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[00:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DigitalOcean Decimates Workforce as Co-Founder Reveals Lack of Profitability, Leadership Turmoil - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:02] <exec> 08└─Never heard of them, not sure why I should care.
[00:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DigitalOcean Decimates Workforce as Co-Founder Reveals Lack of Profitability, Leadership Turmoil - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:03] <exec> 08└─They're a competitor to Linode, the service provider hosting the servers for this site. Digital Ocean writes some decent documentation about standing up services and provides a good number of Linux and even BSD options to run on their servers.
[00:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"CacheOut" Attack Targets Intel Processors - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:13] <exec> 08└─finally the L1 exploits are starting to come out. The linked paper is very clear (if you're into this kinda thing) and sure enough it's straight up cache flush sequencing. Bonus - they can leak stack canaries!
[00:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Current Model for Storing Nuclear Waste is Incomplete: Study Finds Safety Issues - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:30] <exec> 08└─Oz solved the storage problem a long time ago. It's called Synroc. [wikipedia.org] Opposition to it is based on a combination of "not invented here" by the pro-nukes and "don't want a solution" by the anti-nukes.
[00:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Current Model for Storing Nuclear Waste is Incomplete: Study Finds Safety Issues - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:32] <exec> 08└─Yucca mountain isn't part of a mountain chain - it's a semi-extinct volcano. A storage facility near a fault line is kind of dumb.
[00:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Sea Huge Source of Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases: Study - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:51] <exec> 08└─As long as it's already leaking, pumping it out to refineries where emissions can be processed to some extent should be better than letting it disperse into the atmosphere and go to waste.
[00:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Sea Huge Source of Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases: Study - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:53] <exec> 08└─Heh, nice. I knew before I even finished reading TFS that some nimrod would try to find a way to blame it on people.
[00:53:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Astronaut Craves Salsa and Surf After Record 11 Months Aloft - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:16] <exec> 08└─Despite making up only 4% of the USA population, lesbians commit 100% of space crimes. Very triggering.
[00:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nanoparticle Chomps Away Plaques that Cause Heart Attacks - 1545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:29] <exec> 08└─I've never bothered to officially complain about down-mods - not even the ones jmichaelhudsondotnet boasted making against me to, in his words, "punish" me. It's only mod points and I'm always at the karma cap so I can afford to see it as just pitiful behaviour. As for EthanolFueled, I posted a sug...
[01:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Hope to Make Needle Pricks for Diabetics a Thing of the Past - 984 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:12] <exec> 08└─I came up with this idea more than 40 years ago and abandoned it immediately - there are too many obvious problems and it doesn't really bring anything to the table. My experience since with OCT pretty much affirms my original opinion. Current test strips are within 5%, are outside patent protectio...
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[01:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06DigitalOcean Decimates Workforce as Co-Founder Reveals Lack of Profitability, Leadership Turmoil - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:04] <exec> 08└─There's your problem... hiring New York Jjews as code monkeys is too expensive. Get some Mumbai hindoos if you want profits.
[01:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DigitalOcean Decimates Workforce as Co-Founder Reveals Lack of Profitability, Leadership Turmoil - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:05] <exec> 08└─Heard of linode long ago, digital ocean I heard the name, never knew what it did. Probably one of the reasons they're losing money and laying off people - failure to offer anything distinctive enough to stand out.
[01:52:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06DigitalOcean Decimates Workforce as Co-Founder Reveals Lack of Profitability, Leadership Turmoil - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:07] <exec> 08└─Some of the best Linux howto pages on the internet
[01:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DigitalOcean Decimates Workforce as Co-Founder Reveals Lack of Profitability, Leadership Turmoil - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:10] <exec> 08└─Tone it down, dude. It's getting old.
[01:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"CacheOut" Attack Targets Intel Processors - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:21] <exec> 08└─If nobody but the 3 letter agencies knows about them, then they aren't really that much of a threat, and performance of Intel chips can continue blissfully unaware while Intel quietly patches the hole in new silicon. As it stands, Intel chips are literally getting slower as a result of these mitigat...
[01:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"CacheOut" Attack Targets Intel Processors - 7853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:23] <exec> 08└─Intel has been disproportionately affected by vulnerabilities like CacheOut and Meltdown. Although chips from other manufacturers do have some vulnerability to variants of Spectre, this is mostly an Intel problem. This raises the high probability that these flaws aren't accidental, but are from espi...
[01:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"CacheOut" Attack Targets Intel Processors - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:25] <exec> 08└─You left out "Intel sabotaging their customers to look faster and gain market share".
[01:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"CacheOut" Attack Targets Intel Processors - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:27] <exec> 08└─Do you practise daily to be that stupid or does it come naturally to you?
[01:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Current Model for Storing Nuclear Waste is Incomplete: Study Finds Safety Issues - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:47] <exec> 08└─One on a subduction zone is kinda perfect, if you think about it.
[01:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Sea Huge Source of Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases: Study - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:08] <exec> 08└─It would be much better.
[01:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronaut Craves Salsa and Surf After Record 11 Months Aloft - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:41] <exec> 08└─Oh good lord. They're sending a fashion designer. I wonder if they'll send a marketing person as well.
[01:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronaut Craves Salsa and Surf After Record 11 Months Aloft - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:43] <exec> 08└─Except, she didn't set a record. Men have set the records, and women tag along behind, doing the best that they can do. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Geez, I hope that doesn't trigger you too badly! Also, note that Peggy Whit...
[01:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London to Deploy Live Facial Recognition to Find Wanted Faces in a Crowd - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:34] <exec> 08└─There is no balance. Gubbermint has all the power, and makes all the decisions. You, poor peasant, have the options of following orders willingly, or following orders after being bludgeoned into compliance.
[01:57:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Please Stop Sending Terrifying Alerts to My Cell Phone - WIRED - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:49] <exec> 08└─Yep. I live in a wildfire zone. You know how I find out about fires? I hear the actual sirens if they're close enough, then I look out the Window. The Summer before last was terrifying. Aside from the big fires, there were numerous starts that were extinguished quickly thanks to the fast actions of...
[01:57:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Please Stop Sending Terrifying Alerts to My Cell Phone - WIRED - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:51] <exec> 08└─I'm disappointed in those that didn't
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[02:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:14] <exec> 08└─Just saw a pig fly by...
[02:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:15] <exec> 08└─While we're at it, why not allow business to use gpl code without releasing the source to their mods? After all they're both equally idiotic ideas that ignore copyright laws and intellectual property rights. What's good for the goose should be good for the gamder. The only reason the GPL works is c...
[02:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:18] <exec> 08└─from https://www.fsf.org [fsf.org] Current signers: 11458 We've reached the goal - but there's still time to show your support. Sign the petition and join our mailing list to stay updated on the campaign. -------------- Share and embed To embed the Upcycle image on your Web...
[02:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:20] <exec> 08└─The FSF isn't asking anyone to ignore copyright law here, or for copyright law to be changed even. They're just asking MS to open-source what's claimed to be an obsolete, end-of-life operating system.
[02:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:22] <exec> 08└─I don't agree with your general thesis. The only reason the GPL works is copyright law.
[02:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:24] <exec> 08└─"Nothing to lose"? Other than lots and lots of Windows 10+ sales, you mean? Or giving Microsoft an increased burden of fixing bugs in Windows 10+ that got discovered in the opened Win7 source? Microsoft would have to be nuts to do this as a company. And they won't, because they're not nuts.
[02:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:27] <exec> 08└─Actually, this could be a great PR move for Microsoft. For just one example, think about all the medical equipment that still runs on Win 7 and will not run on anything newer (can't have the radiation treatment machine pausing for an update). If MS opened up the code, these machines (which last much...
[02:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:29] <exec> 08└─Why? Windows sucks too much to be freeware. Linux is free.
[02:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:31] <exec> 08└─End of life doesn't mean useless. It still has plenty of value, and they know it, so their position is hypocritical. It still has far more value than, for example, gnu HURD. And it still is generating more in support revenue than most Linux distros. There are plenty of people who still want Window...
[02:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:33] <exec> 08└─The FSF isn't "demanding" anything. Second, MS won't do it; they've got extended maintenance contracts already signed; that they'll be honoring for a while yet. Win7 is making them money for a while yet. Third, MS is almost gauranteed to have bought/licensed, and distributes all kinds of 3rd party s...
[02:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:36] <exec> 08└─Even RMS admits that the GPL is dependent on copyright law. Without copyrights, nobody can enforce any sort of software license that requires that distribution includes the source. Or that modified versions release the mods.
[02:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:38] <exec> 08└─You're mistaken; it was a GNU jumping over a shark.
[02:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:40] <exec> 08└─> The FSF ought to know better Well, iirc, RMS is no longer there to offer the FSF his steadying hand (ducks!)
[02:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:42] <exec> 08└─a pig fly
[02:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:44] <exec> 08└─Windows 10+ sales
[02:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:46] <exec> 08└─Let me demand that the FSF finally clear up who is actually in charge at that organization.
[02:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:48] <exec> 08└─If they released Win7, win10 disappears. Same as they had to force uptake of vista by discontinuing XP. They don't need PR - they are the market leader. And that old software, they're supplying updates for, for a fee. This is a roundabout way of admitting that open source operating systems can't co...
[02:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DigitalOcean Decimates Workforce as Co-Founder Reveals Lack of Profitability, Leadership Turmoil - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:01] <exec> 08└─...though reports suggest the number ranges from 35 to 50, or roughly 10 per cent of the 450-person company
[02:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DigitalOcean Decimates Workforce as Co-Founder Reveals Lack of Profitability, Leadership Turmoil - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:03] <exec> 08└─For once a proper use of the word decimate. What went wrong ?
[02:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DigitalOcean Decimates Workforce as Co-Founder Reveals Lack of Profitability, Leadership Turmoil - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:05] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised. This is pretty close to what "decimation" really is: eliminating 10% of your people. It's right there in the word: "dec" is Latin for 10. Of course, this company surely didn't do this decimation in the proper Roman manner, which is to just line everyone up, and kill every 10th person....
[02:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Current Model for Storing Nuclear Waste is Incomplete: Study Finds Safety Issues - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:39] <exec> 08└─Just look for someone with radiation induced brain damage, like the poster. Store it with them, kill 2 birds with one stone.
[02:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Current Model for Storing Nuclear Waste is Incomplete: Study Finds Safety Issues - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:40] <exec> 08└─Ipswich? [thesuffolkcoast.co.uk] or Aberdeen? [visitabdn.com]
[02:53:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03corey [2202] 02 - 06Red Sea Huge Source of Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases: Study - 246 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:52] <exec> 08└─Let's get the oil companies to pay for cleaning it up. It's their cost. Unfortunately we operate on an economic model which allows for environmental impacts to be ignored and others pay for it. Externalised costs. Is time we pulled our thumb out.
[02:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Sea Huge Source of Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases: Study - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:03] <exec> 08└─Burning it to CO2, even if just flaring it off, would be far preferable to letting it just drift away as unburnt alkanes. CO2 is the current big bogyman, but hydrocarbon pollution is much worse.
[02:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Sea Huge Source of Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases: Study - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:04] <exec> 08└─It's much more likely that all the oil extraction has reduced the natural seeps. Any oilfield where you have gushers, all it would take is one crack reaching to the reservoir and the stuff will come out.
[02:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronaut Craves Salsa and Surf After Record 11 Months Aloft - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe she's just easily self-satisfied.
[02:57:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] 02 - 06Two Satellites Might Collide in Earth Orbit This Week - 334 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:43] <exec> 08└─These satellites are at high inclination orbits ~900km above the Earth. The Shuttle had to push the envelope to reach Hubble at ~500km. We do not have nor have we ever had the ability to do a satellite repair or recovery in this orbit. ... which is a damn shame and a direct consequence of not having...
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[03:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:33] <exec> 08└─The FSF knows very well that this PR stunt is a big shot of free publicity for them, more than they could ever afford to pay for.
[03:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:34] <exec> 08└─"End of life doesn't mean useless." When you're talking Windows, what with telemetry, forced upgrades at the worst possible moment, 'cozying up' with open source....etc etc etc..... Any Windows is, actually, pretty useless and REALLY, if people were smarter, COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY. Good thing for Mi...
[03:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:36] <exec> 08└─Shall I get the money ready sir?
[03:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:39] <exec> 08└─It was a Stall Man.
[03:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:41] <exec> 08└─Sad to see the troll mod being used for "disagree" more than usual. The truth is Windows dominated the software market and most people aren't interested in learning another OS which wouldn't run half of their favorite programs. I'm a linux/bsd fan myself, but I won't deny reality just cause I don't...
[03:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:43] <exec> 08└─We've reached the goal
[03:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:45] <exec> 08└─It's a stupid PR stunt. It's another way of admitting that free software can't even compete with obsolete versions of Windows. It's become apparent that the financial model for free software doesn't work for most developers. Now the FSF is just trying to stay in the public eye to pay their own sala...
[03:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:47] <exec> 08└─Exactly, the Win 10 OE business is with the big PC makers (Dell, HP, Lenovo, Asus, etc) and there is no way they could sell large volumes of Win 7 computers these days. It might be interesting to know if MS makes money on the extended support contracts that they are now offering for Win 7. My guess...
[03:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:49] <exec> 08└─"This is a roundabout way of admitting that open source operating systems can't compete." Nah, it is the FSF pushing for software rights. There are plenty of programs that will eventually be unsupported on Win10, and there are many many people who would benefit from open source Win 7. I applaud the...
[03:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:51] <exec> 08└─That's a lotta dessert toast!
[03:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:54] <exec> 08└─While we're at it, why not allow business to use gpl code without releasing the source to their mods?
[03:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 1216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:56] <exec> 08└─Computer retailers have been free to offer Linux for a couple of decades. Higher support costs and returns because Linux won't run their software mean they would have to charge more for Linux than Windows, even though they don't have to pay for Linux and they have to pay for Windows. People who onl...
[03:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:58] <exec> 08└─WE CALL ON THEM TO RELEASE IT AS FREE SOFTWARE
[03:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:00] <exec> 08└─"Nothing to lose"? Other than lots and lots of Windows 10+ sales, you mean?
[03:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:02] <exec> 08└─We can't even agree as to what Linux is any more, most distros come with software that hasn't changed much in a decade (except for games - make that two decades). The eagerly anticipated and much heralded unleashing of creativity in open source didn't happen. Everything is a bad copy of proprietary...
[03:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:04] <exec> 08└─calling on someone to be generous isn't the same thing as making a demand. verbiage matters.
[03:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:06] <exec> 08└─If they really gave a shit about anything beyond their paycheques, they'd be trying to find new economic models for software development. They haven't even tried. The whole "Foundation " thing is ancient, long before computers existed. They won't admit there's a problem, because that would mean adm...
[03:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:09] <exec> 08└─"Release of the Windows 7 proprietary source code will reveal valuable intellectual property and trade secrets which are essential to the safety and security of the Windows 10 operating system, therefore we are not only legally protected from being forced to reveal our source code, keeping it secret...
[03:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:11] <exec> 08└─Even Linux now sucks too much to be freeware. Just try giving it away. Seriously, try. I gave up more than a decade ago. People don't want an operating system , they want to run their programs and use their peripherals. For most people , that means Microsoft or Apple. Last time people actually got...
[03:53:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DigitalOcean Decimates Workforce as Co-Founder Reveals Lack of Profitability, Leadership Turmoil - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:26] <exec> 08└─Just asking for a friend.
[03:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DigitalOcean Decimates Workforce as Co-Founder Reveals Lack of Profitability, Leadership Turmoil - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:28] <exec> 08└─The end of times is nigh. Watch out for Corona virus and/or Trump getting desperate for anything to wag the dog with - the Middle East plan didn't create enough distraction. (grin)
[03:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Current Model for Storing Nuclear Waste is Incomplete: Study Finds Safety Issues - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:05] <exec> 08└─Just get some scientists to say that it will most likely last 25k years. At that point the science is settled and turns into established fact.
[03:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Sea Huge Source of Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases: Study - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:32] <exec> 08└─"They came to an unexpected conclusion: the two gases had to be seeping out of the sea bed after escaping natural subterranean oil and gas reservoirs." So humans pumping out subterranean oil and gas reservoirs couldn't possibly have any bearing on their conclusion? Are you a professional idiot? Mayb...
[03:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronaut Craves Salsa and Surf After Record 11 Months Aloft - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:08] <exec> 08└─Imagine how much it must suck, that the most amazing thing about you is your genetalia.
[03:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Do Men and Women Store Fat Differently? Ask the Fruit Fly - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:30] <exec> 08└─Better place to store it than my wife.
[03:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Satellites Might Collide in Earth Orbit This Week - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:21] <exec> 08└─I do. It was sold as a Space Truck. 25 tons to a space station in LEO, swap raw materials/supplies for space products*, land, few days to check it over and refuel, and do it again. Being able to land a significant payload was part of it. Refueling in space for much higher/further missions was touted...
[03:58:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Walnuts may Slow Cognitive Decline in At-Risk Elderly - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:37] <exec> 08└─Hmm. Apparently not.
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[04:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:45] <exec> 08└─When Disney voluntarily releases Mickey Mouse into the public domain ....
[04:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:46] <exec> 08└─End of life doesn't mean useless. It still has plenty of value, and they know it, so their position is hypocritical.
[04:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Current Model for Storing Nuclear Waste is Incomplete: Study Finds Safety Issues - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:40] <exec> 08└─I'd prefer you not send it to the sun for a few reasons. 1. It would take an astounding amount of energy. 2. Sometimes rockets explode. I do not want a rocket failure to create a plume of radioactive waste hundreds or thousands of miles long. 3. If we find some use for the material in the future we...
[04:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Current Model for Storing Nuclear Waste is Incomplete: Study Finds Safety Issues - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:41] <exec> 08└─It's dumb that we obsess over our ability to store waste on geological timescales while letting existing waste sit in ponds. We're making the choice to stick with a terrible solution because our very good solutions aren't perfect. Yucca Mountain gets an average of 8 inches of rain per year. For it t...
[04:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronaut Craves Salsa and Surf After Record 11 Months Aloft - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:42] <exec> 08└─I guess if you just want to follow rote instructions to manipulate meaningless symbols it is the same.
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[05:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MOS 6502: A Blast From the Past - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:59] <exec> 08└─"These are some of the very first CPUs made by MOS and are rather desirable, ..." When I was cleaning out my grandparents' home, in Connecticut, I found maybe a dozen flat plastic trays of CPUs. I set them aside for later examination, and brought them back to California. Back in California, I got ar...
[05:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MOS 6502: A Blast From the Past - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:01] <exec> 08└─You can just sell them on eBay.
[05:52:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03petecox [3228] 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:20] <exec> 08└─You're mistaken; it was a GNU jumping over a shark.
[05:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:48] <exec> 08└─WIN7 did not stop working, did it? Microsoft sees no reason to keep supporting it. I have a 25 year old van too. I don't think anyone at the dealership knows how it works. No computer, no OBD port. Purely mechanical Diesel. My neighbor's Mustang is 25 years older than my van. Still using it as a dai...
[05:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:49] <exec> 08└─If they released Win7, win10 disappears.
[05:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:51] <exec> 08└─Your view is extremely biased. What you don't understand is that their use of GPL precludes any copyright protection for them. So we can take what they don't release and disassemble it ourselves. Copyright law is too corrupt at this point to deserve any respect.
[05:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:53] <exec> 08└─End of life doesn't mean useless. End of life needs to mean end of copyright. Either support it or lose it. Simple
[05:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DigitalOcean Decimates Workforce as Co-Founder Reveals Lack of Profitability, Leadership Turmoil - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:11] <exec> 08└─You know what goes great with the Corona Virus? Lyme Disease. Sorry, I'll see myself out.
[05:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DigitalOcean Decimates Workforce as Co-Founder Reveals Lack of Profitability, Leadership Turmoil - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:13] <exec> 08└─This website is hosted on linode. Considering the mess of perl, varnish, MySQL, and whatever other hacks in the background along with the tears, blood and sweat shed from Ncommander, TMB, and the rest of the staff that makes the magic happen, I'd say it is pretty stable. My personal experience, I...
[05:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"CacheOut" Attack Targets Intel Processors - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:27] <exec> 08└─Looks like Tay had another cache corruption.
[05:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Current Model for Storing Nuclear Waste is Incomplete: Study Finds Safety Issues - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:54] <exec> 08└─Actually, it is. All the mountain chains in the area are basin and range [wikipedia.org] like dominoes that have toppled over. And the volcanism stopped 80k years ago. That makes it good enough for the period of time the site needs to remain undisturbed (I think it's utterly retarded to have a one m...
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[06:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:58] <exec> 08└─First - is a computer simulation, as such an imperfect representation of reality. I'd love to see some proof that the simulated model is adequate or rather he's using a "car analogy" that is failing because he set it for failure. Second, the claim of "our perceptions don't contain the slightest appr...
[06:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:51:59] <exec> 08└─I see self-delusion in office politics all the time. Logic is squashed
[06:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:02] <exec> 08└─The brain has to invert the image produced by the eyes. That's kind of a biggie in the distortion field business.
[06:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 1428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:59] <exec> 08└─"The only reason the GPL works is copyright law." True, but flip the coin. The other side says, the only reason the GPL is needed is copyright law. It was an impediment to progress when RMS tried to get the docs to solve that fateful printer problem, but it's gone positively berserk since that time....
[06:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:01] <exec> 08└─Software should not be able to be copyrighted at all.
[06:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:03] <exec> 08└─Which is why my district has spent seven figures on Chromebooks. It runs all the software we want, is easy to administrate, and when it stops working we can just replace it with the next $80 machine. In this Web/App based world, the actual OS matters less and less as basically anything will run the...
[06:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:05] <exec> 08└─If only there was some way to find out who is on their board and staff [fsf.org].
[06:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:07] <exec> 08└─Higher support costs Translation: not subsidised by malware merchants.
[06:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:09] <exec> 08└─End of life doesn't mean useless. No. Microsoft means useless.
[06:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DigitalOcean Decimates Workforce as Co-Founder Reveals Lack of Profitability, Leadership Turmoil - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:29] <exec> 08└─Thanks. I was wondering about the company.
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[07:52:02] <exec> 08└─If you see too much reality as it is, you won't reproduce... :D https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] CYA
[07:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:03] <exec> 08└─Totally agree. I hate these "we similated something unrelated to humans, saw a result which we'd accidentally programmed into the simulation, therefore that thing applies to humans". They were competing "has an input value" against "has a (not explained how) accurate survival-relevant conclusion abo...
[07:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:08] <exec> 08└─2 pigs flying Microsoft has never ever made free a windows version. Some version of Dos maybe, but Windows ? Hell no, even Windows 95 isn't free software. That tells you all you need to know and keep expectations to zero.
[07:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:10] <exec> 08└─Any Windows is, actually, pretty useless and REALLY, if people were smarter, COMPLETELY UNNECESSARY.
[07:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:12] <exec> 08└─Isn't .NET open source and the CLI compiles on Linux, or am I not recalling the situation correctly?
[07:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03hedleyroos [4974] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DigitalOcean Decimates Workforce as Co-Founder Reveals Lack of Profitability, Leadership Turmoil - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:33] <exec> 08└─You should care. They're a hosting provider who makes it very easy to provision machines. They are well priced and completely honest about their pricing, unlike AWS. That's the main reason I use them for some projects. They also write quality documentation.
[07:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Current Model for Storing Nuclear Waste is Incomplete: Study Finds Safety Issues - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:15] <exec> 08└─Show us on the doll where the nasty holiday resort touched you. Why both the same coast? I left that ambiguous for a reason. You could have had Liverpool and Sunderland, for pity's sake!
[07:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Current Model for Storing Nuclear Waste is Incomplete: Study Finds Safety Issues - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:17] <exec> 08└─"Most underwhelming places in UK".. These two were top of the list. Could have also had Blackpool, or Tintagel (well, anywhere in Cornwall, really)
[07:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Please Stop Sending Terrifying Alerts to My Cell Phone - WIRED - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:28] <exec> 08└─If Amber works, the thinking goes, then Blue, Silver, and Camo should work too.
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[08:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create “Strange Metal” Packed with Entangled Electrons - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:58] <exec> 08└─Misspelling octonions makes me true crazy. And yes, torsion physics is still denied to this planet. Don't ever touch sedenions. And banish religiously all thoughts about 512-ion torsion algebra, that will never be allowed to humans. Forget about Hamilton and his Polarities heresy.
[08:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:10] <exec> 08└─I don't see why both of you are so much against the idea that what we see/feel is not remotely 'real'. If you take LSD or mushrooms or whatever psychedelics, everything will change yet if you have a scale that measures two distorted things of the same length, the distorted scale will still measure t...
[08:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:18] <exec> 08└─You should probably be contributing to React OS.
[08:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:19] <exec> 08└─Asking is fine and one thing. The headline here hyped it up to "demand". MS will laugh this off, there's still money in Win7 and they will bleed every last cent from it.
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[09:52:07] <exec> 08└─Does explain TMB, however. Mixed Mettle, gender and racial confusion. Might even be a test case for this new theory! Volunteer, TMB! We will experiment upon you!
[09:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create “Strange Metal” Packed with Entangled Electrons - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:08] <exec> 08└─I prefer disco to metal anyway.
[09:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create “Strange Metal” Packed with Entangled Electrons - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:10] <exec> 08└─You are correct about gender confusion, that's συζυγία mismatch too.
[09:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create “Strange Metal” Packed with Entangled Electrons - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:13] <exec> 08└─But the band plays electric guitars with entangled strings!
[09:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:26] <exec> 08└─Everybody claiming that what we perceive is not really real should be slapped in the face out of the blue, claiming it's the fault of that clown riding the blue unicorn that the guy OBVIOUSLY hasn't perceived. This is again, like looking at the code of a game simulation during execution instead of t...
[09:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:27] <exec> 08└─the inversion is the easy part, consider the 3d mapping and the fact that the retina has a slower response over time than what our representation is making us believe. We also have zero lag perceived between touch and vision, see yourself typing. But there should be one. Cool stuff.
[09:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MOS 6502: A Blast From the Past - 1487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:52:37] <exec> 08└─; lameness filter is lame lda <$07 ; $07 and $08 contain destination address sta <$10 lda <$08 sta <$11 ldy #0 lda [$05],y ; $05 and $06 contain source address sta <$12 inc <$05 ...
[09:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:38] <exec> 08└─Microsoft has never ever made free a windows version. Some version of Dos maybe
[09:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:40] <exec> 08└─the perennial excuse is: "Release of the Windows 7 proprietary source code will reveal valuable intellectual property and trade secrets
[09:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:42] <exec> 08└─Oops, I should have Googled it first. Looks like they did release it, at least early versions. https://www.developer-tech.com [developer-tech.com]
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[09:54:03] <exec> 08└─You're right, I thought my remarks were just harmless fun since this is the Internet but I can see now that I'm only offending people. I apologize and will do better...
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[10:51:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:51:58] <exec> 08└─Was climate change responsible for locust invasions in previous decades?
[10:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:00] <exec> 08└─The list fails to include the coming solar micronova that will turn the moon molten red and coinciding magnetic pole shift.
[10:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:02] <exec> 08└─If the climate was changing, and then *it* happened, whatever "it" is, then it is technically correct to say it was caused in part by climate change. It is a meaningless/trivially true claim.
[10:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:04] <exec> 08└─It also doesn't include the death of God Emperor Trump the Orange. It's bound to happen this century, you know? Long live God Emperor Trump Jr. after.
[10:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:06] <exec> 08└─Can't people eat the locusts? Can we eat the "mini ice age is coming!!" people*? (can't eat the anti-vaxxers, no idea what diseases they've got!) *no, it isn't [theguardian.com]
[10:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:08] <exec> 08└─I'll gladly bet 50/50 on a little ice age coming in the next decade.
[10:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create “Strange Metal” Packed with Entangled Electrons - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:20] <exec> 08└─Collagen was one of the first recognized phenomenon demonstrating that semiconductor doping leads to electron delocalization. It was discovered by Albert Szent-Gyorgi a few years after his Nobel prize for identifying hexuronic acid (vitamin c) as the antiscorbutic agent in citrus fruits. https://sci...
[10:52:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 1000 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:28] <exec> 08└─First - is a computer simulation, as such an imperfect representation of reality. I'd love to see some proof that the simulated model is adequate or rather he's using a "car analogy" that is failing because he set it for failure. Second, the claim of "our perceptions don't contain the slightest appr...
[10:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:37] <exec> 08└─I don't see why both of you are so much against the idea that what we see/feel is not remotely 'real'. If you take LSD or mushrooms or whatever psychedelics, everything will change
[10:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:39] <exec> 08└─CYA
[10:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:41] <exec> 08└─So according to Hoffman, the information whether you would drown in the water does not contain the slightest approximation of reality? I'd say it contains a 100% accurate of an important aspect of reality, which is whether it is high enough to drown in that water. While the "reality-percepting" spec...
[10:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 1942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:43] <exec> 08└─Mea culpa, I RTFA. Seems like his points are: the human perception of the objective reality is shite - because our sense are tuned by evolution and are tuned to discard or distort any traits of reality that aren't helping in survival and sex (no, he didn't actually mentioned sex. Or he did, but the...
[10:53:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 792 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:09] <exec> 08└─The FSF isn't "demanding" anything. Second, MS won't do it; they've got extended maintenance contracts already signed; that they'll be honoring for a while yet. Win7 is making them money for a while yet. Third, MS is almost gauranteed to have bought/licensed, and distributes all kinds of 3rd party s...
[10:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"CacheOut" Attack Targets Intel Processors - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:32] <exec> 08└─You can search Soylent. A couple of us specifically mentioned this domain (cache flushing bugs relying on sequencing or timing) when the earlier speculation bugs came out. It's been a known fertile area the whole time, just nobody had monetized it in the wild. If Soylentils knew you can be sure othe...
[10:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Sea Huge Source of Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases: Study - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:26] <exec> 08└─CO2 is the current big bogyman, but hydrocarbon pollution is much worse.
[10:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Sea Huge Source of Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases: Study - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:27] <exec> 08└─He's often a professional idiot, but in this case he's not wrong. You have to think *how* oil and gas fields are formed. They are only formed in special places where you can cap and trap the biological goo. In most of the rest of the places, it escapes up and out through the sea floor and other plac...
[10:58:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02 - 06The Growing Threat to Free Speech Online - 1424 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:04] <exec> 08└─And here we have a perfect example of why things are going in the direction they are. The poster complains about the lack of speech, but they completely ignore the impact of throwing millions of assholes onto services where they can anonymously spew whatever they want with limited repercussions. eg:...
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[11:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:12] <exec> 08└─Nope, the previous ones this bad were decades back when it was way cooler. Yes, I'm explaining your joke-not-a-joke by spelling it out, sorry, as nuance and subtlety will be wasted in a topic like this.
[11:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:13] <exec> 08└─Can't people eat the locusts?
[11:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create “Strange Metal” Packed with Entangled Electrons - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:27] <exec> 08└─Fuck me harder, Asscorbate Daddy.
[11:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create “Strange Metal” Packed with Entangled Electrons - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:28] <exec> 08└─Quaternions are truly useful, though... I far preferred working with them to 9 element rotation matrices.
[11:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create “Strange Metal” Packed with Entangled Electrons - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:30] <exec> 08└─Collagen... Ascorbate... Accupuncture...
[11:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create “Strange Metal” Packed with Entangled Electrons - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:33] <exec> 08└─Stick with CNN so you don't come across any ideas that make you uncomfortable.
[11:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 2446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:52] <exec> 08└─These topics are treated the same as modern history in communistic country in basic education, that is, it was not present. Instead, there was an unrivalled presentation of ancient history, not quite how we left africa, but all ancient migrations and civilisations up to roman empire... Now, suppose...
[11:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03lolococo [4579] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:53] <exec> 08└─He expressed it very well in Destination: Void: "Illusion. That's the buffer, illusion. It's the protective layer that lets virtually incompatible systems get in bed together. Consciousness is a producer of illusions."
[11:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MOS 6502: A Blast From the Past - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:04] <exec> 08└─For anyone who wants to read the story of the 6502's creation, get a copy of "On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore", which devotes a lot of the first part to the design and creation of the CPU. Even if you're not necessarily a Commodore fan, it's still a worthwhile read.
[11:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:07] <exec> 08└─how truly bad our code is
[11:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:09] <exec> 08└─Anything that extends the life of older Windows products definitely undermines what I have perceived MS strategy to be since the 1980s: the upgrade treadmill. What's new for 10? We put a 10 on the box, and made it incompatible with some older stuff that we want to sell replacements for anyway. It's...
[11:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Sea Huge Source of Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases: Study - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:42] <exec> 08└─I wonder if that isn't shifting, though, because alternative energy has been winning friends and fans in places that would have been unexpected a couple decades ago. Wind farms have been bringing new revenue and people to the high plains for the first time in a hundred years. There are towns that we...
[11:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Sea Huge Source of Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases: Study - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:44] <exec> 08└─CO2 is the current big bogyman, but hydrocarbon pollution is much worse.
[11:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Sea Huge Source of Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases: Study - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:46] <exec> 08└─If we are so worried about atmospheric CO2 then we ought to be seeing a much bigger shift in behavior and attention paid to remediation and countermeasures than we are. Instead of endless hand-wringing, where are the massive efforts to re-forest the Sahara and soak up more of that carbon dioxide? Wh...
[11:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronaut Craves Salsa and Surf After Record 11 Months Aloft - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:24] <exec> 08└─the most amazing thing about you is your genetalia.
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[12:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:13] <exec> 08└─Wasn't it God (or Yahweh)? I guess he is a force of nature ... of sorts.
[12:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create “Strange Metal” Packed with Entangled Electrons - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:30] <exec> 08└─The biggest revelation is that they claim to have reached absolute zero! When at the lowest temperature theoretically possible — absolute zero, or -273.15 degrees Celsius (-459.67 degrees Fahrenheit) — the team's strange metal undergoes a transition
[12:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Current Model for Storing Nuclear Waste is Incomplete: Study Finds Safety Issues - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:15] <exec> 08└─How about we stop creating this high level waste (read 'still usable as fuel') and start burning it [whatisnuclear.com] in other reactor designs [nationalgeographic.com]? Our once-thru fuel cycle is a crime - we burn about 1% of the energy in the fuel and then toss the rest on the dung heap.
[12:57:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NetHack 3.6.5 Released - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:06] <exec> 08└─nethack.alt.org Its not multiplayer, but you can watch other people play in real time.
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[13:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:06] <exec> 08└─Less tech-savvy Windows 7 users will upgrade following these instructions and then wonder what happened to their start menu and solitaire.
[13:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 1608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:07] <exec> 08└─download latest snapshot .iso from http://linuxfreedom.com [linuxfreedom.com] open a terminal $ sudo su # mount try to ascertain "what is the device mounted as root", e.g. sda5, else take note of all /dev/sd... or /dev/hd... combinations of letter/numbers appearing in the list...
[13:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:23] <exec> 08└─By "way cooler", you mean a fraction of a degree? Just "spelling things out." Climate changed decades ago too. Nypost and a bunch of Africans who are trying to get money are not the most reliable sources of information.
[13:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:25] <exec> 08└─That's the name for the entity/object at the center of the galaxy hurtling gravity waves at earth.
[13:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:27] <exec> 08└─«Can't wait to see what the rest of this century has up its sleeve!» https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com] So, is this a hint that we are living in a simulation and an upgrade is undergoing? :D CYA
[13:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:29] <exec> 08└─Pray to St Greta the Grumpy, asking that she sail to Africa and glare at the locusts until they stop.
[13:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:31] <exec> 08└─Found the guy who completely doesn't understand irony even in is its most teeth-grindingly sarcastic form!
[13:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:34] <exec> 08└─So this season is a season of unbounded plenty for a starving continent, then?
[13:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create “Strange Metal” Packed with Entangled Electrons - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:51] <exec> 08└─If you read carefully it could say they created this metal then calculated the behavior at absolute zero.
[13:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:12] <exec> 08└─I don't see why both of you are so much against the idea that what we see/feel is not remotely 'real'.
[13:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:14] <exec> 08└─Hoffman wants to start with a mathematical theory of consciousness as a baseline [...] I'm denying that there is such a thing in objective reality as an electron with a position. I'm saying that the very framework of space and time and matter and spin is the wrong framework, it's the wrong languag...
[13:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:16] <exec> 08└─And when does office politics turn out well? When projects succeed, it's in spite of the politicking. The team was able to keep a lid on it. Every case of politics getting the upper hand that I've experienced ended disastrously-- the entire team deluding themselves to the max, until fired or laid of...
[13:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:31] <exec> 08└─I'll switch to Linux when they release a SolidWorks build. Because that's how I make my living.
[13:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:33] <exec> 08└─If that were the case then the GPL would effectively become the BSD license.
[13:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DigitalOcean Decimates Workforce as Co-Founder Reveals Lack of Profitability, Leadership Turmoil - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:56] <exec> 08└─I've had to block so many of their IP addresses, all they seem to host are spammers and script kiddies that conduct dictionary attacks. I will not shed a tear if they're gone.
[14:00:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VanessaE [3396] 02 - 06Please Stop Sending Terrifying Alerts to My Cell Phone - WIRED - 371 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:26] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't mind these alerts too much if they would just stop using that G*D DAMNED EBS/EAS sound! I grew up with that alert sound being reserved for stuff with state- or nationwide impact, and I never actually heard it used for anything, aside from tests run by the TV stations of the day. Now every...
[14:00:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06Please Stop Sending Terrifying Alerts to My Cell Phone - WIRED - 421 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:28] <exec> 08└─Yes! Cry "wolf!" all the time, then everyone ignores you when a real one shows up. Familiarity breeds complacency. I also have a beef about those apps who sneak in an ad that mimics a "Severe Weather Alert", when it's nothing but a goad to install a weather app. It does not make me install their app...
[14:00:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Please Stop Sending Terrifying Alerts to My Cell Phone - WIRED - 732 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:35] <exec> 08└─The relevancy is a big issue. Of all of the alerts I have gotten, exactly one EVER has been potentially relevant to the area I was actually in at the time. There have also been quite a few cases where an alert would be well justified in my area but none was sent. On the bright side, maybe the tornad...
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[14:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Pays $550M to Settle Facial Recognition Privacy Lawsuit - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:04] <exec> 08└─I didn't like that "feature" since the first time I heard of it. All fifty states, Puerto Rico, D.C, and the rest of the world should have jumped on that bandwagon. Divvy up half of Facefook's fortune among the masses. I probably wouldn't get a dollar, but take that money and dole it out.
[14:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:13] <exec> 08└─LOL i meant mount -o loop, not --bind, in fact I guess you can simply # mount (.iso location) /mnt
[14:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bilb Ono [2680] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:16] <exec> 08└─I think most of the less tech savvy Windows 7 users have moved on to iPads anyway.
[14:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:18] <exec> 08└─Error dude. I install Ubuntu over windows. This is too much for new users. Try: Prepare: Plug in a external hard disk drive and copy all data and files across 1) Download Ubuntu iso - Ubuntu 18.04 Mate -to your Windows machine 2) Use the USB guide with the ISO to make a bootable Ubuntu USB boot stic...
[14:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, no. Just no. They started out as a distro supposed to be for ordinary people but pretty much every time there was a decision between Average Joe and corporate interests, the corporate interests won. About the only worse distros for Average Joe are RHEL and CentOS.
[14:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 3545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:22] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, go through the archives and find a KDE-centric linux from a decade ago, before most of them got totally fscked up. It's not like the free software ecosystem has grown over the last decade. And your programs that didn't run/features didn't work under linux a decade ago still won't run/...
[14:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:25] <exec> 08└─my instruction were the next step after having installed ubuntu. why? because in my system ubuntu sucks almost like windows 7 in terms of performance.
[14:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:46] <exec> 08└─Locusts happen from time to time, gee, all the way back to biblical times. There's no particular evidence that this swarm is any different from earlier ones, i.e., triggered by the right weather conditions. As far as a food crisis, we need to keep in mind that the population of Africa is exploding....
[14:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:47] <exec> 08└─Somehow forgot the link. Here, you can see the African population and the population pyramid [populationpyramid.net]
[14:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:50] <exec> 08└─Hmm. I guess you didn't spell it out clearly enough. Or your ideas of irony and sarcasm are less universal than you assume. Yes, I'm explaining your joke-not-a-joke by spelling it out, sorry, as nuance and subtlety will be wasted in a topic like this.
[14:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Create “Strange Metal” Packed with Entangled Electrons - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:08] <exec> 08└─Which would be non-science. Sod zero-temperature, I wanna know how this metal behaves when zero-sized?
[14:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:33] <exec> 08└─That’s just a total misunderstanding of what simulations are about, their intent and their interpretation. They’re models. The modelers know this. You apparently didn’t grasp the whole fucking point that your senses themselves produce nothing more than a model of reality — and that isn’t r...
[14:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:34] <exec> 08└─and we can name and communicate out perception between us with a reasonable degree of reliability
[14:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:36] <exec> 08└─Inversion is practically irrelevant... it's just something the processing network has evolved, both structurally and training since birth. There's also the "I'm 14 and this is deep" realization that: what I see as red and blue, you might see as blue and red, but call them red and blue because that's...
[14:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:53] <exec> 08└─That is true. But, is that bad?
[14:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Sea Huge Source of Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases: Study - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:31] <exec> 08└─You're underestimating how much people are susceptible to propaganda. For instance, there are people in my area that specifically are driving around nasty diesel trucks far bigger than they need to carry anything expressing attitudes that amount to "All the concerns about the environment and oil sup...
[14:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Red Sea Huge Source of Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases: Study - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:32] <exec> 08└─That's another reason I don't give the doom-mongers much credence. There are plenty of projects that would cost less and remove more carbon than what they propose. eg: It wouldn't take that much of a canal to flood the Great Rift Valley, change the climate in western North Africa, and re-forest a lo...
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[15:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:00] <exec> 08└─Patents filed for publicly funded research and software patents. I guess it's marginally better that the university holds the patents than a private individual, but I still don't like it.
[15:52:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 270 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, no. Just no. They started out as a distro supposed to be for ordinary people but pretty much every time there was a decision between Average Joe and corporate interests, the corporate interests won. About the only worse distros for Average Joe are RHEL and CentOS.
[15:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 2239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:22] <exec> 08└─Companies that offered Ubuntu as an option and paid for support via Canonical got burned badly. I stopped in at their global telephone support office when they had it in Montreal, but it got closed because of cutbacks. The reason for the cutbacks? Companies were being forced to give buyers free Wind...
[15:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:24] <exec> 08└─I have a harsher view of Ubuntu, espcially now that they have microsofters in some of the key top postions, but I am pleased that they are at last finally making an effort to benefit from this opportunity. Other, much better distros, could do the same. However they've all been quite quiet till now....
[15:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:27] <exec> 08└─Funny you should mention that, my mother was still on Win7 so I brought along both a Win10 machine and a Ubuntu machine for her to play with to see what she preferred. She preferred the "Windows machine" hands-down. She'd never heard of Windows Ubuntu, but found it vastly better than whatever that o...
[15:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:29] <exec> 08└─I tried giving it away for free with distros that actually worked as expected. Everyone switched back to Windows or bought a Mac. Users know what they want. And it's not linux. They don't give two shits about the underlying operating system, but when their software and peripherals don't work, and t...
[15:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:31] <exec> 08└─While I agree Ubuntu has its problems, I think it would be worth figuring out recommendations for n00b-friendly distros. Because I know full well that my favorite options aren't - I'm the sort that isn't afraid of config files and shell scripting, while most n00bs are. Apparently according to Distro...
[15:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:55] <exec> 08└─Just for the sake of disagreement, I'll point out that the locusts didn't swarm like this when the wooly mammoth and wooly rhino roamed the earth. So, yes, global warming is responsible of the locusts. We need to go back several thousand years and start over. And, just think - wooly mammoth probably...
[15:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:57] <exec> 08└─Is there a St. Greta the Grumpy newsletter?
[15:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:59] <exec> 08└─Daily reminder that a teenage girl is giving you shit aneurysms, not least because she's correct. And you call yourself a man?
[15:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:01] <exec> 08└─Haha. Only stupid people follow semi-retarded teenagers that are still going through puberty.
[15:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:47] <exec> 08└─Since humans aren't extinct, the simulation suggests we see an approximation of reality that shows us what we need to see, not how things really are.
[15:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:48] <exec> 08└─> If you see too much reality as it is, you won't reproduce... :D This should be marked insightful, basically the view of the anti-natalists
[15:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:08] <exec> 08└─Email/phone the company and tell them that's what you want!
[15:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:09] <exec> 08└─a pig fly
[15:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:11] <exec> 08└─If Microsoft were to offer OEMs the chance to continue offering Win7 with support or Win10, we all know that Win10 would disappear.
[15:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:13] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I agree that software should not be eligible for copyright protection. But if it were not, I can see the arguments coming out that software should be eligible for patent protection. Which would be far worse. The current situation where we can have open source licenses seems to be workin...
[15:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:15] <exec> 08└─So, smartass, who is in charge? RMS resigned in August, and hasn't been replaced yet.
[15:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:18] <exec> 08└─He's repetitive to the point of trolling.
[15:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 2252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:20] <exec> 08└─Nobody is being manipulated. Try getting friends to install linux. I did. They all either went back to Windows or bout a Mac. Linux is shit for the average user. Try fielding "this won't work." calls. "How do I do this" questions. "Why won't my old software run?" "How come I can't buy a program tha...
[15:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Sea Huge Source of Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases: Study - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:01] <exec> 08└─That's something that cuts both ways, though. How many people are switching to solar and EVs to stick it to Trump? I'm happy if they are, because whatever their motives they will drive economies of scale that will make switching to renewables the financially smart play. Then everyone will jump over,...
[15:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Red Sea Huge Source of Air Pollution, Greenhouse Gases: Study - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:03] <exec> 08└─I can report that the enviro-hippie types I know are motivated far more by "If we don't do something, science says we're all dead." And they're pretty cynical about the odds that the US government will do anything to save us, because the Republicans definitely don't want to (again, admitting that th...
[16:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Please Stop Sending Terrifying Alerts to My Cell Phone - WIRED - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:54] <exec> 08└─I hate Amber Alerts, because they go wide. Oh, a child in Miami is missing? Good to know, I will keep my Alaska living eyes peeled for that fucking license plate.
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[16:52:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 187 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:08] <exec> 08└─Patents filed for publicly funded research and software patents. I guess it's marginally better that the university holds the patents than a private individual, but I still don't like it.
[16:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:09] <exec> 08└─the news had no noticeable impact on Apple's share price
[16:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:12] <exec> 08└─Sometimes the implied answer to a rhetorical question [wikipedia.org] is "Yes, but I wish it were not so" or vice versa
[16:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:14] <exec> 08└─What I'd like to know is what idea is worth a billion dollars? I had an idea for a genetically engineered pineapple with pizza topping, but that didn't make it to a billion dollars.
[16:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:16] <exec> 08└─Apple reduces the 2.5 billion it is paying to fight California's housing crises by $837m
[16:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:18] <exec> 08└─You bet! It will go up even more.
[16:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:20] <exec> 08└─I fear that these patents cover some dangerous wifi technology. The deposition, shown to the jury, revealed Lin seemed to be confused when asked if he understood where he was, and then where he got his master's degree from. I don't understand the question, he told baffled questioners. When he was th...
[16:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:23] <exec> 08└─More like $0.10 or less per license, a few billion times over.
[16:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:49] <exec> 08└─At least they will have access to a functional solitaire once the find it, instead of some Windows Store POS.
[16:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 1222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:50] <exec> 08└─From the limited experience I've had with MX Linux, I like it quite a bit. I've not seriously given Ubuntu a shot in a long time, because they're so full of make it easy, they end up bloated and slow. Even with something like Lubuntu or Xubuntu. Now, if you're coming from Windows and going to a Linu...
[16:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:52] <exec> 08└─The last Linux distro I tinkered with was MX Linux and I was pleasantly surprised. It was pretty easy to use and fast on the older laptop I stuck it on.
[16:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:54] <exec> 08└─It all comes down to what comes pre-installed on the computer. Most people don't notice or care about the operating system, just about being able to do certain tasks. As long as those tasks are not locked into a proprietary vendor that blocks GNU/Linux, there would be no reason for people not to upg...
[16:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:57] <exec> 08└─I thought Mint was the easy-peasy lemon squeezy end user distro, but I hardly keep on top of things either.
[16:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:59] <exec> 08└─You seem to forget that WalMart tried that when they sold computers with Linux pre-installed. Can't think of a big box vendor much larger than them. They failed because customers absolutely hated it and returned the computers. Microsoft hasn't been allowed to force OEMs to carry only Windows for a...
[16:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:28] <exec> 08└─150 million locusts per square kilometer? That's like 15 locusts per square foot. Grab a net and feast. And like the article mentions, they reproduce crazy fast. It's probably bullshit scare mongering but if they can multiply 500 times over in 5 months, why in the world aren't people worldwide munch...
[16:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:29] <exec> 08└─You're assuming the gender of the Anonymous Coward. For all you know, it could be a bot.
[16:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:31] <exec> 08└─In my experience, the vast majority of people who have a problem with Ms. Thunberg are men and self-identify as such :)
[16:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:33] <exec> 08└─Blind leading the blind. People saw a correlation between reduced child mortality and reduced fertility so assumed surely if African kids would stop dying, mothers would stop having a dozen kids. They just kind of hand-wave away the fact that this correlation didn't even exist until extremely recent...
[16:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:36] <exec> 08└─Yes of course, when us men decide to follow children for insights we definitely prefer them to be boys. They're only 99.99% as ignorant and deluded as teenage girls.
[16:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:38] <exec> 08└─Doesn't Donald the Loud descend from William the Silent of the House of Orange?
[16:55:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:26] <exec> 08└─End of life doesn't mean useless. End of life needs to mean end of copyright. Either support it or lose it. Simple
[16:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:53] <exec> 08└─When anyone uses the GPL, they are not "precluded" from copyright protection. In fact, the copyright protection, which they actually have, is the only legal force of power to enforce the GPL. Now maybe you interpret "preclude copyright protection" to mean "preclude certain business models". But that...
[16:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:55] <exec> 08└─Who said Windows 7 was useless?
[16:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:57] <exec> 08└─Software should not be able to be copyrighted at all.
[16:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:59] <exec> 08└─The "printer problem" wasn't that hard to solve. Over the subsequent years, devs became quite good at getting printers to do all sorts of things. Not because copyright law prevented them - it doesn't. The whole printer story is bullshit wrapped in a lie. But that's what most myths are based on.
[16:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:01] <exec> 08└─The whole printer story is bullshit wrapped in a lie.
[16:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:04] <exec> 08└─End of life doesn't mean useless. End of life needs to mean end of copyright. Either support it or lose it. Simple No problem. YOU support it. Oh, you need the source code? No you don't. People have hacked binaries for decades. Oh, you want them to lose their copyrights? Why should this apply only...
[16:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:06] <exec> 08└─I personally detest the trend of deprecating entire operating systems for no good reason. Software updates can force people into upgrading their OS because there is no method of regression.
[16:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:08] <exec> 08└─Asking and demanding are the same thing when you can't enforce them.
[16:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:10] <exec> 08└─Again, the FSF is being a hypocrite. They aren't even in the business of producing software, and they want to tell software makers to release something for free that still generates money. Looking at the FSF financials, I don't see them working for free. In fact, their "job" seems to be raising fun...
[16:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:12] <exec> 08└─Oh, you want them to lose their copyrights? Why should this apply only to software? Why not books, movies, etc?
[16:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:14] <exec> 08└─Again, the FSF is being a hypocrite. They aren't even in the business of producing software, and they want to tell software makers to release something for free that still generates money.
[16:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:17] <exec> 08└─Of course they can't compete with their own products. Have you been living under a rock? Look how long XP lasted. Or go back further. It took until Windows 3.1 for it to gain significant market share over plain old MS-DOS, and even Windows 9x ran atop MS-DOS 7x. Most Windows 9x games were really la...
[16:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:19] <exec> 08└─If the clause "for limited times" were sharply curtailed in duration, a lot of the problems of copyright and patent would go away. There would be a period where a commercial provider could take advantage of an early exclusive market. But would not be half a lifetime.
[16:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:21] <exec> 08└─That petition has a lot of singers.
[16:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:23] <exec> 08└─If you can't sell the changes without giving away your source, what's the point? Oh, right - developers should just continue passing the begging bowl because organizations like the FSF don't actually have a clue as to how to make free software financially viable unless it's locked behind software-as...
[16:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:25] <exec> 08└─When I try to look at the request while thinking like the CEO of a proprietary software company that is trying to be more open-source friendly and positive I'm not sure I would want to release Windows 7 source in the wild. Admittedly I'm guessing here, but I imagine there is a lot in Windows 7 that...
[16:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:27] <exec> 08└─linux distros have already achieved massive success compared to what anyone thought they could do.
[16:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:29] <exec> 08└─Last time I looked, ReactOS was still not fully supporting NTFS. Has that changed? How well does it handle modern games? I should probably go ask in an ReactOS forum.
[16:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:32] <exec> 08└─While you might like to dream that Microsoft is a geek-run company...
[16:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:34] <exec> 08└─If you call that living.
[16:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:36] <exec> 08└─So how did the HURD work out again? And why did gcc basically have to be abandoned whole and replaced with egcs, which was then renamed gcc? In other words, they didn't do a whole hell of a lot. Tried and failed to make an operating system. Tossed their failed compiler for someone else's. Realized...
[16:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:38] <exec> 08└─I believe that you completely misunderstood the comment you replied to.
[16:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:40] <exec> 08└─Copyright got its' start in 1710, before Disney even existed. Before the US even existed. It wasn't needed much before then because written materials were expensive to reproduce, even with a printing press.
[16:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:43] <exec> 08└─I'm too lazy and time-constrained to look, but did they release up to Dos 7, or just 2.0? FreeDos is probably much better anyway, so MS's source is probably moot.
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[17:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eight Atari Video Game-Themed Hotels to Open Across the U.S. - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:05] <exec> 08└─You know what? I enjoy video games. They're fun. But if I'm traveling, I'd actually prefer to spend my time seeing an actual real fucking local culture, not wearing sweat stained VR goggles in a room by myself. Still, no one ever lost money underestimating the taste of the american public.
[17:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eight Atari Video Game-Themed Hotels to Open Across the U.S. - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:07] <exec> 08└─I don't see why they didn't go full cringe and make the concept art building look exactly like the HQ from the Atari Force comics.
[17:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eight Atari Video Game-Themed Hotels to Open Across the U.S. - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:09] <exec> 08└─Think of all the old farts who will be checking it out in the hopes of sleeping with Ms. Pacman or Zelda ... Now there's an excuse to say "okay boomer" to them.
[17:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eight Atari Video Game-Themed Hotels to Open Across the U.S. - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:11] <exec> 08└─> I'd actually prefer to spend my time seeing an actual real fucking local culture, Do cities have that anymore? Maybe it's just my limited scope but things seem so damn homogeneous at times. > not wearing sweat stained VR goggles in a room by myself. On the bright side the only way for most people...
[17:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eight Atari Video Game-Themed Hotels to Open Across the U.S. - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:13] <exec> 08└─> sleeping with Ms. Pacman or Zelda I'll dress as a princess and call you "hero" but a yellow sphere in lipstick? That's gonna cost you cost extra.
[17:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Eight Atari Video Game-Themed Hotels to Open Across the U.S. - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:15] <exec> 08└─Everyone will get laid at the esports orgies in these hotels. Even the sweaty fat fucks will get some top shelf e-thot pussy.
[17:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:30] <exec> 08└─these patents cover some dangerous wifi technology.
[17:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:32] <exec> 08└─Wish my brain had those expensive neurons.
[17:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:34] <exec> 08└─Translation: "I'm bored, get me out of here."
[17:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:36] <exec> 08└─"The patents' methods form the basis of error correction used in Wi-Fi standards 802.11n and 802.11ac" Did IEEE learn NOTHING from Rambus and SDRAM?
[17:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 1440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:10] <exec> 08└─In contrast, a counter example is that Asus did a netbook with GNU/Linux pre-sintalled with great success. The Asus EEE netbooks were quite popular and well liked, even if under-powered. The problem occured with the reaction from M$ to the spike in sales of the GNU/Linux-based EEEs. M$ leaned heavil...
[17:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:11] <exec> 08└─Mint is buggy as shit. Don't do it. Ubuntu MATE is okay once you actually get it working.
[17:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 1099 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:14] <exec> 08└─I laugh my ass off at the endless stream of "experts" who cry/piss/moan about how bad Ubuntu is.. I've been running it since I retired in 2010 from a 20 year career as a Windows/Linux sysadmin, starting with 10.04LTS and now on 18.04LTS. I have had ZERO zip zilch nada bupkis problems with it. It run...
[17:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:16] <exec> 08└─Ubuntu was nice until their Windows Metro styled Unity copycat shit fucked up a nice desktop environment. I switched to Fedora Mate about that time.
[17:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 1163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:39] <exec> 08└─I'm only basing this on the article summary. It seems like the finding is reasonable and makes sense, but the title and summary is really dumb and doesn't at all represent what they are seeing. Rather, I'd say the finding (which is less click-bait and less surprising) is that, "creatures are primed...
[17:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:41] <exec> 08└─Turn our well for who? The manager who can sell the project is often (usually?) rewarded, even if the project fails.
[17:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:43] <exec> 08└─I suspect that the basic problem is that English isn't precise, but an individual often has a precise meaning in mind. So what you hear isn't what he said, and what he heard others saying isn't what they were saying. E.g., what the hell would it mean to say that an electron was conscious? I could co...
[17:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 1153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:45] <exec> 08└─We have known for a long time that our direct observation is not close to reality. Study a bit of color theory, though there are lots of other places where this is made blatantly clear. To be specific, we've got three different cones (except some women who have four different cones) that are "called...
[17:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 1469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:37] <exec> 08└─As I said, but I'll say it differently, is CHOICES. Or rather, lack of them. Microsoft can force people to "choose" things because there IS NO CHOICE. In the 1980s when MS-DOS was the thing, there were other better alternatives. Microsoft would only allow OEMs to sell MS-DOS if they paid for MS-DOS...
[17:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:39] <exec> 08└─The hacker community is very pleased to have you defending our monetary interests. Thank you very much.
[17:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:41] <exec> 08└─Yea, no one ever needed support for a Windows machine.
[17:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 3874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:43] <exec> 08└─RMS a very honest and straightforward person? You swallowed that bilge? Here are the first two links about "richard stallman epstein rape survivor", so you can't accuse me of cherrypicking, The first one goes over his history of creepiness back to 2003, so it's not like people didn't know he was fuc...
[17:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:45] <exec> 08└─The board?
[17:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:47] <exec> 08└─And yet the Chromebook is a walled garden. So much for choice. Even Windows doesn't go that far, and it isn't run by an advertising company looking for more ways to mine your data. Chromebooks are part of the problem, not part of the solution. Unless you're into surveillance capitalism. And why sh...
[17:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Astronaut Craves Salsa and Surf After Record 11 Months Aloft - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:08] <exec> 08└─Sorry but I'm not really interested in this insufficiently woke attitude. We demand the longest spaceflight by a black lesbian quadriplegic deaf blind transexual immediately!
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[18:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eight Atari Video Game-Themed Hotels to Open Across the U.S. - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:10] <exec> 08└─Gosh, great to hear the best minds are working on the most difficult problems, and we as a society have our priorities straight. Maybe we can use them to house refugees and the infected? Oh, no, right, they need to stay 90% empty to keep the price up. And make sure all the rooms are bugged! That's h...
[18:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Eight Atari Video Game-Themed Hotels to Open Across the U.S. - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:12] <exec> 08└─Want to house the infected? Dig some graves.
[18:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Eight Atari Video Game-Themed Hotels to Open Across the U.S. - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah but she gives a wicked hummer, and she can fit your balls in her mouth too.
[18:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Eight Atari Video Game-Themed Hotels to Open Across the U.S. - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:16] <exec> 08└─Bay Area "Culture?" Furries jacking each other off in the streets, stepping through shit and needles, people jacking up and smoking crack in the BART, muggings, smash-n-grabs, 5-dollar coffees and 15-dollar street burritos, and everybody who isn't a bum or crazy looking down on you because they live...
[18:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eight Atari Video Game-Themed Hotels to Open Across the U.S. - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:18] <exec> 08└─'ATARI The Lunch Box' or 'ATARI The Flame Thrower'. Or the Nolan Bushnell 'It's Pizza, but with Robots, you know... for Kids! ' Talking Action Figure. For now, I'll pass on the hotel aka 'ATARI The Search For More Cash'.
[18:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:37] <exec> 08└─Anyone have time to dig up the patents and figure out who are the inventors and assignee(s)? While someone posted an allegation that this was government funded research, it would also be interesting to know the funding history... (follow the money). Universities also do research for private and publ...
[18:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:38] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that patents are intrinsically bad, but the implementation sure is. But then so is the implementation of copyright. E.g., if two people independently invent something, they should have equal rights to the patent. And if four people independently invent something, the patent should be de...
[18:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:40] <exec> 08└─Patents are bad.
[18:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:43] <exec> 08└─Anyone have time to dig up the patents and figure out who are the inventors and assignee(s)?
[18:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:45] <exec> 08└─if two people independently invent something, they should have equal rights to the patent.
[18:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:47] <exec> 08└─Is it even constitutional for the government to enforce a patent paid for with tax dollars??? Shocking and unacceptable.
[18:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:49] <exec> 08└─A government university is like, government funded... because the university is part of the government, Doh! Everything the university pays to the researcher is government funding.
[18:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:51] <exec> 08└─if two people independently invent something, they should have equal rights to the patent.
[18:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:53] <exec> 08└─Publicly funded? Cal Tech is a private institution. Do you have any citation for the statement that any of the research behind the patents received public funds? I hate it as much as anybody when large corporations rip off research that is paid for by taxpayers, but as far as I know Cal Tech has a h...
[18:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:31] <exec> 08└─I have never heard of loki games, but I have heard of Steam. Steam makes a lot of money selling Linux games.
[18:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:33] <exec> 08└─They failed because customers absolutely hated it and returned the computers.
[18:53:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:35] <exec> 08└─A Gentoo-based distro that uses a BINHOST and doesn't make them compile a damned thing. Yes, I'm serious. Yes, I know they'll have to edit conf files. And do you know what's in those conf files besides settings? Bloody helpful information about nearly every setting on their entire system. Plus they...
[18:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 1261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:37] <exec> 08└─The EEE was never a success. It sold for a while, for people who couldn't afford a laptop, but laptop prices crashed, and it was cheaper to buy a real laptop than an EEE. I've seen two in the wild, and neither was actually being used. It was carried around as a sort of talisman to shout "see how co...
[18:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 1357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:39] <exec> 08└─If you were using linux at the time, you were most likely very aware of the spectacular failure of the original WalMart Linux PC. People on tech sites first went crazy over the idea of a dirt cheap computer running linux (the rest of the world didn't give a shit, and still don't) - "This will be the...
[18:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:41] <exec> 08└─Steam does not make all that much money from Linux users. Linux users amount to 0.33% - that's one third of 1 %., for ALL linux users. Apple users, at just over 3%, are 10x more. And windows ... well, read it yourself [statista.com]. Apple and Linux can be dropped and it wouldn't make a difference t...
[18:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:16] <exec> 08└─Thermodynamics says that even if you eat all the locusts that ate your food, you end up with fewer calories. And that kind of efficiency is impossible.
[18:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:18] <exec> 08└─They're trying to blame the Coronavirus outbreak on "climate change" and warn that melting ice could release superbugs the likes of which we will ever see! So to avoid this, we need to get rid of all the power sources that provide energy independence and pay more taxes! Not the real shithole pollute...
[18:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:20] <exec> 08└─Thats what I thought but then someone told me electricity from solar panels produces no waste heat.
[18:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Create “Strange Metal” Packed with Entangled Electrons - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:39] <exec> 08└─good lord! this low temp stuff is the sh1ts! i propose that we pour all resources, chinese style, into a singular goal and that is making humans thrive and breed at something like 0.1 kelvins! this way we can go about our daily lives and enjoy all the benefits of super(tm)-all-and-everything! ofc, p...
[18:57:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:11] <exec> 08└─Yea, no one ever needed support for a Windows machine.
[18:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:12] <exec> 08└─I would opt for a 64-bit Windows XP. Better than the crapuntu I'm stuck with now. I'd pay for it if Microsoft offered it.
[18:57:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DigitalOcean Decimates Workforce as Co-Founder Reveals Lack of Profitability, Leadership Turmoil - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:37] <exec> 08└─How long til digital ocean and cloudflare and the cloud are operated by 5 people total and then skynet just kills those people and pretends to be them? thesesystemsarefailing.net but especially the cloud and cane we come up with a different word for this that isn't so fucking misleading plz thx
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[19:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:08] <exec> 08└─You can have all the open source e-readers, free of corporate restrictions that you want! Unlimited! What you won't get is all the DRM free e-books that you want. Now the music industry seems to have come around to a degree. I can and do go to Amazon and buy DRM-free unrestricted mp3s, which I use f...
[19:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:09] <exec> 08└─A waterproof version that could survive a drop into the deep end of a swimming pool would be ideal. One that could do that and survive being left in direct sunlight for a few hours would be double-ideal. The only point remaining with dedicated ebook readers is e-ink style displays which could be rea...
[19:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:11] <exec> 08└─What are the manufacturing costs of something like that nowadays, one-off and small batches?
[19:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:13] <exec> 08└─LibGen? LibGen. I think we can all agree that LibGen. I don't particularly want to pirate books, but I want a DRM restricted book even less, as that's an absurd notion quite contrary to the very idea of books.
[19:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:15] <exec> 08└─What are the manufacturing costs of something like that nowadays, one-off and small batches?
[19:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:18] <exec> 08└─The public library. It's called books.
[19:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 1521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:03] <exec> 08└─Patents are bad. Generally speaking. You are buying into the myth that some inventor comes up with something that is truly novel, non obvious, and of actual value. eg, a real advance, not just a trivial improvement that he came with first, but that anyone else would have done soon. Royalties are onl...
[19:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:04] <exec> 08└─Yes. That is indeed constitutional. States have essentially unlimited power under the tenth amendment to raise funds as they see fit. It's dumb, but constitutional. For state constitution, it actually makes it easier, because they have article XIII of their constitution which mandates they not raise...
[19:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:06] <exec> 08└─And if you look at those patents, they were funded by a government grant The U.S. Government has a paid-up license in this invention and the right in limited circumstances to require the patent owner to license others on reasonable terms as provided for by the terms of Grant No. CCR-9804793 awarded...
[19:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Pays $550M to Settle Facial Recognition Privacy Lawsuit - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:15] <exec> 08└─The other 50 states are welcome to pass similar laws. Or the Fed could, I imagine
[19:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Pays $550M to Settle Facial Recognition Privacy Lawsuit - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:17] <exec> 08└─Okay, other 49. Picky, picky...
[19:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Pays $550M to Settle Facial Recognition Privacy Lawsuit - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:19] <exec> 08└─… Until the proposed settlement is actually published, we won't know how much is actual "remedy" and how much of it is lawyers' payday.
[19:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:56] <exec> 08└─Half a billion dollar companies like Canonical and loose organizations of volunteers like the Debian or Arch Linux projects can't compete with hundred-billion-dollar companies like Microsoft and Apple. I'm typing this from Ubuntu MATE, and I love it. But Linux will only win over some small portion o...
[19:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:58] <exec> 08└─yeah, but once m$ reaches into their "patent" and "massive user base" war chest to successfully direct the "global human mind consciousness" in a few years time, your mom will wonder why shes was left out. what are you gonna tell her then?
[19:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:00] <exec> 08└─it's probably possible to install linux from a email link in outlook but that was successfully lobbied onto the pages of "how to keep your email secure!" in the "computers for dummies" book ...
[19:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:02] <exec> 08└─I switched from Ubuntu to Mint XFCE a number of years ago. It's a bit annoying to figure out how to apply desktop themes since the taskbar and the rest of the window dressing components are located in two different places, but other than that I've been happy. I think it's an XFCE setting that works...
[19:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:04] <exec> 08└─you know, you should really threat every computer like the mainframe on the alien mothership depicted in the movie "independence day I"...
[19:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 1086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:06] <exec> 08└─My gripe over the last 20 years is that Linux has always been ready for the desktop, just as much as Windows or Mac has. You have always been able to do anything you've needed to do, but the problem is that the goalposts keep getting moved. I think driven by the late 90's Microsoft FUD most people w...
[19:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:08] <exec> 08└─Canonical isn't worth half a billion. It's net income is less than $6 million a year. You want to evaluate it at almost 100 x earnings? Good luck with that. That's unicorn startup company, not a company that's been around for a decade and a half and has a history of failed blue-sky projects. Now, i...
[19:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:46] <exec> 08└─Since she is simply repeating the advice of experts in the field it isn't following a teenagers insights. Pretty hilarious how upset she makes you climate deniers. Woops, sorry, I assumed your intelligence level my bad.
[19:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:48] <exec> 08└─You'll point out? Where are you pointing? The fairyland that is your brain, what with the fungal infection sprouting all those fairy rings?
[19:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 1114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:50] <exec> 08└─uhm ah ... one could argue that locust swarms are a way of this planet to "shed" energy. the locust eat sunshine energy, that is plants. they are born .. errr ... created, mass wise, as tiny speks. if they survive, the process of liberating themselfs from the soil (height = 0) and flying into the ai...
[19:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:44] <exec> 08└─I am aware of that. Of course, our vision system is "good enough" to give us an excellent chance of survival in many novel situations. (avoid falling off a cliff at night) I also suspect that it is closer to reality than some would like to think. Similarly our ears. We may not have a "true" percepti...
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[20:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spitzer Space Telescope Turns Out the Lights - 1161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:03] <exec> 08└─GAO warns of more JWST delays [spacenews.com] A report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office Jan. 28 concluded it was unlikely that NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will launch on schedule next March, with a delay of several months possible. The GAO report [gao.gov], the latest in an annua...
[20:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spitzer Space Telescope Turns Out the Lights - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:05] <exec> 08└─Says if you overwrite the previous backup before verifying the new backup, the new backup will be corrupted. Sooo you’ve just doomed James Webb By shutting down before the replacement is actually ready!
[20:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:18] <exec> 08└─But supporting awful companies like Amazon is getting harder and harder if you were born with a conscience
[20:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ze [8197] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:20] <exec> 08└─They charge $60/yr here for the library card, since the residents of my county voted against the tax to keep the libraries open. They were closed for over a year before they brought some back as a pay service. Also the selection generally sucks, and everything you wanted tended to have a waiting lis...
[20:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eight Atari Video Game-Themed Hotels to Open Across the U.S. - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:39] <exec> 08└─most nice hotels have tvs that easily hook up to whatever console you're bringing, which even resets itself at checkout time (or you can also reset it because why risk it) and are very fancy and comfortable without being themed around a brand that hasn't done anything interesting in games besides th...
[20:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eight Atari Video Game-Themed Hotels to Open Across the U.S. - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:40] <exec> 08└─I was gonna say Duck Hunt, but that's slated for next years grand opening of the Nintendo motel chain.
[20:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eight Atari Video Game-Themed Hotels to Open Across the U.S. - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:42] <exec> 08└─She can probably fit your whole head in her mouth. Gives a whole new meaning to the meaning "getting head".
[20:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eight Atari Video Game-Themed Hotels to Open Across the U.S. - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:44] <exec> 08└─So you're opposed to Viagra?
[20:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:15] <exec> 08└─how is this even news? the papple (!sic) stock didnt care.
[20:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:17] <exec> 08└─Caltech isn't a government university.
[20:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:19] <exec> 08└─Backing this up, Wiki says CalTech is private. Unless the commenter meant that the research itself was publicly funded. https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:21] <exec> 08└─I would very much prefer the way things worked before patent law. That a company can keep their inventions secret. Everyone who can reverse engineer the invention shoud be allowed to do so. This way sufficiently ingenious and complex inventions will survive as secrets the longest and earn the most p...
[20:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 1101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:14] <exec> 08└─ubunti made the mistake to copy windows .. what is it called "UVC", "urQ" .. whatever .. that shitty dialog that pop-up in vista. they tried to kill the (as in killer-app, a good thing) the seperation of "regular (useless) user" and "root". unfortuantly, ubuntu threw out the baby with the bath water...
[20:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:16] <exec> 08└─And if you insist, you can always boot off live media and run linux temporarily. Just don't try this with the default boot Ubuntu image - it doesn't come with much in the way of software. Not even mc for when you want to see files in two directories at the same time, instead of switching back in for...
[20:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:18] <exec> 08└─but not as a sole daily driver OS
[20:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:20] <exec> 08└─We saw what happened when Loki software worked out a deal to develop Windows games for linux. They died. The problem is that the number of people willing to PAY for software on a free software system is not all that great. Most of them already have the equivalent software running on Windows, so you'...
[20:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:22] <exec> 08└─What DE/WM? I've found that people I've tried this with prefer KDE. Although one did have a preference for XFCE, but the mouse mascot probably helped break the tie.
[20:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:25] <exec> 08└─Because the version of GNOME in Ubuntu today is even crappier than it was a decade ago. Today's version of a file manager is "File". But it's not really a file manager. Even Windows 3x had a better file manager. You want to view files in two directories side-by-side. Can't be done. So, launch anothe...
[20:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:27] <exec> 08└─While I agree, its still better than Windows by a country mile.
[20:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:08] <exec> 08└─Good luck with your experts. Experts said witches were to blame too.
[20:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:10] <exec> 08└─For 3-4 days, maybe. Then it's starvation for the rest of the year.
[20:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:06] <exec> 08└─So they both see the same reality but the emphasis is different.
[20:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:07] <exec> 08└─it's just something the processing network has evolved Precisely like everything else in the article. Reality is determined by consensus. "Things are not as they seem", I believe the saying goes. For instance, the person that modded my previous comment "offtopic" is confused, maybe even spiteful for...
[20:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:09] <exec> 08└─If you are talking about things that actually matter more in day to day social interactions, like integrity, leadership, and most important: the relative value of things - those are very much perception based quantities that have little agreement across even closely related different groups of human...
[20:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:11] <exec> 08└─maybe even spiteful for some reason.
[20:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:13] <exec> 08└─Our brains try to use perception (our senses) to create a digital representation of an analog world. If you record (measure) a speech with two different microphones or two different cameras and play them on two different TVs and speakers they will sound and look slightly different. But the represent...
[20:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:16] <exec> 08└─errr ... meaningful and consistent interpretation.
[20:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:18] <exec> 08└─"I'm denying that there is such a thing in objective reality as an electron with a position.
[20:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:20] <exec> 08└─They’re models. The modelers know this.
[20:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:22] <exec> 08└─I'd argue that the objective - subjective dividing line is, itself, subjective, and therefore it is not possible to strictly define the context of this, or any, discussion. being things totally outside the perception of any organism or technological construct one would be able to use.
[20:56:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 291 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:46] <exec> 08└─"Nothing to lose"? Other than lots and lots of Windows 10+ sales, you mean? Or giving Microsoft an increased burden of fixing bugs in Windows 10+ that got discovered in the opened Win7 source? Microsoft would have to be nuts to do this as a company. And they won't, because they're not nuts.
[20:58:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Free Software Foundation Demands That Microsoft Release Windows 7 as Free Software - 267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:02] <exec> 08└─If the clause "for limited times" were sharply curtailed in duration, a lot of the problems of copyright and patent would go away. There would be a period where a commercial provider could take advantage of an early exclusive market. But would not be half a lifetime.
[21:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Astronaut Craves Salsa and Surf After Record 11 Months Aloft - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:45] <exec> 08└─Well, fuck it, I am not going in to space.
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[21:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spitzer Space Telescope Turns Out the Lights - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:12] <exec> 08└─When you're out of reaction propellant, you're out of reaction propellant.
[21:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:28] <exec> 08└─I've owned a PocketBook Pro for many years, and it has no drm, and you can modify the linux system it runs on without problems. http://users.physik.fu-berlin.de [fu-berlin.de] So let's not pretend open eBook readers don't exist, they do, but they are generally not made by U.S. companies (I...
[21:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:30] <exec> 08└─Murica, fuck yeah!
[21:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ze [8197] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:32] <exec> 08└─You attract some mod abuse, eh? :( I thought pretty much the same thing when I saw that 400x300. Heck even my original nook is 1024x768 iirc. Part of the appeal of eink was always its superior resolution, for crisp clean fonts. I didn't even know they made eink screens this low res! It's also not li...
[21:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 1346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:34] <exec> 08└─Tor, and Baenbooks are DRM Free: And from there you get #1 New York Times bestselling writers like Brandon Sanderson, notably inspired by The Wheel of Time. You get communities like Tor.com, where readers have been talking non-stop about the fiction that excites them. You get authors like Jo Walton...
[21:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:36] <exec> 08└─People might take you seriously if you stopped with 'retard'. In my PC corner of the multiverse it is no longer an acceptable term - out of respect for fellow humans with a range of neurophysiological conditions.
[21:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:38] <exec> 08└─LibGen? LibGen. I think we can all agree that LibGen.
[21:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:40] <exec> 08└─I'd like me an e-ink screen phone or a nice, but not terribly expensive e-book reader. My old Nook seems to have been cut off from the mothership. At lest it has side loading capability with the MicroSD card slot. Which apparently was removed from the latest Nook . . . that's sitting at a nice 2 1/2...
[21:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:42] <exec> 08└─Well first you LibGen. Then you've LibGen'd.
[21:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:45] <exec> 08└─The irony is that Barb is a mentally ill transsexual. Those who live in asylums should not throw shade.
[21:53:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 1521 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:34] <exec> 08└─Patents are bad. Generally speaking. You are buying into the myth that some inventor comes up with something that is truly novel, non obvious, and of actual value. eg, a real advance, not just a trivial improvement that he came with first, but that anyone else would have done soon. Royalties are onl...
[21:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Pays $550M to Settle Facial Recognition Privacy Lawsuit - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:52] <exec> 08└─Interesting how suddenly you're OK with wealth redistribution because it is an entity you don't like doing something you don't like. They only broke the law in Illinois it seems, and even then if I requested we liquidate a coal/gas company for violating environmental regulations I'm pretty sure you'...
[21:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:43] <exec> 08└─I was just looking at the Dell website today. To find the linux computers, look for "Products" → "Laptops" → "For Work." Then on the filters, select "Ubuntu Linux" under "OS Selection." You will find Dell's linux solutions here because their linux target market is full-time developers using linu...
[21:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:45] <exec> 08└─When advocating for a switch to your preference, refer to it as an "upgrade".
[21:55:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 1070 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:08] <exec> 08└─Locusts happen from time to time, gee, all the way back to biblical times. There's no particular evidence that this swarm is any different from earlier ones, i.e., triggered by the right weather conditions. As far as a food crisis, we need to keep in mind that the population of Africa is exploding....
[21:56:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 1942 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:07] <exec> 08└─Mea culpa, I RTFA. Seems like his points are: the human perception of the objective reality is shite - because our sense are tuned by evolution and are tuned to discard or distort any traits of reality that aren't helping in survival and sex (no, he didn't actually mentioned sex. Or he did, but the...
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[21:56:33] <exec> 08└─You're still expressly missing the point -- "approximation of the modeled" often is not the intent. Simply demonstrating that an evolutionary development *could* favor an extremely abstracted cognition of the environment is interesting. That *YOU* don't find that interesting is not a deficiency in t...
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[22:52:34] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_Genesis [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:35] <exec> 08└─Isn't "microsoft shill" also a form of mental illness?
[22:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 1326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:38] <exec> 08└─Amazon's Ring Fired at Least Four Employees for Snooping on User Videos [soylentnews.org] Amazon's Choice Products Aren't Always What They Claim to Be [soylentnews.org] Amazon Slams Media For Not Saying Nice Things About AWS [soylentnews.org] Online Shopping Returns End Up in Landfills. [soylentnews...
[22:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there are no US based "partners" / vendors for PocketBook Pro. Still, it looks nice.
[22:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:42] <exec> 08└─A waterproof version that could survive a drop into the deep end of a swimming pool would be ideal.
[22:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:44] <exec> 08└─I don't know how old your Nook was when it got cut off, but I have an old Kobo Touch from 2011 which is still officially supported, and got a software update just four months ago.
[22:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:41] <exec> 08└─Practically speaking I don't think the government should have let Broadcom and their customers use it for free. I mean, sure, in principle, all publicly funded research should be in the public domain. But, which public? Broadcom and Apple aren't paying taxes in the US. They're paying it in Ireland o...
[22:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:45] <exec> 08└─Do people still go on about this? My printer Just Worked. The scanner software Just Worked. HP, mind, so the driver and software came preinstalled with Ubuntu. USB devices Just Work. What have you plugged into Ubuntu in 2020 that hasn't? People forget what Win98 was like for devices. Seriously, at t...
[22:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:46] <exec> 08└─There is an OS for you. It's called: TempleOS In it you are root. You are god. You can do anything. The drawback is that you have to do everything.
[22:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:48] <exec> 08└─Have you tried Ubuntu Mate 18.04 LTS? I've found it to be stable, usable, no serious software apt conflicts, and all in all better than Win98.
[22:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:35] <exec> 08└─Because what is "objective" anyway? It's a word we've defined, which isn't a satisfying thing to say; but we can't avoid being the judges of what is or is not objective reality. If there's anything that pisses me off, it's *sophistry*, such as the conversation I got into with a guy who was very inte...
[22:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:37] <exec> 08└─I'd argue that the objective - subjective dividing line is, itself, subjective, and therefore it is not possible to strictly define the context of this, or any, discussion.
[23:02:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06The Growing Threat to Free Speech Online - 1733 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:55] <exec> 08└─Everyplace I know of has defamation laws. People can indeed sue for destruction of reputation. That's the law and it is fine. If person X is paying for a space, person X gets to control what is being said there if they want to. Especially when person Y can pay for their own platform and type away an...
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[23:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:04] <exec> 08└─As a home-bound hermit who dislikes going outside, I have long since been prepared for this global health emergency. I am happy to provide tips on just staying the fuck inside, should anyone be interested in my hard-earned knowledge. :)
[23:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:06] <exec> 08└─A traveling N95 mask salesman rings your doorbell. What do you do?
[23:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:08] <exec> 08└─Review the surveillance footage to see how he got past the boobytraps?
[23:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:10] <exec> 08└─Careful, don't wanna be that guy who gets taken out by his own boobytraps.
[23:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Declared a Global Health Emergency by World Health Organization - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:12] <exec> 08└─"The main reason for this declaration is not what is happening in China but what is happening in other countries," said WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. The concern is that it could spread to countries with weaker health systems.
[23:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Spitzer Space Telescope Turns Out the Lights - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:23] <exec> 08└─We can expect more cutbacks on the good stuff with all the usual excuses from this D.C. crowd. Shame we're letting it happen
[23:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:53] <exec> 08└─Libraries brought to you by "back when billionaires actually gave a shit"
[23:52:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:54] <exec> 08└─Depends on how much it pays. A gig's a gig.
[23:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:57] <exec> 08└─Too many libraries today are really Vagrant Warming Stations and Bedbug Dropoff/Collection Points.
[23:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:59] <exec> 08└─I had a Nook Simple Touch that I used to death several years ago, and hunted all over for a device with the features I wanted before I settled on getting a used Kobo Glo HD... It doesn't have the hardware buttons I'd hoped for, but it does have a SD slot, ongoing firmware updates, an active communit...
[23:53:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eight Atari Video Game-Themed Hotels to Open Across the U.S. - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:21] <exec> 08└─I don't know... I'd assume many people will die from being attacked by giant tennis balls in the Pong room, and being eaten by huge centipedes is just not the way I'd want to go.
[23:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CalTech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:58] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that patents are intrinsically bad, but the implementation sure is. But then so is the implementation of copyright.
[23:54:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bilb Ono [2680] 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:21] <exec> 08└─I think most of the less tech savvy Windows 7 users have moved on to iPads anyway.
[23:54:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 1440 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:37] <exec> 08└─In contrast, a counter example is that Asus did a netbook with GNU/Linux pre-sintalled with great success. The Asus EEE netbooks were quite popular and well liked, even if under-powered. The problem occured with the reaction from M$ to the spike in sales of the GNU/Linux-based EEEs. M$ leaned heavil...
[23:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:50] <exec> 08└─You're right, I'll go with my gut. I FEEL like you're a total dumbass, and my feelings are directing me to mock you mercilessly for promoting intentional ignorance.
[23:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Climate Change Behind Africa's Worst Locust Invasion in Decades - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:51] <exec> 08└─Haha, you truly are science illiterate huh? Never said no waste heat, said using solar would reduce the total waste heat if we replaced every coal and gas plant with solar. Shall I explain it again or do you prefer pretending that your opinions are scientifically valid?
[23:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 1627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, I was in one of those. The project wasn't even as good as a trainwreck, since nothing got beyond the concept stage. It was all fighting over what to do, and not actually ever doing anything. For fear of making the others look bad, anyone who actually tried to do something got sabotaged, first b...
[23:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:00] <exec> 08└─Simply demonstrating that an evolutionary development *could* favor an extremely abstracted cognition of the environment is interesting.
[23:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Evolution Cloaked Us in a Perceptional Virtual Reality - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:02] <exec> 08└─That's nice.