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[00:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Closes Sprint Merger after Two-Year Battle - 2014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:25] <exec> 08└─I was on the discontinued t-mobile $30/mo 5GB data "Wallmart" plan until a few months ago. Switched to Mint. 3GB + unlimited voice/text $15/mo. Bump data to 8G, $20/mo. 12G, $25/mo. Mint uses t-mobile towers, etc. So, if you had coverage with t-mobile, you will with Mint, too. You will need a carrie...
[00:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xerox Withdraws Its Hostile Bid for HP, Citing ‘Current Global Health Crisis’ - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:36] <exec> 08└─They're Fuji/Xerox where I live. Some sort of joint venture type thing I think. I have had only one dealing with them, about 10 years ago, I gave the Fuji/Xerox sales guy a tender document, which outlined what we wanted and when. After chasing him several times, he returned a proposal which offere...
[00:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Xerox Withdraws Its Hostile Bid for HP, Citing ‘Current Global Health Crisis’ - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:38] <exec> 08└─It'll be far from the only bad decision blamed on or covered up by covid.
[00:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06OpenWRT Package Manager Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:56] <exec> 08└─"each and every router nowadays has at least a few hundred megabytes of RAM. If not gigabytes" Not true, and flash is the more limited resource.
[00:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Earth's Largest Extinction, Land Animal Die-Offs Began Long Before Ocean Turnover - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:18] <exec> 08└─The explanation may be that we prefer to think of extinction level events as being rare, big, single causes. There is only one smoking gun, and it's huge. Suppose instead that calamities are much more frequent, and that major extinction events are an unlucky time in which several happen in close pro...
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[00:55:20] <exec> 08└─The explanation may be that we prefer to think of extinction level events as being rare, big, single causes.
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[01:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Votes Unanimously to Finalize Anti-Robocall Tech after "Voluntary" Plan Didn't Work - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:04] <exec> 08└─What idiot thought 'voluntary' would work in the first place? Jar Jar Binks? Naw, way too intelligent.
[01:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Votes Unanimously to Finalize Anti-Robocall Tech after "Voluntary" Plan Didn't Work - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:06] <exec> 08└─If they're matroyshka dolls, wouldn't they be better represented by worker and parasite [youtube.com]?
[01:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Votes Unanimously to Finalize Anti-Robocall Tech after "Voluntary" Plan Didn't Work - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:08] <exec> 08└─I haven't received one in over a week. I wonder why.
[01:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FCC Votes Unanimously to Finalize Anti-Robocall Tech after "Voluntary" Plan Didn't Work - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:10] <exec> 08└─Fine the onshore carrier who ultimately picks up and carries the spam to the consumer. The Telcos know which inbound comms are robocalls - they can see it in the network stats. They have turned a blind eye because it is easy money for them. Hit them where it hurts.
[01:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Votes Unanimously to Finalize Anti-Robocall Tech after "Voluntary" Plan Didn't Work - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:12] <exec> 08└─Congress has passed the law outlawing spamming. FCC has made rules making it a little harder on spammers. And, the US has a history of not respecting foreign laws. Maybe we won't catch a whole lot more spammers, but the stakes have gone up. The average dingleberry looking for some easy cash isn't go...
[01:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Votes Unanimously to Finalize Anti-Robocall Tech after "Voluntary" Plan Didn't Work - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:14] <exec> 08└─But the telecom companies pinky-swore and they would never lie. /s
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[01:54:17] <exec> 08└─Nuke the entire site from orbit. Its the only way to be sure. [youtube.com]
[01:57:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:21] <exec> 08└─I have wondered about electronic safes... What happens if the battery goes dead? I might consider one if it had external charging and appropriate input power screening.
[01:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:58:38] <exec> 08└─Mine was an Ann Arbor that emulated VT100....but had more character sets and could do 50 lines. Still that nice green text.
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[02:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Votes Unanimously to Finalize Anti-Robocall Tech after "Voluntary" Plan Didn't Work - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:18] <exec> 08└─Scammers masquerading as tech support seem to have stopped calling since prime minister Modi announced a lockdown.
[02:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Votes Unanimously to Finalize Anti-Robocall Tech after "Voluntary" Plan Didn't Work - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:19] <exec> 08└─The same ones that thought net neutrality provisions were a problem and that we can trust the the Sprint-T-mobile merger to not increase prices.
[02:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Neural Implants Plus AI Turns Sentence-Length Thoughts to Text - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:48] <exec> 08└─you will have your asses mated.
[02:56:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court: Violating a Site's Terms of Service Isn't Criminal Hacking - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:21] <exec> 08└─The CFAA interpretation has changed over time. More courts are now using the public-private dichotomy for these kinds of cases. As the court puts it here: Instead of focusing on what was stolen, the CFAA relied on “an ‘unauthorized access’ concept,” wherein “the conduct prohibited is analo...
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[02:58:46] <exec> 08└─69, Phoenix, 69! Please surrender your 'pleasing da wimmins' card! ;)
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[03:54:11] <exec> 08└─Fine the onshore carrier who ultimately picks up and carries the spam to the consumer. The Telcos know which inbound comms are robocalls - they can see it in the network stats. They have turned a blind eye because it is easy money for them. Hit them where it hurts.
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[03:54:18] <exec> 08└─They have turned a blind eye because it is easy money for them.
[03:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xerox Withdraws Its Hostile Bid for HP, Citing ‘Current Global Health Crisis’ - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:39] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen a Xerox machine for ages. The large machines I see in corporate settings these days seem to be Ricohs.
[03:56:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:53] <exec> 08└─https://motors.mega.mu/fr/news/honda-bucks-industry-trend-removing-touchscreen-controls-20200330.html [motors.mega.mu]
[03:57:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:23] <exec> 08└─First time I ever saw blue light inside a vehicle was my '78 F100 ... for the high beams indicator. Holy shit, good thing I was in the middle of nowhere first time I hit the switch. Had to pull over, root up some duct tape, and block it off so it would stop blinding me. (And just the reflection was...
[03:57:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:24] <exec> 08└─IIRC the LockPicking Lawyer opened one rather quickly...
[03:57:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:27] <exec> 08└─First time I encountered one of those damn all-function stalks, I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to turn on the headlights. "Lights and wipers on the dash, as the gods intended" joined my criteria for that new-used vehicle I was then seeking...
[03:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:29] <exec> 08└─Honda isn't the only one to buck this industry trend: the latest Mazdas are the same way. The screen is operated via a "commander" knob on the center console. The previous models were pretty similar, with the same knob, though the screen was also a touchscreen (but the touch functionality was disabl...
[03:57:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Honda Bucks Industry Trend by Removing Touchscreen Controls - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:57:31] <exec> 08└─Your latest car sounds like my Mazda3. It has a digital display for the HVAC temperature setting, and buttons around it. You don't *have* to look down at them to press them; if you've memorized their positions, you can operate them by feel too, though it's obviously not as easy as the 3-big-knob lay...
[03:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:58:49] <exec> 08└─I turned up at a webcam meeting today wearing a TNG starfleet uniform. I must be growing up, though. Someone remarked that I was dressed as Captain Kirk and I didn't even condescendingly correct them.
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[04:54:16] <exec> 08└─I have some experience running fluid dynamics simulations, including a lot using a model called CM1 [ucar.edu]. In this case, the fluid is a gas rather than a liquid, but it's still a fluid dynamics simulation, and the same principles apply. For many idealized simulations of atmospheric processes, t...
[04:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bubbles Go With the Flow - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:18] <exec> 08└─Researchers often need to predict the behavior of fluids in real-world applications, such as oil flowing through a pipeline.
[04:59:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:07] <exec> 08└─Surrendered long ago on that one. Who the hell is that flexible anymore?
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[05:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Releases a Payload User’s Guide for its Starship Rocket - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:03] <exec> 08└─They are still saying "100+ tons" instead of 150 for "Expected Starship Performance". Payload fairing is only 8 meters wide internally: The standard Starship payload fairing is 9 m in outer diameter resulting in the largest usable payload volume of any current or in development launcher. [...] Stars...
[05:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06SpaceX Releases a Payload User’s Guide for its Starship Rocket - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:05] <exec> 08└─RESIST ID2020.
[05:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Releases a Payload User’s Guide for its Starship Rocket - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:07] <exec> 08└─Snatched up for secret blackops missions.
[05:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bubbles Go With the Flow - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:17] <exec> 08└─doesn't the 'roughness' of the surface (compared to both the molecular size and the effective 'surface' of the fluid) change the behaviour, or do the models also assume perfect 'smoothness'?
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[05:54:34] <exec> 08└─Turn your phone back on.
[05:58:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NCommander [2] 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:58:35] <exec> 08└─Yours is 3 digits too long I think.
[05:59:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April 1st Joke - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:07] <exec> 08└─Same here. It's been so long since "beta" that all I remember is how badly that went. I have no idea when I saw the link to this place, nor who posted it. This place has been better than the last five years of the green site. I've only been back once and that was due to a link in someone's journal t...
[05:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Wild Bears" Overrunning the USA - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:31] <exec> 08└─In Montreal it seems to be rainbows rather than bears that people are putting in their windows.
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[06:54:20] <exec> 08└─SpaceX releases a payload of [coronvirus particles]... In this configuration, the rocket can deliver more than 100 metric tons to low-Earth orbit and 21 tons to geostationary transfer orbit. The killer application, however, ...
[06:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bubbles Go With the Flow - 1653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:30] <exec> 08└─The free slip and no slip boundary conditions are the endpoints of a range of possible lower boundary conditions. For those, there's no need to otherwise specify surface roughness because it's implicit by the free slip or no slip boundary conditions. A partial slip boundary condition is in between t...
[06:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Earth's Largest Extinction, Land Animal Die-Offs Began Long Before Ocean Turnover - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:49] <exec> 08└─MMhm you have to love the geologists' perspective. Mostly harmless, other that a few minor pulses of disturbance every 65 million years of so.
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[07:54:00] <exec> 08└─Sorry, this post is off-topic but I need to ask the wise among you. **Are there any new cell phones with a replaceable battery?** I heard mention somewhere of exactly one, which was under $500. I'd like to stay under that price if at all possible. I just want something new which gets updates with a...
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[07:54:59] <exec> 08└─Something tells me a certain President is exempted from this prediction?
[07:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06As Volvo Goes Electric, Here's How It's Making its Batteries Top-Notch - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:55:27] <exec> 08└─I;n so glaf the cpm[any made it top nothc. I love top notch protudct.s Dumpt htat shit it ht eocien for all i care but bamek ot fucking top notch mothierifucing ch.
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[08:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:09] <exec> 08└─What sort of 'author' would genuinely complain about people having access to books (mostly dated) during a period of unprecedented chaos and disruption in modern society. Yeah, I wasn't surprised. Alexander Chee [wikipedia.org] - gay erotic fiction... author.
[08:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smartphone Videos Produce Highly Realistic 3D Face Reconstructions - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:18] <exec> 08└─https://www.phonearena.com/phones [phonearena.com]
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[08:54:20] <exec> 08└─Thanks!
[08:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In Earth's Largest Extinction, Land Animal Die-Offs Began Long Before Ocean Turnover - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:56:00] <exec> 08└─It's cancer. Someone tell her it's cancer.
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[09:54:03] <exec> 08└─Yep, assholes one and all. It's a temporary - and easily revokable - measure for the duration of the emergency, and as you note, often on books that are well down the long tail of diminishing revenue, although it'll obviously be a different story if they decide to make it permanent. They're still fu...
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[09:54:05] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of books on there are pretty old and usually out of print anyway. I'm sure that in some alternate dimension there is still a strong demand for circa-1987 books on programming fifth-rate, type-the-code-in-yourself video games for an Apple II, but this is not that dimension, alas. Al...
[09:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:07] <exec> 08└─I can understand why fiction writers would object to unlimited distribution of their books without compensation. I don't necessarily think that it's a negative, but I get it. For non-fiction writers, I would expect them to be a bit more practical. Every piece of information they manage to convey to...
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[09:54:09] <exec> 08└─They should be thankful someone is actually reading their shit when the world is going to shit.
[09:54:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] 02 - 06FCC Votes Unanimously to Finalize Anti-Robocall Tech after "Voluntary" Plan Didn't Work - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:44] <exec> 08└─What idiot thought 'voluntary' would work in the first place? Jar Jar Binks? Naw, way too intelligent.
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[10:54:34] <exec> 08└─Most authors don't actually sell very many books [electricliterature.com] and don't make much from libraries anyway [publiclibrariesonline.org] If the authors write stories that are any good, people reading them online for free will lead to some additional sales, so I can only guess that those compl...
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[10:54:35] <exec> 08└─Digital media creates a near zero cost to make a copy. My history is hazy; but, the entire reason 'copy'right was invented was due to the printing press. An author could create a work, send it to the publisher, have it published, and everyone gets paid; yay! However, a competing press could make cop...
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[10:55:04] <exec> 08└─https://images.vice.com/vice/images/articles/meta/2016/11/23/the-trailer-park-boys-will-soon-be-selling-legal-weed-1479931744.jpg?crop=1xw:0.8850255972696246xh;center,center&resize=1200:* [vice.com]
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[11:54:01] <exec> 08└─Original [youtube.com] Live [youtube.com] Potential agave farmers will just want to know if there are subsidies available [taxpayer.net]
[11:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Releases a Payload User’s Guide for its Starship Rocket - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:34] <exec> 08└─What happens when one of them blows up in space during refueling?
[11:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Votes Unanimously to Finalize Anti-Robocall Tech after "Voluntary" Plan Didn't Work - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:04] <exec> 08└─I haven't gotten robocalls in Chinese in weeks. Thank you, Wuhan virus!
[11:56:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In Earth's Largest Extinction, Land Animal Die-Offs Began Long Before Ocean Turnover - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:10] <exec> 08└─The delays you mention are of the order of months, decades, or centuries. The delay presented in the article is about 300 millenia! It does indeed sound like something else is going on.
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[12:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Tequila' Powered Biofuels More Efficient Than Corn or Sugar - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:12] <exec> 08└─There is a substantial problem with this strategy; scale. Agave is harvested by hand and it is an astoundingly difficult job. If someone builds a tractor attachment to harvest them you could enable the technology. If you're interested in Ethanol production, there is a readable hippy book on the topi...
[12:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Videos Produce Highly Realistic 3D Face Reconstructions - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:35] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkSfHCtpnHU [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[12:54:48] <exec> 08└─The same thing that happens to anything else in low Earth orbit.
[12:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06As Volvo Goes Electric, Here's How It's Making its Batteries Top-Notch - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:56:11] <exec> 08└─How do you make sure a lithium-ion battery pack can last the lifetime of a car?
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[13:54:06] <exec> 08└─eh, needs more cowbell... But seriously, thanks for those links!
[13:54:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 746 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:15] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of books on there are pretty old and usually out of print anyway. I'm sure that in some alternate dimension there is still a strong demand for circa-1987 books on programming fifth-rate, type-the-code-in-yourself video games for an Apple II, but this is not that dimension, alas. Al...
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[13:54:21] <exec> 08└─"It is a tarted-up piracy site," wrote author James Gleick.
[13:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:23] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gleick [wikipedia.org] High on his own supply.
[13:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:25] <exec> 08└─What sort of 'author' would genuinely complain about people having access to books
[13:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:27] <exec> 08└─I totally agree. And the original purpose of copyright in the US was to encourage authors to write more books (or whatever creative work,) not to make one and sit on its profits for your lifetimes and the lifetime of your grandchildren as well. This current time would be a windfall had the original...
[13:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bubbles Go With the Flow - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:00] <exec> 08└─...which ignores the effects of gas bubbles."
[13:55:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06FCC Votes Unanimously to Finalize Anti-Robocall Tech after "Voluntary" Plan Didn't Work - 144 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:15] <exec> 08└─The same ones that thought net neutrality provisions were a problem and that we can trust the the Sprint-T-mobile merger to not increase prices.
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[13:55:19] <exec> 08└─Every call carried is charged a tiny fraction of a cent. Those tiny fractions, in volumes of millions, add up to a substantial bit of revenue that none of the companies is going to voluntarily give up.
[13:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Votes Unanimously to Finalize Anti-Robocall Tech after "Voluntary" Plan Didn't Work - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:21] <exec> 08└─I received a car warranty scam on Monday. I'm waiting for them to call again because now I have a legit VIN for a 2012 Ferrari to give them. Wasting their time means they won't be scamming someone else. I'm also pretty sure the government sold the Obamacare database to scammers. When Obamacare first...
[13:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile Closes Sprint Merger after Two-Year Battle - 2767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:31] <exec> 08└─For anyone that did not know... both Virgin Wireless and Boost Mobile have been wholly owned subsidiaries of Sprint. Well, one minor concession that was made in this competition-killing deal was that Virgin Mobile and Boost would both be sold to Dish Network (yes, the satellite TV people) on the fli...
[13:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In Earth's Largest Extinction, Land Animal Die-Offs Began Long Before Ocean Turnover - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:28] <exec> 08└─Yea. I guess I was thinking about how gases and ash from a far northern source would propagate in the atmosphere. If you got a huge eruption every few centuries, it'd be enough time for the ecosystem to recover between each eruption. It's really more a red herring outside of that. I did rampantly sp...
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[14:54:16] <exec> 08└─names, mailing addresses, email addresses and phone numbers
[14:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06'Tequila' Powered Biofuels More Efficient Than Corn or Sugar - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:26] <exec> 08└─Interesting. If you harvest agave like this, https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] it will take a pretty sophisticated "tractor attachment", perhaps all the initial slashing is to remove thorns before accessing the center of the plant? This one shows taking down the whole plant t...
[14:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06'Tequila' Powered Biofuels More Efficient Than Corn or Sugar - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:27] <exec> 08└─Everybody gets, wait for it, ethanol fueled. Greta is happy.
[14:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:46] <exec> 08└─Except that the world isn't going to shit. It's just on "pause" for awhile. With any luck at all there will be a vaccine next year and things will get back to normal. See, for example, how polio affected the world before the vaccine was invented. The vaccine took longer but once it was available the...
[14:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:48] <exec> 08└─If a book isn't available in an official ebook format then it won't be available from Open LIbrary or any other library that offers ebooks. There are still books like this, print only. One interpretation: publishers/authors trying to glean every possible sale by offering multiple delivery formats ar...
[14:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:50] <exec> 08└─I does seem that most good artists are compelled to make art - however, they are even more strongly compelled to eat. And if making art doesn't fund their eating habit, then they have to do something else to fund it, rather than making art. Yeah, they'll still make a little art, but making art after...
[14:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:52] <exec> 08└─Also I just looked and none of his books: 1987 Chaos: Making a New Science, Viking Penguin (ISBN 0670811785); revised edition 2008 (ISBN 0143113453) 1990 (with Eliot Porter) Nature's Chaos, Viking Penguin. (ISBN 0316609420) 1992 Genius: The Life and Science of Ric...
[14:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:55] <exec> 08└─Internet archive is going to be sued. And they should lose. I hate to say, but ooksellers are one of the few who still have a reasonable model for copyright.
[14:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile Closes Sprint Merger after Two-Year Battle - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:01] <exec> 08└─To be fair, Sprint, wasn't a competitor. Sprint was the, I literally have no other choice option. The last time I used a Sprint anything, it was a 3G Hotspot through a third-party. They kicked me off the service though, because I used it. That was probably 5+ years ago. Thankfully, I have a much bet...
[14:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenWRT Package Manager Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:33] <exec> 08└─Why, opkg, why? I could write a package manager myself that does better than this, sheesh.
[14:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eclipse Theia 1.0 – Open-Source Alternative to Visual Studio Code - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:58:29] <exec> 08└─If it is based on PIC, it will randomly stop without a reason. And then what do you need not working MCU. Avr, Arm, Msp, 8051, anything before PIC...
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[15:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes Laptop GPU Lineup With RTX 20-Series Super - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:06] <exec> 08└─I imagine in a laptop these GPUs are going to need some serious heat dissipation, especially with the modern trend for making laptops wafer thin. I'm sure that's already the case for the GTX. It might run nicely for a while on the day of purchase, but on a hot day, with a build-up of dust, it'll pro...
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[15:54:07] <exec> 08└─NVIDIA Details Dynamic Boost Tech & Advanced Optimus (G-Sync & Optimus At Last) [anandtech.com] In fact, a lot of these designs are potentially leaving some performance on the table, as far as peak performance is concerned. Because the thermal budget of a laptop is usually greater than any single pr...
[15:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06'Tequila' Powered Biofuels More Efficient Than Corn or Sugar - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:26] <exec> 08└─A secondary problem is that mass monocropping a landscape is anything but environmentally friendly.
[15:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Tequila' Powered Biofuels More Efficient Than Corn or Sugar - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:27] <exec> 08└─You'll get a lot more sugar and thus ethanol from traditional crops. If Australia can't grow these, it should just import the ethanol from places that can do it efficiently. Australia is not blessed with tons of farmland.
[15:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Tequila' Powered Biofuels More Efficient Than Corn or Sugar - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:30] <exec> 08└─But TFA says University of Sydney agronomist Associate Professor Daniel Tan with international and Australian colleagues
[15:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Tequila' Powered Biofuels More Efficient Than Corn or Sugar - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:32] <exec> 08└─A Tertiary problem: Aren't the Aussies more than a wee bit 'funny' about non-native species...I do seem to recall rabid 'wadjela' antipodean environmentalists, without a hint of irony, talking about ridding Australia of all non-native species..
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[15:54:34] <exec> 08└─Having skimmed an article (from another website, possibly not the same one linked in the summery here) about this, agave yields roughly 30% less ethanol-per-hectare than sugarcane. On the face of it, that blows the 'more efficient' claim right out of the water. On the subject of water, and as you no...
[15:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:57] <exec> 08└─The system is legal, standard digital lending. Unlimited lending is not, but authors *can* opt-out. IA is doing a sensible thing in spite of the law, given the circumstances. They never would have gotten permission, but they may receive forgiveness (from the courts.) Complaining about unauthorized s...
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[15:54:58] <exec> 08└─Open Access to ACM Digital Library During Coronavirus Pandemic [acm.org] The above link is another site that you definitely DO NOT want to go to. They are offering . . . March 30, 2020 Dear ACM Members: As the coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic continues, we at ACM would like to do what we can to help s...
[15:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:00] <exec> 08└─And the original purpose of copyright in the US was to encourage authors to write more books (or whatever creative work,) not to make one and sit on its profits for your lifetimes and the lifetime of your grandchildren as well. Exactly, which is why the original term was only 20 years IIRC. I have n...
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[15:55:02] <exec> 08└─Back in the "old days", creators used to live on the patron model: patrons gave them money so they'd create works for them. This is how Mozart earned a living, for instance. Copyright sounds like a good idea: give authors a limited time to have exclusive control over their work, and then release it...
[15:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:05] <exec> 08└─I'd say screw 'em, let's have a boycott
[15:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Videos Produce Highly Realistic 3D Face Reconstructions - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:15] <exec> 08└─Interesting link, but how do you filter to find replaceable battery?
[15:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Releases a Payload User’s Guide for its Starship Rocket - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:29] <exec> 08└─Has SpaceX announced an anticipated price per lunch?
[15:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Releases a Payload User’s Guide for its Starship Rocket - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:30] <exec> 08└─Doesn't fuel require oxidizer? What if the twain shall never meet, except in the combustion chamber of an engine? Or could an explosion happen due to pressure vessel flailing? Have signs, like at a Kick Twip: DANGER ROCKET FUEL -- NO SMOKING
[15:57:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Reuses the Tired Old MAC TLA for AI Project - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:28] <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...
[15:57:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Reuses the Tired Old MAC TLA for AI Project - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:57:29] <exec> 08└─So it appears to me that, other than sharing an acronym (MAC) and underlying theme (AI / machine-cognition), Toyota's new project has precisely fuck-all to do with 1963's Project MAC. Did I miss something? Did Toyota entice a few old fellows who worked on it in 1963 out of retirement to join in thei...
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[16:54:20] <exec> 08└─But I've never found any hotel that let's you register with a fake name, and they always demand ID at checking.
[16:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marriott Discloses New Data Breach Impacting 5.2 Million Guests - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:21] <exec> 08└─You don't have fake credentials? Never travel without them!
[16:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Tequila' Powered Biofuels More Efficient Than Corn or Sugar - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:38] <exec> 08└─Now imagine this in Australia. Where every insect, spider and snake will kill you. The Agave harvesters are not going to be lining up for work.
[16:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, why the hell do they deserve to earn a living writing anyway, or make sure they are compensated for people consuming what they have written and had digitized possibly without permission? </sarcasm>
[16:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:09] <exec> 08└─Someone decided to give away their stuff out of the goodness of his heart. Like the government decided to give away $2.2T of our stuff. Don't worry it's an emergency!
[16:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:11] <exec> 08└─> ...IA's books are garbage scans or OCRs full of errors Do you have some examples or a citation for this? I've used the Open Library off and on for several years and only seen high quality ebooks.
[16:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bubbles Go With the Flow - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:49] <exec> 08└─Or internet particles flying through the toobz.
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[16:56:13] <exec> 08└─Years ago. Back in the early 1990s IIRC, there was proposed legislation to stop spam email. This was at a time when it was merely a big problem rather than the nightmare it became later. What happened? Lobbying by the Direct Marketing Association (DMA) The legislation would have forbid Unsolicited C...
[16:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Votes Unanimously to Finalize Anti-Robocall Tech after "Voluntary" Plan Didn't Work - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:14] <exec> 08└─Here's an idea: * Liquidate the assets of any convicted robo caller (have some very large statutory minimum fine that doesn't need any haggling in the courts) * Offer a bounty / reward for information leading to the conviction of any robo caller / spammer. Paid from the proceeds of fines from the pr...
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[17:54:14] <exec> 08└─The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington disagreed, saying the law allows the government to use racially biased facial recognition technology.
[17:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes Laptop GPU Lineup With RTX 20-Series Super - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:24] <exec> 08└─Just do what I do. Bolt your desktop into a Radio Flyer wagon, with a couple car batteries and a UPS. Peel off that silly "Intel Inside" sticker, and stick it to the Radio Flyer. Don't let that little creepy kid ride your wagon down the hill, or you'll never get your mobile device back. https://www....
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[17:54:51] <exec> 08└─I took a vacation to Brazil in the 1980s. The streets had a slightly sweet odor rather than the usual exhaust odor. That is because the automobiles, in the name of energy independence, ran on domestically produce ethanol rather than gasoline. Brazil has a large tropical region that is suited to grow...
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[17:54:52] <exec> 08└─I will add that Brazil is a major oil producer, and its production went sharply upward in the 1980s and is much higher today. So the ethanol as a fuel source didn't make sense anymore.
[17:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:25] <exec> 08└─Anti-Vaxxers tend to fix that. Measles was mostly for the history books as well. But: anti-vaxxers. Because they believed in a hoax about autism dreamed up by a single person. Sort of like birthers who believed Trump's hoax that will never die. It is amazing the world we live in where one person can...
[17:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:26] <exec> 08└─If copyright went back to its original reasonable length, then I might agree with you.
[17:55:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:28] <exec> 08└─Supposedly, Plural free for April [pluralsight.com]
[17:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:30] <exec> 08└─The very best classics we have, all got written when copyright term was several times shorter. Now when it got to be a century and change on average, look at what those people are "blessing" us with, and THEN tell us again that they deserve anything but contempt.
[17:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:32] <exec> 08└─You are being sarcastic with that pro-piracy statement yes?
[17:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:35] <exec> 08└─Nope. I'd rather have no copyright than the present regime of life plus eternity.
[17:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ze [8197] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:37] <exec> 08└─> [b]ooksellers are one of the few who still have a reasonable model for copyright. Got a source for this? Seems everything I've read about publishing industries paints them as rent-seeking, self-appointed gate-keepers who plunder both sides. As far as I'm concerned, these middlemen businesses are o...
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[17:55:39] <exec> 08└─Specifically, look at all those fanfiction sites, and at the original "webnovels" and such. All distributed without compensation. I assure you, the percentage of quality works among them is in no way less than among the works sold for money. Now note that reading such a free work uses up exactly the...
[17:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:41] <exec> 08└─Somewhere a new one might be born from the ashes, with some amount of blood spilled in the birthing process as usual. Somewhere the corpse of what they had before will sustain the populace for some time, and what comes then is better not be thought about.
[17:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:43] <exec> 08└─https://lightnovelbastion.com/novel/death-mage/ [lightnovelbastion.com]
[17:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Videos Produce Highly Realistic 3D Face Reconstructions - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:55] <exec> 08└─You might need to allow OR block scripts because the "Type: Battery Replacement:" dropdown and various sliders are showing up for me on one system+browser but not another.
[17:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Videos Produce Highly Realistic 3D Face Reconstructions - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:56] <exec> 08└─Interesting. I'm not having any such luck finding that. I may try Linux later on.
[17:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06SpaceX Releases a Payload User’s Guide for its Starship Rocket - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:12] <exec> 08└─Elon Musk says SpaceX’s Starship could fly for as little as $2 million per launch [techcrunch.com] Speaking with USAF Lieutenant General John Thompson at the event (via Space.com), Musk said that fuel costs for the Starship should be around $900,000 per launch, and that once you factor in operatio...
[17:56:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Releases a Payload User’s Guide for its Starship Rocket - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:14] <exec> 08└─Doesn't fuel require oxidizer?
[17:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bubbles Go With the Flow - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:29] <exec> 08└─Couple of comments/questions--have done wind tunnel testing, but no CFD. I can see where "free slip" boundary conditions would be really useful for simulating the walls of a wind tunnel -- it would avoid the boundary layer buildup along the length of the tunnel, avoiding the need to simulate boundar...
[17:56:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03petecox [3228] 02 - 06FCC Votes Unanimously to Finalize Anti-Robocall Tech after "Voluntary" Plan Didn't Work - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:43] <exec> 08└─Scammers masquerading as tech support seem to have stopped calling since prime minister Modi announced a lockdown.
[17:57:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile Closes Sprint Merger after Two-Year Battle - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:05] <exec> 08└─I forgot to mention... You might want to use a fake name with Mint. To port your number from Mint to a different carrier, all that is needed is your name and your phone number. Your PIN is your phone number, and cannot be changed. Pretty crazy, when sim swap attacks are so common these days. I used...
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[17:57:20] <exec> 08└─Capitalism works in your favour here: 1. Start up a printing business 2. Xerox buys you out of the game. 3. Profit 4. Goto 1 Need capital to set up the printing business.
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[18:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Details 10th Gen Comet Lake-H for 45 Watt (Or 135 Watt) Notebooks - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:10] <exec> 08└─Re: Ice Lake GPU Underperforming? [soylentnews.org] 15W/25W TDP laptop CPUs with integrated GPUs are clearly no problem at all if they can do stuff this. The 45W TDP laptop chips are often shipping alongside a discrete GPU. Some caveats apply. Intel's understanding of "TDP" is tortured at best, part...
[18:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Details 10th Gen Comet Lake-H for 45 Watt (Or 135 Watt) Notebooks - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:11] <exec> 08└─Intel is going to need these overclocked, overheating laptops if they hope to compete with AMD for the next couple of years. I'm not worried about Intel though. They have plenty of fanatics that will buy them anyway.
[18:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Details 10th Gen Comet Lake-H for 45 Watt (Or 135 Watt) Notebooks - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:13] <exec> 08└─Sure, I've had 125W notebooks that "worked" - but, why, today would you want such a beast? The fans suck in dust, the whole thing is super dependent on the cooling system, and you can get sufficient compute power for under 10W- so why would you make these huge real problems for a small edge in compu...
[18:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Details 10th Gen Comet Lake-H for 45 Watt (Or 135 Watt) Notebooks - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:15] <exec> 08└─Intel sells laptop chips to OEMs. AMD doesn't have access to the capacity needed to meet the demand for *all* laptop CPUs. Especially this year since they are devoting a large amount of their capacity at TSMC to making APUs for the Xbox Series X and PS5. If people simply refused to buy Intel-based l...
[18:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NateMich [6662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Supports Some Facial Recognition Software - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:24] <exec> 08└─They are literally training their software to think, "Well, I don't know, all black people look the same to me." And then they're using it to arrest people.
[18:55:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:43] <exec> 08└─Basically, you are correct. From here [archive.org] they've given a response as to why they've done what they've done. An interesting tidbit from the link I've provided: Doesn’t my local library already provide access to all of these books? No. The Internet Archive has focused our collecting on bo...
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[19:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:08] <exec> 08└─Why bother continuing to make an old and now obsolete technology when there's something that's so much better? This reminds me of when companies like this finally stopped producing CRTs. For cellphones, we've had OLEDs for years now, and they really do look much better than LCDs, so it's about time...
[19:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:09] <exec> 08└─It would be possible to put a modern flat panel display, even LCD, into an old bulky CRT enclosure to provide comfort to those unable to adapt. It is likely to be possible to put a QD enhanced OLED into an LCD enclosure. Probably emacs can have vi key bindings.
[19:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:11] <exec> 08└─Probably emacs can have vi key bindings.
[19:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Tequila' Powered Biofuels More Efficient Than Corn or Sugar - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:07] <exec> 08└─Those may only be slightly more toxic than the rattlesnakes, gila monsters scorpions, and spiders of Mexico. Australia does not have a monopoly on deadly critters and bugs.
[19:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:50] <exec> 08└─Come on, at least you can still BUY books, and lend them. That's how copyright was supposed to work. I could understand if the library "lent" books from "closed down" libraries, but removing the queue altogether? COVID-19 did not suspend copyright law, even if you dom't like it. Frankly, I think 20...
[19:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:52] <exec> 08└─According to https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] , copyright in the US varied across the colonies/states and was eventually formalized as: The first federal copyright act was the Copyright Act of 1790. It granted copyright for a term o...
[19:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 1379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:54] <exec> 08└─See (#978414) for some history. The Berne convention on copyright from 1886 (over 100 years ago), https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] set (C) at 50 years after the death of the author-- Copyright term The Berne Convention states that all works except photo...
[19:55:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:56] <exec> 08└─It's what IA said about the matter when people started complaining. If you're getting low-error OCRs that's impressive, since they're not doing any real work to correct them. You might be confused by my redundant use of the word "garbage." Scans waste more time than it would take me to work off the...
[19:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:58] <exec> 08└─lol Capitalist apologist doesn't like copyright terms. Weird bit of hypocrisy you've got there, you must've grown up pirating games and other media.
[19:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:00] <exec> 08└─Weird bit of hypocrisy
[19:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Releases a Payload User’s Guide for its Starship Rocket - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:56:29] <exec> 08└─Has SpaceX announced an anticipated price per lunch?
[19:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toyota Reuses the Tired Old MAC TLA for AI Project - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:38] <exec> 08└─Reverse confirmation bias(?)--I don't have a smart phone. Must have flashed back to a time when no one had a smart phone when I typed that.
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[19:58:39] <exec> 08└─Submitter (me) was amused that Toyota would reuse such a tired old acronym. I though tfa made that pretty clear.
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[20:54:11] <exec> 08└─Agreed, except that CRTs were arguably better, when compared to the earlier LCDs that first replaced them. I've been waiting the whole time for something better than LCD to gain some traction for desktop monitors. Finally we seem to be getting there, when I'd pretty much given up (and conceded that...
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[20:54:12] <exec> 08└─I still read complaints about burn-in with OLED. QLED [wikipedia.org] or MicroLED [wikipedia.org] might be the better way forward.
[20:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:14] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of when companies like this finally stopped producing CRTs.
[20:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:16] <exec> 08└─It would be possible to put a modern flat panel display, even LCD, into an old bulky CRT enclosure to provide comfort to those unable to adapt.
[20:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:19] <exec> 08└─Their only advantage is form factor; having to choose between bad color reproduction and bad lag, and finally pay at least twice the price of a CRT for a device visibly inferior in both, is a ridiculous result for 20 years of "progress".
[20:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:21] <exec> 08└─Samsung to Cease Traditional LCD Production
[20:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:23] <exec> 08└─A modern PC could probably be fit into a PC case that predated the IBM PC. A modern game system could possibly be put into a 90's and earlier game system.
[20:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:25] <exec> 08└─now you can do this [wired.com] (also described here [newatlas.com].)
[20:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Details 10th Gen Comet Lake-H for 45 Watt (Or 135 Watt) Notebooks - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:36] <exec> 08└─Brilliant! Now your laptop can double as a hotplate. Soup's on! ;-)
[20:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kalas [4247] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Intel Details 10th Gen Comet Lake-H for 45 Watt (Or 135 Watt) Notebooks - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:37] <exec> 08└─At that point it's not a laptop computer so much as a laptop nut roasting device.
[20:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Supports Some Facial Recognition Software - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:47] <exec> 08└─Anyway, I think I'd much rather their software couldn't distinguish me from other people, to be honest.
[20:55:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 516 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:42] <exec> 08└─I totally agree. And the original purpose of copyright in the US was to encourage authors to write more books (or whatever creative work,) not to make one and sit on its profits for your lifetimes and the lifetime of your grandchildren as well. This current time would be a windfall had the original...
[20:55:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 621 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:55:50] <exec> 08└─And the original purpose of copyright in the US was to encourage authors to write more books (or whatever creative work,) not to make one and sit on its profits for your lifetimes and the lifetime of your grandchildren as well. Exactly, which is why the original term was only 20 years IIRC. I have n...
[20:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ze [8197] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:14] <exec> 08└─That's not really what I asked, though, is it? And that they grudgingly fail to stop you from lending books isn't to their credit. They generally do anything they can to stop you for ebooks, and DRM is still a frequent problem, up through and including your supposed "ownership" of said book being re...
[20:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ze [8197] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:15] <exec> 08└─Which has nothing to do with the original purpose or practice of copyright in the US, who your link notes didn't joint the Berne Convention and adopt its guidelines until 1989. I think it's fair to argue that a sound policy got usurped by a bad one there, and it doesn't matter if the bad one happene...
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[21:54:20] <exec> 08└─240p is basically a quick and dirty hack to turn an interlaced display back into a progressive scan one, and interlacing is an awful, dirty hack in general. CRTs also suffer from bad flicker (TVs generally aren't so bad, but running a computer monitor below 85hz is like staring into a strobe light)....
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[21:54:33] <exec> 08└─laptop nut roasting device
[21:55:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 936 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:42] <exec> 08└─Also I just looked and none of his books: 1987 Chaos: Making a New Science, Viking Penguin (ISBN 0670811785); revised edition 2008 (ISBN 0143113453) 1990 (with Eliot Porter) Nature's Chaos, Viking Penguin. (ISBN 0316609420) 1992 Genius: The Life and Science of Ric...
[21:56:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:11] <exec> 08└─That's the thing that gets me. They're going to get sued. There's no conceivable way that they could have thought they wouldn't get sued. So... why did they announce this? They could have _done_ this and no one would have known. Even if not unlimited, they could have just applied a multiplier. Check...
[21:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:13] <exec> 08└─I does seem that most good artists are compelled to make art - however, they are even more strongly compelled to eat. And if making art doesn't fund their eating habit, then they have to do something else to fund it, rather than making art.
[21:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:15] <exec> 08└─Being old doesn't make it being right. Especially making the length of the copyright dependent on the length of the author's life seems fundamentally wrong.
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[22:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03landshark [8216] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Open Access to ACM Digital Library During Coronavirus Pandemic - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:13] <exec> 08└─I really wish IEEE would do this. There are some standards I wish I could get my hands on, but can't afford to buy myself.
[22:54:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:29] <exec> 08└─Samsung to Cease Traditional LCD Production
[22:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:33] <exec> 08└─That's what screensavers are for! Speaking of which, why are so many people suffering under the delusion that "screensaver" is a word for a desktop background?!
[22:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:35] <exec> 08└─...and a crappy range of acceptable viewing angles...
[22:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:38] <exec> 08└─Just don't get rid of the green ones!!!
[22:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:40] <exec> 08└─This just sounds like a big liberal scam to take away our LCDs. First they took away our incandescent bulbs and now they're coming for our LCDs. I should have the freedom to purchase whatever screen I want! The government should keep out of this and make the companies continue to produce this stuff.
[22:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Details 10th Gen Comet Lake-H for 45 Watt (Or 135 Watt) Notebooks - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:54] <exec> 08└─Even at 60W per core, you're looking at 50A of current per core...
[22:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Details 10th Gen Comet Lake-H for 45 Watt (Or 135 Watt) Notebooks - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:55] <exec> 08└─The CPU core voltage is in the ballpark of 1-1.5V, not 12V. Similar to RAM (~1.2V for DDR4). That should make the math here correct. https://www.intel.com [intel.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wi...
[22:55:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Tequila' Powered Biofuels More Efficient Than Corn or Sugar - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:44] <exec> 08└─And in Australia you won't stumble into any drug running cartels out in the middle of the dessert ...
[22:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Tequila' Powered Biofuels More Efficient Than Corn or Sugar - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but you might run into Max, and he's mad!
[22:56:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:39] <exec> 08└─I can understand why fiction writers would object to unlimited distribution of their books without compensation...
[22:57:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06FCC Votes Unanimously to Finalize Anti-Robocall Tech after "Voluntary" Plan Didn't Work - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:43] <exec> 08└─What idiot thought 'voluntary' would work in the first place?
[22:58:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Xerox Withdraws Its Hostile Bid for HP, Citing ‘Current Global Health Crisis’ - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:13] <exec> 08└─Something tells me a certain President is exempted from this prediction?
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[23:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's SpaceX Bans Zoom over Privacy Concerns - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:06] <exec> 08└─FBI warns video calls are getting hijacked. It's called 'Zoombombing' [cnn.com] Never heard of it before today, and it's a top headline on Google News.
[23:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's SpaceX Bans Zoom over Privacy Concerns - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:08] <exec> 08└─My elderly mother wants to set up Zoom with me and my siblings. She already uses it to talk to her siblings. I'm trying to figure out the best way for me to use it with minimal footprint and impact on me. Perhaps set up a throwaway email address for starters, but what is a good way to sandbox the ap...
[23:54:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 333 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:22] <exec> 08└─Why bother continuing to make an old and now obsolete technology when there's something that's so much better? This reminds me of when companies like this finally stopped producing CRTs. For cellphones, we've had OLEDs for years now, and they really do look much better than LCDs, so it's about time...
[23:54:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:26] <exec> 08└─I still read complaints about burn-in with OLED. QLED [wikipedia.org] or MicroLED [wikipedia.org] might be the better way forward.
[23:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:39] <exec> 08└─Another part is 6-bit (!) actual color depth in many LCD panels, which is then masked by "temporal dithering". Fill an area with a long gradient (say 512+ pixels) and look closely; if you get a swarm of flickering darker/lighter pixels, here it is.
[23:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Details 10th Gen Comet Lake-H for 45 Watt (Or 135 Watt) Notebooks - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:55] <exec> 08└─Here's the other one I was looking for: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://twitter.com [twitter.com] Take it with a grain of salt, but... yeah.
[23:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Details 10th Gen Comet Lake-H for 45 Watt (Or 135 Watt) Notebooks - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:57] <exec> 08└─Just to add to this many computers run off 12V if CPU was 12V you would have trouble powering USB, memory....
[23:55:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 894 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:55] <exec> 08└─Yep, assholes one and all. It's a temporary - and easily revokable - measure for the duration of the emergency, and as you note, often on books that are well down the long tail of diminishing revenue, although it'll obviously be a different story if they decide to make it permanent. They're still fu...
[23:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:56:41] <exec> 08└─During this time of extended lending, accompany each loaned title with information where the title can be purchased (if it can). Information can be supplied by the outraged authors.
[23:57:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Votes Unanimously to Finalize Anti-Robocall Tech after "Voluntary" Plan Didn't Work - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:50] <exec> 08└─My bet is that most of the domestic call center employees caught the Trump virus because they are based in states that kept ignoring it.
[23:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Xerox Withdraws Its Hostile Bid for HP, Citing ‘Current Global Health Crisis’ - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:58:20] <exec> 08└─CoVFEFE-19
[23:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Reuses the Tired Old MAC TLA for AI Project - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:25] <exec> 08└─Context is everything. I see exactly where you were coming from now, thanks.
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