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[00:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:57] <exec> 08└─Until their illness arrives in my country.
[00:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:59] <exec> 08└─You said the cost of renewables were on par with fossil fuels. Now, you're saying otherwise via these "problems". Which is correct? My take is that balancing and such would already be solved and priced in to the cost of renewables. Because otherwise, you aren't on par.
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[00:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:53] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a Mafia tactic to me. MPAA, RIAA and now introducing the HPAA.
[00:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:55] <exec> 08└─I've got an old HP 2300L sitting beside me that just won't die. It'll be the last HP printer I use. I'm so tired of getting nickel and dimed each month. There's only so much of me to go around; there ain't no more to take folks. Which was the master plan in the first place, I'm sure.
[00:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:57] <exec> 08└─Signing people up for a bullshit service, monitoring remotely, remotely disabling something that should still work fine - each of these should be illegal by themselves. But somehow this is not only allowed, but average people crave this ass raping. This sort of thing has gone past insane. I don't wa...
[00:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:59] <exec> 08└─- decades ago rms couldn't print so he launched free software. - now the dystopic scare stories about DRM and IOT becomes real thanks to a printer. Bravo HP. I better start learning how to drive a makeshift plotter with a raspberry, because that's the future of printing if the IoT keeps IoTing.
[00:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:21] <exec> 08└─> peeked my interest Totally OT, but I had to comment on not seeing that one before. "peaked" is the usual error, which kinda makes sense, you've brought my interest to a peak. "piqued" is the correct word in that context, you have aroused my interest.
[00:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:23] <exec> 08└─I don't like the sound of you homophones; I think you should be orchestrated.
[00:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:25] <exec> 08└─It's a dogwhistle for people who are antisemetic against Musk.
[00:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:28] <exec> 08└─Vitamin C alone won't cure illnesses. I am taking 1500mg of it, and 1500mg of magnesium as MgO daily, and it's doing wonders for my mental health. But it's not going to cure much of anything physically (and I intend to draw down the Mg over time, as at some point I'm going to get repleted and too mu...
[00:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:59] <exec> 08└─If you were posting this 20, maybe even 15 years ago, you might have had a point. Now? Good grief, just install Mint and call it a day. Not even you can fuck that up. Gentoo and company still exist for the utter grognards like yours truly who get wet over seeing GCC's output scrolling by like an out...
[00:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:34] <exec> 08└─No... This was! https://en.wikipedia.org(South_Park) [wikipedia.org]
[00:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the Laser Printer, Dies at 81 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:20] <exec> 08└─That got an actual real-life LOL from me! Thanks for that :)
[01:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:09] <exec> 08└─Let me try to understand the rules of your parallel Universe. In there: - It's unheard off to be able to cost your product before you actually put in place the facilities to produce them, right? - as such, the investment sector of finance is a pure gamble, one is absolutely clueless on the viability...
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[01:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:03] <exec> 08└─HP, although they are a bunch of mindless jerks, will not be the first against the wall when the revolution comes. They will, however, be third or fourth against the wall.
[01:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:04] <exec> 08└─I haven't looked at their inferior crap in quite some time.
[01:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:06] <exec> 08└─Don't pay your exorcist, you'll get repossessed. Every business wants to be a rentier rather than having to constantly improve their products. Amazing they haven't started renting you printer paper subscriptions. Quick -someone patent it and then refuse to license it to anyone.
[01:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:09] <exec> 08└─You have alternatives. Writing by hand, electronic documents, video, audio. You have alternatives. Sometimes it may prove inconvenient, but consider that as motivation for abandoning the gougers.
[01:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:11] <exec> 08└─https://old.reddit.com/r/assholedesign/comments/983e4g/i_cant_use_these_perfectly_good_hp_ink_cartridges/ [reddit.com]
[01:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:36] <exec> 08└─But, but, but, isn't that even worser than having CO2 in the air? Lemme think about this . . . shouldn't there be a law against the destruction of matter?
[01:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:37] <exec> 08└─You must have been nosing some bad musk.
[01:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 1886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:17] <exec> 08└─Linux is the perfect example of something with the potential to be so awesome, but squandered by the fifth-columnist freakshow that managed to infest its cadre of developers. Honestly this is the most insightful thing about linux. It is run by people who think free equals the most awesome thing on t...
[01:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:18] <exec> 08└─Pretty much every one I know that did not upgrade was for one of two reasons. The 'I use linux I am not upgrading'. Uh OK. Then the 'Hey this will not upgrade' guys. This is usually some bit of hardware with drivers that went EOL 15 years ago. It is not that they do not want to the thing just will n...
[01:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:20] <exec> 08└─After four years of using a Mac (my previous Apple computer was a ][e), yes indeedy I have learned that Macs are just as shitty as Windows, but in different ways. Mostly because with each "update" they remove features, apparently because they can't figure out how to fix something without breaking so...
[01:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Getting Huawei Out of US Networks Requires Gov't Funding, Senators Say - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:39] <exec> 08└─You sound just as stupid as that other halfwit on this site.
[01:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:27] <exec> 08└─I'll meet your xerk and raise you a Zerk. Thanks for the LocknLube link, if I was using my grease gun more often I'd buy one.
[01:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:59] <exec> 08└─A month is a ridiculously short lifespan for a scooter. If he's correct in that, then that would explain the difference. A privately owned e-bike would be expected to last years. The question would be what kills them in a month? Batteries, motor, wheels, or frame? Whichever it is needs beefing up a...
[01:57:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:36] <exec> 08└─Most physicists know very little about Bells theorem. Most are trained to look away. Bells theorem + experimental results rule out a wide class of hidden variable theories. Specifically this in which the detection of an entangled photon is determined only by the properties of that photon and the pol...
[01:57:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:37] <exec> 08└─That's completely wrong. Interpretations define the very measurements and experiments we can perform. Without physical meaning, you are simply performing numerology.
[02:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:38] <exec> 08└─I also find it interesting how Orwellian your rhetoric is. We make "progress" by holding ourselves back.
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[02:52:06] <exec> 08└─Signing people up for a bullshit service, monitoring remotely, remotely disabling something that should still work fine - each of these should be illegal by themselves. But somehow this is not only allowed, but average people crave this ass raping. This sort of thing has gone past insane. I don't wa...
[02:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:14] <exec> 08└─I see it as an extension of software as a subscription. Slowly but surely they're expanding the monthly fees for everything, now into hardware.
[02:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:16] <exec> 08└─Pink hairs, Zuckerberg... who's third?
[02:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:18] <exec> 08└─If it has to connect to the internet, it will be used to compel your obedience to someone else.
[02:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:20] <exec> 08└─HP Instant Ink is a subscription service that this guy explicitly signed up for at some point. As part of that service, he agreed to let HP monitor the number of pages he printed, etc. When ink gets low, HP will send him a new ink supply contained in cartridges. These cartridges are supplied as part...
[02:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:23] <exec> 08└─Can be quite a bit of work [inkbank.com.au]
[02:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:49] <exec> 08└─You should also point out that the eclipses happen near local midnight, when base load is low, so they don't matter much.
[02:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:32] <exec> 08└─Holy shit! What did YOU install...MS Linux? Manjaro works OOTB! I've NEVER had that work with any Windows system ive seen. GIMME A BREAK!
[02:57:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:13] <exec> 08└─> "I wanted a low-cost, high fuel economy small car" > You forgot to add RELIABLE Nah, I considered a Fiat.
[03:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:56] <exec> 08└─Note that these alleged rules of the khallow alternate universe (KAU) are completely irrelevant to the thread. You claimed that renewable energy was at par with the other sorts. Then like a silky haired member of the Mustela family [wikipedia.org], you then admitted that maybe it wouldn't cost so l...
[03:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:58] <exec> 08└─That is, it is easier/cheaper to run a plant that exists than to build a new one.
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[03:52:20] <exec> 08└─It's also partly the clown's fault. He signed up for it despite the exact thing that happened to him being well- and widely-documented. For example PC Mag [pcmag.com] says about Instant Ink: When you sign up for an HP Instant Ink plan, you pay a monthly fee to print a defined number of pages per mon...
[03:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:48] <exec> 08└─the answer is sort of [wikipedia.org]
[03:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:57] <exec> 08└─That's because at high doses, vit.c can suck calcium out of your bones, which then winds up deposited in the kidneys. For a while dosing puppies with mega-vit-c was a fad, in the name of 'preventing' hip dysplasia (an inherited disorder). In some cases you could actually see the effects as swelling...
[03:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:59] <exec> 08└─What I see from that chart is a precipitous drop in cases when first generation vaccines arrived, another drop when better vaccines came along and coverage improved to near 100%, then stability until the antivax craze gave it a boost, probably directly proportional to the number of unvaccinated kids...
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[03:55:01] <exec> 08└─1-2 grams per day is nothing. The median bowel tolerance dose is 10 grams in about 2 hrs: https://i.ibb.co [i.ibb.co]
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[03:55:03] <exec> 08└─That's because at high doses, vit.c can suck calcium out of your bones, which then winds up deposited in the kidneys.
[03:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:05] <exec> 08└─And where did you get your data on whooping cough vaccine coverage? The increase in pertussis is mainly found in age groups in which immunity has waned
[03:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:41] <exec> 08└─Say a scenario of a home PC that's behind a NAT router and has Windows Firewall enabled (quite common with home PCs). The top risks are: a) Browser (and browser updates) b) User (e.g. downloading and opening stuff that's malware or exploitable) c) Other installed software updates/"phone homes" d) Wi...
[03:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:42] <exec> 08└─For home users that want to cling on for whatever reasons,
[03:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Getting Huawei Out of US Networks Requires Gov't Funding, Senators Say - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah, when I read: The US government should spend at least $1.25 billion "to invest in Western-based alternatives to Chinese equipment providers Huawei and ZTE," a bipartisan group of six US senators said yesterday.
[03:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Body Temperature has Dropped in the Past 150 Years - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:53] <exec> 08└─No, what I would say is that what they are trying to measure doesn't exist, so why don't they start spending the money measuring something that MIGHT actually exist.
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[03:56:55] <exec> 08└─Warm your clothes up with a heater or hair dryer first then put them on? The fact is humans only have a narrow comfortable operating range. Too hot is also a big problem. Lots of people die in heatwaves too. That said it's probably easier to invent better insulation, heating and cold wear vs Antarct...
[04:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:09] <exec> 08└─You claimed that renewable energy was at par with the other sorts.
[04:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:10] <exec> 08└─Yes, using led lamps in one's entire home is a proof that one is holding back, and using incandescent lights like our forefathers did for millennia is progressive. Very bad that Australians ditched the use of incandescent lights on govt recommendations targeting energy efficiency - bag government, b...
[04:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06German Officials Agree on Plan to Exit Coal-Fired Power - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:12] <exec> 08└─The solution here is to charge people for the energy they use, including possible externalities, and just not care past that.
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[04:51:56] <exec> 08└─Doesn't everyone snort thermal paste?
[04:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:57] <exec> 08└─This is your nerdy dork brain. This is your nerdy dork brain on CoolerMaster thermal paste. Any question?
[04:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:59] <exec> 08└─That's funny, because I would have thought that thermal paste would have to be freebased to get any benefit out of.
[04:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record-Breaking Terahertz Laser Beam - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:07] <exec> 08└─Now we can get cooked faster at "extremely high radiation intensity" every time before boarding a flight. I just can't wait for faster boarding checks and the ensuing skin blisters.
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[04:52:09] <exec> 08└─I've honestly been curious about this for a long time. We've had red, green, and blue lasers for a while now. Right? Those are THz lasers. I think there's IR as well. Given we already have it, why is there ensuing development of additional THz lasers? (This one says it's tunable throughout the range...
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[04:52:11] <exec> 08└─Snowcrash is coming true.
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[04:52:13] <exec> 08└─The difference is that common obstacles to imaging like wood, clothing, etc are transparent to these frequencies.
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[04:52:16] <exec> 08└─Does red light shine through or does blue? Visible light covers the majority of the THz range..
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[04:52:40] <exec> 08└─Lesson: you don't own the printer**, it's just the token that was given to you to identify your right to rent the services. Just make sure it's plugged in in all the sockets it needs. Of course at your expense, how else? ** substitute "printer" with any IoT gizmo.
[04:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:42] <exec> 08└─It's called business innovation, and the MBAs are getting massive bonuses for it.
[04:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:44] <exec> 08└─Actually, that line is rather long now. The entire "healthcare" industry, Boeing, Facebook, Monsanto, Google, Ajit Pai, just to name a few. That line looks like the Star Wars premier in 1977.
[04:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICANN Needs To Ask More Questions About the Sale of .ORG - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:54] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it's time to retire the whole idea of top level domain names. Why should web surfers as well as all users of every other service have to put .com, .gov, .org, .net and so forth at the end of a name? "https://soylentnews" or just "soylentnews" should be enough.
[04:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:26] <exec> 08└─This is the only data I was able to find on bowel tolerance doses: https://i.ibb.co [i.ibb.co]
[05:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gary Starkweather, Inventor of the Laser Printer, Dies at 81 - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:36] <exec> 08└─This is precisely why I talked my parents into replacing their inkjet printer with a laser printer. They print so infrequently that by the time they want to print something, they need a new cartridge. And the cartridges are ridiculously expensive. Ink remains better for somethings, but, unless you'r...
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[05:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:53] <exec> 08└─Before you go off on someone just read the docs that came *with* the syringe. This takes about 2 mins. You will look like less of an ass. This is how you make people unaccountable for their own lives. You do it for them. Your kids will be screw ups. But until they and you accept that they will never...
[05:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:54] <exec> 08└─Parents got their daily dose of tall tales of what kids were supposedly doing from Oprah. Nowadays I would be a bit skeptical about whether this story is true on Cooler Master's side or an advertising ploy, but if true, it's great that kids are still building their own machines.
[05:51:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:56] <exec> 08└─Tide pods. 'Nuff said?
[05:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:58] <exec> 08└─Good for cleaning the dishes and the gene pool?
[05:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:00] <exec> 08└─In the US the kids are all on drugs, but in asian countries I heard babies are being born that evolved to have a surgical mask made out of a thin flap of skin.
[05:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, but it also goes really nicely on Ritz crackers. Great breakfast.
[05:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:05] <exec> 08└─What stupid gossip is this now? I am busy testing out thermal paste for real, because I would like to know what is in it and if it works well. People are stupid, but I would rather read something that is of some use. See you, much later.
[05:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Record-Breaking Terahertz Laser Beam - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:16] <exec> 08└─You'll just have to look it up for yourself: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[05:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 2590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:11] <exec> 08└─Not sure where you read this but much of it is plainly false. For instance when Musk joined Tesla something like 7 months after it was first conceived. And up til then they had some good ideas, but hadn't achieved anything. So "buying them" translated to something like a $5 million investment in the...
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[05:55:26] <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.
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[06:52:07] <exec> 08└─Oh for Pete's sake, are these "parents" so clueless about what their kids are actually doing that they'd think up that kind of idiocy?! Just because it comes in a syringe-like package doesn't mean they're shooting it into their veins. I've always thought part and parcel of being a good parent was tr...
[06:52:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fnord666 [652] 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 916 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:40] <exec> 08└─HP Instant Ink is a subscription service that this guy explicitly signed up for at some point. As part of that service, he agreed to let HP monitor the number of pages he printed, etc. When ink gets low, HP will send him a new ink supply contained in cartridges. These cartridges are supplied as part...
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[06:56:07] <exec> 08└─void linux works very well for me. https://voidlinux.org [voidlinux.org] Its solid and has all the things I need. I can surf, I can develop software, I can run FPGA design software, I can watch youtube live music videos. I modify the live releases to my liking and that gives me a fresh system...
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[07:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:51:52] <exec> 08└─Can renewables give me 2kW sustained and 6 kW surge 24/7? I am all for getting off the grid but battery capacity just doesn't seem to be there. From what I saw batteries still cost about $1 per watt-hr, so if I wanted enough for one day's lib consumption (~50 kWh) id need to spend $50k on batteries...
[07:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:10] <exec> 08└─I've officially spent too much time on this website. I somehow managed to read that as That's funny, because I would have thought that thermal paste would have to be freeBSDed to get any benefit out of.
[07:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:12] <exec> 08└─contact lens fluid...
[07:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record-Breaking Terahertz Laser Beam - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:25] <exec> 08└─Look forward to cops and security guards wandering around scanning everyone with their handheld backscatter scanners.
[07:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:52] <exec> 08└─I don't print very often. I feel for those that need to print all the time. On those rare occasions when I really need to print, I generally outsource that to Kinko's which got bought by FedEx. Let's see them try to push around FedEx like this. I'll pop the popcorn while the corporate behemoths slug...
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[07:54:05] <exec> 08└─AOL keywords.
[07:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 2061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:39] <exec> 08└─Ikanread claims to be a cancer genomics researcher... But had never heard of the armitage-doll model of carcinogenesis and even said they could not understand it. Here we see they have obviously never heard of the term "disease state", so my guess is they are a python dev lab tech with no training i...
[07:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:40] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibody [wikipedia.org] Do read it and learn a bit. If you're capable of learning, that is, oh cretinous one.
[07:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:42] <exec> 08└─This is a postscriptum: next time, please refrain from brandishing links where you understand precisely nothing of. Because, oh stupid one, when you do, you firmly put both your feet into your eating orifice. Inhibits an Enzyme - (111) Interferes with Cell Membrane Permeability (Ionoph...
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[07:55:44] <exec> 08└─Different AC but as I somewhat mentioned below, the RDA for vitamin C in the literature is closer to 200 mg for most people. Also, the side effects of Vitamin C depend on how you take it and the 2 g UL is set based on what experimental evidence shows a lack of side effects in 2 stdev of a one-tailed...
[07:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:23] <exec> 08└─Manjaro is based on Arch, but it is the spiritual descendant of Mandrake. Mandrake (and Mandriva/Mageia) always had an easy install as a high priority. They tweaked the package managers and repositories until you could just about stick in the boot disk and lean on the Y key until it was done. It wou...
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[08:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:16] <exec> 08└─Thermal paste contains lot of Barium. Barium makes funny color flames. Never underestimate children reinventing sparklers...
[08:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:17] <exec> 08└─I can't help but wonder if it is a marketing campaign gimmick based on this exchange where the coolermaster account person was surprised when a person claimed it actually happened to them: https://twitter.com [twitter.com]
[08:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record-Breaking Terahertz Laser Beam - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:32] <exec> 08└─I tought a laser was by definition coherent light of a single wavelenght. This seems to be using two infrared laser beams (probably the source of the word "laser" in the title) to generate a wide spectrum of teraherz radiation (i.e. not a teraherz laser).
[08:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:01] <exec> 08└─Where exactly does it say that "your printer will be bricked if you at any time cancel the subscription"?
[08:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:02] <exec> 08└─How will Microsoft continue to pay their quality software developers if they don't source new income streams?
[08:54:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06ICANN Needs To Ask More Questions About the Sale of .ORG - 445 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:09] <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...
[08:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 1388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:56] <exec> 08└─Nope, entanglement is not communication - you can't chose what is shared, you can only know that whatever is shared is coherent. The only way the information extracted from the second (a meaningless term under special relativity) measurement can be interpreted is by the addition of another bit of in...
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[08:59:02] <exec> 08└─That's why I explicitly say it's *all* interpretations. The actual interpretation you prefer is *irrelevant* to whether this is supportable or not. The fact that the interpretation is not important is the *most important* thing.
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[08:59:02] <exec> 08└─The thing that you've got in the black box is presumed, nay defined, to be capable of solving the halting problem. Solving the halting problem wasn't a surprising outcome given that it was hard coded as one (nay, two) of the components of the system.
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[09:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:02] <exec> 08└─Domestic solar power installed cost should be around $30000 + $1 /watt. If you are really* using 50Kwh / day you'll need at least 10Kw. Deep-cycle lead-acid is about $150 /Kwh, but you need to double it and only use half the capacity if you want them to last, so call it $300 /Kwh. How much storage y...
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[09:52:38] <exec> 08└─From the article: orders of magnitude more than can be achieved with other methods. This results in exceptionally high THz energies of almost 200 µJ https://phys.org : In their experiments, they irradiated common laboratory liquids like methanol, acetone, dicholo...
[09:53:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 795 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:01] <exec> 08└─It's also partly the clown's fault. He signed up for it despite the exact thing that happened to him being well- and widely-documented. For example PC Mag [pcmag.com] says about Instant Ink: When you sign up for an HP Instant Ink plan, you pay a monthly fee to print a defined number of pages per mon...
[09:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:09] <exec> 08└─You pay for X pages, can print X pages. You pay 0 pages, you can print 0 pages. The idiot got exactly what he signed for.
[09:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:11] <exec> 08└─What we really need is a tool that will remotely disable HP.
[09:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 3013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this is essentially an anti-HP hit-piece. HP is no saint, especially on matters of ink, but lets be clear here - the key bit is right there on the first line of the info page: "HP Instant Ink is an ink cartridge replacement service. To participate, enroll your HP Instant Ink eligible printer...
[09:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:15] <exec> 08└─Nowhere, because the printer isn't bricked. HP presumably has a different ID code on their subscription cartridges to their retail ones, because it's only the former type of cartridges that are locked out of Ryan's printer and he's perfectly free to procure some suitable retail cartridges from somew...
[09:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 1570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:18] <exec> 08└─There are only two bits of this that seem particularly bad: The fact that the plan was not properly identified to the customer before he purchased the device. The amount of detail that they collect (which is probably a GDPR violation). I can see the attraction of having someone else monitor the amo...
[09:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:20] <exec> 08└─Let's see them try to push around FedEx like this
[09:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 1315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:13] <exec> 08└─Aside from the trolling link, I came to ask a similar question. Currently, the terms Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are largely used to differentiate data-driven (inference-based) systems from rule-based systems. A lot of the most interesting AI research has led to the creation of rule...
[09:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:56:48] <exec> 08└─While it is true that setting up a linux box may take some time you actuay get it back with interest after.
[09:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03cyberthanasis [5212] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:56:49] <exec> 08└─Windows just does not work. For example, updates when you have 5 minutes for a presentation. Another example, disabling updates. I spent countless hours searching for that. And it still fetches updates every single day.
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[10:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:56] <exec> 08└─The ones who removed the previously advertised linux from the PS3? BTW after the rootkit fiasco here in my quarters the only sony equipment is one (average performing) amplifier and loudspeakers I got for free.
[10:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:57] <exec> 08└─These things are likely to be somewhat customized AMD x86 PCs running FreeBSD. Maybe with some ARM companion cores thrown in. It might be sold for cheaper than you could build a comparable gaming PC... for the first year or two.
[10:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:07] <exec> 08└─I don't mean to sound pushy, but 50 kWh a day? Do you actually see that number on your current power bills. We're a family of three 100% off the grid in a large home - our typical daily load is anywhere from 8 - 12 kWh. I've seen graphs over the years suggesting that batteries were set to reach mean...
[10:52:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 1045 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:23] <exec> 08└─Oh for Pete's sake, are these "parents" so clueless about what their kids are actually doing that they'd think up that kind of idiocy?! Just because it comes in a syringe-like package doesn't mean they're shooting it into their veins. I've always thought part and parcel of being a good parent was tr...
[10:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:29] <exec> 08└─John McAfee doesn't shoot it into his veins. He shoots it the same place his bath salts go.
[10:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:31] <exec> 08└─You said it much better. Thank you.
[10:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:21] <exec> 08└─4.99 so far. Nobody knows what will be the next charge. When you pay a blackmail, you only can expect keep paying forever, and bigger amounts each time.
[10:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:23] <exec> 08└─> The amount of detail that they collect (which is probably a GDPR violation). Probably it was signed off in the ToS. GDPR doesn't prevent you from letting people extract data, but it requires your consent.
[10:54:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 476 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:00] <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...
[10:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ICANN Needs To Ask More Questions About the Sale of .ORG - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:37] <exec> 08└─This. And the fact that they aren't even trying to hide the obvious tells us how far we need to go to stop the corruption. On the surface, doing what is right is an easy fix, but reality says cutting through the road blocks they've put up won't be.
[10:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ICANN Needs To Ask More Questions About the Sale of .ORG - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:39] <exec> 08└─How do we prevent capitalism from getting that "crony" word before it once its curve of development begins to decline?
[10:56:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 288 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:23] <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.
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[11:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:58] <exec> 08└─I don't believe I would be able to put an original Playstation disc in the optical drive and play.
[11:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:59] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Sony might let you download an original Playstation game from their servers and play it, though -- after you pay for it again, of course.
[11:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:01] <exec> 08└─It probably means that ports of all games from previous gens will be downloadable and playable, or the console will emulate the previous architectures. Which is two gens of MIPS, and PowerPC/Cell, then x86. If it's the latter, I don't see why it couldn't support reading from the original discs. Alth...
[11:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03thecapt [9092] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:12] <exec> 08└─That is why something like hydrogen cracking would really work, for 50kwh you would need 20 litres of hydrogen, weighing a couple of kilos to power your fuel cell. Yes, converting from one fuel to another is wasteful, but if you are using wind and solar, then so what, you aren't burning non-renewabl...
[11:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:14] <exec> 08└─> converting from one fuel to another is wasteful Waste == heat, which in uk is a (the?) major source of fuel consumption anyway.
[11:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe's Expansion - 1527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:01] <exec> 08└─You are conflating universal expansion with dark energy. These are two related but very different concepts. Let me remind you: Since astrophysicists have been able to observe other galaxies, it has been noted that they are all moving away from us. This is thought to be because the universe is expand...
[11:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:30] <exec> 08└─Most are trained to look away.
[11:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:31] <exec> 08└─you can only know that whatever is shared is coherent... by the addition of another bit of information telling you how to interpret the quantum one... The quantum channel actually told you nothing.
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[12:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Frontier, an ISP in 29 States, Plans to File for Bankruptcy - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:00] <exec> 08└─I wondered how an ISP managed to fail, was it corporate raiders? Looks like no, they invested heavily in pay-TV and landline phone services https://www.fool.com [fool.com] and later had disputes with the union when they wanted to do l...
[12:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 3048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:13] <exec> 08└─I think the last thing I parted with any significant amount of money for was... an N64. The last thing I used... excluding a friend's PS4 to play at a games night, maybe a Wii? I wasn't enthused. Yet I'm a mad gamer, I have thousands of hours in some games, and thousands of games. I just don't get t...
[12:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:14] <exec> 08└─to play a short - but sure, pretty - console game
[12:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:17] <exec> 08└─where all the "old" games are just going to be unavailable and won't work because the servers are down, and the only way to get them is to hope the company remakes them and puts them on their cloud service tied to their new console.
[12:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:28] <exec> 08└─oops. That should have been $3000 + $1/watt
[12:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:29] <exec> 08└─We're a family of three 100% off the grid in a large home - our typical daily load is anywhere from 8 - 12 kWh.
[12:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:32] <exec> 08└─Can renewables give me 2kW sustained and 6 kW surge 24/7?
[12:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:34] <exec> 08└─Renewables like solar and wind actually work really well in countries where you've got large battery-equivalents to take up the load when there's no sun/wind. By this I mean countries with lots of hydro and similar, where you keep the lakes full and run off solar or wind when it's available, and onl...
[12:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:58] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't it be the parents who would be on drugs, if they can mistake a tube of thermal paste for whatever drug they think it might be?
[12:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:21] <exec> 08└─Several kT of carbon per launch
[12:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:23] <exec> 08└─Amen to that. If Musk does fuck-all with the rest of his time on Earth, he already did more with SpaceX and Tesla than most of the rest tech-rich-billionaires. Amazon got us packages. SpaceX makes space flight affordable. I'm not sure how delivered stuff is important to us, but getting off this sing...
[12:57:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:27] <exec> 08└─Mandrake was actually the second distro I ever installed (5.2 I believe) after Redhat (6.0?). Mandrake was nice. So was Corel's until MS forced them out. Yeah....feck you MS.
[12:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:29] <exec> 08└─Eating 7 poos IS preferable to eating 10 poos!
[12:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:56] <exec> 08└─> clearly demonstrate that whatever is shared is not simply a hidden variable which was determined at the time of entanglement? There's 56 years of history behind that particular endeavour (plus the work before Bell's paper). Many are happy that their chosen interpretation supports that, and and the...
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[12:59:58] <exec> 08└─Did you mean P=0? If you're gonna make a shit joke, at least get it right.
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[13:52:07] <exec> 08└─And I can't say I'm surprised. The only good thing I can say about them is when I call customer service, I usually get through to someone quickly and they're a native English speaker. Other than that, they seem to cut corners whenever possible. Their voice service is terrible (I have called at least...
[13:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier, an ISP in 29 States, Plans to File for Bankruptcy - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:08] <exec> 08└─Where I am, they heavily invested in providing services in rural areas where they have no competition. However this mostly didn't work out well - they typically provide such poor service I have had clients in these areas give up on landlines completely rather than deal with Frontier. Every now and t...
[13:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:23] <exec> 08└─Same here. Played arcades in the golden era, not amused by home videogames until 3d cards became available for PCs, stopped giving a damn when online DRM and inability to self host became the norm, now I play MAME, free software games (sdl ones like cube2 sauerbraten are good enough for me), looking...
[13:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:24] <exec> 08└─This is why I view Minecraft as the the best (most efficient) entertainment buy I have ever made. 8 years ago I paid $25 for the game, I don't know how many hours of entertainment I have gotten out of it, but it is many.
[13:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:41] <exec> 08└─AGM lead-acid is getting close to parity, more from electricity prices rising and feed-in tariffs falling than from any improvements in batteries. Main problem is the uncertain life, If you use them hard, they die quicker. Tesla's Powerwall (tm) ($8000 for 7Kwh) is not sensible. It will never pay fo...
[13:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:00] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, the GDPR requires informed consent. Something hidden within the ToS may not be sufficient. If the data is not required to provide the service, the disclosure requirements are more significant.
[13:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:34] <exec> 08└─There was until that Einstein guy said the answer was E=mc2 instead.
[13:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:35] <exec> 08└─... Wait, is Musk even Jewish? Checking.... Internet says no, no he is not.
[13:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe's Expansion - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:40] <exec> 08└─The math for that doesn't work out.
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[14:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:59] <exec> 08└─Iran needs communication satellites in order to communicate nuclear weapons to The Great Satan (USA) and The Little Satan (Israel). Pardon me if I don't assume that Iran has kindly peaceful intentions when they shout "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" from the highest levels of government. My...
[14:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:30] <exec> 08└─PS9 commercial - https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[14:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 1566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:32] <exec> 08└─I bought a PS4 last Christmas-ish. $400. SpiderMan version - with Spiderman. I played Spiderman to completion, on the order of 70+ hours - all difficulties, all side missions, all suits, all everything. Let's call it 70 hours for Spiderman - $5.7/hour. It also does the Amazon and the D+, and whateve...
[14:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, well when it is 32 C with 95% humidity you will be running the 400 W per room AC if you do not want to soak everything with sweat. Also, don't forget an electric oven is 5 kW and stove is 1 kW per burner. To be fair I also have a machine learning rig for work that can use another 5-10 kWh per d...
[14:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:51] <exec> 08└─Hmm, that is way cheaper than what Ive been seeing. What is the catch? I was looking at this: http://offgridpowerboom.com [offgridpowerboom.com] It's a 3 kWh generator (ie, special battery) for $3k.
[14:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:53] <exec> 08└─Holy cow you use a lot of power. The average US household uses 900kwh/mo. Are you refining bauxite in your backyard?
[14:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:55] <exec> 08└─I saw a program on the Discovery channel years ago about an engineer who did that with his home. He stored his excess power in hydrogen tanks in his backyard and ran it back through a fuel cell when he needed electricity. Ran his car off hydrogen too, as I recall.
[14:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:20] <exec> 08└─> Parents got their daily dose of tall tales of what kids were supposedly doing from Oprah. Isn't that where both the rainbow party story AND the jelly bracelet story got started? If not Oprah specifically, at least that same, er, 'genre'?
[14:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record-Breaking Terahertz Laser Beam - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:36] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser [wikipedia.org] A laser differs from other sources of light in that it emits light which is coherent. Spatial coherence allows a laser to be focused to a tight spot, enabling applications such as laser cutting and lithography. Spatial coherence also allows a laser...
[14:54:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 191 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:03] <exec> 08└─Actually, that line is rather long now. The entire "healthcare" industry, Boeing, Facebook, Monsanto, Google, Ajit Pai, just to name a few. That line looks like the Star Wars premier in 1977.
[14:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:16] <exec> 08└─That works a lot of the time, but sometimes, you need to print something, e.g. to take the information to a place where you don't have a computer handy or a steady power supply to run said computer even if you did have it, or to have a hard copy of a legal document. And for that, you need a printer....
[14:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:18] <exec> 08└─Also, anything that connects to the Internet will spy on you as much as is physically possible. After all, your data has value to somebody (the FBI if nobody else) and storage is cheap.
[14:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:20] <exec> 08└─You mean how will the world continue to subsidize H1B and offshore workers? The irony of my statement is that I commented more strongly on this HP ink situation on a certain green site and I got at least 2 accusations of being a "communist". Yet on same sites are stories about how capitalism taken t...
[14:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:22] <exec> 08└─Hopefully this story goes viral and enough people stop buying HP crap and they go chapter 11.
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[14:54:56] <exec> 08└─>” But have any previous manned rockets had abort/escape technology...” Yes, previous manned spacecraft had abort escape systems, for example Apollo had solid rockets on top that were jettisoned during each launch when they were no longer needed. What is unusual with Dragon is that the escape ro...
[14:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:58] <exec> 08└─Alright, fine, I'll admit it, I used the entire fuel mass as an analog for the carbon emissions because I was lazy.
[14:57:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Whooping Cough Evolving into a Superbug - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:25] <exec> 08└─And that RDA id based on what? The excretion of vitamin C in healthy young people! Your numbers do not apply to most of the population... when you are ill or wounded your body can use much more vitamin C. And taking too much vitamin c (for your personal needs) causes osmotic diarrhea, which is annoy...
[14:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 2860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:09] <exec> 08└─So... your argument is that because you can install linux easily, that means everyone is good to go? Installation was just one of the countless problems Linux had. One of the biggest ones being the arrogant community surrounding it that is utterly unwilling to understand the needs of normal users an...
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[14:59:55] <exec> 08└─Being left outside in the rain continuously.
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[15:52:28] <exec> 08└─My feelings of suspicion and distrust do not apply exclusively to Iran, but also to some other countries openly hostile to the US.
[15:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:29] <exec> 08└─There are only three countries in the world. Thank you for your insight.
[15:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:31] <exec> 08└─I did not know that. What are these three? Was there some merger I was not made aware of? I quit watching CNN in 2013, but I didn't think I was missing any major news.
[15:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:33] <exec> 08└─"You dare to take our embassy staff hostage after we overthrew your democatic government and installed a white dictator who tortured thousands to suppress dissent!?!?" is pretty much the way the entire history of Iran-US relations has gone. "Sure we gave Saddam Hussien chemical weapons with the expr...
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[15:52:36] <exec> 08└─The OP was being facile, suggesting the only reason Iran would want communication satellites would be to talk to the US and Israel, rather than the actual intent of being able to communicate without relying on infrastructure belonging to the US(which the OP would also decry them for using, I'm sure)...
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[15:52:51] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. I've maintained a land-based Internet connection because many good reasons, including that I have Comcast and Verizon FIOS available (but only those 2), and cell reception was 1) (very) weak at home, and 2) cost more. I rarely need mobile data, and I find WiFi everywhere, including that...
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[15:53:11] <exec> 08└─Ghost Of Christmas Future Taunts Children With Visions Of PlayStation 5 [theonion.com]
[15:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:12] <exec> 08└─They got really close with that one. Blu-ray discs, PSVR, 50-100 concurrent players, Star Wars 9, etc.
[15:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:34] <exec> 08└─It's above average but not that bad, especially considering I work from home. The average in the US south is about 40 kWh per day: https://www.chooseenergy.com [chooseenergy.com] I'd say the extra on top of the avera...
[15:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:35] <exec> 08└─We're just now building a house, and considered going off-grid. Briefly. It just doesn't make financial sense for us: battery storage is still way to expensive to make sense. While we do have a lot of sunshine, when it gets stormy in the Winter or Spring, it is entirely normal to have 3-4 days of he...
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[15:53:37] <exec> 08└─This is great news but looking at this map on the bottom, space for offshore wind could run out, has to be on continental shelf. And that map was 10 years ago https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] U.K. population is 66 million
[15:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:03] <exec> 08└─I like it with a little tomato sauce on Ritz. And it's lactose-free, so it's a great substitute for cheese.
[15:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:05] <exec> 08└─s No no no, we live in the "information age". People inherently know everything now, including they know that they can't trust the label's lies. /s (before knickers bunch up, please note the sarcasm tags...)
[15:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:07] <exec> 08└─Tide Pods clean out Artic Silver paste and form a protective coating against future ingestion. /s
[15:54:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 295 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:36] <exec> 08└─- decades ago rms couldn't print so he launched free software. - now the dystopic scare stories about DRM and IOT becomes real thanks to a printer. Bravo HP. I better start learning how to drive a makeshift plotter with a raspberry, because that's the future of printing if the IoT keeps IoTing.
[15:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:08] <exec> 08└─A lot of life seems to be an intelligence test. Do you think an always-on speaker that shares your information with Google/Amazon/Apple is a good thing? Here's the device for you. Can you figure out how to pirate movies and TV shows? If not, here's a pile of ads, plus you can pay for multiple stream...
[15:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:10] <exec> 08└─This sort of thing has gone past insane. I don't want to live in this world any more. Please, kill me! [Congratulations, you have been automatically signed up for HP Instant Death! A low, low charge of $4.99 will be extracted from your rotting ashes every month for all eternity. We will remotly moni...
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[15:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:48] <exec> 08└─But, that other guy said the answer is 42. This gets so confusing . . . if E=mc2, and E=42, then mc2 has to equal 42?
[15:55:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:56] <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.
[15:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:16] <exec> 08└─This. 1000x this. Big companies LOVE regulations. They have the big budgets and excess personnel to cope with them. There's no better way to keep upstarts from upsetting the marketplace than to put a bunch of government regulations in place.
[15:56:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe's Expansion - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:56] <exec> 08└─String theory absolutely predicts several things that are observable. Those predictions were identical to the standard model except at extreme high energies. What it failed was occam's razor, it introduced unnecessary complexity to explain the phenomena we see.
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[15:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03doke [6955] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:07] <exec> 08└─My experience has been exactly the opposite. For me, Windows has been much harder to get working, and much less backwards compatible. For example, a friend just upgraded his Win7 to Win10, and now his graphics card is unsupported. I just installed Win7 to support a hardware vendor's control app, and...
[16:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Green are Dockless E-Scooters? - 1570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:56] <exec> 08└─Yea - the whole thing is crazy. If you replace walking with biking - net loss (biking cost/mile resource investment in tires, pumps, tubes, grease, etc. exceeds shoe rubber weardown). Replace biking with ebiking - net loss (ebiking cost/mile resource investment in battery manufacture/disposal and el...
[16:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Remarkable' Mathematical Proof Describes How to Solve Seemingly Impossible Computing Problem - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:44] <exec> 08└─Removal of the posibility of alternative explanations requires active prevention of them, that's just how things work.
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[16:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:59] <exec> 08└─So 5 years ago this was just vapour and now it's virtual vapour? Eye tracking inside a VR headset (Easy) vs. Eye tracking inside a contact lens already on the surface of your eye (Hard).
[16:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:00] <exec> 08└─A startup that is in for the second round of financing shows their investors and, incidentally, a journalist that they've not been blowing the first-round capital on blackjack and hookers, but that they've been doing, real actual, useful and most of all very, very, VERY! promising work (that's the s...
[16:52:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 991 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:11] <exec> 08└─"You dare to take our embassy staff hostage after we overthrew your democatic government and installed a white dictator who tortured thousands to suppress dissent!?!?" is pretty much the way the entire history of Iran-US relations has gone. "Sure we gave Saddam Hussien chemical weapons with the expr...
[16:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:14] <exec> 08└─"You dare to take our embassy staff hostage after we overthrew your democatic government and installed a white dictator who tortured thousands to suppress dissent!?!?" is pretty much the way the entire history of Iran-US relations has gone.
[16:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:16] <exec> 08└─get the fuck off oil.
[16:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier, an ISP in 29 States, Plans to File for Bankruptcy - 1644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:32] <exec> 08└─There's been such an infinite number of mergers, I wonder if any of my former employers are part of the crashing empire. Shit... maybe? Its a very stereotypical post modernist problem to have to struggle and google search to figure out if an employer is part of a megacorporate collapse or not, LOL....
[16:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:53] <exec> 08└─Which would fundamentally defeat the claim of backwards compatibility in my book.
[16:54:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:21] <exec> 08└─If it has to connect to the internet, it will be used to compel your obedience to someone else.
[16:54:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 1570 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:35] <exec> 08└─There are only two bits of this that seem particularly bad: The fact that the plan was not properly identified to the customer before he purchased the device. The amount of detail that they collect (which is probably a GDPR violation). I can see the attraction of having someone else monitor the amo...
[16:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jay [8679] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:23] <exec> 08└─Orbital solar power stations are a stupid idea unless you're planning to use all the energy in orbit. To get that energy to earth you're stuck making a concentrated beam. That beam has losses through the atmosphere, and has issues with heavy cloud cover that far exceed the 5% lost from an eclipse. N...
[16:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, previous manned rockets had that tech in them. As the AC mentioned the shuttle did not. This test is an important step in being able to use the Falcon 9 rockets and Crew Dragon to actually carry people into space. You know, to test to make sure the thing works properly before putting people in...
[16:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I wouldn't trust orbital solar power stations for transporting that energy back to earth. That just seems to be asking for an entire town to be death beamed at some point.
[16:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:53] <exec> 08└─You cheat on your tests? Do you have Siri take the test for you?
[16:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:55] <exec> 08└─experimenting solo in your isolated lab with the various horsemen of the apocalypse.
[16:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe's Expansion - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:36] <exec> 08└─I am comparing expansion velocity and acceleration to expansion velocity and acceleration. If you can't see how that's a valid comparison, you need to take up something in the humanities instead of talking physics.
[16:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe's Expansion - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:37] <exec> 08└─> But we only see stuff far away and we assume that things behave as we expect from our local experiments I disagree. We assume that there exist a set of physics principles (call them "laws of physics" if you like) which apply to stuff "over there" and also to stuff "over here". We then attempt to d...
[16:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmic Magnifying Glasses Yield Independent Measure of Universe's Expansion - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:39] <exec> 08└─> I am comparing expansion velocity and acceleration to expansion velocity and acceleration Apologies, this was not apparent from your comment.
[16:58:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, switching to BSD for the average user is an insane suggestion. Then again, I've not really looked into BSD for a long time. Still, the average user wants to be able to run Netflix, DisneyPluPlus, etc. Then you have the people who might want to play a game the kids are into. The year of Linux o...
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[17:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:04] <exec> 08└─But eutrophication of fishing waters is one of those things that is either going to get fixed, or it's going to cost unimaginable amounts of money and human suffering to abide.
[17:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:05] <exec> 08└─Plus it's going to piss me off.
[17:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:08] <exec> 08└─Why just dump all those perfectly good nitrates when they could be so easily made into things that explode? Explosions are awesome.
[17:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 2493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:10] <exec> 08└─Here's an engineering summary of the problem, which makes more sense than the article itself: We have the technology to very easily and very cheaply turn poop water into clean and safe wastewater. Antibiotics, unfortunately, kill the bacteria. It turns out that industrial livestock production, as cu...
[17:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:12] <exec> 08└─Well the "good" news is latest estimates are all known and predictable antibiotics will be completely ineffective due to massive overuse long before all the fish are gone, so no one will be paying good money to dump ineffective antibiotics into the chickenfeed, so the fish will live. The "bad" news...
[17:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:22] <exec> 08└─People share chargers all the time. This is gonna be gross. "Can I borrow your charger?" "Sure bro" /bro sticks USB micro plug in other bro's eyeball More seriously its gonna be gross at work and elsewhere when "over-sharers" want to dip into my saline solution charger thingie and I'm like no I thin...
[17:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:24] <exec> 08└─Even if they're genuine and do all the hard work of actually developing, implementing new technologies and building the stuff they'll likely still have to pay money to those who did all the "hard work" of patenting it... https://www.cnet.com
[17:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:38] <exec> 08└─"Democracy" is only something they pitch as part of foreign policy when they're talking to voters. The actual institutions of government operate the same way feudal rulers did, protecting long-standing alliances for their military value and stability regardless of their moral value. The House of Sau...
[17:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:40] <exec> 08└─While the USA seems to have been the maker of it's own problem. I'm not sure another Nuclear Power is what the world needs, especially in a country that might go ahead and launch a nuke at someone, because Allah would be pleased.
[17:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:42] <exec> 08└─They're longtime supporters of the bin Laden family
[17:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:44] <exec> 08└─The best solution the US has for the middle east is to leave it alone
[17:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:46] <exec> 08└─The reason I'd back the democratic institutions of Iran is that they're backed by the youth of Iran, who on average are much more friendly to the US than the theocracy is. Back during the last administration, John Kerry developed a pretty good rapport with that part of their government, and managed...
[17:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:48] <exec> 08└─Osama bin Laden wouldn't have been able to found Al Qaida without his family's money. And Osama bin Laden was at the very least in contact with his family after the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Was the entire bin Laden family necessarily accomplices? No. Were they all innocent bystanders? Also n...
[17:53:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02 - 06Frontier, an ISP in 29 States, Plans to File for Bankruptcy - 528 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:02] <exec> 08└─Where I am, they heavily invested in providing services in rural areas where they have no competition. However this mostly didn't work out well - they typically provide such poor service I have had clients in these areas give up on landlines completely rather than deal with Frontier. Every now and t...
[17:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier, an ISP in 29 States, Plans to File for Bankruptcy - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:05] <exec> 08└─and the rich robber-barons (corporate boards, stock holders, VC investors, etc.) get richer
[17:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier, an ISP in 29 States, Plans to File for Bankruptcy - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:08] <exec> 08└─Paying 10 billion for 5 million new customers can't pay off until they've made a net profit of 2000 from each one? It would take them nearly 10 years just to *turn over* that amount here, so even with a decent profit margin and ZIR, that wasn't going to pay off for many decades. They went bust becau...
[17:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Frontier, an ISP in 29 States, Plans to File for Bankruptcy - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:10] <exec> 08└─I'm sure Comcast will treat you as a respected customer once the buyout of Frontier is finished.
[17:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:31] <exec> 08└─I don't see why it couldn't support reading from the original discs
[17:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:33] <exec> 08└─The last console I purchased was a PS3 to replace my dead original PS3. I also got a Wii. I loved playing PS3 when I had a friend that would come over to play in my house. It's a great system for co-op games, in my experience, that's what Console games are great at, creating a fun co-op experience....
[17:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:35] <exec> 08└─PS4 is AMD Jaguar, Fam 16, not much of interest today. But the Dualshock controllers are interesting and pretty hackable stuff, both on USB and Bluetooth. Classic STM32F407 and Qualcomm Atheros AR3002. Well worth of HW/SW modding.
[17:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:37] <exec> 08└─That is exactly what you can do on a PS3. Put in an old black bottomed disc and away it goes. Not sure about PS4 or this upcoming console.
[17:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:01] <exec> 08└─Waste == heat
[17:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:02] <exec> 08└─I'm in California and use less than the state average--just a bit more than 12kWh/day. I'm not trying to brag though. Winter is peak usage time. That energy use doesn't consider that I'm burning through some firewood. Summer is actually low use time, because our micro-climate is so dry that we use e...
[17:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:32] <exec> 08└─... you got bigger problems. (Seriously, not even two seconds investigating the presumed-drugs they found? Damn, wait until they find out their child lives in a house that keeps bags of white powder in the kitchen!)
[17:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:33] <exec> 08└─Marketing gimmicks for tech companies is what this is. I guess, it's a good thing., if they indeed were having issues with the reported problem. It just seems a bit far fetched.
[17:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:36] <exec> 08└─As a substitute for cpu thermal paste, try: * Peanut Butter * Toothpaste * Guacamole * Preparation H * Other (please specify in comments)
[17:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:38] <exec> 08└─If you did not use contact lens fluid then would you still see the problem?
[17:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:40] <exec> 08└─While you said it much more better, a kid's interest in science might involve things the parent's don't fully understand. "Hey son, the UPS guy just dropped off your anxiously awaited 50 W laser." mumble, mumble, it's less watts than a light bulb, what could go wrong?
[17:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:42] <exec> 08└─First it is syringes. The next thing you know, the kids will be doing PHP ! OMG !!!
[17:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:45] <exec> 08└─It would seem fairly easy to argue that knowing how much is printed is required to send ink cartridge refills when they'll be needed.
[17:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:46] <exec> 08└─Can 3D printers print in 2D? There are open-hardware 3D printers already.
[17:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:48] <exec> 08└─Farmers are buying older tractors that they can repair themselves rather than newer tractors with a lot of software. Time to look for older printers that are known to work on today's operating systems but don't require driver spyware.
[17:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:50] <exec> 08└─Who would have dreamed such a thing of the HP of old. How about HP charges your based on the number of calculations you do on your calculator?
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[18:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:09] <exec> 08└─Or just mix it with some dirt and market it as organic environmentally friendly fertilizer.
[18:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:20] <exec> 08└─Can't wait until to comes to market. Really! That way all the cellphone zombies will rush out to buy them, stick them in their eyes...and walk out into traffic while reading their messaging app, or even sweeter, Google Maps! Hurrah!
[18:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:21] <exec> 08└─I used to have contact lenses with a backup pair of glasses. Now, I just have glasses. Contact lenses get dust in them or the like, easily dry your eyes out, and are a pain to take care of. Insert technology for a display into the whole mess of just being able to see right and I'm not touching that...
[18:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:24] <exec> 08└─You should assume there are invisible cameras in hats and glasses. That all 'smart' phones can be remotely penetrated with ease. That you have some or another article on you that gives off a passive rfid echo that can be tracked. That tiny earpieces with direct telecommunication with the fusion cent...
[18:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:26] <exec> 08└─You're probably correct about the VC part of this, but it doesn't mean the journalist doesn't know this. There is nothing wrong with a tech status update story, and as future tech goes, this does make a good story.
[18:52:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:35] <exec> 08└─My feelings of suspicion and distrust do not apply exclusively to Iran, but also to some other countries openly hostile to the US.
[18:52:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:41] <exec> 08└─"You dare to take our embassy staff hostage after we overthrew your democatic government and installed a white dictator who tortured thousands to suppress dissent!?!?" is pretty much the way the entire history of Iran-US relations has gone.
[18:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:50] <exec> 08└─Osama bin Laden wouldn't have been able to found Al Qaida without his family's money.
[18:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:52] <exec> 08└─Iranians are white. The word Iran comes from the word Aryan, ffs.
[18:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier, an ISP in 29 States, Plans to File for Bankruptcy - 1618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:13] <exec> 08└─Oh, I don't disagree with you either. I know all about bankruptcy and how things work. I try to be as brief as possible when writing a post, so I assume people know stuff and the backstory. I was referring to cases where company principals get huge salaries and bonuses, then sell off stock before th...
[18:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier, an ISP in 29 States, Plans to File for Bankruptcy - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:15] <exec> 08└─Landline? Copper? If so, do they own it, or lease from someone like Verizon, who is trying to disconnect all copper and refuses to fix it due to ridiculous labor union laws. IE: copper "linesmen" are under CWA union, but fiber are cheap scrubs, and Verizon tries very hard to not repair copper proble...
[18:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:42] <exec> 08└─Come on, now. "Leaks" like this come up on /v/ every single day. What makes this particular one special? Seriously, what proof do we have that any word of this is valid? Why am I getting random 4chan rumors as "news"?
[18:53:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 625 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:52] <exec> 08└─I don't mean to sound pushy, but 50 kWh a day? Do you actually see that number on your current power bills. We're a family of three 100% off the grid in a large home - our typical daily load is anywhere from 8 - 12 kWh. I've seen graphs over the years suggesting that batteries were set to reach mean...
[18:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:09] <exec> 08└─Just so that I can make sure I have the right voice in my head when I read this, do you Brits use the hard or soft "g" sound when you say gigawatts? Same thing for the GIF file format?
[18:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:45] <exec> 08└─The health benefits of eating paste are numerous. It will keep you more regular than a daily bowl of Colon Blow!
[18:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:47] <exec> 08└─It's probably true. Many upper middle class American parents are dumb as shit, especially the trophy wives.
[18:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record-Breaking Terahertz Laser Beam - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:05] <exec> 08└─Not quite handheld, but they do have the vans: https://www.homelandsecurity-technology.com [homelandsecurity-technology.com] NYPD has a few, supposedly used for scanning empty vehicles, probably for drugs but only they know for sure: https://en.wikipedia.org
[18:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:55] <exec> 08└─Even if the price remains seemingly reasonable, the blackmail business model encourages others to adopt the same model. Before long there no other model. This is what happened long ago with ink cartridges. Someone started the razor-blade model, then everyone else followed. Soon lots of super cheap p...
[18:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:56] <exec> 08└─You have alternatives. Writing by hand, electronic documents, video, audio. You have alternatives.
[18:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:58] <exec> 08└─With the state of micro controllers and DYI, maybe a movement to build your own. Or use the mechanical parts of existing printers, but scrap all of the electronics in favor of an "open source" type solution. But the printer manufacturers will find some way to complain about you buying their printer...
[18:57:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:09] <exec> 08└─No taxation without representation; or else.
[18:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:10] <exec> 08└─But they're doing this for our own good! That way we don't use some untrusted unsafe AI. Only Google's "safe" and trusted AI. Think of the children!
[19:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hundreds of Millions of PCs Remain Vulnerable as Windows 7 Reaches End of Life - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:03] <exec> 08└─Ive said over and over again that I gave Mint a shot and it hard-choked during install. I tend not to give software that can't even install a second chance. Even Ubuntu MATE is giving me shit on standard modern hardware.
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[19:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Attacks Begin, Citrix Ships Patch for VPN Vulnerability - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:00] <exec> 08└─In 2020 AD, attack was beginning. Citrix: What happen? Microsoft: Somebody set up us the VPN. FireEye: We get execute. Citrix: What? FireEye: Main screen turn on. Citrix: It's you!! UNKN: How are you gentlemen? All your base are belong to us. You are on your way to destruction.
[19:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:14] <exec> 08└─Eh, antibiotics is half a problem with not spending money on developing new ones. [pharmaceutical-journal.com] The "oh fuck" of the last few years has instilled a few governments(The US for example, started in early 2016) to actually put money into it. It's also half over use, and you can expect any...
[19:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 1352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:15] <exec> 08└─We were looking at a 50 acre tract of land in East Texas, pretty place, trees, hills, quiet, clean air, but... there was this faint unpleasant smell. Noticed on the drive out, the neighbors have a couple of chicken sheds - weren't gated or locked so we drove up to check 'em out. First remarkable thi...
[19:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:17] <exec> 08└─Bullshit... Martin Shkreli invested over a million dollars in purchasing a Wu Tang album for researchers to listen to while developing new antibiotics.
[19:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:32] <exec> 08└─According to Morpheus the matrix is all around us. As the sun dims and shrinks the habitable zone holding the CPU moved from the exploded asteroid belt planet, to mars, to now earth, and next Venus. Then finally it will move to Mercury and hopefully by then the sun will spit out a new planet.
[19:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:34] <exec> 08└─I'm sure we can assume the manufacturers will put safety, security, and hygiene first when it comes to these wonderful Eye-o-T devices. It will be perfectly safe to share chargers. There's no possibility that someone will be able to spam ads across the viewing surface, and any ads which might someho...
[19:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:36] <exec> 08└─There is also the matter of alignment. Either they're going to have the image in just one eye or they will have a hell of a time making sure both lenses have the exact same rotation. With fine details like text, it matter a lot and even a little error will be intolerable.
[19:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:59] <exec> 08└─Were. They were more friendly. I'm not so sure "We'll make a deal, no wait fuck you more sanctions" won't create another generation of hate for us.
[19:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:01] <exec> 08└─Because we know what the US was doing with the Bin Laden family at the time [cbsnews.com]
[19:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:03] <exec> 08└─Well on the plus side I've already been called a traitor several times (right here) for saying maybe we shouldn't start another pointless war in the middle east. It's like 2003 all over. I feel so young again!
[19:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:05] <exec> 08└─And all those moderates who suggested 'deal with america' is better than 'death to america' are no longer in power.
[19:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:07] <exec> 08└─White isn't a meaningful construct in any biological or scientific sense. Some persians can pass for what we've recently deemed the term to mean, but if you google image search "Iranian farmer" you don't find your typical expectation of "white" And what I meant was an more about the direct family re...
[19:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:09] <exec> 08└─Boy, someone should really get them to sign some kind of treaty about that!
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[19:53:32] <exec> 08└─I'm also noticing a lot of big buyouts from investment firms, not only when my employer Boston Dynamics got bought out but also lot of other fairly-well-known-in-the-biz aerospace/defense companies. And what that means, of course, is that those firms gut the living shit out of the companies they buy...
[19:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:01] <exec> 08└─Although a disc from 1995 should be in a museum
[19:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:02] <exec> 08└─It's already confirmed to support spinning discs: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] In a Wired article in April 2019, Sony lead architect Mark Cerny revealed information on the then-unnamed successor to the PlayStation 4. This new console will include "a high-spec solid sta...
[19:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:30] <exec> 08└─Just so that I can make sure I have the right voice in my head when I read this, do you Brits use the hard or soft "g" sound when you say gigawatts? Same thing for the GIF file format?
[19:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:31] <exec> 08└─"Giga" has always had a hard "G" hasn't it? The only instance of hearing it pronounced with a soft "G" in my life was in "Back To The Future", and I always assumed that this was because the actor had no clue how to pronounce SI prefixes. Or as a Brit am I simply only used to it in that form? I've al...
[19:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:33] <exec> 08└─Holy cow the average American household uses a lot of power -- my European bill comes down to 1971 kWh per year (at a price of 0.2554 euro per kWh).
[19:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:20] <exec> 08└─That is, but knowing the breakdown of document types and so on isn't. Reporting on the levels in the cartridges after each print job (or even at the end of each day) would be sufficient. Retaining additional user data than that may open them to liability.
[19:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:22] <exec> 08└─> "Who would have dreamed such a thing of the HP of old." You're referring to the pre-MBA days, when techs did tech. I guess someone dreamed of it. > "How about HP charges your based on the number of calculations you do on your calculator?" Shhhh!! Don't give them ideas! Maybe quick patent that. To...
[19:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:24] <exec> 08└─Adding, it would be awesome if someone made alternate free software/firmware for the printer. I'm sure it would violate some HP TOS / license / whatever, but I'd argue "right to repair".
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[20:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:19] <exec> 08└─Well, that's quite a relief. Not only did your comment save me the hassle of reading the article, but it's also reassuring that the article didn't put the "eat the bugs, Goy" spin on the evils of consuming meat.
[20:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:20] <exec> 08└─Brittany, France [theguardian.com] has lost tourism, property value, and probably human life because of the run-off. It's heartening to see Extinction Rebellion protest a concrete environmental problem. According to the government (a biased source), there is progress: Fifteen years ago, at the worst...
[20:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:39] <exec> 08└─And even beyond the blackjack and hookers, they offered a guarantee [youtube.com]!
[20:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:40] <exec> 08└─Power will be wirelessly transmitted to the device. Maybe it shouldn't contain a battery though. Don't want that area burnt.
[20:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:42] <exec> 08└─So, what happens to the wires from the battery?
[20:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:44] <exec> 08└─I would rather wear some smart (sun)glasses than a 1-2 of these. Eye gestures sound annoying and potentially awful too. Speaking of eye tracking, more VR headsets should ship with it so that they can finally do foveated rendering.
[20:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 1677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:47] <exec> 08└─Tolerance of contact lenses varies greatly with the individual. It is better to have naturally "wet" eyes. I have worn them for years and have no more trouble with dust than about once a month (about the same as if I did not wear them?), and I do a lot of practical outdoor stuff. Taking care of them...
[20:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:16] <exec> 08└─Again, what makes you think the bin Ladens were never questioned about Osama? And what would you expect the ones in the US to know about Osama?
[20:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:17] <exec> 08└─Well, they'd only really be handing him money if they worked for the CIA or DoD
[20:53:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06Frontier, an ISP in 29 States, Plans to File for Bankruptcy - 481 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:31] <exec> 08└─I wondered how an ISP managed to fail, was it corporate raiders? Looks like no, they invested heavily in pay-TV and landline phone services https://www.fool.com [fool.com] and later had disputes with the union when they wanted to do l...
[20:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:11] <exec> 08└─That reminds me, Zen 3 is being designated "19h", for what it's worth: https://www.pcgamesn.com [pcgamesn.com] https://www.phoronix.com [phoronix.com] You would think they would wait for Zen4/AM5 to do that, but there it is...
[20:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:12] <exec> 08└─I don't believe I would be able to put an original Playstation disc in the optical drive and play.
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[20:54:43] <exec> 08└─Total cost of our system (ground mounted panels, batteries, etc) was around $AU 47k. So your $30k ($US ?) sounds about right. One factor to consider in deciding whether or not the ROI happens soon enough is the stability of the cost of grid-connected power. In our part of the world this has been ris...
[20:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:21] <exec> 08└─Will this mean they will finally clean their rooms when I call gc_collect_cycles()?
[20:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Record-Breaking Terahertz Laser Beam - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:40] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the precision, I really thought temporal coherence was necessary for a laser.
[20:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 1532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:37] <exec> 08└─I've had 2 HP color printers and the second one was a nice photo printer but it was gifted to me so I didn't complain...at first. Until I realized that you have to explicitly tell it that you want greyscale, otherwise, it defaults to using the colors' ink to print greyscale even though there is a se...
[20:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:38] <exec> 08└─That is okay if you are renting the machine for a reasonable flat fee and a technician comes and refills the ink at no additional charge to you whenever you're running low on ink. And they take it away for you when you are done using it for awhile. Done right they would be embracing the whole rental...
[20:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:19] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how delivered stuff is important to us
[20:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai Calls for AI Regulations - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:51] <exec> 08└─I was tangentially referring to how while we're sort of participating in the computing/AI revolution, the rest of the world is pretty much just having it brushed onto their lives like paint, without much choice. Who knows, when farmers talk about AI in a few years, there may start to be confusion in...
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[21:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Find an Oddball Asteroid Entirely Inside the Orbit of Venus - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:56] <exec> 08└─I found an entire planet within that orbit
[21:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Find an Oddball Asteroid Entirely Inside the Orbit of Venus - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:58] <exec> 08└─Newly Discovered Asteroid Orbits Between Mercury and Venus, With Shortest Year of Any Known Asteroid [soylentnews.org] Newly Discovered Kilometer-Wide Asteroid Beats Shortest Orbital Period Record Set Months Ago [soylentnews.org] The Zwicky Transient Facility has been pumping out these discoveries....
[21:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:29] <exec> 08└─Chicken farmers are just indentured labour. [theatlantic.com] The people who work in the slaughterhouses have it even worse.
[21:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:29] <exec> 08└─Decades ago I was Republican, and one of the first times I crossed party lines was because a local politician in Virginia had allowed raw chicken waste to go into a creek, perhaps in violation of Federal or even state law. Even many people who remain GOP don't want to destroy the environment like th...
[21:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 1479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:29] <exec> 08└─Chicken farm owners that I know about (the ones that buy their chicks in a box from Tyson and sell the mature meat back to Tyson a few months later) are generally pretty happy with the ROI. Oftentimes they're putting the sheds on family land that they inherited and didn't care much about in the firs...
[21:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:49] <exec> 08└─They melted when the insulation gave up and the battery shorted.
[21:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:51] <exec> 08└─This is the perfect application for solar power. Need a charge? Just stare at the sun for a few minutes.
[21:53:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 147 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:14] <exec> 08└─Were. They were more friendly. I'm not so sure "We'll make a deal, no wait fuck you more sanctions" won't create another generation of hate for us.
[21:53:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:16] <exec> 08└─Well on the plus side I've already been called a traitor several times (right here) for saying maybe we shouldn't start another pointless war in the middle east. It's like 2003 all over. I feel so young again!
[21:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:24] <exec> 08└─As others pointed out, perhaps they want elements of their communications to have speed of satellite without passing through relays which the NSA has had ample time to compromise by design and/or secret subpoena. More to the point, it places pressure upon the United States. Just as with Sputnik and...
[21:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:47] <exec> 08└─Can you really put a price on independence from the grid though? I expect more power outages like we see in california going forward. Plus they are connecting everyone's meters to wifi which is bound to end in tears.
[21:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:48] <exec> 08└─So do you cook at home? Running an electric oven for 1 hr per day uses that much electricity...
[21:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ICANN Needs To Ask More Questions About the Sale of .ORG - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:17] <exec> 08└─The web has gotten so messy that perhaps it's time to reverse engineer the old AOL clients, produce a web native version with the resource usage of the windows 3.1 version, and then provide a full stack of services via a federated network of 'aol' servers, with chat, file, web hosting, all like the...
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[22:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Astronomers Find an Oddball Asteroid Entirely Inside the Orbit of Venus - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:05] <exec> 08└─Just came here to say that while not many people comment on the astronomical items, I for one find them informative and am very happy for them to continue to be included. Interesting, but (usually) not controversial. Cheers.
[22:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Find an Oddball Asteroid Entirely Inside the Orbit of Venus - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:07] <exec> 08└─And a star in the middle of it all.
[22:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Find an Oddball Asteroid Entirely Inside the Orbit of Venus - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:09] <exec> 08└─Be careful what you don't wish for. An Electric Universe anon could crawl out of a nearby hole.
[22:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:37] <exec> 08└─Old school chicken farming (like depicted in the claymation movie Chicken Run) was sort of "true free range," the only people I know who practice that kind of chicken keeping these days are hobbyists and small time egg operations. Back when that kind of farming was the norm, chicken was f-ing expens...
[22:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:39] <exec> 08└─Rolling Stone did an article a couple of years back about pig farms. Well, here's an even older one: https://www.rollingstone.com [rollingstone.com] and here's the one I was thinking of that pushed the Chinese export an...
[22:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:41] <exec> 08└─... spraying chlorofluorocarbons in hairspray to keep hair up. People will look back in horror that we used stuff that way.
[22:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:43] <exec> 08└─The key point there seems to be ...they're putting the sheds on family land that they inherited...
[22:53:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:25] <exec> 08└─The best solution the US has for the middle east is to leave it alone
[22:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:39] <exec> 08└─I should mention that was precisely the reaction the war hawks in the US government were hoping for. They don't want there to be a possibility of negotiated peace between the US and Iran, they want to create the excuses to start a war with Iran. They came really close to succeeding earlier this year...
[22:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:07] <exec> 08└─That Yeti is cool for camping, but is not what you would connect to fixed solar/battery installation. Deep cycle AGM lead-acid batteries : 12V x 100Ah = (approx) 1Kwh https://www.amazon.com
[22:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, but with rising sea levels we are going to have more continental shelf.
[22:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:48] <exec> 08└─Knowing everything about everything is detremental to one's enjoyment of life.
[22:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CoolerMaster Changed their Thermal Paste Because Parents Kept Thinking their Kids Were On Drugs - 1884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:50] <exec> 08└─OTOH, plenty of kids are dumb enough to pick up discarded syringes - or take their empty thermal paste syringes to school to prank people. If a kid leaves syringes lying around then any parent would be expected to inquire, and any true teenager would know that the cool reply is "none of your busines...
[22:57:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:47] <exec> 08└─The beam isn't concentrated enough to hurt you at ground level. The collection area gets about 400 w/m2, that's about one third the power of sunlight. A 10GW station would have a collection area of 6 km diameter. The beam has to travel from GEO, even keeping it to 6km beam width is going to require...
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[23:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:06] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, Elon Musk is working on a cure.
[23:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:08] <exec> 08└─1820 yellow fever1920 Spanish flu2020 ???
[23:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:10] <exec> 08└─2020 yellow flu? (I realize we can't call it that.)
[23:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:12] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, Elon Musk is working on a cure.
[23:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:14] <exec> 08└─Ebola circa 2014-2015 was fun. Just coughing in public could get you a sour look. Before that, swine flu I guess. Will coronavirus deliver?
[23:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:16] <exec> 08└─This is a travesty! Didn't you see the stock [marketwatch.com] market [marketwatch.com] crashing [marketwatch.com]! The computer's doing the auto-layoff thing! Nobody has jobs any more! The ecomoney is ruined! This is biological warfare! President Camacho will know what to do.
[23:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:18] <exec> 08└─Novavax is up 73% [fool.com]
[23:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:20] <exec> 08└─There's also a league of locusts wreaking havoc: https://www.indiatimes.com [indiatimes.com] And earthquakes in Kansas: https://abcnews.go.com
[23:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:23] <exec> 08└─Almost all news seems to have transitioned from just being fake to now being fake and market manipulation. It is clear who they have turned to as they near bankruptcy.
[23:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:25] <exec> 08└─The lord is the guy who controls whatever superseded HAARP.
[23:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:27] <exec> 08└─SARS?
[23:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Find an Oddball Asteroid Entirely Inside the Orbit of Venus - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:39] <exec> 08└─Oh, apologies to Earth, Wind and Fire fans.
[23:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Find an Oddball Asteroid Entirely Inside the Orbit of Venus - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:41] <exec> 08└─That's odd, I was looking through my telescope at where it's supposed to be and I can't see anything
[23:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Find an Oddball Asteroid Entirely Inside the Orbit of Venus - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:43] <exec> 08└─Don't be absurd. An Electric Universe anon would not crawl, they'd almost certainly be propelled by plasma. Seriously, though, I read some of the EU stuff from time to time, not because I "believe" it, but because I think it likely that whatever solutions are discovered for the current gaps in knowl...
[23:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:16] <exec> 08└─mix it with some dirt and market it as organic environmentally friendly fertilizer.
[23:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Frontier, an ISP in 29 States, Plans to File for Bankruptcy - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:38] <exec> 08└─Verizon offloaded all of its debt and money losing businesses on them.
[23:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:39] <exec> 08└─They actually had one, but then they fired him.
[23:58:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:22] <exec> 08└─A couple of numbers put this into perspective. The land based receiver for a 10GW orbital solar power station is about 27km2. That is 6km diameter as parent said. For comparison, a 1 MW terrestrial PV plant is about a hectare, 0.01km2. Scaling that up to 10GW is about 100km2 of just PV panels, ignor...