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[00:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:26] <exec> 08└─Last thing I need is a Biden administration c̵r̵o̵s̵s̵ ̵c̵h̵e̵c̵k̵i̵n̵g̵ ̵g̵u̵n̵ ̵o̵w̵n̵e̵r̵s̵ ̵a̵n̵d̵ ̵w̵e̵e̵d̵ ̵b̵u̵y̵e̵r̵s̵.̵
[00:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:27] <exec> 08└─Here when I do "social distance" cash less payment I have to press the infected touch screens a dozen times, while in China one just scans bar code with no contact whatsoever. AT&T promised me true just walk out of store experience about 20 years ago. Cash is king all right because I just drop it on...
[00:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:29] <exec> 08└─I don't think it really matters anymore. 1- The USA is going to have to sell off all of the Fort Knox gold to pay for the Chinese flu. 2- The dollar is worth about three cents. 3- Gold prices drop to record lows due to the selloff. 4- The dollar is worth about two cents. 5- A new resource for toilet...
[00:54:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06AMD and Intel Have a Formidable New Foe (Amazon) - 185 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:42] <exec> 08└─I was like, how did Amazon make their own chip. Then, I keep reading "The chip comes from Annapurna Labs and packs 64 A76 ARM cores", so just an Amazon branded ARM CPU. That, I believe.
[00:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD and Intel Have a Formidable New Foe (Amazon) - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:45] <exec> 08└─Amazon doesn't care about x86 compatibility. I suspect that, if they've spent the money to develop their own silicon, they've spent the money on compilers. C, C++, Java, Fortran, Cobol, doesn't really matter. My understanding is both Intel and AMD are spending a huge amount of silicon maintaining x8...
[00:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD and Intel Have a Formidable New Foe (Amazon) - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:47] <exec> 08└─When it comes to the big calculations, or even the small users, it comes to performance per watt. The dollar cost of the chip doesn't matter -- how significant is the idle power draw, per AWS instance? That's the dollar cost, not the up-front cost. How much is the fully-loaded power draw of the chip...
[00:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Charter Communications and Spinrilla Push Back Against False DMCA Notices - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:10] <exec> 08└─It would be hard to beat the poison qualities of Coke, so not even than.
[00:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:16] <exec> 08└─Hey Anonymous Einstein- brilliant, but you forgot one major thing: if you're talking to some company's rep on the phone, you don't know for sure where they are, right? They could be in a 2-party consent state, right? You want to take that risk? You might, but sane people won't.
[00:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:17] <exec> 08└─Check your temperature too.
[00:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's entirely accurate to say South Korea was on top of it. The USA, not so much. And no, the USA didn't need to be xenophobic to contain this thing. They needed to follow a strategy similar to what was done for Ebola: 1. Test and quarantine as needed everybody coming into the US from a country...
[00:57:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:21] <exec> 08└─Depending on her doctor, medical condition, and her risk factors, it is possible to be prescribed a twelve day course of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. My friend has seen several prescriptions come through his pharmacy. Chloroquine does have possible side effects (irregular heartbeat) which de...
[00:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Keep Your Sanity When You Feel Like the World is Going Crazy - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:14] <exec> 08└─The video was posted by someone who was retweeted 7 times by @realdonaldtrump who has 75 million followers.
[00:59:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Rand Paul is First Senator to Test Positive for Coronavirus - 315 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:23] <exec> 08└─It might become a seasonal virus, but coronaviruses don't have the flu's unique, easily mutated topology that makes it so resistant to inoculation, whether natural or vaccines. Temporarily endemic, but it might be possible to entirely eradicate in human populations once vaccines are available, the w...
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[01:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:37] <exec> 08└─Because?
[01:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:38] <exec> 08└─Or the store's DSL modem just gave up and died. I was at a big name supermarket a few months back were that happened. Their Internet connection was down and they could only take cash. As you pointed out, if the electric or power infrastructure is knocked out electronic payment options are useless. B...
[01:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:40] <exec> 08└─Arrrag this. I want to punch anyone who thinks touch screens are a good idea. At one store I regularly go to, regardless of payment method, they make me press a greasy touch screen to verify that I want a printed receipt (They should just print the damn receipt without asking, like they used to), an...
[01:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:42] <exec> 08└─The media is pushing switching to cashless payments. Businesses are not.
[01:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:44] <exec> 08└─So people are paranoid even though they don't know it? Sounds about right, all those people who repeat "nothing to hide" are probably minutely shifting their daily interactions with the thought sitting in the back of their minds "someone might record and post this on Soylent News! Fuckin' martyb wil...
[01:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD and Intel Have a Formidable New Foe (Amazon) - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:03] <exec> 08└─Does anyone care about x86 compat except for Windows/Mac shitware? Even MS themselves have a long history of other arches, their latest effort being an ARM64 partnershit with Qualcomm. Android is multiarch, as are the BSDs including Darwin.
[01:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:01] <exec> 08└─HOAs, HMOs, what a country! Remember when the cops used to give a warning shot? Old black guy has this antique car with one of those old horns you squeeze the bulb, and it would go, "Honk-KEE, Honk-KEE" So his white neighbor fires up the chain saw, "RRUNNNN niggerniggerniggernigger Dress up as Leath...
[01:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:02] <exec> 08└─Liberals and immigration law enforcement? Glass houses, my sanctuary city friend.
[01:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:04] <exec> 08└─Step 1: ban Ethanol-Fueled's account Step 2: ..... Step 3: Get on with life
[01:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:06] <exec> 08└─Your summary is longer than the original post. Without "I'll summarize my own point" it is almost the same. #Fail #SystemOfContracts
[01:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:08] <exec> 08└─And the Philohoplia. He's one sick, fat, bastard!
[01:57:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:46] <exec> 08└─Many Western companies are "too big to fail" and don't really need the majority of their employees to do much of anything in order to pay big salaries and benefits. I watched my last boss get insulted by management reducing his number of direct reports from 20 to 4, it was a "message" that he wasn't...
[01:57:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:48] <exec> 08└─Hey Anonymous Einstein- brilliant, but you forgot one major thing: if you're talking to some company's rep on the phone, you don't know for sure where they are, right? They could be in a 2-party consent state, right? You want to take that risk? You might, but sane people won't.
[01:57:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:50] <exec> 08└─during these trying times: https://joindiaspora.com [joindiaspora.com]
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[02:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06X-Ray Imaging Reveals Insights into a Natural Mosquito-Killing Compound - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:59] <exec> 08└─Tiny rolled up newspapers or magazines?
[02:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:39] <exec> 08└─Yes, a double negative always does gets me. Wonder what damage a triple negative could do... "Today, Cabinet discussed rolling back the ban on using non-disposable cups."
[02:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:40] <exec> 08└─I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.
[02:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:42] <exec> 08└─Wait, I'd better sign such an important statement... -- Bot (3902)
[02:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:44] <exec> 08└─Anyway, you CAN sanitize cash, although I have never seen anyone bother.
[02:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:46] <exec> 08└─my brain just exploded
[02:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:49] <exec> 08└─Yeh, "just visit us on the web" has become the business euphanism for "click agree"...to all sorts of terms and conditions... usually starting out with something like "This is a legal contract. You agree we may change it at any time for any reason. It is your responsibility to review the current ter...
[02:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:51] <exec> 08└─At any rate, banning cash is just un-American
[02:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:53] <exec> 08└─Cash is king all right...
[02:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:55] <exec> 08└─My life is my own.
[02:55:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:21] <exec> 08└─the state of Massachusetts requires all recreational vehicles operated on public and private lands to be registered through the Massachusetts Environmental Police.
[02:55:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 99 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:53] <exec> 08└─Conservatives have recently become opposed to the rule of law. So that may explain the confusion...
[02:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:15] <exec> 08└─As the AC noted, they do have the right to do permanent damage to terrain they own.
[02:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Invisible Man, Emma, and The Hunt Hit Pirate Sites after Rushed Video on Demand Releases - 1663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:29] <exec> 08└─8 TB HDDs [slickdeals.net] are coming in at about $100 now, which is what I paid for a 3 TB HDD... 9 years ago? That should be enough to store 100-300 giant rips, let's call it 200. $0.50 a movie, comparing well to Red Box or $10 theater price. And of course you can delete them or store something el...
[02:56:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Charter Communications and Spinrilla Push Back Against False DMCA Notices - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:40] <exec> 08└─Copyright and freedom of speech must collide at some point.
[02:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:55] <exec> 08└─Use moisturizer afterwards
[02:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:57:56] <exec> 08└─That would be more believable if it said "copper". So, 'patented nanocopper' it is! Whatever that means?
[02:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Keep Your Sanity When You Feel Like the World is Going Crazy - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:51] <exec> 08└─My wife and I drove to Fort Lee and took a day long bicycle trip through Manhattan. We visited many of our favorite places that never going to look quite the same to us.
[02:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Keep Your Sanity When You Feel Like the World is Going Crazy - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:52] <exec> 08└─After the US, the UK has probably the second-worst "leadership" in a crisis situation. I was talking about countries with actual leadership. Take for example Bulgaria, a... not very functional country where things sort of work some of the time. They activated 40-year-old Warsaw Pact bioweapons attac...
[03:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rand Paul is First Senator to Test Positive for Coronavirus - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:56] <exec> 08└─Sociopaths--that's you--only learn through personal suffering. This is why I don't wish death on the cases with even a remote chance of redeemability. Instead I wish homelessness, poverty, ill health, anomie, all the things I've suffered, *so that they get some fucking perspective.* The ones I wish...
[03:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rand Paul is First Senator to Test Positive for Coronavirus - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:58] <exec> 08└─Sorry, what? I can't hear you with Paul's dick down your throat and Burke's so far up your ass he's buggering the last thing your maternal grandpa ate.
[03:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Update is Now Live on Production: "[Skip to comment(s)]" [Updates: 2] - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:20] <exec> 08└─I have reported the multiple times. This new feature is not visible to me. Even tried on difference OSes and Browsers. I use Rasbian, Ubuntu, win10. Firefire, chrome, crromium, ie, edge. My screen size 35" at 1080p. It is just not there. Increase font size, change color combo, make look like a rea...
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[03:55:05] <exec> 08└─I haven't used cash in years. It depends on the banking institutions in the country; the more diverse and fractured, the less likely that one card will work everywhere. There is far less risk for the banks in debit transactions, but also less profit. I once heard that Visa charged merchants 3% (or m...
[03:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:07] <exec> 08└─Meh, checking on weed buyers is far down towards the bottom of my list. There is something to be said for growing your own. :-) I just harvested a Nirvana's Chrystal(Northern LightsxWhite Widow, 28% THC+2.3%CBD), with another of the same ready in 2 days, a Purple Urkle ready to harvest next weekend,...
[03:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:09] <exec> 08└─If it's the same screen that they make you "sign" on when doing a credit card payment, you can use the stylus to tap the buttons on the screen instead of your finger and it should take it. With that said, the stylus is likely covered in as many germs as the screen is. But you do have the option of u...
[03:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:11] <exec> 08└─Interesting. So would a CPAP be able to help someone with a less severe case, freeing up a ventilator for someone who really needs one? Or does it not really work that way?
[03:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:13] <exec> 08└─The supermarkets (well except for Walmart as far as I know) have been upping the workers pay, retroactively, giving them bonuses and lots of support if sick. quarantined or caring for someone here in Canada. It's funny in a sad way that now we're finding out which workers are the most important, and...
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[04:01:15] <exec> 08└─The only long-term answer is vaccine and treatment drugs.
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[04:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bmimatt [5050] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Work from Home Pwn2Own Hackers Make $130,000 in 48 Hours from Windows 10 Exploits - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:09] <exec> 08└─Working from home is simply more efficient, without the marketing drones flying by your cube with their endless chatter.
[04:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:16] <exec> 08└─Except the issue is landscaping damage, not pollution that runs off.
[04:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:17] <exec> 08└─Yep. Whatever we say it is...
[04:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:01] <exec> 08└─'Cure' found for coronavirus in Australia
[04:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Keep Your Sanity When You Feel Like the World is Going Crazy - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:55] <exec> 08└─Here in Canada, it is the various "Chief Medical Officers", regional, Provincial and Federal that are doing a lot of the leading and getting as much public facing time as the politicians, who are mostly involved with the economic part.
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[05:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:02] <exec> 08└─Move in Nevada and live in a tent. Use dehydrated Epsom salt in your mask. Heat your room to 90F and keep humidity low. Or use -40F and advanced vacuum to freeze-dry it faster. We are at war, sacrifices need to be made. God bless America
[05:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:03] <exec> 08└─I understand they are all panicking, but the really evil side of this is that they will use this to pass sweeping laws that remove some inalienable right(s) people have. Should we expect checkpoints on our commute now and have to show "papers". How else they going to enforce this?
[05:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:06] <exec> 08└─No. Eight months is not worth the lives of a few old people.
[05:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:08] <exec> 08└─How else they going to enforce this?
[05:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:10] <exec> 08└─I'd think that with more ubiquitous and faster tests, it would be easier to let people track and manage their infected state. Then plug in freedom of association, and you're done!
[05:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:12] <exec> 08└─You know what? Kill yourself now, when your death can make a difference. 'cause 30years later it won't.
[05:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:14] <exec> 08└─I'd think that with more ubiquitous and faster tests,
[05:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:16] <exec> 08└─You can demand nothing, paisano. Capisce?
[05:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:18] <exec> 08└─The United States, for example, is currently tracking exactly where Italy was about 10 days ago.
[05:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:21] <exec> 08└─In this context that means that a lot of the counties in the nation have zero reported cases and quarantine is way premature and even bloody stupid for them.
[05:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:23] <exec> 08└─Too bad the administration basically screwed the pooch on this one, and mired people who developed COVID-19 testing processes in red tape. The full story [gq.com] is rage-inducing. I... asked him what he’d tell President Trump if he had the opportunity to speak to him, if he knew that everything h...
[05:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:25] <exec> 08└─It'll never happen. People will start a revolution just out of sheer boredom.
[05:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:27] <exec> 08└─Joking aside, everyone getting the insidious virus might be the only way to end the madness. I understand they need to "flatten the curve" to minimize healthcare overload...
[05:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:30] <exec> 08└─Fair point.
[05:56:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:38] <exec> 08└─Who owns the polluted air over your private land? Who owns the polluted air that is now over my private land, too?
[05:56:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:40] <exec> 08└─As the AC noted, they do have the right to do permanent damage to terrain they own. And like most jack-booted authoritarians, you haven't thought through what that means.
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[06:54:14] <exec> 08└─I agree with you but I think the real problem is time and timeline. We don't know who is infected until symptoms show and they've likely spread it. Much testing is the answer, and sorry but tracking the movements of people to find out who's been in contact with infected people. Again, I agree with y...
[06:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:16] <exec> 08└─Comment below if you want AR15 cheap. We also have AK47s. TP is an acceptable payment.
[06:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:18] <exec> 08└─E S S E N T I A L Great word that
[06:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:20] <exec> 08└─Joking aside, everyone getting the insidious virus might be the only way to end the madness.
[06:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:22] <exec> 08└─Test a large fraction of the population and confine those tested positive If we had 330 million tests today ...this would be over (mostly)...confine every body positive (assuming it is less than say 30% of the population) and let the others go to work as usual. If 40% or more of the population is po...
[06:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:24] <exec> 08└─Don't fuck with Korean Jesus. He busy, with Korean shit.
[06:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:26] <exec> 08└─It ain't just old people, stupid. It's ALL people, basically. You've already got the flu, and you're marginally weakened? Guess what - you've just put up a glowing neon sign that the coronavirus can't resist. New baby in the house, maybe premature, and having some difficulty breathing? Bingo, more v...
[06:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, blame it all on Trump. And - who was it complaining that shutting the borders would be "racist"? In this case, we had Team Idiot in one corner, and Court Fool in the other corner, fighting over our fates, and we may all lose. It's a bit late to be talking about what we should have done,...
[06:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:31] <exec> 08└─Gotta disagree on the zero counties. Every county around me has one or more reported cases. If you live near an interstate highway, you're screwed. People from all across the continent are driving within a couple miles of you, each and every day. The vectors today are as fast as interstate travel.
[06:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I mostly agree, and people are saying that hydroxychloroquine (quinine derivative) and maybe with azithromycin (antibiotic) might be helping. However, we don't know the long-term effects yet. Some reports (here on SN) talked about neurological damage.
[06:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:35] <exec> 08└─LMAO, I just looked at another page - the advertisement suggests that I contact a team of psychics to learn about my future. I guess someone can cash in on this shitfest!!
[06:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:37] <exec> 08└─Cousin Albert has pneumonia?
[06:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:39] <exec> 08└─>...sorry but tracking the movements of people to find out who's been in contact with infected people. Fuck off.
[06:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:42] <exec> 08└─WHO launches global megatrial of the four most promising coronavirus treatments [sciencemag.org]
[06:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:44] <exec> 08└─hydroxychloroquine is a poison used as fish tank cleaner. I just read a story about people who died after taking it. It's lethal. choroquine phosphate is the drug used for anti-malarial medication. It's this which has the potential to be useful for helping with coronavirus. It's a completely separat...
[06:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:46] <exec> 08└─and we may all lose.
[06:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:48] <exec> 08└─Don't take random poisons and hope for the best.
[06:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Some Amazon Prime Deliveries May Take a Month as Demand Surges - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:56] <exec> 08└─I can totally understand prioritizing certain items and classes of items. Those things, absolutely fill orders of those items first, put those boxes on the delivery trucks first, no problem. (and judging from my Amazon searches, little of that stuff is available anymore anyway, at least until they r...
[06:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:59] <exec> 08└─You sold your soul a long time ago, Opus...
[06:59:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:09] <exec> 08└─Here, have a spare sock to jizz in while you disasturbate to the idea of all those eeeeeeevil city-slickers dying a no doubt well-deserved death by coronavirus for the crime of living somewhere where they can't hear banjos in the background 24/7.
[07:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Keep Your Sanity When You Feel Like the World is Going Crazy - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:06] <exec> 08└─Sorry-not-sorry if my tone scorches your delicate little ears, cupcake. I'm still right. Eat your liver!
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[07:54:02] <exec> 08└─Safari isn't based on Firefox or Chrome, is it? I've been saying this whole web thing is just a fad. Soon we'll come to our senses and go back to Usenet and gopher. Then September will end.
[07:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:03] <exec> 08└─There's no Eternal September on the Dark Web. It's too scary there.
[07:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe start with the one with no scripting whatsoever. And stay that way.
[07:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:08] <exec> 08└─You can do this. Just create a browser that disallows javascript. Non-compliant websites will not load, problem solved. Many of us are doing this already, with extentions like NoScript, where they have not been banished or prescribed, PaleMooned or Firefoxed. God save us all.
[07:54:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 573 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:24] <exec> 08└─Too bad the administration basically screwed the pooch on this one, and mired people who developed COVID-19 testing processes in red tape. The full story [gq.com] is rage-inducing. I... asked him what he’d tell President Trump if he had the opportunity to speak to him, if he knew that everything h...
[07:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:46] <exec> 08└─I appreciate your caution, but I did not make it up, nor incorrectly copy-paste it from all over the news articles. Perhaps you're confused? https://www.drugs.com [drugs.com] https://duckduckgo.com [duckduckgo.com] https://duckduckgo.com
[07:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:47] <exec> 08└─Awesome article, thanks!
[07:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:49] <exec> 08└─and people Trump and this idiot Thiel influenced son-in-law are saying that hydroxychloroquine (quinine derivative) and maybe with azithromycin (antibiotic) might be helping./quote FTFY, and, anyone who gets medical advice from a functional illiterate like Trump deserves to die. In agony. From Quini...
[07:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:52] <exec> 08└─And anyone who takes medical advice from Trump or his much stupider distant cousin, Runaway1111, deserves to die, in a nice racist fashion. In an intensive care unit, on a ventilator they share with colored people, nursed by Mexicans, and treated by a Muslim doctor. Die, racists, die!
[07:55:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:46] <exec> 08└─The media is pushing switching to cashless payments. Businesses are not.
[07:59:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:12] <exec> 08└─Interesting order. You really would refrain from keeping your basement from flooding if it interfered with visiting Sunday Mass?
[07:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:13] <exec> 08└─god burns him straight into hell if he doesn't drag his family to church every Sunday.
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[08:54:11] <exec> 08└─So it's Eternal Halloween instead?
[08:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:12] <exec> 08└─surf -s ...
[08:54:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rleigh [4887] 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 635 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:48] <exec> 08└─hydroxychloroquine is a poison used as fish tank cleaner. I just read a story about people who died after taking it. It's lethal. choroquine phosphate is the drug used for anti-malarial medication. It's this which has the potential to be useful for helping with coronavirus. It's a completely separat...
[08:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:55] <exec> 08└─Forgot to close my tags, again? Must be the virus! *cough, cough* That or the Hydroxlcloroquinine Acetate. I feel ill. Told you something was wrong with me! *hack, hack*. Tell Ayn Rand Paul I love him and forgive him.
[08:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:57] <exec> 08└─Long way until there, so let's temper your enthusiasm Spanish nursing homes abandoned, residents found dead in beds as coronavirus worsens [abc.net.au]
[08:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, blame it all on Trump
[08:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:01] <exec> 08└─So this means the Hunt for Deplorables is on? Where do I go to get my tags? Some will have to make a sacrifice, as the Lt. Gov of Texas has said.
[08:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:04] <exec> 08└─And, after damping your enthusiasm (I hope) with my prev comment, Covid19 may have peaked in Italy [worldometers.info]. But it's a bit too early to tell.
[08:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:06] <exec> 08└─If we had 330 million tests today
[08:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 1463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:08] <exec> 08└─Good post. I'll also add that a portion of younger people still end up needing to be hospitalized. The first case detected here in Nebraska was a 36 year old woman with underlying health conditions who had traveled to the UK. At last report, she was still in critical condition, but was improving. Yo...
[08:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:10] <exec> 08└─The youngest death in the UK from COVID-19 is 18 years old [sky.com], reported on Monday. However, the same source reports that UK deaths "were in vulnerable groups, with underlying health conditions." adding some credence to Runaway's statement.
[08:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Amazon Prime Deliveries May Take a Month as Demand Surges - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:19] <exec> 08└─Keeping things in stock instead of delivering certainly costs Amazon money. Therefore I would bet that Amazon will ship something if it is in stock and it doesn't interfere with higher priority deliveries. Note however that the prioritisation will likely not only affect the delivery, but also the re...
[08:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:24] <exec> 08└─Cabinet did not decide to not roll back the non-ban on not using non-disposable non-cups.
[08:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:25] <exec> 08└─Go Sanders
[08:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:27] <exec> 08└─Your sister's boyfriend is not a "marijuana dispensary" in the accepted use of that term. Technically correct, but not factually correct.
[08:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:57:51] <exec> 08└─"Get off my property"
[08:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Invisible Man, Emma, and The Hunt Hit Pirate Sites after Rushed Video on Demand Releases - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:07] <exec> 08└─unless this VideoOnDemand strategy actually pays off.
[08:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:42] <exec> 08└─Most likely, you have a fatal condition. No amount of medicine can save you, since you get your diagnoses off the internet. You are going to die. No one will notice. It is OK, it's just part of "The Circle of Life".
[08:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:43] <exec> 08└─Don't know which is more shocking, that Runaway has a job, or that he has relatives. Just, wow! And, OK, Boomer!
[08:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:45] <exec> 08└─it is possible to be prescribed a twelve day course of hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin
[08:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:47] <exec> 08└─"One does not just "fuck" aristarchus, particularly when the facts are on his side." You could "walk" into Mordor with more ease, even Orcs do not buy Jones' conspiracy theories.
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[09:54:14] <exec> 08└─> The main functionality of the browser is implemented in third-party WebKitGTK+ library… Not sure that changes much.
[09:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:16] <exec> 08└─I was basically forced into using noscript a few years back as webpages took forever to load and web browsing started to melt my i5 ,laptop. I I have no idea how mobiles are expected to survive all this is bullshit. Probably as it gets more and more out of hand, is will become the new flash, get ban...
[09:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:07] <exec> 08└─The thing is, the Deplorables might well include you. You see, the virus doesn't care that your skin is white or that you vote for candidates with the letter (R) after their name. So are you willing to make the sacrifice yourself?
[09:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:08] <exec> 08└─President Truman once famously said "The buck stops here." President Trump on the other hand famously said: "I don't take responsibility." The only similarity between them are the first four letters of their surname.
[09:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:10] <exec> 08└─That's a good offer, but how much TP can I buy for a slightly used AK47? That would probably make you a bigger profit judging by how people are behaving.
[09:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:13] <exec> 08└─Watch your language there. Lock down now to make sure you won't get any cases. If you wait until there's a case, well, there'll be way more than one, and you're too late. Just a friendly hint from a European country that also started late with these measures.
[09:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:15] <exec> 08└─Oh, Dear Jeeebus, don't let there be any Greek philosophers in the mix!!
[09:57:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:57:55] <exec> 08└─No, they do not. It is not their private property, it is real estate, and they are merely temporary stewards of the land.
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[09:59:49] <exec> 08└─See now that this is also a Fox News Faux cure, straight from the pie-hole of Sean Hannkery. Got him a letter from a "doctor". Anyone who takes medical advice from either Donald or Fox will die, and deservedly so.
[10:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nesh [269] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Here's What Facebook's Internal Facial Recognition App Looked Like - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:24] <exec> 08└─it's not a test for non-smokers. I'd assume non-smokers prefer no smoke at all. It's surely a test for smokers. Many tout their 'freedom to smoke' right until I started smoking something they don't like. And the pipe wasn't particularly obnoxious: non-smokers preferred it over the cigarettes. "If yo...
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[10:53:55] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna need a few weeks alone to figure out what that said.. Damn
[10:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Method Of Angular Momentum Multiplexing And Demultiplexing For High-Capacity Optical Communications - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:56] <exec> 08└─He said that since you send photons around with fiber, you might also make them spin a bit so to convey even more porn... er information.
[10:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Method Of Angular Momentum Multiplexing And Demultiplexing For High-Capacity Optical Communications - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:58] <exec> 08└─It said: If Trump calls covid19 the 'Chinese Virus' one more time, we're gonna sell you a technology that increases the bandwidth of a single fibre by one or more orders of magnitude only after we're already selling the equipment for some years to everyone 'xcept US; and then the selling price will...
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[10:54:01] <exec> 08└─to convey even more porn... er information.
[10:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Method Of Angular Momentum Multiplexing And Demultiplexing For High-Capacity Optical Communications - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:03] <exec> 08└─Agreed, it's lines like this that convince me I really do live in the future: The OAM multiplexing and demultiplexing is via the off-axis technique and the SAM multiplexing and demultiplexing is based on the photonic spin Hall Effect in the anisotropic medium, which are integrated on a single-layer...
[10:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Discovered ‘Magic Methyl’ Reaction Could Turbocharge the Potency of Some Drugs - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:11] <exec> 08└─Make sure you don't create dimethyl-mercury along the way.
[10:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:26] <exec> 08└─If you can't close up the source and stay credible just make it expensive to fork/secure/reimplement. Free software started hitting in the 90s, the system has developed antibodies. Projects have been infiltrated, purges have purged, shit has become infrastructural. It's still feasible to be free, bu...
[10:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:27] <exec> 08└─Problem is there are more or less essential web sites that are unusable without JS. Pretty much everything, utilities, banking, online shopping, pr0... uhh, news, all of it is encrusted with megabytes of JS that needs to run or you just get blank pages or an error message saying "Joo must use da Jav...
[10:54:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:44] <exec> 08└─The United States, for example, is currently tracking exactly where Italy was about 10 days ago.
[10:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:24] <exec> 08└─It's also the primary treatment for systemic lupus erythematosus; my mother was on it from 1996 through last November, when consistent negative ANA results and her age finally led doctors to decide she's in remission or cured or whatever. That said, while she suffered no ill effects, I definitely wo...
[10:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:26] <exec> 08└─It's been banned in many malaria countries in Africa because it's too dangerous to take unless you're under close medical supervision. Expect to see more deaths in the near future arising from the chief twitter recommending it repeatedly. I'll leave it to the peanut gallery to discuss whether Trump...
[10:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:41] <exec> 08└─No I didn't, it's still listed on ebay.
[10:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:42] <exec> 08└─> Businesses are not. Cashless is hugely cheaper, despite the costs from credit card - no longer have to pay for cashing up at the end of the day and transporting money to bank, queues at the till get shorter so less till staff, etc.
[11:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:03] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that is that there is an escalation something like: oxygen (breathing on your own, increased O2 partial pressure) -> CPAP (positive pressure to keep airway open, still breathing on your own) -> ventilation (breathing for you)
[11:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Rand Paul is First Senator to Test Positive for Coronavirus - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:08] <exec> 08└─Sociopaths--that's you--only learn through personal suffering.
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[11:54:20] <exec> 08└─Publication History Version of Record online: 19 February 2020 Manuscript revised: 18 January 2020 Manuscript received: 07 October 2019
[11:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Method Of Angular Momentum Multiplexing And Demultiplexing For High-Capacity Optical Communications - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:22] <exec> 08└─Version of Record online: 19 February 2020 Manuscript revised: 18 January 2020
[11:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Method Of Angular Momentum Multiplexing And Demultiplexing For High-Capacity Optical Communications - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:24] <exec> 08└─And the months or years of painstaking multiplexing and demultiplexing.
[11:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:47] <exec> 08└─You mean like Dillo [dillo.org]?
[11:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:48] <exec> 08└─IIRC, Safari was based on KHTML, which Apple forked into WebKit, with which Google created Chrome/Chromium and later forked into...oh, the name escapes me!...ah, yes, Blink. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong.
[11:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:50] <exec> 08└─No scripting, sure, but CSS is also a huge problem. CSS/3 is unendingly complex. You would have to revert to CSS/2 to have any chance of a successful new implementation.
[11:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:52] <exec> 08└─More, it becomes even impossible to build a new web site. If someone remembers, web sites are discoverable by external hyperlinks. And what most big websites are doing? Forbidding external hyperlinking. What most small web sites cannot do? Obtain stable "permalinks" to other resources. This method i...
[11:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:51] <exec> 08└─Of course, it was a bioweapon released by the makers of Charmin from the start.
[11:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:52] <exec> 08└─Why are we trying to preserve it again?
[11:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:54] <exec> 08└─Just give US a few days to be #1 !! YAY!
[11:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:56] <exec> 08└─Missing the point. We don't just want it to be spread, we need it to be spread. If it doesn't hit the whole nation nearly as quick as we can handle the logistics of it, we're going to drag this out long enough that we're going to have to go for rounds 2, 3, etc... because it mutated a little bit and...
[11:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:59] <exec> 08└─What, you mean so we can go back into lockdown a week after it's lifted because another set of cases popped up because nobody had built up any immunity? No. It needs to run its course and it needs to do so as quickly as we can handle it.
[11:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:01] <exec> 08└─For the future generations. I mean, if we can't give them a better world, we might as well give them a bunch of plagues. (grin)
[11:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:03] <exec> 08└─If we had 330 million tests today
[11:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:05] <exec> 08└─If it doesn't hit the whole nation nearly as quick as we can handle the logistics of it
[11:56:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:07] <exec> 08└─If you're already asking for 330M tests
[11:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:09] <exec> 08└─So this means the Hunt for Deplorables is on?
[11:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:12] <exec> 08└─I don't care about negative tests, where's my BJ from Carmen Caliente?
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[12:54:45] <exec> 08└─A website that is just pages with information can function without JavaScript just fine. But for web applications, no scripting really limits what is possible. As a Linux user, I really appreciate not needing native applications for accessing services from companies.
[12:54:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:59] <exec> 08└─You know what? Kill yourself now, when your death can make a difference. 'cause 30years later it won't.
[12:55:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 747 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:14] <exec> 08└─It ain't just old people, stupid. It's ALL people, basically. You've already got the flu, and you're marginally weakened? Guess what - you've just put up a glowing neon sign that the coronavirus can't resist. New baby in the house, maybe premature, and having some difficulty breathing? Bingo, more v...
[12:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:55] <exec> 08└─Somewhere between those 660M testing kits. Feel free to search for it.
[12:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:57] <exec> 08└─Damn, shoulda worded that wish more carefully. Someone wanna help me with all these testing kits?
[12:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:59] <exec> 08└─I have to wonder if people have been misled into thinking that SARS-CoV-2 actually causes cholera / dysentery rather than pneumonia with the way they're stocking up on effing toilet paper of all things!
[12:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:01] <exec> 08└─Someone wanna help me with all these testing kits?
[12:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:03] <exec> 08└─Congratulations [twitter.com] - the US will surpass Chinese reported figures by early next week. [youtube.com] Perhaps you should instead be asking why China and the WHO, in mid January, were insisting there was no human to human transmission or requirement for travel restrictions.
[12:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobmorning [6045] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:06] <exec> 08└─Wow, anger management classes for you. Get over it, he won, you lost. MAGA 2020 baby!
[12:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:08] <exec> 08└─Fucking city-dwellers and Europeans. Yall fuckers need to learn that there's a hell of a lot of America here other than the half dozen or so biggest cities. In this context that means that a lot of the counties in the nation have zero reported cases and quarantine is way premature and even bloody st...
[12:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:10] <exec> 08└─They need to consult whoever came up with the new catchy term "social distancing" to see if they can come up with a better euphemism than one that makes it sound like the country is one big jail.
[12:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:12] <exec> 08└─1. No, but we damned well better hope there is. It's not especially deadly but it's contagious enough that we're not going to be able to stamp it out all over the world. You can't have permanent lockdown, so once we find out no immunity is conferred, you've no choice but to give up on containing it,...
[12:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:14] <exec> 08└─Maybe, maybe not. Lockdown isn't there to keep the disease from spreading at all though or even to keep it to a trickle. Trying either of those would mean the nation being shut down for six months or more, which can not be allowed to happen. Not even if the alternative is just letting a bunch of peo...
[12:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:16] <exec> 08└─In an emergency you can use the patches out of your gun cleaning kit.
[12:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:19] <exec> 08└─Social distancing doesn't even need to be brought up if you're quarantining yourself at your favorite fishing hole. Fishing that close someone else was already a good way to get your ass kicked.
[12:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:21] <exec> 08└─Once again, proof that you can always get stupider if you just put some effort in. Your "as quickly as we can handle it" is a shitload slower than it's going to get, because your nation's leader deliberately buggered your nation's ability to respond in a timely fashion. For higher polling numbers.
[12:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:23] <exec> 08└─It's not especially deadly but it's contagious enough that we're not going to be able to stamp it out all over the world.
[12:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Amazon Prime Deliveries May Take a Month as Demand Surges - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:33] <exec> 08└─They ARE giving dates of almost a month out - April 22 for many Prime items, at the moment.
[12:57:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03istartedi [123] 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 851 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:13] <exec> 08└─During the "public safety" power shut-offs in NorCal, cash was king. The nature of that disaster was that electronic payments were unreliable at best. You might be able to process payments if you had a generator, and all the providers between you and the processing center have power too. Often they...
[12:57:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03legont [4179] 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 331 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:16] <exec> 08└─Here when I do "social distance" cash less payment I have to press the infected touch screens a dozen times, while in China one just scans bar code with no contact whatsoever. AT&T promised me true just walk out of store experience about 20 years ago. Cash is king all right because I just drop it on...
[12:57:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 520 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:21] <exec> 08└─Or the store's DSL modem just gave up and died. I was at a big name supermarket a few months back were that happened. Their Internet connection was down and they could only take cash. As you pointed out, if the electric or power infrastructure is knocked out electronic payment options are useless. B...
[12:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:43] <exec> 08└─I'll take the chance of that any day, compared to full authoritarian state.
[12:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD and Intel Have a Formidable New Foe (Amazon) - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:03] <exec> 08└─The Idle Power Draw is probably much, much better than AMD or Intel as it's an ARM based chip.
[12:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:11] <exec> 08└─am i missing something?
[12:59:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:12] <exec> 08└─Some people think laws are more important than money, others that money is more important.
[13:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:08] <exec> 08└─You really would refrain from keeping your basement from flooding if it interfered with visiting Sunday Mass?
[13:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Teckla [3812] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06How to Keep Your Sanity When You Feel Like the World is Going Crazy - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:16] <exec> 08└─You wish it's only that. Those "stimulus packages" of over trillion? When this is over, they'll need to be paid back one way or another.
[13:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Keep Your Sanity When You Feel Like the World is Going Crazy - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:17] <exec> 08└─Wish I had a "+1 Sad but true" modding option.
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[13:54:28] <exec> 08└─2000 times more potent! Clears communities of junkies overnight!
[13:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 1442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:51] <exec> 08└─The article seems to mix up two things: the complete application and rendering engine. Writing a rendering engine from scratch is probably indeed too much work for any group to tackle. But is that a bad thing? I have no fond memories of the time we had to work around different bugs in different brow...
[13:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:53] <exec> 08└─You don't need scripting for most services, though.
[13:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:55] <exec> 08└─They are all separate modules now. Just cherry pick whatever feels reasonable above CSS2, one at a time.
[13:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 1397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:57] <exec> 08└─Whatever gave you the idea that there is such a thing? Browsers have been breaking compatability with new features since NCSA sued Mark Anderseen for improving his own product. I think what you are trying to say here is that browsers are no longer communications technology, but have instead become a...
[13:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:59] <exec> 08└─> …is that a bad thing? It is. In such ecosystems standards go away, and the only things left are bug-compatibility and The Corp's will.
[13:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:01] <exec> 08└─At this point, they're essentially two separate beasts.
[13:55:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, blame it all on Trump
[13:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:26] <exec> 08└─1/2 of your comments deserve troll mods, but they're pretty light hearted trolls, so 'eh.
[13:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:27] <exec> 08└─Hey, stop picking on Fat Albert.
[13:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:29] <exec> 08└─Erm, how is that exactly? The tests are the only thing he even arguably fell down on. And tests don't do anything but spread the infection even more rapidly because you have to funnel healthy people through the exact same spots as sick people to test them.
[13:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 1693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:31] <exec> 08└─8 months of "full lockdown" would be an absolutely pointless exercise resulting in more deaths than the virus could cause if it were left to run unchecked. What percentage of the modern world has even 4 months supply of food in their homes? Are we going to be air-dropping sterilized MREs? If so, who...
[13:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:33] <exec> 08└─Hey hey hay, Fat Albert should be about 65 by now, probably lost a foot to diabetes and had a couple of emergency bypasses.
[13:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:36] <exec> 08└─hydroxychloroquine is a poison used as fish tank cleaner.
[13:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:38] <exec> 08└─Someone wanna help me with all these testing kits?
[13:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:40] <exec> 08└─The art of light hearted trolling, yes, that's my life-time opus. Helps me survive in this shitty world. That and a good serve of alcohol once in a while, helps when one takes the things more serious than they should.
[13:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:42] <exec> 08└─99.9%+ penetration is the only possible final outcome, flattening the curve is all we should be shooting for. So many hidden agendas are cropping up now, people who have just been itching for a chaotic moment to make their push to change society, I think all of them are rooting for as much chaos as...
[13:56:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:44] <exec> 08└─Any other sane president would have...
[13:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:46] <exec> 08└─Trump's done a lot of really stupid things, but the testing red-tape was pure CYA bureaucracy. It would have happened regardless of who was in office. He's still in charge, so the buck stops with him, but if you don't change the incentives for the bureaucracy it's just going to happen again next tim...
[13:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Amazon Prime Deliveries May Take a Month as Demand Surges - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:58] <exec> 08└─My guess, is huge surge in orders from home, for everything. So, they're prioritizing the things that will help keep people alive and sanitary. So, baby food, diapers, etc. for babies, pet food/medicine for pets, bandages, athlete's foot medication, etc. for everyone else. Brick and mortar stores ar...
[13:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:09] <exec> 08└─I'll give you SARS-CoV-2 and a Henipavirus for an Ebola. Deal? (grin)
[13:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:10] <exec> 08└─In the UK, it's been against the bank's rules for a merchant to take your card out of your possession for decades because 90% of card skimming happened when people took it to the back room. It feels so weird in the US when people take my card. Since contactless and chip-and-pin came along, it's beco...
[13:58:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:13] <exec> 08└─This push to go cashless is logically inconsistent with the large number of people I observed getting cash from ATMs.
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[14:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smallest Microelectronic Robot In The World - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:11] <exec> 08└─If so, then we should keep one on standby at the White House. If the President gets ill, the micro-robot's probably got a brain small enough to take over all his functions.
[14:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smallest Microelectronic Robot In The World - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:12] <exec> 08└─Keeping it classy AC
[14:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smallest Microelectronic Robot In The World - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:15] <exec> 08└─Just sayin...
[14:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Smallest Microelectronic Robot In The World - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:17] <exec> 08└─That's why I want mine with a fleshlight - I want to post the pics to pornyponyhub!
[14:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Discovered ‘Magic Methyl’ Reaction Could Turbocharge the Potency of Some Drugs - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:40] <exec> 08└─I prefer peanut butter.
[14:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Discovered ‘Magic Methyl’ Reaction Could Turbocharge the Potency of Some Drugs - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:41] <exec> 08└─It will make you brave enough to get more peanut butter.
[14:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Discovered ‘Magic Methyl’ Reaction Could Turbocharge the Potency of Some Drugs - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:43] <exec> 08└─It may be 2000 times more potent, but can the researchers find a way to compensate for this by making it 2000 times the price per dose? That may take wizardry that mere scientists cannot achieve. Enter the MBAs!
[14:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Discovered ‘Magic Methyl’ Reaction Could Turbocharge the Potency of Some Drugs - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:45] <exec> 08└─I can personally recommend against using peanut butter as a substitute. Stick to regular CPU thermal grease on the heat sink. Always beware of a software developer carrying tools into a server room to "fix something minor".
[14:55:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 666 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:02] <exec> 08└─Problem is there are more or less essential web sites that are unusable without JS. Pretty much everything, utilities, banking, online shopping, pr0... uhh, news, all of it is encrusted with megabytes of JS that needs to run or you just get blank pages or an error message saying "Joo must use da Jav...
[14:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:14] <exec> 08└─I'm up, I already check usenet regularly. So who is going to create alt.soylentnews?
[14:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:16] <exec> 08└─I love Drew DeVault's work and agree with a lot of what he says. His Github/Gitlab/Gitea/Gogs/Kallithea/Allura alternative SourceHut is fantastic, and it only has a tiny bit of optional JS. But Drew hates Rust. https://drewdevault.com [drewdevault.com...
[14:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:18] <exec> 08└─Despite efforts to "Microsoftize" the web, IE failed. Mighty Microsoft tried to build a new browser, Edge. But finally threw in the towel1 and used Chromium as the guts for Edge, while keeping the Edge "packaging", menus, configuration, etc. What became of Opera? 1Contrary to Douglas Adams advice. [...
[14:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:20] <exec> 08└─As I point out here [soylentnews.org] . . . First comes the Navigator. Then comes the Explorer. Then comes the Konqueror.
[14:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:22] <exec> 08└─I've been saying this whole web thing is just a fad.
[14:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:24] <exec> 08└─Maybe start with the one with no scripting whatsoever. And stay that way.
[14:55:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 298 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:54] <exec> 08└─Gotta disagree on the zero counties. Every county around me has one or more reported cases. If you live near an interstate highway, you're screwed. People from all across the continent are driving within a couple miles of you, each and every day. The vectors today are as fast as interstate travel.
[14:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:59] <exec> 08└─here's a hell of a lot of America here
[14:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:00] <exec> 08└─I'll also add that a portion of younger people still end up needing to be hospitalized.
[14:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:02] <exec> 08└─I think you are optimistic - does the test tell if you have already had COVID-19 6 weeks ago and recovered? If so, I think we'd be finding closer to 50% infection rates already.
[14:57:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:05] <exec> 08└─But what are takeup rates for the annual flu vaccine? My parents never take it, but I do. Not because I am concerned about my life, but I have better things to do than be sickened from something that could possibly be avoidable.
[14:57:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:07] <exec> 08└─And what does the test tell us? Infected or not. Not sure if it can tell whether one was infected in the past but recovered. That may be useful to the statisticians and academics, but the only thing that really matters is getting medical care to people that need it. And the local hospital doesn't lo...
[14:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe not, but recent experience has shown, that based on the governor's whim, you may be prevented from obtaining new supplies at any moment. I don't know how much TP an average family uses, but based on what I hear some people use large quantities of it per session. The locals seem to have caught...
[14:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:11] <exec> 08└─Dark humor is a common coping mechanism. Expect to see more of that in the near future as things get tougher and people you know get sick and possibly die. My parents are in high risk categories, as are my roommate's parents. If you haven't talked to your loved ones recently, give them a call or at...
[14:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:13] <exec> 08└─But what are takeup rates for the annual flu vaccine?
[14:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:15] <exec> 08└─My ass is a temple and I treat it with respect. Charmin really does feel like wiping my ass with pillows. I approve this tactic.
[14:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:18] <exec> 08└─> If 90% of the population has already been infected, that 90% can get back to business as usual More likely, 0.1 % of the population has already been infected. So lockdown.
[14:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:20] <exec> 08└─> why China and the WHO, in mid January, were insisting there was no human to human transmission Indeed, even in February - how long did it take before WHO declared pandemic? *Everyone* knew it was a pandemic, yet WHO dragged its heels for about a week while infections were kicking off in Italy, Kor...
[14:57:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Amazon Prime Deliveries May Take a Month as Demand Surges - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:30] <exec> 08└─Just doing it like Scotty: say it'll take three hours even though it'll only take an hour. That way you look like a goer!
[14:57:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06X-Ray Imaging Reveals Insights into a Natural Mosquito-Killing Compound - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:42] <exec> 08└─flu kills thousands - mosquitoes kill millions Where is your priority?
[15:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:16] <exec> 08└─Runaway doesn't own the rivers he fishes on, the public does. What happens now?
[15:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:17] <exec> 08└─Haha! Oops, wrong conservative! But hey, it's a public river, Runaway can fish there too.
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[15:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06PLOS ONE Twitter Chat on Citizen Science Methodologies for Ecological Sciences on April 2nd - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:10] <exec> 08└─We can't let citizen scientists create a new bioweapon in their basements. So we need to monitor their population with invasive FBI agents and NSA backdoors.
[15:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smallest Microelectronic Robot In The World - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:22] <exec> 08└─If the level of your interventions stays this low, you will be demoted to the 45c army. Hold my social credit score: A leaked memo from the "Pol Pot did nothing wrong" section of the Chinese secret service hints at a mission already assigned to an atomic powered version of this robot that can be use...
[15:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smallest Microelectronic Robot In The World - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:23] <exec> 08└─can he play the violin?
[15:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03deganee [3187] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Smallest Microelectronic Robot In The World - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:25] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goYFhLTf4YQ [youtube.com]
[15:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Discovered ‘Magic Methyl’ Reaction Could Turbocharge the Potency of Some Drugs - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:52] <exec> 08└─Also a name for Methyl fluorosulfonate [wikipedia.org]. Back in my lab days, it was the methylating reagent of last resort due to its volatility combined with extreme toxicity by inhalation.
[15:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Newly Discovered ‘Magic Methyl’ Reaction Could Turbocharge the Potency of Some Drugs - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:54] <exec> 08└─The group that did this at the University of Illinois is one of my main customers for lab equipment repair. Unfortunately, my shop is shut down at the moment due to COVID-19, so I haven't had a chance to talk to Raundi or Kaibo (the grad students who are the lead authors on this) about what they've...
[15:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Discovered ‘Magic Methyl’ Reaction Could Turbocharge the Potency of Some Drugs - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:56] <exec> 08└─I've been juicing up plain water with a couple of methyl groups for years now. I can assure you it is 2000+ times more potent.
[15:55:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:07] <exec> 08└─Maybe start with the one with no scripting whatsoever. And stay that way.
[15:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03oumuamua [8401] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:31] <exec> 08└─Markets are mature and it is a news-worthy event if some company changes the status-quo. There are very few niches in the market for startups to grab. Finally, even if you did develop a new browser (new anything) the rule of thumb is it has to be 10 times better than the existing solution to get peo...
[15:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:33] <exec> 08└─As a Linux user, I really appreciate not needing native applications for accessing services from companies.
[15:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:35] <exec> 08└─How is that a problem? Don't frequent those sites.
[15:56:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 216 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:28] <exec> 08└─President Truman once famously said "The buck stops here." President Trump on the other hand famously said: "I don't take responsibility." The only similarity between them are the first four letters of their surname.
[15:57:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:08] <exec> 08└─Any other sane president would have...
[15:57:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:22] <exec> 08└─I like to hold the barrel between my butt cheeks and let the muzzle flash do the work. Never felt so clean!
[15:57:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:23] <exec> 08└─Soylent-pet-green!
[15:57:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:25] <exec> 08└─Or at the very least, drugged a few women so he can have anal sex with them. Hey HEy HEY!
[15:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Work from Home Pwn2Own Hackers Make $130,000 in 48 Hours from Windows 10 Exploits - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:55] <exec> 08└─Hackers agree. Windows has lower total cost of Pwnership. Microsoft Windows. Recommended by hackers everywhere. It has the quality, security, and stability that you have come to expect from the Microsoft brand name.
[15:58:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:53] <exec> 08└─My position is I am bound by laws and regulations passed by the elected civil authority and by contracts that have my written signature on them. I regard eulas and click agreements as a waste of both my time and theirs and I ignore and violate them as convenient to me. I invite any company that thin...
[15:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:54] <exec> 08└─There is far less risk to the customer with credit. The legal position is that a fraudulent debit transaction steals your money from your bank account while a fraudulent credit transaction steals the store's goods. If you disavow a debit transaction then tough luck you have still been stolen from....
[15:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 1715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:57] <exec> 08└─I said it before . . . [soylentnews.org] Everyone should get a skin mounted payment and identification device on their right hand. As an optional, extra cost feature, they could also be PDAs. I expect these devices are not permanent, so they must be re-applied periodically. Being out of political fa...
[15:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:59] <exec> 08└─Given the proven security of the cloud, why would you want to use cash?
[15:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus may Help End the Reign of Cash - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:01] <exec> 08└─Bah, fuck gold. Can't wipe your ass with gold. Now toilet paper, THAT will be the new currency!
[16:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:28] <exec> 08└─Hydroxychloroquine is actually commonly used to treat a condition I have, I know people on it. Not a nice drug, side effects can mess you up pretty bad, does require medical supervision and dose is usually ramped up slowly, I think. I am stable without it, so haven't asked for it, haven't been offer...
[16:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:29] <exec> 08└─Nobody said it would. But the exponential phase went longer than expected.
[16:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:31] <exec> 08└─I think you're confusing different drugs. There is an arthritis drug that's being investigated, but it's not one of the quinine derivatives. Those were used to treat malaria. (And I was wrong, it's not the liver or kidneys that it can damage, it's the heart.) That said, in all of these it's a matter...
[16:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:34] <exec> 08└─The study that showed that combination worked was an extremely small study, and the patients were under medical supervision. And I believe half the participants dropped out, either because they couldn't take the side effects, or because they died. And lots of people *do* recover from the disease wit...
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[16:02:36] <exec> 08└─No. CPAP is before oxygen. I sleep with a CPAP, and I've never needed oxygen yet. Actually, I think they're along slightly different pathways with a point of convergence, as I see lots of people who use oxygen, but not a CPAP.
[16:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:38] <exec> 08└─Well, there's lots of evidence around that copper kills COVID-19 along with lots of other viruses. And so does silver. I'm just not aware of any that says it kills it in vivo rather than on surfaces. Still if one of his "nanowires" touches a virus it would probably kill it. But a lot of the time tha...
[16:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:40] <exec> 08└─Do you really think living in a rural area is continued protection? This isn't a disease that kills people quickly, first it has them wandering around for a week or so spreading the joy with no or minimal symptoms. The guy at the feed store, the folks at church, the guys at the bar? Yeah, they look...
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[16:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This New Sensor is How F1 Plans to Stop Teams Cheating in 2020 - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:12] <exec> 08└─I knew someone who worked for a Nascar team for a while. Basically, the rule for anyone on the engineering and mechanical side of the team was "If you ain't cheating, you ain't trying."
[16:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This New Sensor is How F1 Plans to Stop Teams Cheating in 2020 - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:13] <exec> 08└─It's getting boring. We need truly unlimited sports. Let them all dope and cheat all they want. Even have snipers picking them off. Let's find out who the best cheaters are. Give Sebulba a fighting chance.
[16:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This New Sensor is How F1 Plans to Stop Teams Cheating in 2020 - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:16] <exec> 08└─And some of the old NASCAR cheating stories have become legends (many web pages available if anyone is interested). The team members outnumber the officials, so it's not a very fair game. In the 1980s, I watched a car go through tech scales about 30 pounds underweight (if caught, a serious penalty)....
[16:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This New Sensor is How F1 Plans to Stop Teams Cheating in 2020 - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:18] <exec> 08└─No kidding. Check up on all of the controversies around Smokey Yunick's[1] 'outside the box' engineering. ;-) Gaming the system has existed in racing since before chariot racing. Human nature is at the root of these issues, when all is said and done. [1]circa 1950's to 1970; he was both famous and i...
[16:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Method Of Angular Momentum Multiplexing And Demultiplexing For High-Capacity Optical Communications - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:52] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, the American researchers Chinese researchers in America "work" from home - very likely on their grant applications; against the 2024 budget, no less, they just don't know it yet.
[16:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:45] <exec> 08└─Somewhat my sentiment, this. The need to implement everything exists only in the minds of people. Choose the subset of features (from 0 to everything), implement it, use it. Call it a browser or don't, if it has a function it will be used. Who cares what standard it follows, as long as its protocol...
[16:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 1457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:46] <exec> 08└─It's getting to be impossible to make a site. In the old days you would read the Apache docs, start Apache, pick either Postgres or MySQL for your backend and stick with it, and pick either Perl or PHP for your frontend and stick with it, and it would take a few months of study assuming that you alr...
[16:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06X-Ray Imaging Reveals Insights into a Natural Mosquito-Killing Compound - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:59] <exec> 08└─Mosquito: 725,000 deaths per year Flu: 250,000 to 500,000 deaths per year So those numbers are comparable, however: Dr. Lawler’s calculations suggested 480,000 deaths, which he said was conservative. By contrast, about 20,000 to 50,000 people have died from flu-related illnesses this season, accor...
[16:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AMD and Intel Have a Formidable New Foe (Amazon) - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:29] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, since it is intended for use in AWS, idle performance may not be a big deal.
[17:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:41] <exec> 08└─What does it mean that "the public" "owns" a river? If an entity has ownership in the usual sense, then there's a party to be harmed.
[17:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:43] <exec> 08└─Rivers are not private property in the US. That's what allows any rando with a boat to use them. So Buzzard can fish in them and they can be used for shipping and whatnot.
[17:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Invisible Man, Emma, and The Hunt Hit Pirate Sites after Rushed Video on Demand Releases - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:59] <exec> 08└─What really shocks me is that I see a lot of 30GB+ releases of old movies... from anywhere between 1930s to the 1950s. And I seriously doubt that the source material is even such a quality that it requires even a SD DVD file to show in all its original glory. Yet.. people upload and download them.
[17:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Invisible Man, Emma, and The Hunt Hit Pirate Sites after Rushed Video on Demand Releases - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:00] <exec> 08└─Can't wait for the sequel ... "They Died With Their MAGA Hats On!".
[17:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Invisible Man, Emma, and The Hunt Hit Pirate Sites after Rushed Video on Demand Releases - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:03] <exec> 08└─Mass shootings of the cast or the writers?
[17:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jman [6085] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Here's What Facebook's Internal Facial Recognition App Looked Like - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:25] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqTntG1RXSY [youtube.com]
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[17:54:16] <exec> 08└─The problem with unlimited motor racing is twofold: safety and budget. With unlimited power (combined unlimited tire tech, active aerodynamics, etc.), safety becomes impossible - unless we're interested in a remote/AI driven series - with the spectators located far back from the track. F1 already ha...
[17:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This New Sensor is How F1 Plans to Stop Teams Cheating in 2020 - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:17] <exec> 08└─Remember IROC?
[17:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This New Sensor is How F1 Plans to Stop Teams Cheating in 2020 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:19] <exec> 08└─NASCAR is nothing but trailer trash racing. Left left left left.
[17:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This New Sensor is How F1 Plans to Stop Teams Cheating in 2020 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:22] <exec> 08└─Let's find out who the best cheaters are.
[17:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This New Sensor is How F1 Plans to Stop Teams Cheating in 2020 - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:24] <exec> 08└─oscillating your fuel flow with a minimum flow rate coinciding with the sensor sample points is one way to do that Yeah, but unlike with electrons, even at 2200Hz you gotta deal with that whole mass/inertia thing when moving fuel. To make it real, they should just eliminate all the electronics on th...
[17:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This New Sensor is How F1 Plans to Stop Teams Cheating in 2020 - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:26] <exec> 08└─I remember reading several years ago that when they limited the size of the gas tank one driver realized they didn't limit the size of the fuel line. So they made it 1" diameter and 11 feet long, giving them another 5 gallons.
[17:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:54] <exec> 08└─PHP and Perl in the old days? We're talking about different old days now. In my "old days", you bought a book or downloaded a course of HTML. In every country you will find a different course the most popular because they were in native language. Most people who had Internet provider accounts had fe...
[17:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:56] <exec> 08└─And he'd collect his benefits how, then?
[17:56:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:15] <exec> 08└─In this context that means that a lot of the counties in the nation have zero reported cases and quarantine is way premature and even bloody stupid for them.
[17:56:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 313 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:39] <exec> 08└─and people Trump and this idiot Thiel influenced son-in-law are saying that hydroxychloroquine (quinine derivative) and maybe with azithromycin (antibiotic) might be helping./quote FTFY, and, anyone who gets medical advice from a functional illiterate like Trump deserves to die. In agony. From Quini...
[17:57:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Amazon Prime Deliveries May Take a Month as Demand Surges - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:57] <exec> 08└─This happened to me yesterday. I needed a part for a project and got a date of Apr 21. Well, I've been very busy at work and other home projects anyway, so... fine, I'll put that project on hold until next month. About 10 hours later I get the notification on my phone, shipped. About a month early....
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[18:54:07] <exec> 08└─Typically "perfect storm" refers to multiple things that happen to occur at the same time resulting in an event that wouldn't normally have happened, or wouldn't have been as bad. All the article mentions is the covid-related closing and a reference to a proposal call that they didn't pursue. So wha...
[18:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This New Sensor is How F1 Plans to Stop Teams Cheating in 2020 - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:25] <exec> 08└─You've got to admire people who think outside the box like this example - but personally I would prefer that racing was conducted in a fair way, unless everybody is made aware that there are no rules.
[18:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:56] <exec> 08└─Good summary. For too much detail, there's this: https://upload.wikimedia.org [wikimedia.org]
[18:57:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Some Amazon Prime Deliveries May Take a Month as Demand Surges - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:57] <exec> 08└─Probably the 21st because the usual goofballs would get all triggered by 4/20.
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[19:54:13] <exec> 08└─I'm curious as well, but it would seem they declined to make it public. The fact that they declined to submit an ISS proposal last year - on what would pretty much the only near-term contract they're likely to get - would seem to suggest that they've been facing ongoing financial and/or technologica...
[19:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This New Sensor is How F1 Plans to Stop Teams Cheating in 2020 - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:30] <exec> 08└─i think it would be cooler if you just had size, weight, budget limits, accountability (if your shit breaks or blows up and hurts someone else, you have to pay for it) and then let them design wtf they want. this nanny shit is one reason why i don't watch this crap. why do i want to watch a bunch of...
[19:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Newly Discovered ‘Magic Methyl’ Reaction Could Turbocharge the Potency of Some Drugs - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:22] <exec> 08└─Drinking dimethyl ether [wikipedia.org] isn't my kind of fun.
[20:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:03] <exec> 08└─fuck you bitch. enviro-pigs come on my property and that's what the ak is for.
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[20:54:06] <exec> 08└─It would indeed be very difficult for the athletes to keep a safe distance from each other. Not only during their events, but afterwards, when it's known they get together and fuck like rabid bunnies. There's a reason each Olympics provides plenty of condoms to the athletes.
[20:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020 Olympic and Paralympic Games Postponed until 2021 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:07] <exec> 08└─The birds are disappearing?
[20:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020 Olympic and Paralympic Games Postponed until 2021 - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:09] <exec> 08└─Looks like I have more freedom planning a trip to Japan. Flights and hotel prices should be more affordable now that the Olympics are postponed.
[20:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nevada-Based Bigelow Aerospace Lays Off Entire Workforce - 1472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:19] <exec> 08└─I agree, there is more to this story than being said. It has to be damn hard to propose something you haven't built and go up against TRL-9 technology in BEAM. Maybe Bigelow really really wants to go after the free-flyer proposal and he knows he's too small to win both. Or maybe Axiom grossly underb...
[20:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This New Sensor is How F1 Plans to Stop Teams Cheating in 2020 - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:38] <exec> 08└─Stop doing it or I'm going away.
[20:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This New Sensor is How F1 Plans to Stop Teams Cheating in 2020 - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:40] <exec> 08└─goodbye...
[20:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Smallest Microelectronic Robot In The World - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:01] <exec> 08└─It's toxic but the body is designed to deal with it. Put a drop of blood into a glass of peroxide and you'll see the peroxidase enzyme at work. I'd actually have expected it to be more biocompatible than just about any alternative I could think of.
[20:55:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 276 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:43] <exec> 08└─You can do this. Just create a browser that disallows javascript. Non-compliant websites will not load, problem solved. Many of us are doing this already, with extentions like NoScript, where they have not been banished or prescribed, PaleMooned or Firefoxed. God save us all.
[20:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:16] <exec> 08└─If the websites want that amount of control over what I see, why don't they implement server-based rendering, with a lightweight protocol carrying the image: like VNC. The benefits to the website operators is that the end user can't filter out the adverts, as the script is running on the server. The...
[20:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:17] <exec> 08└─Oh, come on now, you're just joking. You surely know that the internet was around long before that whole "world wide web" thing was invented, right? ... right? Next you'll be saying things like you don't know how to churn butter or you never learned how to drive a mule train. (god I'm so old)
[20:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:20] <exec> 08└─Once-a-month problem solved, and the Chrome downloaded today will be far too old next month anyway.
[20:57:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Sorry, America, the Full Lockdown is Coming - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:20] <exec> 08└─Just give US a few days to be #1 !! YAY!
[21:00:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Freeman [732] 02 - 06Off-Road Riders Fined while Riding on their Own Property - 445 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:23] <exec> 08└─This seems to be a straight up invasion of privacy. Gotta make sure people are doing what I think they should do on their land. Perhaps the Massachusetts Environmental Police would better serve the public, if they went after actual problems. As opposed to teenagers joy riding on their parents' prope...
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[21:01:37] <exec> 08└─"Mass shooting" is when one right-wing nut-job deplorable shoots a lot of people. When a lot of people shoot a deplorable, it is called a "Shooting mass". Do try to keep up with the current nomenclature!
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[21:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nevada-Based Bigelow Aerospace Lays Off Entire Workforce - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:23] <exec> 08└─Sounds more like a failing company with the exact date of failure dependent on a triggering mechanism, like covid-related shutdowns.
[21:54:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06This New Sensor is How F1 Plans to Stop Teams Cheating in 2020 - 226 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:40] <exec> 08└─I remember reading several years ago that when they limited the size of the gas tank one driver realized they didn't limit the size of the fuel line. So they made it 1" diameter and 11 feet long, giving them another 5 gallons.
[21:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This New Sensor is How F1 Plans to Stop Teams Cheating in 2020 - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:45] <exec> 08└─Of course it's a clickbait title...by design. The hope is people will click on the linked article and *gasp* read it! Then an intelligent discussion of said clickbait can ensue. Admittedly, it rarely works that way.
[21:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This New Sensor is How F1 Plans to Stop Teams Cheating in 2020 - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:47] <exec> 08└─Among the most exciting motor racing I have ever seen was a class that raced on dirt (asphalt is for parking, apparently) which had a budget limit of $4,000 for the season. It was specifically set up so that ordinary guys could have fun competing, and everyone had a chance of winning.
[21:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Method Of Angular Momentum Multiplexing And Demultiplexing For High-Capacity Optical Communications - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:23] <exec> 08└─No text.
[21:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:26] <exec> 08└─In a web browser with only forms and no scripting, how would a web-based chat app such as Riot (the frontend to Matrix) work? Or would each web application instead need to be rewritten five times as a native application, once for each of Windows, macOS, X11/Linux, Android, and iOS?
[21:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:28] <exec> 08└─Let's imagine for a moment the client were to switch from web applications written in JavaScript and/or WebAssembly to downloadable written in. Each application would still need to be written three times: once in JDK using a desktop framework, a second time using Android's nonstandard variant of the...
[21:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:30] <exec> 08└─It all sounds pretty Edgy to me. Anyway it's not the browsers, but it is the "obscene complexity of the web", brought about by scripts that track, compel to register, client apps for no reason, redirects to god knows who or what, etc.
[21:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:32] <exec> 08└─A language which can hide arbitrary complexity in one innocuous-looking operator sign, is a disaster waiting to happen, period. The thing personifying that disaster to me, is one old (but possibly still unfixed) crash bug in OpenOffice. It was crashing when copying stuff, and was doing it only on sl...
[21:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:34] <exec> 08└─Most people who had Internet provider accounts had few MBs (usually 4..8, sometimes 10) for a magic "public_html" directory.
[21:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:36] <exec> 08└─Thanks, looks interesting. I'll be checking it out.
[21:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:39] <exec> 08└─What I know about VNC sounds like it would impose accessibility problems. How does VNC accommodate speech- or Braille-based access to documents? Deliberately making things inaccessible to users with disabilities could open a company to a discrimination claim. Or how does VNC accommodate viewers in r...
[21:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:41] <exec> 08└─Huh..."Free software started hitting in the 90s"? I had to go out and buy software, at first on floppy disks, then later on CDROMs. Unless of course someone slipped you a copy or let you copy theirs. God how I loved the CD R/W drive I scored and stuck in the spare bay on my tower.
[22:02:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Coronavirus Roundup 03/22/2020 - 63 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:23] <exec> 08└─We have the complete ability to do our jobs entirely from home.
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[22:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Culture Clash in the Marriage of IBM and Red Hat - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:05] <exec> 08└─The only thing worse than systemd is coronavirus. Barely.
[22:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06No Culture Clash in the Marriage of IBM and Red Hat - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:07] <exec> 08└─About 20 or so years ago they had a web area developerWorks that had a ton of great linux and open source information. That was really really helpful for me. For instance, a lot of great tutorials and articles by Daniel Robbins. I learned a lot of great stuff on bash programming, python, etc. I have...
[22:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020 Olympic and Paralympic Games Postponed until 2021 - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:17] <exec> 08└─Any fat-assed American who survives COVID can compete in the sumo wrestling event.
[22:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020 Olympic and Paralympic Games Postponed until 2021 - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:19] <exec> 08└─So the drugged-up "athletes" get another year to drug-up. They use drugs/herbs that enhance the efficacy of the actual performance-enhancing illegal drug they are taking, so that the amounts of the banned substance is so small it registers as normal. Never underestimate the distractions. Sports are...
[22:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020 Olympic and Paralympic Games Postponed until 2021 - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:21] <exec> 08└─Your mom may be an onnazumo but it's not really a sport. Historically, it was performed in brothels for entertainment. HTH
[22:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This New Sensor is How F1 Plans to Stop Teams Cheating in 2020 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:54] <exec> 08└─As opposed to all the articles the author is hoping nobody reads ever? The title seems to reasonably describe the contents of TFA, unlike actual clickbait.
[22:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:39] <exec> 08└─Free as in speech, not Free as in beer. They were always clear about that. By the late 1990's though, my first distro (SuSE) was a few bucks for 6 CDs worth of packages, and by the early 2000's there was lots of GPL'd and BSD stuff that was download as you like. And of course warez for those willing...
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[23:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Azure Appears to be Full': UK Punters Complain of Capacity Issues on Microsoft's Cloud - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:05] <exec> 08└─I see you're trying to provision resources in Azure... would you like to upgrade to Windows 10 now?
[23:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06No Culture Clash in the Marriage of IBM and Red Hat - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:14] <exec> 08└─I've worked at IBM. Their software is trash their services are trash. Their cloud infrastructure loses money every quarter. When I was on call (not in my job description, but they didn't care) doing support for the IBM container cloud, the typical resolution to any incident was to run "killall miner...
[23:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06No Culture Clash in the Marriage of IBM and Red Hat - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:16] <exec> 08└─evil ones getting along at light speed. The same speed may be used to backstab your former ally, of course.
[23:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06No Culture Clash in the Marriage of IBM and Red Hat - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:19] <exec> 08└─The only thing worse than systemd is coronavirus. Barely.
[23:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020 Olympic and Paralympic Games Postponed until 2021 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:32] <exec> 08└─There is a 14 day quarantine for all Americans upon arrival, just got implemented this morning.. :-(
[23:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020 Olympic and Paralympic Games Postponed until 2021 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:33] <exec> 08└─I'll take my chances that the idiocy will be over by Summer.
[23:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This New Sensor is How F1 Plans to Stop Teams Cheating in 2020 - 1190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:08] <exec> 08└─Run what you can afford WAS the initial rule set. Then came the Porsche 917/30. Pushing for ground effects, the drag was horrendous, but the thing had so much power (900 --1000 BHP, in 1973, for a full race distance, not just qualifying) that it didn't matter. The McLarens and Lolas didn't have much...
[23:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:58] <exec> 08└─Can't be that hard.. right? Considering some of the moronic things the Chrome devs do.. the bar is pretty low.
[23:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:00] <exec> 08└─Fanboi logic. No one cares about your shitty walled garden. Blink and Gecko are the only two that matter.
[23:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:02] <exec> 08└─yeah, and he's wrong. fuck memory bugs.
[23:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Web Is Now Too Complex To Allow The Creation of New Browsers - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:04] <exec> 08└─i agree with your assessment and i look forward to servo. Maybe i can even write a stripped down web browser in Rust to go with it.