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[00:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How China Built Facial Recognition for People Wearing Masks - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:22] <exec> 08└─They all look the same and no one complains about false positives after they've been executed.
[00:24:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Deadly Blow to the Pox of Software Patents in the EU - 175 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:37] <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.
[00:25:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:13] <exec> 08└─At what cost are we running that experiment?! Why not set fire to our homes to see how fast the fire department can react?
[00:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:49] <exec> 08└─And anyone here dares to bitch about NASA spending
[00:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:50] <exec> 08└─Hilarious! But how do you explain that the higher you go from the Earth's surface, the thinner the atmosphere is? Obviously some sort of evil scientist trick probably already debunked on facebook.
[00:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Changing Site UI to Make Long Stories Easier to Navigate -- Input Requested [superseded; see update] - 1994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:36] <exec> 08└─Safari on the iPhone - the comment box only shows the center portion, so anything I type on the left and right sides is pretty much invisible. Makes posting "interesting." Eliminating the scroll bars might look nice, but when you are using big fonts ut's a bit of a hassle. The thing is, I can stick...
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[01:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:10] <exec> 08└─Fuck off Edison, you Elephant murderer.
[01:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:50] <exec> 08└─he led the way in disparraging science and, through cutting funding, began to dismantle US world lead in science and education.
[01:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Spent a Decade and Nearly $1 Billion for a Single Launch Tower - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:52] <exec> 08└─gas always expands into all available space, filling up its container entirely.
[01:29:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Plans First Manned Flight to Space Station in May - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:33] <exec> 08└─Get the Chinese flu.
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[02:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How China Built Facial Recognition for People Wearing Masks - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:20] <exec> 08└─Even more effective dystopian mass surveillance! Let's write article after article about how amazing this is, and only occasionally allude to the inevitable abuses and destruction of democracy.
[02:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Homeschooling Resources - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:34] <exec> 08└─But no progress tracking or quizzes http://www.bozemanscience.com [bozemanscience.com]
[02:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:20] <exec> 08└─Says you. I will oversee all this wallowing from my palace of paper.
[02:25:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:21] <exec> 08└─Don't be tricked by the name conservative, they're actually not interested in conserving the planet. You do seem to be right about them hating people though, just have to look at their leader along with the alternate they offer.
[02:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:23] <exec> 08└─Ah, you're the one who emptied out the toilet paper aisle.
[02:25:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIST, DHS Publish Guidance on Securing Virtual Meetings, VPNs - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:35] <exec> 08└─Don't use Windows?
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[03:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:25:23] <exec> 08└─Wait another week or so. Here it seems it's the community centres first but there is serious talk about using the currently empty hotels.
[03:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skip to comment(s) -- Second Try [Updated: 2020-03-21 15:06:00 UTC] - 2647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:26:16] <exec> 08└─I sense you are unaware of just how much is involved in implementing your suggestion. What I have done so far is temporary. It would disappear if the site crashed and was restarted. But, since the change is restricted to a single template, I can (and have) retained a copy of it as a local filer that...
[03:27:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:27:41] <exec> 08└─Considering how much of the liberal media has been downplaying this virus since they first heard about it, the US was lucky to have elected Trump. Remember the media calling Trump racist for restricting arrivals from China? Or progressive mayor of Florence, Italy initiated "hug a Chinese" via Twitte...
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[04:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Novel System Allows Untethered High-Quality Multi-Player VR - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:26] <exec> 08└─A couple paragraphs down from where the summary ended, they describe the basics of their technique: One reason for the heavy computational workload of high-resolution VR apps is the constant need to render updates to both the foreground interactions with the players and the background environment in...
[04:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Novel System Allows Untethered High-Quality Multi-Player VR - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:28] <exec> 08└─"we propose to exploit the similarity of background environment (BE) frames to reduce the bandwidth needed for prefetching BE frames from the server, by caching and reusing similar frames." Seems obvious. Is this really a "novel approach"?
[04:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Novel System Allows Untethered High-Quality Multi-Player VR - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:30] <exec> 08└─https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/tiltfive/holographic-tabletop-gaming [kickstarter.com] and be smart about what you're rendering in the first place for a multi-player game
[04:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Novel System Allows Untethered High-Quality Multi-Player VR - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:32] <exec> 08└─It seems like an unnecessary approach that will add glitchiness.
[04:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeschooling Resources - 2036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:55] <exec> 08└─In the wake of the soylent article I went ahead and set up virtual classrooms for my two kids, 5th and 4th grade, respectively, and assigned them coursework in math, ELA, biology, physics, chemistry, grammar, computer science, and a couple other subjects. It's free, instant, and works well. The kids...
[04:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Homeschooling Resources - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:56] <exec> 08└─I found another online, free site that teaches basic geography: seterra.com. They have quizzes on countries, capitals, flags, geological features, and so on. The kids seem to like it.
[04:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:47] <exec> 08└─Is that why I have noted no difference pre-Chinese coronavirus and now?
[04:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Says It Will Shut Down Its Fremont Factory—Next Monday - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:48] <exec> 08└─The damage the government is doing by shutting down the economy exceeds the harm from Chinese coronavirus itself by several orders of magnitude. You don't slam the brakes on a ten-thousand car-long freight train and avoid a train wreck. There need to be extremely serious consequences for this fuck-u...
[04:27:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Chinese Mainland Reports Zero New Domestically Transmitted #COVID19 Cases - 283 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:27:48] <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.
[04:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How ‘Undertaker’ Bees Recognize Dead Comrades - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:28:38] <exec> 08└─I suggest you count your bees [youtu.be]...
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[05:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Estimating Food Production in an Urban Landscape - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:24] <exec> 08└─1st post!
[05:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deadly Blow to the Pox of Software Patents in the EU - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:09] <exec> 08└─Good! Software patents are stupid, causing 10 problems for every one they solve.
[05:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIST, DHS Publish Guidance on Securing Virtual Meetings, VPNs - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:26:04] <exec> 08└─That's probably a more time-effective solution. Another way to dodge meetings has been developed using machine learning [cnn.com] and it has been around for a while so maybe people are on to it: Newlan's python script starts to run when a meeting begins and his computer's microphone listens in the...
[05:28:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube is Following Netflix by Reducing Streaming Quality Due to Coronavirus - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:33] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen it. I don't know who mind-melded with whom. But I can imagine androids doing a mind-meld as basically induction networking. Which might require an updated driver.
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