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[00:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Northrop Grumman's "Mission Extension Vehicle" Docks With Satellite - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:13] <exec> 08└─Obligatory XKCD [xkcd.com].
[00:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Two Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:24] <exec> 08└─This is also an odd definition of "ultra low power". It's ultra low power compared to Intel CPUs, but nothing else. At that power level it has the same consumption as the original 486/Pentium CPUs, and they certainly weren't known as low-power chips.
[00:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:02] <exec> 08└─pwnagotchi google it.
[00:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UEFI Boot Support Published for RISC-V on Linux - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:25] <exec> 08└─400 lines of code to support what was already there for ARM, whose SBBR specification mandates UEFI. If WD want to release a riscv-powered NAS, compliance with whatever's expected on ARM64...
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[01:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Two Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:18] <exec> 08└─5-10 Watts is low enough for various fanless form factors.
[01:24:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:26] <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.
[01:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Clearview AI's Facial Recognition Tech is Being Used by US Justice Department, ICE, and the FBI - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:42] <exec> 08└─Pardon for being too lazy to research, but how does one crawl Facebook for images and other data anyway? Doesn't everybody keep their profile private nowadays, or is there some kind of workaround through abusing the API?
[01:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Finland and the EU Could Eventually Pursue Self-Sufficiency in Computing - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:11] <exec> 08└─And they will take away porn too.
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[02:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SLS Launch Delayed to (No Earlier Than) April 2021 - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:05] <exec> 08└─We could take your budget, give it to Elon, get to every damned planet in the Solar System by no later than (NLT) November 2020 and have enough money left over to give every American a free steak dinner.
[02:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SLS Launch Delayed to (No Earlier Than) April 2021 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:06] <exec> 08└─What about the vegans?
[02:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SLS Launch Delayed to (No Earlier Than) April 2021 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:09] <exec> 08└─Some prefer to suck on the governments giant tits instead of Elon's tiny dick.
[02:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SLS Launch Delayed to (No Earlier Than) April 2021 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:11] <exec> 08└─What about the vegans?
[02:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Two Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:29] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's the one. Black plastic case. Model # TS10 as I recall.
[02:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Two Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:30] <exec> 08└─I've been disappointed with low power offerings featuring Intel chips.
[02:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Two Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:32] <exec> 08└─They should make those things out of aluminum. Watch them get 25% higher clocks or better sustained performance.
[02:24:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 687 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:48] <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...
[02:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:54] <exec> 08└─leave many customers frustrated and confused.
[02:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:56] <exec> 08└─The problem is, too many people buy into the shit. Then they get shit on, so they buy the competitors shit and get shit on again.
[02:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:58] <exec> 08└─Still too complicated. Get off your lazy arses and feed them yourselves. You need to interact with your pets. Otherwise, just buy a stuffed toy and call it food, like they do with people with dementia who can't tell the difference between a real cat and a toy that meows when you pet it. After all,...
[02:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:00] <exec> 08└─just feed your fucking cat or don't get one.
[02:27:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Earth Supported in Non-Chrome Browsers - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:58] <exec> 08└─If you think the cache is 15 MB, I got a bridge to sell you.
[02:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Earth Supported in Non-Chrome Browsers - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:28:00] <exec> 08└─Show it to me with a KML file.
[02:30:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China’s Rover Finds Layers of Surprise Under Moon’s Far Side - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:00] <exec> 08└─"promise and peril" though is a not-uncommon idiom meaning "risk vs reward"
[02:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Austerity Is Killing Britons, Says Landmark New Report - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:27] <exec> 08└─Well sure, it's a multi-part approach--you can't keep increasing the amount you spend boundlessly, either.
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[03:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SLS Launch Delayed to (No Earlier Than) April 2021 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:14] <exec> 08└─... and no later than 'sometime, maybe'.
[03:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SLS Launch Delayed to (No Earlier Than) April 2021 - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:15] <exec> 08└─Better never than ever.
[03:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SLS Launch Delayed to (No Earlier Than) April 2021 - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:17] <exec> 08└─Not all of the blame falls at NASA's feet, as they have to take direction from our bought and paid for congress critters. I understand your frustration, and share it...but focus your energy on the real target. Pork, pork, and more pork is where it's at thanks to lobby money. There is a cure, take mo...
[03:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SLS Launch Delayed to (No Earlier Than) April 2021 - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:19] <exec> 08└─planned launch a few minutes before the kickbacks run out..
[03:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:05] <exec> 08└─Can we please start making a change in the way we refer to IoT or Internet Connected devices and start calling them "Internet Dependent". If enough people start using this then the message might become effective and change consumer behaviour. This pet feeder is internet dependent. This bluetooth spe...
[03:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Astronomy Student Discovers 17 New Planets, Including Earth-Sized World - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:36] <exec> 08└─It's in Wuhan.
[03:26:12] <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 - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:12] <exec> 08└─Any data corporations have can and will be given to governments, eventually. It's a mistake to view corporations and governments as completely separate entities when it comes to mass surveillance and many other issues.
[03:26:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dwilson [2599] 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 271 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:37] <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.
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[04:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:03] <exec> 08└─No alien megastructures found in time for him to see it. Tabby's Star [wikipedia.org] looks like a bust.
[04:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SLS Launch Delayed to (No Earlier Than) April 2021 - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:18] <exec> 08└─NASA (100% government) can't get it done in a timely and cost effective manner Boeing (don't ask) can't get it done without killing an unknown number of astronauts in the process, assuming anyone is stupid enough to trust their software. Never mind that quote "I'm sitting on top of a tower of explos...
[04:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SLS Launch Delayed to (No Earlier Than) April 2021 - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:20] <exec> 08└─Virgin Galactic is having one hell of a week: Virgin Galactic’s stock frenzy is starting to look a little like Tesla’s run [latimes.com] Virgin Galactic Stock Is Skyrocketing. It’s Just Hype. [barrons.com] Virgin Galactic sees demand for space travel surge [bbc.com] Virgin Galactic stock crate...
[04:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SLS Launch Delayed to (No Earlier Than) April 2021 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:22] <exec> 08└─At this rate there is a good chance that SpaceX Starship will reach orbit before SLS launches.
[04:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Announces Two Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:43] <exec> 08└─I've seen some very nice aluminum m.2 ssd > usb chassis that are aluminum and damn near a perfect match, it's such a questionable design decision to use plastic.
[04:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Announces Two Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:45] <exec> 08└─They've both been getting their asses handed to them by ARM in low-power-land, and it's only getting worse as ARM boards are getting more and more powerful.
[04:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Two Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:47] <exec> 08└─https://www.rtl-sdr.com/buy-rtl-sdr-dvb-t-dongles/ [rtl-sdr.com] This is of a similar size, with the same problem to deal with: heat. The solution is obviously not neato looking black plastic, unless you get the ASUS dongle just to stare at it.
[04:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Announces Two Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:49] <exec> 08└─My MediaTek MT8173C put the N2840 in the grave. Intel has been doing better at low TDPs than AMD at least, but that could change. Now that R1102G exists, maybe they will update the A6-9220C to use Zen.
[04:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:31] <exec> 08└─Still doesn't matter. It's wifi - so it's not like it's a network attack that someone a mile away or on the other side of the world could do. And I doubt any of your neighbours give a shit about anything beyond their own interests anyway. Just dump the home spying network devices. Problem solved. Or...
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[05:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:16] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe he can be cremated and his ashes sucked up in a Dyson vacuum cleaner. You know, the one with the ball that lets you get around corners easier. It would be Dyson's Dyson Sphere.
[05:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:17] <exec> 08└─We need a new mod, an "ouch" mod, or a "totally inappropriate" mod. Perhaps, a "dead war criminal" mod.
[05:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:19] <exec> 08└─Smart dude right? But his thoughts on climate change are irrelevant? Maybe he saw something the dogma beaters did not.
[05:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:22] <exec> 08└─Lots of interesting quotes [wikiquote.org], including this one: Progress in science is often built on wrong theories that are later corrected. It is better to be wrong than to be vague.
[05:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:24] <exec> 08└─I think this is how falsifiability [britannica.com] is described. It also helps in the office and in documentation, when being wrong can be confirmed and/or corrected, but being vague devolves to "miscommunications", leading to long email chains that people forget the initial point of after keeping...
[05:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SLS Launch Delayed to (No Earlier Than) April 2021 - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:41] <exec> 08└─Heck, it's not exactly a long shot that it might reach the Moon and maybe even Mars before SLS launches. I mean - the early production models probably won't be suitable for long service lives. If some survive early testing until the next iterations render them obsolete, then attempting landings unde...
[05:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Northrop Grumman's "Mission Extension Vehicle" Docks With Satellite - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:49] <exec> 08└─The very idea that we cannot service machines that are in orbit is ridiculous. if America could send the Shuttle out to service the Hubble Space Telescope, it is obvious that robotic missions can be sent to do similar. What are they going to do with the Webb Space Telescope, allegedly too far away,...
[05:25:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 271 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:21] <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!).
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[06:24:12] <exec> 08└─If he did he'd have explained it clearly, the way he explained physics to his students. No, he simply subjectively wasn't convinced. If he had a good argument against climate change, or had meaningful insight backed up with data, he'd have shared it. He liked to share information (see: teaching, pub...
[06:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:14] <exec> 08└─PS - see https://www.nybooks.com [nybooks.com] for Dyson's thoughts. They're not wrong per se; they're just insubstantiable. We don't have genetically modified orgs that do what he suggests, for example.
[06:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:03] <exec> 08└─Water ain't scarce. If you think it is, it's because you decided to live in an area with way more people than it could ever support. That ain't water scarcity, that's astounding stupidity. For my fellow American types, we've got these things called "great lakes" that could resolve your woes. Or if y...
[06:28:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06GlobalFoundries Produces Embedded Magnetoresistive Non-Volatile Memory (eMRAM) on a "22nm" Process - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:06] <exec> 08└─Is this thing sensitive to ambient magnetic fields? I got screwed up big time using some Allegro current sensors, and neglected a nearby fan. I shoulda known better; I had to play my "fool me once" card on that one. Talk about being embarrassed. It seemed like a nice design...worked like shit. Anyon...
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[07:24:28] <exec> 08└─the wrong side of science when it came to climate change
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[07:25:40] <exec> 08└─Bows and flows of angel hair And ice cream castles in the air Feather cannons everywhere I've looked at clouds that way Now they only block the sun They rain and snow on everyone So many things i would have done But clouds got in my way I've looked at clouds from both sides now From up and down and...
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[08:24:24] <exec> 08└─> But his thoughts on climate change are irrelevant? Yes they are. Leave speculation on models to kids and scientists. Climate change is about carbon quotes and laws and taxes which can topple corps as big as auto makers. The future financial landscape depend on it. So let the grownups work.
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[09:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Learning Morse Code The Ludwig Koch Way - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:12] <exec> 08└─You morans
[09:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:30] <exec> 08└─It's called touche.
[09:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:31] <exec> 08└─The only strange thing is that you think this is abnormal. This is the normal state of human affairs. Any deviation from it is a rare, and productive, event.
[09:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:33] <exec> 08└─Look you've gotta die one day and it may as well be in a massive tidal wave when Greenland falls off it's perch.
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[10:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03crb3 [5919] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Learning Morse Code The Ludwig Koch Way - 1319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:10] <exec> 08└─I had one port pin left on an 8051-based device built for hire... So I hooked up a loud piezo-oscillator to it and had it send me short progress and debug messages in Morse. I could hear it all over the factory. The ASCII-to-Morse routines were table-driven, based on a CDP1802 message keyer publishe...
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[10:24:30] <exec> 08└─That the effects will be bad is an economic conclusion anyway, not a scientific one. Economics is not science. At most, Dyson was on "the wrong side of" current economic thinking. Not that it's known which side is right and which one wrong until the future happens.
[10:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SLS Launch Delayed to (No Earlier Than) April 2021 - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:49] <exec> 08└─No matter how much you screw up, all your costs are paid, plus profit on top. The incentives are all wrong, because the more you screw up, the more money you make.
[10:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:43] <exec> 08└─Little Pets starved to death, Internets down and the feeder died, Pet parents weren't 't there to save them, Too lazy to feed them themselves. Dead doggies can't take care of themselves. Dead kitties can't knock things off the shelf. Well, we didn't want you anyway Lalala-lalalalalala-la Daddy is an...
[10:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Flaw in Billions of Wi-Fi Devices Left Communications Open to Eavesdropping - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:01] <exec> 08└─Not sure how that can have happened - once an editor processes the story then it is removed from all other queues. My only guess is that Freeman submitted the same story twice - why? I have no idea. It might surprise you but when we are busy editing stories for the front page we do not get much time...
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[10:26:03] <exec> 08└─that a variety of devices are vulnerable, including ....
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[10:27:34] <exec> 08└─> ...that didn't make you start the entire game over from scratch. And THAT is what is wrong with kids today.
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[11:24:41] <exec> 08└─> Not that it's known which side is right and which one wrong until the future happens. Although history does prove socialism was wrong. But apart from that we don't know which is right.
[11:25:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Northrop Grumman's "Mission Extension Vehicle" Docks With Satellite - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:07] <exec> 08└─Obligatory XKCD [xkcd.com].
[11:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:56] <exec> 08└─My cat is OK if I put the weekly amount of dry food and a pot of water and leave for a week. When I am home, no automation is needed - the cat meows at exact times to remind me.
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[12:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:08] <exec> 08└─"What children choose to read outside school directly influences their academic performance"? No, academic performance and what children choose to read outside school are both influenced by the same underlying factor. Spanish children read quality literature like Don Quixote also do well in school b...
[12:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 1407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:10] <exec> 08└─Kids who read books, learn things. Comics and such? We knew that decades ago too - they don't teach much. Short stories? I'd argue with that, in many cases. Short stories can be pretty educational. More so, if the kid is reading an author who has a common theme throughout several stories. The genre...
[12:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:12] <exec> 08└─I agree. They are getting this flipped so as to confirm their own bias. Intelligent children do read, create, invent... They are not intelligent BECAUSE they do read, create and invent. They CAN do these things because they are intelligent. Then, as they read, create and invent, they become more kno...
[12:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Learning Morse Code The Ludwig Koch Way - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:25] <exec> 08└─WTF are you taling about?!?!?
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[12:25:06] <exec> 08└─https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starship-launch-pad-transport-test-campaign/ [teslarati.com] There could be a suborbital test in late March. I wouldn't expect orbital to happen before they get a Super Heavy on the pad, and that is dependent on these tests and Raptor engine production. Although a St...
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[13:24:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, my first reaction to the title was "Duh?". Exposure is everything with kids, if you expose them to more words and more sophisticated sentence structures, they will be reading and comprehending what they read better than those who weren't exposed. The same applies to anything else. I've been pi...
[13:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Doodle Celebrates Alice in Wonderland Illustrator John Tenniel's 200th Birthday - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:14] <exec> 08└─"You really can 'go' anywhere you want on the homepage, depending on what you're searching for" bullshit
[13:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Learning Morse Code The Ludwig Koch Way - 1417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:25] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid your age is showing. Morse predates both ASCII, Baudot, and EBCDIC as a method for sending messages along a wire or any other medium. I'm not trying to get uppity...my age shows too...try to discuss modern programming languages with me and I have a similar deer in the headlights response....
[13:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Learning Morse Code The Ludwig Koch Way - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:27] <exec> 08└─If you want to translate the "dept." line, I found this encoding works with one online translator. The traditional "-" characters between the "dept." words are used for "dah" in Morse... -- --- .-. ... . Morse code was used at Atari (arcade games) as part of a security-by-obscurity scheme....
[13:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Northrop Grumman's "Mission Extension Vehicle" Docks With Satellite - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:17] <exec> 08└─Besides, at some point, after Elon Musk gets done polluting the skies with his StarLink, we we have to have a fleet Wall-Es, not on earth, but all around earth collecting all the garbage.
[13:27:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06“Konami Code” Creator Passes Away - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:57] <exec> 08└─Because repeating the same thing over and over again is fun, obviously, just to try that part where you failed to fail again since you didn't have enough experience with it yet. It is a game, you know. Fake difficulty is a thing.
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[14:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Extended Interview With Atrus Himself, Myst Creator Rand Miller - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:05] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXrQiTtPREk [youtube.com]
[14:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:17] <exec> 08└─Disagree about short stories in and of themselves. They are often very one dimensioned, by nature wrapping up quickly, rarely leading to more depth of character or thought. Great to try out new authors, explore a singular idea or link two longer stories. But to instil a truly nuanced and dynamic lan...
[14:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:18] <exec> 08└─Let's take two kids: 1) Kid that is a knowledge sponge that enjoys learning for the sake of learning and always intrigued in some new topic. 2) Kid that spends 98% of his free time posting on social media and watching lol videos on YouTube. Which kid is going to do better in school? Which kid is goi...
[14:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:20] <exec> 08└─So Bernies comments about the Cuban education system were spot on? How's about that! Teach a kid to read and maybe they'll learn something.... graduate them or let them drop out of school even when they cant read a lick and they'll probably do poorly! SO SMART! My daughter has dyslexia and hated to...
[14:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Doodle Celebrates Alice in Wonderland Illustrator John Tenniel's 200th Birthday - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:29] <exec> 08└─Well, they got their white male on the homepage. That should fill their quota for a whole year.
[14:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Doodle Celebrates Alice in Wonderland Illustrator John Tenniel's 200th Birthday - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:31] <exec> 08└─Wait a minute, I just looked at the Google doodle, and there is not a male in sight. It is, IF COURSE, a doodle about Alice, a female. I thought Google had a change of heart for a second, but I was mistaken. Carry on!
[14:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Learning Morse Code The Ludwig Koch Way - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:42] <exec> 08└─Every time you say "van" all I can see is creepy rape guy.
[14:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Learning Morse Code The Ludwig Koch Way - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:43] <exec> 08└─That looks like a fun thing to tinker with this weekend. Thanks for the link!
[14:25:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 265 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:04] <exec> 08└─That the effects will be bad is an economic conclusion anyway, not a scientific one. Economics is not science. At most, Dyson was on "the wrong side of" current economic thinking. Not that it's known which side is right and which one wrong until the future happens.
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[14:26:15] <exec> 08└─leave many customers frustrated and confused.
[14:28:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Better Way to Detect Underground Water Leaks - 1191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:05] <exec> 08└─> That ain't water scarcity, that's astounding stupidity. Stupidity as funded by the Feds for many years--all that development money poured into the south west USA was at least part of the origin of the "rust belt". Personally, I blame Reagan (former CA Gov.) as much as anyone for this massive subsi...
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[15:24:23] <exec> 08└─For a famous author inspired by those pulp sci-fi stories, check out the back cover of the dust jacket [abebooks.com] for Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov. For the past several years the name of Isaac Asimov has meant top-drawer, fast-action stories to the readers of science-fiction magazines. Dr....
[15:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:25] <exec> 08└─If we hadn't gotten her to enjoy reading, where would she be?
[15:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:27] <exec> 08└─I've been pissed about GWB's No Child Left Behind
[15:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Doodle Celebrates Alice in Wonderland Illustrator John Tenniel's 200th Birthday - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:37] <exec> 08└─to the Captain. Muskrat love FOREVER! :P
[15:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Doodle Celebrates Alice in Wonderland Illustrator John Tenniel's 200th Birthday - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:39] <exec> 08└─And all his works burned and destroyed https://en.wikipedia.org's_sexual_preferences [wikipedia.org]
[15:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Learning Morse Code The Ludwig Koch Way - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:53] <exec> 08└─Anyone saw such wonder? All the ones I tried were buggy as hell. Often coudn't decode their own output or output manually entered into it.
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[15:25:36] <exec> 08└─Taking money out of politics is nonsensical. Politics in modern full-suffrage democracies are essentially driven by persuasion of a mostly uninformed electorate. It doesn't matter if you're persuading them by directly purchasing advertisements, or by indirectly spending money to convince "influencer...
[15:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UEFI Boot Support Published for RISC-V on Linux - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:19] <exec> 08└─If WD would see gains to be made from locking users out, why would they give away the keys? Making something like BIOS/OpenFirmware/UEFI isn't black magic and rather than using FORTH oder some bytecode, they could just stick to R-V binary, after all it's what they want to push through. So they'd coo...
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[16:24:29] <exec> 08└─Ironically, your analysis is equally flawed: being a jihadi doesn't cause you to read the Koran, it's the other way around.
[16:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:31] <exec> 08└─because of their basic genetic superiority
[16:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:33] <exec> 08└─My mother was a teacher when No Child Left Behind came out. She described it as "No Child Gets Ahead" because of the way it led to cancelling all the advanced placement programs and "optional" classes like music, drafting, shop, woodworking, physical education, etc... The second most unexpected thin...
[16:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:35] <exec> 08└─I learned to read with comic books in the early 1960s.
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[16:25:01] <exec> 08└─-.. .-. .- .. -. / - .... . / ... .-- .- -- .--.
[16:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:23] <exec> 08└─You nailed it. The models are not 'there'. They change with the weather (hehe). But the important part is it is now about money. Not helping us. Biggest change in years for 'climate change' the price of NG went below the price of coal. Adding taxes and derivatives will distort the market. Around 201...
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[16:25:45] <exec> 08└─While removing money from politics would help some issues, being able to point to jobs created is always going to be a good [re-]election strategy.
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[17:24:08] <exec> 08└─Eds.--thanks for patching this up, but you didn't get it quite right: The test field consists of a customer service hall and forecourt, with the vehicle driving autonomously from the parking space to the lifting platform and back. Mechanics use a tablet to move the car into position.
[17:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, of course. You're indoctrinated with stupidity so you deny science and observation when it makes you uncomfortable. Men and women are exactly the same and there's no difference between anybody. Anybody who doesn't believe in magical wish fulfillment is Hitler.
[17:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:37] <exec> 08└─In the early 1960's? That was when Marvel started telling real stories rather then the cardboard characters that DC had been using. (There is, of course, market segmentation, and Marvel stories weren't that deep, given the length limitations. But they had *some* humanizing elements.) OTOH, I wouldn'...
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[17:24:40] <exec> 08└─I don't think it's so much about what's being read that's helpful (so much as it's not nonsensical or inane) but rather the process itself. Visualizing ideas and notions within ones head and retaining and developing a story in your mind is something anybody who regularly reads can do extremely trivi...
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[17:24:42] <exec> 08└─Scoring higher in test scores, and especially school grades, is more a matter of conformance/compliance than raw intelligence/ability. Reading books, particularly for tick marks in a study, is excellent practice at toe-ing the line - doing what is expected - documenting your "achievements." Very val...
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[17:25:00] <exec> 08└─I had one port pin left on an 8051-based device built for hire... So I hooked up a loud piezo-oscillator to it and had it send me short progress and debug messages in Morse. I could hear it all over the factory. The ASCII-to-Morse routines were table-driven, based on a CDP1802 message keyer publishe...
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[17:25:08] <exec> 08└─- .-. ..- -- .--. / -... .- .-. . .-.. -.-- / ..- -. -.. . .-. ... - .- -. -.. ... / . -. --. .-.. .. ... ....
[17:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Learning Morse Code The Ludwig Koch Way - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:10] <exec> 08└─____ / /' `\ \ \ ( )( ) / \{~~~~}/ { /\ } { } { } { } { } {- } { -} _| | | |_ \[ ] [ ]/
[17:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:33] <exec> 08└─Freeman Dyson was head and shoulders above most scientists, let alone random soylent and arstechnica dipshits. He studied climate models 50 or 60 years ago, when global warming bullshit wasn't even a gleam in the religious climate imbeciles' eyes. He knew the subject much better than mostx knew it b...
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[17:25:57] <exec> 08└─>>> An honest politician is about as common as a unicorn, and I think he's the closest we've come since perhaps JFK. I think you overlooked Carter. And when it comes to "utter lack of morals", certainly outshines JFK.
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[18:25:11] <exec> 08└─..--.- ..--.- ..--.- ..--.- -..-. -..-. .----. `\ \ \ -.--. -.--.- -.--. -.--.- -..-. \{~~~~}-..-. { -..-.\ } { } { } { } { } {-....- } { -....-} ..--.-| | | |..--.- \-.--. -.--.- -.--. -.--.- -..-.
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[18:25:36] <exec> 08└─More likely, he heard shitty arguments like that one (discounting someone's argument through mere assertion) and thought "huh, must not be mature yet." Wait-and-see readily evolves when so much pseudoscience surrounds it. Seriously, we get this same crap ever time someone knowledgeable has a contra...
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[18:26:01] <exec> 08└─And past performance doesn't matter when the next cost-plus contract is doled out. Keep in mind the other side of these contracts - changing requirements. NASA is notorious (as are most US government organizations that rely on cost-plus) for changing its requirements on the fly without regard for c...
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[19:24:04] <exec> 08└─How could someone write about LZW and completely miss the fact that it was patented and aggressively defended. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into the History and Evolution of Zip Compression - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:06] <exec> 08└─and horrible if there is any corruption in the file At least tar spread the directory across the archive
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[19:24:08] <exec> 08└─Tar doesn't compress
[19:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:46] <exec> 08└─You are wrong. Belief is something you end up being convinced. Intelligence is a trait you get born with. You can change your beliefs. You can't change your intelligence. Also, I get you don't know many muslims. I do, and among them nobody really reads anything, sacred or not.
[19:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:40] <exec> 08└─Condo lances to his family. The world has lost a great man. He was one of those geniuses that you only see a few times a century. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] He was the man in charge of the original Project Orion [wikipedia.org] Footage of some testing on the concept...
[19:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD Announces Two Ultra-Low-Power Ryzen Embedded APUs - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:26:32] <exec> 08└─For the same process and same clockrate, AMD has not been hotter except for certain 'enthusiast' models of processors (primarily the hammer athlon64's and some of their early overclocked x86 (386/486/586) second source chips.) Having said that, they have been 1-2 generations behind in process techno...
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[20:24:11] <exec> 08└─The author took a deep dive into ZIP, that's all. I mean, if you want to go on about what was left out, there's LZ78, and a whole host of tweaks and improvements, of which only LZSS was mentioned. LZMA and LZMA2 are perhaps the current state of the art in all the LZ variants. Then there's Huffman co...
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[21:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heart Rate Limitations Show Why You Shouldn't Get Your Medical Advice From the Apple Watch - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:12] <exec> 08└─You never told us the Apple Watch was a device for killing hipsters.
[21:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Heart Rate Limitations Show Why You Shouldn't Get Your Medical Advice From the Apple Watch - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:13] <exec> 08└─That's like depending on FOX/CNN for accurate news!
[21:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into the History and Evolution of Zip Compression - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:25] <exec> 08└─Compression was an example of a big grass roots win for free and open, starting with the war between SEA and PKWARE. The courts decided for SEA, but the people (at least the subset that even knew what file compression was) decided for PK and so SEA went away in short order. I remember BBSes at the t...
[21:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into the History and Evolution of Zip Compression - 1399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:27] <exec> 08└─That's because SEA made a utility called 'arc' that generated .arc files. Then Phil Katz came along and made pkarc/pkxarc which did the same thing, but was considerably faster and produced slightly smaller files in most cases. The pkarc/pkxarc utilities were also a lot smaller, and you only needed t...
[21:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into the History and Evolution of Zip Compression - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:29] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unzip#Local_file_header [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The file info is stored in 2 locations. At the beginning of the stream and again in the central header. Remember .zip came out of the BBS era. So so...
[21:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into the History and Evolution of Zip Compression - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:31] <exec> 08└─Why are some of the values encoded LSb first while other ones are encoded MSb first?
[21:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:10] <exec> 08└─>> You can change your beliefs. Not if you're a Muslim. Renouncing your belief is apostasy, and that's punishable by death. It's right there in the Koran. At least the Scientologists let you leave with your life.
[21:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:11] <exec> 08└─The whole article basically comes down to 'people that read books are booksmart'. And school testing is geared for testing 'booksmarts'. Testing at school is done in a form that penalises kids that my be very gifted in verbal, social, creative and analysis skills, but aren't so good when it comes to...
[21:28:37] <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 - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:37] <exec> 08└─I tell you what. I'll show you some ads for stuff you don't want, then I'll shoot you in the head twice. After that, I'd appreciate you filling out a questionnaire detailing your subjective responses to both.
[21:28:39] <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 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:28:39] <exec> 08└─how does one crawl Facebook for images and other data anyway
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[22:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heart Rate Limitations Show Why You Shouldn't Get Your Medical Advice From the Apple Watch - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:11] <exec> 08└─but fuck you, not perfect, so throw it out! seriously? it's not a medical test. But it is better than nothing and as a side gadget, it definitely is better than nothing.
[22:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Heart Rate Limitations Show Why You Shouldn't Get Your Medical Advice From the Apple Watch - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:12] <exec> 08└─Once again, stupid people relying on a stupid toy device just so they can think they look cool. It is not a medical device, it never will be, and no amount of pretending will make it one, even if Apple bought some "approval". Hopefully, those who think they should rely on it will eventually find the...
[22:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heart Rate Limitations Show Why You Shouldn't Get Your Medical Advice From the Apple Watch - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:14] <exec> 08└─What part of "false sense of security" don't you understand, imbecile?
[22:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Heart Rate Limitations Show Why You Shouldn't Get Your Medical Advice From the Apple Watch - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:16] <exec> 08└─So does an apple a day keeps the doctor away?
[22:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into the History and Evolution of Zip Compression - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:31] <exec> 08└─The technical advantages are why it is still around today. The legal/social issues are why SEA went away never to be seen again (SOURCE: I was active on BBSes at the time). Until the crazy trademark crap, there was room for both in the community.
[22:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into the History and Evolution of Zip Compression - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:32] <exec> 08└─Arithmetic coding wasn't patented. IBM had a binary variant that was, but no-one ever used it. Problem with arithmetic coding was that in its classical form it was really, really slow.
[22:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Doodle Celebrates Alice in Wonderland Illustrator John Tenniel's 200th Birthday - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:25] <exec> 08└─What's this and is it safe to click?
[22:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:09] <exec> 08└─Once upon a time the con men would claim to be backed by G_d. Now they claim science instead. Dyson, like any real scientist, was skeptical of the con. The snark only proves the idiocy of the author.
[22:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:10] <exec> 08└─No, touche is tasked with so much here, that it makes ambiguous. Touche to me means that there was a good come-back line -- usually a funny one or a sarcastic one. Rarely do I think we use it to mean "good point". Anyway, to make it try to mean more than that makes it less useful in the long run.
[22:27:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder System Back after Week-Long Outage - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:33] <exec> 08└─(evil Ferengi voice) Way too many consumers today seem to have a problem internalizing the fact that when they buy something, it is not theirs and we maintain exclusive visitation rights. Much like toddlers that cannot bring themselves to let go of the smelly hole ridden blanket for our brand new in...
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[23:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Heart Rate Limitations Show Why You Shouldn't Get Your Medical Advice From the Apple Watch - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:22] <exec> 08└─A large number of people have a resting heart rate above 120bpm? I’d think that would be a pretty goddamned significant sign you’re in trouble even if the doohickey can’t tell you anything else, not that you should need said doohickey to know your HR is freakin’ double normal.
[23:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Deep Dive into the History and Evolution of Zip Compression - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:39] <exec> 08└─I wish he'd gone into a bit more detail about Phil's colourful history. For starters, "passed away" should read "drank himself to death".
[23:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Porsche Trials V2X at Dealerships - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:47] <exec> 08└─ob disc: I work in automotive (software, e-cars) in addition to wifi, lte, gps, ble - there will be v2x antennas/radios on cars, as we all move forward with the next gen car tech. tesla is not yet on the bandwagon, but they will be once everyone else jumps on it; and they all are planning to, in fac...
[23:25:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 769 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:09] <exec> 08└─For a famous author inspired by those pulp sci-fi stories, check out the back cover of the dust jacket [abebooks.com] for Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov. For the past several years the name of Isaac Asimov has meant top-drawer, fast-action stories to the readers of science-fiction magazines. Dr....
[23:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:23] <exec> 08└─...My daughter has dyslexia and hated to read, except she loved the Betty and Veronica books. So we bought her a SHIT-LOAD METRIC TONNE of them!...
[23:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Children Who Read Books Daily Score Higher in School Tests, Vast New Study States - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:24] <exec> 08└─Being able to figure out the conformance that the test is demanding is part of being intelligent, and recognizing that getting good grades is important socially is also part of being intelligent. Being rebellious is not in and of itself a sign of intelligence. I'm sorry to break it to you, but if yo...
[23:26:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06The Man Behind the Sphere, Freeman Dyson, is Dead at 96 - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:03] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe he can be cremated and his ashes sucked up in a Dyson vacuum cleaner. You know, the one with the ball that lets you get around corners easier. It would be Dyson's Dyson Sphere.
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