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[00:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Have Discovered the Origins of the Building Blocks of Life - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:26] <exec> 08└─What SN needs is some decent writers/editors. On the tech side, the turkey vulture and other more worthy guys (that's a non-gender pronoun - for you sjws) have got it together. So many of these posts, with breathless clickbait headlines, the summaries make my eyes glaze over, and have no clue what t...
[00:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Have Discovered the Origins of the Building Blocks of Life - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:27] <exec> 08└─Ah HA! Now I know who's been rummaging around in my toy box!
[00:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Have Discovered the Origins of the Building Blocks of Life - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:29] <exec> 08└─Semi agree. But this bit of sensationalism sparked an old memory from gradeschool https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Have Discovered the Origins of the Building Blocks of Life - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:32] <exec> 08└─Irreducible complexity is reduced? nice, maybe playing demi-god will teach scientist one or two things about judging a god, even if as I said, the most godlike position is as admin of a virtual world.
[00:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Have Discovered the Origins of the Building Blocks of Life - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:34] <exec> 08└─"Irreducible complexity" was always nonsense, invented from whole cloth by creationists (a.k.a. cdesign proponentsists [ncse.ngo]) who wanted to dress up their religion in the language of science.
[00:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:59] <exec> 08└─They're all evil. They differ over time in their power to inflict their evil on everyone else. Right now, Google's evil waxes while Microsoft's evil wanes. In a few years, it might be the other way around. Again.
[00:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:00] <exec> 08└─Any sufficiently large corporation will eventually get taken over by MBA types who know how to juggle numbers, wear a nice suit, and lie to people, and basically nothing else. Because they don't know anything else, e.g. anything at all about the underlying products, the quality of the organization's...
[00:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:57] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. I also access the net through my phone, so I tend to be careful (2 gigs/month doesn't go far. Good thing I don't do social media - a real data plan hog).
[00:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:59] <exec> 08└─Thanks, but low bandwidth totally breaks a few things. It's not a big deal - probably has something to do with my setting fonts larger than the norm or something. Not a big problem.
[00:26:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 1705 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:25] <exec> 08└─That's just the beginning. The billing and price uncertainty is beyond insane. If getting an oil change was billed like health care, they wouldn't tell you the price up front at all. Even after the oil change, they couldn't tell you how much they were going to bill or when to expect it. Over the nex...
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[00:28:00] <exec> 08└─Could someone explain what "egrets costs" are
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[01:24:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 723 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:43] <exec> 08└─I remember back when Microsoft was a good company with fun products, prior to the IBM PC. Microsoft FORTRAN. Microsoft Adventure (eg, colossal cave) Other fun products. Of course, Microsoft BASIC in early personal computers (pre IBM PC). Then I remember back when Microsoft was evil and Apple was the...
[01:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:57] <exec> 08└─Google will make this required to view youtube? IOW, they are about to walled-garden all of their user traffic without any of their users consent. And of course because the carriers are not "common carriers" anymore, they will have no obligation to pass traffic from third party hosting. Which means...
[01:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:24:59] <exec> 08└─I used to access it through my ISPs Usenet feed using the KDE news reader. It was so easy to just download the latest posts in a bunch of groups at once, then read them without having to hit the server again. And you could set your cache to not expire, so you'd have everything offline. But once it...
[01:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Plans First Manned Flight to Space Station in May - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:13] <exec> 08└─The astronauts are probably already in quarantine.
[01:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Plans First Manned Flight to Space Station in May - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:15] <exec> 08└─Yep: https://www.cbsnews.com [cbsnews.com]
[01:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:00] <exec> 08└─There is not skip to comment button anywhere. Mzaybe just do this a simple button - one to story top and one to comments top, and super fancy one to unread comments top. ALWAYS show them.
[01:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:02] <exec> 08└─Well, there is always the option to open comments in a new window automatically by specifying a new window in the target=whatever in the anchor tag. Or frames. Draggable resizable framesets work. Don't know if that will work in links or lynx, though I seriously seriously seriously doubt it.
[01:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 3428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:04] <exec> 08└─Since this is a meta thread, I'm curious about journal entries and why some of them don't show up in the "new journal entries" slashbox on the front page. A few weeks ago, I created a new account for the purpose of posting journal entries pseudonymously to get some advice from people here. I created...
[01:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlwaysNever [5817] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:06] <exec> 08└─I've seen the story in the dev server and I don't like how the skip to comments button is so big and prominent. I would prefer a small icon like a downward facing arrow, next to the print icon which is in the story header, and make that arrow icon link to the start of the comments.
[01:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:08] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the quick feedback. Like I said, I've not tried it... well maybe I did WAAAY back when, but it didn't strike my fancy, so I never pursued it after that first attempt.
[01:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 1340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:10] <exec> 08└─After reading the story again, I realize that my post was even more OT than I realized. Sorry. But it was helpful to vent about my situation, anyway. I'm glad I got that off my chest. As for the actual questions, it seems like the user can skip to the comments from the main page already. Clicking on...
[01:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:12] <exec> 08└─Yet another testament to human sloth. I'd like to say "just scroll down, you lazy fucks," but if the button was designed for disability accessibility or something, please make it optional.
[01:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:14] <exec> 08└─Do it 4chan style and have the sticky stories always at the top of the list in the homepage. Maybe a cute pushpin or thumbtack icon before or after the story heading title. Actually I like the coronavirus roundups, having new discussions as news breaks is a lot better than having a 2000 comment stic...
[01:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Folding@Home Update by Way of Folding.Extremeoverclocking.Com - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:25] <exec> 08└─Are you sure that's COVID work and not processing bitcoins for some Uzbekistani?
[01:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Folding@Home Update by Way of Folding.Extremeoverclocking.Com - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:26] <exec> 08└─I turned it back on a few days ago. Got work for the first day, then no more work units available for any project. I'm on satellite internet, so maybe they just don't want to wast their server time on me.
[01:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:28:19] <exec> 08└─Emphasis on getting serviced.
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[02:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How ‘Undertaker’ Bees Recognize Dead Comrades - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:26] <exec> 08└─They have little carts to transport the cadavers? I'm not *bzzt* dead. *bzzt*.. I'm *bzzt* feeling better.*bzzt*
[02:24:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 145 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:48] <exec> 08└─that's incredibly naive. google doesn't give a flying rats ass what people think. it has it's own priorities: it's trying to take over the world.
[02:25:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 538 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:04] <exec> 08└─Any sufficiently large corporation will eventually get taken over by MBA types who know how to juggle numbers, wear a nice suit, and lie to people, and basically nothing else. Because they don't know anything else, e.g. anything at all about the underlying products, the quality of the organization's...
[02:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:14] <exec> 08└─Wow. That was fast. Thanks for adding it. Either that or it added there since I last complained and I got too used to ignoring all the boilerplate before the stories and comments!
[02:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Folding@Home Update by Way of Folding.Extremeoverclocking.Com - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:26:28] <exec> 08└─Why do we have to pay to access the publications? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov]
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[03:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube is Following Netflix by Reducing Streaming Quality Due to Coronavirus - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:21] <exec> 08└─Have you hopeless idiots never heard of a proxy? Shit, my ISP was doing it 25 years ago when I was on 2400bps. Upload the video *once* to a European data center. Instruct local ISPs to do the same. Clowns.
[03:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube is Following Netflix by Reducing Streaming Quality Due to Coronavirus - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:22] <exec> 08└─I live in California and pay $40/month for bandwidth I'm ashamed to admit to. And not because it's higher than you would think. Quite the opposite. Dafuq?
[03:24:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NickM [2867] 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 502 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:24:54] <exec> 08└─Yyu just have to look at CSS abuse like that art piece https://codepen.io [codepen.io] to see that webcomponent are not required for opaqueness! The only reason the pale moon devs are writing this letter is: they do not have the technical manpower to support this nor anything...
[03:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:10] <exec> 08└─Anyone at google that reads it is either going to disagree, or be on their way out and unable to accomplish anything.
[03:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:20] <exec> 08└─Why is that? Is that an anti-spam measure that requires a certain amount of karma
[03:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:21] <exec> 08└─As much as I would like to take credit, I made no changes, so must have been there all along!
[03:26:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:23] <exec> 08└─I've spent the last hour or so trying to make a button to fit in adjacent to the print icon... not my strong suit and I'm knackered atm, so will give it another try tomorrow.
[03:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:25] <exec> 08└─No seriously, it is a big help to not have the navigation and boilerplate read to me before everything. Maybe it has been there the whole time. The three links seem to be on there whether the anchor on the page exists or not. I may have just ignored them because they weren't marked clearly and come...
[03:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:27] <exec> 08└─Just looking at what the posts are that fail the karma requirement, and it quickly becomes clear why it is there.
[03:26:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Folding@Home Update by Way of Folding.Extremeoverclocking.Com - 1443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:40] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I should have posted the link to the paid article https://pubs.acs.org [acs.org] So people volunteer their CPU/GPU and electricity towards using this and they have to pay for the results? I would think that at least those that dedicated their computers to...
[03:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03dw861 [1561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06curl up 2020 and Other Conferences Go Online Only - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:44] <exec> 08└─The American Association of Geographers [aag.org] has cancelled their annual conference, and are replacing it with a virtual meeting.
[03:29:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cleaning Up: Scottish Whisky Makers Now Distilling Hand Gel - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:29:17] <exec> 08└─That...emotionally scars me.
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[04:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06YouTube is Following Netflix by Reducing Streaming Quality Due to Coronavirus - 2987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:23] <exec> 08└─Have you seen Picard? I'm at episode 4 and waiting for some things to arrive so I can watch the remaining 5 episodes I have pirated. Awhile back I asked in a journal if Star Trek: Discovery was worth watching, and I fucking ignored it outright. Well, I like Patrick Stewart even if he did go full-ret...
[04:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube is Following Netflix by Reducing Streaming Quality Due to Coronavirus - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:24] <exec> 08└─One unfortunate side-effect of the Corona Situation: Extended Ethanol_fouled posts.
[04:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How ‘Undertaker’ Bees Recognize Dead Comrades - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:33] <exec> 08└─This begs the question (be asked, to protect me from the wrath of Aristarchus), why this article on SoylentNews at this time? Are some members of our hive-mind starting to smell funny? "Hot, clean, dead bees"? Clean 'em out, worker Soylentils!
[04:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 1767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:27] <exec> 08└─First, being lead author isn't that uncommon, especially if they are PI on a grant. Some insist on being first because they are the ones sticking their neck out for students. Others, like myself, put the students first if they did the most work or to give them a boost in the indexes (it counts in my...
[04:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:28] <exec> 08└─When I just woke up, can barely see anything, one arm is numb, I'm pinned down by a giant cat, and soylentnews is up on my 17-year-old laptop running in low speed power-saving mode, there are some things I struggle with. But I can manage scrolling just fine.
[04:26:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 537 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:26:54] <exec> 08└─> most tech advanced country By what measure? To pick a few random ones... US loses here (broadband speed, basic estimator of tech): https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] and here (publications in general): https://en.wikipedia.org
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[05:24:29] <exec> 08└─It starts to get better. The episode where the captain dressed in a pimp outfit and Seven showed up was awful. Half the series was spent tracking down Maddox and guess what happens two minutes after he is found? It gets better on the cube with the Romulan elf wielding his sword in an era of energy w...
[05:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:18] <exec> 08└─Apple is evil. Look at how they fight against the right to repair, how they squeeze indie artists, how they conspire to fix e-book prices, how they treat the Chinese workers that make their products despite the obscene amount they charge for them, and the list goes on. Don't get distracted by the sh...
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[05:25:19] <exec> 08└─Nobody has the technical manpower to continue to chase such a brain-damaged and infinitely expanding "standard" Goog is being allowed to redefine what the web and websites are so they become the only browser. This is bad. If you love goog that much that you only want to use goog-web in goog-browser,...
[05:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:21] <exec> 08└─Asking for a web portal to read USENET is like asking for an automobile that shits in the street.
[05:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:24] <exec> 08└─And made for XYZ browser only is also so very mod '90s. Remember the clueless "e-commerce" sites that wouldn't even display if you weren't using IE? You wanna do SPA? Fine, stick to actual standards and interoperate.
[05:25:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NickM [2867] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:26] <exec> 08└─I used firefox preview for at least 5 years and it is the less brain damaged browser there is. People yelling about the loss of xul should have tried it. It was not the fuck beta situation you make it to be. the loss of xul brought significant speed improvement and the addons I used stayed compatibl...
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[06:24:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Scientists Have Discovered the Origins of the Building Blocks of Life - 196 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:24:56] <exec> 08└─"Irreducible complexity" was always nonsense, invented from whole cloth by creationists (a.k.a. cdesign proponentsists [ncse.ngo]) who wanted to dress up their religion in the language of science.
[06:25:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 188 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:25:17] <exec> 08└─Stop using god dang "frameworks". I can compile linux kernels at a fraction of time it used to take. Web? The same damn banking/commerce/media sites makes me nostalgic of the dial-up days.
[06:26:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:26:26] <exec> 08└─No, side effect of being so sweet. That, and proper spelling.
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[07:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:20] <exec> 08└─First they covered it up. Then once they couldn't hide it they moved their totalitarian control machine into overdrive. Now they're controlling the narrative, fudging the numbers (as they have all along), and hoping we all forget it was their attempts at a coverup which let this spread around the wo...
[07:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:22] <exec> 08└─1. Expel Western journalists. 2. Report no new cases. 3. ??? 4. COUGH IT!
[07:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube is Following Netflix by Reducing Streaming Quality Due to Coronavirus - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:24:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah at this point i'm kinda hoping the Romuans kill everyone and we can all go home.
[07:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:28:45] <exec> 08└─It costs money to transfer data. It costs a lot of money to transfer 247 petabytes of data. No amount of conservative paranoia changes that. It's cheaper to transfer the data yourself, if your time is free.
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[08:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:21] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, the US military lost, literally, 3.4 Trillion in failed adventures in the Middle East, including pallets of cash for "allies". And anyone here dares to bitch about NASA spending? I hope you die in a corona.
[08:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 1790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:30] <exec> 08└─They got people, even here on soylentnews.org, calling it by awkward names. Somehow the idea is that Wuhan virus is racist. Wuhan isn't a race, nobody is complaining about "Chinese food", and look at all the other diseases named after locations: West Nile virus, Zika, Ebola, German measles, Marburg...
[08:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube is Following Netflix by Reducing Streaming Quality Due to Coronavirus - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:43] <exec> 08└─After Star Trek: Discovery, there will never be a new Star Trek series that is not woke trash. You should have seen it coming.
[08:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How ‘Undertaker’ Bees Recognize Dead Comrades - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:24:53] <exec> 08└─Poor bee: first you get killed by the researcher (who most certainly did not wait for the bee to die of natural circumstances), then heated up, put in a place, and the other bees consider you a slacker.
[08:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 2021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:40] <exec> 08└─Why do you need to write a letter asking developers not to use something? Because otherwise the developers are going to use it. Why are the developers going to use it? Because it makes it much easier to get things done. Without Web Components, a lot of web app development requires doing horrible hor...
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[09:24:21] <exec> 08└─Even though there are still quite a few skiled people lower down in the hierarchy, NASA, like most of the US, has been infected by that MBA mindset described above. It is mostly driven by ideology and not facts, figures, or logic. That is an unfortunate and inevitable followon from the war on scienc...
[09:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:24:32] <exec> 08└─Somehow the idea is that Wuhan virus is racist.
[09:25:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:14] <exec> 08└─Our mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful"
[09:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:42] <exec> 08└─I never felt like Apple was the good guy. Their stuff was always more expensive and proprietary, even back in the klunky 8-bit era. That seemed to encourage their users to be jerks because everybody knew you had to have more money to own Apple stuff. It was an extension of the attitudes surrounding...
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[10:24:25] <exec> 08└─"That is an unfortunate and inevitable followon from the war on science that Reagan started." Your biases are showing. The movement against competence and knowledge began with the idea "we're all equal" which really got pushed on us a couple decades *before* Reagan. You can thank Hollywood and the h...
[10:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:26] <exec> 08└─... began with the idea "we're all equal" which really got pushed on us a couple decades *before* Reagan.
[10:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 1262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:37] <exec> 08└─I don't believe their claims to have leveled off the growth, let alone to have reduced it. If they had, the numbers would be verifiable. Instead, they have expelled all the journalists from New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Domestically the CCP has been arresting and jai...
[10:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:39] <exec> 08└─OP here. Flattening the curve I've accepted as a valid strategy to avoid overwhelming the health care system. Most of the population will get this virus, its unavoidable. All we can do is ensure there may be a hospital bed for us in case we're one of the few that get critical when we get it.
[10:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:41] <exec> 08└─Of course. Flattening the curve is about all that can be done in the short term, especially in the countries that lack medical infrastructure. It doesn't help that in some countries rather than manning up [salon.com] and running the nation those that have wormed their way into office use their posi...
[10:25:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03toddestan [4982] 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 304 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:42] <exec> 08└─Apple is evil. Look at how they fight against the right to repair, how they squeeze indie artists, how they conspire to fix e-book prices, how they treat the Chinese workers that make their products despite the obscene amount they charge for them, and the list goes on. Don't get distracted by the sh...
[10:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:27:36] <exec> 08└─> the most tech advanced country in the world has people afraid to break their ankle [...] No we don't. I barely recognise the (snipped) rest of your sentence, where were you thinking of? Sounds like the USA to me, but given the first eight words in the sentence, it can't be.
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[11:24:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 1836 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:20] <exec> 08└─Even though there are still quite a few skiled people lower down in the hierarchy, NASA, like most of the US, has been infected by that MBA mindset described above. It is mostly driven by ideology and not facts, figures, or logic. That is an unfortunate and inevitable followon from the war on scienc...
[11:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:24] <exec> 08└─Why does everything have to end in a liberal vs. conservative argument? Look, NASA wasted tons on money on this program going through entire Republican and Democratic administrations. I'm convinced that as soon as a Democrat is in office again, they will be changing course again and wasting even mor...
[11:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:38] <exec> 08└─WHO too [dailycaller.com]. Harold Shipman had nothing on Dr Tedros.
[11:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube is Following Netflix by Reducing Streaming Quality Due to Coronavirus - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:52] <exec> 08└─Some websites that were a little overwhelmed by the traffic. Our elementary school website that was used about twice a year by parents, is now used everyday by everyone to get the work to do for all children stuck at home was slow in the first two days but is back to normal now. Same for other offic...
[11:27:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:27:28] <exec> 08└─Everyone collectively helping the poorest would be . . . OMG . . . evil socialism!
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[12:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Has Completely Canceled Google I/O 2020 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:18] <exec> 08└─At least this COVID situation has one positive outcome
[12:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has Completely Canceled Google I/O 2020 - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:19] <exec> 08└─No one is traveling. No one wants to be around other people. And even though China claims to have brought the virus under control, their factories that make many of the goodies we look forward to hearing about from I/O remain closed, casting doubt that Google will be able to ship any hardware they h...
[12:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:31] <exec> 08└─"Why does everything have to end in a liberal vs. conservative argument?" Because you've swallowed some ideological poison, that makes you see things that way. What's liberal or conservative about criticising Reagan? Why would you assume there's a connection? He was neither liberal nor conservative,...
[12:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:33] <exec> 08└─SLS is a Boeing and Lockheed Martin cash cow that will accomplish nothing of consequence in Earthican history. You might as well bomb some countries, the same companies will be getting that cash.
[12:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:35] <exec> 08└─Does NASA understand what a sunk cost is?
[12:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:37] <exec> 08└─"Why does everything have to end in a liberal vs. conservative argument?" Because you've swallowed some ideological poison, that makes you see things that way.
[12:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:52] <exec> 08└─Extraordinary claims require ordinary references.
[12:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:53] <exec> 08└─We can believe China has resolved its Chinese coronavirus situation when their factories start working again. Even when they do, though, the rest of the world should stop buying what they make. China is a vulnerability and a threat. Let's hope everybody has gotten that key takeaway.
[12:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:55] <exec> 08└─I was looking up SBC stuff and found this anecdote: https://www.pine64.org [pine64.org] COVID-19 recovery in China is underway and factory work is slowly returning back to normal. This is good news, and we hope to have a constant st...
[12:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube is Following Netflix by Reducing Streaming Quality Due to Coronavirus - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:10] <exec> 08└─Well these are indeed extraordinary times if Ethanol-Fueled feels inspired to contribute something positive to the conversation. On a serious note, if we don't respond to Woke by immediately switching it off, they will only produce more Woke. They consider it like bitter medicine that's good for eve...
[12:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube is Following Netflix by Reducing Streaming Quality Due to Coronavirus - 1272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:25:12] <exec> 08└─The wheel of time series they are making right now is so Woke it is likely none of them sleep. Showrunner Rafe Judkins has said “As much as possible, our cast should look like America will in a few hundred years — a beautiful mix of white, brown, black and everything in between.” which makes y...
[12:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 1512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:10] <exec> 08└─"These new standards are open, not proprietary." Open malware; I'm not sure that's really better. "Nothing is stopping other clients from implementing these standards except lack of manpower." Since none of them have any ethical or moral standards, you're probably right about that. "The same argumen...
[12:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:11] <exec> 08└─Forget UTF-8. It's so jammed full of idiocy at this point you're better off building your own encoding from scratch.
[12:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:13] <exec> 08└─It was more expensive, but if it was really more proprietary I can't think of how. ALL the old 8 bit PCs were largely proprietary in design. There weren't many existing standards that could be followed. Old Apple, Woz and Jobs Apple, had a balance. A yin and a yang. A technical genius and an evil ge...
[12:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Plans First Manned Flight to Space Station in May - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:26:29] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/02/19/027225 [soylentnews.org] Crew Dragon will (or could) also be used for some tourists with too much money. Starship will likely have an immediately cheaper ticket price, with an order of magnitude or more volume per customer, allowing individual cabins.
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[13:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:18] <exec> 08└─Now we don't even have to read the summary to go comment! w00t! On a more serious note, it's actually kinda useful if you've read the summary, gone to read the article, then came back and want to jump straight to the comments, so I'll vote Yes.
[13:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:19] <exec> 08└─That puts it in a predictable location, similar to the topic icons below it.
[13:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:21] <exec> 08└─Because then we can read it in full first time around.
[13:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Uber Engineer Levandowski Pleads Guilty To Trade Secrets Theft - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:29] <exec> 08└─Levandowski <------------------ {BOOK} Why is he even allowed to settle? He pleaded guilty so they have /something/ on him. Just throw the friggin' book at the guy. It's not because he's got a crapton of money that he's some sort of angel (quite the opposite, actually). Don't let these people settle...
[13:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Google Has Completely Canceled Google I/O 2020 - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:38] <exec> 08└─I think we are rooting for some of these physical events to be cancelled forever, or go streaming/virtual only. That won't happen for many of them, but if anybody should be moving in this direction, it's the tech industry. https://www.forbes.com
[13:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:54] <exec> 08└─Read some history then. Reagan's administration was the watershed. Before Reagan, the US funded education and science quite generously as befitting the need. Up untill him, both were a high priority, and the US position in the world rose with the increased knowledge and capabilities. During Reagan's...
[13:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:55] <exec> 08└─I don't think the comment laid all the blame on Reagan. The blame for what's happening now lays on those who are doing it now. But momentum is a thing, and Reagan was a likeable face to distract us from some major changes in momentum that occurred while he was in office.
[13:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:57] <exec> 08└─He's not my fossil. I didn't like him then and I don't like his legacy now. Also, pause for a moment and consider why you thought a religious quote was pertinent to the death of competency and knowledge. Or why it would carry any weight here, of all places. Behold the death of competence and knowled...
[13:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:15] <exec> 08└─Then I suppose you'd be alright with calling the 1918 Spanish Flu as the Kansas Flu, or the great American flu? The disease did not originate in Spain but in Kansas, but Spain was one of the few places that did not have wartime censorship in place at the time and as such was the first place to repor...
[13:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube is Following Netflix by Reducing Streaming Quality Due to Coronavirus - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:32] <exec> 08└─Home: 22e/month for 50/50 MB/s wired internet and a 4G phone contract which includes unlimited free calls within Estonia. Office: (different provider) 22e/month for 50/20 MB/s wired internet and nothing else.
[13:26:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 628 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:22] <exec> 08└─Nobody has the technical manpower to continue to chase such a brain-damaged and infinitely expanding "standard" Goog is being allowed to redefine what the web and websites are so they become the only browser. This is bad. If you love goog that much that you only want to use goog-web in goog-browser,...
[13:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:31] <exec> 08└─No. Because, those silly freaks now adopted UTF-8 a standard in Minix Freax Linux, filesystems and terminals included, instead of better options that were on the table. I hate UTF-8, but I am also a cynical realist. It's UTF-8 then. If me did a new encoding for this millenium, it would be 64 bits pe...
[13:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:34] <exec> 08└─Apple does have some undeniable technical wins, like regularly having the industry's fastest ARM SoCs. https://www.androidauthority.com [androidauthority.com] They are making a swipe at x86 laptops with iPad Pro (i.e. the ARM performan...
[13:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:36] <exec> 08└─When they'll provide that iPad *with* full technical specs and *without* being tied to their poisonous not-even-software, I'd give it a serious look. Even at that price. They'd need to quit spending their money to subvert democracy as well though. Neither seems likely to happen, at all.
[13:27:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:51] <exec> 08└─> Thanks, but low bandwidth totally breaks a few things. It's not a big deal - probably has something to do with my setting fonts larger than the norm or something. I'm in the same boat sizewise, but I survive with low bandwith and lighweight page layout - what are the problems you notice?
[13:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:27:53] <exec> 08└─Testing? User approval? What is this heresy??!?!
[13:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Folding@Home Update by Way of Folding.Extremeoverclocking.Com - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:08] <exec> 08└─A good way to heat the basement ;-)
[13:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA to Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS - but Forgot About Egress Costs - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:05] <exec> 08└─Such tyrannous behaviour - time to make use of 2A... Fire! (Or is that 1A?)
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[14:24:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zoward [4734] 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try - 244 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:16] <exec> 08└─Now we don't even have to read the summary to go comment! w00t! On a more serious note, it's actually kinda useful if you've read the summary, gone to read the article, then came back and want to jump straight to the comments, so I'll vote Yes.
[14:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:20] <exec> 08└─I agree with that suggestion. If flush-right is not desired or too hard to do, I suggest to insert a small space between the printer button and the skip to comments link (about the same amount as there already is between the date and the printer icon), for purely aesthetic reasons. Other than that,...
[14:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:22] <exec> 08└─I can't see the button. You should make it bigger and make it flash with bright colors, or perhaps float it under the curser so people can see it.
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[14:24:30] <exec> 08└─There is an obverse to every coin. If the prosecution were very, very sure that they could get guilty verdicts, they wouldn't settle. They would charge full ahead, seeking maximum sentences, maximum fines and penalties, maximum restitution, everything. In a high stakes contest like this, neither sid...
[14:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Uber Engineer Levandowski Pleads Guilty To Trade Secrets Theft - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:33] <exec> 08└─But when jewgle does the stealing, it is business as usual. When the khazar jewish rats in israel steal atomic bomb secrets and sell to whoever is willing to pay, it is business as usual. Punishment is only for regular humans. Khazar rats are above that with a rigged system where they control the ju...
[14:24:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:50] <exec> 08└─... began with the idea "we're all equal" which really got pushed on us a couple decades *before* Reagan.
[14:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:18] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is that we have evidence [soylentnews.org] that they are restarting the factories (sudden spikes in air pollution where you'd expect the spikes to be). This was spun as incinerators burning thousands of bodies.
[14:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:19] <exec> 08└─I don't believe their claims to have leveled off the growth, let alone to have reduced it. If they had, the numbers would be verifiable.
[14:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:21] <exec> 08└─The question I wonder is how long will it take for us to get ahead of our Trump virus situation? I hope that people will still buy our goods because they shouldn't hold it against us for the negligence and inaction that came from the top.
[14:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:23] <exec> 08└─Instead, they have expelled all the journalists from New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
[14:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube is Following Netflix by Reducing Streaming Quality Due to Coronavirus - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:41] <exec> 08└─Have you hopeless idiots never heard of a proxy?
[14:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube is Following Netflix by Reducing Streaming Quality Due to Coronavirus - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:42] <exec> 08└─Your super-fast local connection to the internet doesn't help when the big pipes behind it are congested. It's like your super-well built driveway doesn't cause you to get faster to work when there's a traffic jam on the highway.
[14:25:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06How ‘Undertaker’ Bees Recognize Dead Comrades - 202 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:51] <exec> 08└─Poor bee: first you get killed by the researcher (who most certainly did not wait for the bee to die of natural circumstances), then heated up, put in a place, and the other bees consider you a slacker.
[14:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:46] <exec> 08└─I guess most of today's web devs, and Google coders, aren't old enough to remember back when sites had stupid warnings like "Best if viewed in Internet Explorer" when Microsoft decided to add its own gizmos to HTML. I joked on my site "Best if viewed in the other browser". I found that I could make...
[14:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:47] <exec> 08└─There might be a solid argument for WebComponents but what, really, is the argument for ShadowDOM? You can already implement any number of additional DOM trees in a single webpage through the IFRAME tag. The only real addition with ShadowDOM I can see is that you can make this additional DOM tree co...
[14:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:26:50] <exec> 08└─everyone seems to have forgotten about how Evil Microsoft was.
[14:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:09] <exec> 08└─I know. I actually feel like a human when I come here. I sometimes don't know what to make of it.
[14:28:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Social Policies Might Not Only Improve Economic Well-Being, But Also Health - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:28:45] <exec> 08└─Now add in that the itemized statements from the auto maintenance insurance company all used different descriptions so you can't even be sure all of the bills were submitted to insurance and either rejected (for "reasons") or only partially paid (for other "reasons") or if someone messed up the pape...
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[15:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIST, DHS Publish Guidance on Securing Virtual Meetings, VPNs - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:17] <exec> 08└─So these are not real meetings then? I guess not. virtual adjectivevir·tu·al | \ ˈvər-chə-wəl, -chəl; ˈvərch-wəl \1. : being such in essence or effect though not formally recognized or admitted What advice, if any, do they have for real meetings which happen to take place online?
[15:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIST, DHS Publish Guidance on Securing Virtual Meetings, VPNs - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:19] <exec> 08└─DHS has provided our few moments of security theater, in lieu of being probed by the TSA. Hey, if you can't be cavity searched, you can take some consolation in the security advice being studied by the phishers who are targeting you!
[15:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:31] <exec> 08└─[...] On a more serious note, it's actually kinda useful if you've read the summary, gone to read the article, then came back and want to jump straight to the comments, so I'll vote Yes.
[15:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:32] <exec> 08└─Float it to the right? That puts it in a predictable location, similar to the topic icons below it.
[15:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:31] <exec> 08└─All we can do is ensure there may be a hospital bed for us in case we're one of the few that get critical when we get it.
[15:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:32] <exec> 08└─nuff said..
[15:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:34] <exec> 08└─you can't get ahead of the trump virus. americans have proven that when they can be bothered to vote, they always vote against their best interests.
[15:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:36] <exec> 08└─Your parents have the courtesy of naming you Cindy instead of, by your logic, the formally correct Under The Bleachers.
[15:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube is Following Netflix by Reducing Streaming Quality Due to Coronavirus - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:56] <exec> 08└─Optimum just bumped me to $65. Normally I would cancel for awhile, but can't do because of the virus. I have a server in Eastern Europe where I pay $7 for the same speed.
[15:27:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:01] <exec> 08└─and the addons I used stayed compatible
[15:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:03] <exec> 08└─There's nothing wrong with UTF-8. It's just an encoding for code points in variable-length byte sequences. A very good one, actually. If I were to make a replacement for Unicode, UTF-8 would be one of the things I'd keep.
[15:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:05] <exec> 08└─If me did a new encoding for this millenium, it would be 64 bits per character,
[15:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:07] <exec> 08└─Many years back, I felt similarly. I tried to retain my UI as much as I could, be it firefox, KDE or other applications. I spend spent hours to search the internet or dig into configurations myself. That is all gone by now. I feel having matured and being set free. First, I evaluate whether I can st...
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[16:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:29] <exec> 08└─Just one thing. You have to be logged in, or it doesn't work. That way, if AC drills all the way down to troll you, you know that AC really loves you long time, Joe!
[16:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:30] <exec> 08└─Show it first time hide it the second time? Because then we can read it in full first time around.
[16:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:32] <exec> 08└─Thanks for pointing out the broken link... fixed! It has not yet been rolled out to production (here), it is currently only implemented on dev. Please give it another try!
[16:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:34] <exec> 08└─Just one thing. You have to be logged in, or it doesn't work.
[16:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:36] <exec> 08└─I can't see the button. You should make it bigger and make it flash with bright colors, or perhaps float it under the curser so people can see it.
[16:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:38] <exec> 08└─Much better. Just that the story underneath , I wanted to read the rest and find out what other problems Dino ran into (sniff)
[16:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:40] <exec> 08└─what button?
[16:25:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:16] <exec> 08└─How much is that in F-35s?
[16:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:44] <exec> 08└─Us? Who is "us"?? What country / group are you referring to?
[16:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:45] <exec> 08└─I understand the emotion and I have similar feelings, but the very sad truth is that China stopped the bug in two months. Meantime developed world did exactly nothing an now getting the consequences. Because of this it will cost us dozens of trillions dollars and millions of lives in the best case s...
[16:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 4133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, 1. China covered it up 2. China fully mobilized against the virus spread, with mandatory lockdowns, full hazmat suits for medical workers, etc. Those who were involved in the coverup were removed from their positions / punished. 3. China which does not have socialized medicine, finally made tre...
[16:26:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:43] <exec> 08└─Our mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful . . .
[16:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:18] <exec> 08└─Pages loaded faster back then, but they didn't pull ads from dozens of sites on one page* and didn't have video in them all. * I do pull graphics for some of my pages from other sites occasionally
[16:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:20] <exec> 08└─Lazy kids should learn HTML.
[16:27:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:22] <exec> 08└─I'll get my coat...
[16:27:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:24] <exec> 08└─You're right, that is why it'll be 3 or 4 corporations cooperating to have control.
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[17:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:21] <exec> 08└─Good, maybe their suppliers around Fremont will shut down now too (they haven't so far)
[17:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:52] <exec> 08└─Text says https://dev.soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] but the link is to https://dev [pornhub.com]
[17:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:54] <exec> 08└─I believe that was a suggestion for "improved" behavior, not a description of undesired current behavior.
[17:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlwaysNever [5817] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:56] <exec> 08└─I didn't know you had posted a second story about this subject, so I replied to your post in the old story with this post, which I repost here for you to see: --- Hey, I see you have put a "[Skip to comment(s)]" text link in the header, at the right of the print icon in the article header. That is b...
[17:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:58] <exec> 08└─Since it is the same in every story, you'll soon no longer consciously notice it. However for anyone who encounters it for the first time, the meaning of the arrow would not be clear.
[17:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Uber Engineer Levandowski Pleads Guilty To Trade Secrets Theft - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:09] <exec> 08└─Every. Time. And then one day, for no reason at all, they voted Hortler into power...
[17:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:07] <exec> 08└─China stopped the bug in two months.
[17:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:08] <exec> 08└─> Most of the population will get this virus, its unavoidable. I've thought that too. And I think govt. / health officials see that as happening. It's all about time and timeline. If the disease spread can be slowed enough, the healthcare system is less overwhelmed and can handle the quantity of act...
[17:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:43] <exec> 08└─Traditional structure or nor, the real reason to not adopt it is clusterfuck. Just read the whole thing that needs to happen for this to work, then read problems it causes, then read workaround for those… Holy shit, man. It was a nice little dream of custom components and ease of use, but reality...
[17:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:27:44] <exec> 08└─Easy for you "English-first" people to say.
[17:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlwaysNever [5817] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Changing the Site UI to Making Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:29:04] <exec> 08└─Hey, I see you have put a "[Skip to comment(s)]" text link in the header, at the right of the print icon in the article header. That is better than the button you had before, because it takes much less screen real state. I still think a small icon with a downwards pointing arrow would be better, bec...
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[18:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:18] <exec> 08└─Virus panic is dumb, Elon said so! I want my Cybertruck, and I want it NOW, NOW, NOW!
[18:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:19] <exec> 08└─to parasites
[18:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:21] <exec> 08└─He could buy the expertise to tell him why if he weren't an arrogant prick.
[18:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:23] <exec> 08└─Good luck starting back up when their suppliers are out of business.
[18:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlwaysNever [5817] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:58] <exec> 08└─The mistery of the meaning of the arrow could easily be solved if the arrow icon has a whatever-it-is-called on-hovering yellow tip explaining what it does, and also by plain old bravery of just clicking on it and see what happens.
[18:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:00] <exec> 08└─Warning! Parent comment's text is correct, but the offered corrected link actually goes to "http://pornhub.com/" Geesh! Didn't even use https!
[18:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:02] <exec> 08└─And that is where I tried it. on DEV,SOYLENTNEWS.ORG Why I noted the broken link. Note: even in the first posting the link was broken. Missing the "Y" in SOTLENTNEWS. There is nothing there no new link.
[18:25:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 368 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:34] <exec> 08└─"Why does everything have to end in a liberal vs. conservative argument?" Because you've swallowed some ideological poison, that makes you see things that way. What's liberal or conservative about criticising Reagan? Why would you assume there's a connection? He was neither liberal nor conservative,...
[18:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Captival [6866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:42] <exec> 08└─So then why the fuck didn't the enlightened metropolitan forward-thinking Democrat geniuses who came after him restore NASA to their previous science-loving glory? Oh yeah, because they were much too busy doing more important things [realclearpolitics.com] with it.
[18:25:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:51] <exec> 08└─1. Expel Western journalists. 2. Report no new cases. 3. ??? 4. COUGH IT!
[18:25:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 711 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:57] <exec> 08└─Of course. Flattening the curve is about all that can be done in the short term, especially in the countries that lack medical infrastructure. It doesn't help that in some countries rather than manning up [salon.com] and running the nation those that have wormed their way into office use their posi...
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[19:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03j-beda [6342] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:25] <exec> 08└─If you and your workplace have not taken steps towards "social distancing" and all that stuff - you probably should have by now. Here is a great article on how exponential and hidden growth rates should be effecting policy decisions: https://medium.com
[19:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 2203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:26] <exec> 08└─Vigorous. Energetic. Passionate. Those were three words that would instantly come to anyone's mind upon listening to the teacher give his lesson. But that wasn't all. It was safe to say that no other teacher was as passionate as this one. Was it because that was simply who he was? No, it was the nat...
[19:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:28] <exec> 08└─Good luck starting back up if half the planet is mad at them for causing excess deaths and hospitalizations by hampering efforts to curb a pandemic.
[19:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:30] <exec> 08└─Good luck starting back up if half the planet is mad at them for causing excess deaths and hospitalizations by hampering efforts to curb a pandemic.
[19:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:33] <exec> 08└─Maybe one day the Musk hero worship will end. "Danger of panic still far exceeds danger of corona," Musk tweeted on Monday. That's not your decision to make, Mr Musk.
[19:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:35] <exec> 08└─Nonsense, he's the Real Life Tony Stark. He knows better than actual experts in their fields.
[19:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIST, DHS Publish Guidance on Securing Virtual Meetings, VPNs - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:24:44] <exec> 08└─The first people I turn to are the government! ...
[19:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:14] <exec> 08└─Do that and the curser is all of us.
[19:25:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Has Completely Canceled Google I/O 2020 - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:34] <exec> 08└─What I am rooting for is that this whole fiasco will be used as a convenient excuse to pull our manufacturing out of China and bring it to America where it belongs. B-B-but things will be a million times more expensive!
[19:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Has Completely Canceled Google I/O 2020 - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:35] <exec> 08└─It will move back eventually, but it will mostly be automated. Which is fine. In the short term, companies will continue to use China, since it could take years to extricate themselves. In the very short term, China is probably putting infected people to work if it's just a ~2% chance of death.
[19:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MyOpinion [6561] (Score: -1) 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:57] <exec> 08└─There is no "outer space": gas always expands into all available space, filling up its container entirely. Whatever "gravity" theory you come up with, and even in theory, cannot stick it to the outside of a ball against empty space, because gases expand into empty space. It is what they do, this is...
[19:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:25:59] <exec> 08└─Don't pull that game about playing opposites. They aren't. While neither group has the best interests of their nation at heart, one of the groups causes far more damage than the other. The one group is in it for themselves and their lobbyists, the other appears to just be out to stir up shit, tear t...
[19:28:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MyOpinion [6561] (Score: -1) 02 - 06SpaceX Plans First Manned Flight to Space Station in May - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:24] <exec> 08└─There is no "outer space": gas always expands into all available space, filling up its container entirely. Whatever "gravity" theory you come up with, and even in theory, cannot stick it to the outside of a ball against empty space, because gases expand *into* empty space. It is what they do, this i...
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[20:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:36] <exec> 08└─That's not your decision to make, Mr Musk.
[20:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:37] <exec> 08└─Right you are! Let's just take all our lumps at once: let the virus run unimpeded and take out the old and sickly; their days of being prime economic contributors are mostly over. After the herd is thinned by the shock therapy, we will be left with a younger population which is always better for eco...
[20:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:39] <exec> 08└─It is dumb. He is right. In four months all of you panicked Chicken Littles will be bigmouthing: "Of course, I knew this was going to pass just like SARS." As you stand in line for the dole.
[20:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe the banks, which you helped save, can pitch in? After all, a lot of defaults and they too are back at square 2008.
[20:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:43] <exec> 08└─Dude, who hurt you? Pedo Guy may seem like a wanker but his battery deployment does save the people of South Australia from blackouts every summer heatwave.
[20:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:45] <exec> 08└─> Wash those hands Or don't shower at all. That should keep people at a safe distance.
[20:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIST, DHS Publish Guidance on Securing Virtual Meetings, VPNs - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:56] <exec> 08└─Of course they are virtual. I could just put a picture of myself in front of the camera for most of the meetings and no one will really notice since most of them are the boss talking at us about stuff we already know. The fact that a sheet of paper is hanging in front of my empty chair is much more...
[20:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIST, DHS Publish Guidance on Securing Virtual Meetings, VPNs - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:58] <exec> 08└─The Chinese kids already have this figured out. Just give the app one star and flag it for inappropriate content... OH! Security *OF* meetings? I thought this was security *FROM* meetings. I'll just be over here revising the productivity projections down.
[20:25:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:29] <exec> 08└─I believe the OP actually meant to link to http://dev.soylentnews.org [goatse.cx]. Is that better? :-)
[20:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:30] <exec> 08└─And now we all know why some forward thinker made links display the host, https&colon;//soylentnews.org/ [evil-site.com], and why you should always check them. And yes, I broke that link on purpose to illustrate the effect.
[20:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:28:24] <exec> 08└─..remember back when sites had stupid warnings like "Best if viewed in Internet Explorer"
[20:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Another Port Bites The Dust: Xbox Series X Drops S/PDIF Audio - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:49] <exec> 08└─"Well, not strictly true - it just takes a lot more noise to disrupt a digital signal." I was speaking in the context of a digital audio signal used in consumer equipment to connect a peripheral to an amplifier. At audio frequencies fiber optic equipment makes no sense as even antiquated technology...
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[21:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deadly Blow to the Pox of Software Patents in the EU - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:17] <exec> 08└─In its outcome, it amends the Constitution in substantive terms, though it has not been approved by the Bundestag with the required two-thirds majority.
[21:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deadly Blow to the Pox of Software Patents in the EU - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:18] <exec> 08└─You're reading it wrong. A parliamentary vote (with a mega-majority) would be required to approve the UPC properly. Apparently they tried to sneak it through with a lower bar.
[21:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:43] <exec> 08└─Not his decision but it is his opinion. He's entitled to that, same as we all are.
[21:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:44] <exec> 08└─I live near a hospital. You would expect to see high amounts of activity and maybe schools being converted into care stations. Like the Chinese building that field hospital. Don't we have the best military in the world? None of that is happening. We are being locked out of work, people's lives are b...
[21:24:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:46] <exec> 08└─Here's the real test of a society/economy: can we take a little disturbance in the cause of saving millions of lives without putting everyone on the dole permanently?
[21:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:24:48] <exec> 08└─I'll have the bean beef burrito, with extra onions and garlic - thank you.
[21:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:32] <exec> 08└─First tried it logged into the dev server, works fine with the improved link location. Just logged out of the dev server, clicked on the "Read More..." button under the first story and then the [Skip to comment(s)] link appears just fine there too. Browsing with FF on Win7. I vote: 1. Yes,...
[21:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ex-Uber Engineer Levandowski Pleads Guilty To Trade Secrets Theft - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:43] <exec> 08└─Not a great time to land in jail, what with this new virus. Harvey Weinstein is about to find out the same thing.
[21:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:50] <exec> 08└─Extraordinary references: Nature and in the ASM's Journal of Virology There's more than one. I looked over the research on my work computer, which isn't handy now. You can search as well as I can, I hope.
[21:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:51] <exec> 08└─> ...attacking those that call out the emporer for having no clothes. I don't want to see the orange one naked, anything but that.
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[22:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeschooling Resources - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:22] <exec> 08└─Our local HS District here in Cali closed last Monday and was supposed to reopen April 14th. No school from home was given. Now they're saying it's closed for the rest of the school year and whatever grade they had on the last day of school is your final grade. Seniors may not even get a graduation...
[22:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeschooling Resources - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:24] <exec> 08└─The kids gotta learn their biology.
[22:24:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeschooling Resources - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:26] <exec> 08└─Why doesn't your daughter enter the growing field of climate activism? No school education needed, willingness to travel and grumble a plus.
[22:25:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:02] <exec> 08└─Typical parrot response. Always thinking in absolutes. News flash: "Not panicking" does not equal "no action". In this case, it means finding a medium that saves as many lives as practical while at the same time not blowing up the economy, dooming us all.
[22:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:04] <exec> 08└─DC energy electolyses your cells when you come into contact. The production of lye within the cells makes them pop. This does not happen with AC.
[22:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:50] <exec> 08└─Show it first time hide it the second time? Because then we can read it in full first time around.
[22:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:51] <exec> 08└─Beautiful! Mostly because of the 'vomit' theme, but your link's pretty cool too.
[22:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 2269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:53] <exec> 08└─There's nothing forward thinking about it. I demonstrated the reason in my comment where I set the link test to soylentnews.org but actually linked to goatse.cx. Slashdot started showing link domains almost 20 years ago because trolls would make the link text appear to go to an innocuous site while...
[22:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:25:55] <exec> 08└─Dude, I keep telling you - use the 'vomit' theme, that will improve your user experience tenfold.
[22:26:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:32] <exec> 08└─Does NASA understand what a sunk cost is?
[22:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:41] <exec> 08└─Get coronavirus.
[22:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:16] <exec> 08└─That's where flattening the curve comes in. By slowing it's progress, the hope is that we won't have that many in need of the limited resources at the same time. Another useful feature is that the slower it goes, the more time we have to investigate a few promising treatments that could significantl...
[22:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube is Following Netflix by Reducing Streaming Quality Due to Coronavirus - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:38] <exec> 08└─Literally a few episodes before they are hanging out with Riker and Deanna where Deanna says she can sense nothing emotionally from Soji, implying that their artificial bodies, regardless of if you consider the 'soul' aspect, do not operate on the same biological principles as telepathy capable race...
[22:27:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Have Discovered the Origins of the Building Blocks of Life - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:27:59] <exec> 08└─"You can't judge, God is beyond your comprehension" is a stupid argument to make. Mostly because it cuts both ways. Grant the initial premises, and the believer can just as equally no longer make judgments--for example, "my God is good"--for the same reasons. I'm surprised any apologist still runs t...
[22:28:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:28:58] <exec> 08└─This isn't an either-or choice. It's perfectly possible to make a web app that works just fine without Javascript or anything fancy while using it to avoid reloading and provide a better experience if it's available.
[22:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:00] <exec> 08└─The one add-on I really miss that required XUL is Tree-Style Tab. Well, it still works, but it can't display its own version of the top tab bar anymore. But the performance is so much better and everything else works fine.
[22:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:29:02] <exec> 08└─The same reason most programming languages have visibility rules, and why namespaces as a concept exists everywhere. https://stackoverflow.com [stackoverflow.com]
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[23:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Homeschooling Resources - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:18] <exec> 08└─St Greta the Grumpy will have about 10 million fewer boomers to whine about, although the CO2 released by their rotting corpses might screw up the numbers for a year or two.
[23:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeschooling Resources - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:19] <exec> 08└─And with oil at twenty year lows, millennials can finally afford a nice vacation to Italy.
[23:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Homeschooling Resources - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:21] <exec> 08└─Why isn't anyone calling it "Chinese flu"? SJW fodder?
[23:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeschooling Resources - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:23] <exec> 08└─GOP Flu
[23:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deadly Blow to the Pox of Software Patents in the EU - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:34] <exec> 08└─Aha. That makes more sense. Thanks.
[23:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:03] <exec> 08└─A personal thank you for your measured take on the issue. You put it much better than I could have.
[23:25:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:05] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't with the food you eat. The problem is with the folks who act like a different smell is the worst thing on the planet. I actually had this conversation with someone. The lady wore so much perfume that it stunk up the place. I asked her what that was about. She said that it was so...
[23:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Barenflimski [6836] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:07] <exec> 08└─Musk isn't wrong concerning the data about the virus. Musk is wrong because he is thinking outside the box and not following the talking points of this government. We have got to get something figured out as shutting down the world until COVID-19 is eradicated isn't feasible. The government alread...
[23:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:09] <exec> 08└─That's the point and I don't care what they think.
[23:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:25:58] <exec> 08└─Thanks. No JS, no guessing the meaning of a picture. Just works.
[23:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:26:00] <exec> 08└─I can neither confirm nor deny my earlier attempt at smartassery. Someone got the joke though, since I've been modded funny. ;^)
[23:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:05] <exec> 08└─There is a fork of uMatrix called eMatrix for Palemoon which give you more control than NoScript ever could. I don't know anything about the NoScript ban you talk about, but I'm sure your interpretation is very wrong. https://addons.palemoon.org [palemoon.org]
[23:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:06] <exec> 08└─Have you attempted to manage your cookies lately?
[23:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Open Letter to Web Developers - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:29:08] <exec> 08└─But this isn't about quality. Apple and Google still make high quality products, that doesn't change the bad things they're doing. I would say instead that any sufficiently large corporation will switch away from its initial mission towards profit at any cost. That doesn't necessarily sacrifice qual...
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