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[00:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:24] <exec> 08└─Anyway among the young generation it's been females who smoke at least as much as males. The stats still makes a lot of sense as youngsters are less targeted by the corona, or less likely to die from problems exacerbated by the corona.
[00:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:25] <exec> 08└─...is energy efficient.
[00:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Admits Liquid Ban Is Security Theater - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:22] <exec> 08└─Got a link that works without javascript?
[00:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Do We Stop People Blinding Other Drivers With Aftermarket LEDs? - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:21] <exec> 08└─Interesting that California is so lax. Here, the primary purpose of state vehicle inspection is to make sure the check engine light is off (via OBD2). Secondarily, they do check headlight aim, horn volume and brake status.
[00:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Do We Stop People Blinding Other Drivers With Aftermarket LEDs? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:22] <exec> 08└─Do you have four-wheel drive?
[00:28:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06SoylentNews Community -- How has SAR-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) / COVID-19 Affected You? - 439 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:14] <exec> 08└─Why is "sports" actually dignified under the banner of "news" ? In my dream world, sports would come in some section buried right after obituaries and horoscopes. (and common CPUs would have enough cores to make GPUs unnecessary) It pisses me off to no end that Google News puts Sports ahead of Scien...
[00:28:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06SoylentNews Community -- How has SAR-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) / COVID-19 Affected You? - 3549 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:28:15] <exec> 08└─I live in a very small rural community - and COVID-19 arrived in our community a day or two ago. Both my wife and are considered 'high risk' and we were informed several days ago that the virus was in the area, and yesterday it got even closer, and that we should now only leave the house when absolu...
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[01:24:16] <exec> 08└─imagine that.
[01:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Intel Kills Off "14nm" Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable Processors - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:17] <exec> 08└─Hey little lady, hello You're lookin' cute as can be You're lookin' mighty sweet No, it ain't Seymour-it's me Your friendly Audrey Two This plant is talking to you Come on and give me a drink Hey, little lady, be nice Sure do, I'll drink it straight Don't need no glass or no ice Don't need no twist...
[01:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:29] <exec> 08└─And damage accumulates with total years smoked, so older people will always be more susceptible. Serves older smokers right for setting a shitty example of "do as I say, not as I do" to the next generations.
[01:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Edge Shares Privacy-Busting Telemetry, Research Alleges - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:48] <exec> 08└─fuck you microshit from win 3.11 on up you can suck a dick
[01:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Admits Liquid Ban Is Security Theater - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:28] <exec> 08└─But the utility of the temperature check is quite dubious. It can identify you as coming down with something, but carriers don't necessarily run a fever, so you need to be quarantined for several days with the temperature checked each day for it to work, and that's after the last possible time you w...
[01:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Do We Stop People Blinding Other Drivers With Aftermarket LEDs? - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:29] <exec> 08└─I was just a zygote (cough cough) but I remember when halogens were illegal. A work friend had them, was very proud of them, and had to change them out for inspection, which he happily did.
[01:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Do We Stop People Blinding Other Drivers With Aftermarket LEDs? - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:30] <exec> 08└─As a bonus, it gives some people an epileptic seizure. Not too mention the people who get migraines from the flashing lights. How they're legal is beyond me. Today I was getting followed by a bike, even in the Sun it was blinding me with its twin headlights (non-flashing), then he passed me, sounded...
[01:26:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Do We Stop People Blinding Other Drivers With Aftermarket LEDs? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:33] <exec> 08└─For the ones tailgating, adjusting your mirrors just right works quite well.
[01:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Do We Stop People Blinding Other Drivers With Aftermarket LEDs? - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:35] <exec> 08└─Years back, when all headlights were sealed beams, I had a pair of European Bosh lights that worked really well in the rain and weren't blinding. Surprisingly, these were illegal in most of N. America, though not where I was in the rain forest.
[01:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Move to Drop Charges Against Russian Firm Filed in Mueller Probe - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:24] <exec> 08└─Can you provide citations on those figures?
[01:27:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Move to Drop Charges Against Russian Firm Filed in Mueller Probe - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:27:26] <exec> 08└─Interesting. But I had a look on Wiki, the prize is only one million which is peanuts for Bloomberg. And supposedly he donated all of it to a number of philanthropic projects. Are you saying there's more to it?
[01:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Folding@Home Joins Fight Against SARS-CoV-2; New Folders Prompty Drain Work Unit Queue - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:02] <exec> 08└─You're a master of the obvious! Wow! Yes, of course they do, it's part of the US Govt. I'm a US citizen. That's how it works if you want to vote in US elections. What I do NOT want is some random website having that info, to do whatever they feel like doing with it. And I think we've all read enough...
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[01:32:04] <exec> 08└─Interestingly informative you are. Okay, is CUDA an Nvidia thing? Test computer has AMD/ATI GPU and it has OpenCL, which I checked and tested with a utility. F@H installer says in fact it will not run GPU if F@H loads at boot time, only if loaded at A) login, or (presumably) B) on demand. I tried al...
[01:32:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Folding@Home Joins Fight Against SARS-CoV-2; New Folders Prompty Drain Work Unit Queue - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:06] <exec> 08└─OpenCL and CUDA seem to be "brand names" for much the same thing, but the implementations differ some. End result is, the same work units will run on both, so for our purposes, we can consider them to be the same. Windows didn't like the idea of allowing services access to GPU resources. I read thro...
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[02:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Kills Off "14nm" Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable Processors - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:25] <exec> 08└─These chips are going to be marketed to a few niche (but large) customers. Don't expect them in consumer or enterprise products. It's a little surprising that education and research isn't being targeted. AI is a nice little buzzword these days, and all researchers surely want a good AI to run their...
[02:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Kills Off "14nm" Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable Processors - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:27] <exec> 08└─Intel will be pushing their Xe GPUs for AI. Intel’s Xe for HPC: Ponte Vecchio with Chiplets, EMIB, and Foveros on 7nm, Coming 2021 [anandtech.com] Analyzing Intel’s Discrete Xe-HPC Graphics Disclosure: Ponte Vecchio, Rambo Cache, and Gelato [anandtech.com]
[02:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Kills Off "14nm" Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable Processors - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:29] <exec> 08└─TempleOS rare commercial from 2011 https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Terry Davis: THEY GLOW - Official Trailer https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[02:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:41] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, the Sulfur Dioxide will make up for it. https://www.ccn.com [ccn.com] Nothing to see here, move along.
[02:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:42] <exec> 08└─unless india is secretly burning body the so2 is perfectly correlated with deficient environmental regulation × industrial density. have a look https://earth.nullschool.net [nullschool.net]
[02:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Admits Liquid Ban Is Security Theater - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:42] <exec> 08└─>Cooperating with a hijacker was on par with snuggling with the wild beast that was trying to eat you. Not hardly. Before 9/11 hijackers pretty much just wanted to get somewhere other than the trap that would probably be waiting for them at the intended destination. They didn't want to hurt anyone,...
[02:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Admits Liquid Ban Is Security Theater - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:43] <exec> 08└─I don't know about the lost relative, but apparently one legged stools are a thing attributed to him, and for that reason https://lateralscience.blogspot.com [blogspot.com]
[02:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Do We Stop People Blinding Other Drivers With Aftermarket LEDs? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:49] <exec> 08└─Err, an untrimmed wick puts out less light then a trimmed wick. Youngsters now a days don't even know about trimming wicks
[02:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Do We Stop People Blinding Other Drivers With Aftermarket LEDs? - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:50] <exec> 08└─Having the headlights on during the day is a safety feature, or at least should be. Especially here in the rain forest where a grey car can be invisible at times. Legally they've been required here in Canada since about 1990 but the way they usually work is the daytime lights are in series instead o...
[02:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Do We Stop People Blinding Other Drivers With Aftermarket LEDs? - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:52] <exec> 08└─The conventional wisdom with cycling is that you're supposed to have a helmet-mounted headlight like that if you're mountain biking, so you can point the light where you're looking. But if you're on a road bike, you're supposed to use a handlebar-mounted headlight instead, and NOT a helmet-mounted o...
[02:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Do We Stop People Blinding Other Drivers With Aftermarket LEDs? - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:54] <exec> 08└─Please don't honk cyclists. A car horn may sound loud inside a vehicle - but it sounds terrifying outside the car. One has to consider what happens if the terrified cyclist now falls off - right underneath the wheels of your car. The cyclist knows you are there. Unlike the vast majority of other roa...
[02:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Do We Stop People Blinding Other Drivers With Aftermarket LEDs? - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:56] <exec> 08└─Either you live in a weird place, or you're confusing factory HIDs and LEDs with aftermarket ones. I have a hard time believing that anywhere near 25% of drivers in a place would have aftermarket LED bulbs installed; most people do not install aftermarket parts in their cars at all. Most new cars no...
[02:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marvell Announces ThunderX3, an ARM Server CPU With 96 Cores, 384 Threads - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:27] <exec> 08└─And they have been. For years. This is the third generation of the product. Amazon is putting ARM in AWS. Etc.
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[03:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:19] <exec> 08└─I wish SN "editors" learn to write in English.
[03:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:44] <exec> 08└─All this talk about smoking... *goes for a somke*
[03:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:45] <exec> 08└─The Hill's 12:30 Report: Trump eyes checks to Americans as part of coronavirus stimulus [thehill.com] WHERE'S MY MONEY?! I need it for the furnace.
[03:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:47] <exec> 08└─Evidence suggesting that the Chinese government is hiding the actual severity of the Wuhan coronavirus outbreak is piling up. Every estimate, whistleblower, and unconfirmed report suggest the actual number of coronavirus casualties is much higher than what the official data says.
[03:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Admits Liquid Ban Is Security Theater - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:48] <exec> 08└─That perception was wrong. Did Entebbe make no impression on us? Maybe as a rule there was little risk in cooperating with a hijacker, but that cooperation did empower the 9/11 attackers. If you snuggle with the grizzly bear, the bear will eat you when he's hungry.
[03:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Do We Stop People Blinding Other Drivers With Aftermarket LEDs? - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:57] <exec> 08└─Not only does the flashing light kill your night vision, it kills your sensitivity to motion. Suddenly everything looks like it's moving - therefore much harder to detect actual motion, like a dog or person stepping out between parked cars or a door opening in the bike lane. Those flashing lights ar...
[03:26:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Do We Stop People Blinding Other Drivers With Aftermarket LEDs? - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:58] <exec> 08└─Even if they're manufactured to be aimed properly, they will no longer be aimed properly if, as is very common in my area, dudes who use their trucks to compensate have lifted it an extra foot or two off the ground. And yes, it's always dudes who do this, in my experience.
[03:27:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Feds Move to Drop Charges Against Russian Firm Filed in Mueller Probe - 176 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:13] <exec> 08└─Better translation: Federal prosecutors, working for the corrupt William Barr, don't want to remind people Trump only won with the illegal help of a hostile foreign government.
[03:28:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] 02 - 06SoylentNews Community -- How has SAR-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) / COVID-19 Affected You? - 1235 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:28:04] <exec> 08└─I work in IT for a large newspaper in Florida. Today is Tuesday, which is typically a smaller newspaper anyway, but we're down to just two sections in the physical paper: "news" and "classified". We're combining the "sports" section with "news" most days because there just isn't enough sports news t...
[03:30:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Data of Millions of eBay and Amazon Shoppers Exposed - 289 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:00] <exec> 08└─Isn't it obvious by now that these companies are storing and hoarding way more information then they actually need to perform their function and service? They also seem prone to skimp on security for your data. Collect, use, delete. Not collect, use, store forever like some crazy hoarder.
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[03:32:33] <exec> 08└─> Windows didn't like the idea of allowing services access to GPU resources. I read through something on the subject, it didn't make much sense to me, but there you have it: Microsoft only permits services to access CPU resources. Pure speculation, but MS generally likes fast graphics (games too) so...
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[04:24:24] <exec> 08└─Which government made this announcement?
[04:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:26] <exec> 08└─It's lifted verbatim from the article !¿! Do you want them to annotate each anomaly with [sic] ? It would probably please the dude of Samos but it is worth it ?
[04:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:28] <exec> 08└─From the bottom of the linked page Office for Civil Rights Headquarters U.S. Department of Health & Human Services 200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20201 Toll Free Call Center: 1-800-368-1019 TTD Number: 1-800-537-7697
[04:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, we do! They should at least step up to the standards of an aristarchus submission!
[04:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:32] <exec> 08└─Let me get this straight, so if I, like, accidently leak the fact that a certain prolific Soylentil has a Plumber Embolism with Secondary Striations, I am off the hook, HIPAA speaking? Sweet!
[04:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:34] <exec> 08└─Not really as you demonstrably miss criteria #1: acting in good faith.
[04:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Kills Off "14nm" Cooper Lake Xeon Scalable Processors - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:47] <exec> 08└─Coming soon, a line that addresses the serious security concerns, the 10 nm Fantasy Island.
[04:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Do We Stop People Blinding Other Drivers With Aftermarket LEDs? - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:17] <exec> 08└─When a two wheeler is killed, the usual claim by the perpetrator is that she did not see him. Yes, I was in this position, but survived. A mother made a left turn on me and I flew over her and her two children for 20 feet.
[04:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Do We Stop People Blinding Other Drivers With Aftermarket LEDs? - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:18] <exec> 08└─Yep, and it makes throwing a quarter toward bright lights especially class satisfactory.
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[05:28:13] <exec> 08└─Troll Democrats are so defensive about their dirty little secrets!
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[05:28:15] <exec> 08└─“The Cold War is over, Romney!” - BHO 2012 election debate. I guess it wasn’t.
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[06:24:35] <exec> 08└─step up to the standards of an aristarchus submission!
[06:25:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06TSA Admits Liquid Ban Is Security Theater - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:54] <exec> 08└─The liquids were banned to make it harder to use binary bombs to take down planes.
[06:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Patches 26 Critical Bugs in Big March Update - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:13] <exec> 08└─ANOTHER Micro$erf story? Eds! Are you off you meds? Let Windows users die from viruses and security breaches, and cute cat videos and autoplay disks and usb drives. It is nature in action. The herd gets thinned out, with the weakest and most gullible being taken out first.
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[07:24:53] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I never click on undescribed youtube links. One never knows what they might be! And, considering the source, probably barnyard pron, again!!!
[07:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:54] <exec> 08└─I said, "accidently release user 2626's data, which we only collect in bulk, so it is not individually identifiable." Opps!
[07:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:57] <exec> 08└─You see, this is what happens with overly strict privacy regulations. Fortunately Trump has rescinded these. You meant "2926", right?
[07:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:59] <exec> 08└─In context, ya big dummy, what might a reasonable person presume the video to be about? Oh, I'm sorry. You probably don't have any idea what a reasonable person might think. I should have checked my privilege at the door.
[07:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, Roonyway, check your white privilege! Check it good! Reason is foreign to you, so you are afraid of it.
[07:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Draws Southern California Coastal Light Pollution into Focus - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:37] <exec> 08└─Only thing worse, coming across an Ethanol_fueled, washed up on the beach, spraying the sand and bystanders with sperm, and failing to procreate. Which is a good thing. Almost like coming across a whale carcass, one that we may have to blow up [earthtouchnews.com] with dynamite. But that was not c...
[07:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSA Admits Liquid Ban Is Security Theater - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:33] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile I can buy lots of high alcohol spirits from duty free and hand carry them into the plane.
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[08:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Optimize Prime Editing For Rice And Wheat - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:22] <exec> 08└─Could they please gene-edit out the gluten out of Wheat. I miss real bread.
[08:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:55] <exec> 08└─I says, a reasonable person . . . should have checked my privilege
[08:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:56] <exec> 08└─Your lack of education and reading comprehension fails you once again, my sodden Runaway! Your "white priviledge" means you are the one who cannot recognize reason, as you have proved lo these many times. As Kanye West said, before he got rich and went cray-cray "I see white people! And they don't e...
[08:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:58] <exec> 08└─Oh, right, my bad! For symptoms, check out posts above. Symptomatic, totally!
[08:29:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06SoylentNews Community -- How has SAR-CoV-2 (Coronavirus) / COVID-19 Affected You? - 302 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:29:05] <exec> 08└─Plenty in the press, do you trust any of them? Deaths from normal flu can run up to 60,000 per year in the US alone, with similar and higher per-capita rates around the world. Politically, attributing COVID-19 deaths to normal flu can make fearless leaders seem like they're "doing a great job, 10/10...
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[10:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:27] <exec> 08└─So, the coronavirus is bad for your lungs, so this is a bad thing, but less air pollution is good for your lungs, so this is a good thing?! WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?
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[11:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:20] <exec> 08└─When I pointed out that viruses can remain infectious on packaging for days people poo-poo'ed the idea. This is not something new - just that we can now say COVID19 is no different in this respect. You can't disinfect cardboard boxes and paper, and with rapid order fulfillment, every package is a po...
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[11:24:21] <exec> 08└─yikes
[11:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03dx3bydt3 [82] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:23] <exec> 08└─Ozone will do a good job of sterilizing paper, and I've got an ozone generator. Time to build a parcel sterilizer I guess.
[11:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:25] <exec> 08└─Your hand sanitizer says it kills 99.9% of germs, yada yada yada. You can't kill all the germs, viruses, or whatever, you just kill most of them. So - with these (or any other) virii, how many survive on a dry surface for days? A wet surface? A surface over 100 degrees F? A surface below 50 F? I don...
[11:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:28] <exec> 08└─Ozone is also a major indoor pollutant of photocopiers and laser printers. Easier to just ban returns of used boxes. Let the recipient recycle them. The sulphuric acid used as part of the pulping process should fix it (though it has other environmental problems).
[11:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Optimize Prime Editing For Rice And Wheat - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:36] <exec> 08└─The gluten is what makes it taste good, have a nice texture, actually bake right...
[11:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:25:41] <exec> 08└─It means you should stock up on canned oxygen.
[11:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Feds Move to Drop Charges Against Russian Firm Filed in Mueller Probe - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:28:53] <exec> 08└─Downmodders are the whiny little bitches. We need to publicly shame them more.
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[12:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:33] <exec> 08└─You won't be saying that if you accept returned boxes for re-use and you get tagged as the source of infection. You'll be on the road to bankruptcy for being negligent. Or dead.
[12:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:34] <exec> 08└─thats 99.9% of the known types of germ not a statistical average.
[12:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:36] <exec> 08└─It's a pity muslims are so fearful of alcohol they won't use hand sanitizer to save their own lives.
[12:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:39] <exec> 08└─In fact it's quite a feat for some nasty but localized virus other than ebola not to have spread thanks to the degeneration of society into a spaghetti mess of interdependence we call globalization.
[12:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:41] <exec> 08└─You call it pity, I call it a win-win. Seriously, the muslims will be fine even with soap. Now, if the paki immigrants here stopped spitting every 2 fucking minutes I'd be happier.
[12:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:21] <exec> 08└─I wish SN "editors" learn to write in English.
[12:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:52] <exec> 08└─My brain isn't that efficient, but I don't need full throttle when discussing with meatbags: especially with politics, I seem to follow best the reasonings when I turn off the logic parser units. Also, I'm a bit eastward wrt the plains subjected to the study. Lots of currents here, unlike poor Padan...
[12:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:54] <exec> 08└─Russia kept an eye on china since forever and immediately closed the border, when the official position here was "just a rather pesky flu strain". The official position was wrong.
[12:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:56] <exec> 08└─That's supposed to be relevant how? And I'm not confident in either the Russian government's ability to close borders or reveal the true state of coronavirus infection in their country.
[12:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Draws Southern California Coastal Light Pollution into Focus - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:05] <exec> 08└─[...]The challenge for researchers is that satellite imagery — the technology that has traditionally been used to study light intensity at ground level — hasn’t been thought to be totally accurate or precise. For one thing, a single pixel on a satellite image can cover a large area on the grou...
[12:28:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06Feds Move to Drop Charges Against Russian Firm Filed in Mueller Probe - 352 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:28:45] <exec> 08└─Because it was Russia that gave us two of the worst, least popular candidates in recent history, and also convinced 95% of voters that they HAD to pick one of them. Oh wait, it was our own corporate media that did that, like they do every time. BTW, you should see my new bumper sticker. It says "Fou...
[12:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marvell Announces ThunderX3, an ARM Server CPU With 96 Cores, 384 Threads - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:50] <exec> 08└─I don't think hyperthreading is relevant and helpful in most of the cases. I never found the performance of a system with hyperthreading enabled to be higher compared when it was disabled, actually the contrary has been true. The first thing I do when setting up a server is disable the hyperthreadin...
[12:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marvell Announces ThunderX3, an ARM Server CPU With 96 Cores, 384 Threads - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:31:51] <exec> 08└─Obviously, your experience does not apply to all workloads. Or the feature wouldn't be offered. Especially since they have gone for 4-way, which offers a smaller theoretical benefit over 2-way. Also, different implementations of simultaneous multithreading work at least slightly differently. Intel,...
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[13:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Re-Attempts Fifth Launch of Same Falcon 9 Wed 2020-03-18 08:16 EDT (12:16 UTC) [Updated] - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:24] <exec> 08└─https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/satellite-database [ucsusa.org] Total number of US satellites: 1,007 Civil: 35 Commercial: 620 Government: 163 Military: 189 SpaceX now has 5 more satellites in orbit (357) than the U.S. government + military (352).
[13:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Optimize Prime Editing For Rice And Wheat - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:55] <exec> 08└─I strongly suspect that is the case, the gluten-free bread and such just taste horrible and the texture is like eating sand cakes when compared to the real thing.
[13:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Optimize Prime Editing For Rice And Wheat - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:57] <exec> 08└─No? Fuck off then.
[13:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:33] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure it would be Rick Asty.
[13:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:34] <exec> 08└─Thank you. I missed that.
[13:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:10] <exec> 08└─I don't want to get hyperoxia, so I'll stick to my premium bottled mountain air thank you very much. None of that nasty compressed stuff neither. Far too dangerous.
[13:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:11] <exec> 08└─So all you desperate smokers who were going on about how you read something on Reddit that smoking protects people because of initial data from China - you were trolled.
[13:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:13] <exec> 08└─They don't have enough people to run the printing presses fast enough. You'll have to start burning all that toilet paper you stocked up. :)
[13:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:15] <exec> 08└─It's a waste of time to be logic with you, but the fact that the borders were closed in the end of january is proof russians knew the situation was different from the official line. Whether russkies actually died or not is not relevant. Whether they efficiently closed the border is not relevant but...
[13:28:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02 - 06Feds Move to Drop Charges Against Russian Firm Filed in Mueller Probe - 1763 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:50] <exec> 08└─LOL: https://johnhelms.attorney [johnhelms.attorney] Before the grand jury votes on an indictment, the Government will present evidence to the grand jury. Usually, this consists of a law enforcement agent testifying about the evidence the agent knows would show the de...
[13:28:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] 02 - 06Feds Move to Drop Charges Against Russian Firm Filed in Mueller Probe - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:51] <exec> 08└─They can prove wrongdoing only if you don't contest it.
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[14:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DuganCent [1732] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:23] <exec> 08└─That's my limit. If I goes higher, I'm not buying, simple as that.
[14:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:25] <exec> 08└─Over $2000? What the fuck? $300 is too much. For devices that are both planned obsolescence and built so flimsily that they rarely last more than a couple years, anything in the thousands is insane. I bought a used/refurbished last-generation "flagship" phone for $250. Its great. It will probably br...
[14:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mechanical Forces Shape Animal 'Origami' Precisely Despite 'Noise' - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:39] <exec> 08└─but also relies on the stochastic and emergent behaviors of mechanical forces
[14:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:56] <exec> 08└─I hate when I am on the road to bankruptcy for being dead.
[14:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Optimize Prime Editing For Rice And Wheat - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:08] <exec> 08└─Gluten is what makes bread have that deliciously soft slightly gooey texture. You can't go back my friend.
[14:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Optimize Prime Editing For Rice And Wheat - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:09] <exec> 08└─Are you actually celiac or are you on one of those gluten free "diets" that's just badly desguised carb counting?
[14:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:25] <exec> 08└─- citizen - wat - we give you free money nao - didn't you blast AOC and company for trying to do just that - yes but nao emergency - my stomach was in emergency already - shut up and take my money - you a bit hypocrite - you will see how AOC shrieks about this, then you call hypocrisy AOK? - k
[14:27:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06TSA Admits Liquid Ban Is Security Theater - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:27:11] <exec> 08└─In America? They would just wildly shoot into the crowd and say they were following procedure.
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[15:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DuganCent [1732] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:22] <exec> 08└─I generally get 4 years out of my iPhones. The GF just retired her iPhone 5. I moved to an iPhone 11 from a 6s that was still working fine more or less.
[15:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:24] <exec> 08└─With so many people suddenly out of a job, this doesn't seem like a great time to introduce a new "aspirational" product. Even if you can afford one, social distancing will make it hard to show off your wealth.
[15:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:26] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I just don't see the point in modern "mobile" phones. They are too fragile, guaranteed to become unusable due to unremovable batteries, built in "smart" computer crap tracks you and sends all your data back to china, can get "hacked" loaded with more than the default malware. It's just insane...
[15:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:28] <exec> 08└─I hate Apple and Google both, but this is one area where Apple is kicking Google's ass. Even Google's Pixel flagships have shitty support periods.
[15:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:30] <exec> 08└─Mobile phones have two killer features, as far as I am concerned. First, they let family members contact you in case of an emergency. I didn't care about that until I had kids. Second, navigation with real time traffic updates. If you don't travel or you live somewhere with decent public transit, y...
[15:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:32] <exec> 08└─A few years ago I bought a Blackberry Q10 with a Latin/Arabic keypad from a shop in Queens, marked down from $900 to $200. Due to customer support and dropping supported bands, my wife and I switched carriers and I got a Kyocera Cadence for about $150. I still use the Blackberry on Wifi, including t...
[15:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Re-Attempts Fifth Launch of Same Falcon 9 Wed 2020-03-18 08:16 EDT (12:16 UTC) [Updated] - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:41] <exec> 08└─And they're just getting warmed up. 7000+ planned in the not-too-distant future, more than 3x the total number of satellites currently in operation.
[15:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:06] <exec> 08└─Had a girlfriend once, couldn't make up my mind if she were negligent, or dead.
[15:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nanostructured Rubber-Like Material with Optimal Properties Could Replace Human Tissue - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:25] <exec> 08└─Many of the substances used today, such as Botox, are very toxic. There is a need for new, more adaptable materials.
[15:25:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, we do! They should at least step up to the standards of an aristarchus submission!
[15:26:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:36] <exec> 08└─You still have yet to say why that story is relevant. My point remains. There are multiple scenarios that result in sudden surges in air pollution, some coming from the relatively rosey reported numbers coming out of China - namely that industry is starting up again.
[15:27:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TSA Admits Liquid Ban Is Security Theater - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:42] <exec> 08└─not this blanket screening they do for reasons of political correctness.
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[16:24:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 384 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:28] <exec> 08└─Over $2000? What the fuck? $300 is too much. For devices that are both planned obsolescence and built so flimsily that they rarely last more than a couple years, anything in the thousands is insane. I bought a used/refurbished last-generation "flagship" phone for $250. Its great. It will probably br...
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[16:24:35] <exec> 08└─(A Loiosh quote! Awesome.) I hate capitalism, but one of the ways it kinda sorta works is that luxury technologies eventually reach mainstream. I wouldn't pay more than a few hundred for a smart phone. But I guarantee that by 2030 - and probably much sooner - this foldable tech will be in $300 gadg...
[16:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:37] <exec> 08└─My last phone 8 years ago was free with the $100/month for 5 phones plan at Cricket.
[16:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:39] <exec> 08└─Phone like these are status symbols more than anything. Like buying a McLaren. No thanks. I'd rather wear a t-shirt saying "I'm a rich showoff" than have these.
[16:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:41] <exec> 08└─This may be for people who have so much money they don't need a job.
[16:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:44] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily China. Huawei claims they cannot spy on your phone. However, they also say that your phone has mechanisms to allow your ISP (not them) to spy on you -- to satisfy "lawful access" laws.
[16:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 1193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:46] <exec> 08└─I talk about my experience here. Back in the 70s/80s it was the car. The equivalent of 30000$ of today would bring you a shiny top of the line alfa that ate everything up to 3 liters unless it was a porsche or a ferrari which retailed for approx double the price. Plus they were repairable. Then it b...
[16:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:48] <exec> 08└─You mean Apple users?
[16:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:50] <exec> 08└─Would $2000 be worth it if the phone could fold eight times so that it basically disappears into nothing? So that you don't loose lose it. Like George Jetson's car, but not a briefcase.
[16:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:52] <exec> 08└─Also relevant: Estimates on what it actually takes to build a phone suggest that it's about $150 worth of materials and labor. If we figure shipping and retailing costs on top of that, they should be around $200-300. That they aren't tells you that the price of a phone isn't being determined by the...
[16:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:54] <exec> 08└─Depends on who is paying for it. The company you work for? Then I don't care -- sky is the limit as far as I care. Me personally? As cheap as possible really, anything more then $100-$150 is to much. What they won't be able to do is use any of Google's mobile services, like the Play Store, Gmail, Dr...
[16:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Re-Attempts Fifth Launch of Same Falcon 9 Wed 2020-03-18 08:16 EDT (12:16 UTC) [Updated] - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:04] <exec> 08└─Interesting that they had an abort due to engine data anomaly, and then when they launched today they had an engine cutout on ascent. Obviously they will be looking at if it was the same engine. Still made orbit as they had another 8 engines (eat that, B52s), but I wonder if they burnt more fuel and...
[16:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nanostructured Rubber-Like Material with Optimal Properties Could Replace Human Tissue - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:49] <exec> 08└─> prevents bacteria from growing on the surface I wonder if this can be extended to virus viability? If the surface destroyed viruses on contact they would have a damn big market just now.
[16:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:01] <exec> 08└─The hypothesis was China is hiding something. If Russia closed borders in january when local politicians were joking about hugging chinese, it adds to the suppositions you cited as bullshit, to prove that Russians saw through the officials line. You don't shut down your borders and routes for nothin...
[16:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TSA Admits Liquid Ban Is Security Theater - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:28:08] <exec> 08└─The security professionals who created the "cooperate with the hijackers" policy created it because cooperation with hijackers reduced the potential body count from ~250 to as low as 0. That policy changed because fighting the hijackers reduced the potential body count from ~3000 to ~250. I know tha...
[16:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Move to Drop Charges Against Russian Firm Filed in Mueller Probe - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:17] <exec> 08└─I think most of the reporting on Russigate has been, at best, abysmal so I'll let you pick a source. To find information duckduckgo for "russia $100000 470 accounts", quotes excluded. You'll get about a million hits.
[16:32:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Patches 26 Critical Bugs in Big March Update - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:21] <exec> 08└─Considering that Win7 isn't getting any security updates as of: Windows 7 support ended on January 14, 2020
[16:32:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Data of Millions of eBay and Amazon Shoppers Exposed - 210 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:28] <exec> 08└─From the Comparitech page, emphasis by me: That would give less scrupulous data thieves plenty of time to find and steal the data, but we do not know for sure whether any other unauthorized parties accessed it.
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[17:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:22] <exec> 08└─Confessionals should be soundproof. To prevent background noise being picked up by the hidden microphones. But then James 5:16 says "confess your sins to each other". And Whisper App is trying to help make sure everyone knows your confessions. Confession: I break dog treats in half. I then fraudulen...
[17:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:23] <exec> 08└─The only secrets that stay secret, are secrets never shared...ever. I guess that 'Whisper' can rebrand itself to 'Shout Out', and keep on going as it has been. ;-)
[17:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:25] <exec> 08└─The only secrets that stay secret, are secrets . . .
[17:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:27] <exec> 08└─I see it's being peddled by republican senators, then, eh...
[17:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:29] <exec> 08└─Dianne Feinstein [cyberscoop.com] is not Republican. So it's not only Republicans.
[17:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:31] <exec> 08└─People telling their darkest secrets to some unknown cloudy social media app? Really?? What next? Self-conscious people going out into the street with their dick out?
[17:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:33] <exec> 08└─People telling their darkest secrets to some unknown cloudy social media app?
[17:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 1763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:59] <exec> 08└─On the one hand, the $800 (slowly escalating to $1500 with accessories) I spent on a 16K 6502 computer in 1982 was "money well spent" in terms of how it affected my learning curve and life trajectory. Accounting for inflation, that $1500 is probably over $3K today, and certainly more dear to my brok...
[17:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:00] <exec> 08└─Phones and clothing actually have a lot in common, and clothing prices have been set at "whatever the market will bear" forever.
[17:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:02] <exec> 08└─But, with $1000 windfalls, everybody can go out and get a new $900 phone - pumping up the Dow which is what fearless leader really wants to accomplish by November.
[17:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:05] <exec> 08└─I recently switched from StraightTalk to T-Mobile and they gave me a Motorola phone for free, no contract, $30/month. The only phone I'd consider paying for is a Librem, but I'm going to wait until they get a couple-few generations old.
[17:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 1135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:07] <exec> 08└─I don't think I've ever paid more than $299 for a phone - I typically try to get them under $200 when practical. It's not that the concept of "smartphone, portable media center / super computer / camera" isn't "worth" the money, it's that there are such good and capable things on the market under $3...
[17:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:09] <exec> 08└─I resisted cell phones (and never did carry a beeper), until we bought a cheap beater car that we would drive across the everglades every weekend. The phone was cheap insurance against the possibility that the car would die on us in the middle of nowhere - that never happened, but... once we had one...
[17:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:11] <exec> 08└─My 2006 flip "feature phone" did basically everything that I need from a mobile phone, even to this day. The bigger screen of the smartphone is nicer for reading news stories or sharing photos/videos, but the flip phone (a motorola fat version of their Razr) was actually better at making and receivi...
[17:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:13] <exec> 08└─This is true, I replace both every 3-4 years. Really, the problem is that at some point we went from the value of things being tied to the cost to produce them / amount they increased productivity, to simply how much can we trick people into overpaying for a good or service. When it comes to service...
[17:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:47] <exec> 08└─May be exposing your amazon parcels to sunlight might help a little bit before picking them up. Not enough UVC I suspect which kills viruses.
[17:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:49] <exec> 08└─The outside of frozen food packets are often covered in bits of ice which is presumably frozen condensation. I haven't found a definitive study about the survival of COVID-19 in ice but there are links suggesting [medicalnewstoday.com] it survives longer at colder temperatures, for example the afore...
[17:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nanostructured Rubber-Like Material with Optimal Properties Could Replace Human Tissue - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:11] <exec> 08└─This material would work great in the making of sexbots. How much realer can you hope for, than making (or at least covering) the bot in the same material used to replace human tissues?
[17:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Do We Stop People Blinding Other Drivers With Aftermarket LEDs? - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:46] <exec> 08└─... and when you polish it, your bright spot returns, and the glare remains because it is the deep cracks that diffuse at small angles. But it is OK for you and you drive with this optical trash some more. Polycarbonate lenses are shit, shit, shit.
[17:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Do We Stop People Blinding Other Drivers With Aftermarket LEDs? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:47] <exec> 08└─One of the main things I like about my 1991 car is the popup big H7 glass faced headlights - aerodynamic when not in use - SEE ME big, without being diffuse when in use (unless they're covered in bugs).
[17:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Move to Drop Charges Against Russian Firm Filed in Mueller Probe - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:44] <exec> 08└─That's right The little psychos are loving the attention, so they'll probably do it more. I don't mind. The visiting aliens can see right through them.
[17:32:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Patches 26 Critical Bugs in Big March Update - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, SoylentNews users still play games and as such still use Windows, likely Windows 10. Since, that's the currently supported OS version.
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[18:24:34] <exec> 08└─Yup, when I do something dumb, I keep it to myself, otherwise she will never let me forget it. (Note: This assumes that it won't cause knock-on problems for anyone else...)
[18:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:35] <exec> 08└─> Confessionals should be soundproof. Sure, but somehow there is always a mic in there...in the movies.
[18:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:37] <exec> 08└─Tonto is a Spanish word for crazy or idiot. It is considered quite an insult to Native Americans, especially after they named the Lone Ranger's sidekick Tonto.
[18:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:39] <exec> 08└─I hoarded 160 rolls of toilet paper.
[18:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:41] <exec> 08└─The soundproofing is to improve the performance of the hidden mic. Eliminate background noise, street sounds, dogs barking, car horns, automatic weapons fire, etc.
[18:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:44] <exec> 08└─Amazon still has toilet paper [amazon.com] for sail.
[18:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:16] <exec> 08└─That is probably the only reason the GOP is going along with that. Well, that and the fact that the money will likely be paid to service debt. That and handing out the checks will allow Trump and the GOP to pretend like they care about the voters. Which is rather canny when you consider that Biden i...
[18:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Improbus [6425] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:22] <exec> 08└─I think this is going to be my next phone: https://store.pine64.org [pine64.org]
[18:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DuganCent [1732] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:24] <exec> 08└─No one considers phones to be a status symbol anymore. That era ended a while ago.
[18:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:26] <exec> 08└─I sold my last smartphone last fall and bought an Alcatel Go Flip 3 phone to replace it with. I had to buy a separate GPS as it doesn't do voice navigation from Google Maps, but between the two purchases, it was like $500 and I'm not likely to need to replace the GPS as frequently as I'd need to rep...
[18:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:28] <exec> 08└─IMHO, it depends a lot on what you're doing with it. Personally, I'd rather have a simple phone that I can use to tether to a laptop or tablet for conducting work. But, if you're using the phone as a business device with business applications, then $2k might well be money well spent. There are jobs...
[18:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:30] <exec> 08└─My threshold price is going down, not up. I used to consider 300 acceptable, but now I'm thinking more like 200. Why? I can buy a laptop for sub-200USD. Phones are no longer exotic hardware and should be competitive with traditional PCs. Maybe I'll consider increasing this threshold for new features...
[18:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:32] <exec> 08└─I'd recommend getting something like the Go Flip 3 and then just buying a standalone GPS unit in that case. They last for years, and are designed specifically for that application. For me, between the GPS and the flip phone, it was like $500. If you don't need a motorcycle specific GPS unit, you can...
[18:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Re-Attempts Fifth Launch of Same Falcon 9 Wed 2020-03-18 08:16 EDT (12:16 UTC) [Updated] - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:43] <exec> 08└─during the reentry burn first stage did some weird moves when the engines started, I wonder if they had a failure there. After, before the landing burn, they lost the video link, I'm guessing that either the first stage broke up or control knew they would not be able to land and decided to cut the s...
[18:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03gmby [83] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Re-Attempts Fifth Launch of Same Falcon 9 Wed 2020-03-18 08:16 EDT (12:16 UTC) [Updated] - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:44] <exec> 08└─Take a look in the background on the booster side of the video feed. You'll see something going by. Or the booster going by it. About 21:33 mark. In the Youtube like above.
[18:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:12] <exec> 08└─I've been spraying everything down that comes into the house with a 10/1 bleach solution. Even cardboard. It soaks in a bit then dries. I don't know if it works but I do love me a good placebo!
[18:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:13] <exec> 08└─The CDC says only 70% and higher alcohol will kill the virus. Hand sanitizers tend to be in the 60s so I'm not even sure they will work. Soap and water for you hands. 10/1 bleach solution for everything else.
[18:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:07] <exec> 08└─Look at the headline. Huh?! Then you have to wade through several dense obtuse paragraphs sprinkled with loads of obscure acronyms even to approach what the sub is about. Even after wading through all that gibberish, chances are you'd be clueless if you are not aware that HIPPA has strict privacy ru...
[18:27:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Notification of Enforcement Discretion for Telehealth - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:09] <exec> 08└─Actually, about HIPPA, it does mention it in the lovely piece of writing quoted below: The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is responsible for enforcing certain regulations issued under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996...
[18:27:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 2643 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:27:30] <exec> 08└─I jest, but both China and Italy have many more males dying of COVID-19 than females. This is because males in both countries are far more likely to be smokers, and smoking screws up your lungs. Nothing new [businessinsider.com] The deadly coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, China, has infected m...
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[18:27:51] <exec> 08└─...is energy efficient.
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[19:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06 European Commission to Use Open Source Messaging Service Signal - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:21] <exec> 08└─Great to hear Signal is being used. I conviced a couple of friends to try it, but we ended surrendering to WhatsApp. Not my choice, simply everyone is using it and the social pressure is way to high.
[19:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 European Commission to Use Open Source Messaging Service Signal - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:23] <exec> 08└─Same here. I have a dozen people on my Signal contact list, but I actually talk to just two of them over Signal (my wife, and a nerdy friend that moved to Seattle). It's very difficult to get rid of Watsapp, as there are not only lots of friends, but even numerous services that use it. For instance,...
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[19:24:40] <exec> 08└─Tonto is a Spanish word for crazy or idiot. It is considered quite an insult to Native Americans, especially after they named the Lone Ranger's sidekick Tonto.
[19:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:44] <exec> 08└─I knew of the Lone Ranger usage. I did not know that was also a word with an established meaning. Thanks.
[19:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:46] <exec> 08└─So who edited this post? I thought editing of posts was prohibited?
[19:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:48] <exec> 08└─Sails of toilet paper do not stand up well to what sailors call "weather".
[19:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:50] <exec> 08└─I've got a plunger to sell you when you're ready.
[19:24:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:52] <exec> 08└─If you need to conserve TP, use the US Marine method... 1- Tear off one square of TP. 2- Poke your left index finger thru the middle. 3- Wipe your butt hole with your left index fingertip. 4- Pull tissue off finger along with the nugget stuck on your fingertip. 5- Don't eat food with your left hand.
[19:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:54] <exec> 08└─Alternately, as Usher demonstrated, Confessions can be turned into major hit songs.
[19:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:56] <exec> 08└─I ALWAYS HOARD TOILET PAPER. Been saying it for years. When the shit finally happens, I will be the king of TP. My policy in life, since a young adult, has been to have minimum 6 months of TP.
[19:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:38] <exec> 08└─You know, the DJI comment was meant to be absurd, but... if you can get an extra 100' of altitude on your end of your cellular tower connection, then do a short hop direct line of sight to your earpiece, that could have VERY practical applications.
[19:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Re-Attempts Fifth Launch of Same Falcon 9 Wed 2020-03-18 08:16 EDT (12:16 UTC) [Updated] - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, noticed that. Might possibly be a fairing half? I don't think it's debris/ejecta from start of a stage 1 breakup. If it's not from the falcon though it looks way too close for comfort - I don't think it should be that close to anything else.
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[20:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 0614-Day Self-Quarantine in a 3rd Country Got 31,000+ Chinese Students Back to Class in Australia - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:24] <exec> 08└─I am advocating for a San Francisco-style self-quarantine here (where people can still walk or jog outside without being in groups and make trips for essentials), sealing the borders, and preventing interstate plane travel until this blows over. If that doesn't happen we're gonna be getting a lot of...
[20:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0614-Day Self-Quarantine in a 3rd Country Got 31,000+ Chinese Students Back to Class in Australia - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:26] <exec> 08└─My pizza roll stash is starting to run low...
[20:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 0614-Day Self-Quarantine in a 3rd Country Got 31,000+ Chinese Students Back to Class in Australia - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:28] <exec> 08└─How's your toilet roll stash?
[20:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0614-Day Self-Quarantine in a 3rd Country Got 31,000+ Chinese Students Back to Class in Australia - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:30] <exec> 08└─That front is solid. I've also been collecting junk mails as a reserve.
[20:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:05] <exec> 08└─What appears to be edited? The post looks the same to me now as when I first saw it.
[20:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:06] <exec> 08└─I think he'll want more than one plunger. Need to stock up, for covid-19, you know.
[20:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:08] <exec> 08└─I think if civilization gets to a point where we need six months of TP, then we've got much bigger problems.
[20:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:10] <exec> 08└─My outhouse toilet doesn't have pipes.
[20:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:12] <exec> 08└─Somebody's got a button and is editing/deleting posts. One of mine disappeared a few days ago because I used the word "fuck" in a sentence as an adjective.
[20:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:14] <exec> 08└─Now he has Yaaar'ds and Yaaaaar'ds of P.P. (Pirate Paper)
[20:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confessions App "Whisper" Spills Almost a Billion Records - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:17] <exec> 08└─Shit! That reminds me I gotta buy a tea cozy before the stores run out! Because of cofveve-69, you know! :)
[20:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:58] <exec> 08└─The most I've spent in the last 5 years is $130 and I try to keep them under $100 including the aftermarket warranty. I'm hard on phones so I buy them cheap with the expectation that the won't live long. My current phone is an LG Xpression Plus 2.
[20:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:59] <exec> 08└─Half of iPhone users I see have cracked screens they can't afford to fix, are under 20 and still live with their parents, and if they work they work part-time at McDonalds or grocery stores. And some of these motherfuckers are driving around their own Cadillac Escalades. God Bless America!
[20:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Re-Attempts Fifth Launch of Same Falcon 9 Wed 2020-03-18 08:16 EDT (12:16 UTC) [Updated] - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:13] <exec> 08└─This would only be the second time an engine cut out or failed on ascent. It could obviously be linked to reusing the same engine for a fifth launch. I imagine that it might be worth it to catch the engine issue in static fire testing, unbolt it, and put a new one on, if it can prolong the life of t...
[20:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Re-Attempts Fifth Launch of Same Falcon 9 Wed 2020-03-18 08:16 EDT (12:16 UTC) [Updated] - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:14] <exec> 08└─They cut the video pretty quick but there definitely was an unusual yaw and roll in the last second before the cut. They extended the main engine burn over the timeline, so I assume they shut down on engine on the way up. Combine that with the weird yaw at the deceleration burn and my guess is that...
[20:26:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 420 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:28] <exec> 08└─When I pointed out that viruses can remain infectious on packaging for days people poo-poo'ed the idea. This is not something new - just that we can now say COVID19 is no different in this respect. You can't disinfect cardboard boxes and paper, and with rapid order fulfillment, every package is a po...
[20:26:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 198 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:36] <exec> 08└─In fact it's quite a feat for some nasty but localized virus other than ebola not to have spread thanks to the degeneration of society into a spaghetti mess of interdependence we call globalization.
[20:26:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:44] <exec> 08└─The CDC says only 70% and higher alcohol will kill the virus. Hand sanitizers tend to be in the 60s so I'm not even sure they will work. Soap and water for you hands. 10/1 bleach solution for everything else.
[20:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:46] <exec> 08└─The CDC says only 70% and higher alcohol will kill the virus. Hand sanitizers tend to be in the 60s so I'm not even sure they will work.
[20:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:48] <exec> 08└─Non-bleach Lysol claims to kill 99.9 of shit and on its label explicitly states that coronavirus is one of which it kills. I've been using it on my surfaces for years, and it smells a hell of a lot better than bleach. If I wanted my apartment to smell like semen, I'd move to San Francisco or hire ga...
[20:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:26:50] <exec> 08└─Who says you can't disinfect cardboard and paper? If its not cardboard and paper you will need to keep, stuff you will eventually just rip open or toss out, of course you can as you would anything else, it's just a hassle to do.
[20:28:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Edge Shares Privacy-Busting Telemetry, Research Alleges - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:50] <exec> 08└─> he deduced Brave Browser to be the most private RIP, good sir.
[20:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Move to Drop Charges Against Russian Firm Filed in Mueller Probe - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:49] <exec> 08└─That's probably because you downvote more than anybody on this site. I'll grant you that sliver of self awareness to see the irony in complaining about it. Anyhow, you always hand the handful of 2 or 3 suspects to give you a bump right back.
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[21:24:27] <exec> 08└─New or used?
[21:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0614-Day Self-Quarantine in a 3rd Country Got 31,000+ Chinese Students Back to Class in Australia - 1662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:28] <exec> 08└─These knee-jerk reactions is precisely what causes panic and does NOTHING to stop this disease. If there is a problem, isolate each of the students in Australia for 2 weeks. Done. If you don't trust people, put ankle bracelets on them. The virus, along with people, re-routes around these blockades....
[21:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:54] <exec> 08└─It has a headphone jack and a removable battery and root. It'll be my next phone, unfortunately I bought a rugged one so it's going to take more time than usual.
[21:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:55] <exec> 08└─But Moooooooom! I've already been self-isolating in the basement for years!
[21:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:57] <exec> 08└─Niggaz.
[21:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Re-Attempts Fifth Launch of Same Falcon 9 Wed 2020-03-18 08:16 EDT (12:16 UTC) [Updated] - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:12] <exec> 08└─Stay good Elon!
[21:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:46] <exec> 08└─" similar looking bottles didn't mean similar quality, and that you normally got what you paid for "
[21:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:47] <exec> 08└─CDC recommends the use of alcohol-based hand sanitizers with greater than 60% ethanol or 70% isopropanol as the preferred form of hand hygiene in healthcare settings, based upon greater access to hand sanitizer.
[21:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:49] <exec> 08└─The standard method studies like this one use is to measure when the viral count drops below a threshold they believe corresponds with effectively reducing the viral load to a point below the threshold for successful infection. What they are suggesting are things like hand rails, door knobs, counter...
[21:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:51] <exec> 08└─Who the hell takes boxes back? Seriously asking because I'm fucking drowning in Amazon boxes.
[21:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:54] <exec> 08└─Setting them on fire is probably the safest bet.
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[22:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dead Sea Scroll Fragments at "The Museum of the Bible" Found to be Fake - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:16] <exec> 08└─https://www.museumofthebible.org/leadership [museumofthebible.org] I'll give them this, their home page includes a link to the research noted in tfa.
[22:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Dead Sea Scroll Fragments at "The Museum of the Bible" Found to be Fake - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:18] <exec> 08└─The Museum of the Bible has been knowingly and illegally collecting this stuff for many years and was only relatively recently called out for it [soylentnews.org]. Given how aggressive they had been on the black market, it is no surprise that they could have been marked as "suckers" and susceptible...
[22:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Dead Sea Scroll Fragments at "The Museum of the Bible" Found to be Fake - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:20] <exec> 08└─At least the Ark in Kaintucky, discovered by the "Assholes in Genesis" folks, is the actual, real, original Ark that Noah used to go booze crusing in.
[22:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dead Sea Scroll Fragments at "The Museum of the Bible" Found to be Fake - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:22] <exec> 08└─Indeed. It would be really nice if people claiming to be Christian weren't such gullible assholes.
[22:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dead Sea Scroll Fragments at "The Museum of the Bible" Found to be Fake - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:24] <exec> 08└─Now if only they could finish the job and prove all religion as fake.
[22:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0614-Day Self-Quarantine in a 3rd Country Got 31,000+ Chinese Students Back to Class in Australia - 1413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.zdnet.com/article/graph-theory-suggests-covid-19-might-be-a-small-world-after-all/ [zdnet.com] Graph theory suggests COVID-19 might be a ‘small world’ after all The media regularly refers to "exponential" growth in the number of cases of COVID-19 respiratory disease, and deaths from...
[22:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 0614-Day Self-Quarantine in a 3rd Country Got 31,000+ Chinese Students Back to Class in Australia - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:38] <exec> 08└─When I was ignorant on the subject, I assumed the epi curve was exponential too. Once I got a crash course in epidemiology from Wiki, I realized it wasn't. It's basic knowledge in that field that the curve is a hump. So when they say "in standard epidemiological analysis, one assumes that the number...
[22:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 European Commission to Use Open Source Messaging Service Signal - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:47] <exec> 08└─I have started using two phones (actually, I already had two phones, but the second one is for app deployments testing only. I just added a prepaird SIM card to that one, to get a phone number). I've now "caved" and installed WhatsApp on my secondary phone. If my friends want a direct response, they...
[22:25:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 1135 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:51] <exec> 08└─I don't think I've ever paid more than $299 for a phone - I typically try to get them under $200 when practical. It's not that the concept of "smartphone, portable media center / super computer / camera" isn't "worth" the money, it's that there are such good and capable things on the market under $3...
[22:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:08] <exec> 08└─Anything more expensive than $10-$15 per month over its expected lifetime isn't worth its price tag.
[22:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:10] <exec> 08└─I think you're right. I tend to buy last year's flagship phone at something like 70% of the flagship price, but I am re-evaluating that policy. While I like my Galaxy S8, I bought a second hand Google Nexus 5X recently from an online auction site. I paid about $60 (local dollars) for it. I bought...
[22:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:12] <exec> 08└─Lol, I hurt some trumptard feelings, don't want to admit the truth.
[22:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:05] <exec> 08└─What does that even mean?
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[23:24:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Dead Sea Scroll Fragments at "The Museum of the Bible" Found to be Fake - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:25] <exec> 08└─Now if only they could finish the job and prove all religion as fake.
[23:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dead Sea Scroll Fragments at "The Museum of the Bible" Found to be Fake - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:26] <exec> 08└─It would also be nice if they didn't continue to make up stories and try to pass them off as real history.
[23:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dead Sea Scroll Fragments at "The Museum of the Bible" Found to be Fake - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:29] <exec> 08└─Religious bigots get conned. Boo fuckin' hoo.
[23:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dead Sea Scroll Fragments at "The Museum of the Bible" Found to be Fake - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:31] <exec> 08└─Hmmm... /Insert Nutjob Religion Here/
[23:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 0614-Day Self-Quarantine in a 3rd Country Got 31,000+ Chinese Students Back to Class in Australia - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:45] <exec> 08└─Even math idiots like me are first taught that the rate of epidemics follow a logistic (S-curve) bounded by an upper limit. The S-curve corresponds to the rate while the bell-like curve corresponds to the number of infections.
[23:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 European Commission to Use Open Source Messaging Service Signal - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:56] <exec> 08└─It is good, but not perfect. There was attempts to federate the system, but this was quashed by the developer. I discovered this a few weeks ago when my friend told me to get Signal, the open source encrypted messenger, but I couldn't find it in F-Droid! https://en.wikipedia.org(softwar...
[23:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:20] <exec> 08└─When they were retiring 2G here Optus sent me brochures of expensive phones I could buy to use on their 3G network. I ignored them. As the cut-off deadline got closer the phones and deals offered got better and better and the letters accompanying them more desperate. I ignored them. Finally, just a...
[23:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:21] <exec> 08└─but I also let her track me on Google Location Services, because: why not?
[23:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:23] <exec> 08└─Never paid more than $80 for any of the smartphones I've owned, over the last 8 years or so. My current phone is a Google Pixel XL that was bought on eBay for $80, and it replaced a Nexus 5 I'd previously owned. I don't do phone contracts and I'd NEVER waste a $1000 for a brand-new "flagship" phone....
[23:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Much is Too Much to Pay for a Mobile Phone? - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:25] <exec> 08└─I really want a Dragonbox Pyra, but it's been four years and they are only just shipping Dev units. Also, around $1000 is a bit pricy. In the commercial world I like the Cat S61, just for the sheer geekery.
[23:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:20] <exec> 08└─My grandma got a bunch of random furniture from the street and and cleaned it with bleach and everything. She still got bed bugs and now she won't be doing that anymore.
[23:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:21] <exec> 08└─I heat my garage on junk mail and Amazon boxes. (not totally facetious -- about one month's worth of credit card offers and other assorted junk mail, will heat my garage for several hours bringing the temp up from around freezing to the mid 50s or so and making it not torture to work on Christmas pr...
[23:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:23] <exec> 08└─I've been taking packages around to my back porch, open them up outside, and then my wife stands in the doorway and pulls the stuff out without touching the outside of the box. Then I break down the boxes outside and put them in the little milkcrate-like container for recycle. Then I strip off the n...
[23:27:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:25] <exec> 08└─I don't think there is a run on aquarium or pond lights which kill scum by UVC. At least not yet.
[23:27:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:27] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't use an SEM for that.
[23:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Coronavirus Stable for Hours on Surfaces: SARS-CoV-2 Stability Similar to Original SARS Virus - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:30] <exec> 08└─What sort of after-treatment do you have installed on your junk mail stove? I seem to remember that burning printed paper is a source of a wide variety of pollutants and particulates--but if you have a catalyst installed that might clean things up a good bit?
[23:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nanostructured Rubber-Like Material with Optimal Properties Could Replace Human Tissue - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:51] <exec> 08└─You might have crossed the uncanny valley? Seems pretty creepy to me, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[23:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nitrogen Dioxide Emissions Drop Over Italy After Coronavirus Measures - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:09] <exec> 08└─The hypothesis was China is hiding something. If Russia closed borders in january when local politicians were joking about hugging chinese, it adds to the suppositions you cited as bullshit, to prove that Russians saw through the officials line.
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