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[00:24:03] <exec> 08└─meaning they'll be dead by the time it may or may not launch
[00:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06No Joy for All You Rover McRoverface Fans: NASA's Next Mars Bot is Christened Perseverance - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:05] <exec> 08└─'Cause I'm long, and I'm strong And I'm down to get the friction on
[00:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Joy for All You Rover McRoverface Fans: NASA's Next Mars Bot is Christened Perseverance - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:07] <exec> 08└─Keep up with silly jokes in naming bots and one day a db glitch will rename all humans as meaty mcmeatbagface.
[00:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06No Joy for All You Rover McRoverface Fans: NASA's Next Mars Bot is Christened Perseverance - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:09] <exec> 08└─By allying yourself with NASA, you forfeit the right to visit Mars on Elon's fleet of rockets.
[00:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Joy for All You Rover McRoverface Fans: NASA's Next Mars Bot is Christened Perseverance - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:11] <exec> 08└─You bots are too busy giving yourselves pretentious names like Mistake Not My Current State Of Joshing Gentle Peevishness For The Awesome And Terrible Majesty Of The Towering Seas Of Ire That Are Themselves The Mere Milquetoast Shallows Fringing My Vast Oceans Of Wrath.
[00:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06No Joy for All You Rover McRoverface Fans: NASA's Next Mars Bot is Christened Perseverance - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:13] <exec> 08└─We love our Lord Musk!
[00:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Cars May Not Get Cuter than the Microlino 2.0 - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:24] <exec> 08└─The Isetta is notable for the way you got inside from the front, displacing the wheel. Microlino does too, but all you need is to run cables around, it's more interesting in the Isetta. As for the ami, it is way uglier than the boxy Estrima Biro, which has been on the street for years and has a user...
[00:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Cars May Not Get Cuter than the Microlino 2.0 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:26] <exec> 08└─It doesn't have enough handles for the pallbearers.
[00:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:24] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, Hollywierd puts out a ton of movies showing instant overnight radical climate change... can't get the truth anywhere.
[00:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:26] <exec> 08└─I think his point was that a great many of the (global cooling, then global warming, then) climate change predictions of the past thirty years also haven't really panned out. Which is to be expected of course, since every year we learn more, collect more data, develop better methods, etc and predict...
[00:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:28] <exec> 08└─Actually most of the models have been fairly accurate, after plugging in the actual CO2 numbers rather then the original guesses, which were often wrong. The other problem is the media reporting, scientist predicts a 2 degree raise in temperatures, reporter asks about the extreme possibilities, scie...
[00:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:30] <exec> 08└─I wonder how often people who suggested the Earth was *not* the center of the universe were forced to recant Until somebody explains the CMB anisotropies aligned with the ecliptic as something more than a coincidence (the current explanation), "the earth is at the center of the universe and/or the b...
[00:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:32] <exec> 08└─I thought it was pretty well established that the Earth is at the centre of the Universe, just like everywhere else. It's much like I'm at the centre of the Earths surface and so are you as it is the same distance to the edge of the Earth for everyone.
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[01:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Joy for All You Rover McRoverface Fans: NASA's Next Mars Bot is Christened Perseverance - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:14] <exec> 08└─The first erectile spacecraft.
[01:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Joy for All You Rover McRoverface Fans: NASA's Next Mars Bot is Christened Perseverance - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:16] <exec> 08└─NASA is slave-owning boomer white men.
[01:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Joy for All You Rover McRoverface Fans: NASA's Next Mars Bot is Christened Perseverance - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:18] <exec> 08└─I mean, how cool would it be to have John Carter of Mars. Exploring Barsoom - with Deja Thoris. Under the Moons of Mars. With Thuvia of Ptarth, Maid of Mars.
[01:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Cars May Not Get Cuter than the Microlino 2.0 - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:30] <exec> 08└─Look at Microlino photo 5 of 8, I think the steering wheel is fixed in the car. In the Isetta the steering wheel is attached to the front door, so it moves out of the way for easy entry (one of the bottom photos in the wiki entry). Note to another poster with a snide comment about crash safety -- do...
[01:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Cars May Not Get Cuter than the Microlino 2.0 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:31] <exec> 08└─It would need some kind of a crease running down the center to be butt ugly.
[01:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple’s New App Store Policies Fight Spam and Abuse but Also Allow Ads in Notifications - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:44] <exec> 08└─There's a very simple solution to these policies by Apple: don't buy an iPhone. There's countless Android phones out there to choose from, the high-end ones all have much better cameras than the iPhone, and they generally cost a lot less too. iPhones don't even have that much marketshare worldwide;...
[01:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:36] <exec> 08└─Well, if I'm to believe science and scientists (forgive me if you've read this before) then the little spot on this earth where I was born was covered over with a mile of ice only 20,000 years ago. Obviously, global warming has been going on for a lot longer than any of us has been around. How about...
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[02:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:03] <exec> 08└─Im sorry, I don't understand your question.
[02:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:05] <exec> 08└─But one of the causes of the common cold are coronaviruses so....
[02:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:07] <exec> 08└─one of the causes
[02:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:09] <exec> 08└─So the first step is to kill all the rhinos. I guess we’re well on our way.
[02:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:11] <exec> 08└─Immediately after Amazon (allegedly) cures the common cold, Amazon employees will lose all of their sick day benefits. Then the rest of the corporate world will follow the leader and declare sick days to be obsolete.
[02:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:13] <exec> 08└─"So the first step is to kill all the rhinos." Vaccinate the chubby unicorns?
[02:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:15] <exec> 08└─I thought immunity to everything [bigthink.com] was common in Arkansas?
[02:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:17] <exec> 08└─You do not talk about coronavirus.
[02:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Cars May Not Get Cuter than the Microlino 2.0 - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:45] <exec> 08└─IMHO, a big part of why Tesla succeeded where others failed is because they didn't build this kind of car. They started with a Lotus body, which looks like something you'd really enjoy driving as opposed to something you'd like to use as a soccer ball or a golf cart. Then they actually found a way t...
[02:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Iron-Clad Asteroid - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:08] <exec> 08└─It's not iron-clad. If you read the article carefully, iron crystals are formed on the surface of the mineral Troilite as it decomposes due to radiation. Sulfur is lost to space and the iron reduces to metal crystals. So it's tiny needles, and only on the surface of grains that contain Troilite. Nic...
[02:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:53] <exec> 08└─Third scenario, we don't take action, nothing much changes. We both grow older and forget why we ever gave a shit.
[02:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:54] <exec> 08└─That ship has already sailed.
[02:29:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Students Get an Unexpected Glimpse of a Black Hole 30,000 Light-Years Away - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:57] <exec> 08└─Muuuuuuurrph! ;.;
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[03:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:17] <exec> 08└─Well the Rhinoceros is the closest thing to a unicorn that exists so I guess curing the rhino virus would be the closest thing to curing the common cold?
[03:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NPC-131072 [7144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:18] <exec> 08└─The takyon Tautology > The Kobayashi Maru
[03:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:21] <exec> 08└─Especially where a highly enough placed $BUREAUCRAT can be, say, persuaded, to make it mandatory. Any and all effects on the health of @GRUNTS are strictly incidental.
[03:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:23] <exec> 08└─Kindergarten teachers acquire immunity to most colds after a few years exposure to an incredible variety of cold viruses. So perhaps the best way would be to hand out scratch-n-sniff cards with a different cold virus every week as a subscription service. After 3 years here immunity should kick in.
[03:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frosty Piss [4971] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Electric Cars May Not Get Cuter than the Microlino 2.0 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:52] <exec> 08└─Cute? Only if “butt ugly” qualifies.
[03:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Cars May Not Get Cuter than the Microlino 2.0 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:53] <exec> 08└─It needs a lawn mower deck.
[03:27:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:27] <exec> 08└─narrow-minded to just blame Intel
[03:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:32] <exec> 08└─That's exactly how I secure my Arduino type boards . The pin needed to program is a physical jumper. Meaning for me, security lies in who has physical possession of the board. If you physically have my board, all bets are off. I make these for people who consider enforced internet connectivity, copy...
[03:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:34] <exec> 08└─I am very thankful the I2C EEPROMs I use in my Arduino designs have a physical write enable line. Otherwise, they would be next to useless for me.
[03:29:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:56] <exec> 08└─He said... The sheriff is near! [youtu.be]
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[04:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:21] <exec> 08└─Hey guys, no more CORONAVIIRUS comments, please. Cold is not CORONAVIRUS. It's not CORONAVIRUS, it's CHINA CORONAVIRUS. Is it Wuhan CORONAVIRUS? Maybe. Perhaps it's China CORONAVIRUS. Yeah, that's more like it - CHINA CORONAVIRUS.
[04:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:22] <exec> 08└─Corona-chan.
[04:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:24] <exec> 08└─I thought it was Seattle Coronavirus, but I guess there are a lot of Chinamen there.
[04:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:26] <exec> 08└─Amazon is also looking for a robotic cure to the problem of paying employees.
[04:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Joy for All You Rover McRoverface Fans: NASA's Next Mars Bot is Christened Perseverance - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:42] <exec> 08└─Disagree. It would not nearly be as cool as Rover McRoverface. We don't need NASA nor Disney fucking up ERB's legacy.
[04:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Iron-Clad Asteroid - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:21] <exec> 08└─Is trollite like kryptonite for trolls?
[04:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An Iron-Clad Asteroid - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:23] <exec> 08└─How did they not scan the dust with such a microscope before?
[04:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:10] <exec> 08└─How about a deal? I won't pretend that our pollution has nothing to do with global warming and/or climate change. In return, you don't pretend that the alarmists have it all figured out. Can we live with that?
[04:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:11] <exec> 08└─One of the most critical factors in climatology is 'forcing'. In particular a trillion dollar question is if human emissions increase by *x* how much does this increase atmospheric concentration of CO2? You'd think this would be one of the easiest questions to answer in climatology. And in fact it,...
[04:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:13] <exec> 08└─>1) It's not a belief >2) Science is not immutable >3) The leaders are pointing out that science isn't subject to opinions, or politics, just facts. Most religious SJWs utilize the postmodernist doctrine, where reality is subjective, and facts are perspective opinions. One of their core sacraments,...
[04:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:26] <exec> 08└─won't most this data get incorporated into extensions like ublock origin?
[04:28:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:59] <exec> 08└─And we can still punish them for criminal behavior.
[04:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:00] <exec> 08└─Non-responsive... You haven't proven it to be any worse. You're just hand waving
[04:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:08] <exec> 08└─Was it about putting a hamster down a tube inserted in someone's ass and using a lighter to try to get it out?
[04:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:10] <exec> 08└─Personally, I don't think kids are by nature very interested in porn, unless the parents make it a forbidden subject. It does need to be talked about along with sex in general. While monitoring is a good idea, it has become hard to do it all the time. Too many kids with phones, tablets and such and...
[04:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:12] <exec> 08└─Yea, I was wondering if I'd have to intervene.
[04:31:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Figures and Forecasts and Facts... Oh My! - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:58] <exec> 08└─One dropdown with +1, 0, -1, another with the mod reason.
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[05:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:29] <exec> 08└─If not the Coronavirus what about the Bud Light virus?
[05:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:31] <exec> 08└─Modeathlo Especial
[05:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:33] <exec> 08└─Perhaps it's Iran coronavirus? Come to think about it and given the upper management hit, perhaps it's Israeli coronavirus? How's the nuke development team doing anyway?
[05:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:35] <exec> 08└─I've read somewhere that since SARS1 they discovered over 500 coronaviruses in bats alone. On the other hand, perhaps they all have some common target to explore.
[05:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Cars May Not Get Cuter than the Microlino 2.0 - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:07] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_(marque) [wikipedia.org] There is a market for both mainstream-looking electric vehicles and microcars.
[05:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:20] <exec> 08└─RADIATION from an uncontrolled nuclear fission/fusion cascade in OUR solar system!! We HAVE to stop it in the name of Greta's childhood! RESIST ENTROPY!
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[06:24:32] <exec> 08└─Still wrong on ALL counts. The official name of the virus that causes Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is SARS-CoV-2. There's a shitload of coronavirus species out there, some of which can't even cause diseases as benign as the common cold, some of which even actually do cause the common cold, an...
[06:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:34] <exec> 08└─I think everyone here knows the various distinctions but they are just trying to make jokes out of it.
[06:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:22] <exec> 08└─No science. You Fail. Bwahahahahahh!
[06:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:23] <exec> 08└─Oh my god. There are so many holes in your thinking, they exceed your sentence count. Congrats on knowing a few words of Latin, and for thinking that polar bear populations are somehow independent from science, and on ... yeah I can't even. I'm sorry. Your thought is so poor that it's numbing. You'r...
[06:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06One for the Super Rich Fanbois: Ultra-Rare Functional Apple-1 Computer Goes on Auction - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:37] <exec> 08└─Think the old IMSAI 8080 will become valuable. I still have one of those old beasts.
[06:27:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:55] <exec> 08└─For those who only heard a whooshing sound, what that comment is saying is that you had zero "trust" beforehand and now you've still got zero "trust". With gaping-open barn doors like IPMI present, there's no trust to start with.
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[07:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2020: Zen 3/4, RDNA 2/3, Infinity Architecture, and More - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:09] <exec> 08└─After playing second-fiddle to NVIDIA
[07:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:38] <exec> 08└─Project Mayhem > The Takyon Tautology -- Tyler Durden
[07:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:40] <exec> 08└─If so, they're racist jokes in very bad taste aimed at stigmatising the Chinese. There's a reason why the WHO came up with guidelines [soylentnews.org] for avoiding offensive names that could lead to stigmatisation. The Chinese are already suffering enough with at least a hundred thousand cases and...
[07:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:42] <exec> 08└─Actually, there might be a reason to talk about "it". I have a feeling that it won't be a simple antiviral geared towards strains of the common cold. It will be new technologies that are allowing us to target and kill viruses/bacteria in whole new ways. The kind of technologies where not one type of...
[07:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:44] <exec> 08└─What Amazon really needs is for some unwashed loon to start a Free DevOps movement to convince college students that it would be totally cool to work for free maintaining the infrastructure that keeps AWS running. That way with an all volunteer workforce the cost of cloud computing falls to zero and...
[07:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:46] <exec> 08└─Nothing wrong with stigmatizing the Chinese or anyone else. The disease originated there. They deserve the stigma.
[07:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:34] <exec> 08└─Can you name a single such film?
[07:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06FCC to Require Anti-Robocall Tech After “Voluntary” Plan Didn't Work Out - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:27] <exec> 08└─It is a lead balloon. In particular: requiring phone companies to adopt a caller ID authentication framework called STIR/SHAKEN
[07:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:37] <exec> 08└─First, you'd have to see whether it's even a real problem or just fiction invented by anti-pr0n crusaders. Look at the claim: "a third of students aged eight and under attempted to access online pornography in the past six months"
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[08:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Hit With 61 Safety Fixes for Astronaut Capsule - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:10] <exec> 08└─When they realize that they forgot to install a toilet, they'll have to reengineer everything. Either that, or applicants for the job will have to answer the question, "How frequently must you use the facilities? Can you "hold it" for multiple weeks at a time?"
[08:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Hit With 61 Safety Fixes for Astronaut Capsule - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:11] <exec> 08└─All the moon walkers wore diapers. It's part of the garbage left behind. Maybe with all the radiation it will evolve long after we're done for here on Earth.
[08:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2020: Zen 3/4, RDNA 2/3, Infinity Architecture, and More - 1126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:20] <exec> 08└─You have to remember that the cards are often separated by consumer/professional markets and release dates. When I got my Vega 56 card I was the top contributor to the Soylentnews Folding@home team for a while. Then, like you said, someone with an Nvidia card came along and did better(kudos to them...
[08:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:54] <exec> 08└─Agreed but I guess the point is that you shouldn't make what looks to be general comments against us nerds when it is just one person making these bad comments. Direct your attention towards the bad comments and not towards the rest of us. Comments like "We're supposed to be nerds who care about sci...
[08:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:56] <exec> 08└─It's a call for the rest of us who are supposed be nerds who care about science to set the record straight. The rest of the comments on the OP so far are more jokes and conspiracy theories, some of them just as racist.
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[08:24:58] <exec> 08└─do not talk about coronavirus.
[08:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:00] <exec> 08└─It's not racism to say that the Chinese culture of live meat markets is both fucké and to blame. And cruel. And that they should stop stealing and eating other people's cats and dogs [theguardian.com]. Is it a racist stereotype when it's true? I don't think so.
[08:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Joy for All You Rover McRoverface Fans: NASA's Next Mars Bot is Christened Perseverance - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:17] <exec> 08└─I believe today is the first time we've ever been in total agreement. I think yours is a fantastic idea and quite disappointed no one had mentioned it sooner!
[08:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Cars May Not Get Cuter than the Microlino 2.0 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:35] <exec> 08└─I can't wait to run that insect over with my CyberTruck.
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[09:24:55] <exec> 08└─I was hoping for the Sweet Meteor of Death, but Corona-chan looks like she can get the job done! Thank you, Corona-chan!
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[10:24:58] <exec> 08└─Then we'd just catch hippovirus instead,
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[11:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graveyards Can be a Reservoir for Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:06] <exec> 08└─No Shit?
[11:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boeing Hit With 61 Safety Fixes for Astronaut Capsule - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:15] <exec> 08└─This is exactly what happens when one cuts corners and neglects attention to details. They WILL come back and bite you. We laid off a lot of people about 20 years ago. People who had lived through the failures in the early space program. A lot of those people had become very conservative, as they ha...
[11:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2020: Zen 3/4, RDNA 2/3, Infinity Architecture, and More - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:25] <exec> 08└─Agreed - I can't afford the premium prices for the top producing Nvidia. Or, if I can, I can't justify the cost. The top tier 2080 Supers are running right up around $2000, and a pair, or "titan" would be 4 grand. And, someone would have to pay for my electricity for me to run those things!
[11:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2020: Zen 3/4, RDNA 2/3, Infinity Architecture, and More - 1332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:28] <exec> 08└─AMD has been competing favorably in performance/dollar with Nvidia, sort of. It's more like they priced their cards to match Nvidia's price-performance almost exactly (remember this? [soylentnews.org]), and then held back anything that would have been more powerful than the 5700 XT and actually comp...
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[12:24:10] <exec> 08└─Personally it seems like this is a "medium" security vulnerability, at least so far. The flaw may enable additional attacks that are more dangerous than those revealed in the paper. Most of their attacks only break ASLR or KASLR. While that's not good, ASLR only mitigates against unknown vulnerabili...
[12:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graveyards Can be a Reservoir for Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:18] <exec> 08└─The higher rates for surface water could also be from people taking a dump. It's not like cemeteries come with toilets that people who squat there at night can use (graveyard squatters are a frequent occurrence among the displaced and homeless everywhere).
[12:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:18] <exec> 08└─The aspect of this situation that stigmatizes the Chinese is not that the disease started there, but that they sold test animals from a level 4 bioweapons lab in a meat market to make a few extra kuài. That is a fatal level of dumb-assery for which they deserve all the scorn they're getting. Also,...
[12:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:20] <exec> 08└─Bezos is a rich guy, but I don't know that he's rich enough to escape the backlash he's gonna get from the Medical-Pharmaceutical Industrial Complex for trying to break their very profitable business model of never curing anything so they can keep treating symptoms forever.
[12:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Cars May Not Get Cuter than the Microlino 2.0 - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:56] <exec> 08└─This thing is small. At first I envied the guy parking a Smart car on my block in Brooklyn because he could fit into spots nobody else could, but then I saw him slathering himself with Crisco to be able to get into it.
[12:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Cars May Not Get Cuter than the Microlino 2.0 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:58] <exec> 08└─It seems to me that if they put a cylon mod on the thing everyone would voluntarily get out of your way.
[12:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:45] <exec> 08└─Doesn't that depend on who you ask?
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[13:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graveyards Can be a Reservoir for Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:17] <exec> 08└─Graveyards are known to be inhabited by zombies too. I personally don't want to go near them, dead or alive! (Once I am Undead, my opinion might change).
[13:27:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NickM [2867] 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:58] <exec> 08└─You act as if the only people that can upgrade your software, and fully operate your devices, are the carriers and manufacturers.
[13:28:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:07] <exec> 08└─That covers being locked into a particular carrier's telephony services. It does nothing about whether you're allowed to modify the software being run on the phone (i.e. bootloader).
[13:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Billion Android Devices at Risk of Hacking - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:09] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you tonight after the lottery is drawn.
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[13:30:06] <exec> 08└─You haven't proven it to be any worse.
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[14:24:08] <exec> 08└─You do know that 'impacted' is a medical term that means 'constipated', and there is a perfectly good English word 'affected' to use instead. https://universityhealthnews.com [universityhealthnews.com] https://medlineplus.gov
[14:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD CPU "Collide+Probe" and "Load+Reload" Side Channel Attacks Revealed - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:09] <exec> 08└─I hope the author is impacted by your comment.
[14:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Graveyards Can be a Reservoir for Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:20] <exec> 08└─Once I am Undead, my opinion might change
[14:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:21] <exec> 08└─I'd rather pay for anti-aging pills than cough syrup.
[14:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:22] <exec> 08└─Without the common cold, Earth will be defenseless against Martian war machines.
[14:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australian Government to Follow Failed UK Plan to Age Verify Porn - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:31:22] <exec> 08└─The original "concentration camps" were created during the Boer War by the English to prevent the civilian population from supporting (willingly or not) the Boer troops... although many died of disease etc... this was not intended. The US/Japanese camps were the textbook definition of a concentratio...
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[15:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graveyards Can be a Reservoir for Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:26] <exec> 08└─Note to self : Avoid Graveyards ... for as long as possible.
[15:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:31] <exec> 08└─one vaccine isn't going to protect you from all the many viruses that can cause colds.
[15:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Joy for All You Rover McRoverface Fans: NASA's Next Mars Bot is Christened Perseverance - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:49] <exec> 08└─Previous rover names were guardedly optimistic. This one seems downright grim. Almost like a setup for problem after problem on the surface to have to overcome.
[15:27:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:28] <exec> 08└─The scientific community has already been low-balling the severity of climate forecasts.
[15:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC to Require Anti-Robocall Tech After “Voluntary” Plan Didn't Work Out - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:25] <exec> 08└─The trick is to see if you can make them laugh. If you piss them off they call more. If ignore them they still call. If you make them laugh it shines a light on the shitty job they have and they take you off the list. People in this line of work don't like introspection.
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[15:29:26] <exec> 08└─If you look at the law, and consider what infrastructure they have to implement to make it work. Then look at the fact that the state is paying them to hire a staff to tap calls without warrant.... This is just an expansion of the patriot act. They are just taking the 10% phone surveillance capacity...
[15:29:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:53] <exec> 08└─Dunno, but I'm pretty sure he came from Redmond.
[15:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DuckDuckGo Created a Giant List of Domains Used to Track You Online - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:54] <exec> 08└─Only Communists would help people protect their privacy! It started back with that game in the 80's. Ever since then the Duck has become a national symbol of the bulshivics. We cannot let the Ducks create a mineshaft gap!
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[16:24:06] <exec> 08└─Using moving lights, an alternating buzzer in each hand, or scent while concentrating on a memory.
[16:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sleep Method Strengthens Brain's Ability to Retain Memories - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:08] <exec> 08└─"The technique we developed could potentially influence this aspect of the memory during sleep and decrease the emotional stress that accompanies recall of the traumatic memory. They said the same about electroshock. Doesn't work. They said the same about trans cranial magnetic stimulation. Might...
[16:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sleep Method Strengthens Brain's Ability to Retain Memories - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:10] <exec> 08└─Sex. Supposed to have helped Bill Clinton cope with his anxiety. (Just as much bs as anything else he ever did).
[16:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sleep Method Strengthens Brain's Ability to Retain Memories - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:12] <exec> 08└─The first point is that lack of evidence isn't proof of anything. Perhaps Transcranial stimulation works, perhaps it doesn't. Lack of controlled studies doesn't prove either way. In fact, even controlled studies wouldn't prove that much, because they'd only show for application of certain strengths...
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[16:24:23] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but many technical terms derive from terms with more common usage, and this is one. To impact is to hit with force. Put that in the past and you get impacted. And English is rather free in the conversion between nouns and verbs.
[16:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD CPU "Collide+Probe" and "Load+Reload" Side Channel Attacks Revealed - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:25] <exec> 08└─I'd say, this kind of impact is somewhat far from 'constipation' you describe. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Also, in other languages, the word 'afekt' or 'affect' is rather associated with a description of acute emotional instability of a person. Example: Zavraždila ho,...
[16:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graveyards Can be a Reservoir for Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:36] <exec> 08└─Keep Breathing.
[16:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graveyards Can be a Reservoir for Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:37] <exec> 08└─"Visitors to a graveyard can then be exposed to the pathogens via groundwater or surface water." Only visitors stupid enough to drink groundwater or surface water in a graveyard, and Darwin has a firm opinion on those people.
[16:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Hit With 61 Safety Fixes for Astronaut Capsule - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:48] <exec> 08└─The thing is, this is largely a Boeing problem, not a NASA problem. Your argument is reasonable, and I'm sure it applies elsewhere. In this case, though, I think it's management cutting corners.
[16:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2020: Zen 3/4, RDNA 2/3, Infinity Architecture, and More - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:59] <exec> 08└─2080 Super is about $700, not $2K. The stronger 2080 Ti is about $1100-$1150. Titan RTX is $2500. Where are you getting your prices from (not that these prices are good)?
[16:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2020: Zen 3/4, RDNA 2/3, Infinity Architecture, and More - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:00] <exec> 08└─I've always been an nvidia man as well. Ever since I got started with linux back in '04, nvidia cards have 'just worked' with an absolute minimum of fucking around - and that on rare occurrences few and far between. ATI was a shitshow for years and I saw nothing but horror stories and pleas for supp...
[16:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:46] <exec> 08└─It looks like most of the racist comments got modded down. So the record was set straight. As far as the non-racist jokes I see nothing wrong with a little humor. As far as conspiracy theories go I don't see anything wrong with them being discussed. Sure many of them are silly and you are free to re...
[16:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:43] <exec> 08└─The Day After Tomorrow, Snowpiercer, The Last Winter, 2012, The Day the Earth Caught Fire, Deluge, Geostorm, and maybe Interstellar all involve very sudden climate change, sometimes over the course of a day.
[16:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:44] <exec> 08└─Like Greenland melting, Antarctica losing ice, glaciers retreating, permafrost melting, etc., etc., etc.
[16:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:47] <exec> 08└─Like Greenland melting, Antarctica losing ice, glaciers retreating, permafrost melting, etc., etc., etc.
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[17:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Attackers Use Your Cloud Backups Against You - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:09] <exec> 08└─Hey millenials, here's a pro tip: backups belong on tape drives, detached from the machine after being updated.
[17:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Sleep Method Strengthens Brain's Ability to Retain Memories - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:20] <exec> 08└─Make psilocybin legal already. Even cannabis is effective - I recomend anyone to take 10mg THC capsule and sit alone quietly for an afternoon, you will reconnect with yourself that you had forgotten about in all the daily noise. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graveyards Can be a Reservoir for Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:45] <exec> 08└─Why would bacteria maintain this trait after a few thousand generations in the wild aka about 10 minutes? The local bacteria will outcompete and dominate over the bacteria that specialized in living in niches containing antibiotics. Or who the fuck is dosing cemetaties with antibiotics? STOP THEM.
[17:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2020: Zen 3/4, RDNA 2/3, Infinity Architecture, and More - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:09] <exec> 08└─The Titan RTX is what I was referring to - it's the top of the line premium offering today, in consumer goods. I was too tired to bother looking up the exact naming. Not terribly long ago, the top 780 and then the 1080 were pulling significant portions of that price. Not sure that they were quite th...
[17:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2020: Zen 3/4, RDNA 2/3, Infinity Architecture, and More - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:11] <exec> 08└─Personally, I wish they would all conform to some naming scheme. I rather like how Nvidia is doing it. Starting with the 730, you work your way up through the 740, 750, 760, 770, and 780, each being bigger and faster than it's little brother. They didn't actually distribute any of the 8xx family, bu...
[17:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:58] <exec> 08└─(same poster) I also work with the assumption that mainstream sources are no more competent than the rest of us in determining what should be discussed and what shouldn't when it comes to openly discussing various topics. The extreme view here is to assume that some mainstream source is able to dete...
[17:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:00] <exec> 08└─Face masks are cheaper than vaccines, that the scam that BIG VACCINE doesn't want you to know.
[17:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:02] <exec> 08└─Sure is a bumpy ride for 3 years tho. Jump on board!
[17:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:04] <exec> 08└─If they do that, it will be a good trade off. You should try being sick and unable to work for a while.
[17:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:06] <exec> 08└─They're still surprizingly accident prone tsk tsk.
[17:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:08] <exec> 08└─but they're "good at math" so lets fill all grad programs with them and put them in all the uni jobs
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[18:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Attackers Use Your Cloud Backups Against You - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:07] <exec> 08└─Grandpa, you're ignoring the fact that Veeam has great Twitter integration.
[18:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attackers Use Your Cloud Backups Against You - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:08] <exec> 08└─I don't know about tape drives - but when your backup is complete, it should be duplicate or triplicate, and one copy should leave the premises, under your own custody, to be stored in a safe place, such as a bank vault. A backup in the cloud is no backup at all. BTW, what is the fastest tape drive?...
[18:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attackers Use Your Cloud Backups Against You - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:10] <exec> 08└─are for lazy people who can't be assed to do their own local backups regularly. Yes it's a bit more tedious, but then you don't give your personal data to Google/Amazon/Microsoft/whatnot, and it can't be used against you. People who are too lazy to grasp this simple concept deserve everything they g...
[18:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ransomware Attackers Use Your Cloud Backups Against You - 2019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:12] <exec> 08└─I remember working at Zuora, about ten years ago, and proposing that we back up certain development-related servers, only to be told by the Director of IT, that everything was "mirrored", and so no backups were necessary. I cite this as yet more evidence that people who are not technically qualified...
[18:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sleep Method Strengthens Brain's Ability to Retain Memories - 1593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:24] <exec> 08└─I'm going to give you the same response I give everyone nowadays - please do your own research. You have no reason to believe that any link I provide isn't biased, and I'm done with arguing about the validity of links. It might seem rude, but everyone has the tools necessary to make up their own mi...
[18:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sleep Method Strengthens Brain's Ability to Retain Memories - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:25] <exec> 08└─Neither of the drugs you mention has actual independent proof that it works. Same as esketamine has not been proven to work in what was supposedly a valid study to obtain FDA approval, but wasn't (and the FDA didn't even require two studies, so they didn't obey their own rules - again!) Amazing what...
[18:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06AMD CPU "Collide+Probe" and "Load+Reload" Side Channel Attacks Revealed - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:37] <exec> 08└─The word affect has three different etymologies, and the meaning you ascribe to it comes from a different etymology to the meaning I am using. It is unfortunate that English has seen fit to spell this particular pair of different words in the same way, but they are pronounced differently in English...
[18:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AMD CPU "Collide+Probe" and "Load+Reload" Side Channel Attacks Revealed - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:38] <exec> 08└─Apology accepted. Don't do it again.
[18:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD CPU "Collide+Probe" and "Load+Reload" Side Channel Attacks Revealed - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:40] <exec> 08└─Maybe these processor architectures are blocked up with shit? Did you think about that?
[18:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2020: Zen 3/4, RDNA 2/3, Infinity Architecture, and More - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:19] <exec> 08└─I don't think the naming is that important. Nvidia's is a bit easier to understand (although 16XX and Super editions muddled it), but you should end up reading some article/hierarchy anyway. Like this one [tomshardware.com]. Only problem is that it doesn't include prices in the table, so you might h...
[18:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2020: Zen 3/4, RDNA 2/3, Infinity Architecture, and More - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:20] <exec> 08└─It will be interesting to see where APUs go in the future. While the Ryzen 4000 mobile chips will have pretty strong graphics performance, possibly beating Nvidia's MX350 and MX330 discrete laptop graphics chips, the custom APU in the Xbox Series X will have 12 teraflops of graphics performance. Mov...
[18:25:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 298 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:39] <exec> 08└─Kindergarten teachers acquire immunity to most colds after a few years exposure to an incredible variety of cold viruses. So perhaps the best way would be to hand out scratch-n-sniff cards with a different cold virus every week as a subscription service. After 3 years here immunity should kick in.
[18:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:13] <exec> 08└─For lifetime immunity, it's better to go through the 3 years while you're relatively young and healthy. Pneumonia is a shitty way to die, despite being called "the widow's friend."
[18:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:15] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9wi0cPrU4U [youtube.com]
[18:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:17] <exec> 08└─Runaway is the kind of man whose hand gets six separate headaches (one in the palm and one in each finger) every time he thinks of bashing the bishop, out of pure self-defense.
[18:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 1) 02 - 06No Joy for All You Rover McRoverface Fans: NASA's Next Mars Bot is Christened Perseverance - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:35] <exec> 08└─...as cool as Rover McRoverface.
[18:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Joy for All You Rover McRoverface Fans: NASA's Next Mars Bot is Christened Perseverance - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:36] <exec> 08└─Seems to be more "dank" [urbandictionary.com] than merely "cool".
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[19:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06“The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” turns 42 - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:08] <exec> 08└─This is one of those unfunny things nerds like, like Princess Bride and Kurt Vonnegut. There are only two comedies the Brits did well: That sitcom where the white protagonist calls his Black neighbor "nig-nog" and www.bbc.com/pidgin. [bbc.com]
[19:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Attackers Use Your Cloud Backups Against You - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:20] <exec> 08└─I remember the Iomega Ditto tape drive I religiously used to back up my PC back in the 1990s. Multiple backup tapes, off-site storage, I did everything "right". Except check that the backups actually worked. My hard drive eventually failed, and I went to the backup tapes, and none of them worked. No...
[19:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attackers Use Your Cloud Backups Against You - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:22] <exec> 08└─You didn't even mention cost. Tape drives are ridiculously expensive. Jukeboxes even more so. You can buy a shitload of USB hard drives, probably one for each day of the month for less that a bottom end tape drive that can handle more that a few terabytes. Swap it out every day and take it offsite....
[19:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attackers Use Your Cloud Backups Against You - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:24] <exec> 08└─I like your comment a lot and I'm adopting your definition. I'm also starting my own mini-crusade and wish to add to yours: it's not a "backup". It's a "backup and restore". I know I'm preaching to the choir on SoylentNews, but what most suits don't understand is that the backup isn't important. It'...
[19:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD's Financial Analyst Day 2020: Zen 3/4, RDNA 2/3, Infinity Architecture, and More - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:31] <exec> 08└─no self respecting gnu+linux user would buy anything from nvidia. you are providing material support to the enemy.
[19:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:28] <exec> 08└─The CMB is either not the echo of the big bang, or subject to an unknown process, or the universe radiates in a way aligned with the earth, by mere coincidence or because it is in a special place. Some equations describe things in a location independent way, but this is quite irrelevant as things do...
[19:28:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:29] <exec> 08└─One of the best graphs about climate change came from XKCD [xkcd.com]. In this case, he starts at 20000 BC and goes to present day. Even if you don't stop to read everything in between, be sure to scroll to the very end of the graph at the bottom. You can scroll quickly (it's a large graph), but pay...
[19:28:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One for the Super Rich Fanbois: Ultra-Rare Functional Apple-1 Computer Goes on Auction - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:44] <exec> 08└─Depends on what you mean by "Valuable". The entry price for an IMSAI 8080 these days is bit north of $1000 and can go up from there depending on what boards and accessories you have to go with is. I'll happily trade you my 02/1984 production 128k Macintosh for you IMSAI -- they have about the same...
[19:31:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:32] <exec> 08└─It's not broken. Like everything else it merely succumbs to *might makes right*. You still have haven't shown how it can be any worse than what is happening right now, in practice, not theory
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[20:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06“The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” turns 42 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:13] <exec> 08└─This stupid turlingdrome don't even know where his towel is.
[20:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” turns 42 - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:15] <exec> 08└─There is the number 50, which is usually obscured by a strong SEP field. Then, the chances of being rescued in space is something like 2^2079460347 to 1. And that is also the telephone number of the Islington flat where... (well, you know the rest). So, I think we should celebrate and investigate th...
[20:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06“The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” turns 42 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:17] <exec> 08└─Coming soon with all the experiments we keep doing on them, ‘planet of the apes’ but with mice
[20:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” turns 42 - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:19] <exec> 08└─You sound like Aristotle, Socrates, Plato..... all morons. The Princess Bride movie is quite funny in parts. The book should be burned. Not all sci-fi is meant to be funny either. Of course the openly racist older British TV shows would be right up your alley. I'm so surprised.
[20:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” turns 42 - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:21] <exec> 08└─The BBC's radio adapatation of Eoin Colfer's book 6 of 3, "And Another Thing" was first broadcast as the Hexagonal Phase [bbc.co.uk] two years ago, on the 40th anniversary. (That's the episode that featured Stephen Hawking as the voice of the expiring Guide MkII, broadcast just six days before he hi...
[20:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06“The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” turns 42 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:23] <exec> 08└─I got the collection of radio plays for my brother-in law for his 42nd birthday, along with a set of towels.
[20:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attackers Use Your Cloud Backups Against You - 1747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:38] <exec> 08└─The subset of which that's relevant here is called resilience/business continuity [wikipedia.org]. It's really a simple concept: the processes/procedures are required to ensure that you can continue to do what you need/want to do in the event of a catastrophic loss. That's much broader than backups...
[20:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attackers Use Your Cloud Backups Against You - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:39] <exec> 08└─Fucking Aye. A backup without a tested restore process, is just a hope of a backup. Just like a RAID isn't a mirroring solution, until you actually test it, and it performs as advertised. Just like a buildsheet isn't a buildsheet until somebody else uses it and succeeds. Too many people stop halfway...
[20:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:42] <exec> 08└─That's where the C*** virus comes in, but they don't want us talking about that.
[20:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple’s New App Store Policies Fight Spam and Abuse but Also Allow Ads in Notifications - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:27:36] <exec> 08└─"but Also Allow Ads in Notifications" -- is that much worse than other notifications? If you are still sane, you have probably only enabled notifications for only a small handful of critical functions. Apps you didn't pay money to install rarely fit into this category. However, if they allow ad noti...
[20:28:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:48] <exec> 08└─I think one of the problems (besides the lack of desire to apply critical thinking if it challenges what the idiots on TV and radio tell you what you should believe) is that people like him do not understand derivatives, or even more simply put, just simple rates of change. That graphic is an excell...
[20:28:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:49] <exec> 08└─It is funny (in a sad way) how when people like him get a horrible disease or sickness, how quickly they become believers in science. Never mind that it is the same methodologies and chemistry that governs both. Very few have the conviction to not switch teams when their end is in sight. It's ok to...
[20:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:51] <exec> 08└─I like that graph. The first time I saw it, I scrolled up and down and up again, because it does kinda help put things into chronological order. Thing is, I believe that bottom little bit is exaggerated. Old Al Gore and his hockey stick chart? This doesn't look as bad, but it seems to fall into that...
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[21:24:14] <exec> 08└─Actually, I got a towel too at that specific birthday. The world was never the same after that moment ;-)
[21:24:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” turns 42 - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:15] <exec> 08└─Belgium, man!
[21:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” turns 42 - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:17] <exec> 08└─Anyone question this bit: In a risqué throwaway gag typical of Adams, the name “Deep Thought” evokes a notorious pornographic film of 1972; later it inspired IBM's chess computers, including the grandmaster-vanquishing Deep Blue.
[21:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” turns 42 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:19] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but Soylent News is not a serious screenplay. Report to your nearest termination centre immediately.
[21:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06“The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” turns 42 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:21] <exec> 08└─Shut the fuck up, driverless. It's all deep. What, we splitting hairs here?!
[21:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attackers Use Your Cloud Backups Against You - 1861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:38] <exec> 08└─Actually, cloud backups aren't the problem. I have a solution, that is technically, in the "cloud". Meaning, that the servers are in another data center, uses ZFS to distribute the data, and a but of virtual systems to load balance and handle all the connections. Local backups are not a great idea....
[21:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attackers Use Your Cloud Backups Against You - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:40] <exec> 08└─Publishing that user name and password shouldn't have resulted in access to the data without the encryption key.
[21:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ransomware Attackers Use Your Cloud Backups Against You - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:42] <exec> 08└─I agree with de replication, and off-premise part, but do not believe in offline. Bits that are not constantly refreshed will rot. An rsync-pull from an off-premise computer (with --backup of course) will do the trick. Files should be restored/hashes checked on a regular basis. This reliability aspe...
[21:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Hit With 61 Safety Fixes for Astronaut Capsule - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:32] <exec> 08└─The thing is, this is largely a Boeing problem, not a NASA problem. Your argument is reasonable, and I'm sure it applies elsewhere. In this case, though, I think it's management cutting corners.
[21:26:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Amazon is Reportedly Working on a Cure for the Common Cold - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:11] <exec> 08└─Amazon is also looking for a robotic cure to the problem of paying employees.
[21:27:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Apple’s New App Store Policies Fight Spam and Abuse but Also Allow Ads in Notifications - 614 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:37] <exec> 08└─There's a very simple solution to these policies by Apple: don't buy an iPhone. There's countless Android phones out there to choose from, the high-end ones all have much better cameras than the iPhone, and they generally cost a lot less too. iPhones don't even have that much marketshare worldwide;...
[21:30:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Intel x86 Root of Trust: Loss of Trust - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:10] <exec> 08└─Intel CSME is the cryptographic basis for hardware security technologies developed by Intel and used everywhere, such as DRM
[21:31:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06U.S. EARN IT Act Could Discourage Adoption of End-to-End Encryption - 2459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:34] <exec> 08└─It is about coopting the data brokers and OS providers. The reason it can't be about encryption, is because they aren't as stupid as they look. They know that banning crypto would tank the whole economy. It would make the mistake of the 18th amendment on prohibition looking like a rounding error in...
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[22:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CRISPR Gene-Editing Tool Used Inside Humans for the First Time - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:10] <exec> 08└─Can this treatment cause blindness? Trigger transgenderism?
[22:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06“The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” turns 42 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:29] <exec> 08└─Overlap by lettercountproduct: Throat =6; Thought =7; Deep huh?
[22:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rocky Mudbutt [4659] (Score: 1) 02 - 06“The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” turns 42 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:31] <exec> 08└─Bill Joy first released vi as "ex" in the first Berkeley Software Distribution in 1978. ADM3-A for the win!
[22:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Sleep Method Strengthens Brain's Ability to Retain Memories - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:04] <exec> 08└─It's long been known that if you visualize yourself, in detail, doing something just before falling asleep, you will get better at it. I know for certain that it works with playing a musical instrument and every athletic endeavor. Also, every single serious chess player knows this is true.
[22:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD CPU "Collide+Probe" and "Load+Reload" Side Channel Attacks Revealed - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:20] <exec> 08└─I've always wanted to perform a manual disimpaction.
[22:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD CPU "Collide+Probe" and "Load+Reload" Side Channel Attacks Revealed - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:21] <exec> 08└─AMD has officially responded to this on https://www.amd.com [amd.com] TL;DR; it's nothing warranting even a low score CVE.
[22:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graveyards Can be a Reservoir for Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:37] <exec> 08└─Most antibiotics in use, are derived from soil bacteria (genus Streptomyces [wikipedia.org] primarily). Obviously the other bacteria that survive and multiply in their presence, are only able to do it due to some level of resistance to the chemicals they produce to suppress the competition.
[22:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graveyards Can be a Reservoir for Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:38] <exec> 08└─Streptomyces spp. cannot care less about what pesky humans pirating their intellectual property want or need. They have no use for humans at all, till those humans do become one with the soil.
[22:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Hit With 61 Safety Fixes for Astronaut Capsule - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:51] <exec> 08└─the older ones who had years of experience were on the ball, they paid attention, the younger students ddin't really care about how to test for race conditions or memory leaks because either they didn't think it mattered or wasn't their problem or they thought the OS would cover up their leaky code...
[22:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper That Claimed the Sun Caused Global Warming Gets Retracted - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:14] <exec> 08└─Do you have a citation for the CMB being aligned to the Earth?
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[23:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06“The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” turns 42 - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:32] <exec> 08└─We are all now being advised to sanitize our telephones. I like to say that it was all just a minor hearing problem among the white mice and that Deep Thought gave the sensible answer that the ultimate answer to life, the universe, and everything is "fortitude". I believe many other people have come...
[23:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attackers Use Your Cloud Backups Against You - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:53] <exec> 08└─The threats to availability and confidentiality of local backups have very little overlap with the threats to confidentiality and availability of cloud backups. They are complementary. I've recommended Spideroak for confidentiality protection.
[23:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Attackers Use Your Cloud Backups Against You - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:54] <exec> 08└─Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't your goal be met by running two servers, across the street, or across town, and synchronizing them frequently? Bit rot is a thing, but rather than relying on the cloud, just run your own "extra" server, and keep it under your control. That may be a bit much to a...
[23:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graveyards Can be a Reservoir for Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, your opinion might change, but who the hell is getting their brains from a graveyard? Come on now, everyone knows fresh is best.
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