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[00:40:43] <exec> 08└─If I wanted random UI changes, I would use Firefox.
[00:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Tests Hiding Chrome Extension Icons by Default, Developers Definitely Not Amused by Change - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:45] <exec> 08└─Do no ... cha ching.
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[00:40:47] <exec> 08└─Crazy times we live in. Doublethink is happening.
[00:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06500-Year-Old Manuscript Contains Earliest Known Use of the "F-Word" - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:57] <exec> 08└─With the virus raging, toilet paper hoarding, pizza rolls diminishing, it all makes an AC think: Why not a quality aristachu submission?
[00:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06500-Year-Old Manuscript Contains Earliest Known Use of the "F-Word" - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:59] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, 'fac' is the imperative form of the Latin verb do/make, from which the Romans gave us the expression: 'fac id'.
[00:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06500-Year-Old Manuscript Contains Earliest Known Use of the "F-Word" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:01] <exec> 08└─Good one, maybe he can be coherent enough to write something relevant with that much free time.
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[00:41:03] <exec> 08└─One wonders why swyve fell out of use.
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[00:41:05] <exec> 08└─From Coronavirus to Uranus did Aristarchus like a blunderbuss, cuss and fuss from his malodorous dust in the hellacious locus of Cyprus. His abacus fucked his calculus as Selene lamented to Alcaeus of Mytilene formenting supreme saphenous, microstomus spleen. His whine a peep-hole to the shine in th...
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[00:41:08] <exec> 08└─We aren't ready to blow our brains out yet.
[00:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:32] <exec> 08└─I'd be willing to accept this proposed law. But in exchange, I want a thorough tax audit of every Hollywood movie made over the past 50 years. Any "Hollywood bookkeeping" found, and the producers rot in jail the rest of their lives.
[00:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:33] <exec> 08└─...The main question I have is, why does this bozo Yunger get the privilege of addressing Congress?...
[00:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:36] <exec> 08└─The Internet is for the free shearing of information...
[00:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Older Entrepreneurs as Successful as their Younger Counterparts, Study Reveals - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:57] <exec> 08└─"I've even encountered entrepreneurial types that when faced with statements by knowledgeable people that amount to "what you're selling cannot exist without decades of science we don't have", respond with "Fantastic! That's a perfect business opportunity!" Sounds like a certain real estate salesman...
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[00:42:30] <exec> 08└─Agree with you, but regarding the shipping, drug companies often use use disposable sensors on every case/pallet that monitor conditions which are then checked and logged before receiving into active inventory stateside. Whether US warehouse workers doing mandatory overtime and making low wages do t...
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[00:42:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, that is very very mild. The real stuff is much worse, and prevents eating or even drinking liquids entirely, and causes you to actually puke and shit fire all day and night long. And antacids don't work.
[00:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:37] <exec> 08└─Only 2, now, versus 10 aristarchus subs. They hate upstart less, it seems.
[00:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:07] <exec> 08└─And I'm a fan of people getting a taste of their own idiotic suggestions. All I can add is that if the best you can do is fantasize about bad things happening to people who merely disagree with you. then your argument is worthless.
[00:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:09] <exec> 08└─Money is a stupid proxy for power for several reasons:
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[01:41:12] <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...
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[01:41:30] <exec> 08└─How about this? Any entity by their own actions or their agent's that issues an illegitimate DCMA takedown request loses owership of any and all copyrights retained up to that point in time. Everything goes into the public domain. If copyright is so fucking important that it can be a felony, they ca...
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[01:41:32] <exec> 08└─Shush! See GP's comment.
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[01:42:29] <exec> 08└─>why do so many companies want us USasians to buy their products but don't want us to make those products? For the exact same reason that we want to buy those products, but most will consistently buy the ones that are 20% cheaper because they're made in a country with far worse worker and/or environ...
[01:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beware the Wrath of Abibarshim! - 2043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:39] <exec> 08└─I'll add a few things: 1. BBSes of all sizes had discussion boards which were lively, too, and full of well-done and time-intensive craft like this. Prior to BBSes, cafe philosophers, salons, etc. existed for exchange of prepared work like this. 2. "Older" crafts like leatherwork, woodwork, needlewo...
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[02:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Refuses to Give DSL Users its Low-Income Deals During Pandemic - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:44] <exec> 08└─So, they make an offer that few if any can actually benefit from. But, once the crisis is past, they'll certainly capitalize on the offer.
[02:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Tests Hiding Chrome Extension Icons by Default, Developers Definitely Not Amused by Change - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:54] <exec> 08└─If I wanted random UI changes, I would use Firefox.
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[02:41:24] <exec> 08└─We should not ever let the industry write the nation's laws.
[02:41:40] <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
[02:41:40] <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!
[02:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:42] <exec> 08└─if the movie is hyped as the best movie of my lifetime, but really it sucks COMPLETELY, can I sue them and charge them with a felony?
[02:42:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormreaver [5101] 02 - 06FDA Requests Removal of All Ranitidine Products (Zantac) from the Market - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:25] <exec> 08└─There's a whole lot of options for treating heartburn....
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[02:42:40] <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.
[02:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:46] <exec> 08└─I've got to wonder though - what keeps an unethical bug finder from claiming the bounty *and* selling it on the black market? It's not like a the black market customer is going to advertise their purchase, and a little delay and use of a decent anonymizing system would make it very difficult for any...
[02:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:19] <exec> 08└─That's generally how it works in the business world.
[02:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:20] <exec> 08└─Congratulations, you figured out in 2 weeks what it took Joe Walsh 20 years to realize: even though you _can_ drink all the time, that doesn't mean that you actually _want_ to drink all the time.
[02:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beware the Wrath of Abibarshim! - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:54] <exec> 08└─It's someone venting, clearly, and supplicating future coworkers (and the world) to act in a way they believe is less dysfunctional. Also some intent to entertain. or something.
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[03:41:41] <exec> 08└─There were movies about pandemics, but we still weren’t ready for the real thing. We need to spend MORE money on pandemic movies so we can be ready for the next one!
[03:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:42] <exec> 08└─*Everyone* working in a hospital now is like gold. Also grocery store clerks, truck drivers, farmers and such. All of them are the reason we are still a functioning society - and they need some real hazard pay. When I go to the grocery store, I am thinking about giving them some laundered money - a...
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[04:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Disagreements Help Team Perception, Study Finds - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:45] <exec> 08└─"In other words, when the team disagreed, they had to justify an answer by recounting the details of what they had seen," Baker said.
[04:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Refuses to Give DSL Users its Low-Income Deals During Pandemic - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:53] <exec> 08└─from tfa, "...where Verizon never upgraded homes from copper to fiber." Wouldn't this be more correct to say, ...where Verizon hasn't yet upgraded homes from copper to fiber. Verizon is putting fiber in my neighborhood now. Looking forward to having some competition with Spectrum in the months ahead...
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[04:41:20] <exec> 08└─It is my understanding that F.U.C.K. was an Olde English acronym. It stands for 'Fornication Under Consent of the King', and means you have the King's permission to live together. Don't they teach you kids anything these days? ~childo
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[04:41:21] <exec> 08└─The Scots may have found some old paper where this usage was invented, but I've got a real flying fuck -- whimsical erotic sculpture done by a family friend who was an accomplished artist. It's hand molded wax over a wire armature, all ready to be investment cast in bronze. Unfortunately my SO won't...
[04:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:56] <exec> 08└─That was in fact argued when TiVo was big. It didn't go anywhere because Netflix and Prime stole TiVo's lunch and entire relevance shortly afterward.
[04:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meg Whitman-Run Streaming Service "Quibi" Launches, Reception Mixed - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:10] <exec> 08└─Well for my money no competing service has been able to beat Bittorrent.
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[05:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Disagreements Help Team Perception, Study Finds - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:44] <exec> 08└─Unless of course, those objections where aristarchus submisisons, which would be immediately deep -sixed up the ying-yang of the ballyhoo of the old janrinock, tip, tip, hooray! Oh the mendacity weighs upon us all.
[05:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disagreements Help Team Perception, Study Finds - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:45] <exec> 08└─Teams that disagree are... not led by arrogant narcissistic thin-skinned vindictive sons-of-bitches. Ever see what happens when someone disagrees with a dictator? No, because North Korea is perfect and everyone agrees and lives in perfect harmony.
[05:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Refuses to Give DSL Users its Low-Income Deals During Pandemic - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:55] <exec> 08└─That might be great for your neighborhood, but obviously they've left a lot of people in the dark ages of the internet. It's pretty typical and not just Verizon that does this. The ISP groups all push for the most money they can get. Rich and dense neighborhoods get upgrade after upgrade. Poor ones...
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[05:41:23] <exec> 08└─despite the long-standing efforts of religious leaders to condemn it as a sin.
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[05:41:25] <exec> 08└─People didn't speak in acronyms in Olde English
[05:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:00] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's my imagination, but it seems like the production of new movies has fallen off a cliff. There aren't that many anymore. TV, too, seems to have suffered in the Age of Netflix. So when content that's not produced by Netflix withers, and the content being produced by Netflix is available at v...
[05:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:42:02] <exec> 08└─"The criminalization is almost certainly for people transmitting the content to others, not the people watching." Uh huh. Sure. Two words: Prenda Law. Make it a felony, and there will be shysters who will try to use it to threaten some old lady whose grandson streamed an illegal movie if they don't...
[05:45:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:39] <exec> 08└─I accept your premise that CEOs are, generally, only kept around as long as they're productive, but giving them hundreds of millions, sometimes billions, in compensation while they are there lets them leave with unwarranted investor power in the marketplace - and, almost following the Peter principl...
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[05:46:28] <exec> 08└─I'll give you an example of a COBOL issue a friend of mine ran into at a place he consulted with had. They had an online banking system that did something through CGI. The problem is that the upper management decided to push online banking so that way they could charge money to the people who didn't...
[05:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jman [6085] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Nvidia Refreshes GTX 1650 GPU With GDDR6 Memory - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:50] <exec> 08└─Other end of the spectrum, but now if they would only release metal drivers for the Titxan XP I could upgrade my Hackintosh past High Sierra...
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[06:40:53] <exec> 08└─Or, we end up all having sex with a horse, that Runaway has all tied up for us? I am failing to see the downside. But I am from Arkansas.
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[06:41:13] <exec> 08└─Indeed, if I wanted more of a UI than a textbox, I would use something other than Chrome!
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[06:41:34] <exec> 08└─That's been debunked countless times.
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[06:41:52] <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...
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[06:42:48] <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.
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[07:41:01] <exec> 08└─That is what we call a "Chinese Fire Drill." When you have a bunch of guilty people in a car that just got pulled over, then everybody switches places and then bolts out the opposite doors and runs around like a three-squeek mouse down a Chink's esophagus. Chinks. Slants. Zipperheads.
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[07:41:03] <exec> 08└─AGreed. I call it an "acid test" - when made to justify oneself, you are forced to put reasoning down in a formalised way rather than what just sounds good in your head. This gives clarity and provokes insight. (Also, why on earth would people mod you down for your post confounds me)
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[08:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing to Launch Starliner Spacecraft for Second Go at Reaching the ISS after First Mission Failed - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:52] <exec> 08└─So what excuse are they going to use to delay SpaceX's first manned flight? It wouldn't do to embarrass Boeing by letting them be late to the party.
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[08:41:18] <exec> 08└─That has to be the fault of the government offering the money. It can't be that hard to specify "connect X% of the households in this area to fiber/cable/DSL of at least this specification before you get the money." Or better yet, leave it open for that much vaunted competition, "The first company t...
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[09:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Tests Hiding Chrome Extension Icons by Default, Developers Definitely Not Amused by Change - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:41:37] <exec> 08└─The next step is to remove that button from the UI. After all, few users clicked on it according to the telemetry so it isn't needed. Assholes. It's time to fork Chrome.
[09:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:36] <exec> 08└─I've been on Netflix for a few years. It's easy. Go to the local store, buy a Netflix card, logon, put the card info it, and use the credit to extend. Nice. It works. Netflix has been great. Lots of TV shows. I've binged lots of things I never thought I'd watch. Gotten into shows from other countrie...
[09:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:42:37] <exec> 08└─Parking ticket? Jail! Jaywalking? Bend over son, your best new friend is named Bubba... JAIL! Tax return oversight? JAAAAAAIIILL! Parked in the wrong place? Yes. Jail for you. Played music in your car without a licence? MAXIMUM PENALTY! WITH PUNITIVE DAMAGES!!! Smoking outside a government building?...
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[10:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Senators Raise Privacy Questions About Google's COVID-19 Tracker - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:51] <exec> 08└─RUN! Where? It's a little too late. They will know exactly where you run to, where you usually would run to, and when you are likely to get there. Tinfoil time?
[10:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Raise Privacy Questions About Google's COVID-19 Tracker - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:53] <exec> 08└─... tracker isn't infringing on millions of people's privacy
[10:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators Raise Privacy Questions About Google's COVID-19 Tracker - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:55] <exec> 08└─What don't they already know about those millions of people and many more? Sheeple surrendered it all for having 'smart' added in front of 'phone', and failing to hold tech accountable. The govt(s) won't do it, their job is greasing pockets and keeping the machine going. People? ..bah humbug!
[10:41:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02 - 06Verizon Refuses to Give DSL Users its Low-Income Deals During Pandemic - 342 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:30] <exec> 08└─That has to be the fault of the government offering the money. It can't be that hard to specify "connect X% of the households in this area to fiber/cable/DSL of at least this specification before you get the money." Or better yet, leave it open for that much vaunted competition, "The first company t...
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[10:42:04] <exec> 08└─for those who don't know.
[10:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06500-Year-Old Manuscript Contains Earliest Known Use of the "F-Word" - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:06] <exec> 08└─My religion teacher in high school used to say it stands for "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge." My bullshit detector was pretty strong even back then and went off every time.
[10:42:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 83 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:18] <exec> 08└─It's my right to freely watch movies 150 years before they enter the public domain.
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[11:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Senators Raise Privacy Questions About Google's COVID-19 Tracker - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, run, but leave your phone at home. Yes, run, but leave your fitness tracker at home. Yes, run, but leave your other smart gadgets at home. There, how difficult was that? The answer may be interpreted as a sarcastic view, but the most obvious and simple thing to do is often the hardest to do. If...
[11:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Raise Privacy Questions About Google's COVID-19 Tracker - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:03] <exec> 08└─Didn't you get the memo? We are all supposed to give up our rights and freedoms to battle today's evil virus, because you can't be too safe, think of the children, pollywannacacker. In a few more days, the TV news will be out there publicly shaming anyone who does not have this tracker.
[11:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tests Hiding Chrome Extension Icons by Default, Developers Definitely Not Amused by Change - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:50] <exec> 08└─... there used to be a browser called Firefox, that had a thing called "status bar" at the bottom, where extensions would place their icons by default, rather than taking valuable space from the URL bar, awesome bar, omnibox, or whatever it's called these days. One of the reasons I'm sticking with W...
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[11:42:14] <exec> 08└─According to TFA, it is actually "fukk".
[11:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:58] <exec> 08└─Self-identification. By selling the same exploit (a piece of code) twice, one can deduce it's the same entity doing monkey business and then its probably against the bounty agreement T&C and they rob you via court or at least force you to waste time and money "defending" one self. It can probably be...
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[12:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:37] <exec> 08└─CEOs matter, just ask Nokia about M$Elop. But a research on the DMs' influence in dungeons and dragons is equivalent to this one. Big capital is all fake, comes from the printing presses or the investment fund money scammed out of people. Upper management and lawyerage is grown in academia to mediat...
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[13:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Deep-Sea Worms and Bacteria Team up to Harvest Methane - 2057 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:51] <exec> 08└─I know NASA has experimented with hydrogen-eating bacteria for fast food production in space, and there's even some startup that's running with the technology to produce protein and carbohydrate "flours", as well as an alternative to palm oil. All great to see - if we can efficiently produce such st...
[13:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Tests Hiding Chrome Extension Icons by Default, Developers Definitely Not Amused by Change - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:49] <exec> 08└─You mean use Edge? Actually, there is Opera, and several other Chromium-based browsers already.
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[13:41:50] <exec> 08└─Not the first time. Mozilla loves doublespeaking, and so much comes from their actions & behavior. Much of it is in the name of 'improving or enhancing the user experience', but rarely if ever do those change improve anything: -We support diversity (but only diversity we like) -Enabling by default P...
[13:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:55] <exec> 08└─The real fun one is how, in the course of the last month, undocumented farm workers went from, a blight that must be kept out/deported to card carrying "essential workers."
[13:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:42] <exec> 08└─A major auto company is "worth" $2.6B to the world why? I'll grant that Musk is an outlier among CEOs, and it's great that he's coming close to doing some great things, it has been too long since that sort of thing has happened in the world. Meanwhile, the rest of the Fortune 1200 averages $10M per...
[13:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 1632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:44] <exec> 08└─Put more simply: the monkeys are organized and all food flows through the kitchen. The hundred monkeys with control of the kitchen have decided to keep all the grapes for themselves, they only pass out cucumbers to the million monkeys outside. It's what was wrong with the USSR - we're not at those l...
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[14:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Raise Privacy Questions About Google's COVID-19 Tracker - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:13] <exec> 08└─Government already have access to this information. This is just the public justification to start using it out in the open and with far less restrictions. This appears to be what the citizens want though. Let's see what our representatives do with any new legislation.
[14:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Raise Privacy Questions About Google's COVID-19 Tracker - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:14] <exec> 08└─So, they'll be shaming all those (old) people for not having those tracker gadgets? Those (old) people, who do not know how to use a computer? Those (old) people who decided against the use of such technology because they do not need it? So, instead of shaming them, maybe you ought to say directly a...
[14:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators Raise Privacy Questions About Google's COVID-19 Tracker - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:16] <exec> 08└─Can you get a prepaid burner phone without identifying yourself in the United States?
[14:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing to Launch Starliner Spacecraft for Second Go at Reaching the ISS after First Mission Failed - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:26] <exec> 08└─There's an obvious excuse... coronavirus. But time's up for Boeing. There was serious consideration for letting Boeing do a crewed flight next, now they are stuck doing another uncrewed flight.
[14:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing to Launch Starliner Spacecraft for Second Go at Reaching the ISS after First Mission Failed - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:28] <exec> 08└─After al the incompetence that Boeing has shown recently, what kind of idiot would want to risk his life in a crewed flight test for Boeing?
[14:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Spacecraft That Utterly Transformed SpaceX Has Flown its Last Mission - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:36] <exec> 08└─The rocket was sent up into orbit. It never reached a space station which never existed, but an animated video was shown to the public showing a cartoon object connecting with another cartoon object. They all clapped because they made a hell lot of money showing cartoons. In the meantime, the people...
[14:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disagreements Help Team Perception, Study Finds - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:49] <exec> 08└─I think I take your meaning - that difficult theories will be rejected whether they are true or not. However, I think the point of this story is that just the act of disagreeing promotes discussion and at least a minimal defense of the first "guess", which statistically improves target identificatio...
[14:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disagreements Help Team Perception, Study Finds - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:50] <exec> 08└─More generally this is what happens when people are promoted for compliance or ideology rather than merit. Merit will always skew towards the disagreeable because it's this very quality that propels them. Promote for "diversity" and agreeableness and you promote weak, easily manipulated people; the...
[14:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:22] <exec> 08└─BitTorrent users are potentially committing a crime, while "stream watchers" are probably not. There was also an easy way for Prenda Law to obtain lots of IP addresses from the swarm, but it would be difficult to replicate that with streaming unless the copyright troll ran their own streaming site,...
[14:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:23] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Television_(2000s%E2%80%93present) [wikipedia.org] "Experts" would not agree with you, although if you want to double down and use the "ALL TV AND MOVIES ARE SHIT" argument, nobody here will stop you. There's also a huge fragmentation happening as the Stre...
[14:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:31] <exec> 08└─What if I buy a bug on the black market and then submit it to the bug bounty program? Is that typically a money-losing proposition? I'm assuming retail bugs have a low enough price that it can be sold more than once.
[14:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bug Bounty Programs Are Being Used To Buy Silence - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:32] <exec> 08└─Again, this doesn't prove that the first person to disclose to the company and receive the bounty is the same person passing it on. It's entirely possible for independent parties to discover the same vulnerability. All the discloser has to do is make sure his write-up on the bug-sharing system isn't...
[14:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:12] <exec> 08└─But there also aren't that many good CEOs.
[14:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:13] <exec> 08└─I mean the ones you never hear about because they're quietly doing their job and making a tidy profit over a sustainable timeline for whatever company they work for. Making outrageous profits over a quarter or four and then crashing is not a job well done.
[14:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:15] <exec> 08└─Fuck no I couldn't. Not for more than a few years anyway. I am not mentally suited to being in meetings when there are fish that need caught.
[14:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:17] <exec> 08└─The mean doesn't have anything to do with their value, that's envy speak. Their value is judged by the difference they make in filling the position.
[14:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it was a pretty pointless study because the folks behind it didn't understand what they were even studying.
[14:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:22] <exec> 08└─Yup, the ones you really want to hire are the ones who've no interest in a microphone and can see where the market is going and what to do about it with halfway decent accuracy. Rockstars can make you a lot quickly but they can lose you everything as well.
[14:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:24] <exec> 08└─I thought it highlighted the complete lack of understanding by most of the people spouting off about CEOs.
[14:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:27] <exec> 08└─No, I mean employing lots of people vs. employing none.
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[15:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:56] <exec> 08└─PsiQuantum’s photon-based model is still years away, but the company says it’ll be more powerful than Google’s or IBM’s.
[15:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep-Sea Worms and Bacteria Team up to Harvest Methane - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:05] <exec> 08└─Cool pics make this a nice bed time story to share with the kids.
[15:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Spacecraft That Utterly Transformed SpaceX Has Flown its Last Mission - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:37] <exec> 08└─You'd have an interesting point, if you couldn't actually see the ISS with nothing more than a telescope.
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[15:41:53] <exec> 08└─The problem with your link is that someone has cleverly added "(leftists are IDIOTS)" at the top. The video itself is interesting - but this guy is like douchbags in upper management everywhere. Name drop, credential drop, clever arguments involving large-scale conspircaies, blamey tone of voice - b...
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[15:41:55] <exec> 08└─Before you swoon and pass out, don't forget to take your Brain Force Plus supplements (only $29.95 [infowarsstore.com]). You know who the real geniuses are - the ones who can make a href work on this site, that's how you spot them.
[15:42:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Booga1 [6333] 02 - 06Verizon Refuses to Give DSL Users its Low-Income Deals During Pandemic - 569 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:04] <exec> 08└─That might be great for your neighborhood, but obviously they've left a lot of people in the dark ages of the internet. It's pretty typical and not just Verizon that does this. The ISP groups all push for the most money they can get. Rich and dense neighborhoods get upgrade after upgrade. Poor ones...
[15:42:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Refuses to Give DSL Users its Low-Income Deals During Pandemic - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:07] <exec> 08└─Now, now, you're proposing sensible solutions to problems. Gubbermint doesn't want any of that kind of nonsense. How they gonna keep their pork barrels greased, if they start acting sensibly?
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[15:42:48] <exec> 08└─Interesting. "neuken" sounds similar to German "necken" (to tease). There are so many similarities between European languages... Just checking wiktionary, in German, before standardized language / orthography, "ficken", "facken", or "fucken" used to mean reaming, grinding, moving something forward a...
[15:42:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:56] <exec> 08└─We should not ever let the industry write the nation's laws.
[15:43:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 71 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:07] <exec> 08└─.. it just shows how utterly controlled their minds are by Hollywood ..
[15:43:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:13] <exec> 08└─Rich people run that industry, so yes, people known for their avarice.
[15:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:32] <exec> 08└─A couple of other thoughts. Your kids' activity has probably changed given the coronavirus. No interacting with other kids outside of a phone or screen, I assume. So their use of streaming and YouTube could be peaking right now, for better or worse. Production costs for a given "CGI quality" could p...
[15:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:33] <exec> 08└─Then that ship needs to be sent to the bottom with several torpedoes.
[15:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:36] <exec> 08└─If your DMCA notice: * is for a work you don't own * fails to consider fair use * is sent to the wrong party * is not signed by a truly authorized agent * does not clearly explain the infringement (eg, someone's nature recordings) Then it should be a felony. Statutory $150,000.00 fine per instance....
[15:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Goes on an Acquisition Spree, Turns Attention to NextVR - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:49] <exec> 08└─https://www.inc.com/bill-murphy-jr/apple-tried-to-buy-tesla-it-all-fell-apart-for-a-truly-stunning-reason-according-to-a-new-report.html [inc.com]
[15:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Research Finds How Much CEOs Matter to Firm Performance - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:35] <exec> 08└─Their value is judged by the difference they make in filling the position.
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[16:41:11] <exec> 08└─** NEVER TAKE THE MARK, AT ALL COSTS! ** -- this article is here for historical reasons, never take the mark! -- https://eu.usatoday.com [usatoday.com] You will get chipped — eventually Jefferson Graham USA TODAY LOS ANGELES — You will...
[16:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:12] <exec> 08└─I would want to say that no one knowingly invests in vaporware but, bitcoin exists and makes money so, that would prove me wrong by default.
[16:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing to Launch Starliner Spacecraft for Second Go at Reaching the ISS after First Mission Failed - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:45] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USCV-2 [wikipedia.org] Sunita Williams Josh A. Cassada Thomas Pesquet Andrei Borisenko Those are the names of the doomed ones. Also, I'm surprised the crew size is 4 and not 2, guess I wasn't paying close attention to this. Boeing put a dollar amount on the cost of anot...
[16:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disagreements Help Team Perception, Study Finds - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:11] <exec> 08└─The problem with your link is that someone has cleverly added "(leftists are IDIOTS)" at the top.
[16:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disagreements Help Team Perception, Study Finds - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:12] <exec> 08└─I doubt that substance is effective although it may serve as a depression offsetting placebo for someone such as yourself who is clearly lacking in the cognitive department.
[16:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Refuses to Give DSL Users its Low-Income Deals During Pandemic - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:24] <exec> 08└─They have done this sort of thing for years. To get something, they give up something like this. Then never deliver on it. NJ and NY is still owed thousands of miles of fiber.
[16:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon Refuses to Give DSL Users its Low-Income Deals During Pandemic - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:25] <exec> 08└─A fiber upgrade doesn't magically mean good service or reasonable prices. These ISPs can still screw everything up even with the fiber in the ground.
[16:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tests Hiding Chrome Extension Icons by Default, Developers Definitely Not Amused by Change - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:42] <exec> 08└─I didn't know Mozilla is also responsible for Chrome …
[16:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tests Hiding Chrome Extension Icons by Default, Developers Definitely Not Amused by Change - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:43] <exec> 08└─If you use a fork anyway, then why not one of Firefox?
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[17:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:05] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin is not vapourware. It is a fully implemented system. You may question its value, but you can't deny its existence.
[17:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:06] <exec> 08└─Welcome to Devs!
[17:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Raise Privacy Questions About Google's COVID-19 Tracker - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:29] <exec> 08└─Also (old) people who like to take their time shopping without keeping people waiting in a line outside, (old) people who like or need to pay with cash, (old) people who like to freely go to "non essential" places and can do so without causing problems because they are responsible adults, (old) peop...
[17:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Spacecraft That Utterly Transformed SpaceX Has Flown its Last Mission - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:49] <exec> 08└─Interesting point but the toupée covers it nicely.
[17:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:48] <exec> 08└─The biggest financial hit to Hollywood is from people pirating brand new movies, sometimes the day of release. Movies make the vast majority of their money during this important period. The vast majority of people who pirate don't respect ANY duration of copyright, so you are throwing out a red herr...
[17:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:50] <exec> 08└─Actors, writers, stagehands, and makeup artists don't have to make their rent either? If nobody pays for the product, how do you think ANYBODY will get paid? People who view without paying are mooches. SOMEBODY has to pay... right?
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[18:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:07] <exec> 08└─$2 per Qbit - quite the bargain in today's Quantum computing landscape...
[18:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:09] <exec> 08└─It is a fully implemented system.
[18:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:11] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of competition to create this impossible vaporware. Some company or university will eventually nail it down.
[18:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Raise Privacy Questions About Google's COVID-19 Tracker - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:35] <exec> 08└─Oh, those darn (old) people, who just are annoying. Those (old) people who we cannot tolerate. Yes, lets kill all (old) people and make room for future (old) people. Now, lets define (old) people. [lets say 35 is old; I guess that solves overpopulation too]
[18:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Spacecraft That Utterly Transformed SpaceX Has Flown its Last Mission - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:56] <exec> 08└─"flown more than 450,000kg" You idiots, if there ever was a use for imperial units, it was in this sentence.
[18:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Refuses to Give DSL Users its Low-Income Deals During Pandemic - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:29] <exec> 08└─There is a reason why all these ex-government regulators end up as board members.
[18:42:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google Tests Hiding Chrome Extension Icons by Default, Developers Definitely Not Amused by Change - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:36] <exec> 08└─If I wanted random UI changes, I would use Firefox.
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[19:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:15] <exec> 08└─I have bad news for you: The money on your bank account also is nothing but some numbers stored on the computer of your bank. And when you pay with your credit card, all that happens is transmitting some numbers between computers, that cause some other numbers on computers to be changed. Anyway, you...
[19:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:16] <exec> 08└─I've done plenty of presentations to investment bankers, I know exactly what vapourware is (stateside we call it vaporware), and I also have a fair idea of how many millions you can get for it.
[19:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:18] <exec> 08└─By the time you get to 80 qubits, you are in a place where the qubits are storing more information than the total number of atoms in the entire universe.
[19:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:21] <exec> 08└─That should arrive about the same time.
[19:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:23] <exec> 08└─If you know what vapourware is, you are very good at hiding that knowledge (and no, talking in front of investment bankers doesn't prove that you know what you are talking about). Here's a hint: If I tell you that I'll write a hello world program, then it's vapourware. After I've written that hello...
[19:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Spacecraft That Utterly Transformed SpaceX Has Flown its Last Mission - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:09] <exec> 08└─450 metric tons.
[19:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Spacecraft That Utterly Transformed SpaceX Has Flown its Last Mission - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:10] <exec> 08└─The idea is to empesize the amount for dramatic effect. 450 somehow does not achieve this.
[19:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06500-Year-Old Manuscript Contains Earliest Known Use of the "F-Word" - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:27] <exec> 08└─Maybe he was just a Van Halen fan?
[19:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:16] <exec> 08└─> he can do whatever he likes with it. Just like Mr. Candy? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[20:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Android Users Hit With 'Unkillable Malware' - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:55] <exec> 08└─I peer over my walled garden and mock your malware problems.
[20:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android Users Hit With 'Unkillable Malware' - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:57] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the majority of Android phones. Unless you buy a flagship phone from Samsung don't expect any more than one or two updates.
[20:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android Users Hit With 'Unkillable Malware' - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:59] <exec> 08└─At first glance, I must admit I read it as 'Unlikable Malware'. Looking at the world of mobile (cr)apps, you could believe the users probably think they like a lot of the malware.
[20:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:31] <exec> 08└─At that price, I'll take 50. :-)
[20:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:33] <exec> 08└─Except that you need a quantum computer to figure out when that might be.
[20:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:35] <exec> 08└─Wow is this the reincarnation of MDC? Naw....Mike never slammed out such a incoherent WOT. With that mystery link in the last sentence, I'd say this comes pretty close to qualifying as SPAM.
[20:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:37] <exec> 08└─Not only that, but how did they arrived at a definite number of the atoms in the Universe, which the last time I looked was infinite?
[20:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:39] <exec> 08└─I don't see anybody bidding $10K for the number 9 Yeah, put it on the six.
[20:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators Raise Privacy Questions About Google's COVID-19 Tracker - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:03] <exec> 08└─No apologies for the subject. This is the same motherfucker who wants to eliminate end-to-end encryption [eff.org]. Then the disingenuous asshole pretends to be outraged about Zoom not actually providing the same encryption he wants to ban [techdirt.com]. And now the cocksucker wants to fake that he...
[20:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Senators Raise Privacy Questions About Google's COVID-19 Tracker - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:04] <exec> 08└─BsAtHome satirically wrote: Oh, those darn (old) people, who just are annoying. Those (old) people who we cannot tolerate. Yes, lets kill all (old) people and make room for future (old) people. Now, lets define (old) people. [lets say 35 is old; I guess that solves overpopulation too]
[20:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tests Hiding Chrome Extension Icons by Default, Developers Definitely Not Amused by Change - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:16] <exec> 08└─So, in order to make it more obvious to users what extensions may have access to the data on a page, they're going to hide the very existence of the extension behind a layer of indirection. SUUUUUUuuuure. I propose instead that they add a new extension button to chrome. When you press it, an AI driv...
[20:44:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 326 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:20] <exec> 08└─"The criminalization is almost certainly for people transmitting the content to others, not the people watching." Uh huh. Sure. Two words: Prenda Law. Make it a felony, and there will be shysters who will try to use it to threaten some old lady whose grandson streamed an illegal movie if they don't...
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[21:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Android Users Hit With 'Unkillable Malware' - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:01] <exec> 08└─avoid downloading any suspicious apps from the Google Play Store, just to be safe, and definitely don't use unauthorized third-party stores at all.
[21:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Android Users Hit With 'Unkillable Malware' - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:02] <exec> 08└─No risk then to my Android 4 phone.
[21:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 063-D Printing, Biology Research Make the Journey Back to Earth Aboard Spacex's Dragon - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:11] <exec> 08└─The article is worth a click, if only for the gif of the astronaut spinning some experiment equipment in the air. Zero gravity is crazy stuff.
[21:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Expands Groundwater Maps Globally to Help Reveal Remote Droughts - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:19] <exec> 08└─While, it's an interesting concept, I'd think that on the ground measuring would be much simpler and more reliable. Then again, "This is particularly important for countries that do not possess any of their own infrastructure for monitoring groundwater." that just shows how poor / ill equipped some...
[21:41:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:29] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin is not vapourware. It is a fully implemented system. You may question its value, but you can't deny its existence.
[21:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:44] <exec> 08└─Your skeptical negative vibes are collapsing it's wave function, you must BELIEVE to make it work! BTWm nothing would show it that you truly believe like writing a check for 250 million dollars!
[21:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:46] <exec> 08└─Huh. So are you saying ideas don’t exist? Like, I don’t know, freedom? A lot of the libertarians around here might be interested to know that doesn’t exist. Are many of the words in the U.S. Constitution “vaporware”? Just curious...
[21:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep-Sea Worms and Bacteria Team up to Harvest Methane - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:56] <exec> 08└─Which pics? I couldn't tell which ones you were referring to in the article. On a different note, kudos for providing the full journal citation with DOI on all the stories that have one.
[21:42:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Senators Raise Privacy Questions About Google's COVID-19 Tracker - 287 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:07] <exec> 08└─Didn't you get the memo? We are all supposed to give up our rights and freedoms to battle today's evil virus, because you can't be too safe, think of the children, pollywannacacker. In a few more days, the TV news will be out there publicly shaming anyone who does not have this tracker.
[21:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Senators Raise Privacy Questions About Google's COVID-19 Tracker - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:15] <exec> 08└─Eh. That's Jews for you. I'm starting to think they're pure spite rather than just being greedy.
[21:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senators Raise Privacy Questions About Google's COVID-19 Tracker - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:17] <exec> 08└─I wish someone would point out that the AT&T and the NSA already have the systems in place to do this tracking, so they should exercise it in the interest of national defense. You know, the original justification for it.
[21:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Spacecraft That Utterly Transformed SpaceX Has Flown its Last Mission - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:40] <exec> 08└─OK, how is this then: "flown more than 70,863 stone"
[21:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disagreements Help Team Perception, Study Finds - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:00] <exec> 08└─This is probably true for teams that aren’t already critically thinking with an open mind and sanity checking any conclusions. OTOH, neither argument nor verifying analysis wouldn’t happen in lazy teams where one guy does all the thinking and everyone else just blows into their decision without...
[21:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tests Hiding Chrome Extension Icons by Default, Developers Definitely Not Amused by Change - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:34] <exec> 08└─If only... Then I can create a script to simulate clicking that button every fifteen seconds. I'm sure it would become a very popular download even if I charged for it. :P
[21:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:50] <exec> 08└─Too late.
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[22:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Suggest a Special Diet Against Asthma - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:54] <exec> 08└─She always used to tell us: "Broccoli for bronchitis and asparagus for asthma"
[22:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Suggest a Special Diet Against Asthma - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:55] <exec> 08└─And chicken vindaloo and six pints of lager for piles.
[22:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Android Users Hit With 'Unkillable Malware' - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:09] <exec> 08└─I only run Windows 10... you can unplug the computer to kill it.
[22:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android Users Hit With 'Unkillable Malware' - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:10] <exec> 08└─What if these malware 'problems' were targeted only at these ancient old versions by *cough* someone *cough* who would be interested in you getting a newer phone with a newer version of Android. Naaaah. That could never happen.
[22:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android Users Hit With 'Unkillable Malware' - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:12] <exec> 08└─Windows is shutting up down.
[22:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android Users Hit With 'Unkillable Malware' - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:14] <exec> 08└─I peer over my computerless POTS desk phone and mock your malware problems - and you.
[22:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Android Users Hit With 'Unkillable Malware' - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:16] <exec> 08└─"...However, it’s simpler and more reliable to completely reflash the phone."
[22:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 063-D Printing, Biology Research Make the Journey Back to Earth Aboard Spacex's Dragon - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:26] <exec> 08└─Maybe some value in having a capability to bring cargo from the ISS back down to the Earth.
[22:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:00] <exec> 08└─PsiQuantum's big claim is that its technology will be able to string together 1 million qubits and distill out 100 to 300 error-corrected or "useful" qubits from that total.
[22:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing to Launch Starliner Spacecraft for Second Go at Reaching the ISS after First Mission Failed - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:40] <exec> 08└─Boeing are not incompetent once you accept that they're not in the rocket building business, they are in the business of turning taxpayer's money into dividends for shareholders, and they are very good at that.
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[23:40:53] <exec> 08└─Phaal and twelve pints cures everything.
[23:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Suggest a Special Diet Against Asthma - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:54] <exec> 08└─Your granny sounds like a bit of a wuzz, mine just drank and smoked and lived to be 90+
[23:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android Users Hit With 'Unkillable Malware' - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:13] <exec> 08└─They obviously don't have near as many hand tools as I do. The vast majority of them are easily capable of ensuring the malware will never run on that phone again. There are some minor side effects to this approach though.
[23:41:14] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03istartedi [123] 02 - 06Android Users Hit With 'Unkillable Malware' - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:14] <exec> 08└─Remember ROMs and little DIP switches that toggled read/write and were impossible to change unless you actually had physical access to the device? Now get off my lawn!
[23:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Android Users Hit With 'Unkillable Malware' - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:17] <exec> 08└─"They obviously don't have near as many hand tools as I do. The vast majority of them are easily capable of ensuring the malware will never run on that phone again. There are some minor side effects to this approach though." I see. So, in other words, it's necessary to kill the patient in order to s...
[23:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mojibake Tengu [8598] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android Users Hit With 'Unkillable Malware' - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:19] <exec> 08└─Do you think your plain old desktop telephone cannot be tapped?
[23:41:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Android Users Hit With 'Unkillable Malware' - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's OK. You can go back to sleep again, Gramps.
[23:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Android Users Hit With 'Unkillable Malware' - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:23] <exec> 08└─Just to add, I wouldn't call it a "feature", either.
[23:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kitsune008 [9054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android Users Hit With 'Unkillable Malware' - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:25] <exec> 08└─Save the patient?!? I see your problem. The phone is a tool. When it malfunctions, repair it, if it can't be repaired(or is not worth the effort...YMMV), then discard/destroy it. It's only a tool of convenience, you are not it's slave. BTW, they make pretty colors in my forge. :-)
[23:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:09] <exec> 08└─It is my understanding that the whole question of the infinitely expanding vs collapsing universe is one of total mass contained therein - with the infinitely expanding universe having somewhat less total mass in comparison to the energy with which it is expanding. However... this does leave the que...
[23:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:10] <exec> 08└─It's qubits all the way down, baby.
[23:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:12] <exec> 08└─Just to arc pedantic back on you: I never asserted anything one way or the other about bitcoin being vapourware or not, I simply stated that the system of integer mathematics is quite well developed, but a gold rush to stake claims in its vast territory (of which bitcoins are, ironically, just a tin...
[23:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stealth Quantum Computing Company Raises $215M to Build 1M Qbit Computer - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:14] <exec> 08└─Niiice, specsmanship in the quantum realm - as if normal specsmanship weren't indeterminate enough.
[23:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Senators Raise Privacy Questions About Google's COVID-19 Tracker - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:44] <exec> 08└─How else do you make a gmail account? Websites demand a real SMS enabled phone number to "verify identity" these days.
[23:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing to Launch Starliner Spacecraft for Second Go at Reaching the ISS after First Mission Failed - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:57] <exec> 08└─+1 Cynical Truth
[23:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon Refuses to Give DSL Users its Low-Income Deals During Pandemic - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:46] <exec> 08└─A fiber upgrade doesn't magically mean good service or reasonable prices...
[23:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Tests Hiding Chrome Extension Icons by Default, Developers Definitely Not Amused by Change - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:07] <exec> 08└─Next up, a button that you have to click to enable the extensions for the page you are on before it will show you the button you can use to show you the buttons for the extensions. Button must be clicked on each page load. After that, they'll have the button enabled per field/paragraph/image. Ya kno...
[23:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Movie Company Boss Urges U.S. Senators to Make "Streaming Piracy" a Felony - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:24] <exec> 08└─...Would you promise not to pirate content that is less than 50 years old?...
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