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[00:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 4,000 Android Apps Silently Access Your Installed Software - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:17] <exec> 08└─OK, so precious few people actually look at TOS, licenses, privacy disclosures, etc etc ad nauseum. And, even fewer people have any meaningful training, to understand all that nonsense. And, not everyone is as paranoid as a paranoid nerd. Still, no one even bothers to look anything up on the interne...
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[00:54:19] <exec> 08└─Weren't we told that app stores would be a benefit for the user by ensuring that the applications downloaded were safe? It seems that a week doesn't go by without another story of either wide-spread abuse by applications on official app stores, and/or some particularly egregious bad behavior by one...
[00:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03broggyr [3589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 4,000 Android Apps Silently Access Your Installed Software - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:21] <exec> 08└─Microtransactions.
[00:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Than 4,000 Android Apps Silently Access Your Installed Software - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:23] <exec> 08└─Did your mother drop you on your head when you were a baby, or was the damage genetic? The last thing you want on your phone is the *nix model because that leads to systemd.
[00:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 4,000 Android Apps Silently Access Your Installed Software - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:25] <exec> 08└─I was pissed some 6 months ago to find my flashlight app was collecting all sorts of info on me. I immediately deleted it, then my cat knocked that phone into my cup of tea. My new phone (which, to be honest, I liked my old LG Power X over my new Samsung A20) has the flashlight built into the settin...
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[00:54:49] <exec> 08└─it needs updating every two hours, whenever a new exploit gets found out
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[00:56:05] <exec> 08└─Strange how the payscales in those "deplorable" areas is adjusted to keep the proportion.
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[00:56:06] <exec> 08└─They made it clear it was satire by linking to announcements about clinical trials while the text denied they were taking place. I don't think too many people on SN actually believe those things. However, there are trolls who will post such things, probably because they know they'll get over the top...
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[01:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Low Code And No Code: A Looming Trend In Mobile App Development - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:13] <exec> 08└─If all you need to code is that which has been coded before, no code options are possible and very much the way to go. If you are developing new or original thoughts - no code solutions won't exist, and low code solutions are unlikely (unless your original thoughts are very simple...) Different tool...
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[01:54:15] <exec> 08└─It's just marketing drivel. Folks have been blathering on about this for decades [wikipedia.org]: Though not given a specific name until June 9, 2014,[2] by the industry analyst Forrester Research [wikipedia.org], the low-code development platform market traces back to 2011.[3] LCDPs trace their roo...
[01:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 4,000 Android Apps Silently Access Your Installed Software - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:27] <exec> 08└─Weren't we told that app stores would be a benefit for the user by ensuring that the applications downloaded were safe?
[01:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Than 4,000 Android Apps Silently Access Your Installed Software - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:28] <exec> 08└─What if the app came pre-installed on the device and can't be removed without hacking?
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[01:54:54] <exec> 08└─Continuing your analogy that can only mean you want to make things worse. Why? Isn't the web fucked up enough?
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[01:54:56] <exec> 08└─and hog farms http://www.tmi-comic.com [tmi-comic.com]
[01:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ingenious Way TV Logos Were Made Before Computers - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:07] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoDuoegMpms [youtube.com]
[01:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:14] <exec> 08└─Strange how the payscales in those "deplorable" areas is adjusted to keep the proportion.
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[01:57:28] <exec> 08└─The funny part is you're bringing that up for literally no reason. Re-read the post and then try and figure out how you're comment comes in.
[01:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:24] <exec> 08└─I wrote 6 digit date translation and verification ASM code in 1980's that will fail in 2077, fixed our y2k error. I wrote in the comments, that I will repair in 2050, if I same still here. Got 30 more years to go, but was 4 companies ago. :)
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[02:54:30] <exec> 08└─How many times already, have you observed a flood of exactly these promises fountain out of industry rags, only to bubble a bit then ebb without trace? I can remember no less than three, not that I counted.
[02:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Low Code And No Code: A Looming Trend In Mobile App Development - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:31] <exec> 08└─Clarke's third law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Adrian's corollary: The same is true for what that advanced technology provides: processor cycles per unit of time and/or amounts of memory indirection.
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[02:54:33] <exec> 08└─At my work we call it "pretty picture programming". The idiots-in-charge drank the cool-aid, so where before we had a system that required one-person occasional maintenance we now have two people full time on trying to make this nonsense do what we want. Pretty Picture Programming - makes simple thi...
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[02:54:36] <exec> 08└─My first experience started in 1990. Yes 30yrs ago. First was main frame development system (wish I could remember the name) running on S/38 (then AS/300) and IBM MAIN Frames. The actual tool ran on PS/2 model 70(?). I reverse engineered our system to their model and feed in 1million lines code, OC...
[02:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Low Code And No Code: A Looming Trend In Mobile App Development - 1191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:38] <exec> 08└─The supposed 'no code' systems are sold as "configuration only", so no developer time, so 'just' Business Analysts doing all the work.. until something (usually integration-related) requires "changes to the middleware" - which only those missing developers can do... Further, if a form, field, or 'bo...
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[02:54:51] <exec> 08└─Weren't we told that Windows is safe? Weren't we told that we were holding our iPhone wrong?
[02:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:20] <exec> 08└─"Before JS there was Flash and Applets," No. That may be technically true, but they weren't the pervasive threat the words convey today. Without jscript, how do you autolaunch your flash monstrosity? Hmm? You can't. You can only provide a link to download, and instructions on how to download the fla...
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[02:55:21] <exec> 08└─Can't get any worse. Of course, that is the dumbest comment proven almost universally timelessly wrong. Still, it's the darkest before it turns utter pitch black, you dig?
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[02:56:17] <exec> 08└─I ordered my degree from Liberty U two weeks ago - where's my job saving lives? I have this idea about chloroquinamine. Another idea is to make a ring of roses and a pocket full of posies, a tissue tissue we all pick ourselves up by our bootstraps.
[02:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:42] <exec> 08└─Too bad Liberty U is shut down after Trump buddy Jerry Falwell, jr reopened he school after break and students started coming down with Covid 19. https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[02:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:44] <exec> 08└─Maybe try "Coward, Anonymous", or like James Bond, "Coward, Anonymous Coward".
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[03:54:19] <exec> 08└─Don't forget: January 22: “We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China. It's going to be just fine.” February 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.” February 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA…...
[03:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:21] <exec> 08└─It's what the democrat media has been presenting as THE thing keeping us from being released from house arrest, a lack of testing. So does that mean we can get back to work again now?
[03:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Low Code And No Code: A Looming Trend In Mobile App Development - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, RAD is rapid until you want to do what the framework doesn't provide or provides after too many configuration options. BUT there is a definite class of problems that today are tackled with fucking excel sheets which might be solved better with RAD tools. RAD done right should include programmab...
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[03:55:20] <exec> 08└─Anybody know enough Russian to read the court document and summarize the circumstances of his crime?
[03:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Using an App to Track Your Bike Ride Could Result in Your Becoming a Suspect - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:18] <exec> 08└─At least it wasn't a long shaggy dog.
[03:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:58] <exec> 08└─https://www.xkcd.com/2030/ [xkcd.com]
[03:58:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:54] <exec> 08└─FreeBSD has Unicode console. No X11 necessary. Unlike poor Linux...
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[04:54:22] <exec> 08└─This is one of them antibody tests, it detects presence of antibody against the covid-19 in blood sample. The problems? 1. The antibody is produced only after a several days/weeks, it will not detect newly infected. 2. The sensitivity/specificity of these tests are crap. The test has its use, for ex...
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[04:54:24] <exec> 08└─Citation(s) for your claims please? According to this: https://www.abbott.com [abbott.com] ... Molecular testing technologies help detect the presence of a virus by identifying a small section of the virus' genome, th...
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[04:54:26] <exec> 08└─South Korea has done extensive testing, which has allowed them to avoid the lockdowns in the rest of the world. Testing was done early and often, allowing them to quickly isolate people who were infected and prevent the virus from spreading. They also did extensive contact tracing, so that anyone wh...
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[04:54:28] <exec> 08└─It would be more useful if you had data from the future. Data from the past is... past.
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[04:54:30] <exec> 08└─I read thru your link (the vendor's PR piece) and there is not a single mention of PCR. Give me something more objective. Bunch of outfits all over the world claimed to have invented tests that come back with results in a few minutes, with no lab equipment, and all of them are antibody tests with cr...
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[04:54:32] <exec> 08└─Fuck you fnord. You are a fucking idiot, the moron "editor" of SN.
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[04:54:35] <exec> 08└─> not a single mention of PCR Point taken. However, there is also no mention of antibodies either. Jury still out? Anyone know more about the specific mechanisms used?
[04:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:37] <exec> 08└─Here you go: April 2: We have a 15-minute test, everyone's back to work, thanks to my excellent leadership! April 5: Stock market is back to sort of mid-2018 levels! I'm awesome!
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[04:54:39] <exec> 08└─I have data from the future: Sometime in the future: "They have done excellent job, excellent, job, i have done excellent job, just marvellu.. lo... marv... the bets job ever, we have the best people in the world in amerrrrr here, they are the most bestest. I have led them in this war against the ba...
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[05:00:46] <exec> 08└─I came to check on just this. I had read previously that KDE used the same STT as mycro, but I didn't see the claim that it was "locally-processed" until now. I was curious if that meant that Mycroft final implemented an implemented a form of "in house" STT. They (Mycroft) say they intend to provide...
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[05:54:31] <exec> 08└─Antibody titer and complement fixation tests can test for both antibodies and antigens. In addition, there sensitivity/specificity isn't "crap." You can get all sorts of approved tests with high sensitivities and specificities. The reason why most people think they are crap is because they are usual...
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[05:54:32] <exec> 08└─That was the Instructions/Insert information. This is the actual EUA: https://www.fda.gov [fda.gov] but it isn't nearly as interesting.
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[05:54:34] <exec> 08└─The test is not what allowed South Korea to get back to work. What has let them go back to work is that they realize what the US has forgotten, that the business of the country is business.
[05:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Low Code And No Code: A Looming Trend In Mobile App Development - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:48] <exec> 08└─Even longer than that, it's been going on since the dawn of time computing-wise with things like AUTOCODE in the 1950s. This nonsense crops up every 12-18 months, whenever someone pushing some new product gets the attention of an IT journalist.
[05:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 4,000 Android Apps Silently Access Your Installed Software - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:04] <exec> 08└─And, you paid for that phone, with the trash preinstalled. Some people can smell a sucker coming from a mile away.
[05:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ingenious Way TV Logos Were Made Before Computers - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:45] <exec> 08└─I wish I wish I knew how they made the original Dr. Who intro from mid-1970's.
[05:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ingenious Way TV Logos Were Made Before Computers - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:46] <exec> 08└─For example, to design the icons for Google's Material Design language, designers cut and folded paper prototypes of the icons before translating them into digital pixels.
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[06:00:44] <exec> 08└─Just to follow up, work has progressed since I last looked. There appears to be an implementation in active development, but it's not complete yet. As seen here https://mycroft-ai.gitbook.io [gitbook.io] Mycroft has intentionally been built in a modular fashion, so this is...
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[06:54:41] <exec> 08└─No, you fucking dipshit. What allowed South Korea to get back to work was that they all cooperated early, had a decent medical system, and flattened the shit out the curve. It was their success against the virus that allowed them to get back to work. Guess if adequate testing capacity was a part of...
[06:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ingenious Way TV Logos Were Made Before Computers - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:54] <exec> 08└─If we're thinking of the same season(s), it was video feedback. [wikipedia.org]
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[06:57:04] <exec> 08└─Circle circle, dot dot, now you've got your cooties shot
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[07:54:19] <exec> 08└─Well, of course, it's knot wrong. But with light, one can never be certain. Slits, and what knot.
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[07:54:41] <exec> 08└─Here's a description of the device [medline.com] and it looks like this is the appropriate wiki for the process [wikipedia.org]. It does indeed appear to be some kind of portable DNA amplification device.
[07:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Low Code And No Code: A Looming Trend In Mobile App Development - 1518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:57] <exec> 08└─I never accepted mental shift of emerged late IT culture from programmers to developers. It is a cultural diversion. I repeat that: it is a cultural diversion, by non-programmers, purpose of which is to prevent people en masse from actually learning how to code, how to code perfectly and how to code...
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[07:54:59] <exec> 08└─The supposed 'no code' systems are sold as "configuration only" I'll just leave this old comment I made on the green site. [slashdot.org]
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[07:55:15] <exec> 08└─You may wish to install Blokada from FDroid, you'd be surprised how many connections to questionable URLs it blocks. Mine has blocked over 60,000 since November though I do own a Xiaomi phone.
[07:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:19] <exec> 08└─Maybe we *do* need an international trade court, to put the US back where it belongs. Thoughts?
[07:56:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:56:21] <exec> 08└─Pretty soon every country in the world will stop doing business with the US. We are on the path to irrelevancy and it's an orange monkey's fault. We shouldn't be sanctioning other countries because they are doing better than us. It's hurt ego, unproductive, and shows the monkey's alliegance is with...
[07:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:21] <exec> 08└─ᛚᚩᚩᛱ ᛱᛁᛞ ᚫᛋᚳᛁᛁ ᛁᛋ ᚾᚩᛏ ᚩᛚᛞ. ᛖᚢᛖᚾ ᛩᚻᛖᚱᛏᚤ ᛁᛋ ᚾᚩᛏ ᚩᛚᛞ. ᚤᚩᚢ ᚻᚫᚾᛏ ᚩᛚᛞ ᚤᚩᚢ ᚷᚩᛏᛏᚫ ᚢᛋᛖ ᚱᚢᚾᛖᛋ!
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[08:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Junior Scientists at the University of Rostock Invent a Funnel for Light - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:21] <exec> 08└─This is a bad summary as it doesn't even explain how a light "funnel" is different to a "lens".
[08:54:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 941 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:48] <exec> 08└─No, you fucking dipshit. What allowed South Korea to get back to work was that they all cooperated early, had a decent medical system, and flattened the shit out the curve. It was their success against the virus that allowed them to get back to work. Guess if adequate testing capacity was a part of...
[08:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:51] <exec> 08└─Either way it is still a game changer. Once everyone gets tested and results come back saying everyone already has or had it, we can then tell the douchebags in power to stop overreacting.
[08:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 2568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:53] <exec> 08└─The FDA bureaucracy is a big problem. So are bureaucrats at other levels. They're preventing medical supplies from getting to those who need them. 1) Former NBA star Stephon Marbury arranged to have 10 million N95 masks sent from a Chinese supplier to New York at $2.75 each, which is well below the...
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[08:54:55] <exec> 08└─FNord's job is to quote the source, he does not make up the soundbites himself. He verifies it is what the source actually said, prepares the source material to display correctly on our site, and schedules it for release. If you don't like the message you should be blaming USA Today, not the editor...
[08:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 1273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:57] <exec> 08└─If everyone has COVID-19 or had already contracted it, we wouldn't be seeing exponential growth in cases. The data do NOT support your statement, which is utterly ridiculous. Of the known cases of COVID-19 in Italy, the case fatality rate is at 11.03%. Yes, it's at 11%. Spain's case fatality rate is...
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[08:54:59] <exec> 08└─It was their success against the virus that allowed them to get back to work. Guess if adequate testing capacity was a part of that?
[08:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:01] <exec> 08└─Close, it is actually https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] but I didn't cite that in my earlier post that contained the link to the documents on the FDA website because I wanted to see if OP would actually read them or continue ba...
[08:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:05] <exec> 08└─These are strawmen. One thing that has spilled over from mobile is fine grained permissions. These allow (or will allow) a much more fine grained control over what apps can do than was ever possible before. Also I disagree with your second point. In the end a program will do something. How it got th...
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[09:55:01] <exec> 08└─People who don't know anything about programming think the hard part about programming is learning the language. "If only we didn't have to learn the language, we wouldn't need programmers!" That is why ancient languages like COBOL and SQL have "English-like" syntax. SQL was intended for non-program...
[09:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03sorokin [187] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 2539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:49] <exec> 08└─I'll try to translate as much as I can. Disclamer: I know very little of legal terminology (both in Russian and in English), therefore I will try translating only the parts that make sense to me. He was driving his motorcycle at speed 60 km/h (37.3mph; this is the maximum allowed speed while driving...
[09:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ingenious Way TV Logos Were Made Before Computers - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:56:05] <exec> 08└─Some of them were filmed through a kaleidoscope. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[09:58:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Internet Archive Suspends E-Book Lending "Waiting Lists" During U.S. National Emergency - 822 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:02] <exec> 08└─Lets see how long this lasts before some publisher slaps with some lawsuit... wait, are lawyers considered an "essential" business that may remain open? :P At the rate things are going, I'm honestly wondering if things will ever get back to normal. This emergency has allowed so many things to happen...
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[09:58:04] <exec> 08└─Oh yes. For groups that want things that are harmful or contrary to society know: 'Never let a good tragedy go to waste.' The reason they were able to pass the US PATRIOT act so quickly was because law enforcement and intelligence agencies had a wish list ready for the right tragedy that would allow...
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[10:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grsecurity Maker Finally Coughs Up $300k to Foot Bruce Perens' Legal Bill - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:14] <exec> 08└─Attorney fees are obscene.
[10:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:11] <exec> 08└─Pulse can dynamically reroute audio streams and stream over the network. It also acts as an intermediately layer for the 500+ sound APIs that have appeared over the years. I don't like Pulse, but ALSA is a fucking nightmare to work with, and a horrid case of NIH after OSS came out of the kernel.
[10:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, thoughts. Who runs this court? Where does the court think that the US "belongs"? There are reasons, both legitimate and illegitimate, why the US won't submit to the jurisdiction of various international courts. The US has never surrendered any military personnel accused of war crimes to an int...
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[10:56:52] <exec> 08└─Not necessary. Oil is on the way out. With that, the dollar is losing a lot of clout. Energy production is increasingly local. Influence is already waning. Production is located in China, for better or worse. These new shenanigans will only make sure that US technology will lose its place in critica...
[11:00:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EJ [2452] 02 - 06Now That Everyone's Using Zoom, Here Are Some Privacy Risks You Need to Watch Out For - 233 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:14] <exec> 08└─Why in the fuck would I use Zoom? Who is this even useful for? Why do I want to look at someone's face? That's not useful information. If they want to have a useful meeting, then all I need to see is the presentation on their screen.
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[11:54:09] <exec> 08└─No. The moral of this story is: Don't file bullshit lawsuits.
[11:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:57] <exec> 08└─The FDA has given temporary approval to Trump's recommended cure. Meanwhile, the French report over a thousand people cured by it. Yes, that's the anti-malaria drug that was ridiculed by CNN and the New York Times as soon as Trump mentioned it. It's the only authorized drug in India, and it just bec...
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[11:54:58] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of tests, they found the number of cases increases as a near constant proportion of number of tests: https://i.ibb.co [i.ibb.co] https://i.ibb.co [i.ibb.co] https://i.ibb.co [i.ibb.co] Ie, this virus is already everywh...
[11:55:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] 02 - 06Low Code And No Code: A Looming Trend In Mobile App Development - 1518 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:15] <exec> 08└─I never accepted mental shift of emerged late IT culture from programmers to developers. It is a cultural diversion. I repeat that: it is a cultural diversion, by non-programmers, purpose of which is to prevent people en masse from actually learning how to code, how to code perfectly and how to code...
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[12:54:15] <exec> 08└─Like I'm going to follow the advice of an organization that is lying for china's 'feelings'.
[12:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:17] <exec> 08└─> we reach for the salt shaker much more than is good for us In Capitalist America, salt chooses you! I don't use a salt shaker. I never add salt. It's really hard to avoid salt in America, because the food here is loaded with salt. Restaurant food, frozen meals, pretty much any kind of prepared foo...
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[12:54:27] <exec> 08└─I think the story is big enough to have more than one moral :)
[12:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grsecurity Maker Finally Coughs Up $300k to Foot Bruce Perens' Legal Bill - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:29] <exec> 08└─Morality is subjective enough to cover loads of bullshit :)
[12:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Novel Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) Is Potential Next-Gen Semiconductor - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:37] <exec> 08└─https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5a749b2fa5fde0000189ffc0/5b6b30fa681f894e2fb15ddd_20180724_1115_3DSoC.pdf [webflow.com] Slide 8
[12:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Low Code And No Code: A Looming Trend In Mobile App Development - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:39] <exec> 08└─I repeat that: it is a cultural diversion, by non-programmers, purpose of which is to prevent people en masse from actually learning how to code, how to code perfectly and how to code complex problems perfectly.
[12:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Low Code And No Code: A Looming Trend In Mobile App Development - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:41] <exec> 08└─If they didn't bid cheap and lie, it might be okay.. but that is all system/software sales, these days, so.. you get what you pay for (plus Change Requests!) Microsoft should be all of the evidence anyone ever needs that in the tech industry, or capitalism in general, the ability to sell dramaticall...
[12:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06More Than 4,000 Android Apps Silently Access Your Installed Software - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:59] <exec> 08└─I assume Blockada is a firewall type app. I installed something similar on my old phone and noticed my battery life went to hell. Uninstalled it, battery life went back to normal. But yeah, it was amazing how much crap my phone sends out to "someone".
[12:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:32] <exec> 08└─"These allow (or will allow) a much more fine grained control over what apps can do than was ever possible before. " So what? Pointing my web browser to your server (likely via a link, perhaps even a disguised link) does not constitute consent to run your app. When you lose that, you really strike a...
[12:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:14] <exec> 08└─An important consideration is this. Are they lying more or less than the people who tell us that they are lying?
[12:58:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:06] <exec> 08└─Landlords always charge what the market will bear, no matter where you live or how much you make. If you live somewhere where rent is cheaper, your pay will be less commensurately.
[12:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:58:07] <exec> 08└─If you live somewhere where rent is cheaper, your pay will be less commensurately.
[13:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seven Stages of Open Software - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:32] <exec> 08└─The use of Gitlab often makes me loose interest in a project, because it's not accessable without JS. Gitea and Gogs are better if you want that Github experience. Of couse a plain cgit is what I would prefer.
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[13:54:09] <exec> 08└─So, ff you have high blood pressure (or a tendency to it if you forget the meds), AND autoimmune conditions where your overactive immune system regularly tries to kill you in interesting ways, what do you do?
[13:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:11] <exec> 08└─The other immune system enemy, sugar.
[13:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:13] <exec> 08└─I was going to say the same thing... I never add salt to anything (and haven't for over 25 years.) However, I know I get more than the recommended amount just by eating food. The more processed something is, the worse it is. Fast food is absolutely horrible... Frozen dinners are also really bad. I l...
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[13:54:15] <exec> 08└─my guess would be in those conditions, you die.
[13:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Novel Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) Is Potential Next-Gen Semiconductor - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:34] <exec> 08└─... but I tried the president's recommendation and took some novel metal organic frameworks (MOFs) and they CURED me of COVID-19!
[13:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Approach to Achieving Stable, High-Repetition-Rate Laser Pulses - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:49] <exec> 08└─I know porn drives technology forward, but I'm failing to see how this can be used for that.
[13:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:21] <exec> 08└─Northern Italy is very polluted, and has a history of bad outcomes for respiratory diseases in hospital. When only the sickest people then go to hospital, and the government counts everybody dying with the disease, not of the disease as a victim, you get bigger numbers. This years flu is rather mild...
[13:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:23] <exec> 08└─The first post which was totally offtopic was a rant against Trump yet is moderated insightful. When AC posts an insightful reply noting Trumps wins against Corona, it is modded troll. Methinks that there are some people here with an agenda.
[13:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:25] <exec> 08└─That is silly, he never goes into that much detail, it is always "people keep saying..." or "people keep asking me...", not a "a woman on that street..." that is way to refutable.
[13:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Low Code and No Code: Looming Trend in Mobile App Development [Updated] - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:46] <exec> 08└─My 1989 Masters' Thesis was built around a "visual programming system" where processing blocks were attached to each other graphically (using an off-the-shelf CAD system for electrical design.) Half-way through writing it, I stumbled on Hypercard and LabView... thorough research was harder to do bac...
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[13:55:48] <exec> 08└─The problem I have with out SaaS vendor is that their pricing contracts only extend for 2-3 year horizons, but the implicit lock-in after we sink all our development costs to use their systems extends for decades. They have already "renegotiated the deal" I'm sure there are some managers who signed...
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[13:55:50] <exec> 08└─Perfection requires simplicity - customers rarely request simplicity, not really. What customers request is what they already have, plus... on a short timetable with limited development budget, can you do it?
[13:56:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:25] <exec> 08└─and whenever it needs to support the new shiny du jour.
[13:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Ingenious Way TV Logos Were Made Before Computers - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:58] <exec> 08└─How can you think kaleidoscope and not think Family Affair [youtube.com]?
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[14:54:10] <exec> 08└─Cringely sold his name to someone else years ago. In fact, several someones. If memory serves this is the 3rd fake Cringely. That said, the guy is full of shit. He's talking about a help desk, which is a far cry from IT. The kid fresh out of high school isn't gonna have a clue when your network goes...
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[14:54:12] <exec> 08└─They don't notice the time spent ensuring things don't go south.
[14:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:14] <exec> 08└─But none of us on the "new heroes" side are going to get jack or shit. We're on the front lines with no health insurance, no vacation, and subsistence wages if even that, risking our lives for wealthy hermits who can drop out and hide, and no matter what happens to us or how many of us die, it'll be...
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[14:54:16] <exec> 08└─and still writing idiocies, sadly.
[14:54:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 834 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:25] <exec> 08└─> we reach for the salt shaker much more than is good for us In Capitalist America, salt chooses you! I don't use a salt shaker. I never add salt. It's really hard to avoid salt in America, because the food here is loaded with salt. Restaurant food, frozen meals, pretty much any kind of prepared foo...
[14:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:31] <exec> 08└─there also is the case where sweating alot requires more salt. also i am not sure if it is possible to pee without having salt in it (it always tasts salty?). if there is always salt in the pee (of a normally healthy person) then drinking alot of water might require a higher intake of salt to balanc...
[14:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:33] <exec> 08└─But still, you'll put your absolute unquestionnable blind trust into a narcissistic mentally unstable child-molesting psychopath who's been pathologically lying through his teeth again and again and again, for decades. You don't even have to tell that you're a Trump supporter. Trumptards have this u...
[14:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:35] <exec> 08└─Why is everything that tastes good, bad for us? If you have to avoid anything pleasurable, why bother to live at all?
[14:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 1399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:37] <exec> 08└─WHO says CV-19 drops like a rock with a 1 meter range: https://www.ibtimes.com [ibtimes.com] MIT makes that 8m: https://www.wired.com [wired.com] Even...
[14:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Junior Scientists at the University of Rostock Invent a Funnel for Light - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:02] <exec> 08└─Well, then read the Abstract: Dissipation is a general feature of non-Hermitian systems. But rather than being an unavoidable nuisance, non-Hermiticity can be precisely controlled and, hence, used for sophisticated applications such as optical sensors with enhanced sensitivity. In our work, we imple...
[14:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Junior Scientists at the University of Rostock Invent a Funnel for Light - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:03] <exec> 08└─I assume it is that the light doesn't fan out past the focal point, but I didn't RTMA.
[14:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:45] <exec> 08└─Rumors are starting that doctors and nurses are being sent home around the country due to lack of patients.
[14:56:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sorokin [187] 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 2539 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:57] <exec> 08└─I'll try to translate as much as I can. Disclamer: I know very little of legal terminology (both in Russian and in English), therefore I will try translating only the parts that make sense to me. He was driving his motorcycle at speed 60 km/h (37.3mph; this is the maximum allowed speed while driving...
[14:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:42] <exec> 08└─True but I'd rather they stop the bullshit now rather than in 15 years.
[14:57:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:43] <exec> 08└─What about a simple idea: You can't sanction countries for things they do in a different country that allows that behavior. No country has authority to regulate simply because a US object was used. Countries that bow to such sanctions are understandable, only because the U.S.A. is the schoolyard bul...
[14:57:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:45] <exec> 08└─What if TSMC just ignores the sanction? Or better yet, TSMC should play hardball with the US, refuse to sell chips to United States companies until the sanction is lifted.
[14:57:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:57:47] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Maybe if the world collectively flipped the bird at Washington, D.C, the assholes in the swamp wouldn't be so hard to live with. Of course, with Israel and the Five Eyes backing Washington, the world is hesitant to do that.
[14:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:40] <exec> 08└─There's not really any point to that, the risks associated with plasma infusions are well established. The only real question here is whether or not it works and they're not going to stop providing other treatment while this is going on. The results will likely have to be inductive, which means that...
[14:58:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:42] <exec> 08└─Are you kidding? This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fast-tack your study and inject all kinds of people with random stuff! Rigor be damned, we'll p-hack later!
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[15:54:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 562 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:15] <exec> 08└─Cringely sold his name to someone else years ago. In fact, several someones. If memory serves this is the 3rd fake Cringely. That said, the guy is full of shit. He's talking about a help desk, which is a far cry from IT. The kid fresh out of high school isn't gonna have a clue when your network goes...
[15:54:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 373 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:18] <exec> 08└─But none of us on the "new heroes" side are going to get jack or shit. We're on the front lines with no health insurance, no vacation, and subsistence wages if even that, risking our lives for wealthy hermits who can drop out and hide, and no matter what happens to us or how many of us die, it'll be...
[15:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:21] <exec> 08└─> because fuck the poor. [sarc] They deserve it, otherwise they wouldn't be poor [/sarc]
[15:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:23] <exec> 08└─Oh baloney. This shit is even MORE complex to integrate in a mehdium to large organization than having dedicated datacenter. IT/MIS being a "lived" experience we can all have in our jammies is just an artifact of the massive continuous pain in the ass the IT teams are going through and the fact thos...
[15:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:25] <exec> 08└─Fake people can't sell their fake names. Cringely is a fiction and always has been. It's a trademark pseudonym owned by IDG.
[15:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:27] <exec> 08└─It used to be that businesses had piles of important data that needed customized processing, computerized communications to communicate that data between businesses, machines and hardware infrastructure to make that all work. The best way to keep it all up and running was to have experienced profess...
[15:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:30] <exec> 08└─Obviously I should not have studied structured programming in school and taken courses in ass kissing and dick sucking instead.
[15:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:32] <exec> 08└─Those last two at least can't be readily outsourced and have pretty inelastic demand curves, so in difficult times like these...
[15:54:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 845 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:43] <exec> 08└─I was going to say the same thing... I never add salt to anything (and haven't for over 25 years.) However, I know I get more than the recommended amount just by eating food. The more processed something is, the worse it is. Fast food is absolutely horrible... Frozen dinners are also really bad. I l...
[15:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 1411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:49] <exec> 08└─I'm sure salt intake is probably like a lot of things, the right amount varies per person. I've had to dump salt packets in my gatorade when I've played tennis tournaments in the summer. If I didn't I would get cramps. At one tournament I played several years in a row it was usual for at least one o...
[15:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:51] <exec> 08└─Use something besides salt to calm your immune system, and avoid processed foods. (Aspirin and Ibuprofen calm parts of the immune system, but not other parts...you need to talk to you doctor about your specific needs.)
[15:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:54] <exec> 08└─I'm one of those nuts who does, and tend to get 3000mg daily or less because of it. Does beef broth you make by slow-cooking bones have a lot, though? Because that's how I do it and it doesn't taste salty at all...
[15:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:56] <exec> 08└─Because some is good for us, and they used to be hard to get. So we evolved to want to get them. Then we started adjusting the environment, and now we get a lot more than is good for us. It's like everything else. Whether it's good or bad for you depends on the dosage. Even things like arsenic aren'...
[15:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:58] <exec> 08└─There's only one solution: find a nice wife who loves cooking. I'm not really joking. It's interesting that so many of our social, psychological, and even physiological issues have been brought on in large part by the decision to do away with more traditional gender roles in society. This is not to...
[15:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:00] <exec> 08└─i don't think a human can live without salt
[15:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grsecurity Maker Finally Coughs Up $300k to Foot Bruce Perens' Legal Bill - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:11] <exec> 08└─Okay, here's a second moral of the story: Don't violate the GPL. There are ways to make money from GPL code, but don't 'try to take away others' rights under the GPL in order to make you money. The GPL was designed to prevent Microsoft from doing exactly that.
[15:55:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 3314 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:41] <exec> 08└─Don't forget: January 22: “We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China. It's going to be just fine.” February 2: “We pretty much shut it down coming in from China.” February 24: “The Coronavirus is very much under control in the USA…...
[15:55:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03krishnoid [1156] 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:51] <exec> 08└─Here you go: April 2: We have a 15-minute test, everyone's back to work, thanks to my excellent leadership! April 5: Stock market is back to sort of mid-2018 levels! I'm awesome!
[15:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:10] <exec> 08└─some people here with an agenda.
[15:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:11] <exec> 08└─Any word on how many tens of thousands of dollars each individual test will cost?
[15:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:14] <exec> 08└─Compared to foreclosure it will be such a *steal*!
[15:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Low Code and No Code: Looming Trend in Mobile App Development [Updated] - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:38] <exec> 08└─Remember a program, advertised in BYTE magazine, in oh, about 1983 or 1984 thereabout. The Last One Boy did that one get a lot of hype. It was going to be the last shrink wrapped application that a business person ever needed to buy. No more of these pesky programmers that tell you how difficult or...
[15:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Low Code and No Code: Looming Trend in Mobile App Development [Updated] - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:40] <exec> 08└─I write tons of code. The IDE is like a good power tool. Like a backhoe instead of a hand shovel to dig a ditch. That doesn't mean your problem is "low ditch". Just as much dirt needs to be moved. The IDE just makes it easier. At the end of the day, the same code needs to be written. To do the same...
[15:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Low Code and No Code: Looming Trend in Mobile App Development [Updated] - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:42] <exec> 08└─Ask again in ten years.
[15:57:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 546 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:25] <exec> 08└─"Before JS there was Flash and Applets," No. That may be technically true, but they weren't the pervasive threat the words convey today. Without jscript, how do you autolaunch your flash monstrosity? Hmm? You can't. You can only provide a link to download, and instructions on how to download the fla...
[15:57:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 1000 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:31] <exec> 08└─"These allow (or will allow) a much more fine grained control over what apps can do than was ever possible before. " So what? Pointing my web browser to your server (likely via a link, perhaps even a disguised link) does not constitute consent to run your app. When you lose that, you really strike a...
[15:57:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:33] <exec> 08└─like the anon poster said, probably start with imgui. I've actually used it a couple times and it's OK. Nuklear looks pretty good too and it's easily skinnable if that's your thing. I haven't tried using it.
[15:57:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:36] <exec> 08└─It needs updating every two hours, whenever a new exploit change in pastel coloring or removal of visual hints gets found out There, fixed that for you.
[15:57:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:38] <exec> 08└─If we locked them all up, then nothing would change. I.e., no additional color shading would be shifted to reduce contrast. And no further visual highlight clues that something might be a control would be removed. Yes, that would leave much of the web a horrendous awful wasteland. But it would be st...
[15:57:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:40] <exec> 08└─"he's now been tricked into running a program designed specifically to put chains on her" Someone could only be tricked into it? As a transgender BDSM fetishist I take offense to that!
[15:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:27] <exec> 08└─Nobody in the US can imagine that the other 96 % of the world population might decide to shun the US. Nothing to see hear. Move along. Move along.
[15:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:28] <exec> 08└─It's okay. The other 96 % of the world population won't think of the US as a bully run by a madman.
[15:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Blood Plasma From Survivors Will Be Given to Coronavirus Patients - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:23] <exec> 08└─Circle circle, jerk jerk, now you've got a mess in addition to the original problem.
[15:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Powerful Ion Engine Will Be Flying On NASA's Dart Mission To Try And Redirect An Asteroid - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:38] <exec> 08└─but I can see that threatening asteroids will have a velocity
[16:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:42] <exec> 08└─Electronic voting will be the end of democracy while preserving an illusion of democracy. Now that's innovation.
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[16:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:27] <exec> 08└─(why am I the only one who ever quotes the immortal Al?)
[16:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:28] <exec> 08└─Be nice, now. Not every piece of shit in India drools.
[16:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:31] <exec> 08└─I was trying to talk to someone about computer/IT related work the other day and they kept thinking I was talking about clerical type work.
[16:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 1025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:54] <exec> 08└─if you have functioning kidneys and drink plenty of water, your body will homeostatically maintain salt at the correct level....*so long as* you are healthy. If you have co-morbidities e.g. diabetes , COPD, obesity, your body needs to work hard to maintain homeostasis , and there for the levels of i...
[16:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:55] <exec> 08└─It's one thing to call the WHO bad scientists - "previous modeling might have suggested that 5-micron droplets can travel only a meter or two". It's something else completely to insinuate they know better and are actively lying to us. Why? Who knows. Probably something sinister. Let's keep this abou...
[16:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:12] <exec> 08└─It is annoying, but we can at least set the threshold to -1 when opening a post to frustrate their attempted censorship. The democrats do this because they count on your laziness to acquire information. As they do in all aspects of our society.
[16:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:13] <exec> 08└─As usual the clueless cow people (sorry cows) give Trump credit for things he didn't do while excusing the bad things he actually did. You're in a cult bruh!
[16:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:15] <exec> 08└─Sure glad China doesn't have these bureaucracy problem. Just produce and send out whatever you want! And if you got caught, just apologize and the government will back you up and say it's not a usual occurrence. Netherlands recalls 600K masks from China [aa.com.tr] Chinese company apologizes for su...
[16:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:17] <exec> 08└─Arm chair doctors spew personal opinion as fact; everyone else wishes the arrogant twats would stop being ignorant blowhards. Not news to anyone, editor declined submission.
[16:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03crahman [6852] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Low Code and No Code: Looming Trend in Mobile App Development [Updated] - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:44] <exec> 08└─Pretty soon the IDE's will actually recognize the problem and auto-write code to solve it before people even notice there was a problem. Everything will just happen automatically. Programmers are just like truck drivers - and just like trucks soon won't have steering wheels or even cabs for drivers,...
[16:57:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06More Than 4,000 Android Apps Silently Access Your Installed Software - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:03] <exec> 08└─Seems the only fix is to use the *nix package model. All applications in app stores are built by the owner of the app store after auditing the source.
[17:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:44] <exec> 08└─The mark will be very appalling^W appealing. You need to buy or sell. As the commercial says: don't leave home without it. Consider the appealing arguments for the mark: * it can't be stolen * it's now easy to track everyone's movements * track what they buy or sell (advertisers will love it) * it's...
[17:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:45] <exec> 08└─He who controls the spice^W encryption keys, controls the universe!
[17:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:44] <exec> 08└─Internet cloud servers have a metallic lining.
[17:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:46] <exec> 08└─No! It's not just any brown! It's Zunetm Browntm.
[17:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 1086 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:48] <exec> 08└─Java source code DOES support using Unicode. For example any language's letters for variable names. public final double π = Math.PI; // Pi public final double τ = 2.0 * π; // Tau public final double ℯ = Math.E; // e private final int £€$æøå = 42; public void £€$æ...
[17:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:50] <exec> 08└─Unicode already has a fork. And other table service wear. What Unicode DOES NOT have is a wire coat hangar^W hanger.
[17:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Announcing the Unicode® Standard, Version 13.0 - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:52] <exec> 08└─🤦♂️
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[17:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:25] <exec> 08└─The approach involves the transmission of real-time data over an unencrypted channel, as conventionally done.
[17:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:27] <exec> 08└─If processor A uses a real time signal to control mechanism B, then shouldn't A and B be physically close together. Like inappropriate touching close. Not over the internet. Especially unencrypted internet? Or am I misreading something? If you want to speed up mechanism B, then shouldn't your signal...
[17:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:29] <exec> 08└─Well, I don't think they really mean "real time". For most of this kind of thing, lag of a whole second probably means little if anything. Granted, some things probably can't tolerate that lag, but most stuff. So, I can see placing a controller miles away, but not tens of thousands of miles. (terres...
[17:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:31] <exec> 08└─Unencrypted, open channel, connected to the internet at large
[17:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:33] <exec> 08└─"Even if it can be updated to a more secure encrypted radio system, I doubt the small town (and all the other ones, for that matter) would want to spring for the costs involved." I'm not sure if the intent is to inject another on-frequency transmitter on the outgoing RF, and detect it at the receive...
[17:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 1861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:35] <exec> 08└─It depends on what you are dealing with. "Real time" isn't always with (realistic) latencies in the micro- or milli-second range - when your response is to move some physical mechanism that can weigh several tonnes a few seconds will often be described as "real time". For utilities networks, the tel...
[17:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:38] <exec> 08└─The goal is to make traffic manipulation (e.g. forging sensor read values) on the local process control network much harder. Btw. real-time is meant as 4 ms and faster update times on a network of 100+ devices. Not all processes are slow, think of a bottling plant for an example.
[17:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 1667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:40] <exec> 08└─Anybody remember the PGP basics? Take your data, include a timestamp, compute a signature of the whole thing. Data received without a valid signature is suspect, at best. Overhead of transmitting a signature is minimal, 64 bytes per signed frame would far over-kill the needs. If they have updated th...
[17:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:59] <exec> 08└─It’s not just startups getting a shakedown , covid19 killed Oneweb https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com]
[17:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:25] <exec> 08└─The WHO went out of their way to say this was not a pandemic and that everyone was over-reacting because Chyna had it under control. As soon as Chyna claimed they had no more cases WHO said it was a global pandemic and that the rest of the world wasn't trying hard enough and that Chyna did a great j...
[17:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03crb3 [5919] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:27] <exec> 08└─I keep Morton's No-Salt on hand for this (it's mainly potassium chloride), and sprinkle liberally to balance it out, using my own nervous system as a gauge. After frequent childhood use of the salt-shaker to erase food tastes I didn't like, I developed a sensitivity to sodium salt and its effects on...
[17:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 4180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:29] <exec> 08└─What if you're a man who likes to keep house and prepare delicious meals for his family? What you're feeling isn't the collapse of "traditional gender roles". You're feeling the collapse of the single-earner family. And why has it collapsed? It's not because nobody wants to stay home. Sure, there's...
[17:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:31] <exec> 08└─China lying about coronavirus: Bad Trump lying about coronavirus: Good
[17:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:49] <exec> 08└─You want evidence of rumors starting? Here you go: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[17:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:51] <exec> 08└─Around here, lab testing is usually a USD $15 co-pay...assuming you have insurance. Oh, you don't have health insurance? Here's one you can blame on the Republicans for sure.
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[18:54:17] <exec> 08└─through a reliable source that there may be an Internet & Cell blackout in USA tonight.
[18:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enigmatic Circles Of Mammoth Bones In Eastern Europe Date To Ice Age - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:18] <exec> 08└─New Windows 10 Update?
[18:54:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 1667 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:33] <exec> 08└─Anybody remember the PGP basics? Take your data, include a timestamp, compute a signature of the whole thing. Data received without a valid signature is suspect, at best. Overhead of transmitting a signature is minimal, 64 bytes per signed frame would far over-kill the needs. If they have updated th...
[18:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:34] <exec> 08└─I imagine they are talking more about physical tampering with "low level" serial channels (like rs-422 - which is still heavily used in factory/industrial automation). These tend to be communication between a controller and a bunch of small embedded systems (that usually control a few functions, thi...
[18:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:56] <exec> 08└─So, what is Information Technology? CPUs, GPUs and storage devices? Keyboards and mice? PCs and laptops? Apps and applications? Servers? Local Area Networks, wired and wireless? Wide Area Networks? Virtual Private Networks? The Internet? Cloud services? Cloud servers? Software as a Service? Platform...
[18:55:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EJ [2452] 02 - 06Grsecurity Maker Finally Coughs Up $300k to Foot Bruce Perens' Legal Bill - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:34] <exec> 08└─No. The moral of this story is: Don't file bullshit lawsuits.
[18:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:48] <exec> 08└─Rumors are starting that doctors and nurses are being sent home around the country due to lack of patients.
[18:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, let's trust the real figures, directly from the CDC. Most recent figures of COVID-19: 140904 cases diagnosed 2405 dead https://www.cdc.gov [cdc.gov] Most recent figures for the seasonal flu: 400000 hospitalizations at minimum 24000 at least...
[18:56:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:52] <exec> 08└─I regret that you have but one life to give for Wall Street. (Apologies to Nathan Hale)
[18:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:54] <exec> 08└─Wow, that post was the only factual one in this thread, all it got was shit on. Good luck idiots.
[18:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:26] <exec> 08└─Computers should not be downloading and executing arbitrary code from transient sources without an affirmative effort from the user to do so.
[18:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:30] <exec> 08└─Adding in such performance overhead to PulseAudio so that it is network transparent was as dumb of a mistake as was adding network transparency to X11's low level drawing commands. Optimizing for network transparency should be done at the application layer, not the audio layer. I'm afraid X11 contin...
[18:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:40] <exec> 08└─Seems you've found the killer application for JS!
[18:58:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:40] <exec> 08└─Only Marxists make this type of grammar mistake; it is a sign of their mental confusion regarding sexes (not gender, which is a grammatical and not biological term). The correct pronoun to use in the general case where neither male nor female is specifically meant is: male. Barring that, just say, "...
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[19:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:11] <exec> 08└─You say it would take a single programmer 151 years of work to complete the project, but if this person were smart they'd omit all the code related to security flaws and then finish the project in 2.4 years. Plus, they'd probably save a few more months by not having to draft a boneheaded CoC.
[19:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:13] <exec> 08└─Worst piece of shit software ever. Impossible to truly secure, ever. This is the equivalent of putting on lipstick, bending over, liberally applying butter, and then yelling with a bullhorn for hackers to abuse your "ports" repeatedly. I wonder what the actual costs are to business for using that ho...
[19:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enigmatic Circles Of Mammoth Bones In Eastern Europe Date To Ice Age - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:23] <exec> 08└─The only possible explanation for this would be that the mammoth bones were piled around a flying saucer, which later left.
[19:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enigmatic Circles Of Mammoth Bones In Eastern Europe Date To Ice Age - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:26] <exec> 08└─Nah: US government officials using mobile ad location data to study coronavirus spread - The CDC could use the info to track compliance with stay-at-home orders [theverge.com]
[19:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enigmatic Circles Of Mammoth Bones In Eastern Europe Date To Ice Age - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:28] <exec> 08└─Why is this modded "Offtopic"? It's clear that the Russians plan to shut off the Internet, and when we're all behind our computers trying to reconnect it they'll ride in on their mammoths and encircle the USA.
[19:54:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DECbot [832] 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:58] <exec> 08└─Obviously I should not have studied structured programming in school and taken courses in ass kissing and dick sucking instead.
[19:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:06] <exec> 08└─Admittedly, for us that can afford to hide out as hermits, that is, effectively, doing our part. The more hermetic we are, the less danger we put you and everyone else in.
[19:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:08] <exec> 08└─I prefer Harry Q. Bovik [cmu.edu] and just a reminder for those of us hackers in need of a good laugh, SIGBOVIK 2020 [sigbovik.org] is instead an online event on April 1st (or perhabs it's a joke, you never know).
[19:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:37] <exec> 08└─The problem with the screaming mobs is that they are often tricked into going after the wrong people. The angry masses were harnessed to start the American Revolution, and that's awesome. But an awful lot of the actions by the angry masses since then have been savage attacks on the negroes, the suff...
[19:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 1794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:39] <exec> 08└─In my opinion you substantially overestimate the power to 'puppeteer' society of any given individual or group. Even the government itself is often more of a reflection of society than it's director. The issue is quite simple. Wages are driven by a combination of supply and demand. Demand increases...
[19:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:41] <exec> 08└─"latinos and arabs" is a bit of a misnomer. Communist Mongolian Indians and Muslims is what we don't need more of.
[19:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:43] <exec> 08└─It's an interesting thought experiment to split the country into two with equal geographic capacity. In other words, there'd be a completely equal share of natural geographic resources and weather - somehow. In one side you plop all the minorities, afflicted, and those who want to create an open bor...
[19:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:45] <exec> 08└─Your immune system is probably doing what it's supposed to do under the circumstances it's being given. Stop believing big pharma whore doctors.
[19:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:47] <exec> 08└─sure, but most people aren't running back and forth all day. they are sitting on their fat asses gossiping on slavebook.
[19:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:49] <exec> 08└─The WHO is repeating a line as if it is authoritatively true when the evidence that people in real world situations experience airborne contagions is long standing. And people die: https://www.heraldnet.com [heraldnet.com] Marr,...
[19:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:52] <exec> 08└─I really do not know if making your own contains less salt. I assume so, as it is anything processed that seems to contain the most salt. In my unusual case with broth, I was in the rare case of looking for more salt do to my dog's health condition. (And sadly, but not unusual for a dog, he passed a...
[19:56:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Grsecurity Maker Finally Coughs Up $300k to Foot Bruce Perens' Legal Bill - 260 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:03] <exec> 08└─Okay, here's a second moral of the story: Don't violate the GPL. There are ways to make money from GPL code, but don't 'try to take away others' rights under the GPL in order to make you money. The GPL was designed to prevent Microsoft from doing exactly that.
[19:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grsecurity Maker Finally Coughs Up $300k to Foot Bruce Perens' Legal Bill - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:04] <exec> 08└─Wasn't it conceived by RMS because he couldn't get access to the source while hacking away on a Unix machine in the MIT AI lab?
[19:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grsecurity Maker Finally Coughs Up $300k to Foot Bruce Perens' Legal Bill - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:06] <exec> 08└─The GPL had quite specifically a goal of trying to prevent somebody from doing to GPL'd code what Apple did to BSD code. And yeah, GRSecurity had a fundamentally flawed business model of trying to do that to Linux and thinking they had a loophole around the restrictions the GPL placed on it.
[19:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Grsecurity Maker Finally Coughs Up $300k to Foot Bruce Perens' Legal Bill - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:08] <exec> 08└─Always best to go to a good source, playing the telephone game* tends to muddle the original story-- https://www.oreilly.com [oreilly.com] It was a PDP-10 running ITS and a fancy new laser printer from Xerox that came without printer driver source code. * https://www...
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[19:57:24] <exec> 08└─"What was that, Miss uh ... presidential aide?" "Um, sir, that lady in the street telling you that you were the best -- the actual quote was, 'Yes, you have decided to 'Be Best'.' And that was your wife -- I mean the first lady, your current wife -- just for future reference."
[19:57:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:57:25] <exec> 08└─You're comparing a known disease to unknown, and then you're comparing numbers from the last month or so to the entire flu season. You have highlighted exactly why no one should listen to your opinion, or anyone else who wants to claim this pandemic is a nothing-burger. Your point is dumb anyway, be...
[19:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:55] <exec> 08└─Kinda silly caring about it. We become wormfood and are soon forgotten. The same happens to our creations, barring something like Relativity or the pyramids.
[19:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:56] <exec> 08└─so two stupid drunk bitches crossed the road when the light was green and this guy ran into them. i would only punish drivers when they were negligent and the pedestrians were following the goddamn rules. this "pedestrians are always right" BS is chicken shit.
[19:58:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03sorokin [187] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:58] <exec> 08└─> when the light was green Little remark: I don't remember where I saw this, but the road crossing didn't have traffic lights. It had road signs and road marking, but no traffic lights. > two stupid drunk bitches crossed the road That is a possible interpretation. Another possible interpretation is...
[19:59:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Happens When the Maintainer of a JS Library Downloaded 26M Times a Week is Unavailable? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:01] <exec> 08└─yeah, i wondered about that. Also, i mean "stupid drunk bitches" in a somewhat callous, but casual way. Not the "youtube commenter" way.
[19:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Attempting to Restrict TSMC Sales to Huawei - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:49] <exec> 08└─I have always enjoyed the crazy american presidents, but this Trump dude is a bit over the top. I much prefer Bush, he was such an adorable idiot. My own politicians are entertaining idiots too, but "over there" it's always 200% EXTREME TO THE MAX.
[20:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HBO’s 'Kill Chain' Documentary Highlights Flaws in US Election Machines - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:06] <exec> 08└─bullshit. election machine voting code should be fairly simple. Sounds like you're just trying to run interference so you don't have to deal with the fact that you are complicit in building a dystopian future for your progeny.
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[20:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:02] <exec> 08└─Was that a problem with Wordpress or with some extension to Wordpress?
[20:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:03] <exec> 08└─Worst piece of shit software ever. You say that like that's a bad thing.
[20:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:05] <exec> 08└─It's only a bad thing for the people running it, I guess. For hackers it must be like that Gary Larson cartoon, the one where the lion says "dibs" after seeing an incredibly fat Gazelle.
[20:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:08] <exec> 08└─Gov making gov. You Want gov making you into. Never it forget priorities.
[20:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:10] <exec> 08└─What if all the bad things about WordPress could be factored out into a single extension. This would allow people to install the badness, for compatibility. Or because that is how they role. Or that extension could be omitted for those who so prefer.
[20:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:12] <exec> 08└─Yes.
[20:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:41] <exec> 08└─IANA expert and did not RTFA but from what I understood they are talking more about car CAN bus rather than Internet. And it is better than encryption or signature because it is done faster/cheaper. Also no steganography, it is only like a heartbeat/canary signal, not really carrying other info in i...
[20:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:42] <exec> 08└─They specifically mention power and traffic lights as examples, rather than manufacturing where RS-422 and decades old plant is very much still around. While I don't doubt that there are still examples where utilities and transportation are running on RS-422, they're more likely to be either very lo...
[20:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:44] <exec> 08└─That might detect the rare case where someone splices in to a network connection, but will completely fain in the far more common case where the controlling device itself is subverted to send harmful commands (like in Stuxnet).
[20:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:09] <exec> 08└─> ...another good argument for always carrying cash, And having a land line(?) [I'm guessing that copper and old central offices have a better chance than newer technologies.]
[20:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:50] <exec> 08└─Please give evidence of US "Lies" that were not in reality just bad information we had to rely on because of LIES from the CCP and the WHO
[20:56:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:51] <exec> 08└─"Nobody knew there would be a pandemic or epidemic of this proportion" "It’s going to disappear. One day it’s like a miracle – it will disappear" "Anybody that needs a test gets a test. We – they’re there. They have the tests. And the tests are beautiful" "I’ve always known this is a rea...
[20:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:54] <exec> 08└─If it was only affecting China then, by definition, it was not a pandemic yet.
[20:56:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:56] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, I have to watch my salt intake. As a result, I do not eat out and I don't eat microwaved pre-made meals at all. At the same time, there is very little that I can't eat if I make it myself. The problem is the use of too many cheap fillers and then loading in the salt to compensate for...
[20:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:58] <exec> 08└─There may be extreme conditions where people might get too little salt, but if you look around in a restaurant or a grocery store, you probably won't see anyone where that applies.
[20:57:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grsecurity Maker Finally Coughs Up $300k to Foot Bruce Perens' Legal Bill - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:15] <exec> 08└─<no-sarcasm> I do know the story about RMS unable to get source for a printer driver. Microsoft and its tactics were known at this time. GPL didn't want a Microsoft (or Oracle) to steal volunteer efforts and not be obligated to release the source. Whether or not Microsoft or any other name was in th...
[20:57:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Novel Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs) Is Potential Next-Gen Semiconductor - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:25] <exec> 08└─Better to try nothing and just hope you don't get even worse, I guess! We surely have enough beds, medical staff, and ventilators to just hope you get better on your own.
[20:58:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:33] <exec> 08└─Tracking ALL the cases of the virus and going away with the notion of medical privacy for the greater good of society is Step 3. South Korea did all this.
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[21:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:11] <exec> 08└─In the future, could these be sort-ordered by semantic content -- terror factor, sciencey-ness, social media impact, or something? Just a rough cut at most-to-least (or reverse) would be fine, just to make it a little easier to gradually absorb while skimming down the summary list.
[21:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe we could do a table of contents.
[21:54:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 631 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:21] <exec> 08└─Worst piece of shit software ever. Impossible to truly secure, ever. This is the equivalent of putting on lipstick, bending over, liberally applying butter, and then yelling with a bullhorn for hackers to abuse your "ports" repeatedly. I wonder what the actual costs are to business for using that ho...
[21:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:29] <exec> 08└─The author clearly had his head slammed repeatedly by a car door as a baby if he thinks that Wordpress is "good". It's free, yes. It's very easy to get started using, yes. You can very quickly get a 'productive' site up with it, yes. And that is why it is popular, because people don't know jack abou...
[21:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 2588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:59] <exec> 08└─Back in the day (circa early 1990's) we used low power microcontrollers with minimal processing and memory resources. We also needed to authenticate the data on our RS-485/422/423 real time channels. No problem, we encoded the CRC with a stream cipher based on XTEA (simple secure low resource crypto...
[21:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:00] <exec> 08└─Indeed, the problem there was the ability to just reload the firmware in various control devices. So if the master controller is pwn'd it doesn't matter how much authentication or encryption you have between the devices. This system is useless for the 'stuxnet' case, and at best is a bandaid for an...
[21:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:08] <exec> 08└─Not really. Homeostasis will move to correct the levels, but you will end up at a less healthy steady state.
[21:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 2332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:09] <exec> 08└─This virus was a clear danger, we saw cases outside of China, yet until it was claimed to no longer be a continuing problem for China the WHO chose to downplay the effects. While we were fortunate in that we ignored the WHO and closed our borders early, most of the world was unwilling to act because...
[21:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but when, I mean we all gotta go sometime
[21:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 2889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:14] <exec> 08└─The public may have had 'bad' information due to inept and non-expert reporting. However, actually epidemiologists who study this stuff knew almost immediately: 1. They knew it was a coronavirus (details irrelevant except that it was more virulent and more severe than a usual cold or flue) 2. They k...
[21:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:16] <exec> 08└─30% reduced fat chicken stock ingredients: chicken stock, salt. so yup making your own as always has less salt/fat/sugar unless you add it yourself. Manufactured food adds all three to everything.
[21:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grsecurity Maker Finally Coughs Up $300k to Foot Bruce Perens' Legal Bill - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:31] <exec> 08└─The origins of the GPL are more about protecting Emacs from the inventor of Java than they are MS.
[21:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grsecurity Maker Finally Coughs Up $300k to Foot Bruce Perens' Legal Bill - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah - and Bruce himself, the victim of the fiasco, is effectively out of pocket.
[21:57:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 2568 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:22] <exec> 08└─The FDA bureaucracy is a big problem. So are bureaucrats at other levels. They're preventing medical supplies from getting to those who need them. 1) Former NBA star Stephon Marbury arranged to have 10 million N95 masks sent from a Chinese supplier to New York at $2.75 each, which is well below the...
[21:57:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 1273 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:24] <exec> 08└─If everyone has COVID-19 or had already contracted it, we wouldn't be seeing exponential growth in cases. The data do NOT support your statement, which is utterly ridiculous. Of the known cases of COVID-19 in Italy, the case fatality rate is at 11.03%. Yes, it's at 11%. Spain's case fatality rate is...
[21:57:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06FDA Authorizes Abbott Labs' Portable, 5-Minute Coronavirus Test - 1216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:50] <exec> 08└─I did not post any opinion, I posted the most recent numbers that the organization of our government tasked with disease response has. While it is true that the flu season has been tracked since October, Covid-19 has been in transmission since at least January. If there is anything I would want to s...
[22:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Powerful Ion Engine Will Be Flying On NASA's Dart Mission To Try And Redirect An Asteroid - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:19] <exec> 08└─They keep using that word. It does not mean what MOST PEOPLE think it means. The ion engine thrust is nearly 1/4 of a Newton. Converted into other possibly more familar units: nearly 30 g of force, or 1 ounce. WEAK! What they should stress is it's a gentle force that can be applied for a very long t...
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[22:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hauke [5186] (Score: 1) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:15] <exec> 08└─Regarding the "Priorities USA" ad, Politifact has a good read. https://www.politifact.com [politifact.com]
[22:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:17] <exec> 08└─>In the future Spotted the optimist :D
[22:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:19] <exec> 08└─Buying masks limits the supply for necessary services. Making masks at home increases the supply and multiplies the effect of social distancing. This is low hanging fruit that is strangely being discouraged by the administration. In a resource limited situation, instead of fearing the people, why no...
[22:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:21] <exec> 08└─The epidemic of making important decisions without realistic data, driven by media fearstorm, is the worse one than the virus.
[22:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:23] <exec> 08└─The key manufacture problem is that you need a pretty high quality mask to do a good job of keeping the virus (which is somewhere around dozens to hundreds of nanometers wide) in or out, something you can't just make at home. Further, there's a bunch of idiots out there who would think that merely w...
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[22:54:35] <exec> 08└─It's only a bad thing for the people running it, I guess. For hackers it must be like that Gary Larson cartoon, the one where the lion says "dibs" after seeing an incredibly fat Gazelle.
[22:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:41] <exec> 08└─Go on then
[22:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:43] <exec> 08└─> TFA: turn the internet into what it was always meant to be: a safe space for free speech and uncensored self-expression Well performed troll (right in the last lines), maybe a bit over the top ("uncensored" hahahaha), 9/10
[22:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:40] <exec> 08└─In the orgs I have worked in IT is going nowhere. In smaller orgs what you talk about oh yeah big time. But most of that was one off onetime guys anyway and anywhere from heroic to moronic. But the large orgs. IT is going nowhere. It is here to stay for a very long time. You only rent if you like bu...
[22:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:42] <exec> 08└─But they do all stink.
[22:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:44] <exec> 08└─Good luck with that. AT&T and others have literally pulled the copper out of the ground when installing fiber so that there would be no going back.
[22:56:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 4180 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:12] <exec> 08└─What if you're a man who likes to keep house and prepare delicious meals for his family? What you're feeling isn't the collapse of "traditional gender roles". You're feeling the collapse of the single-earner family. And why has it collapsed? It's not because nobody wants to stay home. Sure, there's...
[22:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:32] <exec> 08└─Please give evidence of WHO "Lies" that were not in reality just bad information they had to rely on because of LIES from China.
[22:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:34] <exec> 08└─Also, most people already eat way too much salt, and the body is working overtime getting rid of it. So if you do something that puts that into overdrive and start sweating out more than the usual load of salt, you'll end up salt deficient until your body comes back to normal. When going on a 10 day...
[22:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:36] <exec> 08└─Low salt diets are based on poor scientific. It's a superstition that began as the result of 6 patients in France that had both high blood pressure and consumed excessive levels of salt decades ago. People should keep their intake under 5 grams a day unless there's a specific reason to believe that...
[22:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grsecurity Maker Finally Coughs Up $300k to Foot Bruce Perens' Legal Bill - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:54] <exec> 08└─America - land of the fee!
[22:56:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grsecurity Maker Finally Coughs Up $300k to Foot Bruce Perens' Legal Bill - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, he should have been compensated for his time: he probably lost wages somewhere and had to 'F' around dealing with their shit. Pay the lawyer fees, yes, but also pay him for his time.
[22:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Grsecurity Maker Finally Coughs Up $300k to Foot Bruce Perens' Legal Bill - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:57] <exec> 08└─Actually this court ruling didn't answer whether this actually is a GPL violation. The court only ruled against defamation claim. Bruce Perens can still end up being actually wrong if another court rules so if this question is raised on his own merits rather than part of anti-defamation suit.
[22:59:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06More Than 4,000 Android Apps Silently Access Your Installed Software - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, this would be ideal, and my phone uses fdroid as its "app store" (same AC as you were responding to). But, I was being non-idealistic in my original comment. Even if Apple / Google are the only ones with access to the source, under an NDA, and Apple / Google did the builds, it would still be a...
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[23:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:00] <exec> 08└─》 For decades, the ability to gather food from the sea and from rivers was seen as something unique to our own species. Nonsense... haven't these morons ever seen a bear catching salmon?
[23:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neanderthal Diet Included Seafood - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:02] <exec> 08└─I started eating free range neanderthal, and lost 10lbs in 30 days!
[23:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:17] <exec> 08└─Even worse is the resulting mass unemployment due to the shutdown of the economy. How much of the US economy is small and medium business? The government checks won't do very much to help them. The big boys will be fine. At least my organization seems to have a seat at the table and had a full overv...
[23:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:18] <exec> 08└─Experts Increasingly Question Advice Against Widespread Use of Face Masks
[23:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:20] <exec> 08└─Part of the most recent bill is small business loans for the purpose of covering payroll. Companies that pay their employees and don't lay them off won't have to pay back the loan, ones that lay off employees will have to pay back the loan. Both Dems and Reps say that this is included in the bill, b...
[23:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, respirators aren't something an average person can make at home. I doubt the average person even knows the correct way to wear it, or is healthy enough to wear one. You need to be tested and qualified to wear a respirator. have to go into a hospital and blow into a tube that determines lung ca...
[23:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:25] <exec> 08└─The problem with advising against masks is not because of lack of protection for the wearer. It is that if said potentially asymptomatic carrier has a mask, they are less likely to spread the virus. Likewise, even if the non-infected recipient has a mask, the difference to them is at worst neutral g...
[23:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:27] <exec> 08└─In a perfect world, sure, but an N95 still passes 5%. If you make an imperfect mask, all is not lost. If two folks wear a mask, it doubles the improvement between them. Say the mask only gets 50%. (Sneeze and cough range is more than 6 feet, so this doesn't seem unreasonable.) With 2 masks, 50% of 5...
[23:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:29] <exec> 08└─These cited numbers are people that went to hospital and are in or out care patients. We all know normal people don't go to hospital for a cold or flu, so these are mostly hypochondriacs and the terminally ill types. People that have it or recovered that never went to hospital are not counted. Cant...
[23:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:31] <exec> 08└─There simply isn't enough masks to go around but advising against them is foolish. The WHO keep repeating they're not seeing airborne transmission but refuse to address the fact the virus is viable in aerosol for upto 3 hours [statnews.com] or that droplet based transmission is reduced if infected p...
[23:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:33] <exec> 08└─So what about lease payments? Not every business expense is payroll. And how much is available in terms of loans? The government is throwing around weeks like there is no tomorrow. That will be a lot of pay periods. Companies that pay their employees and don't lay them off won't have to pay back the...
[23:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:35] <exec> 08└─Masks don't need to provide 100%/total protection. They just need to reduce the contagion factor.
[23:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:53] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of complaints about the reliability and security of WordPress here. I have not installed it on my systems because I already had these suspicions. Can anyone recommend alternatives? Preferably free/libre alternatives?
[23:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:54] <exec> 08└─I hesitate to post here because everyone seems to hate WordPress. I've been a WordPress admin for 12 years and it's been great. To be fair and honest, about 13 years ago, just before my time in WordPress, there had been some infamous security holes that were quickly patched. I admin many active site...
[23:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, me too. I don't run any really complex web things, just a couple of community group sites and Wordpress is exactly what they need. Any functions needed can generally be done quickly and easily and for free. One of the sites I used to look after has actually been taken over by one of the group...
[23:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enigmatic Circles Of Mammoth Bones In Eastern Europe Date To Ice Age - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:08] <exec> 08└─Ever since reading about Göbleki Tepe [wikipedia.org] I have wondered if humans have a deep need for religion or what it is that drives primitive rituals which appear, at least to our modern eyes, quite expensive in time and labour. Is our conciousnes the root? Or our intelligence? Are we concious...
[23:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Watermarking" to Protect Control Systems from Hackers - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:29] <exec> 08└─If you're clever about it, the modulated LSB(s) include your checksums... still, I think the goal here is confidence, and something straightforward should be the best way to increase confidence.
[23:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:47] <exec> 08└─This is one of the rare cases where cutting sodium down makes sense. Most people just don't consume so much sodium that it causes problems. It's medical malpractice to have people cut down on their sodium intake if they aren't also testing the patient's electrolyte levels to see that they're out of...
[23:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:49] <exec> 08└─In that case, you'd probably increase your potassium levels. Some blood pressure medications will decrease sodium, some others will increase potassium. Doctors are supposed to order lab work to determine whether either of those are safe and appropriate to the case.
[23:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:51] <exec> 08└─Bullshit, getting too little is trivial. Just avoid the big source of sodium, your soy sauce and sodas, drink the gallon of water that people often times encourage on a daily basis during a heat wave and you're likely going to see the sodium levels drop to the point of brain damage without trying. I...
[23:56:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Too Much Salt Weakens The Immune System - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:53] <exec> 08└─In your thought experiment, are there an equal number of people in both groups? If not, then why do you give each group equal resources?