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[00:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Now Know the Effect of Altitude on Classic “Diet Coke and Mentos“ Fountain - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:49] <exec> 08└─Or the Chinese army will know the results of your experiment before your friends do...
[00:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Now Know the Effect of Altitude on Classic “Diet Coke and Mentos“ Fountain - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:50] <exec> 08└─Me Chinese, me play joke, me put mentos in your coke.
[00:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Now Know the Effect of Altitude on Classic “Diet Coke and Mentos“ Fountain - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:52] <exec> 08└─Publish or perish, I guess.
[00:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Ponder How Jugglers Seem to Defy Limits to Human Reaction Times - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:08] <exec> 08└─It's a Jedi thing. Their high midichlorian count allows them to tap into The Force to see a few tenths of a second into the future.
[00:42:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 5475 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:34] <exec> 08└─James Waterman Wise Jr. said, in February of 1936, when fascism comes to the US "it will probably be “wrapped up in the American flag and heralded as a plea for liberty and preservation of the constitution.” To me this attitude is very much present in a large percentage of the country. I think t...
[00:42:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:46] <exec> 08└─Just want to say thanks, that was really interesting. On the topic of covid-19, I can't believe the response and subsequent fatalities that's happened in the US. They didn't get hit early like Italy and Spain, and I thought their reaction would be swift and decisive, but it's been the opposite. Now...
[00:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:48] <exec> 08└─The weather may be less suitable for coronavirus. I wonder how much of the US slowdown can be attributed to the start of Spring.
[00:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:50] <exec> 08└─young people who have recovered have low SAG titties
[00:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:52] <exec> 08└─I do admit a certain enjoyment at not having to listen to the cast of regulars that constantly berate us non-urbanites for driving our "SUVs" solo to the grocery a mile from our homes. How's that public transportation/tranmission working out for you New York City? Until there is a good effective vac...
[00:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:54] <exec> 08└─Not even medical journal editors can get basic information correct.
[00:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:43] <exec> 08└─I’m sure that explains why nobody’s ever gone to jail or been sued for piracy. They looked at the judge and said “well the Pirate Bay said it was OK.” And judge was like “well I guess case dismissed then!”
[00:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:44] <exec> 08└─Any suggestions on where can we start the process of circumventing the ISP and still be able to connect and use the Worldwide Network?
[00:43:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:46] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWP88WKVBKs [youtube.com] You are not wrong. It just feels like crap from our PoV. But basically they have sliced and diced the 'rights' to the movies so much it is a royal PITA to show it anywhere, legally.
[00:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:48] <exec> 08└─To be fair in a way they are forced to do it. Their competitors do. You think Hulu or Disney or Youtube or HBO or Amazon isnt going to do it? You want that cool movie you play by the 'rules' or they walk to your competitor. 100% bet that has come up in meetings all the time. When it was pretty much...
[00:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pandemic Hasn’t Crushed Broadband Networks - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:09] <exec> 08└─Spectrum in Ohio. No problems in the last 2 days, but I expect more outages.
[00:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Appointed to Influential UN Human Rights Council Panel - 1483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:42] <exec> 08└─They actually don't. I have lived there for 4 years, that was 20 years ago. They were very patriotic, proud of their country. Didn't want to speak much of politics, but they all worked a lot for competition about most anything is very high there. They were very good at barter negotiations, you neede...
[00:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple and Google are Launching a Joint COVID-19 Tracing Tool for IOS and Android - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:00] <exec> 08└─call when there are 50 million dead and those dead are CAUSED by Covid-19, not just all deaths blamed on Covid-19 ....
[00:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple and Google are Launching a Joint COVID-19 Tracing Tool for IOS and Android - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:01] <exec> 08└─Your statement: " Google, for all their privacy-destroying efforts, still allows you to disable location services" FIXED version: Google, for all their privacy-destroying efforts, still allows you to THINK YOU CAN disable location services Until you have audited all of their code, I'll go with my...
[00:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Google are Launching a Joint COVID-19 Tracing Tool for IOS and Android - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:03] <exec> 08└─Just turn Bluetooth off. Unless you're stupid enough to buy earbuds to stream music or dumb enough to buy a smart watch, do you really need it?
[00:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Engineered Enzyme Can Break Down PET Plastic to Raw Materials - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:15] <exec> 08└─Oh I know the demand is there. I just figure with an overpopulated planet, that leads to there being too much of the stuff. Anywhere it exists where it's subject to erosion, it can break down into microplastics or harmful pieces that can be mistaken for food. If you want to help the environment, inc...
[00:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Newly Engineered Enzyme Can Break Down PET Plastic to Raw Materials - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:17] <exec> 08└─Well, I'm not exactly going to disagree with you, but they have a tendency to get sort of upset when you word it quite like that...
[00:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Reclassifies Dogs as Pets Instead of Livestock - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:25] <exec> 08└─This. There are stupid racists out there a ping up their bigotry against Chinese-Americans because of the "Chinese virus". Like it makes a damn bit of difference. They're just too stupid to know what Chinese is supposed to mean. Of course, responsible people understand this and avoid saying things t...
[00:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Reclassifies Dogs as Pets Instead of Livestock - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:27] <exec> 08└─The British Empire, the Spanish Empire, the Aztec Empire - none of those was a country. They were empires. So an empire is my re than a country.
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[01:42:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03catholocism [8422] 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 221 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:04] <exec> 08└─This is only true in an unrigged system. Voter disenfranchisement has been going strong for a few decades, gerrymadering is legal according to SCOTUS, as is dark money. Blaming the voters is like blaming an abused spouse.
[01:42:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:23] <exec> 08└─Ranked voting would help. So would proportional representation. Either or both of these would make more than two parties viable. -- hendrik
[01:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:54] <exec> 08└─A lot of these are death if you do it, and death if you don't. Clearly the solution is quantum indeterminacy so that it can't be determined without collapsing the wave function whether you did or not.
[01:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:56] <exec> 08└─The weather may be less suitable for coronavirus.
[01:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:58] <exec> 08└─Here in Australia
[01:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:00] <exec> 08└─The weather for one, plus after 3 months in the wild, one can expect saturation.
[01:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:02] <exec> 08└─It's a fetid piece of roadkill between two slices of stale bread from Burger King.
[01:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:04] <exec> 08└─The voters are the least important part of the US electoral system.
[01:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:06] <exec> 08└─Ha - it was clearly somehow transcribed in reverse by the reporter but the editor missed it. We hold medical journals to a higher standard than SN but perhaps they were just testing us like the fucking dinosaurs test the creationists?
[01:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:08] <exec> 08└─No, that's not an interesting read. It is however a not very clever series of unverified assertions. "Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out"
[01:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:11] <exec> 08└─So hot weather is totally why Italy, Spain, and India are having such problems with COVID infection. Yup, that hot weather knocks it right out /s
[01:43:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 1200 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:23] <exec> 08└─The gaming industry finally realised that region locking is ridiculous, a wasted effort, and is completely counterintuitive since all it generates is lost sales. To hell with the content controllers trying to price-gouge regions; it's basically a scam and they can go fuck themselves. The same realis...
[01:43:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:29] <exec> 08└─Decide Netflix, did you value the people who "force" you to do stuff, or do you value your paying customers more?
[01:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pirate Bay No Longer Uses Cloudflare, Visitors Sent to 'Black Hole' - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:54] <exec> 08└─My current results: $ nslookup piratebay.org Server: UnKnown Address: 192.168.1.1 Non-authoritative answer: Name: piratebay.org Address: 127.0.0.1
[01:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pirate Bay No Longer Uses Cloudflare, Visitors Sent to 'Black Hole' - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:55] <exec> 08└─My current results: $ nslookup piratebay.org Server: UnKnown Address: 192.168.1.1 Non-authoritative answer: Name: piratebay.org Address: 127.0.0.1
[01:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Reclassifies Dogs as Pets Instead of Livestock - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:42] <exec> 08└─"That's a very bold assertion with no evidence."
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[02:40:51] <exec> 08└─5% of them died of coronavirus, and the rest from the heavy taxation that followed it.
[02:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Now Know the Effect of Altitude on Classic “Diet Coke and Mentos“ Fountain - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:01] <exec> 08└─We already knew that mentos provide nucleation sites for CO2, naturally a lower atomospheric pressure allows more CO2 to escape. Why even bother doing this experiment? I know science is about testing stuff but we already nailed the basic rules of physics a long time ago and this reaction is well und...
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[02:42:07] <exec> 08└─I am concerned that during this crisis there will be further attacks on our Civil Rights (known to many as Civil Liberties). There are always those in power who want more -- more power, more control. Then there is the mantra: "Never Let A Good Crises Go To Waste". Typically, when the government take...
[02:43:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:13] <exec> 08└─I do admit a certain enjoyment at not having to listen to the cast of regulars that constantly berate us non-urbanites for driving our "SUVs" solo to the grocery a mile from our homes.
[02:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:14] <exec> 08└─Clueless fuck has never been to Spain and (especially) Northern Italy in the winter.
[02:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:16] <exec> 08└─Having everyone stay at home is just a stop-gap measure that has a technological level worthy of cavemen. Until a vaccine or some magic cure pops up, that basically means eveyone that would have gotten sick without lockdown/shelter-in-place will still get it eventually, just later.
[02:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:19] <exec> 08└─Wise Jr (in the Christian Century) was framing Hearst and Coughlin. Who are your fascists now, Zuckerburg and Conte? I read Umerto Eco back in the day... Labor Power is Suppressed
[02:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 062020-04-11 Coronavirus (COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2) Story Roundup - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:21] <exec> 08└─He wanted the job, he got the job, it comes with responsibilities, which he has been amazingly consistent in ignoring. Your use of a crisis for your political advocacy show you up for who you are
[02:47:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06China Reclassifies Dogs as Pets Instead of Livestock - 1318 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:30] <exec> 08└─Oh it got better for awhile, but it's gotten much worse again recently. I guess you haven't heard. Foreigners are being blamed for the wuhan virus, despite it making no sense. Foreigners are refused service everywhere, from food to medicine to housing. Foreigners that have paid their rent in advance...
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[02:47:49] <exec> 08└─Collateral damage. We are at war.
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[03:40:47] <exec> 08└─23.796% from Tragic Diet Coke and Mentos experiment malfunctions, at altitude. Yes, News, from SoylentNews.
[03:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Ponder How Jugglers Seem to Defy Limits to Human Reaction Times - 1245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:41:15] <exec> 08└─The batter has both more and less of a challenge. More, because the intercepting the pitcher's throw is far more unpredictable than intercepting your own. And less, because they have a good half-second to focus entirely on the oncoming ball (60.5 feet from mound to plate, divided by 90mph = 0.46seco...
[03:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Libraries Offer Online "Lending" of Scanned In-Copyright Books - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:30] <exec> 08└─HathiTrust was only allowing people with print disabilities
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[04:41:00] <exec> 08└─Where do I order my SN patch for my jacket to advertise the site?
[04:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Attackers Can Bypass Fingerprint Authentication With an ~80% Success Rate - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:38] <exec> 08└─The determined state level actor holds you in prison until you unlock your device.
[04:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:20] <exec> 08└─It's possible that the Time of Passive Entertainment might be passing. I'm reading a lot of the sentiment here and comparing it with the experience in our home, and there's not a lot of oomph left in the TV & movie industries. If VR doesn't step in to fill the gap, digital entertainment could die wi...
[04:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Appointed to Influential UN Human Rights Council Panel - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:15] <exec> 08└─Have you read Liu Cixin's books? The stories he writes seem to give you pretty decent "atmosphere" of Chinese life. His Three Body Problem relates some of the early Chi-com history. I get the idea that his stories, much like Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens, aren't factual, but almost certainly convey life...
[04:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Apple and Google are Launching a Joint COVID-19 Tracing Tool for IOS and Android - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:36] <exec> 08└─Right, because a soft button that tells the operating system to pretty please do something definitely means that the operating system actually does it instead of just telling you it did.
[04:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Reclassifies Dogs as Pets Instead of Livestock - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:04] <exec> 08└─STOP WITH THE TT TEXT OPTION IN ORDER FOR YOUR POSTS TO STAND OUT MORE. IT FUCKING SUCKS.
[04:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Inaccurate and Expensive Boeing Proposal Eliminated it from Consideration for Lunar Cargo Contract - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:24] <exec> 08└─Well to be fair to Boeing, they have a much more diverse product portfolio than SpaceX. SpaceX makes rockets and associated launch gear (and now a crew capsule). Boeing makes commercial airliners, gunship helicopters, fighter jets, and various other military aircraft. See here [boeing.com]. Space st...
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[05:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon’s New Tracking Tool Tells Advertisers When You’re Looking at Your Email Inbox - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:51] <exec> 08└─acknowledging that tracking is wrong while at the same time admitting Verizon simply does not care
[05:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Settlers Once Farmed on Thousands of Artificial Forest Islands - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:01] <exec> 08└─In the text, we find raised 0.5-3m (1.6-9.8 ft) above the savanna
[05:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Settlers Once Farmed on Thousands of Artificial Forest Islands - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:03] <exec> 08└─Also, 7.176359385% died from believing statistics that had been made up.
[05:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06We Now Know the Effect of Altitude on Classic “Diet Coke and Mentos“ Fountain - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:41:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe they were hoping to find something new? Kinda the same reason they are doing bubble experiments in micro-gravity. https://www.esa.int [esa.int]
[05:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Deep-Sea Rocks on Earth Spark New Hope for Finding Life on Mars - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:34] <exec> 08└─There's also a plausible hypothesis that life originated on Venus and migrated outwards to the Earth and Mars and perhaps beyond. The solar system was a lot different 3 or 4 billion years back. Sure be nice to have a time machine, even if it only took pictures.
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[06:40:51] <exec> 08└─Dang, the posts are all crap. But whatever. Marty, take care. Jan, despite your love for poe-fuck ( can't remember the name), take care of yoself and your wife. Fnord, you are a limey, ain't you? Yus are in the same shitty boat as in America. Wash your fucking hands and keep you mask on. As for me,...
[06:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03ataradov [4776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon’s New Tracking Tool Tells Advertisers When You’re Looking at Your Email Inbox - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:53] <exec> 08└─If you use e-mail from Verizon you kind of deserve it.
[06:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon’s New Tracking Tool Tells Advertisers When You’re Looking at Your Email Inbox - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:55] <exec> 08└─I can't believe gmail hasn't been doing this already. Personally. I'm happy running my own email and using a mail client and not a web browser to read mail.
[06:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon’s New Tracking Tool Tells Advertisers When You’re Looking at Your Email Inbox - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:57] <exec> 08└─I can't believe gmail hasn't been doing this already. Personally. I'm happy running my own email and using a mail client and not a web browser to read mail.
[06:43:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 786 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:00] <exec> 08└─This is what you get when you forget to factor your freedom into the cost of purchase. "We'll give you all this bling, all this luxury, all this entertainment, it's miraculous! Just sign on the bottom line, and whatever you do don't read the fineprint." Not too long ago this sort of scam was pretty...
[06:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:30] <exec> 08└─Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
[06:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Reclassifies Dogs as Pets Instead of Livestock - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:11] <exec> 08└─It was called the 3/5 compromise. Why was it called a compromise? It was a debate over whether or not slaves should be counted when a state was determining its total number of residents for legislative and tax purposes. Not their value as a human. One size wanted them to count 100%, and the other si...
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[07:40:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Tests are Going Unused Due to Hospital IT Challenges - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:51] <exec> 08└─It's OK, you can say it. Microsoft Windows based.
[07:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon’s New Tracking Tool Tells Advertisers When You’re Looking at Your Email Inbox - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:03] <exec> 08└─This is just nuts. When does this get classified by the "free" governments of the world as stalking [wikipedia.org]...because that's what it is. At least when inviting a vampire at the door into your home, you pretty much know what to expect.
[07:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ancient Settlers Once Farmed on Thousands of Artificial Forest Islands - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:15] <exec> 08└─Close. Probably some combination of measles, smallpox, and flu. And a lot more than 5%.
[07:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Settlers Once Farmed on Thousands of Artificial Forest Islands - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:41:16] <exec> 08└─10,000 years ago, khallow? Are you posting without reading, again? Is this like your ignorance of cultural diversity in China, as well? You may take the Title from Ran-away, if you keep this up!
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[08:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Tests are Going Unused Due to Hospital IT Challenges - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:48] <exec> 08└─Is this a regulatory type of thing? Somehow I doubt hospital IT departments are too stupid to do simple data type conversion. This might just be an arsetechnica fake news story though.
[08:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon’s New Tracking Tool Tells Advertisers When You’re Looking at Your Email Inbox - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:02] <exec> 08└─Gmail started it..
[08:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Settlers Once Farmed on Thousands of Artificial Forest Islands - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:15] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of a scene from The Naked Jungle [wikipedia.org], which I saw years ago on late-night TV. It always made an impression me. There was a line something like, "these people once had a great civilization, but the Amazon swallowed them up", or something like that. Turns out maybe the auth...
[08:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ancient Settlers Once Farmed on Thousands of Artificial Forest Islands - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:17] <exec> 08└─10,000 years ago, khallow?
[08:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:41] <exec> 08└─I suspect they would disagree here, saying that you only had licence to view through one medium. This is the same as 'I purchased the CD so I can listen to the radio for free at work'. No, they still want to charge you.
[08:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:42] <exec> 08└─It is sort of funny you mention that. At a recent shindig in February, I conducted a poll and most people agreed that they actually saw more kids playing outside over the past year or two than before. The reason I asked is because I had a discussion with a friend where we noted similar things. We de...
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[09:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06COVID-19 Tests are Going Unused Due to Hospital IT Challenges - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:57] <exec> 08└─They're just rehashing the Nature article. I get the impression it's a combination of multiple things. In addition, there's both CYA (from regulation and lawsuits) and the possibility for fraud and incompetence. Just because I say I can do 2000 sufficiently accurate tests a day, doesn't mean I can.
[09:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Tests are Going Unused Due to Hospital IT Challenges - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:59] <exec> 08└─It isn't a case of "too stupid". No one but the radiologists and pathologists can enter the data. They may have interfaces with external testing facilities, but often they don't even have interfaces with thier own internal testing.. nurses and doctors will look up blood results and either copy them...
[09:44:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Spamalope [5233] 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 317 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:39] <exec> 08└─In the past, book publishers did indeed try adding EULAs to books to restrict reading to the original purchaser and such. Courts refused to enforce such restrictions, whereas the MPA first greased the right palms so that EULAs converting a sale into a license would be deemed lawful. That's the probl...
[09:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:44:52] <exec> 08└─I can't understand this argument. Let's say I live outside the US. So, I buy Netflix in my country. I use a VPN to connect to US Netflix servers. Netflix has licensed the content in the US. They pay, I pay, I watch, all happy? Up this a bit. Let's say the content is not available in my country. Or,...
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[09:44:53] <exec> 08└─white? man?
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[10:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier Bungles Redaction of Network Audit that It Doesn’t Want You to See - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:47] <exec> 08└─...love the department!
[10:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Frontier Bungles Redaction of Network Audit that It Doesn’t Want You to See - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:49] <exec> 08└─have you ever tried using a wet wipe? the feeling is incredible.
[10:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Tests are Going Unused Due to Hospital IT Challenges - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:00] <exec> 08└─Look at me! I like to use TT! My posts scream, "READ Me! Look at ME! I'm more important than the rest of you." fuck that shit. I like camel semen, catching it in your mouth is like being punched by Ivan Drago! I like to squirm around on the ground afterwards, moving with my belly only with my arms a...
[10:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon’s New Tracking Tool Tells Advertisers When You’re Looking at Your Email Inbox - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:14] <exec> 08└─I have an old verizon.net email address, and this might explain something that's been happening the last few months. I use a mail client to access that verizon.net email (which these days goes through an AOL system, actually) instead of their web email page. Recently a lot of errors have been return...
[10:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Settlers Once Farmed on Thousands of Artificial Forest Islands - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:41:30] <exec> 08└─Looks like they domesticated the manioc (best known today as the main ingredient in tapioca) locally, and then very quickly afterwards imported squash from the north. This might be sampling error, however, and it's possible that they arrived /with/ squash from the north, which would make more sense....
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[11:40:53] <exec> 08└─She lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses. Ezekiel 23:20 NIV
[11:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:02] <exec> 08└─Time to switch to crunchyroll
[11:46:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Pirate Bay No Longer Uses Cloudflare, Visitors Sent to 'Black Hole' - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:47] <exec> 08└─Movie or record studio rep? Show ius on the doll where the pirate touched you..
[11:48:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06China Reclassifies Dogs as Pets Instead of Livestock - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:28] <exec> 08└─Here's a chance to learn from the mistakes of history, not slavishly repeat them.
[11:48:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Inaccurate and Expensive Boeing Proposal Eliminated it from Consideration for Lunar Cargo Contract - 337 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:48:56] <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...
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[12:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Citing BGP Hijacks and Hack Attacks, Feds Want China Telecom Out of the US - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:56] <exec> 08└─"We don't want China in the network because they snoop on EVERYTHING!!" Uncle says before returning to snooping on EVERYTHING!! Alternate version, "We don't want them around, because they are so much like us!" Or, "Yeah, though I walk through the Valley of Death, I shall fear no evil, for I am the e...
[12:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Frontier Bungles Redaction of Network Audit that It Doesn’t Want You to See - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:07] <exec> 08└─I call her "clingy".
[12:41:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon’s New Tracking Tool Tells Advertisers When You’re Looking at Your Email Inbox - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:41:33] <exec> 08└─you never close your email? New messages just scroll into sight, and you only click the one you're interested in. The web mail server can't know when you're actually looking, until you interact with the window in some way. They only know that your computer is online, and accepting messages. As for G...
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[12:45:19] <exec> 08└─Ok then. Back to BT we go..
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[13:40:52] <exec> 08└─"John Murdoch: Here, let me ask you a question. You heard of a place called Shell Beach? Inspector Frank Bumstead: Sure. John Murdoch: Do you know how to get there? Inspector Frank Bumstead: Yeah. John Murdoch: Tell me. Inspector Frank Bumstead: Right. You just... you go to the... John Murdoch: Wher...
[13:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier Bungles Redaction of Network Audit that It Doesn’t Want You to See - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:03] <exec> 08└─Quoted from the redacted report: "This lack of knowledge about the condition of the pole population[...]" This is critical information people! Frontier needs a pole inspection squad ASAP! We need a population of strong poles.
[13:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Tests are Going Unused Due to Hospital IT Challenges - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:15] <exec> 08└─> No one but the radiologists and pathologists can enter the data. Data: Why is spot under the bed?
[13:41:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Tests are Going Unused Due to Hospital IT Challenges - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:17] <exec> 08└─Somehow I know Javascript is to blame, not the IT dept. Javascript and Windows.
[13:41:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Verizon’s New Tracking Tool Tells Advertisers When You’re Looking at Your Email Inbox - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:25] <exec> 08└─acknowledging that tracking is wrong while at the same time admitting Verizon simply does not care
[13:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon’s New Tracking Tool Tells Advertisers When You’re Looking at Your Email Inbox - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:35] <exec> 08└─Ignoring that I'm not using Verizon's mail services anyway, even if I were, they'd have a hard time to tell when I'm looking at my inbox. I'm pretty sure Thunderbird won't tell them. They would see when I fetch new mails, but as long as Thunderbird is running, that is a fixed repeating interval that...
[13:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon’s New Tracking Tool Tells Advertisers When You’re Looking at Your Email Inbox - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:37] <exec> 08└─"We genuinely believe that our mutual customers deserve a unique experience which connects them to their passions," This simple sentence fragment is just wonderful. It has all the elements I love about PR-speak. It's a type of refined mental filth, both virulent and effective and destroying logical...
[13:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Settlers Once Farmed on Thousands of Artificial Forest Islands - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:41:53] <exec> 08└─I'm dumb, I'll bite on the 'heavy taxation' bit. Adjusted for inflation: 1960: average family in the wealthiest 1% of US households had 1.46 million dollars in wealth. The top 1% of US households paid 13% of all US federal tax income. 2019: average family in the wealthiest 1% of US households had 1...
[13:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Ponder How Jugglers Seem to Defy Limits to Human Reaction Times - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:22] <exec> 08└─In their next paper same stupid scientists ponder how drummers defy limits to human reaction times by drumming at more than 10 beats per second?
[13:46:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06China Appointed to Influential UN Human Rights Council Panel - 1518 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:03] <exec> 08└─Gotta disagree with you here. GP mentioned renditions. That mostly meant kidnapping "suspects", taking them to some third country's territory, and "interrogating" them, outside of the jurisdiction of any US court. There have been a large number of incredible reports about the torture, which I can sh...
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[13:46:17] <exec> 08└─Most of the powerful countries don't pretend they're on the moral high ground as much as the USA though.
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[13:47:18] <exec> 08└─https://thepiratebay.org/ [thepiratebay.org] works from Chicago area Sun Apr 12 13:21:24 UTC 2020 https://thepiratebay.org [thepiratebay.org] works via tor http://piratebayztemzmv.onion [piratebayztemzmv.onion] also works
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[14:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:53] <exec> 08└─She ended up making just $8.95 from Instacart on the order.
[14:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:55] <exec> 08└─How about we pay them what the market demands for the service and leave tipping completely out of it? Let customers bid on service price per order. Let the worker accept/reject orders based on service price. Do not allow modification of bids after a price agreement is made. Hold the money in escrow...
[14:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:57] <exec> 08└─Just go back to the home where you made the delivery, and confiscate the goods to equal your stolen tip. What a bunch of douchebags. Wealthy douchebags, at that. Poor folk aren't paying people to do their shopping.
[14:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:59] <exec> 08└─They should be able to sue them in small claims court. If it agreed on before the service is rendered it is a fee, not a tip. A tip is something extra you give afterwards, for service above what was expected.
[14:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Frontier Bungles Redaction of Network Audit that It Doesn’t Want You to See - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:18] <exec> 08└─Well, that's bullshit. There's nothing to "consider". You make the damn thing entirely public post haste. Who does this Public "Service" Commission really serve?
[14:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Settlers Once Farmed on Thousands of Artificial Forest Islands - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:05] <exec> 08└─Change one word, and it's apparently happened multiple times in human pre-history. "these people once had a great civilization, but the Jungle swallowed them up", Africa has a legacy of pre-historic civilizations, or at least nations. I've read accounts of Cambodia, and I think Laos having ancient r...
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[14:42:07] <exec> 08└─640 calories ought to be enough for anybody.
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[15:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:40:59] <exec> 08└─Actually some of them are doing something similar, but proactively. Rather than risk getting stuck with the sub-human wage alone, without a tip, they are just going ahead and stealing the groceries [usatoday.com]. So the cynic in me says that stories like the one at the top of the page are more abou...
[15:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Redundant) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:00] <exec> 08└─on the order
[15:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:03] <exec> 08└─This. Instacart is a tech company, they should be able to come up with an algorithmic means to determine the minimal amount they can pay drivers at a given time to do a delivery and push that out while banning tips. Will be a win/win/win for everyone involved.
[15:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:05] <exec> 08└─People who engage in that should just be barred from the program for a period of a few weeks. But, really, instacart shouldn't be allowing people to change their tips after the fact without contacting support. I know that would add cost, but get over it. Front line workers deserve as many protection...
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[15:41:07] <exec> 08└─They probably could, but by the same token, the customers were promised that ability when they made their agreement for the delivery. So, I'd be curious as to how that would work out. On top of which, it would likely be a net negative even if you do win as you'd have to go to court, and those courts...
[15:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:09] <exec> 08└─Who came up with the idea of giving a tip in advance of a service? The whole point is an extra reward after the service is rendered. Yes, in USA tipping at restaurants has become expected, along with low base wages, but it is still given after the meal is over. I say Instacart is responsible for thi...
[15:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier Bungles Redaction of Network Audit that It Doesn’t Want You to See - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:30] <exec> 08└─Being a board member of the corporation after they "retire" from their government job.
[15:41:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Frontier Bungles Redaction of Network Audit that It Doesn’t Want You to See - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:31] <exec> 08└─entropy's a bitch! others just call it decay. some else might call it "dust accumulation". a worthy foe, real men consider worth fighting! verious tactics have been employed over the ages. some bet on knowledge (itself very much prone to decay), other use careful execution and even others just overe...
[15:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Tests are Going Unused Due to Hospital IT Challenges - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:46] <exec> 08└─Several things are in process here. 1) The systems are designed to be compatible. Different groups designed them to "do what we need it to do". 2) In an emergency, everyone is too busy to adapt software. 3) The tests aren't that reliable anyway on an individual basis. They're perfectly adequate for...
[15:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ancient Settlers Once Farmed on Thousands of Artificial Forest Islands - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:24] <exec> 08└─I see from another study [plos.org] that beans were present by 5k years ago. From that abstract: Southwestern Amazonia is considered an early centre of plant domestication in the New World, but most of the evidence for this hypothesis comes from genetic data since systematic archaeological fieldwork...
[15:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Ponder How Jugglers Seem to Defy Limits to Human Reaction Times - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:55] <exec> 08└─Whoever wanted to go to safe mode by pressing F8 key in old Windows knows that it's not reaction. You know when to press the key. In my case, after getting used to one PC, I could do it with a single F8 press. Then I disabled the "floppy seek" option and had to bang F8 again like a drummer again. I...
[15:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:57] <exec> 08└─Depends, if you're accessing ones in your local market, it's not. If you're using it to access content that's not available in your market, it is piracy. Whether or not that should be, is a different matter.
[15:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:58] <exec> 08└─The US party that receives the payment for the license may not be the one with the right to sell distribution rights where you're located. That's the detail a lot of people in this discussion are missing. Paying the wrong party for rights isn't any different than just pirating, except that you can p...
[15:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:01] <exec> 08└─That's great to know, I'll have to look into that. I really hate it as sometimes I'll walk away for a few minutes between episodes or while waiting for other people to be ready and it's annoying to have to start and then pause.
[15:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Appointed to Influential UN Human Rights Council Panel - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:57] <exec> 08└─Fairly nonsensical. I get why you want to take that position but it's not a valid position if you're looking to have people be less shitty to each other. You absolutely can judge degrees of being shitty to your fellow human beings and there is no valid reason for allowing the worst offenders of huma...
[15:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Appointed to Influential UN Human Rights Council Panel - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:59] <exec> 08└─And clear out their sinuses.
[15:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Appointed to Influential UN Human Rights Council Panel - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:01] <exec> 08└─You did something way less bad so you're not allowed to call industrial scale atrocities bad? Do fuck off.
[15:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Appointed to Influential UN Human Rights Council Panel - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:03] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile I've been wondering whether the CIA done significantly more good than harm for the US people. Would the US people really be worse off if the CIA did not exist? Note: I'm not going to count their support of "Modern Art" as a "good".
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[16:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet "dark_nexus", Quite Possibly the Most Potent IoT Botnet Ever - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:51] <exec> 08└─Find the C&C and nuke it!
[16:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:08] <exec> 08└─Do not allow modification of bids after a price agreement is made.
[16:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:09] <exec> 08└─they should be able to come up with an algorithmic means to determine the minimal amount they can pay drivers at a given time to do a delivery and push that out while banning tips.
[16:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:11] <exec> 08└─Poor folk aren't paying people to do their shopping.
[16:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:13] <exec> 08└─"Those aren't jobs, they're servitude." Incredible. Every time I think the neighbors just can't sink any lower, they prove me wrong.
[16:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:16] <exec> 08└─I've gotten deliveries, and the order was accepted by the store 5 days ago. They are the ones that decided it couldn't be done more quickly. And when it was time for the order to be delivered, lots of things weren't available that were available when I placed the order. I don't feel the driver is th...
[16:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, but at the same time, it looks like this has happened more than once. In fact, it looks like this has happened enough times that it has attracted wider attention than that one jerk who stiffed the delivery people on the tip. On the street we call that a trend.
[16:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:20] <exec> 08└─Is the goal of the typical American to evolve into a 400 pound legless pile of flesh that gets fed Big Macs and Slurpees while sitting in front to TV watching "Dancing with The Stars"? Why the fuck would you pay someone $55 to pick up your groceries? Go to the store yourself and burn off some calori...
[16:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, tipping is bad, but clearly these customers are deliberately ripping off Instacart workers. That's absolutely disgusting. And it's apparently not an isolated incident. Wow. Like I've always said, humanity always finds innovative new ways to make you sick.
[16:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:24] <exec> 08└─"People who engage in that should just be barred from the program for a period of a few weeks months." FTFY
[16:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:27] <exec> 08└─The corp will hire workers for as little as they can get away with, always.
[16:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:29] <exec> 08└─It couldn't POSSIBLY have ANYTHING to do with the current SITUATION.
[16:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:31] <exec> 08└─We really need a "willfully ignorant asshole" moderation tag.
[16:41:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:33] <exec> 08└─" And appreciative customers should also consider tipping in cash, avoiding Instacart and going direct to the worker." Indeed. These days I usually try to tip in cash. There are too many employers who think nothing of reaching into their workers pockets to even steal the tip money.
[16:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:35] <exec> 08└─"Tech is not a complete solution for the human factors, including greed of the corporation." While true, it looks like it isn't just the greed of the corporation that is an issue. It's also just as much about the greed of the customers. That needs to be addressed too.
[16:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:37] <exec> 08└─>> I know that would add cost, but get over it. Capitalism... I don't think you understand it.
[16:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Citing BGP Hijacks and Hack Attacks, Feds Want China Telecom Out of the US - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:47] <exec> 08└─That infrastructure should be supported locally is an excellent idea. It's not the cheapest approach, but it's got a lot going for it. That said, this excuse is a bit...politically convenient.
[16:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Citing BGP Hijacks and Hack Attacks, Feds Want China Telecom Out of the US - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:49] <exec> 08└─'She came to the party wearing the same dress as me!1!11' defense?
[16:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier Bungles Redaction of Network Audit that It Doesn’t Want You to See - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:03] <exec> 08└─That's a real problem, and should be illegal. Possibly a felony...with a specific rule that the sentence not be served at a "country club" penitentiary.
[16:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Tests are Going Unused Due to Hospital IT Challenges - 712 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:19] <exec> 08└─maybe we don't have to agree on a format? it was tried before, say like XML? maybe we just have to agree on "viral" format? like a self expanding database? normally with a database you have to pick a "primary key" carefully, but maybe if we can agree on a univeral primary key, we never have to worry...
[16:42:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] 02 - 06Verizon’s New Tracking Tool Tells Advertisers When You’re Looking at Your Email Inbox - 242 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:31] <exec> 08└─This is just nuts. When does this get classified by the "free" governments of the world as stalking [wikipedia.org]...because that's what it is. At least when inviting a vampire at the door into your home, you pretty much know what to expect.
[16:42:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Verizon’s New Tracking Tool Tells Advertisers When You’re Looking at Your Email Inbox - 861 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:37] <exec> 08└─"We genuinely believe that our mutual customers deserve a unique experience which connects them to their passions," This simple sentence fragment is just wonderful. It has all the elements I love about PR-speak. It's a type of refined mental filth, both virulent and effective and destroying logical...
[16:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon’s New Tracking Tool Tells Advertisers When You’re Looking at Your Email Inbox - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:39] <exec> 08└─They won't because citizens are just voters, to be kept in the dark like mushrooms and repeatedly having shit piled on them. Now it citizens had lobbyists - (but the fact that you need a lobbyist to have elected officials take you seriously shows just how much like mushrooms they believe we are)
[16:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ancient Settlers Once Farmed on Thousands of Artificial Forest Islands - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:59] <exec> 08└─I suspect the whole thing fell apart when a lot of people died after 1500 due to European diseases. Trees aren't hard to kill off. You can gird even the largest with an ax, for example. But you need manpower to keep the agricultural areas open. When the people stopped doing that, the trees moved in.
[16:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Settlers Once Farmed on Thousands of Artificial Forest Islands - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:01] <exec> 08└─so they chopped down the forest. burned some, left some and then the great floods came washing and pilling up all the debris into ... floating island. with nothing left the survivors decided to follow the tiny green sapling idea that was sprouting on the floating dung heap? anyways, there's a lake t...
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[17:40:57] <exec> 08└─YARA [github.io] "is a tool aimed at (but not limited to) helping malware researchers to identify and classify malware samples. With YARA you can create descriptions of malware families (or whatever you want to describe) based on textual or binary patterns. Each description, a.k.a rule, consists of...
[17:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet "dark_nexus", Quite Possibly the Most Potent IoT Botnet Ever - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:58] <exec> 08└─Too late, C&C* folded in 1993, https://www.jstor.org [jstor.org] * Christianity and Crisis magazine, "one of the foremost liberal Protestant journals of opinion..."
[17:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet "dark_nexus", Quite Possibly the Most Potent IoT Botnet Ever - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:00] <exec> 08└─Do we really believe that a future digital pandemic won't be larger than this one? Both the capabilities and prevalence of surveillance devices will increase, so there is zero reason to assume any outbreak will ever be the most potent ever. But I guess it makes for a good yearly headline.
[17:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet "dark_nexus", Quite Possibly the Most Potent IoT Botnet Ever - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:02] <exec> 08└─Dark Nexus sounds like a new brand for Android devices. Nexus 7 tablet (please, PLEASE bring back the 2013 Nexus 7 model) Nexus 6P phone. Etc. I suppose that branding would not be mutually exclusive with malware.
[17:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 1534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:36] <exec> 08└─Here's the trend and why we're hearing about it from CNN (from the CNN link): Bryant Greening, an attorney and co-founder of Chicago-based law firm LegalRideshare, told CNN Business that a few dozen Instacart shoppers and drivers have reached out to his firm to voice concerns over the practice. His...
[17:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:37] <exec> 08└─It's also just as much about the greed of the customers.
[17:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:39] <exec> 08└─Some of us are handicapped and have difficulty walking all over those huge stores. Yes, they usually have those mobilized carts available, but I'll retain what tattered scraps remain of my dignity, thanks. I use the curb-side pickup, personally, but one of my neighbors uses delivery. He's in a wheel...
[17:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:42] <exec> 08└─At question here is the representation of "tip" vs the fine print which entitles the "tipper" to rescind their proposed tip up to 3 days after the fact. In this particular instance, I say let the worker beware: they are on the front line of a "customer is always right" reimbursement scheme. The numb...
[17:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:44] <exec> 08└─If the delivery people had any brains they'd just print up flyers with their name and email offering their services directly to the customers and include them in their deliveries. What's instacart going to do - fire them? No big loss there.
[17:41:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:46] <exec> 08└─grocery shopping is only a small part of our travel
[17:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:48] <exec> 08└─How does the compensation work for instacart shoppers? Are they paid a base amount? How much? Are they paid tips only?
[17:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:50] <exec> 08└─Our delivery orders to Aldi seem to be pushed back to Thursday (when the truck arrives) when we have too many things that they are out of stock at the time... it's pretty frustrating since they promise it at one time, then figure out some things are missing, push it back a day, then figure out there...
[17:41:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:53] <exec> 08└─Who would pay for the groceries at checkout? I'm guessing that many of these Instacart workers would have trouble fronting an order for $200 worth of food. And I'm not about to give my credit card out. The courier would also have the potential problem of getting stiffed by the customer and left with...
[17:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:55] <exec> 08└─At question here is the representation of "tip" vs the fine print which entitles the "tipper" to rescind their proposed tip up to 3 days after the fact.
[17:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Frontier Bungles Redaction of Network Audit that It Doesn’t Want You to See - 1825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:21] <exec> 08└─One that grew up and didn't mature. Probably had a boss like my last boss. He owned a small cable system and couldn't be bothered to upgrade it. We expanded and merged with the neighboring towns. He just kept buying the same trash to do it all All of the equipment was purchased when it reached EOL....
[17:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 2) 02 - 06COVID-19 Tests are Going Unused Due to Hospital IT Challenges - 1274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:37] <exec> 08└─Can't really blame Microsoft for this one. I built a EMR based on a framework using mssql in 1997. We were their first customer and they ripped off a sizable portion of what I built and sold it to other with their own additions. In less than five years they had over hundred clients. When customers...
[17:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Settlers Once Farmed on Thousands of Artificial Forest Islands - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:19] <exec> 08└─Thanks, interesting read. It makes sense to me that squash would have come first, because it's the one that usually requires the least protection from animals. The first stage of domestication would have been scattering seeds at particular spots and returning to those spots later to harvest, and squ...
[17:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Attackers Can Bypass Fingerprint Authentication With an ~80% Success Rate - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:03] <exec> 08└─What is the success rate for a similarly determined attacker for bypassing PINs or the entire authentication process? Haven't black hats been selling equipment touted for getting root if you plug them in?
[17:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:56] <exec> 08└─Except that they lower the price for markets with low income. Some money is better than no money. Yes, it might hurt your feelings a bit, but you can use those dollar bills you get payed with to wipe 'em off. Unlike us here with local currency that falls dozens % per year as soon as someone sneeze n...
[17:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:58] <exec> 08└─Umm, that's why they can't limit the number of people in your living room while you watch it. Netflix is not allowed to stream to individuals in those areas. And they do have a responsibility to do what they can to avoid unauthorized streams. I don't particularly care for it either, but you're a mor...
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[18:40:52] <exec> 08└─You did everything right.
[18:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet "dark_nexus", Quite Possibly the Most Potent IoT Botnet Ever - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:54] <exec> 08└─Dr. Soran: What if I told you I found a new truth? Picard: The Nexus? Dr. Soran: Time has no meaning there. The predator has no teeth. [reddit.com]
[18:41:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:37] <exec> 08└─Is the goal of the typical American to evolve into a 400 pound legless pile of flesh that gets fed Big Macs and Slurpees while sitting in front to TV watching "Dancing with The Stars"?
[18:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:39] <exec> 08└─We use a couple different grocery delivery services. We tip them well. I feel sorry for them having to expose themselves to risk so that we get groceries delivered to our front porch. It is a valuable service, especially in the days we now live in. Flattening the curve.
[18:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:41] <exec> 08└─Sometimes ignorance is learned. Not willful. The result of studying at the feet of masters. Often, unknowingly.
[18:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:43] <exec> 08└─Who came up with the idea of giving a tip in advance of a service? The whole point is an extra reward after the service is rendered. Yes, in USA tipping at restaurants has become expected, along with low base wages, but it is still given after the meal is over. I say Instacart is responsible for thi...
[18:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:45] <exec> 08└─I wonder if this qualifies as fraud or some similar violation of the criminal statutes?
[18:41:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:47] <exec> 08└─How often do they do that though? There's no reason to give customers so much time to change their minds. It should be obvious the same day whether or not the driver has done a good job. This is just something that they allow because it's good for the company, even though it scews over the drivers....
[18:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:41:49] <exec> 08└─Why is this even a thing? I would love to see a transcript of the meeting where this "feature" was introduced and discussed. How did they not see this situation and if they did, what was said?
[18:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Citing BGP Hijacks and Hack Attacks, Feds Want China Telecom Out of the US - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:00] <exec> 08└─Telecom is a cash cow so of course you want local companies running it. And China has excluded foreign telecoms since forever, or required the tech-stealing ‘Chinese partner’ https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[18:42:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Frontier Bungles Redaction of Network Audit that It Doesn’t Want You to See - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:18] <exec> 08└─Granted, it's very difficult to understand the cis+het incel perspective when reading ancient texts. Maybe try MSG instead of NIV? At least you're not one of those posers who reads KJV.
[18:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06COVID-19 Tests are Going Unused Due to Hospital IT Challenges - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:35] <exec> 08└─Can't really blame Microsoft for this one
[18:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Forced To Declare War on VPN Users - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:55] <exec> 08└─but you're a moron if you think those streams are anything other than piracy.
[18:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pandemic Hasn’t Crushed Broadband Networks - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:18] <exec> 08└─Netflix used to, probably still does, offer a big box to be co-located at ISP local office. The box caches the most likely things that will be watched in the area. This works great. Because performance is great* from the ISP office to the customer premises. *unless your ISP is AT&T, Verizon, Comcast...
[18:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pandemic Hasn’t Crushed Broadband Networks - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:19] <exec> 08└─Latency can be a bigger problem than bandwi...98yyshg987w9*AG#@#*&%lgjsh;e NO CARRIER
[18:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Appointed to Influential UN Human Rights Council Panel - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:59] <exec> 08└─Maybe you are confusing US water boarding with how India rubs peppers into the victim's eyes.
[18:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Appointed to Influential UN Human Rights Council Panel - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:01] <exec> 08└─If the clown shoes are allowed to run things, it absolutely does, yes.
[18:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Appointed to Influential UN Human Rights Council Panel - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:03] <exec> 08└─Would the US people really be worse off if the CIA did not exist?
[18:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Appointed to Influential UN Human Rights Council Panel - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:05] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's basically an industrial strength nepi pot. Just hope they thought to use distilled water for the amoeba factor.
[18:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Appointed to Influential UN Human Rights Council Panel - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:07] <exec> 08└─Did you see the 2016 primaries? They couldn't. And don't call me Shirley.
[18:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Google are Launching a Joint COVID-19 Tracing Tool for IOS and Android - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:28] <exec> 08└─Unless you're stupid enough to buy earbuds to stream music
[18:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple and Google are Launching a Joint COVID-19 Tracing Tool for IOS and Android - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:29] <exec> 08└─At least Google uses End to End encryption when my phone sends Google my private data!
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[19:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:52] <exec> 08└─There is an article, but it does not link to or cite any sources. So without a confirmation about his demise, the announcement is just a rumor. That said, his most famous piece, Life, was quite interesting both as a game and from a scientific perspective. What I never looked into was how various gu...
[19:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:54] <exec> 08└─https://www.i-programmer.info/news/82-heritage/13614-john-conway-dies-from-coronavirus.html [i-programmer.info] https://twitter.com [twitter.com] https://siobhanroberts.com [siobhanroberts.com] Confirmed by a biographer. Probably solid enough.
[19:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah there's discussion [reddit.com] going on online about sources [wikipedia.org]. I wasn't certain but with his colleague, and a claim of his wife, reporting it, combined with some mentions in newspapers, I figured it was worth breaking the story here. The other tech sites I looked at don't seem t...
[19:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:58] <exec> 08└─What I never looked into was how various guns, generators, and oscillators were designed.
[19:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:00] <exec> 08└─Those should do well after the Wuhan Flu kills us all.
[19:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:03] <exec> 08└─Ok. Thanks. It looks like the sad news is confirmed by the one source there in your first link. Tweeter is just hearsay and the third link does not seem to mention his death.
[19:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:05] <exec> 08└─I'll have to give it another look sometime. When I first encountered it my attention span was too short, so beyond some random fiddling and initial curiosity, I never did much with it. I hope the same won't be said about my real life!
[19:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:07] <exec> 08└─I'm old enough that when Life showed up in Scientific America I programmed it in BASIC on my TRS-80. It wasn't working and I couldn't figure out why. Took a lunch break, came back, and a generation had passed. That was when I started to think about how long programs took to run. It's also what motiv...
[19:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:09] <exec> 08└─Thanks for sharing that, Grandpa... you know you can just download it as a Ruby gem instead of writing it yourself.
[19:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:11] <exec> 08└─Ruby? Damn kids! Get off our lawn!
[19:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:13] <exec> 08└─Do not question whether he died unless you have looked at his neighbors in the next generation. RIP.
[19:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet "dark_nexus", Quite Possibly the Most Potent IoT Botnet Ever - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:27] <exec> 08└─I, too, would like high quality tablets in the 7-9 inch screen size range - SIM/data capable in the sub $400 price range. However, with 6.2" phone/phablets knocking on that door from the under-side, I don't think there's really a market to build these "tablets" for...
[19:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet "dark_nexus", Quite Possibly the Most Potent IoT Botnet Ever - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:29] <exec> 08└─Also, as Bryan Lunduke explained in a talk [youtube.com], the upshot of IoT is that we'll have billions of Internet-connected devices running the equivalent of Windows ME or Linux 2.2.x. $DEITY help us all.
[19:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meet "dark_nexus", Quite Possibly the Most Potent IoT Botnet Ever - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:31] <exec> 08└─Yes. I only buy HUGE phones now. And NOT because I want someone asking "Is that a Pixel 3 XL in your pocket? . . ." I miss my Nexus 7. One time at the taco place, when I set it down on the counter to read off the combined order for several people, he obviously recognized the Hangouts app. He asked ....
[19:41:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 336 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:41] <exec> 08└─How about we pay them what the market demands for the service and leave tipping completely out of it? Let customers bid on service price per order. Let the worker accept/reject orders based on service price. Do not allow modification of bids after a price agreement is made. Hold the money in escrow...
[19:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:23] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure how long it would take to discourage the behavior. I don't want anybody starving, but there needs to be some sort of punishment for abusing the system. Really, they should be required to contact Instacart if they want to lower it by more than a set amount and they need to have a real re...
[19:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:24] <exec> 08└─what's newsworthy about the "tipping"?
[19:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 1130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:26] <exec> 08└─Depending on the chain, there are different policies in place. Some will offer substitutions of size, brand or flavor in order to try and fill the order as best we can. Some won't offer it at all unless it's 100% what you ordered. In the case of meat and produce, the picker may not be allowed to fil...
[19:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 2022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:28] <exec> 08└─The problem here is the "tip" line is attempting to serve two contrasting purposes. First purpose, get my shopping trip to be the one someone picks, ahead of others. Second purpose, rewarding the shopper for a job well done above and beyond expectations. The fix, here, seems obvious and trivially ea...
[19:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:31] <exec> 08└─There's no reason to give customers so much time to change their minds.
[19:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:33] <exec> 08└─Same here. I've done two different restaurant deliveries now. Normally I do pickup so I can save most of the tip amount. But with delivery, and the current situation, I tipped the amount I'd normally have tipped for eat-in service, just because.
[19:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Frontier Bungles Redaction of Network Audit that It Doesn’t Want You to See - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:01] <exec> 08└─This just goes to show how little about computers most, including high paid consultants, lack. Setting the font color, and the background, to black simply makes it "look" like the text has been covered with a black marker. But it really did not make anything go away. This mistake has occurred before...
[19:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon’s New Tracking Tool Tells Advertisers When You’re Looking at Your Email Inbox - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:38] <exec> 08└─Why? Because I run my own personal email server using my own domain that I've had for almost twenty years now. I also read email using mutt, so no tracking pixels or any other html tracking crapola is activated for any email I receive. No one (besides myself) knows when, or even if, I actually read...
[19:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Settlers Once Farmed on Thousands of Artificial Forest Islands - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:03] <exec> 08└─Listen, comrade, in whatever socialist paradise you live in it might work that way, but in the US of A we reward hard work and saving with lower taxes
[19:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Appointed to Influential UN Human Rights Council Panel - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:49] <exec> 08└─I don't vote in their primary. But I thought any one of those clowns would be a better choice than Trump. I didn't like GW Bush. But I would gladly have him back in a heartbeat over Trump. At least he had some sense of honor, decency and a partly working moral compass. Not that I'm trying to praise...
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[20:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:02] <exec> 08└─There is something to be said for writing a simple exercise for yourself. Doing your own work. Especially in a new language. My favorite new language exercises tend to do with prime numbers, and mandelbrot set generation. Even if the mandelbrot output is in ASCII grayscale. Does the language have go...
[20:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:03] <exec> 08└─Download the java version here: https://bitstorm.org [bitstorm.org] Or, install Golly from your distro's repositories.
[20:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:05] <exec> 08└─Twitter is not just hearsay.
[20:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 6943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:07] <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...
[20:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:09] <exec> 08└─He did SO much more, but for 50 years that is all they talked about when he was interviewed. Numberphile Conway late life interview [youtube.com]. However, he talks about how liberating is was in that link. On that page is the Conway Numberphile playlist, which are all very good.
[20:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:12] <exec> 08└─He was an incredible mathematician who's contributions to game theory and computational mathematics made him the natural successor to John von Neumann. Life was one of this more minor mathematical notions.
[20:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:14] <exec> 08└─I started to program myself into the game, then Snowcrash happened.
[20:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:16] <exec> 08└─You're right. It's just twitsay.
[20:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:18] <exec> 08└─Actually, when I programmed Game of Life I just watched it with random starting patterns over and over again (each run usually settles quite quickly). Many of the well known patterns (especially the gliders) will emerge quite often. I planned to capture the starting patterns to isolate the interesti...
[20:41:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Meet "dark_nexus", Quite Possibly the Most Potent IoT Botnet Ever - 2002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:35] <exec> 08└─Dr. Pizza/Peter Bright FOUND GUILTY on pedocrimes March 2020 proof https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] - so much for ArsHOLETechnica's rep online, forever (nothing but a NEST OF PEDOS, period). Serves him, & arseHOLEtechnica right. Now, PEDrO "not too BRIGHT" can take LEROY's B...
[20:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet "dark_nexus", Quite Possibly the Most Potent IoT Botnet Ever - 2016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:36] <exec> 08└─Dr. Pizza/Peter Bright FOUND GUILTY on pedocrimes March 2020 proof https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] [youtube.com] - so much for ArsHOLETechnica's rep online, forever (nothing but a NEST OF PEDOS, period). Serves him, & arseHOLEtechnica right. Now, PEDrO "not too BRIGHT" can...
[20:42:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Subsentient [1111] 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 260 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:01] <exec> 08└─Yes, tipping is bad, but clearly these customers are deliberately ripping off Instacart workers. That's absolutely disgusting. And it's apparently not an isolated incident. Wow. Like I've always said, humanity always finds innovative new ways to make you sick.
[20:42:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Subsentient [1111] 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 61 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:06] <exec> 08└─We really need a "willfully ignorant asshole" moderation tag.
[20:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Settlers Once Farmed on Thousands of Artificial Forest Islands - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:05] <exec> 08└─Trees aren't hard to kill off. You can gird even the largest with an ax, for example The Deadening [hikingwithchuck.com]. I hiked there decades ago when I lived back East. IIRC, there was a historical marker that said a "deadening" was a generic name for this kind of thing, and they generally kept p...
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[21:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06China Moves to Claim South China Sea During COVID-19 Pandamic - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:54] <exec> 08└─not that China would take advantage of the situation. No, the aggravating thing is, that we allowed ourselves to fall into the situation. Where did the Navy get covid from? And, WTF were they doing there? They couldn't cancel a liberty call during a pandemic? A ship is a perfect place to quarantine...
[21:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China Moves to Claim South China Sea During COVID-19 Pandamic - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:55] <exec> 08└─Yep, and instead of crew safety they're getting monthly lectures about rape culture, White privilege, why hazing is wrong, indoctrination into Islam, and a bunch of other Obama-era bullshit that's still left the military fucked up and constantly running at half-steam. Actually, if this is a problem...
[21:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06China Moves to Claim South China Sea During COVID-19 Pandamic - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:57] <exec> 08└─The Chinese navy gets to summarily toss infected sailors overboard to prevent further contamination. If USN tried that the New York Times would get their panties in a knot about human rights.
[21:41:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 582 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:11] <exec> 08└─I'm old enough that when Life showed up in Scientific America I programmed it in BASIC on my TRS-80. It wasn't working and I couldn't figure out why. Took a lunch break, came back, and a generation had passed. That was when I started to think about how long programs took to run. It's also what motiv...
[21:41:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:24] <exec> 08└─Before it becomes like the Green site, just Stop with the Obituaries.
[21:41:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:26] <exec> 08└─To have such a great career only to have it ended by the Trump virus just doesn't seem fair.
[21:41:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:28] <exec> 08└─It's all over the place now. No doubt, the inventor of cellular automata was killed by a (non-computer) virus. Next, - a COVID19 simulator called the Game of Death. Viral automata lie in wait for cellular automata and use them to reproduce and spread.
[21:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:41:30] <exec> 08└─Good and decent people are dying. I'm guessing scumbags are too. Sadly not enough of the latter. And it's too bad that John Prine [wikipedia.org] is dead from COVID-19 too. A damn shame [youtube.com].
[21:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:46] <exec> 08└─Jews Jewing Jews. This is why I always tip fat even when broke, because I was in their shoes and I know their job sucks, having to deal with assholes and getting stiffed. I even tipped fat a Jew Lyft driver who didn't need the money even though he spent the whole ride trying to cram establishment De...
[21:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:47] <exec> 08└─Lawyers trying to undermine the meaning of agreements, pandering to workers who can't be bothered to read past the first three letters of an enticement.
[21:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Frontier Bungles Redaction of Network Audit that It Doesn’t Want You to See - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:17] <exec> 08└─Well, it is hard to complete your contour integration if you don't know where the poles are.
[21:43:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon’s New Tracking Tool Tells Advertisers When You’re Looking at Your Email Inbox - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:54] <exec> 08└─Citizen have the most important and powerful influence that the lobbyists don't, but they don't use it effectively.
[21:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ataradov [4776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon’s New Tracking Tool Tells Advertisers When You’re Looking at Your Email Inbox - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:56] <exec> 08└─I just pay FastMail to provide me email. What a concept - paying for services you use.
[21:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06We Now Know the Effect of Altitude on Classic “Diet Coke and Mentos“ Fountain - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:33] <exec> 08└─Because it is a science education journal! Geez Louise, why is it whenever some kind of article like this comes out in some place like Physics Teacher [csun.edu], which this is a similar journal, that foces on undergraduate education, we get our handful of comments like "Hur hur, publish or perish ....
[21:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Appointed to Influential UN Human Rights Council Panel - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:10] <exec> 08└─...it's not a valid position if you're looking to have people be less shitty to each other.
[21:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Appointed to Influential UN Human Rights Council Panel - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:12] <exec> 08└─Oops. The first stone.
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[22:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Moves to Claim South China Sea During COVID-19 Pandamic - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:02] <exec> 08└─If USN tried that the New York Times would get their panties in a knot about human rights.
[22:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Moves to Claim South China Sea During COVID-19 Pandamic - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:04] <exec> 08└─Are you suggesting that telling the commanders out in the fleet to not do or say anything about COVID-19 because it would embarrass the POTUS was actually a bad idea? Hmm. Go figure.
[22:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Moves to Claim South China Sea During COVID-19 Pandamic - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:06] <exec> 08└─First rule of invading is don't unless you can take the reaction from the rest of the world. This move gives the world a choice: Would you rather have the cheap supply chain from China or on open South China Sea? The answer is clearly the sea, but the question misses the point that trade is a...
[22:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06China Moves to Claim South China Sea During COVID-19 Pandamic - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:08] <exec> 08└─Of course they wouldn't. NYT are fifth-columnist Jews giving aid to their buddies the Chinese. That's the dirty little secret, the Jews and Chinese are working together to subvert America. Fifth-columnist Feinstein and her Chinese "chauffeur," Liddle Adam Schitt, Weinstein, Epstein, Wasserman-schulz...
[22:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Moves to Claim South China Sea During COVID-19 Pandamic - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:10] <exec> 08└─> The Chinese navy gets to summarily toss infected sailors overboard to prevent further contamination. > If USN tried that the New York Times would get their panties in a knot about human rights. I suspect the worker bees chosen to proudly serve their countries by hurling themselves overboard might...
[22:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:42] <exec> 08└─Ruby... is that like haxe for old people?
[22:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:41:44] <exec> 08└─Does it have large integer arithmetic? Bonus points if it has something like Java's BigDecimal.
[22:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet "dark_nexus", Quite Possibly the Most Potent IoT Botnet Ever - 2017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:03] <exec> 08└─Dr. Pizza/Peter Bright of Arstechnica FOUND GUILTY on pedocrimes March 2020 proof https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] - so much for ArsHOLETechnica's rep online, forever (nothing but a NEST OF PEDOS, period). Serves him, & arseHOLEtechnica right. Now, PEDrO "not too BRIGHT" can...
[22:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe if the tip gets cancelled, InstaCart gets to send someone round to take back the groceries.
[22:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06People are Baiting Instacart Workers with Huge Tips then Slashing them to Zero - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:06] <exec> 08└─stealing the groceries
[22:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Verizon’s New Tracking Tool Tells Advertisers When You’re Looking at Your Email Inbox - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:17] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately we use Office 365 at work and received an email a month or two ago telling us that it could provide all our usage analytics, in something called MyAnalytics. It's a set of reports that pull from your Office 365 Usage data and report on four key areas: adoption, communication, collabora...
[22:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Ponder How Jugglers Seem to Defy Limits to Human Reaction Times - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:17] <exec> 08└─No just jugglers. For the sake of science, I spent most of Saturday watching documentary evidence on pornhub. Some of those ladies (or were they boys) were definitely juggling more than 11 at the same time.
[22:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Appointed to Influential UN Human Rights Council Panel - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:36] <exec> 08└─You're confusing commuting punishment with accepting the fox's application for a henhouse guarding job. One is mercy and compassion, the other is being a bloody fool.
[22:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Appointed to Influential UN Human Rights Council Panel - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:37] <exec> 08└─But I thought any one of those clowns would be a better choice than Trump.
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[23:41:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06China Moves to Claim South China Sea During COVID-19 Pandamic - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:06] <exec> 08└─It's funny how whenever a racist cockraoch makes a post in a forum, all other racist cockroaches feel enbolden to come out of the walls in the open and spew their racist filth all over the floor.
[23:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Moves to Claim South China Sea During COVID-19 Pandamic - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:07] <exec> 08└─Why would you have a problem with "transvestites" serving in the military ? Is "transvestit-ism" negatively correlated with intelligence, discipline, stamina, competence, loyalty, or patriotism ? And if you believe so, where is your proof ? Where is your evidence ? Where are your studies ?
[23:41:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06China Moves to Claim South China Sea During COVID-19 Pandamic - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:09] <exec> 08└─And what, pray tell, is the problem with letting trans people serve in the military? If they can do the job that is asked of them, then that should be all that matters. A person's personal life is none of the military's business (it's in general none of any employer's business) unless that personal...
[23:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03barbara hudson [6443] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Moves to Claim South China Sea During COVID-19 Pandamic - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:12] <exec> 08└─Sure they (the NYT) would object. Water pollution is still a thing.
[23:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Moves to Claim South China Sea During COVID-19 Pandamic - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:14] <exec> 08└─Throw Trump overboard and see if the world claps!
[23:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Moves to Claim South China Sea During COVID-19 Pandamic - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:16] <exec> 08└─Chinese navy was also spotted in Pakistan. https://www.forbes.com [forbes.com] This is potentially way more important.
[23:41:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Moves to Claim South China Sea During COVID-19 Pandamic - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:18] <exec> 08└─WHAT? You want COMPETENT military personnel???? What you talkin' about Willis?
[23:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:52] <exec> 08└─how various guns, generators, and oscillators were designed.
[23:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:53] <exec> 08└─yeah typical millenial mindset. User instead of creator. What a pathetic, entitled, ungrateful, useless waste of a generation.
[23:41:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:55] <exec> 08└─Twitter is not just hearsay.
[23:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:41:57] <exec> 08└─If you're looking for novel life forms, brute force or random search is all you can do, because, as they proved with the discovery of the 1st glider gun, Life is unpredictable. Yet the search space can be greatly reduced, the search made more focused, by adding various arbitrary criteria. My own con...
[23:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06John Conway, Inventor of the Game of Life Reported Dead from COVID-19 - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:00] <exec> 08└─For you wanna be creators here's a hint. Instead of looking at every cell every generation, when you parse a generation just keep track of cells that might change. You don't even have to optimize this, a simple brute force list of every cell that might change will give you a 10x speedup. Coming from...
[23:42:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meet "dark_nexus", Quite Possibly the Most Potent IoT Botnet Ever - 2236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:20] <exec> 08└─Dr. Pizza/Peter Bright of Arstechnica FOUND GUILTY on pedocrimes March 2020 proof https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] - so much for ArsHOLETechnica's rep online, forever (nothing but a NEST OF PEDOS, period). Serves him, & arseHOLEtechnica, right. Now, PEDrO "not too BRIGHT" ca...
[23:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Attackers Can Bypass Fingerprint Authentication With an ~80% Success Rate - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:44] <exec> 08└─Well, for 4-digit pins, it's 1 in 10000... You Muppet
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