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[00:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Copyright Lawyer Decides to Abuse Trademarks to Shut Down Pirates - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:51] <exec> 08└─The article attributes ethics to lawyers. Lawyers are not intereted in ethics only winning and any technicality that will allow such. This particular one had gotten angry and has decided to troll.
[00:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Copyright Lawyer Decides to Abuse Trademarks to Shut Down Pirates - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:52] <exec> 08└─Seems like a perfectly consistent respect for anything that will make them money to me.
[00:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Copyright Lawyer Decides to Abuse Trademarks to Shut Down Pirates - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:54] <exec> 08└─So this trademark-infringing site will have to shut down, unless this post gets upmodded to at least +3.
[00:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Brings its File Explorer to Windows 10 WSL with New Windows Insider Update - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:06] <exec> 08└─That's not cool! If I want Windows to access my Linux files, I'll share them on the LAN Now I need to find a file system that Windows can't access
[00:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Brings its File Explorer to Windows 10 WSL with New Windows Insider Update - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:08] <exec> 08└─Why are they calling it Windows Subsystem for Linux when it is clearly a Linux Subsystem for Windows? DOSbox isn't called Windows Box for DOS. Word for Windows wasn't called Windows Application for Word(s). IE wasn't called Windows Internet for Exploration. BTW, Freudian slip? "We've had the ability...
[00:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Brings its File Explorer to Windows 10 WSL with New Windows Insider Update - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:10] <exec> 08└─Anyone else remember colinux [colinux.org] on W2k? IE6, Norton AV and AdAware - the latter which should now remove the entire advertising supported spyware that is Windows 10.
[00:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethernet Technology Consortium Unveils 800 Gbps Ethernet - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:25] <exec> 08└─That original was 80000 times slower at 10 Mbit/s.
[00:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Reveals Wild Project for Turning a Moon Crater into a Radio Telescope - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:49] <exec> 08└─It also doesn't have to stand up to wind. You could build it out of tinfoil squares stuck on the top of something like fibreglass fishing poles.
[00:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Reveals Wild Project for Turning a Moon Crater into a Radio Telescope - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:50] <exec> 08└─Thanks for explaining all of that.
[00:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06I Was Bored, So I Watched the Movie That Astronauts Must View Before Launch - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:15] <exec> 08└─Says something about your neighbors and neighborhood with loose dogs roaming around at night. Around here dogs are on leashes and the only things that might piss on my tires are a squirrel or a dive-bombing bird.
[00:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Making New 737 MAX Software Updates to Address Computer Issues - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:43] <exec> 08└─Commercial aircraft should be designed to be stable in flight. Military (fighter) aircraft get an advantage in maneuverability by being unstable. Without a working computer they can be flown safely.
[00:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Making New 737 MAX Software Updates to Address Computer Issues - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:45] <exec> 08└─Commercial aircraft should be designed to be stable in flight.
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[01:41:01] <exec> 08└─I'd argue that "winning on the basis of a technicality" would not be a violation of ethics at all. The rules and procedures are there for a reason, which all must adhere to. Ethics are essential to the process, but that should not be misconstrued into meaning only to use, or restrict to, a limited s...
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[01:41:02] <exec> 08└─yup.
[01:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Copyright Lawyer Decides to Abuse Trademarks to Shut Down Pirates - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:05] <exec> 08└─Parasites infesting society are no different from ones infesting bowels.
[01:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Copyright Lawyer Decides to Abuse Trademarks to Shut Down Pirates - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:07] <exec> 08└─I wonder if he knows that he is violating the trademarks of any number of "42 Ventures" that are on the internet?
[01:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Brings its File Explorer to Windows 10 WSL with New Windows Insider Update - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:20] <exec> 08└─Is it not dependent on WSL? Can you access an ext4 usb thumbdrive with a standard updated windows10 install? I think not but would be happy to hear opposite.
[01:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Brings its File Explorer to Windows 10 WSL with New Windows Insider Update - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:21] <exec> 08└─Why are they calling it Windows Subsystem for Linux when it is clearly a Linux Subsystem for Windows?
[01:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethernet Technology Consortium Unveils 800 Gbps Ethernet - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:38] <exec> 08└─Its great that datacenters have such a fast bus speed, but when will we move beyond the 1 Gbps at home and offices? it is 20 years old and our devices and specially our storage drives have greatly exceeded what the current speeds can offer. I have a home server with 60TB of drives (about 25TB of dat...
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[01:42:57] <exec> 08└─It is two switches located right next to each other and it is the second step of the process after turning off the automatic controls. Even worse runaway stabilizer trims should have been in their simulator training program.
[01:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Android Users Hit With 'Unkillable Malware' - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:34] <exec> 08└─I wish I could clone myself and those clones would correct all of this type of thinking and argument around the Internet. (Clone thought inspired by last few days' "Dilbert"...) You're making the all-too-common all-or-nothing sweeping generalization. BIOS flash is not always because "somebody royall...
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[02:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cross-Platform APT Espionage Attacks Targeting Linux, Windows and Android - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:48] <exec> 08└─tl;dr 1. people are lazy and security and privacy is hard and expensive (worse, if you want to get it right) 2. management don't like spending money on 'no return' items. 3. risk management is always a 'nice to have' for most companies (see point 1)
[02:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fourpartee [3885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Copyright Lawyer Decides to Abuse Trademarks to Shut Down Pirates - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:03] <exec> 08└─#1 reason testing labs need to use lawyers over rats in medical studies. There are some things a rat won't do. Are all loopholes moral? If lawyers leave the loopholes in laws, are all loopholes moral? I know, old punch line, but it felt soooo good to write it.
[02:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fourpartee [3885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Brings its File Explorer to Windows 10 WSL with New Windows Insider Update - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah sure! Gee, what pid=1 program would make a good backdoor? Hmmmmm.
[02:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethernet Technology Consortium Unveils 800 Gbps Ethernet - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:36] <exec> 08└─https://store.ui.com/collections/routing-switching/products/unifi-switch-16-xg [ui.com] practically free.
[02:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Was Bored, So I Watched the Movie That Astronauts Must View Before Launch - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:27] <exec> 08└─The movie is great. It's a rare example of Russian western or should I say eastern? It's about one Russian guy fighting a vicious gang of Muslim terrorists. Cosmonauts as well as all the people who participate in the launch have a long standing tradition to watch it before every flight. It is a masc...
[02:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Making New 737 MAX Software Updates to Address Computer Issues - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:57] <exec> 08└─The type rating would not transfer because the differences in performance appears to be just different enough between the aircraft. It is sort of like driving a Toyota Corolla LE for a living and then being switched to Toyota Camry XSE. Except they don't tell you about the fact that you need to give...
[02:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Belle II' Yields The First Results: In Search Of The Z′ Boson - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:08] <exec> 08└─Obviously can't be TOO redundant: these idiots keep SAYING it! Sheesh!
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[03:41:20] <exec> 08└─Don't be so hard on him. With all the ambulances running around these days he's confused and doesn't know which one to chase.
[03:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Copyright Lawyer Decides to Abuse Trademarks to Shut Down Pirates - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:21] <exec> 08└─I have trademarked "lawyer" so your lawyer is out of work now.
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[03:41:23] <exec> 08└─Pele needs a sacrifice, not necessarily human.
[03:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Copyright Lawyer Decides to Abuse Trademarks to Shut Down Pirates - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:26] <exec> 08└─Many years ago, I saw the possibility of using TM to prop up extreme interpretations of copyright. I only wonder what took them so long to get around to trying that angle.
[03:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Brings its File Explorer to Windows 10 WSL with New Windows Insider Update - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:42] <exec> 08└─I read it the other way round, it's the presence of systemd that gave linux that touch of pointlessness that was needed to integrate with windows. Next windows is gonna run on systemd/linux.
[03:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Brings its File Explorer to Windows 10 WSL with New Windows Insider Update - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:44] <exec> 08└─immediately nicknamed COLONux, yeah I seem to recall.
[03:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Brings its File Explorer to Windows 10 WSL with New Windows Insider Update - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:46] <exec> 08└─well, there shouldn't be any Windows in your home/office, anyways.
[03:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Brings its File Explorer to Windows 10 WSL with New Windows Insider Update - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:48] <exec> 08└─Skimming TFA, I notice that the EXT file system, EXT4 in particular, is not mentioned even once. I expect that if you were to plug an EXT4-formatted into a Vista10-infected unit, that it would still not be able to read it and would still try to reformat it. Thus I can only conclude that the title a...
[03:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethernet Technology Consortium Unveils 800 Gbps Ethernet - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, $70-$100 per port is pricey. Eventually you will hit the point where it becomes worth it so save money every day by not waiting on the network/storage limitations you're hitting with 1 gigabit. I was hoping that the "promise" from Aquantia of $30 per port for 10GBASE-T would come true at some...
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[04:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06I Was Bored, So I Watched the Movie That Astronauts Must View Before Launch - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:42:41] <exec> 08└─But here in Quebec I've discovered that French movies don't have French subtitles. Presumably there are no French deaf people. -- hendrik
[04:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Making New 737 MAX Software Updates to Address Computer Issues - 1355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:13] <exec> 08└─It's a general problem with greedy, reality denying idiots being the final decision makers, having too much authority. That's why Fukushima melted down, and why Deepwater Horizon and the Exxon Valdez resulted in major oil spills, to name just a few industrial disasters. They were not freak accidents...
[04:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Making New 737 MAX Software Updates to Address Computer Issues - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:14] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the pilots that have to fly it?
[04:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Making New 737 MAX Software Updates to Address Computer Issues - 1529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:16] <exec> 08└─Awesome post. Wish I could credit you, mystery person. I agree with what you've written, and I agree with your analogy. Over my driving lifetime, I've occasionally driven radically different vehicles. Sometimes the steering, braking, accelerator pedal, etc., are quite different. My job, as 2D pilot,...
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[05:43:18] <exec> 08└─Space Shuttle Challenger is surely one of the bigger examples in my mind. Maybe Titanic too. Somewhere I have a book of major disasters. Yes, in my professional career it's been many many losses (never bodily) due to non-technical-types overruling us tech-types. So much waste and loss. Stunning stup...
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[05:43:20] <exec> 08└─...even a-bombs that detonate veeeeery slowly and provide civilian electricity?
[05:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Making New 737 MAX Software Updates to Address Computer Issues - 1521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:22] <exec> 08└─Huh? No, organized structured systems don't work that way in modern society. You must be new to Earth. We allow aggressive people to self-aggrandize, establish themselves as "authority", set rules and standards, and when things go BANG it's always someone else's fault. /s But seriously for a minute,...
[05:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Making New 737 MAX Software Updates to Address Computer Issues - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:24] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_dynamics_(fixed-wing_aircraft)#Static_stability_and_control [wikipedia.org] See that section and the following sections.
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[05:43:26] <exec> 08└─That is the official story, but there is some indication that MCAS was also covering for a more severe design fault. If the air-frame is unstable then they can't certify it, fixed MCAS or not.
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[06:41:36] <exec> 08└─And 1903?
[06:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Making New 737 MAX Software Updates to Address Computer Issues - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:43:26] <exec> 08└─Don't get me wrong, it is totally flyable without the MCAS. The problem is that the performance on paper, as that is the only experience I have with the MAX, is different then the nonMAX. Because it is too different, especially near stalls, they had two choices: require a new rating or somehow get i...
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[07:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Cloudflare Dumps Google's reCAPTCHA, Moves to hCaptcha as Free Ride Ends - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:47] <exec> 08└─Cloudflare on Wednesday said it is ditching Google's reCAPTCHA bot detector for a similar service called hCaptcha out of concerns about privacy and availability, but mostly cost.
[07:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cross-Platform APT Espionage Attacks Targeting Linux, Windows and Android - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:07] <exec> 08└─More than 10 years - I remember in 2003, the UK computing architecture that was supporting the LHC (i.e. several big clusters) was hacked by Chinese hackers after someone used insecure admin passwords.
[07:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Copyright Lawyer Decides to Abuse Trademarks to Shut Down Pirates - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:26] <exec> 08└─Every complex system has parasites.
[07:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Copyright Lawyer Decides to Abuse Trademarks to Shut Down Pirates - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:28] <exec> 08└─How was he able to register a trade mark for something that was already in use by someone else anyway? The leverage he now has is no better than estoppel, and his trademarks should be deemed illegal - heck, the pirate sites should probably be compensated. And the trademark office should be shut down...
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[08:40:47] <exec> 08└─Yep, that's it in a nutshell: Finally, earlier this year, Google told Cloudflare it plans to begin charging for reCAPTCHA, a service it has previously offered for free because the answers people provide improve its services and machine learning systems.
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[09:41:33] <exec> 08└─We need more straws, this camel is surprisingly hardy.
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[09:41:54] <exec> 08└─None here in mom's basement.
[09:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bubble Dynamics Reveal How to Empty Bottles Faster - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:46] <exec> 08└─I hate to say it, but if you wish to see how effective this technique is, search for "beer chug straw" on YouTube. Alternatively, find out experimentally for yourself with a flexible straw and a several refills of a bottle of water. Time how long it takes to empty the bottle unswirled and upended; u...
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[10:40:48] <exec> 08└─bok! bok! bok! Enjoy the holidays, you filthy little hobbits!
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[10:43:46] <exec> 08└─The Verge has a good write-up of what you refer to... https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com] It's a pretty funny read... Especially so I suppose, if you were helplessly involved and wondered how long it would be befo...
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[11:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Advertising's Watershed Moment: It is Finally Becoming More Like Digital - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:49] <exec> 08└─Come the last part of the year: Client: "Programming upgrades or lower CPMs plz, just to make it fair that we continued to be partners during the tough time." TV network: "LOL, we're a cable company. We just raised your rates 10%. Pay now or fuck off."
[11:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Advertising's Watershed Moment: It is Finally Becoming More Like Digital - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:50] <exec> 08└─I want my ... I want my ... I want my CBD!
[11:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Real Reason We’re Seeing More Wildlife During the Pandemic - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:11] <exec> 08└─I'm sure I saw some... they were walking down MLK Blvd.
[11:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Suffers its Second Launch Failure in Less Than a Month - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:19] <exec> 08└─The Chinese Communist Party is perfect and it is racist and stigmatizing to call their non-success a failure. As Nature explains: [nature.com] When the World Health Organization (WHO) announced in February that the disease caused by the new coronavirus would be called COVID‑19, the name was quickl...
[11:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Copyright Lawyer Decides to Abuse Trademarks to Shut Down Pirates - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:49] <exec> 08└─I very much enjoy your argument, because you look at it from a different set of ethics (lawyer/gamerule/radical logical ethics), whereas the ethics norm would more likely align with the intent of trademark law and view this as abuse of it. I suspect the job of a judge is often to interpret intent of...
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[12:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06TV Advertising's Watershed Moment: It is Finally Becoming More Like Digital - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:56] <exec> 08└─Beijing might want to buy up all that ad time to apologize for destroying the world.
[12:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Advertising's Watershed Moment: It is Finally Becoming More Like Digital - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:57] <exec> 08└─Oh, yeah, she bolted a while ago.
[12:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Advertising's Watershed Moment: It is Finally Becoming More Like Digital - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:59] <exec> 08└─This means the talk show 'news' stations are going to get MORE screechy. Gawwwd.
[12:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloudflare Dumps Google's reCAPTCHA, Moves to hCaptcha as Free Ride Ends - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:15] <exec> 08└─Right, Cloudfare is doing this for financial reasons but trying to get some zero effort positive publicity out of it. That said, anything that takes money out of Big Brother Google's pockets is good by me.
[12:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Copyright Lawyer Decides to Abuse Trademarks to Shut Down Pirates - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:58] <exec> 08└─Just took someone else working it through that had the ability to do so. Courts however usually look down on 'novel' interpretations of law. That is the courts job, and if you do it they start laying down disbarments. It usually takes years to get through the judges though. As someone will have to b...
[12:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ethernet Technology Consortium Unveils 800 Gbps Ethernet - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:39] <exec> 08└─With systemd-boot!
[12:42:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethernet Technology Consortium Unveils 800 Gbps Ethernet - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:40] <exec> 08└─By my math, transferring 25TB of data over 1Gbps networking would take less than 5 days. Unless you're planning to upgrade the hardware a couple of times a year, I would consider the upgrade cost of faster networking gear not a worthwhile investment. Did I calculate incorrectly? On my home network,...
[12:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Making New 737 MAX Software Updates to Address Computer Issues - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:44:12] <exec> 08└─And it will be all your fault! -- It's always my fault...
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[13:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Another Hole in the Ozone Layer, and This One’s Over the Arctic - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:47] <exec> 08└─I don't get how these so-called scientists can keep claiming they understand the Ozone layer when time and again they observe events that can't be explained by their models. Years of reduction in CFCs and what do we have to show for it? Yet I bet those same scientists are getting fatter grant payout...
[13:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Advertising's Watershed Moment: It is Finally Becoming More Like Digital - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:59] <exec> 08└─It's the end of the world, civilization has collapsed, total apocalypse, but of course Domino's Pizza is still in business due to an odd surplus of road kill. Now, for a limited time every order includes FREE Soylent sticks!
[13:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06TV Advertising's Watershed Moment: It is Finally Becoming More Like Digital - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:00] <exec> 08└─They have other ideas: https://www.telegraph.co.uk [telegraph.co.uk]
[13:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Acabatag [2885] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Real Reason We’re Seeing More Wildlife During the Pandemic - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:24] <exec> 08└─Is it because the wet markets have been shut down in China? *rimshot*
[13:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06Microsoft Brings its File Explorer to Windows 10 WSL with New Windows Insider Update - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:24] <exec> 08└─I expect that if you were to plug an EXT4-formatted into a Vista10-infected unit, that it would still not be able to read it and would still try to reformat it MS: hey we have this cool utility you can use. Internet: hur de dur! M$ came out with more crap! I personally keep my OS's fairly segregated...
[13:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethernet Technology Consortium Unveils 800 Gbps Ethernet - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:45] <exec> 08└─How many 10G connections do you need? If it's just between 2 devices, skip the switch and direct-connect them instead. Then use 1gb for connecting them to your network. You can get used cards on ebay cheap enough.
[13:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Making New 737 MAX Software Updates to Address Computer Issues - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:19] <exec> 08└─Stop bailing them out with grants and military contracts. Let them go bankrupt. Make sure it sits in courts for long enough time that all employees are let go. Mandate that since they are a military contractor, they can only be sold to other american companies. Let Lockheed, Raytheon, Northrop, Spac...
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[14:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Cloudflare Dumps Google's reCAPTCHA, Moves to hCaptcha as Free Ride Ends - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:23] <exec> 08└─... for us, website visitors. From a superficial overview of hCaptcha FAQ and site, this company aims to simply copy google's authentication method, but with a twist: they'll pay sites that use their service. Visitors that solve their hCaptcha become part of their HUMAN network, on which you can do...
[14:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloudflare Dumps Google's reCAPTCHA, Moves to hCaptcha as Free Ride Ends - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:24] <exec> 08└─Probably, but if the puzzles just work properly, that would be a step in the right direction. So often, I've been stuck having to try again and again as valid responses aren't accepted and it just sends me another one after solving the previous one.
[14:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Brings its File Explorer to Windows 10 WSL with New Windows Insider Update - 1417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:34] <exec> 08└─It's easy to say now. These days disk storage is more or less free. Though as late as the 1980s disks, even with the advent of hard drives that could fit on the desk and could be used without hearing protection, storage was not only very limited in capacity but also very, very expensive. Recording d...
[14:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Making New 737 MAX Software Updates to Address Computer Issues - 3975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:30] <exec> 08└─Exxon Valdez, and several other shipping disasters, are why oil tankers are now all double hulled. Similarly, the Titanic tragedy spurred a number of safety improvements, with the big one being thou shalt provide enough lifeboats for everyone. Double hulls are not infallible, of course, but do cut w...
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[15:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:53] <exec> 08└─Somewhere in this universe exist fairies who are not gay.
[15:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:54] <exec> 08└─I guess this would affect estimates of the mass and age of the universe, and could help explain matter-antimatter asymmetry. Maybe the Fermi paradox while we're at it.
[15:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:56] <exec> 08└─You will see that the universe is shaped like a bunny rabbit, just like any other cloud
[15:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:58] <exec> 08└─If they throw out Heat Death, dark matter and dark energy I'll be a happy man. If they wind up permitting FTL travel as well, I'll be ecstatic.
[15:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:01] <exec> 08└─FTL travel may permit cosmologists to continue existing. Or not.
[15:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 2811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:03] <exec> 08└─In my opinion the age of the universe is where astrophysics started to get into really poor science. We have many things that we can use to roughly measure the age of the universe, including the cosmic microwave background radiation. You assume there was a boom and stuff spread out roughly evenly th...
[15:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:05] <exec> 08└─I really doubt it could affect the matter-antimatter asymmetry. And I don't see any connection to the Fermi paradox. But your first couple of guesses may be correct. FWIW, there is clearly a lack of isotropy in visible matter. Just consider the cosmic voids. This will affect the rate of expansion of...
[15:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 2621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:07] <exec> 08└─"FTL" is already allowed, kind of. Basically when you accelerate towards the speed of light there's not any magical force that suddenly makes further acceleration, from your perspective, impossible. Instead the whole universe just gets really messed up. Distances begin to physically contract and tim...
[15:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Another Hole in the Ozone Layer, and This One’s Over the Arctic - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:15] <exec> 08└─China feels the heat over rogue CFC emissions [nature.com] As is usual, China is doing its best to fuck over the entire planet.
[15:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Another Hole in the Ozone Layer, and This One’s Over the Arctic - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:18] <exec> 08└─To be fair, between the Chinese, Russians, and USA, they're all pretty horrendous, because all of them have aspirations of world domination.
[15:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudflare Dumps Google's reCAPTCHA, Moves to hCaptcha as Free Ride Ends - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:48] <exec> 08└─Cloudflare and privacy. Wew. I guess it would increase privacy somewhat if Cloudflare ran a CAPTCHA service itself instead of contracting with a third party. But CAPTCHAs are probably not long for this world anyway. The bots are getting too good.
[15:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Cloudflare Dumps Google's reCAPTCHA, Moves to hCaptcha as Free Ride Ends - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:49] <exec> 08└─I recently had captcha continuously present me a new challenge, because the password I entered previously was pasted in from a random string. Once I used a hand typed password of "fuckyou", it let me through on just one challenge.
[15:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Suffers its Second Launch Failure in Less Than a Month - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:05] <exec> 08└─Space forces in action?
[15:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethernet Technology Consortium Unveils 800 Gbps Ethernet - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:21] <exec> 08└─<no-sarcasm> In all seriousness, I do write my own systemd unit files, for example, to start multiple independent Apache Tomcat instances as services. Sometimes different Tomcat instances might even run on different versions of Java, and different versions of Tomcat software depending upon what is n...
[15:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Making New 737 MAX Software Updates to Address Computer Issues - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:44:57] <exec> 08└─One bit of the FAA policies that is very relevant when talking about their lack of regulation on software is this boilerplate security-by-obscurity argument [schneier.com] (and I'm proud to say I was actually responsible for bringing that to Bruce Schneier's attention, leading to that blog post). It...
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[16:40:54] <exec> 08└─There are an infinite number of ways it could affect the fermi paradox, matter asymmetries, etc. If we take, as a given, the lack of physical isotropy then whose to say what stays and what changes? So for instance on the fermi paradoxi, it may be the case that only relatively small regions of space...
[16:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:56] <exec> 08└─Marcus Bachmann? [google.com]
[16:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:58] <exec> 08└─If they wind up permitting FTL travel as well, I'll be ecstatic.
[16:41:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Cloudflare Dumps Google's reCAPTCHA, Moves to hCaptcha as Free Ride Ends - 178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:34] <exec> 08└─Cloudflare on Wednesday said it is ditching Google's reCAPTCHA bot detector for a similar service called hCaptcha out of concerns about privacy and availability, but mostly cost.
[16:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Real Reason We’re Seeing More Wildlife During the Pandemic - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:48] <exec> 08└─Wet Markets shut down because wild animals ate the merchandise?
[16:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Real Reason We’re Seeing More Wildlife During the Pandemic - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:50] <exec> 08└─Leave Chinamen out of this.
[16:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Suffers its Second Launch Failure in Less Than a Month - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:00] <exec> 08└─Forces like Dark Energy? Causing rockets to fail.
[16:42:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Suffers its Second Launch Failure in Less Than a Month - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:02] <exec> 08└─Would it violate the laws of physics for rockets to be able to fail due to rocket worker dissatisfaction?
[16:42:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Cross-Platform APT Espionage Attacks Targeting Linux, Windows and Android - 249 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:09] <exec> 08└─tl;dr 1. people are lazy and security and privacy is hard and expensive (worse, if you want to get it right) 2. management don't like spending money on 'no return' items. 3. risk management is always a 'nice to have' for most companies (see point 1)
[16:42:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Microsoft Brings its File Explorer to Windows 10 WSL with New Windows Insider Update - 173 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:41] <exec> 08└─Don't worry... Poettering saw this coming and built defenses into systemd that will screw up any applications found to be running under WSL. He's already tested it on Linux.
[16:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Brings its File Explorer to Windows 10 WSL with New Windows Insider Update - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:57] <exec> 08└─<no-sarcasm> I would not be shocked if, in the loooong run, Windows ends up with Linux as the primary kernel, with a Windows kernel personality for legacy compatibility. </no-sarcasm> In typical backwards Microsoft fashion they would call it the Linux Subsystem for Windows (LSW).
[16:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethernet Technology Consortium Unveils 800 Gbps Ethernet - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:21] <exec> 08└─*sigh* i wish some genius would already invented the ethernet catX 5$ crimping tool but for fiber optics. as it is now, the "tool" to fit a "head" to a 5$ per 1000 meter fiber optic cable is 300 dollars? most people don't need to "bridge" physical locations further apart then 150 meters but imagine...
[16:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Making New 737 MAX Software Updates to Address Computer Issues - 2155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:58] <exec> 08└─Wow, thank you for all of that. I didn't know Fukushima was such a compromised design. I knew most of what you wrote. I could never figure out why the emergency generators were low in a building. Maybe it would have cost more to put them up higher due to stronger building framing? Maybe they wanted...
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[17:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 1384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:59] <exec> 08└─We could only plausibly see alien civilizations within our own galaxy though, so things happening at intergalactic scales aren't going to matter to the Fermi Paradox. And we've already established that life can exist in the Milky Way, and any changes in the properties of chemistry or nuclear physics...
[17:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 1433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:01] <exec> 08└─That's not remotely FTL though. Yes, if you could consume the entire energy output of the galaxy to acceleration, you could flit around the galaxy at will within a single human lifetime - even the entire output from a star would do a decent job - but most of the visible universe would still be theor...
[17:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Scientists Find Another Hole in the Ozone Layer, and This One’s Over the Arctic - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:12] <exec> 08└─It is a really weird trend that hard science == money grubbing grant trolls, while wild conspiracy theories and research paid for by oil companies == truth.
[17:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find Another Hole in the Ozone Layer, and This One’s Over the Arctic - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:13] <exec> 08└─Forgot to include the sarcasm tags again...
[17:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06TV Advertising's Watershed Moment: It is Finally Becoming More Like Digital - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:27] <exec> 08└─Afghani Bullrider. Tried it for the first time by taking 2 huge puffs. Big mistake. Better find a seat and hold on, you won't be able to move for about 3 hours. It's a creeper. It creeps higher and higher. At one point in the ride you tell yourself that's high enough, I don't want to get any higher....
[17:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bugs That Let Sites Hijack Mac and iPhone Cameras Fetch $75k Bounty - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:35] <exec> 08└─CVE-2020-3865 is a juicy one! The chain's well researched, but I'm a bit surprised it was only 75k for this volume of successful work.
[17:41:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03canopic jug [3949] 02 - 06Cloudflare Dumps Google's reCAPTCHA, Moves to hCaptcha as Free Ride Ends - 254 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:43] <exec> 08└─Yep, that's it in a nutshell: Finally, earlier this year, Google told Cloudflare it plans to begin charging for reCAPTCHA, a service it has previously offered for free because the answers people provide improve its services and machine learning systems.
[17:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloudflare Dumps Google's reCAPTCHA, Moves to hCaptcha as Free Ride Ends - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:51] <exec> 08└─Please.. tell me.. if asked to select 'a sign' .. do you select the whole thing including the pole or just the colored part on top? I just want to know?
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[18:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Libraries Offer Online "Lending" of Scanned In-Copyright Books - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:48] <exec> 08└─"Lending" - what a daft conceit in the digital age! I sincerely hope this is a strategy by activists to point out the absurdity of "lending" things that can be copied, at will, at zero cost, ad infinitium. And I doubly hope that this strategy does not back-fire and result in the wholesale adoption o...
[18:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:09] <exec> 08└─The problem is that what we observe doesn't work if you do this. Areas of the universe that should *not* be causally connected (in other words, even at the speed of light - nothing from region A would have had time to interact with stuff in region B) *are* causally connected. We patched this with c...
[18:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:11] <exec> 08└─I want to see evidence of aliens tampering with the "fabric" of the universe. Because that could be the way to outlast scenarios of the universe's destruction.
[18:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:14] <exec> 08└─AFAIK usage of a warp drive (Alcubierre drive [wikipedia.org]) would not show symptoms of time dilation. The apparent travel time would be equivalent to the time that passes for observers at the origin and destination.
[18:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03leon_the_cat [10052] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:16] <exec> 08└─Ah but why? Remember our Gods must be infallible. "Human beings live in a state of mind called 'sanity' on a small planet in space. They are not quite sure whether the space around them is infinite or not (either way it is unthinkable). If they think about time, they find it inconceivable that it ha...
[18:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Scientists Find Another Hole in the Ozone Layer, and This One’s Over the Arctic - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:28] <exec> 08└─That explains that. We know enough about the ozone layer that we've been able to largely repair it. There's been a general trend towards the holes closing up as the chemical emissions that punched the hole have largely disappeared. That being said, China needs to get its shit together and find the p...
[18:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cloudflare Dumps Google's reCAPTCHA, Moves to hCaptcha as Free Ride Ends - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:05] <exec> 08└─If you need to know, you must be a robot.
[18:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Suffers its Second Launch Failure in Less Than a Month - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:27] <exec> 08└─If you count their launch of coronavirus.
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[19:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Libraries Offer Online "Lending" of Scanned In-Copyright Books - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:52] <exec> 08└─Lending. Lending copies of digital books. I remember when WikiLeaks first happened, long, long ago. Hillary said that the digital documents should be "returned".
[19:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Libraries Offer Online "Lending" of Scanned In-Copyright Books - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:54] <exec> 08└─How would printed scanned books have Digital Restrictions Management?
[19:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06University Libraries Offer Online "Lending" of Scanned In-Copyright Books - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:56] <exec> 08└─Copyright is going to collide right into people's free speech rights to do their own original things that just happen to have some similarity to something, that someone else might have done. Imagine two different people doing something similar! If Copyright holders want me to respect copyright, then...
[19:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University Libraries Offer Online "Lending" of Scanned In-Copyright Books - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:58] <exec> 08└─Laser Printer DRM. Be wary of any future version of, say, PostScript or PCL that watermarks a document with time bombed invisible ink. "This Document has EXPIRED". Oh crap, shouldn't give 'em any ideas.
[19:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:22] <exec> 08└─Right - FTL doesn't have those problems. My point was thateven in AC's magical universe where indefinite 1G acceleration can be sustained, it's still not remotely FTL.
[19:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Find Another Hole in the Ozone Layer, and This One’s Over the Arctic - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:35] <exec> 08└─someone was probably playing the devil's harp again! https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[19:41:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06TV Advertising's Watershed Moment: It is Finally Becoming More Like Digital - 224 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:48] <exec> 08└─It's the end of the world, civilization has collapsed, total apocalypse, but of course Domino's Pizza is still in business due to an odd surplus of road kill. Now, for a limited time every order includes FREE Soylent sticks!
[19:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethernet Technology Consortium Unveils 800 Gbps Ethernet - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:54] <exec> 08└─https://www.theonion.com/zoom-ceo-reclines-back-in-chair-in-front-of-massive-wal-1842781626 [theonion.com]
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[20:41:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 2811 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:10] <exec> 08└─In my opinion the age of the universe is where astrophysics started to get into really poor science. We have many things that we can use to roughly measure the age of the universe, including the cosmic microwave background radiation. You assume there was a boom and stuff spread out roughly evenly th...
[20:41:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 2621 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:13] <exec> 08└─"FTL" is already allowed, kind of. Basically when you accelerate towards the speed of light there's not any magical force that suddenly makes further acceleration, from your perspective, impossible. Instead the whole universe just gets really messed up. Distances begin to physically contract and tim...
[20:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:24] <exec> 08└─Well, you said: "Wormholes, warp drives, etc. are all theoretically possible - they just make time travel possible as well." I don't think an Alcubierre drive would enable meaningful time travel or backwards time travel (there is a section on the Wikipedia article discussing it). And zipping between...
[20:41:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 2242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:26] <exec> 08└─You would not need much energy to maintain 1g acceleration. Your common rocket generates way more than 1G of thrust (or it wouldn't get off the ground), and can generally maintain this for a matter of minutes. Multiplying that energy on the order of thousands to millions is not much. I think you mig...
[20:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Find Another Hole in the Ozone Layer, and This One’s Over the Arctic - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:40] <exec> 08└─I did the same with a comment elsewhere, figured it was over the top enough to be understood as sarcasm but looks like no. I usually add a /s or <sarcasm> but sometimes it is neat to try and pull it off with just the words.
[20:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boeing Making New 737 MAX Software Updates to Address Computer Issues - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:35] <exec> 08└─Thankfully, most systems on a plane are fully redundant with a backup system too. Something goes wrong, you can disable the system acting up. One AP/FD freaks out? Just switch to the other one and fly in a slightly-degraded mode. One hydraulic system leaks? Switch it off, PAN PAN, and land. Electric...
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[21:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep-Sea Rocks on Earth Spark New Hope for Finding Life on Mars - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:51] <exec> 08└─I think that life requires some pretty special conditions to develop and once it develops, it can adapt itself to more hostile environments. Thinking that life can develop under hostile conditions, like in Mars, seems to me stupid because if life developed that easily, it would be everywhere in Mar...
[21:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep-Sea Rocks on Earth Spark New Hope for Finding Life on Mars - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:53] <exec> 08└─Hydrothermal vents could be a great environment for life rather than hostile, and these could exist or have existed within Mars [nationalgeographic.com], Enceladus, Europa, Ceres, Pluto, etc. [wikipedia.org]
[21:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 2228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:31] <exec> 08└─I don't know why you call it pseudoscience. Cosmic inflation is a conjecture that seems to explain the current observations. I think it lies in a similar vein as Einstein's relativity. Was it falling into pseudoscience by conjecturing that time and space change? Or postulating that energy is only de...
[21:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:32] <exec> 08└─Well, you build your 1G starship, get up to ludicrous speed, and die from X- and gamma-ray exposure as you've blue-shifted up all of that 3K microwave background to lethal levels.
[21:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing Making New 737 MAX Software Updates to Address Computer Issues - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:41] <exec> 08└─Enquiries reported that when aerodynamic forces were too high (due to the angle of the plane) as happened in both accidents, the force needed to manually correct the trim was so high that turning the wheel 40 times was impossible: https://en.wikipedia.org
[21:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It's Now or Never: Visual Events Have 100 Milliseconds to Hit Brain Target or Go Unnoticed - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:11] <exec> 08└─That's not far-fetched at all, this is envisioned in research labs around the world for treatments like this: inject a virus in the region affected by the disease. This virus will insert a gene in the neurons (either just ARN for a temporary effect, or into the neuron's DNA for permanent effect) tha...
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[22:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inaccurate and Expensive Boeing Proposal Eliminated it from Consideration for Lunar Cargo Contract - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:49] <exec> 08└─This, and the 787 Max of course. This company needs new management or something, and badly. Years from now they're going to be studying how we got here from "If it ain't Boeing I ain't going". Hopefully they'll also be studying how it was turned around.
[22:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Deep-Sea Rocks on Earth Spark New Hope for Finding Life on Mars - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:59] <exec> 08└─My "ROCK" will deep-sea Uranus you'd HOPE your man is half the man the AC I am.
[22:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Libraries Offer Online "Lending" of Scanned In-Copyright Books - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:11] <exec> 08└─recently announced a solution to this problem
[22:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 710 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:42] <exec> 08└─>Zipping between Earth and Proxima Centauri without time dilation effects doesn't violate causality or anything. Not obviously, no. But the speed of light is more properly termed the speed of causality, at which *every* force propagates. According to Relativity, the ability to travel even slightly f...
[22:42:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudflare Dumps Google's reCAPTCHA, Moves to hCaptcha as Free Ride Ends - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:35] <exec> 08└─Personally, I consider the sign to be the whole thing. Pole + signage. The sign wouldn't be there if it wasn't on the pole. However, it seems the captcha gods don't think that's valid. I get let through more often now that I select ONLY the sign itself instead of the whole pole and sign.
[22:43:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jb [338] 02 - 06Microsoft Brings its File Explorer to Windows 10 WSL with New Windows Insider Update - 9 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:48] <exec> 08└─And 1903?
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[23:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Inaccurate and Expensive Boeing Proposal Eliminated it from Consideration for Lunar Cargo Contract - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:52] <exec> 08└─For real, we are self-destructing, aren't we. Guess we deserve what's coming to us.
[23:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Inaccurate and Expensive Boeing Proposal Eliminated it from Consideration for Lunar Cargo Contract - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:54] <exec> 08└─If SpaceX hadn't upended the launch industry with Falcon 9, things would be even worse right now.
[23:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inaccurate and Expensive Boeing Proposal Eliminated it from Consideration for Lunar Cargo Contract - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:56] <exec> 08└─Efficiency used to be a good thing. Then "cheaper" Then "cheapest" Good is not cheap Good code Good systems Good engineering All these cost .. Lots. So once the "cheaper is better" types are in managemnent, eventually, things go wrong, and, people die. Share dividends and director bonuses are possib...
[23:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Question Cosmological Isotropy - 1647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:46] <exec> 08└─>Multiplying that energy on the order of thousands to millions is not much. True, in principle, with optimism. Sadly, thanks to the rocket equation that only increases your top speed by maybe 3-6x. The energy demands for a given amount of delta-V increase exponentially. Or alternately, the speed you...
[23:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cloudflare Dumps Google's reCAPTCHA, Moves to hCaptcha as Free Ride Ends - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:38] <exec> 08└─It's annoying and cumbersome to the point where I literally cancel buying something from a website because it uses recaptcha. It's a tracking and AI training system camouflaged as a bot/human filter. There's other ways to filter, this is the most crappy.
[23:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06China Suffers its Second Launch Failure in Less Than a Month - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:00] <exec> 08└─WHO shouldn't have named it COVID-19. It reminds people that the virus came from China. COVID-19: China Originated Virus in December 2019.
[23:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Copyright Lawyer Decides to Abuse Trademarks to Shut Down Pirates - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:33] <exec> 08└─#1 reason testing labs need to use lawyers over rats in medical studies...
[23:43:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Microsoft Brings its File Explorer to Windows 10 WSL with New Windows Insider Update - 783 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:40] <exec> 08└─Next will come the Extend part. WSL will have extra goodies not present in "standard" Linux distributions. Or even kernels. Sugary addictive features developers developers developers just cannot say no to. (the above is exactly what Microsoft did with Java, but strictly in violation of the agreement...
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