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[00:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:41] <exec> 08└─Dear EU. You have already given enough proof of the tech expertise of your staff when you forced websites worldwide to ask the user what cookies do they want instead of forcing the browsers to not track the user unless explicitly allowed. Your right to repair will be another layer of bureaucracy for...
[00:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:43] <exec> 08└─Ohhhh, I dunno. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. If they can stop phone makers from soldering and supergluing the batteries into the phones, we'll be a lot further ahead. We have the right to repair, if only we insist on it. Tell the manufacturers to stuff their silly bullshit rules.
[00:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:45] <exec> 08└─OTOH, the EU is why cellphones no longer require a special snowflake charger.
[00:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:47] <exec> 08└─They make special chargers for millennials?
[00:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:49] <exec> 08└─I'm of two minds on TFA. On the one hand, I absolutely would like them to quit fucking around and doing anti-competitive, anti-consumer bullshit like this. On the other hand, their reasoning smacks of the anti-progress bullshit you'd have heard out of the USSR back in the day. Thankfully the two are...
[00:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:51] <exec> 08└─I guess people also have issues with breaking their screens, so maybe make those easy to fix also. Me? I've never broken a screen. But I've replaced phones just because the battery gave out. It's bullshit, spending $300 instead of $30 for a battery.
[00:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Sues Clearview, Alleging “Oppressive, Unscrupulous” Practices - 2408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:05] <exec> 08└─I really think privacy is permanently compromised. There's just too much stored data about everyone. Rather than try to restore lost privacy, it may be better work on getting society to be more accepting. As the famous Cardinal Richelieu said: If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most...
[00:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft and Ars Technica Advise Split-Tunnel VPNs for Working from Home - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:27] <exec> 08└─It was totally intentional. As the other AC suggested, it was to make his job easier by not having to go to the special area to work with the data in question. The funny thing is that not only do I have no idea how he did it, I don't even know how it was possible. The front USB and CD drive wires ar...
[00:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:49] <exec> 08└─It's no longer a constant?
[00:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Rainforest Could be Gone Within a Lifetime - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:09] <exec> 08└─Apocalyptic predictions may be exciting, but they come at the cost of robbing credibility from the more likely scenarios.
[00:27:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:11] <exec> 08└─And make sure they remember it for the rest of their lives. Yes, I know, the US way is to protect children from moral trauma and such shit - don't do it. Show them how bad it really is. They can handle it and they don't get sick while they spread the disease. They should carry the blame for the rest...
[00:27:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:12] <exec> 08└─repetition until the experience chases away the incompetence
[00:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:14] <exec> 08└─When society collapses and all you fools are sitting there with your useless phones, my blackberry will still be able to perform its primary function and do it well -- killing spiders. It has the added advantage of being smaller and somewhat lighter than a textbook.
[00:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:16] <exec> 08└─As far as anyone can tell this coronavirus spread out of Wuhan or the nearby area. The name being useful for indicating where the virus began and as something easy for the public to recognize, compared to 2019-nCoV that was also used. Not sure why 2019-nCoV had to be replaced by Covid19. My bigger v...
[00:29:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tuesday's 115-Fix Day was Not Enough: Microsoft Emits OOB Crisis SMBv3 Worm-Cure Patch - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:48] <exec> 08└─>fuck Windows Maybe in 20 years windows will reach beta quality levels, and we can say fuck beta again.
[00:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AT&T CEO Pay Rose to $32 Million in 2019 after Cutting 20,000 Jobs - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:55] <exec> 08└─At this point, frankly, my position is "I don't know yet who to vote for, but more and more it's looking like I should do the selfish thing and vote whatever way is most likely to give me just that little bit more time necessary to GTFO across the northern border and watch this shithole of a nation...
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[01:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Sues Clearview, Alleging “Oppressive, Unscrupulous” Practices - 1526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:38] <exec> 08└─I can't argue any of your points. What I will argue is, that any agency, government or private, has some right to harvest all the data on all of the citizens, everywhere. The databases, for the most part, shouldn't exist. Those that are considered to be necessary should be very tightly controlled. Y...
[01:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wearing Clothes Could Release More Microfibres to the Environment Than Washing Them - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:36] <exec> 08└─PACT https://wearpact.com [wearpact.com] make organic cotton underwear and clothes for men and women - the one I'm wearing is 95% organic cotton and 5% elastane (Spandex). Maggie's https://maggiesorganics.com [maggiesorganics.com] also has organic products. When buying / wearing non-synthetics like...
[01:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Before it Sued Google for Copying from Java, Oracle Got Rich Copying IBM's SQL - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:52] <exec> 08└─Oracle Corporation has a decades-long reputation of double-dealing and betrayal of almost every single value that I know of. They admire chutzpah more than they do integrity. They are the quintessential white collar criminal corporation, their criminal intent augmented by an intimate and tribal conn...
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[02:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:23] <exec> 08└─Charge 1¢
[02:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:24] <exec> 08└─They tried to float the same lead balloon [wikipedia.org] in the US a while back. And we know the types the prez prefers [politico.com]
[02:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:26] <exec> 08└─Don't forget to download our FREE Weather App/Malware and... oh shit. Every time you see the news assholes hocking their "free" apps, you should ask yourself "what is the catch?" Advertising, tracking, collecting personal data, are literally standard operating procedure these days. In this case, it...
[02:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:28] <exec> 08└─Taxpayers paid for it.
[02:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:31] <exec> 08└─This is why Brexit happened.
[02:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:33] <exec> 08└─I'll just stick my head out the window instead. Not recommended while riding the subway
[02:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:35] <exec> 08└─What's the weather usually like on the subway? Inquiring minds want to know. ;-)
[02:24:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:45] <exec> 08└─OTOH, the EU is why cellphones no longer require a special snowflake charger.
[02:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Sues Clearview, Alleging “Oppressive, Unscrupulous” Practices - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:04] <exec> 08└─Vermont granted a license to break the law?
[02:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft and Ars Technica Advise Split-Tunnel VPNs for Working from Home - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:27] <exec> 08└─If you're using a VPN, that means there's a trusted network you need to get on to have access to important things. That also means that anyone who gets on your trusted network has access to important things. Say, a small device dropped in a corner, under a desk, in the trash, connected wirelessly, o...
[02:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:49] <exec> 08└─Here's a nice little article [dailymail.co.uk] with some explanation. The dachshund [dailymail.co.uk] in particular is pretty horrifying. You can imagine him in his limited doggy imagination wishing for a quick and painful way out of the hell that is being alive.
[02:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:51] <exec> 08└─I guess those in the afterlife don't want the yappers.
[02:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:53] <exec> 08└─I know a woman locally whose dogs live to an average age of 6 years. ... She just chose a new puppy of the same breed... WTF? Meanwhile, we had a large (40kg) mutt who lived almost to his 16th birthday... This is going to sound pretty horrible I know, but there's another side to this. That woman you...
[02:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Threatens to Reveal Company's 'Dirty' Secrets - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:35] <exec> 08└─If these hacker do release customers' SSNs, they should make sure to name this company, and publicize the fact that this stupid company for some dumb reason got their customers' SSNs and then didn't properly protect them. However, there are some companies that absolutely need your SSN: think financi...
[02:27:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:17] <exec> 08└─Assuming that you still have internet, a fun diversion for anyone, kids included, would be this year's pi day video from Vi Hart -- http://vihart.com [vihart.com] She's just clever!
[02:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:18] <exec> 08└─Wuhan ooronavirus is easier to remember than Covid19? So is this SARS? No? Oh, it must be that other coronavirus MERS? No? Oh its different than both of those? How the hell do I know if you just call it a coronavirus? "Look over there at that vehicle" "Oh, the car?" "Yes, is that a Ford?" "No, it's...
[02:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Female Urinals the Answer to Queues at the Loos? - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:06] <exec> 08└─Those aren't her brand. The ones they are shilling in the article are the ones up top with the pink grill in the portapotty shaped booth.
[02:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Female Urinals the Answer to Queues at the Loos? - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:08] <exec> 08└─No, I don't notice that at all. Instead, I notice when I'm at work that all the loud-mouth managers just love to have loud conversations while they're standing at the urinals. Men have absolutely no right to complain about women talking in the bathroom together, or going to the bathroom together: me...
[02:32:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 347 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:25] <exec> 08└─Reports from Italy say that it's not just old people. They're at increased risk, but a lot of the cases are younger. And things at at least one location are reported to have gotten so bad that they triage says (approx)"If the case is bad, don't even try to save anyone over 60.". Think of how bad thi...
[02:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:32:37] <exec> 08└─Try looking at it from the other way around. (Oh, right, your religion forbids that). Every day I get bombarded by religious crap. People wearing religious imagery, weaving references to it in everything they say, pasting babble quotes in their post signature lines, it's even printed on money, all i...
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[03:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:36] <exec> 08└─Because Brits really like free weather? Hmm, I really thought the issues were a bit deeper than that.
[03:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:38] <exec> 08└─Does this mean that some German FOSS programmer can make an app that scrapes the DWD forecasts? Great way to advertise yourself if you are the code writer.
[03:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:40] <exec> 08└─Add an 'advertising banner' into the app, set up a page, charge $100,000 per single ad view. Only show the banner if there is an ad to display. Now it is ad supported and everyone is happy.
[03:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:42] <exec> 08└─No. Because the EU courts are full of dipshits.
[03:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:44] <exec> 08└─Step 1) Make the data available in a variety of formats Step 2) Engage open source developers to build an app Step 3) .... Step 4) No profit!
[03:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:46] <exec> 08└─" WetterOnline...
[03:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:48] <exec> 08└─Dark.
[03:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it looks like the German courts caught the American disease (yes, I'm from USA).
[03:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:03] <exec> 08└─I remember when I got my first smartphone, it was some early form of RAZR back when before Android gained ground. It's charger was at first glance a standard USB cable, but I realized that other USB cables wouldn't charge it. The sneaky fuckers had an integrated resistor into their proprietary cable...
[03:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Sues Clearview, Alleging “Oppressive, Unscrupulous” Practices - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:20] <exec> 08└─Data Breaker
[03:25:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Microsoft and Ars Technica Advise Split-Tunnel VPNs for Working from Home - 577 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:36] <exec> 08└─It's a classic security problem. At a building I used to work in, they had reasonable enough security practices and people tended to comply. Then they decided to tighten things down for "reasons". Suddenly you couldn't even go out for a coffee in the Starbucks on an outside corner of the same busine...
[03:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:07] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't you then expect the really heavily inbred small breeds to die sooner then? I think you may be on to something though - they're all inbred wolves, and at ~40kg a wolf is a size large "dog", but typically lives 6-13 years in the wild, where old age is usually not the cause of death. What trik...
[03:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Rainforest Could be Gone Within a Lifetime - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:27] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you shouldn't post these ironic messages, seems like some dummies think that was actually a real and valid point. I guess it is for racist sociopaths :|
[03:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Rainforest Could be Gone Within a Lifetime - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:29] <exec> 08└─What can we do about this? Give the Amazon a Brazilian.
[03:27:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:36] <exec> 08└─> Things that make you go: hmmmmm What do you do when you know that you know that you know you're wrong. You've got to face the music You've got to listen to the cosmic song. - Sun Ra
[03:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Moon Formed: New Research Sheds Light on What Happened - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:51] <exec> 08└─I can split a moon too. Did it just now. Had to loosen the belt first though. Hope the ladies driving by appreciated my effort.
[03:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How the Moon Formed: New Research Sheds Light on What Happened - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:53] <exec> 08└─Are you seriously asking people to RTFA? You must be new here...
[03:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Female Urinals the Answer to Queues at the Loos? - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:29] <exec> 08└─Maybe simply build women's facilities to have a lot more stalls? Would this be an unreasonable solution? Has any architect ever considered this? They can't. I'm sure architects have considered this. They may have even pitched it to their clients. The clients surely told them "hell no". Bathrooms cos...
[03:29:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Female Urinals the Answer to Queues at the Loos? - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:30] <exec> 08└─I haven't gotten any women I know intimately to try this yet, but from what I've read, it's not hard for a woman to use a man's urinal just like men do. They do have to use their fingers and point their clit so it sprays forward instead of downwards. I read it on the internet years ago so it must be...
[03:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Female Urinals the Answer to Queues at the Loos? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:32] <exec> 08└─I don't think the economy is *that* dependent on retail clothing stores.
[03:29:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Female Urinals the Answer to Queues at the Loos? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:34] <exec> 08└─>ah, clothing is primarily functional rather than cosmetic Ah yes... that's why the tattered cloth sacks of yore are still such common garments...
[03:30:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Before it Sued Google for Copying from Java, Oracle Got Rich Copying IBM's SQL - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:00] <exec> 08└─Novell had long filename support before Windows 95; just needed to load os2 support on the server and add the name space to the volume.
[03:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Food that Counters the Climate Crisis? I'll Eat That! - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:54] <exec> 08└─Sedentary humans might do better with fat. Athletes need carbs. The liver can't metabolise the fat nearly fast enough to supply me with enough energy to move for longer than about 2 hours at race pace.
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[04:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Could Force ISPs to Abandon Data Caps Forever - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:26] <exec> 08└─A relative's house has Verizon fiber service, including the lowest tier of FiOS internet (they aren't big online users). It's not very fast, barely runs YouTube videos. Will have to run a speed test when I'm there to see if it's been sped up.
[04:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Could Force ISPs to Abandon Data Caps Forever - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:27] <exec> 08└─A theoretical household watching simultaneous 4K Netflix streams 24/7 would likely not even hit 100 Mbps. If you could hit a constant 100 Mbps, that's about 32 terabytes in a month. Even if you wanted to torrent at 100 Mbps, you would likely fill all of the HDDs you have pretty quickly. There will p...
[04:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:50] <exec> 08└─Actually Britain has MET: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk [metoffice.gov.uk] Don't see why someone in Germany couldn't pull out they mobile and just have a look at the current and forecast weather: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk [metoffice.gov.uk]
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[04:24:51] <exec> 08└─10 PRINT "Rain, dreary" 20 GOTO 10
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[04:24:53] <exec> 08└─I'm not a fan of the naked animosity that has crept in here. Please don't let violence creep into your hearts, even simple jokes can open the door. /soapbox
[04:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:55] <exec> 08└─MGGA - trying to take dump.
[04:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:57] <exec> 08└─Sailors here on the west coast started calling AccuWeather InaccrateWeather back in the 1980s after more than a few really bad calls on ocean races.
[04:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:59] <exec> 08└─And deny software developers' bosses their profits?
[04:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:02] <exec> 08└─Do they have a legal right to those profits? Exclusively?
[04:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:04] <exec> 08└─No, but the windshield wiper are called "Scheidenwischer"... oh wait, that's a mustache. The windshield wipers are called "Scheibenwischer"
[04:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:06] <exec> 08└─This. Almost every single euro country have their own weather service agency and I'm willing to bet most of them have free, as in developed with tax money, you can download and use. British met https://www.metoffice.gov.uk [metoffice.gov.uk] Sweden https://www.smhi.se
[04:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:08] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see the authors and passers of this kind of crap publically doxxed. By name, position, and how much the represented public is paying for their salary, healthcare, and retirement benefits. To me, this is pure theft, using public funds to acquire weather data, then awarding a private entit...
[04:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:10] <exec> 08└─That and the legislature on the length of candle wicks... it really drives the insanity home.
[04:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:12] <exec> 08└─No, no, no...ask for that and they give you a beer.
[04:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ransomware Threatens to Reveal Company's 'Dirty' Secrets - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:16] <exec> 08└─Who needs forensic accountants when you can have ransomware attacks?
[04:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Before it Sued Google for Copying from Java, Oracle Got Rich Copying IBM's SQL - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:23] <exec> 08└─Most American companies were quite happy to sell to the Nazi's, who were quite popular in America before WWII.
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[05:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Could Force ISPs to Abandon Data Caps Forever - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:35] <exec> 08└─That driving should cost less than using more bandwidth via teleconferencing and working from home. Driving is certainly far less environmentally friendly so doing things like teleconferencing and working from home instead of driving should be encouraged both economically (ie: it should be cheaper)...
[05:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:09] <exec> 08└─Also if you look at the ruling it was on a technicality, the DWS "exceeded their mandate" meaning that for some inexplicable reason the folks who wrote the basic German laws in 1949 forgot to mention Android apps. D'oh! So all it needs as a fix is whatever the German equivalent of an Order in Counci...
[05:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:11] <exec> 08└─Thanks, but I'll just stick my head out the window instead.
[05:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:13] <exec> 08└─Apparently, chances of blood and patches of gore..
[05:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:26] <exec> 08└─It supposedly has to do with waterproofing. I guess people just have to be able to drop their phones in toilets and pools. I do want there to be more phones with easily removable batteries. It is possible to replace the batteries even if they aren't easily removable; I've done it. It's just a chore.
[05:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Sues Clearview, Alleging “Oppressive, Unscrupulous” Practices - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:45] <exec> 08└─Then maybe disservices like Facebook also need to be illegal. Don't let the data be collected to begin with.
[05:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Sues Clearview, Alleging “Oppressive, Unscrupulous” Practices - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:46] <exec> 08└─The answer is not to prevent those six lines from reaching the public, it is to stop the hangings.
[05:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Sues Clearview, Alleging “Oppressive, Unscrupulous” Practices - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:48] <exec> 08└─Start with all the idiots who post their life experience to Facebook, for everyone to see.
[05:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:36] <exec> 08└─Marriage is not just about mutual attraction between two adults. It serves to keep people together to raise children and as a legal arrangement for a household. Also, if people aren't committed to each other, who is going to take care of you when you are older or even young but sick or unemployed or...
[05:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Rainforest Could be Gone Within a Lifetime - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:59] <exec> 08└─Because coal and nukular is bad. Also when you burn wood, ethanol and oils from biological matter, CO2 and PM2.5 don't count as pollution. Don't forget to store carbon as plastic thrash islands in the ocean.
[05:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:09] <exec> 08└─For the overwhelming majority, it's not even trying. If they keep doing it, it sinks in regardless of if they try or not.
[05:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearing Clothes Could Release More Microfibres to the Environment Than Washing Them - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:07] <exec> 08└─Yea, I decided to never wear synthetics after a friend caught fire (stupidly pouring gas into a carb in a van's doghouse) and had his shirt melt into his chest. IIRC, he was in the hospital for a couple of weeks.
[05:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearing Clothes Could Release More Microfibres to the Environment Than Washing Them - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:29:08] <exec> 08└─I find that natural fibres seem to breathe fine. In the hotter weather, I prefer linen. While you're right about land use, and depending on the fibre, the chemicals, synthetics mostly require oil with all its drawbacks. As for labour, I often shop at thrift stores and it is not uncommon to buy cloth...
[05:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Are Female Urinals the Answer to Queues at the Loos? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:08] <exec> 08└─Perhaps we have to genetically modify females so it doesn't take thirty of them at once to go for a pee. Seriously, what is it with group toilet visits?
[05:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Female Urinals the Answer to Queues at the Loos? - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:09] <exec> 08└─Most of the ones I've seen use the "skiing position." First you put your feet roughly in front of the urinal facing away from it. Then you bend your knees and rotate your hips and sick your rear out backwards until your elbows touch your knees while using your ankles to maintain balance. From the si...
[05:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Before it Sued Google for Copying from Java, Oracle Got Rich Copying IBM's SQL - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:39] <exec> 08└─Some differences with IBM. They actually cared about their employees, at least till the mid-late '90's and when they got busted for anti-trust, they actually tried to follow the agreement they came to with the Justice department, which is why they outsourced DOS to MS. I'm writing this on an IBM ope...
[05:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Before it Sued Google for Copying from Java, Oracle Got Rich Copying IBM's SQL - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:40] <exec> 08└─The AC is right, Netware supported long file names for a long time. For example see https://support.microfocus.com [microfocus.com]. Likely MS set things up so that Netware thought Win95 was DOS.
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[06:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Could Force ISPs to Abandon Data Caps Forever - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:33] <exec> 08└─The lowest tier FiOS ever had was 25mbit. I have a 100/100 connection for $40 a month without a contract. I could go gigabit for $70 but I'm not pulling down terabytes daily. Service has been great for 10 years and there has been at most 5 minutes of downtime in that span.
[06:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:11] <exec> 08└─Never work in the public service. You won't last a month.
[06:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:12] <exec> 08└─Australia has https://www.bom.gov.au [bom.gov.au] Paid for with taxes. With ads on it :( Still, ad blocker removes them.
[06:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:35] <exec> 08└─Just as young men aged 18 to 25 are more likely to die by misadventure, a working dog like a kelpie or sheepdog is more likely to die in an accident than a schnoodle whose only occupation is to look cute in its favourite chair.
[06:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:36] <exec> 08└─"If you occupy less space, you can hide better to avoid being eaten?" Technically if you're bigger you can better defend yourself from being eaten? I guess this does make sense as top predators / bigger animals tend to be less successful in general though. They require more food for one thing among...
[06:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ransomware Threatens to Reveal Company's 'Dirty' Secrets - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:27:24] <exec> 08└─That movie of me banging tranny midgets in burkas and bomb belts is a deep fake, I swear.
[06:28:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:10] <exec> 08└─I enrolled my kids in Connections Academy awhile ago. https://www.connectionsacademy.com [connectionsacademy.com] It's a fully accredited nationwide K-12 program, entirely online. It has instructors and "class time" which is via video conference plus they have a really awesome curriculum that goes...
[06:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How the Moon Formed: New Research Sheds Light on What Happened - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:28:27] <exec> 08└─The other problem with the summary is that the Moon likely was not tidally locked upon formation. Tides locked it, perhaps fairly quickly. Tides also pushed the Moon away. Imagine when the Moon was perhaps 50k miles away, filling half the sky, and the mile high tides, wonder how much that drove evol...
[06:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearing Clothes Could Release More Microfibres to the Environment Than Washing Them - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:12] <exec> 08└─That's why I wear wool when it's cold and damp. We have this thing called a Stanfield which works wonders, https://www.stanfields.com [stanfields.com]
[06:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wearing Clothes Could Release More Microfibres to the Environment Than Washing Them - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:29:13] <exec> 08└─How is this new?
[06:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Before it Sued Google for Copying from Java, Oracle Got Rich Copying IBM's SQL - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:44] <exec> 08└─Nazi sales tactics and sales to Nazis are diff things
[06:33:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:03] <exec> 08└─Try returning from countries that have Trump Golf Resorts. It's a lot easier.
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[07:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:23] <exec> 08└─Why do people lick money?
[07:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:25] <exec> 08└─If I've had money stored in a shoe, or a bra, a mattress, or a Mason jar buried under the mulberry tree - that money has not been exposed to a person who has been exposed to this relatively new virus. It's the money in circulation that you need worry about, not the money out of circulation. People l...
[07:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:27] <exec> 08└─When people lick their fingers before flipping through pages. It's quite common and WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS!!!!????
[07:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:29] <exec> 08└─I wonder if there is a good way to disinfect money?
[07:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:31] <exec> 08└─In about a hundred years, when the last literate person who remembers what a book was has died, no one will turn any more pages. By then, everyone will have a nuclear powered, holographic, indestructible, and unlosable pad of some sort, most likely embedded into the back of their wrists.
[07:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:33] <exec> 08└─(though, come to think of it, I imagine the metal in coins probably have their own disinfecting properties. Ie: Copper has disinfecting properties along with some of the other metals used).
[07:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Could Force ISPs to Abandon Data Caps Forever - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:44] <exec> 08└─Many plans are 'unlimited data' - within reason. Obviously you can't flog it 100% 24/7 but for all intents and normal purposes it's unlimited. I haven't cared about data limits for 2 decades since DSL became a thing.
[07:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Could Force ISPs to Abandon Data Caps Forever - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:45] <exec> 08└─Unlimited... except you're in Australia trying to connect to the real world.
[07:25:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:26] <exec> 08└─If you need the government to ban competitors in order to prop up your own faulty business model, your business model wasn't viable to begin with. Corporatism isn't limited just to the US, clearly.
[07:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:27] <exec> 08└─I thought European governments were more resistant to this kind of thing. It was tried here in the US, and failed. Whenever somebody mentions one of the commercial weather sites, I always try to get them turned on to weather.gov and the wealth of services it provides. It tends to do so without all t...
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[07:26:54] <exec> 08└─Never mind, I must be tired as this is basic biology that I know and I'm just not thinking clearly right now. As others have pointed out in the comments, larger animals generally live longer and it takes them longer to get larger. But maybe it has to do with the fact larger types are adept at living...
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[07:26:55] <exec> 08└─Sorry, please excuse the fact that this was written very horribly. I'm kinda tired right now and can't think straight apparently.
[07:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:57] <exec> 08└─Good point. It would be interesting to compare studies of smaller animals (say mice) to larger ones (say elephants). Do larger elephants live longer or smaller ones? Or what about average sized ones (do larger or smaller mice liver longer or what about average size). Perhaps separate studies should...
[07:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wearing Clothes Could Release More Microfibres to the Environment Than Washing Them - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:32] <exec> 08└─Synthetic fibres aren't free to make, yo. Yeah we can spin nylons from petroleum (with some interim steps!) but I'm not sure why you think that synthetic polyester is less environmentally- and energy-costly than organic fibre. Plants and photosynthesis, it turns out, aren't just good for species div...
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[07:29:33] <exec> 08└─Lol, all the negative hating on you... but you didn't mention that wet polyester's insulative value (R-value) drops off a cliff. The answers are natural fibres from wool and hemp, and/or waterproofing.
[07:29:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wearing Clothes Could Release More Microfibres to the Environment Than Washing Them - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:36] <exec> 08└─Best sweater I ever had was from happy alpaca wool. I met the alpacas, too, no joke. Warm when I was cold, breathed like a gentle cool breeze when i was hot and/or sweaty, washed easily (but I often didn't bother, it didn't feel like it got gross even when I wore it on skin and bike-sweated in it),...
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[08:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:34] <exec> 08└─They finally have a good argument to force society to go cashless and track the shit out of 100% of the people with electronic payments.
[08:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:35] <exec> 08└─BUT WHY DO PPL DO THIS GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!?!!!!!!!
[08:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:37] <exec> 08└─Confero: "Name of the Rose", by Umberto Eco. That's how you die. Movie has Sean Connery in it, though.
[08:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:40] <exec> 08└─Yes then their stock price will rocket. And our mutual funds will increase. Those bastards.
[08:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:42] <exec> 08└─Because they carry diseases that they want to share with you?
[08:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Could Force ISPs to Abandon Data Caps Forever - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:54] <exec> 08└─You say this like it's a good thing. In Eastern Europe I have a gigabit fiber to my home for less than $9 per month, with real unlimited traffic. I can saturate the bandwidth if I want 24/7 and would not get throttled or cut off. Of course the downside is that I live in Eastern Europe...
[08:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:37] <exec> 08└─Charge them 1eu for an ad to them and have them charge you 1eu for an ad to you. No money needs exchanging. A link in the About ought to do it.
[08:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:52] <exec> 08└─The waterproofing thing is a bit of a half truth. It is true that waterproofing means the typical slide to open style battery door is not going to work. It does not mean sealing the thing so that even a decently skilled 3rd party tech can't do it without permanent damage and expensive special tools....
[08:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Sues Clearview, Alleging “Oppressive, Unscrupulous” Practices - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:26:14] <exec> 08└─Maybe had a dick in them in the last two hours, lets consider bladder service, not just testicle color ....
[08:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:09] <exec> 08└─No no you missed the car analogy - it's almost like it was designed for us to pick up on. "Modern cars generally work well for eight or nine years, and then wear and tear sets in and they start falling apart. The speed with which they deteriorate varies between manufacturers. It's the same with dogs...
[08:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:10] <exec> 08└─True, sorry about that. However we have this new thing "dog inches". It's where you add a couple of inches to the length of things and call it 8-9 instead of, you know. Dog inches is the next big thing.
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[09:24:42] <exec> 08└─Fortunately, Runaway has no money to store in his man-bra, or his "support", since he is a dirt poor Arkansawsian hillbilly dirt farmer and Plastic injector. So his views on this topic are, well, irrelevant. Ignore Runaway, for his own good.
[09:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:43] <exec> 08└─You could run it through an incinerator, or nuke it from orbit.
[09:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:46] <exec> 08└─Boob sweat is the vector that will kill us all? What happened to the Ring around the Rosy, and the Sport girls and pills of white mercury? And they (John Hopkins) [nbcnews.com] are talking about survivor transfusions as the therapy of choice? OK. We are all domed.
[09:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:48] <exec> 08└─The supermarket chain is called "Iceland", but is actually British and has nothing to do with the country of the same name - their only native supermarket chain of any real size is called "Bónus" (it has a money bank pig emblem, if you've ever toured Iceland you'll almost certainly have got some su...
[09:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:50] <exec> 08└─So, fake news, then! And probably fake boobs, as well. Editores! Mon Dieu! You are supposed to catch stuff like this! I am loosing faith in SN.
[09:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:52] <exec> 08└─never let a crisis go unexploited. Covid is good for banning cash...
[09:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Could Force ISPs to Abandon Data Caps Forever - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:06] <exec> 08└─Communist! Or, at least, ex-Communist! And you have better broadband that all the still Capitalists in America, where competition provides better solutions that a centralized system ever could, even though something like internet access is a natural monopoly. America is so screwed, but at least the...
[09:25:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Chocolate [8044] 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 189 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:22] <exec> 08└─Add an 'advertising banner' into the app, set up a page, charge $100,000 per single ad view. Only show the banner if there is an ad to display. Now it is ad supported and everyone is happy.
[09:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:49] <exec> 08└─Also if you look at the ruling it was on a technicality, the DWS "exceeded their mandate" meaning that for some inexplicable reason the folks who wrote the basic German laws in 1949 forgot to mention Android apps. D'oh!
[09:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:05] <exec> 08└─Encouraging people to repair hardware and keep using it for more than two years is all well and good, but if the manufacturers / carriers stop offering security patches for the software, we've still got a problem.
[09:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft and Ars Technica Advise Split-Tunnel VPNs for Working from Home - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:26:50] <exec> 08└─Or you could take the third option and using it as defense-in-depth measure in a proper setup.
[09:28:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:57] <exec> 08└─Unironically. Processing and online gamification can teach coding for the very young
[09:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:28:58] <exec> 08└─Man, I don't care about no Plato.
[09:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:29:01] <exec> 08└─It has instructors and "class time"
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[10:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Waymo Drivers vs. Coronavirus - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:32] <exec> 08└─> "It feels like the drivers are treated like second class citizens, having to report to work and serve 'hails' while the full-time employees are required to work from home to stay safe," said a Waymo driver who requested anonymity in order to speak freely. "Safety for some." The full-time employees...
[10:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waymo Drivers vs. Coronavirus - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:34] <exec> 08└─I guess the drivers have to be there by law, because technologically speaking they could be outside the vehicle controlling it remotely. It is more risky because it adds lag, but you can always go slower to compensate.
[10:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:59] <exec> 08└─>We are all domed. Unusquisque domo sua.
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[11:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Kingdom to Introduce Security Labelling on Connected Devices - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:24] <exec> 08└─Every device needs a label on it!
[11:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Kingdom to Introduce Security Labelling on Connected Devices - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:25] <exec> 08└─I will be providing label updates.
[11:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Kingdom to Introduce Security Labelling on Connected Devices - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:27] <exec> 08└─Just slap an Intel Inside sticker on it.
[11:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waymo Drivers vs. Coronavirus - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:38] <exec> 08└─If they sat on the roof, there wouldn't be much lag. No passengers climb up there. Just install a "seat" belt to comply with the law. Or, sit in the trunk?
[11:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waymo Drivers vs. Coronavirus - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:40] <exec> 08└─Too bad (real) driverless is arriving too late to be useful during the pandemic (even though you would want to disinfect the cars after each group of passengers uses it).
[11:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:04] <exec> 08└─I am outraged! Also very cold.
[11:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:05] <exec> 08└─Yes! We must infect all linux with systemd to battle the virus spreading.
[11:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:08] <exec> 08└─Seriously, you don't know? It's because their fingertips are dry and they can't get enough friction with the paper. You can buy a "finger cot" https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org], or "thimblette" https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] for the purpose. T...
[11:25:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 22 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:31] <exec> 08└─Taxpayers paid for it.
[11:25:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 625 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:51] <exec> 08└─This. Almost every single euro country have their own weather service agency and I'm willing to bet most of them have free, as in developed with tax money, you can download and use. British met https://www.metoffice.gov.uk [metoffice.gov.uk] Sweden https://www.smhi.se
[11:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:20] <exec> 08└─Well waterproofing. a phone maintaining the battery removable only add ad most 1mm and cost a couple of dollars.
[11:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:22] <exec> 08└─It's bullshit, spending $300 instead of $30 for a battery.
[11:27:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 1189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:40] <exec> 08└─12-3 (died on vacation, claimed heart attack, but it's possible it was negligent family members, since we didn't get told until we were back.) 12 (euthanized, prostate tumor/cancer causing urinary problems, removal would have caused incontinence.) 18 (euthanized, spinal problems, UTIs, partially bli...
[11:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:42] <exec> 08└─Or they never get big enough to harvest.
[11:34:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06CoronaVirus (SARS-CoV-2) Roundup 2020-03-12 - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's pretty sad, inadequate response in some places... We're testing more people per day here in Alberta than the entire USA are testing... Anyone with possible symptoms gets tested automatically. (and at no cost, of course!) That is an absolutely inept response. YAY! USA! USA! (groan...)
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[12:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Kingdom to Introduce Security Labelling on Connected Devices - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:27] <exec> 08└─NO! NO! NO! I don't want Label 10!!
[12:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Kingdom to Introduce Security Labelling on Connected Devices - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:28] <exec> 08└─I notice that none of the computers at the big box stores come with warnings that they are infected with Windows any more. They disappeared a few years ago. Will this labelling requirement bring those warning stickers back?
[12:24:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 502 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:59] <exec> 08└─The supermarket chain is called "Iceland", but is actually British and has nothing to do with the country of the same name - their only native supermarket chain of any real size is called "Bónus" (it has a money bank pig emblem, if you've ever toured Iceland you'll almost certainly have got some su...
[12:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:07] <exec> 08└─Changing unsanitary habits like licking fingers is exactly the sort of thing that will make a huge difference against virus outbreaks, or avoiding even common contagious illnesses. Probably 99% of the crap going on, like closing down events, is mostly political posturing that will have little long t...
[12:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:09] <exec> 08└─If I've had money stored in a shoe, or a bra, a mattress, or a Mason jar buried under the mulberry tree - that money has not been exposed to a person who has been exposed to this relatively new virus.
[12:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:11] <exec> 08└─Another option is finger wax. I use that whenever I count large numbers of bills.
[12:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:27] <exec> 08└─I guess people just have to be able to drop their phones in toilets and pools.
[12:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Europe Wants a ‘Right to Repair’ Smartphones and Gadgets - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:28] <exec> 08└─Galaxy S2 is finally getting mainline Linux support, 9 years after release. Tiny ripples with Purism and Pine64 on the horizon too. Less faith in corporations, more in community 'open' hardware projects.
[12:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vermont Sues Clearview, Alleging “Oppressive, Unscrupulous” Practices - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:51] <exec> 08└─Whether taken in public, or in private require an actor's release from every person documented in the image? isn't this why the media industry always has to shut down a street and hire hundreds of extras for scenes shot out in public? If so, then doesn't this simply fall under commercial use of imag...
[12:28:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Rainforest Could be Gone Within a Lifetime - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:14] <exec> 08└─I cited scientific researchers who have found evidence the Amazon was heavily populated before and much more deforested than it is now. You cited...nothing. I provided multiple links, with a limited claim. You gave an expansive, insulting dismissal and backed it up with nothing. Sure thing, whatever...
[12:28:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Rainforest Could be Gone Within a Lifetime - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:15] <exec> 08└─It would also be great if people would just vote for the best policy and not because of a presupposed affiliation to $deity.
[12:28:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Rainforest Could be Gone Within a Lifetime - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:17] <exec> 08└─No, that's not the answer at all. Brazil has the answer at hand--terra preta. Look it up. It's the man-made soil the vanished inhabitants of the Amazon basin manufactured. It's incredibly fertile. Some researchers have calculated it can produce up to eight crops a year. That's mind-boggling. Since t...
[12:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearing Clothes Could Release More Microfibres to the Environment Than Washing Them - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:36] <exec> 08└─Linen is not bad, but it wrinkles if you look at it wrong. Better to wear oil, than burn oil, I say. Maybe a silver lining to this pandemic is we can all wake up to the fact that relying on China is bad, and recover our textile- and other industries.
[12:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearing Clothes Could Release More Microfibres to the Environment Than Washing Them - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:38] <exec> 08└─Synthetics do wick moisture away where it evaporates. Cotton, by contrast, saturates and holds it close to the skin such that the cloth binds and chafes. Chafing is bad. Natural fibers are best in outer garments when you want warmth.
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[13:24:33] <exec> 08└─If you liked ring, then you shoulda put a label on it. --Beyondme Knowsless
[13:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SparkyGSX [4041] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06United Kingdom to Introduce Security Labelling on Connected Devices - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:35] <exec> 08└─If the lawmakers think there is such a thing as "amount of security", and that is what makes a device more or less secure, the game is over already.
[13:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Kingdom to Introduce Security Labelling on Connected Devices - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:37] <exec> 08└─https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mEB7WbTTlu4 [youtube.com]
[13:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waymo Drivers vs. Coronavirus - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:47] <exec> 08└─>> even though you would want to disinfect the cars after each group of passengers uses it Twice, if they're Iranian.
[13:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waymo Drivers vs. Coronavirus - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:49] <exec> 08└─My money's on coronavirus.
[13:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:20] <exec> 08└─I'll still be buying bagels, but I think I'm going to toast them, at least for the next few months...
[13:29:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:40] <exec> 08└─We ain't talking geometric proofs that nearly nobody is going to actually use, we're talking reading. Reading is a fundamental skill that nobody should allow themselves to suck at if it can at all be avoided.
[13:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:41] <exec> 08└─Gotta learn to walk before you can run, ari. They ain't getting through Plato if they can't get through a modern novel in their own language. My ancestral language? Perl 4? If you're asking about Chickasaw, why would I bother learning that? So I can talk to the few dozen people on the planet who spe...
[13:29:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:44] <exec> 08└─The difficulty with mathematics is that it is a huge tower of concepts. Mathematics is built on mathematics. If your learning has missed a brick on the way up, everything above it is incomprehensible. When I tutor, I start with asking questions from the advanced to the elementary -- something like a...
[13:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:46] <exec> 08└─For the same reason we name cars Mustang and Corvette instead of an MD5 hash of all their part numbers.
[13:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:48] <exec> 08└─I'm in Canada. One of our paper manufacturers has made a formal announcement that they have more than enough capacity to provide Canada with toilet paper through the coronavirus pandemic.
[13:29:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:29:50] <exec> 08└─We're trying to *sell* covid-19?
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[14:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antiaging Biochemical Mechanism Found in Mouse, Bat and Naked Mole Rat Cells - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:32] <exec> 08└─Yes that’s working out well, anti-aging effect is impressive.
[14:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Kingdom to Introduce Security Labelling on Connected Devices - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:47] <exec> 08└─such a thing as "amount of security" Of course there is: I bought 3kg of security from Amazon this very morning. FYI, I chose the mint flavour.
[14:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Kingdom to Introduce Security Labelling on Connected Devices - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:49] <exec> 08└─"Depends" brand?
[14:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:34] <exec> 08└─My faith in SN was already pretty loose.
[14:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:36] <exec> 08└─I've heard copper is antibacterial, but is it antiviral?
[14:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:38] <exec> 08└─I use my credit card a lot so that *I* can track my activities.
[14:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:40] <exec> 08└─We technically can do electronic payments working the same way as with cash. It is possible to buy, sell and support pre-paid cards. It is even technically possible to charge them in machines. It is technically possible to not gather data from them. The infrastructure for it is already present and c...
[14:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:42] <exec> 08└─To get to all the cocaine residue?
[14:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Could Force ISPs to Abandon Data Caps Forever - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:57] <exec> 08└─Trying?
[14:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Could Force ISPs to Abandon Data Caps Forever - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:58] <exec> 08└─My local ISP lets me run my gigabit pipe completely full 24/7/365 if I want for the same price (like $59/mo or so) as if I never use it. They may be a bunch of eco-hippies but they're doing capitalism like a boss; pretty much nobody in town uses any of the big name ISPs, despite some serious adverti...
[14:26:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:43] <exec> 08└─If I am not wrong, this ruling has come from the court of Karslruhe which is basically the SUPREME-SUPREME court. It was setup after WW2 to ensure the government doesn't overstep its bound (again). So I would say, this is a good ruling.
[14:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vermont Sues Clearview, Alleging “Oppressive, Unscrupulous” Practices - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:27] <exec> 08└─A) Depends on the state. B) Not at all if they're not published.
[14:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Online Learning for Quarantined Kids - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:14] <exec> 08└─More fundamental. Mustang or Corona virus are easily remembered. Covid-19 means nothing to anyone who doesn't know why it's named that.
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[15:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coronavirus Could Force ISPs to Abandon Data Caps Forever - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:54] <exec> 08└─And you have better broadband that all the still Capitalists in America
[15:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:39] <exec> 08└─Going to the footy then?
[15:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:41] <exec> 08└─Do the ad thing but only from the same hosting server, no JavaScript, as a banner, black and white PNG only, set height and length as 20px high and 100 long with ads auto hiding after 2 seconds. Make a policy that only real people can post ads and limit content to inoffensive charities only e.g. loc...
[15:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Rainforest Could be Gone Within a Lifetime - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:54] <exec> 08└─Thank God the Democrats are being really smart and rigging the primary in favor of Biden. Because it's so much more important that we prevent the voters from getting a candidate that might do something about the climate than risk having to allow all those voters to get medicare for all and free coll...
[15:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Rainforest Could be Gone Within a Lifetime - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:28:55] <exec> 08└─Do you have any idea how hard it is to avoid buying products that aren't problematic in some way? Normal people do not have 40 hours a week to research the impact of what they're doing is. It's a large part of why it's so important that governments set some sort of minimum standards on things like t...
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[15:28:58] <exec> 08└─The Brazilian government is ultimately the largest part of the problem. The current administration has been encouraging it and ignoring regulations. The best way to solve the problem would be to find ways of cracking down on the import of resources generated by burning down the rainforests while fin...
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[16:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Speakers “Accidentally” Listen Up to 19 Times A Day - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:22] <exec> 08└─How often are they listening but the light DOESN'T come on: not a wake word activation, where the light comes on, but a 'no we're not listening' activation where they ARE listening.
[16:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Speakers “Accidentally” Listen Up to 19 Times A Day - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:23] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, Sir, but if that information exists, it is restricted to super-duper-top-level-secret-root access.
[16:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06United Kingdom to Introduce Security Labelling on Connected Devices - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:47] <exec> 08└─You don.t understand, the label IS the security.
[16:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:37] <exec> 08└─I have been looking into this, and it looks like the best thing is to iron your currency on lowest setting. Apparently the heat deactivates the virus. YMMV, naturally. UV light (AKA full sunlight) is also rather effective, but it's hard to know when it's done. Virus has been detected on paper for up...
[16:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:38] <exec> 08└─Alcohol or soapy water is a good disinfectant for COVID-19 and most other corona virus, and many others. So store your money in a flask of vodka. Getting at it, however, might require that you drink the vodka. FWIW, reports are that the virus can survive for days on stainless steel, less time on co...
[16:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:40] <exec> 08└─Contact doesn't suffice. It requires contact with mucous membranes, or stuff from the mucous membrane, to be a problem. The bra or shoe should be safe unless they've licked the money.
[16:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:42] <exec> 08└─OBTW - the advice above presupposes your currency is a classical cotton/paper based currency. I have no idea the effect ironing would have on more modern currencies with plastic components, which is why the YMMV caution is warranted. May be safer to pin the notes onto the clothes-line (though you wo...
[16:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:44] <exec> 08└─Whew! That was close. Shoes and bras... So, the cash stored in my jock strap is okay to use, if I don't lick it first?
[16:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:46] <exec> 08└─Go on, just try convincing us that someone can put on a bra without touching it or their breasts with their hands. I ain't slept with a woman yet who didn't do some fit adjusting in the morning, except one who wasn't wearing a bra in the first place. Shoes... entirely gross under any circumstances....
[16:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:48] <exec> 08└─Are you high? closing down events is due to super spreaders, one person with mild symptoms could infect LITERALLY thousands of people at say E3. A majority of the cases in South Korea are due to one person who infected tons of people as an example. Iran could be similar... but due to licking shrines...
[16:28:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:37] <exec> 08└─Of course he didn't get it. Car analogies are for the green place.
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[17:24:37] <exec> 08└─what do i do?
[17:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Smart Speakers “Accidentally” Listen Up to 19 Times A Day - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:38] <exec> 08└─So what? I accidentally upskirt women 19 times a day - it's not a big deal.
[17:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Speakers “Accidentally” Listen Up to 19 Times A Day - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:40] <exec> 08└─It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you.
[17:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Antiaging Biochemical Mechanism Found in Mouse, Bat and Naked Mole Rat Cells - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:50] <exec> 08└─Good news is you live 30 years longer. The bad news is you have to live underground and eat worms [best-poems.net].
[17:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waymo Drivers vs. Coronavirus - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:19] <exec> 08└─Just install a sealed partition between the front and back seats. Might need to mod the HVAC too.
[17:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:05] <exec> 08└─ok so i didn't read TFA but have now as i just didn't believe editor would make this mistake. Bonus: there have been legal challenges against supermarket by country maybe they could use this headline in court :D
[17:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:06] <exec> 08└─Is it a serious question? People wet their fingers to increase friction between skin and paper. People with dry hands - such as old, experienced and fearless - have this issue, while the youngsters who sweat their fear out usually don't.
[17:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 1301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:08] <exec> 08└─>We technically can do electronic payments working the same way as with cash. It is possible to buy, sell and support pre-paid cards. It is even technically possible to charge them in machines. It is technically possible to not gather data from them. The infrastructure for it is already present and...
[17:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:10] <exec> 08└─Forgot to mention. In this particular case with money, people do the last check - if two bills did not stick together. When I drove a cab in NYC I once got 3 dollar pay which in fact was one dollar bill and two hundreds. Hence I spit on my fingers (to avoid liking - my mother taught me this at very...
[17:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:13] <exec> 08└─If you wrapped it inside a condom, the anus money is still good?
[17:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Could Force ISPs to Abandon Data Caps Forever - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:31] <exec> 08└─Even if you wanted to torrent at 100 Mbps, you would likely fill all of the HDDs you have pretty quickly.
[17:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:02] <exec> 08└─I suppose you can also argue that bigger people (ie: obesity) don't live as long.
[17:29:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:03] <exec> 08└─What do you expect eating meat every meal. These dogs should be fed whole grains with avocado picante with a side order of cat feces.
[17:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:05] <exec> 08└─And smaller people (anorexics) live longer?
[17:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Wearing Clothes Could Release More Microfibres to the Environment Than Washing Them - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:03] <exec> 08└─Had a friend catch fire wearing a polyester shirt, he was in the hospital for a couple of weeks. That's when I decided not to wear oil as it does have a tendency to burn. As for the free trade, this started with out sourcing to America, then Mexico. Now for textiles, it is as much Bangladesh, Vietna...
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[18:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Honeywell Develops a Quantum Computer - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:26] <exec> 08└─so it better tickle my pickle.
[18:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Speakers “Accidentally” Listen Up to 19 Times A Day - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:38] <exec> 08└─Our Google Home gets activated by dialogue in movies about 3 times a week, some phrases like "Hey Gorgeous" are pretty obvious how they've gotten confused with "Hey Google", but other times I really can't imagine how it got fooled.
[18:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frosty Piss [4971] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Waymo Drivers vs. Coronavirus - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:17] <exec> 08└─What’s the point of a “self driving” car with a “safety driver”?
[18:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:08] <exec> 08└─I once deposited a Euro banknote that the teller's counting machine wouldn't recognize as genuine. Because all indications were that this was a genuine note, the teller suggested that the note might have been ironed. He had someone take me to the bank's vault, where we checked the note with the more...
[18:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:10] <exec> 08└─or stuff from the mucous membrane, to be a problem.
[18:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Icelandic Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:12] <exec> 08└─Actually, it took the COVID-19 scare for cashiers in Greece to figure out that contactless transactions are supposed to be made by having the customer wave their card over the POS terminal. Up until a few days ago, cashiers would take my card and ask me whether I wanted to make a contactless transac...
[18:29:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Rainforest Could be Gone Within a Lifetime - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:29:31] <exec> 08└─This whole green movement is designed to make sure Brazil never develops.
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[19:24:24] <exec> 08└─"and the companies will work together to develop quantum computing use cases for the finance business in areas such as fraud detection and artificial intelligence for trading." When it comes to trading the data analysis aspect of it is easy. The difficult part is the psychology. You can easily use s...
[19:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Honeywell Develops a Quantum Computer - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:26] <exec> 08└─and being a member of the BUNCH Burroughs, Univac, NCR, CDC, Honeywell yes, Bunky, they built computers..
[19:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Honeywell Develops a Quantum Computer - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:28] <exec> 08└─Millennial turds that don't know history shouldn't be journalists.
[19:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honeywell Develops a Quantum Computer - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:30] <exec> 08└─I suppose parent was kidding, all greybeards know honeywell, well, well. Univac sounds like a vacuum cleaner company, Burroughs like some porn movie studio, NCR sounds like a mafia front, CDC sounds like a leftist organization focused on getting the most state funding and Honeywell sounds like a net...
[19:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Honeywell Develops a Quantum Computer - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:32] <exec> 08└─This product makes sense... half the people in an office usually think it's too hot and half think it's too cold, so now we can please both sides at the same time.
[19:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honeywell Develops a Quantum Computer - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:34] <exec> 08└─They spun off the thermostat biz. Now they just make money from it by licensing the "Honeywell Home" trademark: https://www.honeywell.com [honeywell.com]
[19:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Speakers “Accidentally” Listen Up to 19 Times A Day - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:47] <exec> 08└─The person who modded this offtopic failed to understand the analogy.
[19:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waymo Drivers vs. Coronavirus - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:27] <exec> 08└─It's more like a human driven car with a safety 'self' (ie: a safety electronics system/computer or whatever you want to call it). But for marketing purposes it's better to say it's the other way around.
[19:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Waymo Drivers vs. Coronavirus - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:28] <exec> 08└─Helps the meatbag pay for food so it can stay alive.
[19:29:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:13] <exec> 08└─But what percentage of the population are anorexic vs obese? Also there have been shown studies that intermittent fasting can be beneficial sometimes? I wonder if similar dynamics that exist among humans can be applied to animals? These are just random things to think about, I don't really know.
[19:29:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:29:14] <exec> 08└─IE: "Low caloric intake (caloric restriction) can lengthen the life span of a wide range of animals and possibly even of humans. To understand better how caloric restriction lengthens life span, we used genetic methods and criteria to investigate its mechanism of action in the nematode Caenorhabditi...
[19:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Are Female Urinals the Answer to Queues at the Loos? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:18] <exec> 08└─Asian-style toilets are healthier for everyone. Resist the take over as much as possible.
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[20:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honeywell Develops a Quantum Computer - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:41] <exec> 08└─Honeywell also invested in two quantum software development firms that will work with the company and its quantum customers.
[20:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Speakers “Accidentally” Listen Up to 19 Times A Day - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:55] <exec> 08└─No, it's: That you are paranoid doesn't imply they are not out to get you.
[20:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Kingdom to Introduce Security Labelling on Connected Devices - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:22] <exec> 08└─Of course there's an amount of security. That's why you regularly need to download security updates: Because the security that got delivered with the product gets used up over time, and you need to resupply. :-)
[20:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Waymo Drivers vs. Coronavirus - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:40] <exec> 08└─It's a beta test. There may even be a legal requirement involved in Arizona, I'd have to check. Having a human in the driver's seat didn't stop Uber from killing a woman 2 years ago. Google/Waymo is likely more competent.
[20:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03paul_engr [8666] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Waymo Drivers vs. Coronavirus - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:41] <exec> 08└─Hint: level five autonomy per SAE definition is decades away from attainment by /anybody/. Period.
[20:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:34] <exec> 08└─Apropos: Quran 104: (from Rodwell) "...It is God's kindled fire, Which shall mount above the hearts of the damned; It shall verily rise over them like a vault, On outstretched columns." Domed indeed!!
[20:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:35] <exec> 08└─Ah, so one of each type then?(grin)
[20:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:38] <exec> 08└─When people lick their fingers before flipping through pages. It's quite common and WHY DO PEOPLE DO THIS!!!!????
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[21:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:29] <exec> 08└─Now that they've gotten rid of Gates, Microsoft can cancel Windows and focus on Linux.
[21:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:30] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Subsystem_for_Linux [wikipedia.org] Nah, they will keep Windows but just throw Linux in there. By 2025, more people will be using sandboxed Linux apps on Windows or ChromeOS than using "real" Linux.
[21:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:32] <exec> 08└─With all that money they should be forming a crack team of experts to look at this virus thingy. Instead we see one and a half trillion dollars thrown into the Wall Street furnace, and hardly a peep.
[21:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:34] <exec> 08└─He's probably headed to the secret underground bunker in Russia made for the 1%
[21:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/coronavirus-conspiracy-video-spreads-instagram-among-black-celebrities-n1158571 [nbcnews.com]
[21:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smart Speakers “Accidentally” Listen Up to 19 Times A Day - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:05] <exec> 08└─It's not paranoia if they really are out to get you
[21:25:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02 - 06Waymo Drivers vs. Coronavirus - 802 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:37] <exec> 08└─> "It feels like the drivers are treated like second class citizens, having to report to work and serve 'hails' while the full-time employees are required to work from home to stay safe," said a Waymo driver who requested anonymity in order to speak freely. "Safety for some." The full-time employees...
[21:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:44] <exec> 08└─A few months might be overkill. Toasting them for a month will probably kill enough germs to make them safe. :)
[21:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:46] <exec> 08└─That is disturbing. That poor woman will never live that down. Although not how she originally intended to make her point, hopefully it drives the point home.
[21:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wierd0n3 [1033] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:48] <exec> 08└─Seems like a bad translation to me. i know as a cashier people will lick their fingers to make counting easier. (in the case of our store, when counting the money, we have a balm-type product that increases grip on your fingers. "LEE Sortkwik" in our case) as a side note, I went to a goodwill yeaste...
[21:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Could Force ISPs to Abandon Data Caps Forever - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:27:07] <exec> 08└─tru
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[22:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:32] <exec> 08└─Rome wasn't burnt in a day. Throwing money can only do so much.
[22:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:33] <exec> 08└─There is little out there that can be any worse than what the president is telling us [youtube.com]
[22:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:35] <exec> 08└─It's truly enlightening how much and how fast this happened and by whom. Rabid anti-gov low tax anti-bailout types get instant relief - which effectively keeps them in yachts - while structural spending (infrastructure) and basic needs are nickel and dimed to death.
[22:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Honeywell Develops a Quantum Computer - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:49] <exec> 08└─You have to please everyone and no one at the same time.
[22:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smart Speakers “Accidentally” Listen Up to 19 Times A Day - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:06] <exec> 08└─And also in the hidden fifth cell they assure us isn't there.
[22:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06United Kingdom to Introduce Security Labelling on Connected Devices - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:34] <exec> 08└─...It would be helpful if labels disclosed all of the built in vulnerabilities known at time of manufacture.
[22:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:51] <exec> 08└─Or maybe iron it under a brown paper bag, to transfer the heat but not allow the hot surface to come in direct contact with the banknote. Try it out and let us know! We'll PayPal you a few Euro to try it out and see how much heat it takes to screw it up badly enough to stop working.
[22:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:53] <exec> 08└─... which they'll have to lick to turn the pages.
[22:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:55] <exec> 08└─Run it through the wash would be my approach. Why not, money goes through it all the time anyway.
[22:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Iceland Supermarket Bans Cash Stored in Shoes and Bras - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:57] <exec> 08└─I didn't click the link because it's obviously click bait, and it's a Murdoch media site. But this sounds a lot like fake news. Can anyone confirm? Actually I don't care.
[22:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:02] <exec> 08└─the national meteorological service will only be permitted to offer extreme weather warnings for free and that a DWD app offering general weather forecasts must contain advertisements or be purchased by users.
[22:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Rainforest Could be Gone Within a Lifetime - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:22] <exec> 08└─I might agree with you, but nevertheless, whoever asks for sacrifices for a greater good should do it herself. One can't ask Brazil to stop cutting trees until her personal comfort is better than Brazil's. My point is not moral, mind you. It simply would never work otherwise. Once Brazil is better d...
[22:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ransomware Threatens to Reveal Company's 'Dirty' Secrets - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:49] <exec> 08└─It's not unknown that Wendy's broke an boycott on farmers who were using slave labor to grow tomatoes to save a few cents.
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[23:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:21] <exec> 08└─Job market gonna be great after 10% of the boomers die.
[23:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:22] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the bug will do what Trump failed to?
[23:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:24] <exec> 08└─Boomers are retired, so it's not opening up any jobs and is killing off the jobs of the healthcare workers that were attending to their medical stuff.
[23:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:26] <exec> 08└─The Roomie and I've already got plans to self-quarantine out at the river with some fishing poles for a couple weeks if we catch it.
[23:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:29] <exec> 08└─Fewer boomers means less social security expenditure, so still a win-win.
[23:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I know, no true nerd has the social skills necessary to attract a mate with which to produce offspring. But, there are test tubes, sperm banks, artificial insemination, and such like devices and methods. Whether offspring are wanted is another question, which I will overlook for the nonce. It...
[23:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nerds Wake Up in Utopia where Everyone Stays Inside, Sports are Canceled, Socializing Forbidden - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:33] <exec> 08└─All those years of practicing self isolation are finally paying off :)
[23:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:47] <exec> 08└─Does this finally mean we can uninstall Microsoft Internet Explorer?
[23:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:49] <exec> 08└─We all now may thank Bill Gates for his Event 201 philanthropy. http://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org [centerforhealthsecurity.org] Thank you, Bill.
[23:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:51] <exec> 08└─Bill is in for a sad day when he exits from his underground bunker and realizes there is no one left alive to exploit...
[23:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:53] <exec> 08└─Bill Gates touches operating systems and we get windows. Bill needs a wife and out of 3 billion females gets one who's named Melinda, and mela means Apple. Bill and Melinda foundation start working on vaccines and coincidentally the antivax movement soars. Bill and Melinda start working on coronavir...
[23:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:55] <exec> 08└─He will try to exit but the automated lock will bluescreen.
[23:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft's Board - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:57] <exec> 08└─Why? we don't need a corporation playing EEE with our beloved OS, we already have systemd.
[23:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Outlaws German Weather Service's Free Weather App - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:28:22] <exec> 08└─Charge them 1eu for an ad to them and have them charge you 1eu for an ad to you...
[23:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:13] <exec> 08└─Except for humans, who have about 4 times as many heartbeats per lifetime. This suggests that heartbeats per lifetime is not a fundamental limit, but rather a coincidental result of other factors.
[23:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ChrisMaple [6964] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Do Small Dogs Live Longer Than Big Dogs? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:14] <exec> 08└─It's already well known that small dog breeds live longer than large breeds. TFA adds nothing to general knowledge, names no mechanisms, proposes no hypothesis for why the inverse correlation exists.
[23:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03phantomlord [4309] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Are Female Urinals the Answer to Queues at the Loos? - 1797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:20] <exec> 08└─In my experience, most of the women that end up doing that, end up peeing on the seat, making a whole different mess... Many of us (most?) will clean the seat before we use the toilet because the person before us may have squatted, even if we're going to squat ourselves, just in case we accidentally...
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