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[00:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's SpaceX Bans Zoom over Privacy Concerns - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:20] <exec> 08└─IMHO, if you advertise end to end encryption, then it turns out you're faking it, then, well. Not only should your app be shunned by everyone, but the Cxx suite that carried on that lie should be held personally responsible.
[00:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's SpaceX Bans Zoom over Privacy Concerns - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:22] <exec> 08└─I have an obsessive compulsion to promote open source software. Jitsi advertises E2E encryption by default on their Jitsi Meet service. https://jitsi.org [jitsi.org]
[00:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's SpaceX Bans Zoom over Privacy Concerns - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:24] <exec> 08└─Run in a VM.
[00:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Elon Musk's SpaceX Bans Zoom over Privacy Concerns - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:26] <exec> 08└─virus shit. Fuck the virus and fuck the news, too. Day in, day out, it's the same virus blahblah 24/7. Enough of this bullshit.
[00:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's SpaceX Bans Zoom over Privacy Concerns - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:29] <exec> 08└─If you're cracking now, good luck in six months. I know it hurts to have your short American attention span tested... if it's too hard, just go outside and lick some doorknobs.
[00:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Access to ACM Digital Library During Coronavirus Pandemic - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:38] <exec> 08└─I wish Amazon would do this. There are some computer parts I need for working from home in my rent free apartment (thanks landlord!) but they are too expensive,
[00:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Access to ACM Digital Library During Coronavirus Pandemic - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:40] <exec> 08└─I really wish Soylent News would do this. There are some amusing comments I would like to read, but I cannot afford to pay the price Anonymous Coward wants me to pay to read them.
[00:55:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Intel Details 10th Gen Comet Lake-H for 45 Watt (Or 135 Watt) Notebooks - 549 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:12] <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...
[00:55:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Intel Details 10th Gen Comet Lake-H for 45 Watt (Or 135 Watt) Notebooks - 682 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:13] <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...
[00:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Supports Some Facial Recognition Software - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:30] <exec> 08└─The problem is that there should be no mass surveillance at all. [gnu.org] If the infrastructure (cameras. etc.) is already there, the use of that infrastructure for mass surveillance is an inevitability. They might say they require warrants now, but as we've seen in the past, once the data is colle...
[00:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Supports Some Facial Recognition Software - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:32] <exec> 08└─Warrant or not, legal or not, if it can be done, it will be done, if the ones who can do it want to do it. This paradigm is well known by parents raising children. Or "prohibition". It still happens. Underground. Where it's much harder to monitor.
[00:55:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marriott Discloses New Data Breach Impacting 5.2 Million Guests - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:55:51] <exec> 08└─Marriott customers usually have lots of money!!! The One Percenters...doxxed. Bet that data goes for top dollar on the dark web.
[00:58:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06FCC Votes Unanimously to Finalize Anti-Robocall Tech after "Voluntary" Plan Didn't Work - 201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:58:12] <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.
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[01:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:05] <exec> 08└─All you give us is kleptocratic senators and senile presidential candidates. I want a good trustworthy leader like Xi who can cure Covid in three months.
[01:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:06] <exec> 08└─It's xi jin flu pooh that suppressed the Chinese doctors sounding out alarm for the disease. It's xi jin flu pooh that spread ridonculous notion of the virus' us origin. Fuck xi the pooh. Fuck CCP. The Chinese needs to rise up. Your illlustriious history don't mean shit when your country move to t...
[01:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Elon Musk's SpaceX Bans Zoom over Privacy Concerns - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:21] <exec> 08└─No thanks, that's what you Eurotards [dw.com] like to do [metro.co.uk].
[01:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk's SpaceX Bans Zoom over Privacy Concerns - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:22] <exec> 08└─Thank you very much for this! Now I have to figure out how to get my other family members on it. Can it all be done from the browser, or do you need people to install the apps on their phones?
[01:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:55] <exec> 08└─Now if only CBC would cease Star Trek shows set in the horrible J.J. Abrams alternate universe.
[01:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:57] <exec> 08└─The woke infection has already killed Star Trek. Just let it go.
[01:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Details 10th Gen Comet Lake-H for 45 Watt (Or 135 Watt) Notebooks - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:15] <exec> 08└─If they can tune its black body emission spectrum, perhaps it can be used as a tanning lamp instead.
[01:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marriott Discloses New Data Breach Impacting 5.2 Million Guests - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:46] <exec> 08└─I just did a Google search and found an $80 room for 2 in a Marriott 2-star hotel.
[01:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Marriott Discloses New Data Breach Impacting 5.2 Million Guests - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:55:47] <exec> 08└─You do not want to mess with poor folks that worked hard for what they earned. They are liable to do severe physical harm to you for as little as a stolen cigarette. What we have here is a list of people who will most likely just call their insurance guy. Nice fat guys who wear suits and do things w...
[01:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Tequila' Powered Biofuels More Efficient Than Corn or Sugar - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:10] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Figuring out how to sustainably multicrop is another market opportunity. Sustainably in this case also includes economic sustainability.
[01:56:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Tequila' Powered Biofuels More Efficient Than Corn or Sugar - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:12] <exec> 08└─The water requirements for the arid-adapted agave are significantly smaller than tropical sugar cane; 10 inches of water per year vs. 50 inches.
[01:56:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dwilson [2599] 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:56:40] <exec> 08└─I'd say screw 'em, let's have a boycott
[01:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:08] <exec> 08└─> Information can be supplied by the outraged authors. Not an outraged author, just an author, and yes, I did that several years ago. Open Library lets anyone logged in edit the description page for a book. They have my reference book in their database*, but don't have a copy, so I added a few lines...
[01:57:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:57:10] <exec> 08└─My neighbour, a retired nurse, has volunteered to risk her life to go in and help out with the Covid19 work at the local hospital. And then you get entitled wankers like Alexander Chee whining about losing out on a few cents of royalties...
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[02:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:15] <exec> 08└─Nah those crematoriums are not running full steam. Those are not boxes of urns. They are all better! They have never lied about numbers before to look good. Duh!
[02:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:16] <exec> 08└─It is the trump flu pooh that suppressed the severity so that the stock market wouldn't get spooked and hurt his reelection efforts. It is the trump flu pooh that spread ridonculous notions about it being under control and will magically go away, and thus didn't get the CDC moving on it early. Fuck...
[02:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:18] <exec> 08└─Moving voting online will make it easy to vote, and Republicans have outright said that if you make it easy to vote, "you'll never have a Republican voted in to office again", and it wasn't just the president who said that either.
[02:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:21] <exec> 08└─Hey, beautiful. If you're gonna troll, please your posts. The first sentence sounded cynically plausible. You lost me on the second.
[02:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:23] <exec> 08└─You can rag on trump all you want, and I won't get in the way, but this virus originated in China, and it's the Xi flu pooh CCP that let it spread. It's not the Chinese, certainly not Chinese Americans not even Chinese Chinese (remember, it's the Chinese docs that tried to sound out the alarm), but...
[02:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:25] <exec> 08└─He went to Jared! [thedailybeast.com] There will be no democracy to put online, after this jackass amateur-hour Dunning-Kroeger administation gets finished.
[02:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:14] <exec> 08└─What's the big deal with QLED/OLED? I've been looking at photos of OLED displays on my LCD display and they look pretty close to standard LCD displays.
[02:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Details 10th Gen Comet Lake-H for 45 Watt (Or 135 Watt) Notebooks - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:55:33] <exec> 08└─I would surmise (and 67% of all statistics are made up!) that most work laptops spend 85% of the time plugged in at a desk, 5% at starbucks and 10% in pointless meetings where the majority of participants would rather be back at their cubicles doing actual work. Give me a properly cooled quiet deskt...
[02:56:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Tequila' Powered Biofuels More Efficient Than Corn or Sugar - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:32] <exec> 08└─It's not just the amount, it's also when. As a desert plant agave would be a lot more tolerant of nothing for most of the year then 10 inches of rain in a week.
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[03:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:02] <exec> 08└─Did Microsoft write the software?
[03:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:04] <exec> 08└─*Ding* "51 days of uptime has been reached. Shall the flight management system automatically turn the airplane off and then on again? Press yes to do this now, or no to save all your passengers before rebooting."
[03:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:06] <exec> 08└─I mean, that would be a bad April Fool's joke. If it's not a joke, someone's head really needs to be seen rolling down Main Street. Seriously, I've worked on this kind of "uptime >= years" thing. In my case it was cable companies and cell phones. So if I messed up a channel may be unavailable, or a...
[03:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:08] <exec> 08└─I'm honestly a bit surprised that the planes are kept on for so long.
[03:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:10] <exec> 08└─This is a Boeing cock-up. If it was written by Microsoft it would crash after 49.7 days.
[03:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:13] <exec> 08└─So... That stale data builds up in 51 days and feeds back into the inputs?
[03:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03crahman [6852] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:15] <exec> 08└─The fact that this particular problem continues to be found in Boeing's software indicates that a larger problem exists within the organization, which should disqualify them from the production of critical systems.
[03:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 2223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:31] <exec> 08└─I've been working for a while on an idea of a new form of democracy that would be at least resistant to many of the ills of the current forms - including security. The basic idea is that instead of (in addition to?) voting for a representative once every few years, you'd "follow" them, and can chang...
[03:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:33] <exec> 08└─All wealthy countries, even those poor countries, have universal healthcare. America, the bestest and grestest country in the world? The best we managed was the pitiful obama-care. Who's to blame? You boomers. Fuck you.
[03:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:35] <exec> 08└─Lucky you.
[03:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:37] <exec> 08└─I should add that while this is clearly directed towards enforcing a truly representative a legislative body, it might also be harnessed to select a President or other single office in an organic manner, effectively acting as continuous official polling throughout a primary season until a final "ele...
[03:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:39] <exec> 08└─Ah, the days of yore when Jeff "Hemos" Bates, long ago of the green site, was the panel leader for a meeting on the future of internet voting at The Foresight Institute. I pointed out that Hank The Angry Drunken Dwarf had just won the online poll for People Magazine's Most Beautiful Person in the Wo...
[03:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:41] <exec> 08└─Remember when the Boomers were saying "Don't trust anyone over thirty" and how things would be different when they were in charge? I do. And I have the same expectations for the current "Ok, Boomer" quoters. i.e. You'll end up just as jaded, evil and disappointing as they did. And I may be dead by t...
[03:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Access to ACM Digital Library During Coronavirus Pandemic - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:06] <exec> 08└─Given how they reacted to the Internet Archive simply suspending wait lists but leaving DRM systems intact, I can just imagine the reaction of some authors and organizations to this travesty of making content open access. Will we see these? "The Authors Guild, a leading authors' organization, wrote...
[03:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:34] <exec> 08└─The government should keep out of this and make the companies continue to produce this stuff.
[03:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:35] <exec> 08└─>Really, the biggest drawback from moving from CRT has to be proper response time. And the contrast - LCD can't begin to match the deep blacks of a halfway decent CRT, though I understand OLED can. LCD viewing angles are mostly pretty bad too. Especially when looking from below, which is especially...
[03:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:38] <exec> 08└─The problem is the same one you have with the OLED TV's where eventually the CNN (or whatever) logo gets burned into the corner. Screen elements that rarely or never change will get burned in - i.e. the Start button in the corner on Windows systems, the close button on the top right of a maximized w...
[03:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:41] <exec> 08└─You've got to fiddle with the LCD's quantum interferometer to make the differences properly visible. :-D In all seriousness though: QLED/OLED are two *completely* different tehnologies, with QLED apparently named specifically to exploit confusion. OLED - uses separate Organic LEDs for each pixel, so...
[03:56:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Intel Details 10th Gen Comet Lake-H for 45 Watt (Or 135 Watt) Notebooks - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:00] <exec> 08└─Mine has spent probably 99%+ of the time on the desk plugged in. At least it's a high end laptop that gives desktop-like performance, but I'm tired of hearing the stupid fan spin up and down all day. Their solution to that is to change the office to an open plan layout, where there will be far too m...
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[04:54:17] <exec> 08└─I thought computerfags called this kind of stuff "memory leaks." And if Boeing are using something like VxWorks they shouldn't have total tards fucking around with it. I doubt they're using VxWorks though...probably Windows CE or XP running on an Atom processor or some happy horseshit.
[04:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:39] <exec> 08└─I really want to know who modded this "insightful.' I can only guess the chicom 50 cents army, eh.
[04:55:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Details 10th Gen Comet Lake-H for 45 Watt (Or 135 Watt) Notebooks - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:56] <exec> 08└─Well, that's a comfort. I get a well tanned crotch, that contrasts nicely with my pasty white basement dweller complexion! I'll be the next sensation at Burning Man...Spot Burned Man...FTW!
[04:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Tequila' Powered Biofuels More Efficient Than Corn or Sugar - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:56:53] <exec> 08└─I've been known to get highly energetic when fueled by tequila. But, oh god, the morning after.
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[05:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:07] <exec> 08└─And there certainly should be no right to sell it. It you didn't invent or create it, fuck your copyright/patent claims! You're just a rent collecting thief!
[05:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:09] <exec> 08└─This'll be the second time I've had to switch weather APIs for MrPlow because the bastards I was using sold out to someone else. It's getting really fucking annoying.
[05:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:11] <exec> 08└─You're probably one of those idiots who incorrectly bitch about coders being wage slaves to corporations too, which makes you extra special stupid since you're advocating something that would make wage slaves of every coder.
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[05:54:19] <exec> 08└─*Ding* "51 days of uptime has been reached. Shall the flight management system automatically turn the airplane off and then on again? Press yes to do this now, or no to save all your passengers before rebooting."
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[05:54:27] <exec> 08└─I was too, but for longer routes you can get into a cycle where the plane is nearly always in action and not parked for the night. I'm thinking some longer transatlantic flights, where you take off in the US at 1800, arrive Europe at 0900, attach to shore power and let the cleaning and supply crew w...
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[05:54:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but the US has no alternate large-civilian-airliner producer anymore, so you take what you can get.
[05:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:32] <exec> 08└─OH But hey! Look there's a kid trying to eat a real Kinder egg! Look over there!
[05:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:53] <exec> 08└─It surely sounds interesting. What if you apply it to Instagram content producers? Who gets the most followers on Instagram? Would you say it would significantly differ in that respect? (Yes, you can follow only "one", or you said an alternative of "a few"..) It may be better, actually. It doesn't f...
[05:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:55] <exec> 08└─I've been saying for years, "Don't trust anyone under 30". Did anyone listen, nope of course not "cause all have been entranced by celebrities on tv. Just like our "Acting President" who can't remember his lines and keeps missing his marks.
[05:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:57] <exec> 08└─If that were wee to come about, then why would we need "representatives"?
[05:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:59] <exec> 08└─Our pitiful medical system got exposed for real. The most powerful country in the world can't even care for its own citizens. Sick people don't even go for medical care cuz it will bankrupt them even with insurance.
[05:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:01] <exec> 08└─And I have the same expectations for the current "Ok, Boomer" quoters. i.e. You'll end up just as jaded, evil and disappointing as they did.
[05:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:04] <exec> 08└─All's I can say is "No one in this world, so far as I know ... has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people." H.L. Mencken https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[05:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Elon Musk's SpaceX Bans Zoom over Privacy Concerns - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:55:19] <exec> 08└─When the 3rd connects to a room the peer-to-peer (thus end-to-end encrypted) connection is switched over to the jitsi videobridge, which has unencrypted access to all streams. This is all on their site/documentation. The cool thing though is that you can self host the server and it doesn't send your...
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[05:56:21] <exec> 08└─Yea, I didn't think of that.
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[06:54:01] <exec> 08└─If only there was some imagery they could use that is rocket shaped and represents real American values...
[06:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:11] <exec> 08└─What is MrPlow and what are the four API's you've used?
[06:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:13] <exec> 08└─And people are still camping out in the snow amongst the needles and feces to be first to buy their trash.
[06:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:15] <exec> 08└─My IRC bot that you occasionally see as the submitter for a story. He started out using wunderground.com's API but I had to move him to darksky last year after they got bought up. Now I have to find yet another one.
[06:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:33] <exec> 08└─Good reason to not approve monopoly creating mergers.
[06:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Luke [175] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:54:35] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, I see these things are assembled nearby Seattle. Probably they got a local yokel software company to write some crappy software like "Windows for Widebodies" or something... ... eh? Nearby Seattle you said? Uh-oh!
[06:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 1497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:03] <exec> 08└─I would hope that the fact that your "follow" grants a politician a sliver of real power over your own life, will help to temper a lot of the transient whims that sweep through social media of all sorts. Doubly so when coupled with a grace period that adds inconvenience and delay to the system. Havi...
[06:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:04] <exec> 08└─Remember when the Boomers were saying "Don't trust anyone over thirty" and how things would be different when they were in charge?
[06:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:06] <exec> 08└─Hmm on the one hand, democracy could be subverted by hackers. But on the other hand "Trump Replaced White House Pandemic-Response Team With Jared Kushner". Gee I might take my chances with the hackers. https://nymag.com
[06:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's SpaceX Bans Zoom over Privacy Concerns - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:23] <exec> 08└─I don't know which is worse, that or: https://www.sfgate.com [sfgate.com]
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[07:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Brings Back its Iconic ‘Worm’ Logo for Upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Launch - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:03] <exec> 08└─What's not to like?
[07:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:16] <exec> 08└─Looks like Apple has optimised Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish approach down to just Embrace, Extinguish...
[07:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's an Intel problem, in which case it would actually crash after 49.70054598984 days.
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[08:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's WaveNetEQ Fills in Speech Gaps During Duo Calls - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:07] <exec> 08└─Never trust what the speaker is saying is what she said, unless the incoming channel data is properly signed and authenticated.
[08:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Brings Back its Iconic ‘Worm’ Logo for Upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Launch - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:16] <exec> 08└─Somehow, I never did like that logo very much. Don't dislike it, but don't really like it, either. This logo is cool - https://www.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] If they added a shark with frickin' lasers, it would be even cooler. Adding "all your base...
[08:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Brings Back its Iconic ‘Worm’ Logo for Upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Launch - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:18] <exec> 08└─It'd be rejected as being too political, that image is reserved for representing what Congress does to the people when they're in session.
[08:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA Brings Back its Iconic ‘Worm’ Logo for Upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Launch - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:20] <exec> 08└─... worrying about form, not the function. Make the project a success so that the logo (if that stuff is needed all) becomes memorable. Not the other way around.
[08:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:54:54] <exec> 08└─Ok so wtf happened to them? Does this not get taught anymore?
[08:55:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06Elon Musk's SpaceX Bans Zoom over Privacy Concerns - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:55:35] <exec> 08└─I have an obsessive compulsion to promote open source software. Jitsi advertises E2E encryption by default on their Jitsi Meet service. https://jitsi.org [jitsi.org]
[08:58:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Authors Fume as Online Library “Lends” Unlimited Free Books - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:58:41] <exec> 08└─your supposed "ownership" of said book being revoked if the publisher or DRM tech provider go under or discontinue their auth servers
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[09:53:59] <exec> 08└─This is essentially autocorrect for voice. No ducking way!
[09:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google's WaveNetEQ Fills in Speech Gaps During Duo Calls - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:01] <exec> 08└─TLDR; in order to do the interpolation, they need to perform speech recognition. Just transmit the transcript in the chat instead of trying to do the interpolation. The chat would be read by both sides and would lead to immediate feedback on errors. Instead of convenient and shiny.
[09:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's WaveNetEQ Fills in Speech Gaps During Duo Calls - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:03] <exec> 08└─In a time when end to end encryption is gaining 'awareness', this is just an excuse to kill it. In order to do this you need to not only listen in on everything that's being said, but create a running transcript. Whether they being creepy Google, they think a Google that randomly interjects itself i...
[09:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:27] <exec> 08└─Having 1T market cap is pretty much end-game, no need to bother with "extend" anymore.
[09:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:49] <exec> 08└─My own first thought, seriously. For younger readers, Win95 and 98 really would crash after 49.7 days, because of a timer overflow. The real joke however was that it was years before anyone noticed, because Win9x would invariably crash for some other reason long before that time was reached. It was...
[09:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:51] <exec> 08└─Ediukeishon is important but kost kuts are importanter!
[09:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:53] <exec> 08└─Your typical aerospace merger is a case of eating something that's died of disease. If you catch it, it's your own damn fault.
[09:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:55:23] <exec> 08└─You do not need a Republic to get a Democracy, see how many European and Asian Democracies are actually Monarchies. Maybe voting is overrated, just vote up your democratic leaders for life and that's it. Less effort, too. Examples: U.S. Congress works in that mode for ages. House of Lords too. Stree...
[09:57:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Marriott Discloses New Data Breach Impacting 5.2 Million Guests - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:57:13] <exec> 08└─Marriott is one of the largest hotel chains in the world, they're on the preferred suppliers list for most big companies. A lot of people on that list will be business travellers. Some have a lot of money, others do not. This also includes PhD students travelling to conferences (Marriott often hosts...
[09:59:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Releases a Payload User’s Guide for its Starship Rocket - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:08] <exec> 08└─I'd expect fuel transfers would be safer in space than on terra firma: near 0 kelvin ambient temperature meaning PV = nRT is much less oppressive. And then there's 0 gravity also alleviating a number of issues.
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[10:54:31] <exec> 08└─I'll k[glitch]l you tomorrow. Bye! Is that glitch an o or an i sound? Minor changes can substantially alter [youtube.com] the meaning of spoken text, so I'd rather ask the caller to repeat what they said, than have software automatically fill in the blanks, with possibly dubious results.
[10:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:55:20] <exec> 08└─Boeing are offering to buyout all their current staff as a result of this recession. The company isn't going to be making aircraft for much longer.
[10:56:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06Elon Musk's SpaceX Bans Zoom over Privacy Concerns - 224 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:01] <exec> 08└─IMHO, if you advertise end to end encryption, then it turns out you're faking it, then, well. Not only should your app be shunned by everyone, but the Cxx suite that carried on that lie should be held personally responsible.
[10:56:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's SpaceX Bans Zoom over Privacy Concerns - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:56:10] <exec> 08└─Another encrypted open-source chat application: Retroshare establish encrypted connections between you and your friends to create a network of computers, and provides various distributed services on top of it: forums, channels, chat, mail... Retroshare is fully decentralized, and designed to provide...
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[10:57:14] <exec> 08└─Intel’s Core i9-10980HK Flagship Notebook 8 Core CPU Consumes Up To 135W Power On Max Frequency – Higher Than 16 Core Ryzen 9 3950X Featured In Enthusiast Notebooks [wccftech.com]
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[11:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Almost Ready to Start Testing SN3 -- The Third Starship Prototype - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starship-destroyed-cryo-test-next-ship/ [teslarati.com] This one should be interesting because they've already had successful cryo loading tests.
[11:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's WaveNetEQ Fills in Speech Gaps During Duo Calls - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:54:13] <exec> 08└─How long will it be before google injects BlipVerts [wikipedia.org] or mind control signals [wikipedia.org] into the audio stream?
[11:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:55:03] <exec> 08└─Safety critical standards generate far more paperwork than actual code. Safety documents don't even list the code, just the requirements and results of testd. It's Safety Theatre, divorced from the code.
[11:56:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:56:35] <exec> 08└─I wonder if the light from a multi-monitor setup would be enough to make the signal too hard to interpret. I guess if one of the monitors was scanning while the others were doing the vertical blank, even for a moment, van (wo)man would have got you.
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[11:56:36] <exec> 08└─Now if only the Mars company would cease production of the blue M&M.
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[12:54:14] <exec> 08└─Did they build the Starship with Rock'n'Roll?
[12:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Almost Ready to Start Testing SN3 -- The Third Starship Prototype - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:15] <exec> 08└─More like Shock and Awe. Or just Shock.
[12:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Almost Ready to Start Testing SN3 -- The Third Starship Prototype - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:17] <exec> 08└─Elon had a tweet up briefly saying it might've been a test configuration fault, but they'd have to wait for the data analysis to know for sure.
[12:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's WaveNetEQ Fills in Speech Gaps During Duo Calls - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:30] <exec> 08└─Oh great, so know dialogues like this one [youtu.be] will become commonplace thanks to Google. "People are swearing and uttering obscenities, take me take me, without even knowing it!"
[12:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Brings Back its Iconic ‘Worm’ Logo for Upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Launch - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:42] <exec> 08└─I was going to say focus on the flight, not the image. Besides, if you think the optics of NASA is something to work on, why not pick the high bar and aim for the 60's instead of the 70's? God speed and a safe mission.
[12:54:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 166 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:50] <exec> 08└─This'll be the second time I've had to switch weather APIs for MrPlow because the bastards I was using sold out to someone else. It's getting really fucking annoying.
[12:54:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:56] <exec> 08└─Looks like Apple has optimised Microsoft's Embrace, Extend, Extinguish approach down to just Embrace, Extinguish...
[12:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:24] <exec> 08└─What problem? [boeing.com]
[12:55:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:26] <exec> 08└─Nobody cares about planes falling from the sky. The really important thing is that employees are not white [boeing.com]
[12:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:55:59] <exec> 08└─You believe we had real democracy before the virus?
[12:57:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Muad'Dave [1413] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:57:00] <exec> 08└─That sounds like Van Eck phreaking [wikipedia.org] but with the primary signal instead of sideband data. Read Cryptonomicon for an example.
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[12:57:25] <exec> 08└─My laptops do indeed spend 95%+ of their time plugged in at my desk, sitting beside a real keyboard connected to a real computer with a real 25" or 30" monitor that I actually use 90%+ of the time. However, at home the laptop carries the "corporate approved" image with the VPN connection, and occasi...
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[13:54:22] <exec> 08└─So: "My battery is almost empty". "No problem, I can hear you perfectly". becomes: "My battery is almost empty". "No problem, I [just bought a] perfect [one from microsoft]".
[13:54:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's WaveNetEQ Fills in Speech Gaps During Duo Calls - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:23] <exec> 08└─Ah, you had the same insight where this is going.
[13:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Brings Back its Iconic ‘Worm’ Logo for Upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Launch - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:36] <exec> 08└─Exactly, sometimes I worry my business logo is substandard but then I think of google, very amateurish logo when they launched
[13:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Brings Back its Iconic ‘Worm’ Logo for Upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Launch - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:37] <exec> 08└─It's "All your base are belong to us" ! Get it right next time !
[13:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Brings Back its Iconic ‘Worm’ Logo for Upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Launch - 1423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:40] <exec> 08└─They "upgraded" from the meatball logo because they felt they had an image problem. They had an image problem because after Apollo 11, people were like "that's so yesterday" and didn't give a shit about any of the other Apollo launches except 13, and they only cared about that one because of the dra...
[13:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Brings Back its Iconic ‘Worm’ Logo for Upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Launch - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:42] <exec> 08└─and NASA couldn't justify the budget to keep it going.
[13:54:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:53] <exec> 08└─My IRC bot that you occasionally see as the submitter for a story. He started out using wunderground.com's API but I had to move him to darksky last year after they got bought up. Now I have to find yet another one.
[13:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:57] <exec> 08└─https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.thosp.yourlocalweather/ [f-droid.org] https://play.google.com [google.com] You're welcomed.
[13:54:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:59] <exec> 08└─This is exactly why I don't spend oodles of money on mobile apps. Too much volatility, too limited functionality and no guarantees of continuity. Terms can be changed right under your nose as a paying customer and you've got no recourse. So it's just the "free" crap, if it has a modicum of functiona...
[13:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:01] <exec> 08└─Open Weather's free plan covers most needs. https://openweathermap.org [openweathermap.org] https://openweathermap.org [openweathermap.org] https://openweathermap.org [openweathermap.org]
[13:55:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crahman [6852] 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:55:14] <exec> 08└─The fact that this particular problem continues to be found in Boeing's software indicates that a larger problem exists within the organization, which should disqualify them from the production of critical systems.
[13:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:02] <exec> 08└─when we stand to lose everything.
[13:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:03] <exec> 08└─Oregon votes by paper ballot that you can mail in. My friend's family sits around the dining room table and debates issues while they fill out their ballots. It seems to work well. If we want to really secure the vote, we should treat it like a double-blind study. Voting online is asking for tyranny...
[13:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Open Access to ACM Digital Library During Coronavirus Pandemic - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:56:33] <exec> 08└─Unlikely. A general condition of publishing to anything that ends up on ACM is that you give up copyright ownership of that work. The authors don't receive any payment for viewership, so I doubt anyone cares that their articles are available online for free.
[13:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jay [8679] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Tequila' Powered Biofuels More Efficient Than Corn or Sugar - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:58:34] <exec> 08└─In my experience, tequila is what necessitates healthcare, not something that cures ills.
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[14:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile, Sprint Took a Risk by Finishing Merger Without California's Approval - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:04] <exec> 08└─I hate to cheer California on, but the telcos need to be reminded that they are subject to REGULATION. The telcos don't get to pick and choose which regulators they want to listen to. And, the telcos can't appoint an Ajit Pai to every regulatory agency in the country. Maybe California should just te...
[14:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile, Sprint Took a Risk by Finishing Merger Without California's Approval - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:05] <exec> 08└─This is all well and good balancing the role of State and Federal but you also have to remember that "Trump Replaced White House Pandemic-Response Team With Jared Kushner".
[14:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile, Sprint Took a Risk by Finishing Merger Without California's Approval - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but Jared is really smart. Did you know that he ties his own shoes, AND his own tie?
[14:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MongoDB's Field-Level Encryption Protects Private Data—Even From DBAs - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:15] <exec> 08└─If the goal is to protect the data from the prying eyes of admins, then I wonder how they are protecting the keys so that a determined admin cannot get access to the encryption keys?
[14:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06MongoDB's Field-Level Encryption Protects Private Data—Even From DBAs - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:17] <exec> 08└─The threat model is specifically an admin with access to the mongodb server and that admin is prevented from getting the keys because the keys are never sent to the server. An admin with access to the app server can steal the keys. https://webassets.mongodb.com
[14:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MongoDB's Field-Level Encryption Protects Private Data—Even From DBAs - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:19] <exec> 08└─It supports sharding.
[14:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Almost Ready to Start Testing SN3 -- The Third Starship Prototype - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:30] <exec> 08└─> Once the Starship is finished and integrated with the Super Heavy booster, Musk hopes to begin conducting payload runs to the moon by 2022, followed by crewed missions to the surface by 2024. In between, Musk also intends to conduct the first lunar tourism mission (#dearmoon), which will involve s...
[14:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Almost Ready to Start Testing SN3 -- The Third Starship Prototype - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:31] <exec> 08└─Indeed, and because the failure was of an entirely different nature to the previous ones. Rather than a tank rupturing under pressure, it seems that the lower tank crumpled - either due to excess loading, or perhaps an internal pressure drop. I don't think such crumpling would have been possible if...
[14:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Brings Back its Iconic ‘Worm’ Logo for Upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Launch - 1339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:03] <exec> 08└─It always goes to the budget, and it always should. The biggest parts of the US annual budget (aside from all the interest being paid on the debt) are for things that the general population agrees with, or at least in principle. Most people don't have a good grasp on how big some of these budgets ar...
[14:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Brings Back its Iconic ‘Worm’ Logo for Upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Launch - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:04] <exec> 08└─I are 'Murican. I can appropriate anything I like, and bend, fold, spindle and mutilate as I wish, and that makes it mine.
[14:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Brings Back its Iconic ‘Worm’ Logo for Upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Launch - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:07] <exec> 08└─Screeee! Reeeeeee! You dared to invoke GOD!?!?!?! Pray that you remain anonymous - we will be hunting for you! NASA is a government agency, not a church agency, and you may not invoke God when referring to the state! REEEEEE! (heads explode) - The Squad and every liberal douche
[14:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Brings Back its Iconic ‘Worm’ Logo for Upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Launch - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:09] <exec> 08└─If you really understood what it means to be a real American and to honor the founding principles, then you wouldn't sound like such a douche yourself.
[14:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Brings Back its Iconic ‘Worm’ Logo for Upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Launch - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:11] <exec> 08└─I think for the budget, the bored public is smarter than you think. They can sniff out a bad ROI when they see it. Old school space became just another pork discussion. Hopefully commercial space can change that game if NASA doesn't screw it up. Not sure the logo thing is a good sign in that arena....
[14:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:30] <exec> 08└─In the U.S. at least, we have the NWS API. I don't know if it covers anything other than the U.S. though. It's unlikely to be bought out.
[14:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:31] <exec> 08└─No, it's not the end game, because they've not yet achieved total world domination.
[14:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:33] <exec> 08└─Tweet to Trump that Obama started it up: the deal will be completed by end if day...
[14:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:36] <exec> 08└─No, it's not the end game, because they've not yet achieved total world domination.
[14:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:38] <exec> 08└─I don't think they did this to entice more people to Apple. I think it's because their current data source for their own Weather app is The Weather Channel. With Dark Sky, they'll no longer be relying on an outside source.
[14:56:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tokolosh [585] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:07] <exec> 08└─Mayday! Mayday! Tower, this is United 6901, our systems have locked and we are going to crash! United 6901, SeaTac Tower, have you tried rebooting?
[14:56:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:08] <exec> 08└─Planes on the ground produce no revenue. So most airlines try hard to keep every plain airborne as much as possible. So they are very often scheduled such that time on ground is minimal before they take off again for another flight leg.
[14:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 1161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:44] <exec> 08└─Because we have good reason to hire other people to do the job for us - government is a whole lot of tedious work, and trying to get 300 million people to work together to hash out the verbiage for a bill, etc. just isn't practical. Not to mention not many people are going to give it the time and at...
[14:56:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:45] <exec> 08└─And then "Trump Replaced White House Pandemic-Response Team With Jared Kushner". This is like the turning point in a bad horror movie, like when the woman is opening her front door and a hand appears on her shoulder.
[14:56:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:47] <exec> 08└─And then.... "Trump Replaced White House Pandemic-Response Team With Jared Kushner".
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[15:54:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06T-Mobile, Sprint Took a Risk by Finishing Merger Without California's Approval - 382 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:07] <exec> 08└─I hate to cheer California on, but the telcos need to be reminded that they are subject to REGULATION. The telcos don't get to pick and choose which regulators they want to listen to. And, the telcos can't appoint an Ajit Pai to every regulatory agency in the country. Maybe California should just te...
[15:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06T-Mobile, Sprint Took a Risk by Finishing Merger Without California's Approval - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:10] <exec> 08└─<no-sarcasm> I do not want over regulation. Yet it seems to me that the healthiest economic environment for any product or service is when it is a commodity in a market with healthy competition among plenty of providers. Monopolies are not good for anyone except the monopolist. People in government...
[15:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile, Sprint Took a Risk by Finishing Merger Without California's Approval - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:12] <exec> 08└─...Then let TMobile and Sprint sue them when they pull power to every tower they own for acting in open defiance of the law.
[15:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MongoDB's Field-Level Encryption Protects Private Data—Even From DBAs - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:23] <exec> 08└─e.g. an Edward Snowden. (Regardless of how one feels about what he did - and I tend to think he should be given a full pardon and he is nearly a hero - this is meant to mitigate that kind of compromise).
[15:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MongoDB's Field-Level Encryption Protects Private Data—Even From DBAs - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:25] <exec> 08└─So basically this has nothing to do with the database really and is just a key management scheme bundled with the DBMS ? What else does it offer? Encryption sw has been available, standardized, and used since forever.
[15:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MongoDB's Field-Level Encryption Protects Private Data—Even From DBAs - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:28] <exec> 08└─So basically this has nothing to do with the database really and is just a key management scheme bundled with the DBMS ?
[15:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MongoDB's Field-Level Encryption Protects Private Data—Even From DBAs - 946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:30] <exec> 08└─There's nothing to stop the application from encrypting data before it writes it to the database. Probably so many people are doing it that MongoDB is just catching up with what their customers have been doing for years. People were encrypting data before writing it to database fields for decades. T...
[15:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MongoDB's Field-Level Encryption Protects Private Data—Even From DBAs - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:32] <exec> 08└─I would only add that he should have a statue. Everything he said revealed that things were already much worse than the most paranoid among us believed (in 2013). And have only gotten worse sense. Some reforms have actually come of Snowden's revelations. I think hero is deserved. If things don't get...
[15:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's WaveNetEQ Fills in Speech Gaps During Duo Calls - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:00] <exec> 08└─... A.I. generated audio deepfakes! "it's getting deeper all the time....."
[15:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Google's WaveNetEQ Fills in Speech Gaps During Duo Calls - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:02] <exec> 08└─Phew - it's lucky you clarified that because I thought you said "Trump replaced White House pandemic-response team With Jared Kushner". That would've been hilarious!
[15:55:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's WaveNetEQ Fills in Speech Gaps During Duo Calls - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:04] <exec> 08└─Trump: Whatever you do, do not launch the nukes. Google: @#$L5jio3u5 fjk, do 249085u295 jjasljt nukes. Norad comm relay: Yes do, do launch the nukes. General: "Yes, sir, launching the nukes now!"
[15:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:55:48] <exec> 08└─NWS ain't terrible but man do I ever miss KFOR's forecasts from back in OK. There's plenty to not enjoy about OK but their weather coverage and forecasting is second to none. Here in TN the fuckers would be more accurate flipping a coin than using whatever methods they currently use; just saying "it...
[15:56:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:19] <exec> 08└─Weren't there such problems years ago already? Oh, reading the article looks like there really was. Not my brain playing tricks on me. Now it's an even shorter reboot cycle. D'oh.
[15:56:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:56:58] <exec> 08└─Online voting may one day provide the illusion of democracy while actually destroying it.
[15:58:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:04] <exec> 08└─You haven't priced a CRT lately, have you? Neither have I. I kinda wonder what it would cost, if I could find a nice, new, shiney 24" CRT.
[15:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:05] <exec> 08└─The red pill, or the blue pill? You only get one chance to get it right, which is why I went with the red pill - insects and all.
[15:58:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:58:07] <exec> 08└─The article I remember was based on the flickering light from the CRT, collected optically, from a distance. But side channel EM emissions are also interesting in a similar way.
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[16:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Remains of 90 Million-Year-Old Rainforest Discovered Under Antarctic Ice - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:15] <exec> 08└─At the current rate of warming, it might be not that much longer in the future that we'll have another rainforest in Antarctica!
[16:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remains of 90 Million-Year-Old Rainforest Discovered Under Antarctic Ice - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:17] <exec> 08└─More rainforest is better than more ice! If you disagree, move to Antarctica. The rainforest is unlikely to sprout there in your lifetime.
[16:54:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remains of 90 Million-Year-Old Rainforest Discovered Under Antarctic Ice - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:19] <exec> 08└─We've read our Lovecraft, we know where it's going to end with all these core samples...(and no playing with those spores, yes, yes, it might be interesting to see if any of them are viable...but we don't want to be going and raising up any ickle wickle baby Elder things there folks, do we?...)
[16:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of 90 Million-Year-Old Rainforest Discovered Under Antarctic Ice - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:21] <exec> 08└─Given our current understandings of Plate Tectonics, where was Antarctica located 90 mya? If it was more-or-less at the south pole where it is today, this is a remarkable finding - especially considering winter months without sunshine.
[16:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remains of 90 Million-Year-Old Rainforest Discovered Under Antarctic Ice - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:23] <exec> 08└─And at least parts of the ancient rain forest will have been converted to petroleum of one flavor or another. Cue the oil exploration drillers.
[16:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of 90 Million-Year-Old Rainforest Discovered Under Antarctic Ice - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:25] <exec> 08└─OK, I did skim TF abstract before posting, but going back I see that they suggest the area was at 82 degrees S latitude, which is approximately where it is today.
[16:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile, Sprint Took a Risk by Finishing Merger Without California's Approval - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:37] <exec> 08└─Other states have to pick up the slack because Uncle Sam is too fat and lazy to do his job. Like New York shutting down Jim Bakker's colloidal silver scam because the feds sure don't have a clue.
[16:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile, Sprint Took a Risk by Finishing Merger Without California's Approval - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:39] <exec> 08└─The bottom line is sprint is pretty much finished without tmobile. That was clear years ago. They bet on the wrong tech and it nuked their company. They do not have the freq's to compete with AT&T and Verizon. They wanted that sweet sweet rent money from that tech. Everyone else picked LTE.
[16:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06T-Mobile, Sprint Took a Risk by Finishing Merger Without California's Approval - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:41] <exec> 08└─What, he doesn't use tape on his tie? No, I can't accept that(!!!), must be fake news.
[16:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile, Sprint Took a Risk by Finishing Merger Without California's Approval - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:43] <exec> 08└─" Yet it seems to me that the healthiest economic environment for any product or service is when it is a commodity in a market with healthy competition among plenty of providers." hange the word "any" to "most" and I mostly agree. In some cases, the public can benefit from "economies of scale" that...
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[16:55:10] <exec> 08└─I seemed to remember in the early days, pre Falcon 9, SpaceX had a lot of failures. But then they got it right. Then I remember a lot of booster landing failures. And they seemed endless. Failure after failure. And industry experts saying it was impossible. Then they got it right. First on land. The...
[16:55:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Almost Ready to Start Testing SN3 -- The Third Starship Prototype - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:11] <exec> 08└─FTA: While unfortunate, it’s critical to remember that this is all part of SpaceX’s approach to developing new and unprecedented technologies. Be it Falcon 1, Falcon 9 booster recovery, or Falcon 9 fairing recovery, all groundbreaking SpaceX efforts have begun with several consecutive failures b...
[16:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's WaveNetEQ Fills in Speech Gaps During Duo Calls - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:31] <exec> 08└─It's not autocorrect for voice, it's plausible deniability for voice.
[16:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's WaveNetEQ Fills in Speech Gaps During Duo Calls - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:33] <exec> 08└─It can only get so deep until everyone is full of it.
[16:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's WaveNetEQ Fills in Speech Gaps During Duo Calls - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:35] <exec> 08└─Voice is too unreliable for our nuclear command and control system to depend upon a voice command. Upgrade the nuclear launch control system to be based on a presidential tweet. That way the orders are unambiguously clear about not failing to not succeed in not suspending launching the nuclear missi...
[16:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's WaveNetEQ Fills in Speech Gaps During Duo Calls - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:37] <exec> 08└─Hey, you're scrambling my brain with multiple negatives...again! Stop that!!
[16:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Brings Back its Iconic ‘Worm’ Logo for Upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Launch - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:59] <exec> 08└─I think for the budget, the bored public is smarter than you think.
[16:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Brings Back its Iconic ‘Worm’ Logo for Upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Launch - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:01] <exec> 08└─SpaceX might have a tirade mark on their F9 imagery.
[16:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Brings Back its Iconic ‘Worm’ Logo for Upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Launch - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:03] <exec> 08└─Make the project a success
[16:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Brings Back its Iconic ‘Worm’ Logo for Upcoming Falcon 9 Crew Dragon Launch - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:05] <exec> 08└─Ah, but the Space Station (now the ISS). Now the shuttle had a true justifiable purpose for its high cost. To service the space station. And the space station had a justifiable purpose for its high cost. To provide a destination for the shuttle. It's not circular logic. To put it in manager speak: I...
[16:56:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:29] <exec> 08└─For a second there, I thought you were talking about drug dealers. Then I realized you meant Apple stores. I'm not sure which is worse.
[16:56:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:31] <exec> 08└─To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
[16:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:33] <exec> 08└─But um, I would caution that F-Droid is not a tool of some corporation.
[16:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:35] <exec> 08└─It's unlikely to be bought out.
[16:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:37] <exec> 08└─As a nice side effect it hurts a competing platform. Just for spite. (In my younger days a few decades ago, classic Mac OS, I was a naive card carrying Apple fanboy.)
[16:57:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:09] <exec> 08└─The aircraft computer has had Windows 10 installed. To restore the system to a usable state, please send 3 bitcoin to Microsoft's ransomware collection division.
[16:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:10] <exec> 08└─As lung as duh stock prize goes uup moar.
[16:57:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:12] <exec> 08└─If rebooting doesn't work, the next standard procedure is to reinstall Windows. The 375 floppy disks are in a 3 ring binder at the fright engineer's station. Hopefully all the disks are still there.
[16:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 1535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:52] <exec> 08└─I'd be really curious how much political theory was known when this proposal was put forward. Some immediate issues I can think of are: 1) Voter apathy. People don't even opt-out of receiving spam emails and phone calls (and then complain about all the spam they get). That has a direct impact on the...
[16:57:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:53] <exec> 08└─That sounds good. Now go look up why we eat bacon for breakfast. Or why women until ~1950 did not smoke. You will find it eye opening. Then consider they have had 70+ years to get better at that very thing.
[16:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:55] <exec> 08└─It is the trump flu pooh that suppressed the severity so that the stock market wouldn't get spooked and hurt his reelection efforts.
[16:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:57:57] <exec> 08└─Making conventional, somewhat verifiable voting easy might hurt the Republicans. Moving voting online will help someone, and I'm not sure who, other than that it won't be we the voters.
[16:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk's SpaceX Bans Zoom over Privacy Concerns - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:58:16] <exec> 08└─c'mon mcfly the jits will never know!
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[17:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of 90 Million-Year-Old Rainforest Discovered Under Antarctic Ice - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:10] <exec> 08└─Can we burn it to fuel our cars?
[17:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile, Sprint Took a Risk by Finishing Merger Without California's Approval - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:26] <exec> 08└─We couldn't have 12 competing phone companies, each stringing wires everywhere.
[17:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06T-Mobile, Sprint Took a Risk by Finishing Merger Without California's Approval - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:27] <exec> 08└─s/ Wow, you have a coroner on every street where you live? Must be a lot of gang violence going on there, or Covid 19 is really out of control in your city.
[17:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MongoDB's Field-Level Encryption Protects Private Data—Even From DBAs - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:42] <exec> 08└─Field level encryption is nothing new in app servers, enforcing it at db level could possibly, depending on the configuration, be faster. Problems come with indexes, searching is either badly affected or reveals data to the DBA. The DBA can also inject cleartext to possibly crack the encryption. It...
[17:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MongoDB's Field-Level Encryption Protects Private Data—Even From DBAs - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, it looks like it really does nothing that couldn't already be done either explicitly in the application code or with a third-party library/tool hiding some of the details; the "advance" of this is that it is built in and easily provides fine-grained encryption transparently in the client driver...
[17:56:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03toddestan [4982] 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:24] <exec> 08└─This is a Boeing cock-up. If it was written by Microsoft it would crash after 49.7 days.
[17:58:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Will Cease Production of Traditional LCD Displays by the End of 2020 - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:58:38] <exec> 08└─> The woke infection I had a look at this. https://www.redstate.com [redstate.com] It sounds like Star Trek business as usual to me. E.g. the black-white kiss, the hand wringing about colonialism/prime directive (and then doing it anyway), etc etc. Star Trek w...
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[18:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Make Your Own Yeast for Baking - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:05] <exec> 08└─Had a pretty good starter I made with just the whole wheat flour and water but it got lost in the move to CO. Maybe I'll start a new one... Although, we haven't been able to buy any flour for a couple weeks now due to covid shortages.
[18:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Make Your Own Yeast for Baking - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:07] <exec> 08└─Sorry to hear that - flour is one of the things that is almost unlimited here in France. My bread making (all by hand) continues!
[18:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hubie [1068] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Make Your Own Yeast for Baking - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:09] <exec> 08└─I've been using sourdough starters since the early 90's, and I've geeked out on it plenty quite a number of years ago. My understanding is that if you collect your yeast/bacteria with a flour/water mixture, your starer will be heavily dominated by the yeasts and bacteria that are in the flour, not f...
[18:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Make Your Own Yeast for Baking - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:11] <exec> 08└─Weirdly, just across the channel in UK, flour runs out in the supermarket around lunchtime...
[18:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Make Your Own Yeast for Baking - 1645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:13] <exec> 08└─If you are running low but are not yet out of modern yeast and don't want to lose all the benefits modern commercial yeast provides. You can go through this same process with commercial yeast added. It should outperform the less engineered fauna in the flour. If you want to be real careful you could...
[18:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of 90 Million-Year-Old Rainforest Discovered Under Antarctic Ice - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:27] <exec> 08└─> But in our model-based experiments AKA model My issue with correlating temperature with CO2 is that it assumes you know the energy irradiated by the sun in the past. Has it been desumed, how?
[18:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remains of 90 Million-Year-Old Rainforest Discovered Under Antarctic Ice - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:28] <exec> 08└─You might find this PDF [arxiv.org] interesting.
[18:54:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06T-Mobile, Sprint Took a Risk by Finishing Merger Without California's Approval - 687 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:39] <exec> 08└─<no-sarcasm> I do not want over regulation. Yet it seems to me that the healthiest economic environment for any product or service is when it is a commodity in a market with healthy competition among plenty of providers. Monopolies are not good for anyone except the monopolist. People in government...
[18:56:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 542 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:56:21] <exec> 08└─This is exactly why I don't spend oodles of money on mobile apps. Too much volatility, too limited functionality and no guarantees of continuity. Terms can be changed right under your nose as a paying customer and you've got no recourse. So it's just the "free" crap, if it has a modicum of functiona...
[18:57:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 2223 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:23] <exec> 08└─I've been working for a while on an idea of a new form of democracy that would be at least resistant to many of the ills of the current forms - including security. The basic idea is that instead of (in addition to?) voting for a representative once every few years, you'd "follow" them, and can chang...
[18:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:51] <exec> 08└─You think they're any less aggressive at marketing the current candidates? The difference is that *keeping* people's opinion swayed is a much bigger ongoing expense than swaying it long enough to get you to vote for a candidate that will pander to their desires until they have to put on a good show...
[18:57:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:52] <exec> 08└─"Democratic politics also happens in the streets, at political rallies, public meetings, and demonstrations. It is hard to see how such mass gatherings will return any time soon if they continue to be dangerous, or even banned, on grounds of public health." good thing the right to assembly and trave...
[18:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 4059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:54] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm working on it as I go, and have no special background in political theory - I'm just trying to come up with the skeleton of something that could address the endemic abuse of power in basically every "democratic" institution out there, and hoping to get others both inspired and to pick it a...
[18:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:57:57] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see: Mandatory national paid-by-the-feds-via-fed-taxes day off for voting dayVoting spread over multiple days so critical-role people can back each other's roles upMandatory requirement to vote if you're over 17 and...Not in a hospital or hospice bed, or...Don't have a notarized certific...
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[19:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hubie [1068] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Make Your Own Yeast for Baking - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:14] <exec> 08└─I presume you could also dry your modern culture and freeze it in the manner that a lot of sourdough maintainers do with their starters. YouTube is abound with videos along this line. I keep seeing in my Recommended section "How to make your own yeast in five minutes" and it shows somebody with a pl...
[19:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06How to Make Your Own Yeast for Baking - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:15] <exec> 08└─You seem to be a lucky boy. I'm struggling to get a single kg of flour. I've stumbled upon the 4th (large) supermarket that's out of stock.
[19:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Make Your Own Yeast for Baking - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:17] <exec> 08└─Or, source yeast from your own facial hair. Like Rogue Ales' brewmaster does. https://www.rogue.com [rogue.com] better living through biology, and keep it local too!
[19:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03EJ [2452] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06How to Make Your Own Yeast for Baking - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:20] <exec> 08└─in my pants.
[19:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of 90 Million-Year-Old Rainforest Discovered Under Antarctic Ice - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:35] <exec> 08└─The real question is, if we've got rainforests in Antarctica, what do the tropics, and the rest of the world, look like? Continent-spanning deserts weren't exactly rare during Hothouse Earth periods, and there's not a whole lot of farmland near the poles.
[19:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remains of 90 Million-Year-Old Rainforest Discovered Under Antarctic Ice - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:37] <exec> 08└─If only we had acted sooner, we might have saved it.
[19:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remains of 90 Million-Year-Old Rainforest Discovered Under Antarctic Ice - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:39] <exec> 08└─Deserts are not caused by heat, but by a lack of precipitation. So, for instance, Antarctica is a desert. This [deeptimemaps.com] site has a nice series of time-relative biome maps. Suffice to say, deserts were quite rare. For instance this is why you'll often find a desert on one side or another of...
[19:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remains of 90 Million-Year-Old Rainforest Discovered Under Antarctic Ice - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:41] <exec> 08└─As a followup on the above, since 1901 global precipitation has been increasing [epa.gov] at a rate of 0.08 inches per decade. In the US it's been increasing at 0.17 inches per decade. Global warming has and will continue to be much more likely to create rainforests than deserts.
[19:55:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MongoDB's Field-Level Encryption Protects Private Data—Even From DBAs - 1093 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:15] <exec> 08└─I remember either here or the green site had a paper where they showed practical attacks against a theoretically perfect implementation of FLE. They said it was basically worthless. The assumptions they made on the database: 1) It would be possible to search the DB for a range of values in a column...
[19:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Almost Ready to Start Testing SN3 -- The Third Starship Prototype - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:55:30] <exec> 08└─Sad silo folded up like a soda can. :( They'll figure it out; this is just a setback.
[19:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:58:09] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. It's good you acknowledge your limitations and that you are still working on it. Definitely keep poking around. There's definitely some good ideas in your proposal. I would recommend you look into some of the ideas behind political theory, though. Going into any field blind with the men...
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[20:54:08] <exec> 08└─They overreach to ridiculous lengths. The artists themselves are the ones pushing these narratives. For all their supposed superior discernment and expression of the human condition, they are remarkably tone deaf in this area. I recall a story from many years ago about ASCAP hammering restaurants fo...
[20:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Make Your Own Yeast for Baking - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:24] <exec> 08└─Ah, stories about how to bake bread. What a great site, sharing such useful information. This time next year when everything has collapsed we will be hearing how to make our own Soylent Green, where to get the new hit cookbook "To Serve Man", how to brew up some delicious Kevorkian stew, and throw y...
[20:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Make Your Own Yeast for Baking - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:26] <exec> 08└─There are several alcoholic drinks that make use of wild yeasts, including lambic beers and "natural" wines. Goodness knows we might need some extra booze before this is over.
[20:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Make Your Own Yeast for Baking - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:28] <exec> 08└─The Prison Niggers make their own booze in part by harvesting yeast and bacteria from dirty socks. But when you're desperate for a buzz, it's certainly better than jenkem.
[20:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Make Your Own Yeast for Baking - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:30] <exec> 08└─Whats the bread like? Or is this for beer?
[20:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remains of 90 Million-Year-Old Rainforest Discovered Under Antarctic Ice - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:50] <exec> 08└─Yes i blameyou for not acting.
[20:56:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:56:37] <exec> 08└─And people are still camping out in the snow amongst the needles and feces to be first to buy their trash.
[20:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:58:18] <exec> 08└─That's a fair point, though my impression is that political theory, like economic theory, is largely a mutual admiration club - it only works well to describe what happens within the system created by adherents to the ideology, and is primarily promoted by those who benefit dramatically from that sy...
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[21:54:05] <exec> 08└─To begin with, the federal Copyright Act gives holders of copyrights in music the right to publicly perform their works and to control how others perform them.1 The Act defines a “public performance” as a performance that occurs in any place open to the public or that is transmitted or otherwise...
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[21:54:07] <exec> 08└─This is why the RIAA needs to die.
[21:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Says: Rental Car Companies Don't Need a License for Radios that Might Play Music - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:09] <exec> 08└─I went and saw Tool on their recent tour. Literally every 5 minutes before the show, the venue broadcast a message about how taking photos was banned, and if anyone took photos, they would be removed from the venue. During the show however, a chap sitting not far from us was caught by security tak...
[21:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Make Your Own Yeast for Baking - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:28] <exec> 08└─We seem to be short here in the Antipodes too. Fortunately one of the junior zombies works in a supermarket, and they allow staff to shop before they open. He got me two bags of flour from their latest shipment a couple of days ago, and I've started a new sourdough starter.
[21:55:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MongoDB's Field-Level Encryption Protects Private Data—Even From DBAs - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:55:24] <exec> 08└─Regardless of how one should feel, he should be hailed as a hero? Those two halves of the sentence do not agree with each other.
[21:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's WaveNetEQ Fills in Speech Gaps During Duo Calls - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:03] <exec> 08└─What exactly is the difference? I mean no one has ever blamed autocorrect for a text message screw up have they?
[21:56:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's WaveNetEQ Fills in Speech Gaps During Duo Calls - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:05] <exec> 08└─As others have pointed out this could lead to unexpected errors. IIRC, when some printers did something like this with imaged texts it caused them to insert incorrect letters in place of letters that weren't printed clearly which changed the words being printed.
[21:56:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 176 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:56:45] <exec> 08└─https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.thosp.yourlocalweather/ [f-droid.org] https://play.google.com [google.com] You're welcomed.
[21:57:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:34] <exec> 08└─And of course, since history would never ever repeat itself: https://support.microsoft.com [microsoft.com] Fun fact: I actually got a Windows Vista system to hit that bug.
[21:57:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing 787s Must be Rebooted Every 51 Days to Avoid Misleading Pilot Data - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:57:36] <exec> 08└─Must really burn you shitheads up seeing the fall of white-centric media. White people are the minority on planet Earth, you're just upset that advertising is now targeting demographics that make you uncomfortable. That smell wrinkling your nose? All you gotta do is pull your head out of that gaping...
[21:58:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:26] <exec> 08└─Verificable votes means anyone can break your fingers if you do not vote as they want. Legs would be a problem with your mobility idea, but fingers, not so much, you only need to carry the paper they give. Public count of the paper votes should be enough. Anyone that wants to check, just stay around...
[21:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dangers of Moving All of Democracy Online - 1290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:58:28] <exec> 08└─"You must be really old if you remember when the Boomers were saying that." Not surprising at all, because I'm technically one of them. I was born in 1962, which means I'm the last year of most definitions of the Boomers. I still remember things like Bobby Kennedy's funeral (I was disconcerted my Sa...
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[22:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses its Third Starship Prototype During a Cryogenic Test - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:02] <exec> 08└─Rockets are hard.
[22:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses its Third Starship Prototype During a Cryogenic Test - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:03] <exec> 08└─The rocket got coronavirus because it wasn't wearing a mask.
[22:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses its Third Starship Prototype During a Cryogenic Test - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:06] <exec> 08└─I bet we won't see the next 150m hop until after astronauts are sent to ISS (supposed to happen in May).
[22:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Make Your Own Yeast for Baking - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:37] <exec> 08└─How to make toilet bowl wine as the governor keeps us imprisoned for another month?
[22:55:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MongoDB's Field-Level Encryption Protects Private Data—Even From DBAs - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:34] <exec> 08└─I don't think one should be lionized under an ends-justify-the-means argument. I would be more sympathetic to the argument (well, not the beatification stance taken here) if he curated and released information to support some argument, but a blind smash-and-grab of information, then giving the infor...
[22:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MongoDB's Field-Level Encryption Protects Private Data—Even From DBAs - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:55:35] <exec> 08└─Particularly if your DBA is an H1-B in Hyderabad.
[22:57:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Buys Dark Sky Weather App and Shuts Down the Android Version - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:10] <exec> 08└─And they never will. A laptop without an escape key, bugger off.
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[23:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SK Hynix Announces Plans for DDR5-8400 Memory, and More - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:02] <exec> 08└─Too bad there's a 7% chance you won't live to see it released.
[23:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Remains of 90 Million-Year-Old Rainforest Discovered Under Antarctic Ice - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:55:02] <exec> 08└─Isn't this what we are doing now? Defrosting the rain forest ...