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[00:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:17] <exec> 08└─Too late, he's already impeached.
[00:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:18] <exec> 08└─Advice to Albertans: Ensure your gas tank is at least half full and consider using gas-line antifreeze.
[00:52:19] <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
[00:52:20] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, Elon Musk is working on a cure.
[00:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Find an Oddball Asteroid Entirely Inside the Orbit of Venus - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:36] <exec> 08└─Did this telescope use redshift theory or plasma physics theory to detect the asteroid?
[00:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:10] <exec> 08└─>> hairspray to keep hair up Or, you know, you could let your hair be. Just that. Nothing in a spray can is necessary for beauty (unless you believe the ads).
[00:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Iran Says It Is Preparing for Satellite Launch - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:08] <exec> 08└─The entire country needs to be ended. This launch should not be allowed to take place.
[00:54:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03chewbacon [1032] 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:53] <exec> 08└─Which would fundamentally defeat the claim of backwards compatibility in my book.
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[00:57:07] <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...
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[01:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Open Laptop Soon to be Open for Business - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:02] <exec> 08└─I use mine to run Adobe Photoshop on Windows 10 and I enjoy the freedom of a system that is free of proprietary blobs like systemd.
[01:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:26] <exec> 08└─This isn't even worth digging in the pantry for the instant chicken broth powder.
[01:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spacex Launches, Destroys Rocket In Successful Capsule Escape Test - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:25] <exec> 08└─Few points. The eclipses are not an everyday thing. If the SPS's are in GEO then their orbit is inclined at 23° to the ecliptic. The eclipses only happen through two short periods twice a year - spring / autumn equinoxes - and they last about 20 minutes. Terran panels lose a lot more than 12 hours...
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[02:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Nixed Plan for End-to-End Encryption in IPhone Backups - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:00] <exec> 08└─Think you really can?
[02:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Nixed Plan for End-to-End Encryption in IPhone Backups - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:01] <exec> 08└─The majority of users, particularly "it just works" fruity users, don't care. The government, at times, cares a great deal - enough to make business less profitable than it would be if the government were happy. Which one impacts the bottom line more? That's the one that will drive the actual decisi...
[02:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Nixed Plan for End-to-End Encryption in IPhone Backups - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:03] <exec> 08└─iCan: that's the app where you put your iMac on the curb and no longer input data to it, it will then no longer be backing data to the cloud. I trust iPads so much that when they die I drive a nail through their chips before sending them for recycling.
[02:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Nixed Plan for End-to-End Encryption in IPhone Backups - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:06] <exec> 08└─"nixed plans.. for end-to-end encryption" ...because it would have gotten in the way of continuing sales in China?
[02:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Laptop Soon to be Open for Business - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:14] <exec> 08└─Surely by now we should be seeing consumer devices with at least 16GB ram. There was a serious problem in the 1990s with ram prices due to collusion. Is this occurring now to keep ram prices high?
[02:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Laptop Soon to be Open for Business - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:16] <exec> 08└─I never cared that much about proprietary firmware, as long as I can boot an arbitrary OS and my kernel can insert its throbbing cock into the BIOS' address space. That said, there's far, FAR too much hardware that doesn't meet this basic requirement. Looking at you, smartphones....
[02:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Laptop Soon to be Open for Business - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:19] <exec> 08└─The problem is from 2012 to now [jcmit.net]. DRAM demand has been high, NAND demand is extremely high and more capacity is allocated to it, industry consolidated (Elpida filed for bankruptcy in 2012), and there has probably been price fixing, collusion, and well-timed "power outages". Another factor...
[02:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Laptop Soon to be Open for Business - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:21] <exec> 08└─If memory serves (point intended), the i.MX8M is limited to 4GB address space. Is this occurring now to keep ram prices high?
[02:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:45] <exec> 08└─Spanish flu started in 1918 and was declared ended in 1920. 2020 ???
[02:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:47] <exec> 08└─WHO [who.int] China shared the genetic sequence of the novel coronavirus on 12 January, which will be of great importance for other countries to use in developing specific diagnostic kits.
[02:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:49] <exec> 08└─So they stitched together some dna fragments, but did they detect an actual virus? Did they prove it is the infectious agent via kirchoffs laws, while using the appropriate negative controls?
[02:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:51] <exec> 08└─Oh gee another strain with 3% fatality rate... This isn't even worth digging in the pantry for the instant chicken broth powder.
[02:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:46] <exec> 08└─Not so much, the key point is: access to working capital. If they're already financially disadvantaged enough that they can't get a loan to update their equipment, then they're on greased skids to bankruptcy court, but the system will milk 'em dry for 5-10 years before they get there. The "farmers"...
[02:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:12] <exec> 08└─Atlassian blasted the government for not increasing the immigration cap for IT workers while celebrating the resounding success of their globally distributed agile workforce. Go figure.
[02:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Remotely Disables Customer’s "Instant Ink Eligible" Printer Until He Joins Monthly Subscription - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:58:13] <exec> 08└─Given how old the tech is, are we that far away from being able to assemble one ourselves?
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[03:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Open Laptop Soon to be Open for Business - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:37] <exec> 08└─Windows 10 on 2 GB? That's a laugh and very misleading. Based on my experience, 4GB is enough to barely to keep the operating system running. 8 GB is good if you have an SSD. The SSD is a requirement. I just sold a 10 year old laptop that could only run Linux. It had 8 GB RAM and an HDD. I tried put...
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[03:52:39] <exec> 08└─https://char.learnwebcoding.com/help/windows_system_requirements.html [learnwebcoding.com] That is what they say. It might require a cut-down version [wikipedia.org], such as Windows 10 S or Windows 10 IoT, to get acceptable performance with it. But it should still run.
[03:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:08] <exec> 08└─If it's the waist blubber I'm even willing to pay good money for the job :D
[03:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:10] <exec> 08└─but did they detect an actual virus?
[03:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:12] <exec> 08└─I mean purify the nucleotide polymer that they claim is represented by this sequence from a protective protein/lipid coat that can get transferred from cell to cell and cause these symptoms.
[03:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:14] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind the human genome has STILL never been completed: https://www.statnews.com [statnews.com] They did a 80-90% job (in fact no one really knows how much is left), but told everyone is was done. So I don't see why we are just supposed to take the...
[03:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:17] <exec> 08└─Orwell's 1984 was so prescient.
[03:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:19] <exec> 08└─Yep, just as I thought: extensive testing is still needed to confirm the 2019-nCoV and the role of mixed infection has not been verified
[03:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:21] <exec> 08└─Forgive the CNBC editors for grabbing a thesaurus when they saw "infected patient appears asymptomatic" - it's not like their audience is conversant with basic science. But do excoriate them for bobbling it so badly.
[03:53:22] <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
[03:53:23] <exec> 08└─(Let me look in my cupboard after some gangrening agents and see if I can customize any specifically for waist blubber) We may have a deal.
[03:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:25] <exec> 08└─https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch%27s_postulates [wikipedia.org]
[03:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:27] <exec> 08└─The linked does not contain the blockquoted content. Which one - linking error or quotation error?
[03:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:21] <exec> 08└─You suck at math. Dumping it is not cheaper than selling it.
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[03:54:47] <exec> 08└─It would probably be spherical screen that could be calibrated in some fashion. I'm not sure how else you'd assure proper alignment on this sort of a shape. On the plus side, if they made this work, it would take eye coordination out of the equation. They'd just have to make the eye focus as if the...
[03:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier, an ISP in 29 States, Plans to File for Bankruptcy - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:47] <exec> 08└─Comcast
[03:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier, an ISP in 29 States, Plans to File for Bankruptcy - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:49] <exec> 08└─Landline? Copper? If so, do they own it, or lease from someone like Verizon
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[03:58:57] <exec> 08└─No, however, if you mounted a pen on the extruder, you could probably get it to write.
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[04:52:16] <exec> 08└─Surely by now we should be seeing consumer devices with at least 16GB ram.
[04:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Laptop Soon to be Open for Business - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:17] <exec> 08└─I had looked at the link you provided in the original post. And I did not mean what you said was laughable or misleading, but rather the requirements the link provided. Sorry if that was unclear. I hadn't considered Windows S or IoT. Interesting observation. Although, I have to mention that minimum...
[04:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:56] <exec> 08└─[PDF warning] Laboratory testing for 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in suspected human cases - Interim guidance - 17 January 2020 [who.int]
[04:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:58] <exec> 08└─It's in section 3 of the pdf on that page. Most people do not like direct pdf links: https://www.who.int [who.int]
[04:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Find an Oddball Asteroid Entirely Inside the Orbit of Venus - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:15] <exec> 08└─Well I never - there are controversial topics in astronomy! How about we have a vote on whether to leave the EU?
[04:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:48] <exec> 08└─Sounds good if the compatibility bit is true!
[04:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:50] <exec> 08└─Sony's PlayStation Classic [wikipedia.org] actually ships with a third-party open source PS1 emulator. PS3 emulation [wikipedia.org] is still in its infancy, but they might be able to make something happen. Or they could try a Stadia-like approach using Sony servers. Or they could offer downloadable...
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[05:52:21] <exec> 08└─Windows 10 IoT Core [windowscentral.com] in particular runs on Raspberry Pi 2 and 3, which both had 1 GB of RAM. This experience is so cut down that it is difficult to call it Windows 10. 2 GB of RAM will theoretically work, and it is still common to see deals for 4 GB systems today: https://slickde...
[05:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Laptop Soon to be Open for Business - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:22] <exec> 08└─Even your throbbing open source cock can't get rid of Intel's Management Engine bare metal spyware.
[05:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Laptop Soon to be Open for Business - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:24] <exec> 08└─Some people enjoy the bondage and open back door.
[05:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:04] <exec> 08└─Did they prove it is the infectious agent via kirchoffs laws, while using the appropriate negative controls?
[05:53:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomers Find an Oddball Asteroid Entirely Inside the Orbit of Venus - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:23] <exec> 08└─You must be that troll, Galileo.
[05:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier, an ISP in 29 States, Plans to File for Bankruptcy - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:26] <exec> 08└─I recently learned of a simple product that seemed obvious that it should exist anyway: a landline hotspot.
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[06:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Nixed Plan for End-to-End Encryption in iPhone Backups - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:24] <exec> 08└─Apple has the option to push a software update to just one phone.
[06:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:45] <exec> 08└─Personally I much prefer to put in my contact lenses before going to sleep, and take them out in the morning. No joke [allaboutvision.com].
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[06:55:20] <exec> 08└─A. The only democracy in the middle east
[06:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier, an ISP in 29 States, Plans to File for Bankruptcy - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:50] <exec> 08└─There are services, like efax.com, srfax.com, and many more if you do a web search, which will convert an email to fax and then they send the fax for you.
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[06:55:51] <exec> 08└─> In my state, Frontier bought out Verizon. Frontier owns the copper. That's interesting. Well, not sure what's going on besides Frontier profiteering. Have you looked into satellite? IIRC, isn't Space-X, or Amazon or someone putting up more Internet satellites? Have you looked into cell repeaters a...
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[06:56:25] <exec> 08└─Your price does not go down because of planned obsolescence. Shortly after the PS5 hits, your system will no longer be able to play new games, because they will no longer be being made for your system. Also don't forget to include the monthly fee you're paying to Sony to let you use your own interne...
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[07:52:14] <exec> 08└─Which chip. While metaphorical powerful, driving a nail in a piece of electronics to wipe it seems noneffective.
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[07:54:35] <exec> 08└─Never could poke myself in the eye, will just have to wait for brain implant. Will also have to wait for qdvertising being a thing.
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[08:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Find an Oddball Asteroid Entirely Inside the Orbit of Venus - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:33] <exec> 08└─I put it on a par with Time Cube and Arcimedes Plutonium.
[08:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:37] <exec> 08└─Contact lenses already have to be perfectly aligned in order to correct for astigmatism. The lenses are created such that the bottom of the lens is heavier than the top and they autorotate into position using nothing more than gravity (and the natural lubrication of the eye).
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[09:52:01] <exec> 08└─from TFA, he pleaded guilty ... punishable by a maximum of 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000, or twice the gross gain or loss from the offense. He is slated to be sentenced on May 7.
[09:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:18] <exec> 08└─counting family at ~6 and close friends at ~7, a 3% deathrate is close to claiming one of them. if you add neighbours, you're almost certainly going to at least one funeral. while I find it easy enough to write this down, I don't believe I'm taking it lightly. 3% of the world's population dying woul...
[09:56:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:56:51] <exec> 08└─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.
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[10:52:08] <exec> 08└─Don't get caught. Rule number 2: Don't get caught.
[10:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Display of the Future Might Be in Your Contact Lens - 1905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:51] <exec> 08└─I don't think eye tracking from a contact lens is conceptually hard. If anything, it's easier than with a headset: you already have to scan the environment and move things depending on the orientation of the camera, you effectively get eye tracking for free when the camera is moving in sync with the...
[10:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:29] <exec> 08└─Depends on who it's for. If you've already got an old console and a load of games, then that's one thing, but part of the appeal is for people who don't own any older PlayStations but liked some of the older games. The Xbox Game Pass, for example, includes a bunch of Xbox 360 games that I enjoy. I d...
[10:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 3717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:31] <exec> 08└─[ Disclaimer: I work at Microsoft Research, but pretty much any of this applies equally to any console from any vendor ] I bought an Xbox One S a few months ago. At work, we get a free subscription to Xbox Game Pass, which is a subscription service for around 100 games. I'm not sure if I'd pay for i...
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[11:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Explorer Zero-Day Actively Exploited, Patch Forthcoming - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:51:59] <exec> 08└─Obviously, workarounds are available; don't use Internet Explorer. I'm not even being facetious, why is Microsoft suggesting other workarounds? This is like if you had a car that had a flaw that made it randomly explode. You wouldn't apply a workaround fix to the car, you would just drive another ca...
[11:52:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Common Joe [33] 02 - 06Open Laptop Soon to be Open for Business - 1101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:42] <exec> 08└─Windows 10 on 2 GB? That's a laugh and very misleading. Based on my experience, 4GB is enough to barely to keep the operating system running. 8 GB is good if you have an SSD. The SSD is a requirement. I just sold a 10 year old laptop that could only run Linux. It had 8 GB RAM and an HDD. I tried put...
[11:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 2143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:31] <exec> 08└─Why don't you use some common sense before letting the news control your emotions? That is 3% of people *who went to the hospital because they felt very sick*. It is not 3% of people exposed to the virus or even 3% of people infected with the virus. Also, all respiratory infections consume vitamin c...
[11:57:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World’s Largest Offshore Wind Farm Will Power 4.5 Million Homes - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:57:11] <exec> 08└─Do you have gas heating / cooking? We have a gas-fired boiler for hot water and central heating and gas hobs. That reduces out total electricity consumption a lot in comparison to someone powering all of these from electricity. A lot of US households use electricity for heating and cooking.
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[11:57:13] <exec> 08└─> Well, does it? (Waste == heat) ? Thank you : bugger off;
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[12:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sonos Will Stop Providing Software Updates for its Oldest Products in May - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:59] <exec> 08└─Bad for my pocketbook, bad for the environment. Or it would be it I had ever purchased your overpriced crap...
[12:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Sonos Will Stop Providing Software Updates for its Oldest Products in May - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:00] <exec> 08└─I have two Sonos speakers. The sound quality is really excellent. That's the "love" part. As for the "hate" part, well... First, they seem to issue continuous updates for the things. You just want to play music, but no, you have to install an update - no choice. As often as not, after an update, the...
[12:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sonos Will Stop Providing Software Updates for its Oldest Products in May - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:02] <exec> 08└─Time to reiterate my feelings on "smart" devices: If it can't be configured to talk to server that *I* run instead of servers that the manufacturer runs, it's not a smart device, it's a subscription service - just with a really long time between subscription payments.
[12:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sonos Will Stop Providing Software Updates for its Oldest Products in May - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:05] <exec> 08└─So the engineering tradeoff is you can trade the one time cost of running PA-type system wires thru walls for an infinite cost of endless software updates and hardware replacements? I think I'll just run wires. For many years I had some speakers hooked up to old "misterhouse" the home automation sys...
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[12:52:14] <exec> 08└─critical in severity for IE 11, and moderate for IE 9 and IE 10
[12:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Explorer Zero-Day Actively Exploited, Patch Forthcoming - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:16] <exec> 08└─So in other words, this is Microsoft software working as designed.
[12:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Native People Did Not Use Fire to Shape New England's Landscape - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:24] <exec> 08└─Native people were too busy drinking firewater to get around to inventing fire.
[12:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flight Through the Comet Chury's Dust Cloud Resolves Chemical Mystery - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:37] <exec> 08└─They were the only ones who predicted philae would bounce off 67P. The "scientists" assured the engineers that a harpoon and spikes sufficient to penetrate ice would be enough, and not to listen to the crackpots who said it would be harder based on all past evidence regarding comets (vs people who w...
[12:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Nixed Plan for End-to-End Encryption in iPhone Backups - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:51] <exec> 08└─The OP is dealing with pirated GoT episodes and pr0n, not nuclear weapons launch codes. Smashing the chip is fine.
[12:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Nixed Plan for End-to-End Encryption in iPhone Backups - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:52] <exec> 08└─Let me preface this by saying that IANAL and I don't even play one on the internet. When this topic comes up I wonder where data service based messaging services like Signal, iMessage, etc. fall in terms of CALEA [wikipedia.org]. If you didn't know, CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforceme...
[12:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:53] <exec> 08└─Oooh! Is that when this boogaloo gets started and the Christians, the Identitatarians and fellow-travelers at least, start their jihad to cleanse the earth of the inferior races? The women I work with will finally have their fantasy of living in an Amish paradise free of trannies with their reproduc...
[12:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Find an Oddball Asteroid Entirely Inside the Orbit of Venus - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:14] <exec> 08└─Might be nice to be able to mod stories?
[12:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:51] <exec> 08└─My local power company [dailypress.com] and the largest pork producer, Smithfield, have teamed up to capture the waste, feed it into a digester, and sell the methane that would otherwise become greenhouse gasses. Good for them!
[12:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Playstation 5 Will be Backwards Compatible With All Previous Versions - 4075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:02] <exec> 08└─I hear ya, on some points. Yeah, it's cheap enough to "just have" but I avoid subscriptions like the plague. Even my phone/Internet is on a month-to-month contract, so I can just cancel it any time I like. "It's a computer that I can't do work on." I have never stopped gaming to do work that wasn't...
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[13:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sonos Will Stop Providing Software Updates for its Oldest Products in May - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:06] <exec> 08└─I'm a gonna do the same with my smartphone.
[13:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sonos Will Stop Providing Software Updates for its Oldest Products in May - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:08] <exec> 08└─If it can't be configured to talk to server that *I* run instead of servers that the manufacturer runs, it's not a smart device, it's a subscription service - just with a really long time between subscription payments.
[13:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sonos Will Stop Providing Software Updates for its Oldest Products in May - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:10] <exec> 08└─First, they seem to issue continuous updates for the things.
[13:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Explorer Zero-Day Actively Exploited, Patch Forthcoming - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:21] <exec> 08└─I'm using IE 5, so I'm safer than you.
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[13:52:23] <exec> 08└─> This is like if you had a car that had a flaw that made it randomly explode. No it isn't. In fact, it is nothing like a car with a flaw that made it randomly explode.
[13:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Native People Did Not Use Fire to Shape New England's Landscape - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:32] <exec> 08└─... You do realize that the invention of fire predates the crossing of the Bearing Strait. The article is saying they didn't burn down forests to clear land for farming, though they did farm.
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[13:52:48] <exec> 08└─Who is they?
[13:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flight Through the Comet Chury's Dust Cloud Resolves Chemical Mystery - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:49] <exec> 08└─It is expected by Electric Universe proponents that there will be puzzles for the Rosetta team. It seems likely that they will find the comet to be dense and rocky, rather than a slushy, porous rubble pile. Indeed, Philae could have difficulty latching on to 67P/C-G, since its harpoon might not be a...
[13:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Nixed Plan for End-to-End Encryption in iPhone Backups - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:05] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter to anyone here as only teenage girls use smartphones. Unless they happen to work for the FBI or Apple looking at their pictures. :P
[13:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Nixed Plan for End-to-End Encryption in iPhone Backups - 1493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:06] <exec> 08└─Always 'apple changed their minds about privacy and didn't implement feature X' Apple empowered the totalitarian state, obeyed government authority wishes, lied about privacy to their customers and users, gave them a sense of privacy without any actual privacy, and provides phones that are outright...
[13:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Nixed Plan for End-to-End Encryption in iPhone Backups - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:09] <exec> 08└─Didn't you hear, the internet isn't a telecommunications system. At least not according to Ajit Pai.
[13:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Laptop Soon to be Open for Business - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:27] <exec> 08└─I’ll be writing up a journal entry, but I bought a PineBook Pro to try and get a non-ChipZilla laptop (aiming to install OpenBSD on it). So far, my experience has been... mixed. It’s got a decent keyboard for a $250 computer. It feels more solid than equivalently priced ChromeBooks. BUT the defa...
[13:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Laptop Soon to be Open for Business - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:28] <exec> 08└─The laptop reminds me a lot of my old PowerBook 150, which is still on standby as serial protocol terminal. It's all a bit "meh", including the need for extra silicon to work around a software blob for the SoC HDMI logic. However, if your spec sheet states "Hardware completely under own control, non...
[13:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:11] <exec> 08└─The media has an infinite supply of (((ritual humiliation))) propaganda so I'm sure they'll make up for it elsewhere...
[13:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier, an ISP in 29 States, Plans to File for Bankruptcy - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:47] <exec> 08└─Have you looked into satellite?
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[14:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Leaks More Than 500K Telnet Credentials for IoT Devices - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:26] <exec> 08└─What do you mean credentials? I thought IoT are free-for-all.
[14:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Leaks More Than 500K Telnet Credentials for IoT Devices - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:28] <exec> 08└─A door guard who falls asleep on the job is still technically a door guard, even if the entire Deutsches Heer marches through during his nap.
[14:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Leaks More Than 500K Telnet Credentials for IoT Devices - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:30] <exec> 08└─Yep, any of the fucking 1 billion open source TLS-on-firmware implementations was just too much effort. Why do the bare minimum security when you can do nothing at all
[14:52:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] 02 - 06Sonos Will Stop Providing Software Updates for its Oldest Products in May - 268 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:40] <exec> 08└─Time to reiterate my feelings on "smart" devices: If it can't be configured to talk to server that *I* run instead of servers that the manufacturer runs, it's not a smart device, it's a subscription service - just with a really long time between subscription payments.
[14:52:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] 02 - 06Sonos Will Stop Providing Software Updates for its Oldest Products in May - 218 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:44] <exec> 08└─If it can't be configured to talk to server that *I* run instead of servers that the manufacturer runs, it's not a smart device, it's a subscription service - just with a really long time between subscription payments.
[14:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Sonos Will Stop Providing Software Updates for its Oldest Products in May - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:47] <exec> 08└─It started when we 'accepted' Software as a Service (SaaS) and now has morphed into Hardware as a Service. Can't own anything now: the tractor, the smartphone, the speakers; everything is owned by the Man and you just pay rent. And we call it Progress.
[14:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sonos Will Stop Providing Software Updates for its Oldest Products in May - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:49] <exec> 08└─Excellent sound quality you say. Interesting. I'm pretty handy with wire cutters and a soldering iron. Might have to look into turning some into non-IoT speakers when the non-working ones start turning up cheap on ebay or free on the side of the road. It's probably all one board, but it shouldn't be...
[14:53:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fnord666 [652] 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Nixed Plan for End-to-End Encryption in iPhone Backups - 701 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:43] <exec> 08└─Let me preface this by saying that IANAL and I don't even play one on the internet. When this topic comes up I wonder where data service based messaging services like Signal, iMessage, etc. fall in terms of CALEA [wikipedia.org]. If you didn't know, CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforceme...
[14:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Nixed Plan for End-to-End Encryption in iPhone Backups - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:47] <exec> 08└─The nail is not enough. You must also decapitate them for the ritual to be complete.
[14:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Nixed Plan for End-to-End Encryption in iPhone Backups - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:49] <exec> 08└─I trust iPads so much that when they die I drive a nail through their chips before sending them for recycling.
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[15:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:15] <exec> 08└─It has always been true that if you were descended from royalty, or a billionaire, you got a light sentence. If you're the son of a sharecropper, not so much. If you're the son of a convict, you're screwed. All this does, is widen the search for billionaires, sharecroppers, and convicts.
[15:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:17] <exec> 08└─I just looked. Aristarchus is a 48th cousin by marriage on my mother's side of the family! I KNEW THERE WAS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE MATERNAL SIDE!!!!
[15:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Leaks More Than 500K Telnet Credentials for IoT Devices - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:28] <exec> 08└─My parsing of the story title was pretty much this: "Hacker Leaks More Than 500K Telnet Credentials..." WTF is this, the 2000s? (SSH was created in 1995, my first full replacement of Telnet CLI access with SSH was completed during 1999 on the back of our Y2K efforts) "...for IoT Devices" Still more...
[15:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Leaks More Than 500K Telnet Credentials for IoT Devices - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:29] <exec> 08└─But how else will the manufacturer be able to find out how you are using your Internet-connected kitchen gadgets? We plainly need that data for ... research, I guess. Brian Lunduke's talk The Internet of Things is Going to Destroy Us All [youtube.com], given at an embedded Linux conference full of p...
[15:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Leaks More Than 500K Telnet Credentials for IoT Devices - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:31] <exec> 08└─We need: Security Hardened Internet of Things (SHIoT) First, run Telnet on a non standard port. That way nobody could ever find it. Second, 500,000 different Telnet credentials for devices? Seriously? Can't everyone get together on this and come up with a single industry standard Telnet credential f...
[15:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Leaks More Than 500K Telnet Credentials for IoT Devices - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:34] <exec> 08└─(that's an anagram, by the way)
[15:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sonos Will Stop Providing Software Updates for its Oldest Products in May - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:50] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the managers at Sonos wanted to get in on that obsolescence through lack of support. That way, they can get their customers to keep buying the new shiny.
[15:53:02] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Internet Explorer Zero-Day Actively Exploited, Patch Forthcoming - 87 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's more like driving a car where you know for sure it's going to explode today.
[15:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Native People Did Not Use Fire to Shape New England's Landscape - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:12] <exec> 08└─It was my impression that the Native Americans didn't distill anything. Strong spirits were introduced by the palefaces. I'm not even sure that they made weak spirits. They had better stuff than alcohol, anyway.
[15:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Flight Through the Comet Chury's Dust Cloud Resolves Chemical Mystery - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:31] <exec> 08└─Electric Universe "theys" would have to explain why the spacecraft wasn't vaporized on approach or even detected the expected extreme voltage potentials. It's one thing to make predictions when there's no observations to confirm or deny. It's another to completely ignore the observations. They ought...
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[15:53:32] <exec> 08└─Go away with your strawmen.
[15:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Nixed Plan for End-to-End Encryption in iPhone Backups - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:54] <exec> 08└─I must confess this "They can legally make you lie" has bothered me a long time. For Signal, however, it is open source and you can implement your own messaging support network. Disclaimer: I've done a *little* development on it...
[15:54:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Open Laptop Soon to be Open for Business - 887 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:05] <exec> 08└─The problem is from 2012 to now [jcmit.net]. DRAM demand has been high, NAND demand is extremely high and more capacity is allocated to it, industry consolidated (Elpida filed for bankruptcy in 2012), and there has probably been price fixing, collusion, and well-timed "power outages". Another factor...
[15:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Laptop Soon to be Open for Business - 1558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:16] <exec> 08└─Secure boot. Only signed firmware, then bootloader can run. End user can control certificates used for verification. Ability to have a firmware password required in order to boot. (Independent of any drive unlock password in the OS.) Ability to lock out firmware changes without credentials / certifi...
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[15:57:08] <exec> 08└─I disagree on Turkey what with the 5 year ongoing "state of emergency", the direct control of the majority of media in the country by erdogan, the decision by the EU that the last election wasn't going to be free and fair with the restrictions on movement place, the decision of the winner to move al...
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[15:57:40] <exec> 08└─Good deal! Again, I get Xfinity through a client, so many WiFi hotspots to be found. With one of my USB WiFi adapters I can connect reliably well, over 30 mbps, at > 300'. Aiming it is touchy though; someday I'll get a high gain antenna. Yeah, satellite latency is a problem. Years ago one of them (D...
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[16:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:02] <exec> 08└─"the land of the free", yeah right.
[16:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 1825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:03] <exec> 08└─What if when you look at repeat violent offenders, let's say 80% of them share a certain genetic characteristic that otherwise only again let's say 10% of the general population shares? Should we really just ignore such valuable information? Keep in mind this isn't putting somebody in jail for their...
[16:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, we should look to somewhere like the Continent for moral guidance on genetics issues. Specifically Europe. Hmm, "European genetics" is quite a mouthful. Perhaps we should contract it down to something easier to say, like EU-genetics or something. Damn, that sounds familiar. Now where have I hea...
[16:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:07] <exec> 08└─What if when you look at repeat violent offenders, let's say 80% of them share a certain genetic characteristic
[16:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:10] <exec> 08└─This will be the latest scourge inflicted upon us by the "social scientists". Once they get a new tool in their hands, like statistical techniques, or fMRIs or ANY other thing that they really don't understand but is "high tech", they unleash a trove of this behavioral nonsense on society. It quickl...
[16:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:12] <exec> 08└─If it turns out there are genetic predispositions for crime, then can't the accused argue that it's not his fault, he was just born that way?
[16:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:14] <exec> 08└─It's weird the things you conflate. You conflate the very different fields neuropsychology(the field with the fMRIs) with social science(with is the study of societies), and social psychology(examining psychology with hypotheses built on theories of behavior), correctly arriving at the conclusion th...
[16:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, and then argue that the parents must be punished for conceiving the accused. Because, if it is genetic, then it is the parent's fault. Why stop with the parents? Just blame the whole family and retrospectively punish the family lines as far as history goes. That'll teach 'm!
[16:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sonos Will Stop Providing Software Updates for its Oldest Products in May - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:46] <exec> 08└─If it can't be configured to talk to server that *I* run instead of servers that the manufacturer runs, it's not a smart device, it's a subscription service
[16:53:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Nixed Plan for End-to-End Encryption in iPhone Backups - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:47] <exec> 08└─This is my concern - iPads are one design, so anybody who has practiced on them could pick mine out of the recycling stream and possibly pull the flash chip and start ordering stuff through our iTunes account, because: pad dies before had a chance to wipe it - if wiping even works.
[16:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Nixed Plan for End-to-End Encryption in iPhone Backups - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:48] <exec> 08└─well the "solution" for apple would be to sell yet-another-device that the user can keep at home. or in a safe. somewhere. and not having to use iBackup or what it's called. so if you trust apple with your backups they can say that they have to comply with government and that there IS a option to do...
[16:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Laptop Soon to be Open for Business - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:12] <exec> 08└─I presume this is your general security wishlist and not related to the hardware described in TFA?
[16:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:58] <exec> 08└─It's a good start, but I'm sure there's still quite a bit of nasty coming out the end of that process stream...
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[17:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Y2038: It's a Threat - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:16] <exec> 08└─I remember reading an article just before Y2K that listed things that should work or not work after the rollover. There were things like lawnmowers and toasters and blenders on that list. Will my Bic pen be affected by Y2038? (Seriously though, it wouldn't be out of the question to have a microchip...
[17:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Y2038: It's a Threat - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:18] <exec> 08└─In 2038 I'll be 79 years old and won't give a flying f*ck about computers.
[17:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:35] <exec> 08└─What is fault? In our legal system, fault is committing an action knowing the consequences might be harmful(mens rea). When someone makes an argument for insanity as reason they're not liable in court, the case is based on literally being incapable of understanding the consequences of their actions....
[17:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:37] <exec> 08└─When a dog attacks a person few would think the dog is truly, cognitively, at fault. They're animals and animals brain's don't necessarily have the same ability to control themselves or process information in the way that we do. Yet far from being an argument for the dog's innocence, that is exactly...
[17:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mordac [6108] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:39] <exec> 08└─Lets do this. But we start with the politicians and judges, because surely it's more important that we know that they are not genetically predisposed to corruption and law-breaking.
[17:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:41] <exec> 08└─So now we're handing out sentences based on things that CANNOT be changed? Yea I stole money, but because my great grandmother was black and ran away from her slave master (which was illegal), I now get a longer sentence that someone who was white and stole the same amount of money and before the sa...
[17:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 1408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but there's a plentiful base of examples of false accusation. Once someone is in court, without adequate defense, the supposition automatically falls against them, and especially under the prerogative of a jury. So being able to present correlative genetic "evidence" only drives the courts to...
[17:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:46] <exec> 08└─What if
[17:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sonos Will Stop Providing Software Updates for its Oldest Products in May - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:16] <exec> 08└─Including interest. Or I would, but of course I was never stupid enough to buy one of these things to begin with. These arsehats not only want to enslave you, they expect you to pay them for it.
[17:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Explorer Zero-Day Actively Exploited, Patch Forthcoming - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:29] <exec> 08└─Explode is one of many, but the closest analogy is the hacker can hop in and drive your car away at anytime. So it really is just that the door locks are now found to be unlockable.
[17:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Laptop Soon to be Open for Business - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:45] <exec> 08└─I haven't had those problems at all (typing this on my Pinebook Pro). I got rid of the default debian and replaced it with Manjaro pretty quickly though. Check #ip a and see if you're not getting an IPv4 address? Try resetting your router in that case. Maybe it's the network you're using? I've seen...
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[17:55:30] <exec> 08└─Transitioned? What makes you think it was ever anything different?
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[18:52:06] <exec> 08└─Cheap capacitors in modern electronics will overflow and kill the devices well before the date.
[18:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03chuckugly [2910] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Y2038: It's a Threat - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:07] <exec> 08└─When everyone was in a panic about Y2K I told anyone who asked that it was 2038 we needed to think about, Y2K was not a big deal. With 18 years to go and people being aware of it now I don't expect 2038 to be a big deal but I expect a few old gizmos to break in entertaining ways.
[18:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Y2038: It's a Threat - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:10] <exec> 08└─Just a reminder that Y2K wasn't a disaster because we identified the problem then fixed it. The fact that no disasters happened is not evidence that the threat was fake.
[18:52:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NateMich [6662] 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:22] <exec> 08└─What if when you look at repeat violent offenders, let's say 80% of them share a certain genetic characteristic
[18:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:33] <exec> 08└─There are gazillions of crimes in America for which intent is irrelevant. https://www.deseret.com [deseret.com]
[18:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:35] <exec> 08└─"Take two guys who are otherwise roughly equal in apparent ability, as was a core premise of the movie." I disagree. It's a movie about an advantaged person without great drive against a disadvantaged person with great drive; arguing that the drive to succeed is more important than genetics. It's a...
[18:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:37] <exec> 08└─I would like to do one of these tests and I'd be interested in the results. It's really screwed up there isn't any way to just buy the freakin' results meaning I get my report and the data exists nowhere else. Someone should take up that business model -- sort of like a VPN seller who keeps no logs...
[18:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:39] <exec> 08└─Racist (or at least bigotted), yes. Anti-American? No. Not for the current definition of American. Welcome to the new way, just like the old way, but "science".
[18:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:41] <exec> 08└─people trying to shortcut reductionist theories of human behavior straight to DNA are called "evolutionary psychologists" and they are all, almost without exception, massive shitheads and have been for decades now.
[18:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:44] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the cops.
[18:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's good, maybe it's bad, I dunno. But what really grinds my gears is the slippery slope fallacy! If you're reading phrases like "might one day be used by" you might just be on a slippery slope.
[18:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Nixed Plan for End-to-End Encryption in iPhone Backups - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:22] <exec> 08└─...recycling stream...
[18:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Reportedly Nixed Plan for End-to-End Encryption in iPhone Backups - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:24] <exec> 08└─Used electronics are meant to go in that bottom drawer
[18:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:33] <exec> 08└─That's only one of the measures as to how damaging something like this can be. How many would have been at risk of death without intervention, and what levels of intervention were required to keep those people going? Answer: You don't know. Aside from that, there are Coronavirus variants where the d...
[18:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:34] <exec> 08└─If Trump has been impeached the Lord® will have showen his wrathings.
[18:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Confirms Human-To-Human Transmission of New Coronavirus; CDC Confirms First US Case - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:37] <exec> 08└─Aside from that, there are Coronavirus variants where the death toll has reached 30-40%. Is that enough to gain your attention?
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[18:55:47] <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.
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[19:52:00] <exec> 08└─... Record-Breaking Boffins Reveal the Fastest Spinning Thing on Earth
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[19:52:01] <exec> 08└─Have you seen Tucker Carlson 5 minutes after trump makes a tweet?
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[19:52:03] <exec> 08└─Ben Franklin in his grave.
[19:52:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Y2038: It's a Threat - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:14] <exec> 08└─Just a reminder that Y2K wasn't a disaster because we identified the problem then fixed it. The fact that no disasters happened is not evidence that the threat was fake.
[19:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Y2038: It's a Threat - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:15] <exec> 08└─You may, if there is a computer doing "AI" on your death panel.
[19:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Y2038: It's a Threat - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:17] <exec> 08└─No, but your smart printers might not work anymore. I'm still using a laser printer purchased second hand in 2002. HP4050 and it just keeps on going.
[19:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ze [8197] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Y2038: It's a Threat - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:19] <exec> 08└─How do you figure? You think you'll be spending your time running around risking falls when you're old and feeble and VR is perfected?
[19:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Y2038: It's a Threat - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:22] <exec> 08└─I don't expect 2038 to be a big deal but I expect a few old gizmos to break in entertaining ways.
[19:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Y2038: It's a Threat - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:24] <exec> 08└─Ceramic capacitors will not overflow if you make their internal volume large enough. This will depend on the ceramic spinning wheel and, the skill of the artist, and the type of kiln used.
[19:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:54] <exec> 08└─"Falsify my spurious correlation or else absolute biological determinism is true". This isn't how a scientist thinks. This is how a lazy-ass racist thinks. Goddamn, what a shitty and worthless position. This is up there with "number of leaves on an oak tree correlates with temperature, and number of...
[19:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:56] <exec> 08└─Until you get a warrant to test MY DNA, you can't prove that person is my biological cousin. For all you know, I could have been switched at birth in the hospital, and I have no biological relationship to my cousin.
[19:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:58] <exec> 08└─You're confusing "intent to break the law" with "doing something you know risks breaking the law, recklessly". The latter has always been prosecutable. Mens rea isn't restricted to "purposeful" merely "willful". See: killing someone while drunk driving(which by the way, was part of the reason Usner...
[19:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:00] <exec> 08└─"Falsify my spurious correlation or else absolute biological determinism is true"
[19:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:02] <exec> 08└─It speaks volumes that, when criticizing your lazy-ass racial theories, you assume I'm denying the correlation of IQ to life outcomes. There's the whole bird-watching argument to have about that, but at least it's predictive, unlike Murray's rambling bullshit. What it says to me is that you don't ac...
[19:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:04] <exec> 08└─Your ability to be granted bail may hinge on your genes.
[19:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:06] <exec> 08└─How difficult do you think it would be to get a blood/hair/uh, other bodily fluid sample from those people?
[19:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hacker Leaks More Than 500K Telnet Credentials for IoT Devices - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:20] <exec> 08└─It feels like they're doing nothing at all! Nothing at all.....nothing at all....
[19:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Sonos Will Stop Providing Software Updates for its Oldest Products in May - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:40] <exec> 08└─Hacking the Sonos Ikea Symfonisk Into a High Quality Speaker Amp [makezine.com] (MAKE is dead, long live MAKE!)
[19:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Laptop Soon to be Open for Business - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:10] <exec> 08└─One very important way to prevent future thefts is if there is no economic value in stealing a laptop. Current laptops which still have economic value after theft are to blame for why laptops are valuable to steal
[19:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Laptop Soon to be Open for Business - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:11] <exec> 08└─So you're saying we need thermite, or something much worser?
[19:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Laptop Soon to be Open for Business - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:13] <exec> 08└─Yes. Everyone wishes they could enter three passwords to start working. 1. firmware / bios 2. os disk unlocking / decrypting 3. login Now if you can think of a way that more passwords might be needed, I'm listening.
[19:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Find an Oddball Asteroid Entirely Inside the Orbit of Venus - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:22] <exec> 08└─I had to look up Archimedes Plutonium. Wow. I think you're being a little hard on Earth Wind and Fire.
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[20:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06World-Record-Breaking Boffins Reveal the Fastest Spinning Thing on Earth - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:09] <exec> 08└─You can read this article for free too. https://arxiv.org [arxiv.org] Why Soylent always prefers linking scientific articles on commercial non-free outlets, when free edition is available?
[20:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World-Record-Breaking Boffins Reveal the Fastest Spinning Thing on Earth - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:10] <exec> 08└─Another record broken.
[20:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World-Record-Breaking Boffins Reveal the Fastest Spinning Thing on Earth - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:12] <exec> 08└─He probably boffins off every time trump makes a tweet.
[20:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World-Record-Breaking Boffins Reveal the Fastest Spinning Thing on Earth - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:15] <exec> 08└─I'm going with volunteers seeing a story and the story not having the link easily accessible, entirely missing, or they just didn't pay that much attention.
[20:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06World-Record-Breaking Boffins Reveal the Fastest Spinning Thing on Earth - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:17] <exec> 08└─It's basically free money to be a conservative commentator, tbh.
[20:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World-Record-Breaking Boffins Reveal the Fastest Spinning Thing on Earth - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:19] <exec> 08└─The fastest spinning object on Earth – a pair of nanoparticles – can complete over five billion revolutions per second in the laboratory, according to a paper published in Nature Nanotechnology on Monday.
[20:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03chuckugly [2910] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Y2038: It's a Threat - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:35] <exec> 08└─I disagree. It would never have been a disaster, it would have been a series of minor inconveniences.
[20:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Y2038: It's a Threat - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:37] <exec> 08└─it would have been a series of minor inconveniences
[20:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:15] <exec> 08└─and they are all, almost without exception, massive shitheads and have been for decades now.
[20:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:16] <exec> 08└─you assume I'm denying the correlation of IQ to life outcomes.
[20:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:19] <exec> 08└─From the Society of Biodemography and Social Biology? Formerly known as the Society for the Study of Social Biology... and the American Eugenics Society? Europe is not clean, but so is the U.S.. But at least we know a little bit about history...
[20:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:21] <exec> 08└─The problem is, courts have shown little interest in effective crime reduction as opposed to punishment. This was driven by a combination of short term economics, politics, and the long term economic benefits of slave labor. It's difficult to even get courts to reject "medical treatments" that have...
[20:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:23] <exec> 08└─Why should I? My own theories are irrelevant to Murray being a dumbass inventing racist just-so stories.
[20:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 3074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:25] <exec> 08└─Chess is an interesting little microcosm of life. I've coached all sorts of players and of all ages. What many don't realize about the game is that the 'secret' to improvement is work. Thousands of hours of arduous, mentally taxing work that often yields no clear improvement in short-term (let's say...
[20:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:27] <exec> 08└─You conflate the very different fields neuropsychology(the field with the fMRIs)
[20:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:29] <exec> 08└─Being into DNA homeopathy much, eh? You two can get close arguing about the 2^-17 base pairs you share.
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[20:55:45] <exec> 08└─2020 yellow flu? (I realize we can't call it that.)
[20:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronomers Find an Oddball Asteroid Entirely Inside the Orbit of Venus - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:44] <exec> 08└─I made it easy for you. Those of us who have actually engaged in 'conversation' with him on usenet just call him "archie pu".
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[21:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:10] <exec> 08└─Most of those "downsides" sound like upsides to me. Biometrics suck, and I do not want NFC.
[21:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:12] <exec> 08└─Precisely, the only real downside is the USB connector, not that I don't have a bunch of those cables lying around, but the new connector is probably better. To bad they didn't go all the way with a removable battery, but at least it's a decent capacity.
[21:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:14] <exec> 08└─Echoing that laptop story, you can get laptops with 4 GB of RAM at this price, so why not 4 GB in this phone? Even 3 GB could make it more tolerable. Other than that, everything seems to be good and it's a large display, if that's your thing.
[21:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:16] <exec> 08└─The fabrication methods of really cheap ram sticks makes it too large for a phone. No really, that's it.
[21:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03moylan [3063] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:18] <exec> 08└─can you change the google assist button to do something else? i have never or will ever use google assistant.
[21:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:20] <exec> 08└─Have you tried asking the Google assistant?
[21:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:22] <exec> 08└─Isn't the RAM usually in the SOC/CPU, not discrete, on phones?
[21:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:25] <exec> 08└─Hey google assistant, how can I change the google assistant button to invoke Alexa?
[21:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World-Record-Breaking Boffins Reveal the Fastest Spinning Thing on Earth - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:41] <exec> 08└─also when the source is The Register, with their annoying britslang and flouncy wording
[21:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World-Record-Breaking Boffins Reveal the Fastest Spinning Thing on Earth - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:42] <exec> 08└─Probably because the article provides a better introduction and context for less technical minds. Sometimes the articles will include interview quotes from the authors too, which can be interesting additions to the content of the paper.
[21:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World-Record-Breaking Boffins Reveal the Fastest Spinning Thing on Earth - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:44] <exec> 08└─I don't know if I trust their methods. They're using a LASER to both set and measure the rotational frequency. Sounds like circular logic to me.
[21:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World-Record-Breaking Boffins Reveal the Fastest Spinning Thing on Earth - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:46] <exec> 08└─The boffin article summary got it wrong. Here is what the paper said: In this work, we optically drive a silica nanoparticle to rotate beyond 5 GHz, which is about 5 times faster than the former record of the fastest nanorotor.
[21:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World-Record-Breaking Boffins Reveal the Fastest Spinning Thing on Earth - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:49] <exec> 08└─No, they are using two lasers with different wavelengths.
[21:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Y2038: It's a Threat - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:09] <exec> 08└─...but have any distros moved the system date to a 64-bit integer yet?
[21:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:55] <exec> 08└─Friend of ours works in a liberal university town, surrounded by a highly conservative county. She does psychological counseling for drug offenders. When the offenders get put in her program, their recidivism rate drops by over 50%. The liberal university people are managing to barely fund her to ru...
[21:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hacker Leaks More Than 500K Telnet Credentials for IoT Devices - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:12] <exec> 08└─Instead we get the Internet of Things That Suck (IoTTS). Too bad it isn't closer in spelling to some curse word. maybe in another language??
[21:54:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06Sonos Will Stop Providing Software Updates for its Oldest Products in May - 252 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:27] <exec> 08└─It started when we 'accepted' Software as a Service (SaaS) and now has morphed into Hardware as a Service. Can't own anything now: the tractor, the smartphone, the speakers; everything is owned by the Man and you just pay rent. And we call it Progress.
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[22:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:20] <exec> 08└─Did I misread that? Did it say a headphone jack? But . . . because of Apple and Google, there soon will no longer be any headphone in existence which can plug in to that headphone jack. May all your headphone have blue teeth!
[22:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:21] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that you can find laptops with soldered mobile DRAM in them. Raspberry Pi 4B is a $55 device with 4 GB of mobile LPDDR4 in it, etc. Mobile DRAM packages have reached 12 GB, with 16 GB likely to be announced by next month. They can put 3 or 4 GB in a $129 phone.
[22:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:23] <exec> 08└─From the website: Display: 6.2” HD+ in-cell display with selfie notch and 19:9 aspect ratio.
[22:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:25] <exec> 08└─micro SD slot, a headphone jack, FM Radio support
[22:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:27] <exec> 08└─Earbuds are crap. Rechargeble batteries that cannot be replaced. Then poison landfills. Earphone jacks are better on battery life, then sending random radiation ALL around you to just reach the ears. Also earphones are cheap. Finger printer and face scan to unlock... more insecure crap. Your face an...
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[22:52:30] <exec> 08└─Absolutely agree, however, and I'm EE but not phone expert, USB-C has different circuit functionality, higher voltage and current potential, requiring higher power capable circuitry, which would be additional designs, and costs, and maybe bigger size and likely greater power dissipation. So maybe th...
[22:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:32] <exec> 08└─But, that would cut into their tiny 50%+ profit.
[22:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:34] <exec> 08└─Ahh...., out of the frying pan and into the fire. Yeah, I forgot about the google assistant button. Would be sweet, if it's customizable, but I'm not so sure it will be. At least it's stock Android instead of some bastardized OEM with uninstallable Facebook/Twitter/(Insert Fad App).
[22:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:36] <exec> 08└─Didn't I read somewhere that pretty much all phones have FM radio support, but the manufacturers turn it off?
[22:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:39] <exec> 08└─No fingerprint scanner. Just the face unlock thing. Which is likely to be an option as opposed to a requirement.
[22:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:41] <exec> 08└─I'm one not wanting to pay many hundred dollars for a surveillance device. I just may buy one for when my Galaxy SII dies. I use laptops for interacting on the Internet. For me, the "phone" (we need a new designation for these enhanced devices now) is for a few calls, email, occasional browsing and...
[22:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:43] <exec> 08└─Developers Working to Get FM Radio Function Enabled in BQ Ubuntu Phones [soylentnews.org] FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones [soylentnews.org] FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai Calls on Apple to Activate Imaginary FM Chips [soylentnews.org] Samsung to "Unlock" FM Chip in Galaxy S9...
[22:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:45] <exec> 08└─Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129
[22:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:47] <exec> 08└─Only downside [for me] is the fact that it actually has a selfie-cam-powered face unlock feature. How about you?
[22:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:49] <exec> 08└─GPS + map apps are undeniably useful, and can be used with no data [9to5google.com] connection [soylentnews.org].
[22:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:52] <exec> 08└─Ever high-quality dirt is pretty cheap [homeadvisor.com]. Android tablets, on the other hand, may actually hit that mark, as do phones in many developing nations.
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[22:53:13] <exec> 08└─You can also view the abstract on Pubmed [nih.gov] if you want to bookmark it later. Clicking on it, hey, there's a banner showing that they have a new website layout [nih.gov], let's try it out ... noooooooo! Another whitespace victim!!!
[22:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World-Record-Breaking Boffins Reveal the Fastest Spinning Thing on Earth - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:14] <exec> 08└─Why Soylent always prefers linking scientific articles on commercial non-free outlets
[22:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World-Record-Breaking Boffins Reveal the Fastest Spinning Thing on Earth - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:16] <exec> 08└─Like in "the law of comments conservation"?
[22:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:24] <exec> 08└─doing something you know risks breaking the law, recklessly
[22:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:25] <exec> 08└─My own theories are irrelevant to Murray being a dumbass inventing racist just-so stories.
[22:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:28] <exec> 08└─You can't "treat" or "reeducate" the sociopath, especially if they have good acting abilities. The most humane thing to do with them is isolate them. Of course what we don't know is if sociopathy is genetic, something that can be found in other life forms, or if it is nurtured by one's environment.
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[22:55:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that harpoon loving crowd can be really tough and they really stick to those sacred cows. I heard of this one guy who just wouldn't let go of this thing about white whales. It's all he ever talked about!
[22:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Further Implicates Poultry Processing in Coastal Pollution - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:28] <exec> 08└─According to this piece, that's not how the industry works. [theatlantic.com] Today, the industry is dominated by just a handful of vertically integrated companies, known as integrators. These mega-producers, such as Tyson and Perdue, contract with farmers to raise their birds for them. The farmers...
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[23:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Crown Prince's WhatsApp Account Reportedly Used to Hack Jeff Bezos - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:13] <exec> 08└─UN experts demand US inquiry into Jeff Bezos Saudi hacking claims [theguardian.com] Ok, let the "How dares UN to demand something from US?" reactions flow (grin)
[23:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Crown Prince's WhatsApp Account Reportedly Used to Hack Jeff Bezos - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:14] <exec> 08└─The UN rapporteurs added: “Surveillance through digital means must be subjected to the most rigorous control, including by judicial authorities and national and international export control regimes, to protect against the ease of its abuse. It underscores the pressing need for a moratorium on the...
[23:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Saudi Crown Prince's WhatsApp Account Reportedly Used to Hack Jeff Bezos - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:16] <exec> 08└─<lunatic-conspiracy> Trump asked Bin Salman for dirt on Bezos in exchange for the future war on Iran </lunatic-conspiracy>
[23:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Crown Prince's WhatsApp Account Reportedly Used to Hack Jeff Bezos - 1547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:19] <exec> 08└─They are probably referring to something like this (see bolded): Israeli Firm NSO Linked to WhatsApp Hack, Faces Lawsuit Backed by Amnesty International [soylentnews.org] The Israeli firm linked to this week's WhatsApp hack is facing a lawsuit backed by Amnesty International, which says it fears its...
[23:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:50] <exec> 08└─GPS + map apps are undeniably useful...
[23:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:51] <exec> 08└─Wow, great take on half of the comment.
[23:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:53] <exec> 08└─You could always get a flip phone [anandtech.com].
[23:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:56] <exec> 08└─Where did you buy your $35 // $219.99 device? https://www.samsung.com [samsung.com] Even the refurbished one I found was $134.99.
[23:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:58] <exec> 08└─Or a Nokia 1: https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] - unlocked at $60.
[23:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dirt-cheap Nokia 2.3 comes to the US for just $129 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:00] <exec> 08└─Right there with ya. I wouldn't even have to switch charging cables, so it sounds like almost the perfect phone.
[23:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Y2038: It's a Threat - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:44] <exec> 08└─Uh-huh. Old farts used to say that about the Internet too. However, just about everything runs on computers these days. Fuck, farming now even involves computers on these massive tractors. When I'm a little older perhaps I won't care, but that's because I'm getting ready to live out in the middle of...
[23:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:34] <exec> 08└─What it might cause(and our long-standing social psychology and psychiatry research already knows this as anti-social personality disorder) is poor impulse control or lowered empathy.
[23:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cousin Took a DNA Test? Courts Could Use it to Argue You are More Likely to Commit Crimes - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:36] <exec> 08└─Your punishment should be based on what you've actually done. Anything else is profoundly unjust.
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