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[00:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a $300 Projector Can Fool Tesla’s Autopilot - 2341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:33] <exec> 08└─In another experiment, researchers painted a large mural of a tunnel entrance on a wall . Approximately 1/3 of the self-drive cars tested failed to stop crashed into the wall, 1/3 drove at speed towards the image but apparently passed through the 'tunnel' unharmed and 1/3 were crushed by an unfeasib...
[00:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Impact" Statements Cut From UK Research Proposals - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:49] <exec> 08└─Multiple grenades thrown at a group of soldiers .... nah unpossible.
[00:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Memory Access Attacks – A Walk Down Memory Lane - 1415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:53:05] <exec> 08└─Sort of but not really. That's more about the CPU communicating with a channel controller, which then gives some device access to the channel (bus). In the PC, the CPU does this directly most of the time. But to allow the CPU to do more important CPU work rather than sit waiting for some external th...
[00:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Wants to Fine One Man Almost $13 Million for Making 6,000 Robocalls - 2923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:00] <exec> 08└─Funny how you got modded offtopic. I've seen that happen to more than one person in the last few days that was totally 100% on topic. Anyhoo, I can't say that I disagree with you more actually. My problem is that the punishment doesn't fit the crime. Anytime government fines an ordinary individual u...
[00:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Wants to Fine One Man Almost $13 Million for Making 6,000 Robocalls - 1570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:02] <exec> 08└─100,000 times your disposable income, or several dozen times your lifetime potential earnings. Basically any financial penalty that is over a fraction of their yearly earnings, or that which can be reasonably garnished from wages. That would be excessive as a fine. Restitution can involve the seizin...
[00:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:13] <exec> 08└─So you don't know enough to be having this conversation? Then why are you still here? At this point, there's no evidence to support anything other than a natural source. Your doubts are irrelevant to me. Show evidence not these silly games.
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[00:56:08] <exec> 08└─NYC is horribly overpriced and has major infrastructure problems
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[01:52:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:08] <exec> 08└─Now to get rid of single use plastic like the "No right to repair" iPads, etc. Amiright?
[01:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:09] <exec> 08└─At least Britain will no longer be subject to such tyranny! After Brexit, Britishers will be able to have as many incompatible charging cords as corporations want them to have! Tyrannically obligatory xkcd. [xkcd.com]
[01:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:11] <exec> 08└─If you have one of the older chromebooks (or laptops, for that matter), is there a way to make a little circuit board to convert/adapt those to charge via USB-C with the "Power Delivery" option, even if it charges really slowly? If I'm planning to recharge my laptop/chromebook overnight, leave it pl...
[01:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, any hobbyist power supply kit should be possible to make do the job, but it won't look professional.
[01:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:16] <exec> 08└─Just get a new system. The charger on my previous one started to fail, so I picked up a Lenovo 100e that was superior in every way, less than $100, and has a USB-C charger.
[01:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:18] <exec> 08└─Black Friday special? They're a little pricier now. I'm also looking for these for other people and maybe for schools too.
[01:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kymation [1047] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:20] <exec> 08└─Most modern phones charge from 5 Volts DC, so all you need is an adapter for the connector(s) you need to use. I charge Apple iPhones and Android devices that use USB C and Mini-A connectors from the same cable (Which is USB C). I bought an adapter kit that has all of these and more. Works well for...
[01:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Now Pay Up to $20k for Xbox Live Security Exploits - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:29] <exec> 08└─I'm sure working exploits are worth far more on the open market. Think of all those credit cards registered to the boxes. That's like the guy who stood up in the movie theatre and said "I just lost my wallet with $100 in it. I'll pay a $20 reward. Immediately someone else said "I'll pay $40." Not...
[01:52:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Impact" Statements Cut From UK Research Proposals - 4115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:55] <exec> 08└─I've had an NSF proposal funded a few years ago and I've submitted a few proposals to NOAA. I definitely agree with reducing the size of these proposals. For NSF, the statement of work has an upper limit of 15 pages. In practice, most proposals in my field have a 15 page statement of work. Then you...
[01:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Wants to Fine One Man Almost $13 Million for Making 6,000 Robocalls - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:09] <exec> 08└─These fines are assessed per call and each call is a crime. It's not our fault he did so many crimes. Or should the fines for identity theft, serious assault, kidnapping, grand theft auto, etc. be reduced because you happen to do it to multiple people before being caught?
[01:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:22] <exec> 08└─So you can't summarize what's at that link? Sounds to me like there's no evidence then.
[01:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:03] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, the "Colour" revolutions [wikipedia.org]? Velvet in Czechoslovakia, Rose in Georgia, Orange in Ukraine, Yellow in the Phillipines, Saffron in Myanmar, Green in Iran; What colour is Brexit? Oh, yes, of course, White! All brought to you by alphabet organizations.
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[02:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:34] <exec> 08└─like the "No right to repair" iPads, etc.
[02:52:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:36] <exec> 08└─Micro Center had them for $80 [slickdeals.net]. The new hotness is the $200 [slickdeals.net]-$300 [slickdeals.net] Motile from Walmart, which has received a lot of attention lately. I just checked, it doesn't use a USB-C charger. Other interesting options can appear in the $100-$200 range, like lapt...
[02:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Wants to Fine One Man Almost $13 Million for Making 6,000 Robocalls - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:27] <exec> 08└─But - I NEVER get to use my sword! Look at it, sharp as sharp can be, polished until you can see the grain of the metal, a beautiful matte gray color, and I can never use it. This is one reason we need to get into space, where I can kill aliens!
[02:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 1885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:42] <exec> 08└─I'm not really defending the source. I'm just pointing out that you haven't really done a good job refuting it. "At this point, there's no evidence to support anything other than a natural source." The source claims to have evidence. You haven't really provided an argument otherwise. Not saying ther...
[02:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 1412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:44] <exec> 08└─I know the difference. IIRC, they generally give deactivated viruses to the general public, generally the only people that get the live attenuated viruses are certain healthcare workers. It depends on what the vaccine is for and on the situation. When they do give live vaccines it's only to healthy...
[02:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:46] <exec> 08└─I'm not really defending the source. I'm just pointing out that you haven't really done a good job refuting it.
[02:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:48] <exec> 08└─compared to live and deactivated ones *
[02:57:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:30] <exec> 08└─This is what Putin wants. The EU in chaos, the U.S. in chaos, and the UK in chaos.
[02:57:31] <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
[02:57:32] <exec> 08└─Your stupid example would be more like London leaving the UK, than UK leaving the EU. Once the USA-UK trade deals go through, the EU will be begging for scraps. Suck on it, communist scum.
[02:57:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:34] <exec> 08└─You are the one being disingenous. Sure there is a clause stating you can leave. But the EU made it very clear with its threats that there would be a very high price to pay (literally) if you dare invoke your right to do so. All this was done because the UK was the first country to have experienced...
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[03:52:27] <exec> 08└─like the "No right to repair" iPads, etc.
[03:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UPS Buying Thousands of Electric Vans; Teaming Up with Waymo to Accelerate the Future of Delivery - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:51] <exec> 08└─Hi! Even if they burn oil/gas/coal to generate the electricity for these vehicles they are still more efficient!!
[03:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 1754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:36] <exec> 08└─"This whole exercise is about attracting eyeballs to that website. " Attracting eyeballs to a website is very different than defending it. There is a difference between discussing and entertaining an idea you either disagree with or don't have a strong opinion on and defending it. To claim otherwise...
[03:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:38] <exec> 08└─Attracting eyeballs to a website is very different than defending it.
[03:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:40] <exec> 08└─Again, not my website, not my argument. I never said I agree with the website. "Who are you to define what a good job responding is? " I explained my reasoning (see the difference. My arguments have reasoning and show that I actually understand biology at least somewhat unlike you). I'll let the rea...
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[03:57:25] <exec> 08└─Meghan got her trophy husband and now can go back to acting. With her increased profile, anything house husband Harry supposedly owes the Commonwealth taxpayer is equivalent to the paycheck of her next movie. Tl;dr who cares?
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[04:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineered Honeybee Gut Bacteria Could Help Fight the Varroa Mite - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:11] <exec> 08└─I am not sure about this. Bees are one of few insects that managed to coexist/collaborate with humans. You know, unlike mosquitoes.
[04:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineered Honeybee Gut Bacteria Could Help Fight the Varroa Mite - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:12] <exec> 08└─There are other questions that abound. How do Humans do with this bacteria in their gut? I mean, if we're going to be eating honey, or if the bees land in our vicinity, or -- the list goes on. How do birds do? How do other bugs fair with this bacteria? will other small animals' food sources be deple...
[04:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:29] <exec> 08└─The EU might have only 2% of the budgets of their member countries, but here's an example of the crap they pull - telling 400 million people what sort of chargers they may have. Don't these guys have something important to do? Or if they don't, maybe they could just go golfing for the rest of the ye...
[04:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:30] <exec> 08└─The European Parliament (EP) just voted 582 to 40 to require one standard for chargers for all mobile phones.
[04:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How a $300 Projector Can Fool Tesla’s Autopilot - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:52:50] <exec> 08└─You're missing the fucking point. We can very easily make AI safer than humans overall. I say easily, as in it will be accomplished. The real problem not being expressed is that the AI is gullible as fuck. In most ideal cases the AI can assume that there isn't malicious actors present attempting to...
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[04:53:07] <exec> 08└─Broader impact statements aren't written the way a lot of commenters here would think. Here [gatech.edu] are some examples posted by Georgia Tech. In many cases, the broader impacts focus on how the proposal will support outreach activities and the benefits of those specific outreach activities. Rea...
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[05:52:35] <exec> 08└─The EU is a socialist utopia where everyone lives in harmony sharing one USB type C charger. Then along comes Timmy from Cupertino getting all uppity asking if anyone has a cable for his iJizz. Fuck Apple.
[05:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:49] <exec> 08└─The article you link to just talks about high mutation rates (and ranges) but that doesn't really tell me what I should expect in terms of making the relevant comparisons. Even your response (well, it could be ten years later, who knows) suggests to me that we really have no link here. (BTW, I'm the...
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[06:52:15] <exec> 08└─A place with no love... only authority and obedience You know what China did to all those pigs that got that swine fever, right? Considering the kind of government they have, I don't doubt that half the population will suffer the same fate. It's a domestic issue, so don't you dare criticize them, or...
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[06:55:56] <exec> 08└─Again, not my website, not my argument. I never said I agree with the website.
[06:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:58] <exec> 08└─Then you can actually get stuff done in the office while s/he's out. Sounds like a double bonus to me.
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[07:52:12] <exec> 08└─You swine! We come get you, take you to Chinese restaurant, turn you into longpig. You make no more disrespectful posts any more!
[07:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:13] <exec> 08└─"Honey, you should sell your American Airlines stock, and buy Qantas, or Quantum, or whatever the hell." "Why?" "Because coronavirus." "But, what does that have to do with stock?" "Well, American says "We understand quarantine, but, MONEY!" The Qants from Qantumland say, "Shut things down, boys, we...
[07:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:15] <exec> 08└─Eat the soup, bigot. Yes, that soup.
[07:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:52:17] <exec> 08└─I know you can't seem to accept it, but you're not funny.
[07:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Impact" Statements Cut From UK Research Proposals - 3001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:20] <exec> 08└─I understand your point that outreach might not be the best use of time. Alternatively, scientists could be required to disseminate preprints and that peer-reviewed journal articles be published with immediate open access. I'm not altogether opposed to eliminating impact statements, but bloat needs...
[07:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Direct Memory Access Attacks – A Walk Down Memory Lane - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:53:38] <exec> 08└─SCSI is effectively the same thing as an IBM mainframe channel controller. The SCSI controller uses the DMA to move data into/out of memory - not just the disk contents - in some cases, it can use DMA to fetch the SCSI instructions to the disk controller, and return information on the outcome of per...
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[08:52:11] <exec> 08└─Jews in the upper-ranks are not safe to fly in.
[08:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A350 Engine Shutdown Incidents Linked to Cockpit Drink Spills - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:13] <exec> 08└─Anyone remembers those Hall effect magnetic keyboards on ancient mainframe consoles?
[08:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A350 Engine Shutdown Incidents Linked to Cockpit Drink Spills - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:15] <exec> 08└─"My pilot was drinking and driving."
[08:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A350 Engine Shutdown Incidents Linked to Cockpit Drink Spills - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:17] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they shouldn't allow drinks in the cockpit during ETOPS flights.
[08:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:29] <exec> 08└─I know that I can't compare to congress. Every joke they tell becomes a law, and every law they pass is a joke. Stolen from Will Rogers, or Buck Rogers, or some such.
[08:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:30] <exec> 08└─That's a little better. Try a bit more conservative shtick next time, though.
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[08:52:32] <exec> 08└─https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/health-safety/queenslands-premier-demands-government-ban-china-flights-after-tenth-australian-case-confirmed/news-story/6006599d9ddfef68bcc01890a2f0156a [news.com.au] New Zealand joins a growing list of countries to ban travellers from China after Austra...
[08:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:52:59] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that that only happened due to previous action by the European Parliament.
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[09:52:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe they should tighten them up.
[09:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:00] <exec> 08└─Right to repair is a point in the EU's Green Deal, agreed in principle last November, and to be put into law coming March.
[09:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:53:01] <exec> 08└─How many different chargers do you have at home? Multiply times 400 million, subtract 400 million, result is reduction in number of chargers, only for the EU. As other economies tend to follow a standard set by such a large and rich market, multiply times (size of world population, in millions / 400...
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[09:56:16] <exec> 08└─Why is this not +5 insightful..
[09:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:56:18] <exec> 08└─So funny, so true, so sad.
[09:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Brexit: UK Quits EU at 23:00 GMT, as Prime Minister Promises 'New Dawn' - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:03] <exec> 08└─The EU meant as a counterweight to the Soviet-Union is kind of hard to imagine, as the Soviet-Union had been dissolved by the time ...
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[10:52:35] <exec> 08└─"Compared to them I’m an amateur, and the thing about my jokes is that they don’t hurt anybody. You can say they’re not funny or they’re terrible or they’re good or whatever it is, but they don’t do no harm. But with Congress — every time they make a joke it’s a law. And every time t...
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[10:52:45] <exec> 08└─That's only because they pollinate food and shit candy!
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[11:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A350 Engine Shutdown Incidents Linked to Cockpit Drink Spills - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:23] <exec> 08└─t is not water what destroys true keyboards, it is sugar and stuff
[11:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:39] <exec> 08└─What? Someone modded one of my comments as a troll for saying exactly this - ban passengers from China - only a couple of days ago.
[11:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:41] <exec> 08└─This one bans *all* passengers including chinks, kikes, Australians and niggers so it isn't racist since it treats everyone the same... extra SJW points for inclusivity!
[11:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineered Honeybee Gut Bacteria Could Help Fight the Varroa Mite - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:52:51] <exec> 08└─All jars of honey must now state "may contain Engineered Gut Bacteria". That'll be great for sales, especially among the anti-vax crowd.
[11:53:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:14] <exec> 08└─That's not how it will work. I'm a Brexiter but recognise that the EU do some good things - sometimes. The phonemakers are not going to make phones specially with incompatible connectors just for the UK or any other particular nation - we will get them with the standardised connector too. And even i...
[11:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:15] <exec> 08└─What's your problem with this? Maybe you get a thrill from owning a large box of incompatible chargers for all the different gadgets you have. I have a box of about 20 - and that's only the ones in current use - I have an even bigger box of redundant ones. Or maybe you find it fun to use that labell...
[11:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Impact" Statements Cut From UK Research Proposals - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:53:53] <exec> 08└─Another thing to fix is streamlining the proposal process. As the OP points out, a ridiculous amount of time is wasted on writing grant proposals. What they don't point out is what this leads to, many, many grant proposal for ten to a hundred times what it really costs because just it's not worth wr...
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[12:52:16] <exec> 08└─So this is why hardware is still so expensive
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[12:52:33] <exec> 08└─Unworkable solution. Flights go on for 4, 8, 12 hours. Pilots have to hydrate if not eat, sleep, etc. They can't nessesarily leave the cabin anymore due to post 9/11 protocols. Short of it is you're going to need drinks in the cabin.
[12:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:52] <exec> 08└─Banning passengers from China isn't racist, not with the situation ongoing now and not with their reasons for doing so. They aren't banning passengers because they're Chinese (now *that* would be racist), but because China is the epicentre of the current coronavirus epidemic. If you cannot understan...
[12:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:52:53] <exec> 08└─I have strongly suspected for a long time now that to be a social justice warrior or on the hard left you need to be both a troll and a racist and optionally a bigot
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[12:52:55] <exec> 08└─so, basically, muslim.
[12:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:53:28] <exec> 08└─Wrong! Apple has engineered in functionality to disable charging if the charger doesn't return the proper verification codes, which only Apple-branded chargers can do, because their device require properly certified iElectrons to work as intended.
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[12:58:33] <exec> 08└─You pointed out an example of the type of thinking the pro EU fanatics do. They tend to think the EU is something that has been aroubd for much longer than it actually has. They literally can't imagine a world without it which leads them to outbursts of anguish when Brexit happens.
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[13:52:37] <exec> 08└─I have a keyboard from UNISCOPE 100 device somewhere around here, originally a console unit from discarded U90/30 mainframe. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It's TTL logic, and still works with a crafted Arduino controller. Those machines (Sperry Univac U90/30 and U90/60 mainf...
[13:53:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:31] <exec> 08└─Don't all phone chargers have USB-A output these days? Only the phone end of the cable is different.
[13:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iowa Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Men Hired to Test Their Security - 3025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:40] <exec> 08└─The problem wasn't doubt about the purposes of the intruders. The cops got that all sorted out, contacting officials to verify that the intruders weren't making up a story. Things got weird when the sheriff decided to play lawyer and come up with his own dubious interpretations of clauses in the con...
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[14:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06DOD Launches Swarming Drone in Test of C-130 “Drone Mothership” Concept - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:14] <exec> 08└─They'll get their 72 virgins faster with this new technology.
[14:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DOD Launches Swarming Drone in Test of C-130 “Drone Mothership” Concept - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:15] <exec> 08└─Something about the word "swarming" makes me think small. These are fairly large drones. Watching the video, near the end, you see two people docking one of them. If scale is correct in the animation, the drones are more than ten feet long, and maybe three feet wide. These aren't going to be especia...
[14:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indiana University's Big Red 200 Supercomputer to Use Next-Generation Nvidia GPUs - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:24] <exec> 08└─I just (basically yesterday) installed a GeForce RTX 2060 (plus the required power supply upgrade) - impressive specs: 1920 processors, 6GB of high bandwidth RAM, $350. In the process of installing the software stack (Keras/TensorFlow/Docker/Ubuntu) before I can crank it up and see how much it warms...
[14:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A350 Engine Shutdown Incidents Linked to Cockpit Drink Spills - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:42] <exec> 08└─That IS interesting. They were backdoored? If not, why would the Navy sell them? If so, why would those regimes buy them? Either way, how did the Navy get the buyers to trust them?
[14:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A350 Engine Shutdown Incidents Linked to Cockpit Drink Spills - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:43] <exec> 08└─"My pilot was drinking and diving." FIFY
[14:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 1356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:39] <exec> 08└─Do you have a problem with AC sockets being standardized too? Perhaps you prefer to have Apple sockets for your Apple equipment, Sony sockets for Sony euqipment, Philips sockers for Philips equipment, and so on, each with their own pin arrangement, voltage and frequency? The EU is not telling people...
[14:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Impact" Statements Cut From UK Research Proposals - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:18] <exec> 08└─IDK about your pottery analysts, but around here a skilled man-year costs our corporation about $200K, $400K if they're a consultant without benefits or continued employment expectations ($100K if they're an intern not expected to produce anything valuable in the majority if cases...) Factor in the...
[14:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, actually I wonder if itd be worthwhile to see how well all the elements of the standard blood panel can predict plasma vitamin C levels. There has got to be some way to get these people to test for it in one of these patients.
[14:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062019-nCoV Coronavirus Story Roundup - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:04] <exec> 08└─Blood test results of one of the coronavirus patients in the US, that is conspicuously missing vitamin C levels which are almost surely below 30 uM, and probably closer to 10 uM in the patients that become severely ill.
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[14:57:06] <exec> 08└─I agree with you, this is speculative. The even bigger assumption this explanation rests on is that China was vaccinating people for SARS, we have no reports of that.
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[15:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:11] <exec> 08└─Does this mean that space based solar arrays can become two sided for a 25% output boost?
[15:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:13] <exec> 08└─It sounds like a good fit, spacecraft already have to radiate heat anyway so getting power from doing so could make sense. I thought about the feasibility of making two sided arrays and flipping them for daytime vs nighttime use on Earth. Same general idea, although I wouldn't want a bunch of flipp...
[15:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:15] <exec> 08└─Nope. Shipping to orbit is so expensive that you'll generally go with the high-end efficient solar panels of at 30+% efficiency. You also get almost 40% more sunlight reaching the panel without the atmosphere in the the way. Combined, you're generating at least 1400Winsolation * 30%(?) efficiency =...
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[15:52:24] <exec> 08└─a bee hive briefly, that view looked quite a bit like looking at the cloud of bees buzzing around the chink in the mortar that let them get between the floors in my house. (Fortunately the bees moved on before the bee removal guys showed up. I felt happy, but vaguely snubbed.)
[15:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A350 Engine Shutdown Incidents Linked to Cockpit Drink Spills - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:52] <exec> 08└─"you're going to need drinks in the cabin" Either a Camelback and/or sippycup ought to do it. No reason for Airbus to go out of their way to put in cupholders.
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[15:52:53] <exec> 08└─A more realistic solution would be to require pilots to use cups that seal themselves when not in use. I picked up a couple of them at costco a while back for $20 for the pair. It's impossible to spill more than a few drops without keeping the button purposefully pressed. It's just a simple spring m...
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[15:53:50] <exec> 08└─As you indicate, the right move is to only have different chargers when there needs are too different to safely work from the same port and power supply. In the meantime you can reduce that a bit by using ziplock bags labeled with index cards to keep them from being tangled. I also tend to label the...
[15:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a $300 Projector Can Fool Tesla’s Autopilot - 1439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:10] <exec> 08└─This is dumb. We've become hyper-conservative with regards to technology. Think about the immense damage one could cause by simply placing a large rock on a highway street at night. Or imagine all the countless ways you could cause immense harm toying with electric lines. And you don't need some abs...
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[16:52:16] <exec> 08└─1) Sounds like pie in the sky before it even starts. It "could make up to" but they haven't yet made one that does anywhere near that. 2) I'm not at all sure about the physics - because the NIGHT SKY is almost zero Kelvin... you're going to get energy by emitting heat to it? But... you're not in the...
[16:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:18] <exec> 08└─Yay, let's add thermal resistance to the dissipation path! Engineers are going to love that.
[16:52:19] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:20] <exec> 08└─you're going to get energy by emitting heat to it?
[16:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:22] <exec> 08└─2) I'm not at all sure about the physics - because the NIGHT SKY is almost zero Kelvin... you're going to get energy by emitting heat to it? But... you're not in the night sky. Unless you're inside space.
[16:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:24] <exec> 08└─no additional structure
[16:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indiana University's Big Red 200 Supercomputer to Use Next-Generation Nvidia GPUs - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:41] <exec> 08└─What's your use case for machine learning? Also, they just cut the price to $300 [anandtech.com].
[16:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indiana University's Big Red 200 Supercomputer to Use Next-Generation Nvidia GPUs - 1916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:42] <exec> 08└─They're always cutting the price... The main case for machine learning is "everybody's doing it, how can we do it too?" (I think the corporate speak is something to the effect of: leverage emerging technologies to deliver best in class state of the art performance in our products.) To that end, we h...
[16:53:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A350 Engine Shutdown Incidents Linked to Cockpit Drink Spills - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:05] <exec> 08└─Even cheap ass Chevrolet puts a console beside the driver's seat to hold your drinks.
[16:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A350 Engine Shutdown Incidents Linked to Cockpit Drink Spills - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:06] <exec> 08└─If pilots can’t leave the cabin then they’d better not drink - you’d never guess what happens a couple of hours later.
[16:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:27] <exec> 08└─I've been stocking up on anti-vital drugs to be prepared.
[16:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:29] <exec> 08└─What's an anti-vital drug? Pramipexole?
[16:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:31] <exec> 08└─A troll, a racist, and a bigot walked into a bar... The bartender said "Hi Hillary, Obama, and Epstein!"
[16:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 1544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:08] <exec> 08└─This seems 15 years late to me, and like we went to the brink of civil war and economic catastrophe, billions spent on legal fees, so that we can decide that there must be a single cell phone charger design in just europe. (that the rest of the world will then adapt because everyone besides corporat...
[16:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:10] <exec> 08└─The phonemakers are not going to make phones specially with incompatible connectors just for the UK or any other particular nation
[16:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Wants to Fine One Man Almost $13 Million for Making 6,000 Robocalls - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:09] <exec> 08└─So $2000 would be ok?
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[17:52:07] <exec> 08└─It's good to know V2 will keep going a little longer. Good work NASA!
[17:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Voyager 2 Returning to Normal Operation - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:08] <exec> 08└─Indeed. And another vindication for nuclear power sources. The ignorance of the population to how *astounding* human knowledge of nuclear physics, is quite sad...
[17:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Voyager 2 Returning to Normal Operation - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:10] <exec> 08└─Latest signal - "It's VGER to you, puny human infestations. Prepare to die!"
[17:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Voyager 2 Returning to Normal Operation - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:13] <exec> 08└─New Horizons is going to be a crazy demonstration of how far we can operate away from Earth. It could still be directed towards at least one additional target in the Kuiper belt, using a small amount of hydrazine to adjust course. But the targets have to be discovered by Earth telescopes first. Ther...
[17:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 1453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:28] <exec> 08└─"That's how thermodynamic machines work: You have a temperature difference and use that to extract energy from the warmer reservoir (in this case, the heat surrounding it), but it only can work if some energy is given to the colder reservoir (in this case, the night sky)." It's easy for me to see ho...
[17:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:29] <exec> 08└─In this case, not so much.
[17:52:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:31] <exec> 08└─This is how ancient Egyptians and ancient Persians made ice [fieldstudyoftheworld.com]. p 41, Icehouses, Tim Buxbaum [google.co.uk] New insight on passive ice making and seasonal storage of the Iranian Yakhchal and their potential for contemporary applications (Hareth Pochee, John Gunstone, Oliver W...
[17:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indiana University's Big Red 200 Supercomputer to Use Next-Generation Nvidia GPUs - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:51] <exec> 08└─They're always cutting the price...
[17:53:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] 02 - 06A350 Engine Shutdown Incidents Linked to Cockpit Drink Spills - 553 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:09] <exec> 08└─I have a keyboard from UNISCOPE 100 device somewhere around here, originally a console unit from discarded U90/30 mainframe. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It's TTL logic, and still works with a crafted Arduino controller. Those machines (Sperry Univac U90/30 and U90/60 mainf...
[17:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:53:39] <exec> 08└─Da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na Bat - SOUP! Da-na-na-na-na-na-na-na Bat - SOUP!
[17:55:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Iowa Prosecutors Drop Charges Against Men Hired to Test Their Security - 327 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:26] <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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[18:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Voyager 2 Returning to Normal Operation - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but the astronauts on Voyager died a long time ago of radiation poisoning, you stupid pro-nuker!!
[18:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Voyager 2 Returning to Normal Operation - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:21] <exec> 08└─The ignorance of the population to how *astounding* human knowledge of nuclear physics, is quite sad...
[18:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:39] <exec> 08└─How does this concept not violate the 2nd law of thermodynamics? I understand the part where you create a voltage differential by thermal radiation, but how does that generate power? Since the device itself is radiating, it is a net power drain, not a power source. Sounds to me they're describing a...
[18:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:41] <exec> 08└─Another successful project from University of Transylvania's nighttime physics department.
[18:52:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:43] <exec> 08└─Been there, done that, and yes, it's a powerful force, but it seems to be what I would expect from the air temperature, not what I would expect from "outer space." The difference is not insignificant.
[18:53:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A350 Engine Shutdown Incidents Linked to Cockpit Drink Spills - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:27] <exec> 08└─I guess before 2000 it would have been sufficient to run the system disconnected from the Internet and run a couple of random check jobs to see if the machine could be trusted.
[18:53:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A350 Engine Shutdown Incidents Linked to Cockpit Drink Spills - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:29] <exec> 08└─I have seen waterproofing fail in keyboards/buttons due to human stupidity: 1. Using a non waterproofed connector when the application needed it waterproofed, this was in two varieties as being the keyboard connector not waterproofed (solution taken, change the keyboard to one with the correct conne...
[18:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:54] <exec> 08└─Buying stock in perpetually bankrupt American airlines (small a) seems as smart as buying Sears if you are not Lampert.
[18:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:55] <exec> 08└─https://twitter.com/misterantibully [twitter.com]
[18:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:37] <exec> 08└─Standardization is great, and the industry already seemed headed for USB-C, but is codifying a requirement really the best way to do this? If it was just power, that's cool, but USB does a lot more than transmit power, if there's discovered to be a vulnerability in the core design and everyone is st...
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[19:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:09] <exec> 08└─I always hated dealing with certain types in my career. From the article: He sounded really confused, so we said goodbye and I hung up the phone.
[19:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:42] <exec> 08└─This cannot generate enough power to justify constructing anything to use it... unless a framework was already built. It could be combined with existing solar farms to generate power at night. Perhaps put it on shutters that close over the photovoltaic at night then open in morning
[19:52:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I kinda/sorta get how this works but I don't know if I would call it a photovoltaic cell either? IIRC, they had an article similar to this in the past on Soylentnews (or was it the other site?) but I'm too lazy to search for it.
[19:52:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:45] <exec> 08└─They wouldn't work in space. They work on the heat difference between the ambient environment and the radiant temperature of the sky. Without the ambient heat flowing into the back side, power output would drop to zero at the temperature equalised. They might be useful in tropical cities, as they ar...
[19:52:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:47] <exec> 08└─oh no you diiieeennn!
[19:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:50] <exec> 08└─Compare going outside on two windless nights, both with air temperatures of 10C. One night with clear skies, one with clouds. The difference is significant.
[19:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:52] <exec> 08└─The "ambient environment" on the warm side would be the solar panels themselves - which might well be considerably warmer than they would be on Earth since they're big dark panels that can only shed energy through radiant cooling. Even if the solar panels are 30% efficient, that still leaves 70% of...
[19:52:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 1304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:54] <exec> 08└─> 2) I'm not at all sure about the physics - because the NIGHT SKY is almost zero Kelvin... you're going to get energy by emitting heat to it? But... you're not in the night sky. Unless you're inside space. In which case this is an expensive and inefficient solution, requiring you to emit heat into...
[19:53:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Indiana University's Big Red 200 Supercomputer to Use Next-Generation Nvidia GPUs - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:15] <exec> 08└─what a skank...
[19:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A350 Engine Shutdown Incidents Linked to Cockpit Drink Spills - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:41] <exec> 08└─Didn't any of those bozos watch "Fate is the HUnter"?
[19:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:09] <exec> 08└─https://www.infowars.com/coronavirus-contains-hiv-insertions-stoking-fears-over-artificially-created-bioweapon/ [infowars.com]
[19:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe this? https://www.harborfreight.com [harborfreight.com]
[19:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:53] <exec> 08└─For laptops, the USB-C power port shouldn't take in any data. For phones, we already had almost the entire industry using Micro-USB which could carry both power and data. It sounds like this hypothetical vulnerability would require physical access to the phone, and it could be fixed in a revision of...
[19:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:54] <exec> 08└─And the reason is exactly that this standard (micro-USB) was "forced" upon vendors in 2010 by the EU. And they are now aknowledging that this standard might be dated and should be upgrader. Doesn't anyone here remember how things were before ? I remember that Nokia (jack), samsung, alcatel (flat wit...
[19:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'm shrieking with excitement here at the prospect of Apple introducing a new charging connector.
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[20:52:15] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03qzm [3260] 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 452 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:16] <exec> 08└─Reading comprehension IS a thing you know. 1. It was not a client, it was someone being scammed by a third party, at best it could have been a prospective client. 2. They clearly did NOT 'just hang up', they explained (we have never done takeout, thats not us), they finished their conversation (we s...
[20:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:17] <exec> 08└─If it had been me I would have tried to convert them into a client. They obviously want my food! May not have worked but at least worth a shot. I could even do a to go order over the phone. Then ring up my lawyer to start proceedings to sue or at the very least which neck I need to wring to get them...
[20:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:19] <exec> 08└─therein lies the difference between sales and business.
[20:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:21] <exec> 08└─I expect a lot of "disruptors" ranting about how these restaurant owners ought to be grateful for the "free advertising" and "extra opportunity". Never mind that many of these places have never offered takeout, let alone delivery, yet they have been successful and profitable for years.
[20:52:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:23] <exec> 08└─For a small business owner like a restaurant. They are one in the same. Channel your inner mr krabs! :)
[20:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:26] <exec> 08└─This is no ordinary hole-in-the-wall, this is a San Francisco restaurant with a Michelin Star. That means that they don't need the extra steenking business, because image is more important. And to snob places like these, making customers wait months for a reservation is a status-symbol to both the r...
[20:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:28] <exec> 08└─This sort of 'disruption' is typically called fraud by deciet. You are representing yourself as someone else and profiting off it. Do it right and the bereaved may not care at all. But screw up like this and now they know and you have damaged their reputation. They are not going to be happy and may...
[20:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:30] <exec> 08└─This is just fraud plain and simple. One business passing itself off as another. And delivering who-knows-what, since the restaurant in question doesn't offer takeout. They need to file criminal charges.
[20:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:32] <exec> 08└─Too lazy to read the articles but what Grubhub should have done (if they didn't do already) is have a very visible disclaimer that, while the restaurant is not currently partnered with Grubhub, the customer themselves could send a request to have the restaurant partner with Grubhub. All it takes is...
[20:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:35] <exec> 08└─In addition to possible criminal fraud charges, Grubhub is pretty clearly engaging in "Tortious interference with business relationships"; in this case, preventing a customer and the restaurant from engaging in economic activity with each other. The restaurant can, and should, sue Grubhub out of exi...
[20:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Voyager 2 Returning to Normal Operation - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:47] <exec> 08└─That's "Carbon Unit Infestion of Vger"......
[20:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:16] <exec> 08└─Think thermocouples - lots of documentation of those you can browse. Heat comes in one side, somewhat less goes out the other side, and the difference is converted to electricity. The key component is that you have an energy flow. Where energy is flowing, some of it can be intercepted to do work (li...
[20:53:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:17] <exec> 08└─The problem is they are wildly terrible at it. Not sure if he has found something novel here or just another iteration on the a thermometric generator. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] You can buy them by the gross on alibaba and mouser. The issue with those usu...
[20:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:19] <exec> 08└─But it's never cloudy in the desert.
[20:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A350 Engine Shutdown Incidents Linked to Cockpit Drink Spills - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:08] <exec> 08└─If they leave the cabin midflight, it's a long way down. I assume the OP meant to say "cockpit". Which is false, they can definitely leave the cockpit during the flight, for the reasons you've stated.
[20:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A350 Engine Shutdown Incidents Linked to Cockpit Drink Spills - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:09] <exec> 08└─I can pretty much assure you, that if you spill your drink inside of any computerized system, bad things are going to happen. If there are computers beneath your console, the drinks can eventually leak down to them. In fact, there IS a module for the transmission almost directly beneath my console....
[20:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A350 Engine Shutdown Incidents Linked to Cockpit Drink Spills - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:11] <exec> 08└─With straws would be best. If they have some sort of one way valve requiring negative pressure to open, even better.
[20:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:40] <exec> 08└─Troll Why does the truth always get modded down? Do people actually find it offensive? What kind of people are they?! Why won't they let us criticize inferior cultures? It's not racist or anything. They are capable of acting like human beings but choose not to in order to preserve their "culture". W...
[20:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:26] <exec> 08└─Arguably, you can also not buy a phone that uses a charging port you don't like.
[20:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:27] <exec> 08└─Even if Apple came up with some super awesome connector, they wouldn't allow anyone else to use it either. You'd end with everyone else using USB-C, iPhones in the EU also using USB-C, and iPhones not in the EU using some special snowflake fruity Apple-only connector.
[20:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a $300 Projector Can Fool Tesla’s Autopilot - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:48] <exec> 08└─Humans fool other humans all the time. I don't think the standard of being unable to be fooled is a practical one. I think the point is that we have systems in place to try and catch people that try to do something wrong. The car can have cameras around, other security measures can be taken and if s...
[20:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How a $300 Projector Can Fool Tesla’s Autopilot - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:50] <exec> 08└─"It is literally the AI equivalent of taking a right turn sign and replacing it with a left turn one." and messing with signs can also equally confuse a human and cause them to go the wrong way onto an onramp against oncoming traffic just as well. We don't ban human drivers because they can be trick...
[20:57:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Wants to Fine One Man Almost $13 Million for Making 6,000 Robocalls - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:30] <exec> 08└─Let's see now. They make ILLEGAL robocalls. And by the way, telling this to a robot is rather pointless. They represent themselves as corporations they are not representative of, also ILLEGAL. If you actually wait to talk to someone and tell them to stop calling you because it is ILLEGAL to do so, t...
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[21:52:21] <exec> 08└─Stars are only for short time. All of the ones I ever frequented are gone. Your rep is your best currency. But so is keeping butts in seats and your margins high and costs low. Also apparently someone is using their name to rip off customers. Just hang up and la de dah away from that? If it is a hig...
[21:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:22] <exec> 08└─Thank you been racking my brain for the past half hour trying to think of the legal term! Out of existence, probably not. Settlement I could see. The VC guys will want that to 'go away' and will pay for it. It is why you see so much 'woke' crap these days. No one wants to be sued.
[21:52:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:25] <exec> 08└─This sort of fraud is tough to litigate because the loss here is minimal.
[21:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:27] <exec> 08└─Tell your customers that grubhub is offering delivery in 30 minutes of double your money back. hey, if grubhub can make promises about my business, I can make promises about theirs...
[21:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Voyager 2 Returning to Normal Operation - 1045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:40] <exec> 08└─I was a kid when the Voyagers were launched. When Voyager 2 reached Neptune, I was a college undergrad. In middle-age, I got to see Pluto, Ceres, and a few of the other large asteroids. I wonder if space exploration can force us to appreciate patience better. Seems everyone is always in such a big h...
[21:53:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:12] <exec> 08└─The air temperature falls because of space... it's not as if the ground under your feet sucks up all the heat... As AC says: the effect is much MUCH reduced with heavy cloud cover - one demonstration of a greenhouse type effect. The other thing to remember, space is cold, really really cold - 3K col...
[21:53:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DOD Launches Swarming Drone in Test of C-130 “Drone Mothership” Concept - 1234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:22] <exec> 08└─While I can't be 100% sure I think that's kind of the point. In a large-scale invasion, you will want a decoy force of reasonably large planes to fool enemy radar into believing that the invading force is coming from somewhere, while the real attacking force is coming from somewhere else. One of the...
[21:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Indiana University's Big Red 200 Supercomputer to Use Next-Generation Nvidia GPUs - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:36] <exec> 08└─They have only cut the price last month to compete with AMD
[21:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A350 Engine Shutdown Incidents Linked to Cockpit Drink Spills - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:07] <exec> 08└─You must practice a lot to be that good at being stupid.
[21:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A350 Engine Shutdown Incidents Linked to Cockpit Drink Spills - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:08] <exec> 08└─What they need is a sticker saying NO DRINKS. Problem solved.
[21:54:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:21] <exec> 08└─I know that I can't compare to congress. Every joke they tell becomes a law, and every law they pass is a joke. Stolen from Will Rogers, or Buck Rogers, or some such.
[21:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:39] <exec> 08└─Dude, they killed tens of millions of their own citizens in 1959 alone for not being loud enough in their praise of Chairman Mao. They could exterminate everyone who's even suspected of becoming infected and the death toll still wouldn't even remotely compare to business as usual. Communism is so mu...
[21:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:41] <exec> 08└─Fascism is so much nicer.
[21:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, a non-white non-male non-middle aged person needs to get demeaned else it's not a joke.
[21:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:45] <exec> 08└─I've stockpiled alcohol for the same reason - you can't be too careful.
[21:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:47] <exec> 08└─Well, we can all hope Alex Jones gets this, on his way back from attacking parents of dead children.
[21:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:49] <exec> 08└─Have you tried drinking bleach? It's all the rage amoungst anti-vaxxers these days!
[21:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03doke [6955] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:37] <exec> 08└─If you're worried, use a usb data blocker. https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
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[22:52:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:30] <exec> 08└─I opened the twitter feed they were referring to. The ad for the restaurant is on a site called seamless.com. Is seamless.com the same company as grubhub.com or was it just easier for the author to use a name more people knew?
[22:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:31] <exec> 08└─Edit: After a little more twittering the story is actually much more interesting. Seamless (which is like grubhub) and grubhub are both passing off this restaurant as their client. In the story the owner of this restaurant tells, Seamless took the order and delivered food. The owner talked with the...
[22:52:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:33] <exec> 08└─Two wrongs make at least two wrongs, not a right.
[22:52:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:36] <exec> 08└─"grub's care" reaction [twitter.com] at the "Don’t worry, my very first call come Monday is to my lawyer." [twitter.com]
[22:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mer [8009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:38] <exec> 08└─You're greatly overplaying single stars restaurants. You'll need a reservation for most nights sure but it's not impossible to get a table for lunch by just showing up. And for the ones that do the line thing, they usually go 30 meters tops.
[22:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:40] <exec> 08└─Techamuanvivit's restaurant, Kin Khao, doesn't offer takeout or delivery.
[22:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grubhub is Faking Which Restaurants It Actually Partners With - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:42] <exec> 08└─If they were actually delivering the food from that restaurant and not deceiving their customers that would be one thing. But they missed on both counts. Their ad and ordering page makes it look like you're ordering from that restaurant, and certainly you'd expect at the very least the food is comin...
[22:52:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Voyager 2 Returning to Normal Operation - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:57] <exec> 08└─Extracts from your memoirs? What the hell was that all about?!?
[22:52:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Voyager 2 Returning to Normal Operation - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:59] <exec> 08└─don't have a good answer at all for what to do about nuclear proliferation.
[22:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:32] <exec> 08└─"So, when your ground temp falls from 40C to -10C, that's only dropping from a 313/3K differential to a 263/3K differential" Exactly my point. "even at -10C you've got a hell of a long way further you could fall if the Earth didn't rotate you back to face the sun." But look, even if we could somehow...
[22:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DOD Launches Swarming Drone in Test of C-130 “Drone Mothership” Concept - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:44] <exec> 08└─While I can't be 100% sure I think that's kind of the point. In a large-scale invasion, you will want a decoy force of reasonably large planes to fool enemy radar into believing that the invading force is coming from somewhere, while the real attacking force is coming from somewhere else.
[22:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:05] <exec> 08└─You snark but it's objectively true. The Axis at its worst didn't kill anywhere near as many people as Stalin alone did. And Mao was a shitload worse than Stalin. Keep that in mind next time you go thinking socialism is a good thing. Yes, I know we're talking about communism. I know the difference....
[22:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:06] <exec> 08└─These SARS-CoV vaccines all induced antibody and protection against infection with SARS-CoV. However, challenge of mice given any of the vaccines led to occurrence of Th2-type immunopathology suggesting hypersensitivity to SARS-CoV components was induced. Caution in proceeding to application of a SA...
[22:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australia Bans All Arrivals From China [Updated] - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:09] <exec> 08└─Mao didn't kill anyone. If people are too weak to adapt to a new low calorie high work lifestyle that is their issue.
[22:55:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03quietus [6328] 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 344 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:40] <exec> 08└─How many different chargers do you have at home? Multiply times 400 million, subtract 400 million, result is reduction in number of chargers, only for the EU. As other economies tend to follow a standard set by such a large and rich market, multiply times (size of world population, in millions / 400...
[22:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06European Parliament Votes in Favor of Standardized Mobile Phone Chargers - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:56] <exec> 08└─I use one charger for my cell phone... so let's multiply that by 400 million and subtract 400 million... As other economies tend to follow a standard set by such a large and rich market, multiply times (size of world population, in millions / 400).
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[23:52:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Super Bowl® LIV - Athletics and Advertisements and Chat - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:09] <exec> 08└─Come on now!
[23:52:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Super Bowl® LIV - Athletics and Advertisements and Chat - 1457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:11] <exec> 08└─I don't really enjoy the Super Bowl. I'll have it on, but probably be doing other stuff most of the time. The football game feels almost like a sideshow compared to the halftime show and the commercials. The amount of time spent showing commercials is longer than other games, and Fox recently added...
[23:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Super Bowl® LIV - Athletics and Advertisements and Chat - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:13] <exec> 08└─And college football is more entertaining in general, but whatever, it's on tv.
[23:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Super Bowl® LIV - Athletics and Advertisements and Chat - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:15] <exec> 08└─Like I don't have anything better to do! Fuck off.
[23:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Super Bowl® LIV - Athletics and Advertisements and Chat - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:17] <exec> 08└─I don't really enjoy the Super Bowl.
[23:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Super Bowl® LIV - Athletics and Advertisements and Chat - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:20] <exec> 08└─Football, baseball, basketball - it's all a bunch of guys playing with their balls. I don't want to watch that.
[23:53:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Voyager 2 Returning to Normal Operation - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:10] <exec> 08└─rolleyes That stuff is so deadly, the astronauts died before they launched.
[23:53:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Voyager 2 Returning to Normal Operation - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:11] <exec> 08└─Well, in his defense, he was seeing Pluto and Ceres at the same time, which really is not possible at all, so perhaps he mis-remembers.
[23:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Night Time Photovoltaic Cell - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:45] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure it's more of the same, just about all of these articles end up being more of the same.
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