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[00:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:56] <exec> 08└─Not with these magical fingers.
[00:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:57] <exec> 08└─They want a volunteer? I'd do it, but not for free and considering most people with these skills are dropping like flies being in the highest risk group and all, they better pay really, really well.
[00:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:59] <exec> 08└─I can see how the software might be a problem if they've hit some kind of integer limit, but I doubt 2 billion people have applied for unemployment, or that the system was only designed to accommodate 32768 applicants or some such. Maybe there's some cockamamie code in there that only accepts a cert...
[00:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:02] <exec> 08└─I'm at a major university in CA. Everyone is highly paid with fancy titles.... but nobody can do anything. They need everything done for them - volunteers (aka low paid grad students) required to figure out how to do things, come up with fresh ideas and then write it up in suitable form for 5 Profes...
[00:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:04] <exec> 08└─Reread the quotes in a 'Jersey Shore' accent and then consider your question -- and perhaps rephrasing and reaccenting your response -- again.
[00:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:06] <exec> 08└─Not only that, but it's working on-site in New Jersey, which is by far one of the most environmentally and culturally disgusting states in America.
[00:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:08] <exec> 08└─Rewrite your code in Javascript and host it on AWS.
[00:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:10] <exec> 08└─The UC system is run by Jews and the CSU system is run by Chinks -- so what you posted should anger people, but it should surprise nobody. The real danger with those two demographics is that they're subverting and pillaging the entire country rather than just their respective education systems. Hell...
[00:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:12] <exec> 08└─I for one am wondering who is writing Ruth Bader Ginsburg's "opinions."
[00:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 1655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:15] <exec> 08└─As others have suggested, this is probably not a COBOL problem. This is a MANAGEMENT problem. Someone decided to terminate everyone responsible for the system, and save money. Find that person and terminate them. We would all appreciate it - particularly if they were promoted as a result. So, that's...
[00:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:17] <exec> 08└─They'll have the same problem in T+50 years. The young 20 year old hotshots now will be picking over that shitty Javascript running on a i7 emulator bitching that they could do it with a 1-liner in a modern language.
[00:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Mysteries of Uranus' Oddities Explained by Japanese Astronomers - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:35] <exec> 08└─What if you're xenuphobic?
[00:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Somewhat Safer SSH Agent Forwarding - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:46] <exec> 08└─bonus points for using a privacy envelope and spelling Kumir's name correctly.
[00:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Older People Generally More Emotionally Healthy, Better Able to Resist Daily Temptations - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:49] <exec> 08└─The patient's dead.
[00:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Fingerprint-Verified Smart Lock Can be Foiled by a Magnet - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:09] <exec> 08└─You gave me another idea. Not sure how the hardware is designed, but if they put sensing on the motor leads, they could sense external magnetic influences, and intentionally drive the motor a little- enough to keep it locked. They could also do a coil or a Hall-effect sensor and again, drive the mot...
[00:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Chrome Temporarily Rolls Back SameSite Cookie Security Change - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:57] <exec> 08└─Here, have a +1 Touche.. I normally use Firefox but there are is a website I use for work based on Microsoft Office 365 and Teams and SharePoint which doesn't work in Firefox so I use Chrome.
[00:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlwaysNever [5817] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Typing By Slamming Your Laptop Closed. Repeatedly - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:36] <exec> 08└─Do we really need to promote more people on the web that are just asses?
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[01:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the license plates are way behind the times. NJ was the Garden State, but has become the Garbage State. There are still a few pretty spots in the state, but it's all way overpopulated. Kinda like Cal, come to think of it.
[01:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:10] <exec> 08└─> This is a MANAGEMENT problem. And the solution is.... more management! Layers of it to ensure compliance and give the sucker(s) at the bottom more motivation.
[01:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:12] <exec> 08└─Would you believe them if they offer a "job security"? It's a seniority at government jobs. So, I can do it, but I want $500K sign up tax free bonus.
[01:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:14] <exec> 08└─Not as disgusting as EF.
[01:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:16] <exec> 08└─EF's just ahead of the curve.
[01:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe they're thinking that since many (most?) COBOL programmers would be older and more at risk for dying from Covid-19, they'll gladly help on the chance they'll be saving their own butts.
[01:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes GTX 1650 GPU With GDDR6 Memory - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:27] <exec> 08└─I purchased one of these. Zotac makes a low profile card, that doesn't need any extra power connections. Just plug it into any x16 slot, and away it goes. For $150 you get a low power consumption card, that outperforms the 980, and runs head-to-head with the 1080, both of which sold for near a thous...
[01:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mysteries of Uranus' Oddities Explained by Japanese Astronomers - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:40] <exec> 08└─meaning, yeah...we're guessing. We don't ACTUALLY know for sure. But this was thought up long before.
[01:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mysteries of Uranus' Oddities Explained by Japanese Astronomers - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:42] <exec> 08└─Avoid cheap ground coffee.
[01:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beware the Wrath of Abibarshim! - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:37] <exec> 08└─I guess this is supposed to be good engineering advice or something.
[01:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos’ Space Company is Pressuring Employees to Launch a Tourist Rocket During the Pandemic - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, but how do we know they won't be back?
[01:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos’ Space Company is Pressuring Employees to Launch a Tourist Rocket During the Pandemic - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:07] <exec> 08└─Also helpful for those trying to stop urinating.
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[02:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:49] <exec> 08└─Morten Bennedsen, INSEAD Professor of Economics and the André and Rosalie Hoffmann Chaired Professor of Family Enterprise
[02:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:50] <exec> 08└─In the test: CEO vs no CEO, sure - chaos, confusion, delay, bad press, people stalling decisions until the CEO returns. The position matters, and putting your top decision maker on ice for a week or two has chilling effects on the bottom line. Now: are there "magic" CEOs who can make that kind of di...
[02:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:52] <exec> 08└─Over a period of 5-7 days, there would be no effect from the CEO being gone. They should be looking an absolute minimum of 1 quarter out in terms of planning and strategy, so being gone for a week, should result in the other execs continuing to execute on previous plans. The fact that the stock mark...
[02:40:54] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 770 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:54] <exec> 08└─Superstars, not so much. Business has gone far astray in it's quest for superstar managers. Funny thing that managers pitch themselves as the single most important cog in the machine. If your CEO isn't replaceable on short notice, then you are doing something seriously wrong. If there is anyone in y...
[02:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:57] <exec> 08└─Did they compare it against monkeys - sick and healthy - running the corporations? I guess no. Bad deplorable so called science.
[02:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:59] <exec> 08└─Looks to me like some grant seeking, more money for their chair by playing up to big egos.
[02:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:23] <exec> 08└─Like many, I did a contract job in New Jersey. And like many, I'll say "fool me once, shame on me ..." What a dump.
[02:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 1127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:25] <exec> 08└─Someone decided to terminate everyone responsible for the system, and save money. Find that person and terminate them. We would all appreciate it... You're being too optimistic, if you want a head. No one got terminated, just shuffled - it's government, after all. Every manager knows how to get rid...
[02:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes GTX 1650 GPU With GDDR6 Memory - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I have a friend who could use something like this as well. He bought an eMachines computer with a dinky 250 watt power supply in a custom form factor that isn't replaceable. He's currently on another 75 watt nVidia card, so this would be a perfect option to swap it out for.
[02:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes GTX 1650 GPU With GDDR6 Memory - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:35] <exec> 08└─I am more interested to see what performance will fit in this kind of TDP in the future than in the monster cards. For comparison: RTX 2080 Ti: 13.45 TFLOPS RTX 2080: 10.07 TFLOPS GTX 1080: 8.9 TFLOPS GTX 980: 5 TFLOPS PlayStation 4 Pro: 4.2 TFLOPS GTX 1650 (GDDR5): 3 TFLOPS GTX 1650 (GDDR6): 2.85 T...
[02:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Somewhat Safer SSH Agent Forwarding - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:02] <exec> 08└─With either the newer (2016) ProxyJump, or ProxyCommand with netcat or socat, you can traverse multiple jump hosts, and never expose your keys. I've never seen a situation where agent key forwarding was ever required. I used to have a bastion host at work that required a port knock. The script for P...
[02:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos’ Space Company is Pressuring Employees to Launch a Tourist Rocket During the Pandemic - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:15] <exec> 08└─Pray without sneezing (else you're fired).
[02:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Fingerprint-Verified Smart Lock Can be Foiled by a Magnet - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:29] <exec> 08└─The company carefully designed a backdoor into the lock, which was found out. So now they will close this backdoor and keep the others open until they too are found out. In the meantime they will change the design, adding more backdoors. They learnt this from the jews.
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[03:40:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 331 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:52] <exec> 08└─Over a period of 5-7 days, there would be no effect from the CEO being gone. They should be looking an absolute minimum of 1 quarter out in terms of planning and strategy, so being gone for a week, should result in the other execs continuing to execute on previous plans. The fact that the stock mark...
[03:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 2569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:56] <exec> 08└─No one wants to make their own decisions, instead of looking to everyone else. For big decisions, they tend to get punted up the ladder to a CEO or a similar position in other organizations. Even so, a lot of top executives seem to look at what others are doing rather than making decisions for thems...
[03:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:58] <exec> 08└─How many people do you know that are "reasonably competent" at taking responsibility on any scale? How many people do you know that are "reasonably competent" at even comprehending what all goes into a billion dollar market cap company, much less a really large one? How many do you know that fall wh...
[03:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:00] <exec> 08└─but they didn't test CEO vs No-CEO. They tested "market perception of ability of company to cope with indisposed CEO, reflected in share price" A better, but far harder to answer question would be "How much value did CEO add to the share price, above any average changes in similar stocks and across...
[03:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:03] <exec> 08└─Or they should just look at corporations that make idiotic business decisions over a CEO's term vs. ones that make good business decisions. Bankruptcy and every job at the company going poof or kicking fiscal ass is the difference.
[03:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:05] <exec> 08└─You know the difference between a company run by competent management and badass management? Amiga vs. Microsoft. Yeah, the difference matters if you want to be something other than an also-ran.
[03:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:07] <exec> 08└─There's nothing in the article about stock prices. The article and the paper abstract do mention "profitability", but that's a bit different from stock price.
[03:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 1424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:09] <exec> 08└─How many CEOs actually understand the workings of their multi-billion dollar market cap company? Being a really good CEO of a company of that size is legitimately very difficult. But there also aren't that many good CEOs. In many cases, the CEO is someone hired to serve the interests of the board of...
[03:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:35] <exec> 08└─There nothing wrong with COBOL code. It is these damn bomber haters We built the world with coding skills. Bomber haters can only see a pretty app that steal your information, built on top of the decades of work by the boomers. So stop hating the builders and learn to get your hands dirty. It use t...
[03:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 1351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:36] <exec> 08└─-1 Utterly ignorant. Obviously, you've never been to NJ, or if you have, you were only there to go in or out of the Newark airport. Yes, if that's the only part of NJ you've seen, it's understandable why you'd think this way, but it's ridiculous. NJ isn't that small a state. Speaking from personal e...
[03:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:39] <exec> 08└─The quote in the news story implies the government wants 'Cobalt' programmers to volunteer to work for free. I can't find an actual job ad anywhere -- I checked their 'COVID-19 jobs' portal. The public pitch didn't say who to contact.
[03:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:41] <exec> 08└─Change the plates to "Birthplace of Unix".
[03:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:43] <exec> 08└─It isn't as big a dump since you left.
[03:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:45] <exec> 08└─Coming from you, that is a compliment.
[03:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes GTX 1650 GPU With GDDR6 Memory - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:56] <exec> 08└─Which card currently offers the best bang for the buck?
[03:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes GTX 1650 GPU With GDDR6 Memory - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:59] <exec> 08└─but the card isn't aimed at gamers
[03:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Older People Generally More Emotionally Healthy, Better Able to Resist Daily Temptations - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:34] <exec> 08└─The market has been low lately and I've been investing in KBWD, QQQ, SPY, XLRE. When the market recovers, especially given our ever inflationary policy, I will have more money. Many don't invest. Those that don't may struggle more.
[03:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Fingerprint-Verified Smart Lock Can be Foiled by a Magnet - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:56] <exec> 08└─This one? https://www.youtube.com
[03:46:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Google Chrome Temporarily Rolls Back SameSite Cookie Security Change - 46 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:40] <exec> 08└─So, it works, but we need to work on delivery.
[03:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Campus is Closed, So College Students are Rebuilding their Schools in Minecraft - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:49] <exec> 08└─One guy in my school did a Doom map of the school back in the day. Raised some eyebrows, but, at the time, LOL-style battles in schools had been common at recess and involved magnolia fruits, some kind of light pinecones which are actually a good compromise between accu, damage and convenience. Bett...
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[04:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:54] <exec> 08└─If a system gets greedy like this, it's only fitting to force-feed it until it explodes like the wafer-thin-mint guy. I *love* this. Forced arbitration is an end-run around the law and the Constitution. Crapflood it and break it from the inside.
[04:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:55] <exec> 08└─I'm generally happy with the NY Times, but in this case all the cites in tfa point to NY Times stories. Isn't anyone else covering this?
[04:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:57] <exec> 08└─The Hacker News thread has some interesting tidbits in it: https://news.ycombinator.com [ycombinator.com] One being that the company must pay the arbitration fee if you file, and if the company refuses, they are in breech of the contract, which frees you up to now actually sue them...
[04:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:00] <exec> 08└─Here, we agree. The whole arbitration process is designed to bring cases before judges (or arbitors) sympathetic to the business, and not the consumer. It's bad enough when corporations stipulate that law cases are to be heard in a jurisdiction of their choosing. If you live in Backwoods, Nowhere, a...
[04:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:20] <exec> 08└─Too many words. Let me know when you come across a CEO like that.
[04:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:21] <exec> 08└─Five to seven days is a pretty serious hospital stay. Giving birth only gets you a day or two. If you are sick enough to be in hospital for seven days, you are not going to be miraculously back to 100% on the eighth day. I would expect reduced performance for weeks to months afterward.
[04:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:23] <exec> 08└─So, uhhhh, parasitic practices distinguish badass management? Rent seekers and the like demonstrate badassery?
[04:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:55] <exec> 08└─Well, the situation itself is a perfect example of both a decadent work culture and a faulty crowd logic: There are 362 000 fresh unemployed people around and no dozen or one of them is able enough to learn COBOL to fix the problem? What do they all expect to receive from a collapsed state administr...
[04:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:56] <exec> 08└─there's a reason it's called the "garden state". It's really beautiful
[04:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes GTX 1650 GPU With GDDR6 Memory - 819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:09] <exec> 08└─It's aimed primarily at "entry level" gamers, whatever the heck that means. You'll find that phrase on various sites. The low profile card is very specifically aimed at people who have small form factor boxes, which is exactly what I was looking for. It fits into a 2U server, and a bunch of those mi...
[04:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes GTX 1650 GPU With GDDR6 Memory - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:10] <exec> 08└─That's a judgement call, really, but I would go with the 2070 Super. It's ~$500, and very capable, in all respects. The 2080 prices start at ~$800, and go up over $2k - lotta bucks, but if you don't actually need that bang, it's just not worth it.
[04:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Reveals the New Wavy Martian Wheels it Thinks Can Crush the Red Planet - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:50] <exec> 08└─It's essentially the same design. They just changed the tread pattern, doubling the ribs for more strength. The fundamentals didn't change. This is an aluminum wheel running on soil that contains perchlorates and iron oxide. Crack propagation is always a problem in aluminum, and the corrosive enviro...
[04:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Fingerprint-Verified Smart Lock Can be Foiled by a Magnet - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:10] <exec> 08└─Friend of mine who runs the local lockpicking club said that a cheap crappy Chinese padlock was one of the toughest padlocks (outside of high-security ones) he's ever picked because everything was so sloppily-made that... OK, I don't know the technical details but whatever it was that normally works...
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[05:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:55] <exec> 08└─News articles often link to other stories on their own site.
[05:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:18] <exec> 08└─There's no excuse for a company to "fall apart" because the CEO is temporarily unavailable. Obviously, the CEO has egotistically centralized too much into his/her office. Should be immediately canned and replaced with someone competent.
[05:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:20] <exec> 08└─This highlights the American dystopia. They expect a CEO being gone for 5-7 days would impact anything? Doesn't he go on vacations and have sick leave?
[05:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:22] <exec> 08└─When it comes to extracting money out of customers, government, ecosystem, etc. for the financial benefit of shareholders of a corporation ... yeah? Let them start actually sentencing some actors to the corporate death penalty because they've found to be not working in the public interest, then that...
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[05:41:56] <exec> 08└─At least she found way to leave the world a better place.
[05:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:57] <exec> 08└─I saw a lot of the outdoors in New Jersey. But, it was Fort Dix and for basic training. My opinion may be biased due to that.
[05:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:59] <exec> 08└─You screwed up monumentally and now you want me to "volunteer", presumably at my own expense or at least for free, to haul your sorry ass out of a hole you dug. Oh, and it's because I get to be "hero" by doing it in a place with a massively higher amount of COVID 19 infections than the rural area I'...
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[05:42:01] <exec> 08└─You screwed up monumentally and now you want me to "volunteer", presumably at my own expense or at least for free, to haul your sorry ass out of a hole you dug.
[05:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beware the Wrath of Abibarshim! - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:27] <exec> 08└─I'm writing a new opengl binding for Racket. The old one is fairly obsolete. -- hendrik
[05:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beware the Wrath of Abibarshim! - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:28] <exec> 08└─Technically, usenet is still around. But it has deteriorated. Spam has even shut down alt.sex.cthulhu. -- hendrik
[05:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Fingerprint-Verified Smart Lock Can be Foiled by a Magnet - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:17] <exec> 08└─Just make the lock body out of steel. Then you will be afraid of holding that huge magnet anywhere near it, and you certainly wouldn't be able to swipe it over the lock like he does in the video. For reference, here's a 2 inch diameter, 2 inch thick magnet, and it has a pull force of 377.6 pounds. h...
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[06:40:53] <exec> 08└─This is what always happens with these partnerships - the taxpayer gets screwed by the private partner making it more difficult to get good programs enacted. Of course, those of a Libertarian bent don't help, insisting that the private part of these partnerships must always be more efficient than th...
[06:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:30] <exec> 08└─But if the Peter Principle has people rising through the ranks until they reach their level of incompetence, if the CEO is actually competent in that position, wouldn't there be no position further up to promoted into incompetence? And, by that (somewhat dubious) reasoning, wouldn't the CEO's office...
[06:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:32] <exec> 08└─lowering operating return on assets (OROA) by a full percentage point. So comparable to the effects of a flea bite on the lead janitor?
[06:41:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 1655 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:41:48] <exec> 08└─As others have suggested, this is probably not a COBOL problem. This is a MANAGEMENT problem. Someone decided to terminate everyone responsible for the system, and save money. Find that person and terminate them. We would all appreciate it - particularly if they were promoted as a result. So, that's...
[06:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Somewhat Safer SSH Agent Forwarding - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:51] <exec> 08└─doesn't port forwarding simplify access to gitlab type of stuff? I log into the cluster, get disconnected, I'd like to not load the key all over again when I reconnect. Also I may have several terminals logged into the cluster because I want to edit multiple source files. what would the alternative...
[06:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SparkyGSX [4041] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos’ Space Company is Pressuring Employees to Launch a Tourist Rocket During the Pandemic - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:09] <exec> 08└─Jeff Bezos doesn't give a fuck about people
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[06:46:28] <exec> 08└─If you have an "angle grinder" (dumb name- what, it only grinds angles? Sigh...)
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[07:40:58] <exec> 08└─if you incentivize something through particular metrics, you had better check both the reality of those metrics, and what other behviours have been 'let slide' while the company focuses on the payment-related numbers..
[07:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:10] <exec> 08└─Not likely. The companies will set terms for new employees where the employees pay part of or all fees.
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[07:44:16] <exec> 08└─Sure he does.
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[08:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:50] <exec> 08└─Six out of ten submissions in the Hold are aristarchus submissions. And the Eds pretend to be gathering for a merge, rather than silencing an original Soylentil? Oh, the Huge Manatee! Oh, Mores, and Tempora!. Sorry for the offtopic post, but no one is here anymore besides Runaway, and he is an unedu...
[08:41:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 245 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:04] <exec> 08└─If a system gets greedy like this, it's only fitting to force-feed it until it explodes like the wafer-thin-mint guy. I *love* this. Forced arbitration is an end-run around the law and the Constitution. Crapflood it and break it from the inside.
[08:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:38] <exec> 08└─Oh, you mean like Brian Driscoll...or maybe Edward Lampert...or Dr. Gil Emelio...or maybe Lloyd Blankfein. BTW, I personally don't know any CEOs (at least at that level)...you?
[08:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:39] <exec> 08└─It is the other way round: incompetence enriches as you go up the ranks. At say, below CEO, you have maximal enrichment. Then, quantum tunneling takes over and pushes someone up. And, the most incompetent tunnel best (highest volatility).
[08:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:41] <exec> 08└─Hey! This is in no way a pro-Microsoft Fine Article. Unless, it is. Oh, my god, think about it! The parent poster is right! Off topic, but right! This is what happened when Bill Gates adopted Ballmer as his son and hair!!!
[08:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes GTX 1650 GPU With GDDR6 Memory - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:32] <exec> 08└─There are gamers and then there are gamers. For some, it seems that spending the most money and obtaining the most bragging rights is the primary game. For them, anything other than the flagship part is "low end" even though 99% of games would run fine on it. (Since when is the GTX moniker used for...
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[08:44:19] <exec> 08└─Not at all. On Earth if you're of significant means then you can live quite nicely. On Mars everybody will be living in a shithole together. It's the same thing in places like the US today. Many families who can trace their roots back to the founding of the nation live quite comfortable lives, yet i...
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[09:40:53] <exec> 08└─They pay you money and you agree not to say anything about what you found? Seems obvious to me that they are buying your silence. Not to mention that their customer, i.e. the ones who pay the bills, are the companies who use them. Why would they possibly care about the bug finders being inconvenienc...
[09:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:54] <exec> 08└─And, like wow! Instantly hidden, to die a grim death in the bowels of soylentnews. But there is hope. A slim flicker of the original commitment to free speech, not just to alt-right and racist and libertariantard speech, still burns at SoylentNews. I am aristarchus, and I am here to speak freely. I...
[09:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:16] <exec> 08└─Alsup isn't wrong: Arbitration is an attempt by companies to evade the legal system. OTOH, the legal system in the US is thoroughly screwed up, especially the tort system. The whole system is too expensive, and awards are more like a lottery than anything else. That said, this is being driven by law...
[09:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:17] <exec> 08└─Judges are smart and try to aim for serving justice. Legislators have a bad reputation for being not so smart and guided by lobbyist who work for companies and trade associations but usually not for citizens. You know what will be the next move for companies that force contracts on employees and cus...
[09:41:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 577 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:27] <exec> 08└─In the test: CEO vs no CEO, sure - chaos, confusion, delay, bad press, people stalling decisions until the CEO returns. The position matters, and putting your top decision maker on ice for a week or two has chilling effects on the bottom line. Now: are there "magic" CEOs who can make that kind of di...
[09:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:49] <exec> 08└─I bet TMB could do it! He's got the bullshit that smells like success, and low taxes for Job Craterers! Yessiree Bob! Ain't two ways about it! TMB for CEO of SN, WTF, LOL, and EOF.
[09:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:28] <exec> 08└─I did COBOL for a year+ as part of Computer studies back in the 90s. It is not difficult! YOU JUST PUT EVERYTHING IN CAPS But seriously its just another programming language. I think we did it after Pascal before C. Isn't everyone a polyglot programmer these days any way?
[09:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mysteries of Uranus' Oddities Explained by Japanese Astronomers - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:59] <exec> 08└─This story is not new news as I remember reading astronomy books from the 80's and earlier about the possibility that the axis tilt of Uranus was caused by some 'great collision' early in it's formation. Uranus' unusual axis tilt was known for certain since the early 1900's IIRC, and probably suspec...
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[09:43:25] <exec> 08└─Temperatures on Mars can reach 70F. The rover could experience higher temps than that on entry. You'd end up with misshapen blobs instead of wheels.
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[10:40:50] <exec> 08└─Using Professor Chen's discovery, we can now engineer vegetables that contain heat sensors so they can signal when they are properly cooked.
[10:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:01] <exec> 08└─Well, the code is open source, so you might just set up aristarchusnews.org as alternative site.
[10:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:02] <exec> 08└─If person A discovers the bug and tells it to person B, then person B enters it to the bounty program and shares the bounty with person A, is person A bound to the NDA as well?
[10:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:05] <exec> 08└─This is not really a surprise is it? That they pay for the bughunters not to say anything. After all that is cheaper then the class action lawsuit due to their massive software failures. That said I do wonder if this, the bug bounties, and competitions like pwn2own etc are not also some kind of catc...
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[10:41:15] <exec> 08└─>> we take seriously our stewardship of public dollars How about cutting them off from the program for three years? During that time, the Mexican criminals running TracFone can consider what it means to take stewardship seriously.
[10:41:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:51] <exec> 08└─So, uhhhh, parasitic practices distinguish badass management? Rent seekers and the like demonstrate badassery?
[10:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:01] <exec> 08└─In many cases, the CEO is someone hired to serve the interests of the board of directors, Serving the interests of the board of directors is indeed the Job Spec. WTF are the other ones doing there?
[10:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:03] <exec> 08└─You have part of the answer there. However, I've watched people make decisions for years, then when management changes, suddenly those decision makers are deemed to be incompetent. New decision makers replace the old, things slide downhill, and those decision makers are replaced, and soon you have a...
[10:43:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Mysteries of Uranus' Oddities Explained by Japanese Astronomers - 606 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:06] <exec> 08└─Back in the mid 90's I learned from cable tv that Uranus was probably struck by another body, tilting it on its side. Also that the Earth was probably hit by another object forming the Earth-moon pear. So this does not strike me as new information. Also that Saturn has such low density it would floa...
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[11:41:06] <exec> 08└─Niggers. Niggers hanging at the park because they won't believe what Whitey says. Now that is awesome. You must be a nigger to prepare yourself. Are you prepared to be a true nigger?
[11:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:08] <exec> 08└─Make that aristarchuspoliticalnews.org So people not particularly interested in politics, genders or skin colors don't need to go there.
[11:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes GTX 1650 GPU With GDDR6 Memory - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:57] <exec> 08└─You could be asking the wrong question. You should determine what you want to do with it and pay accordingly. If you are targeting 1080p resolution at X FPS in certain games, you aren't going to need as much performance as someone looking to do 4K. But if cards below a certain performance don't meet...
[11:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes GTX 1650 GPU With GDDR6 Memory - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:59] <exec> 08└─(Since when is the GTX moniker used for low end parts anyway?)
[11:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Somewhat Safer SSH Agent Forwarding - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:30] <exec> 08└─If you want to log back into the same machine again quickly after disconnection then a key in an agent is the way to go. If you want to rapid fire concurrently connect to the same machine repeatedly then multplexing is the way to go. If you need to pass through a machine to get to others behind it,...
[11:43:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Beware the Wrath of Abibarshim! - 318 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:54] <exec> 08└─If thou art not prepared for the wisdom of Abibarshim one is destined to attempt but not be capable of flight. Repeatedly. Even if thou hast attained the position of scribe of scribes one may expect the pedal measurement of the mighty King to elevate thy posterior until one removest thy dome from su...
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[12:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Improved Laser System Will Help Large Optical Telescopes Gather More Accurate Data - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:54] <exec> 08└─These dumb Chinamen are shining lasers directly up where they will certainly hit airplane cockpits blinding the pilots. Terrorism in the name of science is still terrorism, and cannot go unpunished.
[12:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Improved Laser System Will Help Large Optical Telescopes Gather More Accurate Data - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:55] <exec> 08└─Vaughan Cunningham: You always seem to be deep in thought. Tell me, what are you thinking right now? Karl: I was thinkin', I'm gonna take me some of these taters home with me. Vaughan Cunningham: How about before that? Karl: Well, let me think... I was thinkin' I could use me another couple cans'o t...
[12:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC: Tracfone Made Up “Fictitious” Customers to Defraud Low-Income Program - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:26] <exec> 08└─TracFone Wireless is facing a potential $6 million fine for allegedly defrauding a government program that provides discount telecom service to poor people.
[12:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:15] <exec> 08└─How many people do you know that are "reasonably competent" at taking responsibility on any scale?
[12:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:16] <exec> 08└─how much of any positive variance can be attributed to the CEO and not other identifiable causes?"
[12:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:56] <exec> 08└─If NJ is anything like PA, they're not even looking at American citizens for programming work. Even if they were, it's certainly not full time with benefits or an acceptable contract rate. No matter how much boatloads of Indian contractors cost us again and again and again, management WILL NOT chang...
[12:43:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes GTX 1650 GPU With GDDR6 Memory - 819 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:07] <exec> 08└─It's aimed primarily at "entry level" gamers, whatever the heck that means. You'll find that phrase on various sites. The low profile card is very specifically aimed at people who have small form factor boxes, which is exactly what I was looking for. It fits into a 2U server, and a bunch of those mi...
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[13:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:19] <exec> 08└─I don't think there's any way for a contract (such as an NDA) to bind the actions of a third party that did not sign it. They might put text in the bounty-claiming NDA/contract though that requires the discoverer to swear that they are the original discoverer, and that they haven't already told anyo...
[13:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:20] <exec> 08└─Wow, you sound like you have about as much of a victim complex as Trump.
[13:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:22] <exec> 08└─It sounds like what's needed is a general group for bug-bounty-seekers to join, and after a bug has been found, and after the bounty paid, and some time after that (180 days perhaps), the information on the bug is forwarded to another random bounty-seeker in the group, so they can then claim the bou...
[13:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:24] <exec> 08└─There's the old risk vs. reward problem here, big risks lead to big payoffs - or disaster. As CEO, when you a big risk and get a moderate payoff (say, betting the whole company on 19 in roulette (37:1 odds), but only getting a 10:1 payoff) you can still spin it as an astronomical win for the press....
[13:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:25] <exec> 08└─FWIW, the essential nature of liquor stores is due to the nature of our population - take away "rights" like booze and they will riot. As for college, my dad is still remote-teaching the same classes today that he was remote-teaching before the whole mess started. His "in person" colleagues are now...
[13:42:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 1066 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:36] <exec> 08└─I can see how the software might be a problem if they've hit some kind of integer limit, but I doubt 2 billion people have applied for unemployment, or that the system was only designed to accommodate 32768 applicants or some such. Maybe there's some cockamamie code in there that only accepts a cert...
[13:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:07] <exec> 08└─Sounds like my ex.
[13:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:09] <exec> 08└─Well, that's much farther south than the stuff in the northwest part of the state where I spent some time. Also, generally speaking, areas in and around military bases are generally always awful, everyone in the country.
[13:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:11] <exec> 08└─Again, you're conflating totally different parts of the state. Are you going to trash California because of problems in the Bay Area? What exactly do the Joshua Tree or Death Valley national parks have to do with the idiotic NIMBYism in SanFran? Nothing. Nor do the local politics of Eureka or Reddi...
[13:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Xbox Creator Baked Ancient Bread With 4,000-Year-Old-Yeast - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:39] <exec> 08└─Time dilation while you're falling into a black hole doesn't make your hour any longer. All it dies is make others perceive your hour as lasting forever.
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[14:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Goes on an Acquisition Spree, Turns Attention to NextVR - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:49] <exec> 08└─This is how we know what WAS good, Apple bought it and then took a giant dump on it and turned it into shit or it was so good that we, the general public, will never see it again as it was in competition with one of their worse products.
[14:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Goes on an Acquisition Spree, Turns Attention to NextVR - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:51] <exec> 08└─Well, it could be worse. NextVR's technology wouldn't even be needed if speeds/capacity were better. There's nothing that Dark Sky does that can't be replicated by another app. Voysis is just one of many AI/ML startups now supporting one of the voice assistant behemoths (Alexa, Siri, GOOG, Cortana,...
[14:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Identifies New Temperature Sensing Mechanism in Plants - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:06] <exec> 08└─"Chen and co-authors Joseph Hahm, Keunhwa Kim, and Yongjian Qiu, members of Chen's research group at UC Riverside, expected increasing the temperature would have a similar effect to shade—it would switch the phytochromes "off." They thought the photobodies would disappear, as in shade. The results...
[14:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:25] <exec> 08└─I suppose that could work so long as the bug-finders don't mind committing fraud, and were actually in it to get the bug fixed, rather than for the money. But I suspect the freeloader problem would rapidly disenchant them. Especially since not only did they do all the work, they're taking the risk o...
[14:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 1189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:26] <exec> 08└─I drove them away by pointing out there was no one here willing to say real shit, and that the major posters were clearly shills. Better silence than a shill farm barking at each other. But I noticed that too. Why care about a community and an idea when it is so easily subverted. It is however nice...
[14:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmichaelhudsondotnet [8122] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 4401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:28] <exec> 08└─If you want things that don't have a price, you have to have public interest people, and find a way to compensate them for their work. I have written a literal ton of words here in the public interest, not a single .000001 btc for my efforts, and I am only called insane, nazi, etc etc etc. People wh...
[14:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC: Tracfone Made Up “Fictitious” Customers to Defraud Low-Income Program - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:39] <exec> 08└─Jail time? Is this not fraud?
[14:41:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 865 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:49] <exec> 08└─The Hacker News thread has some interesting tidbits in it: https://news.ycombinator.com [ycombinator.com] One being that the company must pay the arbitration fee if you file, and if the company refuses, they are in breech of the contract, which frees you up to now actually sue them...
[14:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:56] <exec> 08└─Judges are smart and try to aim for serving justice. Maybe some are smart. And, maybe some do aim for justice. Then, we have things like the patent court in Marshall, Tx. https://www.bloomberg.com [bloomberg.com]
[14:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:35] <exec> 08└─True. And it points out the severe flaws in this study. This study doesn't mean that CEOs matter. It means that companies, boards, investors, etc. respond with significant concern when there is uncertainty with governance of their company. And rightly so. This study doesn't say anything about the CE...
[14:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Somewhat Safer SSH Agent Forwarding - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:05] <exec> 08└─main usage type: I'm on laptop. I work on code, push to gitlab. I then connect to cluster (.ssh/config proxy thing), and pull code from gitlab. it may happen that I connect to interactive node of cluster at the same time as regular frontend (one for editing, one for running code), or similar. and it...
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[15:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:52] <exec> 08└─Doc always asks about allergies. Work, pain, needles, anything with a "z" in the brand name . . . which is one reason I don't ride a Suzuki.
[15:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:53] <exec> 08└─You're supposed to cure heartburn, not kill people. If you want to kill people, go work for Purdue.
[15:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Identifies New Temperature Sensing Mechanism in Plants - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:18] <exec> 08└─You forget that China's on the other side of the earth, so things are upside down.
[15:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:40] <exec> 08└─well this is not good. not sure how i can get upset. the conclusion would be that "software code" just isn't considered in the same class as "food safety", "transport safety" (like cars and airplanes), "energy safety", "medicine safety", etc. but more in a class of western gung-ho let's make money n...
[15:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:46] <exec> 08└─Yep. When some states first enacted shelter at home, liquor stores were not considered essential at first. Predictably, people freaked out and there were big crowds trying to get their booze before the lockdowns. They are considered essential here in MN. So glad I'm a social drinker. And I'm not ver...
[15:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes GTX 1650 GPU With GDDR6 Memory - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:46] <exec> 08└─VR isn't quiet portable yet. the 1080GTX is the "low bar" and not found in laptops and the 2080 is still to expensive when inside a laptop?
[15:44:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Beware the Wrath of Abibarshim! - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:39] <exec> 08└─If you put all of the coronavirus-related news in one single pile and ignore it, every day is kind of a slow news day.
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[16:40:55] <exec> 08└─All this over trace amounts of carcinogens? Pulling a product people use and need because it *might* contain trace amounts of a subtance that *might* cause cancer? Let me remind you NDMA is not even a prove carcinogen, unlike, e.g. bacon which has been proven to cause cancer. Just slap a warning lab...
[16:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:57] <exec> 08└─This is too much. It gives me tummy aches … heartburn. I just c a n ' t take it any more!
[16:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:59] <exec> 08└─… you could be entitled to compensation! Just call 800-4-DA-LOOT!" In 5... 4.... 3.... 2.....
[16:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:01] <exec> 08└─I took it every day from 2005 to 2012. I'm fucked.
[16:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:47] <exec> 08└─Ummm I don't get the joke...?
[16:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:48] <exec> 08└─I know "anybody can do it" but seriously writing code is epically hard. Ever notice how most people eject themselves out of that role as soon as possible. I guess only young people can do it? No, very few people can do it period. The others go do something else so there's nobody there except noobs (...
[16:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:50] <exec> 08└─I dunno. I don't even like my own code half the time, and I am almost certain that I hate the code of almost everyone else. Almost everyone else use the wrong indentation, commenting and syntax and their solutions tend to be asinine.
[16:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:16] <exec> 08└─Corruption! Just like Trump says.
[16:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 1373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:18] <exec> 08└─It's almost like... the claimants Unionized? We are repeating history as we speak - someone tell me how it ends quick! https://www.marxists.org [marxists.org] The history of these Unions is a long series of defeats of the working-men, interrup...
[16:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:20] <exec> 08└─And in the meanwhile, while we have this erudite debate for another generation or two,... employees can go fuck themselves.
[16:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:22] <exec> 08└─It depends a lot on the judge in question. Some judges are smart lawyers who are dedicated to fairness and want to make a positive difference in their community. Other judges are corrupt-as-all-get-out officials who routinely take bribes ... errr, campaign contributions ... from the attorneys with c...
[16:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:02] <exec> 08└─The biggest impact that most CEOs being gone for a week would be to the caddy's tip balance at the local golf course.
[16:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:03] <exec> 08└─No one wants to make their own decisions, instead of looking to everyone else.
[16:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:48] <exec> 08└─The managers in the US don't realize they are dealing with the managers in India. Both selling eachother and looking to maximize their cut and leave someone else on the hook.
[16:43:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:49] <exec> 08└─Thats why God invented bailouts and made them sound like a good thing. About once or twice a decade, we put $2T on the credit card to make up for cutting everything to the bone and giving out bonuses.
[16:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mysteries of Uranus' Oddities Explained by Japanese Astronomers - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:24] <exec> 08└─indeed the fertility of the soil has a influence on the health of the growing coffee bean. fertile land can be expensive ...
[16:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Somewhat Safer SSH Agent Forwarding - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:41] <exec> 08└─I'll show my ignorance and admit I am not familiar with GitLab yet. Can you try using ProxyJump instead? That can be set in ~/.ssh/config Here you would write 'ssh cluster' to hop through the front end and reach the cluster: Host cluster Hostname cluster.gitlab.com ...
[16:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Reveals the New Wavy Martian Wheels it Thinks Can Crush the Red Planet - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:55] <exec> 08└─also think about the weight you need to loft into the 7'434'287 (or such) floor. what however would be funny, if one could send a "genesis" rim and thru driving around, the tire would form with stuff lying around on mars. problem would then be that the "tire" grows bigger and bigger ^_^
[16:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beware the Wrath of Abibarshim! - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:31] <exec> 08└─Just use Eunuchs.
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[17:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:04] <exec> 08└─Just do what I do and pronounce it, "0.998 liter Sooky Gixxer peepants machine". My hands get sweaty just thinking about my old ride to work and back.
[17:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:05] <exec> 08└─All this over trace amounts of carcinogens? Pulling a product people use and need because it *might* contain trace amounts of a subtance that *might* cause cancer?
[17:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:08] <exec> 08└─Right now, about 40% of the hospitalizations are for people aged 20 to 40. That Spring Break thinking about it being an old person's problem is not correct.
[17:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:10] <exec> 08└─>Pulling a product people use and need because it *might* contain trace amounts of a subtance that *might* cause cancer? There's a whole lot of options for treating heartburn, Zantac isn't some sort of magical cure that people *need*. And the fact that the impurities form after shipping means patien...
[17:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 1109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:12] <exec> 08└─I'm always kind of curious about why they draw the line where they do. This isn't the first medication that I've taken that was pulled. I used to be on a very effective medication for cramping that was subsequently pulled. I'm not entirely sure why it was pulled, but I do know that nothing they offe...
[17:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:14] <exec> 08└─This is true, I used to use Zantac years ago, but my doctor switched me over to Prilosec, I don't remember why exactly, but it had nothing to do with this. For short term, tums and the like are often times fine. Prilosec and the like are often times taken daily to allow the stomach lining a chance t...
[17:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:04] <exec> 08└─My whole idea with it was: how exactly is the company going to know that they were sharing the bug information? If you set up a system so the people sharing the information don't know each other directly (other than all being subscribed to a system with thousands of users), how is the company going...
[17:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:06] <exec> 08└─By joining the system themselves and waiting until a bug gets passed on to them. This is then evidence that the previous bug reporter passed the bug on, and allows them to prosecute him. Have enough undercover joiners, and you'll have a good chance of getting several of them, and scaring the rest aw...
[17:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe this is a bug in the Soylent software. If you pay me some money, sort of like a bounty, I'll root it out.
[17:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC: Tracfone Made Up “Fictitious” Customers to Defraud Low-Income Program - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:20] <exec> 08└─TracFone claimed support for seven customers in Florida at different addresses using the same name, all seven of whom had birth dates in July 1978 and shared the same last four Social Security Number digits.
[17:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:23] <exec> 08└─3SD above the mean
[17:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:24] <exec> 08└─They expect a CEO being gone for 5-7 days would impact anything?
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[18:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:11] <exec> 08└─There is conclusive evidence that NDMA is a potent carcinogen in experimental animals by several routes of exposure, including through ingestion of drinking-water. NDMA has been classified by IARC as probably carcinogenic to humans. [who.int] NDMA is a drinking water contaminant of concern because o...
[18:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:13] <exec> 08└─What does overseas production have to do with anything? This isn't an impurity that was included at the factory, it's one that forms when the drug is stored improperly.
[18:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:06] <exec> 08└─How do they know the previous bug reporter passed it on, instead of it being independently discovered?
[18:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:39] <exec> 08└─The intent is to bring cases more quickly and with less expense. The fact that the arbitrators wind up being friendly is a byproduct of the fact that the company generally has a contract with the arbitrator, meaning that if they lose too many cases, they might choose a different firm to handle the a...
[18:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:40] <exec> 08└─The idea behind arbitration isn't inherently wrong, the problem is that it's set up in a way that has a bunch of conflicts of interest. As long as the amount of money that the arbitrators agree to pay out affects their ability to get the next arbitration case, there's going to be pressure to inappro...
[18:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, the problem there is selection bias. Sure, there are some judges that are appointed even though they're completely incompetent. Justices Scalia, Kavenaugh and Thomas on the Supreme Court are good examples. Kavenaugh may be guilty of sexual assault, but definitely lied under oath repeatedly duri...
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[19:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Older Entrepreneurs as Successful as their Younger Counterparts, Study Reveals - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:57] <exec> 08└─Namely that for more adventurous investments than index funds and blue chips, they respond to their image of what an entrepreneur should be, rather than actual results. As a perfect example, they poured money into Elizabeth Holmes' company "Theranos" despite the fact that the product she was selling...
[19:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:19] <exec> 08└─There's a whole lot of options for treating heartburn....
[19:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Goes on an Acquisition Spree, Turns Attention to NextVR - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:28] <exec> 08└─With all that stimulus money flying around and the slightly down market, now is a good time to buy anything and everything. Get in on the fun! [fool.com]
[19:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Goes on an Acquisition Spree, Turns Attention to NextVR - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:30] <exec> 08└─I don't think the stimulus package affects megacorps like Apple that much. The $350 billion Paycheck Protection Program is geared towards small businesses, for example. Apple will absolutely benefit from the many bankruptcies and stock drops, and could emerge stronger than it was before the pandemic...
[19:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:15] <exec> 08└─Because the receiver was the undercover agent, not the sender. If the previous bug reporter didn't pass it on, the undercover agent would not have gotten it.
[19:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC: Tracfone Made Up “Fictitious” Customers to Defraud Low-Income Program - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:28] <exec> 08└─that's what happens with these disgusting programs where people with no integrity beg for stolen money. fuck them and the gubbermint they rode in on.
[19:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:52] <exec> 08└─This is why it's imperative that we get a constitutional amendment that restricts judicial picks to a list compiled by a non-partisan working group
[19:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:22] <exec> 08└─But seriously its just another programming language. I think we did it after Pascal before C. Isn't everyone a polyglot programmer these days any way?
[19:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:24] <exec> 08└─it's a dude, man!
[19:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COBOL-Coding Volunteers Sought as Creaking Mainframes Slow New Jersey's Coronavirus Response - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:26] <exec> 08└─don't resuscitate, smash the state!
[19:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes GTX 1650 GPU With GDDR6 Memory - 1625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:44] <exec> 08└─VR is still in an early adopter hell. Any headset without eye tracking and foveated rendering is obsolete. Those could be used to push framerate and (maximum) resolution up, with the eventual target being 8K-16K and 200+ FPS. Software advancements may be almost as important as the GPU hardware advan...
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[20:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meg Whitman-Run Streaming Service "Quibi" Launches, Reception Mixed - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:55] <exec> 08└─How do you compete with people that produce 6 to 10 minute videos that people like and share, and only require tens of dollars in compensation per video?
[20:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meg Whitman-Run Streaming Service "Quibi" Launches, Reception Mixed - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:57] <exec> 08└─You use the bored and restless celebrities who are trapped in their mansions to make glorified vlog content for the plebs.
[20:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Meg Whitman-Run Streaming Service "Quibi" Launches, Reception Mixed - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:59] <exec> 08└─This is the woman who ran against Jerry Brown for governor when California was experiencing a fiscal crisis. She out-spent Brown by a wide margin, and I voted for Brown almost on that basis alone--she spent like a drunken sailor. Brown managed his more limited campaign funds by staging an ad push cl...
[20:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:30] <exec> 08└─Good for you. Your heartburn is very, very mild.
[20:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:32] <exec> 08└─Cite?
[20:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich26189 [1377] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 952 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:34] <exec> 08└─My first thought was the OP was referring to shipping time via container ship but, they might ship those drugs via air. What a waste of precious cargo space, instead of meds those planes should be loaded with kiwi fruit and such, you know, things we can't grow in appreciable quantities here in the U...
[20:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:36] <exec> 08└─If feeling like my heart is going to explode is mild heartburn, then yes, it's very, very mild.
[20:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:38] <exec> 08└─I think he may mean that your heartburn sounds infrequent, and it wouldn't be too much of a hassle to mix up some baking soda. Mine is more frequent, and sometimes I may have to eat a chalk tablet every 20 minutes. My doctor prescribed a prescription strength PPI, one of those could suppress my GERD...
[20:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Goes on an Acquisition Spree, Turns Attention to NextVR - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:50] <exec> 08└─I don't think the stimulus package affects megacorps like Apple that much. The megacorps get a much more generous package directly from the fed [wallstreetonparade.com], without any interference from congress. That well is now officially bottomless. This might be their last/best chance to acquire Di...
[20:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:38] <exec> 08└─Well, software code is like an opinion, which is like ...
[20:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:39] <exec> 08└─Usually, vulnerabilities are sold on the black market for profit. This is just the companies buying the vulnerabilities, giving the finder a legal/more ethical way to sell their wares. Part of that business transaction is the finder not selling/giving the vulnerability to anyone else. If you want th...
[20:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes GTX 1650 GPU With GDDR6 Memory - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:09] <exec> 08└─idk, but it starts with "amd". fuck you nvidia!
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[21:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:54] <exec> 08└─We should not ever let the industry write the nation's laws.
[21:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:56] <exec> 08└─Can't say I get too worked about about prosecution. A lot of people who frequent this site seem to believe watching movies without paying for them is a human right. I say it just shows how utterly controlled their minds are by Hollywood that they go through all the bother and illegality to get their...
[21:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:58] <exec> 08└─Everyone's having trouble making money to pay for their residence right now, but the only rent-seekers are people like this.
[21:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03P [1066] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:00] <exec> 08└─So what I get from this is they want to punish anyone in possession of their material as a felony. Assuming the cost of a physical copy of a movie sitting in a store is around $12, if a person took a copy from a store, it would be nothing more than a misdemeanor. Depending on the state, felony theft...
[21:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:02] <exec> 08└─Did you know 90% of over-the-air television viewers are stealing their programs? They never buy the products advertised and even leave the room during commercials! Its theft!
[21:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:04] <exec> 08└─It's my right to freely watch movies 150 years before they enter the public domain.
[21:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 1398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:06] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right, let's talk about throwing even more people in prison, during a pandemic. But when the squeeze is on, and things are tight, as happens in a worldwide emergency, there's less room for stupidity. Hey, Hollywood, it's over. Copying belongs to the masses. Even sneakernet can commit millions...
[21:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meg Whitman-Run Streaming Service "Quibi" Launches, Reception Mixed - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:17] <exec> 08└─Quibi sounds like a failure all on its own. Throw Meg Whitman in there? Epic failure.
[21:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Older Entrepreneurs as Successful as their Younger Counterparts, Study Reveals - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:26] <exec> 08└─Prefer younger founders as they are easier to bully and scam.
[21:41:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 384 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:46] <exec> 08└─There is conclusive evidence that NDMA is a potent carcinogen in experimental animals by several routes of exposure, including through ingestion of drinking-water. NDMA has been classified by IARC as probably carcinogenic to humans. [who.int] NDMA is a drinking water contaminant of concern because o...
[21:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:55] <exec> 08└─Not the AC, but this article [cnn.com] (first result in my ddg search) claims it's nearer 20% for the USA.
[21:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:57] <exec> 08└─You *might* have noticed that many of us are under house arrest at this moment, because there is a virus that *might* be hazardous to boomers.
[21:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:57] <exec> 08└─... you dance to the devil's tune.
[21:43:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fadrian [3194] 02 - 06FCC: Tracfone Made Up “Fictitious” Customers to Defraud Low-Income Program - 416 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:04] <exec> 08└─This is what always happens with these partnerships - the taxpayer gets screwed by the private partner making it more difficult to get good programs enacted. Of course, those of a Libertarian bent don't help, insisting that the private part of these partnerships must always be more efficient than th...
[21:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos’ Space Company is Pressuring Employees to Launch a Tourist Rocket During the Pandemic - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:23] <exec> 08└─On Mars everybody will be living in a shithole together.
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[22:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:56] <exec> 08└─We should not ever let the industry write the nation's laws.
[22:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Comptine [5707] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:57] <exec> 08└─The Internet is for the free shearing of information. If information is on the Internet, it can be shared freely among other people over the Internet. If you want to charge people money to share information over the internet and others are willing to pay that is acceptable. But the Internet is what...
[22:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:59] <exec> 08└─Parasite: 'murica's bestest medical system. There is no good guys, none at all - the doctors, the hospitals/administrators, the insurers, the government, the pharma, voters/patients, all selfish assholes. Well, maybe except for the nurses. Nurses, even the male ones, had been good in my book.
[22:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 1912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:01] <exec> 08└─There's a huge problem right now in the financing of video production, that's for sure. But it's not piracy. The problem is actually that copyright is too strong. Content is locked up in huge bundles too vast for anyone to appropriately manage, owned by megacorporations worried about giving a leg up...
[22:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:03] <exec> 08└─.. it just shows how utterly controlled their minds are by Hollywood ..
[22:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meg Whitman-Run Streaming Service "Quibi" Launches, Reception Mixed - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:14] <exec> 08└─Phones are terminals. They can get data from at least 2 different networks, and it's (perhaps one of) those networks that the service is "based" on. Phone-targetted would be a better word, but that just shows that they're lazy or evil and don't want to support other perhaps more open platforms.
[22:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meg Whitman-Run Streaming Service "Quibi" Launches, Reception Mixed - 1933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:16] <exec> 08└─They're going to fail most likely. Youtube works for one reason, and that's Google bought it. That allowed them growth, and then the advertising allowed an actual profit (I think). In any case, it's far more about data mining and advertising than it is about the content. Nonetheless, content flocks...
[22:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:54] <exec> 08└─There's an entire supply chain involved with these products from manufacturing the reagents to actually handing over the pill vial to the patient. If anything is done improperly along the way there's the possibility of issues like this. Overseas production facilities don't get watched the same way t...
[22:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 2059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:55] <exec> 08└─CNN is not a reliable source. They are in the business of stoking panic for political goals. There's also the disconnects in data between total infections, noticeably ill patients, the proportion of those that get tested and whom the hospital decides to treat. I consider the CDC authoritative, here...
[22:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:58] <exec> 08└─Seven of them are from this "upstart" guy. They must really hate him too.
[22:43:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 289 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:26] <exec> 08└─Judges are smart and try to aim for serving justice. Maybe some are smart. And, maybe some do aim for justice. Then, we have things like the patent court in Marshall, Tx. https://www.bloomberg.com [bloomberg.com]
[22:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06‘Scared to Death’ by Arbitration: Companies Drowning in Their Own System - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:36] <exec> 08└─As opposed to the current system where partisan hacks create the list in secret and there's essentially no oversight? At least with a nonpartisan group, there's some safety mechanism built in to keep things from completely leaving the rails.
[22:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:21] <exec> 08└─I've started to re-think booze since the lockdown. I enjoyed it for the "fuck you" it says to everyone else - a self-indulgence basically. But after 2 weeks of it my body is trashed and I feel like shit. How pathetic is that? I'm limping around with self-inflicted wounds wanting sympathy for being a...
[22:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:22] <exec> 08└─I'm a fan of bringing back slavery and paying CEOs with permanent "servants" comprised solely of people who celebrate CEOs and unironically say they deserve their obscene pay. Y'know, neolibs, repubs, and liberts. Sorry hallow, you'll probably end up as the family tech support bitch.
[22:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:25] <exec> 08└─If I got to choose where to have meetings it would probably be on the golf course, and I don't even play golf. Just get me out of the chair doing something than all the he-said she-said bullshit.
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[23:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06500-Year-Old Manuscript Contains Earliest Known Use of the "F-Word" - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:44] <exec> 08└─Hard to imagine it's not related to the Dutch word 'fokken' which means to breed, as in breeding chickens. Present tense is 'fok'. But meanings drift. The direct translation of 'to fuck' is 'neuken'.
[23:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06500-Year-Old Manuscript Contains Earliest Known Use of the "F-Word" - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:45] <exec> 08└─for those who don't know.
[23:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06500-Year-Old Manuscript Contains Earliest Known Use of the "F-Word" - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:47] <exec> 08└─That doesn't sound right
[23:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06500-Year-Old Manuscript Contains Earliest Known Use of the "F-Word" - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:50] <exec> 08└─It's interesting that the word was applied to a human rival rather than sheep, given the origin.
[23:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:10] <exec> 08└─And just who do you think runs that industry? Perhaps overrepresentation of a people known for their avarice?
[23:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:12] <exec> 08└─I doubt any new law related to this will be passed or go into effect during the next year or two. But it is likely coming somewhere down the line. I was encouraged that they let Julia Reda address Congress. She was a German Pirate Party MEP.
[23:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:14] <exec> 08└─The first rule of Usenet is: "You don't talk about Usenet".
[23:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:16] <exec> 08└─The criminalization is almost certainly for people transmitting the content to others, not the people watching. Possession shouldn't have anything to do with it, because you could take a legally owned Blu-ray disc, play it on your computer, and stream what you see on your screen to thousands of othe...
[23:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:19] <exec> 08└─Huh. Is there some sorta underground nntp/uucp network?
[23:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Meg Whitman-Run Streaming Service "Quibi" Launches, Reception Mixed - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:31] <exec> 08└─Quibi is only one player in the Streaming Wars. Billions of dollars are being thrown around to create services that will almost certainly die a horrible death (including mergers at a fraction of previous valuations). Netflix will be around in 10 years, but Tubi? Vudu? Some other players: Apple TV+,...
[23:41:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 482 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:57] <exec> 08└─>Pulling a product people use and need because it *might* contain trace amounts of a subtance that *might* cause cancer? There's a whole lot of options for treating heartburn, Zantac isn't some sort of magical cure that people *need*. And the fact that the impurities form after shipping means patien...
[23:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:12] <exec> 08└─I worked grocery stock for a while, I can tell you: in Florida, in the Summer, that stock roasted in the truck, roasted on the dock, and roasted in the unairconditioned stock room before it got put on the shelf. Warehouse may not hold stock for long, but the simple transit from warehouse to store is...
[23:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:17] <exec> 08└─You can have contracts that do that. However, you have to meet very specific requirements to do so. The only situations where people normally run into those types of contracts are third-party beneficiary contracts (e.g. insurance contracts) and negotiable instruments (e.g. drafts).
[23:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:42] <exec> 08└─When alcohol is unavailable, alcoholics turn to other drinks that are far, far more dangerous. That's what makes alcohol essential.
[23:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:44] <exec> 08└─psycophants Was that a pun or a spelling error? I can't figure it out.
[23:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 3747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:46] <exec> 08└─For better or worse, our organizational world is built on pyramids. If an organization has roughly a 7:1 ratio at each layer, a 7 layer organization has about 137,000 employees in total. If such an organization has a base pay structure that increases by ~41.4% at each level, the ratio of base pay fr...
[23:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:48] <exec> 08└─At my university it's the exact same thing. Fwd: fwd: fwd: through 6 layers of management, sorry it's called Leadership, to get the same message that the Governor just said on TV the day before. All these people get paid healthy Healthy HEALTHY motherfucking salaries. It's become the failing up dest...
[23:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:50] <exec> 08└─LOL, I didn't see what I did there until you pointed it out. I'm not going to try to figure it out.
[23:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes GTX 1650 GPU With GDDR6 Memory - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:58] <exec> 08└─Check this out: Single Board Computer + GTX 1650 Can it Game? ODYSSEY / ReComputer SBC [youtube.com] lol
[23:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes GTX 1650 GPU With GDDR6 Memory - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:59] <exec> 08└─That's pretty cool.
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