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[00:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:24] <exec> 08└─" ...activists within the search giant have protested several decisions by leadership, including the signing of an artificial intelligence contract with the Pentagon and Google's work in China. Most notably, 20,000 employees walked out of their offices in November 2018 to protest leadership's handli...
[00:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:26] <exec> 08└─Palantir Wins New Pentagon Deal With $111 Million From the Army [soylentnews.org] After Google abandoned a Pentagon effort known as Project Maven, Palantir stepped in to help develop video recognition software as part of the project, a move reported earlier by Business Insider.
[00:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:56] <exec> 08└─I had Voltaren prescribed to me roughly 20 years ago.
[00:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[00:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Are Not Clicking That Button Just Because Your Mind Decides To - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:26] <exec> 08└─My brain is not something separately from me.
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[01:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:29] <exec> 08└─The fascist tries to explain how fascism is more efficient. For the fascists. Fuck off toady
[01:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 1494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:31] <exec> 08└─I thought Google employees were all about "bashing the fash." Funny thing is that I'm speaking from a perspective that would have benefitted Google who I don't like. Some of you may wonder how a right-winger would reconcile the whole China thing with Google. Well, right-wingers tend to be more merce...
[01:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:33] <exec> 08└─Now that's hilarious. Palantir accused Google of not being patriotic, [cnbc.com] then swoops in and gets the contracts. Sly devils.
[01:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:35] <exec> 08└─PHB A: "All those people we hired when that was our motto are causing trouble now that we're evil." PHB B: "We obviously need to address the root cause." PHB A: "Stop being evil?" PHB B: "Don't be silly! We should fire the head of HR who unwisely hired non-evil people when that was our motto."
[01:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:37] <exec> 08└─Yea they really didn't think through that one. Build your workforce on a particular demographic that has opposing world views to your corporate goals and have a HR culture that pander to whims of that set. That last bit is the killer.
[01:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:40] <exec> 08└─You joke, but the head of HR should be part of the top level leadership team and should have understood the moment they pivot to "start being evil" _internally_ (rightly or wrongly) that they should ensure their HR strategy going forward should help and not hinder that strategy. It is absolutely the...
[01:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Reaper of Death': Scientists Discover New Dinosaur Species Related to T-Rex - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:48] <exec> 08└─They still haven't found the Grim Reaper, have they?
[01:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:15] <exec> 08└─Yep. Different ones work differently in different people. Aspirin works best for me in terms of both agreeing with my stomach, killing pain and damping down inflammation. Ibuprofen tears up my stomach. Acetaminophen doesn't work nearly as well as aspirin.
[01:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Molecular 'Switch' Reverses Chronic Inflammation and Aging - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:10] <exec> 08└─"Stay away from me." Somehow I doubt you have such problems.
[01:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CHEOPS Space Telescope Takes Its First Pictures - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:35] <exec> 08└─Not likely, but it would be awesome.
[01:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:09] <exec> 08└─Unless you're trying to lock down your device the same way a TiVo DVR or a video game console is locked down, using an LGPLv3 library in an otherwise proprietary application is fine. That's what LGPL is made for: mixing copylefted and proprietary software in one process.
[01:22:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:11] <exec> 08└─If you want your code running on my machine, for whatever reason, you ARE going to disclose it.
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[02:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Motherboard Driver is Perfect For Slipping Windows Ransomware Past Antivirus Checks - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:28] <exec> 08└─It's neat on a technical level, but unless I've missed something its really not a particularly big threat. Sure the driver is signed, and sure it has an exploit. But if installing it comes down to: "either by some other exploit or by tricking a victim into running it" Then its no different than any...
[02:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forgotten Motherboard Driver is Perfect For Slipping Windows Ransomware Past Antivirus Checks - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, You missed the bigger picture... "Windows".
[02:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:44] <exec> 08└─You joke, but the head of HR should be part of the top level leadership team and should have understood the moment they pivot to "start being evil" _internally_ (rightly or wrongly) that they should ensure their HR strategy going forward should help and not hinder that strategy.
[02:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Reaper of Death': Scientists Discover New Dinosaur Species Related to T-Rex - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:52] <exec> 08└─I sense a fat momma joke in there somewhere...
[02:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Reaper of Death': Scientists Discover New Dinosaur Species Related to T-Rex - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:55] <exec> 08└─80 milli-years is not 80 million years. 80m years is about a month ago
[02:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Reaper of Death': Scientists Discover New Dinosaur Species Related to T-Rex - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:57] <exec> 08└─I'm going to blame the UK boffins for this.
[02:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:25] <exec> 08└─Ibuprofen is putting in the work. Aspirin is also good but 1,300 mg makes me feel weird. Acetaminophen? Get it outta here.
[02:18:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06You Are Not Clicking That Button Just Because Your Mind Decides To - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:57] <exec> 08└─the universe would be broken otherwise, that is if motor action happened at the same time or earlier.
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[03:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Motherboard Driver is Perfect For Slipping Windows Ransomware Past Antivirus Checks - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:30] <exec> 08└─Again: "unless I've missed something"?
[03:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:46] <exec> 08└─Nobody said about instant change - but the leaders in each are should be making complementary adjustments to their overall functional area's strategy. I'm not at Google and wasn't commenting whether this particular instance the HR head was at fault, was more a generalized comment. I've seen enough H...
[03:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:47] <exec> 08└─I'm not at Google and wasn't commenting whether this particular instance the HR head was at fault, was more a generalized comment.
[03:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:49] <exec> 08└─She has enough vested options to never work another day in her life. She can either A) [buy a sheep ranch in Idaho : buy a house in the Bay area], or B) "Hmmm, don't be evil. Our worker bees are unhappy over shit I don't care about. Wat du?" Keep in mind HR is not there for the employees. HR's #1 jo...
[03:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:28] <exec> 08└─Some lay people are better informed about their particular conditions than the average doctor. Some have a couple of decades or more experience reading medical research reports. Not everyone is on the level of the average voter. (I would have said "Trump voter" but after that democrat voted for Butt...
[03:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:29] <exec> 08└─APAP doesn't have somatic anti-inflammatory effects, this is true. It acts centrally, and apparently one of its metabolites looks a lot like anandamide, an endogenous *cannabinoid.* From personal experience, I can tell you 500-1,000mg of APAP does seem to take the edge off, but it's something I try...
[03:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:31] <exec> 08└─I have some that are labeled "extra strength" that I bought in the states that are 500mg. And, some that I bought in either NZ or AU which are also 500mg. Funny, after getting allergy medicine (without a prescription) in France that had opiates in it, I had the impression that European medicines wer...
[03:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03unhandyandy [4405] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Scalable Photonic Computer Solves The Subset Sum Problem - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:54] <exec> 08└─Does this require a photonic chip to be designed expressly for a specific problem with specific numbers?
[03:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:19] <exec> 08└─Miley Cyrus has coronavirus.
[03:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06British Airways 747 Just Set Subsonic Speed Record for Atlantic Crossing - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:30] <exec> 08└─No, it doesn't work that way. Fuel is one of the largest costs of operating a passenger aircraft, so fuel efficiency is very important. Airlines will happily retire a jet long before its airframe is really worn out just so they can buy newer, more fuel-efficient models. Of course, passengers also pr...
[03:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:34] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that some modules and CONFIGs are mutually exclusive.
[03:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:36] <exec> 08└─You think you want a stable kernel interface, but you really do not, and you don’t even know it.
[03:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:38] <exec> 08└─Well I expect systemd to include ... at least three window managers
[03:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:40] <exec> 08└─Should have linked this version https://www.kernel.org [kernel.org] or https://www.kernel.org [kernel.org]
[03:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:42] <exec> 08└─If you think you need something systemd doesn't provide, your requirements are wrong and you are trying to do something the wrong way. Ok, will it least get me to Reno? Will it keep me from getting drunk and marrying some transvestite in an Elvis Chapel?
[03:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux 5.6 Is The Most Exciting Kernel In Years With So Many New Features - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:45] <exec> 08└─Probably passing "quiet" as a kernel parameter or turned down the configured log level, you selected the wrong CPU architecture, you mismatched the microcode, you didn't generate the ramdisk properly by configuring mkinitrd and running it, or a mismatch in compression algorithms for the initrd. In m...
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[04:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Motherboard Driver is Perfect For Slipping Windows Ransomware Past Antivirus Checks - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:39] <exec> 08└─Picture Windows? Sounds like the security flaw in the "security safeguards on Windows 7, 8 and 10 machines." Which made me lol, you know. Like "security safeguards on Windows" was a real thing! Ha!
[04:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Motherboard Driver is Perfect For Slipping Windows Ransomware Past Antivirus Checks - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:40] <exec> 08└─The part your missing is that, while you are boned if you've already ran a virus as admin, the difference is your ability to remove it. Standard virus can be removed by an anti-virus, even if it requires a CD or USB boot. The problem here is that the driver will not show up as a virus and it will no...
[04:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Motherboard Driver is Perfect For Slipping Windows Ransomware Past Antivirus Checks - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:42] <exec> 08└─What you missed is that in a few more years it will be basically illegal to own anything "old" because security. In the mean time let's fuel the paranoia and get everyone to buy all new things with all new exploits.
[04:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Motherboard Driver is Perfect For Slipping Windows Ransomware Past Antivirus Checks - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:44] <exec> 08└─Let's get programmable hardware.
[04:16:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 715 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:23] <exec> 08└─I mean technically, I wouldn't think a lay person should derive medical advice from reading medical journals, especially single articles, as that can lack the holistic understanding that overall best practices are derived from, and the general expertise of an actual doctor. AC is right, don't get me...
[04:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:46] <exec> 08└─I've seen histamine-H2 antagonists (*tidine) and proton-pump inhibitors (*prazole) prescribed along with NSAIDs in the pharmacy I work at. Those come with their own issues, especially the PPIs, but it may be worth it to prevent GI lesions in susceptible patients. The one that really surprises me is...
[04:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:47] <exec> 08└─I've personally never seen more than 650mg in a single capsule or tablet here (northeastern USA).
[04:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:50] <exec> 08└─I've ended up feeling weird from aspirin (dizzy, ringing in the ears, a sense of being spacey) but only during a rare severe eye splitting migraine and only after taking about 3000 mg -- but in the middle of a migraine, it's easy to do stupid stuff. I checked wikipedia though, and I'd have to take a...
[04:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:52] <exec> 08└─I know you referred to aspirin, but don't combine acetaminophen/paracetamol with alcohol. That multiplies the side effects and liver damage from acetaminophen. References say regular dose acetaminophen(325mg) can be used with up to three drinks per day, but it just doesn't seem worth risking your li...
[04:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:54] <exec> 08└─Precisely why I stick with aspirin. A little hole in my stomach will close up with some sodium bicarbonate in my drink
[04:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:56] <exec> 08└─Do not drink alcohol while taking aspirin. Alcohol can increase your risk of stomach bleeding caused by aspirin. Call your doctor at once if you have symptoms of bleeding in your stomach or intestines. This includes black, bloody, or tarry stools, or coughing up blood or vomit that looks like coffee...
[04:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CityU New Droplet-Based Electricity Generator: A Drop of Water Lights Up 100 Small LED Bulbs - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:28] <exec> 08└─Self illuminating night fountains utilizing the splashing of the streams to power the leds making it glow. Sounds like a perfect use of it. Please make sure this post is used as a publishing of the idea so it doesn't get patented in the future :)
[04:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CityU New Droplet-Based Electricity Generator: A Drop of Water Lights Up 100 Small LED Bulbs - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:30] <exec> 08└─Heh. Long way from idea to prototype. E.g. what works for water droplets may (likely) not work for streams (for example, leaking that 140v-causing separation of charge to the incoming stream instead of the other electrode). Besides, there's also this problem of what to do with the water after the im...
[04:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Drops £500 Million on Hydrogen-Powered Superyacht ; Sinot: 'Not True' [Updated] - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:35] <exec> 08└─No need to build one, it's for sale today! http://maritimesales.com [maritimesales.com] Maybe the soylentils should put up a crowdfunding campaign and get it front paged on reddit :)
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[05:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Avatar Competes with Humans on "Camming" Site Chaturbate - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:29] <exec> 08└─Real is definitely better than fake. While some may argue this point for large ones (not me, real is better even if small,) there is one thing for certain... Ones that can actually be felt are ALWAYS better than ones that are just virtual.
[05:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Avatar Competes with Humans on "Camming" Site Chaturbate - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:31] <exec> 08└─So this is actually virtual vs. virtual? Haptic feedback required.
[05:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Motherboard Driver is Perfect For Slipping Windows Ransomware Past Antivirus Checks - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:45] <exec> 08└─...Like "security safeguards on Windows" was a real thing! Ha!
[05:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06'Reaper of Death': Scientists Discover New Dinosaur Species Related to T-Rex - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:15] <exec> 08└─Should have used imperial years to avoid confusion.
[05:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:42] <exec> 08└─Yes but a big question is... just how accurate is this test?
[05:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:43] <exec> 08└─Inaccurate as hell. Don't you see? We are all gonna die [youtu.be]
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[06:15:31] <exec> 08└─Real is definitely better than fake.
[06:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Virtual Avatar Competes with Humans on "Camming" Site Chaturbate - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:33] <exec> 08└─1. nothing is better than (real) sex
[06:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Avatar Competes with Humans on "Camming" Site Chaturbate - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:35] <exec> 08└─Trust me, Japan is getting it up as fast as they can. It's only a matter of time till they finish.
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[06:18:46] <exec> 08└─The vocal cord surgery made her throat more vulnerable than usual.
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[07:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Avatar Competes with Humans on "Camming" Site Chaturbate - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:32] <exec> 08└─Trust me, there's a large audience of 2D obsessed cringlords out there that will eat this up.
[07:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Avatar Competes with Humans on "Camming" Site Chaturbate - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:34] <exec> 08└─It's just as 3D as "real" camgirls on the screen.
[07:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is poisonous if not taken as recommended, usually caused by not knowing exactly what you are taking. Aspirin kills quite a few people too, usually by not taking as directed, Acetaminophen is consistently one of the top killers of kids, usually due to thinking the pills are candy. Drug store...
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[07:16:57] <exec> 08└─Weed when mixed with other drugs, especially alcohol, can lead to violence and likely occasionally on its own. Some people who are border line insane really shouldn't take weed. It has been known to kill people too, usually when a ton of it hits you in the head.
[07:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:00] <exec> 08└─Acetaminophen is a lot more dangerous then opiates. Lots of kids OD on them and it is a terrible way to die as it causes liver failure.
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[08:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Bandwidth Memory Could Increase to 16 Layers, and More - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:21] <exec> 08└─...but I'm going to be pedantic. Deliberate misspellings like "12-hi" are totally irritating. The memory isn't saying "hello" 12 times. Some marketing twit probably thought this was cute. /rant
[08:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Avatar Competes with Humans on "Camming" Site Chaturbate - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:42] <exec> 08└─1. nothing is better than (real) sex
[08:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Avatar Competes with Humans on "Camming" Site Chaturbate - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:43] <exec> 08└─Trust me, Japan is getting it up as fast as they can.
[08:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forgotten Motherboard Driver is Perfect For Slipping Windows Ransomware Past Antivirus Checks - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:58] <exec> 08└─And the other part of the problem - Gigabyte. I have had a very bad experience with an expensive replacement (gaming level 17" laptop) for my ageing rig lasting less than 2 years. The brand: Gigabyte. So my now ancient rig has outlasted its replacement. I would never buy anything Gigabyte again. /ra...
[08:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Motherboard Driver is Perfect For Slipping Windows Ransomware Past Antivirus Checks - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:00] <exec> 08└─I don';t think you actually have yo have the motherboard in question to be exploited.
[08:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Reaper of Death': Scientists Discover New Dinosaur Species Related to T-Rex - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:30] <exec> 08└─Those are only good for infinite periods. "Sun never sets" , etc...
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[08:16:32] <exec> 08└─I was expecting some thing more along the lines of "I am Degroot" .
[08:20:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06British Airways 747 Just Set Subsonic Speed Record for Atlantic Crossing - 1341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:12] <exec> 08└─Engines and a total interior are a quarter to half of the price of a new airliner, depending on how fancy you want the inside. You can take your old 747 air frame and put on new engines in less than 30 days, 40 if you do the interior at the same time. Much cheaper, spares can be used on older planes...
[08:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Easter Island Society Did Not Collapse Prior to European Contact, New Research Shows - 1292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:21:48] <exec> 08└─People are not failing because of what happened a hundred, let alone hundreds of years ago. They're failing because of what they do, or do not do, today. Many people are born into poverty. What happens from there is not decided by your grandfather, but by you. If you do at all decent in school (and...
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[09:15:42] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFO-5yqu6bQ [youtube.com] https://nitter.net [nitter.net] https://chaturbate.com [chaturbate.com]
[09:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:17] <exec> 08└─As far as China goes: no one ever said that the future of humanity has anything to do with democracy. While China's policies may not be very nice to the individual, they have done an amazing job of pulling China up from poverty to a respectable economic status in just a few decades. Which is, actual...
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[09:17:12] <exec> 08└─The problem with Weed, at least, locally, is that there's a sizeable percentage of the population here using the stuff, and a number of them are innately violent shitheads, coming from families who have been innately violent shitheads for generations (verifiable, in some cases, at least back to earl...
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[10:15:45] <exec> 08└─Economic competition, bitches.
[10:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Avatar Competes with Humans on "Camming" Site Chaturbate - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:46] <exec> 08└─Hoes. Mad.
[10:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:22] <exec> 08└─As far as China goes: no one ever said that the future of humanity has anything to do with democracy. While China's policies may not be very nice to the individual, they have done an amazing job of pulling China up from poverty to a respectable economic status in just a few decades. Which is, actual...
[10:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:23] <exec> 08└─and should have understood the moment they pivot to "start being evil" _internally_ /quote? "Should have understood the moment they pivot" sounds like instant change to me.
[10:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:26] <exec> 08└─Try this again: and should have understood the moment they pivot to "start being evil" _internally_
[10:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:28] <exec> 08└─That is a good point, of course. China has discovered that providing individuals with incentives to succeed is important. However, that is not "democracy", that is more like "capitalism".
[10:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:30] <exec> 08└─However, that is not "democracy", that is more like "capitalism".
[10:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:25] <exec> 08└─Chances are that flat screen TVs, video games, smartphones, weed and other decadence are pacifying the population.
[10:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Molecular 'Switch' Reverses Chronic Inflammation and Aging - 2541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:22] <exec> 08└─luser@cubispaz:/usr/local/homes/luser$ youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com [youtube] QRt7LjqJ45k: Downloading webpage [youtube] QRt7LjqJ45k: Downloading video info webpage [info] Available formats for QRt7LjqJ45k: format code extension resolution note 249 webm audio only...
[10:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CHEOPS Space Telescope Takes Its First Pictures - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:48] <exec> 08└─Yes, and defocussing can be done in DSP, rather than mechanically. The science has been around for many many decades. But a choice to defocus differently cannot be done if done mechanically, rather than in DSP. It simply sounds like they didn't have a DSP engineer in the team, and only had astronome...
[10:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CHEOPS Space Telescope Takes Its First Pictures - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:49] <exec> 08└─I did not say that they would or should need or want to undo the blur. You're arguing against a straw man. Reread for comprehension this time.
[10:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CHEOPS Space Telescope Takes Its First Pictures - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:51] <exec> 08└─Well, only one of us has "DSP Engineer" on their CV. Yes, I've been working in image processing since the times that DSPs were called DSPs, rather than "graphics cards".
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[11:15:31] <exec> 08└─Oh good, it's not just me thinking that. :P
[11:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06High Bandwidth Memory Could Increase to 16 Layers, and More - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:32] <exec> 08└─It's not about the cute marketing, it's about the key strokes saved.
[11:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OneWeb Launches its First Large Batch of Broadband Satellites, Plans March Launch and April Break - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:40] <exec> 08└─So ... I wonder why they didn't use SpaceX for the launches? I can understand Ariane via Airbus Defence and Space but why Proton? Ariane doesn't want to give any money to SpaceX because spite or what?
[11:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OneWeb Launches its First Large Batch of Broadband Satellites, Plans March Launch and April Break - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:42] <exec> 08└─Is there any info on their satellites, like capacity, coverage area, how big are the user terminal antennas? I've read on another site that they will not sell directly to consumers, instead will sell capacity to local ISPs that then will sell it to end users. On one hand it seems to be a safer bet b...
[11:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Virtual Avatar Competes with Humans on "Camming" Site Chaturbate - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:01] <exec> 08└─In the last three days since her first stream, Melody has gone from 700 Twitter followers to more than 20,000.
[11:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Motherboard Driver is Perfect For Slipping Windows Ransomware Past Antivirus Checks - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:19] <exec> 08└─But you would, presumably, need the drivers to be installed? And why would you install drivers for somebody else's motherboard?
[11:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Reaper of Death': Scientists Discover New Dinosaur Species Related to T-Rex - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:58] <exec> 08└─80 milli-years is not 80 million years.
[11:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06One Small Grain of Moon Dust, One Giant Leap for Lunar Studies - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:50] <exec> 08└─The technique is called atom probe tomography (APT), and it's normally used by materials scientists working to improve industrial processes like making steel and nanowires. But its ability to analyze tiny amounts of materials makes it a good candidate for studying lunar samples. The Apollo 17 sample...
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[12:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:22] <exec> 08└─It's a secret to everybody!
[12:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:24] <exec> 08└─It's certified to be secure!
[12:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:26] <exec> 08└─Homegrown crypto is the only way you can be truly sure that it hasn't been laced with stuff you don't want. It may not be as potent as the University lab academically cultivated varieties, but unless you're going to grind it down and analyze every bit before you use it... you just don't know. After...
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[12:15:48] <exec> 08└─Proton is cheap (compared to other expendable rockets) and reliable. Ariane was probably too big, and Proton just right for the lanch? SpaceX (Starlink) is a direct competitor for the same market. I can't vouch for the C-suite , but you may safely assume that at least engineering put a lot of reason...
[12:16:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 279 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:16:39] <exec> 08└─You joke, but the head of HR should be part of the top level leadership team and should have understood the moment they pivot to "start being evil" _internally_ (rightly or wrongly) that they should ensure their HR strategy going forward should help and not hinder that strategy.
[12:19:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:19:42] <exec> 08└─We'll see if this continues or not. But presently, the reported number of new cases has dropped dramatically since the early days of the infection, going from substantial double digit growth per day (12 days of growth above 30% per day through 1/28) to around 5% growth yesterday (2/11). Given the co...
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[13:15:34] <exec> 08└─CIA don't own ROT13
[13:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jurov [6250] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Forgotten Motherboard Driver is Perfect For Slipping Windows Ransomware Past Antivirus Checks - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:36] <exec> 08└─Why would anyone install useless browser toolbars? Yet many did.
[13:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Motherboard Driver is Perfect For Slipping Windows Ransomware Past Antivirus Checks - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:37] <exec> 08└─Granted, but if you're dupeing people into installing a toolbar, you can get them to install anything; it doesn't have to be some unsupported driver.
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[13:16:40] <exec> 08└─*cough* bullshit *cough*
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[14:15:50] <exec> 08└─I disagree. Use algorithms that have withstood repeated attacks from those with a very high incentive (reputation in their field) to succeed in a crack. However, don't trust closed source implementations of said algorithms. All the big name algorithms come with reference implementations. Also, only...
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[14:15:51] <exec> 08└─This is old news... [baltimoresun.com] And we don't dare diss the CIA, NSA, FBI, not while they're on their heroic case against the president. All previous sins are forgiven
[14:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 1687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:53] <exec> 08└─And how many projects (open source or otherwise) have attempted to roll their own crypto rather than use a tried and tested library written by people who knew what they were doing and subsequently came hilariously unstuck? Rhetorical question as I have no idea, but I do know it's happened frequently...
[14:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a Foldable Phone with "Glass" - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:01] <exec> 08└─It does remind me of the Razr from a decade back - clamshell, but aiming for thinness. Looks sexy, but that price is outragious. I'm not sure what niche the device fills, but I'm gonna channel Spike Lee here and say "what you are calling a big wide screen ain't big enough or wide enough to actually...
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[14:16:12] <exec> 08└─5 years from now I will go to the local computer store and see laptops with 4GB ram standard. The local store will still offer a base build with 4GBram with extra sticks at prices I would have expected 10 years ago. Nothing changes.
[14:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Motherboard Driver is Perfect For Slipping Windows Ransomware Past Antivirus Checks - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:03] <exec> 08└─There have been several thrusts in that direction historically (remember clipper?), it's not unfeasible that it will finally happen.
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[15:15:22] <exec> 08└─Your name is airbus. You do buses with wings. That's the contract you signed with Satan when you incorporated in France.
[15:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airbus Unveils MAVERIC, a Technical Demonstrator to Test Blended Wing Bodies - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:24] <exec> 08└─And where are the windows? May as well ride that damn hyperloop. I wanna see the view outside. It's the only joy left in flying
[15:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Judge Approves $26 Billion Merger of T-Mobile and Sprint - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:32] <exec> 08└─Bills will go up, service will get worse, Wall Street will cheer even more. Because that's what happens when competition is reduced, and that was the purpose of this move, regardless of what they told the regulators.
[15:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Approves $26 Billion Merger of T-Mobile and Sprint - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:34] <exec> 08└─Less competition == less downward pricing pressure Consolidation (sung to the tune of Anticipation* [youtube.com]: Consolidation, consolidation is making me pay It's charging me more. And tomorrow, the profits will be great! I'm a customer, and my bank account grows smaller [...] These are the ways...
[15:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:48] <exec> 08└─And how many projects (open source or otherwise) have attempted to roll their own crypto rather than use a tried and tested library written by people who
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[15:15:50] <exec> 08└─Homegrown crypto is a terrible idea. Well-established, well-published, very-open, oft-attacked, well-tested encryption is literally out there for the taking. There are entire books about how to do it, and software and source to just download. I'm a mathematician. I wouldn't *attempt* to make my own,...
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[15:15:52] <exec> 08└─While I did enjoy the article in the WP I was also wondering why it was "news" since this is indeed quite old news and have been known about for decades. It's been mentioned in actual books that are decades old by now so it's not really a secret anymore, or have been for quite a long time, but they...
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[15:15:54] <exec> 08└─pretty well trusted and have had their code independently audited
[15:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:56] <exec> 08└─I often wonder if ROT13ing a message before encrypting it would fuck up the validation step of decrypt methods.
[15:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:59] <exec> 08└─It's kind of a backhanded smear against Huawei and Kapersky as being agents of their own respective governments, and for refusing to install requested backdoors. That's how the story goes anyway. It's all pure speculation.
[15:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:01] <exec> 08└─Absolutely; it's always going to be down to the usage case. If it's just to prevent casual snooping then even a flawed/badly implemented algorithm is going to be more than sufficient in practice, even so there will almost certainly be some blowback if someone breaks it and you had pitched it as bein...
[15:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a Foldable Phone with "Glass" - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:10] <exec> 08└─And people are blathering about how Apple is crazy expensive?
[15:17:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 92 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:18] <exec> 08└─The fascist tries to explain how fascism is more efficient. For the fascists. Fuck off toady
[15:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:31] <exec> 08└─I would seriously argue that even if you kept up with an entire field of literature, and were generally a well educated person, there's still important things a bottom-of-class in medical school doctor might still be able to do better than you. Like diagnosis, which doesn't just entail knowledge of...
[15:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:32] <exec> 08└─You would be totally wrong. 2/3 of patients initial self-diagnosis are right.
[15:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:35] <exec> 08└─And you think that compares favorably to professional diagnosis?
[15:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:37] <exec> 08└─Acetaminophen compliments aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen sodium, and others. "Excedrin" is aspirin, acetaminophen, and caffeine. When combined, most people get twice the pain relief of the same amount of either. Mixing NSAIDs is strongly discouraged, but any can be taken with acetaminophen (unless the...
[15:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CHEOPS Space Telescope Takes Its First Pictures - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:02] <exec> 08└─I suggest you work up an error budget and get smart on interpixel and sampling noise. It is completely asinine to suggest gettting around pixel and electronic noise by using a DSP. Putting aside the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of reducing your noise, why the hell would you want to do a whole DSP...
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[16:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus Unveils MAVERIC, a Technical Demonstrator to Test Blended Wing Bodies - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:22] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure that windows will definitely be coming. The fuselage is so wide that there is going to be a *much* high ratio of aisle and centre seats than traditional fuselages, and - like extra legroom - airlines *love* scarcity because it means they can charge a premium for it. Factor in checked...
[16:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus Unveils MAVERIC, a Technical Demonstrator to Test Blended Wing Bodies - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:23] <exec> 08└─That typo is funny enough to warrant being pointed out. ;^)
[16:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus Unveils MAVERIC, a Technical Demonstrator to Test Blended Wing Bodies - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:25] <exec> 08└─Nah, only a small percentage of people pay for upgrades. This is merely a differently shaped sardine can.
[16:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Approves $26 Billion Merger of T-Mobile and Sprint - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:36] <exec> 08└─In all fairness, T-Mobile is the cheapest and generally considered "most decent" of the three top US carriers (although admittedly that's not a high bar to clear). In the best of all worlds, it would mean T-Mobile users would have a better coverage map. In the worst, well, the parent will have hit t...
[16:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:57] <exec> 08└─The technique is old, but the incident is very new. The Czech government is in disarray currently, in session, because they realized they have all fresh costly new military and police equipment backdoored, by Americans and Germans, completely from the street devices up to combat fighters. Most proba...
[16:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:58] <exec> 08└─guys... the world is full of one time pads, whose downloading will never raise any red flag, who are already mirrored and distributed in the whole planet, who are already compressed so devoid of harmful repetitions, who can be used together with a hash function and a password with simple programs th...
[16:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Avatar Competes with Humans on "Camming" Site Chaturbate - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:47] <exec> 08└─So, therefore: Real Girl > Sex Doll > Camgirl/Hentai?
[16:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Avatar Competes with Humans on "Camming" Site Chaturbate - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:48] <exec> 08└─If they loose their gig, they can always learn to code ;)
[16:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Reaper of Death': Scientists Discover New Dinosaur Species Related to T-Rex - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:50] <exec> 08└─As opposed to the boffins that aren't British...?
[16:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:38] <exec> 08└─Here in US the common OTC acetaminophen dosages are 325, 500, and 650 mg. 4,000 mg / day is the allowed limit, but age, weight, liver / kidney health should all be considered.
[16:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:39] <exec> 08└─You have a very strange sense of who is speaking. SN wasn't saying anything. Florida Atlantic University's School of Medicine was. So by all means feel free to ignore the Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Your funeral.
[16:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 1228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:41] <exec> 08└─You are correct that acetaminophen is not anti-inflammatory. It it thought to work by addressing nociceptive pain receptors directly and may dull the pain response to them. It can work and does better for aches and pains caused by physics causes (i.e. cuts, bruises, bumps). Ibuprofen *is* an NSAID a...
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[17:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:17] <exec> 08└─I'm not moving to Windows 10. If it weren't for systemd, I'd move to Linux. So you've left me no choice but to go to CP/M.
[17:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:18] <exec> 08└─Have any Soylentils run into this problem? How did you get around it?
[17:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:20] <exec> 08└─i have a another problem. i drop a folder-path "d:/movies/babylon5/season3" on mpv and fall asleep. after some loud banging and screaming (or such, i dunno, i woke up) i grap for the IR remote and press the "OFF" button which seems to turn off the computer. the next day, before taking a shower, i pr...
[17:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:22] <exec> 08└─<no-sarcasm> Linux, even with systemd, is far better than life with Windows. Seriously. </no-sarcasm>
[17:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:25] <exec> 08└─If you like Debian and you DON'T LIKE systemd, there's Devuan.. All the goodness of Debian WITHOUT the insanity of systemd. I DO NOT blame you for refusing to go to Windows 10. Windows 7 was the last usable version of Windows, and you couldn't pay me enough to infect my computers with Windows 10. Si...
[17:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:27] <exec> 08└─oh, and i forgot: the solution is to unplug the ethernet cable BEFORE it happens.
[17:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:29] <exec> 08└─*Pulls plug* I'm sorry, what?
[17:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:31] <exec> 08└─If it weren't for systemd, I'd move to Linux. *sigh* [slackware.com]
[17:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:33] <exec> 08└─You could just go with something like MX Linux. There are flavors that don't use systemd. You could also go complete crazy and hop on over to a BSD distribution. Then, there's ReactOS as well. Though, I mean, it's a Russian based Open Source project, so take that for what it's worth. I would say, st...
[17:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:35] <exec> 08└─How did you get around it?
[17:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:38] <exec> 08└─There's that and the press and hold the power button, which essentially does the same thing.
[17:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:40] <exec> 08└─I've done everything I know of to protect the wife's Win7 from MS shenanigans. We're seeing that End of Life message, and an advisory to "upgrade". Something has gotten through, somehow. Worst comes to worst, we'll nuke from orbit, and reinstall from the Windows CD which she purchased along with her...
[17:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Judge Approves $26 Billion Merger of T-Mobile and Sprint - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:01] <exec> 08└─Worst case scenario: seagulls all get handguns.
[17:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Judge Approves $26 Billion Merger of T-Mobile and Sprint - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:02] <exec> 08└─I'm rotting for the former. Slowly but surely aren't we all! And to think, the great power we really do have to undo it all will again be squandered in primal rage.
[17:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Approves $26 Billion Merger of T-Mobile and Sprint - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:05] <exec> 08└─Bills will go up, service will get worse, Wall Street will cheer even more.
[17:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Approves $26 Billion Merger of T-Mobile and Sprint - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:07] <exec> 08└─I'd be pleasantly surprised, if Starlink cuts in on the cellphone market. Right now, I'm just hoping they'll have a positive impact on the ISP market.
[17:16:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 351 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:17] <exec> 08└─I disagree. Use algorithms that have withstood repeated attacks from those with a very high incentive (reputation in their field) to succeed in a crack. However, don't trust closed source implementations of said algorithms. All the big name algorithms come with reference implementations. Also, only...
[17:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:30] <exec> 08└─Do you use Windows?
[17:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:31] <exec> 08└─I fall back on the old proverb: the tallest tree is the first cut down. Luckily, crypto stacks, so you can use a very tall tree, plus a bush of your own devising, and when the big tree falls (and don't kid yourself, academics aren't the only ones - or the best resourced ones - chopping away...) that...
[17:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:33] <exec> 08└─The article in Washington Post is a washout to what's really happening just now. Yeah, just another "oil spill", though I will grant that exposing our compromised position is still a good idea. I just kinda wish that people would react.
[17:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 1264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:35] <exec> 08└─I hope everybody here remembers this for future discussions about Intelligence and the CIA and what have you. It's a perfect example to address many of the criticisms and comments people usually give. For example: 1) The CIA is full of idiot blowhards. Look, they are so incompetent they *insert exam...
[17:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:37] <exec> 08└─You can use implementations in multiple programming languages and test them against each other. There are even implementations of common algorithms in . . . JavaScript. Not that I think it is a good idea, but it could be included in testing as yet one more verification that all tested implementation...
[17:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:40] <exec> 08└─Why not use well recognized standard algorithms in addition to custom crypto?
[17:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:42] <exec> 08└─We need government mandated ROT17. "The government selected ROT17 because two applications of it will not revert the ciphertext back to plain text.", the senator explained. "...and furthermore", the senator added, "we chose ROT17 because 17 is a prime number unlike 13."
[17:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:44] <exec> 08└─hmmm ... for all this spying and backdooring the world hasn't gotten any much better. ofc we don't have a parallel universe where crypto AG never made friends with CIA and to which we can compare. in any case i don't much believer that this spying was much for the betterment of humankind (certain pa...
[17:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 1191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:46] <exec> 08└─Is there a reason you suspect it would mess up the validation step? You ROT13, then apply, say, AES. To decrypt, you AES with same key, then ROT13 again. It's been since the 1990s that I read Applied Cryptography. One thing I remember is that all crypto is basically combinations of two types of oper...
[17:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a Foldable Phone with "Glass" - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:56] <exec> 08└─Price might be outrageous, but it looks like it'll about the same as the current Moto Razr. Niche? - the flip phone format has some big big inherent advantages, snap it shut and the screen is instantly protected, throw it in a pocket with your keys, it'll fit, in fact you may well have to fish aroun...
[17:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Bandwidth Memory Could Increase to 16 Layers, and More - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:08] <exec> 08└─So, it's about being lazy and has absolutely nothing to do with insert latest buzz.
[17:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Motherboard Driver is Perfect For Slipping Windows Ransomware Past Antivirus Checks - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:01] <exec> 08└─You don't need it previously installed, and you don't need the hardware present. As I understood it, the flow goes something like this: Bad actor uses some sort of browser exploit (ideally with no privilege escalation or user input required. We see these pop up somewhat regularly, sadly) to download...
[17:19:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 309 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:19] <exec> 08└─Do not drink alcohol while taking aspirin. Alcohol can increase your risk of stomach bleeding caused by aspirin. Call your doctor at once if you have symptoms of bleeding in your stomach or intestines. This includes black, bloody, or tarry stools, or coughing up blood or vomit that looks like coffee...
[17:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:33] <exec> 08└─Unless you're driving. I'd rather not be killed because you had a headache and were driving buzzed.
[17:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:34] <exec> 08└─Same can be said for someone that's hypoglycemic.
[17:19:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:36] <exec> 08└─Well, I'd think it's quite likely for someone to die when a ton of anything hits you in the head.
[17:19:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 1301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:38] <exec> 08└─It shows that ordinary folks aren't as stupid as you seem to think. Think of all the women who are NOT diagnosed with a heart attack because their symptoms aren't the same as m n. Doctors miss a lot of shit. Broken bones - doctors looking at xrays failed to find my broken left foot until I broke it...
[17:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:41] <exec> 08└─Welp, just make sure to stay out of the way then, and you're golden.
[17:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:43] <exec> 08└─I don't think people are stupid, save for a few specific counter examples that have removed all doubt as to that truth. I think medicine is a field where actual expertise matters.
[17:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:45] <exec> 08└─I do remember the name Vioxx. Never took it. But it was headline news. I've taken Indomethacin (nsaid) for over 15 years now. My arthritis Dr worked with me to try a number of different nsaids until I found one that (1) I liked and (2) I could take three times a day. Some others, like Celebrex could...
[17:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:47] <exec> 08└─It seems like, over the years, the US gets this idea that 500mg in a capsule should be the max OTC. Then it goes back to 650 again. Then back to 500 again.
[17:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 1638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:49] <exec> 08└─The difference is the amount it takes to kill. As far as Fentanyl is concerned it's such a tiny amount extra to be a fatal overdose. Whereas something like Aspirin / Acetaminophen, it's not likely to be an adult accidentally overdosing and killing themselves that way. It's the parents' job to raise...
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[18:15:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 331 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:23] <exec> 08└─If you like Debian and you DON'T LIKE systemd, there's Devuan.. All the goodness of Debian WITHOUT the insanity of systemd. I DO NOT blame you for refusing to go to Windows 10. Windows 7 was the last usable version of Windows, and you couldn't pay me enough to infect my computers with Windows 10. Si...
[18:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:32] <exec> 08└─When EOL was announced I said Windows would magically start having problems after it's last update. Anyone who still uses any version of Windows is a fucking retard.
[18:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:34] <exec> 08└─It's not equivalent if you are on a laptop with non-empty battery (which is likely if it was just plugged in).
[18:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:36] <exec> 08└─When EOL was announced I said Windows would magically start having problems after it's last update.
[18:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 1466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:38] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of lessons here. 1. Don't fix it if it ain't broke. That is especially critical in enterprise computing. You don't fuck with a working server. Don't update anything that isn't a problem. But Windows automatically updates, constantly. No doubt that's a big reason why Windows has prett...
[18:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:40] <exec> 08└─It depends on how the hardware was designed. Typically, pressing and holding the power button does a forced shutdown, equivalent to pulling the plug, but possibly less likely to cause harm to the hardware. As opposed to, pressing the power button and letting go which would likely make it go into sle...
[18:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:43] <exec> 08└─Is there a particular reason why she wants/needs Win7? My wife has been pretty happy with Linux machines that I've set her up with in the past. Though, usually, she gets my hand me down gaming machine, which has windows.
[18:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:45] <exec> 08└─I wasn't arguing the functionality of the power button. I was arguing the functionality of pulling the plug.
[18:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:47] <exec> 08└─Couldn't b'e an'y wors'e tha'n Window's coder's
[18:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:49] <exec> 08└─When it pulled this no-permission-to-shutdown stunt on me, I opened a terminal on the host machine and replied with kill -9. Problem solved. It's happened a few times since.
[18:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:51] <exec> 08└─A couple of years ago I was acquainted with a gentleman who was a very highly-paid manager of a software development group for a very major bank. At the time he raved about Windows 8. You can get rid of the stupid tiles. He said it was refined and much better / faster than Win 7. I've used 8 a few t...
[18:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airbus Unveils MAVERIC, a Technical Demonstrator to Test Blended Wing Bodies - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:03] <exec> 08└─Seeing that TFA was submitted by good 'c0lo', I would not be so quick to declare it as typo. From many past observations, my money would be riding on a deliberate misspelling. It is too well done to be an accident from 'c0lo', IMHO. :-)
[18:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus Unveils MAVERIC, a Technical Demonstrator to Test Blended Wing Bodies - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:04] <exec> 08└─I didn't notice the typo; I always read it that way anyway.
[18:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus Unveils MAVERIC, a Technical Demonstrator to Test Blended Wing Bodies - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:06] <exec> 08└─a airplane uses x liters from A to B. if you put more passenger with RFID chip that logs their "green-ness" then the number they get in used carbon PER PASSENGER decreases the more you can "share" the plane with fellow greenies. let's hope that "microwaves in a a copper can" takes off soon. everyone...
[18:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus Unveils MAVERIC, a Technical Demonstrator to Test Blended Wing Bodies - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:08] <exec> 08└─No fun allowed (grin).
[18:16:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Judge Approves $26 Billion Merger of T-Mobile and Sprint - 216 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:16] <exec> 08└─Bills will go up, service will get worse, Wall Street will cheer even more. Because that's what happens when competition is reduced, and that was the purpose of this move, regardless of what they told the regulators.
[18:16:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 721 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:44] <exec> 08└─guys... the world is full of one time pads, whose downloading will never raise any red flag, who are already mirrored and distributed in the whole planet, who are already compressed so devoid of harmful repetitions, who can be used together with a hash function and a password with simple programs th...
[18:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:55] <exec> 08└─I will agree with this, once the 'pee pee' tapes are released.
[18:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:56] <exec> 08└─I should have mentioned pads, and one-time pads.
[18:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:58] <exec> 08└─Because, some of those well recognized standard algorithms may be, or truly are, not to be trusted, and possible fallback to them may serve as an exploit. For this very reason, broken algorithms are often removed from standard libraries even in classic methodology. Frankly, I consider this well reco...
[18:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:00] <exec> 08└─a very high incentive (reputation in their field)
[18:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:02] <exec> 08└─when world adopts a massive fragmentation strategy in cryptography, their own game is over.
[18:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:05] <exec> 08└─In this case, can you be sure that the combination is not weaker?
[18:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:07] <exec> 08└─so one lonely evening i found myself observing the native wildlife of scantily-clad-but-not-good-enough-looking-for-the-local-functionary-"let the tourists take care of the education of their children"-woman gyrating lazily and mostly bored on stage. when suddenly there was a commotion and a change...
[18:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a Foldable Phone with "Glass" - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:18] <exec> 08└─It could be an indication of another Galaxy Fold style public beta test. *CRUNCH* OW!
[18:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a Foldable Phone with "Glass" - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:20] <exec> 08└─Just because another company makes even more crazy expensive phones does not mean Apple is not crazy expensive.
[18:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Bandwidth Memory Could Increase to 16 Layers, and More - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:31] <exec> 08└─Fake. 8 GB is easy to find in all price segments above $200. By 2025, RAM will probably be 50% cheaper.
[18:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OneWeb Launches its First Large Batch of Broadband Satellites, Plans March Launch and April Break - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:41] <exec> 08└─Iridium used SpaceX to replace its entire constellation recently. Some would say that Starlink might be a direct competitor.
[18:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OneWeb Launches its First Large Batch of Broadband Satellites, Plans March Launch and April Break - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:43] <exec> 08└─While I wouldn't expect SpaceX to do anything that would harm their rocket launch business. I wouldn't be super comfortable giving my direct competitor more fuel to burn me with.
[18:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OneWeb Launches its First Large Batch of Broadband Satellites, Plans March Launch and April Break - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:45] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneWeb_satellite_constellation [wikipedia.org] I've read on another site that they will not sell directly to consumers, instead will sell capacity to local ISPs that then will sell it to end users. On one hand it seems to be a safer bet because they can sign few big con...
[18:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Avatar Competes with Humans on "Camming" Site Chaturbate - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:07] <exec> 08└─rDT never put out in the way this Twitterbater did. Expect the technology to eventually be used for mo-cap animated nude Trump livestreams. Don't forget the voice changer.
[18:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Motherboard Driver is Perfect For Slipping Windows Ransomware Past Antivirus Checks - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:31] <exec> 08└─That's an interesting point, but not necessarily true -- the driver could and should simply be flagged in the virus signature lists, and quarantined like any other simple virus. The fact that it's signed makes it particularly easy to keep track of because it can't be modified to evade the antivirus...
[18:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:57] <exec> 08└─It's almost like, when you are exposed to a culture that has certain freedoms, while your culture doesn't, that you're more likely to want to also have those freedoms. The internet, at least it's good for something.
[18:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:58] <exec> 08└─The HR department is not there to protect employees, nor is it there to be the moral conscience of the company. HR is there for one reason: to protect the company from lawsuits. It is an offshoot of the legal team. The "exit interview" they give isn't so they can get last-minute thoughts about the c...
[18:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Reaper of Death': Scientists Discover New Dinosaur Species Related to T-Rex - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:15] <exec> 08└─How about your Momma is so slow, she got Thantotheristes degrootorumed?
[18:20:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:16] <exec> 08└─Any knowledge of or experience with meloxicam?
[18:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:17] <exec> 08└─Interesting, but that has not been my experience. I had a brother who was an extremely "brittle" type-1 diabetic. He would often become hypoglycemic. He only got silly, goofy, giddy, etc. Convincing him to eat or drink anything was difficult. Many times he went into shock and became unconscious. For...
[18:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:19] <exec> 08└─Not me.
[18:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:22] <exec> 08└─Me neither, but I don't have problems that need it. It was prescribed to my father, but I don't know why, and he's not with us anymore to ask him about it... Might be something for you to look into- my dad's doctor was voted best doctor in a major metropolitan area many years.
[18:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scalable Photonic Computer Solves The Subset Sum Problem - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:48] <exec> 08└─It'll probably help science or some shit which is good for living n stuf I guess.
[18:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scalable Photonic Computer Solves The Subset Sum Problem - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:49] <exec> 08└─Yes. And, I wonder how many people understand the scale of GPU computing. For comparison sake, dual hexacore socket F Opterons (12 cores total) rack up about 15,000* points per day on Folding at Home. A single GeForce GT 730 gets about 12,000 PPD quad octocore Opterons (32 cores total) get about 45,...
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[19:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:20] <exec> 08└─US carbon emissions dropped by 2.9% which is good, but nearly enough to slow down global warming. Mostly driven by Trump's failure to bring back coal (thankfully). Coal Power Plant Shutdowns Surge Under Trump [fortune.com]
[19:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:21] <exec> 08└─...NOT nearly enough, d'oh!
[19:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:23] <exec> 08└─Trump repairing Obama's broken economy allowed coal to die a natural death because it is not an efficient form of energy. By telling coal workers he would try to help instead of telling them their jobs are worthless and that they should learn to code made them feel heard and he gained a solid voting...
[19:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:26] <exec> 08└─New rules implemented by the EPA: no take backsies!
[19:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:28] <exec> 08└─"Trump repairing Obama's broken economy" Why must you r-tards always get it backwards? Obama managed to pull the US out of a devastating economic depression and Trump got to ride that wave through his first term. The rate of job growth has slowed, and as many economists point out we have to wait a f...
[19:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:30] <exec> 08└─Um... what? First off, without Obama's seed money (remember the demonized solar city?) the renewable market wouldn't have had the required jump start to compete with traditional power on price. Those windmills, and solar installations drove further investment and now, the subsidies are barely needed...
[19:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:32] <exec> 08└─Funny how the rhetoric changes so quickly. Go back to right before the election. Remember, if Trump gets elected the economy is going to crash imminently according to just about everybody on the left. The New York Times went so far as to suggest it might literally never recover if Trump was elected....
[19:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, there is a particular reason. It's called "Obstinate Old Woman Hard Headedness". Her first exposure to computers involved DOS 3.2, Windows V1, V2, and V3.11, then Win9x. We moved on to XP, then when XP support was ending, I managed to get her onto Ubuntu. Things went along nicely, until Ubuntu...
[19:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Improbus [6425] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:04] <exec> 08└─A more main steam distro that also doesn't use SystemD is MX Linux. Since it is based on Debian it will run on both 64 bit AND 32 bit CPUs. Try finding a modern distro for 32 bit computers. You won't find many.
[19:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:06] <exec> 08└─That post isn't so bad, but I saw one once that was filled with at least a dozen similar apostrophes. Someone replied, "The apostrophe doesn't mean 'Look out! Here comes an S!'"
[19:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus Unveils MAVERIC, a Technical Demonstrator to Test Blended Wing Bodies - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:22] <exec> 08└─Buses can be double-wide. [youtube.com]
[19:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Approves $26 Billion Merger of T-Mobile and Sprint - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:37] <exec> 08└─Good enough ISP service is effectively a secondary type of "cell phone" service. There are internet based ways of doing "phone call" like things. Further, you can actually get some cell service over an internet connection. And I think there are probably VOIP services available over the net. Didn't G...
[19:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:18] <exec> 08└─"Remember this for future..." I though where you were heading was wait till we find out what replaced this stuff. The communications revolution should be making an intelligence golden, golden age. There are lots of companies to pick from where their software seems to have access to what a lot of fol...
[19:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:20] <exec> 08└─Oh, and always compress your data before encrypting it.
[19:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:22] <exec> 08└─But of course the real reason why ROT13 is insecure is that 13 is an unlucky number. Therefore if you encrypt with ROT13, the attacker is likely to guess your cleartext just by chance. On the other hand, if the attacker already suspects ROT13 encryption, the bad luck will struck him instead, and he'...
[19:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:24] <exec> 08└─If only they went out to US companies and actually helped them secure their networks, shit like this wouldn't be able to occur. Please, start competing with each other, agencies!
[19:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:32] <exec> 08└─A weird drug, IMO, is Tramadol. My arthritis dr had me try it instead of hydrocodone in, about, 2010. Take it every day he said. I got jittery. Couldn't keep my limbs and extremities still. Had to always be shaking of moving them. Had some trouble sleeping. It was like an electric current almost. Al...
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[20:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:31] <exec> 08└─Can't discuss with crazies :( "Funny how the rhetoric changes so quickly." go gaslight somewhere else asshole
[20:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:32] <exec> 08└─Trump's policies (tariffs, natural gas) did for free in a few years what the democrats said would cost one trillion dollars per year to do for the foreseeable future. Now that he became more democrat last year emissions are going back up though: https://i.ibb.co [i.ibb.c...
[20:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 1475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:34] <exec> 08└─Right before the election, the New York Times and the rest of the "MSM" also thought that Hillary was inevitable. This despite the well-known facts that the presidency tends to switch parties when there isn't an incumbent, especially when the same-party candidate is perceived as establishment like H...
[20:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:36] <exec> 08└─What you're seeing there is a graph of infrastructure build-out and associated economic growth. Funny how it goes up in Democrat years, but mostly stays flat in Republican years. It also fluctuates seemingly randomly from year to year, so we really don't have the data yet to make any clear statement...
[20:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:39] <exec> 08└─You can eat up what previous generations built and call that "transition" all you want, but when nothing is left, words won't matter anymore.
[20:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:41] <exec> 08└─https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/04/pete-buttigieg-unveils-1point1-trillion-climate-change-plan.html [cnbc.com] "Sanders has proposed the largest federal investment in combating climate change, laying out his plan for a $16.3 trillion outlay over 15 years in renewable energy and public infrastructure. S...
[20:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:43] <exec> 08└─I have a simple question for on global warming. When do you think humanity started having a meaningful contributing role? You need to think carefully about this question because the implication is somewhat surprising. Let's say you pick an absurdly late date and say 1990. Alright. Here [wikipedia.or...
[20:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:45] <exec> 08└─What you're seeing there is a graph of infrastructure build-out and associated economic growth. Funny how it goes up in Democrat years, but mostly stays flat in Republican years.
[20:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:47] <exec> 08└─Obama managed to pull the US out of a devastating economic depression Yeah, Trump is riding coattails, but Obama merely paid ransom to Wall Street and gave some of their people cushy government jobs, Holder being a kind of famous one, and they put a tiny part back into the economy. Obama is hardly a...
[20:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:50] <exec> 08└─Why do you assume it will crash down instead of up?
[20:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:52] <exec> 08└─https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/germany-turns-electricity-importer-first-time-five-years-june [cleanenergywire.org] Nuff said
[20:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:54] <exec> 08└─>but the market moved on to NG more than renewables, which is... better, but not great. Actually, it's much worse than that. Natural gas (methane) is an extremely potent greenhouse gas in its own right, which eventually breaks down into CO2 in the atmosphere after many years. For a shift to methane...
[20:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:56] <exec> 08└─All the reduction efforts are good, but I question the accounting to 1950s levels... Are they counting the carbon emission changes from Germany's population increase? Supply of food to the people? Etc.
[20:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:30] <exec> 08└─Fascinating! An in depth look into Runaway's domestic life! Just fascinating.
[20:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:31] <exec> 08└─* makes sandwich *
[20:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:33] <exec> 08└─It's just a symbol to remind you that there's more to see.
[20:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:36] <exec> 08└─That's an interesting way to put it. I've never considered it that way. Rules of grammar haven't ruled my life, but some things just stick in my mind. That said, if things never changed we'd be speaking old English and stuff. :P
[20:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:38] <exec> 08└─Then, if for some reason the power-button move doesn't work, remove the battery. And if none of those work, a sledgehammer will put an end to your lousy laptop that won't obey the demands of you, it's owner.
[20:16:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Airbus Unveils MAVERIC, a Technical Demonstrator to Test Blended Wing Bodies - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:49] <exec> 08└─That typo is funny enough to warrant being pointed out. ;^)
[20:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus Unveils MAVERIC, a Technical Demonstrator to Test Blended Wing Bodies - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:57] <exec> 08└─So can some presidents.
[20:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:56] <exec> 08└─1. Compress plaintext 2. Prefix compressed binary with, say, four bytes of length 3. Suffix (length + compressed block) out to some other random length 4. XOR pad with pseudo random data, whose seed is part of your overall 'key' Now length is not easily determined. Compressed file indicators or file...
[20:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:58] <exec> 08└─More experienced users will find that ROT13 is not as secure an encryption scheme as EBCDIC.
[20:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forgotten Motherboard Driver is Perfect For Slipping Windows Ransomware Past Antivirus Checks - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:20] <exec> 08└─"If only they used their powers for good." who's to say they aren't? anyone propping up MS Windows is providing material support to the enemy. They deserve to have their funds confiscated. This is a war!
[20:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:09] <exec> 08└─"The factors in the decision of whether and, if so, which drug to prescribe for relief of pain and inflammation, should not be limited to risks of cardiovascular or gastrointestinal side effects. These considerations should also include potential benefits including improvements in overall quality of...
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[21:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MWC Barcelona 2020: "Mobile World Congress" or "Most Won't Come"? - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:20] <exec> 08└─A conspiracy theory that finally makes cents! A disadvantaged Asian equipment manufacturer engineered coronavirus to sabotage attendance at MWC this year! Management bought into an idea which makes good since.
[21:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MWC Barcelona 2020: "Mobile World Congress" or "Most Won't Come"? - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:22] <exec> 08└─If they held it in some backwater non-touristy location, only the lower level people would be going. So no big loss except to the tourist industry - and fewer greenhouse gas emissions. Whatever happened to actually using the Internet to communicate so they don't have to fly and get drunk and pig out...
[21:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MWC Barcelona 2020: "Mobile World Congress" or "Most Won't Come"? - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:24] <exec> 08└─<no-sarcasm> The world’s biggest phone show has been canceled due to coronavirus concerns [theverge.com] MWC 2020 is no more The world’s biggest phone show, Mobile World Congress, is no longer taking place this year. After coronavirus threatened to throw MWC into chaos, [theverge.com] the GSM As...
[21:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MWC Barcelona 2020: "Mobile World Congress" or "Most Won't Come"? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:26] <exec> 08└─Hopefully I'm not the only one who remembers a day when more technical people than managers went to trade shows. Or so it seemed. (remembers visions of MacWorld back in the daze) Aren't the tirade show parties one of the big draws? Or the vendors that have hospital suites?
[21:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MWC Barcelona 2020: "Mobile World Congress" or "Most Won't Come"? - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:28] <exec> 08└─The coronavirus (sorry, COVID19) claims another victim.
[21:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MWC Barcelona 2020: "Mobile World Congress" or "Most Won't Come"? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:30] <exec> 08└─US Postal Service stops accepting mail for China [nypost.com]
[21:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MWC Barcelona 2020: "Mobile World Congress" or "Most Won't Come"? - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:32] <exec> 08└─How about another joke Murray?
[21:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 2679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:59] <exec> 08└─>What I mean is that if we dropped emissions down to 1880 levels, the heating would not stop nor would temperatures trend to 1880 levels. Actually they would - just not immediately. There's roughly a 50-year lag on CO2 absorption - i.e. if we cut global emissions to 1880 levels today, it would take...
[21:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:01] <exec> 08└─Ok, boomer.
[21:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:03] <exec> 08└─Wew thats expensive when we could go with better sources for cheaper. 2018 Numbers Currently fossil fuels represent ~60% of US power generation, with ~30% of that being from Coal. Nuclear power is 20% of current power generation at 98 operating plants. New nuclear plants cost between 6 and 9 billion...
[21:16:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:14] <exec> 08└─<no-sarcasm> Linux, even with systemd, is far better than life with Windows. Seriously. </no-sarcasm>
[21:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:42] <exec> 08└─Have any Soylentils run into this problem? How did you get around it?
[21:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:43] <exec> 08└─4 second delay Not fast enough! [youtube.com]
[21:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:45] <exec> 08└─No sarcasm either, life with BSD ain't too bad either.
[21:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:48] <exec> 08└─But it's definitely not majority Russian developed. It had some interest from Medevev(sp?) and might have been shown to Putin a few years back, but otherwise it's had very little government support in Russia, whereas the majority of donations and development are still happening in Western nations, o...
[21:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:50] <exec> 08└─Windows 7 shut down successfully, but it wouldn't allow cancelling out of the shutdown to deal with an open and unsaved notepad instance. I finally had to choose force shutdown and it completed successfully. Looks like another Windows upgrade timebomb just like Windows XP got at its end of support....
[21:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:52] <exec> 08└─Bashing Microsoft is fun, but if you want to actually fix this then stop the Adobe Genuine Monitor service. 3 wuv u adobe uwu. 3
[21:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:54] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that shutdown.exe works as well.
[21:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:56] <exec> 08└─Same functionality - you just need to pull the plug from the power source. Which in the case of a laptop is NOT the wall. Granted, it seems like an ever-increasing number of laptops make it non-trivial to unplug the battery...
[21:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:59] <exec> 08└─Stop with this shit already.
[21:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:01] <exec> 08└─>your lousy laptop that won't obey the demands of you, it's owner. A computer always follows the demands of its owner. If it's not following your commands, then you're not the owner. And yes, that pretty much rules out computers running Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS, etc.
[21:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:03] <exec> 08└─>1. Don't fix it if it ain't broke. How does that apply to handle security updates? It *is* broken, it *was* broken, and you've just been operating in ignorance of that fact. And now that the brokenness is public knowledge it's only a matter of time until it's exploited. At least if you're connected...
[21:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Approves $26 Billion Merger of T-Mobile and Sprint - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:35] <exec> 08└─I'm a T-Mobile customer as well. I picked it in large part because its market power was the least, and thus it was more likely to make efforts to keep prices down and provide good service. I'm guessing that will change now that it has more customers and reduced competition. Because regardless of wha...
[21:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Approves $26 Billion Merger of T-Mobile and Sprint - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:37] <exec> 08└─Anybody that thinks this is going to be good for the customers should be pilloried in the town square. The correct solution to the lack of competition would be to break up both AT&T and Verizon to create additional competition, not to allow the 3rd and 4th place carriers to merge. Or better still, s...
[21:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Approves $26 Billion Merger of T-Mobile and Sprint - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:39] <exec> 08└─There's definitely VOIP solutions, but that's still more of a fringe or enterprise solution. Also, there doesn't seem to be much of a roaming kind of capability with Starlink. I would definitely love to see an internet anywhere kind of thing, but that's still relegated to cell phones with tethering...
[21:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:26] <exec> 08└─XOR, have been using it for years! Combine it in a double-cipher with ROT-13 and you are good to go. Hmm... today's updated prong 2 of the devil's fork... Avast and their spyware. Could it be the same TLA?
[21:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:28] <exec> 08└─You are confused. So we must not roll our own but use a well-tested thing, but now also not buy such a product from what seems to be a legit vendor? So I am caught between the extreme of buying ROT-13 from IBM or eliptical AES tri-doublechucky 4K key but handcoded in Visual BASIC by the guy in the a...
[21:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:30] <exec> 08└─Encryption algorithms should compress data already. You can test it, generate a large plaintext file, encrypt it with e.g. GPG, check the size.
[21:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:32] <exec> 08└─I'm not familiar with behavior of the GPG software. But encryption algorithms do not compress data generally, as far as I know. They typically take a fixed sized block of data as input and produce another fixed size block of data as output. These block mode ciphers can be run in a "stream" mode.
[21:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Molecular 'Switch' Reverses Chronic Inflammation and Aging - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:43] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. I don't pollute my browser with youtube so i can only blindly download whatever url is on offer. But this is helpful, thanks Ill check it out on your rec.
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[22:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MWC Barcelona 2020: "Mobile World Congress" or "Most Won't Come"? - 1120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:33] <exec> 08└─Mobile World Congress Canceled Due to Coronavirus Concerns [bloomberg.com] The wireless industry scrapped its biggest annual showcase after the coronavirus outbreak sparked an exodus of participants, roiling telecom companies just as they’re preparing to roll out new 5G services. It’s the first...
[22:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MWC Barcelona 2020: "Mobile World Congress" or "Most Won't Come"? - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:34] <exec> 08└─It's the only device on the market striving for a mainline Linux kernel. Flying thousands of km only to be infected by Android spyware? Madness.
[22:15:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 854 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:46] <exec> 08└─"Trump repairing Obama's broken economy" Why must you r-tards always get it backwards? Obama managed to pull the US out of a devastating economic depression and Trump got to ride that wave through his first term. The rate of job growth has slowed, and as many economists point out we have to wait a f...
[22:15:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 1475 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:51] <exec> 08└─Right before the election, the New York Times and the rest of the "MSM" also thought that Hillary was inevitable. This despite the well-known facts that the presidency tends to switch parties when there isn't an incumbent, especially when the same-party candidate is perceived as establishment like H...
[22:15:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 536 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:53] <exec> 08└─What you're seeing there is a graph of infrastructure build-out and associated economic growth. Funny how it goes up in Democrat years, but mostly stays flat in Republican years. It also fluctuates seemingly randomly from year to year, so we really don't have the data yet to make any clear statement...
[22:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 2366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:06] <exec> 08└─Responding to myself to respond to both comments: - Whoever moderated me +1 Informative is wrong. Read my signature. - I have not read any of the linked articles. I'd moderate people +1 Informative myself if they weren't deliberately misrepresenting what the reports claim and who is behind them. - T...
[22:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:07] <exec> 08└─Methane, that alone, as I understand the world, makes all of this CO2 talk irrelevant. *The entire point of the C02 talk was to prevent the methane release* Now that the methan is releasing, and it is, of course the false-hope peddlers want you to pay attention to the people who were paying attentio...
[22:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:09] <exec> 08└─Well if Germany going back to 1950s isn't good enough, try UK which has gone back to 1880s levels and is on target for 1850s levels by 2030. Of course the US isn't doing sh*t to help, but then it never really does until someone makes a big bang in its back yard, nothing new there, Europe is used to...
[22:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:11] <exec> 08└─Crash...up? My assumption is that trickle-down economics achieve short-term gains by boosting the capital available to the stock market, but result in long-term losses due to deferred maintenance and lack of investment in community resources. This leads me to expect that trickle-down economics will...
[22:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:01] <exec> 08└─Plan9 is always there for you, like a loving friend, a warm glove, as a constant companion. Or you could take the red pill and use TempleOS.
[22:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:03] <exec> 08└─> A more main steam distro that also doesn't use SystemD is MX Linux But you still have the choice to use it if you want, in the optional/additional (grub) boot options... somewhere.
[22:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:05] <exec> 08└─Pulling the plug is much more reliable. The power button is still implemented by software. Granted it's not Microsoft's software, but it's software nonetheless.
[22:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:07] <exec> 08└─I'm running Devuan Ascii on a 32-bit Via processor as a mail/webserver. It started life in 2012 as a Wheezy (Debian 7) box. Migrating to Devuan was cake, I pointed the apt repositories to Devuan Jessie and apt-dist-upgraded. Once on Devuan, dist upgraded again to get to Ascii.
[22:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:09] <exec> 08└─Better the devil you know. If you have a mitigation for a known problem, then DO NOT UPGRADE! Lot of problems can be prevented by blocking malicious packets at the firewall. Again, DO NOT UPGRADE! The maintainers releasing a shiny new version that doesn't address any issue you're having is the worst...
[22:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:11] <exec> 08└─...can shut down in a reasonable amount of time. Press the power button, 1 second later everything goes silent. Windows NT3.5 and NT4 sit there for ages while displaying a message "saving your settings" which is obviously not true as there is no disk activity during this time. XP and 7 do the same t...
[22:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Approves $26 Billion Merger of T-Mobile and Sprint - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:46] <exec> 08└─I don't see any obvious reason why Starlink ground equipment couldn't be designed to roam. Even if initial versions of equipment does not do so. It would seem that having non-fringe internet "phone" service is a matter of someone building an extremely easy to use app that is as simple as your cell p...
[22:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:38] <exec> 08└─If only one thing hadn't happened, I might believe the united states government was trying to protect me. Epstein. Might as well add the bullshit that was obviously caused by spies in Iowa too. If you protect the bad guys, you can't be the good guys. (write that down spooks) Here, consider your han...
[22:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:40] <exec> 08└─Any innocent widely distributed info can become a one time pad, you secure it by hashing and salting.
[22:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:42] <exec> 08└─If you protect the bad guys, you can't be the good guys.
[22:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06CIA Owned CryptoAG, Provider of 'Secure' Crypto Products - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:44] <exec> 08└─Compression being part of encryption is a terrible idea, for the reasons mentioned above - it leaks the entropy of the plaintext. If it compresses much, that's a big leak, and if it doesn't compress much, there's no point in doing it.
[22:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces a Foldable Phone with "Glass" - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:56] <exec> 08└─I loved my V60 back in the early noughties. https://www.gsmarena.com Of course, there's the internet now, and my phone is an essential part of that, so the above won't do any more. I'm on a resistive touchscreen presently which scratches very easily, and am running out of spare...
[22:19:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virtual Avatar Competes with Humans on "Camming" Site Chaturbate - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm sure the bitches are really hurting after the loss of all those otaku mouthbreathers.
[22:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virtual Avatar Competes with Humans on "Camming" Site Chaturbate - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:45] <exec> 08└─True, not like the otaku mouthbreathers were even attracted to real people to begin with.
[22:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forgotten Motherboard Driver is Perfect For Slipping Windows Ransomware Past Antivirus Checks - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:10] <exec> 08└─The bad guy does that. But since it's signed by all the right people it gets installed without question.
[22:22:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:00] <exec> 08└─So....just another Wednesday, then?
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[23:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Brings on NASA's Former top Spaceflight Official as it Prepares to Launch First Astronauts - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:23] <exec> 08└─They spelled "lobbyist" wrong.
[23:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MWC Barcelona 2020: "Mobile World Congress" or "Most Won't Come"? - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:39] <exec> 08└─lyrics: (tv reporter voice) "In 2019 the infection seemed like just another flu, but it wasn't It was different in many ways, as so were those that did the fighting In World War II the average biological weapon was anthrax In Wuhan was COVID-19 In-in-in Wuhan was COVID-19" na na na na na na na na na...
[23:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MWC Barcelona 2020: "Mobile World Congress" or "Most Won't Come"? - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:41] <exec> 08└─what do you get when you cross a mentally retarded sloth with a banana eager to go up its ass? i'll tell you what you get you get what you fucking deserve! (sound of banana being inserted)
[23:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MWC Barcelona 2020: "Mobile World Congress" or "Most Won't Come"? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:43] <exec> 08└─They should have given it a CVE number.
[23:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:17] <exec> 08└─Look at Venezuela: https://www.bloomberg.com [bloomberg.com]
[23:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:19] <exec> 08└─The linked articles are not from Democrats, but from non-partisan international groups primarily concerned with energy security, not climate change.
[23:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Dioxide Emissions Defying Expectations - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:21] <exec> 08└─Maybe it shouldn't surprise me after 3 years, but I still find it weird when I read comments from people defending Trump. Instead of being embarrassed that he leads your country, you want more of him. It is odd that there are people stupid enough to think he is anything more than a criminal, but c...
[23:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:17] <exec> 08└─I was quoting Imagine Dragons.
[23:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, fuck you too Coward. Windows may suck, but it keeps the eats on the table for me. Can't use Linux as a desktop replacement at work 'cuz the software we need won't run on it. Once properly beaten into submission Windows is just fine, even 10. Linux isn't perfect either. I spent a lot of time on...
[23:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:21] <exec> 08└─hahahahahahaha No: no problem here. Been off Windows for 21 years now. Soooooooooo happy this shit is over for me!
[23:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:23] <exec> 08└─Slackware - systemd free linux. http://www.slackware.com [slackware.com]
[23:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 7 "You Don't Have Permission to Shutdown and Restart This Computer" - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:25] <exec> 08└─Try finding a modern distro for 32 bit computers.
[23:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airbus Unveils MAVERIC, a Technical Demonstrator to Test Blended Wing Bodies - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:43] <exec> 08└─Too late, I had it already ⁽ᵍʳᶦⁿ⁾
[23:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airbus Unveils MAVERIC, a Technical Demonstrator to Test Blended Wing Bodies - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:44] <exec> 08└─The windows will be flat panel monitors. I sat next to a senior EADS designer on my way back from Toulouse, where I was visitting Freescale Semiconductor's European head office when i worked for them back in the mid-noughties. They were already talking about such flying wing designs 15 years ago.
[23:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airbus Unveils MAVERIC, a Technical Demonstrator to Test Blended Wing Bodies - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:47] <exec> 08└─The windows will be flat panel monitors. That is what I suspect. Which means you'll see more ads than views, which on a monitor sucks anyway. Won't matter much, the kids will never know what it was like to fly. I hear Xanax helps you endure the nightmare. I hope I never have to find out.
[23:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Judge Approves $26 Billion Merger of T-Mobile and Sprint - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:06] <exec> 08└─Perhaps those that want these companies to be more consumer friendly should buy their stock and vote. The techies here have money and collectively you can change the outcome of who is in charge. Worst case scenario you benefit from the lack of competition (you can use the money you make in other way...
[23:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Approves $26 Billion Merger of T-Mobile and Sprint - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:07] <exec> 08└─That and the need to provide 911 service. Maybe not all, but it's certainly common for VOIP services to not provide 911 service.
[23:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google HR Chief Eileen Naughton to Step Down Amid Employee Tensions - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:56] <exec> 08└─Umm I think you need to re-read the chain of comments, the "instant change" that I was responding to was this claim by someone else: And the employees are things that can be reprogrammed on the spot
[23:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Reaper of Death': Scientists Discover New Dinosaur Species Related to T-Rex - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:14] <exec> 08└─Nah, try this: Your momma so gassy she ripped a doozy that went back in time and killed all the dinos.
[23:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Choosing Common Pain Relievers: It's Complicated - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:22] <exec> 08└─First, DON'T TRUST WIKIPEDIA as your source for something like this. (oopsie! someone misplaced a decmial point! oh well!) Second, tinnitus (ringing in ears) is a symptom and your 'spaceyness' may be coming from hyperventilating which is also an early sign of aspirin poisoning, and confusion is a la...
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