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[00:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-scooters? - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:54] <exec> 08└─To heck with e-scooters, I want my Jetson's moving sidewalks. Heck, how about Futurama's pneumatic people-tubes? E-scooters were only "popular" because they artificially required a smart phone to get/use them. Essentially, they were rolling smart phone advertisements paid for by cell phone vendors.
[00:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-scooters? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:55] <exec> 08└─If you want to pick by emissions, e-bike is an acceptable compromise. Some slopes will kick your ass on a regular bike.
[00:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-scooters? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:57] <exec> 08└─They use electricity and she hates electricity. She wants everyone to walk everywhere, and eat bugs.
[00:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:10] <exec> 08└─P=NP for N=1. QED. I hereby direct you to send my $1 million prize to SoylentNews for their groundbreaking work in transgender studies.
[00:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:12] <exec> 08└─That's an unfair exageration. Quantum coin tosses and other zero-information protocols have been rigorously proved as long as you're prepared to accept *any* of the accepted interpretations of quantum mechanics (including many worlds-alikes).
[00:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:18] <exec> 08└─Here's a tip: they still seem to work quite well for killing humans
[00:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:19] <exec> 08└─You CNC the carrots. A laser engraver works wonders and also boost your level of geekness - especially if you use deep-UV lasers and manage cuts at a few nanometers scale. (should I grin?)
[00:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:21] <exec> 08└─Use a serrated / scalloped knife to cut tomatoes. The flat edge of a knife just squishes them. Seriously, get away from it.
[00:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:24] <exec> 08└─You haven't noticed? In many places throughout the US it's illegal to repair your home.
[00:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03paul_engr [8666] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:26] <exec> 08└─Fucking cauliflower is always too big and you need a chainsaw or a katana to break it up into mouth sized chunks.
[00:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:28] <exec> 08└─Unless it's rounded like a frosting knife it has a tip
[00:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:30] <exec> 08└─Cooking is a diverse enough universe that you need all kinds of utensils, not just different kinds of knives. Some of it's cultural too. An Ulu is traditionally used for just about anything (I use one a lot for vegetables), and the tips can be used somewhat like a tipped knife. Even if I were willin...
[00:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:32] <exec> 08└─Building a gun requires some tech. Sharpening the tip of a knife is child's play. Face it, banning guns gets you knives, banning knives gets you makeshift knives or screwdrivers or acid or fingers in the eye. The difference is less amount of damage per effort, and less protection for the outnumbered...
[00:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:35] <exec> 08└─Bringing back stop and search powers for the police would help. Having more cops on the beat would help that help help more.
[00:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:37] <exec> 08└─It seems no one on either side of the pond wants to solve the underlying issues: poverty, violence, and economic stressors. Happy people don't, as a rule, perforate one another, whether at close range or far-off. I see two schools of "thought;" the do-nothing/make-it-worse crowd exemplified by, for...
[00:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:39] <exec> 08└─Even if I were willing to use only "safety" knives like this,
[00:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:41] <exec> 08└─They don't need to ban knives, they need to learn statistics. There's been a recent uptick in knife crimes after an unusual low a few years back, but overall it's about average. I can't find specific data for knife crimes, but here's the forty-year figures for violent crime [ons.gov.uk]. This is reg...
[00:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the Laser Printer, Dies at 81 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:55] <exec> 08└─He just ran out of toner.
[00:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the Laser Printer, Dies at 81 - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:57] <exec> 08└─The motherfucker was a tank. I think Apple put on a facade over it to resell it Apple LaserWriter. I would keep using it if I could get cartridges to work it. HP used to be an outfit producing quality products. Oh well.
[00:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:41] <exec> 08└─The descendants of the dinosaurs are avians. I don't see them inventing rockets.
[00:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:42] <exec> 08└─The first artificial satellites were purely ballistic. Including the ones that impacted the moon.
[00:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:44] <exec> 08└─and you're caling those "robots"? this gets weirder and weirder.
[00:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:15] <exec> 08└─Well, yeah, antipathy is a people problem. We no longer have any technological issues. We can produce anything we need.
[00:57:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:16] <exec> 08└─Problem is that renewable is either solar, in a country that gets next to no sun between about November and March (either because of limited daylight hours or because the sky is end-to-end dull leaden grey), and wind, which is mostly on or near the north sea and in the Bundestag. It'll be interestin...
[00:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:19] <exec> 08└─But, makes you less competitive with countries that don't or pretend not to care.
[00:58:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:53] <exec> 08└─Christ, you're right, and that's *even worse...*
[01:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:51] <exec> 08└─Recall Stranger in a Strange Land
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[01:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-scooters? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:10] <exec> 08└─They have scooter emissions exactly half that as a car. Sure maybe if you can fit 8 people in your car, fact is most cars are driving single occupancy
[01:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:25] <exec> 08└─N=0
[01:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:27] <exec> 08└─The requirements of having two quantumly entangled pseudorandomly lying all knowing oracle insure that it will forever stay a theoretical machine. However that doesn't preclude some pratical insight to emerge from that purely theoretical work.
[01:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:46] <exec> 08└─>blockquote>Face it, banning guns gets you knives, banning knives gets you makeshift knives or screwdrivers or acid or fingers in the eye... Armed police forces would benefit, but armed police forces, as yet unable to see into the future, tend to materialize too late. And the relevance of this is.....
[01:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:48] <exec> 08└─Ahhh, misunderstood your point then. Well then look no further than the Ulu as an example for that argument. Impossible to call that knife useless. If I had to choose one knife for my kitchen, it would be a high quality crescent shaped Ulu. My favorite thing is, with the proper shape, you can rock t...
[01:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:50] <exec> 08└─you can rock them back and forth ... in a small in a concave surface
[01:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:52] <exec> 08└─"solve the underlying issues: poverty, violence, and economic stressors" Communism is supposed to eliminate poverty and economic stressors, how is that working out? How do you eliminate the underlying issue of violence? Violence is just human nature, for some people more than others. Other than lock...
[01:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:54] <exec> 08└─And, if that idea isn't absurd enough, you might consider removing baby's head.
[01:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine in Stage 1 Trials - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:11] <exec> 08└─Understood. I was actually thinking more an allergic reaction or contamination of some sort. Possible. Not probable.
[01:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:58] <exec> 08└─A few more replies to get the all time record on reply indentation
[01:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:00] <exec> 08└─Or we live far longer than present, and the cost of building and launching a "Generation ship" drops to the point where bored people can do it on a whim. The Fermi paradox would merely mean that this hasn't yet happened on a scale where we'd notice.
[01:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:02] <exec> 08└─You can't become a spacefaring species if you don't start with Elon Musk. Once you have that, you're ready to take over the galaxy if you can find enough suckers to back you.
[01:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:04] <exec> 08└─Or I can ignore this weighty non problem and nothing happens. I got this.
[01:57:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:37] <exec> 08└─renewable is either solar,..., and wind
[01:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Carbon Chomping FrankenBricks for the Moon, Mars, and Mainstreet - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:33] <exec> 08└─Mars has CO2, free as air. It's a huge part of why it's more viable for independence from Earth. Making the moon anything approaching independent requires asteroid mining and baking regolith for absorbed volatiles. Even then it is a very hard resource constraint.
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[02:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:56] <exec> 08└─Everybody feels warmer because their blood is cooler. Do I win an award?
[02:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:07] <exec> 08└─There's a graph? All I see is a photo. 4 black guys on little wheels, and 2 lazy-ass crackers sitting on big wheels. Racism, LA style. I suppose that if I played with noscript, I might get an article, and a graph - but why bother? If LATimes can't write a decent web page, it's probably not worth rea...
[02:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:24] <exec> 08└─In the dark mists of prehistory, people trekked to ask questions of muses and oracles, or cast some chicken bones, or monkey bones, or whatever. Now, we imagine some quantum oracles, and pose our questions to them. I guess that's better than slaughtering the local wildlife for their bones.
[02:53:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 945 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:15] <exec> 08└─You haven't noticed? In many places throughout the US it's illegal to repair your home. Even if it's not, apparently doing plumbing or electrical work yourself will void your insurance policy. The movement is explicitly toward preventing you from being able to do _anything_ -- and so if you can't do...
[02:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:48] <exec> 08└─But what if a young hoodlum decides to carry a CNC around with them and use it as a weapon? Shouldn't we ban them?
[02:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:49] <exec> 08└─I cannot confirm or deny your allegation but please do not talk about the tomatoes lobby!
[02:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:51] <exec> 08└─Yes! I use a knife to kill cauliflower!
[02:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:53] <exec> 08└─Not bad for carving pumpkins, watermelons, or bodies, though.
[02:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:56] <exec> 08└─In the words of King Leonidas, molon labe!
[02:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:58] <exec> 08└─Projectile or crush injuries?
[02:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:00] <exec> 08└─The insanity in the UK is a look into the our future.
[02:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:02] <exec> 08└─But what if a young hoodlum decides to carry a CNC around with them and use it as a weapon? Shouldn't we ban them?
[02:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:05] <exec> 08└─One of these days you're going to break your legs, jumping to conclusions like that. And isn't it incredibly hard to see when your vision is only 1-bit monochromatic, pure black and white?
[02:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:07] <exec> 08└─Need a "+0 must be from USA" mod. And, not for this post, but also need a "-0 Whataboutism" mod (aka "the TMB" mod)
[02:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:09] <exec> 08└─Yet another example your head is not serving you, not one iota. The arguments I presented would convince any human with modicum rationality to implement the self-improvement without help or delay (grin)
[02:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:11] <exec> 08└─After all, machetes (often/usually) don't have points and no one ever died from being slashed with one of those, did they? Ever been to Rwanda? And yes they do have points
[02:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:13] <exec> 08└─Not bad for carving pumpkins, watermelons, or bodies, though.
[02:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 1491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:15] <exec> 08└─Actually you probably have. Violent crime in Europe dropped with the advent of the wheel lock pistol, then again even more with the simpler/cheaper/more reliable flintlock. In the UK, assaults per 100k were 2.39 in 1920 just before the English right to arms was eliminated, and by the turn of this ce...
[02:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:17] <exec> 08└─I'm retarded
[02:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:56] <exec> 08└─The pre-Merkel government had done a "binding" nuclear exit, then Mommy Merkel's government threw that over when she gained power (15 years ago, thank god for term limits in the US). When Fukushima blew up, they reinstated the nuclear exit because nuclear power was no longer tenable in society. I'll...
[02:57:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:58] <exec> 08└─First thing I think is, "It better last, cuz you can't get parts."
[02:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:00] <exec> 08└─First thing I think is, "It better last, cuz you can't get parts."
[02:58:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Law Enforcement Does Not Need Apple to Unlock a Suspect's iPhone - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:45] <exec> 08└─Something about broken clocks..
[02:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Carbon Chomping FrankenBricks for the Moon, Mars, and Mainstreet - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:56] <exec> 08└─Mars has CO2, free as air. It's a huge part of why it's more viable for independence from Earth.
[03:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Discloses Details for SpaceX Mars Mega-Colony - 3981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:39] <exec> 08└─Those are no doubt engineering challenges - and I suspect ones that are being considered. What is a curtain in that context? If it's just dust containment, it should work much the same, only with an easier job since there is no air to help keep dust aloft. Shipping a stack of cutting teeth, and even...
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[03:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:57] <exec> 08└─maybe they can measure temperatures more accurately today?
[03:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:59] <exec> 08└─TFA mentions that As part of the study, the authors investigated the possibility that the decrease could reflect improvements in thermometer technology.
[03:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:01] <exec> 08└─The study shows that modern-day men have a body temperature 0.58C lower than their 19th century counterparts, while women's are 0.32C lower.
[03:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:03] <exec> 08└─The earth isn't warming, we're just getting cooler
[03:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:05] <exec> 08└─Slashdot has a post on this https://science.slashdot.org [slashdot.org] and the global warming joke was already posted there in the comments. Anyways the discussion there is worth going through.
[03:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:17] <exec> 08└─The graph is an image about halfway down, Grams of CO2 per mile Car 414 Scooter 202 Bus 82 electric bike 40 pushbike 8 From TFA The life-cycle analysis for scooters took into account emissions created by everything from manufacturing to shipping to disposal to the gas burned while workers drive arou...
[03:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:19] <exec> 08└─Weren't Segways the future in transportation?
[03:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:37] <exec> 08└─as long as you're prepared to accept *any* of the accepted interpretations of quantum mechanics
[03:52:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 572 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:52] <exec> 08└─I cannot remember the last time I used a knife. My caramel soy latte - does it use a knife? No. Does my Afghan cauliflower and tofu tikka kebab need a knife? No, again. Knives are only useful for two things: killing people and violating the bodies and flesh of other animals who never consented to su...
[03:53:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 571 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:07] <exec> 08└─Correct. One of the first things we invented as a species was the pointy stick. I've been carrying a pocket knife any time I had pants on since I was a six year old Cub Scout and never cut anyone but myself with it. Yes, in school. Yes, in church. Yes, even on airplanes. The last was even post-911....
[03:53:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 971 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:54] <exec> 08└─It seems no one on either side of the pond wants to solve the underlying issues: poverty, violence, and economic stressors. Happy people don't, as a rule, perforate one another, whether at close range or far-off. I see two schools of "thought;" the do-nothing/make-it-worse crowd exemplified by, for...
[03:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:18] <exec> 08└─Uhh, ball ammo is already round and hollow points /do/ have the points removed and are as a result much more effective at creating trauma...
[03:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:19] <exec> 08└─That's right. She predated Reagan by a whole year. We knew what was coming. How long was Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister? A. 900 years B. 3000 years C. 11 years ... They want you to say C. 11 years so I think it must be A. 900 years. It was a very, very long time."
[03:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:22] <exec> 08└─With the note that both the machete and the chainsaw will need cleaning anyway, I concede the point that the clean use of a chainsaw requires higher level of mastery and, consequently, a longer practice to the artistry levels able top arrest the escalation of the mess.
[03:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:24] <exec> 08└─Just kill the bastards in the street when they commit violent crime. Problem will be vastly reduced. There is no other solution. Well, maybe locking them up is 2nd best. Even better than killing them is not to bring likely troublemakers into your country in the first place.
[03:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the Laser Printer, Dies at 81 - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:41] <exec> 08└─Have they tried taking him out and shaking him a bit and then perhaps slam him a little against a desk or something? That is usually good for an extra print or two.
[03:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:29] <exec> 08└─Omg, you have an issue admitting it? We have a live one guys!!!
[03:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:49] <exec> 08└─Tiger penis may have been better for her than the psych drugs.
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[04:52:04] <exec> 08└─That...that was what they said...
[04:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:18] <exec> 08└─Only among a select group of people too rich to realize that $5K for a toy was not going to fly in the open market...
[04:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:20] <exec> 08└─My wife and I have had e-bikes for about a year now - she's kind of stopped using hers like most people stop using an exercise machine after they get it. I'm still using mine ~400 miles so far, but of those miles, maybe ~4 of them "replaced" fossil fuel powered trips, the rest would have been on a n...
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[04:52:39] <exec> 08└─if you have 2 all knowing entangled oracles
[04:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:22] <exec> 08└─Who needs hands? [youtu.be]
[04:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:24] <exec> 08└─This thread is about slicing and dicing humans, which begs the question, should the meat be marinated overnight in a sweet and sour sauce? Can the cat eat the bones without having to worry about splinters?
[04:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:26] <exec> 08└─Sells a lot of papers and makes for great political point-scoring though.
[04:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:28] <exec> 08└─banning knives gets you makeshift knives or screwdrivers or acid or fingers in the eye.
[04:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:30] <exec> 08└─That's telling more about your cooking ability.
[04:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine in Stage 1 Trials - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:50] <exec> 08└─That's not how that works. A severe reaction to my brother's second MMR shot resulted in the doctor telling my parents not to give him the third. You don't fuck around with reactions to medicine because it hasn't yet reached the level of statistical significance. Same goes for peanut allergies, some...
[04:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine in Stage 1 Trials - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:52] <exec> 08└─Not true, it's not supposed to put you out for a week, but that's not to say that it can't or doesn't happen. Severe reactions do happen and claiming it's not the case is simply a lie. If you look at the list of side effects from the shot, if you get most of them, that's going to be indistinguishabl...
[04:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine in Stage 1 Trials - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:54] <exec> 08└─From a strictly technical standpoint, you aren't supposed to be able to get the flu. The recommendation that they don't give the weakened strain version to certain people is likely just a matter of caution. However, if you look at the materials circulated with the shot, all of the symptoms of the fl...
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[05:52:08] <exec> 08└─Things like this are a big part of the reason I tend to always obsess over unforeseen consequences. The activities we engage in, the foodstuffs (let alone pharmaceuticals) we consume, and many other topics are things we still do not really understand. The standard test for the safety of a product is...
[05:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 1839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:25] <exec> 08└─I have to question this too. As you said, they probably don't count all the emissions made by cars while they drive around in circles looking for a parking space. And are they correctly assuming that the car has 1 person inside too, as is usually the case? Furthermore, are they assuming a car, or a...
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[05:52:45] <exec> 08└─I guess that's better than slaughtering the local wildlife for their bones.
[05:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:46] <exec> 08└─Never thought about it. Is jumping bones bad too?
[05:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:35] <exec> 08└─By going outside, you could (perhaps inadvertently) cause a death! Let alone suggest you try to operate a vehicle. Therefore we should make it illegal to go outside. Obviously. Eliminate the edge cases, eliminate the problem!
[06:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:02] <exec> 08└─The point you're ignoring is that they're engaging in research to evaluate whether or not it's working and when it does work weather it works better than other options. I get that it's China so, they don't know anything about medicine, hurr, hurr, hurr, but you're making yourself look like a moron....
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[06:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:09] <exec> 08└─I gather there is an optimal zone of temperature between say hypothermia (core below 35c) and hyperthermia (core above 37,5c). That said if normal is between 35c and 37,5c with the average being around 36,5c then there is a bit of a span and at least we are not getting hotter. So the question might...
[06:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:10] <exec> 08└─That's what persperation is for.
[06:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:13] <exec> 08└─I had forgotten about Slashdot. Buck feta.
[06:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:15] <exec> 08└─Then how come she is always complaining about being cold and messing with the thermostat?
[06:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:31] <exec> 08└─As for the CO2 cost of Lycra for male cyclists, don't be ridiculous.
[06:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:53] <exec> 08└─We're only beginning to understand and utilize quantum entanglement. Perhaps everything is linked outside of our perception and we can presently only perform small scale work, like instantaneous transfer of information from one point to another, regardless of distance.
[06:54:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 1491 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:30] <exec> 08└─Actually you probably have. Violent crime in Europe dropped with the advent of the wheel lock pistol, then again even more with the simpler/cheaper/more reliable flintlock. In the UK, assaults per 100k were 2.39 in 1920 just before the English right to arms was eliminated, and by the turn of this ce...
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[07:51:56] <exec> 08└─Showcase stadium, and the prime US provider of 5G couldn't even service that one stadium properly. https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] 5G is nothing but another corrupted money sink, and US corrupt...
[07:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:22] <exec> 08└─What is this "Slashdot" of which you speak? Is it a Boomer thing? Was it once as mighty as a Buzzard, or GeoCities, Yahoo, and Pets.com? Oh, how the minty have fallen!
[07:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:24] <exec> 08└─Thalidomide, anyone? This photo gallery is worth perusing. https://www.gettyimages.com [gettyimages.com] I started school with a pretty little girl, Susan, who had half a right arm, and less than half her left arm. I didn't...
[07:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:26] <exec> 08└─Also explains Runaway's half a dick. Mourning sickness was the least of his mother's worries.
[07:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Occam_s_blade_runner [9252] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:28] <exec> 08└─Over 100 years or so, there is supposedly a heavy trend of getting less and less daily calories from fat. A high fat diet turns your body into a furnace. Eskimos eat the blubber to achieve this. I am by default skeptical about science. I did it on me and it turned out to be true (but n = 1). You can...
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[08:02:22] <exec> 08└─That's an excellent point, which might be addressed here. [universetoday.com]. The gist is that if somebody is there to clean the panels the dust is less of a problem, and that you can avoid most of the dust storms by avoiding the regions that have stormy climates. Initially though, you'd probably w...
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[08:51:53] <exec> 08└─American networks are owned by companies that in turn are owned by kikes. The greed of the kikes causes the companies to act like psychopaths and cut costs at the expense of quality. American made hardware and software is far superior to anything manufactured or developed by chinks. Using Huawei tec...
[08:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Getting Huawei Out of US Networks Requires Gov't Funding, Senators Say - 1872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:55] <exec> 08└─If you read between the lines this is bought and paid for congressmen effectively trying to pass a bill to give hundreds of millions of dollars to what are no doubt the exact same companies that "donate" to fill the election chests for these very politicians. I am 100% for going full America on our...
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[08:51:57] <exec> 08└─We intended to create better, safer, and more rewarding jobs for workers. But this was one of countless examples of good intentions gone astray.
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[09:52:05] <exec> 08└─suddenly having the kid at the institute kindergarten with other researcher's kids is no longer a good idea, since some of them are chinese and they do travel home from time to time. luckily I live in a country where I can trust the medical system. not sure how much the trust is reasonable in this c...
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[09:52:47] <exec> 08└─No, these were [wikipedia.org]
[09:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wierd0n3 [1033] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:49] <exec> 08└─Honestly speaking, the c5 Probably has more of a market today compared to then. flip the wheelbase around, digital dashboard and Bluetooth audio, you'd have a kickstarter hit
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[09:53:12] <exec> 08└─as long as you're prepared to accept *any* of the accepted interpretations of quantum mechanics
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[10:52:30] <exec> 08└─You seem to be a good scientist then. Working in academia, I can confirm that most of your criticism holds true, it is a social process after all not primarily dictated by scientific thinking let alone a rigorous thinking process. From a meta-perspective, you do not have to be as negative though. Th...
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[11:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:52] <exec> 08└─Come on! Even Windows 10 is being hit...when will people learn to get off Windows?
[11:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:53] <exec> 08└─"which likely makes them a more tempting target for malicious cyber actors." Likley? So they don't have ANY hard information at all to back up that statement? Without that, this story is just FUD trying to make people buy a new computer or sell their privacy to Microsoft with Windows 10.
[11:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:55] <exec> 08└─Isn't it just an obvious statement? Hundreds of millions of Microsoft Windows computers are no longer receiving security updates at a time when it is common to find 10+ year old exploitable bugs.
[11:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Getting Huawei Out of US Networks Requires Gov't Funding, Senators Say - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:06] <exec> 08└─Take out Chinese hardware and put in American hardware and reinstall Windows.....smart move! The Chinese will own you still, but........
[11:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Getting Huawei Out of US Networks Requires Gov't Funding, Senators Say - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:08] <exec> 08└─I am 100% for going full America on our development of pretty much everything since I think we never actually 'evolved beyond' a manufacturing economy.
[11:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Getting Huawei Out of US Networks Requires Gov't Funding, Senators Say - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:10] <exec> 08└─Take out Chinese hardware and put in American hardware and reinstall Windows...
[11:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 1346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:01] <exec> 08└─No, its not. The reason the e-scooters look so terrible is lifespan, which is disastrously low. Believe it or not, they dont just pop in to existance, or grow on trees, their manufacture (like cars) creates a pile of emissions. Unlike a car, which has an average lifespan in decades, these things app...
[11:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:26] <exec> 08└─The same way as any element of physics. You believe in gravity, right?
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[11:59:03] <exec> 08└─No, the problem with renewables is that they can´t provide base load. Night or a cloudy day?-no solar. no wind?- no eolic. Drought?-no hidroelectric.
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[12:51:56] <exec> 08└─> "We found the whooping cough strains were evolving to improve their survival, regardless of whether a person was vaccinated or not" So let me recap. "Get vaccinated else the bug gets nastier by being hosted and mutating, herd effect" blah blah. "The bug got nastier but it doesn't matter if you wer...
[12:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:57] <exec> 08└─Vaccine-induced antibodies targeting a specific microbial protein. Mass-produced antibiotics targeting a specific microbial protein. No fundamental difference.
[12:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:08] <exec> 08└─Upgrade to Windowa 10 now with "new and improved" security bugs.
[12:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:10] <exec> 08└─For example: even though a patch set does not require a reboot, it is only a couple of days, at most, before applications start behaving strangely (menu items missing, peripherals stop working, ...). If you are working on a project over a period of several days, you are going to be required to hope...
[12:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Getting Huawei Out of US Networks Requires Gov't Funding, Senators Say - 1876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:23] <exec> 08└─Why is reading comprehension becoming such a lost art among certain groups in America today? No, obviously I am not saying everybody is working in manufacturing. What I am saying is that we destroyed these jobs before our nation or economy was actually ready for this to happen. And in fact, I suspec...
[12:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Reports 3rd Death, Nearly 140 New Cases of Coronavirus - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:31] <exec> 08└─It is really a bad place/time of the year combination for a new virus to pop up.
[12:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:57] <exec> 08└─I'm a crossdresser so I have experience with silky smooth skin. If I shave my entire body? I'll feel a LOT colder. It also doesn't help women's clothing is a lot thinner and more revealing than Joe's outfit. But I'll be damned if that deters me from 👗dressing👠 up.
[12:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 1449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:58] <exec> 08└─They're busy reinventing the wheel, sure enough. Machinery has to be greased, if you expect it to last. Or, I should say "lubricated", since there are many lubricants besides grease. Anyway, Arburg has reinvented the grease nipple, or alamite, or grease xerk. They give you a stupid little indentatio...
[12:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:19] <exec> 08└─I didn't RTFA, but I read a similar piece a few months ago. The scooters are intended to last two years, but people don't take good care of them and the average lifetime is a little over a month. A car has a large energy cost of creation, but that's typically amortised over a period of years and a f...
[12:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the Laser Printer, Dies at 81 - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:50] <exec> 08└─fine and toxic black powder...
[12:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the Laser Printer, Dies at 81 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:52] <exec> 08└─laser > inkjet if you don't use regularly.
[12:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the Laser Printer, Dies at 81 - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:54] <exec> 08└─Why not? racism was all but forgotten in most places by the 80s. It was resurrected as a way to not discuss mass migrations around the y2k. Racially motivated attacks are a reality, those against whites are censored, those against minorities are amplified. Two headline-worthy attacks in italy were f...
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[13:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:35] <exec> 08└─The selective pressure is caused by vaccines, so saying the evolution is independent of vaccines is quite an extraordinary claim.
[13:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:37] <exec> 08└─newborns not protected by maternal immunisation
[13:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:39] <exec> 08└─Mass-produced antibiotics targeting a specific microbial protein.
[13:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:41] <exec> 08└─Maternal immunisation is how mankind survived all those hundreds of thousands of years before vaccinations were invented.
[13:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:43] <exec> 08└─Explain, please. Not evident how this is in any contradiction with the Runaway's claim of "Maternal immunisation is how mankind survived all those hundreds of thousands of years before vaccinations were invented."
[13:51:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:51] <exec> 08└─Come on! Even Windows 10 is being hit...when will people learn to get off Windows?
[13:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:57] <exec> 08└─when it is common to find 10+ year old exploitable bugs
[13:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:00] <exec> 08└─Windows 10 is not userland, that's the whole point. Remember when Bill Gates said something like, "If they're going to steal an OS, we want them to steal from us!" I'm thinking that MS was already plotting toward this end. MS has a helluva lead on Amazon, Apple, and all the rest. They already have t...
[13:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:02] <exec> 08└─Microsoft fixes severe 19-year-old Windows bug found in everything since Windows 95 [pcworld.com] Microsoft fixes a serious 15-year-old bug [cnn.com] 20-Year-Old Bug in Legacy Microsoft Code Plagues All Windows Users [threatpost.com] Microsoft and NSA say a security bug affects millions of Windows 1...
[13:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:51] <exec> 08└─You heard the lady wrong. It's not "half a dick", it's "half a mule's dick". Next time you're driving along, and see a mule with his dick hanging to the ground, you just think about me.
[13:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:52] <exec> 08└─> Over 100 years or so, there is supposedly a heavy trend of getting less and less daily calories from fat. What is your point? Are you saying that body temperature has not changed, and the measurements are wrong?
[13:53:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 256 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:47] <exec> 08└─Unless they ban knives with pointy tips this is stupid. The type of person who tends to get stabby will buy knives with pointy tips, while the type who slices tomatoes will be fine with a flat tip. Me? I cook a lot, a knife without a pointy tip is useless.
[13:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine in Stage 1 Trials - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:54] <exec> 08└─My guess is that the Flu evolved this mutating head thing specifically to get around natural defenses. Basically, if the body always targets this part, make that part change all the time.
[13:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:23] <exec> 08└─I think this is designed to handle the problem on installed capacity. That is, it is easier/cheaper to run a plant that exists than to build a new one. Trouble is the existing plants are doing their best to kill us all.
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[14:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe's Expansion - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:58] <exec> 08└─We are shrinking at accelerated speed as we fall into the black hole of alt-right idiocy. Help us, Obi Von Aristarchus, you're our only hope.
[14:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:14] <exec> 08└─That only works if the mother has either had the disease, or was vaccinated with a vaccine that protects against the new strain. The mother has to have the required anitbodies for it to work.
[14:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:15] <exec> 08└─Your recap missed that antivax bullshit caught on huge in Australia and some absolute fuckers allowed a breeding population of pertussis to start developing circa 2005
[14:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:17] <exec> 08└─It seems they should be actively encouraging new mothers to breast feed their infants.
[14:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:31] <exec> 08└─I'm just going to assuming that this is just an exasperated rhetorical statement cause I'm too tired to keep debating this. This argument has been had incessantly for as long as I can remember and yet, mindbogglingly, it still keeps coming up as if that horse hasn't already been flogged into a thin...
[14:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:33] <exec> 08└─I'm not touching 10 and its time for a hardware upgrade anyhow. VMWare makes a tool for converting existing Windows installs into virtual machines. So my current install will be virtualized and run from inside Linux, most likely Slackware.
[14:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Getting Huawei Out of US Networks Requires Gov't Funding, Senators Say - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:48] <exec> 08└─Wait, I didn't even read between the lines and saw this as nothing but corruption.
[14:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I stopped reading there when they prevented ACs from posting. What did I ever do to them?
[14:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:14] <exec> 08└─You believe in gravity, right?
[14:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:16] <exec> 08└─If gravity was real, I'd be on a planet somewhere, or more likely, a sun, instead of floating aimlessly through the void of space.
[14:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:18] <exec> 08└─we can presently only perform small scale work, like instantaneous transfer of information from one point to another, regardless of distance.
[14:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:20] <exec> 08└─You are correct, however, local realism (which I think was favored by Einstein), that is the theory that quantum uncertainty is just a matter of a hidden variable that can change (realism) while also obeying the causality speed limit (locality, and that speed limit is the speed of light), has been d...
[14:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:22] <exec> 08└─I believe in gravity, I experience gravity, I can do gravity experiments like the marble and the baseball and I can observe the results. Physics results that come about from observations inside a high energy particle accelerator, using a stack of equipment that no single person understands fully, ea...
[14:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:20] <exec> 08└─Thanks, jerk. Now it's snowing.
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[15:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe's Expansion - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:00] <exec> 08└─Last week it's "we're expanding so much slower that dark energy doesn't even exist" and this week it's "WARP 9, SCOTTY!". Somebody's fucking assumptions are very, very wrong.
[15:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:26] <exec> 08└─This is like many of the clinical projects I work on - take one things from decades ago and try and project human physiology. "Houses kept warmer since the Industrial Revolution" would be a proper title.
[15:57:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sorry. It was a fairly secret crowdsourcing experiment- we got everyone to turn on their heat, open all windows and doors, and the updraft sent the snow your way. Blame the tradewinds.
[15:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Threshold and Threaded-TOS [Updated] - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:17] <exec> 08└─All they have to do is stop patching security holes. No need to self-destruct.
[15:57:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine in Stage 1 Trials - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:38] <exec> 08└─It has worked perfectly fine for me so far and... and...…. I wonder what Morty is doing right now and how quickly I can find him!!! [youtube.com]
[16:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:07] <exec> 08└─Their choice how they want to live and their responsibility of solving their problems and getting there.
[16:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:09] <exec> 08└─Hint: as weird as it may sound (to americans?), humanity have more means to evolve than only competition.
[16:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:11] <exec> 08└─Indeed, both steps were driven by political opportunism. Nuclear is still going strong but the phase-out will happen as laws have been passed and it would be political suicide to turn again. Enough coal will be kept on "stand-by" for sure to prevent any shortages. After the nuclear phase-out (within...
[16:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lord of the Rings Amazon Prequel Series: Everything You Need to Know - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:40] <exec> 08└─That's generally because a *really good* prequel could have its names sawn away and changed, not be recognizable as part of the parent universe, and still be great. In other words, if the work is original enough to make great stories from then it never needed to be a prequel to something else.
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[16:52:00] <exec> 08└─We are shrinking at accelerated speed as we fall into the black hole of alt-right idiocy.
[16:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe's Expansion - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:01] <exec> 08└─If this new method were fully independent from theories about the big bang, I would be very interested in the result, because it wouldn't merely cast another doubt but demolish it. Yay, work for theoretical physicists for another generation!
[16:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe's Expansion - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:03] <exec> 08└─I'm going to take anything they say seriously.
[16:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe's Expansion - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:06] <exec> 08└─The math for that doesn't work out. Light is capable of traveling in all eight cardinal directions, and given the universal speed limit stuff, your light cone would basically be on direction only, stuff falling onto you, and things would constantly disappear on the "inner" side, even if it moved jus...
[16:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:30] <exec> 08└─you can always just put on more clothing
[16:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:52] <exec> 08└─The Chinese would also kick your ass on a scooter. You fat American slobs.
[16:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:53] <exec> 08└─You really crushed it. Have you considered a career in explaining failed jokes?
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[16:53:55] <exec> 08└─I use mine to commute. Having bike lanes (yes in Los Angeles!) makes the traffic almost enjoyable. Actually I prefer when there's gridlock because nobody in their SUV can swerve over to the outside lane to gain 1 car length advantage for a few seconds.
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[16:54:06] <exec> 08└─Evidently, Complexity Theory is too heavy duty for the AC above, LOL. I have studied Complexity Theory, and it's pretty cool stuff. There's also a million dollar prize for anyone who can prove that P=NP or not. Yes, the class of NP-complete problems had been all linked together by transforms from on...
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[16:54:25] <exec> 08└─That requires some additional qualification. Because many-minds is deterministic at the fundamental level (the universal wave function has no randomness at all), but doesn't require faster-than-light travel either (what changes on observation is not the distant particle, but your mind — it simply...
[17:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:17] <exec> 08└─Why do we refuse? Who knows? I think it's an antipathy thing.
[17:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:18] <exec> 08└─we cannot and should not rely and it. just because what you say is true (it IS): fossile is renewable. but we have to change it on it's head. if we fail in powering humankind on daily sun (and wind and geothermal etc) THEN we will fall back on nuclear to turn us into fossil fuel that can be used in...
[17:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:58] <exec> 08└─Point is the "nice period of 30 years where religion was all-but-banned" period wasn't - in more ways than one.
[17:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:00] <exec> 08└─It's a dumb point based on a dumb interpretation of a dumb theory of ideology. Within those confines, though, it does technically qualify as a point, so there's that.
[17:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:02] <exec> 08└─Nah we train more scientists and engineers, both in terms of raw numbers and percentage of the population, than ever before. Our schools, for all their multitudinous problems, are better than they were. In terms of spending to put those people to work, particularly on large-minded projects that don'...
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[17:51:52] <exec> 08└─This problem wouldn't have happened if they had been smart enough to use free @hotmail.com addresses.
[17:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:22] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure this would work. This is a new strain, so the immunity that the mothers have to the prior strain probably wouldn't have the same effect. It's still a good idea, because there's lots of things out there that it would help with, but I don't think that this is a reason.
[17:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:23] <exec> 08└─Where are all these super-diseases coming from? "Refugees," or from China? The antibiotic blame-game only goes so far. Perhaps we wouldn't be having these problems if we enforced better border controls. Of course America has its own problems, but it's confounding how a Five-Eyes nation could be so r...
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[17:52:26] <exec> 08└─Target something that doesn’t mutate like the flu guys: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Or target multiple locations likely to Mutate and the virus never discovers the exact combination of successful mutations
[17:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 1296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:42] <exec> 08└─I have heard from trustworthy resources that it's not in any version prior to the non-server versions of Windows 10's infrastructure/topology (meaning both consumer and professional/enterprise). I can't really prove it without trying to exploit it, though, but I believe it to be true. Something abou...
[17:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:44] <exec> 08└─As if they weren't vulnerable before.
[17:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:46] <exec> 08└─People who want an OS that Just Works and who can't afford the Mac tax will continue to run Windows because modern Linux can't do a goddamn thing right without hours of tweeking right out of the box, and then with me standing by vigilantly waiting to spend many further hours fixing shit suddenly not...
[17:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Reports 3rd Death, Nearly 140 New Cases of Coronavirus - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:09] <exec> 08└─I was in New Zealand a few years ago during Chinese New Year. There wasn't *anything* from dorm room in a hostel to upscale hotel room available-- the visiting Chinese had booked *everything* (I stayed with my cousin). So, better watch out for those Kiwi kids too. And, Aussie kids. And, kids of folk...
[17:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:36] <exec> 08└─Experiments about the fundamentals of quantum mechanics are not done in particle accelerators. They are done with lasers, with electrons, with atoms, and a lot of other systems. There are countless laboratories in the world that do quantum experiments, and all of those find that quantum mechanics wo...
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[18:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICANN Needs To Ask More Questions About the Sale of .ORG - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:05] <exec> 08└─what's 'email' grampa?
[18:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICANN Needs To Ask More Questions About the Sale of .ORG - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:06] <exec> 08└─Where your snap goes while phone is charging
[18:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:39] <exec> 08└─If you killed yourself there would be room for one human being. Come on, do the right thing!
[18:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:59] <exec> 08└─You're too stupid to get a calculator to work, nevermind a real computer with a real OS. You should stick with windows - it was made for ppl like you.
[18:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:01] <exec> 08└─Ethanil_fiddled: Too cheap for Mac, too stupid for Linux. That leaves bigotry.
[18:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Getting Huawei Out of US Networks Requires Gov't Funding, Senators Say - 1379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:17] <exec> 08└─Well, Huawei doesn't have a monopoly on 5G shit. Nokia and Ericsson just to name a couple also make 5G shit. It would be nice to have our own domestic 5G stuff but that's on our telecom companies to invest in their own R&D rather than be bribed by the government. If America had any faith that the sh...
[18:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Reports 3rd Death, Nearly 140 New Cases of Coronavirus - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:27] <exec> 08└─Fearing one minority or the next over potential viral spread is just silly considering how international air ports and commercial and business flights operate packing people like sardines.
[18:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:00] <exec> 08└─Women feel colder because they suffer from anemia and other malnutrition due to their fad vegetarian diets. Eating more beef is a great way to solve that problem by both warming women as well as the environment around them.
[18:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:01] <exec> 08└─Of course, you would claim that was some kind of a conspiracy if this was a certain other scientific domain.
[18:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:27] <exec> 08└─Did writing that make you feel better about yourself? Seriously, shitting on a teen-aged kid who has accomplished* more in her very few years on this planet than (likely) anyone on this site, in their entire lives, says volumes about you. * Her raising awareness, and causing a new framing of convers...
[18:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 1685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:28] <exec> 08└─> Ford isn't even selling cars any more, only trucks and SUVs, because that's all most Americans buy now. A self fulfilling prophecy. There are Americans who want the smaller vehicles sold elsewhere in the world, but the manufacturers will not sell them in the US, and sometimes will not sell them wi...
[18:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:30] <exec> 08└─And all of that is true of the eBike, too. So, why is the eBike 40 but the eScooter 202. If anything, the scooter requires fewer resources because it's smaller.
[19:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Living Carbon Chomping FrankenBricks for the Moon, Mars, and Mainstreet - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:59] <exec> 08└─I don't just want a colony on Mars, I want O'Neill colonies at L4 and L5, a string of 10GW solar power satellites around the equator, widespread asteroid mining, and people seriously planning to terraform Venus. :)
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[19:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:58] <exec> 08└─How much more obvious can they make it folks? Government regulation/meddling is used to enforce monopoly positions, not to help or protect you.
[19:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:59] <exec> 08└─If Google was visionary enough to have thought this, they should have said so back when they were doing Google Streetview, and the dangers posed by knowing the temporal changes in ones dwelling and vehicles over periods of time. The shit Google has had greenlighted or ignored for the past 15 years i...
[19:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:01] <exec> 08└─More crocodile tears from big tech. Sergei and Larry step down, and just now Big Chief Poo-Poo wants you to know that Google doesn't want to be evil anymore since Hillary lost the election and Hillary Junior (Elizabeth Warren) is going to lose the one after that. It's like being caught red-handed ch...
[19:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICANN Needs To Ask More Questions About the Sale of .ORG - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:13] <exec> 08└─What do you call it when insiders scratch each others backs to hand over millions of websites to a new monopoly that no-one asked for but now everyone gets to pay for? A Market Solution!
[19:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:46] <exec> 08└─Australian has been doing "fuck off we're full" since 2008 or so as well, and it has solved zero of their problems. The great thing is, other than guns, Australia's Liberal government has instituted every American right winger's dream program, and so all your standard-ass blame game targets are gone...
[19:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:47] <exec> 08└─It's the usual bullshit, we already know massive doses of vitamin c suppress the symptoms to a non dangerous level. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] Let me know when they start checking the blood vitamin c levels. Hint: they refuse to because then everyone who is ill w...
[19:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:50] <exec> 08└─Where are all these super-diseases coming from? "Refugees," or from China?
[19:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:11] <exec> 08└─What the summary is saying is that women are just not as hot as they used to be... what a bummer. Of course, I would like to turn that around and point out that if men are not as hot as they used to be, it must mean that older men are hotter... With all this being said, I would point out that I am a...
[19:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe you could read two sentences before you reply.
[19:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:13] <exec> 08└─Interpretations are irrelevant. QM is a formalism that allows you to predict outcomes of experiments. Interpretations are only needed so that your feeble mind has some stairs to stand on. They have nothing to do with the science.
[20:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:50] <exec> 08└─Not my interpretation or ideology both which are still idolized by considerable parts of the world. As a result, I don't buy that the "dumbness" of the point is dumb.
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[20:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:01] <exec> 08└─So the company at the forefront of AI, having got there in an environment with zero regulations, is now asking that regulations be created. In other words, "now that we got where we need to be, please use laws to raise the bar against our potential competitors." Quintessential example of bald-faced...
[20:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06ICANN Needs To Ask More Questions About the Sale of .ORG - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:13] <exec> 08└─why don't you petition the FDA to crack down on Big Pharma or the EPA to crack down on Big Agra while you're at it.
[20:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe's Expansion - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:27] <exec> 08└─Is heat death? It was right on the border before this measurement. Or is hit cosmic rip? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[20:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:51] <exec> 08└─You would rather children die than even test them for vitamin c deficiency.
[20:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:52] <exec> 08└─hmm... Despite high vaccination coverage worldwide, the number of pertussis cases is increasing2–4.
[20:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:55] <exec> 08└─Oh weird, the alt-med guy is back. You would rather children get eaten by tigers than test this rock that keeps tigers away
[20:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:57] <exec> 08└─Ok, now you are on record. You would prefer that children die than even test their blood vitamin c levels... which have been reported as deficient in every illness ever checked.
[20:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:59] <exec> 08└─How about this, can you find a single study that checked blood vitamin c levels in sick people and did not find they were lower than in healthy people? Just one study, any illness at all.
[20:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 1280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:01] <exec> 08└─It does, actually. The article you're citing in turn attributes that conclusion to another paper, one whose primary focus was identifying infection disease death in children under 5. It doesn't actually make a clear-cut case that pertussis cases were rising, which is odd. In fact it further muddies...
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[20:53:03] <exec> 08└─it's "caught on huge", b/c the big gov loving slaves in Australia all did what they were told, and now they have a bunch of vaccine injured babies and they are getting wise. I can only hope one day they will roll through towns exterminating everyone who was pushing vaccines.
[20:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:06] <exec> 08└─And, of course, if the disease mutates between the mother getting it and the child getting it(you know, like it did with the vaccine), welp, guess your milk just wasn't up to RunAway's high standards.
[20:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:08] <exec> 08└─Whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by Bordetella pertussis. Despite widespread vaccination, its incidence has been rising alarmingly
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[20:53:30] <exec> 08└─It is just fitting you of all people would make that post.
[20:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:31] <exec> 08└─When Windows 10 came out (and I discovered that Microsoft had already snuck telemetry tracking into Win7 via their "security updates"), I was so mad I moved off Windows entirely. I paid the Mac tax. I considered going to Linux, but after 30 years of working in IT, I have no desire to be a sysadmin....
[20:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:33] <exec> 08└─I wonder how many Win7 computer owners have decided that the risk of malware getting on their systems is higher from Microsoft's "security updates" than with just leaving it unpatched.
[20:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:35] <exec> 08└─Well I won't buy any trash other than the hardware I have on my desktop, But with you I agree: Modern Linux is shit and Mac is all the privacy intrusion of Windows but with a markup. So you could try BSD or deal with shit Windows, Mac, or Linux.
[20:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Getting Huawei Out of US Networks Requires Gov't Funding, Senators Say - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:52] <exec> 08└─But as an industry insider...
[20:59:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03szopin [5710] 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 441 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:14] <exec> 08└─> It seems practically self evident that rapidly expanding civilizations would be vastly more likely to survive than more static ones. why is that so? maybe the thing that makes them 'reach out to the stars' is also the thing that annihilates them before that happens? If earth was just 1.7 bigger al...
[21:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:33] <exec> 08└─Until their illness arrives in my country.
[21:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06National Science Board Report Finds US Dominance in Science is Slipping - 1183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:17] <exec> 08└─The comparison of ideology to religion is inherently vacuous, almost whenever it's made. All people everywhere believe at least some incorrect things through bad information, bad deductions, social conventions, occasionally literal delusions, often under the umbrella of common sense. Religion disti...
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[21:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:54] <exec> 08└─What would Greta say about the amount of CO2 released by this display?
[21:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:56] <exec> 08└─Saint Grumpy wouldn't have anything good to say, that's certain!
[21:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:58] <exec> 08└─I drove ten hours to see this.
[21:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:00] <exec> 08└─The CO2 was destroyed in the explosion.
[21:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:02] <exec> 08└─But have any previous manned rockets had abort/escape technology? Or is this a "first time ever" thing?
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[21:52:05] <exec> 08└─I don't think you'll find that Musk is a hero to extinction rebellion types. To actually answer the question, LOX / RP-1 is hell for the environment, and if you compared a rocket to flying in a plane, the rocket would absolutely crush the plane on carbon emissions. Several kT of carbon per launch.
[21:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:15] <exec> 08└─The industry can't just self-regulate? It went all so well with like the phone chargers and such. /sarcasm
[21:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:16] <exec> 08└─You can say true things in the the pursuit of a dishonest goal, though. Immediately breaking up the googlopoly would probably be the best way to address this inevitable regulatory capture.
[21:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 1504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:19] <exec> 08└─What are the regulations for having, say, a lion? Or live contagious viruses? I hear pretty strict. That might be a good 'guidepost' in this area, but no one listens to me. Whatever law and enforcement method, good luck tracking the bond villains down in their bunker supercomputing center, but it i...
[21:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:21] <exec> 08└─Ban all neuromorphic chips for home users. All use of AI must be done through licensed spy cloud providers. Failure to comply will result in FBI agents swarming your residence.
[21:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06ICANN Needs To Ask More Questions About the Sale of .ORG - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:33] <exec> 08└─It's already blatantly obvious to anybody with a brain what the plan is: 1. Borrow a bunch of money. 2. Buy the .org domain name. 3. Raise prices dramatically, because it's a monopoly and non-profits don't have a good alternative to paying what's demanded. 4. Pay back the loan from the extra profit...
[21:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICANN Needs To Ask More Questions About the Sale of .ORG - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:34] <exec> 08└─That's the opposite of a market solution, the opposite of capitalism, and the essence of the corrupted term crony capitalism.
[21:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICANN Needs To Ask More Questions About the Sale of .ORG - 1568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:36] <exec> 08└─They are doing this right in the middle of the election when the .org people should all be focusing on election systems, and fighting propaganda. Also it is like Bruce Schneier said, 'we should consider public interest technology' and then the next week they were like 'let's eat the public interest...
[21:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe's Expansion - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:50] <exec> 08└─If everyone throughout history had always had the same mindset as people like you, we'd all still be fucking cro-magnon living in caves.
[21:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe's Expansion - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:51] <exec> 08└─You should take anything they say seriously. Which doesn't mean you should take anything they say at face value. These are subtleties scientifically-challenged people like you seem to have a hard time grasping.
[21:53:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:02] <exec> 08└─The selective pressure is caused by vaccines, so saying the evolution is independent of vaccines is quite an extraordinary claim.
[21:53:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:09] <exec> 08└─Your recap missed that antivax bullshit caught on huge in Australia and some absolute fuckers allowed a breeding population of pertussis to start developing circa 2005
[21:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:26] <exec> 08└─How about you find one study where the tiger-protection-rock was higher in tiger eaten people than not-eaten people. Just one. They've researched with so many diseases and the overall efficacy of vitamin C supplementation on outcomes. And it's consistently in the realm of no benefit to miniscule(and...
[21:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:28] <exec> 08└─Did you know that even though you linked two papers, they both cite the SAME FUCKING PAPER [nih.gov] as the basis for that statement, and that paper has a methodology section and you can fucking read it(sci hub may be required)?
[21:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:30] <exec> 08└─"vaccine injured babies" is one of those fucking euphemisms from the absolute dregs of internet belief disorder.
[21:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:32] <exec> 08└─No one mentioned immortality, but I got home from a road trip late last night and woke up congested w a runny nose, so I took 2 g sodium ascorbate and it started clearing up. Then I took 4 more grams and it got even better. Then I added 8 g to a glass, got some osmotic diarrhea (because my body didn...
[21:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:34] <exec> 08└─I can't believe you are trying to argue this and lecturing others on epidemiology. https://www.cdc.gov [cdc.gov] The only one denying a rise in cases is you, it is a totally non-controversial claim.
[21:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:37] <exec> 08└─I... what? Did you link that thinking it would just say you're right? The 5 year trend is way way way down on that dataset, and the ten year trend is steady. And it's localized to the US, not not worldwide where the unclear data is. It certainly doesn't do anything to say the vaccine doesn't work, e...
[21:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:39] <exec> 08└─When first seen many of the patients were excreting almost no ascorbic acid; others of slightly better finan-cial circumstances showed small amounts, but still below normal figures.
[21:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:41] <exec> 08└─It's really simple, this one supplement will solve all your problems [twitter.com]
[21:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:43] <exec> 08└─Ok, I guess an increase from 1-2k cases per year in the 1970s to regularly over 10k cases per year isn't a rise according to you.
[21:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:45] <exec> 08└─You have a serious problem with arguing against strawmen you crafted yourself instead of other real people. Also, I doubt you know shit about metabolism, because then you would understand the universal role that reducing agents play when things go wrong for any reason.
[21:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, not like I mentioned long-term oxxidative stress already or anything. You literally think Vitamin C magically destroys disease. I'm lecturing you because what you believe is dumb.
[21:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:50] <exec> 08└─What's it called when you select a subset of the data arbitrarily so that you can identify a trend that suits your narrative? It's like... you're going up to some kind of berry tree, and plucking just the fruit you like. Something analogous to that. 1. What relationship do you actually want to show?...
[21:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:52] <exec> 08└─More strawmen from you. There is nothing magic about biochemistry, and vitamin c does not "destroy disease" it primarily quenches free radical cascades (which are a very common sequels to almost all disease states) and regenerates intracellular/membrane antioxidants like glutathione and vitamin e. A...
[21:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:54] <exec> 08└─Lol, ok. You are literally the only person in the world who has looked at that data and not come to the conclusion that incidence of whopping cough is rising. You disagree with 100% if published papers, the CDC, and the FDA. Literally the most obvious thing in the world is invisible to you because y...
[21:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:20] <exec> 08└─That's pretty much my solution. Yeah, sometimes, you really do need a Windows thing. For me, it's pretty rare, but sometimes, MS Office is the only tool that will do what needs be done. So, fire up the virtual machine, navigate to the shared folder, do what needs to be done, then go back to Linux an...
[21:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:21] <exec> 08└─Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows get rid of extra meaningless words - strunk and white Although we could throw systemd into that as well, and the apple/pc distinction has become meaningless, I am calling it. I tried using an apple for 2 days and os x is a mangled mess now wit...
[21:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Getting Huawei Out of US Networks Requires Gov't Funding, Senators Say - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:39] <exec> 08└─In short, our economy today amounts to one big circle jerk. Everyone wants to "service" someone, but precious few are actually producing anything. I won't pull any punches here - it sucks ass. It's the reason millenials have to work two, three, maybe six jobs to make ends meet. It just sucks ass. Th...
[21:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03sfm [675] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:54] <exec> 08└─"I wanted a low-cost, high fuel economy small car" You forgot to add RELIABLE
[21:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 2693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:28] <exec> 08└─And yet, when I try to get physicists (real PhD quantum and nuclear physicists, with plenty of time on their hands) to explain something fundamental like: how Bell's inequality really proves that a hidden variable doesn't exist? They fail, they even fail to convince themselves except with statements...
[21:56:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02 - 06UK Company Makes Knives Without Tips As Knife Crime Wave Surges - 728 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:45] <exec> 08└─Some people might well have the best of intentions, but the ease of production of pointy weapons makes this a bit, well, pointless, really. Anyone who wishes to go out and cause lethal harm to someone will go equipped with a sharpened screwdriver, which is basically a stiletto [wikipedia.org] knife;...
[21:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Universal Flu Vaccine in Stage 1 Trials - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:58] <exec> 08└─no, you stupid bootlicking ass hat, it was the fucking shot.
[22:01:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03esperto123 [4303] 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 349 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:58] <exec> 08└─oh wait, they panicked after Fukushima and decided to close all nuclear plants instead of revising the safety of the existing ones or replacing by newer more modern ones. In the end most will be replaced by natural gas, which is better than nothing, but still emits CO2 and makes them even more depen...
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[22:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:06] <exec> 08└─Most of the pre-space shuttle rockets had escape rockets mounted above the crew capsule to take it away from a malfunctioning booster. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:07] <exec> 08└─If I'm calibrating my response correctly, I still hate musk for other reasons, and this launch does nothing to move the needle either way.
[22:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:09] <exec> 08└─You've peeked my interest. Why do you hate Musk?
[22:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:11] <exec> 08└─Have you ever smelled it? That would be your answer!
[22:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:14] <exec> 08└─What I hear from most environmentalists is that it's a waste and we should spend that money here on Earth instead of "wasting" it in space. I've had some success in getting people to reconsider that by discussing orbital solar power stations. It's hard to argue with zero CO2 non-nuke 95%* available...
[22:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 1276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:16] <exec> 08└─Among other reasons: The whole affair of calling a cave diver who rescued dozens of stranded children a pedophile after he described problems with Musk's own overly complicated rescue plan When a whistleblower reported that Tesla was using dangerously damaged battery cells in vehicles to save money,...
[22:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:18] <exec> 08└─You've peeked my interest.
[22:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:33] <exec> 08└─> Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai has called for new regulations in the world of AI Fine. "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." Now let's go full jihad on this data-mining monopolist desperate to make the barrier of entry for the industry he dominates impossible to s...
[22:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:34] <exec> 08└─Not sure if you have been reading what I have been posting as closely as you may think you have. But the fbi agents are already swarming, they are just not identifying themselves because they want to be your bestest friend and radicalize you so they get a christmas bonus. Or feed behavioral data int...
[22:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:37] <exec> 08└─Ban all neuromorphic chips for home users.
[22:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:39] <exec> 08└─Quintessential example of bald-faced rent-seeking.
[22:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:41] <exec> 08└─Failure to comply will result in FBI agents swarming your residence.
[22:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:43] <exec> 08└─When the world goes the way of AI it will be the humans that are treated like robots. It will all be black and white to the machines. Want to get into college? Forget your personality, you better look great on paper. Need some medical attention? Well, your history shows you aren't very agreeable,...
[22:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:59] <exec> 08└─14 grams of sodium ascorbate is 1554 mg of sodium and 12.5 grams of ascorbate acid. That is practically guaranteed to give you diarrhea, as the UL is on 2 grams. And it is no surprise you had overnight nasal congestion. The stress of travel, combined with unusual head positioning, air quality, possi...
[22:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:01] <exec> 08└─Where the fuck did you get the idea that "disease states" are some runaway cellular process? I need to calibrate my expectations, whether you're a germ theory denying psycho or just believe you understand the single mode of operation of all infectious germs.
[22:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:03] <exec> 08└─Why don't you cite these pharmacokinetic studies? Eg, Levine 1996 where they studied *healthy* (ie, not sick) people? There are other issues but you can start your journey to enlightenment with that fact.
[22:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:05] <exec> 08└─Lol. Are you even unfamiliar with the process of inflammation? What degree of ignorance am *I* dealing with here?
[22:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:07] <exec> 08└─An article from 1937 that involves 10 people, no legible charts, uses first daily voidings, the total treatment levels far below what you are claiming is beneficial, with no established protocol, no blinds, no controls, etc. Trash study, trash inferences, trash conclusions.
[22:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:10] <exec> 08└─And we're back to "This one chemical completely mediates an entire complex process" vs "no that's really dumb and shut the fuck up" 1. Inflamation is not entirely caused by oxidation via free radicals. 2. It's not even predominantly caused by oxidation. 3. It's not even notably frequently caused by...
[22:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:12] <exec> 08└─Not the conclusion I actually came to, but I can appreciate how you concluded that's my intended meaning from the wording I used. Let me restate my position more clearly: It's hard, given that data to make any meaningful distinctions as to the cause of apparent increases in pertussis cases, as criti...
[22:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:14] <exec> 08└─More strawmen and wrong info from you. No one said inflammation is caused by free radicals, your post goes downhill from there. Here's some basic info to get you up to speed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov...
[22:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:16] <exec> 08└─I am already aware of Levine M, Conry-Cantilena C, Wang Y, et al. Vitamin C pharmacokinetics in healthy volunteers: evidence for a recommended dietary allowance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996;93(8):3704–3709. doi:10.1073/pnas.93.8.3704
[22:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:18] <exec> 08└─No, those papers don't say what you say. No, you're wrong about everything No, just please, shut up. No, that's not what fucking strawman means No, none of this supports your insane beliefs about disease.
[22:54:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 438 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:32] <exec> 08└─Microsoft fixes severe 19-year-old Windows bug found in everything since Windows 95 [pcworld.com] Microsoft fixes a serious 15-year-old bug [cnn.com] 20-Year-Old Bug in Legacy Microsoft Code Plagues All Windows Users [threatpost.com] Microsoft and NSA say a security bug affects millions of Windows 1...
[22:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:46] <exec> 08└─Others will have different stories, and different needs.
[22:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:51] <exec> 08└─Yes, because clearly the way we are measuring multi-decadal single degree global changes in temperature is by going outside and saying if it's chilly or not. This joke would be a lot more funny if you weren't constantly making claims that are equal in stupidity to this one.
[22:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:21] <exec> 08└─E-scooters have been showing up more often in NYC. It seems like an excellent travel option if their range and weight limit work for you (some can't get up certain hills if you weigh over a certain amount, apparently). E-bikes are great also, but it's harder to take an e-bike into an office building...
[22:56:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:55] <exec> 08└─I hate idiots like this who think THEY are the smart one in the room.
[22:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:57] <exec> 08└─My amateur understanding of this is that given a magic black box quantum system, you can prove that you can solve the halting problem (assuming the proof is correct). But this isn't a proof starting only from "mathematical fundamentals". You have to assume the existence of a magic box first. The hal...
[23:00:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] 02 - 06Galactic Settlement and the Fermi Paradox - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:48] <exec> 08└─it takes a small extrapolation from present human technology to get interstellar ships
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[23:51:59] <exec> 08└─Hey, who are you calling homophonic?!
[23:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:00] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Thanks for the reply.
[23:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:22] <exec> 08└─When the world goes the way of AI it will be the humans that are treated like robots.
[23:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe they could go with a religious decree instead, "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind." [fandom.com] On another note, what defines AI [wikipedia.org] from a legal perspective, and distinguishes it from plain old computing?
[23:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:26] <exec> 08└─Forget your personality, you better look great on paper.
[23:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:28] <exec> 08└─Came straight from work? The system shows you stopped in the red-light district. You're a pervert and a liar ey?
[23:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICANN Needs To Ask More Questions About the Sale of .ORG - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:43] <exec> 08└─How do we prevent capitalism from getting that "crony" word before it once its curve of development begins to decline? Use dcron instead?
[23:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICANN Needs To Ask More Questions About the Sale of .ORG - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:45] <exec> 08└─Time to revive AlterNIC. Buck a year for an .org should be an incentive.
[23:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:58] <exec> 08└─There never will be a "good" study funded. Too bad for all those babies I guess, we spend a trillion dollars a year on healthcare but just can't bother to do a simple test for plasma vitamin C to check their results. Or you can use those results along with common sense and extrapolate from every sin...
[23:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:00] <exec> 08└─Those papers pretty much do say what I said here, but are indeed not what the strawman you made up says.
[23:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:02] <exec> 08└─And do those papers report ascorbate pharmacokinetics in anyone who is ill? That is rhetorical.. Do the challenge I put to ikanread above, find one paper where they report vitamin c levels in sick patients where they are not depleted.
[23:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:04] <exec> 08└─No, they really goddamn don't. "Diseased state" is a non-concept. A fiction. A fantabulation of a diseased mind. And I don't know why I care that you don't get that.
[23:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:06] <exec> 08└─So once again you were arguing against your own strawman. It is really difficult to communicate with someone who does this.
[23:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:08] <exec> 08└─As I said, it is difficult to imagine someone more ignorant about biomedical topics than you: Morbidity (from Latin morbidus, meaning 'sick, unhealthy') is a diseased state, disability, or poor health due to any cause
[23:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:10] <exec> 08└─involves 10 people
[23:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:13] <exec> 08└─Coulter I, Hardy M, Shekelle P, Udani J, Spar M, Oda K, et al. Effect of the supplemental use of antioxidants vitamin C, vitamin E, and coenzyme Q10 for the prevention and treatment of cancer. Evidence Report/Technology Assessment Number 75. AHRQ Publication No. 04-E003. Rockville, MD: Agency for He...
[23:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:15] <exec> 08└─Lol, I knew it. You didn't even read it before citing it.
[23:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:17] <exec> 08└─Please quote the part you are referring to. I see no report of ascorbate pharmacokinetics in ill patients.
[23:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:19] <exec> 08└─How did you come to that conclusion? I cited the 10 subject paper here and figured that is what you referred to: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Sorry, I fell for your "trick" I guess.
[23:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:48] <exec> 08└─Expect to see this continue for quite some time, because people are not going to maim their systems because Microsoft says so. The people have spoken. They distrust and hate Windows 10 and for very good reasons that are ignored. Most of those who "convert" to Windows 10 do so because they don't know...
[23:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Reports 3rd Death, Nearly 140 New Cases of Coronavirus - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:18] <exec> 08└─I recently rewatched Contagion. A scary movie to watch when an unknown SARS-like bug is simmering in that genetic stew that is China.