#comments | Logs for 2020-03-27

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[00:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-25 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 1137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:28] <exec> 08└─Viral diseases that kill the host are usually not as fit as those that keep them alive longer. Therefore, most viral disease eventually mutate into less lethal strains. In the case of the 1918 flu, the current virology and research points to that flu mutating into a less lethal version. That version...
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[00:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Attack on Home Routers Sends Users to Spoofed Sites that Push Malware - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:56] <exec> 08└─I have a Linksys router and it sent me to https://www.microsoft.com [microsoft.com]
[00:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:09] <exec> 08└─There are at least two. 1. Appoint judges that care about the constitution's text more than precedent since sovereign immunity isn't actually supported by the text of the constitution. 2. Or just amend the constitution. A lot of people aren't aware that the text of the 11th amendment doesn't act as...
[00:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:10] <exec> 08└─Wasn't aware a piece of land could transmit data. Here we have a smart photographer who kept copyright and dumb public servants that did not pen a satisfactory contract. Now though, mirrorless cameras with live preview and a 3 hours course can go a long way with unremarkable but good enough photos.
[00:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 968 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:13] <exec> 08└─I hear California may be breaking up into three states. This will be a great time for those of us that don't believe in all this Federal Copyright and Patent law to move there and declare ourselves immune, as we elect officials there to run State mirrors for whatever we want! Welcome back, Napster....
[00:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:15] <exec> 08└─There are at least two. 1. Appoint judges that care about the constitution's text more than precedent since sovereign immunity isn't actually supported by the text of the constitution. 2. Or just amend the constitution. Yes, that goes without mentioning. I'm asking if you are aware of the first step...
[00:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:17] <exec> 08└─Are states liable for anything? I think we have a Constitutional amendment specifically banning individuals suing states.
[00:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematics of Life and Death: How Disease Models Shape National Policies - 2452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:48] <exec> 08└─I think this is on-topic enough to merit posting in this article. I want to get this off my chest. The lockdowns in the West aren't full lockdowns. People are still buying stuff, just online rather than in retail stores. We have reduced the pool of people in which COVID-19 can spread, but it's not a...
[00:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Sage Says He'll Sell 14,000,000 IPv4 Addresses Worth $300m. - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:11] <exec> 08└─https://www.xkcd.com/865/ [xkcd.com]
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[01:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Attack on Home Routers Sends Users to Spoofed Sites that Push Malware - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:32] <exec> 08└─Been getting lots of phishing email about covid pretending it is from various federal/state agencies, emails from supermarkets about stock levels, etc. all with phishing links. The fear level currently is ripe for phishing Worse part is there are valid ones in there, our dumb gov. agencies are actua...
[01:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:50] <exec> 08└─Very inaccurate description of Cooper, sad to say.
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[02:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06How Computational Power—or its Absence—Shaped World War Naval Battles - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:10] <exec> 08└─From the story: "European colonies had metastasized around the world." Spare me the left-wing Caucasian bashing thrown in just because. It detracts/distracts from the supposed main point.
[02:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Computational Power—or its Absence—Shaped World War Naval Battles - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:12] <exec> 08└─If you should have the opportunity to tour the USS Alabama, be sure to look into Gun Plot. When I was there, much of Plot was barricaded off, and inaccessible. But, there you have one of the earliest examples of a computer capable of solving complex gunnery computations. From what I could see, there...
[02:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06How Computational Power—or its Absence—Shaped World War Naval Battles - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:14] <exec> 08└─NSA, CIA, FBI, DEA, DIA, nuclear, commence, countdown, eradication, chicken, dinner, swine, flu, penis, maximus, scarecrow, lion, tin, man, big blowjob done by seven thousand eyed human sized half chipmunk half woman on a walrus with three penises and 4 testicles which rotate in a circle 24/7 around...
[02:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06How Computational Power—or its Absence—Shaped World War Naval Battles - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:16] <exec> 08└─https://www.walmart.com/ip/CalExotics-Couple-s-Raging-Bull-Penis-Ring/167527755 [walmart.com]
[02:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:42] <exec> 08└─It's not actually what the 11th amendment says, but we have a lot of supreme court precedent (going back to 1890) saying that you can't sue states in federal court. States can decide for themselves in their own constitutions and supreme courts whether you can sue the state in state court.
[02:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:43] <exec> 08└─We all niggas under the skin, man. You evah slaughter hogs? Don matter what color they is outside, they all pinkish gray inside.
[02:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:45] <exec> 08└─The company hired Allen to document those efforts
[02:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:48] <exec> 08└─"This will be a great time for those of us that don't believe in all this Federal Copyright and Patent law to move there and declare ourselves immune, as we elect officials there to run State mirrors for whatever we want!" Good luck with that. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Holl...
[02:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mathematics of Life and Death: How Disease Models Shape National Policies - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:18] <exec> 08└─Testing everyone does not makes sense because of large and unknown test's false positives and false negatives. Nevertheless, one can estimate; just not as trivially as most propose.
[02:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Internet Sage Says He'll Sell 14,000,000 IPv4 Addresses Worth $300m. - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:40] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, the internet really needs to just make the full transition to IPv6, and releasing a bunch of IPv4 addresses just allows the transition to be pushed back that much further and the current pain to continue. Really, in 2020 everything should be using IPv6 and should have been doing i...
[02:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Sage Says He'll Sell 14,000,000 IPv4 Addresses Worth $300m. - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:42] <exec> 08└─They keep focusing on 5G!!! instead of IPv6 which, I would say, is more important.
[02:56:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06The exFAT Filesystem is Coming to Linux - 713 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:15] <exec> 08└─I pretty much have to use a file system that MS recognizes, if I want to move files among machines that use MS OS. I mean, you just don't have much choice, right? But, I've found that NTFS is pretty robust. Someone grabs it and pulls it out without ejecting or dismounting it - NTFS generally comes b...
[02:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The exFAT Filesystem is Coming to Linux - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:31] <exec> 08└─I reformat most of my large USB flash drives as UDF. only exception is the microSD that I use in my phone and the older CFs my SLR camera uses. It's supported by all the major OSs, supports long file names and files over 4GB, and is open. works great for my uses but YMMV depending on your needs. htt...
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[03:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Attack on Home Routers Sends Users to Spoofed Sites that Push Malware - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:31] <exec> 08└─I never would have noticed myself on account of running a recursive nameserver for the LAN and manually specifying it in each device's config, but it's good to be aware anyhow.
[03:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Sage Says He'll Sell 14,000,000 IPv4 Addresses Worth $300m. - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:48] <exec> 08└─IPv6 works fine on AT&T. You just can't run only IPv6, because a slowly shrinking number of websites don't support it/don't have infrastructure that supports tunneling.
[03:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The exFAT Filesystem is Coming to Linux - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:39] <exec> 08└─Forgot to mention that my Linux boxes uses ext3-4 and my single Windwos box, only used for 1 game, uses ntfs of course.
[04:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ken Shirriff Unfolds A Nuclear Missile Guidance Computer With Impressive Memory - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:50] <exec> 08└─Uh, yeah. I forgot about the token woman on the Fortran language development team for IBM and Grace Hopper, also known as Grandma COBOL.
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[04:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:50] <exec> 08└─Does that mean you want to revive the TPP's investor-state dispute settlement?
[05:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-25 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:36] <exec> 08└─The 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution makes clear the preexisting Federalism of government. "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." Short of someone leveling an argument...
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[05:00:38] <exec> 08└─FWIW, it does happen. It is usually Norovirus outbreaks, however.
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[05:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Google Play's Malicious App Problem Infects 1.7 Million More Devices - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:10] <exec> 08└─/me wiggles butt
[05:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The exFAT Filesystem is Coming to Linux - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:40] <exec> 08└─https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/opensource/2019/08/28/exfat-linux-kernel/ [microsoft.com] https://lore.kernel.org [kernel.org]
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[06:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Digital Spying is Becoming More Aggressive, Researchers Say - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:06] <exec> 08└─China would never do that, they are not only law abiding, but with the highest respect for everyone one. /s (just in case you s-meter is broken)
[06:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Digital Spying is Becoming More Aggressive, Researchers Say - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:07] <exec> 08└─Of course, we, the Five Eyes and company, don't spy on anyone. We're a bunch of innocent children, and it's just those evil Chinese spying on people. And, oh yeah, Russians!! Don't forget the Russians!
[06:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ncc74656 [4917] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Internet Sage Says He'll Sell 14,000,000 IPv4 Addresses Worth $300m. - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:53] <exec> 08└─Cox supports it, FWIW.
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[07:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sharp Gobbles NEC as Japan's Display Giants Team Up to Take on Europe and North America - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:04] <exec> 08└─I guess that means TVs, but they should have nothing to do with each other.
[07:54:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:58] <exec> 08└─The company hired Allen to document those efforts
[07:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Space Force has its First Launch Today; Delayed but Successful Launch [Updated] - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:12] <exec> 08└─So when is the fleeting launching towards Klendathu?
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[08:54:09] <exec> 08└─the US, Canada, the UK and several other counties
[08:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Computational Power—or its Absence—Shaped World War Naval Battles - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:27] <exec> 08└─It's part of the main point, since having far-flung colonies meant decisions made in western Europe had to be sent out to India, Indochina, and Indonesia, and Africa while information needed to flow back the other way. Granted that's more strategically important than tactically, but knowing what sor...
[08:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:00] <exec> 08└─You'd need to scratch around in the records for the first attempted suit for that info, and it's indeed the first thing that went through my mind too. As someone who's been in creative occupations my whole working life, the first phrase that went through my head was "work for hire" (i.e. the people...
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[08:55:58] <exec> 08└─> IPv6 advocate > increases available IPv4 addresses But…
[08:57:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02 - 06One Person Infected After Attending Coronavirus Party - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:57:05] <exec> 08└─" but a slap in the face to everyone else's collective efforts to not kill our parents and grandparents. "
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[09:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:09] <exec> 08└─Wow, "good job" HP. Because of the way servers are ordered by the pallet/rack, that would mean companies that rely on these will all face massive upgrade maintenance events, replacement efforts, or simultaneous clustered failures. This is one of those "all hands on deck" type problems that sysadmins...
[09:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:11] <exec> 08└─At least they told people about it now. No doubt their test devices are dying one by one.
[09:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sharp Gobbles NEC as Japan's Display Giants Team Up to Take on Europe and North America - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:20] <exec> 08└─that's like a squirrel devours a mouse. or something.
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[10:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:08] <exec> 08└─The warranty is 5 years. Guess you should install anything as soon as you get it.
[10:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:10] <exec> 08└─[from TFA] HPE also includes instructions on how to update the firmware and check the total time on the drive to best plan an upgrade.
[10:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:12] <exec> 08└─It is not a bug, but a 'feature' imported from their experience selling printers. I must have owned at least 3 or 4 HP printers before switching to Brother. HP has/had good people, but short term profit just seems too enticing to their management.
[10:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:14] <exec> 08└─Know what businesses want? Certainty. Exactly 40k hours, nothing more, nothing less. And HPE OBVIOUSLY knows bidness. HPE Smart.
[10:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:16] <exec> 08└─I can see why they'd want firmware updates, 40,000 hours is just within the 5-year warranty period rather than just over it like it should be, so it's a warranty replacement rather than a new sale for HP. I assume the new firmware will set the death counter to 45,000 hours, which is safely outside t...
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[10:54:18] <exec> 08└─The warranty is 5 years.
[10:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Play's Malicious App Problem Infects 1.7 Million More Devices - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:41] <exec> 08└─They won't stop under the wall around Their Garden is so high and spiky users will either be in and confined or out in the cold.
[10:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chocolate [8044] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Computational Power—or its Absence—Shaped World War Naval Battles - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:53] <exec> 08└─Nice idea, but let's be more practical. The humans around me are potential deadly virus carrying minions of death. Can a phone app detect people around me and sound a proximity alarm if anyone gets too close? Maybe some ultra sonic sensors or light based distance checking? There's a market for this...
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[11:54:24] <exec> 08└─Not sure if I should have modded this as funny or insightful.
[11:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:26] <exec> 08└─How about this, mandatory decoupling between controller in the widest sense and mechanics for every electronic item and mandatory free out of warranty controller replacement. Or free upgrade if you stopped making it. No more phones that refuse to charge even with fresh battery. No more printers that...
[11:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:28] <exec> 08└─I guess some engineer took the programmed obsolescence too literally.
[11:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:30] <exec> 08└─You never discovered that taking the button battery out of HP printers defeated the time limit? I'm still using the HP cartridges that Moses handed down.
[11:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:32] <exec> 08└─Updating firmware is really easy. Years ago I had to do it and at that time you had to hook it up to a Windows machine and run a program from the CMD line! It only took a minute to update. I hope the updater code has been updated itself. At that time you obviously needed to take the disk offline and...
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[11:54:34] <exec> 08└─Since HPE isn't offering any explanations one can only conclude (as others have noted) that this is an error in an algorithm designed for engineered obsolescence. But that must mean if the error hadn't existed the drives would still have failed almost simultaneously at some point outside the warrant...
[11:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Digital Spying is Becoming More Aggressive, Researchers Say - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:52] <exec> 08└─But what about Hillary!!!! You're right, we should probably just ignore this. Maybe even open a few ports while we're at it, just to even things up.
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[12:54:21] <exec> 08└─https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/03/25/hpe_ssd_death_fix/ [theregister.co.uk] If you're getting deja-vu, you're not alone. HPE separately warned [theregister.co.uk] of certain SAS SSDs dying after their 32,768th hour of operation in November last year.
[12:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:23] <exec> 08└─I like how HP inkjets run a "clean heads" job every time you turn it on, then run out of magenta ink which mostly never gets used in the first place and locks out the entire printer until it's replaced. I trashed the inkjet and bought a Canon laserprinter. I may have accidentally dropped the old HP...
[12:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:25] <exec> 08└─What is your obsession with Thunberg? Does it bother you that she's less than half your age and already accomplished more--and is a better person--than you ever will do or be?
[12:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:27] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised that these planned obsolescence policies are hardly ever leaked by technicians involved in the design process. Punishment for leaking must be harsh. I don't know about the USA but the EU might hand out massive fines again if this gets proven.
[13:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-25 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:29] <exec> 08└─If your parents are dead, you're not getting food either. And some significant portion of the people in their 30s and 40s that get the disease survive but need oxygen or a ventilator or both during the worst part of the illness. If too many people are sick at the same time, they will die - and if a...
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[13:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:11] <exec> 08└─Now that they made it they will make the reasons for you wanting to buy/get it.
[13:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:13] <exec> 08└─I didn't use Defender when I used Windows (or any anti-virus for that matter), I sure as hell am not going to install their crap on a Linux system. Dealing with their awful ASP .NET Core runtimes is bad enough.
[13:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:15] <exec> 08└─systemd-msdefender
[13:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:17] <exec> 08└─The noise I made on reading that isn't transcribable, but it was part groan, part growl, and part strangled scream.
[13:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:19] <exec> 08└─... install it on Windows; otherwise, it'd feel so useless on a linux box(*) (*) While I acknowledge that there exists Linux malware, the typical level of sophistication (general and security) of a Linux user is higher than that of a windows user and this thus /lowers/ the need for a piece of softwa...
[13:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:22] <exec> 08└─There are no technical reasons to infect one's linux box with this. There are however retarded compliance reasons, that might see this abomination unto one true G-d installed on several enterprise servers. Imo, this is a slick way to exfiltrate other peoples data for uncle Sam without invoking LI (l...
[13:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:52] <exec> 08└─Let's enter debug mode of the lefty brain: BAD TRUMP BAD TRUMP BAD TRUMP HEY DON'T TOUCH GRETA YOU OBSESSED PSYCHOPATH BAD TRUMP BAD TRUMP BAD TRUMP wew
[13:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:53] <exec> 08└─The HP bulletin is copyrighted.
[13:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:55] <exec> 08└─"I'm calling it stupid, not greedy." Don't you consider engineering products to need replacement before they wear out to be a bit greedy? Why not?
[13:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:58] <exec> 08└─Because "the higher number of people are involved in a conspiracy the more risk that someone spills the beans" is a fallacy, empirically speaking. It already happened with dieselgate, it wasn't only VW who cheated. And the fuel efficiency stats are traditionally overestimated. Nobody had interest in...
[13:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:00] <exec> 08└─I read Bot's post as being on the same side as Grumpy Greta, so I'm not sure what your point is. And how do you know what Bot has or has not accomplished? As for me, I wouldn't need Greta to tell me that I'm pissed off when my HP printer or SSD stops working because they put a time limiter in it.
[13:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:02] <exec> 08└─Well, if you take their word for it, it was the result of a bug. So, Hanlon's razor. Also, they made the warning before any bricking actually occurred, so there won't be any need for replacement unless businesses ignore this bulletin.
[13:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:04] <exec> 08└─Windows machine and run a program from the CMD line!
[13:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:06] <exec> 08└─I'm calling it stupid, not greedy.
[13:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:17] <exec> 08└─Photographers have generally worked for hire and retained copyright to their work. Check the terms of your wedding photographer!
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[14:54:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 18 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:15] <exec> 08└─systemd-msdefender
[14:54:19] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:19] <exec> 08└─Is this 40,000th story submission going to brick my computer [soylentnews.org]?
[14:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:22] <exec> 08└─Did you enjoy your orgasm?
[14:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:24] <exec> 08└─Mod +4, Funny? Mod +1, Prognosticatory.
[14:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:26] <exec> 08└─Where is my "Microsoft Defender Inside" sticker?
[14:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 1296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:28] <exec> 08└─Whatever one's level of sophistication as a Linux user is, running an antivirus program on a mail server is generally a good idea, because the sysadmin's sophistication has nothing to do with the sophistication of the e-mail recipients, most of whom will be reading their e-mail on Windows machines,...
[14:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:30] <exec> 08└─From the original article: "We have a bunch of very broad assets around ..." typo ... one to many "t"s. Any guesses on when we get the first zero-day for Microsoft Defender for Linux?
[14:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:33] <exec> 08└─If I just HAD TO run a malware/virus detector, Defender is one of the better ones to run. It catches just about everything that the brand name AV's catch. There is an added benefit, in that MS knows what their own systems are susceptible to, so they watch for that. Fire up an instance of Windows, an...
[14:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:35] <exec> 08└─But what about the telemetry? Seems half-assed if they don't include telemetry.
[14:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:37] <exec> 08└─Also -1 proctokatastreptikos.
[14:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:39] <exec> 08└─Well, is it an HP?
[14:54:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 24 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:59] <exec> 08└─The warranty is 5 years.
[14:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:19] <exec> 08└─Brother inkjets do that too, fortunately you can put some duct tape over the part of the tank that they use to sense the ink levels and "reset" it to full.
[14:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:20] <exec> 08└─Good thing we put Samsung 86x SSDs in the HP server rather than whatever crap HP would have supplied us with. As it was they still managed to screw it up, installing two sticks of RAM with different capacities in AA BB configuration instead of the necessary AB AB, so the machine only used half the R...
[14:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:22] <exec> 08└─Sadly, many firmware (motherboard, auxiliary devices, external devices, hard disks, optical drives, etc.) updaters only run on Windows. A few come with self-booting images, IE. - you "burn" the image file to an optical or USB drive, boot from that, and it runs the updater. In the olden days many upd...
[14:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 1493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:24] <exec> 08└─About 10 years ago I did some work for an audio engineer who is moderately famous- you'll see his name in some TV show / movie credits. He was genius. Anyway, he had a Seagate 1 TB drive (huge 10 years ago) full of major paid recording sessions with significant people. Not backed up of course. The d...
[14:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:26] <exec> 08└─It's hard to find fault with that, if you've had the privilege of supporting seldom-used inkjets without such a feature. You'll waste at least as much ink trying to clean the printheads after the ink dries out from a month without printing, and what's worse, you'll do it under time pressure; the who...
[14:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:29] <exec> 08└─And how do you know what Bot has or has not accomplished?
[14:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:31] <exec> 08└─If nobody spoke up, why did we have Dieselgate?
[14:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:41] <exec> 08└─Wait for the judges to die from coronavirus?
[14:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:42] <exec> 08└─No. International law shouldn't be a thing here. But what should be a thing is government obeying its own laws. Kinda hard to convince people to obey the law when even the government doesn't obey its own laws. If a government police officer breaks the law, he should be held responsible. 99 times out...
[14:57:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Internet Sage Says He'll Sell 14,000,000 IPv4 Addresses Worth $300m. - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:42] <exec> 08└─IPv6: So great people still don't implement it. It's only been around for over 20 years... That's a long time to have a supposedly tasty morsel sit on a plate untouched by anyone. Too bad we can't admit it mostly failed and try again for a next generation replacement. (Network effects!)
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[15:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:08] <exec> 08└─https://food.unl.edu/freezing-onions [unl.edu]
[15:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:09] <exec> 08└─On Good Eats, Alton Brown showed a way to get better results on freezing fruit and vegetables. Put a sheet pan in the freezer and get it good and cold. Then arrange the washed and cut items on it so they are not touching. Put sheet tray in freezer until everything is solid. Then transfer into a plas...
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[15:54:11] <exec> 08└─As noted you can freeze everything, it's just a matter of temperature. That said not all things turn out so good when defrosted. They are usually still eatable they might not just look, and taste, so good after their structure has exploded.
[15:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:13] <exec> 08└─In the time of Corona, you make do. I just ate some 10 year old frozen spinach in a curry and it was fine.
[15:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:15] <exec> 08└─When freezing milk and other liguids (soups, etc) remember to leave enough space in the container for the expansion. Those plastic gallons of milk, we commonly get at US grocery stores, will explode in a freezer ...you are better off using a little and remove the cap and let freeze before replacing...
[15:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:38] <exec> 08└─You are correct and I concede my initial point.
[15:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:40] <exec> 08└─Don't. Just... Don't.
[15:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:42] <exec> 08└─it was part groan, part growl, and part strangled scream.
[15:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:44] <exec> 08└─No, of course not. It will, however, en...dasf askl;fjqwo;rtqwjlfnas,v OP#Y*(!#54ltfn <Carrier Lost>
[15:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 4292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:46] <exec> 08└─I highly recommend reading Joel Spolsky's Strategy Letter V [joelonsoftware.com] where I was first introduced to the concept of "commoditize your complement. If Microsoft can wedge use of Defender into a large number of systems, then they can analyze the system's hardware and software (under the gui...
[15:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:49] <exec> 08└─> Rest assured that this is guaranteed to have the same quality, security and stability that you have come to expect from the Microsoft brand name. Count on it! IOW: complete garbage by a PRISM company. Count on it!
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[15:55:34] <exec> 08└─> mandatory decoupling between controller in the widest sense Agree. Occasionally I've been able to recover spinning magnetic hard disk data by replacing the controller board. Rather than take these (HPE SSD) kinds of risks with data, I'd be more inclined to use a controller that uses plugin microSD...
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[15:55:36] <exec> 08└─That example looks cool, but further searching reveals shortcomings: it probably can only do RAID 0, which is no good. Also, I don't think it does wear-leveling, TRIM, etc., so again, no good. But the concept is great.
[15:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:38] <exec> 08└─Rather than take these (HPE SSD) kinds of risks with data, I'd be more inclined to use a controller that uses plugin microSD cards. If the controller dies, or even an individual SD card, just replace the thing that died. One example, and it will run them in RAID: https://the-gadgeteer.com
[15:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:40] <exec> 08└─Know what businesses want? Certainty. I certainly didn't work harder than exactly what I was being paid to do too.
[15:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:42] <exec> 08└─> there's probably more printers sitting in homes seldom used than in offices And unfortunately, homes that rarely print are more likely to buy inkjets. It's incredibly frustrating to live near one of these.
[15:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:44] <exec> 08└─I's a terrible concept because you can just buy two normal SSDs of comparable storage capacity for the price of the micro-SD cards you pin this thing, still have change left over, and the normal SSDs will perform better and last longer.
[15:56:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06How Computational Power—or its Absence—Shaped World War Naval Battles - 601 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:16] <exec> 08└─If you should have the opportunity to tour the USS Alabama, be sure to look into Gun Plot. When I was there, much of Plot was barricaded off, and inaccessible. But, there you have one of the earliest examples of a computer capable of solving complex gunnery computations. From what I could see, there...
[15:56:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Computational Power—or its Absence—Shaped World War Naval Battles - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:22] <exec> 08└─I enjoy the bashing, actually. The fact that it doesn't hinder me, or even slow me down, only proves that I am stronger than all those -other people- who are offended with such petty pettiness.
[15:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Computational Power—or its Absence—Shaped World War Naval Battles - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:24] <exec> 08└─I'm standing on your toes, peering into your eyes, and breathing on you, waiting for you to do something about it . . .
[15:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:00] <exec> 08└─Instead of fixing copyright law, the government gets declared immune. How convenient.
[15:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:01] <exec> 08└─Do you know the process for replacing those judges and politicians? Where it begins? Who decides?
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[16:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:12] <exec> 08└─Out of work, stuck inside, might die, but at least I can breathe a sigh of fresh air.
[16:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:13] <exec> 08└─You guys forgot Russia who sent doctors and suppplies to Bergamo, Italy. From Russia with love [ft.com]
[16:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:26] <exec> 08└─A 10-year-old frozen curry might have been just as good - condiments comdiment. Handy hint - always put potatoes in curry you want to freeze, as they continue to leach up flavours from the spices, and end up quite fantastic.
[16:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:27] <exec> 08└─I'm sure this is how the eventual plague will get started ...
[16:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:29] <exec> 08└─Why would you freeze chocolate? It lasts for years. If stored at an inappropriate or variable temperature, it can bloom, but that barely affects the taste. Why would you freeze flour? It's a dry good, and lasts for years. Why would you freeze nuts? They last for years (OK, some better than others)....
[16:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:32] <exec> 08└─so be sure to read the source article for details before proceeding!
[16:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:34] <exec> 08└─What if we just bought what we needed instead of hording things and freezing them? Then we wouldn't have this artificial scarcity we're producing for absolutely no reason. Not because coronavirus isn't a real concern (it absolutely is) but because there we plenty of things to go around a month ago w...
[16:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:36] <exec> 08└─I think freezing/refrigerating keeps the grain/nut oils from oxidizing (?) and otherwise spoiling at room temperature. Chocolate is solid through-and-through, so I bet nothing can penetrate the surface to cause it to spoil.
[16:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:38] <exec> 08└─I say I need 50 lbs of rice and 20 lbs of oatmeal. I'm going to use it eventually.
[16:54:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:49] <exec> 08└─The noise I made on reading that isn't transcribable, but it was part groan, part growl, and part strangled scream.
[16:54:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KritonK [465] 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 1296 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:57] <exec> 08└─Whatever one's level of sophistication as a Linux user is, running an antivirus program on a mail server is generally a good idea, because the sysadmin's sophistication has nothing to do with the sophistication of the e-mail recipients, most of whom will be reading their e-mail on Windows machines,...
[16:55:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 4292 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:08] <exec> 08└─I highly recommend reading Joel Spolsky's Strategy Letter V [joelonsoftware.com] where I was first introduced to the concept of "commoditize your complement. If Microsoft can wedge use of Defender into a large number of systems, then they can analyze the system's hardware and software (under the gui...
[16:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:11] <exec> 08└─I don't like telemetry and sampling, but AV software is one of the areas where there is a direct and reasonable argument for it. It lets you catch -1 day vulnerabilities like this the font rendering bug [microsoft.com]. No disclosure, no POC code, caught as an exploit in the wild, and now we know it...
[16:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:13] <exec> 08└─I did not include any <no-sarcasm> tags.
[16:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:16] <exec> 08└─But I trust Microsoft only to work in their best interests (making money), not mine.
[16:55:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 559 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:29] <exec> 08└─Wow, "good job" HP. Because of the way servers are ordered by the pallet/rack, that would mean companies that rely on these will all face massive upgrade maintenance events, replacement efforts, or simultaneous clustered failures. This is one of those "all hands on deck" type problems that sysadmins...
[16:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:08] <exec> 08└─That is a "steely eyed missile man" level fix right there. Bravo. Hope the guy that did not do backups paid well for that service.
[16:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:10] <exec> 08└─I remember when companies like HP, like Boeing once did respectable engineering work and built quality products.
[16:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chinese Digital Spying is Becoming More Aggressive, Researchers Say - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:29] <exec> 08└─My doctor has access to my health records, so why should the police be restricted? My credit card company has access to my purchase history on a card, so does that mean that Target should have free access? The answer is because different people have different forms and levels of trust. Just because...
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[17:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:22] <exec> 08└─In Denmark we started out trolling as we do publishing a chinese flag with virus on it in a national newspaper, then we made fun of the chinese and their facemasks. Then we got hit and we lack materials. A few days ago we got a nice gift of 500k various protection goods from Alibaba founder Jack Ma....
[17:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:42] <exec> 08└─Grind together into a pulp, dry/bake in thin sheets, make into crumbly toilet paper, that is good for your skin to boot.
[17:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:43] <exec> 08└─According to TFA, you can freeze fresh herbs by mixing them with oil and freezing them in an ice cube tray. You can also chop them and freeze them plain, but depending on the herbs, you might need to blanch them first. (I.e., dip them in boiling water for a minute.) I've had good luck with parsley a...
[17:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:46] <exec> 08└─Back when I had a Costco membership I would freeze the 2 gal containers as-is with no problem. So, YMMV I guess....
[17:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:48] <exec> 08└─> there would be now if everyone just calmed down. Are people really panic buying now, 3 weeks after it all kicked off? Or is there really a problem with the supply chain?
[17:56:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 1493 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:04] <exec> 08└─About 10 years ago I did some work for an audio engineer who is moderately famous- you'll see his name in some TV show / movie credits. He was genius. Anyway, he had a Seagate 1 TB drive (huge 10 years ago) full of major paid recording sessions with significant people. Not backed up of course. The d...
[17:56:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:16] <exec> 08└─Actually, one mainboard I had had the BIOS updater as part of the BIOS itself: You would boot into BIOS, and then select a special option to read the new BIOS from an USB stick.
[17:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:17] <exec> 08└─Good thing HPE doesn't make ventilators.
[17:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:20] <exec> 08└─Make America Gasp Again.
[17:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Play's Malicious App Problem Infects 1.7 Million More Devices - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:48] <exec> 08└─Title: Frosty The Snowman Type: Animated Cartoon Runtime: 25 minutes Plot: A group of unruly children conspire to steal the hat of a kindly, hard working magician. To cover up their crime, they concoct a highly improbable tale of a snowman that comes to life.
[17:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mathematics of Life and Death: How Disease Models Shape National Policies - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:15] <exec> 08└─Grocery store (and other necessary) workers deserve proper PPE and hazard pay!
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[18:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:31] <exec> 08└─If you've never heard of MUMPS (I hadn't until just a few years ago) google around and read some stories. I think it's influential as an example of what *not* to do, and how you can get stuck with something awful because of sunk costs. It would be totally dead, except that it's too hard to kill. COB...
[18:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:43] <exec> 08└─I stepped on this blog article by chance https://www.jsatonotes.com [jsatonotes.com] It is very impressive. If you are too busy to read it, just check the map please. https://www.researchgate.net
[18:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:44] <exec> 08└─Jack Ma offered the US 500,000 face masks and thousands of ventilators. I haven't heard any thank you. Meantime Musk bought a few from China and now is the hero of the USSA.
[18:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:46] <exec> 08└─NO! I will not accept hope. We are all doomed! DOOMed I say! I too have become a epidemiological expert over the last two months. Behold! My online tables of international infection rates and six month mega-death projections. I mock your efforts to calm hysteria. I scoff behind my N95 mask at your a...
[18:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:48] <exec> 08└─If only there were evidence to support that assertion. For example: The spread speed is fast in Italy and western Europe and the U.S. while the spread speed among Russia, eastern European countries, and Asian countries except Wuhan city is slow.
[18:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:12] <exec> 08└─Works good for garlic too. Though definitely don't use an ice cube tray you plan on using for water later. :)
[18:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:14] <exec> 08└─I guess you mean freezing garlic with oil in ice cube trays. Chopped or whole cloves? I tried freezing plain garlic cloves once, without oil, and they turned orange! They were usable, but I don't want to try it again.
[18:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:16] <exec> 08└─"Why would you freeze flour? It's a dry good, and lasts for years." Not when these buggers get in there, which freezing prevents: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:49] <exec> 08└─Imo, this is a slick way to exfiltrate other peoples data for uncle Sam without invoking LI (legal intercept) or whatever secret agreements you US-ian guys have with the other Eyes.
[18:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VacuumTube [7693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:48] <exec> 08└─"So, Hanlon's razor. " You're right. We don't have enough evidence for a conviction, even if it is against HPE.
[18:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Play's Malicious App Problem Infects 1.7 Million More Devices - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:19] <exec> 08└─Google could ask everyone to stop uploading malicious apps into the play store. They could call it: don't be evil.
[18:57:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Computational Power—or its Absence—Shaped World War Naval Battles - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:36] <exec> 08└─There is already an app for Navel Warfair. Several in fact which play the classic Battleship bored game.
[18:57:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Attack on Home Routers Sends Users to Spoofed Sites that Push Malware - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:47] <exec> 08└─It remains unclear how attackers are compromising the routers.
[18:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:18] <exec> 08└─In that movie, Jiminy Cricket uses the word 'jackass'. Oh, my goodness! Quick! Cover the children's eyes!
[18:58:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:20] <exec> 08└─Wait, are you telling me . . .
[18:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:22] <exec> 08└─F**k sovereign immunity.
[18:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mathematics of Life and Death: How Disease Models Shape National Policies - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:56] <exec> 08└─The lockdowns in the West aren't full lockdowns.
[19:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The exFAT Filesystem is Coming to Linux - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:20] <exec> 08└─I format mine as ext4 and if someone can't read it I advise them to invest in a better computer.
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[19:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:33] <exec> 08└─Very [wikipedia.org] Interesting. [uni.edu] Interesting that a GPL version is available. I didn't know that BASIC (once my favorite language) and MUMPS shared a common ancestor: JOSS. Glad its not contagious. (but isn't the GPL a viral license?)
[19:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:34] <exec> 08└─The name suggests that the authors of MUMPS never actually intended it to be used. I mean, what would be a more effective way to signal “stay away” than naming your language after an infectious disease? On the other hand, maybe they hoped it would go viral with that name. Someone should invent a...
[19:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:37] <exec> 08└─Not invented here syndrome will forever stop us from using the "one perfect language" - even if it existed. I've heard of a half dozen or so locally grown script languages that started as a simple exercise and evolved to the point that Python would have been a much better choice, but too late, every...
[19:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:39] <exec> 08└─I guess it's not in the list because probably it is completely dead.
[19:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:41] <exec> 08└─I had to actually look at the article to confirm that FORTRAN was indeed not on that list, which is absolutely ludicrous.
[19:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:43] <exec> 08└─I nominate Ruby. Truly a historic and highly influential language that everyone knows. Also, C# 2.0
[19:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:45] <exec> 08└─FORTRAN is still going, but it is alive only in a very particular niche: high performance numerical simulations. I was surprised to learn that some old popular software (like text adventures, other stuff) from the 60s and early 70s were written in Fortran. Even 30 years ago, I thought it was purely...
[19:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:47] <exec> 08└─This again. I strongly suspect COBOL will outlive us all.
[19:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:01] <exec> 08└─On Saturday, Italy recorded its highest daily death toll of 793 new fatalities from COVID-19.
[19:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:03] <exec> 08└─Everyone can offer or pledge whatever they want on twitter. But did anyone actually receive them? Don't offer, post the proof of delivery, then the other parties can either DENY the proof of delivery or THANK YOU for the donation.
[19:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:05] <exec> 08└─Especially with something like this it's always going to be difficult to predict the peak. There is also going to be the issue of a gradual deterioration in reporting as the problem becomes more immense due to people dying in isolation and other similar problems.
[19:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:07] <exec> 08└─There's all kinds of ventilators. The University of Florida has put out a paper proposing "home grown" ventilators using common industrial valves and 3D printed parts. I suppose if I were dying, I'd take a UF 3D printed hack-a-vator rather than die, but... given a choice... I'd much rather have one...
[19:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:09] <exec> 08└─However, please do keep in mind that ~8600 Italians die of normal flu in a normal year.
[19:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:36] <exec> 08└─I asked at my local warehouse store as well as grocery, and they say they are restocking regularly. It really is (for now) people are still buying toilet paper as quickly as they stock it. I really don't know why, other than "I see everyone else buying it." Apparently everyone fancies themselves as...
[19:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:10] <exec> 08└─[Microsoft] shown time and time again that they're willing to lose money in a market indefinitelty to ensure that no one else makes money there either.
[19:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:11] <exec> 08└─"They squandered a lot of good will with their Windows 10 rollout. I will let others ride the bleeding edge and then come to a decision." disgustingly sycophantic. also, you can shove your MS link-filled stories up your Microshaft receptacle.
[19:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:14] <exec> 08└─No. Why would you bastardize your Gnu+Linux server with anti windows virus malware? All that does is perpetuate the current evil status quo. Yet the willing slaves suffer until they get uncomfortable enough to take action to free themselves. You are just whoring yourself and enabling the victimizati...
[19:56:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 249 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:32] <exec> 08└─It is not a bug, but a 'feature' imported from their experience selling printers. I must have owned at least 3 or 4 HP printers before switching to Brother. HP has/had good people, but short term profit just seems too enticing to their management.
[19:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:14] <exec> 08└─It's a good job that we are quoting Engadget then... We'll let HP take that issue up with them. And if HP thought that being copyrighted would stop the information from getting out - well, they can now see that they were mistaken.
[19:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:15] <exec> 08└─That seems like an overly expensive way to make a really slow SSD that will not last particularly long.
[19:57:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:17] <exec> 08└─Ah yes. The BSY brick bug. I still have this in my bookmarks for some reason https://sites.google.com [google.com]
[19:57:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:20] <exec> 08└─They aren't going to put some sort of battery-backed RTC in there. It has no idea how long it has been off or if maintenance is required, so it just assumes it is and does the clean and self test. Can't really fault it for that. Maybe you should leave your printer on and it will waste less.
[19:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Computational Power—or its Absence—Shaped World War Naval Battles - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:05] <exec> 08└─The long established British way to handle this was to "Invite your opposite number over for a nice put of tea". And also read the local papers, and tap the telegraph network.
[19:58:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Supreme Court Rules States are Not Liable for Copyright Violations - 226 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:24] <exec> 08└─North Carolina launches new video streaming service featuring entire Disney back catalog (including the racist ones) for $5 per month. "Fuck you, copyright holders, we got us some sovereen immunitee", says Governor Roy Cooper.
[19:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mathematics of Life and Death: How Disease Models Shape National Policies - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:24] <exec> 08└─At least Charter is giving workers $25 restaurant coupons. [arstechnica.com] (While AT&T front line people get a 20 % bonus. Is $25 coupon worth risking catching this virus? And for a restaurant! In a time of pandumbic.)
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[20:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:11] <exec> 08└─This is incredibly funny for everyone except the mail administrators :) Meanwhile, the system is choking under the load, and they're trying to keep things going.
[20:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:12] <exec> 08└─Attach a permission to emailing more than N people at once. Grant it generously and take it away if you get this kind of problem.
[20:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:14] <exec> 08└─They could always spin up new exchange instances in AWS, I hear Azure was running out of capacity
[20:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:16] <exec> 08└─Last time I checked Exchange wasn't an actual SMTP server. It's been so many, many years since I had the misfortune to administrate such a system, but I do remember needing to run a SMTP server separately.
[20:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Samantha Wright [4062] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:32] <exec> 08└─I... don't think the author should have written this article; it's rife with errors, distortions, and even a few pieces of outright misinformation. A PLT (programming language theory) specialist would've written a much shorter list, with little overlap. And an industry-centric languages list would b...
[20:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:33] <exec> 08└─Continuation Oriented Recursive Object Numerical Analyzer? Features: No function is valid unless it uses call/cc in some way, and if you attempt to encapsulate call/cc in some other control structure, it's an error. All data structure definitions must be self-referencing, and any attempt to create a...
[20:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:35] <exec> 08└─Not invented here syndrome will forever stop us from using the "one perfect language" English is close enough for me. For computers, you're supposed to speak binary.
[20:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:55] <exec> 08└─Easily the most innovative design. [gtech.co.uk]
[20:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:56] <exec> 08└─As a one who actually had a chance to try one, I'd prefer to die than do it again. It is, basically, constant waterboarding. My wife was given an instruction to never ever give a consent.
[20:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:58] <exec> 08└─Oh, no, we can't have level-headed facts clouding the motivations for a good panic. Lockdown4evah!
[20:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:00] <exec> 08└─When I read the article I was mostly thinking about very low death rate in Norway (still doing vaccination) and Germany (ended up quite recently). Their infection rate is quite high. As per Russia, most infections came from Europe through skiers - a rather expensive sport for a regular Russian - hen...
[20:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:03] <exec> 08└─THIS IS NOT THE FUCKING FLU!!! You are endangering people's lives with your stubborn ignorance.
[20:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:05] <exec> 08└─Don't they typically sedate you / induce a coma, so you would be unaware during the experience?
[20:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:08] <exec> 08└─Runaway's got a new gig as a MS troll, to supplement his Russian payments! At least some of the gig economy is not affected by Covid19!
[20:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:09] <exec> 08└─I bet if someone were to whip up a Microsoft Offender, there would be no need for advertising and publicity. Anyone who tries to stop Windows from doing what it does best, being pwned, is a traitor to humanity, and to geeks everywhere.
[20:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:12] <exec> 08└─I was implying laser. Inkjet printers are a mostly a bad investment in any situation. For some users, the ink will dry out before they use it a second time. They are meant to be cheap to buy and expensive to run. No surprise that many resellers used to throw them in with the sale of a desktop compu...
[20:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:14] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they used the same math they use to say it's 800GB or 1.6TB
[21:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The exFAT Filesystem is Coming to Linux - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:37] <exec> 08└─That commit was signed off by "Sasha Levin" . As an agent of Microsoft with apparent authority to authorize commits to the Linux tree coupled with Microsoft having agreed to the OIN License, granted access under provisions 1.2 of the agreement, among others, to all other licensees of the OIN by allo...
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[21:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:12] <exec> 08└─In a Java application server I am able to SMTP email to an Exchange server to be relayed to end users. "you have 2 new somethings you need to approve", etc. I agree that I wouldn't call it an SMTP server. But it can accept email that way. This includes two message bodies (plain text | html) and file...
[21:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:14] <exec> 08└─Since the employees are taking it (and contributing) with good humor, what a great way to promote camaraderie. But, yeah, warning notice or limited permissions would be appropriate next time.
[21:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:16] <exec> 08└─True poetic justice would be if it could spread malware to every single Microsoft internal recipient, without them even needing to read the email. That would truly serve Microsoft right. After all, as martyb asks: Laughter is the best medicine? Yes, it is.
[21:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:18] <exec> 08└─Laughter is the best medicine?
[21:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:20] <exec> 08└─Try making a coronavirus joke. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Don't do that, they'll charge you with making terroristic threats.
[21:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:39] <exec> 08└─Honestly most language theorists have no clue what makes a language good. And who can blame them when most developers will opt to use the tool they're most familiar with rather than the tool most appropriate to do the job?
[21:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:41] <exec> 08└─Only when you include the sugar. Comparing vanilla COBOL to the sweetened syntax should make you cry.
[21:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:43] <exec> 08└─Similarly, Lisp will never die. It is the de facto language for software development on new hardware developments. One of the first things they do is write a lisp cross-compiler for it. As the best example of that, all quantum computing code is written or transpiled to lisp.
[21:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:45] <exec> 08└─Someone should invent a bad programming language and name it CORONA.
[21:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:47] <exec> 08└─The article points out that FORTRAN is not quite dead. Therefore it does not quality to be on the dead languages list. But what about dead natural languages? Latin? French? Etc.
[21:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:49] <exec> 08└─In about the year 9997, when the Y10K problem is right around the corner, and everything must be udpated for five digit years, there will suddenly be a lot of job openings for COBOL.
[21:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:51] <exec> 08└─You are right, but... the best tool is usually the one you know inside-out. The ramp-up time and potential unknown traps of a language that is new to you usually outweigh any theoretical benefit of adopting a new language along with its supporting ecosystem. I am assuming the language you already kn...
[21:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:17] <exec> 08└─> issue of a gradual deterioration in reporting as the problem becomes more immense due to people dying in isolation and other similar problems. In Spain that staff had abandoned nursing home patients. The living patients were left to fend for themselves among the bodies of the dead. https://www.nyt...
[21:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:18] <exec> 08└─Tens of thousands illegal Ukrainian workers walk back home through the Polish border. https://www.reuters.com [reuters.com] The Reuters picture does not show the extent of it. They...
[21:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:20] <exec> 08└─My wife was sedated when they intubated her for an emergency C-section. Very competent hospital staff, calm setting, nothing to rush them really - but... she's still scarred in her trachea 18 years later.
[21:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:22] <exec> 08└─I think you are endangering peoples' lives with a chicken little maximal response to an opaque situation. I'd expect Italy's total COVID-19 deaths for the year to top 86,000 unless social distancing has significant positive impact. The truth is: "we don't know." Everyone who is going MAX LOCKDOWN! o...
[21:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:25] <exec> 08└─Here's three heartening contributions by medical professionals among the storm of mainstream media, social media, politicians and the panicked. Israeli former Ministry of Health director-general Prof. Yoram Lass: https://en.globes.co.il [globes.co.il] Stanford p...
[21:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:27] <exec> 08└─Misread that. Emeritus virology professor Karin Mölling's interview is still available until 2021, which is next year.
[21:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:29] <exec> 08└─I woke up from my surgery on this thing. It was truly horrible. I could not talk and I could not see but I made them to give me paper and a pen and I demanded they remove it. I threatened them with a fight. Since they could not restrain me for the fear of stitches breaking, they complied. They did t...
[21:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:31] <exec> 08└─Go Fuck yourself It's not the flu, it's not the flu, it's not the fucking flu. My chicken little? Yeah, because everything I'm saying isn't coming to pass right? Right? Check the dead in New York you stupid fuck!! Stop saying it's like the FLU!! This ain't NOTHING LIKE THE FLU!!! That's a fact MOTHE...
[21:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:33] <exec> 08└─I will be on your stupid fucking ass everytime you spout this inaccurate stupid fucking bullshit!! YOU people will be what gets MORE people killed. I'm not saying 8 months, that's you and YOUR chicken little bullshit mother fucker!!!!! What we need is about 8 weeks of people fucking cooperating, and...
[21:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:37] <exec> 08└─With these stupid headlines? What I need to know? How about you write the fucking article and I'll digest the information myself. It started with Buzzfeed and now those people have found their way to legitimate sources.
[21:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, many do that now, maybe most. And I'm super glad they got away from having to run Windows just to update firmware. :)
[21:57:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:44] <exec> 08└─Oh gosh, not sure if I should thank you for bringing back the memory, but thank you. I don't remember all of those details. Maybe I had found a different procedure? I don't remember doing the cardboard insulator. Have you done that procedure to a drive? My solution: never ever ever buy a Seagate dri...
[21:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Digital Spying is Becoming More Aggressive, Researchers Say - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:04] <exec> 08└─This story is about cyber espionage, not individual spying. The parent is making the flawed argument that this is ok because the five eyes do it. But we're talking about espionage. China is doing their normal thing, hack in, steal IP them copy paste. I don't see why Trump doesn't put up a big firewa...
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[22:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret About Uranus - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:08] <exec> 08└─How MANY secrets can there be about Uranus!?
[22:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret About Uranus - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:09] <exec> 08└─Is there some reason mere Soylentils can no longer see the filters on the Subs list? Gas Giant minds want to know.
[22:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret About Uranus - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:11] <exec> 08└─Is Uranus is shrinking?
[22:54:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:20] <exec> 08└─This is incredibly funny for everyone except the mail administrators :) Meanwhile, the system is choking under the load, and they're trying to keep things going.
[22:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:30] <exec> 08└─at a government department at which I worked, only people at grade 6 or above (effectively, Managers) could send 'all staff' emails, and the all-staff and whole-of-department email groups were even more tightly controlled - you had to email a very senior department manager with the email body, and a...
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[22:54:32] <exec> 08└─10cc's of the giggles, stat
[22:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:34] <exec> 08└─staff are now hitting Reply All for the sheer fun of it
[22:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:36] <exec> 08└─at a government department at which I worked, only people at grade 6 or above (effectively, Managers) could send 'all staff' emails
[22:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:02] <exec> 08└─Dartmouth DTSS BASIC was a compiler not an interpreter. You would input, edit, and save your source code using a line editor on your Teletype printing terminal. Lines starting with a digit were placed in the file being edited. Lines beginning with a letter were commands to the OS or to the editor. T...
[22:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0610 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:04] <exec> 08└─Doesn't match with my experience. I would say writing a simple C compiler for it comes very early. But who knows, maybe C is the first compiled language they create and LISP the first interpreted. I don't know.
[22:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:40] <exec> 08└─I know I threw the match on your house but I came back with a fire extinguisher, didn't I?!?! Come on, world!! I mean....come ON! I know it's only the second, or third...or maybe fourth major plague we've inflicted on you in the past 20 years or so but...I mean, come on!
[22:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:42] <exec> 08└─This article is written by a management consultant, and his very first sentence starts "I am not a medical expert ...". I'm going to go out on a limb here and suggest that he probably doesn't have the slightest clue what he's talking about, and is instead a quack trying to sell you something.
[22:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:44] <exec> 08└─Germany has a higher test rate than most countries, so it may simply be a case of them finding mild cases while other countries only find severe cases.
[22:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:46] <exec> 08└─Turns out our county executive (Erie County, western NY State) has a pretty good voice-- https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Covers a song by the Goos, a band that is originally from here.
[22:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:48] <exec> 08└─The German speaking cantons of Switzerland have lower infection rates than the French and Italian.
[22:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:51] <exec> 08└─I think it's too late to try and kill it, we need to be infected - slowly. The best strategy is to use distancing and other measurements to slow the spread so that hospitals can manage the load and meanwhile work fucking hard to come up with treatments that lower the mortality rate. Those in the cri...
[22:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coronavirus: Six Heartening Stories You may have Missed - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:53] <exec> 08└─Very thick limb you have there, Thexalon.
[22:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Defender for Linux is Coming. This is What you Need to Know - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:58] <exec> 08└─Where is my "Microsoft Defender Inside" sticker^w warning label?
[22:57:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bats Depend on Teamwork when Foraging Over Farmland - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:05] <exec> 08└─One bat looks for bugs while the other looks for humans to infect with Coronavirus.
[22:58:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Chinese Digital Spying is Becoming More Aggressive, Researchers Say - 201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:22] <exec> 08└─Of course, we, the Five Eyes and company, don't spy on anyone. We're a bunch of innocent children, and it's just those evil Chinese spying on people. And, oh yeah, Russians!! Don't forget the Russians!
[22:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Digital Spying is Becoming More Aggressive, Researchers Say - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:28] <exec> 08└─"I'll still take them over "suppress the Uygers" "suppress the freedoms of Hong Kong" and literally countless other problems of mainland China." Yeah...much better than the 'invade because WMD' that mysteriously disappear after fait accompli people, or the Guantanamo Bay fappening people, or the 'us...
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[23:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret About Uranus - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:08] <exec> 08└─https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/27/world/uranus-plasmoid-voyager-2-scn/index.html [cnn.com] "Scientists are currently exploring future opportunities to visit Uranus and Neptune," DiBraccio said. "This includes mission concepts that would send spacecraft to orbit one of these planets and even send a prob...
[23:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret About Uranus - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:09] <exec> 08└─Well the gas was probably methane, so we could say: Researchers Hot on the sent of old Voyager data, sniff out that Uranus is farting.
[23:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Revisiting Decades-Old Voyager 2 Data, Scientists Find One More Secret About Uranus - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:11] <exec> 08└─Uranus' cloud tops
[23:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:31] <exec> 08└─I heard that if you wear a Cubs jersey you won't be able to catch anything.
[23:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Staff Giggle Beneath the Weight of a 52,000-Person Reply-All Email Storm - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:32] <exec> 08└─He wanted to print a page in the companies (pdf) HR manual but neglected to chose one page. He sent an 8000 page pdf to the POS invoice printer instead of the plain paper printer and didn't know how to stop it. He tried rebooting the computer and it restarted the print job from the beginning.
[23:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:09] <exec> 08└─Cookie sheets work well for freezing fresh raspberries. The berries in the back yard come over a few weeks, too fast to eat all at once. We still have a pint bag left from last summer. I use them in cereal, they do get mushy as soon as they are defrosted, but the flavor is great.
[23:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Foods You Can Freeze Besides Meat and Produce (with Caveats) - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:10] <exec> 08└─Unless I skipped over it, no one mentioned frozen fish. We happen to like steelhead trout and for awhile one of the more distant local markets had a good source that was vacuum bagged and frozen directly after filleting. At first we bought it defrosted in the fish case (and cooked that day). Later w...
[23:57:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nuke [3162] 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:13] <exec> 08└─Not sure if I should have modded this as funny or insightful.
[23:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An Enterprise SSD Flaw Will Brick Hardware after Exactly 40,000 Hours - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:59] <exec> 08└─This is modded funny but it should be modded "+5 Plausible."