictions were wrong. Some technical article about ocean heat content or whatever you're referring to doesn't cut th...
[19:58:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 1433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:44] <exec> 08└─Gore is a self-serving asshole. That doesn't mean all of the other climate research being done is wrong. I have a relative that works for the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. He spends months at a time out at sea taking temperature readings from sensor buoys that measure the te...
[19:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 1120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:46] <exec> 08└─No amount of individual responsibility will solve this problem. I commend your dedication. I have kids, and I love them more than anything, but if I had been thinking more clearly twenty years ago we would have adopted children instead of contributing to the population. But 100 companies are respons...
[19:58:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:49] <exec> 08└─Loggers and coal miners understand the value of the environment in an abstract sense, but if you shut down their industry you just stopped their ability to pay the mortgage and put food on the table. And in most areas, their employers are the only job options available. When given the choice between...
[19:58:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:51] <exec> 08└─Ok boomer [cnn.com]
[20:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:29] <exec> 08└─I would have rejected it as well. But, fixed it and resubmitted! Result? We're sorry, your submission "Trump's Iran brinksmanship has lost him alt-right leader Richard Spencer" [soylentnews.org] was declined for the following reason: Can't see a STEM or technology link. No thanks--JR The editors fe...
[20:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:30] <exec> 08└─That if elected I will push for changing "Politics" to "Musings from the Ancients" and blanket approve all aristarchus submissions there #Freearistarchus
[20:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Your Name Here! - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:33] <exec> 08└─from the Anti-takyon particle feed dept. Richard Spencer is probably best known for organizing the torch-wielding "Unite the Right" white nationalist march in Charlottesville and for leading a Nazi-like salute of President-elect Trump at an "alt-right" conference in Washington. But the white nation...
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[20:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Philippine Volcano Trembles More, Spews Lava Half-Mile High - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:52] <exec> 08└─Even Earth is reacting to Ethanol Fueled's increased shit posting. If jmorris logs back in as himself we might just get armageddon.
[20:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Philippine Volcano Trembles More, Spews Lava Half-Mile High - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:53] <exec> 08└─HOW DARE YOU!
[20:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philippine Volcano Trembles More, Spews Lava Half-Mile High - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:55] <exec> 08└─A volcano near the Philippine capital spewed lava into the sky and trembled constantly Tuesday
[20:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An 'Unknown' Burst of Gravitational Waves Just Lit Up Earth's Detectors - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:06] <exec> 08└─LIGO and Virgo are on different continents, if they both detect something at the same time it is probably not 'local' on Earth scale.
[20:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An 'Unknown' Burst of Gravitational Waves Just Lit Up Earth's Detectors - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:08] <exec> 08└─It would if the designers didn't think about that problem...but they did, along with many other potential sources of error. To your question, the detectors are over a thousand miles apart. Lots more details here, https://www.ligo.caltech.edu [caltech.edu]
[20:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An 'Unknown' Burst of Gravitational Waves Just Lit Up Earth's Detectors - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:10] <exec> 08└─Very interesting. Thanks. I have no mod points remaining.
[20:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:50] <exec> 08└─Is needed for all the junk software and OS bloat that Samsung integrate with their phones. I have an Asus 5Z and it never uses near it's 6GB RAM. Just because of minimalist Android. I have over 100 tabs open on Firefox too.
[20:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:28] <exec> 08└─you might want to unblock archive.is -- it's sort of a clone of archive.org , may have the old page you are looking for if the Wayback machine doesn't have it.
[20:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:30] <exec> 08└─> ...partisan comments Nobody here (or anywhere, really) likes MicroSoft, not even people that run their software, hating on MS is just normal.
[20:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:32] <exec> 08└─Award the contract to Oracle. It'll be FOBAR.
[20:54:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:02] <exec> 08└─"This airplane is designed by clowns who in turn are supervised by monkeys."
[20:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:08] <exec> 08└─Guess you missed the Comet and the Electra.
[20:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:47] <exec> 08└─from the won't-or-can't? dept.
[20:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Denies FBI Request to Unlock Shooter’s iPhone - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:48] <exec> 08└─Does it? I didn't hear anywhere in TFS where Apple said they CANNOT decrypt the phone, just that they WILL NOT help decrypt the phone. These are substantively different.
[20:58:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:53] <exec> 08└─Are you going to argue for a flat earth? Because that would be really funny. Oh, and if you look up and pay attention at night you can see the stars change. If you travel from the Southern hemisphere to the northern you can see the stars change too. It's not hard to do either.
[20:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:54] <exec> 08└─Because space is not real. The earth is not flat, but it is like a round grape floating in a flat vast ocean.
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[21:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philippine Volcano Trembles More, Spews Lava Half-Mile High - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, a volcano spewing copyrighted APIs into the air would be a clear case of willful infringement. In that case, I'm sure Larry would have sent his lawyers already with a cease and desist and an invoice.
[21:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Philippine Volcano Trembles More, Spews Lava Half-Mile High - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:04] <exec> 08└─Perhaps this is an uncaught exception?
[21:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philippine Volcano Trembles More, Spews Lava Half-Mile High - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:06] <exec> 08└─Or just a nice pick me up? Definition of java (Entry 1 of 2) 1 : coffee
[21:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sfm [675] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An 'Unknown' Burst of Gravitational Waves Just Lit Up Earth's Detectors - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:20] <exec> 08└─Gravity waves are predicted to travel at the speed of light..... Could we find an optical version of this "event" and test this hypothesis ? Alternative statement: "Can you see Betelgeuse now ?? "
[21:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An 'Unknown' Burst of Gravitational Waves Just Lit Up Earth's Detectors - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:22] <exec> 08└─Well, yes and no. The interferometers are looking for precisely shaped (frequency and amplitude) waveforms. Earth vibrations (including trucks going past the facility, it's very sensitive) would be seen as noise rather than signal. Of course, in order to see the signal, you want to get rid of the no...
[21:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“Marshmallow Test” Redux: Children Show Better Self-Control When They Depend on Each Other - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:41] <exec> 08└─Dammit, now I want a nice, moist ginger cookie. Wait, that might sound bad.
[21:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“Marshmallow Test” Redux: Children Show Better Self-Control When They Depend on Each Other - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:42] <exec> 08└─Why did they move away from marshmallows?
[21:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:07] <exec> 08└─And why not? The S7 was a pretty good phone, and continues to do anything you might need to do. I have an S8 that I bought after the S9 was released, so I got it at a roughly 50% discount. It will do everything I want it to until something vital fails., which might be 5 years. When that does happe...
[21:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galaxy S20 Ultra to Come With a Whopping 16GB of RAM - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:09] <exec> 08└─No joke. You can bet that at least one of them will be doing crypto mining.
[21:53:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 416 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:29] <exec> 08└─I am convinced. There is no bottom. There is no low that is too low. There is no evidence that will dissuade Trump and his Fox News fed band of mouseketeer cheerleaders. Trump really could shoot someone on fifth avenue and there would be no consequences. None. It would all be explained and hand wave...
[21:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:50] <exec> 08└─Among his truly hardcore supporters, they've gotten to the point where they actually have a religious devotion to him, and firmly believe that he cannot do anything wrong under any circumstances. Which, incidentally, happens to be one of the signs somebody is the anti-Christ.
[21:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:13] <exec> 08└─It affected all versions of Windows that were still under support...
[21:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:51] <exec> 08└─Didnt you get the memo? 'Urbanisation' will save the planet (and being vegan, of course.. and soy lattes....) You are supposed to live in a 30 sq.m 'appartment' by yourself, with no children, interacting with others only in expensive coffee shops and social media. You must be available 24/7 for 'Gig...
[21:57:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:52] <exec> 08└─That's not really an issue. You'd still commute, but proper mass transit wouldn't require long distances or long waits to transfer. Mixed use neighborhoods can work, but it's not what messes up mad transit.
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[22:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle Ties Previous All-Time Patch High with January Updates - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:51] <exec> 08└─At least it's better than "We may fix that in the next release" that I heard oh so many times from them in the 1990s.
[22:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oracle Ties Previous All-Time Patch High with January Updates - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:52] <exec> 08└─Since it affects multiple products, they should release some sort of interface for their applications that someone can program to. They could release this so-called application programming interface so that everybody could use and benefit from it. Win-win! How could they NOT like an approach like th...
[22:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philippine Volcano Trembles More, Spews Lava Half-Mile High - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:06] <exec> 08└─When Java programmers speak of "dependency injection" [wikipedia.org] they are not referring to caffeine. :-)
[22:52:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pe1rxq [844] 02 - 06An 'Unknown' Burst of Gravitational Waves Just Lit Up Earth's Detectors - 133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:18] <exec> 08└─LIGO and Virgo are on different continents, if they both detect something at the same time it is probably not 'local' on Earth scale.
[22:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An 'Unknown' Burst of Gravitational Waves Just Lit Up Earth's Detectors - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:23] <exec> 08└─Thanks, that is interesting.
[22:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“Marshmallow Test” Redux: Children Show Better Self-Control When They Depend on Each Other - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:44] <exec> 08└─You had me until "cookie".
[22:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“Marshmallow Test” Redux: Children Show Better Self-Control When They Depend on Each Other - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:45] <exec> 08└─Plus, you know, context. Kids didn't have cell phones/electronic music/big tvs/Disney XD/fire tornadoes back when the test was run, or had simpler ones. Who knows how differently the brain is shaped depending on the rest of their environment at the time? Just because most of physics doesn't have abs...
[22:53:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:45] <exec> 08└─Is it wrong to root for Microsoft to win?
[22:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:52] <exec> 08└─Are they really using "commercial" cloud? A lot of governments get them to build private cloud. It is not multi-tenanted like the commercial offerings - it just uses the same tech stack. It makes sense, they'd provide full stack data centers better than traditional data center vendors that build bas...
[22:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:54] <exec> 08└─Yea, cross/multi cloud is a wall even Trump would be proud of. Using kubernetes helps though, but I've not tried with Azure, only Google (GKE) and AWS (EKS) using Rancher. Your use case could be different of course. I stay away from Azure as much as possible.
[22:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:57] <exec> 08└─That observation has not escaped me. There is another term used in Thessalonians is "the lawless one". Trump openly bragged before the election that he was the ONLY one who could negotiate peace between Israel and the Palestinians. We will see. (Dan 9:27) Some people say this couldn't refer to Trump...
[22:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06737 Max "Designed by Clowns"; Boeing Suppliers Affected by Production Suspension - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:33] <exec> 08└─A problem I have with these kind of things is that it is really easy to take out of context. I bet you can find some version of your quote in employee emails from almost any company that designs and builds things. The worker bees bitch about management and how incompetent they are. It makes great he...
[22:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Google Researchers Used Neural Networks to Make Weather Forecasts - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:58] <exec> 08└─This is comparing apples to oranges. Google and Ars put this just enough to not technically be wrong but are misleading. They also bounce around between comparisons and not making clear which is which. They mention how the HRRR model takes an hour, but neglects to mention which HRRR model they use....
[22:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using Huawei in UK 5G Network 'Madness', Says US - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:45] <exec> 08└─The US has now completely lost its moral ground.
[22:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right, how dares Oslo improve the quality of life for it's citizens when this throws sand in khallow's psychopathologic-post-factum-rationalized choice of statistics, when they could increase the cost of living and sacrifice human lifves in the process. I'm letting here [bbc.com], on the remot...
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[23:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oracle Ties Previous All-Time Patch High with January Updates - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:06] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure it's much better to be scoring like golf, not like basketball. Oh well, this way, they can show everyone that they're security conscious, just look at all the security patches we made in January 2020 and it's not even over yet!
[23:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Oracle Ties Previous All-Time Patch High with January Updates - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:07] <exec> 08└─What happened over at Oracle? Did they simply not pay any attention to security until last quarter? Did they install a new security team that knew what they were doing? Somewhere in their development life-cycle it seems that they need to have some sort of QA. Then again when I need a patch, it doe...
[23:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Philippine Volcano Trembles More, Spews Lava Half-Mile High - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:21] <exec> 08└─Philippine students did not strike enough. Sad.
[23:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Philippine Volcano Trembles More, Spews Lava Half-Mile High - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:23] <exec> 08└─You didn't hear the news? Ethanol is the head editor of /. now.
[23:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An 'Unknown' Burst of Gravitational Waves Just Lit Up Earth's Detectors - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:41] <exec> 08└─things are only looking up
[23:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An 'Unknown' Burst of Gravitational Waves Just Lit Up Earth's Detectors - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:43] <exec> 08└─Astronomers have already swung their telescopes to the interesting portion of the sky, listening in across different wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum for a whisper of what might have occurred.
[23:53:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:39] <exec> 08└─I'll take the Cowboy Neal option, Alex: I'm rooting for them all to lose.
[23:54:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:01] <exec> 08└─Is it wrong to root for Microsoft to win?
[23:54:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:11] <exec> 08└─Among his truly hardcore supporters, they've gotten to the point where they actually have a religious devotion to him, and firmly believe that he cannot do anything wrong under any circumstances. Which, incidentally, happens to be one of the signs somebody is the anti-Christ.
[23:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Asks Court to Block US/Microsoft Contract Because of Trump Interference - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:16] <exec> 08└─If you want the full case, a "formerly fundie" writer lays it out: Could American Evangelicals Spot the Antichrist? [benjaminlcorey.com]
[23:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10: NSA Reveals Major Flaw in Microsoft's Code - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:43] <exec> 08└─No it doesn't, not the this particular one that's related to the cryptoAPI cve as far as I can tell. It only affects Win 10, Win Server 2016 and 2019.
[23:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Huawei in UK 5G Network 'Madness', Says US - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:07] <exec> 08└─No, they run shadow banking with high interest rates.
[23:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oslo Only Suffered One Car-Related Death In 2019 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:26] <exec> 08└─Depends. Does that real mass transit go where you want it to go?
[23:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ocean Temperatures Hit Record High as Rate of Heating Accelerates - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:49] <exec> 08└─No, the the *ocean* is flat. Trust your senses. If you look through anything curved (ie, a lens) it makes an object appear curve even if not. This is why the ocean may appear curved in pictures (where the image was passed through a curved camera lens) or in first person (where the image passes throu...