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[00:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:58] <exec> 08└─Proprietary software does not compete with free software. The aims are different. Proprietary software is about keeping the user tied up. Free software is about some other things, scratching itches, giving away, building on a base that you are unable to replicate, believing in freedom. Proprietary s...
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[00:04:00] <exec> 08└─An officejet under mxlinux 19 was really plug and play, That is, I booted with the printer connected through USB, i summon CUPS to configure it and the printer was already there, and working. Previously I found an entry for a wireless printer that must be in my neighbour apartment. OTOH if you confi...
[00:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu - Hardware and Software Considerations - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:02] <exec> 08└─Proprietary software doesn't boycott free software. It's the free software that imposes restrictive licensing requirements so that non-free software can't use it. Except for BSD-licensed software the ONLY free software license. The gpl is far from free in comparison because of the restrictions it im...
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[00:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:14] <exec> 08└─I can see letting people out, but why let anymore in? All those phony "refugees" going to keep coming in until December? That sucks! Well, I hope Johnson can keep them from getting papers until then, and then he can boot them out. Let's make Britain Great again! A Britain for, by, and of the British...
[00:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:15] <exec> 08└─Russians have also blocked witnesses in Trump's impeachment. He will go free with zero witnesses giving evidence that he withheld aid from Ukraine unless they fired the prosecutor investigating the company paying his son $80k per month!
[00:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:17] <exec> 08└─Wish I cared. Should I?
[00:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 2854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:37] <exec> 08└─The quick rundown is that MIDI is primarily a control protocol and secondarily a hardware implementation. It doesn't generate any sounds by itself, but it sends control signals to an instrument or software that generates the tones. I have a Yamaha KX49 that looks like a decent-sized Casio keyboard b...
[00:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:39] <exec> 08└─MIDI is, at best, half-duplex. To have two-way communication, you actually have to have two different MIDI devices in the same physical device and devices may not be able to be 100% sure they are the same physical device. In addition, only one message can be on the wire at a time. Together, you end...
[00:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 1539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:41] <exec> 08└─Basically, a sequence of notes and their timings, plus shitloads of extra control data. It's straightforward to translate a traditional score sheet to midi, but sometimes not so easy in reverse because of the extra data. What's the musical notation for panning left to right to centre, anyways? MIDI...
[00:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:04] <exec> 08└─The hype is even worse. I expect most people have gone to emergency and some of you have had minor injuries treated right in the examination room. Removing a scalp lesion and a couple of stitches isn't done in a operating room no matter how gold plated your health plan. They canceled two patients wh...
[00:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:06] <exec> 08└─the sentence part: "the hospital's electricity did not stabilise for another 15 minutes" really shows how brain washed some people are about electricity. unless the hospital itself had a SOURCE of generation for electricity (which would make the this news report a non-starter) which was malfunctioni...
[00:54:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 381 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:23] <exec> 08└─One big difference between white nationalists and Muslim radicals is how the US government responds to them: - Somebody involved in the likes of Al Qaida or Daesh: killed both the person and his children with drone strikes [theintercept.com]. - Somebody involved in white nationalism: invited to work...
[00:54:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:37] <exec> 08└─You have a media and educational system telling white people they are monsters that must be erased.
[00:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:04] <exec> 08└─I chuckled when I saw you modded touche. They make the same point!
[00:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:05] <exec> 08└─It sanitizes the phone or else it gets the doily again!
[00:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:08] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=35743&page=1&cid=949043#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] Care to explain why you referred to yourself in the 3rd person? The entire thread of discussion was between you and Azuma, then she accused your false sense of neutrality of being bullshit. Did y...
[00:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:10] <exec> 08└─No, it does not, unless it involves the internet where any Joe Shit the Ragman can do it from the comfort of their come-stained EZ chair and takeout food. If you had an obsession with learning violin (or another instrument outside of drums or guitar that required actual long-term effort), or skatebo...
[00:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:29] <exec> 08└─The problem is you will never level the playing field. At most you will be given the plate numbers you see while feeding your camera's input into the company's system, and they're making you pay to do it. Meanwhile, the company will charge the police even more so they can see a larger view of the da...
[00:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:30] <exec> 08└─Or, just buy a camera with automatic license plate recognition built in... https://m.aliexpress.com [aliexpress.com] You can keep what you got private, but if someone is in your neighborhood causing problems, you have something to trace the mischief.
[00:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:33] <exec> 08└─No shit. I've got stuff on Zip drive disks, and I still have a Zip drive somewhere in a box. Problem is, there's no parallel port on this machine. So I guess I'll have to go buy a USB adapter or PCI-e card if I ever want to actually try reading them and find out if the data is there or bit rotted to...
[00:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:03] <exec> 08└─Not as far fetched as it might seem at first. Remember, trees add turbulence to wind, forcing air to slow down over the forest. This directly contributes to increased rainfall. Trees also slow down the runoff of water by adding debris to the forest floor that slows down runoff and keeps more water l...
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[01:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple is Officially Done Rebuilding its Maps in the US - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:14] <exec> 08└─Hey, project Apollo, when do you believe that your self-driving project will materialize? HahahahahahHEEEHEEEHOOOOOOOOOO!
[01:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Officially Done Rebuilding its Maps in the US - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:16] <exec> 08└─Went to Chula Vista with a friend to see Neil Diamond. Her phone took us to an intersection with no venue anywhere to be seen. So I used my phone's mapping app, took us to the same intersection. That's when I learned iPhone used Android's mapping function. We finally found the venue a few miles away...
[01:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Officially Done Rebuilding its Maps in the US - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:18] <exec> 08└─Tried it a few hours ago, and maps now actually work in my neighbourhood. Including bus schedules telling me when to leave when I want to arrive at my appointment for a certain time on a certain day. Turns out that next week I can leave half an hour after I was planning to. :-)
[01:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:30] <exec> 08└─London Stock Exchange will die off soon.
[01:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:32] <exec> 08└─I do care. They are our Brothers-in-arms and although they will stay friendly with us for the foreseeable future, I'm not liking the degree to which foreigners like scumbag Pakis like Khan have infiltrated their society. Also, I found out that Boris Johnson is a Jew, which makes me wonder exactly wh...
[01:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:34] <exec> 08└─Not sure how you can have some problem with Jews but be pro-Trump? Israel: Trump "the greatest friend" Israel ever had - Netanyahu https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[01:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:36] <exec> 08└─Things that don't bother the queen: *Brexit *Her pedo son *The legality of actions taken by prime ministers Things that do bother the queen: *A princling stepping down from the royal family in a way that gives even the slightest hint that royalty isn't an innate feature of the universe
[01:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:38] <exec> 08└─Pipe down, cholo.
[01:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:02] <exec> 08└─MIDI is useful for pwnage [cvedetails.com].
[01:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:03] <exec> 08└─One thing is the protocol, another is the latency. Atari ST IIRC had integrated MIDI and no timing problems. My macs (166mhz ppc) had no timing problems. So it can be done. I never tried it because a shitty laptop with mpv in a ssh session with 50 mt of ethernet cable was enough for my use case (als...
[01:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:30] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus is a SN hero, that is no way to talk about him. Shame on you.
[01:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:31] <exec> 08└─You should have taken the L a long time ago honey. What is "satire" and "projection" other than you being a TERF and refusing to acknowledge your longing for girl-cock? Jesus on a massive fucking symbian - just how desperate are you?
[01:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:54] <exec> 08└─I'm not seeing a huge barrier to entry for this. You can get a couple of 1080p Yi cameras for cheap. Likely a maximum of 2 cameras needed at different angles to capture cars going both directions on one street. Object detection can work pretty well even on potato setups [raspberrypi.org]. This will...
[02:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 1934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:37] <exec> 08└─It seems like nobody makes a perfect e-reader, they all have some problems. The thing to do is list all the features you want and then see which one matches the best. In my case I came up with the Kobo Aura One. The minuses didn't matter to me, and it had almost all the features I wanted. (If I hav...
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[02:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Officially Done Rebuilding its Maps in the US - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:19] <exec> 08└─Imagine that all that money and time and effort that Apple and Google put into their separate mapping systems had instead gone into openmaps or such. All that Energy/gas/diesel/hybrid could have been split between them with both of them benefitting..... .... imagine how smart that would have been: s...
[02:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Officially Done Rebuilding its Maps in the US - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:21] <exec> 08└─Google wanted to continue to leverage their purchase of the Keyhole satellite image data. OpenMaps doesn't have that sort of data. Plus Google wanted to sniff everyone's wifi signatures to use in wifi-based location for when you have purposefully disabled gps, remember? They will track you every way...
[02:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:04] <exec> 08└─I think they realized that people aren't going to use MIDI 2.0 over serial cables, but over for example USB or ethernet instead. Which means that MIDI messages will have to be wrapped in packets anyway.
[02:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:05] <exec> 08└─And try playing piano music on a laptop's QWERTY keyboard. I can only picture that as a form of dystopia. Sounds totally bizarre that people pay to sit and watch that. On the other hand, I hear people pay to watch people play video games, but at least that has betting potential.
[02:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:07] <exec> 08└─Oh christ! You sound like some euro-trash techno weenie with the black skinny jeans and emo hair!
[02:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:10] <exec> 08└─Will MIDI 2.0 allow you to do things along the lines of OSC, where you can tell a device: "at timestamp 12345, start the following notes in unison" Will MIDI 2.0 consider notes as entities, rather than events? MPE is still a bad hack. There are other, less obvious things that it doesn't seem to do,...
[02:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-On Smash: How Close Did They Come to Disaster? - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:54] <exec> 08└─The most efficient ones I've read about use pulsed lasers and the thrust is caused by ablating some of the surface. Tumbling shouldn't make much difference. I do wonder about blasting particles off the front though. It seems like you could be trading a big lump for a lot of little ones. Action-react...
[02:57:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’ - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:32] <exec> 08└─Same with the data.
[03:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I can see the appeal - I did similar with early mp3 players. A (non-bloated) "iTunes for eBooks" is handy though, particularly when looking for something (possibly non-specific), or otherwise managing your collection. ...at least assuming your meta-tags are all in order. Which I've sadly had a...
[03:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:42] <exec> 08└─Waterproof you say? Intriguing...
[03:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:44] <exec> 08└─I've heard dry corn husks can ignite, so the paper itself could be the problem, if patches are dry enough. (Microwaved corn in the husk is about the easiest and most delicious way to cook corn)
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[03:52:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:07] <exec> 08└─Submission: https://soylentnews.org¬e=&title=New+Chinese+Virus+May+Only+be+Deadly+if+You+Recieved+SARS+Vaccine [soylentnews.org]
[03:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple is Officially Done Rebuilding its Maps in the US - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:19] <exec> 08└─Imagine if Apple bought data from Tesla -- who have map data from something like a half million cars with cameras on them. It's all being sent home to Tesla who use it internally, but I'm guessing Musk would part with it for the right price. Sure you want Lidar for some areas, but to really cover th...
[03:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:39] <exec> 08└─More like the first chapter to a poorly written prequel to a V for Vendetta knockoff; Coronavirus and xenophobia included.
[03:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:40] <exec> 08└─Wanting and abusing power is fine. (Phillip, Andrew, Charles, etc..) After all, they have a God-given right to rule. not wanting power confuses and confounds. (Harry) Also, I like to imagine this conversation: "Look, here's the DNA test results. You're not my grandmother, I'm not fifth in line to th...
[03:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:42] <exec> 08└─After the death of Boadicea, and the later invasions by the Angles, and the Danes, and Normans, no one has successfully invaded the British Isles. Spanish Armada? Fail. Did get the Dark Irish out of the deal. The Blitz, yeah, right, until Normandy (pay back for William). So once by sea, once by ai...
[03:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:44] <exec> 08└─British royalty is a perfectly cromulent tourist attraction. Can you imagine if Mickey and Minnie left Disneyland for Knott's Berry Farm?
[03:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-On Smash: How Close Did They Come to Disaster? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:59] <exec> 08└─but the ablated stuff goes into a higher orbit.
[03:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 1209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:05] <exec> 08└─I'm slightly more optimistic. As you say - people may become more blase about nudity, since everybody has been "publicly" nude at some point. But I think "being weird" is going to be similar. *Everybody* is weird in some ways, except for the small minority so utterly boring that nobody wants to know...
[04:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:52] <exec> 08└─Why should we settle for no better than what we already have? While waterproofing electronics is a bit more involved than printing a book on waterproof paper would be, it's not exactly rocket science. Waterproofed watches and such have been available for decades, and you only have to waterproof one...
[04:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caltech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:01] <exec> 08└─You pass it on the customer
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[04:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:14] <exec> 08└─While face masks are popular, scientists doubt their effectiveness against airborne viruses. They may provide some protection to you and others, but they are loose and made of permeable material, meaning droplets can still pass through.
[04:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:16] <exec> 08└─evidence most strongly supports that the 2019-NCoV virus is a vaccine strain of coronavirus either accidentally released from a laboratory accident... or the Chinese were performing clinical studies of a Coronavirus vaccine in humans. ...animals vaccinated against coronoviruses tended to have extrem...
[04:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:18] <exec> 08└─Because you touch stuff then touch your face to adjust or take off the mask.
[04:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:20] <exec> 08└─But if there was a real pandemic, and people knew they were risking their lives, they would be more careful. TFS also says cover your face when coughing or sneezing;
[04:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:22] <exec> 08└─As usual Orac is ahead: https://respectfulinsolence.com [respectfulinsolence.com] Note to the editors: If you do accept that garbage linked above, at the very least moderate it with Orac's rebuttal.
[04:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:24] <exec> 08└─But how much difference did it make just washing hands and/or using a hand-sanitizer, without a mask?
[04:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:27] <exec> 08└─It seems like it's mostly to help prevent you from infecting others if you happen to already be carrying the disease. The mask would in any case help attenuate the virus particles in your coughs and sneezes. Not perfectly of course, but probably enough to make a difference. It's one reason doctors u...
[04:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:29] <exec> 08└─Going full astronaut seems like the way to go.
[04:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Officially Done Rebuilding its Maps in the US - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:42] <exec> 08└─That's good news, but I'm still not hopeful. We live 1/4 mile down a curving shared driveway with 6 other houses - it's a private drive, but we get all kinds of deliveries to the door. The UPS/FedEx/Amazon/Laser ship/etc. regular drivers figure it out after their first screw up, but anytime there's...
[04:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Officially Done Rebuilding its Maps in the US - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:43] <exec> 08└─Imagine no possessions... I wonder if you can... Yoko Ono, just as unrealistic today as in 1971.
[04:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Officially Done Rebuilding its Maps in the US - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:45] <exec> 08└─So why not look? You must know someone with an iPhone. If it's wrong tell the delivery folks that they need to use google maps - it's available in the Apple App Store as a free download. And if it's okay then you have peace of mind. Just call them and have them input your address. Good luck.
[04:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Officially Done Rebuilding its Maps in the US - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:48] <exec> 08└─If it's wrong tell the delivery folks that they need to use google maps
[04:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Officially Done Rebuilding its Maps in the US - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:50] <exec> 08└─No, I'm saying call a friend with an iPhone and have them see if they can see your address. Better to know for sure than to worry, right? Just don't do it now - they're probably in bed.
[04:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:13] <exec> 08└─Some people make it sound like democratic self-determination is a terrible thing. Why did Britain fight a war against Germany 60 odd years ago? Surely it would have more economically efficient to have just joined the Krauts...
[04:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:14] <exec> 08└─How could you forget William the Bastard?
[04:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:17] <exec> 08└─Sorry -- almost 80 years ago.
[04:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:19] <exec> 08└─Sorry-- about 80 years ago. x x x
[04:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:21] <exec> 08└─The problem with all of this is that Harry isn't just taking his wife and leaving, he's taking a bunch of money. He has a lot of wealth and privilege because of his royal status, and of course they aren't giving that all up to live as regular people. It's kinda like Superman in Superman II: he could...
[04:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 1428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:23] <exec> 08└─No one said self-determination is a terrible thing. But having the power of self-determination doesn't mean people can't criticize you for making utterly stupid decisions when you exercise that power. Basically, the UK deciding to leave the EU is a lot like New York (state--the whole state) deciding...
[04:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:25] <exec> 08└─I forgot to mention: on top of all this, now Scotland is pissed (because they voted to Remain), after this coming right after their close vote against independence, so now they're probably going to want to re-vote on that, and this time they may very well become independent from England/Wales, leavi...
[04:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:53:54] <exec> 08└─Analog synths are just novelty/collector items now.
[04:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-On Smash: How Close Did They Come to Disaster? - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:42] <exec> 08└─I think the theory is you ablate it all the way to a gas. At that small and hot the particles are likely to be charged too, which means they'll interact with the magnetic field. Stuff that small will either hit the atmosphere or blow away into deep space, it won't be in stable orbits for long. Even...
[04:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-On Smash: How Close Did They Come to Disaster? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:44] <exec> 08└─Detractors say that you will also cause spalling, and those chips will be dangerous.
[04:56:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 354 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:17] <exec> 08└─You gotta admit...Europe wasn't sending their best and brightest. They were sending their poor, their terrorists, their violent people, their rapists, and I assume some of them were good people too. But maaaan...they were violent as hell, they wouldn't integrate and assimilate into the local culture...
[04:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parkinson's Disease May Start Before Birth - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:59] <exec> 08└─Frist Psst after nearly a full day! Humor aside, if you have or know anyone that has Parkinson's, you know that it's a terrible disease. It's great to hear that some progress is being made. A close relative was diagnosed in their early 80s, levidopa helped for 5+ years and gave them a fairly normal...
[05:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:35] <exec> 08└─Technically, nothing is waterproof, it is water resistant. They quote 60 minutes at 2M depth in fresh water. I wouldn't take it into the sea, but it's fine on the beach, at the pool, and in the bath. I usually take mine when I go fishing. :)
[05:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Caltech Takes Billion-Dollar Bite Out of Apple, Broadcom for Patent Violations - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:45] <exec> 08└─If every company's cost increase a similar amount, then yea. No one is going to take a loss. Once one does other will follow.
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[05:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:21] <exec> 08└─I can believe that, but some of the sold-out masks are dust-mask types with an exhale valve .com] that helps the mask stay cooler, but those masks won't block germ emission at all. Given how many people are wearing masks, a coherent public policy would be useful.
[05:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:22] <exec> 08└─https://nypost.com/2020/01/30/beijing-cab-driver-dons-full-hazmat-suit-to-keep-coronavirus-away/ [nypost.com]
[05:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:25] <exec> 08└─That is true, but they also probably reduce sneeze speed
[05:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:27] <exec> 08└─Plus, coughing into your sleeve is something that should be encouraged more [youtube.com] anyway.
[05:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:29] <exec> 08└─"QUITE RIGHT"
[05:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:31] <exec> 08└─Whoever wrote that should be embarrassed. "It just happens to be a 68% match. If the sequence came from the vector, there should be large swaths of 100% match."
[05:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Officially Done Rebuilding its Maps in the US - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:48] <exec> 08└─We've lived with this situation for 6+ years, the new maps can't be any worse... though those iPhone people probably do deserve to be woken up for something as trivial as this - thanks for the suggestion!
[05:53:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 342 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:18] <exec> 08└─I forgot to mention: on top of all this, now Scotland is pissed (because they voted to Remain), after this coming right after their close vote against independence, so now they're probably going to want to re-vote on that, and this time they may very well become independent from England/Wales, leavi...
[05:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:19] <exec> 08└─Meh, the city (of london) has enough money to buy the energy from the windfarms in scotland.
[05:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:21] <exec> 08└─NYC is horribly overpriced and has major infrastructure problems
[05:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:51] <exec> 08└─Do you know that the piano keyboard was the model that QWERTY built upon, when 19th century inventors were experimenting with keyboard layouts for typewriters? That's why the keys of the QWERTY keyboard do not line up in neat columns.
[05:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-On Smash: How Close Did They Come to Disaster? - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:41] <exec> 08└─Building a new Saturn 5 would be like building a new Bugatti Royale - sure, we can do it, but it will be fabulously expensive and at the end of the project you'll have a brand new horribly outdated thing.
[05:55:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 234 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:35] <exec> 08└─You're acting like people haven't been shot and killed in the US for the heinous crime of attending a synagogue multiple times in the last few years. Most white nationalist groups are infiltrated by Federal, State, and Local agencies.
[05:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:25] <exec> 08└─That's why we need to do what Israel does: identify the most single-minded literally autistic people and weaponize them.
[05:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:27] <exec> 08└─If I have thought of the things I post, that means somebody else also has, independently of me.
[05:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:29] <exec> 08└─You're acting like people haven't been shot and killed in the US for the heinous crime of attending a synagogue multiple times in the last few years.
[05:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:31] <exec> 08└─But it looks to me that YouTube has joined with mainstream media in pushing Neo-liberalism when it comes to suggested news/political content.
[05:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:33] <exec> 08└─I have never once heard anything that could be construed as remotely racist by any sane human being.
[05:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:35] <exec> 08└─Is it human nature to drift extreme in everything?
[05:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:00] <exec> 08└─The problem is that cops have the stuff. Take it away from them instead of spreading the mass surveillance even further. We need to stop pretending that we can do anything to stop law enforcement from encroaching on every bit of our lives. Even if they don't own the equipment, they are just a conver...
[05:57:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:35] <exec> 08└─Thank you for stepping up. Break a leg!
[05:59:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Opioid Dependence Found to Permanently Change Brains of Rats - 1557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:04] <exec> 08└─See Dr. Carl Hart. These studies are useless piles of rubish that do only one thing, perpetuate the problem through a fundamental lack of understanding. They tried using heroin as a substitute for morphine; it didn't work. They tried creating dextromethorphan and SSRI's to sidestep the addictive nat...
[05:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Water Availability is Permanently Reduced After Planting Forests - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:38] <exec> 08└─Sorrel's are not a clover, more closer related to rhubarb, and contains oxalic acid, which in high enough doses is poisonous. It is good in moderation though.
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[06:52:12] <exec> 08└─Are you saying, that I cannot get, my multiple free movies, that they promised me? And the testimony of John Bolton? This is so unfair. Contracts are contracts! Give me my impeachment!!! You bastards!!! You killed Kenneth Starr!!!!
[06:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:35] <exec> 08└─So, we are all going to die. Even those of us who, due to Military-Industrial Complex connections (looking at you, Ethanol_fueled!) have received vaccinations against just such a weaponized Chinese Hong Kong Influenza Corona Beer Virus. The Vaccination itself was the transmission mechanism, so now...
[06:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:37] <exec> 08└─Ok, flamerbait modder. Tell us, using the order of magnitude mutation and replication rates of RNA viruses, how many amino acids you expect to find in common between two daughter strains 10 years later due to genetic drift? Is it near 100%?
[06:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:39] <exec> 08└─I was reading statistics on the regular flu on the CDCs website. IIRC it said that last season was worse than prior seasons yet more people last season got flu shots than prior seasons. It also said that this season was worse than last season yet more people this season got flu shots than last seaso...
[06:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:41] <exec> 08└─Who knows? Last time I got a flu vaccine (10 years ago) I was sick for 3 days. But please leave this space for discussion of the idea that a SARS vaccine could have sensitized people to future coronavirus infections, which has been shown to happen in animals.
[06:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:52:43] <exec> 08└─I try to turn around and cough into the ground as low as possible.
[06:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:04] <exec> 08└─Too fat for skinny jeans. Not got much hair left. Still love me the tb303 grinding bassline.
[06:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:57:44] <exec> 08└─ok boomer
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[07:52:36] <exec> 08└─"Quite Alt-Right", it is a contaigen, spread by memes, and stupid things on the internets. Save yourselves, while you can.
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[07:52:56] <exec> 08└─Babs, friends don't let friends uses iOS. Should have gotten a PinePhone.
[07:57:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:57:02] <exec> 08└─I did once think the same as you do - that people would just come to accept each other's idiosyncrasies as society became more "transparent", in the case or universal symmetric surveillance at least. I'm not quite so sure of that now, with the politician polarisation on social media and the amount o...
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[07:57:40] <exec> 08└─for being willing to help out Spiraldancing.
[08:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:57] <exec> 08└─I would guess a paperback book would float, at least until it becomes water logged. That eBook reader is going straight to the bottom.
[08:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Source eReader that's Free of Corporate Restrictions is Exactly What I Want Right Now - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:58] <exec> 08└─Some customers must be interested in maintenance costs, othereise the likes of Kia wouldn't have advertising campaigns harping on about the 7 year warranty they offer with all their cars. I am a buyer of used cars myself too. But the used market needs to be supplied by the buyers of new cars. I'm a...
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[08:52:10] <exec> 08└─About fucking time! And, I want my cut. Press 1 to talk to our representative, or we will begin legal proceedings against your robocalling ass! With extra damages and penalties for violation of privacy. And Using Windows. You are so screwed!
[08:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:36] <exec> 08└─This sort of comment, or thought process, is precisely why we get sociopathic liars for political representatives. You don't have to like every single position of somebody to think they can be an acceptable representative. Because when you set that as a criteria you're basically going to get nothing...
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[08:53:38] <exec> 08└─The UK was happy to remain a part of the EU when the EU was little more than a collection of equals engaging in mutually beneficial trade, friendship, and cooperation while also overcoming the bureaucratic hurdles that are inevitable in any relationship kept at arm's reach. But the modern EU has bec...
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[08:57:49] <exec> 08└─LOL. You got the right kind of crazy to work here. Looking forward to your contributions :)
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[09:52:07] <exec> 08└─I get 3-7 calls a day from fake Marriott to fake health insurance. They never end. They're the same calls. Never end. Not one is legit. This guy makes a couple thousand calls and gets fined 12 million? What a ridiculous "lesson" the government is trying to hand out. All this does is teach America...
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[09:52:15] <exec> 08└─You NEVER sell unlimited product for a finite cost, and then actually deliver unlimited product worth infinite cost! You sell unlimited product for inflated costs, and then punish any customer who takes products over their quota, or cap. You would think MBAs behind that brain trust would've been goo...
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[09:52:18] <exec> 08└─You have to give movie pass a pass on this one
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[09:52:20] <exec> 08└─Film at 11
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[09:52:48] <exec> 08└─That can work too. However, if you go to work sick because you would be penalized for staying home, you should preferably cough into the boss's coffee cup or on his desk.
[09:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:43] <exec> 08└─Ah but now you perhaps can see why UK left? Scotland did indeed vote to remain, but their vote means nothing - because they were overruled by the bigger players to whom they surrendered their sovereignty to. But I think you're rather mistaken on the economy of Scotland (and the UK for that matter)....
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[09:53:44] <exec> 08└─A Britain for, by, and of the British!
[09:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:17] <exec> 08└─A Lexicon G2 and R1 used system exclusive messages to enable bi-directional communication quite a few years ago. I cannot remember how old those units are, maybe mid 1990's? The two issues I always had to deal with were latency and saturating a link with continuous controller data. I always hated th...
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[09:54:18] <exec> 08└─Are you sure? Because I'd say it would be significantly harder to make keys line up in vertical columns in a mechanical typewriter. The horizontal order of keys just reflects the horizontal order of the typebars. Therefore I'd say the non-vertical arrangement of the keys is simply because of the tec...
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[09:55:09] <exec> 08└─What about not making this a ground based solution? Isn't there enough energy in solar to power lasers? It seems that low power lasers would work just as well over time, and out in space we don't have the atmosphere restricting our choices of wavelengths. Thinking about it, would it not be possible...
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[09:58:17] <exec> 08└─Appreciate your expert opinion. Biology is not my forte, but it's fascinating, much more so when, as you did, phrased to describe mechanisms but with a bit of hand waving over the too-complex interactions (how does the cell become overstressed/less responsive to repeated similar stimulus, etc. is *i...
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[10:52:08] <exec> 08└─All this does is teach Americans that only international call centers work.
[10:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:47] <exec> 08└─Where are the 12 monkeys?
[10:53:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 1428 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:34] <exec> 08└─No one said self-determination is a terrible thing. But having the power of self-determination doesn't mean people can't criticize you for making utterly stupid decisions when you exercise that power. Basically, the UK deciding to leave the EU is a lot like New York (state--the whole state) deciding...
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[10:53:44] <exec> 08└─I missed it. When did Barack "opposed an international ban on cluster munitions" Obama get involved?
[10:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:46] <exec> 08└─All thirteen colonies were "states" -- in normal parlance this means "country".
[10:53:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:48] <exec> 08└─After the death of Boadicea, and the later invasions by the Angles, and the Danes, and Normans, no one has successfully invaded the British Isles. Spanish Armada? Fail. Did get the Dark Irish out of the deal. The Blitz, yeah, right, until Normandy (pay back for William). So once by sea, once by air,...
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[10:58:19] <exec> 08└─Thank you. But really it is not so much handwaving as glossing over an aspect that can and will be achieved in any of a dozen different redundant ways.
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[11:52:48] <exec> 08└─One is running China right now Another is running the US
[11:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:49] <exec> 08└─Then there's one running the UK, and one in North Korea. With the upcoming US elections, I'm sure we can get to twelve easily.
[11:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:52] <exec> 08└─A bioweapon engineered by commies is on the loose and you're worried about the alt-right? The finding of 4 unique inserts in the 2019-nCoV, all of which have identity /similarity to amino acid residues in key structural proteins of HIV-1 is unlikely to be fortuitous in nature. This work provides yet...
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[11:53:52] <exec> 08└─I see your point of view, and understand the basis of your arguments. There are arguments to be had of the level of accountability within the EU bureaucracy, but the plain fact is that the EU budget is roughly 148 x 109 Euro, whereas the total budgets of the member states is 7.52 x 1012 Euro - so th...
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[11:53:53] <exec> 08└─No one said self-determination is a terrible thing. But having the power of self-determination doesn't mean people can't criticize you for making utterly stupid decisions when you exercise that power. And speaking of Ireland, what exactly are they going to do there? It looks like they're talking abo...
[11:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:55] <exec> 08└─The little ginger Nazi "grandson" that probably isn't even her biological grandson is more important then most things or not. I guess she knows not to touch the whole Diana-issue so they all just keep pretending that Harry comes from Charles.
[11:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:57] <exec> 08└─Now the interesting time will start. If they can manage to get things right they will have created a proper recipe for actually leaving the monstrosity that is the EU. If successful and it doesn't turn out all horrible it's now just a matter of time before others start to leave.
[11:56:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Auditing Radicalization Pathways on YouTube - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:03] <exec> 08└─Even as an arrogant shylock, I feel comfortable telling you to fuck off ya racist dipship.
[11:58:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Solving a Biological Puzzle: How Stress Causes Gray Hair - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:58:31] <exec> 08└─"stress activates nerves that are part of the fight-or-flight response, which in turn cause permanent damage to pigment-regenerating stem cells in hair follicles."
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[12:52:24] <exec> 08└─So, a guy deliberately misrepresenting an actual problem, therefore likely a troll, is being used to show the government is doing something about robocalls. Two birds with one stone. Boo racist and well done government. Is the hate hour over for today?
[12:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06FCC Wants to Fine One Man Almost $13 Million for Making 6,000 Robocalls - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:25] <exec> 08└─Guess we'll just have to get in line... According to a 2019 Wall Street Journal report, [wsj.com] since 2015 the federal agency had ordered violators of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act to pay $208.4 million but had at that point only collected $6,790.
[12:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:09] <exec> 08└─kudos to reuters for going thru the commotion of making OmG! GRaFiX: https://graphics.reuters.com [reuters.com]
[12:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:10] <exec> 08└─Let's read the money quote: The available evidence most strongly supports that the 2019-NCoV virus is a vaccine strain of coronavirus either accidentally released from a laboratory accident, perhaps a laboratory researcher becoming infected with the virus while conducting animal experiments, or the...
[12:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:14] <exec> 08└─*Brexit *The legality of actions taken by prime ministers
[12:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 1835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:16] <exec> 08└─The major difference is that the citizens of New York state have elected representatives at federal level, directly accountable to them at the ballot box. The European Commission and Courts of Justice have zero direct democratic accountability. We can't remove them. We can't influence them. They hav...
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[12:54:18] <exec> 08└─As for the UK's economy, they're currently doing literally better than ever.
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[12:54:20] <exec> 08└─The European Commission and Courts of Justice have zero direct democratic accountability.
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[12:54:22] <exec> 08└─Fair point. I was considering the stock market which is at record highs. Somewhat peculiar that the GDP at market are out of sync. Curious what's up there since they tend to, at least broadly, follow one another.
[12:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:24] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you're trying to brag for some reason. But EU gets a monopoly on stocks and two bureaucracies. That's a pretty poor showing. Might be something to companies preferentially cutting workforce in UK. If EU gets serious about UK trying to become (more than already) tax haven, it could mean a...
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[13:52:06] <exec> 08└─They wonder why people won't help them.
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[13:52:07] <exec> 08└─prybars or similar, correct? Using tools to bypass locks or other equipment in a non-damaging fashion would normally be acceptable for pentesters, while doing intentional physical damage to the property which could require repairs or compromise site security further would not. This does indicate the...
[13:53:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:08] <exec> 08└─as a pro-vaccination Nazi I can tell you they are all the SAME. as an anti-vaccination Nazi I can tell you they are all the SAME.
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[13:53:10] <exec> 08└─They got eaten by four horsemen.
[13:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:12] <exec> 08└─Like teddy bears work for helping people sleep.
[13:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:14] <exec> 08└─but those masks won't block germ emission at all.
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[13:53:16] <exec> 08└─Unless, of course, it has evolutionary value. Then it is likely to be fortuitous.
[13:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:25] <exec> 08└─If successful...
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[13:54:27] <exec> 08└─From my perspective it's not primarily about the money, but about the sovereignty. The EU has become an incredibly political and partisan entity with a very distinct bias. That is what I think makes this issue so decisive. Those that tend to agree with their newfound bias either turn a blind eye to...
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[13:58:05] <exec> 08└─Never said barrier to entry was problem just dishonest marketing.
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[14:52:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and a massive fail on the part of their contacts in the company "get out of jail" paperwork... Another reason for doubt: one of the people listed as a contact on the get-out-of-jail-free letter didn't answer the deputies' calls, while another said he didn't believe the men had permission to co...
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[14:52:33] <exec> 08└─I don't give a damn about his "racist" calls. I don't care about his political agenda. Doesn't matter at all what the content of the calls was. I JUST WANT THE ROBOCALLER PUT INTO THE POOR HOUSE, IF NOT IN PRISON! The problem here is, it seems he is being punished for the "racist" calls, more than t...
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[14:52:58] <exec> 08└─It seems like it's mostly to help prevent you from infecting others if you happen to already be carrying the disease. The mask would in any case help attenuate the virus particles in your coughs and sneezes. Not perfectly of course, but probably enough to make a difference. It's one reason doctors u...
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[14:54:35] <exec> 08└─Once I read a metaphor about the relation between economy and stock market. Economy is a man walking a dog without a lease, and the stock market is the dog. The dog may stop, run 100m up or down, left and right. In the long term the dog moves with the man, but watching the dog for a minute doesn't h...
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[14:54:55] <exec> 08└─The quick rundown is that MIDI is primarily a control protocol and secondarily a hardware implementation. It doesn't generate any sounds by itself, but it sends control signals to an instrument or software that generates the tones. I have a Yamaha KX49 that looks like a decent-sized Casio keyboard b...
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[14:59:23] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Even worse, the rapidly replenished population of germs will all be descended from the 0,.01% of the original population that survived the first disinfection. And there's a pretty good chance that at least some of those survived because they were resistant to the disinfectant. So your newly...
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[15:52:15] <exec> 08└─DMA is a misfeature designed provide peripherals with direct, unconstrained, high-speed read-write access to the whole of a system's RAM.
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[15:52:30] <exec> 08└─Who is developing robot dogs to bark at these robot deliverymen?
[15:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Wants to Fine One Man Almost $13 Million for Making 6,000 Robocalls - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:43] <exec> 08└─I pretty much agree with you. This guy is someone who deserves no sympathy. But it sure shows how much the FCC cares about abuse by companies.
[15:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:53:33] <exec> 08└─Can you explain the mechanism where a virus spontaneously mutates to contain key characteristics of a virus from a completely different family?
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[15:53:35] <exec> 08└─Since it says that the normal means of transmission is via micro-droplets, it sounds as if UV light would be a reasonable disinfectant. It should at least cut down the amount of time the stuff floats around in the air, and speed up it's decay when it alights on a surface. The question in my mind is...
[15:54:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 286 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:11] <exec> 08└─Things that don't bother the queen: *Brexit *Her pedo son *The legality of actions taken by prime ministers Things that do bother the queen: *A princling stepping down from the royal family in a way that gives even the slightest hint that royalty isn't an innate feature of the universe
[15:54:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:18] <exec> 08└─British royalty is a perfectly cromulent tourist attraction. Can you imagine if Mickey and Minnie left Disneyland for Knott's Berry Farm?
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[15:54:49] <exec> 08└─THIS is why the EU was so desperate to prevent the UK leaving: for showing the others it can be done. The EU is not inevitable and inescapable.
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[15:54:51] <exec> 08└─Not really. They were entities created by Royal Charter to be run by people appointed by the Crown. They were in no way "independent states" before independence. What their status AFTER the 13 American colonies won their independence from Britain would be was not established yet. They saw themselves...
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[15:54:53] <exec> 08└─Putting a customs border in the Irish Sea is, indeed, going to cause a lot of problems. But they aren't the *same* problems that a land border would cause, and they are arguably much less. I think the whole thing is a really stupid decision, it was justified based on a pack of lies, and it has conti...
[15:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:55] <exec> 08└─Wait... are you telling me they didn't earn all those medals and awards the hard way?
[15:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:57] <exec> 08└─The parts that are "self-funding" are the parts they keep for themselves - rents, land ownership. Don't you know Prince Charles earned $40m-odd this year? What a busy beaver! The rest is what we the people get to keep - maintaining the palace(s), grounds(s), yacht(s), hosting banquet(s).
[16:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Severe ‘Perfect 10.0’ Microsoft Flaw Confirmed: ‘This Is A Cloud Security Nightmare’ - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:24] <exec> 08└─I thought I would say what I trusted then I realized that is a bad idea. Only what can be audited can be trusted, so it is clear that *someone* somewhere intentionally does not want this, and feels very strongly about it. And that is koolaid I won't drink, so maybe we can be friends and not trust ea...
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[16:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Memory Access Attacks – A Walk Down Memory Lane - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:10] <exec> 08└─High-speed is, problematially, not the only characteristic there. If it were the only descriptor then maybe your point would be valid. However, it is the unconstrained aspect which has turned the combined end result an abomination.
[16:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Memory Access Attacks – A Walk Down Memory Lane - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:12] <exec> 08└─The escalating threat from firmware and hardware attacks has begun to be recognized by the industry, motivating new efforts such as the Secured-core PC initiative, introduced last October by Microsoft for some new Windows-based laptops. We are very supportive of the work PC OEMs and OS vendors are d...
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[16:52:14] <exec> 08└─It (DMA) is a performance enhancement that can be miss-used. It is that improper miss-use that is problematic, not the basic underlying feature. A claw hammer can be miss-used to perform murder. But that fact does not make a claw hammer an abomination, any more than the miss-use of DMA makes DMA its...
[16:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Memory Access Attacks – A Walk Down Memory Lane - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:16] <exec> 08└─In this case the DMA claw hammer is made from plain aluminum, not an alloy, and marketed as a normal hammer.
[16:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iowa Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Men Hired to Test Their Security - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:27] <exec> 08└─When you're getting a call from the cops regarding your employees' pentesting activities, pick up the damn phone!
[16:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Wants to Fine One Man Almost $13 Million for Making 6,000 Robocalls - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:48] <exec> 08└─> 3-7 calls a day Tell them you moved to EU and they are forced by law to tell you which db they are using and give you a way to remove your records, unless you're british, then game over, just get a new number
[16:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Wants to Fine One Man Almost $13 Million for Making 6,000 Robocalls - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:50] <exec> 08└─It's the racist calls that are the problem, get on with the times
[16:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Wants to Fine One Man Almost $13 Million for Making 6,000 Robocalls - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:52] <exec> 08└─He said hi and wanted me to vote for something called camp-in-a-jar. I told him to *uck off as we have enough transients camping under bridges and don't need more sleeping in a jar.
[16:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Wants to Fine One Man Almost $13 Million for Making 6,000 Robocalls - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:54] <exec> 08└─Racism isn't really a problem. Lots of people online tell me they don't like hetero white males. No problem at all. I tell 'me to get fucked, and go on about my business. Their likes and dislikes mean nothing to me. I wonder why so many other people want my approval? Why does it matter to them? Don'...
[16:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MoviePass is Deader than Ever as Parent Company Officially Files for Bankruptcy - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:05] <exec> 08└─The people behind moviepass were not MBAs but Indian scammers. They did not care about the business or delivering any product or sustaining any operations. They only cared about hyping the company to pump up the stock price, at which point they cashed out. See " rel="url2html-32570">https://www.busi...
[16:53:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 1425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:49] <exec> 08└─The problem is not the virus, but 'Inserts.' If we can get rid of these inserts, and inserts everywhere, the virus won't be able to function, and humanity wins. Im sure we can find a way to reproduce without any form of insertion, how hard could that be? Well, that's what she said. All humor aside,...
[16:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:50] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry but you need to read TFA, you can't be helped if you are asking "what evidence" without reading the evidence. Oh yea, I forgot TFA just includes words and pictures which doesn't count as evidence to you.
[16:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:52] <exec> 08└─https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001191?query=featured_home [nejm.org] Mild cold symptoms followed by agressive pneumonia on day 9. No effective treatment to speak off. I buy that it could be infectious for up to two weeks without symptoms. The bug is close to perfect for max damage.
[16:54:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:59] <exec> 08└─The European Commission and Courts of Justice have zero direct democratic accountability.
[16:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:11] <exec> 08└─Trivial, not even. Liam Fox: EU trade deal after Brexit should be 'easiest in history' to get
[16:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:12] <exec> 08└─This is the usual waffle about "sovereignty" and "vassal states". What specifically are you talking about? The emperor's new clothes are going to be painfully visible to everyone now.
[16:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:14] <exec> 08└─No, the goal was to "win". Probably some hypothetical Oxford Union debate between the land-owning aristrocrats heirs. Turns out Britain wanted to leave, toodley-pip - you win Randolph, there's your $1.
[16:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:49] <exec> 08└─Pianos have somewhat the same mechanical issues. Of course, in the piano, the hammers each strike their own individual matching strings and never jam against each other, while the typewriter hammers on one small spot. But the main concern was to invoke the familiar. The keyboard of the Hall Braillew...
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[17:52:21] <exec> 08└─Don't know the nitty gritty details, but I have the impression that the ancient IBM mainframe I/O channels are DMA done right -- https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Direct Memory Access Attacks – A Walk Down Memory Lane - 1411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:23] <exec> 08└─Two minimum features for all hardware systems. The Intel iAPX432 had parity and separate IO address space designed into the architecture (it was actually designed to use x86 processors as IO processors hidden behind their OWN access chips, which would tag where the i/o came from and only allow it to...
[17:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UPS Buying Thousands of Electric Vans; Teaming Up with Waymo to Accelerate the Future of Delivery - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:40] <exec> 08└─CVS made the morning news here, seems they overwork their staff and have a pretty high rate of mis-filling prescriptions, leading to some deaths when people take the wrong drug/dosage. There were other complaints as well, for example, pushing 90 day refills for powerful drugs that the doctor specifi...
[17:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UPS Buying Thousands of Electric Vans; Teaming Up with Waymo to Accelerate the Future of Delivery - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:42] <exec> 08└─Dogs chase ICE vehicles, cats chase electric (milk delivery) vans.
[17:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UPS Buying Thousands of Electric Vans; Teaming Up with Waymo to Accelerate the Future of Delivery - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:44] <exec> 08└─Read: "US burying thousands of electric vans." What kind of weird repurposing of a failed product launch into an energy storage scheme would that be?
[17:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Wants to Fine One Man Almost $13 Million for Making 6,000 Robocalls - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:01] <exec> 08└─Governments are slow learners. Politicians aren't exactly the best and brightest.
[17:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:58] <exec> 08└─Something is missing from the lab result: https://www.nejm.org [nejm.org]
[17:54:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Apple is Officially Done Rebuilding its Maps in the US - 401 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:08] <exec> 08└─Imagine that all that money and time and effort that Apple and Google put into their separate mapping systems had instead gone into openmaps or such. All that Energy/gas/diesel/hybrid could have been split between them with both of them benefitting..... .... imagine how smart that would have been: s...
[17:54:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 780 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:57] <exec> 08└─After the death of Boadicea, and the later invasions by the Angles, and the Danes, and Normans, no one has successfully invaded the British Isles. Spanish Armada? Fail. Did get the Dark Irish out of the deal. The Blitz, yeah, right, until Normandy (pay back for William). So once by sea, once by air,...
[17:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:19] <exec> 08└─It's simple. People should rule themselves. This would imply no government, but that of course does not work. In reality there are plenty who seek power over others and will happily hurt others to get ahead. The strongest of these sorts would eventually claim power and would become the defacto gover...
[17:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-On Smash: How Close Did They Come to Disaster? - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:47] <exec> 08└─The earliest satellite I remember seeing was in the 70's. It was bright enough to see in daylight, and took about 10 minutes to go from straight up to beyond the horizon. Don't know what it was, might have been skylab.
[17:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Satellites Just Avoided a Head-On Smash: How Close Did They Come to Disaster? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:48] <exec> 08└─Then of course, we could put a much more powerful array of lasers on the moon instead :)
[18:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Dependence Found to Permanently Change Brains of Rats - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:42] <exec> 08└─In general I do not disagree. You don't learn aerodynamics from zero without trying to mimic a bird, and probably catastrophically failing. The one major point I would emphasize is that it's not the negative results that concern me, it's the positive ones. When trying to fly, there's no real risk of...
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[18:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Impact" Statements Cut From UK Research Proposals - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:10] <exec> 08└─I agree that a well articulated impact is not an absolute requirement for "good" research, however, it would be useful to classify grant proposals into categories for their potential ROI. In another life where I'm in charge of everything, I'd allocate a fixed percentage (somewhere in the 5-25% range...
[18:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Impact" Statements Cut From UK Research Proposals - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:11] <exec> 08└─Be good to get rid of "this could lead to buncha bullshit nobody believes"
[18:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Impact" Statements Cut From UK Research Proposals - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:14] <exec> 08└─I don't think anybody says that "impact" should not be a funding criterion. But someone more objective than the scientists themselves has to evaluate it. That's why we have funding managers. There is a fundamental conflict of interest when people (including scientists) describe the importance of the...
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[18:52:16] <exec> 08└─I used to work in academia in the UK (the lesser known single by the Sex Pistols), in the course of setting up some computers for one research group, I idly asked what they were up to. After getting a potted version of their research, I sat, thought about it for a couple of minutes, and pointed out...
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[18:52:49] <exec> 08└─Or will be https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[18:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:06] <exec> 08└─When they attack similar protein targets, for example.
[18:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:07] <exec> 08└─So you have nothing to say.
[18:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:10] <exec> 08└─68% match? This just gets dumber. Parallel evolution can do that easy.
[18:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:32] <exec> 08└─The UK has three other world powers to horse trade with, if the EU gets pouty.
[18:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:33] <exec> 08└─Why is the world still here? I was promised brexit would be the end of the world. Kinda like how I was promised Trump would fire up the gas chambers. Its almost like the propaganda in the media is all a lie...
[18:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Something New at SoylentNews - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:56] <exec> 08└─"Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring." --Drew Curtis Have fun!
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[19:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iowa Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Men Hired to Test Their Security - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:38] <exec> 08└─As a poster above mentioned, the contract should probably clarify what that meant, though to me it meant something like "kick the door down" when I read the part above the fold. I guess I can see where the Sheriff was coming from on that point but it sure seems more like he was peeved at them for de...
[19:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03lars [4376] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iowa Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Men Hired to Test Their Security - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:39] <exec> 08└─I didn't RTFA. Pry bar could be used for something like pushing a door bolt out of the mortise, or fooling a door sensor.
[19:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UPS Buying Thousands of Electric Vans; Teaming Up with Waymo to Accelerate the Future of Delivery - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:52] <exec> 08└─Can suck a big fat egg for trying to say burning oil/gas is the only way to maintain civilization. Even if they burn oil/gas/coal to generate the electricity for these vehicles they are still more efficient!! Anti-science but totally capable of comprehending the science. Khallow, I can't even.
[19:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UPS Buying Thousands of Electric Vans; Teaming Up with Waymo to Accelerate the Future of Delivery - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:53] <exec> 08└─Is preemptive trolling the next thing?
[19:53:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Wants to Fine One Man Almost $13 Million for Making 6,000 Robocalls - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:13] <exec> 08└─This guy pissed off Uncle Sam so the hammer came down. He really hates looking bad. Now a legion of people in India who do this 24x7 for years on end scamming people get no punishment. I usually harass the Indians who call and you know the Chinese voicemail scams? Press a few buttons and a person wi...
[19:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple is Officially Done Rebuilding its Maps in the US - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:33] <exec> 08└─Google Maps Launch: 2005 Apple Maps Launch: 2012 I suspect both of these entities would rather burn cash than contribute to each other's bottom line regardless.
[19:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:38] <exec> 08└─Oh, and by the way - the London Stock Exchange is skyrocketing [lse.co.uk] now that Britain has regained its independence
[19:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Patient Operated On Using Mobile Phone Light - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:38] <exec> 08└─No, that's how you make bug zappers...
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[19:57:08] <exec> 08└─That's.... https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[19:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 1366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:24] <exec> 08└─Officers Ask Map App To Remove Police Tracking [npr.org] NYPD Demands Removal of DUI Checkpoints From Waze App, Google Refuses [soylentnews.org] Denver police radios go silent to the public as department switches to encrypted transmissions [denverpost.com] The Waze craze: Legal insight into LE conce...
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[19:59:25] <exec> 08└─You just won't get the policy solutions you want in the post-9/11 environment, unless you can successfully overthrow the government. Democratized technological solutions are possible. We've already seen how public smartphone recordings can put police officers in prison or exonerate their targets. Th...
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[20:52:24] <exec> 08└─It's good if academics take a hard look in the mirror while thinking about impacts of their work, but grants are not the place to do it. They have to do it on their own time. Grant applications are by their nature vehicles for self-promotion.
[20:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Direct Memory Access Attacks – A Walk Down Memory Lane - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:39] <exec> 08└─Then, just to make matters worse, just as the IOMMU becomes more commonly supported, Intel decides to implement the Management Engine that can bypass it and provide a nice and safe place to tuck a persistent threat into. And the cherry on top is that they designed systems so that if you disable the...
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[20:52:40] <exec> 08└─This Stackexchange posting gives an approachable overview: Stackexchange:Preventing DMA Attacks [stackexchange.com] Virtualisation of the hardware MMU [wikipedia.org] (Intel Vt-d, AMD AMD-Vi [wikipedia.org] can help, if configured correctly). So, if you want to prevent DMA attacks, having hardware...
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[20:53:06] <exec> 08└─Seems so. I'm assuming you made a comment somewhere that there wasn't a viable short term alternative to continuing to burn fossil fuels, or maybe that electric cars weren't as carbon friendly as people think? Fusion can't get here fast enough IMO.
[20:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UPS Buying Thousands of Electric Vans; Teaming Up with Waymo to Accelerate the Future of Delivery - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:08] <exec> 08└─A) not trolling B) just a continuation from the arguments he had made C) reality doesn't care about your feefees :D:);P Z) siddown, shaddup, let the adults finally have a decade to clean up the house before you shit on the carpets again.
[20:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UPS Buying Thousands of Electric Vans; Teaming Up with Waymo to Accelerate the Future of Delivery - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:10] <exec> 08└─Fusion is great and all but some AC says it'll boil off the oceans in a few hundred years
[20:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Wants to Fine One Man Almost $13 Million for Making 6,000 Robocalls - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:29] <exec> 08└─They do get punishment, but Indian state is weak and police and judiciary are stretched thinly [businesstoday.in]. Remember this when next time you hear about India doing this or that in the news. There is a good tv series about it : https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipe...
[20:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Wants to Fine One Man Almost $13 Million for Making 6,000 Robocalls - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:31] <exec> 08└─The Eighth Amendment bars excessive bail and fines and cruel and unusual punishment.
[20:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:31] <exec> 08└─it's not deactivated anyways, it's attenuated. there's a difference. this shit is called vaccine shedding. fucking slaves believe everything they are told. dumb fucks brain damage their own kids b/c some luciferian priest in a white robe says to. stupid fucks.
[20:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:33] <exec> 08└─I heard that a round yellow bear is running China.
[20:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:35] <exec> 08└─https://twitter.com/DarrenPlymouth/status/1223647176070508550 [twitter.com]
[20:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:37] <exec> 08└─Does it rhyme with Vitamin Gee?
[20:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:39] <exec> 08└─Khallow, if you can't read the evidence at the link and address it, there is no way anything type can help you. Please just leave me alone.
[20:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:41] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying you're right or wrong, I don't have enough information to know (if I don't know I don't claim to know), but do you have anything to back up your claims? Because you don't really seem to know that much about biology to refute the argument within the context that the argument is being m...
[20:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 1041 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:44] <exec> 08└─I want to be clear, I'm not taking any sides on this. I don't know enough about this to make any claims. Your answer is really not a good response. Different viruses with different genetic sequences may attach to the same antigens. To claim that huge DNA strands evolved independently of one another...
[20:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple is Officially Done Rebuilding its Maps in the US - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:05] <exec> 08└─apple should have just donated some resources to open street maps, but they can't do that because they are disgusting scum.
[20:55:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:54] <exec> 08└─*Brexit *The legality of actions taken by prime ministers
[20:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:11] <exec> 08└─i was originally in favor of brexit (from afar) so the brits would not be slaves to the EU, but now i wonder if this is just a run up to another jew slaughter of millions of Europeans in another world war. i'm also not overly optimistic the brits will be able to reclaim the UK from the invading hord...
[20:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:13] <exec> 08└─"Why did Britain fight a war against Germany 60 odd years ago?" Why did england instigate a war with their racial brothers/cousins? Because the International Jew told them to, because the Germans were getting independent from the International Jew banksters! Watch "Adolf Hitler: the Greatest Story N...
[20:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIDI 2.0 Released - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:49] <exec> 08└─When you are using MIDI in a larger venue, latency is a huge issue. Different length wires, daisy chaining, and the limited transfer speeds all make a difference. Sure, a single guy playing into a single controller feeding into a single synthesizer into a single amp assembly isn't going to notice. H...
[21:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anyone With a Security Camera and $5 Per Month Can Now Have a License Plate Reader - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:02] <exec> 08└─You could easily end up with files from the 20 GB hard drive era on your 10 TB hard drive if you were diligent enough in recopying them and backing them up. There is M-DISC/Syylex/etc. [wikipedia.org] today that can store data longer than usual. Within the next couple of decades, we should see consu...
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[21:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a $300 Projector Can Fool Tesla’s Autopilot - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:14] <exec> 08└─Help me get this straight, it now looks like Tesla (and other AV/Autonomous Vehicle suppliers) not only have to make sure that their AI figures out every possible combination of road and traffic, but they also have to figure out when some of it is spoofed--and this includes spoofing that has yet to...
[21:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a $300 Projector Can Fool Tesla’s Autopilot - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:16] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, I will continue to shine high powered lasers into the eyes of drivers and pilots.
[21:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UPS Buying Thousands of Electric Vans; Teaming Up with Waymo to Accelerate the Future of Delivery - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:11] <exec> 08└─This is a big win for the sustainable energy economy. UPS is the most serious player in the package delivery business, so with this scale of commitment they will blaze the trail for everyone else. Of course, they are feeling Amazon nipping at their heels, but be that as it may it's a big win. After...
[21:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UPS Buying Thousands of Electric Vans; Teaming Up with Waymo to Accelerate the Future of Delivery - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:12] <exec> 08└─Looks more like trolling by proxy. Im in hiz hedbukkitz, likkin hiz meemz.
[21:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:42] <exec> 08└─Other information that would be useful would be expected target variability and the expected relationship between target variability vs DNA variability. Presumably mutations that would be selected for would be those that would help the virus evade the immune system so it would be those that change t...
[21:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:43] <exec> 08└─2 WEEK GESTATION MIDDLE AGED PEOPLE *DROPPING DEAD* STAYCATION ADVISED NOT DRILL I WAS KIDDING BEFORE ABOUT NOT BELIEVING ANYTHING YOU READ ONLINE BUT I AM NOT NOW these systems failing etc etc but if reading the tome that is my website helps you stay indoors i am doing my part (always welcome to he...
[21:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:46] <exec> 08└─https://archive.is/LmXcF [archive.is] wth am i looking at
[21:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:48] <exec> 08└─When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
[21:55:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 2069 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:50] <exec> 08└─I see your point of view, and understand the basis of your arguments. There are arguments to be had of the level of accountability within the EU bureaucracy, but the plain fact is that the EU budget is roughly 148 x 109 Euro, whereas the total budgets of the member states is 7.52 x 1012 Euro - so th...
[21:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:18] <exec> 08└─Saddle up time.
[21:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:19] <exec> 08└─Specifically what were your problems with the EU rules that will be fixed now that you will be ruled by Eton/Oxford heirs and landowners?
[21:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:21] <exec> 08└─Article 50. Your point is a lie.
[21:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:23] <exec> 08└─Show me a specific citation of what you claim, strawman. On the other hand, Death Panels were a real thing. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:26] <exec> 08└─"Trump is at least doing a decent job at trying to curtail the hordes of orcs pouring in." He isn't doing that good a job of it if you're still here.
[21:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:28] <exec> 08└─"Democrats are getting especially bad on this front as the party becomes more insular and homogeneous." ???? There are many things I could accuse the Democrats of being but insular or homogeneous are not among them.
[21:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:30] <exec> 08└─Trump won the Republican nomination and election despite the uniform opposition of the Establishment. He has since survived multiple attempts by that same Establishment to remove him from office. He is an attempt by a portion of the electorate to depose the corrupt system. The jury is still out on w...
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[22:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Now Pay Up to $20k for Xbox Live Security Exploits - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:16] <exec> 08└─HAHAHAHA, FUCK YOU you sick bastards.
[22:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a $300 Projector Can Fool Tesla’s Autopilot - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:24] <exec> 08└─There are a million things that can cause a human driver problems as well. That's no reason to ban human drivers. We need to make sure that AP is safer than humans overall.
[22:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Impact" Statements Cut From UK Research Proposals - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:36] <exec> 08└─As specialized as we all have become, any research sufficiently advanced as to be worth funding is quite likely to be incomprehensible to those even a little bit outside the direct field....
[22:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Impact" Statements Cut From UK Research Proposals - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:38] <exec> 08└─I especially liked my friend's PhD thesis topic which was to design a robotic bird feeder that tracked the center of mass of a group of hens and threw feed at them. No secondary use for that technology that I can think of....
[22:53:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UPS Buying Thousands of Electric Vans; Teaming Up with Waymo to Accelerate the Future of Delivery - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:24] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, maybe not fusion specifically, but exponentially increasing power generation/usage comes with a very real planetary heat dissipation problem long term if we don't want to follow in Venus's footsteps.
[22:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UPS Buying Thousands of Electric Vans; Teaming Up with Waymo to Accelerate the Future of Delivery - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:26] <exec> 08└─Sony and Boston Robotics have that covered.
[22:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple is Officially Done Rebuilding its Maps in the US - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:20] <exec> 08└─Imagine your rival company giving away the results of hundreds of millions of dollars in investments for free. I would definitely be waiting to drive my rivals out of business by taking advantage of their generous donations. >mutual That word doesn't mean what you think it means. Private companies a...
[22:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:36] <exec> 08└─This is a sharp reversal for the Post-War Consensus in Europe. The EU was meant to be an additional counterweight to the Soviet Union, an equal partner with the US in promoting Western democracy, freedom, and capitalism in the world. And here we are, with the whole project seeming to come undone bec...
[22:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:38] <exec> 08└─Russia / US induced crisis in the middle east -> millions of refugees -> disharmony in EU. I'm not sure they saw this ahead of time, but it certainly worked to destabilize the EU. Thinking about it, it happened to the Soviet Union so they perhaps knew. And perhaps the US encouraged that in the first...
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[23:52:34] <exec> 08└─Agreed. The current model for success in science requires HEAVY bullshit and HEAVY screwing over the workers. To be a success you need to stop doing the work and start writing the bullshit. Then bring in (Chinese of course*) graduate students who are on the hook to fulfill the... scratch that, who c...
[23:53:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Wants to Fine One Man Almost $13 Million for Making 6,000 Robocalls - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:44] <exec> 08└─Define excessive
[23:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:37] <exec> 08└─"Some of these orcs are very good people." Racists for 2020! Who keeds democracy when you just cheat, lie, and steal your way in? Republicans are so fucking dumb destroying everything they believe in (supposedly) just to win a goddamn pony show.