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[00:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:27] <exec> 08└─It means everyone is guilty. Two wrongs do not make a right. They all should pay, instead of playing "everyone lied, so I did nothing wrong" cards. Everyone is to blame, China for hidding it, WHO for not double checking numbers, Italy, Spain, USA, UK for looking to other side... they all fucked up i...
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[00:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.K. Internet Service Providers Lift Caps on Broadband Data - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:37] <exec> 08└─-CITIZEN -hey remove caps pls -citizen -wat And they all lived happily ever after.
[00:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.K. Internet Service Providers Lift Caps on Broadband Data - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:39] <exec> 08└─Internet is having probs everywhere. It may make sense outside Italy. Not here. Because here the consumption stays the same whether you are working or not. At home: watch youtube, send jokes by whatsapp. At work: watch youtube, send jokes by whatsapp Therefore I conclude that it's a boiling frog str...
[00:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:54] <exec> 08└─It's pretty fucking nonexistent among national-level Democrat politicians though.
[00:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 2) 02 - 062019 Saw Over 60 Gigawatts of Wind Power Installed - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:13] <exec> 08└─The "nameplate" value is a good place to start. Where nameplate refers to: given ideal conditions, what is the sustained production value. Eg wind blowing constant rate 24/7. Down rating to actual expected values I would expect is location dependent. I read on one website (brave new climate) an arti...
[00:57:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:57:48] <exec> 08└─If you have no way to judge a worker and you need to spy on their behaviour, you have a management problem. Now, managers being the de facto mandatory interface between the financial puppeteers and the firms is the root of all problems but there still can be a place managed way better than another....
[00:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:23] <exec> 08└─Yep. I know a company that's reviewing this release right now, to see what trade secrets can be plumbed for related work (society-oriented, they're not just corp raiders). The SW will also be very intersting. The HW could've been ascertained from a teardown but the design files are useful because th...
[00:58:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:25] <exec> 08└─This was an OT office owned/operated by the surgeon. The whole setup was semi-corrupt, they weren't supposed to be doing therepeutic stuff like removing stitches or administering pain relief - I had the pain pills as a general use thing for post operative pain, but didn't use them for that- until it...
[00:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:27] <exec> 08└─OP is right, some of the Medtronic data dump is "flexing" on all the "ventilators are so simple, my grad student could design one" crowd. What's in that dump is a complete set of requirements - which is actually the hard part of designing any medical device, getting things like use cases and overpre...
[01:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:54] <exec> 08└─Similar to the medeival plague-doctor masks.
[01:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:56] <exec> 08└─No, dude. It won't be because you have a history. Part of the housing problem is that so many houses are being rented instead of sold and owned. It's not a whole lot of individual speculative investors anymore. Back in the real estate heydays I'm sure you had people owning 10-50 houses at most, and...
[01:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How WordPress Changed the Internet - 17 Facts about WordPress - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:23] <exec> 08└─Could hatred for Wordpress be related to disdain for PHP as a programming language?
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[01:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 064/1 Joke - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:05] <exec> 08└─At the end of this experiment the low UIDs will be the ones at the top of the food chain, so ACs take note. If you're stuck in the 5 digits you're not gonna last a week. Can't wait for my Soylent Bars made outta you late joiners. TMB is in for a real surprise when he finds out the ACs are the vampir...
[01:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Wild Bears" Overrunning the USA - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:12] <exec> 08└─have a right to bear arms.
[01:54:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06U.K. Internet Service Providers Lift Caps on Broadband Data - 279 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:29] <exec> 08└─If they can lift the bandwidth caps now, then they could have done it yesterday, last week or last year. The caps are completely artificial. What, did you think they were dipping into their limited reserve of packets and graciously giving their customers some of them to fill up?
[01:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Steam Limits Game Auto-Updates to Manage Peak Demand - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:44] <exec> 08└─and applying steam to my ethernet cable but speeds still the same. This is fake news.
[01:55:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:07] <exec> 08└─Trump Derangement Syndrome. Folks who lost their entire minds that he got elected and have been in a constant fit of sanity-destroying rage about it ever since.
[01:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sometimes I think I just need to put /s in my sig.
[01:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:53] <exec> 08└─I was being sarcastic, playing off of TMB's mostly misunderstood joke. And maybe you were too; difficult to tell sometimes... need a little "sarcastic" indicator... :) Along with all the other HTML elements we support, we also support: <sarcasm> Or, for those who prefer less typing, you can enter <s...
[01:55:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:55] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>too many do-nothing code tags</sarcasm> Yah, so? Doesn't razzle my dazzle. :) I want blinking sparkles moving through the tag-enclosed font. Comeon, martyb, you can meet that coding challenge! :)
[01:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:57] <exec> 08└─But back on point, my original reply to TMB's question about how cardiovascular disease could possibly affect the environment was in keeping with his humorous question. I rather enjoy that kind of humor, but rarely get to engage in it because most people are too serious in USA. The few Russians I've...
[01:57:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:31] <exec> 08└─Because the boss needs to feel he did something too, otherwise it's his job that gets redundant.
[01:57:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Bosses Panic-Buy Spy Software to Keep Tabs on Remote Workers - 2336 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:38] <exec> 08└─If only it was that easy. I've encountered many employers, bosses, and managers who spy upon, micromanage, and distrust their employees. Some want to own their employees. What they really want are slaves, and they'll try to rig things to make them utterly dependent upon the company, and them. A comm...
[01:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's not preventing anything like that - though: Medtronic already has active design and production facilities in China, so Chinese startups would be competing against domestic engineers and factories with superior experience... Anyone who wants to copy a 10 year old ventilator design now has m...
[02:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bob Cringely is Still Alive and Kicking - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:36] <exec> 08└─Copper will develop large DC currents in a serious proton storm.
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[02:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:13] <exec> 08└─Going for number 9999 might be worth it.
[02:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:14] <exec> 08└─You could have waited 'til the afternoon and posted "so how did everyone like what I did for April Fools'?"
[02:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:16] <exec> 08└─I really thought with all the death and suffering of the current crisis, you guys would have shown a little respect and not engaged in a childish pursuit like April Fool's Day and followed the Bofa Rule.
[02:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:18] <exec> 08└─Isn't that the combination for Ari's luggage? I heard if you enter the sequence in reverse, a cardboard pop-up of Milo Yiannopoulos bursts from the suitcase with a pair of Ari's alt-whiteys on his head?
[02:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:21] <exec> 08└─Ok, I give. What's the Bofa Rule? All I can find is Bank of America when I try to look it up.
[02:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:23] <exec> 08└─Ask Richard Dawkins.
[02:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:25] <exec> 08└─Look at my UID. Could I ask for a nicer one? I win. Muahahahaha.
[02:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:27] <exec> 08└─Has he stopped screaming about religion yet? If he has, I'd very much like to talk to him. If not, I would rather get answers anywhere else.
[02:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:29] <exec> 08└─You could have gotten 69 !
[02:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:31] <exec> 08└─Who got 69?
[02:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wild Bears" Overrunning the USA - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:41] <exec> 08└─which of the 16 reasons you are allowed to leave the house [abc.net.au] covers bear hunts? (covers New South Wales, one of Australia's States [wikipedia.org]
[02:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wild Bears" Overrunning the USA - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:43] <exec> 08└─Exercise. Get out of the house, and let the wind blow the stench off of you. Hunt for bears along the way. And, watch out for those Australian bears dropping from above.
[02:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.K. Internet Service Providers Lift Caps on Broadband Data - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:03] <exec> 08└─I can't remember the last time I had a plan here in Australia with a data cap. It was years and years ago. And even back then, the data cap was so generous that it was almost impossible to hit. Data caps are only really a thing for the cell network (maybe if someone is using a 4G modem for their hom...
[02:56:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:12] <exec> 08└─What's any of that got to do with spoiling a perfectly good dumb joke though?
[02:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:25] <exec> 08└─Now I wish I had put it in my username! RS3/s. A couple of people I know would get it and laugh. You inspired me...
[02:56:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:26] <exec> 08└─If you game it right, you might be able to get user ID 9999 with that username...
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[03:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Tuesday is World Backup Day - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:01] <exec> 08└─Unless you've successfully done a restore from your backup, you don't really have a backup. Test your restore process!
[03:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tuesday is World Backup Day - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:03] <exec> 08└─I tried to push too hard and now I need it to be hemarroids day like tomorrow.
[03:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:21] <exec> 08└─I was hoping to see my proposal, maybe next year? by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 06, @12:49PM (#967509) How about a write-in mod? +1 and -1 versions. Log them, it might be fun/funny to look through the list. by The Mighty Buzzard (18) on Friday March 06, @12:52PM (#96751...
[03:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:23] <exec> 08└─For not reading the summary before going into April Fool's Rage. How about another joke, Murray?
[03:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:25] <exec> 08└─Well, Alice didn't live in the restaurant....
[03:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:27] <exec> 08└─You haven't met many people who've had to deal with death or other horrific badness regularly, have you? A sense of humor at pretty much all times is mandatory. Soldiers, cops, firemen, paramedics... all of the above engage in copious amounts of dark humor as a matter of course, because dwelling too...
[03:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:29] <exec> 08└─That'd be enrgeeman [soylentnews.org].
[03:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:31] <exec> 08└─No bell tower to live in, though I suppose we could get a dog and name it Fasha.
[03:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:33] <exec> 08└─You haven't met many people who've had to deal with death or other horrific badness regularly, have you? A sense of humor at pretty much all times is mandatory.
[03:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:36] <exec> 08└─What's the Bofa Rule?
[03:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:38] <exec> 08└─I could have had a much smaller UID but I didn't think it would mean much. I lurked for a while before signing in to cause chaos.
[03:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wild Bears" Overrunning the USA - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:49] <exec> 08└─I'm tired of people trying to act like nothing is wrong. There is no reason to leave your own property during this crisis unless you're going for essential supplies. Even in that case, only ONE person from your household should go, and they should take extra precautions when they do it. You can stil...
[03:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Wild Bears" Overrunning the USA - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:51] <exec> 08└─You may not know this but most injuries happen at home.
[03:56:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 29 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:18] <exec> 08└─Yup, orange is the new black.
[03:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:35] <exec> 08└─Like bidding on ebay in the old days, I'll watch it like a hawk. Oooo, sniped...
[03:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:36] <exec> 08└─No that was ODS. Similar but not as infectious and a lower mortality rate.
[03:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rheumatic Diseases: The Cost Of Survival During the Little Ice Age - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:28] <exec> 08└─Grandma: There's a big storm coming, my joints are aching... Dad: Hey everyone! We better take cover in this cave near by... Everyone else: OK Genes: survival success rate increased!
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[04:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tuesday is World Backup Day - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:11] <exec> 08└─God is my backup.
[04:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tuesday is World Backup Day - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:12] <exec> 08└─backup your soul backup your porn backup your trolls
[04:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:40] <exec> 08└─Yeah, yeah. Fair nuff. I'd like coffee and a side of bacon with my lumps though.
[04:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:41] <exec> 08└─Given the level of stress and fear, I think that a little humor would help. Just because someone isn't focused, 24x7, on the pandemic, doesn't mean they don't take the matter seriously. Using non-malicious April Fool's silliness is, IMHO, a great way to break some of the tension and live in the mome...
[04:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06"Wild Bears" Overrunning the USA - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:53] <exec> 08└─See the AC's response. You can stay at home, and slip in the bath/shower, and bust your head. In my case, I could conceivably stay "at home" and have plenty of room to exercise. A lot of city parks aren't as big as my little 15 acres. Still - I can't get stuff done if I don't leave the property. How...
[04:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wild Bears" Overrunning the USA - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:55] <exec> 08└─Get what done? What do you need to do if you're not going to work or getting supplies?
[04:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Sees 775% Increase From Microsoft Teams' Users in Italy (Updated) - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:59] <exec> 08└─You use it because you have to. TP, however, I do want to use it compared to the alternatives. Teams is just a UX turd. I would rather be using lync (or lynx) or what ever it was before they rolled skype into it. At least it has a nice organizer list of my contacts.
[04:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Sees 775% Increase From Microsoft Teams' Users in Italy (Updated) - 1140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:01] <exec> 08└─A common mistake good people make when dealing with M$ and its employees is that they project their values onto them rather than seeing them for what they are. When dealing with M$, naivety can have harmful consequences: A key logger is there and M$ Vista 10 has the keylogger enabled by default [pr...
[04:58:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Sees 775% Increase From Microsoft Teams' Users in Italy (Updated) - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:03] <exec> 08└─> Many Windows 10 users are unknowingly sending the contents of every keystroke they make to Microsoft due to an enabled-by-default keylogger. AND THIS SHIT IS *LEGAL!* Un. fucking. believable.
[05:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, send a virus to kill off the old people who would tell you how bad war is because they remember it.
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[05:54:01] <exec> 08└─While I agree that recent autos make it near impossible to control the AC while driving, most of the newer cars I've driven lately are way to complex to drive and deal with the audio adjustments too. A couple of weeks ago I used a one year old Chevy pickup and I had to find a place to pull over just...
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[05:54:03] <exec> 08└─Can we vanish, please, please, pretty please the “modern” GUI? People can and will develop muscle memory, with options that “hide” to “unclutter” the GUI, one muscles can’t remember where the fuck is the button we’re supposed to click. You have to look at the screen all the time. I s...
[05:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Tuesday is World Backup Day - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:14] <exec> 08└─...when's the last time you actually backed up your phone?...
[05:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tuesday is World Backup Day - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:15] <exec> 08└─Most important of all: Have you backed-up your DHF? To multiple satellites?
[05:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 3235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:44] <exec> 08└─If you're doing a lot of construction for your new house, build a bunker under it. That's just what I've done with my house. I have solar panels, a wind turbine, and battery power. I have a well and a water purification system. It's great for when you need to hunker down and get away from almost eve...
[05:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:46] <exec> 08└─I suggested a few years back that for 4/1 SN should be changed to ariNews and for the whole day push all the subs from the past year (or the most recent 30 in the que). Would be fun for all.
[05:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Wild Bears" Overrunning the USA - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:00] <exec> 08└─Stay the fuck home.
[05:56:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 1487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:56:47] <exec> 08└─I am upset that Trump relaxed the EPA standards and overturned some good sane environmental laws during his presidency (ie the one(s) Obama passed like the water protection law. It's like he rolled that back just to spite Obama and for no other reason other than the fact that Obama passed it. Petty)...
[05:57:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rheumatic Diseases: The Cost Of Survival During the Little Ice Age - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:57:40] <exec> 08└─Maybe you need more salt in your diet? https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Take this suggestion with a pinch of salt of course ;).
[06:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:52] <exec> 08└─They're podcasts for the most part, though I follow twitter feeds from a number of the participants. The main virus related one is This Week In Virology, AKA TWIV. They're done by a virologist at Columbia University in New York, Vince Raccaniello and a number of panel members. There main web address...
[06:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:53] <exec> 08└─How well did those work again?
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[06:54:09] <exec> 08└─https://theia-ide.org/ [theia-ide.org] I think must of us don't want to read a grey on grey press release.
[06:54:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 579 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:17] <exec> 08└─Can we vanish, please, please, pretty please the “modern” GUI? People can and will develop muscle memory, with options that “hide” to “unclutter” the GUI, one muscles can’t remember where the fuck is the button we’re supposed to click. You have to look at the screen all the time. I s...
[06:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:19] <exec> 08└─volume and channel should be proper buttons. Optional buttons on the steering wheel are fine, but only if they make sense. My car (Skoda Octavia) has volume spinner, track up.down, channel up/down, and mute buttons on the left, and six buttons on the left for the dash menu and phone I use the volume...
[06:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:22] <exec> 08└─Ages ago when smart phones first started coming out, they seemed pretty cool to me -- having an ultra-portable computing device definitely has a use -- still does. At the same time, it was obvious that everything about the UI was a necessary compromise due to the size of the devices. What surprises...
[06:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:24] <exec> 08└─https://motors.mega.mu/fr/news/honda-bucks-industry-trend-removing-touchscreen-controls-20200330.html [motors.mega.mu]
[06:55:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:00] <exec> 08└─You haven't met many people who've had to deal with death or other horrific badness regularly, have you? A sense of humor at pretty much all times is mandatory.
[06:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:07] <exec> 08└─Yours is 3 digits too long I think.
[06:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:09] <exec> 08└─Look at mine. Could you ask for an easier one?
[06:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:11] <exec> 08└─Evidently you are not aware of aristarchus' achievements in math? So many his critics are so because of cognitive deficits. Sucks to be you. Sorry.
[06:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:14] <exec> 08└─To get that UID and not use it but once? What a waste.
[06:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:16] <exec> 08└─I am shitting my self right now! An NCommander, UID2, post, right here down with us plebs? Well, OK, there are not that many of us, but still. All hail Ncommander! Bits be upon him.
[06:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Wild Bears" Overrunning the USA - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:31] <exec> 08└─Disagree all you want. But Microsoft is not malicious, and Edge was designed specifically to protect your privacy, not invade it. But the same cannot be said for Google Chrome. Chrome is very clearly the least private mainstream browser, since the product exists almost solely to track its users acro...
[06:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Wild Bears" Overrunning the USA - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:32] <exec> 08└─And you don't need to back up your data, if you spread high quality pixie dust on the hard drive.
[06:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Sees 775% Increase From Microsoft Teams' Users in Italy (Updated) - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:43] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure it actually is legal. However, getting any laws enforced against M$ or, especially, a major politician and cult leader like Bill himself is difficult in the best of times. Now with the kakistocracy running at full steam, it will be all but impossible.
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[07:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:10] <exec> 08└─Very important points: Supports VS Code extensionsSupports Language Server protocol Language Server protocol allows anyone to develop a metadata server for a source code project in a particular language/platform as a SEPARATE project from an IDE. This concept was created and codified by the VS Code...
[07:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:12] <exec> 08└─Is Eclipse still a roach motel for bugs in its IDE? I remember a while back (late 2010 maybe?) trying out a development kit for Android (with GUI simulator). It was a pile of crap. I googled around for answers to show stopping bugs, and got a bunch of "Yea, don't bother with that." I was just goofin...
[07:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:14] <exec> 08└─My favorite bug was the long-long running "source code editors don't support word wrap". For years it was "wontfix -- lol you don't need word wrap". They finally realized sometimes people edit prose embedded in code projects, and Eclipse framework gets used for more than creating PROGRAMMING tools.
[07:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:12] <exec> 08└─He's probably too busy practising his user number.
[08:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:18] <exec> 08└─Selective reading as well as selective quoting now? Aerosols only occur under VERY LIMITED CONDITIONS - they have been created in a laboratory but have not been found to significantly occur naturally.
[08:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-03-30 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:19] <exec> 08└─OK, but you said you had some bad news too? I jest, I jest - I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
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[08:02:21] <exec> 08└─We are looking at various ways of solving the problem - but making changes to the software (which we cannot do at present except for trivial things) or making changes to the database itself (which would probably have to be permanent) have long-lasting downsides and potential problems that haven't be...
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[08:54:31] <exec> 08└─you should avoid the new office muscle memory? HA! the buttons move based on content for what you have selected good luck you can't even see or discover the full menu without actually knowing what you are looking for it's great for selecting things on the fly and seeing a preview of what it will do....
[08:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tuesday is World Backup Day - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:44] <exec> 08└─During the time a copy is plugged in and available, it is only a copy and not a backup. The copy must be offline and preferably offsite to be a backup. Additionally, until the time an offline copy has been fully tested through full a restoration somewhere, it is still only a copy. As a case in poi...
[08:55:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:23] <exec> 08└─I know. Clearly, it refers to the pivotal Battle of Five Armies (or Bofa) at the end of the Hobbit. What are they teaching kids these days?
[08:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:24] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't wish such an editorial task on anyone! For April 1 that is seriously not funny ;-)
[08:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wild Bears" Overrunning the USA - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:41] <exec> 08└─Well, I am going to work - but I guess that's beside the point. Home repairs, vehicle repairs, in-law home repairs, chasing after livestock (not necessarily my own), helping a neighbor tend to some chore or another, maybe poach some - uhhh - EGGS (I wouldn't dream of poaching wildlife, but I will re...
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[09:54:00] <exec> 08└─"Hacking" into a computer is comparable to breaking and entering into a business, or a home. Violating a TOS is comparable to something like smokind on Dad's property, when he has banned smoking on the property. Dad can tell you that if you want to visit, obey the rules, if you won't obey the rules,...
[09:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:11] <exec> 08└─This literally looks like VS Code, even the icons are the same. What is the supposed difference?
[09:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 1216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:25] <exec> 08└─I have an older vehicle that has an aftermarket audio system with a touchscreen. All the important driving controls are mechanical switches and knobs. The quick audio controls, volume and channel changing, have buttons too. The touchscreen is useful. For setting up Bluetooth, for doing firmware upgr...
[09:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:17] <exec> 08└─I signed up when the vt100 skin was put up on an April 1st a couple of years back. Wanted to enjoy it a little longer.
[09:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rheumatic Diseases: The Cost Of Survival During the Little Ice Age - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:15] <exec> 08└─Prednisone is not an immunosuppressant. It acts to reduce inflammation, but has nasty side effects, like brittle bones (had bones scans while on it); neither is Meloxicam (it is a Non-Steroidal AntiInflammatory Drug NSAID). I have Naproxen for the pain, but try not to rely on it. Immunosuppressants...
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[10:54:39] <exec> 08└─It's pretty much all been said: touch screens for driver controls are a brain-dead idea, and evern generation of designers seems to feel compelled to repeat all the mistakes already corrected by previous generations. That said, no one so far has mentioned what is likely *the* reason behind touch scr...
[10:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tuesday is World Backup Day - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:54] <exec> 08└─I thought that a Three Letter Agency was in-charge of all back-ups ...
[10:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tuesday is World Backup Day - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:55] <exec> 08└─And the restoration has to happen on a continuous basis. Otherwise your offline "backup" is rotting and might not restore when in need (see the RAID5 stories). This implies that there has to be at least a second backup to replace the failing version. In this sense, "offline" should never mean offlin...
[10:55:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 202 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:08] <exec> 08└─Isn't that the combination for Ari's luggage? I heard if you enter the sequence in reverse, a cardboard pop-up of Milo Yiannopoulos bursts from the suitcase with a pair of Ari's alt-whiteys on his head?
[10:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:37] <exec> 08└─Have you considered this might be us original residents' way of saying "thanks for all the smallpox"?
[10:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:39] <exec> 08└─We could promote ari to Editor for the day and make him push stories and take the abuse as well. Then everybody'd get a laugh.
[10:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.K. Internet Service Providers Lift Caps on Broadband Data - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:20] <exec> 08└─I am surprised that KCOM is in that list, they are a bunch of c**ts. They have a monopoly in one area of the country with stupid high prices and low speeds - sort of how the US is. The rest of the UK is fine and covered by several providers all having proper competition.
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[11:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia May be Spying on its Citizens Via US Mobile Networks - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:01] <exec> 08└─Only WE are allowed to do that to our citizens!!!
[11:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia May be Spying on its Citizens Via US Mobile Networks - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:02] <exec> 08└─It has been going after all critics of the regime, not just those among its own citizenry. The phones are cracked using SS7 which has been left intentionally insecure [techcrunch.com]. Social control media is dealt with the old fashion way, using moles [techcrunch.com]. The owners of gas guzzling S...
[11:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:21] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Guys in my team today were complaining to me that they need more MSDN licences for VStudio. They cost a fair bit so I was suggesting they run Linux in a VM and use gcc. Didn't seem to go down well. I had another conversation later with one, saying I was designing an auto off timer with...
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[11:54:22] <exec> 08└─I've been using Eclipse for Java development for years, though most of my coworkers at the current job prefer IntelliJ. Eclipse is fine for the most part - the git integration in particular is excellent. A few of the features are really counterintuitive, though, like Apache Tomcat configuration mana...
[11:54:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 1995 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:34] <exec> 08└─Touch screens in cars are idiotic and dangerous. I drive an "old" car where I can adjust the AC, headlights, wipers, radio, etc, without even having to take my eyes off the road. I can just feel the controls. The thought of having to buy a new car eventually with touch screen shit forced down my thr...
[11:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:38] <exec> 08└─you can hire cheap "app" designers instead of engineers
[11:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:36] <exec> 08└─Seems like nobody is really in the mood for it this year. I actually completely forgot about it until someone mentioned it yesterday in passing. Maybe this weird-ass alternate reality we are in right now is joke enough for all of us this year.
[11:57:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:57:41] <exec> 08└─No shit. National level Republicans too for that matter, which is how we landed the great Cheeto.
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[12:54:41] <exec> 08└─Ages ago when smart phones first started coming out, they seemed pretty cool to me -- having an ultra-portable computing device definitely has a use -- still does. At the same time, it was obvious that everything about the UI was a necessary compromise due to the size of the devices. What surprises...
[12:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 2070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:49] <exec> 08└─Car and Driver and a few other major auto review magazines and websites have been bashing the push to touch screens too. I suspect for the automakers, touch screens have three purposes. First, consumers perceived them as high tech. Second, instead of having to make one dashboard button and knob layo...
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[12:57:28] <exec> 08└─Stupider things have happened than the election of Trump - the Re-election of W. for instance. What will be amazing is if we manage to re-elect a man who can't even properly read a teleprompter, who consistently demonstrates the maturity of a toddler combined with the mental acuity of an Alzheimer's...
[12:57:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 332 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:40] <exec> 08└─Alkyl (C12 40% C14 50% C16 10%) dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride: 0.3% You are reading the label wrong. The C12, C14 and C16 refer to the length of the carbon chain in the alkyl part of the molecule. CH3-Ch2.....-CH2-C(CH3)2NH3+ : Cl- If you actually had something tha was 10% 16C it would instantly...
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[12:57:56] <exec> 08└─Okay, that was totally awesome, thanks for the laugh.
[13:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:37] <exec> 08└─Like Trump. Dave for POTUS, right?
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[13:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neural Implants Plus AI Turns Sentence-Length Thoughts to Text - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:09] <exec> 08└─A whole bunch of devils hiding in there. 1. Electrocorticograms are super invasive. You have to embed electrodes directly on the surface of the brain. And this technique requires several distinct arrays of them. 2. Unsurprisingly with that level of surgery required, they only got 4 participants, one...
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[13:54:56] <exec> 08└─DannyB -- can you clear up what you meant by this (in tfa): It seems to me that neither physical controls nor voice controlled operation are fundamentally incompatible with cars being both smart and connected. Plea to submitters and eds -- strive for as many positives as possible. If using a negativ...
[13:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 1484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:57] <exec> 08└─i suppose it's a bit like writing with a pencil: writing with a touchscreen is like writing with a pencil but without your hand or side of your palm allowed to rest on the table, hovering. nothing good comes from it. on the other hand :) allowing to rest the mass of your hand "somewhere" and then wr...
[13:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:56] <exec> 08└─Barf On Furries Again. Obviously.
[13:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:58] <exec> 08└─42, Gaark, 42. Please surrender your geek card and go sit in time out.
[13:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:00] <exec> 08└─1111 Or Nov 11 is known as singles day in China because that date looks like 4 single people . It is definitely unlucky to be single past a certain age so to help remove the stigma they turned it into ..... China’s biggest shopping day, celebrate being single by buying something
[13:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:02] <exec> 08└─That's a devilishly good idea. Perfect April Fool's.
[13:58:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:10] <exec> 08└─Then my work is done here.
[13:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:12] <exec> 08└─I can't fault what you say. It is true. However it seems an attempt to excuse the other party for running someone as awful as Trump. It's hypocrisy at its finest. Don't do the bad thing that I did.
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[14:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neural Implants Plus AI Turns Sentence-Length Thoughts to Text - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:07] <exec> 08└─Neural brain implants from the RIAA and MPAA! These will be able to detect when you hear any copyrighted music or see any copyrighted movie frames. Your credit card can be automatically charged. Think of the poor starving RIAA and MPAA! Despite the automatic charging of credit cards for hearing / se...
[14:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neural Implants Plus AI Turns Sentence-Length Thoughts to Text - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:08] <exec> 08└─Seriously, this kind of technology is so begging to be abused by authoritarians that it ought to be completely banned before it destroys the world. The last thing we need is the ability of people to be strapped into a chair and have their minds read for the benefit of a corrupt state. Even worse is...
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[14:54:24] <exec> 08└─no-brainer is the correct subject line. Anything done by legislators is a 'no-brainer', if you get my meaning about having no brains. It is amusing to see that Wargames inspired fear in legislators. OMG!!! Then a ridiculous and vague new law. That has been misused. Expanded several times over the de...
[14:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:39] <exec> 08└─Language server protocol also is supported via plugins in many other editors [langserver.org], including emacs, neovim, Sublime Text 3, and IntelliJ.
[14:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:40] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the good link! Some press releases definitely should use the exact same pixel color for both the foreground and background colors to avoid seizures and possible brain damage to the reader of the press release. That probably also should apply to some source code as well as press releases.
[14:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:42] <exec> 08└─This looks like it's just a fork of VS Code with Microsoft's trademarks and services removed. Which, sure, removing their telemetry is probably a good thing. But they're throwing some serious shade at Microsoft here when VS Code's binary license is basically the same as Red Hat. Seriously, I can't t...
[14:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:44] <exec> 08└─What we really need to know: is it extensible??
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[14:55:04] <exec> 08└─I want my car to be stupid and disconnected but it appears that is no longer possible.
[14:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:06] <exec> 08└─20 years ago, I had electronics gear that was controlled via knobs and buttons. If you needed to do anything like that, you could scroll with knobs and go forward and backwards with the buttons. No touch screen required. In terms of the car, it works great as you can have buttons and knobs for anyth...
[14:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rheumatic Diseases: The Cost Of Survival During the Little Ice Age - 1531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:11] <exec> 08└─Thanks for your reply. I don't mean to argue, but Prednisone surely is an immunosuppressant (and also some kind of chemical fluid reduction, but Lasix is much stronger for that.) It's how corticosteroids work. Most inflammation is immune system response. https://my.clevelandclinic.org
[14:59:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Rheumatic Diseases: The Cost Of Survival During the Little Ice Age - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:13] <exec> 08└─I think you meant this for dltaylor? He needs some immunesuppression. However, salt causes fluid retention and inflammation, so salt is bad for him and others. But yes, salt is so core to the body's chemistry. There is far far too much in prepared / processed foods. For some people it's early death.
[15:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Professional Ventilator Design "Open Sourced" Today by Medtronic - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:58] <exec> 08└─It's got nothing to do with the supply chain, it's because Covidien bought the company that had already developed a less expensive ventilator and then killed it. What's worse is that the Federal government paid for the design to be made and then let them off the hook for not delivering on the finish...
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[15:54:10] <exec> 08└─But no thanks. I'll go and live the rest of my life on a small island far away if this becomes a requirement.
[15:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neural Implants Plus AI Turns Sentence-Length Thoughts to Text - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:11] <exec> 08└─Especially if EF is at the microphone.
[15:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia May be Spying on its Citizens Via US Mobile Networks - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:21] <exec> 08└─Saudi Arabia, unlike the US, doesn't have "citizens". People from Saudi Arabia are properly called "subjects". As we all know, subjects exist for the amusement of royalty.
[15:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court: Violating a Site's Terms of Service Isn't Criminal Hacking - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:31] <exec> 08└─I know I shouldn't be giving them ideas, but I wonder if a TOS isn't good enough to get somebody locked up, if the person can't be sued for copyright infringement instead. A lot of software EULAs contain ridiculous nonsense like "You agree that you will not eat nachos while using The Software, and y...
[15:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court: Violating a Site's Terms of Service Isn't Criminal Hacking - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:33] <exec> 08└─What if you typed a random URL that takes you to a page bypassing the password logon?
[15:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court: Violating a Site's Terms of Service Isn't Criminal Hacking - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:35] <exec> 08└─That's how I log in here! I forgot my password long ago, so I go to the backdoor, knock a short code, and the bots open the door to let me in. At that point, I announce that I'm Runaway1956, and Exec whistles and beeps agreement, Starwars style, and I'm logged in. Just don't tell TMB, or he's likely...
[15:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court: Violating a Site's Terms of Service Isn't Criminal Hacking - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:37] <exec> 08└─It seems pretty clear that a TOS is a contract, and falls neatly under civil courts, not criminal courts. A contract you cannot amend, have a "meeting of the minds", and which is usually extremely lopsided in favor of the service provider. So, invalid and unenforceable if our civil courts actually w...
[15:54:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03corey [2202] 02 - 06Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code - 405 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:49] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Guys in my team today were complaining to me that they need more MSDN licences for VStudio. They cost a fair bit so I was suggesting they run Linux in a VM and use gcc. Didn't seem to go down well. I had another conversation later with one, saying I was designing an auto off timer with...
[15:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:56] <exec> 08└─Similar experience here. I've been using Eclipse for many years for Java. It mostly just works. There were a few bad years in there. Ditto about Apache Tomcat configuration. Once you know how to follow the right pointy-clicky maze of dialog boxes, it's quite easy to do. (Any Windows user should be f...
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[15:54:58] <exec> 08└─One day you won't need a 555 timer. It will be the Arduino blink sketch. Running on an emulated Arduino written in Python. The Python will be running on Java's GraalVM. That will in turn be running on Linux -- on an emulated PC -- written in JavaScript (yes really) on NodeJS. The whole thing will be...
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[15:55:00] <exec> 08└─See post by progo above: Supports VS Code extensionsSupports Language Server protocol
[15:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:21] <exec> 08└─Configurable shortcuts are great. That way the shortcuts you just learned can be constantly changed so that they must be re-learned.
[15:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:23] <exec> 08└─Mabye I had introduced enough negatives and then rewrote that sentence enough to confuse myself into a state being confused about my own confusion. Or maybe not being not confused about how much I might not have been confused. It's difficult to say.
[15:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:25] <exec> 08└─I don't mind if the car is smart and connected. But must have physical controls. It might be nice to say "Alexa, turn up the A/C by 5 percent". Or to the garage door opener: "Hal, open the pod bay doors."
[15:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tuesday is World Backup Day - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:40] <exec> 08└─Backup day was yesterday. Today is April 1. Too bad if you didn't make your backup.
[15:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:28] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe there is an April Fools' story, after all, and this story is just another April Fools' to lull us in security so we don't scan the stories for April Fools' and therefore fall for it. Note that this story is marked Meta, and what could be more meta than that?
[15:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:30] <exec> 08└─The green site was udderly useless on April 1. So were many other sights as well. Endless mind numbing April 1 jokes and bad puns. But knot on SN.
[15:56:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wild Bears" Overrunning the USA - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:49] <exec> 08└─You also have a right to bare arms.
[15:56:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wild Bears" Overrunning the USA - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:50] <exec> 08└─I don't need no backups. I use a RAID array. All of the zero bits on one drive, and the one bits on the other drive. If a drive fails, it is easily and quickfully replaced with a drive filled with the appropriate bit.
[15:58:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:44] <exec> 08└─However it seems an attempt to excuse the other party for running someone as awful as Trump.
[15:58:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:48] <exec> 08└─Climate science denial IS political.
[15:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:50] <exec> 08└─The EPA is notoriously toothless
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[15:58:52] <exec> 08└─e the one(s) Obama passed like the water protection law. It's like he rolled that back just to spite Obama and for no other reason other than the fact that Obama passed it. Petty)
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[16:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In Earth's Largest Extinction, Land Animal Die-Offs Began Long Before Ocean Turnover - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:11] <exec> 08└─Though most scientists believe that a series of volcanic eruptions, occurring in large pulses over a period of a million years in what is now Siberia, were the primary cause of the end-Permian extinction, the lag between the land extinction in the Southern Hemisphere and the marine extinction in the...
[16:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Toyota Reuses the Tired Old MAC TLA for AI Project - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:18] <exec> 08└─The Toyota Research Institute ... has launched ... to predict human decision making.
[16:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Reuses the Tired Old MAC TLA for AI Project - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:20] <exec> 08└─Personally, I'm quite happy to work synergistically with my older Toyota--using the standard controls--steering wheel, pedals, shifter, etc.--on a nice twisty road.
[16:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia May be Spying on its Citizens Via US Mobile Networks - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:40] <exec> 08└─The owners of gas guzzling SUVs have been collectively financing all that. While convenient to single them out for their conspicuous consumption, your groceries are collectively financing all that also. It's all Caesar's blood money.
[16:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia May be Spying on its Citizens Via US Mobile Networks - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:42] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Groceries send money that direction in two ways. First, it is all but impossible any more to find local food. Most I see in the stores comes from very far away, sometimes the other side of the planet. I try to avoid buying those. However, the impact of that is negligable if not downright in...
[16:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia May be Spying on its Citizens Via US Mobile Networks - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:44] <exec> 08└─Would rather have them buy chinese stuff to spy on their subjects?
[16:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Court: Violating a Site's Terms of Service Isn't Criminal Hacking - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:56] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that it is a contract that the provider can modify at any time, effectively making the agreement retroactive. It is no wonder corporations want these to have criminal law backing it.
[16:55:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 249 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:41] <exec> 08└─Mabye I had introduced enough negatives and then rewrote that sentence enough to confuse myself into a state being confused about my own confusion. Or maybe not being not confused about how much I might not have been confused. It's difficult to say.
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[16:55:43] <exec> 08└─> "Hal, open the pod bay doors." Hope you have a spare key, you're never going to get HAL to open those doors!
[16:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:45] <exec> 08└─This problem predates even touch screen controls. A random button and knob with an LED display to change the status is the same problem. My last car was an 06 Acura RSX (Honda Integra for those outside North America), made just before all the dumb screen controls started to become popular. It had th...
[16:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:47] <exec> 08└─Although I did find the post amusing, I just gave you a +1 Funny for your sig.: To avoid controversy about whether array indexes begin at 0 or 1, I propose a compromise: 0.5.
[16:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:53] <exec> 08└─S/t.
[16:56:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:54] <exec> 08└─Speaking of udders, have you seen how happy the cows are after winter confinement? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wild Bears" Overrunning the USA - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:15] <exec> 08└─First, not everyone has a private yard to go out into. Secondly, going out of your residence is not necessarily a significant risk of exposure as long as appropriate social distancing measures are taken. Going for a walk around a residential area doesn't require touching anything or physically inter...
[16:57:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wild Bears" Overrunning the USA - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:17] <exec> 08└─Well, now they do.
[16:57:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Reveals What the Final X-57 All-Electric X-Plane Will Look Like - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:28] <exec> 08└─Battery energy storage density has come a long way. Electric motor efficiency has come a long way. Corporate malevolence has come a long way.
[16:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Reveals What the Final X-57 All-Electric X-Plane Will Look Like - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:30] <exec> 08└─People want electric cars are extremefully quiet. People want the cars to make some sound like traditional ICE cars. For safety. Should electric planes similarly make some noise and emit contrails?
[16:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:19] <exec> 08└─Can't argue with that.
[16:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062019 Saw Over 60 Gigawatts of Wind Power Installed - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:39] <exec> 08└─Or you need consumers of energy that can start up when there's plentiful wind power and stop when there's not. Whatever else you can say about bitcoin mining, it does start and stop on a dime, making it an ideal consumer for a highly variable power source.
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[17:54:16] <exec> 08└─Are you sure you didn't mean "womankind"? Just based on the people I see looking in the sunvisor mirror and not at the road... Anyway, nope, no self driving for me. Sure, I'll use a JohnnyCab if it's the only option--perhaps in a specific geo-fenced downtown area, but not on a regular basis. The Cob...
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[17:54:17] <exec> 08└─Share and enjoy!
[17:55:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:13] <exec> 08└─I wonder how much work it'd be to get something like Atmel Studio (which is a wrapper for VS) to run on top of it?
[17:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:43] <exec> 08└─Don't blame the editors. It's not their fault. They may have entered a catatonic fugue like state after reading what I wrote. At least they don't have to read my code.
[17:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:44] <exec> 08└─Two large physical knobs. First knob selects which value you wish to change. Second knob changes it. As you turn the first knob, you can feel the detents as you pass each setting. A small screen (for deaf drivers) and an audible voice (for blind drivers) both announce which setting you have landed o...
[17:56:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:52] <exec> 08└─meh -- what's the UID for wanking? That's likely more accurate.
[17:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:53] <exec> 08└─Agreed. That and other things nudged me toward remaining a quiet AC over there. While I remember (and took part in) the Great F*** Beta Slashcott, I didn't hear about this place until months later, when some kind soul came back to the Green Site to tell us that the grass was even greener here at Soy...
[17:56:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:56] <exec> 08└─Good man. I've always liked you, Buzzard.
[17:56:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:58] <exec> 08└─That is similar to how I found SN. Some blessed person ventured back to the green site to point to a better way.
[17:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:18] <exec> 08└─Toothless was an overly simplified analogy.... Toothless like an old buffalo: when your are mouse sized by comparison, the toothless EPA buffalo can dump a very hurtful load of shit on your head. However, the toothless old buffalo isn't much threat to Texas Longhorn Bulls that outweigh it 10:1 (bein...
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[18:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Earth's Largest Extinction, Land Animal Die-Offs Began Long Before Ocean Turnover - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:21] <exec> 08└─For a moment I thought this was yet another article about the corona virus. I am a bit out of touch with the latest casualty figures, but the headline did surprise me a bit.
[18:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Reuses the Tired Old MAC TLA for AI Project - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:32] <exec> 08└─i won't even tolerate On Star, much less self driving.
[18:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Reuses the Tired Old MAC TLA for AI Project - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:34] <exec> 08└─Not really, It would be wonderful to be able to drive from coast to coast and only need to handle the wheel when the road was interesting or fun to drive, rather than most of it that is just nothing. Not to mention that nobody really likes driving in traffic. Having to wait is bad enough, but the co...
[18:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neural Implants Plus AI Turns Sentence-Length Thoughts to Text - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:46] <exec> 08└─i was thinking about how awesome it would be if you could do the revers and learn by downloading text straight into your brain without having to read it. Then maybe you could build a memorizing scrript which firmly planted it into your long term memory. Become and expert in all the relevant programm...
[18:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia May be Spying on its Citizens Via US Mobile Networks - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:59] <exec> 08└─Moscow's face recognition system, which is now used to catch coronavirus violations, does actual face processing in Estonia, member of NATO. Warning: it may be a fake news by whoever may profit from it. P.S. If true, I believe the roots of the company can be traced to Stalin's times and NY system wa...
[18:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:34] <exec> 08└─Electron/web browser for my text editor/IDE? nah. I'll use TAU. https://gitlab.gnome.org [gnome.org]
[18:56:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:05] <exec> 08└─> 45 degrees What a great hack for 4/1! My SO happens to be away (supporting an aging parent) but if she's around next year on April 1, I'm going to slip in some kind of support so that the seat sits at 45 deg.
[18:56:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:06] <exec> 08└─> Don't blame the editors. Just out of curiosity, do editors ever consult with a story-submitter, to clarify some point or another?
[18:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:08] <exec> 08└─> ... but still not nearly as good as manual controls. Tell me again why you bought this car? You must have seen the control layout on a test drive(?)
[18:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:11] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, yes, if/when possible. (my internet was down for the past day! bsbgfsdf)
[18:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:13] <exec> 08└─> ...it's going to take quite a few seconds to get the headlights turned on. With my '09 Toyota, the lights come on automagically -- I think the sensor is on the dash, just below the windshield. While I can turn on the lights by rotating the left stalk, there isn't much point, when it's daylight I g...
[18:57:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wild Bears" Overrunning the USA - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:46] <exec> 08└─Here in CO we're explicitly allowed to leave our property for exercise. Colorado Stay at Home Order Fulltext [9news.com] Under Necessary Activities: 3. Engaging in outdoor activity, such as, by way of example and without limitation, walking, hiking, nordic skiing, snowshoeing, biking or running. For...
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[19:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenWRT Package Manager Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:08] <exec> 08└─Are they THIS inept? really? Seriously?
[19:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenWRT Package Manager Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:10] <exec> 08└─OpenWRT should stop trying to make their own package manager, and simply adopt dpkg. The reasons behind ipkg and later opkg were trying to safe a few megabytes of memory. Those reasons are irrelevant nowadays. Whatever the extremist think of it: each and every router nowadays has at least a few hund...
[19:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Volvo Goes Electric, Here's How It's Making its Batteries Top-Notch - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:18] <exec> 08└─How do you make sure a lithium-ion battery pack can last the lifetime of a car?
[19:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Volvo Goes Electric, Here's How It's Making its Batteries Top-Notch - 2306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:20] <exec> 08└─The biggest shift in moving from internal combustion to electric is changing the focus. In internal combustion, a gas tank is simple and easy, and the complicated part is the engine. In battery electric, it's the other way around. Electric motors are relatively simple and easy. It's those batteries...
[19:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Neural Implants Plus AI Turns Sentence-Length Thoughts to Text - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:53] <exec> 08└─It would have been more awesome before we had the web. Now there's almost no point in ever memorizing anything because you can just search online in seconds. My brain's become so lazy at this that sometimes I feel almost like so long as I bookmark a web page, I don't even need to read it, because th...
[19:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jay [8679] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Court: Violating a Site's Terms of Service Isn't Criminal Hacking - 1649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:20] <exec> 08└─It's abundantly clear that TOS are not a contract, and there's nothing contractual about the arrangement between the parties. TOS are polite requests at best. First, for there to be a contractual relationship between two parties, both need to be aware of the terms, and both must agree to them. (By r...
[19:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:18] <exec> 08└─Definitely keeps programmers and script kiddies busy, eh.
[19:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:19] <exec> 08└─So how come they want you to white list their site when you go to the homepage?
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[20:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenWRT Package Manager Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:15] <exec> 08└─To fix this issue, upgrade to the latest OpenWrt version. The fix is contained in the following and later OpenWrt releases: OpenWrt master: 2020-01-29 reboot-12146-gc69c20c667 OpenWrt 19.07: 2019-01-29 v19.07.1-1-g4668ae3bed OpenWrt 18.06: 2019-01-29 v18.06.7-1-g6bfde67581 The fixed opkg package wil...
[20:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenWRT Package Manager Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:17] <exec> 08└─These code-execution exploits are limited in their scope because adversaries must either be in a position to conduct a man-in-the-middle attack or tamper with the DNS server that a device uses to find the update on the Internet.
[20:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenWRT Package Manager Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, even here they only fixed the checksum parser and not the validation: once the parser breaks again it will still happily install packages for which no checksum was found.
[20:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenWRT Package Manager Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:21] <exec> 08└─DPKG is bloated. But a half decent programmer should be able to come up with something better than http for sharing data...
[20:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Volvo Goes Electric, Here's How It's Making its Batteries Top-Notch - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:31] <exec> 08└─There are compromises made to have such an aero shape. It's not a pure win. For one, you reduce usable interior space. People must sit very low to the ground, sacrificing visibility and typically comfort with the position of their legs which will not be like sitting in a chair. Glare from a low-angl...
[20:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Reuses the Tired Old MAC TLA for AI Project - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:51] <exec> 08└─Go stick your head in a pig!
[20:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia May be Spying on its Citizens Via US Mobile Networks - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:19] <exec> 08└─And beware the day when the royals are _not_ amused.
[20:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court: Violating a Site's Terms of Service Isn't Criminal Hacking - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:34] <exec> 08└─Wait. I thought that unauthorized access to a "protected computer" violated the Title VIII of the USA PATRIOT Act based on Barbara's uncited provision therein. And now it is apparently the CFAA? This is all so confusing.
[20:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:58] <exec> 08└─There is an 8 pin PIC embedded controller that I would drop in anywhere a 555 timer would be used in the old days. It has a built in RC clock, so you can use it in place of the 555 timer and not need RC components and what-not. Plus it's nice to have a '555 timer' that you can field configure by usi...
[20:56:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 782 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:14] <exec> 08└─It's pretty much all been said: touch screens for driver controls are a brain-dead idea, and evern generation of designers seems to feel compelled to repeat all the mistakes already corrected by previous generations. That said, no one so far has mentioned what is likely *the* reason behind touch scr...
[20:56:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:37] <exec> 08└─Regarding red dash lights: It astonishes me how much blue light is inside most cars these days, especially on the touch screen garbage -- it would be nothing to give the user the option to select a decent night time color palatte.
[20:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:38] <exec> 08└─I don't know. What I do know is the link in TFA blocked me from viewing the specific article and the one above did not.
[20:57:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:06] <exec> 08└─You could have waited 'til the afternoon and posted "so how did everyone like what I did for April Fools'?"
[20:57:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:52] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about? It's not even prime!
[20:59:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain normal [2205] 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 126 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:26] <exec> 08└─If one is eating a toxic substance like Doritos, they probably are not overly concerned about what's lingering on their hands.
[21:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Dementia and Cardiovascular Disease - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:18] <exec> 08└─Hah! Look at you getting all triggered over someone making a very on-point joke about Trump's incompetence and corruption. It isn't "political" to point out facts, you're just the legit TDS suffered (the phrase works both ways) who gets worked up about any criticism of Trump. Seriously, you mock him...
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[21:54:27] <exec> 08└─If there are ever self driving cars, maybe the passengers lie down on beds? That would certainly reduce frontal area and air drag!
[21:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Volvo Goes Electric, Here's How It's Making its Batteries Top-Notch - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:28] <exec> 08└─Had to look that word up.
[21:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court: Violating a Site's Terms of Service Isn't Criminal Hacking - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:32] <exec> 08└─You have to be super careful reading these things. The summary says two similar, but importantly different things: has ruled that violating a website's terms of service isn't a crime under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
[21:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:57] <exec> 08└─You can't say your question wasn't addressed in the summary. Theia's architecture is more modular and allows for significantly more customizationsTheia is designed from the ground to run on both Desktop and CloudTheia is developed under the community-driven and vendor-neutral governance of the Eclip...
[21:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:59] <exec> 08└─I am reminded of a journal entry [soylentnews.org] I made once.
[21:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:51] <exec> 08└─Why don't you just browse the site on your VT100? Is there no support for that user agent? I mean, I would check, but my VT100 is...well...let's just say that it hasn't been working properly for 30 years. (I assume yours is still in good repair.)
[21:57:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:52] <exec> 08└─Who was that person? I imagine they are still here, somewhere. So I looked over there for Soylent shills, and found some stories from 2014 where comments directed people here. The user names were mx_mx_mx ( 1625481 )demonlapin ( 527802 )kumanopuusan ( 698669 ) - well, not this guy, but he did mentio...
[21:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:55] <exec> 08└─I don't remember who it was. So long ago.
[21:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Reveals What the Final X-57 All-Electric X-Plane Will Look Like - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:27] <exec> 08└─Without the water vapor from combustion I guess they will need to use mind control drugs for the contrails.
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[22:54:11] <exec> 08└─Have they turned into a VC? Do they still churn out copier/printing rigs?
[22:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenWRT Package Manager Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:25] <exec> 08└─Here is someone performing the exploit live and pwning some n00bs: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[22:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenWRT Package Manager Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:26] <exec> 08└─Automating the exploitation of devices drives down the cost of extracting information far below $5. So why wouldn't they?
[22:55:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Neural Implants Plus AI Turns Sentence-Length Thoughts to Text - 593 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:06] <exec> 08└─A whole bunch of devils hiding in there. 1. Electrocorticograms are super invasive. You have to embed electrodes directly on the surface of the brain. And this technique requires several distinct arrays of them. 2. Unsurprisingly with that level of surgery required, they only got 4 participants, one...
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[22:56:48] <exec> 08└─"I'm sorry Dan, I'm afraid I can't do that."
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[23:54:04] <exec> 08└─I'm expecting the rate hike and worse terms to show up very soon. As for the promised improvements to service, my guess is there won't be much change.
[23:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06T-Mobile Closes Sprint Merger after Two-Year Battle - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:06] <exec> 08└─Maybe -- for me living on the edge of service, I'm hoping that my house will get covered. Anyway, Tmobile hasn't been bad for me.
[23:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile Closes Sprint Merger after Two-Year Battle - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:08] <exec> 08└─It's been OK for me too, but I'm expecting it to become worse, not better, because of reduced competition.
[23:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xerox Withdraws Its Hostile Bid for HP, Citing ‘Current Global Health Crisis’ - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:17] <exec> 08└─Some idiot CXO had visions of 1980's hostile takeovers in his head.
[23:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Xerox Withdraws Its Hostile Bid for HP, Citing ‘Current Global Health Crisis’ - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:19] <exec> 08└─I think more like a conglomerate or maybe a vertical monopoly? Not a VC from what I know. ~10 years ago Xerox bought ComDoc a regional printer/copier dealer, about $100M annual sales. We had several medium sized copiers on service contract...and then one day when I needed some service it wasn't ther...
[23:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenWRT Package Manager Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:34] <exec> 08└─If you reuse the wrench, you'll save billions!
[23:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OpenWRT Package Manager Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:35] <exec> 08└─Just tell the fascist goons you have the virus and they won't come within 2 metres. And if you can't get out of the way of a flying wrench, you're obviously not Dodgeball material.
[23:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Earth's Largest Extinction, Land Animal Die-Offs Began Long Before Ocean Turnover - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe some southern ocean currents got reversed during that era? I guess that it could be devastating to a lot of marine life.
[23:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court: Violating a Site's Terms of Service Isn't Criminal Hacking - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:53] <exec> 08└─effectively making the agreement retroactive.
[23:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:20] <exec> 08└─Last time(s) work pointed me to either VS or Eclipse, I stuck with emacs. I was just more productive. Now, when I get a few more drivers built, I think I can stop using Windows or Linux underneath it.