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[00:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Earth Supported in Non-Chrome Browsers - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:12] <exec> 08└─You're supposed to drop products, not expand their reach. Stop confusing us.
[00:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Earth Supported in Non-Chrome Browsers - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:13] <exec> 08└─They may drop products left and right, but Google Earth is interesting. I would guess, also, popular. Which most of the dropped products, were not.
[00:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 062 GB Model of Raspberry Pi 4 Gets Permanent Price Cut to $35 - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:29] <exec> 08└─FYI regarding Raspberry Pi 3. Eset researchers determined that a variety of devices are vulnerable, including: Amazon Echo 2nd gen Amazon Kindle 8th gen Apple iPad mini 2 Apple iPhone 6, 6S, 8, XR Apple MacBook Air Retina 13-inch 2018 ...
[00:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:10] <exec> 08└─if you're going to choose BSD over Linux, the most significant reason to do so is because you want stable code that is properly engineered, well documented, and does not support systemd. People with no BSD experience are probably not the best once to advise on this kind of decision.
[00:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:24] <exec> 08└─Fucking brainless jihadis. This dingbat should be quarantined before she infects more people, or is she counting on Mohammad filtering out the virus particles she is spreading.
[00:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 2082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:25] <exec> 08└─I submitted the article and I have a position at a different campus in the university system. Prior to today, there hadn't been any communication between the university administration and employees or students. That seemed to be consistent with other universities. As of today, more study abroad stud...
[00:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:17] <exec> 08└─You racist fucktards
[00:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crossbow Murder Solved Using Car Tracking Telemetry - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:43] <exec> 08└─Entertainment and dinner in one.
[00:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crossbow Murder Solved Using Car Tracking Telemetry - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:44] <exec> 08└─If you're going for a stealth kill, you really want to get the take down with the first shot. Hypothetically speaking.
[00:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crossbow Murder Solved Using Car Tracking Telemetry - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:46] <exec> 08└─But, the idea is slowly refining... the SCUBA tank was never used in practice - 'twas but a hypothetical plot of how to deal with a crack house that the city lawyers had been unable to shut down for 10+ years. Away from Miami, the SCUBA tank might be harder to come by, but... a propane tank would no...
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[01:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Earth Supported in Non-Chrome Browsers - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:17] <exec> 08└─Google is going to backdoor your browser as they are backdooring you!
[01:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Earth Supported in Non-Chrome Browsers - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:18] <exec> 08└─Google earth would have been a lot more interesting, if it wasn't a 64 gig installation, used 20 gig out of 24 gig of memory, ran half my processors to full throttle, and ate all my bandwidth. Alright, I don't remember the exact numbers, but Google earth is definitely a resource hog. And, you don't...
[01:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Earth Supported in Non-Chrome Browsers - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:20] <exec> 08└─Google Wave RIP.
[01:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Earth Supported in Non-Chrome Browsers - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:22] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Earth [wikipedia.org] Windows: 12.5 MB macOS: 35 MB Linux: 24 MB Android: 11.57 MB iOS: 185.6 MB
[01:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:19] <exec> 08└─Thank you. The reasons to choose BSD are far and beyond just having "closed code", which is a new consideration for me. Proper stable code, excellent documentation, no systemd (meaning the absence of that terrible philosophy that goes against UNIX), are just some of the talking points. I rather like...
[01:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China’s Rover Finds Layers of Surprise Under Moon’s Far Side - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:43] <exec> 08└─Just hover for a while before landing. Solar system's largest leaf blower ever.
[01:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:36] <exec> 08└─30,000,000 got the flu so far this year, and 30,000 died or 0.1 percent. So far 7 percent of the people who have gotten COVID-19 have died. So for the same 30,000,000 infected, you'll see over 2,000,000 deaths instead of 30,000! It's currently 70 times more lethal! Not to mention it takes up to two...
[01:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:28] <exec> 08└─One would expect marmot to be part of a rural Chinese cuisine, but the German Wiki article on "Murmeltiere" (Marmota) explains that it's actually an Austrian specialty. Quite the opposite of sick-making, it is also used in natural medicine. You probably meant "Marmite", which is a very delicious yea...
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[01:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Finds Most Private Browser - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:44] <exec> 08└─So that is how they do it, to make the autocomplete feature work, the most unnecessary, mindf*fck feature, then they get to see everything you type as you type it. I expect this shit from google, but at firefox, how do they sleep at night? You have only one job, why can't you do it? A private browse...
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[02:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GlobalFoundries Produces Embedded Magnetoresistive Non-Volatile Memory (eMRAM) on a "22nm" Process - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:01] <exec> 08└─A Big Bet on SOI: GlobalFoundries Preps Another Supply Agreement for 300mm SOI Wafers [anandtech.com] GlobalFoundries is focusing on profitability, not the bleeding edge.
[02:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 062 GB Model of Raspberry Pi 4 Gets Permanent Price Cut to $35 - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:29] <exec> 08└─Good to know. I normally use Ethernet for reliability and performance reasons, but I'll keep this in mind.
[02:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:11] <exec> 08└─SystemD does not support BSD, neither care much about other libc than glibc. OTOH, a BSD muppet praised it and wants to recreate it in BSD.
[02:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:13] <exec> 08└─HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAH You think there was resistance in Linux? Try OpenBSD. SystemD's feet shall never feel the blessed lands that are BSD. Ever. The core philosophy is at odds. Not just a little, but extremely. You may as well as try introdu...
[02:25:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 400 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:46] <exec> 08└─Why the interest or concern about the Coronavirus? Hasn't the administration made it clear that the health of the stock market is more important than the health of citizens? And that the fake news is playing up the Coronavirus panic? And Coronavirus isn't really a concern, that we have maybe like re...
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[02:26:30] <exec> 08└─1) Trump was pretty incoherent during his briefing. He wasn't just stumbling over big scientific words. He was stumbling over reading basic policy details from the teleprompter. That suggests a degree of unfamiliarity with what he's discussing and raises questions about how carefully he's considered...
[02:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:23] <exec> 08└─What type of terrorists? Finance futures brokers?
[02:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:24] <exec> 08└─https://web.archive.org/web/20110912045258/https://www.adbusters.org/magazine/71/generation-fcked.html [archive.org] “The reason our children’s lives [in the UK] are the worst among economically advanced countries is because we are a poor version of the USA,” he said. “So the USA comes secon...
[02:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smallsat Launcher Astra Preparing Two Consecutive Orbital Launches for DARPA Challenge - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:37] <exec> 08└─Florida is back on the map: SpaceX sets date for first Florida launch of its kind in more than half a century [teslarati.com] Argentinian space agency CONAE says that both its SAOCOM 1B satellite and SpaceX are on track for a type of launch that the United States’ East Coast hasn’t supported in...
[02:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Takes Heat Over 'Vulnerable' iOS Cut-and-Paste Data - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:45] <exec> 08└─And you still can't refute the statement that the whole "security hole" is bullshit. Amazing. Look, you probably load your phones and computers with all sorts of shit and go to all sorts of sites, so you're p0wned 100 ways before you even start, but some of us don't do such stupid things. I am one o...
[02:31:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Temporary Moon in Earth Orbit - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:19] <exec> 08└─It's got electrolytes! It's what plants crave!
[02:31:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mer [8009] 02 - 06New Study Finds Most Private Browser - 357 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:32] <exec> 08└─Brave is pretty much the last browser I would think of in terms of privacy because of their built in behavior tracking. The only reasons it's doing so well is that the inbuilt adblocker is on by default on a vanilla install. Even keeping this farce of a "study" accessible to muggles, that's pointles...
[02:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Finds Most Private Browser - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:31:45] <exec> 08└─with browser extensions. Give it a shot, lads.
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[03:24:20] <exec> 08└─As the iOS installer should clue you in on, the Google Earth installer downloads a lot of data just to install. It also has a gigantic cache in your profile of all the various tiles and data you looked at while using it.
[03:24:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 062 GB Model of Raspberry Pi 4 Gets Permanent Price Cut to $35 - 451 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:28] <exec> 08└─Totally. Great that they fixed that USB-C power problem, too. These little buggers are just amazing. Dual 4k monitors and all that horsepower and features... and in such a tiny form factor. To an old fossil like myself that started with a teletype (and a paper tape reader) of all things, the future,...
[03:25:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06China’s Rover Finds Layers of Surprise Under Moon’s Far Side - 158 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:36] <exec> 08└─The Chang'e-4 mission, the first to land on the lunar far side, is demonstrating the promise and peril of using ground-penetrating radar in planetary science.
[03:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China’s Rover Finds Layers of Surprise Under Moon’s Far Side - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:46] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RmT094XH9g [youtube.com] start at 0:38
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[03:26:40] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ayman2.jpg [wikipedia.org] Careful, image is shocking and could make you think "anti-semitic" thoughts.
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[03:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:36] <exec> 08└─Dude, there is no possible motivation for that position except envy. We've known envy was a very bad thing since back when people were sure this whole "writing" thing was a fad. And you're here basing your economic views entirely on it. Rethink your shat.
[03:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:38] <exec> 08└─Well, okay, if you insist. I'll be over to toss bricks through all your windows first thing after the weekend.
[03:31:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Crossbow Murder Solved Using Car Tracking Telemetry - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:09] <exec> 08└─This is a poseur thread. Only the most stupid of criminals would use those methods. As others have suggested, stealing cars and/or plates and then ditching them after committing the crime is what most small-time crooks do around here. To deal with getting rid of a car properly requires a whole crimi...
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[03:31:10] <exec> 08└─The biggest problem is that unlike firearms, convicted felons can walk right into a sports store and walk right out with a crossbow. Hell, if a convicted felon wanted something deadly enough to level "big game" and had the money to afford it, they could easily and legally buy an air rifle [airforcea...
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[03:31:12] <exec> 08└─I actually considered that option for home defense, because if I had to defend myself with a firearm in California, myself rather than the invader would be treated like the criminal and would be bankrupted by legal fees. Then I'd be sued in court by the criminal for racism and cruel and unusual puni...
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[03:31:14] <exec> 08└─Easy to do. Whenever I go into a grocery store I instinctively walk over to the booze aisle and load up before I realize, "Oh shit, I just came here to buy food and have to go to work in an hour."
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[03:31:17] <exec> 08└─Any well-designed piece of technology is going to log every little damn event that occurs. Makes it easy to troubleshoot and identify trends for failure analysis.
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[04:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:10] <exec> 08└─This would be a great story for rats to read. I'm waiting for one relevant to humans.
[04:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:11] <exec> 08└─Dumbass: Hey doc, I don't smoke, I don't drink, I don't do no drug, I don't even mess around behind my wife. So... would I live long? Doc: What for?
[04:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:13] <exec> 08└─+1 Funsightful
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[04:24:49] <exec> 08└─I think I recall hearing that the SOC in the pi 4 is the last gen of the Broadcom SOCs. So, a Pi 5 will have to be something completely different. That certainly does open up the possibilities. A Rockchip powered official pi?
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[04:25:34] <exec> 08└─I did not say there will be no resistance... jus that a muppet is trying to get something like systemd in BSD (most probably making some going "oh, see, systemd is good, BSD people want it too" in Linux land). That was the sad joke, the sycophants. And that systemd has no will to support anything th...
[04:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:55] <exec> 08└─Would you rather the President came out in a full hazmat suit and told everyone to go full doomsday prep and lock themselves inside because their neighbors are a potential threat of infection?
[04:27:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:07] <exec> 08└─you can spend money you can't afford to bump the living conditions, health, and life expectancy of everyone up fairly quickly but you can't keep doing it.
[04:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:54] <exec> 08└─Trade deficit, yes, but only very short term. Overspending can quickly devalue your currency to the levels where manufacturing picks back up and your export economy grows. Of course it also makes it impossible to afford anything not produced domestically, including raw materials. Also, when you deva...
[04:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:55] <exec> 08└─Imaginary? Every single election cycle the "I'm for the little man! We demand $freeshatoftheday!" party attempts to increase spending. And about every other time on average, they succeed. But, yeah, it's totally my imagination that new or more highly funded programs cause a spending increase.
[04:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:57] <exec> 08└─This is essentially correct. I'll add that devaluing the currency will probably lead to inflation. A small amount of inflation, say around 2%, is actually a good thing. Much higher inflation rates are harmful for reasons that should be obvious. Regarding the deficit spending that's been discussed in...
[04:31:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crossbow Murder Solved Using Car Tracking Telemetry - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:33] <exec> 08└─Don't kill people and maybe you won't have a murder investigation looking into your activities. Just maybe, though. No guarantees.
[04:31:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crossbow Murder Solved Using Car Tracking Telemetry - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:34] <exec> 08└─Don't steal, borrow. Most people don't keep close track of their mileage and will never realize their car/van was missing between 3:00 am and 4:00 am.
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[05:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:18] <exec> 08└─A flaw in Billions of devices is not a flaw, it is a feature. I mean this quite literally. The only question is, who is it a feature for? Not the consumer, obviously.
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[05:24:28] <exec> 08└─...to treat aging in humans.
[05:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:30] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a bad retelling of an old soviet joke: Ivanov applied to the Communist Party. The party committee conducts an interview. "Comrade Ivanov, do you smoke?" "Yes, I do a little." "Do you know that comrade Lenin did not smoke and advised other communists not to smoke?" "If comrade Lenin said...
[05:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frosty Piss [4971] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Earth Supported in Non-Chrome Browsers - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:50] <exec> 08└─Perhaps I like being fucked up the ass, ever thought of that?
[05:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:15] <exec> 08└─Old people are more expensive to keep around than young people.
[05:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:16] <exec> 08└─Well that deteriorated fast, despite the fact it was rotten to begin with. Any more racist puns on ethnic foods? And the Brits, whatever else cannot be said for their cuisine, at least do not have marshmallow/jello "salad" or "Baked Dish", the nauseating Midwestern American sources of declining life...
[05:29:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Jif Peanut Butter Weighs in on GIF Pronunciation -- Runs Contrary to Historical Evidence - 175 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:00] <exec> 08└─I love the absurdity of idea that the inventor has to, by definition, be right. That's like saying George Lucas was right about every directorial decision he ever made. #MeGee
[05:31:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crossbow Murder Solved Using Car Tracking Telemetry - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:54] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but that's no excuse for uploading it to the internet. If there's a legitimate need for that information, then they should need the car in their possession. Situations where cars just burst into flames randomly are more or less non-existent and even when that happens, the fire marshal usual...
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[06:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:16] <exec> 08└─The subhead on TFA reads: Cypress and Broadcom chip bug bit iPhones, Macs, Android devices, Echoes, and more.
[06:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:18] <exec> 08└─Bring it on, Jewish niggers .
[06:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:20] <exec> 08└─Here is Ethanol_funded, bringing it, upon hisself? Oh, dude! Just admit it! It is obvious to all and sundry that you are a Black Mexican Jew. So much projection.
[06:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:54] <exec> 08└─Make it a generalized document viewer. For steps 3 and 5, why limit the program to just HTML? Instead, make it out of a generic XML engine and then it can potentially handle other formats than (x)HTML, an important one being OpenDocument Format. There are already many web browsers out there, even if...
[06:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:55] <exec> 08└─Especially after udev, pulseaudio and the overreaching system component being falsely claimed just to be an init system that shan't be name-d
[06:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:57] <exec> 08└─Alternatives are good. Especially when the current situation is dominated by a few big corporations that are doing the embrace, extend, and extend, and extend, and... while pretending to comply with interoperability standards. I'm sorry, but that's not what a standard is. RS-232 is a standard. Somet...
[06:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:20] <exec> 08└─They killed the link to that story. Apparently too embarrassing. Here's another link [forbes.com]
[06:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:21] <exec> 08└─I was seeing on CNN (not a reliable source) that New York and various states have their own tests for the Corona Virus and that their tests are better than the tests that the CDC uses (I wouldn’t doubt it) but that what’s holding them back from using it is that they need FDA approval. Hence peop...
[06:28:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 357 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:01] <exec> 08└─I'm convinced. Corps and rich people should pay equivalent or greater than the working class. Every time that conversation gets started, the rightists pipe up with, "Well they don't have income!" If they are making money, they have income. That should be taxed. Only corruption in congress can create...
[06:28:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 1176 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:09] <exec> 08└─The thing about the wealthy that most people don't realize is that most of the wealthy are quite bad at making money. Study after study by outfits like the Harvard Business Review have shown that those who inherit wealth excel in squandering it, and that most who luck into it turn out to be just as...
[06:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:26] <exec> 08└─My own case? I've been pretty low maintenance for all of my life, thank you very much for your concern. I take no meds, and my various conditions (color blindness, sore knees, allergy to work) cost nothing. And, I certainly don't plan on being warehoused in a hospital or nursing home for thirty year...
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[07:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06“Konami Code” Creator Passes Away - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:11] <exec> 08└─Give the guy more lives!
[07:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:23] <exec> 08└─Really? Routers are often hard to patch? I wonder what routers they are referring to, exactly. I like my Netgear gear, but even the cheapest routers I've owned were pretty easy to update. The question is whether the manufacturer bothers to issue patches, updates, and upgrades.
[07:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:35] <exec> 08└─If you don't eat the junk food, Ronald McDonald will be a sad clown, and agri-business will need a bailout.
[07:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:36] <exec> 08└─Calorie restriction works in every life form it's been tested on but humans are already outliers for longevity. On the metrics based on body size, heart rate, and so on, we live longer than a biologist generalizing from other species would expect. What if we've already evolved to max out the biologi...
[07:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:03] <exec> 08└─I just noticed that the page I linked to didn't mention systemd; my source was in German and linked to that page; I neglected to scan that page for mention of systemd, sorry about that. Here's the German page: https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de [ubuntuusers.de] Quote of the relevant part: Der Wec...
[07:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:05] <exec> 08└─Because its direction is controlled and will be controlled by Google. Unless you want to completely diverge from them, which would be quite a bit painful task and require quite some euros.
[07:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:07] <exec> 08└─It's an always moving target. While you are doing all of that HTML will be doing genetic engineering.
[07:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:09] <exec> 08└─first they came for encfs and i didn't speak up because there was ecryptfs then they came for ecryptfs and i didn't speak up because all my speeches were in the encfs dir and i lost the key.
[07:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:11] <exec> 08└─yes, javascript should be limited to UI elements. It is already dangerous that way. The trend is towards javascript frameworks, while I considered that most of my sites do not really need to be rendered by pulling data from a db, i am going json to templates to static html and the site is lightning...
[07:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:34] <exec> 08└─I'm GenX. I don't care about the Democrat Party's direction, nor whether Sanders finds favor with some things in Cuba or the Soviet Union. If I get to vote for common people politics under Sanders, I will vote for him. Otherwise I'll vote for Trump.
[07:28:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:39] <exec> 08└─Tomato, tomahto. Marmot says inequality is killing Britons, and I say no, Marmot, it's your repellent marmot sandwich spread. Vegemite does not kill Australians because, duh, it contains more vegetables & no marmot and Aussies are rendered invincible anyway because they drink Foster's (which is Aust...
[07:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crossbow Murder Solved Using Car Tracking Telemetry - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, but where's the fun in that?
[07:32:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crossbow Murder Solved Using Car Tracking Telemetry - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:20] <exec> 08└─Can someone explain why that's a thing in Britain? I know what the technical definition of grooming gangs is, but how the hell did that develop in the UK and nowhere else, and how on God's green Earth have the British authorities deported or imprisoned all of them? How have British vigilantes not ta...
[07:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crossbow Murder Solved Using Car Tracking Telemetry - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:22] <exec> 08└─It doesn't work in quite the same way as Taster's Choice, but it must be conceded that the guillotine will also decaffeinate you.
[07:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crossbow Murder Solved Using Car Tracking Telemetry - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:24] <exec> 08└─This is demonstrably false. White men will not become idiots until sometime around 2505 when President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho takes office. Right now the title of idiots-in-chief is held by workers at a certain Level 4 bioweapons lab in a certain city who sell discarded lab ani...
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[08:24:28] <exec> 08└─Really? ... I wonder what,... exactly. I like my gear, but even I owned easy to. . . The question is whether the manufacturer bothers to issue . . .
[08:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:43] <exec> 08└─Rather than a cure for aging, I'd like to see a cure for the negative effects of aging. Instead of immortality, I'd just like to have 95 good years of life where I'm at least as spry as a 30-something until those last few months/years of a rapid decline toward death.
[08:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:16] <exec> 08└─Nice speech, I could almost feel the claws of control freaks snipping. Red Star OS here we come.
[08:26:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:17] <exec> 08└─In this case, divergence would be good. Google spies too much, and it only benefits Google and a few partners. Google wouldn't have any control over a new browser, let's call it EuroFrugal so we can get a dig in at Google. I'd like to place a wager here. I'll bet that there are more than enough qual...
[08:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:19] <exec> 08└─That'd be an interesting development, although I don't believe at the moment that it will actually happen.
[08:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:43] <exec> 08└─No. Your figures are completely bogus -- where did you get them? For Europe, 40,000 people die every year from the flu. The fatality rate for corona according to WHO estimate lies around 2%. It varies between regions, in the range of 0.1% and 4%. John Hopkins Institute offers a reliable monitor of t...
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[09:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:22] <exec> 08└─A better way for finding leaks - while very laudable under any conditions - is only the _second_ thing needed to combat water waste. Much, much more important is a long, sturdy cluebat with which to beat the (ir)responsible officials into accepting the fact that water loss _is_ their problem and tha...
[09:27:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 4044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:56] <exec> 08└─From: https://www.worldometers.info [worldometers.info] Currently Infected 44,211 Mild Condition 36,120 (82%) Serious or Critical 8,091 (18%) Cases with Outcome 39,495 Recovered/Discharged 36,636 (93%) Deaths 2,859 (7%) From: https://www.worldometer...
[09:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:57] <exec> 08└─For the flu: https://www.cdc.gov [cdc.gov] CDC estimates that the burden of illness during the 2018–2019 season included an estimated 35.5 million people getting sick with influenza, 16.5 million people going to a health care provider for their illness, 490,600 hosp...
[09:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 1153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:27:59] <exec> 08└─How long it can survive on a surface: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com [medicalnewstoday.com] How long do coronaviruses persist? The first section of the new paper focuses on how long coronaviruses can su...
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[10:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:32] <exec> 08└─So - you've never flashed a router, or installed Tomato on it, and you have no idea what I'm talking about here. Got it.
[10:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:48] <exec> 08└─Rats are mammals, and so are humans. Therefore it is likely (though not a certainty) that such results are also applicable to humans. And therefore it is a relevant story also for humans.
[10:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:49] <exec> 08└─If rats could read
[10:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:51] <exec> 08└─That reminds me of an old joke. The reporter asks the hundred-year old: "What is your secret to getting to such a high age?" "Well, I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I didn't have much with women." Suddenly there's a loud noise from the next room. The startled reporter: "What was that?" "Don't worry...
[10:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Earth Supported in Non-Chrome Browsers - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:13] <exec> 08└─Even the people who like being fucked up the ass don't want anyone to do that without their explicit consent.
[10:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Earth Supported in Non-Chrome Browsers - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:15] <exec> 08└─200 MB != 64 GB
[10:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Earth Supported in Non-Chrome Browsers - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:17] <exec> 08└─Are you kink shaming rape fantassists?
[10:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062 GB Model of Raspberry Pi 4 Gets Permanent Price Cut to $35 - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:35] <exec> 08└─I don't think so. There is a tight relationship between RPF and Broadcom. They've indicated somewhere that the VideoCore VI graphics could stay the same in the next version. Raspberry Pi Foundation did join the RISC-V Foundation [soylentnews.org], but it seems implausible that they would switch from...
[10:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China’s Rover Finds Layers of Surprise Under Moon’s Far Side - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:57] <exec> 08└─have sent coronavirus as warning.
[10:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China’s Rover Finds Layers of Surprise Under Moon’s Far Side - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:59] <exec> 08└─You know if I was Elon Musk, I'd be so tempted to blow a few billion sending up a secret SpaceX mission to plant a monolith in that crater...
[10:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:02] <exec> 08└─No. CFR is number of deaths out of total number of infections, not out of number of recoveries. Total number of infections equals total number of recoveries (i.e. not infected anymore) + current number of infections. End result: about 2%. Finally: why would worldometer be any more reliable than The...
[10:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Study Finds Most Private Browser - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:41] <exec> 08└─comparison doesn't include Tor - what garbage!
[10:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Study Finds Most Private Browser - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:42] <exec> 08└─It does. Brave comes with Tor "private windows".
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[11:25:15] <exec> 08└─> The emergence of new web standards Or antitrust lawsuit? Leveraging penetration in maps market to push a browser is illegal perhaps? Cynical me.
[11:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:29:07] <exec> 08└─The FUCK is WRONG with you? Because they are BRITISH WOMEN! Racist, religion persecuting motherfucker. Rot in hell dipshit.
[11:31:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] 02 - 06Apple Takes Heat Over 'Vulnerable' iOS Cut-and-Paste Data - 304 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:25] <exec> 08└─It shouldn't be the application that requests the paste. It should be the OS (which is part of the OS) that interprets user actions as a paste and informs the application that the user has designated as the proper recipient. Without being so designated a process should have no access to the paste da...
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[12:24:19] <exec> 08└─This code was an absolute essential for games like Life Force, Contra, Gradius, and other Konami games. That code probably saved some of their games from being tossed away and ignored as overly difficult. The most common result was 30 lives to start a game that usually only gave you 3 lives + 3 cont...
[12:24:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:28] <exec> 08└─The subhead on TFA reads: Cypress and Broadcom chip bug bit iPhones, Macs, Android devices, Echoes, and more.
[12:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:35] <exec> 08└─So - you've never flashed a router, or installed Tomato on it, and you have no idea what I'm talking about here. Got it.
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[13:24:12] <exec> 08└─Who are the potential customers of Clearview's wares? The governments of all 26 countries mentioned in TFS, plus 150 or so more. Create a better way to spy on your own (and those of other nations) people and the governments will come running. We already know Clearview AI are right scumbags in how th...
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[14:24:13] <exec> 08└─One thing I've been noticing lately is a lot of reporting that takes for granted that Russia and the US are enemies. Putin is trying to undermine US democracy, and that somehow makes the entire nation of Russia an enemy. No, I don't think so. I very much doubt that the average Russian citizen is han...
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[14:24:14] <exec> 08└─All this mass data collection and surreptitious recording of every detail, it's not about expanding the police state. It's just to target ads better.
[14:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech is Being Used by US Justice Department, ICE, and the FBI - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:16] <exec> 08└─OK calm down. Try and limit yourself to 2 or at most 3 conspiracies per sentence.
[14:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech is Being Used by US Justice Department, ICE, and the FBI - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:18] <exec> 08└─...and if you believe that, I've got a nice bridge you might be interested in.
[14:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insight Detects Gravity Waves, Low Rumbles And Devilish Dust on Mars - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:26] <exec> 08└─avoids confusion.
[14:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:35] <exec> 08└─You mean, you don't have to lick the ground in a grid pattern anymore? That is welcome news. The ground around the Port Authority [wikipedia.org] is...icky.
[14:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:15] <exec> 08└─If nothing else NIMH [imdb.com] has taught us to refrain from enhancing rat capabilities. The beasts are already clever enough [amazon.com].
[14:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:17] <exec> 08└─Would you settle for 65? Pretty much got that nowadays if you don't do the obviously wrong things.
[14:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:58] <exec> 08└─As long as the Chromium project is the foundation for a near monopoly of browsers and Google controls the Chromium project, it gives Google an effective control over web standards. So, for example, standards work that would make it harder to do browser fingerprinting will never get any priority eith...
[14:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:00] <exec> 08└─With respect to Javascript, I don't think it's going away on a large scale without an economic revolution. The advertising uses JS to the tune of tens of billions or hundreds of billions of dollars a year, you won't get that shut down without attacking the industry directly. Google owns Chromium, th...
[14:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China’s Rover Finds Layers of Surprise Under Moon’s Far Side - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:29] <exec> 08└─That would be epic. And then when they open it up in front of the eyes of the world, it's a Tesla Powerwall battery. The free media would be worth billions.
[14:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crossbow Murder Solved Using Car Tracking Telemetry - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:21] <exec> 08└─Well, I've only taken down squirrels - and those with a mini crossbow pistol - but... even if the pistol could fire again in 1/2 second, if I miss with the first shot, the second and later shots become much harder with the target running away. Sport, as you say... not great for the "no witnesses" go...
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[15:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech is Being Used by US Justice Department, ICE, and the FBI - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:32] <exec> 08└─Did the check clear? Then they're good to go.
[15:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech is Being Used by US Justice Department, ICE, and the FBI - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:33] <exec> 08└─Nationalism is instinctive to idiots.
[15:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:49] <exec> 08└─The 100+ year old water distribution system here is a sieve. The problem is budget to replace the old pipes, not finding them... In the meantime, pumping more water from Lake Erie is a lot cheaper than all that digging. If the water authority ever catches up to the point that the obvious leaks are a...
[15:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:50] <exec> 08└─A couple times a month someone runs over a fire hydrant sending a geyser of water 30 feet into the sky for a few hours until it gets turned off. Are you telling me nobody has invented a hydrant that automatically shuts off the water when the head gets knocked off?
[15:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:52] <exec> 08└─I'm looking at you, NY City and Paris, France, just as much as at Little-Ndongwe-behind-the-woods, Congo.
[15:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:55] <exec> 08└─it doesn't really *matter* ... A Freudian slip, if there ever was one.
[15:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:57] <exec> 08└─It still matters because of water treatment efforts. Pumping the same water through the treatment plant once is better than doing it twice, even with all else being equal. Technically, at least. Power needs to be generated, pumps decay and break, chemicals are added, and at the very, very, very leas...
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[15:24:59] <exec> 08└─Because spreading the same piping costs over 40 years (quite possible for infrastructure) would definitely work. Technically. Not politically though.
[15:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:21] <exec> 08└─I would have to look at it, to understand it's capabilities. But, is it really a lot more configurable than a Netgear box with Advanced Tomato installed? Granted, my box is mid- to middle-high consumer grade, but Tomato!! And, I already know that it won't increase the bandwidth available to me - I'm...
[15:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:42] <exec> 08└─Did you even do one little google search? Or too excited to FIRST POST?
[15:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:43] <exec> 08└─For those billionaires wanting to live longer, the number one thing they can do is eat like a peasant
[15:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Earth Supported in Non-Chrome Browsers - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:10] <exec> 08└─His complaints sounded a lot more like Google Earth VR requirements, but at that point, you should kind of be expecting a bigger footprint. He was definitely over exaggerating to the tune of 1000x for the standard Google Earth experience.
[15:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 062 GB Model of Raspberry Pi 4 Gets Permanent Price Cut to $35 - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:30] <exec> 08└─I have RPIs running some fairly extensive automation on my aquarium, driving my 3D printer, and inside a couple of classic computer emulations. I also have one in my radio trailer, a nice, low-power unit that gives me serious SDR software capability for nearly nothing compared to a traditional deskt...
[15:26:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 195 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:59] <exec> 08└─Microsoft acquired Spyglass for $100,000.00 up front plus a generous royalty percentage of sales. Microsoft then renamed Spyglass to Internet Explorer. Guess how many copies of IE were ever sold?
[15:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:30] <exec> 08└─Let the free market work it out, like they did with phone chargers.
[15:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:31] <exec> 08└─13 billion to develop a secure Javascript and animated autoplay spank the monkey, 2 minutes to disable it all back to the Stone Ages.
[15:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:04] <exec> 08└─Careful, comrade! The Ministry of Truth will not like this.
[15:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:13] <exec> 08└─While I must admit at times being tempted to envy the wealthy, I have to say that it is not so. While wealth can "medicate" a lot of life's problems, and distract with comforts, it doesn't seem to fill the void inside. As observed by the lives of the wealthy. I think wealth, with no purpose in life,...
[15:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:14] <exec> 08└─This is pretty much the opposite of that, we are paying to keep the windows brick-proof so that people can spend money on things other than window maintenance. Also, the people saved from bricks by those windows will continue to work and make money that would otherwise have been lost.
[15:32:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Crossbow Murder Solved Using Car Tracking Telemetry - 395 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:44] <exec> 08└─Don't use your own car. Don't burn the car and make it an obvious crime scene. Don't take your cellphone with you. Don't drive past any security cameras. Don't use a credit card when you buy the crossbow. Don't touch the crossbow bolts with bare skin at any point. Don't kill people and maybe you won...
[15:32:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Crossbow Murder Solved Using Car Tracking Telemetry - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:47] <exec> 08└─I have no intention of killing anyone, let alone with a crossbow, but I DO find the idea of a car keeping a log in the cloud of everywhere I go more than a little creepy.
[15:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crossbow Murder Solved Using Car Tracking Telemetry - 1548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:59] <exec> 08└─Marked insightful. But there are some issues with every one of the items... Use someone else's car with their permission and then they know. Steal a car and risk being caught (especially in an age of automated license plate scanners), although this is less risky than the murder. Hopefully you aren't...
[15:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Crossbow Murder Solved Using Car Tracking Telemetry - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:00] <exec> 08└─n.b.: And will enough people care to make any difference?
[15:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Crossbow Murder Solved Using Car Tracking Telemetry - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:02] <exec> 08└─Backup with a good kitchen butcher knife. (Why, yes, I'd been enjoying some nice cheese and crackers in bed earlier and thus my best knife was right at the bedside! ... Also, gives an excuse and mandate to enjoy cheese and crackers in bed every evening if you can avoid the crumbs.) And you'll be jus...
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[16:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UEFI Boot Support Published for RISC-V on Linux - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:11] <exec> 08└─One could very well live with a plain device tree and chainloading kernels if any weird shit has to go on before the main kernel is booted. For new hardware, power management drivers might as well be done as kernel module (or just SBI ("BIOS") code), rather than being put into the separate UEFI envi...
[16:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech is Being Used by US Justice Department, ICE, and the FBI - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:25] <exec> 08└─If you live in America, you should know be smarter than that: Trump said "why wouldn't we want to be friends with Russia?", the democrats and their media outlets have meanwhile been on a 3 year sulk that it was Russia's fault She Lost, not that the people in too many states couldn't stomach her. So...
[16:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:09] <exec> 08└─I would have to look at it, to understand it's capabilities.
[16:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:10] <exec> 08└─The link was just to a fanless PC with 4Gb ports.
[16:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:33] <exec> 08└─I'm 68. Life is just too short. My brain is already running down. I feel like I should have lived another lifetime or two.
[16:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GlobalFoundries Produces Embedded Magnetoresistive Non-Volatile Memory (eMRAM) on a "22nm" Process - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:41] <exec> 08└─Woah! What an idea! Make technology decisions based on economic considerations rather than romantic attachments to a favorite way of doing things.
[16:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Earth Supported in Non-Chrome Browsers - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:02] <exec> 08└─Google earth is definitely a resource hog.
[16:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Earth Supported in Non-Chrome Browsers - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:03] <exec> 08└─I suppose you could see it that way. After all, Google could (and finally did) make Earth run on other browsers. But also consider this: Google Earth now runs on All Browsers! Oh, and All Browsers now use Chromium as their rendering engine! (well, except for Mozilla/Firefox, but they'll come around...
[16:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:24] <exec> 08└─Huh. Finland was actually one of the earlier members of the EU, joining back in 1995. Before I looked it up, I assumed it was one of those things that would never happen, because Russia would get pissy and give them the Ukraine treatment if they did. Throughout the Cold War Finland's entire national...
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[16:28:59] <exec> 08└─The experts have said it's a matter of time before there is community spreading of the virus.
[16:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:29:00] <exec> 08└─A real cynic might think that the current administration wants to prevent testing, because the results would make them look bad.
[16:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 1761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:10] <exec> 08└─Greek ruled the ancient world until Roman took over Roman rules much longer and their power disappeared and break out Byzantine ruled much longer and was slowly losing power to the Ottomans Ottomans ruled for a long time, in partnership with Venice in the market, but Venice economic power went to sm...
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[16:30:12] <exec> 08└─> because with Trump as a populist on the right Please 'splain to me how Trump is squeezing the rich?
[16:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:14] <exec> 08└─Well sure, it's a multi-part approach--you can't keep increasing the amount you spend boundlessly, either. The Republicans do sometimes actually do as they claim they like to and cut spending, but often in the most moronic areas possible, like education and road maintenance. It's like how computers...
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[17:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kreuzfeld [8580] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Astronomy Student Discovers 17 New Planets, Including Earth-Sized World - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:17] <exec> 08└─With all due respect to the student, although this is solid work discovering 17 new exoplanets is hardly newsworthy these days. Even if one is in or near the habitable zone, since we can't actually study its atmosphere (star is too faint) it's not worth much beyond being an interesting tidbit. We se...
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[17:24:18] <exec> 08└─Well, it's nice to see more planets being squeezed out of the Kepler data. Finding one 2/3 the size of Earth is also nice. Too bad there's no JWST or ATLAST/LUVOIR to give them a look.
[17:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:02] <exec> 08└─In many places, water is a renewable resource. It rains and the reservoirs fill up.
[17:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:03] <exec> 08└─Perhaps an even better way would be radioisotope trackers. They could use something rather short-lived so as not to contaminate the environment too much. Maybe even just a beta emitter or something weak. :P
[17:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:05] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about? The whole earth is one giant watershed.
[17:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:53] <exec> 08└─This won't be the case. A side of effect of anti-aging (may be better described as "extensive multi-cellular repair" or something) would be a longer life. You could live long enough to get your rapid decline in the form of a thermonuclear fire. I'll concede that maybe there is one narrow area of ant...
[17:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:55] <exec> 08└─Eat like a peasant...from a century or two ago. Peasants today live on some of the least healthy food around, while during PJ Proudhon's day (the father of anarchism), one of the biggest demands of the lower classes was access to meat, because they'd only get a chance to eat it a few times a year, i...
[17:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:57] <exec> 08└─IIRC, similar studies have not produced similar results in primates. Not quite the same studies, so ... maybe, but that's not the way to bet. OTOH, humans are atypical primates in many ways, so ... maybe. Perhaps primate studies aren't the correct meter. A better choice might by historical studies o...
[17:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:59] <exec> 08└─You don't need global accidents. If you live healthily and maintain body health, you'll still be taken down by an accident sometime. Different lifestyles have different odds, but everyone meets an accident sometime if they live long enough. OTOH, permanently incapacitating accidents are probably at...
[17:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GlobalFoundries Produces Embedded Magnetoresistive Non-Volatile Memory (eMRAM) on a "22nm" Process - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:09] <exec> 08└─To be clear I'm not criticizing them for it, although it might be possible to do both (TSMC).
[17:27:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:52] <exec> 08└─But standards bodies, good ones at least, don't do the equivalent of fucking shipping a patch that fundamentally changes how a program operates and autoupdates all your shit regardless of how you want things to be.
[17:27:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:54] <exec> 08└─Javascript though? A for point 6 there, I'm disappointed, to say the least possible about it, that it is perceived by some as being part of the web.
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[17:27:56] <exec> 08└─You're right, and I'm surprised. I was certain that when reading about BrExit it was stated that Finland was only a member of the EEC and Schwengen Agreement. (And maybe it was, of course. I didn't validate what I thought to be a trustworthy source.)
[17:29:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 4681 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:18] <exec> 08└─1) Trump was pretty incoherent during his briefing. He wasn't just stumbling over big scientific words. He was stumbling over reading basic policy details from the teleprompter. That suggests a degree of unfamiliarity with what he's discussing and raises questions about how carefully he's considered...
[17:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Temporary Moon in Earth Orbit - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:55] <exec> 08└─People say the same thing about my ass, but you can bet if you ever encounter it you'll know you've been mooned.
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[18:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:11] <exec> 08└─So what if someone else can get a few data packets from the devices that are spying on your all the time. Instead of 200 (advertisers, government agencies, etc) it's now 201.
[18:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:12] <exec> 08└─The same day, by the same author: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[18:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:14] <exec> 08└─Wow. I only have one of the devices on that list. I would have expected it to be higher. I guess deciding to skip the Pi3 and wait for to upgrade to a Pi4 was the right decision.
[18:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:16] <exec> 08└─Is that list exhaustive or just a list of the devices the researchers had on hand?
[18:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kreuzfeld [8580] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Astronomy Student Discovers 17 New Planets, Including Earth-Sized World - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:26] <exec> 08└─Maybe in a year or two for JWST (fingers crossed). I'm not holding my breath for LUVOIR, nor am I even sure it's responsible for the astronomical community (of which I'm party) to propose such an obscenely expensive project. But some people say that bigger projects secure larger budgets (rather than...
[18:24:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech is Being Used by US Justice Department, ICE, and the FBI - 45 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:43] <exec> 08└─Did the check clear? Then they're good to go.
[18:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech is Being Used by US Justice Department, ICE, and the FBI - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:47] <exec> 08└─Nice try Comrade.
[18:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech is Being Used by US Justice Department, ICE, and the FBI - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:49] <exec> 08└─> the governments will come running. Everyone will come running. Don't pin this on anti-government stuff. The evil that can be wrought by the megacorps is more subtle but no less powerful than the government.
[18:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech is Being Used by US Justice Department, ICE, and the FBI - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:51] <exec> 08└─China is definitely an adversary of the US. So is every other government, and a large number of corporations. It's not clear that China is an enemy of the US, or that the Chinese government is. The Russian government, however, based on reasonable evidence *is* an enemy of the US. This is not a perma...
[18:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:16] <exec> 08└─I can easily imagine a scenario where such a beast was invented, installed, silently failed at an unknown point in time, and then when the fire dept. showed up to tap that hydrant to put out a fire, it shut the water off on them. And that would have been the end of that.
[18:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:08] <exec> 08└─Don't bet on it being a better diet. Look up rickets and pellagra. I'd mention yaws, but that wasn't common in European countries. There were lots of diseases that can be traced to vitamin and mineral deficiencies. Most of them are rare today. That we've substituted diseases cause by excessive carbo...
[18:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 2293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:50] <exec> 08└─The left has made envy the basis of their election campaigns. It is not going very well for them. In reality, there is a fundamental problem: money is power, and there is positive feedback where having wealth gives you the power to squeeze the poor harder and harder, while the poor have less and les...
[18:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:51] <exec> 08└─the human face that New Labour has given it In the eyes of most voters, "the face of New Labour" makes the back end of 1950's buses look attractive, while old labour looks and smells like a pile of dung. If we had a half-decent (or even quarter) decent alternative to the nasty party, Boris would hav...
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[19:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:12] <exec> 08└─Check the comment [soylentnews.org] I posted in the last iteration of this story. There's a link to the CVE with more details about affected software/firmware versions and configs. HTHAL.
[19:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UEFI Boot Support Published for RISC-V on Linux - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:30] <exec> 08└─That is the sole purpose for UEFI: providing enhanced backdoor opportunities and less user control over the firmware stack for their hardware, as well as mandating (in)secure signed platform boot. Of course for now SOME hardware can disable it, but you will note almost no hardware actually supports...
[19:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech is Being Used by US Justice Department, ICE, and the FBI - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:48] <exec> 08└─I always thought Facebook would be the one to get caught for using facial recognition on the photo collection on their servers. Although they may still be the only ones who actually get in trouble for it.
[19:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech is Being Used by US Justice Department, ICE, and the FBI - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:50] <exec> 08└─Why would Russia be the enemy of the U.S. Goverment? They own parts of it.
[19:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech is Being Used by US Justice Department, ICE, and the FBI - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:52] <exec> 08└─So is every other government
[19:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech is Being Used by US Justice Department, ICE, and the FBI - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:54] <exec> 08└─they may still be the only ones who actually get in trouble for it.
[19:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:20] <exec> 08└─The hydrologic cycle [uiuc.edu]: rain flows downhill. Some of it soaks deep into the ground the rest runs into lakes though much of it gets absorbed into forests and other vegetation before getting to the lakes. Then it evaporates from the lakes an rains again, flowing down hill, ad infinitum. Most...
[19:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:21] <exec> 08└─I watched a newsclip Thursday afternoon of leak in a 96 inch( yes...8ft, 2.4m) water main in Houston. It was gushing up in the center of the newly formed pond(and river), and quite noticeable. Beware the evil track hoe!!!!
[19:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eat Less, Live Longer: Caloric Restriction in Rats Prevented Negative Effects of Aging in Cells - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:15] <exec> 08└─The rate at which people die from accidents is going to decrease. Far less accidents once there is widespread adoption of driverless cars, and greater survivability with in-the-field cryonics/EPR [newyorker.com]. Violent crime has also declined in the U.S., with some speculation about the role of le...
[19:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Earth Supported in Non-Chrome Browsers - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:46] <exec> 08└─I suppose I shouldn't be surprised by all the negative comments, it is Google after all, but I for one love Google Earth and am glad to welcome it to my Chromium browser running on Linux with no problems at all. And don't get me started on the VR version, it is just fantastic, floating about the Ear...
[19:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Earth Supported in Non-Chrome Browsers - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Google Earth is one of the best products they have put out. And they made the $400 version free (as in beer). There's a possibility of a community project filling in the missing data, using drones or something.
[19:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:13] <exec> 08└─SystemdExit.
[19:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:14] <exec> 08└─You think there was resistance in Linux? Try OpenBSD. SystemD's feet shall never feel the blessed lands that are BSD. Ever.
[19:29:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:51] <exec> 08└─Alabama doesn't have basements. They have root cellars. The incels are living in the root cellars with all the other fruits and nuts.
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[20:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:13] <exec> 08└─This is just fucking stupidity by design. Why on Earth does an automated pet feeder require any kind of confirmation, processing, signalling, .etc. from a remote network? Lemme guess.... a marketer or c-suite scum got the idea they could shut the device off for non-payment on your subscription feede...
[20:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:15] <exec> 08└─That's all still too complicated. A simple motor on a timer that dispenses one unit of food per activation is all you need 99% of the time. Turn it off when it's not needed. Done.
[20:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:17] <exec> 08└─PetnotSmart
[20:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:19] <exec> 08└─My dog died because the smart pet feeder broke. I'm suing for 10 gazillion dollars.
[20:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:31] <exec> 08└─Sniffing enough wifi packets that you could get the login credentials. I thought this was well known over 10 years ago.
[20:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech is Being Used by US Justice Department, ICE, and the FBI - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:10] <exec> 08└─Everyone will come running. Don't pin this on anti-government stuff. The evil that can be wrought by the megacorps is more subtle but no less powerful than the government.
[20:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:06] <exec> 08└─Trump is a germaphobe so I imagine the coronavirus is driving him crazyier.
[20:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:07] <exec> 08└─Mortality seems to be in the range of the 1918-1919 Spanish Influenza pandemic.
[20:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:09] <exec> 08└─Hope someone is coughing during a cabinet meeting.
[20:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Drug Clinical Trials Beginning in Nebraska - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:12] <exec> 08└─And coughing during his rallies.
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[21:24:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 912 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:18] <exec> 08└─This is just fucking stupidity by design. Why on Earth does an automated pet feeder require any kind of confirmation, processing, signalling, .etc. from a remote network? Lemme guess.... a marketer or c-suite scum got the idea they could shut the device off for non-payment on your subscription feede...
[21:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:22] <exec> 08└─If you are in an area with frequent/extended power failures, run the feeder on a spring motor. Wind it up and it's good for X days. Or have an electric motor keep the spring wound up, so it will keep working during X days of power failure. Springs (used below the fatigue limit) are damn reliable.
[21:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:24] <exec> 08└─It's not the pet that isn't smart.
[21:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:27] <exec> 08└─Or design the feeder with a backup battery. How much can it take to run a small motor for several seconds, a few times a day? I've got a motorized kitchen trash can lid that takes 2 AA batteries which haven't been replaced in years. You can imagine that a kitchen trash can has items put into it mult...
[21:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:29] <exec> 08└─That one link with the picture of the cat looking up from the empty dish is a bit sad.
[21:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:31] <exec> 08└─By opening the package, you agreed to the EULA which was sealed up inside the box. The EULA specifies mandatory binding arbitration at the company's headquarters. You agree that the maximum damages are limited to a coupon for a 50lb bag of kangaroo food (made in china!).
[21:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:33] <exec> 08└─Way too many corporations today seem to have a problem internalizing the fact that when they sell something, it is no longer theirs and they have no visitation rights. Much like toddlers that cannot bring themselves to let go of the smelly hole ridden blanket. Of course, toddlers have the excuse tha...
[21:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:35] <exec> 08└─I totally agree. That's why I said the only reason was monitoring, which is most effectively done these days across a network. That would be kinda cool for somebody I guess, that's paranoid about their pets, but I didn't say it was a necessary requirement for a pet feeder. Best option is probably ju...
[21:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:47] <exec> 08└─So l33t. Takes me back to 2000.
[21:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomy Student Discovers 17 New Planets, Including Earth-Sized World - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:57] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/2274/ [xkcd.com] Separate question--now that we know where some "habitable zone" planets are, has anyone concentrated SETI on those systems?
[21:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UEFI Boot Support Published for RISC-V on Linux - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:07] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking it's to do with the RISC-V chips they're developing for their HDD controllers.
[21:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UEFI Boot Support Published for RISC-V on Linux - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:09] <exec> 08└─World domination plan: Step 0: Create an interesting new ISA that is in some ways quite a classical RISC platform, but learns from the past in all sorts of important implementation details. Step 1: Port a part of the boot process from the arcane history of x86 PC's. Step 2: ??? Step 3: Profit! Serio...
[21:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:59] <exec> 08└─...and thus in the year 2020 Nuka Quantum was born. The world would never be the same...
[21:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:01] <exec> 08└─Around here, the shutoff valve for the hydrant is down in the watermain where it never freezes. The hydrant itself is completely dry. The bolt on top of the hydrant is a bit column that leads down to the valve at the bottom. I never knew this was the case until I saw a car knock a hydrant off, and w...
[21:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:03] <exec> 08└─Around here the fire dept. annually goes to every hydrant, opens it, and lets it run for while just to make sure that they all work and the system doesn't become plugged with sediment
[21:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:05] <exec> 08└─So, not just the natural predator of the internet.
[21:27:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GlobalFoundries Produces Embedded Magnetoresistive Non-Volatile Memory (eMRAM) on a "22nm" Process - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:08] <exec> 08└─I'm not criticizing them for it either. Bleeding edge can be fun, and cool. Maybe even profitable. But if doing something else is more profitable, then do that.
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[22:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06AMD Announces Two Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:07] <exec> 08└─I've been disappointed with low power offerings featuring Intel chips. Neither the ASUS stick computer nor the Intel NUC computer have adequate cooling. You're okay as long as you don't strain the processor. The NUC I have can crunch numbers all day long, but exercise that 3D accelerated graphics, a...
[22:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06AMD Announces Two Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:09] <exec> 08└─Traditionally, AMD has run hotter and used more power, but this time they're ahead of Intel with regard to process node(7nm). Still, none of that matters if the actual system makers don't design things to handle the real world cooling needs. Even Apple has released products that only work as adverti...
[22:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Two Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:11] <exec> 08└─The stick computer is just a bad situation for thermals. By the way, you are talking about VivoStick, right? Is the casing made of black plastic?
[22:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:28] <exec> 08└─Having a security camera, at least one of them, covering the pet feed area should be fairly obvious, if you are depending on an automatic pet feeder. Another idea, if practical, is to have a friend, who permanently has a key to your house, who you could call if there is a problem. This is the one it...
[22:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:30] <exec> 08└─It's not only corporations who behave like this. It can be various, um, political leaders as well.
[22:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:44] <exec> 08└─You must be extremely lucky to catch one interesting packet that was sent to the AP before the device deassociation event but transmitted after it.
[22:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:46] <exec> 08└─Nevermind! I read the whole paper and device deassociation frame are sent in unauthenticated clear text, it implies that an attacker can exploit this at will !
[22:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Debvgger [545] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UEFI Boot Support Published for RISC-V on Linux - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:08] <exec> 08└─Step 2 is building an Amiga accelerator with a RISC-V CPU.
[22:25:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech is Being Used by US Justice Department, ICE, and the FBI - 714 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:15] <exec> 08└─Who are the potential customers of Clearview's wares? The governments of all 26 countries mentioned in TFS, plus 150 or so more. Create a better way to spy on your own (and those of other nations) people and the governments will come running. We already know Clearview AI are right scumbags in how th...
[22:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:55] <exec> 08└─The browser and the operating system are the entry points to the modern communication system. If you're going to secure a place, it makes sense to guard the entry points, and not let the evil eavesdroppers in, no?
[22:28:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:56] <exec> 08└─7. You add in a KeepTheJavascriptUnderControl engine.
[22:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:59] <exec> 08└─And they will take away porn too.
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[23:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:31] <exec> 08└─Dead. Pets.
[23:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:33] <exec> 08└─All you need is a measuring cup. Dog stares at you, you use cup to measure food, dog thanks you. No motor needed.
[23:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomy Student Discovers 17 New Planets, Including Earth-Sized World - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:59] <exec> 08└─This was a female astronomy student. Girl power!!!
[23:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:05] <exec> 08└─At least the leaked water runs right back into Lake Eerie. Or if you're someplace like the farmland around Sandusky it doubles as an irrigation network.
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