#comments | Logs for 2020-02-24

« return
[00:22:48] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[00:22:48] <exec> last cid = 961612
[00:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:02] <exec> 08└─If you really loved him, you'd use an enema.
[00:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:03] <exec> 08└─Shit is nature's anal lube.
[00:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:05] <exec> 08└─It's just a loop to get people around the convention center. They could have done another monorail or similar but I'm sure they will use the novelty of it as another attraction item for future conventions.
[00:29:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T Loses Key Ruling in Class Action over Unlimited-Data Throttling - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:19] <exec> 08└─Try again, maybe you'll get it right.
[00:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RIP: Larry Tesler, Inventor of Copy & Paste - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:47] <exec> 08└─Lennart won't die until he implements systemd-killd, obviously. You see, signals are too difficult and confusing for modern, agile, computing, plus IBM, who leapfrogged MS in term of evil with a single acquisition, isn't making any money off them. So, with systemd-killd all signals will queue up on...
[00:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RIP: Larry Tesler, Inventor of Copy & Paste - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:48] <exec> 08└─This looks suspiciously like copypasta. Good.
[00:32:40] <exec> count new = 6
[00:32:40] <exec> count top = 0
[00:32:40] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[01:22:48] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[01:22:48] <exec> last cid = 961619
[01:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Large Kuiper Belt Object 2007 OR10 Finally Given a Name: Gonggong - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:52] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/161dYV5ehGY [youtu.be]
[01:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Large Kuiper Belt Object 2007 OR10 Finally Given a Name: Gonggong - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:54] <exec> 08└─Not windy and wild enough [youtube.com]
[01:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Large Kuiper Belt Object 2007 OR10 Finally Given a Name: Gonggong - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:56] <exec> 08└─gonggong: "Chinese water god with the head of a human and the body of a snake." Get it on, bang a gonggong, get it on... ....errrrr....maybe not.
[01:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Large Kuiper Belt Object 2007 OR10 Finally Given a Name: Gonggong - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:58] <exec> 08└─Trump will be sucking Chinese cock before this decade is out.
[01:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:13] <exec> 08└─He's a fag, like Seth MacFarlane without the makeup. The CIA do like their bitches to be pretty, though.
[01:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:15] <exec> 08└─Consider Amber Heard. She false MeToo'd Johnny Depp, maybe while cheating on him with Musk. They dated openly for a year and Musk ended it. The slime slid right off. Also, Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself.
[01:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe this is the 2020s trope of inventiveness? For 2 decades we've had $MUNDANE_THING on the internet being revolutionary - now we'll have $MUNDANE_THING in Teslas taking their place. It doesn't have to be mundane mundane, just something that's been done for decades already. Looking forward to "Spa...
[01:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:19] <exec> 08└─155 MPH is roughly a mile every 25 seconds. It's what, maybe 4 miles from one end of the strip to the other? Another 3-4 miles to the airport. Lets be generous and call it all 10 miles. At top speed that's 3-4 minutes end to end. Takes time to speed up and slow down, let alone stopping at stations....
[01:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:35] <exec> 08└─Around 2003, I was first exposed to the concept of trans-cranial magnetic neuro stimulation (TMS). The press releases and company PR did a very poor job of differentiating their technology from woo woo snake oil magic energy crystals. I was looking for work at the time, maybe if the company had been...
[01:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:37] <exec> 08└─In investor presentations there's a huge difference between "have the tech" and "have worked out all the kinks to make the tech viable in working prototypes" for instance: E. Holmes and Theranos.
[01:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 1799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:39] <exec> 08└─Well, let's assume any of the current fusion experiments would yield sustainable energy output. A few magnets for plasma confinement, maybe a laser here or there for ignition. Now build a power plant from it, say in the 3000 MWt, 1000 MWe region, big enough for some economies of scale. That's going...
[01:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's a minor pain and a bit of reading but it's not in any way difficult. Make a list of the crap you don't want being used by Unicode code points, get the hex and decimal HTML entities for each, and get any named HTML entities for each. After you have those it doesn't take more than a few min...
[01:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:25] <exec> 08└─Only if you had a childhood that was worth having lived. I mean, if you never got up to anything good enough to get your ass whipped, you wasted yours entirely.
[01:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:27] <exec> 08└─I'm just enjoying myself a day off of church work. I had to pull several muscles to score it, so I plan on making the most of it by doing as little as possible. On top of which, which branch production servers currently match up precisely with (dated release? a couple hotfixes beyond? emergency roll...
[01:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:29] <exec> 08└─Use IPv6 if it bothers you. They most assuredly are not a trivial keyspace. And, yeah, I lie all the time. It's not like I have more than half a dozen other admins with vastly differing views on everything except our free speech policy reading the Meta stories.
[01:32:41] <exec> count new = 15
[01:32:41] <exec> count top = 0
[01:32:41] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[02:22:48] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[02:22:48] <exec> last cid = 961642
[02:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Large Kuiper Belt Object 2007 OR10 Finally Given a Name: Gonggong - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:00] <exec> 08└─Trump will be a nobody come Jan 2021
[02:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Large Kuiper Belt Object 2007 OR10 Finally Given a Name: Gonggong - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:02] <exec> 08└─I've got a feeling Trump will be re-elected in a landslide election, and Pelosi and the rest of the Demokrauts will be applying for a job at Taco Bell in 2021.
[02:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Large Kuiper Belt Object 2007 OR10 Finally Given a Name: Gonggong - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:04] <exec> 08└─I seriously doubt that. As much as I dislike Trump, I can already see the DNC working to get rid of Sanders so one of their billionaire-friendly candidates can take over. I foresee a repeat of 2016: the Dems shoot themselves in the foot *yet again* and then the other side wins the general election.
[02:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Large Kuiper Belt Object 2007 OR10 Finally Given a Name: Gonggong - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:06] <exec> 08└─Just to expand on this, I'm reading articles now saying how we "need" Michael Bloomberg to "save" us from Sanders. Allegedly, according to these people, Sanders isn't "electable" and would surely lose in the general election. That's what they said about him last time, and it's the exact same thing t...
[02:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:26] <exec> 08└─I wanna a ride with a view!
[02:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:27] <exec> 08└─That is the best dumbass-American in Vegas quip you can come up with? You're not even trying. How about: Elon Musk spent millions in Vegas and still didn't lay as much pipe there as Donald Trump. Or: Breaking news! Vegas Tesla's to come with video poker! There should at least be a little sport to th...
[02:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:29] <exec> 08└─I wanna a ride with a view!
[02:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:49] <exec> 08└─That's why I said it's "probably" snake oil. I'm not slamming the door, but surprisingly positive results even from the best often turn out more surprising than positive. He's been investigating relatively fringe areas and though sometimes those work out, more often than not they don't. I hope he's...
[02:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:51] <exec> 08└─[citation-needed] I'm not dismissing the concept but how much energy will it generate relative to the emissions due to mining the boron? Pardon my cynicism but the loudest advocacy for nuclear power in eastern Australia comes from the climate change denialist cult within the federal government, who...
[02:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:53] <exec> 08└─That should read: "That, by the way, is not a reason to never do good quality science on topics that are kind of on the fringe."
[02:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:24] <exec> 08└─^THIS^ If you're going to fuck up the sky for every single person that would fall in love with astronomy, then the least you owe us is obviating the need for ground based observatories. Use that massive amount of bandwidth to deliver high quality astronomy images to everyone in the world that wants...
[02:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:26] <exec> 08└─Fair game for hacking and destruction then.
[02:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:28] <exec> 08└─a terrestrial Starlink terminal with low power millimeter wave 5g nanocell equipment would work. at least until you try to incorporate access control, billing metrics, hand off, and so on...
[02:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:30] <exec> 08└─They do ask, but they have a leverage: no? fuck off :)
[02:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:32] <exec> 08└─That was almost definitely not a Starlink. Here [nasa.gov] is a link where you can sign up to SpotTheStation - it's for the ISS. The ISS is flying quite a lot higher than the Starlinks and so its perceived velocity would be lower. It's also about the size of a football field rather than a whatever t...
[02:26:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 180 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:29] <exec> 08└─old situation: massive abuse of users "maybe this should be regulated" new situation: massive abuse of users, and every page has a box to check where the user "agrees" to the abuse
[02:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:50] <exec> 08└─Using tabs for indentation instead of spaces.
[02:26:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:52] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's correct to say you don't collect any personally identifying information.
[02:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:54] <exec> 08└─Pull the other one!
[02:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:56] <exec> 08└─That's not abuse. That info is clearly and intentionally displayed on every comment for all editors and admins.
[02:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:58] <exec> 08└─Plus it's fun to laugh at their lack of UTF-8 support. That is their saving grace. No emojis! Twenty years of archives ain't too shabby either...
[02:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:00] <exec> 08└─We actually do qualify because we take subscriptions from California residents and handle personal information (email addresses) regarding at least 50k consumers, households, or devices. Now I'm pretty sure we could get any legal action thrown out because California is not entitled to legislate for...
[02:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:02] <exec> 08└─Shitty bench law, yes.
[02:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:04] <exec> 08└─No but not flushing the toilet is.
[02:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:06] <exec> 08└─Well, you've got the stupid nailed. Work on your confidence and you'll get there eventually.
[02:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:08] <exec> 08└─You make a compelling argument but having your code monkeys and editors look like retards every time someone uses a type of quotation mark or dash not found in ASCII isn't a good tradeoff IMO.
[02:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, they should reject the submission than contains any of that junk and tell the guy to sanitize his input.
[02:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JAXA Approves Phobos Sample Return Mission, Set for 2024 Launch - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:24] <exec> 08└─What exactly are they comparing the sample to? We never officially obtained samples from mars for comparison.
[02:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JAXA Approves Phobos Sample Return Mission, Set for 2024 Launch - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:26] <exec> 08└─I don't think so. It appears that money was allocated, but no exact timeline was set.
[02:33:27] <exec> count new = 28
[02:33:27] <exec> count top = 1
[02:33:27] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[03:22:48] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[03:22:48] <exec> last cid = 961673
[03:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mashing May Mitigate Mars Mole Meandering - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:55] <exec> 08└─Should have used an Elong Musky company probe instead.
[03:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mashing May Mitigate Mars Mole Meandering - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:56] <exec> 08└─mooks
[03:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mashing May Mitigate Mars Mole Meandering - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:23:58] <exec> 08└─Fuck you, man. Milfs need some loving, too.
[03:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mashing May Mitigate Mars Mole Meandering - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:00] <exec> 08└─His falls short of 30 centimeters by about 90%.
[03:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mashing May Mitigate Mars Mole Meandering - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:02] <exec> 08└─Milfs and sons. Suck harder mom.
[03:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mashing May Mitigate Mars Mole Meandering - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:04] <exec> 08└─And then the son-in-law appears: "You motherfucker! And you bitch, after all that spunk I pumped into your worn-out leaking asshole..."
[03:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mashing May Mitigate Mars Mole Meandering - 2056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:06] <exec> 08└─This is why human exploration is where the future is. People *dramatically* overestimate what we can do with probes. Grand fantasies of the future notwithstanding, our current state of robotics is still just so primitive. An Atlas robot (Boston Dynamic) being able to walk and lift basic objects in e...
[03:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mashing May Mitigate Mars Mole Meandering - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:08] <exec> 08└─This is not how it is done. When you are here on Earth and you pay money to have somebody make a hole, they NEVER do this. There could be a reason! The main option for small things, like water wells 50 feet down, is like a pile driver. The pounding comes from above, not from within. The main option...
[03:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mashing May Mitigate Mars Mole Meandering - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:11] <exec> 08└─Oh. And these were the last words spoken from the moon: Bob, this is Gene, and I'm on the surface; and, as I take man's last step from the surface, back home for some time to come – but we believe not too long into the future – I'd like to just (say) what I believe history will record: that Amer...
[03:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mashing May Mitigate Mars Mole Meandering - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:13] <exec> 08└─You gotta keep in mind your on Mars, not on Earth. The *entire* mass of the lander was about 350kg - structure, power, motors, everything. And you're running on solar power with a yield of about 4.5kwh under ideal circumstances. And, of course, vibrations are a really good way to break things in unp...
[03:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mashing May Mitigate Mars Mole Meandering - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:15] <exec> 08└─Or they could just try a different location.
[03:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Large Kuiper Belt Object 2007 OR10 Finally Given a Name: Gonggong - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:30] <exec> 08└─Sorry, no, that's pure fantasy, and you obviously have no idea what's going on politically in this country. I do agree that Trump will probably be re-elected, but it'll be another close race just like the last one, and quite possibly another one where he loses the popular election but still wins the...
[03:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:53] <exec> 08└─Haven't seen numbers for the Model 3 or Model X, but a Tesla Model S can do 0-100mph-0 (~160kph) in a little over 10 seconds -- https://www.motortrend.com [motortrend.com] ... the P100D is delivering more than 1.0 g from 2.4 mph to 46 mph and the entir...
[03:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:52] <exec> 08└─Who is Mask? Mask is a pedo guy https://www.cnn.com [cnn.com] who drives pedo truck.
[03:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:23] <exec> 08└─Or use the TOR address. You guys got that right? For the record, part of why I'm not worried about this site's privacy policy, are the admins like you. I can give you shit about some things, but not for being a liar or a coward. I trust you guys. Is it just me, or is the grammar off here: Privacy Po...
[03:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:24] <exec> 08└─This isn't directly relevant to your question but SoylentNews is NOT legally a non-profit. Absolutely false. They are registered in Delaware as a public benefit corporation. A PBC can make a profit. However, the board of directors is under no legal obligation to prioritize shareholder profits above...
[03:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:26] <exec> 08└─first pull up then pull down - Hot Tuna https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[03:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 2658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:28] <exec> 08└─SoylentNews wouldn't exist in anything close to its current state were it not for your users. They purchase subscriptions, submit story ideas, and make lively discussions. The bottom line is that you should do right by your users. When whipslash purchased Slashdot, he promised to do things different...
[03:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemists Use Mass Spectrometry Tools to Determine Age of Fingerprints - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:27] <exec> 08└─I believe that it probably was. Almost certainly was. There are two people at work who learned the trade directly from George Washington Carver. I can ask them when these mold cleaners were made available to the industry. Commercial preparations aside, acetone has been available for all of my life....
[03:33:26] <exec> count new = 19
[03:33:27] <exec> count top = 0
[03:33:27] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[04:22:48] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[04:22:48] <exec> last cid = 961703
[04:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mashing May Mitigate Mars Mole Meandering - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:09] <exec> 08└─America won, Ivan. You think the moon landing was about space exploration. It was never about space exporation. It was about beating the Commie Ruskies and nothing else. Space is and always has been a political pissing contest ever since the Nazis were first to space.
[04:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mashing May Mitigate Mars Mole Meandering - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:10] <exec> 08└─What's going on here? Some kinda AC virus or sum?
[04:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Large Kuiper Belt Object 2007 OR10 Finally Given a Name: Gonggong - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:27] <exec> 08└─Gonggong is a decent name, but I'm going to need help figuring out how to pronounce Xiangliu. It's not that I want to pronounce it in an authentically Chinese manner, though I wouldn't mind, but I don't speak a tonal language. It's that it doesn't seem to have any valid pronunciation at all.
[04:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:13] <exec> 08└─What's your point? One nutty sounding thing out of 10,000 nutty sounding things turned out to be legit so this random nutty sounding thing is also legit?
[04:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:24] <exec> 08└─Requiring websites to tell users how their data is being used is not treating everyone like criminals. The bad actors aren't the legislators writing and passing these laws, but the companies that show blatant disregard for the privacy of the users. It is not a horrible or unreasonable burden to requ...
[04:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:25] <exec> 08└─pull down tear up [wordpress.com]
[04:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:58] <exec> 08└─The paradoxes only occur because people are bad at dealing with "infinity." For one thing, what does infinity even MEAN? You will notice no rigorous definition here. The only folk-definition Zeno uses is that something "continues" without end... but he always stops the "sum" and says, "See, there is...
[04:33:24] <exec> count new = 7
[04:33:24] <exec> count top = 0
[04:33:24] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[05:22:48] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[05:22:48] <exec> last cid = 961713
[05:23:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:55] <exec> 08└─He died for what he believed in. Truly, Mike Hughes was a better man than Elon Musk.
[05:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:56] <exec> 08└─It was hard not to root for this magnificent bastard. Part of me wanted him to actually prove the Earth was flat.
[05:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:23:58] <exec> 08└─That the Earth was flat, but now he is. Part of a dream is better than none, eh?
[05:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:00] <exec> 08└─If he's now flat, then the earth is flat.. in a localized manner of speaking, otherwise he would be round?
[05:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mashing May Mitigate Mars Mole Meandering - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:20] <exec> 08└─The other concern with pushing on the back of the mole is the risk that it flops flat out of the hole. Once it's lying flat there isn't an obvious way to get it vertical again. Making provisions to allow the arm to retrieve and redeploy the science instruments seems really important now, but it wasn...
[05:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:00] <exec> 08└─From near the ocean in Orange County, I have done day trips to Las Vegas for business and entertainment, using either a car or a motorcycle. It's really not that hard. Only thing missing is expanding I-15 between Barstow and the Nevada state line to a MINIMUM of three lanes each way (this is a heavi...
[05:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:01] <exec> 08└─We'll mullet over.
[05:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:09] <exec> 08└─hahaha, lol. if you dont observe how can you beforehand know that it changed drastically?
[05:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chemists Use Mass Spectrometry Tools to Determine Age of Fingerprints - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:39] <exec> 08└─Acetone does a great job but I hate the smell. In many cases isopropyl 91% (drugstore) does a fine job without that bite.
[05:32:49] <exec> count new = 9
[05:32:50] <exec> count top = 0
[05:32:50] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[06:22:48] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[06:22:48] <exec> last cid = 961729
[06:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, kinda sad there are so few self made scientists and engineers. Even if they're theories are wrong, I feel they're the type to make some huge breakthrough once one doesn't.
[06:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:06] <exec> 08└─Steam powered rocket is hardly a break through.. well, except through the top layer of dirt.
[06:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:08] <exec> 08└─Parachute tore off, backups didn't deploy. How can we be sure it wasn't sabotage by round-earth nutters?
[06:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:10] <exec> 08└─The man was a looney. He was missing some screws. He was nuts. I suspect this year's Darwin Awards will feature him.
[06:32:31] <exec> count new = 4
[06:32:31] <exec> count top = 0
[06:32:32] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[07:22:48] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[07:22:49] <exec> last cid = 961735
[07:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 1506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:08] <exec> 08└─It's easy to mock his death, but many (if not most) of the greatest minds in invention and development worldwide have been completely self taught. For instance the Wright brothers who near single-handedly revolutionized airflight in America had the amazing expertise of being bake repair/manufacturin...
[07:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:09] <exec> 08└─He died because of what he believed in, which was wrong. He did not die "for" anything, since his death contributes nothing to anything he believed. In Nam, if you were KIA, we called you "wasted", having died for nothing.
[07:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:11] <exec> 08└─In some ways, persistence can be more powerful than genius, but paired together they can be near miraculous.
[07:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:11] <exec> 08└─No, I like to do everything outside Oh give me land, lots of land, and the starry skies above Don't fence me in Let me ride through the wide open country that I love Don't fence me in [youtu.be]
[07:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:36] <exec> 08└─But I suspect it's not going to work out, much like many ideas haven't worked out.
[07:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 1543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:15] <exec> 08└─It is a lost cause. Whether you're talking about wireless carriers as the cellular companies, or wireless ISPs pushing data services. Although, I highly doubt they're going to get the bandwidth out the satellites. Assuming that sat-to-sat comms are multi-gigabit, that's only going to carry one of yo...
[07:26:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 358 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:41] <exec> 08└─I skim the headlines on the crapper in the morning. Sometimes they have something we missed that's worth subbing. Plus it's fun to laugh at their lack of UTF-8 support. I mean, I even offered to do that shit for them back years ago when they said they were going to finally implement it. For free. He...
[07:32:38] <exec> count new = 6
[07:32:38] <exec> count top = 1
[07:32:39] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[08:22:48] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[08:22:49] <exec> last cid = 961745
[08:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:19] <exec> 08└─really? you're comparing people who were stumbling through the unknown with a guy who refused to accept well-established facts? his death is just sad, because it was a misguided and failed attempt to achieve something that many other people have already achieved. misguided because the ultimate goal...
[08:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 1696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:20] <exec> 08└─One could well have ended up saying the same of the Wright Brothers had their early experiments with flight ended in tragedy (as many before had). And indeed there would have been people mocking such a tragedy, for what sort of fool would think humans could fly like the birds? Let alone when those f...
[08:32:15] <exec> count new = 2
[08:32:16] <exec> count top = 0
[08:32:16] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[09:22:48] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[09:22:49] <exec> last cid = 961748
[09:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 1755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:18] <exec> 08└─Humans had been trying to fly for literally thousands of years. Do you know how many countless thousands of unnamed people died trying to create 'flying machines'? Even the ancient tale of Daedalus and Icarus is a metaphorical warning against such lofty aspirations. Look up history prior to the Wrig...
[09:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 1527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:19] <exec> 08└─I'd add that this is also the exact problem with entrepreneurship. You have to be 'insane' to get into entrepreneurship when you don't come from significant wealth. Yet, lo and behold, the vast majority of entrepreneurs don't come from significant wealth. Old money generally produces idiots complace...
[09:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:21] <exec> 08└─Your comment itself is also illogical. Why in the world would you want to prevent "idiots"
[09:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:23] <exec> 08└─Instinctively I align myself with the commenters who respect him but I have two further considerations. Genius picks the better route, in this case it would be leasing a plane, and checking the distortion of the glass beforehand. Lol I am kidding , the best method is getting two distant enough frien...
[09:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:04] <exec> 08└─Nostalgia? I made some great posts there.
[09:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:05] <exec> 08└─Python coder spotted! Arm torpedoes!
[09:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:07] <exec> 08└─Or VPN. Just reconnect every few minutes.
[09:32:26] <exec> count new = 7
[09:32:26] <exec> count top = 0
[09:32:26] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[10:22:48] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[10:22:49] <exec> last cid = 961758
[10:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:57] <exec> 08└─Agriculture Minister Onyoti Adigo Nyikiwec said the locusts had crossed the eastern border with Uganda on Monday.
[10:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:58] <exec> 08└─https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/how-yemen-s-civil-war-played-a-role-in-africa-s-great-locust-swarm-1.975183 [thenational.ae]
[10:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:29] <exec> 08└─Like Aldous Gajic [fandom.com]? The big difference is that Gajic sought something that couldn't be found or proven, while Hughes sought proof of something already thoroughly disproven. Does that make Hughes less of a true seeker? Perhaps. Perhaps not.
[10:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:30] <exec> 08└─That the earth is round is obvious to anyone who has climbed to the top of the mast of a tall ship. Furthermore, if you take a sextant up eith you, you can take a load of measurements with which to determine the circumference pretty accurately by measuring the angle to various landmarks along the co...
[10:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:33] <exec> 08└─The Wright Brothers were dealing with an engineering problem within the scope of known science. Mike Hughes was trying to disprove settled science. If he was the first person trying to build a rocket, then his death would have had meaning, but that problem was settled almost a century ago as well. H...
[10:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mashing May Mitigate Mars Mole Meandering - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:53] <exec> 08└─you need a transformer?
[10:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Large Kuiper Belt Object 2007 OR10 Finally Given a Name: Gonggong - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:11] <exec> 08└─from makemake to gonggong.
[10:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:37] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure the metro runs on tires at least in my city
[10:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:03] <exec> 08└─Pardon my cynicism but the loudest advocacy for nuclear power in eastern Australia comes from the climate change denialist cult within the federal government
[10:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:43] <exec> 08└─I'm not the grandparent AC, but I saw them between Christmas and New Years. I don't know the exact magnitude, but in my part of the world, they were as bright as planets. They sailed across the sky as large dots of light -- in a row, one after another. Each one stayed visible for about 90 to 120 sec...
[10:27:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 922 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:11] <exec> 08└─I run a business and a website. Just for laughs I thought I'd try the "free" privacy policy generator on the linked site. Not only is it littered with options that say +$9 or +$12, but one of the questions is: What kind of personal information do you collect from users? Click all that apply: Email a...
[10:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:23] <exec> 08└─I'll disagree with you just a little bit. In an ideal world, I'd like to know what a website collects about me and be able to view that in plain, curt, understandable English. Now, you and I both know that our world is not ideal and every website we frequent (except for this one) obfuscates (and oft...
[10:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:18] <exec> 08└─Advocating English-centric view in the times of international communication. Amusing and horrible.
[10:29:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:29:35] <exec> 08└─you think the biographical details are irrelevant?
[10:31:44] <exec> count new = 12
[10:31:45] <exec> count top = 2
[10:31:45] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[11:22:48] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[11:22:49] <exec> last cid = 961770
[11:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:06] <exec> 08└─Round'em all up and fry'em. If you can't beat it, eat it.
[11:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:07] <exec> 08└─It's the usual situation: One has a lot of sympathy for the individual people affected by this. However, the disaster itself was invited in and offered a seat by the governments. Maybe Yemen, but certainly the African governments. Corruption and warfare have prepared the ground for the suffering of...
[11:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:09] <exec> 08└─https://www.thedailybeast.com/after-coronavirus-locusts-could-be-the-next-plague-that-hits-china?ref=home [thedailybeast.com]
[11:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:41] <exec> 08└─Mad Mike's life and death may be the purest possible metaphor for modern America: A man with clear mental disease is exploited by "reality television" for money while nobody in a position of responsibility sees any reason to try to get him help. And half of the country cheers him on like he's some k...
[11:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mashing May Mitigate Mars Mole Meandering - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:03] <exec> 08└─Maybe I've missed it, but I haven't seen an analysis of why these problems are happening. Are they hitting rocks? Or - what seems more likely - have billions of years of blowing reduced the surface soil to such a fine powder that it is nearly frictionless? For the nearest Earth equivalent: how would...
[11:28:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:32] <exec> 08└─Slashdot got a lot worse after this site was set up as a result of one simple decision: they removed the Message Center. That meant that there wasn't any way of replying to a post without manually monitoring each of your posts for replies and so discussion fell into one-shot remarks. If you asked so...
[11:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, because having information symmetry between participants in a market is a communist idea. Curse those people legislating to protect a free market economy, those damn communists!
[11:31:52] <exec> count new = 7
[11:31:52] <exec> count top = 0
[11:31:52] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[12:22:49] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[12:22:49] <exec> last cid = 961777
[12:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SMS Attack Spreads Emotet, Steals Bank Credentials - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:55] <exec> 08└─The messages urge victims to click on a link... mimics the bank's mobile banking page.
[12:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:13] <exec> 08└─Locusts or Somalis?
[12:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:14] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a low-budget Japanese horror movie... but that's what happens when you pray to a false idol.
[12:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:49] <exec> 08└─Did he manage to find out if the Earth was flat and have time to tell anyone anyone the answer? We were all agog to hear. Otherwise his life will have been wasted.
[12:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:51] <exec> 08└─Mad Mike was doing something (rocketry) that has been done in far better ways for a long time, and supposedly trying to discover something (the shape of Earth) for which far better methods have existed for a long time, a discovery which was made a long time ago anyway. There is no comparison with th...
[12:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:53] <exec> 08└─I think he meant that proving the earth was flat would have been a breakthrough. I guess we'll never know now whether it is flat or not, unless another Mad Mike steps forward.
[12:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:55] <exec> 08└─It was round before, but his impact has flattened it. QED
[12:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:57] <exec> 08└─if he realized the earth was round it would have been terrible news part 1/2, so I hope at least he died without knowing it.
[12:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:04] <exec> 08└─The way I see it, this is simply a way of getting someone else to pay for proof that the Boring Company can successfully dig tunnels. The fast cars are just the means by which punters will pay to ride and investors will foot the construction bill. The real magic is getting that first contract to dig...
[12:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:06] <exec> 08└─And eventually in the distant future there might even be something like a tunnel going from the UK to the European mainland. Oh, wait, that was decades back. This is another player in the market, yes, and that's good for competition and therefore for keeping the market fair, but it's still just some...
[12:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 1553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:32] <exec> 08└─You complain about people relying on tech that doesn't exist, for large-scale production. Then you ask "Could it ever be cheaper than stored renewables?" Which also doesn't exist. There is no current path to large scale energy storage. You talk about 1GW-3GW range, so you need to store at least 10GW...
[12:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:27:14] <exec> 08└─I think when they were ducklings in a line they hadn't reached anywhere near their final orbit yet, but their orbital radius, even if they're doubling altitude, won't change massively. However, that minute ballpark is a useful datapoint. The spot I saw really didn't seem to be moving, so it looks li...
[12:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03pgc [1600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:31] <exec> 08└─It is not a paradox, since the time needed for each action will eventually approach 0, therefore the total time taken will fit in a limited amount of time.
[12:31:39] <exec> count new = 13
[12:31:39] <exec> count top = 0
[12:31:39] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[13:22:49] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[13:22:49] <exec> last cid = 961791
[13:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SMS Attack Spreads Emotet, Steals Bank Credentials - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:56] <exec> 08└─Agreed. And given that the danger is in following the link and doing what the phishing page there tells you to do, that link could have been sent via SMS, or by email, or be linked to from twitter (obfuscated through a t.co shortening, no less), or on facebook, or simply be a link in any other webpa...
[13:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mathematicians Propose New Way of Using Neural Networks to Work With Noisy, High-Dimensional Data - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:03] <exec> 08└─The article is a rather technical piece dealing with how the posterior distribution is approximated in Bayesian models. The authors propose a modification in a standard iterative procedure which they praise in usual academic style. The neural network part is a simple (or poor, depending on POV) bait...
[13:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mathematicians Propose New Way of Using Neural Networks to Work With Noisy, High-Dimensional Data - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:05] <exec> 08└─I read the paper and my first thought was they were generalising something we *currently* to by empirical means. It turns out, just like machine learning is not AI, using NN in high-dimensional data is really not that new. What's new is the astonishing hardware you can buy, software that runs on it,...
[13:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Propose New Way of Using Neural Networks to Work With Noisy, High-Dimensional Data - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:07] <exec> 08└─I can't access the paper, only the abstract. I wonder how well their method works in practice because their key assumption that the ground truth distribution is normal does not apply in many real-world datasets. Are you able to share a copy of the paper somehow?
[13:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:21] <exec> 08└─https://www.dailysabah.com/asia/2019/12/25/china-to-rewrite-quran-bible-to-fit-socialist-values [dailysabah.com] China tried to rewrite the Bible and Quran, so God and Allah sent coronavirus and locusts, respectively.
[13:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:00] <exec> 08└─Did he manage to find out if the Earth was flat and have time to tell anyone anyone the answer?
[13:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:02] <exec> 08└─Nope. There was a sizeable chunk of the scientific community who were completely convinced that heavier than air flight was impossible. It was proved science to them.
[13:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:10] <exec> 08└─a tunnel going from the UK to the European mainland
[13:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:38] <exec> 08└─At least in the US, borax [wikipedia.org](sodium borate) is right on the surface, ready for the taking. [desertusa.com] The mining is the easy part - isotopic separation is hard. Naturally-occurring boron comes in two isotopes; 10B (about 20%) and 11B (about 80%).
[13:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:01] <exec> 08└─Any burden that is forced on good actors because it's possible they might decide to act badly is an unreasonable burden and treating them like a criminal. That you're in favor of it is a function of your own shortsightedness and choosing the illusion of security over liberty. Franklin would say you...
[13:29:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:02] <exec> 08└─Oh I'm not saying having a privacy policy is a bad idea. It's in fact a pretty good one. Just because something is a good idea does not make it right to legally compel it though.
[13:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:04] <exec> 08└─We do but since none of us staff have a ToR setup that allows us to resolve .onion addresses, it could very well be broken at any given time and nobody would know until the WTF reports start coming in. Anyone who does go through all that trouble and feels like keeping it working is welcome to join s...
[13:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:06] <exec> 08└─Sorry, didn't catch the question at the end. Switch "normally" with "ever". We track all kinds of things about everyone's interactions with this site (kind of necessary if we want to be able to put user names on comments and such) but nothing about their actions anywhere else. Hell, we don't even lo...
[13:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:08] <exec> 08└─Python coder spotted! Arm torpedoes!
[13:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 1094 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:10] <exec> 08└─If you don't like my tone, adjust your approach. Come at me from the start with disingenuous bullshit attacks that you care nothing about except in how much of a rise they get out of me and you're not going to be met with any sort of a professional demeanor. You bring me genuine concerns offered wit...
[13:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 1776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:07] <exec> 08└─> 1963 Pfft! ASCII doesn't need to have been existence for it to have been sufficient for their needs. English was the national language of India during the Raj (which it inherited from being the official language under prior EIC control), it's still officially a subsidiary official language of the...
[13:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:48] <exec> 08└─Bingo. That's the meaning of the epsilon-delta limits pioneered by Cauchy, Weierstrass, et. al., that everyone who ever did a course in elementary calculus should know.
[13:31:57] <exec> count new = 17
[13:31:57] <exec> count top = 0
[13:31:57] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[14:22:49] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[14:22:49] <exec> last cid = 961812
[14:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:53] <exec> 08└─Do these "register your data with me so I can be the world's leading resource" schemes ever succeed?
[14:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:55] <exec> 08└─If you own an IoT device that operates in a public space, you can use an online portal to publish where your IoT devices are and what data they collect, so they can be added to the app's database. "We've done the work for you," Sadeh said in the story. "All you need to do is start adding your IoT re...
[14:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:23:57] <exec> 08└─Have to admit, my first thoughts were that *finally* someone has developed an neat app scans the Bluetooth/WiFi spectrums, grabs all the MAC addresses off the air it can, matches them up with some kind of enhanced OID DB, then tells you what it has found. Nope, it's just a voluntary data submission...
[14:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SMS Attack Spreads Emotet, Steals Bank Credentials - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:06] <exec> 08└─So it ain't really an "SMS attack", really.
[14:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SMS Attack Spreads Emotet, Steals Bank Credentials - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the unicode parser doing a buffer overflow as a thin-albino-female-with-black-glasses-and-fat-caucasian-male-with-long-hair-holding-hands emoji was being composited, and everyone getting rooted.
[14:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Canadian Privacy Commissioners to Investigate "Creepy" Facial Recognition Firm Clearview AI - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:37] <exec> 08└─Clearview only collects photos of niggers and every nigger is a criminal who doesn't deserve privacy.
[14:25:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 405 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:05] <exec> 08└─Mad Mike's life and death may be the purest possible metaphor for modern America: A man with clear mental disease is exploited by "reality television" for money while nobody in a position of responsibility sees any reason to try to get him help. And half of the country cheers him on like he's some k...
[14:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:13] <exec> 08└─No, no, no... a plane ride wouldn't get him any attention. Plus, trying to use a home-made rocket of any kind to get you up to the elevation of a commercial plane ride would be a monumental feat. It would be smarter, safer, and easier to just stick a camera on it that has no lens distortion so you k...
[14:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:15] <exec> 08└─What should be the most convincing proof of the curvature does indeed use ships. Because the bottom of the ship disappears at a nearer distance than the top of the mast does, if the earth were flat, the only explanation would be that the ship is sinking as it leaves you, or re-emerging from the wate...
[14:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:18] <exec> 08└─He proved himself flat instead.
[14:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:20] <exec> 08└─because they all knew that birds were lighter than air...?
[14:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:22] <exec> 08└─I'm under the impression he just wanted to see it with his own eyes, that nothing else would ever convince him. Also possible he just really wanted to fly in a rocket but was too crazy to ever get into it as a profession.
[14:29:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:29:27] <exec> 08└─This is true. To date there's been no functional difference though. Our two shareholders still refuse to let us even pay them back (buy back the stock), much less start paying dividends or anything like that. I'm really not sure why we went the stock route instead of having debt on the books. Appare...
[14:32:02] <exec> count new = 12
[14:32:02] <exec> count top = 1
[14:32:02] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[15:22:49] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[15:22:49] <exec> last cid = 961828
[15:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:03] <exec> 08└─I've seen so many of these "all we need is a bunch of people and companies to do data entry for us for free", the only one I can ever remember to be truly successful was CDDB. But even that one got ruined by greed.
[15:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's a good example - I think there are still some music and lyric databases like that which are still pretty useful, and I suppose Wikipedia might be considered another rare - even unique - example. Greed does tend to collapse the effort, Wikipedia seems to teeter on the edge of extracting...
[15:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:06] <exec> 08└─They don't even make non-IOT versions of some things, like TVs and printers, anymore.
[15:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:08] <exec> 08└─my first thoughts were that *finally* someone has developed an neat app scans...
[15:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mathematicians Propose New Way of Using Neural Networks to Work With Noisy, High-Dimensional Data - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:28] <exec> 08└─duckduckgo the title, and you get: https://arxiv.org [arxiv.org]
[15:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Propose New Way of Using Neural Networks to Work With Noisy, High-Dimensional Data - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:29] <exec> 08└─Thanks. Recently it seems impossible to access arxiv from Japan. For some reason, it keeps giving me an access error PR_END_OF_FILE_ERROR I'll keep trying anyway...
[15:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:45] <exec> 08└─We need to build a WALL-E that compacts, cubes and stacks the locusts neatly.
[15:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:46] <exec> 08└─Would killer robots need to have a preference one way or the other?
[15:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:48] <exec> 08└─Usually the press would be all over this but is transfixed on the Coronavirus Usually the US would send an emergency aid package but Trump is in office
[15:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:50] <exec> 08└─You'll be transfixed too, coofer.
[15:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:52] <exec> 08└─And a train spanning the globe.
[15:25:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mendax [2840] 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:13] <exec> 08└─The man was a looney. He was missing some screws. He was nuts. I suspect this year's Darwin Awards will feature him.
[15:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:40] <exec> 08└─Steam powered rocket is hardly a break through
[15:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 1965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:41] <exec> 08└─Look at your own list. The people he was preceded by was a person who *claimed* to have flown a glider with a boy, and another guy who died trying to get gliders to work. The Wright Brothers, uneducated bike boys, were walking into a field many thought literally impossible. The one *and only* reason...
[15:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:43] <exec> 08└─If only someone could have supplied him with a supply of spare screws, and some tools for tightening them.
[15:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 1901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:45] <exec> 08└─I doubt he thought the Earth was flat. The dude built a home-made rocket and previously brought himself thousands of feet into the air and 'safely' landed. When you're on that level of mental ability + initiative, he could have verified the spherical nature of the Earth in a few thousand different w...
[15:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:47] <exec> 08└─These kinds of arguments aren't particularly effective at stopping flat earthers though. If you've ever argued with anyone on the internet you know why. When cornered and shown compelling evidence, they simply change the subject. It's not moving the goalposts, because there was never any kind of evi...
[15:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:49] <exec> 08└─There was a sizeable chunk of the scientific community who were completely convinced that heavier than air flight was impossible.
[15:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:51] <exec> 08└─Well, it wasn't his belief in a flat earth that killed him; it was his belief that one could ride a steam powered rocket built a garage that killed him.
[15:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:54] <exec> 08└─Has anything about rocketry changes, or is it still very failure prone for a small team with no budget to make a rocket that can bring a human rider above the Kaiman line? I hope the TV show didn't pay these "Homemade Astronauts" and were just following a story that was going to happen whether the T...
[15:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:56] <exec> 08└─Or they claim observations that you can't investigation, like claiming the shadow on the Moon during an unspecified lunar eclipse isn't round, but never saying what shape it is and that only certain kinds of people can see this shape. I'm not sure, but I think the same AC who claimed that even went...
[15:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:58] <exec> 08└─When it comes to rocketry: No boom today. Boom tomorrow, always boom tomorrow.
[15:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mashing May Mitigate Mars Mole Meandering - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:20] <exec> 08└─The gap between what robots and tool-assisted humans can do will shrink. The robot missions to Mars will be far cheaper. NASA just has to get gud.
[15:28:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Meta: Conspicuous Privacy Policy - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:37] <exec> 08└─Apparently not caring what you do on other sites or even requiring any personal information isn't good enough for the state of Confusion^WCalifornia,
[15:32:40] <exec> count new = 22
[15:32:40] <exec> count top = 2
[15:32:40] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[16:22:49] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[16:22:49] <exec> last cid = 961852
[16:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powerful Antibiotic Discovered Using Machine Learning for First Time - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:58] <exec> 08└─This could be a really good thing for everyone. Then there's a part of me saying, the down side to this likely has military applications. Sure, we don't engage in biological warfare, and most other places also don't, most.
[16:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powerful Antibiotic Discovered Using Machine Learning for First Time - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:00] <exec> 08└─I hate to say this, but we need to keep this as restricted access to last lines of defense for humans only. Otherwise it'll be sold to farmers all over the world and we'll be back to where we are now in 10-15 years. It's a whole new class of antibiotics, and losing this one might ruin the whole line...
[16:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Powerful Antibiotic Discovered Using Machine Learning for First Time - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:02] <exec> 08└─it will be sold to farmers all over the world. that's a given as long as growing food is a profit-oriented enterprise. hopefully future generations will be able to find new antibiotics.
[16:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Powerful Antibiotic Discovered Using Machine Learning for First Time - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:04] <exec> 08└─Who gave that antibiotic access to the machine learning lab? And how did they know it was it's first time?
[16:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Powerful Antibiotic Discovered Using Machine Learning for First Time - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:06] <exec> 08└─> Hal, the astronaut-bothering AI in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey Revisionist movie history? Seemed to me that HAL became an insane killing machine. Speaking of killing, isn't it a little early to declare success with this new drug before animal and human trials?
[16:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:19] <exec> 08└─I just assembled a monitor + PiZero to make my own "smart TV" that I control. Amazingly - with all the "choice" out there, products on the market just didn't do what I wanted - LibreElec with 32GB of onboard storage, bluetooth audio out, and a bright 15.6" 1080p screen.
[16:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematicians Propose New Way of Using Neural Networks to Work With Noisy, High-Dimensional Data - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:41] <exec> 08└─It is loading a bit slow for me in USA. Here is the abstract page: https://arxiv.org [arxiv.org]
[16:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:02] <exec> 08└─How good a food source are the locusts if you catch them? You lose some of the nutritive value of the grain, but you get animal protein, and the inefficiencies are not as bad as with the large farm animals that are usually eaten.
[16:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:03] <exec> 08└─Time for a feast.
[16:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:05] <exec> 08└─Their water hasn't turned to blood, they aren't all infected with boils, and their first-born sons are still alive.
[16:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:03] <exec> 08└─I have never understood this mentality in the USA that people without an education are somehow nobler than those that have one. The cult of ignorance.
[16:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:05] <exec> 08└─He used compressed steam (as did Evel Knievel) because of massive govt red tape using solid ammonium perchlorate or the complexity of liquid propellants.
[16:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:07] <exec> 08└─What revolutionary scientific progress? Ignoring centuries of scientific work is not any sort of progress. True revolutionaries were aware of what was going on. You can't find the blind spots in our knowledge, if you're not looking. I've worked with a not-for-profit group [jpaerospace.com] which ha...
[16:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:09] <exec> 08└─while nobody in a position of responsibility sees any reason to try to get him help.
[16:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:11] <exec> 08└─I mean how crazy is it that we have the technology today that it's even remotely within the realm of possibility for a man to launch himself into space using a homemade rocket?
[16:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:13] <exec> 08└─while nobody in a position of responsibility sees any reason to try to get him help
[16:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:15] <exec> 08└─after aircraft had been around for a long time
[16:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:17] <exec> 08└─Indeed. What's going to make such an effort potentially worth our attention span?
[16:26:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:19] <exec> 08└─That comment and the moderation "may be the purest possible metaphor for modern" intellectualism. It consists of facile-but-often-wrong arguments that get a bunch of people to nod sagely in agreement. clear mental disease
[16:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mashing May Mitigate Mars Mole Meandering - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:43] <exec> 08└─I don't entirely see how frictionless soil would be a problem, but this is definitely not the case. That's based on a misconception about Mars driven by visuals and sci-fi tropes. Turns out the Martian soil is, on average, about about 2% water. Put another way, a cubic foot of Martian soil = ~1 lite...
[16:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mashing May Mitigate Mars Mole Meandering - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:45] <exec> 08└─SN posters are alliterate.
[16:32:58] <exec> count new = 21
[16:32:59] <exec> count top = 0
[16:32:59] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[17:22:49] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[17:22:49] <exec> last cid = 961877
[17:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powerful Antibiotic Discovered Using Machine Learning for First Time - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:05] <exec> 08└─Please "we don't engage in biological warfare" is a steadfast american value that will last exactly as long as "we don't torture" did, when it becomes politically or militarily expedient. If we still have any values at all its gonna take some real goddamn effort to maintain that past the hooting and...
[17:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powerful Antibiotic Discovered Using Machine Learning for First Time - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:06] <exec> 08└─It's time for a well actually. Well actually, we already do withhold the more potent antibiotics for only human use, and for the most powerful ones, only for use on antibiotic resistant cases. That's been the compromise for decades now. Farmers pretty much only use neomycin and penicillin for "grow...
[17:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:05] <exec> 08└─So, the problem isn't the greedy, controlling, abusive, murderous, people in power or vying for power? It's the evil western humanitarian aid that's the problem? What's next, the soup kitchens are the reason why the cities have homeless people? Better to line them all up and shoot them or just let t...
[17:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:12] <exec> 08└─What a beautiful soul, died too soon. So what if he incorrectly thought our Hollow Earth was flat? I don't begrudge him that. Once the reptiles emerge fromt heir nest at the center of the Earth and begin another 10,000 year reign of terror, we will all know the truth anyway. The Earth's surface temp...
[17:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 3765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:14] <exec> 08└─That was not the point of the comment at all. This was about personal drive generally mattering more than education. A who's who list of tech would certainly include names such as Zuckerburg, Paul Allen, Gates, Dell, Jobs, Wozniak, Larry Ellison, and so on. Every single one of them dropped out of co...
[17:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:16] <exec> 08└─Thank you! I was going to make a similar post after seeing the over-zealous defenders. There is a strange worship of anyone who perseveres against all odds and against scientific wisdom. Contrast that with the locust story of Somalia where you have some nob making a joke about cannibalizing all the...
[17:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:18] <exec> 08└─Or more specifically, his belief that he got the engineering right on the parachutes. He had no problems riding the rocket up, it was the parachute failure that ultimately killed him. As far as the flat earth stuff goes, he was just using that as a fundraising effort. He didn't actually believe that...
[17:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:20] <exec> 08└─Clearly you're a little worked up on the hyperbolic language and missing the forest for the trees. Being a flat-earther is beyond just wrong, and yes a good portion of the country did cheer him on because he was seen as fighting the "intellectuals" that dare tell them about reality. It isn't a crime...
[17:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:22] <exec> 08└─A plane wouldn't get you high enough to see whether or not the Earth is curved as opposed to hitting a certain point where you warp to the other end.
[17:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:24] <exec> 08└─I'm glad to say I've never met a flat earther, and whilst I like an argument at least as much as the next man, I know that I really wouldn't be bothered to enter into one with such a pinhead, as I know it would lead nowhere useful. I'd laugh, which might be accompanied by a patronising insult, but n...
[17:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:26] <exec> 08└─It was a demonstration that "settled science" was not a useful concept in the post I was responding to. Read for comprehension next time, please.
[17:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:28] <exec> 08└─Hopefully someone can learn from Mike's death and use that knowledge for good.
[17:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Large Kuiper Belt Object 2007 OR10 Finally Given a Name: Gonggong - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:11] <exec> 08└─https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto&tl=en&text=Xiangliu [google.com] You're welcome.
[17:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:41] <exec> 08└─"... will move at speeds up to 155 miles per hour,"
[17:33:06] <exec> count new = 14
[17:33:06] <exec> count top = 0
[17:33:07] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[18:22:49] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[18:22:50] <exec> last cid = 961896
[18:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Reportedly Shelving Further Plans to Sell Pixel Phones - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:56] <exec> 08└─I'm so interested in the business partnership between one monopoly and one near-monopoly. I'm sure the details of arguing over who gets to profit most from their collective rent seeking behind closed doors are very interesting.
[18:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Reportedly Shelving Further Plans to Sell Pixel Phones - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:57] <exec> 08└─How is Verizon a monopoly, at least in the mobile network area?
[18:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon is Reportedly Shelving Further Plans to Sell Pixel Phones - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:59] <exec> 08└─Google-branded phones are more of a failure than a monopoly. Too many competitors.
[18:24:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 363 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:19] <exec> 08└─If you own an IoT device that operates in a public space, you can use an online portal to publish where your IoT devices are and what data they collect, so they can be added to the app's database. "We've done the work for you," Sadeh said in the story. "All you need to do is start adding your IoT re...
[18:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:27] <exec> 08└─> They don't even make non-IOT versions of some things, like TVs and printers, anymore. My screwdrivers and wire cutters will have something to say about that. That was supposed to be funny. Truth is, WiFi and BlueTooth antennas are very small, but can be found and mechanically disabled. Of course t...
[18:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:29] <exec> 08└─It worked for Google.
[18:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SMS Attack Spreads Emotet, Steals Bank Credentials - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:39] <exec> 08└─All a company should ever do is send a reminder or short message to ask a user to log in to get the actual , full message. No links, no html, no downloads, no attachments, no logos, just a text message (sms or email).
[18:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:15] <exec> 08└─Um...I do think I listed the African governments as the first and foremost problem. However, Western aid has done a lot of long-term harm. Humanitarian aid can be - and often is - a short-term patch that causes long-term problems. Good intentions count for nothing, if you don't consider the actual c...
[18:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 1370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:31] <exec> 08└─"We should, as a species, be accomplishing so much more than we are. And on this front, I admire 'Mad' Mike Hughes. Because he took the resources we have today and tried to make something of them." I won't clue you in as to why so many people are stuck not doing amazing things, but I will pop your b...
[18:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:33] <exec> 08└─If there's one thing america is still exporting globally, it's dumb shit no one should ever believe.
[18:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:35] <exec> 08└─Thanks. Somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later. Boom!
[18:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:37] <exec> 08└─The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledygook than the rest of the world put together.
[18:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:39] <exec> 08└─His rocket could go up 5000 feet, that's a little less than a mile. He could have taken a commercial airline and seen the curvature with his own eyes from eight times as high as his rocket. Both insane and stupid.
[18:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:41] <exec> 08└─Your oblate spheroid right here, bud!
[18:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:43] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, a convenient excuse for being wrong by orders of magnitude is hyperbole. I would just call it "wrong". Next, back away from the initial claim of "clear mental disease" to something vague that "isn't some trait to be worshipped". But the original conclusion is still true, right? His death is...
[18:33:01] <exec> count new = 14
[18:33:02] <exec> count top = 1
[18:33:02] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[19:22:49] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[19:22:49] <exec> last cid = 961919
[19:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:57] <exec> 08└─Only those catering to hipsters will be impacted.
[19:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Verizon is Reportedly Shelving Further Plans to Sell Pixel Phones - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:07] <exec> 08└─Verizon, isn't a monopoly, as you have 2 other choices, because you weren't seriously thinking of Sprint before anyway. Google is definitely not a monopoly when it involves hardware phones. Even comparing software, you have the choice between Apple, Android, and a "dumb" phone. Sure, AT&T and Verizo...
[19:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Reportedly Shelving Further Plans to Sell Pixel Phones - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:09] <exec> 08└─Having a monopoly in any field makes you a monopoly.
[19:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powerful Antibiotic Discovered Using Machine Learning for First Time - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:23] <exec> 08└─It's too early to celebrate, perhaps, but the potential usefulness is astounding. Tests on bacteria collected from patients showed that halicin killed Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bug that causes TB, and strains of Enterobacteriaceae that are resistant to carbapenems, a group of antibiotics that...
[19:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powerful Antibiotic Discovered Using Machine Learning for First Time - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:24] <exec> 08└─Yes! Once the powerful antibiotics are discovered to be using machine learning, it can only mean one thing: amphiboly! Humanity is doomed.
[19:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Powerful Antibiotic Discovered Using Machine Learning for First Time - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:26] <exec> 08└─You're essentially saying that it should be restricted from use on Medicare patients and reserved for those with better genes?
[19:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Powerful Antibiotic Discovered Using Machine Learning for First Time - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:28] <exec> 08└─Part of the dissolution currently happening. Hollywood did a great job of brainwashing acceptability of surveillance, law enforcement breaking the law is OK if done in pursuit of catching a REALLY BAD GUY, war crimes, and probably some other fucked up shit. Obama making a joke about droning his daug...
[19:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:45] <exec> 08└─I picked up a reasonably priced WiFi-enabled TV before the holidays. I haven't set up the WiFi part yet because I wanted to figure the best way to do it. Right now the TV is only doing over-the-air reception. I've looked at a few software options (OSMC, etc.), but I haven't spent too much time tryin...
[19:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:46] <exec> 08└─What are you using for a over the air tuner? I can't afford Silicondust products. My fist gen unit has worn out its transistors.
[19:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:48] <exec> 08└─Stores are using devices like this to track customers. I thought there would be a pile of Raspberry Pi based projects that send out broadcasts and see if wifi and bluetooth devices answer. Turns out there is hardly anything. This would be a nice addition to my outdoor surveillance camera. Besides ca...
[19:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SMS Attack Spreads Emotet, Steals Bank Credentials - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:00] <exec> 08└─"I'm pretty sure I never saw /Politicians Fear Envelope Attack/ headlines when the anthrax white powder scares were going around" Yeah but some probably called it a "mail" attack.
[19:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Privacy Commissioners to Investigate "Creepy" Facial Recognition Firm Clearview AI - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:45] <exec> 08└─so why don't they go after Facebook? Oh yeah I forgot, Facebook is too big and untouchable. Better go after a smaller guy...
[19:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:02] <exec> 08└─Now I got a question for you. Is Earth Oblate cause of the spin, or is the fact it is Oblate the reason behind the axis of the spin. What would happen if all the worlds water was sequestered at the poles, thus changing its ment of inertia along Polar axis.
[19:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:03] <exec> 08└─A guy from my home town flew earlier and to save having to re-write the text books, NASA gave us a used capsule from one of the early rockets to park on the campus of the grade school named after him, then basically told us to shut up about it. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia....
[19:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:05] <exec> 08└─they claim observations that you can't investigation
[19:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:07] <exec> 08└─If you're going to respond to something, it's often a good idea to at least read it to completion. That, or your reading comprehension is as poor as your logic.
[19:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:09] <exec> 08└─He might not have proved the earth is flat, but he did prove it is hard.
[19:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:12] <exec> 08└─There was a time, like 99.9999% of our history, when we accepted people having differing, and yes this includes outright absurd, views. I doubt many flat earthers are flat earthers. Rather it's an issue that brings out the absurdity of society today that you can make an overtly absurd statement and...
[19:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:27:14] <exec> 08└─Met some 20something german dude who tried to convince me the earth is flat. The US is home to some serious stupid, but just sayin' it isn't the only place that is.
[19:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's Boring Company Finishes First Tunnel for 155mph Vegas Loop - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:29] <exec> 08└─well, of course! how else are you going to eat a whole claw full of fries at one time like god intended?
[19:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Always Use UTF-8 and Always Label Your HTML to Say So - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:24] <exec> 08└─ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI.
[19:32:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06Zeno's Paradoxes - 1830 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:46] <exec> 08└─Funny that I got into this sort of discussion very recently with another maths-head on a different forum. We were discussing the concept of infinitesimals, and while the concept was historically important in the development of the calculus and is superficially easy to understand, it is fraught with...
[19:33:18] <exec> count new = 21
[19:33:18] <exec> count top = 1
[19:33:19] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[20:22:49] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[20:22:50] <exec> last cid = 961946
[20:24:00] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 542 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:00] <exec> 08└─This is like the asinine requirement to change your password frequently. It doesn't increase security, but it does cause a lot of hassle. Worse: it means that you must build in a mechanism to update certificates into *everything* - which is itself a risk factor. Depending on the projected lifetime o...
[20:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:02] <exec> 08└─Only if it's an Apple approved website that didn't miss their Apple membership dues.
[20:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:04] <exec> 08└─What's to prevent people from just ignoring any warnings of expired certain? They ignore everything else.
[20:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:06] <exec> 08└─Thanks to Apple and co telling us we're just little children and need to obey the rules they set, security goes out the window. The riskiest time in the life cycle of a cert is when it is issued and installed. Apple just unilaterally doubled or tripled that risk. The most suspicious occurrence for a...
[20:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powerful Antibiotic Discovered Using Machine Learning for First Time - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:34] <exec> 08└─"You're essentially saying that it should be restricted from use on Medicare patients and reserved for those with deeper pockets?" TFTFY
[20:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powerful Antibiotic Discovered Using Machine Learning for First Time - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:35] <exec> 08└─Well that's all great and good, but now comes ten to fifteen years of testing and patent squabbles before any of these get to be used.
[20:24:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 757 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:45] <exec> 08└─Have to admit, my first thoughts were that *finally* someone has developed an neat app scans the Bluetooth/WiFi spectrums, grabs all the MAC addresses off the air it can, matches them up with some kind of enhanced OID DB, then tells you what it has found. Nope, it's just a voluntary data submission...
[20:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:56] <exec> 08└─I bought a dumb TV last year, 65", and I have an x86-64 bit Wyse terminal running LibreElec plugged into one of the HDMI ports. It works really well, apart from the fact the old Atom processor is a bit underpowered for some hi-def stuff and stutters a bit. LibreElec itself is really good, there ar...
[20:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:45] <exec> 08└─So far....
[20:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:46] <exec> 08└─As I was about to reply to the above AC posts, I've eaten grass hoppers (locusts) in Mexico and in South Asia (Thailand and Malaysia) and they were very tasty. Of course if you spice up anything with cumin and/or curry, chili pepper, and lime juice it will taste good.
[20:26:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 359 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:26] <exec> 08└─Mad Mike was doing something (rocketry) that has been done in far better ways for a long time, and supposedly trying to discover something (the shape of Earth) for which far better methods have existed for a long time, a discovery which was made a long time ago anyway. There is no comparison with th...
[20:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 2202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:20] <exec> 08└─Examples? Because I think what you're saying is pretty much bullshit and can provide some evidence to the contrary. In particular I used to visit voat.co. That site was loaded with tons of pretty awful and literal racists. One story that got shared on there was about chukudus [youtube.com]. If you'r...
[20:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 1955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:21] <exec> 08└─I didn't call you a flat earther, and I didn't insult you for the opinions you stated which I think are harmful nonsense promoted by the "personal responsibility" types who use "education is available everywhere" like a cudgel to smear society. Nothing you said is new, people have been bitching abou...
[20:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:23] <exec> 08└─It is a bit hyperbolic, but also quite accurate. Or do you not pay attention to current affairs?
[20:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:25] <exec> 08└─"Oh my god. Shut him down! He's insane! He's lost his mind! Won't anybody protect the children from such degeneracy!?" Nah, that is some Republican type reaction right there. I prefer to just tell it like it is and let people decide for themselves. Don't go Full Nazi on me please, I haven't had enou...
[20:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:27] <exec> 08└─Oh. You're talking about the Earth? I was referring to my testicles. Sequester this, motherfucker!* *My initial comment and this response are intended as humor. That I feel the need to state this explicitly doesn't reflect well on the reading comprehension and utter humorlessness of *some* folks aro...
[20:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:29] <exec> 08└─Just because voat was a haven for racists doesn't mean everyone was one. Also, racists quite often are impressed by the minor accomplishments of minorities partly because they see them as sub-human. I was specifically referring to this site where the occasional story has floated through of some smal...
[20:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:31] <exec> 08└─He might not have proved the earth is flat, but he did prove it is hard.
[20:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:34] <exec> 08└─As opposed the cult of arrogance in Academia.
[20:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:36] <exec> 08└─Is Earth Oblate cause of the spin
[20:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:38] <exec> 08└─news of his death has quickly spread around the globe
[20:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Large Kuiper Belt Object 2007 OR10 Finally Given a Name: Gonggong - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:22] <exec> 08└─a) that sends me to a page that requires javascript, so I won't use it b) I'm not after a translation, but rather a reasonable way to pronounce it. (After all, it's a personification's name. What it means is secondary.)
[20:33:44] <exec> count new = 20
[20:33:44] <exec> count top = 3
[20:33:45] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[21:22:49] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[21:22:49] <exec> last cid = 961974
[21:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03knarf [2042] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:17] <exec> 08└─They'll probably launch Apple-certified long term certificates for a ....special... price which circumvent this limitation. Apple gets another few million, their flock will laud their daring incredibly amazing initiative, rinse, repeat.
[21:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:19] <exec> 08└─Time to go back to good old fashion HTTP.
[21:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:21] <exec> 08└─Or just use another browser. This only affects Safari.
[21:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:23] <exec> 08└─How many certs were brute-forced last year, among those with recent encryption schemes? So, what is apple wanting to prevent? We were pushed to https because the browsers happily execute code from wherever. But https everywhere is a monoculture, and if something were to happen to them (or to their a...
[21:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:25] <exec> 08└─You are half right. The riskiest time in the life cycle of a cert is when it is issued and installed.
[21:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:27] <exec> 08└─If you use SSL/TLS certs, then you probably already have some mechanism for updating them. After all, they have to be updated, just not as quickfully as Apple might like. Apple is forcing everyone to use their update mechanism more often. Possibly at greater cost.
[21:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:29] <exec> 08└─It will affect everyone. Safari users are going to whine far more (about 81% more) loudly than users of other browsers. So YOU WILL be affected. This affects you more if you run a web site or web application than if you are someone using a web browser. If you are just browsing, then yes, by all mean...
[21:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:31] <exec> 08└─> The most suspicious occurrence for a cert is for it to suddenly change. Note how the user is not even informed when that happens. Just took a quick look through FireFox addons, lots of hits when I search for "cert" or "certificate", but nearly all the offerings have ~10 users--nothing with a userb...
[21:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:33] <exec> 08└─We have quite enough problems getting security consistently implemented now. Making it a bigger pain in the ass will NOT help the situation.
[21:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:35] <exec> 08└─Lol, browsers have gotten very good at hiding actual control from users. Nowadays you don't get a pop up asking if you want to procede, you get a page that looks like an error, then at the bottom, there's "report" and "go back", and a tiny hidden link for "more information" When you click more infor...
[21:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 1598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:38] <exec> 08└─In the organisations that I've been working with, anything that needs to be done less often than once a year (and in most cases, every six months) means there isn't a decent process involved. This means things get forgotten, skipped, or just ignored because the 'guy that used to do it' no longer wor...
[21:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Reportedly Shelving Further Plans to Sell Pixel Phones - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:49] <exec> 08└─Having a monopoly on cows, doesn't mean you have a monopoly on sheep. Even though, you may be a monopoly in one area. It's disingenuous to say they're a monopoly when in fact, they barely have a foothold in the production of the hardware.
[21:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Reportedly Shelving Further Plans to Sell Pixel Phones - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:51] <exec> 08└─Having a monopoly on cows and being a major vendor in sheep dealing with one of the three remaining grocery stores is all kinds of fucked up. "We'll stop shipping you milk unless we get a better deal on lamb" is a perfectly valid threat. Monopolies suck.
[21:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Reportedly Shelving Further Plans to Sell Pixel Phones - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:53] <exec> 08└─That would be quite true, but there's no evidence for the "We'll stop shipping you Android" equivalence. While the 3 main cell service providers are near monopolies, they aren't, because they have direct competitors. They could definitely collude like the TV manufacturers did a while back, which kep...
[21:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Reportedly Shelving Further Plans to Sell Pixel Phones - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:55] <exec> 08└─No, I guess there's no evidence for it. But the power's there, and I restate my central premise. Monopolies suck.
[21:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Reportedly Shelving Further Plans to Sell Pixel Phones - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:57] <exec> 08└─That they do, but Google is no "Ma Bell".
[21:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powerful Antibiotic Discovered Using Machine Learning for First Time - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:17] <exec> 08└─Still better than the "move fast and break things" motto.
[21:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Powerful Antibiotic Discovered Using Machine Learning for First Time - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:19] <exec> 08└─If it can't cure Ethanol Fueled's encephalitis then we need to keep searching!
[21:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:41] <exec> 08└─Google at least goes out and scrapes their content... but you have a point with YouTube.
[21:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:42] <exec> 08└─It's a special use case: onboard entertainment in a 30' (that's relatively small) yacht. Haven't watched over the air TV in forever, in theory we could stream Netflix or whatever from the cell phones but in practice we just pre-load movies and watch those. If it gets a lot of use I'll probably up th...
[21:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:44] <exec> 08└─And Gmail. And Google Drive. And Google Calendar. And Google Docs. And Google Classroom. And a whole bunch of other projects that are about convincing users to give their data to Google without strings attached.
[21:26:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:24] <exec> 08└─We need to build a WALL-E that compacts, cubes and stacks the locusts neatly.
[21:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:36] <exec> 08└─Wait, captain normal believes in God Sent Plagues? I politely request a new timeline, gotta rebase the normal branch with reality.
[21:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Locust Swarms Arrive in South Sudan, Threatening More Misery - 864 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:37] <exec> 08└─Not sure who is modding you down, but when I spent some time abroad helping the locals build water pumping and distribution systems I saw this first hand. The free hand outs don't replace the farmers, but it definitely affects their bottom line which means they don't have sufficient margin to invest...
[21:27:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:37] <exec> 08└─I have never understood this mentality in the USA that people without an education are somehow nobler than those that have one. The cult of ignorance.
[21:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 2757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:20] <exec> 08└─My comments are not sweeping generalizations. They are backed by substantial data. For instance in many (and it may well be all) developed nations, IQs are literally declining. [wikipedia.org] This started sometime in the 90s and is unprecedented. The decline is also quite rapid. A point or two per...
[21:28:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:21] <exec> 08└─I would really appreciate just a single link, because I genuinely have no idea what you're talking about. Let alone when you said literally the *majority* of comments as opposed to some one-off AC troll.
[21:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Large Kuiper Belt Object 2007 OR10 Finally Given a Name: Gonggong - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:29:08] <exec> 08└─The page has a soundbite that pronounces it for you. You'd have to click on it to hear it. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Here's another similarly useless quote for you: From the pinyin romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 相柳 (Xiāngliǔ).
[21:34:15] <exec> count new = 26
[21:34:15] <exec> count top = 2
[21:34:15] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[22:22:49] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[22:22:49] <exec> last cid = 962009
[22:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Get Ready for Price Hikes Up to 10% Annually After Sale of .org Registry - 761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:00] <exec> 08└─they throw a few bones to provide cover and sucker a few people. Their cap is time limited and I wouldn't be surprised if they broke their agreement years later because the cost of punishment is less than they will profit. They do not even have the money to buy it; they will leverage it and MUST mak...
[22:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get Ready for Price Hikes Up to 10% Annually After Sale of .org Registry - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:02] <exec> 08└─More than ironic, malicious. ICANN sold out most of the domain name system years ago. They're just accelerating the pace of selling out the rest of it.
[22:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:25] <exec> 08└─In the organisations that I've been working with, anything that needs to be done less often than once a year (and in most cases, every six months) means there isn't a decent process involved. This means things get forgotten, skipped, or just ignored because the 'guy that used to do it' no longer wor...
[22:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:27] <exec> 08└─Just detect the user agent and direct them to download another browser because safari incorrectly reports certain as expired. Serve the page via http so it doesn't trigger a certificate expired notice. Problem solved. It's less than 4% or desktop and laptop users. 25% of mobile users. Let them whine...
[22:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:29] <exec> 08└─How many certs were brute-forced last year, among those with recent encryption schemes? So, what is apple wanting to prevent?
[22:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:31] <exec> 08└─When you click more information there's FINALLY a "I understand the risks and wish to proceed". It's stupidly over the top for "identity not verified" especially given it only ever pops up for tiny fucking sites where I don't know who runs it anyways.
[22:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 1525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:33] <exec> 08└─Are they really though? Certificate Authorities are only supposed to issue certificates with lifetimes shorter than ~27 months and the all the major engines reject ones longer than ~39 months. Chromium is already working to shorten it to 397 days in their next few releases and all browsers voted to...
[22:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:35] <exec> 08└─(Safari user) Hey, FireFox/Chrome user, are you getting these certificate expiry popups (FireFox/Chrome user) Nope. WTF are you doing on Safari? (Safari user) It came with my Mac/iPhone. (FireFox/Chrome user) Nobody uses that $#it Later... (EX-Safari user) Whew!! For a sec I thou...
[22:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Reportedly Shelving Further Plans to Sell Pixel Phones - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:52] <exec> 08└─This is my fault because any technology I invest in immediately dies in the marketplace. It's a curse/super power. I just bought a Google Pixel 3a from Verizon because I was tired of the bloatware on my old phone. The problem is genetic too: my Dad bought a BetaMax player when I was growing up. I'm...
[22:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Reportedly Shelving Further Plans to Sell Pixel Phones - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:54] <exec> 08└─Samsung can probably break out of the Android trap quickly if Google tries anything, using Tizen. I don't think they will ever have a reason to do so since they don't face U.S. sanctions problems like Huawei does, and they already modify Android to their liking. Huawei's HarmonyOS will get developed...
[22:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon is Reportedly Shelving Further Plans to Sell Pixel Phones - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:56] <exec> 08└─Can we finally put TiVo in the grave?
[22:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:41] <exec> 08└─RateBeer (the closest alternative, BeerAdvocate, is very poor, and Untappd is a fucking abomination - it has twice the signal, but 100 times the noise.) IMDB (now owned by Amazon, but it's a great database still)
[22:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 1596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:19] <exec> 08└─I do. It's because education was something traditionally restricted to the upper classes, and men in particular. Your family had to be able to afford to let you go to school. So many made the choice to work on the farm and continue feeding their families. So those with a high value education either...
[22:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Radical Hydrogen-Boron Reactor Leapfrogs Current Nuclear Fusion Tech - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:04] <exec> 08└─Depends on how much money I've got, how much they need, and how interested I am in their success. Oh, also their personal reputations factor in.
[22:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Does Starlink Work Anyway? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:47] <exec> 08└─Buncha socialist nonsense!
[22:34:14] <exec> count new = 15
[22:34:14] <exec> count top = 0
[22:34:14] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********
[23:22:49] <exec> 08********** 03SOYLENTNEWS COMMENT FEED08 **********
[23:22:50] <exec> last cid = 962041
[23:24:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bussdriver [6876] 02 - 06Get Ready for Price Hikes Up to 10% Annually After Sale of .org Registry - 761 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:01] <exec> 08└─they throw a few bones to provide cover and sucker a few people. Their cap is time limited and I wouldn't be surprised if they broke their agreement years later because the cost of punishment is less than they will profit. They do not even have the money to buy it; they will leverage it and MUST mak...
[23:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get Ready for Price Hikes Up to 10% Annually After Sale of .org Registry - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:04] <exec> 08└─The world doesn't need monopolies. AlterNIC fixed this [wikipedia.org]. No reason browsers can't be configured to use alternative root name servers. With ipv6 we could have a distributed DNS that gave everyone their own unique entry.
[23:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get Ready for Price Hikes Up to 10% Annually After Sale of .org Registry - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:06] <exec> 08└─I remember that stuff. I thought it was silly at the time. It seemed strange to want unofficial "fake" domains. Now it's starting to look reasonable.
[23:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready for Price Hikes Up to 10% Annually After Sale of .org Registry - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:08] <exec> 08└─Instead of being concerned that the price of a .org is going from $10 to $11, you should be more outraged that the CEOs of these nonprofits are making a half million a year off of your charitable contributions.
[23:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:37] <exec> 08└─So use UDP instead of HTTP. As long as the total amount of data exchanged is less than the packet size, you don't have to reassemble the data from multiple packets. And if you do have to reassemble them it's not THAT big a deal. A coworker needed to have something more responsive than http, I showed...
[23:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:39] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter what their intentions are - they're lying to their users by saying a perfectly valid cert is invalid. Hope a bunch of sites do a class action to sue Apple for slander and defamation. On this topic, fuck Apple. Guess I'll skip the last update.
[23:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frosty Piss [4971] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Apple Drops a Bomb on Long-Life HTTPS Certificates - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:41] <exec> 08└─All 3 Safari users will be highly inconvenienced.
[23:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Verizon is Reportedly Shelving Further Plans to Sell Pixel Phones - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:01] <exec> 08└─Tizen, along with its predecessor Bada, enjoyed a lukewarm response on Samsung handsets due to the "app gap". Any rival would need some sort of AOSP runtime, be it Anbox paired with microG. But even Android compat wasn't enough to save BB10 or make Sailfish OS a runaway success.
[23:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This App Lets You See IoT Devices Around You and What Data They're Taking - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:48] <exec> 08└─I use LibreELEC on RasPi4B 2GB. Primarily for ILLICIT PIRATE STREAMING KODI ADDONS but also YouTube, Pluto TV, radio, etc. Some prefer Plex for its features. But it's possible to combine LibreELEC and Plex. https://www.howtogeek.com [ho...
[23:28:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Mad" Mike Hughes Dies in Rocket Crash - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:25] <exec> 08└─Moreover, what right do they have to fix a problem determined by them in the first place? That's my problem with psychiatry, chemicals, and their bullshit expertise with them. Too often healing the patient is about bringing them inline with society again, a productive functioning unit, instead of he...
[23:34:18] <exec> count new = 9
[23:34:18] <exec> count top = 1
[23:34:18] <exec> 08********** 03END FEED08 **********